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• AUDIO: Matt D'Agostini Yannick Weber Mathieu Schneider Bob Gainey
• At a Glance: The Canadiens fell behind 3-1 to the Boston Bruins on Thursday night and things weren't looking good for Montreal. But then the Canadiens came to life with three goals before the end of the third period to take a 4-3 lead into the third period. The Bruins did managed to tie the game early in the the third period to force overtime before winning 5-4 after a bad turnover by Maxim Lapierre in the OT period. Matt D'Agostini scored two goals, while Alex Kovalev and Mathieu Schneider – who made a miraculous return to the lineup Thursday after his season looked over – scored on the power play.
• Key Moment: The entire second period was one the Canadiens dominated and the four goals were the difference in this one even though the Canadiens went on to lose in overtime.
• What It Means: With the point for an overtime loss, the Canadiens managed to secure their spot in the postseason despite a Florida Panthers win on Thursday night in Atlanta. The Canadiens were dropped to eighth spot in the Eastern Conference by the New York Rangers, who defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1. Should the Canadiens finish the season in eighth, the will face the Bruins in the first round of the playoffs.
• Who's Next: The Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Bell Centre on Saturday night as the Canadiens wrap up their regular season. A win on Saturday combined with a Rangers loss in their last game of the season would allow the Canadiens to finish in seventh and face the Washington Capitals.

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Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a nuclear medicine imaging test. It is a type of positron emission tomography, also called a PET scan.
Doctors use SPECT to:
SPECT locates areas of the heart muscle that have inadequate blood flow compared with areas that have normal flow. Inadequate blood flow may mean that coronary arteries are narrowed or that a heart attack has occurred.
It is a noninvasive imaging scan that exposes you to radiation. For this test, your doctor injects a tiny amount of radioactive tracers through a vein in your arm. After the radioactive tracer is injected, a camera that can detect the radiation emitted by these tracers rotates around you. This creates images of your heart from different angles. Then, computer graphics are used to create three-dimensional images of your heart.
For more information about PET scans, see Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan).
Other Works Consulted Udelson JE, et al. (2015). Nuclear cardiology. In DL Mann et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 10th ed., vol. 1, pp. 271–315. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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In response to a threat at schools, the solution is... More guns at the schools. In the hands of responsible adults like police and teachers, this really is the best way to keep our kids safe at school every day.
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No no Tom! Sen Feinstein will fly in on Gore's private Gulfstream and save everyone with the help of Napolitano and her huge cache of bullets Homeland Security has been buying up! Or the kids can defend themselves by using a ballpoint pen as a Democrat suggested!!
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Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland. The main, formal variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE).[1][2][3][4] Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional class [in Scotland] and the accepted norm in schools".[5] IETF language tag for "Scottish Standard English" is en-Scotland.[6]
In addition to distinct pronunciation, grammar and expressions, Scottish English has distinctive vocabulary, particularly pertaining to Scottish institutions such as the Church of Scotland, local government and the education and legal systems.[citation needed]
Scottish Standard English is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with focused broad Scots at the other.[7] Scottish English may be influenced to varying degrees by Scots.[8][9] Many Scots speakers separate Scots and Scottish English as different registers depending on social circumstances.[10] Some speakers code switch clearly from one to the other while others style shift in a less predictable and more fluctuating manner.[10] Generally there is a shift to Scottish English in formal situations or with individuals of a higher social status.[11]
Scottish English results from language contact between Scots and the Standard English of England after the 17th century. The resulting shifts to English usage by Scots-speakers resulted in many phonological compromises and lexical transfers, often mistaken for mergers by linguists unfamiliar with the history of Scottish English.[12] Furthermore, the process was also influenced by interdialectal forms, hypercorrections and spelling pronunciations.[13] (See the section on phonology below.)
Convention traces the influence of the English of England upon Scots to the 16th-century Reformation and to the introduction of printing.[14] Printing arrived in London in 1476, but the first printing press was not introduced to Scotland for another 30 years.[15] Texts such as the Geneva Bible, printed in English, were widely distributed in Scotland in order to spread Protestant doctrine.
King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603. Since England was the larger and richer of the two Kingdoms, James moved his court to London in England. The poets of the court therefore moved south and "began adapting the language and style of their verse to the tastes of the English market".[16] To this event McClure attributes "[t]he sudden and total eclipse of Scots as a literary language".[16] The continuing absence of a Scots translation of the Bible meant that the translation of King James into English was used in worship in both countries.
The Acts of Union 1707 amalgamated the Scottish and English Parliaments. However the church, educational and legal structures remained separate. This leads to important professional distinctions in the definitions of some words and terms. There are therefore words with precise definitions in Scottish English which have either no place in English English or have a different definition.
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The speech of the middle classes in Scotland tends to conform to the grammatical norms of the written standard, particularly in situations that are regarded as formal. Highland English is slightly different from the variety spoken in the Lowlands in that it is more phonologically, grammatically, and lexically influenced by a Gaelic substratum. Similarly, the English spoken in the North-East of Scotland tends to follow the phonology and grammar of Doric.
Although pronunciation features vary among speakers (depending on region and social status), there are a number of phonological aspects characteristic of Scottish English:
- Scottish English is a rhotic accent, meaning /r/ is typically pronounced in the syllable coda. The phoneme /r/ may be an alveolar approximant [ɹ], as in Received Pronunciation or General American, but speakers have also traditionally used for the same phoneme a somewhat more common alveolar tap [ɾ] or, now very rare, the alveolar trill [r][17] (hereafter, ⟨r⟩ will be used to denote any rhotic consonant).
- Although other dialects have merged non-intervocalic /ɛ/, /ɪ/, /ʌ/ before /r/ (fern–fir–fur merger), Scottish English makes a distinction between the vowels in fern, fir, and fur.
- Many varieties contrast /o/ and /ɔ/ before /r/ so that hoarse and horse are pronounced differently.
- /or/ and /ur/ are contrasted so that shore and sure are pronounced differently, as are pour and poor.
- /r/ before /l/ is strong. An epenthetic vowel may occur between /r/ and /l/ so that girl and world are two-syllable words for some speakers. The same may occur between /r/ and /m/, between /r/ and /n/, and between /l/ and /m/.
- There is a distinction between /w/ and /hw/ in word pairs such as witch and which.
- The phoneme /x/ is common in names and in SSE's many Gaelic and Scots borrowings, so much so that it is often taught to incomers, particularly for "ch" in loch. Some Scottish speakers use it in words of Greek origin as well, such as technical, patriarch, etc. (Wells 1982, 408).
- /l/ is usually velarised (see dark l) except in borrowings like "glen" (from Scottish Gaelic "gleann"), which had an unvelarised l in their original form. In areas where Scottish Gaelic was spoken until relatively recently (such as Dumfries and Galloway) and in areas where it is still spoken (such as the West Highlands), velarisation of /l/ may be absent in many words in which it is present in other areas, but remains in borrowings that had velarised /l/ in Gaelic, such as "loch" (Gaelic "loch") and "clan" (Gaelic "clann").
- /p/, /t/ and /k/ are not aspirated in more traditional varieties,[18] but are weakly aspirated currently.
- Vowel length is generally regarded as non-phonemic, although a distinctive part of Scottish English is the Scots vowel length rule (Scobbie et al. 1999). Certain vowels (such as /i/, /u/, and /æ/) are generally long but are shortened before nasals and voiced plosives. However, this does not occur across morpheme boundaries so that crude contrasts with crewed, need with kneed and side with sighed.
- Scottish English has no /ʊ/, instead transferring Scots /u/. Phonetically, this vowel may be pronounced [ʉ] or even [ʏ]. Thus pull and pool are homophones.
- Cot and caught are not differentiated in most Central Scottish varieties, as they are in some other varieties.[19]
- In most varieties, there is no /æ/-/ɑː/ distinction; therefore, bath, trap, and palm have the same vowel.[19]
- The happY vowel is most commonly /e/ (as in face), but may also be /ɪ/ (as in kit) or /i/ (as in fleece).[20]
- /θs/ is often used in plural nouns where southern English has /ðz/ (baths, youths, etc.); with and booth are pronounced with /θ/. (See Pronunciation of English th.)
- In colloquial speech, the glottal stop may be an allophone of /t/ after a vowel, as in [ˈbʌʔər]. These same speakers may "drop the g" in the suffix -ing and debuccalise /θ/ to [h] in certain contexts.
- /ɪ/ may be more open [ë̞] for certain speakers in some regions, so that it sounds more like [ɛ] (although /ɪ/ and /ɛ/ do not merge). Other speakers may pronounce it as [ɪ], just as in many other accents, or with a schwa-like ([ə]) quality. Others may pronounce it almost as [ʌ] in certain environments, particularly after /w/ and /hw/.
Scottish English vowels[21] (many individual words do not correspond) Pure vowels Help key Scottish English Examples /ɪ/ [ë̞~ɪ] bid, pit /iː/ [i] bead, peat /ɛ/ [ɛ~ɛ̝] bed, pet /eɪ/ [e(ː)] bay, hey, fate /æ/ [ä] bad, pat /ɑː/ balm, father, pa /ɒ/ [ɔ] bod, pot, cot /ɔː/ bawd, paw, caught /oʊ/ [o(ː)] road, stone, toe /ʊ/ [ʉ] good, foot, put /uː/ booed, food /ʌ/ [ʌ~ɐ] bud, putt Diphthongs /aɪ/ [ɐi~ɜi~əi] buy, ride, write /aʊ/ [ɐʉ~ɜʉ~əʉ] how, pout /ɔɪ/ [oi] boy, hoy /juː/ [jʉ] hue, pew, new R-coloured vowels (these do not exist in Scots) /ɪr/ [ɪɹ] or [ɪɾ] mirror, fir, thirst /ɪər/ [i(ː)ə̞ɹ] or [iəɾ] beer, mere /ɛr/ [ɛ̝ɹ] or [ɛ̝ɾ] berry, merry (also in her) /ɛər/ [e(ː)ə̞ɹ] or [eəɾ] bear, mare, Mary /ær/ [ä(ː)ɹ] or [äɾ] barrow, marry /ɑr/ bar, card /ɒr/ [ɔ(ː)ɹ] or [ɔɾ] moral, forage /ɔr/ born, for /ɔər/ [oː(ə̞)ɹ] or [oɾ] boar, four, more /ʊər/ [ʉɹ] or [ʉɾ] boor, moor /ʌr/ [ʌɹ] or [ʌɾ] hurry, Murray (also in fur) /ɜr/ (ɝ) 3-way distinction:
[ɪɹ], [ɛ̝ɹ], [ʌɹ]; or
[ɪɾ], [ɛ̝ɾ], [ʌɾ]bird, herd, furry Reduced vowels /ɨ/ roses, business /ə/ [ə] Rosa's, cuppa /ər/ (ɚ) [əɹ] or [əɾ] runner, mercer
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Scotticisms are idioms or expressions that are characteristic of Scots, especially when used in English.[22] They are more likely to occur in spoken than written language.[23]
Examples include:
- What a dreich day! meaning "What a dull, miserable, overcast day" (of weather)
- I'm feeling quite drouthy meaning "I'm feeling quite thirsty"
- That's a right (or real) scunner! meaning "That's extremely off-putting"
- It's a fair way to Skye from here meaning "It's a good distance to Skye from here"
- The picture still looks squint meaning "The picture still looks askew/awry"
- You'd better just caw canny meaning "You'd better just go easy/Don't overdo it"
- His face is tripping him meaning "He's looking fed up"
- Just play the daft laddie meaning "Act ingenuously/feign ignorance"
- You're looking a bit peely-wally meaning "You're looking a bit off-colour"
- That's outwith my remit meaning "It's not part of my job to do that"
- It depends on what the high heid yins think meaning "It depends on what the heads of the organisation/management think"
- I'll come round (at) the back of eight meaning "I'll come round just after eight o'clock"
- We're all Jock Tamson's bairns, stock phrase meaning "None of us is better than anyone else" (i.e. socially superior)
- I kent his faither, stock phrase meaning "he started off as humbly as the rest of us before achieving success"
- You're standing there like a stookie meaning "you stand there as if incapable of stirring yourself" (like a plaster statue, a stucco figure)[24]
- He's a right sweetie-wife meaning "He likes a good gossip"
- I didn't mean to cause a stooshie meaning "I didn't mean to cause a major fuss/commotion"
- She was a bit pit oot when I told her meaning "She was a bit upset when I told her"
- I'm swithering whether to go meaning "I'm in two minds/uncertain as to whether to go"
- Ach, away ye go! stock phrase meaning "Oh, I don't believe you"
Scotticisms are generally divided into two types:[25] covert Scotticisms, which generally go unnoticed as being particularly Scottish by those using them, and overt Scotticisms, usually used for stylistic effect, with those using them aware of their Scottish nature.
Scottish English has inherited a number of lexical items from Scots,[26] which are less common in other forms of standard English.[citation needed]
General items are wee, the Scots word for small (also common in New Zealand English, probably under Scottish influence); bairn for child (from Common Germanic,[27] cf modern Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese barn, West Frisian bern and also used in Northern English dialects); bonnie for pretty, attractive, (or good looking, handsome, as in the case of Bonnie Prince Charlie); braw for fine; muckle for big; spail for splinter, snib for bolt, pinkie for little finger, janitor for school caretaker (these last two are also standard in American English), outwith, meaning 'outside of'; cowp for tip or spill, fankle for a tangled mess. Kirk for church has parallels in other Germanic languages (cf kirche which was also found in archaic names of some ancient churches in e.g. London). Examples of culturally specific items are Hogmanay; caber, haggis, bothy; scone; oatcake; tablet; rone (roof gutter); teuchter, ned, numpty (witless person; now more common in the rest of the UK) and landward (rural); It's your shot for "It's your turn"; and the once notorious but now redundant tawse.
The diminutive ending "-ie" is added to nouns to indicate smallness, as in laddie and lassie for a young boy and young girl. Other examples are peirie (child's wooden spinning top) and sweetie (piece of confectionery). The ending can be added to many words instinctively, e.g. bairn (see above) can become bairnie, a small shop can become a wee shoppie.
The use of "How?" meaning "Why?" is distinctive of Scottish, Northern English and Northern Irish English. "Why not?" is often rendered as "How no?".
There is a range of (often anglicised) legal and administrative vocabulary inherited from Scots[28] e.g. depute /ˈdɛpjut/ for deputy, proven /ˈproːvən/ for proved (standard in American English), interdict for '"injunction"[29][30] and sheriff-substitute for "acting sheriff'". In Scottish education a short leet is a list of selected job applicants, and a remit is a detailed job description. Provost is used for "mayor" and procurator fiscal for "public prosecutor".
Often, lexical differences between Scottish English and Southern Standard English are simply differences in the distribution of shared lexis, such as stay for "live" (as in: where do you stay?).
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The progressive verb forms are used rather more frequently than in other varieties of standard English, for example with some stative verbs (I'm wanting a drink). The future progressive frequently implies an assumption (You'll be coming from Glasgow?).
In some areas perfect aspect of a verb is indicated using "be" as auxiliary with the preposition "after" and the present participle: for example "He is after going" instead of "He has gone" (this construction is borrowed from Scottish Gaelic).
The definite article tends to be used more frequently in phrases such as I've got the cold/the flu, he's at the school, I'm away to the kirk.
Speakers often use prepositions differently. The compound preposition off of is often used (Take that off of the table). Scots commonly say I was waiting on you (meaning "waiting for you"), which means something quite different in Standard English.
In colloquial speech shall and ought are scarce, must is marginal for obligation and may is rare. Many syntactical features of SSE are found in other forms of English, e.g. English language in England and North American English:
- What age are you? for "How old are you?"
- My hair is needing washed or My hair needs washed for "My hair needs washing" or "My hair needs to be washed".[31]
- I'm just after telling you for "I've just told you".
- Amn't I invited? for Am I not invited?
Note that in Scottish English, the first person declarative I amn't invited and interrogative Amn't I invited? are both possible. Contrast English language in England, which has Aren't I? but no contracted declarative form. (All varieties have I'm not invited.)
See also[edit]
- Bungi creole of the Canadian Metis people of Scottish/British descent
- Dialect
- Hiberno-English
- Highland English
- Languages of the United Kingdom
- Regional accents of English
- Scots language
- Scottish Gaelic language
- Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
- Ulster English
- ^ "SCOTS - Corpus Details". scottishcorpus.ac.uk. Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech.
- ^ "… Scottish Standard English, the standard form of the English language spoken in Scotland", Ordnance Survey
- ^ "Teaching Secondary English in Scotland - Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech". Scottishcorpus.ac.uk. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- ^ Although there is some debate about the usefulness of the word standard here, most academics[who?] agree on the use of the abbreviation SSE in order to distinguish the variety from the geographically English Standard English, which is normally abbreviated to SE.
- ^ McClure (1994), pp. 79-80
- ^ http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry
- ^ Stuart-Smith J. Scottish English: Phonology in Varieties of English: The British Isles, Kortman & Upton (Eds), Mouton de Gruyter, New York 2008. p.47
- ^ Stuart-Smith J. Scottish English: Phonology in Varieties of English: The British Isles, Kortman & Upton (Eds), Mouton de Gruyter, New York 2008. p.48
- ^ Macafee C. Scots in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 11, Elsevier, Oxford, 2005. p.33
- ^ a b Aitken A.J. Scottish Speech in Languages of Scotland, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Occasional Paper 4, Edinburgh:Chambers 1979. p.85
- ^ Aitken A.J. Scottish Speech in Languages of Scotland, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Occasional Paper 4, Edinburgh:Chambers 1979. p.86
- ^ Macafee, C. (2004). "Scots and Scottish English." in Hikey R.(ed.),. Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: CUP. p. 60-61
- ^ Macafee, C. (2004). "Scots and Scottish English.". in In Hikey R.(ed.),. Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: CUP. p.61
- ^ McClure (1994), pp. 33ff
- ^ "Place in history - First Scottish Books - National Library of Scotland". nls.uk.
- ^ a b McClure (1994), p. 36
- ^ Lodge, Ken (2009). A Critical Introduction to Phonetics. A & C Black. p. 180
- ^ "Wir Ain Leid". section "Consonants". Retrieved 18 March 2012.
- ^ a b Wells, pp. 399 ff.
- ^ Wells, p. 405.
- ^ Heggarty, Paul et al, eds. (2013). "Accents of English from Around the World". University of Edinburgh.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
An idiom or mode of expression characteristic of Scots; esp. as used by a writer of English.
- ^ Aitken A.J. Scottish Speech in Languages of Scotland, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Occasional Paper 4, Edinburgh:Chambers 1979. p.105
- ^ stookie in the Dictionary of the Scots Language (see sense 2)[dead link]
- ^ Aitken, A.J. Scottish Accents and Dialects in Trudgil, P. Language in the British Isles. 1984. p.105-108
- ^ Aitken A.J. Scottish Speech in Languages of Scotland, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Occasional Paper 4, Edinburgh:Chambers 1979. p.106-107
- ^ "Home : Oxford English Dictionary". oed.com.
- ^ Murison, David (1977, ²1978) The Guid Scots Tongue, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, pp. 53-54
- ^ "Dictionary of the Scots Language :: SND :: Interdict n., v". Dsl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
- ^ "interdict - definition of interdict in English from the Oxford dictionary". Oxforddictionaries.com. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
- ^ "Scottish Standard English". scots-online.org.
- Abercrombie, D. (1979). "The accents of Standard English in Scotland.". In In A. J. Aitken; T. McArthur. Languages of Scotland. Edinburgh: Chambers. pp. 65–84.
- Aitken, A. J. (1979) "Scottish speech: a historical view with special reference to the Standard English of Scotland" in A. J. Aitken and Tom McArthur eds. Languages of Scotland, Edinburgh: Chambers, 85-118. Updated in next.
- Corbett, John, J. Derrick McClure, and Jane Stuart-Smith (eds.) (2003). Edinburgh Student Companion to Scots. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-1596-2.
- Foulkes, Paul; & Docherty, Gerard. J. (Eds.) (1999). Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-70608-2.
- Hughes, A., Trudgill, P. & Watt, D. (Eds.) (2005). English Accents and Dialects (4th Ed.). London: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-88718-4.
- Macafee, C. (2004). "Scots and Scottish English.". In Hikey R. Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: CUP.
- McClure, J. Derrick (1994) "English in Scotland", in Burchfield, Robert (1994). The Cambridge History of the English Language, volume v. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-26478-2.
- Scobbie, James M.; Gordeeva, Olga B.; Matthews, Benjamin (2006). "Acquisition of Scottish English Phonology: an overview". Edinburgh: QMU Speech Science Research Centre Working Papers.
- Scobbie, James M., Nigel Hewlett, and Alice Turk (1999). "Standard English in Edinburgh and Glasgow: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule revealed.". In Paul Foulkes; Gerard J. Docherty. Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold. pp. 230–245.
- Scobbie, James M., Olga B. Gordeeva, and Benjamin Matthews (2007). "Scottish English Speech Acquisition.". In Sharynne McLeod. The International Guide to Speech Acquisition. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning. pp. 221–240.
- Wells, John C. (1982). Accents of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22919-7. (vol. 1). ISBN 0-521-24224-X (vol. 2)., ISBN 0-521-24225-8 (vol. 3).
Further reading[edit]
- Jilka, Matthias. "Scottish Standard English and Scots" (PDF). Stuttgart: Institut für Linguistik/Anglistik, University of Stuttgart. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2014.
External links[edit]
- Listen to BBC Radio Scotland Live (many presenters, such as Robbie Shepherd, have a noticeable Scottish accent)
- "Hover and hear" pronunciations in a Standard Scottish accent, and compare side by side with other English accents from Scotland and around the World.
- BBC Voices - Listen to a lot of the voice recordings from many parts of the UK
- Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech - Multimedia corpus of Scots and Scottish English
- Sounds Familiar? – Listen to examples of Scottish English and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website
- Recent pronunciation changes in Scottish English (audio, starting at 7:10)


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Convert a time value and correct for the local time zone. More secure versions of these functions are available; see localtime_s, _localtime32_s, _localtime64_s.
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Return a pointer to the structure result, or NULL if the date passed to the function is:
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After 23:59:59, December 31, 3000, UTC (using _time64 and __time64_t).
_localtime64, which uses the __time64_t structure, allows dates to be expressed up through 23:59:59, December 31, 3000, coordinated universal time (UTC), whereas _localtime32 represents dates through 03:14:07 January 19, 2038, UTC.
localtime is an inline function which evaluates to _localtime64, and time_t is equivalent to __time64_t. If you need to force the compiler to interpret time_tas the old 32-bit time_t, you can define _USE_32BIT_TIME_T. Doing this will cause localtime to evaluate to _localtime32. This is not recommended because your application may fail after January 19, 2038, and it is not allowed on 64-bit platforms.
The fields of the structure type tm store the following values, each of which is an int:
The localtime function converts a time stored as a time_t value and stores the result in a structure of type tm. The long value timer represents the seconds elapsed since midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970, UTC. This value is usually obtained from the time function.
Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of gmtime, mktime, mkgmtime, and localtime all use a single tm structure per thread for the conversion. Each call to one of these routines destroys the result of the previous call.
localtime corrects for the local time zone if the user first sets the global environment variable TZ. When TZ is set, three other environment variables (_timezone, _daylight, and _tzname) are automatically set as well. If the TZ variable is not set, localtime attempts to use the time zone information specified in the Date/Time application in Control Panel. If this information cannot be obtained, PST8PDT, which signifies the Pacific Time Zone, is used by default. See _tzset for a description of these variables. TZ is a Microsoft extension and not part of the ANSI standard definition of localtime.
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These functions validate their parameters. If timer is a null pointer, or if the timer value is negative, these functions invoke an invalid parameter handler, as described in Parameter Validation. If execution is allowed to continue, the functions return NULL and set errno to EINVAL.
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_localtime32 | <time.h> |
_localtime64 | <time.h> |
For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.
// crt_localtime.cpp // compile with: /W3 /* This program uses _time64 to get the current time * and then uses localtime64() to convert this time to a structure * representing the local time. The program converts the result * from a 24-hour clock to a 12-hour clock and determines the * proper extension (AM or PM). */ #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <time.h> int main( void ) { struct tm *newtime; char am_pm[] = "AM"; __time64_t long_time; _time64( &long_time ); // Get time as 64-bit integer. // Convert to local time. newtime = _localtime64( &long_time ); // C4996 // Note: _localtime64 deprecated; consider _localetime64_s if( newtime->tm_hour > 12 ) // Set up extension. strcpy_s( am_pm, sizeof(am_pm), "PM" ); if( newtime->tm_hour > 12 ) // Convert from 24-hour newtime->tm_hour -= 12; // to 12-hour clock. if( newtime->tm_hour == 0 ) // Set hour to 12 if midnight. newtime->tm_hour = 12; char buff[30]; asctime_s( buff, sizeof(buff), newtime ); printf( "%.19s %s\n", buff, am_pm ); }
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When it comes to creating incredible presentations with Keynote, nobody does it better than Apple. It has released almost every major product backed by animated text, images and video played out by its flagship presentation software, so it comes as no surprise that it knows a thing or two about creating beautiful slides that really help to get your messages across. Fortunately for us, hours and hours of Apple's special events have left us with more than a few clues as to how we can make great slideshows in Keynote and we've shared some of those tricks and tips for amazing presentations. If there's one thing that's obvious from watching any of Apple's Keynote presentations, it's that it keeps things simple. Just a few lines of text and one or two images are all that's needed on any one slide. So grab your content, keep it simple and let's get started.
Step 1: Variations on a theme
Fire up Keynote and, from the Theme Chooser, select the Gradient theme. It's a stock option and the theme of choice for Apple's own presentations.
Step 2: Just my type
Font choice is important and choosing something simple and legible is key. Apple use Myriad Pro, but it's not available by default on the Mac. Instead, try using Helvetica Neue, the font Apple uses for iOS 7, in Regular and Light.
Step 3: KISS
KISS stands for 'keep it simple, stupid' – a phrase that sums up Apple's approach to keynotes. Keep your slides down to a few words and maybe an image.
Step 4: Add effects
To add an effect to any slide, click on it once, bring up the Inspector window then click on the Build tab. Here you'll be able to choose an effect.
Step 5: Moving on up
In this situation, we want the iPhone 5 title to move upwards on click. To do this, select the Move effect then drag the red movement path upwards.
Step 6: All at once
At the same time the title is moving up, we want the description to fade in. Set the description's effect, find it in Build Order and select Automatically with Build 1.
Step 7: The big reveal
When Apple reveals huge figures or facts, it does it with a striking effect. Fortunately, it's a stock option named Anvil, so use this for anything exciting.
Step 8: Let the dust settle
As the dust settles on the Anvil effect, we want to fade in some text underneath. Repeat the process in step 6 and then adjust the Delay setting to perfect things.
Step 9: Dropping off
Another effect that's often used by Apple is Fall Apart. This drops each character in the text off the bottom of the slide – it's a great way to show price reductions.
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"Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.
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"Idol" giving back for a third time
By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "American Idol" is bringing back its "Idol Gives Back" charitable special on April 21 after a yearlong hiatus.
The special, airing during the top-seven Wednesday results show, will benefit Children's Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save the Children and the United Nations Foundation. More than $140 million was raised in two previous specials.
In addition to the fundraising, the April 21 show also will feature that week's voting results and the elimination of a finalist.
"American Idol" will return for a ninth season in January with host Ryan Seacrest and judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi and rookie Ellen DeGeneres.
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the stellar success of the inaugural Festival in 2015, this year's event promises to serve up another sumptuous feast of local, national and international performances.
At the heart of the Festival will be The Pacific Crystal Palace – a magnificent, New Zealand-built Spiegeltent on the Havelock North Village Green. Satellite venues including the Blyth Performing Arts Centre at Iona College and selected theatres and galleries in Hastings and Napier and will make this a truly Hawke's Bay-wide event.
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Iraqi security forces have retaken a northern area from militants after more than a week of heavy fighting during which parts of it repeatedly changed hands, an official said Saturday.
Militants initially seized parts of Salman Bek on February 13, setting off a cycle of clashes in the area which includes a town and several villages.
Dozens of people – militants, security personnel and civilians – were killed in the fighting.
Salman Bek "has now been completely liberated, and there are no longer any gunmen, just police and soldiers," local official Talib al-Bayati told AFP.
The army was reinforcing the area with watchtowers and sand barriers, Bayati said, adding that security forces were also preventing residents who had fled the fighting from returning to their homes.
Army Staff Lieutenant General Abdulamir al-Zaidi had said that security forces held Salman Bek as of Thursday, but Bayati said it was the next day before they were fully in control.
It was not immediately clear if the militants were forced out during clashes or chose to withdraw.
The situation in Salman Bek is a small-scale version of the crisis being playing out in the Anbar province west of Baghdad.
Anti-government fighters have held the city of Fallujah and part of Ramadi in Anbar for weeks.
The takeovers there mark the first time anti-government forces have exercised such open control in major cities since the bloody insurgency that followed the US-led invasion of 2003.
More than 370,000 people may have been displaced by the Anbar violence, according to the United Nations.
Salman Bek has been hit by numerous attacks over the past year, and was briefly seized by militants in late April.
In July, some 150 militants launched an attack with mortar rounds, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, and also executed 14 truck drivers on a nearby highway.
Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a period of brutal killings.
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KHAR, Pakistan – A burqa-clad female suicide bomber in Pakistan lobbed hand grenades, then detonated her explosive belt among a crowd at an aid center Saturday, killing at least 45 people in militants' latest strike against the authorities' control over the key tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Police believed it was the first time Islamic militants have sent a woman to carry out a suicide attack in Pakistan, where the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan against al-Qaida and the Taliban insurgents continues to spill over despite Islamabad's repeated claims of victory on its side of the porous border.
The bomber, dressed in the head-to-toe burqa robes that women commonly wear Pakistan and Afghanistan, was challenged by police at a check point, officials said.
She then charged toward a group of 300 people lined up outside the food aid distribution center in the town of Khar, tossing two hand grenades before blowing herself up, officials said. The crowd was made up of people who have fled conflicts elsewhere in the area.
President Barack Obama condemned the bombing as "outrageous." In a statement released in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was spending Christmas, Obama said, "Killing innocent civilians outside a World Food Program distribution point is an affront to the people of Pakistan, and to all humanity."
The attack in Khar, the main city in the Bajur region of Pakistan's northwest, came a day after 150 militants waged pitched gun battles against five security posts in the adjourning Mohmand tribal region to the south. The fighting, which left 11 soldiers and 24 militants dead, was an unusually strong show of strength by insurgents in border country that the military has twice claimed to have cleaned of militants.
Helicopter gunships backed by artillery continued the battle on Saturday, pounding enemy hideouts and killing another 40 militants, said Amjad Ali Khan, the top government official in Mohmand.
The tribal regions are of major concern to the U.S. because they have been safe havens for militants fighting NATO and American troops across the border in Afghanistan. The U.S. has long pressured Pakistan to clear the tribal belt of the insurgents.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for Saturday's suicide attack in Khar, through its spokesman, Azam Tariq.
The spokesman suggested the victims may have been targeted because most of them belonged to the Salarzai tribe, which was among the first to set up a militia -- known as a lashkar -- to fight the Taliban in 2008. Other tribes later formed similar militias to resist the militants.
"All anti-Taliban forces -- like lashkars, army and security forces -- are our target," he said. "We will strike them whenever we have an opportunity."
The attack killed 45 people, including six policemen, and wounded more than 100, at least 30 critically, said Tariq Khan, a government official in the Bajur region.
Police said the victims were from various parts of Bajur who gather daily at the center to collect food tokens distributed by the World Food Program and other agencies to conflicted-affected people in the region. The people were displaced by an army offensive against Taliban militants in the region in early 2009.
Islamist militants battling the state have attacked buildings handing out humanitarian aid in Pakistan before, presumably because they are symbols of the government and Western influence.
Tariq Khan and another local official, Sohail Khan, said an examination of the human remains has confirmed the bomber was a woman.
Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Lahore-based security and political analyst, said the suicide bombing appeared to be the first carried out by a woman in Pakistan.
"It is no surprise. They can use a woman, a child or whatever," Rizvi said. "Human life is not important to them, only the objective they are pursuing" of undermining state power, he added.
Male suicide bombers often don the burqa -- an Islamic dress that also covers the woman's face -- as a disguise. In 2007, officials initially claimed Pakistan's first female suicide bomber had killed 14 people in the northwest town of Bannu but the attacker was later identified as a man. Islamic militants in Iraq have used women suicide bombers several times, since women in their all-enveloping robes are seen as able to pass more easily through security, especially since male security officers are often hesitant to search women.
Akbar Jan, 45, who sustained leg wounds in the bombing, said from his hospital bed that people were lining up for the ration coupons when the explosion went off.
"We thought someone had fired a rocket," he told The Associated Press. He said within seconds he saw the ground strewn with the wounded.
"I realized a little later that I myself have suffered wounds," he said. "Everybody was crying. It was blood and human flesh everywhere."
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the bombing and said Pakistanis are "united against them."
Bajur is on the northern tip of Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal belt, bordering Afghanistan and the so-called "settled" areas in Pakistan. It has served as a key transit point and hideout for al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The military first declared victory in Bajur following a six-month operation launched in late 2008. But the army was forced to launch a follow-up operation in late January this year and declared victory again about a month later. Still, violence has persisted.


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Michele Bachmann Says 'Iowa' 14 Times In 2012 Kick-Off Speech (VIDEO)
Bachmann's a native of the state which will hold the first contest of the 2012 presidential race next year, and she's also doing well in polls there. So it makes sense that she's talking about Iowa -- a good showing there could be the difference between her campaign being taken seriously and, well, more questions about her flakiness.
So Bachmann's trying to make it clear to Iowans that she loves that state of theirs. It seems hard to imagine that Iowans wouldn't get the message after hearing hearing her give them shoutout after shoutout Monday morning.
Here, thanks to TPM video slinger Michael Lester, are all 14 mentions of Iowa in Bachmann's speech:


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"Save America's Treasures" has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington's tent.
65% of Americans don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
"There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country," John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
The "We the People Program," which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
Cornell Steamboat Company tug in Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City.
Moran Towing tugs off Hudson River piers in New York. EUGENE F. MORAN was built at Oyster Bay, NY in 1951, CAROL MORAN was built at Orange, TX in 1949.
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Are These Companies Creating a Mortgage Bubble?
When an investment gets hot, investors plow money into it as fast as they can. As long as a market is big enough, that doesn't necessarily pose a problem. But in the aftermath of the housing bubble of the mid-2000s, could investors be stampeding into an area that's just as likely to fall as home prices were at the peak of the housing boom?
The increasing importance of mortgage REITs
The housing market relies on mortgage financing to function properly, and the mortgage market in turn has come to depend on securitized investment vehicles in order to maintain the free flow of trillions in mortgages. Along the way, real estate investment trusts that specialize in buying mortgage-backed securities have arguably become more important than the big banks that actually create those mortgages in the first place.
You can see one sign of the role reversal in mortgages by looking at executive pay in the industry. As Bloomberg reported late last month, Annaly Capital (NYS: NLY) CEO Mike Farrell received $35 million in compensation last year, eclipsing pay levels at the six biggest banks in the nation. Given how much smaller mortgage REITs are than big U.S. banks, that compensation may seem upside down.
But when you look at growth figures in the industry, you can see that mortgage REITs are now a huge magnet for mortgage-related capital. Annaly's balance sheet shows that its assets have multiplied more than sevenfold since the end of 2005. Similar trends exist at Annaly's rivals:
Mortgage REIT | Current Assets | Rise (Since) |
Annaly Capital | $120.3 billion | 649% (December 2005) |
American Capital Agency (NAS: AGNC) | $88.4 billion | 1,811% (December 2009) |
Chimera Investment (NYS: CIM) | $9.7 billion | 557% (December 2008) |
ARMOUR Residential (NYS: ARR) | $12.8 billion | 5,025% (December 2008) |
Two Harbors Investment (NYS: TWO) | $11.3 billion | 4,225% (December 2008) |
Source: S&P Capital IQ.
Many mortgage REITs just started operating within the past few years, becoming substantial operations from the ground up in a very short time. All told, Bloomberg estimates the size of asset holdings among mortgage REITs at $270 billion, having tripled in less than three years.
Danger ahead?
Many analysts at the Fool and elsewhere have warned of the potential problems that mortgage REIT shareholders will likely face when short-term interest rates start going up. Mortgage REITs derive much of their profits from highly leveraged bets on mortgage securities, and that leverage in turn depends on favorable spreads between the rates they pay to borrow money and the returns they earn by investing it. If those spreads get narrower, it squeezes profits and reduces the amount of money the REITs have to distribute to shareholders, reducing their dividend yields.
But another potential problem goes further than just mortgage REIT shares to go to the heart of the mortgage industry itself. During the financial crisis, two sets of stakeholders ended up bearing the brunt of the housing collapse: banks and the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In both cases, those groups needed taxpayer support to survive.
This time around, mortgage REITs have taken on an ever-increasing role in maintaining the health of the mortgage industry. With sales of $5 billion in shares so far in 2012 and $16.8 billion last year, mortgage REITs are able to leverage up equity capital as much as 10 times or more. If things go badly a second time, then it will be shareholders of those mortgage REITs who will suffer the most, as forced liquidations of mortgage-backed securities could potentially create wave after wave of mortgage-bond declines that once again bring systemic risk back into the equation.
Get out now?
With mortgage REITs currently in a regulatory blind spot, the increasing size of the market has attracted the attention of regulators of related entities. The SEC has looked into provisions that could limit mortgage REITs' use of leverage, while the Financial Stability Oversight Council could determine that mortgage REITs pose a systemic risk and justify supervision in the name of preserving the mortgage markets.
One possible saving grace for mortgage REITs is that their leverage levels have actually come down from their highest levels a few years ago. But if interest rates start going up, then we could see very quickly just how exposed mortgage REITs are to changing conditions in the mortgage market -- and we could discover too late that they held the key to the next housing-related bubble.
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Please recognize that the USFS cannot "send Sasha elsewhere" other than an obscure "B" International. Sasha would have to receive a GP invitation from another federation, and despite the new rule about returning former seeds, I'm not sure she can qualify as someone who "through no fault of [her] own" sat out competitions since Worlds 2006.
I'm rather put off by Cohen shamelessly angling for that SA spot when she's done zilch in the past 3 1/2 years to promote US figure skating.
And I don't think she'd fill that many seats at Lake Placid, either. LP is very out in the boondocks, expensive to fly to, and is in a region where a heavy November snow is a distinct possibility.
She left the competitive scene on her own will. Unless the ISU wants to bend their own rules, I don't think Cohen will be offered any Gp events other than SA. A "B" International is definitely better than nothing at all.
USFS still has the final say, though. She is at their mercy. If Cohen does get the SA spot the USFS is who you should be mad at.I'm rather put off by Cohen shamelessly angling for that SA spot when she's done zilch in the past 3 1/2 years to promote US figure skating.
I don't think her presence will make as huge an impact as, say, MK would, but one can't deny that she's definitely a bigger name overall than Rachel Flatt or Caroline Zhang.And I don't think she'd fill that many seats at Lake Placid, either. LP is very out in the boondocks, expensive to fly to, and is in a region where a heavy November snow is a distinct possibility.
There's no denying that Cohen is a bigger name than Flatt or Zhang, but I still don't see her filling that big arena at Lake Placid. It's too hard to get to, and getting there requires driving through what is basically wilderness at a time of year when the going could be very rough.
And with Sasha's record of SA attendance, there's a good chance that she won't even be there after all. People will surely take that into consideration before ordering tickets. It would be a bummer if they expected Sasha and got Becky Bereswill instead.
No way will the presence of Cohen translate to a sellout event or even a well-attended event.
But I think there will be many MORE people than OTHERWISE would be there without her. (BTW, I completely agree with you- I don't think she will last until SA. If she does, I will be the first one to say I underestimated her. Happy now, PM?)
I don't know the Lake Placid area, or even where it was located until I looked at a map. I was actually considering going there before I knew where it was, since I'd be on the Eastern seaboard at event time- that is, if it was within commute of NYC. Apparently it's not even close, so I scrapped that idea promptly.
I was hoping to get to SA because Lake P is as close to me as any GP comp will be for a while. And if Sasha is not there, I will still be thrilled to see a live GP competition, whoever's there. Including Becky Bereswill. I thought she did a great job at... whatever it was she won. (Sorry!)
No need to blame Sasha in May for an imaginary uproar in November, or put down less famous skaters (especially by name). Good grief.
I'd rather go to Lake Placid for the JUNIOR Grand Prix event, not the Senior GP event. For one thing, the weather is a lot better in September than in November, and for another, the tickets are much, much cheaper. And most important: there's no need to shell out $$ well in advance for a roster of skaters that may or may not be in attendance when the actual competition takes place.
OK, now I'm getting sore. For all those non-New Yorkers out there, Lake Placid is in the Adirondacks, one of the most beautiful places in the Eastern USA. It's a beloved vacation area for anyone who loves mountains and lakes. Give yourself time to drive around and enjoy the scenery and if possible hike a little. There are loads of restaurants and you'll be breathing Olympian air. Don't listen to chuckm, listen to me! Go, New York! Go, Becky, Caroline, Ashley, Rachael and *Sasha*!
(I've only lived in NJ for two years.)
I have been to Lake Placid and agreed, it is a beautiful place to go at the end of summer. But in winter, it's a tough sell, given the snowfall in the region.


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Bruins Acquire Kaberle from Toronto
by Staff Writer / Boston BruinsBOSTON, MA – Boston Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced today that the club has acquired defenseman Tomas Kaberle in a trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs, in exchange for the Bruins own first-round pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, forward Joe Colborne, and a conditional second-round pick in 2012 (Toronto will receive the Bruins own second round pick in 2012 if the Bruins make it to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2011 or re-sign Kaberle following the end of the 2010-11 season).
Kaberle is expected to join the Bruins in Ottawa tonight (Friday, February 18) and be available for tonight's game against the Senators.
Kaberle, a 6'1", 214-lb native of Rakovnik, Czech Republic, has 3-35=38 totals in 58 games this season, along with 16 PIM.
In 878 career games, all with the Maple Leafs, Kaberle has 83-437=520 totals with 246 PIM. His best statistical season came in 2005-06, when he registered 9 goals and 58 assists for 67 points. Over the last three seasons, Kaberle has combined totals of 6-60=66 on the power play.
Originally drafted by Toronto in the 8th round (204th overall) of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, the 32-year-old Kaberle is in his 12th NHL season. Kaberle is an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.
Kaberle has represented the Czech Republic in the Olympics three times (2002, 2006, 2010), with 3-5=8 totals in 17 games. He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics he played alongside fellow Bruin David Krejci in Vancouver, BC.
Colborne, 21, who has yet to make his NHL debut, has 12-14=26 totals and 35 PIM in 55 games this season with the Providence Bruins (American Hockey League). Originally drafted by the Bruins in the first round (16th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, Colborne has appeared in 61 career AHL games, all with Providence, with 12-16=28 totals and 37 PIM. The 6'5", 213-lb native of Calgary, Alberta played two seasons of college hockey at the University of Denver, where he registered 32-40=72 totals and 54 PIM in 79 games.


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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The George Washington men's tennis tandem of junior Nikita Fomin and freshman Danil Zelenkov fell in the doubles semifinal match of the USTA/ITA Atlantic Regional, hosted by the University of Virginia at the Cavaliers' Snyder Tennis Center and the Boars Head Sports Club.
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Name | Alex Main |
Arsenal Career | 1899 - 1903 |
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Appearances | 69 (69 starts, 0 as a sub) |
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Scot Alex Main joined the Club at the end of the 19th century as Arsenal were in the process of establishing themselves in Division Two.
The inside forward scored 14 times in 69 appearances for the Gunners during his four-year spell, and he nearly helped the Club to promotion in his final season only for the team to be edged out in third place.
Main moved back to Scotland in 1903 to join Motherwell, and in his absence his former team-mates won promotion to Division One the following season.


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The one-stop guide is the first project of the West Shore Senior Services Network, which held its inaugural monthly meeting in early August.
"People don't know what's available out here, so they end up travelling to Victoria to get something they could have found around the corner," said Nicole Donaldson, who started the network after her private day care for adults with dementia struggled to attract clients since opening in April.
While she stands to benefit from the new way to advertise her business, she says when she attends seniors' meetings many lament the lack of a local service directory.
A directory that exists for Greater Victoria, created by Seniors Serving Seniors, covers Sooke to Salt Spring, but has few listings for West Shore.
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Exploring Circumference
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Objective: SWBAT: • Measure an object to the nearest tenth of a centimeter. • Identify and find the radius, diameter, and circumference of a circle. • Explain pi in your own words. • Explain the formula for circumference and why it works.
Big Idea: What is pi, anyway? Students explore the relationship between circumference and diameter by measuring a variety of circles and use it to derive the formula for circumference.
Do Now
- I created this lesson so that students can discover the relationship between a circle's diameter and circumference. In my state, sixth grade students need to be able to work with circles and calculate their circumference and area.
- Some students may already be familiar with the formula for circumference, but they probably don't understand where it comes from. I want students to understand these relationships so that they can come up with the formula for circumference on their own. I hope that this will help students to remember the formula and apply it correctly.
See my Do Now in my Strategy folder that explains my beginning of class routines.
Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Here, I want students to spend a couple minutes jotting down what they know and want to know about circles. I ask students to share their knowledge and ideas with the class.
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Circles Video: http://www.brainpop.com/math/geometryandmeasurement/circles/
I pause the video so that students can fill in their notes. I do not show the entire video! Students will be deriving the circumference formula later in the lesson, so I stop the video at 1:23 after Tim shares that the circumference is the perimeter of a circle, or the distance around it.
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Now that students have been exposed to the definitions of radius and diameter, I want them to practice knowing one and finding the other. A common mistake is that students confuse diameter with radius and vice versa. It helps students to draw what is given first, and then figure out the missing information.
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Exploring Circumference
I have a volunteer read the directions. I go over group expectations and what to do when they finish measuring an item. I stress the importance of accurately measuring the items. I suggest that group members check each other's measurements to ensure accuracy. Students will be engaging in MP6: Attend to precision and MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
For this activity, I let the students choose their groups of 3-4. I give them 30 seconds to pick their groups and sit down. If they cannot handle that, then I will have students count off and sit down. I have volunteers pass out materials and Group Work Rubric to each group.
While students are working, I walk around and monitor student progress and behavior. When a group has measured five objects, I check in with them briefly and then have them move on to the graph.
Some students may struggle to make connections on question 3. This is okay. I want students to work together to see what they can figure out. If a group asks for a calculator, I give them one to work with.
If a group completes the graph and questions, I ask them to explain what they noticed and their predictions for 3c and 3d. If there is still time, the group can measure extra items and then plot the new measurements on the graph.
With about seven minutes left, I stop groups and have them come together for a class discussion. I ask 2-3 volunteers from different groups to show their graphs under the document camera. I ask, "What did your group notice?" I want students to notice that the circumference of a circle is about 3 times bigger than a circle's diameter. I ask students to share their predictions to 3c and 3d and explain them.
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Pi Video: http://www.brainpop.com/math/numbersandoperations/pi/
I pause the video so that students can fill in their notes. I do not show the entire video! Students will be deriving the circumference formula next, so I stop the video at 1:15 after Tim shares that pi is an irrational number.
If I have time, I go to http://avoision.com/experiments/pi10k to show students what pi "sounds like" as a musical sequence.
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This will serve as the Closure for the lesson. We go through these questions together as a class. I want students to be able to explain that pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference and its diameter. I have students Think Pair Share about what they think the formula for circumference of a circle is. Students are engaging in MP 8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Then I have students use their formula to answer 1 and 2. For 1a, students can just put 8 times pi. Rather than using 3.14 to calculate the circumference, I just want them to estimate. If I have extra time, I give students problems with bigger (circumference of 150 cm) and smaller (diameter of 2.5 cm) measurements and have students make estimates of the diameter and circumference.
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With the last few minutes of class I give a Ticket to Go for students to independently complete. I pass out the HW Exploring Circumference at the end of class.
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"This is a wonderful and speedy Italian-style entree. Just open your pantry and you'll discover a quick-fix for dinner!" Margaret Wilson - Hemet, California
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 package (7-1/4 ounces) macaroni and cheese dinner mix
- 2-1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup chopped zucchini
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) Italian stewed tomatoes, drained
- 1. In a large skillet, cook chicken in oil over medium-high heat until no longer pink.
- 2. Set aside the cheese packet from the macaroni dinner mix. Stir in the pasta, broth, zucchini, onion and oregano. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 7-8 minutes or until pasta is tender, stirring occasionally.
- 3. Stir in tomatoes and the contents of the reserved cheese packet. Cook and stir for 3-4 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 6 servings.
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1 cup: 245 calories, 4g fat (1g saturated fat), 49mg cholesterol, 966mg sodium, 30g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 2g fiber), 22g protein.
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38 comments:
- traditionalguy said...
That lady needed a divorce big time. She is fortunate to be alive herself.
- Pogo said...
Beats Mrs. Carradine's discovery.
- Pogo said...
Also beats Bernard Boursicot's discovery.
Or that of Billy Tipton's children - 7/6/09, 11:13 AM
- MadisonMan said...
She probably doesn't feel fortunate *now* -- but in time that might happen.
My own opinion: girlfriend was told the divorce was not happening just before the murder/suicide. I freely admit I have no facts to base this hunch on. - 7/6/09, 11:16 AM
- PatCA said...
Can you be "dating" someone if you are married to someone else? That seems like quite a euphemism.
- former law student said...
Also in the NY Daily News is Mike Lupica's blaming "American gun culture" for the deaths. I'd suspect "Muslim honor killing" instead. In my experience, "casual sex" with an Iranian woman is an oxymoron.
- Pogo said...
fls, I agree.
Muslim honor killing AKA suicide by proxy. - 7/6/09, 11:28 AM
- SteveR said...
In tomorrow's New York Daily News, Mike Lupica blames America's "car culture" for drunk driving deaths.
- john said...
I feel very sorry for the wife and girlfriend. Well, I feel sorry for any woman who ever knew that POS.
former law student said... In my experience, "casual sex" with an Iranian woman ....
Are you sure you wanted to say that? She probably still has brothers/uncles around. - 7/6/09, 11:39 AM
- JAL said...
The girlfriend had an ex-boyfriend with a hot temper who knew about McNabb. They argued a lot.
Throws something else into the mix. - 7/6/09, 11:39 AM
- Joe said...
I agree with MadisonMan.
- John Lynch said...
Girlfriend had just gotten a DUI with McNair in the car. It was going to come out.
- The Drill SGT said...
FLS, I saw the gun culture story also. Of course more boyfriends die from knives than guns, but who cares, why ruin a good meme when you want to make an anti-gun point.
I'd call it an honor killing in the larger feminine version rather than the smaller Muslim one.
Woman scorned, etc.
Better to ban screwing around on wives than banning guns. The homicide rate would drop faster. - 7/6/09, 11:52 AM
- save_the_rustbelt said...
Since the cops are not looking for any suspects it is likely the gun shot residue test on the girlfriend's hand was positive, which would rule out a third party.
The poor wife, what a dumptruck load of bad news.
And the kids - good God what a shocker. - 7/6/09, 12:08 PM
- Cedarford said...
former law student said...
Also in the NY Daily News is Mike Lupica's blaming "American gun culture" for the deaths. I'd suspect "Muslim honor killing" instead. In my experience, "casual sex" with an Iranian woman is an oxymoron..
Not Muslim. From a sect starting in 19th Century Iran that Muslims consider apostates, but which now has many Hindu and Christian converts. Still, the woman was an immigrant from an honor culture with codes of conduct. Lie and mislead such a woman, expect consequences.
And McNair was another oversexed athlete chasing young, white pussy where he could get it - and with money to burn.
1st part of FLS's comment wrong, 2nd part right.
"In an interview, Farzin Abdi, Kazemi's nephew, says the pair had been dating for six months, that McNair gave Kazemi a Cadillac Escalade for her 20th birthday in May and that they had traveled to Key West, Las Vegas, California, Hawaii and McNair's farm in Mississippi.
"We met him because I don't watch football and didn't know who he was," said Abdi, 27, who was in town from Jacksonville, Fla., to retrieve the body. "We went out to dinner and she was so happy and was having fun. Were we happy about the relationship? No."
Kazemi and her family moved to the U.S. in 2002, fleeing Iran to Turkey before settling in Florida, the paper reports. As members of the Baha'i Faith, they were in danger in Iran." - 7/6/09, 12:24 PM
- Crimso said...
What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to ejaculate.
RIP, Steve. Your faults and misdeeds weren't capital crimes. - 7/6/09, 12:25 PM
- mccullough said...
Let's not pretend that McNair is O.J.
He cheated on his wife. That's it. This woman killed him. - 7/6/09, 12:29 PM
- Methadras said...
Once bitten, twice shy.
- Jeremy said...
Crimso said..."What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to ejaculate."
And I bet you get in plenty of practice every day, too.
How do you type while practicing? - 7/6/09, 12:57 PM
- traditionalguy said...
What was that math rule for age differences ? You divide your age in half and shoot them 7 times? No, wait the bullets have to be less than 7 years old? Maybe the only relevant rule here is old#7 itself that came thru Moses.
- Marcia said...
"The girlfriend had an ex-boyfriend with a hot temper who knew about McNabb. They argued a lot.
Throws something else into the mix."
I'd say it does! I had no idea Donovan McNabb was mixed up in this. - 7/6/09, 1:25 PM
- mariner said...
Wait a minute.
It takes two to make a two-backed beast. This woman was just as guilty as he was.
I don't think highly of men who cheat on their wives, but this is not his fault alone.
How many of you who think he got what he deserved would say she got what she deserved it he had killed her? - 7/6/09, 2:15 PM
- TitusJustPinchedaFineLoaf said...
At least no one died getting fucked by a horse.
I am still disturbed by the horse fucking thing. - 7/6/09, 2:48 PM
- Jason (the commenter) said...
I am still disturbed by the horse fucking thing.
And by "disturbed" you mean "aroused". - 7/6/09, 3:27 PM
- Jason (the commenter) said...
I have a feeling that this post was directed at someone in particular.
I predict a string of posts in the coming months about men who cheated (or didn't move to another state) and met horrible fates. - 7/6/09, 3:29 PM
- Eli Blake said...
Ever see Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction?
It makes us as guys think twice about having an affair-- the person you have it with could turn out to be a psycho. - 7/6/09, 3:31 PM
- former law student said...
This woman was just as guilty as he was.
This assumes he was up front with her. Do you think he said, "I'm married with four kids, but I still like to date? This condo is just for my fuckbuddies" Instead I can picture a stream of lies:
"Married? Where'd you hear that?"
"We have an open marriage."
"We're separated"
"We're in the process of getting a divorce"
"We're getting divorced as soon as the youngest enters school."
"I haven't loved her for a long, long time."
If she killed him, the last thing he said was likely the truth:
"Now look, she's my wife and the mother of my four kids, and I'm not going to leave them for you." - 7/6/09, 4:00 PM
- former law student said...
Are you sure you wanted to say that? She probably still has brothers/uncles around.
Her brother, a classmate, fixed us up because he knew I would respect her. But there was no chemistry between us. - 7/6/09, 4:02 PM
- Eli Blake said...
Some years ago there was a story about a topless dancer who some drunk married guy got fresh with and she kicked and stomped the crap out of him with wooden clogs and kicked all his teeth out and broke his face. I'm sure the guy's wife loved coming down to the hospital to visit him and supporting him through all the reconstructive surgery.
In Phoenix last year there was a story about a married guy who picked up a hooker who was looking for a few bucks. Turned out she was also running from drug cartel hitmen and they ended up shooting both of them.
There have been several stories about prostitutes and others who look for married men so they can blackmail them and get them to pay for their kid (never mind whether it's really his) and if he doesn't agree to it then they threaten to haul him into court and reveal everything to his wife and family.
Then there is Joey Buttafuoco (a name like that you never forget), whose 'affair' ended up going to his house and shooting his wife in the head (she survived). Supposedly she wanted to kill his wife and marry Joey herself, and if he didn't agree to it she planned to shoot him too, only starting with the nuts and working her way up.
Then there was Aileen Wuornos, who hitchiked around with her female lover, and when a guy would give them a ride, if he even said anything that could be construed as remote interest she would pull out a gun and shoot him multiple times and let him bleed to death on the side of the road.
There were the 'slippies'-- Manson girls who would join protests and seek out young men to find out if they could seduce them into joining their murdering little cult.
Like I said, you cheat and you might be getting involved with someone who is so scary that you never even dreamed of anyone that scary in your worst nightmare.
Mark Sanford is lucky that the worst nightmare he has to face is Jenny Sanford. - 7/6/09, 4:03 PM
- Pogo said...
Ultimately, one is forced to reckon with that grasping creature demanding a hike on the Appalachian trail, regardless of danger, seeking that ineffable eff, the Hump-hump of Endless Promise, when truth be told tomorrow it will just be you again, groggy and cranky and not improved a whit for the encounter.
Once 'over there' becomes 'here', the gonadal demon's peripheral vision soon spies another apple, and implores you to take a bite. - 7/6/09, 4:18 PM
- The Drill SGT said...
You left off the most famous one. I'm not cheating on my wife, but I bet any man who is knows the name:
elena bobbitt
men fear the knives more than the guns.
She was Iranian, not Afghan, but I expect the women of both cultures use the threat of a sharp knife late at night to modify behavior of brutish men
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier ~of~ the Queen! - 7/6/09, 4:20 PM
- Eli Blake said...
Oh, yes. And it's Lorena. And I thought she was from Latin America someplace.
You're right, I forgot that (although she was his wife, his problem wasn't that he was cheating on her, it was that she didn't like it when he took the initiative-- which is a whole different problem.) - 7/6/09, 4:27 PM
- AJ Lynch said...
In tomorrow's New York Daily News, Mike Lupica blames America's "knife & fork culture" for the country's obesity epidemic.
- The Drill SGT said...
Lorena was a Latina of some flavor.
My comment was that MNabb's squeeze was Iranian. - 7/6/09, 4:49 PM
- AJ Lynch said...
Mrs. Donovan Mcnabb called to complain that some of you are calling McNair McNabb.
- Pogo said...
The imperative for fidelity is a strong one to be enforced with death, and -curiously- is even demanded by those who are themselves cheating.
Despite the slow dissolution of marriage in the US, the couple's covenant continues to have this curious expectation, suggesting something overlooked. - 7/6/09, 4:59 PM
- traditionalguy said...
Pogo...The new lover must have caught him cheating with his wife. In her culture such things are to sacred forgive as a minor oops.
- NKVD said...
I think the widow hit the jackpot - the solution and the problem arrived simultaneously.
Enjoy the rest of your rich life. - 7/6/09, 8:09 PM


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FROM: Turning counter-clockwise: So I moved the tiller to turn the boat windward and we brought the reefed jib in as tight as she would go. TO: Turning counter-clockwise: So I moved the tiller to turn the boat windward. When this repeatedly failed, it occurred to me that, possibly, the reason it was failing was because the trim of the sail itself contains the ability to help turn the boat. And since the direction we wanted to go in would have been a close haul, I thought bringing the jib in tight might help in turning the boat since on repeated attempts we were unable to accomplish this with just moving the tiller and bringing in the jib to lesser extents.
-------------------------------------------- Repeat until desired direction of boat has been accomplished or its the best the boat can do: Move tiller slightly to turn boat toward desired direction. If boat is unable to turn any closer to wind, thats the best boat can do. If boat is able to turn closer to the wind, trim the sails as needed. --------------------------------------------
As rules of thumb:0-15 knots: Main and Jib 15-20 knots: Main with reefed Jib (30% reefed) 20-25 knots: Main only 25+ knots: reefed Main