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Azzalini, A. and Diggle, Peter J. (1994) Prediction of soil respiration rates from temperature, moisture and soil type. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 43 (3). pp. 505-526. ISSN 0035-9254
Blair, L. and Blair, Gordon S. and Bowman, H. and Chetwynd, Amanda G. (1994) A framework for the formal specification and verification of distributed multimedia systems. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Quality of Service and Network Performance, 2nd International Conference on Intelligence in Broadband Services and Networks. UNSPECIFIED.
Blair, L. and Blair, Gordon S. and Bowman, H. and Chetwynd, Amanda G. and Papathomas, M. (1994) A framework for the formal specification of multimedia systems in open distributed processing MPG-93-12 J. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Applications and Quality of Service Verification. UNSPECIFIED, Montreal.
Bowman, H. and Blair, Gordon S. and Blair, Linda and Chetwynd, Amanda G. (1994) Time versus abstraction in formal description. IFIP Transactions C, 22. pp. 407-482.
Bowman, H. and Blair, L. and Blair, Gordon S. and Chetwynd, Amanda G. (1994) Time versus abstraction in formal descriptions. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Formal Description Techniques (Forte '93). Elsevier, North Holland.
Bowman, H. and Blair, L. and Blair, Gordon S. and Chetwynd, Amanda G. (1994) A formal description technique supporting quality of service and media synchronisation. In: Proceedings of Cost 237 : multimedia transport and teleservices. Springer.
Bowman, Howard and Blair, Lynne and Blair, Gordon S. and Chetwynd, Amanda G. (1994) A formal description technique supporting expression of quality of service and media synchronization. In: Multimedia Transport and Teleservices - International COST 237 Workshop, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) . Springer-Verlag, AUT, pp. 145-167. ISBN 9783540587590
Bradley, D. A. and Bradshaw, A. and Seward, D. W. and Margrave, F. W. (1994) Mechatronics and intelligent systems. In: Proceedings of the second IEE international conference on intelligent systems engineering. IEE, London, pp. 395-400.
Bradley, D. A. and Seward, D. W. and Heikkila, T. and Vaha, P. (1994) Control architectures and operational strategies for intelligent, high-powered manipulators. In: Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on automation and robotics in construction XI (ISARC). Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 367-372.
Bradshaw, A. and Seward, D. W. and Nagy, F. N. (1994) Robo Sapiens: a personal assistant robot. In: Mechatronics - the basis for a new industrial development. Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, pp. 159-164.
Brown, Gavin and Huckerby, T. N. and Nieduszynski, I. A. (1994) Oligosaccharides Derived by Keratanase II Digestion of Bovine Articular Cartilage Keratan Sulphates. European Journal of Biochemistry, 224 (2). pp. 281-308. ISSN 1432-1033
Brown, Gavin M. and Huckerby, Thomas N. and Morris, Haydn G. and Abram, Beverly L. and Nieduszynski, Ian A. (1994) Oligosaccharides Derived from Bovine Articular Cartilage Keratan Sulfates after Keratanase II Digestion: Implications for Keratan Sulfate Structural Fingerprinting. Biochemistry, 33 (16). pp. 4836-4846. ISSN 1520-4995
Cook, P. A. and Davies, W. J. (1994) The use of epifluorescence microscopy as a method for observing aphid stylet tracks. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 72 (1). pp. 91-95. ISSN 0013-8703
Davies, W. J. and Tardieu, F. and Trejo, C. L. (1994) How do chemical signals work in plants that grow in drying soil? Plant Physiology, 104 (2). pp. 309-314. ISSN 1532-2548
Diggle, P. J. and Rowlingson, B. S. (1994) Conditional approach to point process modelling of elevated risk. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A Statistics in Society, 157 (3). pp. 433-440. ISSN 1467-985X
Diggle, Peter J. (1994) Estimation with missing data. Biometrics, 50 (2). p. 580. ISSN 1541-0420
Diggle, Peter J. and Fiksel, T. and Grabarnik, P. and Ogata, Y. and Stoyan, D. and Tanemura, M. (1994) On parameter-estimation for pairwise interaction point processes. International Statistical Review, 62 (1). pp. 99-117. ISSN 1751-5823
Diggle, Peter J. and Kenward, M. (1994) Informative dropout in longitudinal data analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 43 (1). pp. 49-93. ISSN 0035-9254
Else, M. A. and Davies, W. J. and Whitford, P. N. and Hall, K. C. and Jackson, M. B. (1994) Concentrations of abscisic acid and other solutes in xylem sap from root systems of tomato and castor-oil plants are distorted by wounding and variable sap flow rates. Journal of Experimental Botany, 45 (3). pp. 317-324. ISSN 1460-2431
Hartung, W. and Zhang, J. H. and Davies, W. J. (1994) Does abscisic acid play a stress physiological role in maize plants growing in heavily compacted soil ? Journal of Experimental Botany, 45 (2). pp. 221-226. ISSN 1460-2431
Johnes, Jill and Johnes, Geraint (1994) Policy reforms and the theory of education finance. Journal of Economic Studies, 21 (1). pp. 3-15. ISSN 0144-3585
Macdonald, R. and Navarro, J. M. and Upton, B. G. J. and Davies, G. R. (1994) Strong compositional zonation in peralkaline magma: Menengai, Kenya Rift Valley. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 60 (3-4). pp. 301-325.
Macdonald, R. and Williams, L. A. J. and Gass, I. G. (1994) Tectonomagmatic evolution of the Kenya rift valley: some geological perspectives. Journal of the Geological Society, 151 (5). pp. 879-888. ISSN 0016-7649
Margrave, F. W. and Seward, D. W. (1994) Establishing the safety argument for the use of programmable electronics in transport. In: Proceedings of the 27th ISATA conference: dedicated conferences on mechatronics and supercomputing applications in the transportation industries. Automotive Automation, Croydon, pp. 519-526.
Moyeed, R. and Diggle, Peter J. (1994) Rates of convergence in semi-parametric modelling of longitudinal data. Australian Journal of Statistics, 36 (1). pp. 75-93.
Powell, Simon N. and McMillan, Trevor J. (1994) The repair fidelity of restriction-enzyme-induced double strand breaks in plasmid DNA correlates with radioresistance in human tumour cell lines. International Journal of Radiation Oncology - Biology - Physics, 29 (5). pp. 1035-1040. ISSN 0360-3016
Rigby, M. and Davies, W. J. and Quarrie, S. A. (1994) Genetic variation in abscisic acid accumulation in wheat roots and the possible implications of this for the response of root growth to drying soil. Aspects of Applied Biology, 38. pp. 57-62.
Ruiz de Almodovar, J. M. and Nunez, M. I. and McMillan, T. J. and Olea, N. and Mort, C. and Villalobos, M. and Pedraza, V. and Steel, G. G. (1994) Initial radiation-induced DNA damage in human tumour cell lines : a correlation with intrinsic radiosensitivity. British Journal of Cancer, 69 (3). pp. 457-462. ISSN 1532-1827
Seward, D. W. (1994) Behaviours, models and the LUCIE robot excavator. In: Proceedings of an ALSB'94 workshop. UNSPECIFIED, Leeds.
Seward, D. W. and Bradley, D. A. and Margrave, F. W. (1994) Hazard analysis techniques for mobile construction robots. In: Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on automation and robotics in construction XI (ISARC). Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 35-42. ISBN 0444820442
Trejo, C. L. and Davies, W. J. (1994) What controls stomata in drying soil? Aspects of Applied Biology, 38. pp. 93-100.
Turner, S. and Hawkesworth, C. and Macdonald, R. and Black, S. and van Calsteren, P. (1994) Th, Pb, Nd and Sr Isotope Variations in Volcanic Rocks from the Lesser Antilles. Mineralogical Magazine, 58A (2). pp. 916-917. ISSN 1471-8022
Zeger, S. L. and Diggle, Peter J. (1994) Semi-parametric models for longitudinal data with application to CD4 cell numbers in HIV seroconverters. Biometrics, 50 (3). pp. 689-699. ISSN 1541-0420


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Nine popular baby strollers have failed New Zealand's safety standards - including seven that didn't pass a strangulation test.
The result is extremely disappointing, considering the problem would be easily fixed, said the consumer watchdog that conducted the test.
Consumer New Zealand put 10 popular four-wheeled strollers through at least six tests based on the joint Australia and New Zealand standard for prams. The test was conducted by an independent Australian company.
Only one passed - the BebeCare Rverse XLR.
The most common failure was in a strangulation-hazard test that checks that the loop formed by the buckled harness can't strangle children if they slip and get their heads caught in it.
The standard was introduced in 2009 and is voluntary in New Zealand.
The seven which failed this test were the Baby Solutions Layback Umbrella, the Bugaboo Donkey Mono, the Chicco Echo, the Childcare Discovery, the Love n Care Alpha, the Maxi Cosi Mila and the Mother's Choice Magnum.
Consumer magazine editor David Naulls said this risk could be reduced by making sure the harness wasn't buckled when not in use and by not leaving a child alone in the stroller. But he said they couldn't understand why manufacturers haven't fixed the easily corrected problem.
Chicco spokesman Graeme Duncan said the strangulation fault had been brought to the company's attention by an Australian consumer magazine last year.
The company had the Echo stroller re-tested by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. It passed.
"Chicco is the largest baby brand in the world so they never take any chances with the safety laws in each market."
Adam O'Brien, chief operations officer at IGC Dorel, which manufactures the Maxi-Cosi Mila and the Mother's Choice Magnum strollers, said the prams were manufactured and tested to comply with the mandatory standards.
Mr O'Brien said the company did not claim compliance to the 2009 version of the standard for these products, which is voluntary.
And a spokesman for CNP Brands, which makes the Childcare Discovery Stroller and the Bebe Care Mira prams, said they would adopt the requirements of the 2013 standard that will be published "in the near future".
Kiwi Families director Rochelle Gribble said ideally everything parents used on their children should be 100 per cent safe.
However, parents needed to realise that this often wasn't the case and so needed to take the initiative themselves.


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What do the six qualities described in GDC 48 mean? How do they inform the pastoral ministry of bishops, clergy, and catechists?
Section 49 summarizes what the evangelical effort looks like, mindful that this is a flexible undertaking. Wise catechists and pastors are aware how these three stages or essential moments can be applied for maximum effect.
Pope John Paul II uses the adjective "essential," Any (and probably every) parish's catechetical ministry must be strong in these three aspects:
49. The process of evangelization, (cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi 24) consequently, is structured in stages or "essential moments": (cf. Catechesi Tradendae 18)
- missionary activity directed toward non-believers and those who live in religious indifference;
- initial catechetical activity for those who choose the Gospel and for those who need to complete or modify their initiation;
- pastoral activity directed toward the Christian faithful of mature faith in the bosom of the Christian community. (cf. Ad Gentes 6f; Redemptoris Missio 33, 48)
These moments, however, are not unique: they may be repeated, if necessary, as they give evangelical nourishment in proportion to the spiritual growth of each person or of the entire community.
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Once again (see this post) I return to the story of mass arrests in NYC – peaceful protesters, or people not even demonstrating, hauled into the precinct station, some of whom were held for days. Only two people tried – acquitted of course – in proceedings that surely must have been absurd to witness given the evidence available that totally undermined all of NYPD's claims. Everyone else released, no charges. Why were they arrested? HYSTERIA!
The New York Times has been following, and sometimes editorializing about the process by which the lawsuits against the city are being settled. Today, it describes how at great cost in legal fees and staff time, after much stalling and stonewalling, the city is paying out millions of dollars to settle claims related to its violation of civil rights. Of course, the NYPD admits no wrong doing – state organs never do.
The article quotes the fellow shown in the picture above:
Then they started arresting us, one by one. At that point, I got emotional — I could not believe in my country, in my city, I could get arrested for doing absolutely nothing and standing on the sidewalk," Mr. Shirazi added.
Are there any lessons from the day? The Law Department said the $2 million payout did not mean the police had done anything wrong. "This settlement was reached without any admission of liability on behalf of the city and the individual defendants," said Ms. Halatyn, the city lawyer.
The Police Department did not respond to a request for comment on the settlement.
Mr. Shirazi said that as he was being handcuffed for the first time in his life, he told the officer that the plastic cuffs were squeezing him. "He said, 'You should have thought about that before you came out this morning.' It was like a dagger in my heart, that a police officer of my city would come up with anything like that."
In what does patriotism and love of country consist? Following orders motivated by unthinking fear or hallowing and practicing the ideas that gave it rise in the first place?


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Haji Abdullah is one of the simple farmers in the Nile Delta region. He comes from a small village called Abadia on the outskirts of Damanhur, a historical and cultural Egyptian city—Damanhur's name was etched into the history of Egypt from ancient times till the present day. His village house lies amid the extensive agricultural land of the Delta, where the endless landscape of the Egyptian countryside, and is close to Rashid branch of the Nile River. In the fifties, Haji Abdullah started his early life as a simple farmer; he dreamed of Egypt like every other young farmer and grazed his family's buffalo daily in the field. The buffalo's milk was the only way he knew for livelihood. He used to participate in the activities of the Egyptian Federation of Cooperatives established by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the sixties. Afterwards, he started learning some crafts and chose the most interesting one, yet certainly the hardest. He knew its origin dates back to the Pharaonic era, where the Pharaohs used the remaining horns of buffalos and animals to make ornaments and decorative instruments. And since he had learnt a craft and discovered other uses for buffalos besides milk, he established his small workshop for buffalo horn crafts and accessories on the roof of his house. Now in 2017 and after more than 45 years, when you visit his workshop you'll find as it is, a small corner on the top of his village house, with a thatched roof. It was turned into a school for buffalo horn crafts when his three sons and some youth joined the workshop to learn and take part in production and innovation with Haji Abdullah. Haji Abdullah says "The buffalo horn in its typical form is just an ordinary material in your hand; the creativity is in how you look at it and from which angle to craft your idea and your piece of art. It seems to me that I need to shape the whole of Egypt, its heritage and history, by the use of this raw material." Despite his age of 70, Haji Abdullah still dreams for Egypt and his offspring, and dreams of documenting the heritage of his ancestors. He keeps on looking after his buffalo and his land every morning like the millions of farmers in Upper Egypt and Delta region.Discover More
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For Gabourey Sidibe her first Oscars are all about a paior of real characters - Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
The "Precious" actress and Best Actress nominee revealed she is most looking forward to meeting and seeing the hosts for the 82nd Academy Awards.
"I was really excited that show would be hosted by Jack Donaghy and the Jerk," the actress said referring to the duo's most famous roles. We couldn't agree with her more.
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Steve Martin especially is near to Sidibe's heart. "My Mom has a crush on Steve Martin," she gushed. "We used to watch 'The Jerk' pretty much every day."
Standing between the two massive Oscars at the press podium of the nominee luncheon on Monday, Sidibe said it was all starting to feel real. Indeed the luncheon is one of the true signs that the Oscars are right around the corner. "It feels like we're finally here," she said.


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Jodi Arias Trial: Jurors Shown Photos of Victim's Dead Body in Shower
Travis Alexander was stabbed 27 times, shot in head and had his throat slit.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 3, 2013 -- Prosecutors in the Jodi Arias murder trial showed jurors a photograph of her former lover, Travis Alexander, lying slashed and lifeless in his shower.
The gruesome scene was introduced on the second day of Arias' trial, along with a slew of evidence, including a man's bloodied T-shirt.
Defense attorneys for Arias portrayed Alexander as a controlling and abusive lover to the Arizona woman who killed Alexander in self defense.
Evidence emerged today showing they exchanged electronic messages filled with sexually crude references about each other, and the jury heard a recorded phone call between Arias and Police Det. Esteban Flores where Arias said the couple was so distrustful of each other that they shared their online passwords.
"He gave me his Facebook password and MySpace and I gave him my Facebook and Gmail account. Reason we did that [is] because we thought, 'What can we do to reestablish trust?'" she said. "It didn't work."
In a case that is already being compared to the dramatic 2010 murder trial of Casey Anthony, Arias, 32, is facing the death penalty if convicted in the capital murder case.
She is accused of stabbing Alexander 27 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head at his Mesa, Ariz., home in June 2008. A jury will have to decide if she is a cold-blooded murderer or was a victim of domestic violence, as she claims, who was forced to kill.
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In the most dramatic moment today, prosecutors showed the jury a graphic photo of Alexander's face and body where he was found.
Earlier, the prosecution introduced emails between the couple. On cross examination, a defense lawyer asked Flores whether Alexander referred to Arias in those emails with a crude sexual term as well as other insulting words.
"Do you recall her saying he had said several mean things to her?" defense lawyer Kirk Nurmi asked.
"Yes," Flores answered.
Nurmi asked if Alexander referred to Arias "as a slut." "Yes," the detective said.
"As a whore?" the lawyer asked. "Yes," he replied.
Flores testified that the exchange included Alexander writing to Arias, "I think I was little more than a dildo with a heartbeat to you."
Bags of evidence from Alexander's apartment were displayed in court today, including a men's T-shirt soaked in blood that was held up for the jury to see.
Prosecutor Juan Martinzez provided jurors with a look inside Alexander's home, presenting pictures of the garage, laundry room, the den where Alexander kept his punching bag and his bedroom.
Travis Alexander Murder: 911 Call
Appearing in court Wednesday as the trial opened, Arias cried through much of the opening arguments. Prosecutor Juan Martinez told the court that it's clear that Arias murdered Alexander.
"This is not a case of whodunit," he said. "The whodunit sits in court today."
Prosecutors told the jury Wednesday that Alexander was a devout Mormon who was seduced and then stalked by Arias, and killed by her in a jealous rage when she learned he was dating other women.
"She rewarded that love by sticking a knife in his chest," Martinez told the court. "She slit his throat as a reward for being a good man."
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Arias' attorney Jennifer Willmott told the jury her client was forced to kill in self defense, saying that her client -- who recently won a Christmas caroling contest behind bars -- was abused and controlled by Alexander, who she claims was a sexual deviant. Willmott showed the jury a t-shirt she says he made Arias wear, with lettering that says 'Travis Alexander's.'
"That t-shirt is the perfect example of how Travis treated her," she said.
The couple only dated a few months after meeting in 2006 at a work convention in Las Vegas. They broke up in June 2007 but continued a sexual relationship that continued until the day of the crime.
Police found a camera in Alexander's washing machine. They say Arias was literally trying to wash away the evidence.
Found on the camera's memory card were pictures of their final sexual encounter, shots of Alexander in the shower -- seconds before he was killed -- and pictures that appeared to be taken accidently when the camera was dropped. One of the images shows Alexander's bloody body, and another shows Arias dragging his body across the ground.
In a series of jailhouse interviews since her 2008 arrest, Arias repeatedly changed her story. First she denied being at Alexander's house the night of the murder, but two weeks later, she told the TV show "Inside Edition" she was there.
"I witnessed Travis being attacked by two other individuals," she said, "Who were they? I don't know."
Now she admits to killing Alexander, but says she had to after he attacked her when she dropped his new camera.
"Jodi Arias killed Travis Alexander," Willmott said in court Wednesday. "The million-dollar question is what would have forced her to do it, and throughout this trial you will hear that Jodi was indeed forced."
Willmott told the court that Arias, who has remained in jail since her arrest, repeatedly lied about the killing because she was scared.


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Ok, let me get this straight: Peyton Manning plays for Denver? And Tebow is a Jet? Mario Williams is in Buffalo? De'Meco Ryans an Eagle? Who is coaching the Saints??
So what happens to Mark Sanchez? Who's gonna coach the Rams defense? Is Farve coming back??
I'm so confused. Such is the state of the new era of NFL football. Long gone are the days of player longevity and franchise dynasties. That's kind of hard to do anymore when players outgrown their contracts and other teams are willing to pay stupid money for them.
It's been this way for awhile, I know. But this year is off the chain.
In 2006, The top three picks were Mario Williams, Reggie Bush and Vince Young. The first three picks of the 2nd round were linebackers De'Meco Ryans, D'Qwell Jackson and Rocky McIntosh. Only Jackson is currently signed with his original team. Young and McIntosh are free agents.
In 2009, the Jets swapped first round picks, traded their second round pick and three players to the Cleveland Browns for the chance to draft quarterback Mark Sanchez at #5 overall. In the 2010 draft, the Denver Broncos traded a 2nd, 3rd and 4th round pick to select Tim Tebow at #25. This season, Indianapolis released their winningest quarterback in franchise history, the winningest quarterback in any single decade in the NFL, for nothing. Nada. Zip, zilch, zero. They got nothing in return. He just walked away from the Colts and into the hands of the Broncos, thus making Tebow expendable. Tebow was in turn traded to the Jets, seemingly making Mark Sanchez expendable.
Add up all those picks, all those player trades, all the money paid and games won and accomplishments and everything good that goes with it, and you have to wonder what some of these teams are thinking.
I'm sad to see Ryans traded to the Eagles. The Texans take a bigger cap hit without him this season than if they had kept him. But you have to look at the bigger picture I guess. Ryans was reduced to a two-down linebacker in the new scheme. His coverage is more exposed in the new defense than in the traditional 4-3 defense. He's been injured the past two seasons and is one of the top 10 paid linebackers in the league. This will be his sixth year in the NFL, which while that seems like it's not a lot, you have to figure the average of an NFL player's career is reportedly anywhere from 3.5 to 6 years, depending on certain factors. So the Texans found some worth in Ryans and traded him for a 4th rounder and swapped 3rd round picks for him. Again, I hate to see Ryans go, but when you consider all the factors, it really comes down to business in the NFL today.
Whatever happened to Babygate??
I remember a time when the biggest "gate" in the NFL was "Babygate," when David Williams, an offensive lineman for the Oilers, took a game off to be with his wife during the birth of their child. While there have been other incidents over the years, the past few seasons have taken the cake.
The New England Patriots a few years ago had "Spygate", where they were accused (and punished) for spying on other teams during games. Now we have "Bountygate". Wow. The suspensions and fines handed down for players being paid a "bounty" to take out key opposing players far supersedes any punishments we've seen in the NFL to date. A head coach suspended without pay for a season. A defensive coordinator (who now coaches for a whole new team) suspended indefinitely. And more is to come, as player suspensions and fines are expected to follow. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe the Saints are the only team to do this, nor do I believe the Patriots were lone rouges in the spying department.
But what's going on in the NFL?? I'm not much of a betting man, but I'd lay good money we haven't seen the end of it.
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I'm currently learning how to build a site in PHP mysql. However, I seem to fail to understand
COUNT() as count and wouldn't mind some further explanation.
I get the principles of COUNT, 0 || 1, and how it returns all the values that pertain to that query. But, don't see how COUNT as count works.
Anyhow, this is how the code I'm writing goes - so we have a working example - and where I first became perplexed.
SELECT COUNT(`id`) as `count`,
FROM `user`
WHERE `email`='$email'
AND `password`='".md5$password."'";
If anyone can explain be a great help!


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Computational Complexity
Addison-Wesley, 1994 - Computers - 523 pages
This new text offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of the theory of algorithms and complexity - the elegant body of concepts and methods developed by computer scientists over the past 30 years for studying the performance and limitations of computer algorithms. Among topics covered are: reductions and NP-completeness, cryptography and protocols, randomized algorithms, and approximability of optimization problems, circuit complexity, the "structural" aspects of the P=NP question, parallel computation, the polynomial hierarchy, and many others.
Several sophisticated and recent results are presented in a rather simple way, while many more are developed in the form of extensive notes, problems, and hints. The book is surprisingly self-contained, in that it develops all necessary mathematical prerequisites from such diverse field as computability, logic, number theory, combinatorics, and probability.Features


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Palestinians try to evacuate a wounded boy from under the rubble of a house, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike that killed at least nine members from the al-Ghol family, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip Aug. 3, 2014. As of Friday, the boy is recovering in a nearby hospital.
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Walles was killed in what police call an attack by a Palestinian construction worker who allegedly used his backhoe to flip a bus.
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Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces (unseen) following a demonstration in support of Gaza after Friday prayers at the Hawara checkpoint, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, Aug. 8, 2014. Israeli warplanes pounded targets across Gaza, where two Palestinians were killed and militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel after renewed hostilities ended a fledgling three-day truce.
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Houses with half-timbered facades are seen in the old city of Rennes, western France, Aug. 5, 2014.
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Workers repair the road to Hongshiyan village in Baogulao township of Qiaojia county in Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan province, Aug. 6, 2014.
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Rescuers carry earthquake victims in Ludian county in Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan province, Aug. 4, 2014.
Rescuers laid out bodies in the streets after hundreds of people were killed by an earthquake in China, leaving the idyllic mountain landscape littered with scenes of devastation and sparking a huge rescue effort.
Several same-sex couples kiss after they were united in a commitment ceremony in Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2014.
Three judges of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati were set to hear arguments in six same-sex marriage fights from four states: Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
Credit: Al Behrman/AP
A military fighter jet escorts a passenger jet as it comes in to land at Manchester Airport in Manchester, England, Aug. 5, 2014.
Police said they arrested a man on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat after Qatar Airways Flight 23 landed.
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Algae is seen near the city of Toledo water intake crib Aug. 3, 2014, in Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio.
The 400,000 people in the region were instructed to avoid drinking tap water after tests at one treatment plant showed two sample readings for microcystin were above the standard for consumption, possibly because of the algae.
Toledo officials lifted the drinking-water ban Aug. 4, 2014.
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A NATO soldier opens fire in an apparent warning shot in the vicinity of journalists near the main gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 5, 2014.
A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire that same day on foreign troops at a military base, killing U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Harold Greene.
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An Army carry team transfers the remains of Army Maj. Gen. Harold Greene Aug. 7, 2014, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., home to the nation's largest military mortuary.
Greene is the highest-ranked U.S. officer to be killed in combat since 1970 during the Vietnam War. Greene, a 34-year U.S. Army veteran, is also the highest-ranked American officer killed in combat in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Fans line the fourth fairway to watch Tiger Woods during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament at Valhalla Golf Club Aug. 6, 2014, in Louisville, Ky.
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Pistols are displayed by police before their destruction in Panama City, Panama, Aug. 6, 2014.
Panama's police destroyed a hundred weapons handed over during the first month of the new government, most of them without a gun license and used in criminal activities.
Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela announced an amnesty to allow gang members surrender their weapons.
Credit: Arnulfo Franco/AP
An electron micrograph of the Ebola virus is seen in this handout image from the Centers for Disease Control.
As the Ebola virus continues to spread across parts of Africa, a second American infected with the disease arrived in the U.S. for treatment Aug. 5, 2014.
Credit: Centers for Disease Control
The lifeless body of a man lays unattended in the street as locals suspect him of dying from the deadly Ebola virus Aug. 5, 2014.
The government warned the public not to leave Ebola victims in the streets in the capital city of Monrovia, Liberia.
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Volunteers prepare to remove the bodies of people who were suspected of contracting Ebola and died in the community in the village of Pendebu, north of Kenema, Sierra Leone, Aug. 2 , 2014.
Hundreds of troops were deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia Aug. 4, 2014, to quarantine communities hit by the deadly Ebola virus.
Credit: Tarik Jasarevic/WHO
A house cut off by monsoon floods is seen in Kendrapara district of eastern Orissa state, India, Aug.6, 2014.
The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia, but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill thousands and submerge hundreds of villages.
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Kanwarias, or devotees of Hindu god Lord Shiva, walk through the banks after filling their pots with the water from the river Ganga in the northern Indian city of Allahabad Aug. 4, 2014.
Hundreds of the Kanwarias carry holy water from the Ganga to their hometowns to be offered to Shivling (a symbol of Lord Shiva).
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A worker installed in the nacelle looks at the lifting of the rotor hub of an E-70 wind turbine manufactured by German company Enercon for La Compagnie du Vent (GDF SUEZ Group) during its installation at a wind farm in Meneslies, Picardie region, July 31, 2014 (and published this week).
France announced in July a package of tax breaks and low-cost loans to improve insulation in buildings and boost investment in renewable energy, which is supposed to provide 40 percent of the country's electricity by 2030.
Credit: Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Muslim villagers attend a prayer service at a damaged mosque at the earthquake zone in Longtoushan, Ludian county, Zhaotong, Yunnan province, China, Aug. 6, 2014.
The death toll from the magnitude-6.3 earthquake that hit Zhaotong Aug. 3, 2014, climbed to 589, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Credit: Reuters
A fisherman transports a dead whale shark after it was caught in a net in Yangzhi county, Fujian province, Aug. 1, 2014.
According to local media, the whale shark is five meters long and weighs over two tons.
A tank drives through a water obstacle on the course of the Tank Biathlon World Championship in Alabino, outside Moscow, Aug. 4, 2014.
The tank competition, where teams compete in tests of driving and shooting, will for the first time bring together crews from 12 countries: Angola, Armenia, Belarus, Venezuela, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Kuwait, Mongolia, Russia and Serbia, local media reported.
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Local residents cry and hug each other as they sit in a hospital basement being used as a bomb shelter after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Aug. 7, 2014.
Fighting in the rebel stronghold claimed more civilian casualties, bringing new calls from Russian nationalists for President Vladimir Putin to send in the army.
Credit: Sergei Grits/AP
Members of the Ukrainian self-defense battalion "Donbass" prepare to relocate to another base in the eastern Ukrainian town of Popasna Aug. 4, 2014.
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Protesters hold a petrol bomb during clashes with pro-government forces at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Aug.7, 2014.
Tensions flared on Kiev's Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away their tents.
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A briefcase with a hidden gun belonging to security personnel is seen during India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Nepali Prime Minister Sushil Koirala in Kathmandu Aug. 3, 2014.
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College students cool themselves inside an inflatable pool during the summer heat at their dormitory in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, Aug. 5, 2014.
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People enjoy an artwork titled "Spectra" by Japanese visual artist Ryoji Ikeda during Lights Out as part of commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in London, England, Aug. 4, 2014.
Lights across Britain were switched off for an hour in a tribute to the dead of World War I, inspired by the prophetic observation of Britain's foreign minister on the eve of war 100 years ago. "Spectra" was expected to light up the London skyline for seven nights.
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Women paint paper replicas of soldiers' hats for the Vu Lan Festival at Dong Ho village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam, Aug. 7, 2014.
Vietnam is celebrating the month-long festival of the hungry ghosts, also known as Vu Lan Festival, where many Taoists and Buddhists believe that the living are supposed to please the ghosts by offering them food and burning paper effigies of homes, maids and other daily items for spirits to use in the afterlife.
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Louise, left, and Charles Worm get one of their sheep ready for judging at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines Aug. 7, 2014.
The fair is scheduled to run through Aug. 17, 2014.
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A pedestrian walks through a downtown underpass as the midday sun casts shadows from overhead beams Aug. 7, 2014, in Atlanta.
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Clouds hang over Honolulu, seen from the top of Tanalus Drive, Aug. 7, 2014.
With Iselle, Hawaii took its first tropical storm hit in 22 years. Tracking close behind it was Hurricane Julio.
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Fans try to grab the ball from New England Patriots wide receiver Derrick Johnson (#84) after he scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter against the Washington Redskins during a preseason NFL game at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, Aug. 7, 2014.
The Redskins won 23-6.
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Foot Pain Rehab Video – Plantar FascitisOctober 28, 2008
Bauerfeind ViscoPed Shock Reducing Insoles – Latex FreeOctober 8, 2008
Viscoped Advantages
- Full-length viscoelastic insoles incorporating areas of softer density in the heel and metatarsal region
- Raised metatarsal pad aids in desired realignment of metatarsal heads
- Slight contouring of the arch for gentle support
- Provides shock load reduction throughout the entire length of the insole
- Ventilation holes allow for air circulation to combat heat build-up
- Five sizes may be easily trimmed for optimum fit
- Always available in pairs to prevent leg length discrepancies, Viscoped may be easily converted from one shoe to the next
- Viscoelastic medical-grade silicone provides peak shock load reduction to ankle, knee and hip joints
Viscoped can be used to treat:
- Metatarsalgia- A general term for irritation of the metatarsals; aching pain in the metatarsal bones of the foot result from anatomical changes in their alignment.
- Fat pad atrophy- Also known by "thinning of the fat pad", this condition is characterized by a decrease in the size, or wasting away of the layer of body fat that is normally present to protect the metatarsal phalangeal heads; can also occur in the heel.
- Foot pain (plantar pain) * Pressure redistribution
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How do you BOSU?April 9, 2008
The best thing about the BOSU Balance Trainer, besides its versatility, is that it adds fun to your usual workouts. Use it in place of your step for aerobic workouts (very tough) and while doing some traditional yoga poses, like warrior and triangle. It makes the workouts challenging and interesting.
Using the Bosu Balance Trainer can help improve:
Balance Because the BOSU Balance Trainer is never stable, you're constantly engaging the small stabilizer muscles in the upper and lower body to keep you in place.
Kinesthetic awareness This is just a fancy word for your awareness of how the body is positioned at any given moment. This awareness is something that often declines as we age, so the Balance Trainer can help you stay connected with how your body moves.
Proprioception This is another fancy word describing how your body responds to external forces to keep your joints in the right position. When you stand on a Balance Trainer, all of your muscles are forced to contract to keep your joints in proper position. This helps make normal activities easier.
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Trigger Points Can Occur in any MuscleDecember 17, 2007
Trigger points can occur in any muscle. Remember that every person is unique, and that you are the best judge of your pain and discomfort. Regular use of The Original Backnobber II tool can help you better understand the source and nature of such problems and can be an exceptionally valuable aid in your pursuit of a healthy, pain free lifestyle. The guidelines listed below can be followed when using The Original Backnobber II tool on any muscle in the body.1– Isolate a trigger point by pressing firmly with your fingertips or The Original Backnobber II tool over a specific part of the neck, shoulders, upper, middle or lower back, buttocks or thighs.2- When you feel a hard knot (like a lump) or soreness, apply pressure to determine the level of tenderness in the area. Some sensation of pain is to be expected from the pressure; although for many people, this sensation is quite pleasurable and satisfying. Experiment to determine a tolerable level of pressure.3– Once you have located the trigger point and know how it feels, you're ready to begin using The Original Backnobber II tool. As you become more accustomed to detecting trigger points on your body and how to apply pressure, you can begin immediately with The Original Backnobber II tool instead of performing the preliminary search.
4- The Original Backnobber II tool can be hooked over the shoulder or under the arm. Apply direct, steady, pressure to the trigger point in the muscle.5- Pressure preferences vary widely among professionals and patients alike, but for many, pressure can be effectively applied for between 5 and 30 seconds. It often takes time for muscles to begin to "trust" the pressure, so the first 20 seconds may be a mere beginning. In general it is best to start slowly and gradually increase pressure as desired following your own best intuition and feelings.6- Apply pressure firmly to the affected muscle. Move along the muscle band at one-inch intervals. Stop and apply longer or deeper pressure to any knots or lumps as you work. Although almost any pressure on a muscle will usually have some releasing effect, it is best to apply pressure along the entire muscle from one end to the other, in approximately one inch intervals, and then stretch before moving onto another area.
7– Harmony and balance between both sides of the body are vital to achieving proper posture and function. It is best to work both sides of the body, just in case any pain is referred to the other side after being "detriggered."
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Tribute Quiz to Randy PauschOctober 31, 2007
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Teenagers can get their hands on marijuana and prescription drugs more rapidly and easily this year than last, according to a new study. However, greater drug availability has not yet translated into greater drug abuse in the group – marijuana use among teens continues to decline.
While this paradox may be accounted for by a lag time between an uptick in drug availability and drug abuse, it also raises questions about what aside from drug supply determines substance abuse behavior.
The findings on drug availability, released Thursday morning by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University in New York, appear at a time when more teens are abusing prescription medication than any other drug except marijuana and inhalants, sparking concern nationwide.
In February, the Office of National Drug Control Policy kicked off a $14 million prescription-drug campaign with a Super Bowl ad profiling a drug dealer whose teenage customers had deserted him for the free prescription drugs in their parents' medicine cabinets.
According to the CASA study, 23 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds said they could buy marijuana in an hour or less and 42 percent reported they could do so in a day or less, jumps of 35 percent and 14 percent from 2007, respectively, after two years of decreases.
However, the most recent data shows that marijuana use among young people is falling steadily, with past-month use dropping 25 percent between 2001 and 2007. Data for this year is not yet available.
Teen usage of prescription medicine has not decreased as it has for most other illicit drugs, but it hasn't budged much either. Since 2005, the proportion of teens who say they've abused prescription drugs at least once has remained roughly 1 in 5.
This year also marked the first time in the CASA survey's 13-year history that more teens said prescription medication was easier to buy than beer. Among teens who know prescription drug abusers, 34 percent said abusers get the drugs from home, parents, or the medicine cabinet, while 31 percent said friends or classmates.
"A substantial number of American parents have become passive pushers," says CASA chairman Joseph Califano Jr. "A few decades ago, parents used to have a lock on the liquor cabinet. Maybe there should be a lock on the medicine cabinet."
The study cites parental negligence as key to the upswing in teen access to drugs.
There are different explanations for the divergence of trends in drug availability and use. Increased supply may yet convert into "upticks in usage" in the near future, says Mr. Califano. "Availability is the mother of use," he adds.
Drug price also plays an important role in usage, and it is not always affected by availability, notes Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Md. A 2007 NIDA study notes, for example, that changes in cocaine availability for 12th-graders over the last three decades has not proved a major determinant of use. What changed cocaine use was the introduction of low-cost crack cocaine in the early 1980s, which broke down social-class differences.
Besides, attitudes count most, says Steve Pasierb, president and CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for a Drug-Free America. "Use moves independent of supply to a degree."
For example, teen Ecstasy use increased dramatically at the beginning of this decade because young people viewed the pills as safe and saw few social consequences to taking "the hug drug." But news of Ecstasy-related deaths and a national campaign, launched in 2001, helped reduce usage by ratcheting up perception of risk and social disapproval, says Mr. Pasierb.
Teens and parents alike underestimate the risk of prescription drugs, he adds. "Grandma uses them or something like that, and that comes with a veil of safety."
It is not clear why marijuana and prescription drug availability rose this year, but contributing factors may include the influx of painkillers and attention-deficit drugs like Ritalin and the existence of websites where teens can learn how to grow marijuana, says Elizabeth Planet, who managed the survey.
But the single most important factor may be parental engagement, Ms. Planet adds, citing the fact that while nearly half the teens in the CASA survey said they typically leave the house on school nights to hang out with friends, only 14 percent of parents knew their children did so.
That disconnect between parents and children has serious consequences, she says. Fifty percent of teens who usually return home after 10 p.m. and 29 percent of those who come home between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. reported that people drink alcohol, smoke marijuana or use other drugs at these nighttime get-togethers, usually at a friend's house.
Califano recommends that parents tackle drug issues at their children's schools and model good behavior. "Parents have got to send clear messages to kids," Califano says.
While it's critical that parents get involved in their children's lives, teens are not just abusing drugs because their parents are apathetic or poor role models, says Neil Bernstein, a clinical psychologist in Washington. "These aren't choirboys or choir girls," he says. "They are at risk: They often hang out with like-minded peers, take more risks, are thrill seekers, are less happy with their lives, do poorly in school, and lack adequate life skills."


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How Extending Patent Protection For Antibiotics Creates Perverse Incentives To Render Them Useless
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We take antibiotics and their ability to kill practically all bacteria for granted. But scientists are increasingly warning that we may be about to leave what might come to be seen as a golden age for anti-bacterial drugs, and enter a post-antibiotic era. As the World Health Organization's Director-General said, quoted in an article on the Citizen Vox site:
"A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill."
The problem arises from natural selection. The more we use an antibiotic -- especially if we use it carelessly, failing to complete the full course -- the more we select for bacteria that are partially resistant to it. Over time, those bacteria thrive, displacing bacteria that are unable to withstand the antibiotic. Eventually, bacteria that are completely resistant to that particular drug are likely to evolve -- a situation that can have dire consequences. For example, even five years ago, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) was killing more people in the US annually than AIDS.
The obvious way to mitigate this problem is to reduce the use of antibiotics, saving them for truly life-threatening situations, and that's what's happening to a certain extent in Europe:
To preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics for human use, Europe banned feeding antibiotics to livestock for growth promotion in 2006. In Denmark, where such use of antibiotics had been phased out more than a decade ago, drug-resistant pathogens in livestock are down while industry output is up.
As the Citizen Vox article notes, a similar proposal to restrict the use of antibiotics has not gone very far in the US, partly because an alternative approach has found far more favor, for evident reasons:
the Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now, or GAIN, Act has piggybacked into the FDA bill reauthorizing user fees for drug approval. GAIN would provide five more years of monopoly protections for new antibiotics. Already receiving three to seven years of exclusivity, some antibiotics may receive up to 10 years of protection after market approval. This measure defies both the economics and biology of antibiotic resistance.
The reason for that comes down to the nature of patents. Since they are time-limited, their owners have a natural incentive to exploit them as fully as possible during their entire term, when they can charge elevated monopoly prices. For other kinds of patents, that might be regrettable from an economic viewpoint, but it's hardly a matter of life or death. For antibiotics it's more problematic.
The more holders of patents for antibiotics seek to maximize their profits by boosting production and selling them as widely as possible, the more antibiotic resistance is likely to develop -- especially if they are given to livestock as well as humans. That growing resistance is a classic negative externality -- it's not something the pharma company needs to worry about, since the cost will come later and be borne by the general population in the form of increased medical expenses, longer stays in hospital, more serious infections and higher mortality rates.
Antibiotics are perhaps the clearest example of how the interests of patent holders are not only misaligned with those of the public, but are diametrically opposed to them in some cases. Although, in the short term, patents may encourage more antibiotics to be developed, in the long term they undermine their effectiveness. Even more than for drugs in general, antibiotics are an area where we need different kinds of incentives to stimulate development of new drugs -- government-funded prizes, perhaps.
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We Try the Limited Edition Holiday Peeps
Oh, Peeps. Staring up at me from your plastic cocoon. There are few candies so polarizing as you. People who love you have all sorts of tips for eating/playing with you—from letting you veg out in the fridge uncovered to biting your bottom off and sticking you on the dorm wall. On the other hand, people who hate you appear to hate you with a passion usually reserved for multi-generational family grudges.
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I will readily confess that I am not in your fan club, but in the spirit of the holiday season, I decided to give a couple of your visiting family members a try.
First up was your festive red and white cousin, sporting a milk chocolate bottom, Candy Cane Flavored Marshmallow Dipped in Chocolate.
I tentatively opened the package and took a whiff. Smells like chocolate. Nothing fishy there. Pulling a little chick out of the package, white sugar crystals and flecks of red peppermint rubbed against my fingertips. I took a bite. Hey...this is not too bad! It had a crunchy sugar coating typical of Peeps that played well off the plushy marshmallow texture, and the fattiness of the milk chocolate melts into everything else in your mouth. Subtly mint-flavored, these Peeps suffered from only one misstep: too sweet.
Having survived the first Peep tasting, I opened the package of Gingerbread Flavored Marshmallow Men not so tentatively. The aroma of these fluffy guys actually reminded me of gingerbread. Crazy, huh? Like the Candy Cane Peeps, the crunchy-soft texture of the candy worked well. Instead of cooling peppermint, the Gingerbread Men Peeps left a touch of tingly spice on my tongue. Not that I'm complaining. I have a deep, unrepentant love for spicy ginger.
All in all, I'm still not a fan simply because I prefer a little less "sweet" in my sweets. But I can no longer say I do not like Peeps. If anything, I'd eat Gingerbread Peeps once a year. It's a Christmas miracle!
Have you tried these limited edition Peeps? What did you think?
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Toronto-based label Artoffact Records announces today that this Spring will see the 40th anniversary reissue of a deep Canadian classic, David Pritchard's enigmatic Nocturnal Earthworm Stew, subtitled in French Bouillabaisse Nocturne Aux Vers De Terre. Originally scheduled to be released in 1976, the record didn't come out until 1977, approximately 40 years ago. Although a CD reissue saw the light in 2004, both CD and original record are now hopelessly out of print. Artoffact will reissue Vinyl, CD, and Digital remasters on March 10th (vinyl release in April).
Nocturnal Earthworm Stew is a glorious experiment in electronic music, capturing the vitality and early curiosity of the 1970s. An earlier press statement called it "Serious headphone music made under the influence of Stockhausen, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Charles Ives and others." The influence of prog and space rock is pronounced, and contributions from Canadian prog legends Nash the Slash and Martin Deller (of FM) solidify Nocturnal's place in the prog cannon. The website Prog Archives calls Pritchard a "pioneer in experimental, cosmic-synth electronics."
The Artoffact Records reissue is housed in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve, complete with photos, reproductions of essays by David Pritchard and Nash the Slash, and an all-new piece by Scott McGregor Moore. The audio is remastered for vinyl across three sides, and a fourth side contains a marvellous etching of Pritchard himself. Bonus tracks that were never pressed to vinyl are also included. A special collectors' edition on cream-coloured vinyl will be offered through Storming the Base.
"Experimental, proggy, and melodic, with song titles like "Birth of Merlin" and "Satan's Seaside Walk," there's several tracks here that wouldn't sound out-of-place on an Aphex Twin release."
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How does your garden grow? With muck, muck and more muck! I spent much of today finishing the final muck box and then shifting muck from one box to the next. The first box, which the Big Lad is enthusiastically pointing out, has been rotting down for two years now and once we'd removed the top quarter of unrotted material, we found we'd hit the pay dirt.
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Respect in Action
Ideas for Educators & Students
How do we teach students to act in ways that demonstrate respect - being tolerant of differences, using good manners and appropriate language, not threatening, hitting, or hurting anyone, and dealing peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements. Here are five ideas that educators have used with their students.
Be Respectful
If we want our students to show respect, then we need to be respectful enough to them to show them that we care enough to follow through with what we say.
—Rebecca Marks, NEA Director-ESP At Large, Nebraska
Creating Safety Nets
I choose a teachable moment to tell a story that encourages risk-taking and mutual respect during discussion—when a child's response to a question is met with tittering causing the child to feel embarrassed.
I tell this story:
'This reminds me of a story I've been meaning to share. A few years ago many of my students went to see the circus when it was in town. Our discussion came around to trying to decide who was the most important person in the circus. One child raised his hand to say that the ringmaster was most important. Another said the acrobats were most important. Yet another said the motorcyclist was most important. Throughout the discussion a quiet hand attached to a patient person remained in the air. I asked that child, "Who do you think is most important?" The child announced that no one may have noticed but each time the lights went out a person went around checking the cables on the safety net to make certain no one was injured. We voted on who the class thought was the most important and the safety net person won, hands down.'
Then I tell the students we need a safety net in our class so that on one is ever harmed in any way. We discuss physical and emotional harm. I ask if there is some signal we can use with our bodies to alert one another that we need to raise the safety net to support someone in case he or she is in danger of falling. The signal we most often use is both hands clasped together and while still clasped, opened wide. This signal stops a student from laughing at a fellow student's idea and assures the speaker that he/she has everyone's attention. This strategy works well to make students aware of choices available to them in responding to classmates and also improves listening skills.
—Jerry Cohee, teacher mentor, Baltimore, Maryland (from NEA Works4Me)
Understanding the Students Behind the Behavior
The young adolescent is often unknowingly saying or doing things that pierce a thin veneer of confidence in other students. Effective educators will recognize all of this as normal (if undesirable) and work to educate students and to communicate regularly the belief system of tolerance, understanding, and recognition of differences. (See the full article, Maintaining a Safe Environment )
—Pete Lorain, retired teacher and principal, Beaverton, Oregon
Model & Demonstrate What Respect Means
Having worked as a classroom teacher and character development leader, I've found that it's always important that the student be shown what the expected behavior looks like, sounds like, and feels like. Modeling is the key to success. It's not enough to just say what it is.
If you want the children to demonstrate respect, for example, they need to first know what respect is and what it looks like. Often, students will say "I show respect to my friend by being nice." This is not specific enough. A teacher needs to ask, "What does that look like?" Being nice may mean "listening to my friend when he or she talks."
Once the concept of respect is made more explicit, it's up to the teacher to demonstrate what listening looks like, sounds like, and feels like. I often would model examples of what good listeners do (e.g., eyes on speaker, lean toward the speaker, nod, smile). The modeling would include teacher showing through example and student practice during role play. We must take time to lay the groundwork initially, but it pays off in the long run.
Once your targeted behaviors are modeled and demonstrated, create an anchor chart that states, "Good Listeners..." Include in the chart what it looks like (hands in lap, mouths not moving, eyes on speaker, etc.), what it sounds like (all are quiet except the speaker, clapping to acknowledge good ideas when the speaker is done), and what it feels like (calm, comfortable, etc.).
—Dan Celetti, Algoma District School Board in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, currently a special assignment teacher helping teachers implement research-based learning strategies in the areas of literacy, numeracy, and character development.
Show Respect
Ask the question and then listen for the answer.
—Bob McCarty, head custodian, Torrington, Wyoming


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Series: No Fear Shakespeare
Cleopatra,. Queen of Egypt,. d. 30 B.C. Drama.
Antonius, Marcus,. 83?-30 B.C. Drama.
Romans. Egypt. Drama.
Rome. History. Civil War, 43-31 B.C. Drama.
Egypt. History. 332-30 B.C. Drama.
Shakespeare probably wrote Antony and Cleopatra in 1606 or 1607; it was registered for publication on May 20, 1608, and apparently influenced a revision of Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra that was published "newly altered" in 1607. Antony and Cleopatra was thus roughly contemporary with King Lear and Macbeth. Yet the contrast between those two tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra is immense. Unlike Macbeth, with its taut focus on a murderer and his wife, Antony and Cleopatra moves back and forth across the Mediterranean in its epic survey of characters and events, bringing together the fates of Pompey, Octavius Caesar, Octavia, and Lepidus with those of the protagonists. King Lear gives proper names to fourteen characters, Macbeth to eighteen, Antony and Cleopatra to thirty-four. The Roman play requires no fewer than forty-two separate scenes, of which most occur in what modern editors label Acts 3 and 4, although no play is less suited to the classical rigors of five-act structure, and these divisions are not found in the reliable Folio text of 1623. Indeed, it is as though Shakespeare resolved at the height of his career to show that he could dispense entirely with the classical "rules," which had never taken serious hold of the English popular stage in any case. The flouting of the unities is so extreme that John Dryden, in his All for Love, or The World Well Lost (1678), undertook not so much to revise Shakespeare as to start afresh on the same subject. Dryden's play is restricted to the last few hours of the protagonists' lives, at Cleopatra's tomb in Alexandria, with a severely limited cast of characters and much of the narrative revealed through recollection. Although a substantial achievement in its own right, All for Love surely demonstrates that Shakespeare knew what he was doing, for Dryden has excised a good deal of the panorama, the excitement, and the "infinite variety" (2.2.246).
Shakespeare departs also from the somber tone of his tragedies of evil. He creates, instead, a world that bears affinities to the ambiguous conflicts of the other Roman plays, to the varying humorous perspectives of the comedies, and to the imaginative reconstructions of the late romances. As protagonists, Antony and Cleopatra lack tragic stature, or so it first appears: she is a tawny gypsy temptress and he a "strumpet's fool," a once-great general now bound in "strong Egyptian fetters" and lost in "dotage" (1.1.13; 1.2.122—3). Several scenes, especially those set in Egypt, are comic and delightfully bawdy: Charmian learning her fortune from the soothsayer, Cleopatra practicing her charms in vain to keep Antony from leaving Egypt or raunchily daydreaming of being Antony's horse "to bear the weight of Antony" (1.5.22), Cleopatra flying into a magnificent rage at the news of Antony's marriage to Octavia and then consoling herself with catty reflections on Octavia's reported low voice and shortness of stature ("I think so, Charmian. Dull of tongue, and dwarfish," 3.3.17). In its comic texture, the play somewhat resembles Romeo and Juliet, an earlier play about a younger pair of lovers, although there the bawdry is used chiefly to characterize the lovers' companions and confidants, whereas in Antony and Cleopatra it is central to our vision of Cleopatra especially. In any case, the later play is a tragedy about lovers who, despite their quarrels and uncertainties and betrayals of self, are reconciled in a vision of the greatness of their love. In its depiction of two contrasting worlds, also, Antony and Cleopatra recalls the movement of several earlier comedies from the realistic world of political conniving to a dream-world of the romantic and the unexpected. We can endorse neither world fully in Antony and Cleopatra, and, accordingly, the vision of life presented is often ambivalent and ironic as much as it is tragic. The contrast of values separating Egypt and Rome underscores the paradox of humanity's quest for seemingly irreconcilable goals. The ending is neither a triumph nor a defeat for the lovers but something of both. If Antony and Cleopatra seem in one way too small to be tragic protagonists, in another way they seem too large, creating imaginative visions of themselves and their union that escape the realm of tragedy altogether. Our attention is focused less on the way in which the protagonists come to understand some meaningful relationship between their character and the fate required of them by a tragic universe than on the almost comic way in which the absurdities of Roman worldly striving and Egyptian dissipation are transfigured in the world of the imagination.
The Roman point of view opens the play and never entirely loses its force. At first, it may seem superior to that of Egypt. Demetrius and Philo, who invite us to view the play's first encounter between Antony and Cleopatra (1.1) from the perspective of the professional Roman soldier, lament the decline of Antony into Circean enslavement. Their tragic concept is of the Fall of Princes, all the more soberly edifying because of the height from which Antony has toppled. "You shall see in him / The triple pillar of the world transformed / Into a strumpet's fool" (1.1.11—13). Egypt is enchanting but clearly enervating–a bizarre assemblage of soothsayers, eunuchs, and waiting- gentlewomen who wish to be "married to three kings in a forenoon and widow them all" (1.2.28—9). Their mirth is all bawdry, tinged with practices, such as transvestitism, that Roman custom views as licentious. The prevailing images are of procreation in various shapes, sleep (mandragora, Lethe), the oriental opulence of Cleopatra's barge (a golden poop, purple sails, silver oars, divers-colored fans), Epicurean feasting, and drinking. As Enobarbus says, "Mine, and most of our fortunes tonight, shall be–drunk to bed" (1.2.47—8).
Antony, for all his reckless defiance of Rome, agrees in his more reflective moments with what Demetrius and Philo have said. "A Roman thought hath struck him," Cleopatra observantly remarks, and Antony has indeed determined that "I must from this enchanting queen break off" (1.2.88, 135). His later return to Cleopatra is at least in part a surrender, a betrayal of his marriage vows to Octavia and his political assurances to Caesar. In the ensuing battles, Antony submits himself dangerously to Cleopatra's governance, and this inversion of dominance in sexual roles, as conventionally understood by the Roman patriarchal world, is emblematic of a deeper disorder within Antony. As Enobarbus concludes bitterly, Antony "would make his will / Lord of his reason" and so has subverted his "judgment" (3.13.3—4, 37) to passion.
From the beginning, Cleopatra has sought dominance over Antony in the war of the sexes. When Antony first came to her on the River Cydnus, we learn, he was so overcome in all his senses that he was "barbered ten times o'er" (2.2.234). Cleopatra boasts that she "angled" for Antony on many occasions, catching him the way fishermen "betray" fish, and that, when she had "drunk him to his bed," she "put my tires and mantles on him, whilst / I wore his sword Philippan" (2.5.10—23). Caesar, affronted by such transvestite debauchery, charges that Antony "is not more manlike / Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy / More womanly than he" (1.4.5—7). During the battle scenes, Antony's followers complain that "Photinus, an eunuch" (probably Mardian), and Cleopatra's maids manage the war: "So our leader's led, / And we are women's men" (3.7.14—15, 70—1). Antony confesses too late that they were right. He becomes a "doting mallard," one whose heart is "tied by th' strings" to Cleopatra's rudder when her ships retreat in the first naval engagement (3.10.20; 3.11.56). In the mythic images used to raise their relationship to heroic proportions, Antony is like Mars to Cleopatra's Venus (1.5.19), in both a positive and a negative sense. The image has positive connotations of the way in which, as Milton puts it, the "two great sexes animate the world," the masterful soldier and his attractive consort complementing one another in a right relationship of martial prowess and beauty, bravery and love, reason and will; however, to the Renaissance, the myth of Mars and Venus could also be read in a destructive sense, as an adulterous relationship in which reason is subverted to appetite. In another mythic comparison, Antony is like Hercules, not in his prime, but with the shirt of Nessus on his back–a poisoned shirt given to Hercules by his wife in a mistaken hope of thereby assuring his love for her (4.12.43). Antony's soldiers understandably believe that the god Hercules has deserted his reputed descendant and onetime champion (4.3.21—2).
Despite Antony's shameful violation of manhood, honor, attention to duty, self-knowledge, and all that Rome stands for, however, the end of his story is anything but a one-sided endorsement for the Roman point of view. The actual Rome, disfigured by political conniving, falls far short of the ideal. Antony has a point when he protests that "Kingdoms are clay" (1.1.37). Alliances are unstable and are governed by mere political expediency. At first, Antony's wife Fulvia and his brother Lucius have fought one another until forced to unite against the greater threat of Octavius Caesar. Similarly, Antony and Caesar come together only because Pompey has become dangerously powerful at sea and has won the favor of the fickle mob, "Our slippery people" (1.2.192). This détente is not meant to last. As Enobarbus bluntly puts it, "if you borrow one another's love for the instant, you may, when you hear no more words of Pompey, return it again" (2.2.109—11). Enobarbus is rebuked for his unstatesmanlike tone, but no one denies the validity of what he says. In this cynical negotiation, Octavia is a pawn between husband and brother, shabbily treated by both. Caesar coldly bargains away the happiness of the one person of whom he protests that "no brother / Did ever love so dearly" (2.2.159—60). Antony, although hating false promises and resolving to be loyal to Octavia, knows within himself that it won't work. To make matters worse for the fair-minded Antony, he has received great favors from Pompey that he must now uncharitably repudiate in the interests of politics. Pompey does not miss the opportunity to remind Antony of his ingratitude, but the prevailing mood is not so much of bitterness as of ironic futility. Old friendships must be sacrificed; no one seems wholly to blame, and no one can stop the game. Pompey is as much in the wrong as anyone and as powerless. Despite his idealistic hope of restoring republican government to Rome, he has had to ally himself with pirates who offer him sinister temptations. He could be "lord of all the world" (2.7.62) if he would only murder on occasion, but Pompey is destined to be trapped between lofty ends and ignoble means. Lepidus is still another dismaying victim of political callousness, used condescendingly by Caesar and permitted to drink himself into oblivion, until he is cashiered on a trumped-up charge and imprisoned for life.
Octavius Caesar embodies most of all the ironic limits of political ambition. He has avoided enslavement to passion at the very real cost of enslaving himself to his public career as general, triumvir, and future emperor. His ideal warrior is one who, driven by military necessity, would "drink / The stale [urine] of horses and the gilded puddle / Which beasts would cough at" (1.4.62—4). As a general, he is Antony's opposite in every way. He attacks only when he has the advantage and places those who have deserted Antony in his own front lines so "That Antony may seem to spend his fury / Upon himself" (4.6.10—11). He controls his supplies cannily, believing it a "waste" to feast his army (4.1.17). He, of course, declines Antony's offers of single combat. Antony meantime recklessly accepts Caesar's challenge to fight at sea, feasts debauchingly in one "gaudy night" after another (3.13.186), and generously refuses to blame or penalize those who leave him. His sending Enobarbus's belongings after him into Caesar's camp convinces that honest soldier he has made a fatal error, for, however imprudent Antony's chivalry may be, it is unquestionably noble and great-hearted. Caesar is a superb general and political genius, but he is also a military automaton, a logistical reckoner, a Machiavellian pragmatist. In his personal life, he is no less austere and puritanical. He deplores loosening his tongue with alcohol. About women, he is deeply cynical, believing that "want will perjure / The ne'er-touched vestal" (3.12.30—1). Between him and Cleopatra, there is a profound antipathy, based in part on his revulsion at her earlier affair with his namesake and adoptive father, Julius Caesar (3.6.6). Cleopatra may entertain briefly the notion of trying to seduce this new Caesar (3.13.46 ff.), for like Charmian she loves long life "better than figs" (1.2.34), but, if so, she soon discovers that she and Caesar are not compatible. All that he represents she must instead grandly repudiate, choosing death and the fantasy of an eternity with Antony as her way to "call great Caesar ass / Unpolicied" (5.2.307—8).
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Note: This article was first published the May 2008 issue of Python Magazine
Introducing Descriptors and Properties
Mark Mruss
New-style classes were introduced to Python with the release of Python 2.2. And with these new-style classes came descriptors and properties. This article will introduce the descriptor protocol, descriptors, and properties.
New-style classes were introduced to Python with the release of Python 2.2. A new-style class is any class that is derived from the
object base class. New-style classes give Python programmers many new (and initially confusing) features. One such feature is the descriptor protocol, and more specifically descriptors themselves.
Descriptors give Python programmers the ability to easily and efficiently create "managed attributes". Managed attributes can be thought of as attributes that are not accessed directly. Instead their access is "managed" by something else, generally a class or a function.
If you haven't come across this before you are probably wondering why one would want to manage attribute access? One reason might be that you don't want people to be able to delete the attribute. Another reason may be that you need to ensure that your attribute data is always valid. Or perhaps attribute
x is based on attribute
y, so every time the value of
y changes you want to update the value of
x. From these few examples you can see the many possible cases where you might want to control access to certain attributes.
For those of you familiar with other programming languages, this type of access is often referred to as "getters and setters". In many language, implementing "getters and setters" means using private variables and public functions that get and set the variable's value. Since Python doesn't (really) have private variables, the descriptor protocol is basically a built-in and Python-ic way to way to achieve something similar.
This article will introduce you to the descriptor protocol, descriptors, and properties. It will focus on demonstrating how to use them to create managed attributes. Since the descriptor protocol requires new-style classes, all of the examples in this article require Python 2.2 or newer.


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Deciding which imperfections you can live with in a new home can be challenging to say the least. This home inspection checklist is by no means comprehensive enough to cover all of the bases, however, this does give some general guidelines and home inspection questions to ask when faced with these big decisions.
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York Stamp Show17 July - 18 July
There are around 95 stamp and postal history dealers and 60+ coin, banknote and medal dealers at the York Stamp & Coin Fair.
Visitors can buy or sell, get valuations or simply browse and find out what these hobbies are all about.
In addition, there are often specialist society meetings to which everyone is welcome, whether a member or not.
There is a bar on the first floor of the Grandstand and a self-service restaurant serving hot and cold meals, snacks and coffee/tea on the ground floor.
- When: 17/18th July 2020
- Where: The Grandstand
- Address: The Racecourse – YORK – YO23 1EX
- Held: bi-annually
- Who is there: 95+ Stamp Dealers and 60+ Coin, banknote and medal Dealers
- Admission: Free
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An otherwise rainy Sunday cleared up just long enough for veterans, Scouts and public safety officers to march through Moosup in the town's annual Memorial Day parade.
An otherwise rainy Sunday cleared up just long enough for veterans, Scouts and public safety officers to march through Moosup in the town's annual Memorial Day parade.
Small crowds gathered along the route from North Main Street to Prospect Street, and organizers said more were probably deterred by the rain.
Marchers included veterans groups, First Selectman Paul Sweet, state Rep. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, fire and police department members and Scouts.
The host of the parade this year was the American Legion Post 91 in Moosup, whose Prospect Street building marked the end of the parade route. The parade rotates on a three-year cycle through the town's three veterans groups, with the AMVETS in Wauregan and Veterans of Foreign Wars in Plainfield village hosting in their respective villages in other years.
All three groups decorated cemeteries and participated in ceremonies throughout town earlier on Sunday
Legion Post Commander Wayne Durrigan said he thought the parade went well, even if they didn't see the crowds they hoped for.
Among the small crowd was the family of Devan White, an 8-year-old Plainfield boy marching with the Boy Scouts. Devan's dad, Allen White, pointed out Devan's aunt and cousins, from Preston, and grandparents, from Norwich. Devan's grandfather, Allen White Sr., a Navy veteran, said seeing his grandson march was a great way to start a very busy two days of veterans celebrations that the family will watch and participate in.
"We've got to remember what this day is about. It's not just a party. It's a day to celebrate veterans and those who have died," he said.
The family was among those who watched a solemn ceremony at the end of the parade route in which American Legion Junior Vice Commander Wayne Kowal laid a wreath on the town's Vietnam War memorial.
Kowal told the crowd that Memorial Day offers an opportunity to "recalibrate your personal compass to remember the meaning of this day," he said.
The meaning, American Legion chaplain Conrad Langlais told the crowd in leading a prayer, is fallen soldiers' sacrifices.
"We can honor them by cherishing the ideals for which they fought," he said.


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There was a loud crack, like the sound of several chopsticks simultaneously being snapped in two, followed by the sound of something heavy falling, the object hitting the ground so hard the earth literally shook beneath Ed's feet.
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Winry had never gotten to appreciate the leather pants in her current position as the person who got to unzip them.
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The first thing Gracia bought after her husband died was a stepladder.
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What the hell was he going to say when Ed and Winry asked him if he met any nice girls in Xing?
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While the Chief practices his best vengeful face and looks up the recipe for a fake corpse in some freaky alchemy cookbook, Breda and the rest of Team Mustang get to deal with the really annoying bits of this operation.
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"Don't look so downcast!" orders Mustang, grinning maniacally. "Our honour is at stake! Don't let me down! Sometimes you just have to take one for the team!"
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You've only been awake for thirty-six hours, staged a coup, fought a bunch of monsters and nearly died a few times. It's not as if you've had a tough day.
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This really was turning out to be a day of surprises, thought Roy.
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