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WINTERSVILLE - With their standout post player slowed by an ankle injury, the Indian Creek girls basketball team needed someone else to step up during Monday's Buckeye 8 battle with Martins Ferry.
Guards Brooke Mains and Bethany Davis proved they were ready for the challenge.
They keyed a third-quarter scoring burst that allowed the Redskins to break open a tight contest and earn a 47-36 victory. The win was the second in five days for Erin DeSantis' club over the Lady Riders (Creek recorded a 50-37 triumph on Ferry's floor Thursday).
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POINT GUARD — Brooke Mains and the Indian?Creek girls basketball team earned a 47-36 victory over visiting Martins Ferry Monday.
-- Mike Mathison
The Lady Redskins now stand at 11-5 and remain in contention for an Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 5A playoff spot. Creek entered the week in fifth place. Ferry, which stands third in Class AAAA, falls to 10-7.
Down 18-14 at the half, Lindsay Coyne's crew sliced the deficit to one on a hoop by Tyrah King and a Jessica Kinney free throw. Mains then drilled a triple and Davis followed with a make from the line to spark an 8-0 Creek run. Mains would swish two free tosses and Kiarra Kamarec got a deuce to give the hosts a double-digit lead at 29-19.
Davis' basket as time was expiring allowed Creek to take a 31-20 advantage into the final eight minutes. Mains, a junior, and Davis, a freshman, combined for nine of Creek's 13 third stanza points.
Ferry stayed close thanks to two triples by Kylie Stalder and one by Addie Suriano, but the Redskins put the victory on ice, hitting 12-of-18 free throw attempts in the fourth stanza. During the second half, Creek went to the line 28 times, making 16.
Mains paced the Redskins in scoring with 12. Sophomore post player Bre Berryman, who sat out the fourth quarter last week at Ferry, added 11. Davis contributed 10 and Kamarec eight.
"The good thing about this year's team is we have guard play to go along with our bigs," DeSantis said. "It's not necessarily all on the bigs this year. It's nice to have guards who can handle the ball and score."
Berryman was able to collect 18 of her team's 34 rebounds and block seven shots.
"Just her presence on the floor is big thing for us," DeSantis added. "Our confidence level goes up whether she is scoring or not. As of Friday, I didn't think she was going to play. The injury obviously affected her but she is fighting through it."
The Redskins, who host Harrison Central Thursday, hit 12 of their 41 attempts from the floor. The Huskies handed Creek its only Buckeye 8 loss earlier in the season.
"We have to make sure we take care of business against Harrison on Thursday and then next week at Union Local," DeSantis noted.
Kinney paced the Lady Riders in scoring with 11, seven coming from the line.
"What do you say to your team when they play so hard and come up empty," first-year coach Lindsay Coyne asked.
"It comes down to this - we have to put the ball in the hole and we have to take more shots. The girls have what it takes. They just have to gain confidence.
"Every one of them can do it. It's just a matter of when will the shots fall for us."
Ferry took 50 shots Monday, but could make just 11.
Kinney, King and Megan Rose hauled down six rebounds each for the Riders.
"Pretty soon, everybody is going to be zero and zero," Coyne continued. "I hope we can improve offensively and be ready to go after it. Defensively, we are there. We are gritty and we give it our all."
Ferry will visit Big Red, the OVAC Class 4A leaders, Thursday.
"We've had a brutal schedule recently and Steubenville will be another great match-up," Coyne said. "We have to get ready for them."
Indian Creek 47, Martins Ferry 36
Martins Ferry 6 8 6 16 - 36
Indian Creek 12 6 13 16 - 47
MARTINS FERRY (10-7): K. Stalder 2 0-0 6; M. Stalder 0 0-0 0; Suriano 1 0-0 3; Rose 1 4-4 6; DeLeonardis 0 0-0 0; Kinney 2 7-11 11; Oberdick 2 0-0 4; Lee 0 0-0 0; King 3 0-0 6. TOTALS: 11 11-16 37. 3-pointers: K. Stalder (2), Suriano; Rebounds: 28 (Rose, Kinney, and King 6); Turnovers: 11.
INDIAN CREEK (11-5): Berryman 2 7-9 11; Davis 4 2-4 10; Kamarec 2 4-6 8; Mains 2 7-13 12; Shimko 2 0-0 4; Callahan 0 0-0 0; Durbin 0 2-2 2; Ruckman 0 0-0 0; Taylor 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 12 20-34 47. 3-pointers: Mains; Rebounds: 34 (Berryman 18); Turnovers: 13.


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In the book, it said:
Let $n = a_{k}10^{k} + a_{k-1}10^{k-1} + a_{k-2}10^{k-2} + ... + a_110 + a_0$
Then, because $10 \equiv 0 \pmod{2}$ it follows that $10^j \equiv 0 \pmod{2^j}$
What congruence property did they use in this case? Is that:
If $a \equiv b \pmod{k_1}$ and $c \equiv d \pmod{k_2}$ then, $ab \equiv cd \pmod{k_1k_2}$ ?
I saw one property in the book, which is:
$a \equiv b \pmod{k}$ and $c \equiv d \pmod{k}$then, $ab \equiv cd \pmod{k}$ But I really don't understand how this property relates to the one above it. Any idea?

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TERRYVILLE — Tyler Trillo had a monster game, scoring a season-high 29 points and hitting seven 3-pointers, to lead Terryville High to a 72-33 romp over Thomaston in a Berkshire League boys basketball matchup Thursday night at Terryville.
The Bears focused their efforts on shutting down Terryville guard Shea Tracy, who was held to three points, but others picked up the slack. Besides Trillo, Jacob Johnson netted 17 points and Zack Graham hit for 11 as the Kangaroos improved to 9-1 and 8-0 in the BL.
Brian Sousa led the Bears (2-8) with 13 points while Devin Donofrio added seven.
Career Magnet 80, Cheshire 75: Tyrique Perkins netted a game-high 21 points and Career Magnet shot 36-of-45 from the free throw line to pull off the road victory over Cheshire in Southern Connecticut Conference action.
Tyrell Eaddy scored 20 points while Amus Ford chipped in with 12 points for Career Magnet (8-0).
Collin Jordan had a team-high 20 points while Andrew Yamin finished with 19 points. Jon Rizzo scored 13 points for Cheshire (5-3).
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Northwestern 39, Gilbert 11: Emma Beltrandi dropped in a game-high 15 points as the Highlanders jumped out to a 19-4 halftime lead en route to the victory at Gilbert in Winsted.
Amanda Soltis scored 11 points for Northwestern (9-2). Shelly DeLaPaz notched five points for Gilbert (0-11).
Thomaston 66, Terryville 28: Morgan Sanson poured in a game-high 19 points as the Golden Bears jumped out to a 32-10 halftime lead in the BL win at Terryville.
Abby Hurlbert scored 14 points, including three from beyond the arc, while Casey Carangelo chipped in with 11 points for Thomaston (8-4).
Olivia Pilarski scored eight points while Jenn Luba and Bailey Doran each finished with seven for Terryville (4-6).
Litchfield 49, Wamogo 33: Elena Kennedy recorded a triple-double by scoring 14 points, grabbing 19 rebounds and swatting 11 blocked shots to lead the Cowgirls to the BL win at home.
Tara Shakley added a double-double with 14 points and 11 steals while Sophie MacDonald contributed six points, nine rebounds and eight assists for Litchfield (3-8).
Brooke Neller scored 15 points for Wamogo (2-8).
Bristol Eastern 64, Bulkeley 27: Khadaijia Brooks netted a game-high 24 points as Bristol Eastern raced out to a 31-7 halftime advantage en route to the victory at Bulkeley.
Jamilla Schoultz recorded a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds while Gianna D'Amato added nine points for Bristol Eastern (6-4).
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Warcraft - Unlife's little joys.
This a short and rather tragic story I nailed together after I heard some random sad song on Youtube. I dithered for a while and finally decided I might as well post it here. xD It starts out pathetic, but it ends up... better. The viewpoint character is not me or any of my Warcraft RP characters; he's just a random human from the nation of Lordaeron. Some people think the Forsaken are universally sad and depressed about what happened to them, but for a lucky (or unlucky) few, Sylvanas' rebellion is the best thing that ever happened to them. I'd love some brutally honest critical advice and comments. I won't be annoyed even if you tell me my writing sucks and that I should go drown myself; then I'll known I'm going wrong! :lol: Gief!
Cracked cream walls. Dusty glass. Wood with holes. Rickety bed frame. White sheets. Threadbare rug. Cobwebby ceiling.
I take in all the details of my prison as I wait to fall asleep. The same way I wait because I have nothing else to do every other night, morning and afternoon of the week. It seems that sleeping is the high point of my day because I can't register boredom. Dreams are the best thing in my world and even nightmares are much better than the depressing, sad little thoughts that any waking moment might surrender me to.
I wonder again how it got like this. How did I end up locked in this cursed little house? I don't understand it. There are no chains to hold me here, but I can't muster the will to move and leave. Is it because there's nothing to do outside? Is it because I'm afraid of what I might find there? Maybe it's because there's food and water here, at least. Couldn't I just leave and then come back for it? No. Then there's nothing do while I'm out there but wander. I have no friends anyway.
I wonder again why I sustain my miserable existence. I tell myself again that no matter how many days of living death I have to pass through first, there must be something at the end of the line.
There has to be.
I watched all day as the guards tried to hold up the gate and keep the invaders out. I didn't huddle with the others like a worried sheep or make preparations to run away. They can't run, anyway. We're surrounded. I couldn't care less. They've had their **** fun and now it's the end of them. More than I can say for myself.
Then they broke in. The gate fell down with a thump I hardly even noticed, and the dead people poured through. I barely blinked as they watched their rotting, skeletal forms shamble down the road through the window. Most people were screaming. I fail to care.
Then they broke down the door and flooded in. I didn't even scream as they killed me. I'd been ready to die for a long time. Shouldn't I have been sad about all the things I would miss, and worried about what came next? Shouldn't I have noticed the pain? Shouldn't I have been afraid?
I wasn't.
It's the end of the world.
I know it as I walk along, carried by the voice in my head. I hate it. It's using me as a puppet and that's exactly what I am. A useless, animated toy who walks around for the amusement of others, not because he has anything he cares about or anything he wants to do. And I can't do anything about it. This is the third time in my pointless little life that I've felt so rebellious. I want to break free, turn and run and find a height to leap from to make sure this ****ed echoing voice can never take me back.
But I can't.
He's too powerful. And now, because of those sadistic mages, I'm cursed to be used like this forever. I once had the had the chilly resolution that I'd be freed by death in the bitter end, but now that's been stolen from me too.
Oh how I wish I could make them all pay. Not just the voice, but the living too. It's not fair that they have lives of their own. It's not fair that they have a way out if it's all too much. They should learn what suffering is like.
Then the voice comes again as I draw level with the purple city and people in robes come into view.
Kill them all.
I can't help but agree.
I was struggling.
I could feel it getting weaker. Was I winning? It had been losing power for a while now. Maybe it was time. Soon I could take my own life back and then away again. Soon I would be beyond the grip of the voice. I'd shut it up forever. I slumped against the wall of the dilapidated farm building and shook again as I fought to rid myself of the cold sound. I was so preoccupied by my efforts that I didn't hear the door opening.
A voice surprised me. "The Lich King is faltering. You know this. Why don't you break free?"
I turned around slowly and looked into the fiery red eyes of the Banshee Queen. I'd seen her a few times while under the control of the Scourge. I wasn't afraid of her. She was like me. She hated what she had become, but I suspected she'd been just fine before she'd been murdered and raised from the dead for trying to stop the Scourge. I couldn't believe how brave she was. Who could have dared to stand before an army of the dead?
Lots of people who weren't me, I gather.
"Too weak." I grunt out slowly. I'd regained the power of speech (a skill I hadn't found much use for before my death,) a week earlier. "I can't escape."
She surprised and comforted me by disagreeing. "No. You are stronger than him. Push him out. Crush the chains that bind your soul and free yourself. You have the strength."
To my shock, I believed her.
To my amazement, she was right.
I try to compare myself to the sad little creature that haunted my home like a living ghost weeks before as I follow her. I find it impossible to do. I've changed so much. Gone are the simple clothes I used to wear, kept in good condition despite my lack of interest in the world. Now I wear armour. And it's bloody and ripped from all the fights I've been in. But I won them all!
She's amazing. Sylvanas whirls through the masses of Undead and Demons. It doesn't matter to her. She blasts the mindless weaklings back with sprays of those deadly black arrows with a smile on her lips. The demons are a different story. They attack her bellowing insults, full of confidence. She said to us that they're very old, and have fought in more wars than we know about. They shouldn't be afraid of anything.
But they are. She defeats them one by one and then she kills them. She lets them run away before she finally puts them out of their misery with one last bowshot. It's satisfying to watch. Here are the filth that transformed us into slaves. Now they're the helpless dogs. All because of her. I smile with feeling for the first time in so many years.
The Demons and the Scourge. They run like hell to get away from us, but we follow them. We do not tire and we do not give up; we hunt every one of the filth down and we cut them into pieces. "Every one of the filth"? ... That's not the way I thought when I lived. What has this fearsome Banshee given to me?
I don't know what to call it, but it's like having a fire inside me and I don't know how I'll ever be able to repay her for this kindness. But I'll try, and I'll follow her to hell if she asks me to.
They're all dead.
The Scourge, the Demons, and the foolish Humans who served them. Who now will say they made us slaves? Who now will say they burned our world? And who now will call us evil monsters?
There are none left. We killed them all.
I lean back on the low stone wall. I shift so my bow isn't sandwiched between the wall and my back. My cold white hands clutch the top of the barrier. The green liquid in the canals behind me bubbles and spits. I look around me, and marvel at what we've built together.
The Undercity. It's huge. It's complicated and it's wondrous. The living would be terrified to tread here. Good. They don't belong. It's all ours. The gunk running through our rivers would poison them, but to me it's beautiful. Such a sharp green. I can hear the rats running around in the markets, pick up each individual voice and see everything sharply. Nothing evades notice. Nothing hides from this boy's senses.
They've been getting better and better since the Dark Lady freed me. Every day I can see a little bit further, hear that bit more accurately. I wonder how good they'll get. I've never felt so powerful. Never so... alive.
I allow the hubbub of the city to relax me. I used to hate the squabble of daily life, but now something is very different. I belong here. I know these people and I am a part of this city. I would be missed if I was gone. The people who defend it defend it because of me and countless others like me. I can tell you everything about Mary the mage, who I see to the left, sitting on the bridge as she goes through the magic she was telling me about yesterday again. I know the librarian down ahead of me, in his alcove. I've bought arrows from the fletcher across the river from my perch. And all of this matters to me. It seems so useless, but I suppose relevance does not equal importance. I finally have a place to be.
I've even made friends. It seems impossible, but stranger things have happened. Sometimes right in front of my skeptical yellow eyes. I've learned to trust what they tell me. Here in this wondrous metropolis, I've found a home and a life. No, not found. Made. Me and my Forsaken brethren made this place. That makes it all the better, to me.
I feel a bit sorry for my people. They lost so much more than me. Most of them had lives they enjoyed and people they cared about. They had things that they could lose. Not me. Undeath is a blessing now. Some of these people have allowed decay to take them, but I'd rather not feel maggots digging into my innards, so I pay a visit to the priest once a week and his shadowy power keeps me together.
But then there are the humans in the south. My knuckles tighten on the stone and my teeth clench as I remember them. I find it disgusting that they are allowed to exist, going about their lives- just like the people I loathed when I was alive -while my Forsaken brothers and sisters must suffer daily. And they dare to mock us. Somebody must make them pay. I think it'll be me.
I calm myself and smile as I think for the millionth time about all that Lady Sylvanas has given to us. She gave us a home and a new family and a purpose. But she also gave us all a gift of our very own. It's different for every Forsaken.
Some call it safety.
Others freedom.
Even pride.
Perhaps peace.
I just call it happiness.
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I've got a hand-in question in a pure analysis course that I was hoping I might get a hint on - having difficulty coming up with a decent approach.
The question:
Let $(X,\Sigma,\mu)$ be a measure space and let $f:X\rightarrow [0,\infty]$ be a measurable function such that $$\int_X f(x)d\mu(x)=A,$$ for some $0<A<\infty$. If $\alpha>0,$ show $$\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty} \int_X n\log\left(1 + \left(\frac{f(x)}{n}\right)^{\alpha} \right)d\mu(x)=\begin{cases} \infty&\mbox{if }0<\alpha<1\\\ A&\mbox{if } \alpha=1\\\ 0&\mbox{if }\alpha>1. \end{cases}$$
My attempt at a solution only comes as far as the first part:
\begin{align*} g(x,n)&=n\log(1 + [f(x)/n]^{\alpha})\\ &=n\cdot \sum_{m=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{m+1}[f(x)/n]^{\alpha m}/m\\ &=\sum_{m=1}^{\infty}(-1)^{m+1}\cdot \frac{f(x)^{\alpha m}}{m\cdot n^{\alpha*m-1}} \\ &= \frac{f(x)^\alpha}{n^{\alpha-1}}+\sum_{m=2}^{\infty}(-1)^{m+1}\frac{f(x)^{\alpha m}}{m\cdot n^{\alpha m-1}}, \end{align*} which is increasing in $n$ for $\alpha<1$ (this is a bit handwavy, but I can't seem to figure out how to show it in a strict manner). Thus, we can apply the Monotone Convergence Theorem to move the limit inside the integrand, transform $n=1/t$, use a bit of L'hopitals rule, and get that this limit is diverging for any $f(x)$ and $\alpha<1$ (and $f(x)$ for $\alpha=1$, zero for $\alpha>1$). But how do I go about proving that I can switch limit and integrand in these other cases, or is there any other simple way to prove it? Any hints would be much appreciated!
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Tropical Storm Beryl Advisory Number 8
Nws National Hurricane Center Miami Fl
500 Pm Edt Sun May 27 2012
Beryl To Make Landfall Tonight...Tropical-Storm-Force Winds Near The Coast Of Northeastern Florida...
Summary Of 500 Pm Edt...2100 Utc...Information
Location...30.0n 80.3w
About 85 Mi...140 Km Ese Of Jacksonville Florida
About 110 Mi...175 Km Se Of Brunswick Georgia
Maximum Sustained Winds...65 Mph...100 Km/H
Present Movement...W Or 265 Degrees At 10 Mph...17 Km/H
Minimum Central Pressure...996 Mb...29.41 Inches
Watches And Warnings
Changes With This Advisory...
Summary Of Watches And Warnings In Effect...
A Tropical Storm Warning Is In Effect For...
* Volusia/Brevard County Line Florida To Edisto Beach South Carolina
For Storm Information Specific To Your Area...Including Possible
Inland Watches And Warnings...Please Monitor Products Issued By
Your Local National Weather Service Forecast Office.
Discussion And 48-Hour Outlook
At 500 Pm Edt...2100 Utc...The Center Of Tropical Storm Beryl Was
Located Near Latitude 30.0 North...Longitude 80.3 West.
Beryl Is Moving Toward The West Near 10 Mph...17 Km/H.
A Westward Motion Is Expected To Continue Through Landfall.
After Landfall...Beryl Is Expected To Move Slowly West-Northwestward And Then Turn Northward Over Portions Of Northeastern Florida And Southeastern Georgia On Monday And Monday Night.
Maximum Sustained Winds Are Near 65 Mph...100 Km/H...With Higher
Some Slight Strengthening Is Possible Before Landfall.
Steady Weakening Is Forecast After Landfall And Beryl Is Expected
To Weaken To A Tropical Depression By Monday Night.
Tropical-Storm-Force Winds Extend Outward Up To 115 Miles...
185 Km From The Center. Noaa Buoy 41012 Located About 50 Miles...80 Km...East-Northeast Of St. Augustine Florida Recently Reported Sustained Winds Of 45 Mph...71 Km/H With A Gust To 58 Mph...94 Km/H.
Estimated Minimum Central Pressure Is 996 Mb...29.41 Inches.
Hazards Affecting Land
Wind...Tropical Storm Conditions Are Very Near The Coast Of
Northeastern Florida And Southeastern Georgia. These Conditions Are Expected To Spread Across The Coast During The Next Few Hours And Continue Through Tonight.
Gusts To Hurricane Force Are Possible Over Portions Of Northeastern Florida And Southeastern Georgia Tonight And Early Monday.
Storm Surge...The Combination Of A Storm Surge And The Tide Will
Cause Normally Dry Areas Near The Coast To Be Flooded By Rising
Waters. The Water Could Reach The Following Depths Above Ground If The Peak Surge Occurs At The Time Of High Tide...
Georgia And Northeastern Florida...2 To 4 Ft
Southern South Carolina...1 To 2 Ft
The Deepest Water Will Occur Along The Immediate Coast Near And To The North Of The Landfall Location...Where The Surge Will Be
Accompanied By Large Waves. Surge-Related Flooding Depends On The Relative Timing Of The Surge And The Tidal Cycle...And Can Vary
Greatly Over Short Distances.
Surf...Dangerous Surf Conditions...Including Rip Currents...Are
Expected Along The Coast From Northeastern Florida To North
Carolina Over The Remainder Of The Memorial Day Weekend.
Rainfall...Beryl Is Expected To Produce Total Rain Accumulations Of
4 To 8 Inches...With Isolated Maximum Amounts Of 12 Inches...From
Northern Florida Through Southeastern North Carolina.
Next Advisory
Next Intermediate Advisory...800 Pm Edt.
Next Complete Advisory...1100 Pm Edt.
Forecaster Cangialosi/Brown
Tropical Storm Beryl Discussion Number 8
Nws National Hurricane Center Miami Fl
500 Pm Edt Sun May 27 2012
Beryl Has Become Better Organized Throughout The Day.
Satellite And Radar Images Indicate That Deep Convection Has Increased In Bands All Around The Center.
In Addition...The Thunderstorm Activity Has Contracted And Dvorak Satellite Classifications Suggest That The System Has Now Become A Tropical Cyclone.
This Change In Status Is Also Supported By The Fsu Phase Space Analysis Of Gfs Fields.
The Initial Intensity Was Increased To 55 Kt At 18z Based On A T3.5
From Tafb And The Increased Organization Since The Time Of The Last Aircraft Mission. Another Air Force Reserve Reconnaissance Aircraft Is En Route To Investigate The Storm And Will Provide A Better
Assessment Of Its Intensity Shortly.
Beryl Continues Moving Just South Of Due West At About 9 Kt.
This General Motion Is Expected To Continue Through Landfall Tonight As A Mid-Level Ridge To The North Of The Storm Continues To Be The Main Steering Mechanism.
After Landfall...The Ridge Is Forecast To Weaken As A Deep-Layer Trough Moves Eastward Across The United States.
This Steering Pattern Should Cause The Cyclone To Slow Down And Then Gradually Turn Northward And Northeastward.
The Model Guidance Has Come Into Better Agreement This Cycle And Shows The Center Of Beryl Remaining Inland Over The Southeastern United States For At Least 36 Hours.
The Cyclone Is Forecast To Emerge Off The Carolina Coastline In Two To Three Days And Then Accelerate Northeastward Over The Western Atlantic.
The New Nhc Track Forecast Is Very Similar To The Previous One For The First 24 Hours And Then Lies Slightly To The West Of...And Is A Little Slower Than...The Previous Forecast To Be Closer To The Middle Of The Guidance Envelope.
Although Not Explicitly Shown Below...Beryl Could Get A Little Stronger Before It Moves Inland This Evening Or Tonight.
After Landfall...Steady Weakening Is Anticipated And Beryl Is Forecast To Become A Tropical Depression By Monday Night.
Some Restrengthening Is Possible Once Beryl Moves Back Over The Western Atlantic In Two To Three Days. Cooler Waters...Strong Southwesterly Wind Shear...And The Interaction With An Approaching Cold Front Should Cause Extratropical Transition To Occur In About Four Days.
Forecast Positions And Max Winds
Init 27/2100z 30.0n 80.3w 55 Kt 65 Mph
12h 28/0600z 30.0n 81.8w 50 Kt 60 Mph...Inland
24h 28/1800z 30.2n 82.8w 35 Kt 40 Mph...Inland
36h 29/0600z 30.6n 83.1w 30 Kt 35 Mph...Inland
48h 29/1800z 31.6n 82.2w 30 Kt 35 Mph...Inland
72h 30/1800z 33.8n 77.0w 35 Kt 40 Mph...Over Water
96h 31/1800z 37.5n 68.0w 40 Kt 45 Mph...Post-Trop/Extratrop
120h 01/1800z 40.0n 56.0w 40 Kt 45 Mph...Post-Trop/Extratrop
Forecaster Cangialosi/Brown
Remarks by Oscar Fann follow...
Since Saturday afternoon the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has slowly moved the inland path of BERYL farther westward through extreme southern Georgia with each update.
Currently (late Sunday afternoon), NHC still has BERYL almost reaching Valdosta on Monday, then recurving and moving off to the northeast late Monday night or early Tuesday.
Thus, our forecast for the WTVY-TV area has remained essentially unchanged since our first update early Friday morning - until now.
CHANGES to our forecast for the WTVY-TV coverage area:
The changes are for winds and rainfall. Since BERYL is a little stronger at landfall and may not be downgraded to a tropical depression until later in the day Monday, we will make minor adjustments for wind speeds and rainfall amounts.
1st - only slight increases for the winds - look for gusts to be near 20 mph at times for Dothan Monday afternoon. Gusts would be a little higher farther east of Dothan as you would expect.
2nd - rainfall amounts may be slightly higher. Dothan has a good chance of 0.5 to 1.0 inch of rain for the Monday to Wednesday period IF BERYL moves as slow as forecast. Thus, higher rainfall amounts could be expected to the east of Dothan. Generally, lesser rainfall west of Dothan, but there could be some decent rainfall there also.
1 to 2 inches look likely now for parts of southwest Georgia as well as east of the Apalachicola River in the Florida panhandle Sunday night though Wednesday.
If BERYL's direction changes, then obviously the forecast changes, but we don't see that currently.
Still, severe weather potential relating to BERYL remains very low for the WTVY-TV coverage area.
Along the coast -
As expected, beach and boating weather through the Memorial Day weekend have remained unaffected through Sunday.
Monday should see an increase in clouds but not a complete overcast. There will be more sunshine west of Panama City, but even coastal areas just east of Panama City would still have some sunshine.
East of Apalachicola sustained winds could exceed 20 mph at times with higher gusts.
Boating / Marine Advisories might be necessary.
Rain chances appear slight for much of Monday for coastal areas west of Apalachicola.
As we constantly stress - ALWAYS, check with lifeguards and local officals to get the very latest beach & marine conditions BEFORE entering the Gulf waters.
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Is it true that all commands that can run in bash are not actually part of bash? I'm gradually realizing I have been confusing the shell and the applications that can run in it.
There isn't a sharp border between the shell and the applications.
Some of the commands that you run in a shell have to be built into the shell, because they act on the shell process. For example,
At another extreme, there are large applications that are made by different authors, such as Firefox or Emacs. These aren't going to be built into any shell because they're too big. But this isn't a fundamental impossibility, just a matter of design. For examples, there are shells¹ that have builtins to make simple GUI applications.
In the middle, there are commands that could go either way. For example, the
If you're curious, you can check the status of a given command with the
Reserved words such as
¹ dtksh. There is no free implementation.
Try using the bash command
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Doris Ekblad-Olson is not too old to feel childish wonder at the idea of fixing her ailing eyes by letting someone suture in a tiny telescope.
But age does allow her to be blunt about her anxiety as the first Colorado patient to have the pea-size telescope placed in her right eyeball.
�I would rather I was his 100th patient,� chuckles Ekblad-Olson, 82, as she discusses the surgery with ophthalmologist Dr. Starck Johnson.
The former teacher was still game to be the Colorado guinea pig, though, and went under Johnson�s micro-knives at Sky Ridge Medical Center on July 17. Doctor and patient hope the successfully implanted telescope will bring vision back to eyes dimmed by a severe form of macular degeneration.
�There hasn�t been a lot we can do for these patients,� Johnson said. �We�ve been waiting a long time for this to come to fruition.�
Johnson assisted on clinical trials of the surgery in Michigan, but implanting the device in Ekblad-Olson�s eye will add Colorado to the small handful of sites approved for the procedure. Medicare will pay for people who meet strict criteria for age and condition.
Ekblad-Olson suffers from �wet� macular degeneration, an end-stage form of the common, chronic disease, where blood vessels are leaking and destroying central vision.
�I can�t see the faces of the people across the table from me,� she said. �I can�t see the food on my plate.�
She wants to finish a memoir of teaching seminary in Hong Kong, and being limited to a sliver of peripheral vision makes writing a challenge.
The device, called CentraSight, is placed behind the iris. It projects and enlarges central images onto the still-healthy peripheral portions of the retina.
Over time and with training, Ekblad-Olson�s brain will balance the new images with her other, intact eye.
She previously tried a hand-held telescope that has a similar effect and improved her vision by three lines on the traditional eye chart.
�So I�m going to have a �holy� eye,� she cracks, as Johnson began a preparatory procedure.
�That�s right,� Johnson smiled.
And that�s appropriate, she responded, since she believes �God has promised he has my best interests in mind, and all these things will work together.�
That faith did not stop her hard-edged questions for Johnson. What�s the biggest risk? How long before noticing improvement? Will people notice the implant?
The biggest risk is not achieving as much vision as she had hoped for.
She�ll have a good idea of her new vision very soon. Others will notice �a glint� in the middle of her eye.
Explanations over with, Ekblad-Olson faced a thick pile of consent forms whose blurriness underlined their own purpose. As a friend helped her sign, she never hesitated.
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Suppose I have two random partitions of $N.$ ("random" really means "the cycle type of a random permutation", but if there is an answer with any definition, I am interested). The question is: what is the probability is that no subset sum of the first partition is equal to any subset sum of the second partition? I seem to have trouble finding references...
Here are two trivial observations while we wait for the real experts to completely solve this problem (paging Prof. Stanley...)
First, note that there is a reformulation of this question that might appeal more directly to partition theorists. Let $P(n)$ be the set of all partitions of $n$. Given partitions $\pi \in P(n)$ and $\rho \in P(m)$, we write $\rho \subset \pi$ to indicate containment as multi-sets, meaning that each part of $\rho$ is also a part of $\pi$. Note that if $\rho \subset \pi$ then we must have $m \leq n$ for obvious reasons.
For each $n$, let $\Gamma(n)$ be the set of partition-pairs $(\pi_1,\pi_2) \in P(n) \times P(n)$ for which there exists a triple $(m,\rho_1,\rho_2)$ with $m < n$, $\rho_j \in P(m)$ and $\rho_j \subset \pi_j$. This question is asking:
Secondly, one can compute $|\Gamma(n)|$ by hand for small $n$. It helps a lot, at least for tiny $n$, to note that $|\Gamma(n)| \geq |P(n-1)|^2$: the latter quantity counts those partitions of $n$ which contain $1$, so no two such partitions can hope to be subset-independent. Here are some values resulting from my (possibly erroneous) calculations:
$$|\Gamma(2)| = 2,\\ |\Gamma(3)| = 5,\\ |\Gamma(4)| = 15, \\ |\Gamma(5)| = 35.$$
I am not happy with the unique oeis entry for this sequence, but you might find the $20$ candidates for $|P(n)|^2 - |\Gamma(n)|$ much more promising, see here.


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It is hard to tell from this question, but I suspect that you may have managed to confuse yourself about what problem you have: i.e., that you've gotten caught up in a particular mechanism, and would benefit from taking a moment to step back and look at the actual requirements. I found it hard to extract the actual requirements from your question.
In these situations, it's always a good idea to ask yourself the question: What is my threat model? What kinds of threats do you need to defend against? What kinds of attack vectors are possible for an attacker?
For instance, a crucial question is: do you trust the game software that is running the game? It sounds like you want to say that you don't trust the software, but that leads you to an unsolvable problem.
Or, to put it another way, it seems like there's a simple solution to your problem. Your game software can generate truly random numbers using a suitable random number source (e.g.,
If you're about to say "but the user could modify the game software's RNG to bias its output", my response will be "yes, that's always possible, and nothing you will ever do will ever be able to stop that". Realistically, you can't prevent reverse-engineering of your software. The user who is running your software could always run a modified version of your software that gives them better stats, and no amount of cryptography is ever to make that impossible. But in any case, these are the kinds of questions you should be working out when you think through your threat model.
I confess I had a hard time understanding what proof-of-work has to do with trusting that the random numbers you generate are trustworthy.
Here is one simple solution.
After a new user installs the Pokemon software, before the new user can use that software (for tournament-eligible activities), they must register it with a central tournament server. The tournament server gives the user's software a random 128-bit seed $S$, and remembers this seed. The Pokemon software now creates a cryptographic-strength PRNG, seeded by $S$. At any point during game play that requires a new random number, the random number is obtained by pulling another output from the PRNG.
This allows off-line gameplay. If the user then wants to participate in a tournament server, they can later re-connect to the tournament server and prove that the Pokemon characters they generated have suitable stats by demonstrating that they were generated from the PRNG, using the seed $S$ that was assigned to them. Since the cryptographic PRNG is a deterministic function, this provides limited leeway for the sort of attacks you are talking about.
I can't tell if breeding really requires any special handling. If it does, here's one way to handle it: when you breed a new child, generate a 128-bit value $S'$ from the parent's PRNG. Then, use $S'$ as the seed for a PRNG associated with the child. This way, each Pokemon character has its own PRNG associated with it, seeded using a value that was in turn generated from some other PRNG (namely, it's parent's PRNG -- except in the case of parentless characters, which have their seed generated by the global PRNG, which in turn was seeded using the value $S$ obtained at registration time from the central server).
Does this do the trick?
Fundamentally, all you can do is make it "hard" to roll a character. For example, if it takes about five seconds of computation to roll a character, that will annoy ordinary users as they wait 5 seconds, but it will limit cheaters to 12 rolls per minute. Of course, cheaters can always get their hands on more computing power, and the delays will annoy non-cheaters.
You can always limit users to a fixed number of rolls, say 5,000. At least that will limit cheaters to their pick of 5,000 characters. For legitimate users, just roll your counter over and re-issue characters. If a user notices, he's likely a cheater.
The software needs a license key which is can prove it owns without disclosing it. So that needs to be a public key of some kind. The combination of the license public key and a number in a limited range should be the PRNG's seed.
So, in sum:
A) Confirm that the signature of the software's key is valid using the licensing public key.
B) Confirm that the signature of the licensee's public key and index is valid using the software's key.
C) Roll the character using the index and licensee's public key and make sure the stats match.
That will limit each licensee to 5,000 characters.


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I forgot to add that we are using 'bproc'. Launching processes on the compute nodes using bproc works well, I'm not sure if bproc is involved when processes are launched on the local node.
From: email@example.com on behalf of Kelley, Sean
Sent: Mon 6/11/2007 2:07 PM
To: email@example.com
Subject: [OMPI users] mpirun hanging when processes started on head node
We are running the OFED 1.2rc4 distribution containing openmpi-1.2.2 on a RedhatEL4U4 system with Scyld Clusterware 4.1. The hardware configuration consists of a DELL 2950 as the headnode and 3 DELL 1950 blades as compute nodes using Cisco TopSpin Infiband HCAs and switches for the interconnect.
When we use 'mpirun' from the OFED/Open MPI distribution to start processes on the compute nodes, everything works correctly. However, when we try to start processes on the head node, the processes appear to run correctly but 'mpirun' hangs and does not terminate until killed. The attached 'run1.tgz' file contains detailed information from running the following command:
mpirun --hostfile hostfile1 --np 1 --byslot --debug-daemons -d hostname
where 'hostfile1' contains the following:
-1 slots=2 max_slots=2
The 'run.log' is the output of the above line. The 'strace.out.0' is the result of 'strace -f' on the mpirun process (and the 'hostname' child process since mpirun simply forks the local processes). The child process (pid 23415 in this case) runs to completion and exits successfully. The parent process (mpirun) doesn't appear to recognize that the child has completed and hangs until killed (with a ^c).
Additionally, when we run a set of processes which span the headnode and the compute nodes, the processes on the head node complete successfully, but the processes on the compute nodes do not appear to start. mpirun again appears to hang.
Do I have a configuration error or is there a problem that I have encountered? Thank you in advance for your assistance or suggestions
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Anti-U.S. Mobs on Rampage
Protests Flare From South Asia to North Africa, in Challenge for American Policy
Anti-American demonstrations spread to more than a dozen nations across the Islamic world Friday, with protesters storming the U.S. embassy and an American school in Tunisia and a mob in Sudan attacking the British and German embassies as well.
The broadening of this week's protests, sparked by a video made in the U.S. that mocked the Prophet Muhammad but fueled in many places by organized extremists, left three dead in Tunisia, according to police, and dozens injured in protests from South Asia to northern Africa.
In Tunisia, considered a moderate Muslim country and the birthplace of the wave of revolutions that hit the region starting nearly two years ago, the mob that stormed the embassy brought down the American flag and raised the black flag common to militant Islamic movements. American flags also were burned in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria and Bangladesh. After a second day of attacks on the American diplomatic compound in Yemen, the U.S. said it was sending 50 marines to secure the facility in the capital, San'a.
The regional furor, coming just three days after an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other workers, underscored Washington's diminished ability to influence a region where a number of governments newly elected during the so-called Arab Spring have minimal control over their restive populations.
In many cases, the political leaders and security forces within these new governments have proved unwilling, or incapable, of challenging the protesters and radical Islamist groups that have gained greater license to take to the streets.
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Map: Middle East Unrest
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Past attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates around the world.
U.S. officials worked to dampen the outrage, and pointed to several areas where U.S. diplomatic pressure seemed to have contained some demonstrations. The White House praised Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and Libya's leadership for taking steps to restore order after protests on Wednesday in which a mob overran the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and the attack in Libya.
President Barack Obama also sent a personal message to Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asking for help, while Vice President Joe Biden called his counterpart in Sudan Friday to stress the importance of protecting U.S. diplomats there, the White House said.
"Our focus isn't on an expectation that we can immediately bring an end to the protests," said Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes. "It's on how can we most effectively manage that situation, protect our people and lower the temperature so this is peaceful, then it passes."
But with an election less than two months away, the administration faced growing questions about its policy in the Middle East, just a week after a buoyant party convention in which Democrats touted the president's national security agenda.
Republican nominee Mitt Romney, for one, has seized on the unrest to charge that the White House didn't understand the forces being unleashed by the rebellions that have gripped the region since last year, and should have been much more aggressive to try and fashion regimes that were secular and pro-West in their orientation.
"The political question for the president is: Do undecided voters look at this and say, 'This is evidence of a president who doesn't have things under control?'" said James Lindsay, of the Council on Foreign Relations. "Or do undecided voters look at it and say, 'This is a part of the world that is out of control and it's best that the United States not be involved' ?"
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Some analysts saw big challenges in pressing figures such as Mr. Morsi, Mohamed Magariaf, president of Libya's General National Congress, and Yemen's leader, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, to cooperate given deeply ingrained anti-American attitudes in their populations.
"President Obama can lean on Morsi and others, but the situation on the ground has moved beyond that," said Steven Cook, an author on the Arab Spring and expert on Egypt. "Morsi doesn't fully control the levers of power."
U.S. officials argued that the unrest this week was not an indictment of overall American foreign policy, but focused on the outrage caused by the Internet circulation of the low-budget video, "Innocence of Muslims," which the White House has attacked for having a strongly anti-Islamic message.
"The people of Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Tunisia did not trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of a mob," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a ceremony honoring the four dead U.S. officials. "Reasonable people and responsible leaders in these countries need to do everything they can to restore security and hold accountable those behind these violent acts."
Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have called for the administration to apologize for the video, a step the White House has flatly refused to take.
Many Arab diplomats and Mideast analysts said Washington is no longer dealing with governments that are capable of controlling their populations through fear spread by vast intelligence services and arbitrary detentions. They also said that so many political forces have been unleashed in countries like Egypt, Yemen and Libya that the new leaders are constrained by domestic factors.
That's vastly different from the situation when Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh, and Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali were in power last year.
Mr. Morsi, the new leader of the Arab world's largest country and one of the U.S.'s closest regional allies, is seen as the exemplar. The Obama administration was incensed by his failure to disrupt Tuesday's attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and his unwillingness to initially condemn the violence in Benghazi. Instead, he initially spoke only against the airing of the American-made film.
After a phone call with Mr. Obama, Mr. Morsi did speak out against the violence on Thursday But hard-line Islamist forces, led by the Salafi movement, continued protesting Friday. Egypt analysts say the Salafis and others are seeking to weaken Mr. Morsi and limit his ability to raise international support to strengthen his government.
Libya's government also is viewed as being limited by domestic forces in its ability to act. The government in Tripoli is viewed as perhaps the most secular to emerge from the Arab Spring and as the most pro-Western. U.S. investigators probing the attack in Benghazi increasingly believe the assault was led by Salafis or a militant group with ties to al Qaeda.
Longer term, U.S. diplomats and analysts say the State Department will have to intensify efforts to build bridges among the broader populations in these Arab countries. They fear, though, that this week's unrest could lead lawmakers to pull back from engaging the Mideast's new governments.
The late ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, a fluent Arabic speaker, was held up by some as an example for his commitment to reaching out to all sectors of Libyan society. Some said his brand of diplomacy risks dying with him.
"Chris was all about going into the streets," said Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who worked with Mr. Stevens in Syria. "And he knew the risks."
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I'm contemplating an R1 head, but I'm using a sigma 8mm 3.5 full circular fisheye on a pentax k20d camera
the rings available show the sigma ring for
Lens Ring for Sigma 8mm and Sigma 15mm Nikon Pentax Mount
is it nikon & pentax for both or just the latter?
I'd also appreciate comments on how I'm also considering piecing my order:
I have a manfrotto joystick tripod head, so I'm thinking of going with the pole adapter to the manfrotto plate, then the R1+ring-- no rd4 rotator (saving $120 vs the r1 kit) and wonder if I am being pennywise/pound foolish? if I get the rd4 rotator for the precision of the detent stops, my fear is
I'll end up with either an obscenely long mount from the 322 joystick on end, connected to the rd4 to the r1 to the lens ring, (and the joystick has more play then I like when using it long)
or I'll end up with the 322 horizontal and a huge amount of the spring handle in the shots where the lens is with the even with the handle.
appreciate comments about either issue..


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National Cancer Institute
Posted Date: Aug 6, 2007
Note: The health professional version of this summary was extensively revised in July 2007. The patient version of this summary will reflect these changes shortly.
What is the Ewing family of tumors?
The Ewing family of tumors include: Ewing tumor of bone; extraosseous Ewing (tumor growing outside of the bone); primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), also known as peripheral neuroepithelioma; and Askin's tumor (PNET of the chest wall). These tumors are rare diseases in which cancer (malignant) cells are found in the bone and soft tissues. Ewing family of tumors most frequently occurs in teenagers.
If a patient has symptoms (such as pain, stiffness, or tenderness in the bone) the doctor may order x-rays and other tests. The doctor may also cut out a piece of tissue from the affected area. This is called a biopsy. The tissue will be looked at under a microscope to see if there are any cancer cells. This test may be done in the hospital.
The chance of recovery (prognosis) and choice of treatment depend on the location, size, and stage of the cancer (how far the cancer has spread), how the cancer cells react to the treatment, and the patient's age and general health.
Stages of the Ewing family of tumors
Once one of the Ewing family of tumors has been found, more tests will be done to find out if cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body. This is called staging. At present, there is no formal staging system for the Ewing family of tumors. Instead, most patients are grouped depending on whether cancer is found in only one part of the body (localized disease) or whether cancer has spread from one part of the body to another (metastatic disease). Extraosseous Ewing has been grouped using the rhabdomyosarcoma staging system because they are both soft tissue tumors. (Refer to the PDQ® summary on Rhabdomyosarcoma Treatment for more information.) Your doctor needs to know where the cancer is located and how far the disease has spread to plan treatment. The following groups are used for the Ewing family of tumors.
The cancer cells have not been shown to have spread beyond the bone in which the cancer began or are found only in the bone and nearby tissues.
The cancer cells have spread from the bone in which the cancer began to other parts of the body. The cancer most often spreads to the lung, other bones, and bone marrow (the spongy tissue inside of the large bones of your body that makes red blood cells). Spread of cancer to the lymph nodes (small bean-shaped structures found throughout your body which produce and store infection-fighting cells) or the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) is less common.
Recurrent disease means that the cancer has come back (recurred) after it has been treated. It may come back in the tissues where it first started or it may come back in another part of the body.
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How the Ewing family of tumors are treated
It is important for patients to be evaluated by several specialists as early as possible so that treatment may be coordinated effectively from the beginning. These specialists may include: a radiologist, chemotherapist, pathologist, surgeon, or orthopedic oncologist and a radiation oncologist. Before treatment decisions are made patients will probably be required to undergo several diagnostic tests including tissue sampling, x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and computed tomography (CT) scans.
There are treatments for all patients with one of the Ewing family of tumors. Three kinds of treatment are used:
- Surgery (taking out the cancer in an operation)
- Radiation therapy (using high-dose x-rays to kill cancer cells)
- Chemotherapy (using drugs to kill cancer cells)
Surgery may be used in certain cases to try to remove the cancer and some of the tissue around it. Surgery may also be used to remove any tumor that is left after chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Radiation therapy uses x-rays or other high-energy rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation for the Ewing family of tumors usually comes from a machine outside the body (external radiation therapy). Clinical trials are evaluating radiation given inside the body during surgery (intraoperative radiation therapy).
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy may be taken by pill, or it may be put into the body by a needle in a vein or muscle. Chemotherapy is called a systemic treatment because the drug enters the blood stream, travels through the body, and can kill cancer cells throughout the body. When more than one drug is given to kill tumor cells, the treatment is called combination chemotherapy. Treatment for the Ewing family of tumors may include surgery or radiation to remove or shrink the tumor as much as possible, followed by chemotherapy to kill any cancer cells that remain in the body.
A supplement to the treatment options listed above is myeloablative therapy with stem cell support. Myeloablative therapy is a very intense regimen of chemotherapy designed to destroy all cells that divide rapidly. These cells include some blood cells and hair cells, as well as malignant (cancer) cells. Stem cells are self-renewing cells that create all of the other various types of blood cells. Stem cell support involves enriching the stem cells to increase the number of these important cells circulating in the blood after the chemotherapy has been given to kill the remaining tumor cells.
Treatment for the Ewing family of tumors depends on where the cancer is located, how far the cancer has spread, the stage of the disease, and the age and general health of the patient.
A patient may receive treatment that is considered standard based on its effectiveness in a number of patients in past studies, or may choose to go into a clinical trial. Not all patients are cured with standard therapy and some standard treatments may have more side effects than are desired. For these reasons, clinical trials are designed to find better ways to treat cancer patients and are based on the most up-to-date information. Clinical trials for the Ewing family of tumors are ongoing in many parts of the country. If you want more information, call the Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237); TTY at 1-800-332-8615.
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Treatment for localized tumors of the Ewing family may be one of the following:
- A clinical trial of chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy
- Combination chemotherapy followed by surgery with or without radiation therapy
- A clinical trial of intensified chemotherapy
- A randomized trial of post-surgical chemotherapy with or without stem cell transplant
Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ® Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with localized Ewing sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor.
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Treatment for metastatic tumors of the Ewing family may be one of the following:
- Combination chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy and/or surgery
- High-dose chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy plus additional stem cell support
Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ® Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with metastatic Ewing sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor.
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Treatment depends on where the cancer recurred, how the cancer was treated before, as well as individual patient factors. Chemotherapy may be used for patients who did not receive previous chemotherapy. Radiation treatment may be given to reduce symptoms. Surgery may be used to remove tumors that have spread to the lungs or other organs. Clinical trials are testing new treatments.
Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ® Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with recurrent Ewing sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor.
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Maybe not so much in a PuG, but certainly from within the safety of a guild or friend group.
It's not something I have experienced in a while, appreciating a wipe, but Cataclysm has brought that back to the game.
Whether it's in a raid due to inexperience, raid composition or even complete personal stuff up (admit it we all have them, that's why the dance is so beautiful when we all move in step with no toes trodden).
Heroic Wipes
Heroic instances likewise have wipes of joy, those damn chains in Blackrock caverns are the source of much wipe mirth. (Did you know you can blink with the chain attached, this getting out of range of the AoE 1st, destroying the chain 2nd… Just destroy that chain).
Normal Wipes
Even wipes in normals are a joyous occasion under the right circumstances. One of the things I am loving about Streakers is that they are more than happy to lower themselves to run the young 80's and freshly minted 85's through normals. A lot of fun can be had putting fresh tanks and healers through their paces.
Raiding Wipes
Getting the same 10 people together night after night, week after week can be a challenge, so you have to love a raid wipes, you just have to, or you wouldn't do it. To many ranged, not enough ranged… what we need tanks? Then there are the mechanics, even when understood they aren't mastered, but as a lover of wipes raiding is fun.
What about Rated Battlegrounds?
Ohhh wipefest!
We finally got a group together to try out the punishment that is Rated BGs.
It only took 2 weeks and 2 hours to get a team together.
Once again those wonderful folk at Streakers, PvP lovers and shunners alike. The team we went in with was basically 100% of the online guildies, many that didn't want to PvP, but gave it a shot purely to allow us to get the required 10 warm bodies.
I /salute you all.
Oh yes that was a wipefest. To be honest I was surprised we lasted as long as we did, but every wipe is an opportunity to learn, and learn we did.
We learn because we speak and listen. Members of Streakers love to speak, but always take the time to listen.
We know we need more focus, more CC, more interrupts and a little more gear wouldn't go astray either.
But, we know.
We wipe, therefore we know.
Arena Wipes
Arenas have been the land of wipe as well, but at the end of each game comes a quick discussion on what worked, what didn't, what we will do next time.
I have even been wiping it up with Squidly in the Arenas. Resto Shaman healing can be a lot of fun in arenas. Often I am doing little more than running in circles healing myself, but running in circles is a wonderful skill to learn, something that has eludes Gnomeaggedon since he entered the arenas, he's more of a stand and deliver Gnome than a pillar humping Gnome… Still, the wipes are learning me good!
Enjoy the wipe, there is always something to learn, even if it is nothing more than "I am not ready" or "why do I pug when I have a perfectly good guild looking for more".
Thanks for all the wipes Streakers, you are my school, the wipes my teachers, the victories the A+ on the report card.
Gnomer and Out!
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I try to photograph landscapes of exquisite beauty that may calm a person's fears: sunsets, views of water or flowers. The intention is to make the viewer feel in harmony with nature. This might let us forget for an instant the rude intrusion of illness into our lives.
For this exhibition, I also chose to include two photographs which are more direct metaphors for the experience of cancer. Up Close and Dangerous depicts the surface of a cactus with its perfectly menacing display of rhythm and line. The dangerous spikes keep out intruders that might harm the delicate flesh within. In The Red Hat, the person has reached the end of the wall and leans into it for protection and stability. Yet the untraveled desert vista beyond is what holds his focus. It is a hopeful vision -- one journey ends and a new one begins.


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I'm planning on writing a story that circles around Helena Ravenclaw and the night of her death. There are a few things I'm not sure about, however, and unfortunately I don't own a Deathly Hollows book to re-read the chapter where Harry confronts the Grey Lady.
One of my questions about her story is, was the Bloody Baron an old suitor or he did have a crush on her and she simply rejected him?
Also, how old was she when it happened? (I suppose this also means, how old is her ghost?) 20's? 30's? Younger even?
In general, I'm not sure how specific the conversation between her and Harry gets as well, and I simply don't want to go against the book. If someone does own it, and could clarify that briefly it would be wonderful.
I doubt the Grey Lady gets so specific that she's re-telling the dialog between her and the Bloody Baron but if that is the case, please let me know and thank-you for answering my questions.
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Essar acquired a 50% stake in the company in July 2009 for $7 million from BP, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell, according to the statement. At the time, Essar agreed to help modernize and expand the facility, the government said. The work had been initially slated for completion in 2015-16.
By ERIC OMBOK
Essar Energy, co-owner of Kenya Petroleum Refineries (KPRL),
said it will sell its 50% stake in the countrys only oil
refinery to the government after
studies showed an upgrade is economically unviable.
Essar Energy Overseas Ltd., its exercising a $5 million
option to sell under the joint-venture shareholders
agreement, leaving the government with full ownership, the India-based company said in an
e-mailed statement today.
said in April its considering raising $1 billion of debt
and equity for a planned upgrade of the facility to boost
processing capacity to 4 million tpy by 2019 from 1.6 million
tpy now and improve efficiency.
equipment and lack of investment in maintenance means it costs at least
6% more to refine fuel at the 50-year KPRL than to import it,
according to the company.
Essar Energy believes that the upgrade is not
economically viable in the current refining environment, the company said,
according to the statement.
acquired a 50% stake in the company in July 2009 for $7 million
from BP, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell, according to the
statement. At the time, Essar agreed to help modernize and
expand the facility, the government said. The work had been
initially slated for completion in 2015-16.
Nairobi-based Daily Nation newspaper reported Oct. 1
that the Kenyan Energy Ministry wrote a letter last month
saying Essar has not lived up to the expectations of the
government to upgrade the refinery.
Kenya in
May said it may shut the processing facility. A month later,
oil marketers threatened to only buy imports from abroad,
violating a Kenyan law requiring them to purchase about 40% of
all fuel supplies from KPRL.
which discovered its first oil deposit last year, plans to
build a refinery in the northern town of
Isiolo or Lamu, where a second Indian Ocean port is under construction.
calls to the mobile phone of Brij Mohan Bansal, KPRLs
managing director, went unanswered. Manoah Esipisu, spokesman
in the presidency, didnt answer his mobile phone.
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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Study Sheds Light on Marijuana and Paranoia
July 17, 2014 -- An in-depth investigation has concluded that people who smoke marijuana are much more likely to have paranoia than people who don't use the drug.
The study also identifies psychological factors that can lead to feelings of paranoia in people exposed to the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, THC.
The team of researchers, led by Professor Daniel Freeman, PHD, of the University of Oxford, found that worrying, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and having a range of unsettling changes in perceptions most likely lead to the feelings of paranoia.
Fearing Harm
A paranoid person is someone who has an unfounded fear that others intend to harm them. Many people have some degree of paranoia. Those who are young, poor, in bad health, contemplating suicide, or using marijuana (also called cannabis) are more prone to have paranoid episodes.
The scientists set out to explore two things:
- Firstly, does marijuana cause paranoia?
- Secondly, how does it affect the mind in order to cause paranoia?
Injecting THC
They tested 121 participants between the ages of 21 and 50. All of them had taken marijuana at least once before.
None of the participants had a history of mental illness, and all were screened to rule out relevant health conditions. But all of those taking part said they'd felt paranoid at least once in the previous month.
The volunteers were not invited to smoke joints. Instead, the scientists injected some of them with THC in order to ensure the results were as accurate as possible.
Two-thirds of the participants were given THC, and one-third received a placebo.
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Working Moms-to-Be: Prenatal Checkups
One of your challenges as an expectant career woman is to schedule doctor visits around your job. You can be sure that (a) your time is spent productively, (b) waiting time is shortened, and (c) examination time is limited by following these simple steps:
- Plan appointments around your work agendaSchedule your appointment the first thing in the morning (so you re not kept waiting), during your lunch break, or make it the last appointment of the day so that you won't miss much, if any, time from work. You may even be able to schedule an appointment on the weekend.
- Call ahead to see if the doctor is running lateCall one half to one hour in advance and ask if the doctor is running on time. If the answer is no, get a little extra work done before you leave the office. Ask a friendly receptionist to call you when she knows the doctor is running behind time.
- If the doctor is regularly late for your appointments, talk about your frustrationExplain that as a working woman, your time is money too. Consider asking for a reduction in the fee for every fifteen minutes you re kept waiting. Or, if worse comes to worse, threaten to switch doctors if an effort is not made to see you on time.
- Use waiting time for information-gatheringInstead of letting the delay upset you, talk to the other waiting expectant mothers about their experiences and the wisdom they've gained. Somehow, knowing that almost all women go through the same experiences is reassuring.
- Bring work alongUse the time for office work, a home project, or bill paying.
- List your questionsWrite them in order of priority because you may not have time for all of them. Make them specific and scientifically current to be sure the doctor appreciates your concerns.
- Call with some questionsYour concern may be easier to answer than you think, saving everybody's time.
- Keep numbers handyAll your records, the doctor's phone number, and the pharmacist's phone number should be within reach at work. By the time you get home, they may have closed or you may have forgotten the question.
- Make the call yourselfMessages relayed through a coworker have the potential for error.
- Call when you're freeAvoid calling just before a meeting or when a presentation is scheduled. By the time the doctor calls back, you may be unavailable, wasting everybody's time.
- Identify yourselfAlways give the receptionist your full name, date of your last appointment, and your current week of pregnancy.
- Give detailsFor example, say how much bleeding occurred (how many pads you bled through), what it looked like, and so forth. The nurse may be able to set your mind at ease or may be able to connect you directly with the doctor.
- Keep paper and pencil handyYou may get complicated instructions. (As an added reminder, call home and leave your doctors medical instructions on your voicemail.)
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James E. Tierney, the director of Columbia Law School's National State Attorneys General Program, appeared before Congress in March to advocate for increased state authority over the regulation of banks. The issue is at the center of Cuomo v. Clearing House, which was argued before the Supreme Court in late April.
Tierney testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection regarding the roles of state law enforcement officials, including attorneys general, and the Federal Trade Commission in protecting consumers from fraudulent and misleading lending practices. "Consumer fraud in the area of credit has spawned an epidemic with millions of victims," Tierney said. "And the country needs to remove the restrictions on the ability of states to combat that fraud."