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Magic, Bobcats set to square off at Charlotte
The two teams with the worst records in the NBA hook up late in the season when the Charlotte Bobcats host the Orlando Magic Wednesday night.
Orlando is 1 1/2 games ahead of the Bobcats for the worst mark in the league.
These two teams were the latest victims of the Miami Heat and their epic run at NBA history. On Sunday, the Heat bested the Bobcats, then knocked off the Magic on Monday. Those were wins No. 26 and 27 in a row for the Heat.
On the other side of the spectrum, the Magic have lost seven straight games. Their last win was a home victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on March 10. The Magic have lost five in a row on the road.
Against the Heat, Orlando was led by a great effort from point guard Jameer Nelson. He finished with 27 points and 12 assists, but the Magic fell 108-94 to the defending champion Heat.
"We were short-handed and giving ourselves a chance to stay within striking distance," said head coach Jacque Vaughn. "You have to give yourself a chance against a great team like that."
The Magic were without Nikola Vucevic, Al Harrington and Arron Afflalo. Vucevic is listed as questionable after a concussion. Harrington's availability is unknown and Afflalo will miss the rest of the season with a hamstring injury.
The Bobcats took their shot at ending the streak on Sunday and led early. Then, early in the second quarter, the Heat took the lead for good and won in a rout 109-77.
"We didn't allow them to run. We didn't turn the ball over a lot and we made shots," Bobcats head coach Mike Dunlap said. "Then we dried up and our defense had to hold the line for a long time before we scored in the second quarter."
The Bobcats were led by Kemba Walker's 20 points. Gerald Henderson added 18 points and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was the only other player in double figures for Charlotte.
After the home tilt with Orlando, the Bobcats go on the road for three straight.
Charlotte has taken two of three this season against the Magic, both in Orlando. The Magic are 10-1 in their last 11 in Charlotte.


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Just because of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's recent split doesn't mean Demi still can't look good. This hairstyle works well with Demi's slender/thin physique because the loose curl adds some width and fullness around her jawline and neck. This curl can be achieved by using a 1 1/2 inch barrel curling iron when you have Demi's length of hair. Also Demi's dark chocolate brown hair suits her skin tone without making her look washed out.

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Tar sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit containing
a dense form of petroleum mixed with sand, clay and water. Found in large
quantities in Canada and Venezuela, tar sands once were considered too
expensive to exploit, but higher oil prices and new technology have enabled
them to be profitably extracted and refined by the oil industry.
While the oil industry may be reaping massive profits from
the tar sands deposits in Canada, the local population and the environment are
paying the price.
Making liquid fuels from tar sands requires large amounts of
energy and water for steam injection and refining. This process generates two
to four times more greenhouse gases per barrel than extraction of conventional
In Canada, even before the oil is extracted from
a surface mine, the industry first must raze large tracks of the Boreal forest,
then remove an average of two tons of peat and dirt that lie above the oil
sands layer, then remove two tons of the sand itself. After the oil is
processed, the toxic byproducts are discharged into tailings ponds. The toxic
mine tailing ponds from Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, Canada, now cover approximately
50 square miles.
The Keystone pipeline, owned and operated by the TransCanada
corporation, was developed to transport crude oil from the Athabasca tar sands
to multiple destinations in the United States, including refineries in Illinois
(the original Keystone pipeline), an oil distribution hub in Oklahoma
(Keystone-Cushing Extension) and refineries along the Gulf Coast of Texas (the
proposed Keystone XL pipeline).
The first section of the Keystone pipeline became
operational in June 2010. The
Cushing-Extension was completed in February 2011. Since being proposed in 2008,
the 1,700-mile Keystone XL extension has been met with strong opposition from
landowners and indigenous communities in the path of the pipeline and from the
environmental community.
The pipeline would carry the tar sands crude oil from
Alberta, Canada, through the U.S. heartland, into Texas and to the Gulf of
Mexico. It would run through the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides drinking
water for millions of Americans and provides 30 percent of the nation's
irrigation groundwater.
In November 2011, after tremendous pressure
pipeline opponents, President Barack Obama postponed a decision until 2013. In
response, Senate Republicans introduced legislation aimed at forcing the Obama
administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days, unless the
president declared the project not in the national interest. On Jan. 18, 2012, President
Obama rejected the project, stating that the arbitrary deadline made it
impossible to adequately review it.
Report: Construction
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Press Release: Public Citizen Calls for Probe of Construction Problems on Keystone XL Southern Segment.
Report: America Can't Afford
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Fact sheet: Why America cannot afford the Keystone XL pipeline (PDF).
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Boss RE-20 Space Echo Review!
Music Radar has published a very positive review of the new Boss RE-20 Space Echo pedal. Which's not surprising! Since this pedal was announced, last April, guitarists all over the world (and blogosphere) have been excitedly waiting for it. Upon it's release, the general opinion was more than positive - the RE-20 indeed captures the sound of the legendary Roland RE-201 rather well. Read on to find what Music Radar had to say...
We'd say that Boss has nailed the character of the original RE-201 both on the echo and spring reverb fronts.
With demand still high for second-hand tape-based Space Echos, it was only a matter of time before Roland's own FX division, Boss, got around to remaking their classic for the noughties. Many producers will testify to this day that there's a certain mojo in the sound of the original Space Echo units that has not yet been matched.
First impressions of the RE-20 are positive. Straight out of the box it feels sturdy and has a reassuring weight (thankfully a lot lighter than the originals!). The pedal's main body is made from tough metal and covered with a textured granite-effect finish, which should stand up well to prolonged stage use and abuse. The dual pedals are made from the same tough material and covered in thick rubber similar to other Boss guitar stomp boxes; it doesn't feel like any corners have been cut on the build-quality front.
The interface may be simple but there are also a number of clever and stylish design cues that hark back to the original RE-201 and instantly transport the user back in time to 1974 (when the 201 was launched). These include the green colour used on the control panel, the peak level indicator and the mode selector dial.
One other feature that seems gimmicky at first but is actually very useful is the red tape speed indicator. It's great to be able to tell at a glance how fast the repeats are before you play in a dark environment (and the light is reminiscent of the one on the front of Knight Rider's KITT!)
Plugging it in
The left pedal toggles the effect on/off and the right pedal is a tap tempo control for easily tapping in the speed of the repeats with your foot. Further to this, the tap tempo pedal can also access what Boss calls the 'twist' function where the intensity rate and repeat rate are simultaneously increased to create distorted sonic mayhem.
So how does it sound? In a word: 'authentic'. We'd say that Boss has nailed the character of the original RE-201 both on the echo and spring reverb fronts.
The wow and flutter is faithfully recreated and there's an inherent randomness to the sound (such as wobbly repeats and subtle chorusing) which adds to the authenticity and tapey-ness. We were dubious at first but this really is as close as you'll get to an original RE-201.
The sound of the input saturation is also faithful and if you closed your eyes you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference between the RE-20 and the RE-201. The controls react in the same way as on the original, although the original still sounds dirtier and warmer to our ears. Roland's COSM technology has paid dividends in this unit - not least because there's no mechanical noise, chance of motors failing or background hiss, even at high gain levels.
Boss has created an authentic, tough and portable alternative to the ageing Space Echo.
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A Havelock High student has been arrested for making bomb threats that caused the evacuation of the school on Tuesday and Thursday.
A Havelock High student has been arrested for making bomb threats that caused the evacuation of the school on Tuesday and Thursday.
Fredrick L. Thomas, 18, of Havelock, has been charged with two counts of making a false bomb report at a public building, according to a release from the Havelock Police Department. Thomas was arrested shortly after a bomb threat was called in Thursday morning, prompting the evacuation of students and staff to Havelock Middle School for the second time this week.
According to the release, investigators identified Thomas as a person of interest in the case from leads developed during Tuesday�s bomb threat. Investigators and the school�s resource officer were able to locate the cell phone used in both bomb threats and identify Thomas as being in possession of the phone. Investigators then gathered additional information, leading to Thomas� arrest.
Havelock Police Chief G. Wayne Cyrus would not release a motive in the case.
No bombs were ever found, and the two incidents were described as hoaxes.
Thomas is being held in the Craven County Jail under a $75,000 secured bond. A date for his first court appearance wasn�t immediately available.
The bomb threats occurred during the first week students were back from Christmas break and as they were preparing for first-semester final exams. The bomb threats prompted officials to dismiss classes for the day on Tuesday and kept students out of class for about three hours on Thursday.
Because of the disruptions to class time, the school has adjusted its exam schedule for next week, with first-period exams on Monday, second-period exams on Tuesday, third-period exams on Wednesday and fourth-period exams on Thursday. Any make-up exams will be on Jan. 17, which is also an optional teacher workday.
Carr Ipock, chairman of the Craven County Board of Education, said if convicted, Thomas faces an automatic expulsion of 180 days and he could be held liable for the costs associated with the investigation into the bomb threat, such as use of explosive ordnance military personnel from Cherry Point to search the building.
�People just don�t understand the severe consequences of these acts, to themselves, their family and the community,� Ipock said. � � This caused exams to be delayed from starting Friday to starting on Monday and the many parents who had to leave work to pick up their children interrupted work and business in the area.�
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Person familiar with deal: Tight end Fred Davis reaches 1-year deal to stay with Redskins
WASHINGTON – A person familiar with the deal says tight end Fred Davis has agreed to a one-year contract to remain with the Washington Redskins.
The person said Friday that Davis opted to remain with the Redskins after exploring options with the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has yet to announce the deal.
Davis might have been one of the most coveted tight ends on the free agent market if he were healthy, but he's recovering from a torn left Achilles suffered in a loss to the New York Giants in October.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A five-run fifth inning proved to be the difference for WPI this afternoon as the Engineers built a 7-0 lead and went on to defeat MIT, 7-2, in the first game of their New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference baseball series. The loss snapped a five-game win streak for MIT.
WPI (21-13, 9-7 NEWMAC) struck quickly in the game, plating a run in the first inning that gave it a lead that it never gave up. Sophomore Matt Blakeman (Bedford, N.H.) led off the inning with a double and was then sacrificed over to third. Senior John Flynn (Albion, Maine) then scored the run with a sac fly off of MIT starter, senior Torre Swanson (Redding Calif.).
WPI added another run in the third on another sac fly by Flynn before breaking the game open with the five-run fifth. A leadoff double, a sacrifice and a walk put runners on the corners for senior Nick Bean (Middleboro, Mass.). He singled to left to score the first run of the inning before Flynn hit a grounder to second that was misplayed for an error, allowing another run to score. The miscue proved costly for MIT (16-14, 6-10 NEWMAC). Swanson came back to strike out the next hitter, but senior Mitch McClune (Pembroke, Mass.) drove a pitch out of the park in right for a three-run home run.
Senior Sean Minor (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) started for WPI and held MIT in check for most of the game allowing just two hits over the first six innings of the contest. He wound up going all the way for WPI, allowing just five hits and two runs while striking out two and walking a pair.
Freshman Hayden Cornwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) touched Minor for a solo home run in the seventh to put the first MIT run on the board. MIT tried to mount a comeback in the ninth, getting the leadoff hitter aboard on a single by sophomore Creed Mangrum (Sandy, Utah). A one-out double by senior Bryan Macomber (Los Altos, Calif.) brought Mangrum home, but Minor allowed just a two-out walk to junior James McKinney (Wakefield, R.I.) the rest of the way as he picked up the complete-game win.
The two teams will finish off the series tomorrow in Cambridge with a doubleheader. The first pitch of game one will be thrown at 11:00 a.m.


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Hello, everyone. I was an atheist until at the age of 27 I began to study the Bible in order to debunk it. I learned quickly that the Bible was grossly misrepresented by apostate Christendom's adoption of pagan teachings such as the immortal soul from Socrates, the trinity from Plato, the cross from Constantine, hell from Dante and Milton, Easter from Astarte, Christmas from the winter solstice celebrations, and most recently the Rapture from Darby.
Though I have never and will never be a part of organized religion, my beliefs are not entirely dissimilar to that of The Jehovah's Witnesses, due to the removal of the aforementioned pagan influence. I have studied briefly the history of the major world religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shintoism and Taoism and have published sacred and non-sacred texts from each of these online: The Dhammapada, Four Noble Truths, Paradise Lost, Divine Comedy, Analects Of Confucius, Bhagavad Gita, Qur'an, Pirqe Aboth, Nihongi, Kojiki, Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu.
Having been an atheist most of my life and given that nearly everyone I know is atheist, I think I understand and respect where most of you are coming from. I don't believe in "converting" anyone to anything, but I do think the atheist tends to be mislead when it comes to the Bible. Not that that matters much, except for that I do enjoy, given the opportunity, to correct them in thoughtful and polite discussion and debate.
I hope we can have some interesting conversations.
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I was of the impression that chemistry at the time was still in its infancy. The periodic table was still in the future.
Having read the entire Bible, I am curious about just how you think I, as an atheist, was misled (not "mislead").
I haven't talked to you yet so I can't say. Maybe you haven't. The atheists I referred to there are the ones that I have talked to.
Hello David, and welcome. I hope we haven't scared you off yet! I wanted to pursue a somewhat different line of inquiry than some of the other posts, if I may. You indicated that one of your major objections to conventional Christianity is that they have allowed pagan and philosophical influences to shape their understanding of the Bible. I fully agree that such influences played a major role in the development of certain Christian doctrines and rituals, although I disagree about some of the particulars you mention (your attribution of the doctrine of the cross to Constantine and hell to Dante/Milton seem vastly implausible and much too late, historically speaking). However, these influences strike me as unavoidable and unproblematic (indeed, probably a good thing), and the exact same complaint could be made of the Bible itself.
1) Every religion is a complex product of the cultural milieu in which it emerges. It reflects and incorporates the language of its creators, their traditional ways of thinking about morality and the cosmos, and even their economic and political systems (see, for instance, Jesus articulating his teachings through stories set in the economic structures of first-century Palestine). "New" religions are never completely new: like all human innovations, they build upon elements of the past while introducing other elements that are genuinely novel. You would certainly admit that all I've said is true for all of the thousands of religions that you don't agree with: surely Islam is largely (though not entirely) a synthesis of Judaism, Christianity, and Bedouin culture; surely Mormonism is a product of its time and place (albeit a strange one); Buddhism obviously derives from Hinduism, and many other eastern religions build on both of these; and surely the numerous variations of paganism across the world are simply gradual developments on pre-existing pagan (or proto-pagan) ideas. None of these religions emerged "ex nihilo," but instead represent creative combinations of the new and the old. This is not intrinsically a good or a bad thing -- it's simply a universal fact about how human institutions and ideas evolve, and religion, it turns out, is a human institution. If you acknowledge all I've said up to this point, you have two options (unless you can think of a third...). You can either recognize, as many Christians do, that Christianity and the Bible are likewise, and unavoidably, human products (at least in part) and that they can be meaningfully analyzed with the same historical methods we bring to bear on *all* other world religions -- in which case the fact of pagan influence both in the Bible and in subsequent interpretation of the Bible would be completely unsurprising and unbobjectionable -- or you can say that the Bible is exempt from the ordinary methods and results of historical inquiry because it is authored primarily by God, and only secondarily by humans. You seem to be embracing something like the second option I've outlined. But you must realize that in doing so -- by making the Bible out to be an exception to an otherwise universal historical fact -- you bear the burden of proof. Though it is logically *possible* that the Bible truly is an exception, and that historical analysis could reveal it to be such, all that we know about *every other world religion* is against that proposition. When we have such a well-established pattern about how world religions work, with a large sample size (all world religions), basic principles of statistical rationality (for more info, read up on statistical "base rates" and the Bayes Theorem) requires that we review any particular claim about an exception with deep and presumptive (but not absolute) skepticism. Christianity says we should not have a "hard heart" and should simply believe, but historically conscious rationality tells us that we should do precisely the opposite: we should assume that the Bible and Christianity reflect the same patterns of human influence and design that we see in literally every other religion, unless you can prove (decisively) the contrary.
2) When we turn to the Bible, many scholars say that far from discovering an exception to the universal pattern of the world religions, we discover a paradigmatic example of that pattern. (I recognize that many Christian scholars -- and even more untrained Christian apologists -- claim otherwise.) This is an area that I don't know too much about, apart from my own reading of the Bible in its English translation and a well-written book by Robert Wright called "The Evolution of God." But I came away from both experiences with a strong sense that the Old Testament itself does not reflect a single, consistent, monotheistic conception of God, but rather a gradual evolution through various types of polytheism ultimately culminating in monotheism. Aren't there several places where God refers to itself in the plural form, suggesting that it is simply one member of a committee of controller deities -- perhaps the chairperson, but certainly not the exclusive man upstairs? Aren't there numerous instances in which Yahweh and Old Testament human exemplars speak of the "gods" of other nations as though those gods were real, at war with Yahwah, and in need of elimination? (I recognize that there are other passages indicating that those gods are not real -- but that's my entire point. We're looking at stages of historical development across different authors, not a universal anti-polytheist narrative that consistently threads through the entire Old Testament.) Isn't Yahweh the god (with a little "g") of a particular place (Israel), a particular community of people (the Jews), and even of particular persons (Abraham and Isaac), at war with the gods of neighboring communities and peoples, before he becomes the single God of the entire world? In other words, aren't the earlier depictions of Yahweh much like the place-bound deities with narrow and well-defined spheres of influence that are so commonly found in many pagan religions across the world?
3) On a normative level, what's so bad about pagan and philosophical influences on the development of Christianity? You cite Plato and Socrates, and in my experience, those fellas are often (though not always) far more insightful than the Bible. More generally, though, I submit that it's a good thing that religious development often strives to harmonize and incorporate disparate threads. That's part of why religion is sometimes able to bring different kinds of people, and indeed different societies, into fruitful relationships with one another. That process reflects dialogue, empathy, compromise, and cooperation, all of which are good things. Fundamentalists dislike these processes because they generally insist on the purity and absoluteness of their narrow view of the world. But that strikes me as a vice, not a virtue.
I hope Dave doesn't pass over your observations. A response to your ideas from him would be helpful to the discussion..
Ed, Justin - yes, it's very clear and interesting. I think it's a great strength to incorporate multiple viewpoints. After all, why should one source have all the answers? It doesn't happen. The truth is large and complex, and requires many points of view in order to make it clear.
Am just not so optimistic that Dave will respond. He has not shown up in the last 24hrs or slightly more.
Having been atheist for sometime you must have at some point thought religion to be "man made" so, when you decided to believe again did you immediately subscribe to your current beliefs or was their a buffer of a more general deity? Deism or what not?
I only ask because I wonder about your path to the god/religion that you think is the true god/religion. For me If there is no real evidence for "god" then there is no reason for me to subscribe to any particular religion. Were you sold on a concept of god first or were you sold on a religion that has its own concept of god?
Interesting comments from you and Justin. Yours is shorter so you first.
I have always, and still do think that religion is man made. I have two distinctly different concepts of what it means to be religious, which differs from most people, I think. The first is a very basic concept of strictly held to beliefs. Everyone, in this sense, is religious. The second is organized religion. There has never been a religion that remains true even to itself. With the possible exception of Shintoism, simply because it is founded upon a cultural adaptation of various gods from the outset. Shintoists will change the gods at a whim, the importance is the bi annual gathering of villages.
Christianity and Taoism are the most obvious cases of religion transmogrifying the original teachings. I don't mean learning and growing but rather distorting and adopting beliefs contrary in order to appease the masses. I've mentioned this in Christianity, but in Taoism, for example, beginning in the Warring States Period of China's history as a sort of leaving the world and approaching nature and the nature of things in its most simple, graduating into superstitious priests for hire to bless supermarkets. Buddhism was an attempt to escape the metaphysical and social trappings of Hinduism only to surpass it in difficulty unobtainable to the people.
God doesn't change any of this. The ancient Hebrew, with Jehovah among them, fell short and was rejected. Paul warned of the apostasy already taking place in early Christianity.
There is no "true" religion, either of my own personal beliefs or especially of the organized appeal to the masses. We are all trying to figure things out from an imperfect position.
So I wasn't sold on a concept of a god, though I learned early on that the word god doesn't mean much. Only that one is mighty. Jehovah became the God, or mighty one, of Israel. God doesn't necessarily have any supernatural qualities, and yet the supernatural isn't testable by science.
I was never sold on religion.
By definition then, you are a common deist. You don't subscribe to religion, just its product: God.
Nothing special to be honest, I thought your stance was about something more interesting/complex. Why the big fuss?
Well, first of all, I don't know what a deist is but I highly suspect I aint.
Like I said, my beliefs are most similar to the JW's. Nothing special. The big fuss comes from y'all. I think its fascinating. Obstinately persistent and predictable, but I'm sure you would say the same to me. Once you get the chip off your shoulder and stop thinking like I think I'm superior, we can have some good discussions.


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OK, so this item has absolutely nothing to do with theater, but whenever I merely mention "John Denver" in my theater blog, the hits go through the roof. So, thanks, "John Denver" fans. Go, google, go!
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The estate of singer and songwriter John Denver is introducing a new series of previously unreleased live recordings, which will be available exclusively for purchase as downloads on http://www.JohnDenver.com via Bandcamp. The first release will be available beginning this Saturday, Oct. 15.
The first release, "John Denver Live In Saratoga Springs, August 5, 1990," has been digitally transferred from its original cassette format and mastered for high-quality download. Many of Denver's live concerts were recorded directly from the sound board, which results in the highest possible quality audio recording. With today's technology, it is now easier than ever before to make these never-before-heard recordings available directly to fans.
To purchase and download, please visit http://bit.ly/qGhSCk.
"John Denver Live In Saratoga Springs, August 5, 1990" track listing:
Rocky Mountain High
Higher Ground
Home Grown Tomatoes
Sunshine On My Shoulders
Will I Ever Catch Another Butterfly
Leaving On a Jet Plane
Raven's Child
Wild Montana Skies
I'd Rather Be a Cowboy
Whispering Jesse
Seasons of the Heart
For You
Fly Away
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
The Flower That Shattered the Stone
Annie's Song


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HOUSTON (AP) - HOUSTON (AP) - The daughter of Houston Rockets coach Kevin McHale has died at 22.
The death of Alexandra "Sasha" McHale was announced by the team Sunday. No other details were released.
Kevin McHale has been on leave since Nov. 10 to deal with what the team called a personal family matter.
Team owner Leslie Alexander said in a statement that he extends his "deepest condolences" over the loss of the McHales' "beautiful daughter." He called Kevin and wife Lynn "loving and dedicated parents who will need our continued support throughout this very difficult time." He said the "entire organization is mourning."
Kelvin Sampson has been the interim coach. There is no timetable for Kevin McHale's return.
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DURHAM, N.H. – In its first Northeast Fencing Conference competition of the year, the MIT men's fencing team posted a 3-2 ledger at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday. The Engineers defeated UMass Amherst (27-0), UNH (22-5), and Boston University (22-5) but fell to Brandeis University (14-13) and Sacred Heart (20-7). Both the epee and foil squads compiled ledgers of 31-14 while the sabre team finished at 29-16.
Junior Jackson Crane (San Francisco, Calif.) led the epee contingent with a 12-1 outing while Thomas Boning had a total of 9-6. Freshman David Wyrobnik (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) posted a record of 8-5 while classmate Ryan Yoo (Los Angeles, Calif.) went 2-2. MIT defeated UMass and BU by 9-0 margins and topped UNH, 6-3, but were edged out by Brandeis (4-5) and Sacred Heart (3-6).
The foil team picked up wins over UMass Amherst (9-0), UNH (7-2), BU (6-3), and Brandeis (7-2) but lost to Sacred Heart (7-2). Junior Alexander Siy was the only member of the Cardinal and Gray to face every team and compiled a 10-4 mark. Senior Benjamin Nield (Preston, Wash.) went 6-4, followed by senior Daniel Levine (Succasunna, N.J.) at 6-3, freshman Daniel Mendelsohn (New York, N.Y.) at 5-1, and senior Siraj Ali (Brooklyn, N.Y.) at 4-2.
Senior Vinayak Ramesh (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and sophomore Ehsan Izadmehr (Wayne, N.J.) paced the sabre squad with tallies of 11-4 as Tech went 29-16 on the day. Junior Nathan Arce (Madison, Ala.) notched a 4-4 performance while classmate Alexis Hakimi (Tarzana, Calif.) was 3-4. MIT blanked UMass and UNH and earned a victory over BU (7-2), but fell to Brandeis (7-2) and Sacred Heart (7-2).
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text: REGCOMP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual REGCOMP(3) NAME regcomp, regexec, regerror, regfree - POSIX regex func- tions SYNOPSIS #include <regex.h> int regcomp(regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags); int regexec(const regex_t *preg, const char *string, size_t nmatch, regmatch_t pmatch[], int eflags); size_t regerror(int errcode, const regex_t *preg, char *errbuf, size_t errbuf_size); void regfree(regex_t *preg); POSIX REGEX COMPILING regcomp is used to compile a regular expression into a form that is suitable for subsequent regexec searches. regcomp is supplied with preg, a pointer to a pattern buffer storage area; regex, a pointer to the null-termi- nated string and cflags, flags used to determine the type of compilation. All regular expression searching must be done via a com- piled pattern buffer, thus regexec must always be supplied with the address of a regcomp initialised pattern buffer. cflags may be the bitwise-or of one or more of the follow- ing: REG_EXTENDED Use POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax when interpreting regex. If not set, POSIX Basic Regu- lar Expression syntax is used. REG_ICASE Do not differentiate case. Subsequent regexec searches using this pattern buffer will be case insensitive. REG_NOSUB Support for substring addressing of matches is not required. The nmatch and pmatch parameters to regexec are ignored if the pattern buffer supplied was compiled with this flag set. REG_NEWLINE Match-any-character operators don't match a new- line. A non-matching list ([^...]) not containing a new- line does not match a newline. 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REG_NOTEOL The match-end-of-line operator always fails to match (but see the compilation flag REG_NEWLINE above) BYTE OFFSETS Unless REG_NOSUB was set for the compilation of the pat- tern buffer, it is possible to obtain substring match addressing information. pmatch must be dimensioned to have at least nmatch elements. These are filled in by regexec with substring match addresses. Any unused struc- ture elements will contain the value -1. The regmatch_t structure which is the type of pmatch is defined in regex.h. typedef struct { regoff_t rm_so; regoff_t rm_eo; } regmatch_t; Each rm_so element that is not -1 indicates the start off- set of the next largest substring match within the string. The relative rm_eo element indicates the end offset of the match. 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Upon continued submersion in water, the glabrous skin on human hands and feet forms wrinkles. The formation of these wrinkles is known to be an active process, controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Such an active control suggests that these wrinkles may have an important function, but this function has not been clear. In this study, we show that submerged objects are handled more quickly with wrinkled fingers than with unwrinkled fingers, whereas wrinkles make no difference to manipulating dry objects. These findings support the hypothesis that water-induced finger wrinkles improve handling submerged objects and suggest that they may be an adaptation for handling objects in wet conditions.
1. Introduction
The glabrous skin on human fingers and toes forms wrinkles in response to immersion in water. This wrinkling was previously thought to be the result of osmotic swelling of the stratum corneum, the outermost layer of skin [1]. However, more recent evidence has shown that it is in fact due to a reduction in the volume of the fingertip pulp, caused by vasoconstriction, which in turn is controlled by the autonomic nervous system [2–5]. In combination with the mechanical properties of the glabrous finger skin, this reduction in pulp volume results in the typical pattern of ridges and valleys on the tips of fingers and toes [1]. The dependence of finger wrinkling on the autonomic nervous system has led to the use of finger wrinkles as a clinical indicator of autonomic function [2,6–9].
Such an actively regulated response to immersion is likely to be a functional adaptation to wet conditions, but what function does it serve? Whereas hydrated skin has a higher friction coefficient than dry skin, very wet or submerged conditions can lead to a very low friction coefficient owing to aqueous lubrication [10]. One recent hypothesis, therefore, suggests that wrinkles may function to improve the manipulation of very wet or submerged objects [11]. This is consistent with the fact that wrinkling happens mostly on the skin surfaces that are normally in contact with surfaces or objects to be manipulated. In the current study, we aim to experimentally test the prediction that handling of submerged objects is more efficient with wrinkled fingers than without.
2. Material and methods
Participants were informed about the practical aspects of the trials, but not about the specific hypothesis to be tested. All participants gave informed consent and received £5.00 in compensation for their time. Twenty participants (age range 21–34 years old; 13 females) manipulated submerged and dry objects both with wrinkled and with unwrinkled fingers, in a counter-balanced, within-subject 2 × 2 factorial design. The order in which dry and submerged objects were handled was counter-balanced across participants, as was the order in which wrinkled versus unwrinkled hands were tested. Wrinkling was induced by immersing both hands in 10 l of 40°C tap water for 30 min [12]. The water was kept in a polystyrene container with a polystyrene cover through which two holes allowed access for both hands. This kept the temperature from dropping too quickly during the immersion. For those who underwent the wrinkled condition first, unwrinkling was achieved by washing the hands with soapy water, drying them and then waiting for the wrinkles to disappear, which took 10–20 min.
The task was inspired by the Tyneside Pegboard Test (AP Basu 2012, personal communication). We measured the time it took to transfer a total of 45 objects (39 glass marbles of different diameters: 30 of 16 mm, three of 24 mm, three of 35 mm, two of 42 mm and one of 50 mm diameter; and six lead fishing weights: two of 227 g, two of 340 g and two of 454 g) from one container to another, by taking the objects between thumb and index finger, passing them through a 5 × 5 cm hole from the right to the left hand and putting them into a 5 × 5 cm hole in the lid of a target box (figure 1). Objects dropped along the way were put back in the starting container and transferred again while the timer continued. The only difference between the conditions was that in the submerged condition, the objects were taken out of 20 cm of water. To reduce effects of water refraction on reaching for the object in the submerged condition, participants were asked to stand at a predetermined position that minimized the refraction effects. They stood in this position for all conditions. The raw data are available as electronic supplementary materials.
3. Results
It took participants anywhere between 72 s (fastest person) and 198 s (slowest person) to transfer all the items. All participants transferred dry objects more quickly than submerged objects, taking on average 17 per cent (±2.3% s.e.m.) more time to transfer submerged objects (F1,16 = 35.80, p < 0.001). With wrinkled fingers, transfer of submerged objects happened in 12 per cent (±2.3% s.e.m.) less time than with unwrinkled fingers. There was no difference in the time it took to transfer dry objects with or without wrinkles on the fingers (interaction: F1,16 = 44.10, p < 0.001; figure 1). This finding shows a clear advantage of having wrinkled fingers when manipulating submerged objects, but not dry objects.
4. Discussion
Our results are clear experimental evidence for the hypothesis that water-induced wrinkles improve the handling of submerged or wet objects. It does not, however, show how this is accomplished. One possibility is that the wrinkles channel the evacuation of water from between the finger pad and the object, as suggested by the rain tread hypothesis [11]. Another possibility is that there are changes in skin properties, such as flexibility, adhesion or an increase in the friction coefficient, which all could improve performance under submerged conditions. Whatever the mechanism, it is not effective in dry conditions, as shown by the current experiment. Future studies should be able to differentiate among the different possible mechanisms.
Our finding raises the question why finger pads are not constantly wrinkled. The most likely explanation is that there must be a cost to wrinkled fingers that out-weighs its benefits under dry conditions. This is unlikely to be a cost in terms of handling objects, because there was no detrimental effect of wrinkling on the handling of dry objects in our experiment. More likely, the cost may be in terms of a loss of somatosensory sensitivity in the fingertips or increased vulnerability to damage by catching on objects. Both hypotheses remain to be tested.
Wrinkled toes may serve a similar function to wrinkled fingers, providing better footing in wet conditions. The lack of wrinkles on toes under dry conditions could again be explained by an increased vulnerability to damage. Loss of somatosensation seems a less likely explanation in this case. It is unclear at present whether the wrinkling of wet glabrous skin evolved in our ancestors to support walking in wet conditions, manipulation of objects or both. Further experiments, combined with a comparative study to investigate which other species share this feature with humans, will provide deeper insights into how long ago it may have evolved, and for which primary function.
The study was approved by the Faculty of Medical Sciences Ethics Committee at Newcastle University (no. 00519/2012).
This work was part of K. K.'s Master in Research degree and was supported by the Graduate School of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University. Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan provided comments on an earlier draft. We thank all our participants for their time and patience.
- Received October 22, 2012.
- Accepted November 30, 2012.
- © 2013 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.


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Hearing for possible new trial to be held Sept. 12
GREENVILLE � Former N.C. Rep. Stephen LaRoque and his defense team may have another chance to defend themselves against fraud charges.
Senior U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. Howard announced on Tuesday that a hearing to consider a possible new trial has been set for Thursday, Sept. 12 in the U.S. Courthouse in Greenville, where LaRoque was convicted on 12 charges in June on illegally taking money from his economic development nonprofit. The United States attorney has until Monday to file a response to Howard�s decision.
On June 7, LaRoque was convicted in Greenville of stealing money from his nonprofits, concealing the theft, knowingly lying to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and committing tax fraud by not properly reporting the money.
Sentencing was originally set for Tuesday, Sept. 10, but Howard�s decision now sets that aside until after the hearing.
Two of the 12 guilty verdicts (both tax fraud convictions) against LaRoque were set aside on Aug. 1 by Howard after it was revealed that one of the jurors � Jerry Miller of Jones County � conducted research on the IRS website to better inform himself about the laws governing �S� corporations, one of the key parts of the case.
In an exclusive interview with The Free Press on Aug. 13, Miller said he based all his votes of guilty on his decision on his Internet research. He said without the independent research outside the courtroom, he would never have voted LaRoque guilty on any of the 12 charges.
Bryan C. Hanks can be reached at 252-559-1074 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BCHanks.


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Beijing GRAND SLAM | 1 - 6 October 2013
Beijing is China's largest city and is situated on the North coast of the country. It is recognized as the political, educational and cultural center of China and few cities in the world besides Beijing have served as the hub of an area the size of China for so long. The beach volleyball tournament will take place at the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball, the same venue that played host to the Olympics five years ago.
Beijing Chaoyang Park Olympic Beach Volleyball Venue
1 Chao Yang Park South Road
Chaoyang District
Tel: +86 13911990799
Fax: +86 10 65401482
Contact person 1: Jie TANG
Mobile: +86 13911990799
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact person 2: Feng YANG
Mobile: +86 13601333546
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contact person 3: Yi WU
Mobile: +86 15101102745
Email: email@example.com
Closest airport: Beijing Capital International Airport
Distance from airport to venue: 25km
Transport from airport to venue: Taxi, shuttle buses


text: A reporter gets more than she bargained for when she tries to prove that a murder has occurred in Brian De Palma's disturbing thriller. Danielle (Margot Kidder) meets Phillip (Lisle Wilson) on a Peeping Tom-themed game show and, dodging her ex-husband Emil (William Finley), takes him back to her apartment. But Danielle has a separated Siamese twin sister, Dominique, who is not pleased about the overnight guest. Journalist neighbor Grace (Jennifer Salt) sees Phillip slaughtered by one of them through her window; the body vanishes before she can convince a skeptical detective (Dolph Sweet) to take a look. Determined to prove that she's right (and get a career-advancing story), Grace investigates, assisted by a private eye (Charles Durning), and becomes more involved in the relationships among Danielle, Dominique, and Emil than she ever expected.~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide


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Course Details
EDU596 Action Research II
Provides for the study of issues related to effective curriculum design and instructional practices. The student will examine the literature of self-selected theoretical issues and their relevant pedagogical strategies for the purpose of designing an appropriate study that can be carried out in the student's classroom. The student will then write a report suitable for publication in an applied journal following APA style (4th Ed.). 6 Credits


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Free Marissa Alexander #Justice4marissa
Marissa Alexander was not given the same consideration George Zimmerman was after he killed Trayvon Martin on February
Marissa Alexander was not given the same consideration George Zimmerman was after he killed Trayvon Martin on February
It's being an avalanche of college fraternity related death, violence, and rape that someone needs to STOP.
These girls have no homes,no access to education/healthcare,exposed to rape,diseases,peer pressure,fatherless babies etc
Our mission is to raise awareness on the URGENCY & IMPORTANCE of Stopping FMV Against Children and Women. Report it,
Respected Citizens of India; I am not a Political Leader, not a Bureaucrat and nor a Hi-profile person; I am just a
Becky Reed - Life in the Aftermath of a Narcissist shows the shift in me as a woman, but more to the point, as a being.
Severing of the penis in addition to the castration of testicles, after which male offenders must be sentenced to work
It is important because if women have equal rights, population is controlled and everyone will be better off.
yesterday she was a victim today u n me can be victim...... we want justice..... let me live...... i'm a woman...... plz
women are not sex toys !! real man won't rape !!! stop spoiling our life


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In late March, the initial public offering on trading platform BATS (which stands for "Better Alternative Trading System") was torpedoed by "systems issues" that slammed share prices down from $15.25 to a few cents in less than 900 milliseconds and caused a temporary halt in trading on Apple.
Eric Hunsader looked at the trade-flow data and smelled an algorithm — something he's gotten quite adept at as president of market data-feed firm Nanex.
"It's not like somebody threw in a bad market order and it just worked its way to zero," he says. "This was an algorithm that was waiting, and it waited and waited until the bid price posted lower, and then it hit that price — and hit it and hit it — 567 times."
He says it's not that difficult to see if you know where to look, and he assumes scores of traders have seen it, too.
"Whoever did this is a seasoned veteran," he says. "The algorithm was designed with intent, and it used ISOs (intermarket sweep orders), which only people with sponsored access can use."
In January, his company uncovered evidence of widespread spoofing (entering and then cancelling orders to trick the market) designed to manipulate the National Best Bid or Offer (NBBO), which is the reference price for securities across the United States. He says also that bid/offer spreads in equities actually widened after the 2007 introduction of Reg NMS (Regulation National Market System), which is the legislation that sparked the high-frequency trading (HFT) boom by requiring brokers to execute trades at the lowest price being offered on any platform.
All of this directly contradicts the generally held perception that HFT has made bid/offer spreads tighter and commissions lower than they've ever been — an achievement Hunsader attributes to the advent of automated trading in general and not to HFT in particular.
Still, HFT now accounts for 60% of U.S. stock volume and 40% of volume on U.S. futures, according to Rosenblatt Securities, which says the figures are lower on options in the United States and on all markets around the world, with high-flying Brazil and most of Asia hovering around 10% on equities.
The entire world is retooling for HFT, however, and established players are salivating over the fat spreads on developing exchanges as their own per-trade profits drop in the United States.
Regulators, for their part, still are wrestling with a definition for HFT. In the United States, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has set up a working group to come up with one, while the European Union is kicking around a working definition as part of its makeover of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). European Parliamentarian Marcus Ferber wants to define HFT as any trading that meets four of the following criteria: It uses co-location facilities; has a daily portfolio turnover of at least 50%; the ratio of orders to trades exceeds 4:1; 20% or more of orders are cancelled; the majority of positions are intraday and more than 50% of orders are placed on trading venues offering discounts or rebates for providing liquidity.
Beyond seeking to define HFT, regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are asking the same question we examined one year ago in "High-frequency trading: Good, bad or just different?" — namely, whether HFT enhances liquidity in ways that longer-term algorithmic strategies don't, or whether it disrupts trade.
The answer, increasingly, seems to be "both of the above," and the question now is how to maximize liquidity and minimize disruption as engineers work to bring latency times down from five microseconds to three to less than two. For some, the answer appears to be: Just don't go there. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), for example, is considering a speed limit of, say, five microseconds on transactions.


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-NN_Sarphyrox Imperator Thursday 07/06/2012, 15:12
I would like to suggest that an option in ur that decides an automatic win or lose.
for example..
in the final round.., player X has 7 life 9 pillz while player Y has 5 and 4 pills life. player X last card is a 5* 8 power 6 damage no ability while player Y card is a 2* 5 power 4 damage no ability. both cards has no bonus activated. with this example player X will surely win.
so why not let the system decide that player X already won skip the final round before player X lags or accidentally click no pills and make fun of himself.
any comments
-NN_Sarphyrox Imperator Sunday 17/06/2012, 09:14
I think the player with greem still has the right to chose the card. part of his strategy. there could be times where attack manipulators, high powered card, low star cards still forces the opponent to pill an extra instead of using that pill for a valued fury.although, i see know reason for a winning player to be stalling unless he just wants to or blew his chances of winning.
wasteroftime Titan Open Casket Sunday 17/06/2012, 19:01
yep. auto play only makes sense with no pill and final round. everything else would solve a minor issue at the expense of creating new ones
Buddha Cr Hero Tuesday 19/06/2012, 09:23
Let this die please