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I have always wondered what a German Shepherd/Yellow Labodor would look like, does anyone have an idea what they might look like?
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I have always wondered what a German Shepherd/Yellow Labodor would look like, does anyone have an idea what they might look like?
Hi Dusty,
My friend has one of these - rescued from the SPCA. He has the yellow coat color of the Lab, but has markings on his face and tail of the GSD. His ears sort of stand out from his head a bit, then flop down. He weighs about 100 lb. He was abused (probably by a man) before my friend adopted him, but is now OK with most people, if they are not afraid of his big size! Hope this helps!
Aww..he sounds CUTE! I hate it when people abuse animals, I wish the abusers could see what its like to be abused, yes, this did help A LOT, thanks! =]
I once had a dog like that, however we had to take him to the SPCA because he was so damn unbearable! I miss him so much. He was cream coulored,but looked ecxactly like a GSD.
Personally, I think that whatever the abuser did to the abusee should meet the same fate. I think that when someone dumps a dog and gets caught, they ought to be parachuted out over the arctic somewhere with just the clothes on their backs and told,"survive!". But I don't have any strong feelings about it or anything. And I agree that mix sounds really cute. Our Husky/Pit mix looks like a gremlin. He has everything of a husky except his head which looks like a pit. Oh yeah, he does have the pit hair too.


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Union delegates have converged on Bendigo this morning to highlight the need to keep penalty rates.
About 60 delegates from a range of unions met at Bendigo Trades Hall Council to voice concerns over the threat to remove weekend pay rates in industries such as hospitality and retail.
The conference revolved around a recent bill put to the senate by Independent MP Nick Xenophon proposing small businesses be exempt from paying extra on weekends.
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) President Ged Kearney told the conference it would mean "a disaster" for regional centres.
Ms Kearney said small businesses were major employers in Bendigo and surrounding regions, and the local economy would be hurt if workers' incomes were reduced.
"It would have flow-on effects for the whole community," she said.
Labor candidate for Bendigo and United Voices Union official, Lisa Chesters said it was an issue she would continue to pursue.
"Removing penalty and weekend rates would be the start of a slippery slope for worker rights," she said.
The Victorian Regional Trades and Labour Council Organising Conference is the first event bringing regional delegates from across Victoria together.

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Relay for Life bonanza weekend
The Relay for Life Team at Etowah United Methodist Church will host a weekend of events Saturday and Sunday. All proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society's work through the Henderson County Relay for Life.
Line dancing and gourmet hot dogs will be served from 6:30-9 p.m. Friday. Don't know a "Macarena" from a "macaroni?" No problem. A professional dance instructor will be there. Suggested donation is $10 for singles and $20 per family.
The Relay team will be serving up "Breakfast at the Ritz" from 9-11:15 a.m. April 6 with scrambled eggs, pancakes, biscuits, sausage, gravy, juice and drinks. Suggested donation is $5 for individuals and $20 per family.
Events will take place at the church, 110 Brickyard Road, Etowah. For information, contact Dick Ranges at 828-707-0329 or Roger Hopper at 828-891-1720.
UWTC to host fundraiser
The United Way of Transylvania County is hosting "Eat Out-Shop Out," a fundraising event, on Saturday. Participating businesses make a donation equivalent to 10 percent of that day's sales.
The public can support UWTC by visiting their favorite participating shops and restaurants. A list of vendors and event activities can be found at www.unitedwaytransylvania.org.
The Henderson County Board of Social Services will conduct a special closed meeting at 4 p.m. today in the Social Services Board Room of the Human Services Building, 1200 Spartanburg Highway, Highway.
The Mills River Farmers Market will hold its annual vendor meeting at 6 p.m. April 3 at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station off of Fanning Bridge Road in Mills River.
The Sugarloaf Elementary School Improvement Team will meet at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 404 of the school.
The Mills River Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Commons Room of Town Hall.
Comdr. Ty Martin, retired naval captain and well-known naval historian, will present a "walk and talk" program on the USS Constitution free to the public at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. For more information, call 859-8322 or email email@example.com.
Compassion & Choices of Western North Carolina will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday in the fellowship hall of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville, 409 E. Patterson St., Hendersonville. Guest speaker will be Emilee Hines, author of 14 books. This meeting is free and the public is invited. For more information, contact Diane Emon at 685-9995.
A free public talk, "Creating Happiness: Inspiring Solutions for Difficult Times," will be held from 7-8 p.m. Friday at the Henderson County Historic Courthouse, Grand Community Room, 1 Historic Courthouse Square, Hendersonville. For more information, visit MeditationIn SouthCarolina.org or call 803-200-2115.
The Great Quotes Program meets from 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Smoky Mountain Theater, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. This month's quote is, "Winter, which strips the leaves from around us/makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed." For more information, contact Don Emon at 828-685-9995 or email@example.com.
Henderson County sheriff candidate Erik Summey will hold a barbecue and bluegrass campaign fundraiser from 5:30-8 p.m. Friday at The Chariot, 715 N. Church St., Hendersonville. Appalachian Fire will perform.
The cost is $20 for adults and children under 12 are admitted free. The meal will be provided by Shipman Catering. For more information, call 708-8932, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.electsummeysheriff.com.
The League of Women Voters of Henderson County will sponsor a candidate forum at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the City Operations Building, 305 Williams St., Hendersonville. They will host the primary candidates for the N.C. House District 117 and the primary candidates for Henderson County sheriff. For more information, visit www.lwvhcnc.org.
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Relay for Life bonanza weekend


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After the summer holidays and the festivals we are working very hard again on new releases! We finally made a release schedule (more or less) for the upcoming releases! Have a look...
End of sept/early oct: Nebula Meltdown (Finland) - Stardust Chronicles (SUNCD29)
End of oct: Filteria (Sweden) - Lost in the Wild (SUNCD30)
Middle november: Cosmic Dimension (Fyrom) - In a Special Kind of Space (SUNCDLE03)
December: E-Mantra (Romania) - Arcana 2 (name may change...) (SUNCD31)
Jan/Feb: RA (Norway) - <No Name Yet> (SUNCD32)
We hope you enjoy! Thanks for supporting us! :)
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Bluffton vs. Manchester/Mount St. Joseph
Bluffton blank Mount St. Joseph in HCAC action
By Jordon Bruner sports information assistant
September 24, 2005
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's tennis team (2-7, 2-4) picked up their second win of the season shutting out Mount St. Joseph 9-0.
Junior Lisa Cherry (Waterville/Anthony Wayne) won her No. 1 singles match 8-3. Senior Kara Schrock (Middlebury, Ind./Northridge) dominated her match 8-1 at No. 2 singles. Sophomore Chelsey Person (Bellefontaine/Bellefontaine) and senior Rachel Yoder (Harrisonburg, Pa./Eastern Mennonite) defeated their opponents with scores of 8-0 and 8-1. Freshman Brittany Zeigler (Telford, Penn./Christopher Dock) won her match 8-2, while Senior Stephanie Welch (Berne, Ind./South Adams) won by default The doubles pairs of Cherry/Schrock, Person/Yoder, and Ziegler/Doan all won their matches to finish off the scoring.
Bluffton will return to action when they travel to Tiffin on Tuesday, September 27, with the match starting at 3 p.m.
No. 1. Lisa Cherry (B) def. Julie Fisher (MSJ) 8-3
No. 2. Kara Schrock (B) def. Julie Gering (MSJ) 8-1
No. 3. Chelsey Person (B) def. Tessa Diersing (MSJ) 8-0
No. 4. Rachel Yoder (B) def. Sarah Archer (MSJ) 8-1
No. 5. Britany Ziegler def. Brittany Edwards (MSJ) 8-2
No. 6. Stephanie Welch (B) won by default
No. 1. Cherry/Schrock (B) def. Fisher/Gering (MSJ) 8-2
No. 2. Person/Yoder (B) def. Diersing/Archer (MSJ) 8-0
No. 3. Zeigler/Doan (B) won by default
No. 1. Lisa Cherry (B) vs. Liz Weybright (M) rain
No. 2. Kara Schrock (B) vs. Milogros Ridoutt (M) rain
No. 3. Christa Hunter (M) def. Chelsey Person (B) 8-2
No. 4. Sarah Conwell (M) def. Rachel Yoder (B) 8-1
No. 5. Angela Wilcox (M) def. Brittany Ziegler (B) default
No. 6. Kirby Jasper (M) def. Stephanie Welch (B) 8-0
No. 1. Weybright/Wilcox (M) def. Cherry/Schrock (B) 8-0
No. 2. Person/Yoder (B) vs. Hunter/Ridoutt (M) rain
No. 3. Zeigler/Doan (B) vs. Conwell/Jasper (M) rain


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Submission + - Confirmed: Steam Not Coming To Linux (digitizor.com) 5
dkd903 writes: A rumor has been going around for about four months that Valve was working on a Linux version of Steam and this had a lot of people in the Linux community very excited. But, Valve has now officially killed the rumor. And it is not what people wants to hear – there is no Linux version of Steam in development. Doug Lombardi, the Marketing VP of Valve Corporation, in an interview, has put an end to all the rumors by saying that they are not working on Steam for Linux right now.


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Hi all...
This line makes me smile at the bottom of the forums pages.
"In total there are 15 users online :: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 15 Guests..."
How can one be "Hidden" if there is a number to tell us that there are
hidden personnel?
So surely by definition "Guests" are just as hidden as the Hidden"... ;oD


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2011 Softball
Kayla Owens named HCAC Pitcher of Week
Kayla Owens earns HCAC Pitcher of the Week honors
March 14, 2011
by: Mallory Kemper, sports information intern
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Freshman Kayla Owens (Cincinnati/McAuley) was dominating on the mound for the Beavers in her first week of collegiate softball and has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week.
The freshman pitcher tossed Bluffton's first no-hitter in two seasons, posting a five-inning 8-0 win over Beloit. She finished the week with a 1.24 earned run average and posted a 2-1 record in six appearances.
Owens threw 22.2 innings during the week with 15 strikeouts and held opponents to a .198 batting average.
The Beavers (7-2, 0-0 HCAC) travel to Alma on Wednesday afternoon for a 3:30 p.m. game. Bluffton opens its HCAC schedule at Rose-Hulman on Saturday, March 19th.


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April 17, 2009
Indian Wells, Calif. - The No. 4 seed UC Santa Barbara men's tennis team upended No. 5 seed UC Davis, 4-0, Friday afternoon to advance to the semi-finals of the Big West Championships at Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
The Gauchos came out on top in doubles play, edging the Aggies with a pair of 8-6 victories at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions. Josh Finkelstein and Konigsfeldt downed Hunter Lee and Nick Lopez on court one while Scott Hohenstein and Evan Jurgensen topped Tyler Lee and Mike Reiser.
The UCSB overwhelmed UC Davis in singles play, winning the necessary three matches in straight sets. The first to come off the court was Taylor Chavez Goggin on court five, knocking off Chris Aria, 6-3, 6-0. Max Taylor soon followed up with a 6-4, 6-1 win at the No. 4 slot. The third and final victory to clinch the match for the Gauchos came at the No. 3 spot, when Scott Hohenstein captured a 6-2, 6-3 win.
With the win, the Gauchos (9-12 overall, 4-2 Big West) move on to the semi-finals to face No. 1 seed Pacific, who garnered a first round bye. The UCSB men edged the Tigers in their last meeting on March 28 in dramatic fashion, winning 4-3. The match will be at Indian Wells Tennis Garden at 9 a.m.
1. Finkelstein/Konigsfeldt (UCSB) def. H. Lee/Lopez (UCD) - 8-6
2. Hohenstein/Evan Jurgensen (UCSB) def. T. Lee/Reiser (UCD) - 8-6
3. Nick Caledonia/Chavez Goggin (UCSB) vs. Josh Albert/Amaroli (UCD) - DNF
Order of Finish: 2, 1
1. Alex Konigsfeldt (UCSB) vs. Nick Lopez (UCD) - DNF
2. Josh Finkelstein (UCSB) vs. Mike Reiser (UCD) - DNF
3. Scott Hohenstein (UCSB) def. Hunter Lee (UCD) - 6-2, 6-3
4. Max Taylor (UCSB) def. Tyler Lee (UCD) - 6-4, 6-1
5. Taylor Chavez Goggin (UCSB) def. Chris Aria (UCD) - 6-3, 6-0
6. Mathieu Forget (UCSB) vs. Nic Amaroli (UCD) - DNF
Order of Finish: 5, 4, 3


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Those St. Charles softball bragging rights St. Charles East has worked so hard to gain?
Turns out St. Charles North isn't ready to hand them over just yet. Not by a longshot.
The North Stars put an emphatic end to the Saints' 18-game winning streak Monday, capping their 10-0 slaughter with a 5-run fifth inning highlighted by No. 9 hitter Andrea Beal's grand slam and Kaitlyn Waslawski's game-ending shot into the right-field gap.
Waslawski, who also homered, drove in Sabrina Rabin with the 10th run. The Northwestern-bound Rabin went 3-for-3 with 3 runs scored and 4 stolen bases from her leadoff spot while improving to 11-2 in the circle with a 4-hit shutout.
"We knew they were a good team so we had to be on our 'A' game," Rabin said. "I was hitting my spots, mixing it up, making sure my defense was behind me. And it helps when we hit well. It's definitely a little more relaxing. We definitely have a lot of great hitters. We have to make sure we keep putting it in play, and just really being confident in there."
The win pushed St. Charles North (14-4, 10-2) ahead of St. Charles East (21-4, 10-3) in the Upstate Eight Conference River race. The teams meet again next week on the Saints' home field.
"We're not going to make any excuses, they are a very good team, they just beat us today. They had a great attack at the plate. I don't know if there's much more to say," said Saints coach Kelly Horan who then did have something interesting to say on the Saints' perspective coming into the game against the reigning champion North Stars.
"We haven't won anything. We're not champs. We haven't done anything. They are the defending champs. They win everything, always. We haven't done anything. Yeah, we have 20 wins before May and that's wonderful, but I don't want that to be the headliner of my end of the year speech."
The North Stars scored once in the second, twice in the third and twice in the fourth to take a 5-0 lead against Saints starter Haley Beno. Horan turned to Alex Latoria in the fifth, and the North Stars scored five times to send everyone home much earlier than planned.
"I expected it to be like last season, come down to the last at-bat," North Stars coach Tom Poulin said. "It's nice to threaten every inning. I thought we did a nice job of using our speed early and then we were able to drive the ball."
Rabin made her only mistake of the game in the first inning, and it came on the bases. After stealing second and third base -- she has only been caught once this year against South Elgin -- Rabin got doubled off third base on a line drive to short by Micky Goetz.
Abby Howlett continued her red-hot hitting by lining an opposite-field double to start the second. Erin Nemitz delivered a 2-out single up the middle to score Howlett for a 1-0 lead.
Rabin opened the third inning with an infield single and stole second. Goetz drove her in with an RBI double, then she took third on Emily Brodner's single and scored on another Howlett hit to make it 3-0.
Another single and steal by Rabin in the fourth was followed by Waslawski driving a 2-run home run to left field for a 5-0 lead. It was the first home run of the year for Waslawski who returned to the lineup after being out ill late last week.
"She's a good opposite-field hitter," Poulin said. "But when she gets ahold of it she can hit the ball."
Howlett drew a four-pitch walk to ignite the North Stars' fifth-inning rally. Delaney Olinger singled and Nemitz also walked loading the bases for Beal. The junior not only cranked her home run high over the center field fence but the ball carried all the way onto the baseball field beyond it for one of the longest home runs Poulin has seen on the North Stars' home field.
"They told me that and I was like, are you serious?'" Beal said. "I was ecstatic. I knew as soon as I hit it that was a nice hit ball. I could just feel it."
Waslawski and Howlett both had 2 hits for the North Stars who got at least 1 hit from eight of their starting nine.
The Saints, meanwhile, left runners at second and third in the first inning but didn't threaten Rabin much after that. Tess Hupe doubled for one of the Saints' 4 hits.
"Our kids were prepared," Horan said. "We had runners on in the early innings and were just short that one big hit. That can do a lot as far as momentum goes. They had runners on and got that one hit and obviously hitting is contagious.
"I don't think there needs to be any extra motivation when you play St. Charles North. If anything there needs to be less. I told the kids they can think about it and be angry about it for 10 minutes on the bus ride home but we have a game tomorrow against Geneva and we can't let one loss go into two. It's done, it's over with, we'll start thinking of them (St. Charles North) maybe 3 p.m. May 14 but until then we won't. We're too busy."


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Perkins and Barnard Loan forms (promissory note, entrance interview, schedule of advances, or borrower information forms), are available from the Financial Aid Office at (212) 854-2154.
University Accounting Service (UAS) is the billing service for Barnard's Federal Perkins and Institutional Loans. On the UAS website you can:
- Read about loan deferment/cancellation benefits for which you may be eligible on your federal Perkins/NDSL.
- Print the forms you'll need to apply for these benefits.
- Change your billing address with UAS. (This does not change your address on Barnard records.)
Although deferment and cancellation privileges are also outlined in your copy of the promissory note you received at your loan exit interview, benefits may have changed. You should check the UAS website, or call UAS directly at 1-800-999-6227 if you have any questions about eligibility for these benefits.


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Welcome from Career Services at CSB/SJU
Career Services (with offices on both campuses) extends greetings to returning students' parents and gives a special welcome to those first time parents of a Bennie or Johnnie. This and future monthly updates provides information about what is happening in Career Services and how we're working with your sons and daughters.
During the early part of fall semester, staff from Career Services as well as Academic Advising will visit the First Year Seminar classes to introduce ATLAS (Achieving Through Learning and Searching). This program will expose first-year students to information relating to major choice, career exploration, and four-year planning. ATLAS is designed to guide students all through their college experience.
This year our office is pleased to introduce the new Parent Page on our Career Services website. You can find timely information on our events, meet our staff, learn what alums are doing and view a four-year timeline to help you talk with your son/daughter regarding his/her career goals. Visit the Career Services Parent Page. Take the opportunity to view our video for an introduction to Career Services and the assistance available throughout your child's college career.
Career Services looks forward to working with your sons and daughters and helping them achieve their goals.


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EORLs tend to occur in older cats (over 4 years of age) and may be more common in purebred cats, especially Siamese and Abyssinians.
What are dental resorption lesions?
Dental resorption lesions result in the loss of tooth structure, starting with the outer enamel surface, usually at or below the gumline. The lesions, which are NOT cavities, begin as a loss of tooth enamel and can eventually spread to the dentin and then the pulp canal, which contains the blood vessels and nerves to the tooth. Sometimes, the entire crown of the tooth may be missing.
Resorption lesions are progressive and may be singular or multiple and on the lingual (side where the tongue is) or buccal (side where the cheek is) side of the tooth. Some lesions are readily apparent and others may be hidden under areas of plaque or swollen gums. This is why a cat needs to be anesthetized to determine if such lesions are present: the entire surface of each tooth must be examined.
The lesions most commonly occur in the larger, multi-rooted teeth - the molars and premolars - at the area where the roots diverge. They can also occur in the canine teeth and incisors.
What causes dental resorption lesions?
The cause of these resorption lesions is unknown. One theory is that the inflammation caused by plaque may stimulate cells called 'odontoclasts,' which eat away at the enamel of the tooth. Other possible causes include autoimmune disorders, viral diseases, or a nutritional deficiency.
What signs of disease are associated with resorption lesions?
EORLS which have eroded through the enamel may be very painful. Cats with oral pain may appear irritable or aggressive, have a change in appetite or food preference, and may have difficulty chewing and eating (food falls from their mouth). Cats with EORLs may show pain when their jaws are touched and may also have increased salivation or oral bleeding.
Stage I: Loss of enamel only, extending less than 0.5 mm into the tooth.Stage II: Lesion extends into the dentin.Stage III: Lesion extends into the pulp canal, but good tooth structure remains.Stage IV: Lesion extends into the pulp canal and there is extensive loss of tooth structure.Stage V: Crown of tooth is missing, but roots are present.
How are resorption lesions diagnosed?
Many lesions may be easily visible. However, a dental explorer should be used to examine each tooth above and below the surface of the gum. Any calculus on the teeth needs to be removed before a complete examination can be performed.
Dental radiographs are helpful in diagnosing this condition and evaluating the extent of disease. Resorption lesions are graded I-V according to the amount of tooth that is lost with Grade I being mild and Grade V being severe.
How are resorption lesions treated?
Whether to attempt to restore EORLs is still controversial. Grade I lesions would be the only ones amenable to restoration, and may be treated with glass ionomer or sealants. The fluoride in these products desensitizes the area and strengthens the enamel. Restoratives will not necessarily stop the progression of the disease. Grade II-V lesions are generally not restored, but the tooth is extracted. If the EORL has destroyed a large portion of the tooth, it may break off, leaving the root behind. In these cases, the root may need to be removed.
It is recommended that cats who have a history of EORLs should have a prophylaxis (professional dental cleaning) every six months.
Home dental care for cats with EORLs includes the use of a 0.4% stannous fluoride gel applied weekly with a cat toothbrush or cotton swab. A dry diet is recommended and antibiotic therapy may be instituted.
DeBowes, L J. Evaluation and management of Oral Disease. In August, Jr (ed.) Consultations in Feline Internal Medicine 3. W.B. Saunders Co. Philadelphia, PA; 1997;55-59.
Gengler, W. Introductory Dental Laboratory. Verona, WI; 1996.
Holstrom, SE; Frost, P; Gammon, RG. Veterinary Dental Techniques. W.B. Saunders Co. Philadelphia, PA; 1992;296.


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The promise Nancy made more than 30 years ago still stands today. At Nancy's Notions, your 100% satisfaction is guaranteed. If, for any reason, at any time, you're not completely satisfied with an item's quality, please return it for a refund, an exchange, or a credit of the purchase price.
Frequently Asked Questions:1. Can I return software? Yes, even after you've installed the software on your computer. Simply uninstall the software and return the complete package.
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3. Can I return cut fabric? Yes. Go ahead. Prewash and cut your fabric. If you don't like how it sews, return it. It's that simple.
Learn more about how to return or exchange an item you purchased from Nancy's Notions.
A rotary cutter, cutting mat, and ruler definitely simplify the process of cutting fabric strips for bindings, bias strips, and quilting. Today's rotary cutters have taken on updated designs and efficiencies. As these cutters have become more sophisticated, so have the tools used in conjunction with them. Here's a notion that makes it "sew" easy to quickly cut uniform, accurate strips.
The tough acrylic Shape Cut™ safely guides your rotary cutter; precise cutting slots have specially shaped teardrop ends, making it easy to insert your cutter. Choose from a 16-1/2" x 22" size with a 12" x 18" cutting grid for large strip cutting projects (JT797). Select the 16-1/2" x 16-12" size with a 12" x 12" grid for smaller projects (JT796). It's a real time and energy saver when you need multiple straight strips, squares, or triangles.
1. Use Shape-Cut™ to cut strips.
2. Use the Shape-Cut™ to cut squares.
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Ginnifer Goodwin + the Best and Worst Dressed (Nadeea) at EW's 6th Comic-Con Party
Celebs like Anna Kendrick, True Blood's Kristen Bauer Von Straten and more hit Entertainment Weekly's gold carpet. The clothing, like some of the actresses was a mixed bag of good and awful.
-PJ Gach
Every summer, San Diego is overrun with science fiction, horror, fantasy fans, cosplayers, celebrities and comic book enthusiasts as they converge at San Diego Comic-Con, aka SDCC. Movies and TV shows are premiered, book and comic book authors are interviewed and it's a packed couple of days. Of course there are parties all over the place.
Read The Perfect Outfit! What to Wear on a Lazy Sunday
This weekend Entertainment Weekly threw their 6th Annual Comic-Con Celebration sponsored by Just Dance 4. Some celebrities like Meghan Ory, Amandla Stenberg, Ginnifer Goodwin and Nina Dobrev dressed up for the party. Anna Kendrick and Olivia Munn looked like they were doing a coffee run and singer Nadeea mashed up Lady Gaga, Ke$sha, Nicki Minaj and Batman (yes, really!), and the results were horrific!
Check out our best and worst dressed of the night.


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Dai Young has made a number of changes to the starting line-up for Wasps' Challenge Cup quarter-final with Gloucester at Adams Park.
Dai Young has made a number of changes to the starting line-up for Wasps' Challenge Cup quarter-final at home to Gloucester.
The changes include the return of England internationals Joe Launchbury and Matt Mullan.
Changes are made to both wings with James Short, who was unable to play last weekend due to his loan agreement, taking the place of Tom Howe. Will Helu, who has recovered from injury, replaces Jonah Holmes who is not ERC registered.
The final two changes come in the back row, where Sam Jones returns to the starting line-up at six, with James Haskell moving to seven in place of Guy Thompson who moves to the bench and will face a fitness test ahead of Sunday's game.
Meanwhile, Gloucester have made three changes to their starting line up.
There are two changes to the pack as Dan George replaces the injured Darren Dawidiuk at hooker, and James Hudson returns in the second row in place of Will James.
Ryan Mills hasn't recovered from the knock he picked up at Exeter Chiefs last Saturday, so Billy Twelvetrees takes over at fly-half. Mike Tindall moves across to inside centre and Henry Trinder comes in to wear the number thirteen shirt.
The teams:
London Wasps: 15 Andrea Masi, 14 Will Helu, 13 Elliot Daly, 12 Chris Bell (c), 11 James Short, 10 Andy Goode, 9 Joe Simpson, 8 Nathan Hughes, 7 James Haskell, 6 Sam Jones, 5 Kearnan Myall, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 Jake Cooper-Woolley, 2 Carlo Festuccia, 1 Matt Mullan
Replacements: 16 Tom Lindsay, 17 Simon McIntyre, 18 Phil Swainston, 19 Tom Palmer, 20 Guy Thompson, 21 Charlie Davies, 22 Joe Carlisle, 23 Charlie Hayter
Gloucester: 15 Rob Cook, 14 Charlie Sharples, 13 Henry Trinder, 12 Mike Tindall, 11 Jonny May, 10 Billy Twelvetrees (c), 9 Jimmy Cowan, 8 Ben Morgan, 7 Matt Kvesic, 6 Sione Kalamafoni, 5 James Hudson, 4 Elliott Stooke, 3 Shaun Knight, 2 Dan George, 1 Nick Wood
Replacements: 16 Huia Edmonds, 17 Yann Thomas, 18 Sila Puafisi, 19 Will James, 20 Gareth Evans, 21 Tavis Knoyle, 22 Freddie Burns, 23 Martyn Thomas
Date: Sunday, February 6
Venue: Adams Park, High Wycombe
Kickoff: 20:00 (local, 19:00 GMT)
Referee: Pascal Gauzère (France)
Assistant Referees: Marius Mitrea (Italy), Laurent Cardona (France)
TMO: Alan Falzone (Italy)


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Now that the election is really (really) over, the producers of Laffing Matterz can finalize their dinner-theater show.
The revue opens its seventh season Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts with the usual lampooning of news headlines in a supper-club setting. Speaking before last week's election, the dynamic duo of Mark and Rita Wells explained how they were in a holding pattern with a few skits.
"There are at least two big numbers that are kind of twisting in the wind until we see what is happening [with the election]," Mark Wells says. "But that happens a lot, anyway. And sometimes, we end up pulling a number if it's not getting a response. Always, the audience is the barometer that tells us what is funny and what is not."
But they both agree that this election, in particular, is good fodder.
"The show revolves around what is going on in the news, so we obviously had a good year for stuff," Rita Wells explains. "And there is a lot of Florida-type of humor. It's a cross between, like, a 'Saturday Night Live' and a musical."
So this time around, expect satirical songs on a slimmed-down Paula Deen, "Dancing With the Stars," Ambien antics, "50 Shades of Grey" and Anderson Cooper's coming out.
"We do a take on cosmetic surgery," Mark adds. "We've got Katie Holmes being chased by Scientologists. We've got a song about erectile dysfunction. There's one with Arnold Schwarzenegger and some children he's fathered that he doesn't know about. [There is] a good, way-out-there number about Chick-fil-A. That's the envelope-pusher this year."
Dinner theater is nothing new for the Wells. They met while performing at the now-defunct Crystal Palace in Aspen, Colo. "That's when I started doing political and social satire up there," Mark recalls. "This is more like Monty Python. It's more like Vaudeville really."
Laffing Matterz runs Thursdays through Sundays until May 12 at the Broward Center, 201 SW Fifth Ave., in Fort Lauderdale. Dinner starts at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and at 4:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets cost $59-$65. Call 954-462-0222 or go to BrowardCenter.org.


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A security technology company with roots in the Department of Defense is about to find its secure container approach widely available on millions of commercial Dell laptops this week.
Invincea announced that it will ship a customized version of its secure virtual containers software, using technology designed to make it difficult for attackers to gain access to the critical processes and data on an employee's PC, on Dell Data Protection Protected Workspace brand PCs. Through an OEM agreement with Dell, Invincea's software will be part of the standard image on Dell's entire line of PCs, including its Latitude and OptiPlex, as well as on the Dell Precision tablets and PCs.
The software will be available for a one-year free trial.
[Related: 15 Scenes From Dell Enterprise Forum]
Invincea has roots with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The company recently celebrated a review conducted by the National Security Agency as part of its pre-acquisition program for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Fairfax, Va.-based company's technology wraps the browser and some popular applications in a secure container and is designed to make attacks such as Java-based exploits, banking Trojans and targeted attacks more difficult to break out onto a victim's PC and into the corporate network.
The OEM agreement marks the first large-scale deployment by an end-user OEM of Invincea's endpoint security technology. Invincea said the deal will ensure that its software is available on 20 million devices in the first 12 months and tens of millions more in subsequent years. The approach, which is being used by defense contractors, government agencies and companies in the financial industry, could not be more broadly adopted, said Anup Ghosh, founder and CEO at Invincea. The deal is important because all businesses large and small are being targeted by nation-state sponsored cybercriminals and attackers going after account credentials and other sensitive data, Ghosh said.
"We monitor all interaction between the application and the kernel, and if we see something abnormal, we basically flush the virtual container, collect all artifacts and bring back a clean environment, and meanwhile we've collected intelligence on who the adversary is," Ghosh said.
Invincea's security technology has caught the eye of industry observers because of its ability to encapsulate browsers and applications in a virtual container. Rather than detecting and defending, these technologies are blocking and sometimes tackling threats to help security teams determine their significance. But, industry analysts point out that no security is a panacea. A determined attacker could find a way to bypass the secure container, said Ken Baylor a research vice president at NSS Labs.
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Jeremy Flores was thankful to be with the Victoria Generals at Riverside Stadium on Monday night.
Flores has spent most of the past week with his family trying to deal with the death of his cousin Jacob Guzman.
Jeremy Flores was thankful to be with the Victoria Generals at Riverside Stadium on Monday night.
Flores has spent most of the past week with his family trying to deal with the death of his cousin Jacob Guzman.
Guzman, a senior at Victoria West, was killed in an auto collision last Tuesday.
Flores, a Memorial graduate, didn't travel with the Generals on a recent road trip.
"I spent a lot of time with my family the last couple of days just kind of helping with the loss of a loved one," he said. "I just spent a lot of time with them."
Flores was extremely close with Guzman and tried to keep in touch even when he was pitching at Texas A&M-Kingsville.
"He was with me since 5 years old," Flores said. "He kind of looked up to me and wanted to be just like me, but the basketball version. He considered me his Uncle Peanut."
Flores was unsure if he would pitch, but was ready when Generals coach Chris Clemons told him to warm up in the eighth inning of their Texas Collegiate League game against the Brazos Valley Bombers.
Flores entered the game in the top of the ninth inning of the Generals' 3-1 loss.
He responded with a perfect 13-pitch inning, including a fly out, a strikeout and a groundout.
"Baseball to me is kind of like my getaway," Flores said. "Clem told me I was going in and I went to the pen to warm up and said a little prayer for him and told him to give me the strength to get through it. I came out and did a pretty good job I thought."
The Generals also got quality pitching performances from starter Alex Klonowski and reliever Dillon Newman.
But Victoria had only four hits, including two infield hits, and didn't score until the bottom of the ninth inning.
"We'll come around eventually," Flores said. "Baseball is a game of ups and downs so you can't really stick on one too much. I feel our bats will come around and we'll get rolling."
The Generals (12-8) missed a chance to move into a second-place tie with Brazos Valley (14-6). Instead, they lost their fifth straight game against the Bombers this season.
The Generals will try again against the Bombers on Tuesday night when they travel to Bryan.
"If we can figure out how to get past these guys," Flores said, "we'll be all right."
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Brandon Bergen, Derrick Mazzio (7), Ryan Ullman (8), Franco Pace (9), Nick Johnson (9) and Kevin Lamb. Alex Klonowski, Dillon Newman (5), Jeremy Flores (9) and Eric Weiss. W: Bergen (2-0). L: Klonowski (1-1). S: Johnson (1). 2B: (BV) Quentin Urban 2. Highlights: (BV) Urban 2 for 4, 2 2B, 2 R. (V) Newman 3.1 IP, 0 H, 3 K; Billy Richard 2 for 5; Chad Kruse 1 for 4, RBI. Records: Brazos Valley 14-6; Victoria 12-8.


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Car news
The Jaguar F-Type meets its ancestors
As Jaguar's first sports car in decades draws near, its predecessors gather for a celebratory high-speed run…
The man in the third picture in the photo gallery is 92-year-old Norman Dewis. If you haven't heard of him, it's time to find out why he's a genuine TopGear hero.
Chief test driver and development engineer at Jaguar from 1952 to 1985, Norman estimates he has driven over one million miles at over 160kph in his lifetime. He flew Bristol Blenheims in World War Two as a tail gunner. He was a key figure in the development of the disc brake, after racing a prototype system in a C-Type with Stirling Moss at the 1952 Mille Miglia. He was central in the development of said C-Type, plus the Le Mans-winning D-Type (and pretty much every iconic Jaguar sports car). He drove the very first E-Type from Coventry to the Geneva Motor Show in 1961 on the orders of Jag boss Sir William Lyons, speeding through the night, stopping only once, and averaging 110kph in a pre-motorway era. He's 92 years old, and he's still going strong.
And recently, TopGear.com accompanied Norman to an obscure part of northern Belgium to celebrate yet another of his achievements: 60 years ago, he broke the world production car speed record in a modified Jaguar XK120, recording a faintly ludicrous 276kph on the public roads of Jabbeke. This was, remember, in 1953. And Norman can remember every single detail…
"What happened was, Sir William Lyons came to me and said 'Dewis, I see someone's broken the record at Jabbeke. What are you going to do about it?'
"I said 'there's not much we can do, Sir William'. We only have the XK120 as a sports car, and I think we've already stretched that to the limit. I don't think it can do it.
"But we looked at the possibility. We decided to fit an undertray and seal it underneath. The headlights were taken off in order to blow air straight into the carburetor for a bit more power. I would sit on the floor on a cushion, and drop the column right down so I was just peeking over the top of the scuttle. Then they said we'll remove the windscreen and put a Perspex bubble over the top of you and seal you in. That should give us another 10kph or so… We blew the tyres up and took the tread off to make them into slicks, so there was only 2mm of rubber, a very small contact patch. All this to gain extra speed, speed, speed.
"I remember, I came off the high-speed run and drove up to the timing people, the press, all of them. Lofty England, the team manager, was stood there with his arms folded, nobody was smiling, and I was thinking 'there's something wrong here'. So they undid the bubble – I was sealed in, remember – and everyone was so quiet. Lofty said 'have you got a problem with the car Norman? Because you're slower now than you were last April!"
"I said 'I can't be! I'm pulling 6,200rpm', which was way more than we'd planned. And he walked over to me, gave me a big hug, and said 'Norman, you bugger, you know what you've done? 277.4kph'. The record still stands, and the Belgian authorities banned it after that! Too fast for the public roads, really…"
Sixty years on, there's another Jaguar sports car making big headlines, and so, in tribute to Norman's feat, Jaguar returned to Jabbeke with a range-topping V8-engined F-Type and a strict brief to go as fast as possible. The plan: to see how close the F-Type could get to its claimed VMAX of 300kph in the same place where it once made history. It wasn't an easy task. In 1953 Norman Dewis had over three kilometres to get his modified XK120 up to speed, one and a half kilometre to record an average, and three kilometres to slow down. In 2013, there's only a single three kilometre stretch of closed, rather narrow two-lane blacktop with trees on each side to play with (the original site of the record is now, alas, a motorway).
Still, at the helm was a man with his own proud heritage of driving rapidly in a straight line: Andy Wallace. Andy won Le Mans in 1988 in an Jaguar XJR-8, two years before chicanes were introduced to the Mulsanne straight and speeds of over 386kph were possible (an experience he freely admits was "terrifying, and not in a particularly good way. I spent the entire time looking at the tyre temperatures and worrying which one was going to go first."). He was also driving the McLaren F1 when it was V-MAXed at 391kph, a record only broken recently by a certain Mr James May in a Bugatti Veyron Supersport (for ten minutes).
And with us to witness the attempt were a few more VIPs: the cream of Jaguar's racing car heritage and the iconic cars that ascend alphabetically to the sporting centerpiece of today's Jaguar line-up: mint, and almost priceless examples of the original XK120, a C-Type, a D-Type and the very first customer E-Type (all very kindly brought along by their owners - have a click through the pictures above to appreciate quite how glorious this guestlist was).
Just to make things more interesting for Mr Wallace, Jaguar had hired a helicopter with a remarkably talented pilot at the helm, who spent her time weaving in and out of the trees to record the event. With a recent episode of TopGear Korea fresh in our mind this was rather disconcerting, but you can see the results in the video at the end of this article.
Watching one of the most highly anticipated cars in years bellowing past on a public road (that V8 sounds fantastic), while a helicopter hovers in close vicinity, was entirely worth a trip to a remote part of Belgium. On its fastest run the car got up to 288kph, despite mutterings from Andy about tree roots affecting the road surface and occasional air turbulence from the helicopter. But it does mean we now know the F-Type can do 0-288-0kph in two miles, and continue merrily on its way on a road trip to Geneva without the slightest grumble. Impressive. We weren't allowed to drive it ourselves, but it won't be long now…
Pictures: George F Williams
Tags: jaguar, f type, d type, e type


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In his new role as East Bridgewater selectman, William V. Dowling Jr. wants to see more openness between the board and town residents.
EAST BRIDGEWATER - In his new role as selectman, William V. Dowling Jr. wants to see more openness between the Board of Selectmen and town residents.
He also wants selectmen to have a better relationship with the school committee.
"I think there needs to be more discussion... better relationships," Dowling, 44, said Monday after he defeated incumbent selectmen Chairman Brian Connors in Saturday's annual town election.
Dowling won by a margin of 491 votes. Dowling garnered 796 votes and Connors, 305.
"The people spoke loud and clear on this one. It feels good. I had a lot of good support," Dowling said Monday afternoon, before being sworn in as selectman. He planned to take his new seat on the three-member board during the selectmen's meeting at Town Hall on Monday night.
Connors, first elected as selectman in 2011, could not be reached for comment Monday.
Dowling, a married father of four, has served on the town's finance committee for more than two years. He has lived in East Bridgewater for 12 years. Saturday's election was his first formal bid for public office.
Dowling graduated from Suffolk University in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and U.S. history. He previously worked in mutual funds and as an EMT for several years, and now is a stay-at-home Dad caring for his children, he said.
Meanwhile, in the School Committee race, incumbent Gordon McKinnon and Ellen K. Pennington won two seats on the six-member panel.
McKinnon garnered 588 votes and Pennington, 581. Two others who were vying for the School Committee seats did not make the cut. Valerie A. Mason garnered 427 votes and Jonathan A. White, 312.
Former committee member Elizabeth Hayes did not seek re- election. McKinnon was appointed to the committee in October 2013 after Michael Power resigned when he took a job at the School Department.
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Student-Made Mural Adds Visual Ambience to UNA's Mane Room Performance Center Downtown
Dec. 13, 2013
By Hannah Mask, Student Writer
FLORENCE, Ala. – The Department of Entertainment Industry at the University of North Alabama continues to enhance and upgrade the look and atmosphere of its state-of-the-art performance venue.
A new, student-made wall mural was unveiled today inside The Mane Room, the performance hall located in the department's headquarters at the intersection of Pine and Tombigbee streets in downtown Florence.
UNA art major Jordan Weisenauer spent much of the fall semester painting a large-scale mural on a wooden arch measuring 10-feet tall by 32-feet wide. The mural is temporarily displayed on the side wall of The Mane Room as audiences arrive inside the facility from the main entrance on Pine Street.
Once additional funding is secured, plans call for the mural to be permanently positioned as an interior wall dividing the Mane Room lobby from the 450-seat-capacity performance hall where concerts, classes, lectures, panel discussions and other Entertainment Industry events are regularly presented.
"Jordan is an incredibly talented young man with a unique style and a bright future ahead of him," says Chuck Craig, graphic designer for the UNA Office of Communications and Marketing. "This mural was part of his senior project, and it's a wonderful way of combining art, music and the entertainment industry here at UNA."
Weisenauer – a 23-year-old senior from Indianapolis, Indiana – will receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the university during fall commencement ceremonies at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, in Flowers Hall. The artist – who studied painting under UNA art professor John Turner – said the inspiration for the mural came in the form of his favorite aspects of the Shoals, such as O'Neal Bridge and the local music scene.
"There's just so much great music in this town," Weisenauer said. "Any time you go downtown, there's always someone playing music. I love it."
Weisenaeur's friends, teachers and mentors – along with representative figures from the local music scene – are featured on the mural. The artist also depicted influences from his favorite television show: Silvatore Dante, a mafia character from HBO's The Sopranos, leans next to the walkway as though he were a bodyguard.
"I wanted the bodyguard to look really tough," Weisenauer said.
UNA President Dr. William G. Cale called the student mural project an ideal illustration of the university's fundamental mission.
"One of our main goals is to provide opportunities for our students, and this is one of the opportunities has been created," Cale said. "Another thing that we do is to create synergy. This is an excellent example of the synergy that can occur when people and programs work together. In this case, we have synergy between Jordan, The Mane Room, the Entertainment Industry program, the art department and the music and arts community."
The UNA Department of Entertainment Industry moved to the Tombigbee Street facility in July 2012. A $5,000 community-development grant, facilitated by State Sen. Tammy Irons, D-Florence, has covered some of the costs of upgrading parts of the building. Plans call for enhanced outside lighting and a decorative gate at The Mane Room's Pine Street entrance.
"Downtown Florence is exploding," Garfrerick said. "It just so happens that the department moved as it was happening organically."
High-resolution photos of today's mural unveiling are available for media use on the UNA Gallery at:


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JCO Research Round Up
September 23, 2013
An analysis of data collected in a large retrospective study showed that married patients tend to live longer after a cancer diagnosis than unmarried patients. Married patients are also more likely to have earlier-stage cancer at diagnosis and more likely to receive appropriate treatments, such as surgery and radiation therapy. The findings also suggest that more effort should be invested in improving social support services for unmarried patients with cancer.
For patients who are married, spouses are the primary source of social support ─ they share the emotional burden of the illness, encourage the patient to seek evaluation of abnormal symptoms and pursue screening, accompany patients to doctor's visits, ensure they follow through with recommended treatments and receive appropriate pain management and help them cope with the various mental and emotional stresses of a cancer diagnosis and care. Married people also tend to have less anxiety and depression, two factors that have been linked to decreased cancer survival.
In this study, researchers assessed national cancer registry data of more than 700,000 patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2008. They found that being married decreased the odds of having metastatic disease when first diagnosed with cancer by 17% and increased the odds of receiving appropriate therapy by 53%. At any given time, a patient who was married was 20% more likely to be alive, on average, than a patient who was not married, regardless of tumor stage at diagnosis.
These benefits of marriage were consistent among each of the ten leading causes of cancer-related death in the United States ─ lung, colorectal, breast, pancreatic, prostate, liver/bile duct, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, head and neck, ovarian, and esophageal cancer, and persisted when researchers accounted for differences in characteristics of married vs. unmarried patients (for example, household income, education, race, gender).
What This Means for Patients
These findings add to the growing body of literature that suggests that marriage and, more broadly, social support helps patients cope with and survive cancer. Patients who are married tend to have better social support networks in place. Patients who are not married, however, are encouraged to reach out to family and friends, cancer and faith-based support groups, social workers, or their doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to obtain the social support that they need, including assistance with decision-making, coping strategies, supportive and palliative care, and management of depression and anxiety.
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Gray Wins High Jump At Duke
DURHAM – Nakita Gray has added a new dimension to the North Carolina A&T women's track and field. The Aggies now have a high jumper. Gray jumped 5-feet, 8-inches to win the women's high jump at the Duke Invitational over the weekend.
Gray has consistently finished in the top 3 of high jump events during the outdoor season. She now fits into the objective of having an overall program. Gray's jump on Saturday gives her the best jump in the MEAC this season.
Roshel Bygraves also had a nice performance in the 400 meters. She finished fourth in 55.50. The junior finished below her best time of the season, a 55.01, ran at the Shamrock XVII on March 14. Brittanie Morris placed fifth in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 14.98. She qualified for the final with a 14.75 preliminary time.
The Aggies will host their first track meet of the 2013 outdoor season this weekend. The Aggie Invitational starts April 12 at A&T's Irwin Belk Track. The field events start at 1 p.m., and the first running event starts at 4 p.m. On Saturday, both running and field events begin at 10 a.m.


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Grayslake Elementary District 46 board members heard a presentation Wednesday on proposed job cuts and other measures designed to reduce what's expected to be a growing budget deficit.
Superintendent Ellen Correll labeled as "daunting" a $2.2 million hole projected for the 2013-14 academic year. She said District 46 administrators have met to address ideas on how to shrink the budget deficit by an estimated $1.8 million.
"None of these are areas where we are overstaffed," Correll told the school board. "We are not getting rid of fluff for the district."
Under the preliminary plan, average class sizes would go up. Correll said average class sizes would be 25 students in kindergarten through second grade and go up to 30 pupils in grades 3 through 8.
Correll said increased class sizes would lead to dismissal of about 15 teachers at a savings of $725,000. She said the cuts would be decided through evaluation ratings and districtwide seniority.
In addition, said Correll, about $100,000 could be saved by eliminating two social workers. The district could be able to save $200,000 more by reducing special education caseloads at five schools.
Other possible moves to reduce the budget gap include a 10 percent cut in individual school budgets for supplies and elimination of $50,000 for the district's technology department. Correll said she's already helped the cause by returning $17,000 she had been allotted for her medical benefits.
Correll said administrators kept student needs at the forefront when they discussed the potential reductions.
Board President Ray Millington said it'll be important to enact reductions that are sustainable over several years. Board member Keith Surroz said it's preferable to do what's necessary to shrink the deficit than to say some programs were saved.
"We don't have any choice," Surroz said.
Teachers went on strike for three days over pay and benefits in January. Correll said she sent the staff an email stating a presentation about the proposed cuts would be made to the school board.
In December, a board majority voted to reject a requested 4.5 percent increase in this year's tax levy. Officials turned away $750,000 that likely would have been received if the tax levy hike had been approved.
However, board members said they needed to reduce the tax hit on property owners. Officials said an owner of a typical $200,000 home can expect to pay $90 more to the district in 2013, rather than $400-plus if the higher levy had been approved by the board. Board members in September adopted a $49.1 million budget for 2012-13 academic year. The deficit at that time was projected at $1.2 million.
District 46 serves parts of Grayslake, Third Lake, Hainesville, Round Lake, Round Lake Park, Round Lake Beach and Lake Villa.


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Life finds a way
The Kakapo makes perfect sense in a place where there are no mammals, specifically rats and foxes. The Kiwi likewise.
It's one of the things that makes New Zealand bird life so crazy and cool. Damn shame those Maori wiped out the Moa, and introduced mammals look to be trying for the rest of the weird ground-birds.
Fair enough, should have read your signature!
Do we point and laugh at the panda also?
Honestly when you have an animal too lazy to fuck it's time to just let them go.
Actually I would propose that the key to the panda's survival is making them into a popular food source. If we just subsidized the raising and slaughter of Panda and Polar bears companies like Smithfield would rapidly adjust and we'd have millions and millions of them.
Pandas, the newest white meat!
Wait... so you are saying when I order from Panda Express I'm not getting genuine panda meat?? What a rip off....
Like Walmart shoppers.
We wanted a car/computer analogy, you insensitive clod!
As an evolutionary biologist you would probably appreciate this [blogspot.com] the most out of anyone.
#correction HUNDREDS of millions of years (if not billions).
I'm rather un-surprised at the adaptation speed of the insects actually.
When studying evolutionary process, we used fruit flies specifically because of the extreme adaptation rates.
The high population size of the insects, coupled with their high mutation rate, and ever-increasing adaptation speed (family lines that adapt faster are a positive selection factor in evolution among many species) points in a fairly obvious direction of their overcoming
Just so some accuracy can be in here. Life, as in DNA replication, exists for about 3 billion years. The solar system for about 4.5 billion years (our sun is third generation, in other words, 2 solar systems were destroyed before ours was created in roughly the same place), and earth somewhere near 4.4 billion years, although it could have been much smaller than today until about 4.2 billion years.
That "island species" (technically races, not species) die out when reunited with their long lost mainland brethren is not exactly news. It's what's happening to the human species right now. In general, without natural borders, different races are impossible within a species. The fact that we have both global travel and different races is an exceptional situation, and a temporary one (in ~500 years, maybe less, there will only be 1 human race left, unless global travel ends before that time). It is not known which race that will be, but if other island species evolution patterns are any indications, whatever race survives will look a lot like the original human race. It would be interesting to see whether the remaining race would be black or not (if not, that would be a strong indication that the original humans in Africa were not actually black before the races split up. My money's on that they weren't black (cause primates have white skin), but it could very well depend on the exact timing of the split).
My biggest complaint about food crops, rather than their GM-ness (success or failure) is that once we get a "good" strain, we keep cloning it instead of continuing the process via selective breeding. So while each generation of insect improves against the crop, the crop defends damn-near exactly the same way; I suspect that may have reduced the time needed for adaptation as well.
No offence, but this is a trivial, trivial complaint. Don't you think that GM researchers *also* stimulate evolution in those plants ? Also, for extremely obvious reasons predatory species cannot totally wipe out the species they seem to be destroying. Predatory species are fundamentally limited to about 1/500th of the biomass of their victim species (or -usually- much less), except in the extreme short term.
Don't you think that GM researchers *also* stimulate evolution in those plants ?
No, I don't. Many if not most GM plants are rendered sterile so that you are forced to purchase new seeds from year to year, thus making further evolution impossible. In the off-chance that some GM plants manage to produce offspring, the farmer involved (intentionally or no) sued and the crops destroyed.
Many if not most GM plants are rendered sterile so that you are forced to purchase new seeds
And now I went on to believe that it was to avoid contamination and halt unforseen outcomes. I don't know how to find back this story of modified crops which contaminated the surrounding fields by pollination and they had a situation going on.
Guess I'm still from the generation where "chaos theory" was theoretical and implications of genetic engineering were investigated in SciFi making people cautious about uncertai
I believe these were some of the older crops before they were rendered sterile. It has happened though. GM-crop companies (Monsato, I believe) have sued farmers under the DMCA for using the produced seeds of plants which Monsato sold seeds for. There was a case where a farmer was sued even though the neighboring farmer used such plants and pollen from those plants got carried over. Here's a recent one: http://nelsonfarm.net/issue.htm [nelsonfarm.net]
Think about this for a second. How are these seeds grown ? Sterile ? How are the genes developed ? When are they rendered sterile ?
Needless to say, evolution is used in these plants. They introduce a few million random mutations while getting the plants infected with DNA rewriting viruses containing interesting genes (just like in the real world, incidentally, except they are the ones picking the genes instead of random chance). From the results, the extremely large majority is substandard. Then they select the best ones, grow massive quantities of them, and repeat the process (does this process perchance remind you of something ?).
Then repeat this entire shit 500 times, and then finally render the final batch of the plants second generation sterile, which is then sent out. In reality GM "manipulation of plants" is not that different from accelerating normal evolution under specifically chosen circumstances (ie. what humans have been doing to farm plants for 20k years, just better and faster).
I think it is worse than that. Once you have seeds that are the "property" of a single corporation you have only one entity that is capable of subsequent derivative works. Instead of having "an entire planet of hackers" trying to solve the problem of continued viability, all work is limited to the single corporation that may not feel motivated to plan ahead.
It's the Cathedral and the Bazaar all over again.
In general, without natural borders, different races are impossible within a species. The fact that we have both global travel and different races is an exceptional situation, and a temporary one (in ~500 years, maybe less, there will only be 1 human race left, unless global travel ends before that time).
We already have but one race. There is more genetic variation within one troop of chimpanzees than there is among the entire human species. A random african and a random european have as much DNA in comm
The problem is, that the planting procedures for BT corn were supposed to prevent or at least reduce this. Proper BT corn management practice is to have a certain percentage (usually 20%) of your corn as non-BT (called "refuge"), to provide a haven for non-BT-resistant insects to thrive (in far greater numbers than any rare resistant bugs), thus dramatically diluting BT resistant genes and the evolutionary pressure to develop them.
I'd be willing to find out the unintended consequences of exterminating mosquitoes, fleas, deer flies, tsetse flies and other human parasites or disease transmitters.
To try to get some insight on how many genetic changes there are in insects I churned a few numbers:
Multiply that and you get 10^18 insect offspring per year; a mutation rate of about 1 per individual per generation. So the number of mutations is a very large number. This means a large number of ''natural experiments'' done, one of which may result in an insect a bit more resistant to a GM crop, this will give the insect an advantage and so be able to have more offspring all of which carry the advantageous gene. So advantageous genes spread rapidy, through sexual reproduction are combined with other genes and the best combinations flourish.
WARNING: very rough calculations, most insects die before they have the chance to reproduce and so most mutations are 'lost'. The numbers that I obtained are very likely wrong - but even if each one is wrong by a factor of 100, it doesn't make a huge dent in a very large number.
The only real surprise is how fast the insects coevolved
Not really. It's kind of like cracking copy protection on the internet. It only takes one. One successful cracker. Or in this case one successful mutation. Having exclusive access to entire crops that other insects can't touch offers a clear survival advantage, so once the mutation happens it's a given that there will be a population explosion of resistant types, within a single or at best a couple generations. Plagues of insects are not unheard of, because insects have phenomenal breeding capability. Well this is a man-made plague of resistant types.
Unless the insect that has a mutated gen isn't reproducing and isn't stimulated or motivated to reproduce anymore.
I suggest we play insect-porn on GM-crop fields. So, if there would be any resistant insect.. We'll, he'd be fapping foreveralone, becoming overweight and dieing of diabetes because of excessive plentyfulness.
"There are species of cacti that grow in perfect grids because they toxify the soil against even their own seedlings"
What species? I've never heard of this before.
Imagine that. We tamper with nature, and nature tampers right back. And, we're kinda stuck with a monoculture. I've read, and even posted on
Monocultures are so WONDERFUL - for the people who are extorting money out of that one culture!
Laugh at me, one and all. But it is within reason that these monocultures may put mankind's survival at stake one day.
Is this a surprise, that nature can route around humans? Seriously, this was expected. However, all this means is that Monsato and other evil corporations like it who create GM seeds now have an opening for a new product to develop and sell, for an even higher price. And they will get this higher price because the "old" GM seeds are not successful any more. And the cycle continues...
Or we have to grow food underground away from insects using only torches for light.
Right, eventually the humans will also be concidered pests and the microarray analyzing robots will inherit the earth.
microarray analyzing robots will inherit the earth.
Unless you become cyborg and be one of them.
It may amuse you to learn how the Monsanto people "engineered" their genetically modified and patent-protected seeds.
They hit them with random mutagens until they found something that was resistant to Roundup. And then they bred them like pedigree cats to enhance the effect. The grass genome (from which corn, wheat, and a number of other crops are derived) is absurdly complex, believed to contain four to six times as many genes as the human, and comes in five copies. Engineering it is very hit-and-miss. So they didn't even bother. Instead they patented the outcome of a directed natural process. It's like patenting the domesticated cow genome. (The grass-eating variety, not the mother-in-law variety.)
This is incorrect, my biochem prof many moons ago consulted for Monsanto and gave us a nice lecture on how this was accomplished. Basically, Roundup (glyphosphate) inhibits an enzyme in most plants that is required to synthesize essential amino acids from glycine. It turns out certain insects have an orthologous enzyme that is not inhibited by glyphosphate - this was spliced into the "roundup ready" seeds. This is how the engineered strains can also have high yield; if you simply tried to randomly mutate glyphosphate resistance, chances are you'd also reduce the efficiency of the enzyme itself and produce a pretty sickly crop with poor yields. The problem with weeds is that even a sickly growing weed can mess up your crop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_(herbicide)#Genetic_engineering [wikipedia.org]
Genetic engineering is certainly not elegant, it's mostly cut-and-paste jobs, but you only use directed evolution to fine tune things as it justs gets stuck in a local evolutionary minimum.
Is this a surprise, that nature can route around humans?
Insects treat pesticide as damage, and route around it?
Is this a surprise, that nature can route around humans?
Insects treat pesticide as damage, and route around it?
Considering that it actually does damage them, then yes insects do in fact treat pesticides as damage.
Remember that the Internet meme is an analogy based on nature; saying that, yes, the nature analogy actually does apply to nature is slightly redundant.
Remember that the Internet meme is an analogy based on nature
It is? Which part of nature? Not stampeding buffalo, I presume.
You are on to something there :
- a patent on GM seeds only lasts for a few years
- It only takes a few years for the insects to overcome the GM corn's resistance
- new GM seeds are invented in the mean time , which are again patented
Using this technique, you could trigger a targeted evolution in insects, making them much more dangerous for non-GM crops, effectively forcing farmers to use the GM seeds.
Wouldn't work like that. Immunity to chemical X gives no specific advantage for attacking plants that don't produce X to start with.
What's surprising is that farmers don't seem to learn (or doctors, for the same reasons). Centuries ago farmers got to grips with the concept of crop rotation; planting the same crops in the same fields every season produces ever deteriorating results. So even if it means planting a less profitable crop type every season or so, it's better for the farm in the long run.
Creatures will form a resistance to pesticides (and for doctors, antibiotics) if they're used constantly. The only way to lessen this problem is to use a constantly shifting pattern of pesticides/antibiotics, making sure to "rest" a given method for a certain amount of time. That way no species gets a chance to evolve towards a serious resistance to any one of them.
Instead, we pick one "wonder method" (the miracle chemical of the moment, or a GM solution, or radiation treatment, or whatever) and use it until it doesn't work any more. And then panic.
Is this a surprise, that nature can route around humans? Seriously, this was expected. However, all this means is that Monsato and other evil corporations like it who create GM seeds now have an opening for a new product to develop and sell, for an even higher price. And they will get this higher price because the "old" GM seeds are not successful any more. And the cycle continues...
Really, the crux of the problem is that Monsanto has an effective monopoly on GM crops (~90% market share last I checked), and it's operating with as much scruples as any other company in the same position (i.e. Ma Bell, US. Steel, Standard Oil, Microsoft back in the early 90's . . ). As much as I hate people who claim "the free market" will cure all our woes, if we just had 2 or 3 equally powerful GM companies they would actually have to compete with each other on price and features and licensing terms (for example, allowing farmers to save seeds for replanting).
The sad state of things as they are now are the end result of the effective monopoly combined with the unprecedented patent protection that GM crops have been afforded compared to other types of plant breed protection - this
guarantees that every new innovation will be overproduced and overused to maximize profits up until they are completely useless. I mean, we are talking about 15 year-old technology in a field where you have trouble giving away last year's gene sequencers on craiglist because they are so outdated.
We didn't expect it to happen so quickly, that's all. Bacteria evolve much more rapidly than insects: E. coli splits once every 8 hours under optimal conditions in colonies of millions of cells, and may mutate up to 0.003% of their genome with each cell division under stress. That's a lot of brute forcing power. Insects, by contrast, have much more elaborate and stringent eukaryotic mutation controls, and most species take a couple of weeks to hatch.
Which probably means that some small fraction of the population was already resistant when the "experiment" began. No need to wait for a lucky mutation. Just apply strong selection pressure and the trait quickly spreads.
Yeah, antibiotics will stop working in the future ! OMG ! Let's redo the plague infections from the middle ages today while we can avoid it !
Do tell, what is your suggestion ? (and please, before you go there, the quantity of antibiotics consumed doesn't really matter, as long as we prevent large-scale infections with antibiotics resistence will grow. So the only way we could stop resistence is to protect only 1% (preferably less) of the population, and let plagues regularly destroy their breeding pool (tha
Farmers used to do that. Net result : about 1% crop yield per square meter compared to what we have today. Do you seriously think a 100x reduction (oh wait, technology advanced
As for using it on humans to prevent disease, that method was in use during the plagues. Fat lot of good it did them.
Well for starters, don't use Clavulanic acid on cows. And punish, and then I mean *severely* punish, vets who try to cheat on this.
The answer is to only use antibiotics when they're really useful and necessary.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jan/03/norways-mrsa-solution/ [spokesman.com]
Clearly god wouldn't have changed the insects if the farmers were on god's good side, so they must have done something wrong. I suggest they sacrifice their first born to get him to change the insects back.
Maybe marketing types. But I seriously doubt many entomologists or crop scientists were saying that this was the "final solution" to rootworm or any other pests.
In fact, they've been advising using non-bt planted in a certain number of acres near the bt ones to slow down the development of resistance.
Organic gardeners saw this coming from the get-go - I remember a Mike McGrath (then editor in chief of Organic Gardening) editorial predicting it. Heck, we'd already seen this happen with badly managed organic farms - back in the 1990s, resistance had been seen in Diamondback moths on Hawaiian farms that sprayed B.t kurstaki repeatedly rather than just when monitoring indicated a need for spraying.
The continued usefulness of organic/botanical pesticides has, in large part, been due to their lack of persistence in the environment. Inserting those genes into plants is basically making the pesticides persistent, which (obviously) leads to much quicker development of resistance on the part of the pests.
The part of me that's a cynic wonders if this is what Monsanto had in mind all along... one less organic competitor to their stable of proprietary chemicals.
You mean life is adapting to an environmental pressure? Don't these insects realise they're in breach of Monsanto's patents?
No Shit Sherlock!, You mean that they did NOT expect this to happen? gosh!
A couple months ago I drove Dr. Don Huber of Purdue from the airport to a field day (ag industry for product demo) being put on by my family's non-GMO seed firm in the Upper Midwest. He of course had already been hearing of this problem for a while (the plant pathology/development community is pretty small, and when something new crops up everyone is in the loop) but was (and still is) much more concerned with a different pathogen that's been cropping up slowly for the past few years at higher and higher rates. Personally, I am not a seedsman and can't explain it very well, besides saying that it's a bacteria that he has been linking to Roundup Ready plants (Roundup Ready is a gene that Monsanto inserts in all sorts of plants in order to make them resistant to a pungent herbicide, Roundup) that causes infertility in everything it touches and we're unsure of how to deal with it. This website explains the problem pretty well (ignore the activism associated with it, it should just be used as a teaching point) http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/dr_hubers_warning/ [fooddemocracynow.org]
What's really chilling is that our non-GMO firm does very well outside the US. This is because most country's will not allow GMO's to be planted in their country due to their lack of long-term testing of effects on humans. I can't remember the exact regulation but in the EU they only allow something like 10-15% of their foodstock to be GMO. In Japan they're not allowed to be planted at all. My dad (the non-GMO seedsman) always likes to tell this anecdote - that when asked why they won't plant any GMO corn, the Japanese grainsman says, "We are conservative with our food. We want to see what it does to your children's children before we'll even consider it."
As Darwin himself said: "Well, *duh*. What did you expect?"
My brother is a farm manager in Iowa, and he told me that Iowa has regulations where either 10% (or 20%, I forget which) of your rows must be "refuge rows", that is, if you plant a GMO variety, you need to plant non-GMO refuge rows in the same field so that the insects (or fungus or whatever you are fighting) has some place to go live where it then should not develop resistance. Overall it is still a win, because the GMO rows are more productive, and you can plant your refuge rows on fence rows and turn-around rows that never yield as well anyway.
So... does anyone know of other states have refuge row regulations? Or is the % of refuge rows just not sufficient?
If insect evolution works like bacteria (and I don't know if it does), then if we stop growing this GM crop altogether for long enough, then insect DNA should "forget" how to defend against this toxin. Nature abhors waste, so useless genes tend to get jettisoned from the gene pool given enough generations with no selection pressure to keep them in. At least, this is what happens with antibiotic-resistant bacteria: if an antibiotic is not used at all for long enough, bacterial DNA "forgets" how to make the cell line resistant and it once again becomes vulnerable. Resistance is the reason penicillin became a lot less broadband than it originally was, and the resulting relative lack of use might mean it should become more effective again.
This of course assumes that resistant strains have not already entered the wild and become widespread. With bacteria that is particularly problematic since bacteria can transfer resistance between different types of bacteria in a contagious fashion. An GM crops also have a habit of entering the wild, in which case we will be less able to reduce the exposure of insects to that crop, which might keep their resistance maintained. Disclaimer: I am not a biologist.
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Twelve months after Dubawi Heights won the Spring/Summer meet's first Grade I, Callaghan and Rosario repeated with Belle Royale, who finished with a flourish to defeat Quiet Oasis, Capital Plan and five others.
Now 2-for-2 in the United States – she won the American Beauty April 7 at Santa Anita – Belle Royale has earned $358,231.
Callaghan became the first trainer to win the Gamely in consecutive years since the late Bobby Frankel won with Citronnade in 2007 followed by Precious Kitten in 2008.
Meanwhile, Rosario was the first rider to go back-to-back since Kent Desormeaux – Possibly Perfect for Frankel in 1995 and Auriette for Gary Jones a year later.
In her initial try at nine furlongs, Belle Royale was outrun early while Quiet Oasis, Wild Mia and Capital Plan disputed the pace, saved ground into the stretch, found room to split Wild Mia and City to City in the stretch and was up to win by a half-length.
"I wouldn't say I gave up on the turn (Belle Royale had only one rival beat after six furlongs) because this filly really finishes,'' said Callaghan. "But the nature of this course has been very speed favoring all meet. Because of that, our plan was to be forward a little more, maybe fourth.
"But she's just one of those fillies that drops herself in and relaxes. She's got an unbelievable turn of foot and that is a very big weapon. The big thing with her is she loves firm ground. She's just very, very honest. She's one of those fillies who always gives 100 percent and she's also got a lot of class. I'm very lucky to train a filly as good as this.''
Callaghan said Belle Royale would be pointed to the $750,000, Grade I Beverly D. Stakes Aug. 18 at Arlington Park, a race in which Dubawi Heights finished second in 2011.
"She came home fast, but she was doing it easy,'' said Rosario. "She just keeps it going. That's just the way she runs. The last quarter of a mile she really turns it on.
"I think she's a really nice filly. I don't see any reason she won't go longer – a mile and a quarter or a mile and three-eighths.''
Seeking her second stakes win of the meet after taking the Grade III Wilshire Handicap April 29, Quiet Oasis had the advantage coming to the wire, but couldn't quite stay for owners J. Paul and Zillah Reddam and jockey Mario Gutierrez.
In her first attempt beyond one mile, Quiet Oasis finished a half-length in front of fellow 6-1 shot Capital Plan. She paid $6.60 and $4.60 while Capital Plan returned $5.20 to show.
Ben Cecil, the trainer of the runner-up, said she could make her next start in the Grade II, $150,000 Royal Heroine Mile July 7.
"She ran really well, but what can you do?'' he said. "A mile and an eighth might be her limit, but we'll see. It's nice to be Grade I placed, but it would be nicer to win it.''
City to City wound up fourth ahead of Cambina, 2-1 favorite Nereid, Wild Mia and Bauble Queen.
In the race immediately prior to the Gamely, Roman Threat went gate-to-wire for his second victory in three starts.
A 4-year-old gelded son of Roman Ruler and the Flying Chevron mare Shameful, the 9-10 favorite is owned by breeders Patti and Hal J. Earnhardt III. Roman Threat quickly established command over 6-1 shot Centralinteligence and those two didn't change positions the entire journey.
A meet high fifth stakes victory enabled Hall of Fame trainer Baffert to reach a Betfair Hollywood Park milestone. He has 84 local stakes wins, moving him into a tie with D. Wayne Lukas for fifth on the all-time list. Charlie Whittingham leads with 222.
In providing both Baffert and jockey Rafael Bejarano their first Los Angeles win, Roman Threat, who has earned $123,600, completed the six furlongs in 1:08.57. He paid $3.80, $2.60 and $2.10 for the 1 ¼ length score.
"He's fast,'' said assistant trainer Mike Marlow. "Rafael said he had so much horse that even in the stretch he didn't really have to get into him.
"He had a lot of little things wrong when he was two and three. We had to (geld) him because he was tough to handle and wasn't paying attention to his training.''
Making only his second start in graded company, Centralinteligence wound up 1 ½ lengths clear of defending champion Camp Victory and returned $5.20 and $3.40. The show price on Camp Victory, whose victory in 2011 came due to the disqualification of Amazombie, was $3.
In his initial outing as a 7-year-old, Rail Trip, the winner of the 2009 Hollywood Gold Cup, finished willingly for fourth. It was the first race in California for the Jump Start gelding since he was second as the 2-5 favorite in the 2010 Gold Cup.
Ron Ellis, who trains both Centralinteligence and Rail Trip, was happy with the performance of both geldings.
"(Centralinteligence) gave (the winner) a run,'' he said. "That time on this track is smoking. In his second start, (Roman Threat) made Amazombie run all out and that's a pretty good horse for crying out loud. Everything worked out well. He just wasn't good enough.
"I'm giddy at Rail Trip's performance. For not having sprinted in four years and the winner getting an easy first quarter mile, I thought it was just awesome. (Jockey) Jose (Valdivia, Jr.) said he was going real smooth. With that race under his belt, we'll probably go seven furlongs the next time and then stretch him out.''
Completing the order of finish were M One Rifle, Sway Away and Dancing in Silks, who has lost 11 in a row since his upset win in the 2009 Breeders' Cup Sprint. The 7-year-old was eased in the final eighth of a mile while more than 28 lengths behind the winner.
Earlier in the afternoon, apprentice jockey Vinnie Bednar, 20, gained his first two victories at Betfair Hollywood Park, winning the fourth with 5-1 shot Miles Long Gone and the sixth with 7-1 outsider Charlie'sboywins.
A great nephew of the late trainer Lou Carno, Bednar, who had previously ridden at Turf Paradise, was 0-for18 at the Spring/Summer meet before his Monday double.
Racing resumes Thursday. Post time is 1 p.m. Track gates will open at 9:55 a.m. for simulcasts.
The Hollywood Park Casino will be open for dark day simulcasts Tuesday and Wednesday. Admission is free. Simulcasts begin at 10:10 a.m.


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Netflix, the world's largest subscription-streaming service, wants to attract more customers by adding its Web-based movies and television shows to U.S. cable systems, Chief Financial Officer David Wells said.
U.S. cable operators have had an "open offer" to add Netflix for two years, Wells said Wednesday in an interview at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York. The company is still willing to forge partnerships, he said.
"We would love to reduce the friction to the end consumer, and to be available via the existing device in the home, which is the set-top box," Wells said from the stage.
Newer set-top boxes blend Internet-based programming with traditional pay television, a development that can fuel expansion if Netflix reaches accords with cable providers. The company, with 35.6 million paying subscribers globally as of June, has signed two European cable systems after relying on game consoles, Blu-ray players, smartphones and Web-TV devices like Roku for growth.
Los Gatos-based Netflix reached a deal with Virgin Media in the U.K. this month, and Wednesday said it will become available in December on Com Hem, Sweden's biggest cable-TV system with 606,000 video customers. Netflix has a goal of 60 million to 90 million subscribers, Wells said.
Cable operators have to decide whether they view Netflix as a competitor or potentially complementary, Wells said. Pay-TV services have struggled to adapt to a shift by viewers to watching watching more shows on laptops, tablets and smartphones.
With Virgin Media and Com Hem, Netflix will be included as an app on TiVo Inc. digital video recorders. Newer set-top boxes are capable of loading Web-based content more quickly, and combining Web-delivered programming with regular TV guides.
In the U.S., Comcast, the largest U.S. cable provider, has begun replacing its boxes with the X1, a DVR that delivers information from servers in the so-called cloud.
Netflix rose 2 percent to $313.13 in Thursday's trading. The shares have more than tripled this year, to lead the S&P 500 Index. Tivo, based in San Jose, fell 1.3 percent to $12.43.


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Sometimes picking the right lightening round topic can mean everything for an academic team.
Plainview, unfortunately at the State Academic Bowl, picked "The Great Gatsby" and struggled, losing to Clinton, 300-160.
That was after losing a close match to Stigler, 290-270.
"We tried our best but had some bad luck," Jantzen Faulkner said.
State wrapped up a stellar year in Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association competition, capped off by the trip to State and the school's first ever Area Championship.
Finishing with a record of 42-6, the team also won the Lake Country Conference title, the Bulldog Invitational at Edmond Memorial and the Stigler Brain Bowl. The Indians also were runners-up at the Cougar Invitational at Redlands Community College.
Members Riley Baird, John Black and Zac Campbell were on the All-Conference Team.
While the team has both accomplished and learned a lot this year, the many younger team members are looking to improve and place higher next year.
"We will still have 7/9 of our team," said Baird, who is team captain and a junior. "We will just have to make sure we make up a lot of knowledge lost by our seniors (Black and Taylor Gregory)."
In addition to OSSAA competition, the team competes in National Academic Quiz Tournaments, a separate type of contest that features as many toss-up questions as can be read in 30 minutes and bonus questions for teams that answer correctly. The team will attend several such tournaments this spring.
Buzzinga! PHS Academic Team celebrates stellar year
Sometimes picking the right lightening round topic can mean everything for an academic team.


text: Be a saloon cowboy in the card player room with Texas Hold em card games. Herein, you can not loose money because it is only in vegas style. Enjoy our little Vegas games like online Slot Machines and the well populated Board Games. There are even the classic Board games like Solitaire, Sudoku online and chess or checkers. Press your Luck online with Slingo and have fun with board games. Win online, free and just for fun.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of revelers crowded into New York City's Times Square to watch the crystal-covered ball make its annual descent, ringing in the start of 2013.
The festivities joined a slew of others around the globe, from fireworks in Sydney and Hong Kong to the first public countdown in years in Myanmar.
New York City's countdown was the first in decades without television host Dick Clark, who died in April. One of the crystal panels on the ball was engraved with his name.
Some concerns from 2012 linger - even in Times Square, some revelers checked their cellphones to keep up with news of lawmakers' efforts to skirt the fiscal cliff combination of expiring tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts that threatened to reverberate globally.
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Reviewed By charles w (Loveland, CO) Reviewed for a 2011 GMC Sierra —11/11/2011 7:34 AM
excellent product. Easily installed by one person. Door flaps and keeper strap has maintained cover in place during high winds of snow storm. During high winds truck windshield wipers were unable to keep lower edge of cover in place and they ended up under the lower edge of cover, but the windshield stayed protected. Great product.


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Taiwanese right-hander Wang Chien-ming (王建民) has signed a one-year contract to rejoin the Washington Nationals that will guarantee him a base salary of US$1 million and give him a chance to earn another US$4 million in incentives, Wang's US-based agent Alan Chang said in a statement early yesterday.
"Wang has expressed gratitude to the Nationals for its recognition and confidence in his ability. He is currently working on individual training in Taiwan and is scheduled to be back in the US early next year," Chang said in the press release.
Wang, who played for the New York Yankees before being released late last year, signed with the Nationals in February for a year with a guaranteed US$2 million salary.
However, he has been in rehabilitation for the past 15 months and has not pitched for the Nationals in a Major League Baseball (MLB) game, only appearing in two instructional league games in October.
Wang was not offered a contract by the Nationals before the deadline of Dec. 3 and therefore became a free agent.
According to an MLB report published early yesterday, Wang had indicated to his agent that he wanted to stay with the Nationals because of the way they treated him while he was recovering from surgery to his right shoulder.
Although Wang will receive only half the guaranteed salary of his previous contract, he can secure up to US$4 million in incentives next season.
Wang will be paid US$250,000 if he stays on the 25-man roster for more than 30 days, a further US$250,000 if he stays for 30 more days, and an additional US$250,000 if he stays for another 30 days after that, according to the contract.
The incentives will be based on how many games Wang appears in as a starting pitcher.
He will earn an extra US$100,000 for between 10 and 19 games, US$150,000 for between 20 and 21 games, US$200,000 for his 22nd starting job and US$300,000 for between 23 and 27 games.
Wang will receive as much as US$600,000 if he wins any MLB award, including US$200,000 for the Comeback Player of the Year award.
Wang won more games than any other big league pitcher (38) between 2006 and 2007, but his injuries have limited him to just 27 appearances over the past two years.
In his last year with the Yankees, Wang was 1-6 with an atrocious 9.64 ERA before being shut down for the season because of his shoulder.
Commenting on the new contract, Wang said: "I am very happy because I had no team last year."
"The Nationals are signing me and bringing me back to major league baseball, and they are letting me recover without putting any pressure on me, so I can let my arm heal completely before I get back out on the pitch," the Taiwanese pitcher said.
Wang also said that he should be able to return in April or May next year, and that he currently is doing weight training and rehabilitation six to eight hours a day.
Wang also said he has started pitching again.
He said that both his speed and his different types of pitches are looking good.


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It's early -- too early as they would say -- but that doesn't mean idle speculation isn't fun as Bovada has released its odds list for 2013 Heisman Trophy contenders, and according to them, junior defensive end Jadeveon Clowney is a serious contender next year.
The online sports betting book says Clowney has 12/1 odds to win college football's most coveted award next year.
So who does Clowney have to run over to get to the top? A veritable who's-who of other big-name SEC stars, such as Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, who also has 12/1 odds, Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, who has 10/1 odds, and last year's Heisman winner, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, who is the odds on favorite to win the award again with 4/1 odds.
Clowney is the only defensive player on the full list of 23 college football athletes who have a chance to win the award.
You may remember Clowney actually received several votes in the 2012 Heisman race, which was good enough for a sixth place finish.
A trip to New York appears to be just one of the defensive end's big goals for his final season as a Gamecock, but the main goal is clear crystal: win the award outright.
"I believe a defensive player can win the Heisman next year," Clowney said in an interview with ESPN.
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It started with a little laziness.
I had a function which returned a pointer to a list and got tired of checking for NULL.
So instead of
if (somelist == NULL) { cout << "somelist has 0 items"; } else cout << "somelist has " << somelist->size() << " items";
I decided to use
cout << "somelist has " << somelist->size() << " items";
Making the HUGE mistake of changing the function from
list<int>* obj = NULL obj = new list<int>; /*sum stuff*/ return obj;
list<int> obj /*sum stuff*/ return &obj;
I tested it with valgrind and it worked though warning about returning a local variable's address
Running outside valgrind gave segmentation errors!
And my code was calling functions from 2 or so shared libraries, I just
couldn't think of where the errors came from (the nightmare!).
Lesson learnt (or relearnt ;-)): never, ever, return a function's variable address.
lesson not learnt: why would valgrind not trip over it?


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Ok, so Coachella has been pretty decent to hip hop... inviting artists like Digable Planets, Pharoahe Monch, Atmosphere, The Roots, e.c.t... Avoiding garbage like... well everything popular these days (i.e. any "artists" who's ""super awesome hip hop name"" begins with Young or Yung).
The list of past performers include; (i'm sure i missed a few) Jurassic 5, Rahzel, Ugly Duckling, Aceyalone, Del, Gangstarr ,Mos Def, The Roots, Souls of Mischeif, Aesop Rock, Black Eyed Peas, El-P, Mr. Lif, Beastie Boys, Jaylib, N.E.R.D., Talib Kweli, Atmosphere, MF Doom, Sage Francis, Saul Williams, Eyedea & Abilities, Living Legends, Blackstar, Roots Manuva, Sixtoo, Buck 65, Jean Grae, Immortal Technique, K-Os, Common, Kanye West, Lady Soverign, Lyrics Born, Digable Planets, Gnarls Barkley, Murs, Lupe Fiasco, Brother Ali, Pharoahe Monch and The Coup.
So who would you like to see in 2008? (Notorious B.I.G., 2pac, Eazy-E, Jam Master J, Big L, Freaky Tah, Big Pun, ODB and Robert Matthew Van Winkle excluded)
My List
Soul Position
Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre (limited to pre 95' material)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth
People Under The Stairs


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(RNN) - A gunman opened fire at Purdue University in Indiana on Tuesday, killing one student.
A suspect is in custody. Authorities have not disclosed a motive for the killing.
A fire and possible explosion at an Omaha, Nebraska, industrial plant killed two people. Ten others were taken to hospitals. Several were in critical condition.
Justin Bieber was arrested on a DUI charge on Thursday. The 19-year-old singer is accused of drag racing on a residential Miami street, failing a field sobriety test and resisting arrest.
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