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Paolo Ciancarini, Alfredo Rizzi, Fabio Vitali
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bologna
XML has been proposed in order to bring to the web a markup language free of the shortcomings of HTML, in particular the inextensibility of the set of valid elements (tags). Stylesheet languages have been proposed for XML, in order to provide precise and sophisticated typographical control over the appearance of text-based data. We have developed a rendering engine for HTML and XML documents, providing rudimentary support for typography, but allowing easy extensions (displets) for any kind of data, including non-textual ones, such as math, charts, graphs, etc. Some extensions have already been developed: here we present the one for supporting Z, a notation for formal specifications of software systems.
XML, Markup languages, XSL, Stylesheet Languages, Displets
One of the most important contributions of the HTML markup language is its text-based support for interface elements such as input fields, buttons, choice lists, etc., along with structural and formatting commands for text within the data format of network documents.
Such support has allowed complex interfaces to be described in a text-based source document side-by-side with proper and traditional text content. This in turn has made it easier for authors and developers to create interactive form-based information systems: the same source code could be easily created by hand for simple applications, mock-ups, prototypes, or as tailorable templates, or automatically by simple procedures of complex applications.
Within the limits of the form support currently defined in HTML, a new generation of client-server applications has been made possible, where interface elements, context information, and on-line help can share the same environment, provide information and support to each other, and therefore enrich traditional interfaces with hypertext [BV97].
On the other hand, HTML only allows a few elements, that is, those that are explicitly defined in the standard. Whenever some authors' needs exceed the capabilities of the elements already defined in HTML, a different approach has to be used: either the existing tags are abused for a different purpose than that for which they were created, or an image is used, or a Java applet is created providing the desired functionality.
It would be useful to give markup support to many types of non-textual data, particularly specialised notations (mathematics, music, chemistry, etc.), and other kinds of data whose visualisation is essentially graphical. For instance it would be useful to be able to describe arbitrary graphs as markup. Building on the experience of HTML form elements, this would have the immediate benefit, among many others, of allowing site managers to create in an easy or automatic way several hypertext features that were left out of the World Wide Web, and that have been listed in [BVABO97], such as global and local overviews, trails, guided tours, etc.
Recently, a new standard has been announced, XML [BSM97], that promises to be able to provide for these shortcomings. XML is a meta-markup language: it allows authors to define the markup elements of their own documents, so as to tailor them as much as possible to their needs. XML elements do not have pre-designed meanings, behaviour and visual characteristics: these concerns are external to the language, and are partially approached in two ancillary standards, XLL [BD97] and XSL [ABC97].
Given the early stage of all these standards, not all issues surrounding them have been faced and solved. In particular, the discussion on the rendering (i.e. the provision of a displayable shape) of XML elements has so far been focused on typographical concerns, mostly building on existing stylesheet languages such as CSS [LB96] and DSSSL-O [BOS96]. Unfortunately, neither language provides support for non-typographical rendering: content that is best represented with images, charts, schemata, etc. needs specialised browsers for proper rendering, as experiences with chemical data (CML [MR96]) and mathematical formulas (MathML [IM97]) are showing.
The purpose of this paper is to report on a Java rendering engine for XML and HTML data that we have been implementing. The engine allows easy integration of textual and non-textual data, and provides typographical as well as graphical support for all kinds of data can be expressed in XML or properly extending HTML.
This engine builds on a previous work on extensions to HTML called displets [VCB97]. Displets were built on an antiquate version of HotJava and had complete access to the underlying HTML parser and the existing display libraries of the browser. The rendering engine we are describing here, on the other hand, is a completely autonomous piece of code that can work on unmodified Java-capable browsers such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer.
The paper is structured as follows: in section 2 the development and characteristics of XML and related proposals is summarised. In section 3 the case for rendering of non textual data is proposed and defended. Section 4 details the rendering engine and its inner working. Section 5 describes how new display modules, which we still call displets, can be created in this environment. We will then draw some conclusions and sketch our future work.
HTML has been extremely successful in allowing unsophisticated network users to become authors of fairly complex documents, even in the absence of widespread editing tools. Nonetheless, there has been in the past two or three years a widespread awareness ([SMG94], [Sie97], etc.) that HTML has reached its potential, and that a change of paradigm was necessary.
The major drawback of HTML is that it allows only a pre-specified set of elements. Authors can only use these elements, and have to limit their authoring needs to what is available within the existing language, or to force these elements beyond their intended meaning.
HTML is an application of the Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML], that is, a class of documents conforming to an SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) that describes "HTML documents". SGML, being a meta-language used to describe classes of documents, rather than a specific class, is free of the above mentioned limitations of HTML: by appropriately creating a custom class of documents, and defining the legal elements therein, authors can provide support for any kind of rhetorical need, however complex and arcane. Metalanguages "allow groups of people or organisations to create their own customised markup languages for exchanging information in their domain (music, chemistry, electronics, hill-walking, finance, surfing, linguistics, knitting, history, engineering, rabbit-keeping, etc.)" [Fly97].
Unfortunately, SGML is considerably more complex to learn and use than HTML, and it has been felt that this would prevent its generalised adoption. Therefore the SGML working group of W3C was asked to develop a new markup meta-language, the eXtended Markup Language (XML), that could take the place of SGML on the Web. XML documents would have to be straightforwardly usable over the Internet, compatible with SGML, and easy to create.
Of course, XML gets flexibility by giving up specificity: contrarily to HTML, the elements used in XML documents do not have a pre-defined meaning that is understood and used by XML software, and they do not have a given graphical aspect or typographical style. That is, XML only specifies the correct abstract syntax of documents, but not how each element should be displayed as, nor what behaviour should be associated with them.
Two ancillary mechanisms were designed to take care of some of these issues: hypertext linking was considered a behaviour important and widespread enough among the document types to be directly supported in the language, and the XLL specification [BD97] is meant to take care of the linking paradigm of XML. The typographical rendering of markup elements, that is part of the definition of HTML, is outside of the concern of XML, since the element set is open and the emphasis is on structure markup rather than formatting. The XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language, [ABC97]) specification, currently just being proposed for discussion, is meant to provide a general way to attach a set of rendering instructions to the elements of an XML document.
Although at this time XSL is in a too early stage of development to be reliably discussed, it is clear that the proposed mechanism will provide XML syntax for selecting and using graphical constructs from either one of the two major stylesheet languages currently available for markup languages: CSS and DSSSL.
It is worth noting that, in spite of the relevant differences that can be found between the two stylesheet languages, neither of them supports or consider the display of non-textual data, which clearly is an important need of many of the above mentioned communities.
While the XML markup language is well suited for specialised notations, behaviours and rendering are not well supported by the X*L language family except for links and text.
The stylesheet languages available within the XSL framework focus on typographical control: they have precise instructions on the type of font to use, the margins and alignment to provide to paragraphs, how to format tables, etc. In short, they are thought essentially for textual data.
This has not deterred many special communities from using XML for standardising their notation and markup needs, but they are planning special applications and applets for the correct display of their documents.
For instance, the HTML-Math working group has changed its charter from extending HTML to specifying a XML application [IM97]. The display problem is clear for mathematical markup: using images of equations, that have been created statically and independently of the surrounding text, is limiting in several ways: the point size and type, the background, the line alignment may match the surrounding text on the system where it was produced, but not the system where it is displayed. Furthermore, while the resolution of images and text may be the same on the screen, print resolution usually is much improved for text, but would remain exactly the same for a GIF or a JPEG image.
Also the problem of rendering software is clear to the authors of the document: at present, only specialised Java applets and plug-ins can be foreseen to take advantage of the new notation. Further, more general and flexible solutions can be hypothesised using some ways to extend the stylesheet mechanism of XML and relying on the document model that is being proposed for Web-based data [DOM97]. Currently there are some applications and browser that do or plan to support MathML (WebEQ, IBM techexplorer, MathType, etc.).
Among the browser that can display MathML it is important to mention Amaya, which is a general-purpose extensible WWW browsers. Among the things that can be extended is the management of the HTML language itself. It is thus possible to extend both the tag set that is recognized by the HTML parser, and the display objects that constitute the display of the tags themselves. Amaya uses the Thot languages to specify the extensions: the S language is used for the specification of the new structural element, while the P language is used to specify the appearance of the new elements.
The chemistry community is also using XML to provide support for the myriad of different notation needs of their science. The CML language [MR96] is an application of XML meant for chemical data, another kind of information that cannot be easily represented by text. JUMBO is a specialised browser for CML documents: it is an autonomous application (an applet is being developed in these days), and provides several independent windows where each type of chemical data is displayed.
Displets were proposed in [VCB97] as a way to extend HTML documents using Java. The HTML language was extended on a per-document basis by defining new tags as needed, and providing Java classes to take care of their graphical display. While not providing all the functionality and flexibility of a full meta-markup language such as XML, HTML extended with displets could allow all kinds of specialised notations and graphical effects while at the same time leveraging over the existing and well-known set of elements defined by HTML.
And still we are not convinced that this is a bad idea when striving beyond HTML. Admittedly, in some instances documents simply cannot be forced into the existing elements of the HTML language, and require a complete and radical re-thinking of the elements that need to be used. In these cases a full meta-language is needed such as XML, so that one can define the markup elements from scratch and without legacy influences. In many other cases, on the other hand, there are one or two special requirements that cannot be satisfactorily covered by HTML, and that require the definition and use of a few more tags than those available in the standard language. In these cases, it would be useful to be able to extend the existing HTML tag set with those few new ones, rather than starting from scratch with all the tags both special and trivial.
The key issue in our opinion is that special notations require special software to take advantage of them: we must be able to display these notations, and to activate behaviours on them: to provide a general markup meta-language is not enough. One class of behaviours (links), and one class of display elements (text) have been considered important enough to be singled out in the development of the XML standard, and will have their own specifications.
For other types of behaviours (for instance, those required by forms elements), and for the display of non-textual data, the attitude is towards creating specialised applications that can understand and enact the behaviours and the rendering option implicit in the special notation. Thus, while applications such as JUMBO or MathEQ are commendable for their generality and usefulness, there is the need for an integrated environment that provides a general rendering and behaviour engine for arbitrary markup elements.
Our first experiment with rendering arbitrary, non-text-based markup extensions [VCB97] was to modify an existing browser to allow the parsing and the visualisation of new HTML-like elements. To do so, we took an early version of the HotJava browser, whose source code was freely available and modified it so that it could accept on-the-fly extensions of the HTML DTD and load the appropriate classes (called displets) whenever the newly defined tags were to be displayed. That experiment was extremely limited, in that we used an old version of the Java language, and worked only on a specific version of a specific browser. Furthermore, we heavily relied on the existing rendering architecture of the browser and just provided a minimal effort implementation (basically a displet was just a sequence of drawing instructions for the visualisation of the elements).
In this paper, on the contrary, we report about the DispletManager applet, a general, extensible rendering and behaviour architecture we have been working on, which can be used for both extensions to HTML and straight XML documents. This architecture is embodied in a Java applet that can be run within any Java-enabled browser such as Netscape Communicator or MS Internet Explorer.
Fundamental design requirements for the rendering engine were as follow:
Figure 1 shows the general structure of the DispletManager applet:
Fig. 1 - The general structure of the DispletManager applet
The document chunk to be displayed, be it HTML or XML, is loaded by the displet manager and parsed by the appropriate parser. The resulting tree is then analysed recursively (depth-first): the appropriate displet classes are activated to create the rendering of their element on the basis of the rendering of their sub-elements. No class is allowed direct access to the screen: on the contrary, each displet creates a (set of) bitmap(s) that its ancestor can pass, ignore, modify or add to.
As mentioned, we believe that extending HTML still has a function in case one needs to provide graphical support for some notation, within a document that can be easily mapped onto plain HTML.
The following is an example of a simple HTML document with a simple extension for displaying text in reverse video:
Figure 2 shows how the document results on screen.
Fig. 2 - Rendering an HTML displet with an extension
The document, or just the part that contains the new element, is given as the parameter 'HTMLcode' to the DispletManager class. The standard HTML elements are all pre-defined, including links and form elements, and have their own displet classes. The 'def' parameter of the applet allows the definition of the new elements, providing some simple syntactical support and the URL of the displet code in charge of providing its rendering.
Upon loading the applet, the displet manager will start the HTML parser and patch it with the elements defined in the 'def' parameter. It will then parse the 'HTMLcode' parameter, verifying that the new elements are being used according to the given grammar. The 'def' parameter acts as a simplified DTD for the new tags: it allows to specify the names, attributes, inclusion rules and minimisation features allowed for the new elements, as well as the URL of the Java code containing the rendering applet.
The resulting tree then is examined and the proper displet for each node is activated. Each displet is required to produce a (list of) bitmaps of its content. Each displet may set parameters and wait for the displet of its sub-elements to return their bitmaps, before producing its own. For instance, the P displet sets some values (such as margins, line spacing, font and size) that may affect its sub-elements, waits for all of them to return their bitmaps (one for each word, because P combines whole words into lines) and then creates its own list of bitmaps (one for each line).
We are using a modification and update of a beta version of an old Sun HTML parser. Currently, the HTML displet package contains displets for all HTML 3.2 tags, except tables. Anchors and form elements are included and work correctly. This allows authors to use standard HTML elements within the special elements they define: for instance, it is possible to have styled text, form elements or hypertext links within a chart or a timeline.
The same displet may be used for an XML document chunk. Since XML comes with no pre-defined rendering for any elements that is used, it is necessary to provide a map that connects the elements of the document to the displets that must be used for the display. We are using XSL for this.
The following is similar to the previous example of the reverse colour, but in XML:
The displet manager knows we are dealing with XML because of the presence of the 'XMLcode' parameter, and activates the correct parser. We are using the msxml parser by Microsoft , but plan to provide support for at least one more implementation. In order to associate the correct displet class with the relevant XML element, we are developing our own XSL processor.
According to the very early specification of XSL [ABC97], an XSL stylesheet is
a XML document containing a list of style rules. Each rule is composed of a
pattern selector and an associated action. For every element of the document to
be displayed, the XSL processor should find the best matching pattern, and
activate the associated action to provide the rendering. In our example, the
Our implementation of the XSL processor is prototypical and rudimentary, but features and functionalities are being added daily. In our interpretation of the proposed specification, the actions are names of displet classes. We plan to create both a CSS and a DSSSL package, that will properly subclass and tailor the appropriate internal classes of the rendering engine. Differently from the proposed specification, therefore, it is necessary to preface the name of the flow object with the name of the style mode: for instance, css.div or dsssl.paragraph instead of DIV in an exclusive CSS setting and paragraph in an exclusive DSSSL setting.
Furthermore, it is possible to create one's own package of classes, and use it liberally within an XSL specification, by appropriately specifying the full name of the classes. In our example, the 'reverse' action comes from neither CSS nor DSSSL, but from the 'example' package, and is thus appropriately specified. This allows special rendering classes, such as those for rendering non-textual data, to be used in an XSL specification.
To the time of this writing, only a few pattern selectors are available. As for the action part, we are currently limiting to the main CSS flow objects.
The rendering engine used by the DispletManager applet is a set of Java classes that provide the rendering for the appropriate document elements. These classes are all subclasses of the DocElement class, which provides the framework of the rendering procedure.
All classes provide a createBitmap() method, whose purpose is to create and return the bitmap of the flow object of the considered markup element on the basis of the bitmaps of its sub-elements. The createBitmap() method is usually not seen by the implementer of new classes, and provides the following functionalities:
Figure 3 shows the inheritance structure of the classes of the module library:
Fig. 3 - The inheritance structure of the module libraryDocElements can either be data, entities or tag elements. DataElement classes are used for the content of markup elements, i.e., #PCDATA in SGML and XML DTDs. They can either be text or hidden elements. EntityElements are provided for the management of XML and HTML entities such as & or the definition of new ones. TagElements are used for the creation of the structure flow objects of the document: they are either flow objects, block objects, inline elements or special elements.
As an example, this is the complete source code of the 'reverse' displet:
The reverse displet is a subclass of the StyledText, which is a subclass of the InlineElement class. These are classes for text-based objects that behave as in-line elements (e.g. bold, italic, etc.). As it can be seen, the programmer of such a displet only has had to specify a parameter and have the render() method of its superclass handle all the detail. A more complex displet is shown in the following section.
As a proof of concept for our rendering engine, we have developed a full set of displets for the management of Z specifications. Z [Spi92] is special notation that uses mathematical and logical elements for the specification of software systems. Z also uses a special set of symbols and graphical boxes that makes it impossible to specify using existing markup systems or even the foreseen MathML [IM97].
Software designers needing to share Z specifications have used so far special LaTeX extensions, but could not till recently use it on the Web, except by creating GIF images. The Z browser [MVHH95] is a plug-in for Netscape designed so that it is possible to show Z specifications in an HTML document, although with the clear limitations that plug-ins imply.
Since an SGML DTD for Z has existed for the last 5 years, we have decided that the proof of concept for our rendering engine would be the implementation of Z specifications both by extending HTML and by specifying a DTD chunk for XML. Z specifications are documents of mixed free text and formal specifications. Schemas are the most common graphical objects in Z formal specifications. A schema is a graphical box composed of a declaration part, where variables are declared, and an axiom part, containing predicates that must hold for those variables. An example schema is shown in figure 4.
Fig. 4 - A displet for Z schemata
The preceding schema has been created with displets extending HTML. The following is the markup for the schema in figure 4:
We have created a complete package of Z displets providing support for the whole notation set: entities and tags closely reflect those of the Z DTD as published in [Ham95]. A conversion utility for Z specifications in LaTeX to the corresponding HTML ones has also been created.
HTML developers cannot cope with all the possible extensions that are proposed or deemed useful, and, while XML does have the expressive power that is necessary for most, if not all, the special notations that are being requested, its developers are focused in providing typographical text-based control leveraging on existing stylesheet languages.
The situation for displaying non-textual data using markup languages is grim: special interest groups, besides working on a common markup language, are usually forced to work on a full browser to display correctly the special notations. Other kinds of non-textual information, not being defended by special interest groups (graphs, charts, timelines, vector graphics, etc.) clearly lag behind.
Displets provide a useful and extensible mechanism for providing rendering of non-textual data in a extensible markup language. The displet manager applet, loading the appropriate parser, can deal with per-document extensions to HTML, and with arbitrary flow objects for XML documents.
A displet site is being created at http://www.cs.unibo.it/~fabio/displet.html, which contains the code for the rendering engines, examples for both HTML and XML, and a list of all the displets we have created so far.
Work on the displet manager is continuing. Our future aims are at creating a complete XSL engine, and to extend the displet manager to handle positionable and scriptable elements. Several examples of displets are being produced as well, many of which are not typographical in nature, and are thus beyond the capabilities of current stylesheet languages.
We would like to acknowledge the help and contribution of Stefano Pancaldi, and the help and suggestions of Michael Bieber and Chao-Min Chiu, the co-authors of the first Displet paper.
This work has been carried out with the support of the Italian Center for Research (CNR) and of the Ministery for the University and the Scientific and Technologic Research (MURST)
|Paolo Ciancarini is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna. His research interests include: coordination languages and systems, programming systems based on distributed objects, formal methods in software engineering, and markup languages.
|Alfredo Rizzi has recently graduated in Computer Science at the University of Bologna and currently works as software developer in a private firm. He is interested in object oriented programming languages and WWW technologies.
|Fabio Vitali is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna. His research interests include: hypertext systems, versioning systems, collaborative systems, markup languages, digital typography, and coordination systems.


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PCI Slot 3
The photo above shows what a PCI slot looks like. PCI slots can handle 64 bits of data at a time. ISA slots can only handle 32 bits of data at a time. PCI stands for "Peripheral Component Interconnect." A 64-bit PCI slot has 64 connections to the motherboard. Each connection is capable of handling 1 bit of data at a time. A 32-bit ISA slot has 32 connections to the motherboard and can handle only 32 bits of data at a time. Below is a picture of how a PCI card is installed.
Note: Older technology ISA slots were 8-bit and 16-bit. The later EISA, (or Extended ISA), slots are capable of 32-bit data transfer. Older PCI technology was 32-bit. The newer PCI technology is 64-bit.
Below is a picture of a SCSI PCI expansion card. SCSI stands for "Small Computer Interface System." With a SCSI expansion card, you can connect up to 15 different devices to one SCSI connection. SCSI is one of the fastest data transfer interfaces available. SCSI cards are available with transfer rates from 4MB per second, up to 320 MB per second. The Ultra320 SCSI-3 interface is the fastest, with a 320MB/sec data transfer rate. Below is a picture of a PCI SCSI expansion card.

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St. Joseph's Executive Team Gives Back for Back to School!
Pictured Above: Members of St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton's executive team: Lisa Ciancone, Maureen Weatherston and Fadia Ros.
For the second year, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton's executive team pulled together a collection of brand new back to school supplies and turned over the items to Mission Services of Hamilton. "At St. Joe's we take our commitment to our community very seriously," says Maureen Weatherston. "We wanted to ensure that children start their new school year with the essentials in school supplies to assist them in being set up for success."
It is hoped that the effort started by the executive team at St. Joe's will become a hospital wide campaign next year to help support our community. Mission Services of Hamilton offers a large range of services and programs to help men, women and families with basic human necessities and provides opportunities for advancement to help people reach their full potential.


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Web portal 'The History of Particle Image Velocimetry'
Quite a considerable amount of documents related to the early development of the PIV technique is not easily accessible, in particular not accessible electronically. Such material may consist of lab notes, photographical PIV recordings, internal reports, printed conference proceedings or journal articles, purchase documents, advertising material etc.. The objective of this wiki-like web portal is to collect such documents (in formats such as photos, diagrams, PIV recordings, and text documents) related to the history of PIV. Scientists who own interesting material related to the early developments of PIV are asked to upload electronic copies to this web portal. Other scientists may complement this material, comment on it or improve it. Write access to this web portal will only be granted after registration.
All authors are asked to prepare an abstract of the contents of their presentation including their full address (max. length of abstract: one page). A compilation of the abstracts will be made available together with the final schedule via the website prior to the symposium.
Oral presentations
Authors of oral presentations will be asked to send an electronic copy of their presentation. This electronic copy will be made available via the symposium website.
Authors of poster contributions will be asked to prepare a poster and to send an electronic copy of their poster to the organizers. This electronic copy will be made available via the symposium website.
On-line Questionnaire: Evaluation of the Past
The meeting will bring together most of those who have been involved in the field during this time. This offers the unique possibility to enhance our view on the subject as a whole, how it developed and the role each one played. Looking back it will be interesting to identify milestones and turning points, analyse dead-ends or appreciate the various inputs that have driven the development of our new metrological tool. In addition each actor in the field should gain an improved perspective on his part in the scenario. In preparation of the historical seminar we kindly ask you to answer a few questions on your evaluation of the past.


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These days, all a college football team has to do to earn a ticket to a bowl game is post a winning record. But 30 or 40 years ago, just being invited to a bowl was a big deal, and winning was even bigger.
Thursday's Poinsettia Bowl against San Diego State was the 31st bowl game in which the Cougars have played. They've posted a 13-17-1 record, with some incredible highs (the 1980 "Miracle" Holiday Bowl) and embarrassing lows (a 65-14 loss in the 1990 Holiday Bowl).
Here's a brief look at all 31 postseason games the Cougars have played, dating back to 1974.
The Fiesta Bowl is known now as one of the Bowl Championship Series games, but in 1974, it had only existed for four years. The Tempe, Ariz.-based contest originally provided an automatic berth for the WAC champion (at this point, Arizona and Arizona State were both WAC teams).
Quarterback Gary Sheide and coach LaVell Edwards had led BYU to a 7-3-1 record and the WAC championship, but the Cougars were stifled by a tough Oklahoma State defense and managed only two early field goals in a low-scoring affair.
Related: 1974 Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma State 16, BYU 6
Now known as the Capital One Bowl (and formerly the Florida Citrus Bowl), the 1976 Tangerine Bowl featured the Cowboys and Cougars again. BYU came in as WAC champions again with a 9-2 record overall, while the Cowboys represented the now-defunct Big 8 with an 8-3 record.
This result ended up far more lopsided than the Fiesta Bowl two years prior, as OSU running back Terry Miller scored four touchdowns and broke bowl records for yardage. The Cougars trailed 28-14 at halftime and could draw no closer, running their bowl record to 0-2.
Related: 1976 Tangerine Bowl: Oklahoma State 49, BYU 21
This marked the first of seven straight Holiday Bowl appearances for the Cougars, as the new San Diego-based game now granted the WAC champion its automatic postseason berth. (The previous year, the Cougars were co-WAC champs and slated for the Fiesta Bowl, but with the game scheduled for a Sunday, BYU declined to participate.)
In this inaugural game, Navy came in with an 8-3 record and proved a difficult matchup for the Cougars. BYU shuffled between quarterbacks Marc Wilson and Jim McMahon and built a 16-3 lead in the third quarter. But the Midshipmen roared back in the fourth, scoring 20 unanswered points (including a 65-yard touchdown pass) for the win.
Related: 1978 Holiday Bowl: Navy 23, BYU 16
The Cougars returned to San Diego with an 11-0 record and a No. 9 national ranking. Led by quarterback Marc Wilson, BYU had narrowly defeated a ranked Texas A&M team on the road to open the year. They then romped through their WAC schedule, easily repeating as champions. Meanwhile, the 7-4 Hoosiers were led by head coach and future ESPN analyst Lee Corso.
The game was close throughout, with the lead changing hands several times. Two key plays came in the fourth quarter: Indiana punt returner Tim Wilbur scampered 62 yards for a touchdown to give the Hoosiers the lead, and BYU placekicker Brent Johnson missed a 27-yard field goal as time expired that would have won the game for the Cougars. BYU remained winless in bowl games at 0-4.
Related: 1979 Holiday Bowl: Indiana 38, BYU 37
BYU's first bowl win was also one of the most legendary games in the history of the program. BYU entered the matchup at 11-1, their only loss a season-opener at New Mexico. WAC champions again, the Cougars rode quarterback Jim McMahon to several blowout victories and a No. 14 ranking. Meanwhile, the Mustangs were no slouches, with an 8-3 record and a No. 19 ranking behind two star running backs: Craig James and Eric Dickerson.
Thus began the "Miracle Bowl." SMU leaped out to a 19-7 lead in the first quarter, and it looked like the Mustangs would run away with the game. They expanded their lead to 45-25 with four minutes remaining, and many BYU fans began leaving the stadium.
But no one told Jim McMahon the game was over. He connected on a 15-yard touchdown pass to Matt Braga with 2:33 left, a failed two-point conversion leaving the score 45-31. The Cougars recovered the ensuing onside kick, and McMahon led another touchdown drive, ending in a 1-yard Scott Phillips run. Phillips also caught a two-point conversion pass to make the score 45-39.
This time, the onside kick failed, and SMU looked poised to run out the clock. But the BYU defense stepped up, and Bill Schoepflin blocked the Mustangs' punt with 13 seconds left. After two incompletions, McMahon heaved a pass toward the end zone as time expired, and the Cougars' Clay Brown somehow out-jumped four SMU defenders to claim the ball and the tying touchdown. The extra point gave the Cougars the win, their first bowl victory, and a moment that will live in BYU lore forever.
Related: 1980 Holiday Bowl: BYU 46, SMU 45
The Cougars finished another successful season and WAC championship with an appearance in San Diego. Jim McMahon had led BYU to a 10-2 record and a No. 14 national ranking, while opponents Washington State had posted an 8-2-1 record and a No. 20 ranking.
This time, it was BYU trying to hold on to a late lead as Wazzu mounted a comeback attempt. Leading 31-7 in the third quarter, BYU watched as their opponents scored 21 unanswered points to close the gap to 31-28 heading into the fourth. McMahon added another touchdown pass to widen the lead, but Washington State answered again with a touchdown run and a completed two-point conversion.
Thankfully for BYU fans, Provo's Cougars grabbed the ensuing onside kick and did what SMU could not the year before, running out the clock for the win.
Related: 1981 Holiday Bowl: BYU 38, Washington State 36
In the Cougars' first post-McMahon season, they posted an 8-3 record, but losses at Georgia and Utah State and at home to Air Force left them without a national ranking. Still, led by Steve Young, the Cougars claimed yet another WAC championship and another trip to San Diego, this time against the No. 17 Buckeyes.
BYU took a brief 7-3 lead in the second quarter after a Steve Young touchdown pass to Neil Balholm. But it was all Buckeyes after that, as they scored 17 unanswered points in the third quarter to seal the win.
Related: 1982 Holiday Bowl: Ohio State 47, BYU 17
In Steve Young's final year as a Cougar quarterback, BYU secured its eighth consecutive WAC championship and sixth straight Holiday Bowl appearance with a 10-1 record and a No. 9 national ranking. They entered the bowl game as heavy favorites over the 7-4 Missouri Tigers, but the game ended up closer than anyone would have guessed.
Missouri scored first and matched the Cougar offense play for play, even taking a 10-7 lead into halftime. After a BYU score in the third, Missouri took a 17-14 lead in the fourth quarter on running back Eric Drain's second rushing touchdown of the game.
That set the stage for another dramatic finish, this time on a trick play. Young handed the ball off to running back Eddie Stinnett, who ran right, then stopped and threw back across the field to Young, who caught the pass and dashed into the end zone for the winning score.
Related: 1983 Holiday Bowl: BYU 21, Missouri 17
While not as dramatic as the 1980 "Miracle" Bowl, this bowl win is probably the most significant in BYU history, as it secured the school's first and only national championship.
The Cougars entered the matchup on a 23-game winning streak, having survived close games against Pittburgh, Hawaii, Wyoming and Air Force. They were the only undefeated team in the nation and ranked No. 1 in the polls. Despite criticism that their schedule was too weak for a national champion, the consensus was that a Holiday Bowl win would give BYU the title.
After being turned down by several teams, the Holiday Bowl finally secured the 6-5 Wolverines, who had had an inconsistent season. They came close to thwarting BYU's undefeated dream, but the Cougars persevered.
BYU quarterback Robbie Bosco suffered a knee ligament strain on the second drive of the game. He was replaced for one possession by backup Blaine Fowler, but Bosco returned and gutted out an incredible performance. He scrambled for a key first down on the Cougars' first touchdown drive and led BYU on the two-minute drill for a field goal just before halftime.
In the third quarter, BYU's mistakes kept Michigan in the game, as the Cougars had five turnovers overall on the day. Michigan blocked a BYU field goal attempt and scored on the ensuing drive, putting the Wolverines up 14-10. They tacked on a field goal in the fourth quarter to make the score 17-10.
Bosco connected with Glenn Kozlowski to tie the game at 17, but a deflection on the Cougars' next possession led to an interception. The BYU defense forced a Michigan punt, and a wounded Bosco led the Cougars on one last drive, culminating with a touchdown pass to Kelly Smith with 1:23 left on the clock. An interception sealed the win and the national championship for the Cougars.
Related: 1984 Holiday Bowl: BYU 24, Michigan 17
The Cougars' second bowl matchup with the Buckeyes wasn't as lopsided, but it still ended with Ohio State on top. BYU's winning streak had snapped earlier that season with a loss to UCLA, but they still boasted an 11-2 record and another WAC co-championship.
The Cougars had numerous late chances to win this low-scoring affair, but three BYU drives in the fourth quarter ended in failure, including a late interception in the end zone that sealed the game.
Related: 1985 Citrus Bowl: Ohio State 10, BYU 7
For the first time in 10 years, the Cougars failed to claim even a piece of the WAC championship, leaving the team at 8-4 and playing in the Freedom Bowl in Anaheim against the hometown Bruins, who were ranked No. 15 in the nation.
While BYU's Mike Young and Bob Jensen battled for quarterback time, UCLA's Gaston Green galloped over the Cougar defense for 266 rushing yards and three touchdowns. Green even threw a late touchdown pass to teammate Karl Dorrell in the fourth quarter. The Cougars had no chance in this one.
Related: 1986 Freedom Bowl: UCLA 31, BYU 10
Previously known as the Hall of Fame Classic, the All-American Bowl, played in Birmingham, Ala., existed from 1977 to 1990 and pitted two at-large teams. BYU entered the game with a 9-3 record, but with Wyoming going 8-0 in WAC play, a Holiday Bowl berth was out of the question. They matched up against 7-4 Virginia instead.
Virginia took a 14-3 lead into halftime, and while BYU mounted a second-half comeback led by quarterback Sean Covey, the Cavaliers defense held on for the win. Covey did post 394 yards passing with one touchdown in a losing effort.
Related: 1987 All-American Bowl: Virginia 22, BYU 16
This game is probably best known as Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer's coming-out party. The Cougars had lost three of their last four regular season games, finishing with an 8-4 record, while the Buffaloes were 8-3 and poised for several years of success. BYU looked outmatched in the first half as the Buffs took a 14-7 lead into halftime.
Detmer started the second half for the Cougars and completed 11 of 19 passes for 129 yards, leading the Cougars to two field goals by now-Rep. Jason Chaffetz, including the game winner.
Related: 1988 Freedom Bowl: BYU 20, Colorado 17
The 10-2 Cougars, led by Ty Detmer, finally claimed their first WAC championship in four years and returned to the Holiday Bowl after a five-year absence. They faced the 7-3-1 Nittany Lions, ranked No. 18 in the country.
Detmer posted incredible numbers in a losing effort, completing 42 of 59 passes for 576 yards. But he also made key mistakes down the stretch, including losing a fumble that Penn State's Gary Brown returned 53 yards for a touchdown on what could have been the game-winning drive.
Related: 1989 Holiday Bowl: Penn State 50, BYU 39
After upsetting No. 1 Miami in the second game of the season, the stage was set for the Cougars to have an unprecedented year. They rose to No. 4 in the national rankings twice before losses at Oregon and at Hawaii cut them down. Still, the Cougars entered the 1990 Holiday Bowl with a chance to finish a solid season.
Those hopes were short-lived, as the Aggies ran all over the Cougars. They scored 23 unanswered points in the second quarter to take a 37-7 lead into halftime, and things only got worse from there. Heisman winner Ty Detmer suffered two shoulder separations and had to leave the game twice, but the game was over long before then.
Related: 1990 Holiday Bowl: Texas A&M 65, BYU 14
For a third straight year, the Cougars earned the outright WAC championship and a Holiday Bowl berth. But this time, they were clear underdogs against the 10-1 Hawkeyes, who boasted a No. 7 national ranking.
This final college game for Ty Detmer turned out to be the lowest-scoring game in Holiday Bowl history to date and the last bowl ever to end in a tie. The Cougars had a chance to take the lead with just over four minutes left, and Detmer led them on a drive to the Iowa 18-yard-line. But a deflected pass led to his only interception of the game, sealing the tie.
Related: 1991 Holiday Bowl: BYU 13, Iowa 13
The Cougars have had a difficult time playing in the islands, and this bowl game was no different. BYU had already lost once at Aloha Stadium that season, leaving the Cougars with just a share of the WAC championship. Their opponents, Kansas, came in with a 7-4 record and were playing for their first bowl win in 31 years.
The Jayhawks came away with that elusive win because the Cougars missed opportunities. After Hema Heimuli returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown, the Cougars built a 20-10 lead in the third quarter. But multiple drives stalled in Kansas territory after that, including two missed field goals. A botched extra point allowed Kansas to tie the game at 20, and a late drive allowed the Jayhawks to boot the game-winning field goal.
Related: 1992 Aloha Bowl: Kansas 23, BYU 20
The Cougars stumbled to a 6-5 record -- somehow good enough for another three-way share of the WAC title -- and faced their old bowl foes, Ohio State, for the third time in history. Unfortunately for BYU fans, the result was the same.
The Buckeyes entered the game with a 9-1-1 record and No. 11 national ranking, and coach John Cooper had guaranteed months before that his team would win its bowl game. But BYU battled to keep the score close.
Cougar quarterback John Walsh threw two touchdown passes in the second quarter to tie the game at 21. But Buckeye running back Raymont Harris scored his third touchdown of the game in the third quarter, and a last-second throw from Walsh to Eric Drage fell short, giving Ohio State its third straight bowl win over BYU.
Related: 1993 Holiday Bowl: Ohio State 28, BYU 21
BYU earned its first bowl win in six years over the Sooners in Arizona. For the 9-3 Cougars, ranked No. 22 in the nation, it was the biggest margin of victory in the school's bowl history to date, and it tied the Sooners' biggest postseason loss as well.
John Walsh led the Cougars all game, posting 454 passing yards and four touchdowns. The Cougars jumped out to a 17-0 halftime lead, and the Sooners didn't score at all until the fourth quarter, when the outcome was already settled. The win gave BYU its first 10-win season in four years.
Related: 1994 Copper Bowl: BYU 31, Oklahoma 6
After missing out on postseason play for the first time in 17 years in 1995, BYU returned to national prominence in 1996. Led by quarterback Steve Sarkisian, the Cougars upset Texas A&M to open the year and posted a 13-1 record, their only loss coming at Washington.
The newly formed Bowl Alliance, the ancestor of the modern BCS, declined to invite the Cougars, despite a higher ranking than at-large choices Nebraska and Penn State. Instead, the Cougars headed to Dallas for their first-ever New Year's Day game, facing the 9-2 Wildcats.
Star BYU linebacker Shay Muirbrook opened the game with a safety of KSU quarterback Brian Kavanagh, and the Cougars added a field goal in the first quarter, giving them a strange 5-0 lead. The BYU defense nearly held the Wildcats scoreless in the first half, but a Hail Mary pass to end the half gave K-State an 8-5 lead.
The Wildcats scored again in the third quarter, after which their star defensive back Chris Canty had to leave the game with cramps. Sarkisian immediately attacked the KSU secondary without Canty, throwing a touchdown pass to James Dye early in the fourth quarter.
Another K-State defensive injury helped Sarkisian find K.O. Kealaluhi for the go-ahead score, and BYU's own secondary stepped up with an interception to seal the win for the Cougars. They ended the season with a No. 5 ranking.
Related: 1996 Cotton Bowl: BYU 19, Kansas State 15
While the Cougars lost the WAC championship game to Air Force, the Liberty Bowl still selected 9-4 BYU as its first-choice WAC representative in 1998. Tulane entered the game undefeated at 11-0 and ranked No. 10 in all polls, led by star quarterback Shaun King.
BYU scored first when quarterback Kevin Feterik found Ben Horton for an 11-yard touchdown, but Tulane scored 34 unanswered points to put the game out of reach. The Cougars' 21 fourth-quarter points were too little, too late.
Related: 1998 Liberty Bowl: Tulane 41, BYU 27
In the inaugural season of the Mountain West Conference, formed when eight teams broke away from the bloated, 16-team WAC, the Cougars earned part of a three-way championship tie with Utah and Colorado State. They posted an 8-3 record and faced another undefeated mid-major team in Marshall, ranked No. 11 nationally.
With star running back Luke Staley playing through numerous injuries, the Cougars couldn't get anything going offensively. Quarterback Kevin Feterik was injured in the third quarter as well, leaving backups Bret Engemann and Charlie Peterson to fend off a hungry Marshall defense. It didn't go well.
Related: 1999 Motor City Bowl: Marshall 21, BYU 3
After missing the postseason in LaVell Edwards' final year as head coach, the Cougars bounced back under Gary Crowton. Led by quarterback Brandon Doman and running back Luke Staley, the Cougars posted a 12-0 record and a No. 10 national ranking entering their final regular-season game at Hawaii.
However, Staley had broken his leg during the previous game, and the new Bowl Championship Series informed the Cougars that they would not be selected for one of its prestigious games. Demoralized by the news and depleted by injuries, the Cougars lost to Hawaii 72-45, sealing their Liberty Bowl fate.
Unfortunately, BYU played no better in Memphis, as Louisville quarterback Dave Ragone led the Cardinals to a 14-7 halftime lead and never looked back. The Cougars would end the year unranked.
Related: 2001 Liberty Bowl: Louisville 28, BYU 10
After a four-year bowl absence, new BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall led the Cougars to a 6-5 record and a second-place finish in the Mountain West Conference. With conference champion TCU headed to the Houston Bowl, the Cougars were selected to play in Las Vegas against 7-4 Cal.
Despite talented Cal stars Marshawn Lynch and Desean Jackson, BYU battled to keep the game close in the first half. But the Bears increased their lead to 35-14 late in the third quarter, and despite a late comeback from BYU quarterback John Beck, Cal held on for the win.
Related: 2005 Las Vegas Bowl: California 35, BYU 28
After a 1-2 start to the regular season, the Cougars reeled off nine straight wins to capture their first Mountain West Conference championship and earn a second straight Las Vegas Bowl berth. They faced the unranked Ducks, who entered the game with a 7-5 record.
Despite predictions of a close matchup, BYU dominated the game. After a scoreless first quarter, the Cougars exploded for 31 straight points, putting the game away early in the second half. Quarterback John Beck threw for 375 yards and two touchdowns and tight end Jonny Harline caught nine passes for 181 yards and a touchdown, earning him MVP honors.
Related: 2006 Las Vegas Bowl: BYU 38, Oregon 8
The Cougars made their third straight Las Vegas Bowl appearance after another 10-2 regular season and a second straight outright Mountain West Conference title. The 6-5 Bruins were led by former BYU quarterback Ben Olsen, who had transferred to UCLA. They also had an interim coach, DeWayne Walker, after former coach Karl Dorrell was fired.
Despite that turmoil, UCLA battled BYU throughout the game. Both teams traded blows in the first half, with BYU taking a 17-13 lead into halftime after both teams scored touchdowns in the final minute of the second quarter.
The Cougars' slim lead held up as their defense strengthened. They capped off their effort with Eathyn Manumaleuna's fingertip block of what would have been a game-winning UCLA field goal attempt as time expired. With that, the Cougars tallied bowl wins in consecutive season for the first time since 1983-84.
Related: 2007 Las Vegas Bowl: BYU 17, UCLA 16
For the third straight year, BYU entered the Las Vegas Bowl with a 10-2 record, though not as Mountain West Conference champions. (The undefeated Utah Utes played in the Sugar Bowl that year.) They faced the 7-5 Arizona Wildcats, led by head coach Mike Stoops and quarterback Willie Tuitama.
BYU entered the game as favorites, but Arizona struck first, scoring 10 straight points to open the game. But the Cougars answered with a Harvey Unga touchdown run and a Max Hall pass to tight end Andrew George, giving BYU a 14-10 lead.
From there, Tuitama took over, leading the Wildcats to three unanswered touchdowns, including one he ran in himself. Hall's late touchdown run wasn't enough to close the gap, and BYU fell to 2-2 in Las Vegas Bowl appearances.
Related: 2008 Las Vegas Bowl: Arizona 31, BYU 21
The Cougars leaped back into the top 10 after upsetting No. 3 Oklahoma in Dallas to open the season. But a home loss to Florida State spoiled BYU's undefeated hopes, and a later defeat at the hands of No. 7 TCU put a Mountain West Conference championship out of reach. Another 10-2 regular-season record and a fifth straight Las Vegas Bowl berth awaited the Cougars.
Strong winds played a large factor in the game, making punting and passing difficult. But BYU still managed to take a 23-7 halftime lead behind the strong running of Harvey Unga and a stout defensive effort. The Cougars held Oregon State running back Jacquizz Rodgers to 63 yards, and Max Hall threw three touchdown passes despite the wind to lead BYU to another 11-2 season.
Related: 2009 Las Vegas Bowl: BYU 44, Oregon State 20
The Cougars struggled in their final season in the Mountain West Conference with a disappointing 6-6 regular-season record. The team struggled to settle on a quarterback, finally going with Jake Heaps for the last few games. UTEP, the Cougars' old WAC foes, also entered the matchup with a 6-6 record.
The bowl game proved to be the highlight of Heaps' BYU career. He threw for 264 yards and four touchdowns, and three of those were to star wide receiver Cody Hoffman. The Cougars leaped out to a 17-3 lead in the first quarter, and the game was never really in doubt after that.
Related: 2010 New Mexico Bowl: BYU 52, UTEP 24
In their first season as a football independent, the Cougars struggled early on. They hung with Texas in Austin, losing 17-16, and got blown away by archrival Utah in Provo. With an easier second-half schedule (and after benching quarterback Jake Heaps in favor of Riley Nelson), the Cougars recovered to finish the regular season at 9-3 and earn an invite to the Armed Forces Bowl in Texas.
Nelson was far from impressive in the game, as he finished just 17-of-40 for 250 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. But he came through when it mattered most. With 11 seconds left, on his own initiative, Nelson called a "fake spike" play, appearing to throw the ball into the ground to stop the block. Instead, he threw a pass to a wide-open Cody Hoffman for the game-winning score.
With that, BYU achieved three straight bowl wins for the first time in school history.
Related: 2011 Armed Forces Bowl: BYU 24, Tulsa 21
For more about BYU's 30 bowl appearances, read the Deseret News BYU Cougar bowl retrospective
Offense? Offense? Who needs an offense when you have all-everything, do-everything linebacker Kyle Van Noy?
While BYU struggled moving the ball and scoring points, Van Noy, who spearheaded another strong Cougar defensive effort Thursday night, pretty much took matters into his own hands and took control of the defensive slugfest in the fourth quarter.
In what could have been his final game in a BYU uniform, Van Noy scored two touchdowns in the Cougars' come-from-behind 23-6 Poinsettia Bowl victory over San Diego State before a crowd of 35,422 at Qualcomm Stadium.
It was arguably the most dominant defensive performance BYU has ever displayed in a bowl game, particularly when compared with how much the offense struggled.
Contributing: Landon Hemsley
Read more about the dominant BYU defense in the 2012 Poinsettia Bowl.


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New General on the Block
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the NATO International
Security Assistance Force, chats with Army Lt. Col. David Oclander at
checkpoint 91 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 9, 2010. Oclander is the
commander of the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
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Honouring another soul's journey as being perfect for their lessons and purpose is the way to be the most constructive and helpful.
It can be such a weight on you if you have a loving, tender heart and feel concern for another, particularly if it is a family member. My teacher told me recently that one of the biggest lessons we are learning at this time, especially mothers and their children, is to let go and allow. Intellectually, I am sure you understand that everyone has their own lessons and path which, even despite the difficulties, is perfect for them. Haven't you learnt much through our challenges? If you look back would you change them? They are the way through which we choose from the level of our souls to learn and grow. Please know life is a mystery, it is unknowable, but the soul knows perfectly what is right for each person's development. If you are over-concerned you are leaking your energy and are adding to the problem, literally feeding it with negativity, maintaining the situation and preventing the solution from entering from spirit and Source. Someone once told me this is like adding fertilizer to the problem! One of the ways you can be powerfully helpful is to recognise the God in the other person, the soul light, rather than the struggling human. Do this meditation and then let go, respecting and honouring the other person's journey and the lessons they have chosen.


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A mother onboard an American Airlines flight says she was "humiliated" after an embarrassing confrontation with a staff member over the use of her breast pump.
Dawn Brahos was flying from Minneapolis to Chicago on April 18 when a flight attendant refused to let the mother-of-three use her breast pump, despite being told otherwise by the airline's reservation agents.
"[The flight attendant] was speaking in a loud voice, reading a page from a manual and adamant that because it was not pre-approved medical equipment I could not use the pump at my seat," Brahos told NBC News. "I felt humiliated. Everyone pretty much knew my business at that point and she kept checking back and eyeballing me the whole time to make sure I wasn't using the pump."
The 38-year-old mother was travelling with her husband on a rare trip while Brahos' mom was looking after the couple's three children. The two were flying to Chicago when bad weather delayed their flight, forcing American Airlines to put them in a hotel and book them a flight for the next morning.
It was on that flight that Brahos said she began feeling painfully engorged during the flight since she didn't have time to pump because spent the previous hours checking out of the hotel, getting to the airport and boarding the plane, according to New York Daily News. Breast pumps allow women to relieve pressure in the breast which can cause pain. Brahos says she typically pumps every three hours and said that she encountered no issues when she pumped on American Airlines earlier in April.
"Pumping is already awkward and uncomfortable enough without having to worry about the individual discretion of whoever happens to be working that day," Brahos said in Traveler Today. "The rules have to be clear. It's not like you can fight with a flight attendant these days."
American Airlines has since apologized to Brahos, according to the Christian Science Monitor, insisting that mothers are allowed to use breast pumps during flights, though they must be a compatible Medela-brand pump.
"We apologize for the experience Ms. Brahos had on a recent flight. Our in-flight personnel are trained to handle these situations with professionalism and discretion. American does not have a policy prohibiting the use of breast pumps in-flight. As with other devices that have an on/off switch, customers will be asked not to use them during takeoff and landing. Our procedures advise our crews to ensure that mothers who are breast feeding or using breast pumps have the privacy they need," said Andrea Huguely, a spokesperson with American Airlines.
The U.S. carrier has offered Brahos a $100 gift voucher but says she's still filing a formal complaint, according to KSL.com
"I really hope they improve training and get everyone on the same page. And I'd love to see their policy in black and white on their website, so moms can print it up and travel with it," she said. "It's important that this doesn't happen to other moms down the road.
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WASHINGTON, April 20 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Friday welcomed an agreement by Iran and the European Union to resume talks over Iran's nuclear program.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana agreed during a phone talk on Thursday to resume nuclear talks on April 25.
"Certainly we support those continued contacts between Mr Solana and Mr Larijani," State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said.
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As the world's population continues to grow, so does the need for more transportation. Because of this ever growing need, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have been steadily climbing, contributing to global warming.
Fortunately, technological advancements have enabled car manufacturers to address this impending environmental crisis. Alternatives to the internal combustion engines, such as electric and hybrid vehicles have low CO2 emissions, positioning themselves as the better and cleaner options.
At the recently concluded first ASEAN Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Summit held in Manila, Nissan introduced the Nissan Intelligent Mobility plan. A plan that helps Nissan determine 'how our vehicles should be powered, driven, and integrated into society.'
"We see a future of zero emissions and fatalities through Nissan Intelligent Mobility. We want drivers to feel more confident, more connected, and more engaged in their vehicles," says Mr. Yutaka Sanada, Nissan's regional senior vice president for Asia and Oceania, at the first ASEAN Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Summit.
Nissan hopes to see more advancements of EV technology in the Philippines roads in order for them to incorporate their expertise and technology such as Intelligent Power and ProPilot technology on the roads. Advancements could also allow Nissan to bring in more products such as the Note and the Leaf.
"As a global leader in EV and hybrid technology, Nissan is willing to participate in and contribute to the drive for electrification in the Philippines," says Mr. Ramesh Narasimhan, president and managing director of Nissan Philippines, Inc.
Sanada adds that Nissan hopes to share their expertise and products in countries with emerging EV markets such as the Philippines.


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August 22, 2011
Kelly Clark
Theme: For the Birds — The first word of each theme answer is something birds do.
Theme answers:
- 20A: *Resolve once and for all (LAY TO REST).
- 38A: *Savings for later in life (NEST EGG).
- 11D: *Like unreliable short-term businesses (FLY-BY-NIGHT).
- 27D: *Do some scheming (HATCH A PLOT).
- 56A: Lyric in a Porter song that ends "Let's fall in love," and a hint to the starts of the starred answers (and 1-Across) (BIRDS DO IT).
[I couldn't find a video of anybody actually performing this song, but I wanted you to hear it anyway.]
- 1A: Sound from a tree (CHIRP). Bonus non-theme theme answer!
- 14A: Flamboyant evangelist __ Semple McPherson (AIMEE). I felt like this is someone I should probably know, but it turns out she was a media celebrity back in the 20s and 30s. Of course there are people from back then who I am familiar with, but I guess my knowledge of flamboyant evangelists is limited.
- 17A: Baseball's Nolan and actress Meg (RYANS). Nolan RYAN is CEO of the Texas Rangers, you know.
- 28A: Arrive after a tough trip (MAKE IT IN). This answer shows up in the cruciverb.com data base only one other time. I think it's a great entry.
- 10D: Italian sandwich (PANINI). PANINI is a fun word to say. I thought the PANINI was just the bread for some reason, but I guess it's the whole sandwich.
- 40D: "... or __ thought" (SO I). If we have to have a partial in the grid, I'm glad it's clued in a way that makes me laugh. For some reason, I picture this phrase being said in a cartoonish way, like the same way someone might say "If that is your real name!"
- 49D: Simpsons neighbor Flanders (NED). One day I'll do a crosswordese entry about all the Simpsons stuff you need to know for puzzles.
Other crosswordese in today's puzzle that we've already covered:
- 16A: Inter __: among others (ALIA).
- 43A: Slender woodwind (OBOE).
- 62A: Rani's garment (SARI).
- 67A: Italian noble family (ESTE).
- 39D: River of Spain (EBRO).
- 47D: "__ Fideles": carol (ADESTE).
Everything — 1A: Sound from a tree (CHIRP); 6A: Range between soprano and tenor (ALTO); 10A: Cpls.' underlings (PFC'S); 14A: Flamboyant evangelist __ Semple McPherson (AIMEE); 15A: Boston Bruins or Chicago Bears, e.g. (TEAM); 16A: Inter __: among others (ALIA); 17A: Baseball's Nolan and actress Meg (RYANS); 18A: Bath towel word (HERS); 19A: Natasha's no (NYET); 20A: *Resolve once and for all (LAY TO REST); 22A: Many an October baby, astrologically (LIBRA); 23A: A __ alfa (AS IN); 24A: Nairobi native (KENYAN); 25A: Satirical Mort (SAHL); 28A: Arrive after a tough trip (MAKE IT IN); 31A: Schoolroom group (CLASS); 33A: Travelers' lodgings (INNS); 34A: Hypotheticals (IFS); 37A: PC key (ALT); 38A: *Savings for later in life (NEST EGG); 41A: Miracle-__: garden brand (GRO); 42A: B'way setting (NYC); 43A: Slender woodwind (OBOE); 44A: Reacted to fireworks (OOHED); 46A: The Beatles' George (HARRISON); 50A: Salt Lake City college team, aptly (UTES); 51A: "Happy I can oblige" ("GLAD TO"); 53A: Cop's route (BEAT); 55A: Lassos (ROPES); 56A: Lyric in a Porter song that ends "Let's fall in love," and a hint to the starts of the starred answers (and 1-Across) (BIRDS DO IT); 61A: "__ well that ends ..." (ALL'S); 62A: Rani's garment (SARI); 63A: Cease-fire (TRUCE); 64A: Coagulate, as blood (CLOT); 65A: Treater's words (ON ME); 66A: Levels, as a building (RAZES); 67A: Italian noble family (ESTE); 68A: Fava or lima (BEAN); 69A: Illegally off-base GIs (AWOLS); 1D: Poet Sandburg (CARL); 2D: Breezy greeting (HIYA); 3D: "__ be wrong, but ..." (I MAY); 4D: Avis offerings (RENTALS); 5D: Cuban cash (PESOS); 6D: Zeus' daughter (ATHENA); 7D: Popular jeans (LEES); 8D: Small fruit pie (TART); 9D: Mantric syllables (OMS); 10D: Italian sandwich (PANINI); 11D: *Like unreliable short-term businesses (FLY-BY-NIGHT); 12D: Olds Cutlass model (CIERA); 13D: The devil (SATAN); 21D: Canyon edge (RIM); 22D: "Come on, we're late" ("LET'S GO"); 24D: Goal in checkers (KING); 25D: Read, as a bar code (SCAN); 26D: Treaty partner (ALLY); 27D: *Do some scheming (HATCH A PLOT); 29D: Flying toys (KITES); 30D: U-turn from WSW (ENE); 32D: Stable sounds (SNORTS); 35D: Available for a date (FREE); 36D: Puts in a lawn the fast way (SODS); 39D: River of Spain (EBRO); 40D: "... or __ thought" (SO I); 45D: Beat in a Western showdown (OUTDRAW); 47D: "__ Fideles": carol (ADESTE); 48D: Conan of "Conan" (O'BRIEN); 49D: Simpsons neighbor Flanders (NED); 51D: Pre-meal blessing (GRACE); 52D: Lounges around (LOLLS); 54D: Stars, in Latin (ASTRA); 56D: Undoing (BANE); 57D: Cookbook writer Rombauer (IRMA); 58D: Greek liqueur (OUZO); 59D: Its cap. is Reykjavik (ICEL.); 60D: Tracy's Trueheart (TESS); 62D: Cry out loud (SOB).


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Dr Lung, Hong Lok 龍康樂
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- My current projects are mainly focused on the cancer genetics and the associated tumor microenvironment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). We have previously identified some NPC tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) including THY1, TSLC1, ADAMTS9, and CRYAB by using the functional complementation approach and the subsequent gene profiling and genotyping analyses. We are characterizing their tumor suppressive function and association with angiogenesis in NPC. My role is to investigate the mechanistic analysis of some tumor suppressors. By understanding which oncogenic signalling pathways the tumor suppressors are counteracting, potential therapeutic targets for NPC will be identified and relevant inhibitors will be tested for anti-cancer therapy. On the other hand, polymorphism analysis of a recently identified TSG, Serum Amyloid A 1 (SAA1), and its associations with NPC and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) risk are my other major research interest. In addition, I am also interested to investigate whether the aggressive/metastatic phenotype of NPC cell lines is associated with tumor hypoxia.
Professional Qualifications
|Awarding Institution
|University of Western Sydney
|Bachelor of Technology Management in Biotechnology (Honors)
|The Chinese University of Hong Kong
|PhD Biochemistry
I graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a bachelor's degree of Technology Management and obtained my PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. After being a postdoctoral fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a research associate at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, I joined the Department of Clinical Oncology at the University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant Professor in 2009 and was promoted as an Assistant Professor in 2012.
Honours, Awards & Prizes
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|Honours / Awards / Prizes
|Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research - "Establishment of human nasopharyngeal carcinoma in 3D invasion and angiogenesis organotypic culture to study hypoxia-induced tumor invasion and angiogenesis" HK$47,900
|Research Achievement
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|Professional Societies
|Reviewer board member
|Associate Editor
|Council member
|Hong Kong Society for Immunology
Major Research Themes & Current Projects
|My major interest is to identify and study tumor suppressor genes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) by the combination of mono-chromosome transfer, gene expression profiling, and genotyping techniques. The underlining mechanisms of tumor suppression, which include the anti-angiogenic, apoptosis-inducing, and growth inhibitory effects are currently investigated. Polymorphism analysis of some of our tumor suppressor genes and their associations with NPC risk are my other major research interest.
|Identification and study of tumor suppressor genes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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took part in the 2 week event staged on the banks of the Danube in the newly built Duna pool.
The star of the show was Lizzie Bellinger, swimming in the 35-39 year age group she achieved two bronzes and a Fifth. The 3rd place medals where for the 50 and the 100 butterfly with times of 29.71 and 1.06.70 respectively. Lizzie swam a 2.38.92 on the gruelling 200m fly. The winner of all three races was the American Noriko Inada a former Olympian.
Sally Winter, made her return to competition after a serious bike accident, she swam the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle events in the 55/59 age group. She finished 7th on both the 100 and 200 free (1.07.79 and 2.29.28) and 10th in the 50 free (31.59). All were seasons best times.
Barry Chandler was competing in his last swim for the club for a while as heheads off for a 'gap year' to Spain and south America. In the 60-64 age group he was placed 8th in the 50 Fly in a time of 30.85 and 30th in the 50 freestyle in a time of 29.63, he was 37th in the 100 freestyle (1.10.34)
Ashley Meerloo (55-59) was competing in his first World event and managed personal best masters times on all his events. He finished 22nd in the 100 freestyle in a time of 1.04.25, he was 11th in the 50m fly in 30.08 and 19th in the 50 free in 28.57. In his 100 fly Ashley managed to break the 1.10.00 barrier and finished 12th in 1.09.97.


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Work on the Cistercian Way has taken a bit of a back seat recently for various reasons. I had great plans to work on routes in west and north Wales this summer. Alas, lugging a heavy bag of books off the bus (real first-world academic problem, this) I banged my knee and damaged the cruciate ligament. Then I went on a field trip with the wonderful Eddie Procter (@landscapism, http://landscapism.blogspot.co.uk/ ….), half way up the pilgrim route on Mynydd Maen my knee popped again and Eddie had to haul me out of a bramble bush. Doctor says it will heal but no walking on rough ground. 'But that's what I do' I wailed.
Also no kneeling. That's the other thing I do (old tomb carvings).
Meanwhile, we have been trying to get maps on the site. We have permission to use VisitWales's licence so we can embed marked-up Ordnance Survey maps into the site.
If only it were that simple.
Bizarrely, the Ordnance Survey can't work with URLs ending .wales or .cymru. This is in spite of the huge number of sites that now have those URLs, including our public transport web site, https://www.traveline.cymru/ . We have asked again and again and they simply stall us – they don't seem to see the problem. Even the Secretary of State's office has tried.
But there is some progress. I went to north Wales over the weekend to talk to the Historic Houses Association at Gwydir Castle. Enormous fun, though I'm not entirely sure why I was there – the dedicated couple who have been restoring the house and tracking down its lost treasures know much more about it than I do.
I stayed in Trefriw, where they were having a scarecrow festival.
Princess Siwan and Llywelyn Fawr with locals and the Urdd mascot!
Since I was last walking in the area, Trefriw has done some great work waymarking local paths and producing a leaflet of trails. Some of these actually fill in the gaps and problem areas in the route through that area. Of course, I couldn't walk any of them – but I did walk along the road, see where routes joined and left, and once the knee is better I can join the dots. Downloadable leaflet at http://www.visitllandudno.org.uk/things-to-do/trefriw-trails-p291871 and more detail of some of the trails at http://www.trefriwoutdoors.co.uk/trefriw_trails.html (but not trail 9, unfortunately).
It looks as though we can comfortably take the route through the lead mines to the church at Llanrhychwyn (OS ref SH 77474 61672).
This has to be in my top 3 of Welsh churches. A little, unspectacular building, looking as though it has grown out of the bones of the hills, it has a lot of its C17-C18 woodwork
and some intensely moving medieval stained glass.
From here you can cut down footpaths and very minor roads to Llanrwst or Trefriw to find somewhere to stay. You can then continue on the low-level route along the banks of the Conwy or climb back up to the high-level route.
To stay on the high-level route, from the church start by following the leaflet route 8 in reverse. (You have to bear in mind that most of the routes are only waymarked one way, so you have to do a bit more of the work yourself.) Walk back down the lane from the church to SH 77398 61772 and take the road to the left. At SH 76998 62092 take the footpath to the right. Follow the footpath round Penrallt farm and down toward some disused mine workings. At SH 76967 62883 the leaflet route 8 goes right but you go left and down to cross the Crafnant at SH 76967 62883. This puts you on leaflet route 7 (in reverse again). Walk up to the road and turn right.
I got this far in about 2007, took the next footpath to the left at SH 76900 63116, and went up through the woods.
This landed me up to my knees in bog and up to my armpits in bracken and scrub. I got through but I couldn't recommend it. The leaflet suggests you take this footpath but bear round to the right, keeping to the edge of the woods (OS gridpoints SH 76882 63166, SH 76975 63281, SH 77047 63318, SH 77017 63408), above Gelli-newydd farm and along the lane to the road. Turn left.
From here you can follow the very minor road over the spur and down to Llyn Cowlyd. For an easier but slightly longer walk, take the footpath to the right at SH 77017 63408. You are now on leaflet route 9 and – glory be – walking it the right way round, so the waymarks should be with you. You should be able to cut up to this point from Trefriw by taking the road up the hill and following the waymarked path at SH 77834 63344.
Rejoin the road at SH 77587 64723. At about SH 76977 65593 it becomes a lane, then a footpath leading to Brwynog Isaf and Uchaf. Turn right on a minor road at SH 74642 64133. You are now on the higher-level route as described on the web site. Take the footpath over the spur and down to the ruined dam of Llyn Eigiau, then on to Conwy Mountain.
I haven't actually walked any of this, but it looks as though it should work.
And Crafnant House in Trefriw is an excellent place to stay – peace, quiet, good books and amazing vegan breakfasts. Usually the vegan breakfast is what's left when you remove the bacon, eggs and anything with milk. At Crafnant House I had vegan French toast one day and a sweet potato hash that would have made a perfectly good supper the other day. Highly recommended.


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British soul and R&B star Craig David has announced his biggest ever UK arena tour.
And the Following My Intuition Tour comes to Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena on March 28.
Craig David arrived on the UK scene in 1999 as the vocalist on Artful Dodger's number two hit Re-Rewind.
In 2000, his debut solo single, Fill Me In, went to number one, as did the follow-up, 7 Days.
He had further top 10 hits with songs like Rendevouz, Walking Away, What's Your Flava?, Rise & Fall and All The Way.
His debut album, Born To Do It, also topped the UK charts and his next two albums, Slicker Than Your Average and The Story Goes, also made the top 10.
In all, he has sold more than 15 million albums and achieved 16 top 10 hits in more than 20 countries.
His new album, Following My Intuition is out on September 30.
Craig said: "I'm beyond excited to announce this tour.
"It's been 15 years since I did an arena tour here in the UK and I want to enjoy every single second this time around.
"I don't take anything for granted and this tour honestly means the world to me.
"I feel so lucky to be able to travel the UK and perform tracks off my new album as well as some of my classics and to invite everyone to enjoy the TS5 experience too.
"I have no words for how amazing this year has been for me and I want to thank you all for the incredible love and support you have shown me.
"I can't wait to see you on tour."
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Conacher using physical edge to stand tall for Ottawaby Chris Adamski
PITTSBURGH -- At 5-foot-8, Cory Conacher always had to do a little something extra if he was going to stand out from the crowd.
The Ottawa Senators rookie wing has found a way to do that, in what would be among the most unexpected of manners for someone who is tied for the second-shortest player still active in these Stanley Cup Playoffs.
He gets physical, agitates and isn't afraid to mix it up with those who tower over him in height and weight.
"I've always had that little bit of an edge and attitude to my game," Conacher said a day after taking three minor penalties during Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
"That's kind of the reason why I've been able to make it this far and coaches have given me an opportunity to play. And I want to keep that edge, because I think it can be effective."
In five playoff games, Conacher is tied for the Senators' lead in goals with three, and he's tied for the team lead in penalty minutes with 29.
"He plays with an edge," Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson said. "He's a quick skater that has skill -- but he has a feistiness to him. He likes to get in there, and he's not afraid."
Tuesday's series opener against the Penguins provided quite the example. Conacher went toe-to-toe -- though certainly not eye-to-eye -- with 6-foot-2, 228-pound Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik during an after-whistle skirmish.
Conacher later got involved with Kris Letang midway through the third period, and was one of seven players given unsportsmanlike conduct or misconduct penalties with 29 seconds left in the game. The average height of the other six? Taller than 6-2.
"His heart is bigger than his size a lot of times," Senators coach Paul MacLean said. "He's a very competitive person. He works hard to score goals and he goes to dirty areas to have an opportunity to score. And those are things we like about him and those are things we need to continue to see about him. He was in there in the competitive battles around the net (during Game 1), and we need more people who can do that."
Conacher went undrafted but put up 62 goals in a college career at Canisius. He was signed by the Tampa Bay Lightning and this season ranked seventh in the NHL in goals and points by a rookie as a 23-year-old. He was acquired in an April 3 trade along with a fourth-round draft pick for goalie Ben Bishop.
"He's been as-advertised," MacLean said.
Alfredsson said, "A welcome addition. Not just his edge and his skill -- his speed too. It fits the style we play."
Speed is probably Conacher's most visible attribute. Watch him skate and it is almost immediately what sticks out. But as the Senators are finding out, that's not all he brings.
Talk to Conacher about his game for only a few minutes and you'll hear him use words like "pest" and "chaos" to describe himself and how he plays.
"I can't go over that line where I'm taking myself out of the game. If I'm in the box for four, six, eight, 10 minutes of the game, that's obviously not where I want to be. So I've got to focus on the goals first and the offensive and defensive play of the game, and then obviously I like to play and still be around the net and causing chaos a little bit."
Through it all, Conacher remains highly skilled enough to fit in with the most-prominent of linemates. With the Lightning, he was often skating with the reigning Rocket Richard Trophy winner (Steven Stamkos) and the one who would go on to earn the Art Ross (Martin St. Louis).
Often while with the Senators, Conacher has been on the top line with Alfredsson and Kyle Turris.
"He's been awesome," Turris said. "He's a great, skilled, energetic guy, and he plays with an edge. He's feisty. He's good with the puck and he has speed. He's a good player, just a lot of fun to play with.
"He's got to play with that edge and play feisty, and he does. He gets respect for it."


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Well…maybe we shouldn't blame Mother Nature…maybe the Weather Person(s) that we decide to put so much faith into their predictions…LOL! It was very disappointing that we cancelled our original HL Campground Site Selection meeting for 3/2/14, especially for the dismal "storm" that really never showed up! However, we WILL be holding the (rescheduled) meeting this Sunday 3/9/17…same time….same place (1:00PM @ the HL Clubhouse)! Hope to see lots of our campers there, New & Seasoned, alike. Also, want to apologize to those that did not get the word about the cancellation. This is why it is important to be electronically "connected" for ease of notification, as well as, staying current with what is happening! Please remember to submit your email addresses at one of the meetings (which you can share on the meeting sign up sheets always present at EVERY meeting) or join the blog and I will try to keep you up to date as well as you can message me! Thanks! Cheryl Fry
RESCHEDULE….Old Mother Nature fooled us!