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--Henri Desgrange, L'Équipe article of 1902
he oldest and simplest type of bicycle is the "fixed-gear" bicycle. This is a single-speed bike without a freewheel: that is, whenever the bike is in motion, the pedals will go around. You cannot coast on a fixed-gear machine.
any enthusiastic cyclists ride such bicycles by choice, at least part of the time. Why would anybody do that? It is not easy to put into words. There is an almost mystical connection between a fixed-gear cyclist and bicycle: it feels like an extension of your body to a greater extent than does a freewheel-equipped machine. If you are an enthusiastic, vigorous cyclist, you really should give it a try.
There are many reasons, including: Fun, Fitness, Form, Feel & 'Ficciency!
t takes a bit of practice to become comfortable on a fixed gear. Most cyclists, trying it for the first time, will automatically try to coast once the bike gets up to a certain speed. The bike will not allow this, and it is disconcerting. It takes a couple of weeks of regular riding to unlearn the impulse to coast, and become at ease on a fixed gear.
It is worth going through this learning experience, however, because once you do so, you will discover a new joy in cycling. When you ride a fixed gear, you feel a closer communion with your bike and with the road. There is a purity and simplicity to the fixed-gear bicycle that can be quite seductive. Somehow, once you get past the unfamiliarity, it is just more fun than riding a bike with gears and a freewheel! If you won't take my word for it, read some Fixed-Gear Testimonials.
iding a fixed gear on the road is excellent exercise. When you need to climb, you don't need to think about when to change gears, because you don't have that option. Instead, you know that you must just stand up and pedal, even though the gear is too high for maximum climbing efficiency. This makes you stronger.
If you have the option of gearing down and taking a hill at a slow pace, it is easy to yield to the temptation. When you ride a fixed gear, the need to push hard to get up the hills forces you to ride at a higher intensity than you otherwise might. Really steep hills may make you get off and walk, but the hills you are able to climb, you will climb substantially faster than you would on a geared bicycle.
When you descend, you can't coast, but the gear is too low. This forces you to pedal at a faster cadence than you would choose on a multi-speed bicycle. High-cadence pedaling improves the suppleness of your legs. High rpm's force you to learn to pedal in a smooth manner -- if you don't, you will bounce up and down in the saddle.
Most cyclists coast far too much. Riding a fixed-gear bike will break this pernicious habit. Coasting breaks up your rhythm and allows your legs to stiffen up. Keeping your legs in motion keeps the muscles supple, and promotes good circulation.
fixed gear gives you a very direct feel for traction conditions on slippery surfaces. This makes a fixed gear particularly suitable for riding in rainy or icy conditions.
This same feel for traction will help you learn exactly how hard you can apply your front brake without quite lifting the rear off the ground. Most fixed-gear riders only use a front brake--a rear brake is quite unnecessary on a fixed-gear machine.
Because you are more solidly connected to the bike, you have better control of it in bumpy conditions or in difficult corners.
On any road bike, the rider must learn to un-weight the saddle to ride over bumps. Most cyclists coast to do this. A fixed-gear rider will learn to "post" over bumps without breaking stride.
fixed-gear bike is considerably lighter than a multi-speed bike of comparable quality, due to the absence of the rear brake, derailers, shift levers, and extra sprockets. A fixed-gear bike also has a substantially shorter chain.
A properly set-up fixed gear has a perfectly straight chainline. This, plus the absence of derailer pulleys, makes a real improvement in the drive-train efficiency, an improvement you can feel.
any people think of fixed-gear bikes and track bikes as synonymous, but they aren't.
Track bicycles are designed for use on velodromes (bicycle tracks). Some riders do ride them on the road, but they are less than ideal for road use.
Track bicycles are set apart from road bicycles by more than the fixed gear.
Track bicycles do not have brakes. Brakes are unnecessary on tracks, since everybody is moving in the same direction, and none of the other cyclists you are riding with can stop any faster than you can. (Most tracks forbid the use of bikes that have brakes, as a safety measure!)
It is possible to fit a brake to some track bikes, but it is often quite difficult, due to the extremely tight frame clearances. Extremely short-reach brakes are needed. Track bike fork blades are usually round instead of oval, as those of a road bike are. This makes them stiffer and more rigid laterally, a good thing for hard out-of-the-saddle sprinting, which can apply considerable side loads. Unfortunately, they are less rigid front-to-back, so if you fit a brake, the fork may flex objectionably when the brake is applied.
The frame geometry of a track bike is also different from that of a road bike. Since tracks don't have bumps or potholes, they are built stiffer, with more-upright frame angles. This is good for maneuverability, but causes them to ride harshly on real-world pavement.
In addition, track bikes have very tight tire clearance, since there is no reason to use any but the narrowest tires on the track. This can limit your choices for on-road use.
Track bikes don't have quick-release wheels, making it harder to fix a flat on the road.
Track bikes don't permit the mounting of fenders, limiting their usefulness in sloppy conditions.
Some riders do prefer to ride track bikes on the road, especially those who are or were into track racing, and have become used to the feel of a track bike. Track-bike riding has attained cult status in New York City, in particular.If you're interested in track racing, check out Mike Gladu's "The 'drome" site
espite the coolness factor of true track bikes, a fixed-gear road bicycle is what I would recommend for the road cyclist in search of the benefits of fixed-gear riding.
This would typically be an older road bike, modified into a fixed-gear machine. Most older "ten-speeds" are good candidates for this sort of modification.
These bikes have the appropriate geometry for comfortable road riding, come with brakes, quick-release wheels, fender clearance, sometimes even water-bottle braze-ons.You could buy a ready-made fixed-gear road bike, but I have a detailed article on Fixed Gear Conversions that will help you build your own.
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t is very desirable that a frame for fixed-gear use have "horizontal" rear dropouts: that is, the slots in the frame that hold the rear axle should run in a more-or-less horizontal direction. This allows you to move the axle back and forth as needed to adjust chain tension. This makes things much easier than if you try to convert a newer bike with vertical dropouts.
The most desirable bikes for fixed-gear conversion are 1970's road bikes. These usually have horizontal dropouts, and usually don't have unsightly shift-lever bosses. Frames of this era also tended to have more generous tire clearance than newer sport bikes, providing more versatility in the choice of tires, and the use of fenders.
If you replace the 590 mm (26 x 1 3/8") wheels with 622 (700C) wheels, the bottom bracket gets raised a useful amount, providing good ground clearance. Using the larger wheels also allows you to install a better, shorter-reach brake caliper.
One of my favorite bikes is my 1916 Mead Ranger. This was originally built as a coaster brake bike with 28 inch single-tube tires on wood rims. It was wheelless when I bought it at a flea market, so I set it up with some nice quality '70s vintage 630 mm (27") wheels and modern tires. It's surprisingly pleasant to ride.
I have an old Bridgestone CB-3 set up for nasty winter conditions, with a 28/15. This gives a nice low gear, a 3.63 gain ratio (49" / 3.88 m) which will take me as fast as I care to go when the streets are snowy. A fixed gear this low makes the brake almost unnecessary: such a low gear lets me slow the bike down quickly by resisting, especially considering that it can't go very fast.
I have set up a couple of mountain bikes with flip-flop hubs, so that I get a fixed gear on one side and two different freewheel gears on the other. This is done with a double chainwheel and a two-speed freewheel. (The freewheel is actually an old 5- or 6-speed freewheel with 3 of the sprockets replaced by spacers.
In front, I have a 42/52 double, which I use with a 19 tooth fixed and a 20/30 freewheel. This gives 3 usable combinations:
|General road use
|Road...when I'm tired, or hilly areas.
Bruce Ingle, a fellow member of the Charles River Wheelmen, has gone me one better, and made a triple-fixed mountain bike. He used a Shimano cassette hub, which he immobilized by brazing the ratchet mechanism together. I am a bit nervous as to the long-term prospects for this hub, in particular the connection between the freehub body and the hub shell, but I think I will have to copy his setup. He's got:
ost newer bikes (made since the late-1980's) have "vertical" rear dropouts, where the wheel slides upward as you install it. These are a problem when you want to dispense with a derailer, because you need some way to regulate chain tension.
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You cannot use a derailer on a fixed gear bike, even as a chain tensioner, because when you resist the rotation of the pedals, you would bend the derailer. This presents a problem if you want to use a frame with vertical dropouts as a fixed gear, because there's no easy way to adjust the chain tension. This is also true of chain tensioners sold for singlespeed coasting bikes, such as the Surly Singleator.
Even the chain tensioners used for downhill mountain bike racing are not strong enough to withstand the stress of resisting the pedals. These tensioners have to clamp on to the chain stay, which is more or less round. There is no way to make one that would be secure, short of installing some sort of brazed-on fitting.
Fortunately, most "vertical" dropouts are not exactly vertical, they usually have a bit of a slant to them. As a result, it is sometimes possible to use this type of frame. To make it work, you may have to play games with chainwheel sizes. One of my fixed-gear bicycles is based on a Cannondale touring frame. It happens that there is just enough adjustment to make it work with my preferred 42/15 combination. If the chainstays were a bit different in length, I could replace the 42 with a 41 or 43.
Adding or subtracting a link in the chain will move the axle 1/2". Changing either sprocket size by one tooth is the equivalent of moving the axle 1/8" (4 mm). Thus, if I wanted a 5.75 gain ratio (75" / 6 meter gear), I might first try a 42/15, this gives a gain ratio of 5.77 (75.6" / 6.05 m gear). If the chain was too loose, I could take up 1/8" (4 mm) of axle movement by replacing the 42 with a 43. This 43/15 combination would raise my gain ratio to 5.91 (77.4" / 6.19 m). Alternately, I could get the same axle position with a 42/16 --5.41 (70.9" / 5.67 m).
If I was not happy with these choices, I could add a link to the chain and switch to a 45/17 --5.45 (71.5" / 5.72 m) If I added two links to the chain, I could get the same axle position with a 48/18 --5.49 (72.0" / 5.76 m)It is also possible to use a special "half link" or "offset link" to lengthen or shorten your chain by only 1/2".
Another possibility would be to do a little bit of filing at the back of the dropout to let the axle move back just a bit.
It is also possible to grind or file a flat on each end of the axle to allow a bit more adjustment, like this:
I used a more drastic solution: on my Bianchi Osprey. I cut the rear axle short so that it didn't protrude past the surfaces of the locknuts. Thus, only the quick-release skewer went through the dropouts. Since the skewer is quite a bit thinner than the actual axle, this gives me considerably more adjustment room.
If the skewer is properly tightened, the axle is held in place by the friction of the locknuts being pressed against the inside of the dropouts. If this were not the case, horizontal dropouts would not be usable, since the forward pull on the chain creates a larger force against the axle than supporting the rider's weight does. Just to be on the safe side, I carried a spare skewer along with my spare tube.
I rode that setup for a couple of years with no problems, but later got a deal on a Bianchi B.a.S.S. purpose-built singlespeed frame that fits me better, is notably lighter and has horizontal track-type fork ends, so I'm no longer using that setup.
Eric House has prepared a whole web site devoted to the problem of finding sprocket combinations that will work with vertical dropouts. He has developed charts and Java applets that show the options available for particular chainstay lengths. Check him out at: flip-flop hub.
Frames built originally to be used with 5-speed freewheels usually have 120 mm spacing between the rear dropouts. Fixed gear hubs are commonly available in this spacing, although they are more commonly found in the narrower, 110 mm spacing which is standard for track hubs. If you are using a newer frame, with wider spacing, you may want to replace the axle. You may want to replace the axle in any case, because fixed gear hubs generally come only with solid axles, not quick release.
any track bicycles use a wider chain than is common on multi-speed bicycles. Derailer-type chain has a nominal internal width of 3/32". Single-speed bicycles, including most track bicycles, use the wider 1/8" size. You can buy fixed-gear sprockets in both sizes.
(Some people mistakenly refer to the width as "pitch", speaking of "road pitch" or "track pitch". This is an error. The pitch is the center-to-center distance between the rollers, and all modern bicycle chain has the same pitch, 1/2"/12.7 mm.)
I would generally advise using the 3/32" (derailer) size. It is lighter, more compatible with your existing chainwheels, and likely to run smoother if the chainline is less than perfect, due to beveled side plates. In my experience, 3/32" chain is no less durable or reliable than 1/8".
For the true retro fan, another option is 1" x 3/16" chain. This used to be common on track bikes. This requires special sprockets with only half as many teeth as standard 1/2" pitch sprockets. Serious old-time trackies used "block" chain, which had no rollers. This is no longer available. Roller chain is still sometimes findable in this size.
Even more obscure is the 10 mm pitch chain promoted by Shimano a few years back. The idea was to save weight by making everything littler. An idea whose time never came.
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- 2004
- Tôei Animation
- Cartoon Network, Fox Box, Toei Co. Ltd., 4Kids Entertainment
- Wanpîsu Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Coby, Portgus D Ace, Sanji, Shanks the Red Hair, Kohza, Captain Smoker (Navy), Roronoa Zoro, Tashigi, Nami, Toni-Toni Chopper, Gold Roger the Pirates King, Monkey D Luffy, Princess Vivi, Usopp, Nico Robin.
Characters (English Version): Captain "Axe-Hand" Morgan, Alvida, Roronoa Zolo, Navy Commander, Django, Yosaku, Johnny, Usopp, Yasopp, Monkey D. Luffy, Kaya, Pepper, Merry, Security Guard, Villager, Sanji, Carrot, Cookie Girl, Gaimon, Siam, Koby, Buggy Crew Member, Helmeppo, Boodle, Shanks the Red Hair, Monji the Lion Tamer, Captain Kuro (Klahadore), Admiral Don Kreig, Nami, Captain Buggy, Arlong, Onion.
- Vocal Talent: Mika Doi (Coby), Toshio Furukawa (Portgus D Ace), Hiroaki Hirata (Sanji), Shûichi Ikeda (Shanks the Red Hair), Takeshi Kusao (Kohza), Ginzô Matsuo (Captain Smoker [Navy] [2000-2001]), Kazuya Nakai (Roronoa Zoro), Junko Noda (Tashigi), Mahito Ôba (Captain Smoker [Navy] [2001-]), Masato Ôba Captain Smoker [Navy] [2000-2001]), Akemi Okamura (Nami), Ikue Ootani [Ikue Otani] (Toni-Toni Chopper), Chikao Ôtsuka (Gold Roger the Pirates King, Opening Narrator), Mayumi Tanaka (Monkey D Luffy), Misa Watanabe (Princess Vivi), Kappei Yamaguchi (Usopp), Yuriko Yamaguchi (Nico Robin).
Vocal Talent (English Version): David Brimmer [Michael Alston Baley] (Captain "Axe-Hand" Morgan), Kathleen Delaney (Alvida), Marc Diraison (Roronoa Zolo), Frank Frankson (Navy Commander), Wayne Grayson (Django, Yosaku), Dan Green (Johnny), Jason Griffith [J. Griff] (Usopp, Yasopp), Bella Hudson (Monkey D. Luffy), Tara Jayne (Kaya), Kevin Kolack (Pepper), Ted Lewis (Merry, Security Guard, Villager), David Moo (Sanji), Nappy (Carrot), Lisa Ortiz (Cookie Girl), Frederick B. Owens (Captain Morgan, Gaimon), Nathan Price (Siam), Andy Rannells [Andrew Ranndells] (Roranoa Zolo [Young]), Kayzie Rogers (Koby), Jonathan Todd Ross (Buggy Crew Member), Sean Schemmel (Helmeppo), Michael Sinterniklaas (Boodle), Tom Souhrada (Shanks the Red Hair, Monji the Lion Tamer, Captain Kuro [Klahadore]), Veronica Taylor (Sanji [Young]), Marc Thompson (Admiral Don Kreig), Kerry Williams (Nami), David Wills (Captain Buggy, Arlong), Oliver Wyman [Pete Zarustica] (Onion), Eric Stuart (Narrator), Gary L. Mack.
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Buxom soul diva to show a real use for NFC at last!
Three Degree to light up Cambridge by bonking her gadget
Cynics who've been wondering what Near-Field Communications was for, wonder no longer - it's for switching on the Christmas lights in Cambridge. No other technology would do.
Sheila Ferguson
For generations, C-list celebrities have had to make do with a big red button. Yet on Sunday - as if to hammer home the utter commercialisation of Christmas - Sheila Ferguson (of Three Degrees fame) will tap a Samsung Tocco (loaded with Orange's NFC app) against a wireless reader to illuminate the Cambridge Market Square and beyond at 1700 GMT.
Lesser celebrities, such as CBeebies presenter Alex Winters and a Heart 103 DJ who doesn't even warrant a name check, will have to make do with the traditional red button to turn on the rest of the city's lights (at 1200 and 1600 GMT respectively).
Orange is one of the sponsors of the Cambridge lighting ceremony, which (it seems) will be quite an event with three stages hosting local bands throughout the day, culminating in the aforementioned lighting-by-wave demonstration from the good Ms Ferguson.
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There's quite a bit happening in Cambridge these days, what with the White Space trials, innovation in printed electronics, and ARM still bringing home the bacon: it's all happening in Silicon Fen.
But it's a shame that Orange's Quick Tap app hasn't been ported to anything beyond the Tocco, especially when there are such nice Android handsets, not to mention BlackBerrys, with NFC these days. But now that we know Quick Tap can be used to turn on Christmas lights developers will, no doubt, be beating a path to the Orange door to port the platform to something a little more contemporary. ®


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When the RD1000 has run a backup, some meta data files might not have been completed and will cause the hard drive cartridge to be locked.
The steps to resolve this and other similar issues arefairly straight forward:
If this does not resolve the issues experienced, we should check if here are any pending files locking the RD1000 drive. We can do this by installing and running Microsoft Process Explorer to see if any processes or files are running / locked to the RD1000 drive.
You are likely to find that RmMetaData files would be tied to the drive and therefore stopping the cartridge from ejecting. This scenario can also be identified by an Event ID 547 in Windows event log.
To resolve this you have two options:
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When editing multiple files I like to have a search operation that behaves a bit like "/*" in less (to search multiple buffers looking for the next match). The Nextmatch function (below) does this, although it doesn't behave quite as I would like.
function! Nextmatch() let v:errmsg = "X" let s:x = bufnr("%") while v:errmsg != "" bnext if bufnr("%") == s:x break endif 1 let v:errmsg = "" silent! / endwhile endfunction
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The decision was to keep the tip for now, and to think about it again. Please add any comments here (or just improve the tip). Let's think again whether to delete it in August 2008. --JohnBeckett 12:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Florida volleyball used a sweep of Tennessee to continue its undefeated home streak and down the Volunteers for the first time since 2010.
The No. 5 Florida volleyball team used a sweep of Tennessee on Sunday at the Connell Center (25-13, 25-21, 25-15) to continue its undefeated home streak and down the Volunteers for the first time since 2010.
Sophomore Ziva Recek had a hot hand for the Gators with a team-high 16 points, 14 kills and three blocks. Recek notched a .857 hitting efficiency in the first set along with six of her 14 slams. Sophomore outside hitter Gabby Mallette hit .444 and chipped in with nine kills and a solo stuff for 10 points. Freshman right side Alex Holston tied Mallette with nine kills, second most for the Gators (9-1 SEC, 20-2 overall) against the Vols (1-8, 9-14).
Prior to Sunday's match on Sun Sports, junior Taylor Unroe and senior Taylor Brauneis were honored for reaching career milestones this season. Unroe became the 12th Gator in program history to reach the 1,000 dig plateau earlier this season, and is 8th all-time in digs at Florida with 1,214. Brauneis became a member of the 4,000 assist club and now has 4,331 assists in her career, including 1,999 while at UF.
Florida has strung together an impressive 16-match home win streak dating back to Nov. 16, 2012, including all 12 home matches this season.
"Tennessee is a team that, historically, plays very well in the O'Dome as they did today," UF coach Mary Wise said. "They were able to get the ball consistently to their middles, who were very productive. It wasn't until we got on good serving runs, where we could get the ball away from their middles, that we were allowed to run points.
"In the second set, they elevated our game. They played very well and made us play better. I thought the second set was some pretty good volleyball and we got better from that."
Florida hits the road for its final full SEC road trip, as the Gators take on LSU in Baton Rouge for the first time since 2011. The Gators and Tigers will match up at 8 p.m. Friday. Sunday, UF plays its first nationally televised match of the season with a visit at Texas A&M in College Station at 2 p.m.
Men's golf: After a strong start to tee off the Invitational at The Ocean Course in Kiawah Island, S.C, the Gators couldn't close out the day, sitting 12 strokes off the lead in sixth place
Freshman Ryan Orr was the only Gator to finish at par on the day, matching his career-best round (72) for the third time this fall. Orr made five birdies to push him into the top 10 of the leaderboard and conclude round one in a tie for eighth place.
Women's golf: Matching a career high, shooting five-under (67), junior Sarah Schober led the Gators to a third-place finish after round one of The Alamo Invitational in San Antonio, Texas. Schober made an extraordinary nine birdies in the first 18 holes of play and shares the top spot on the individual leaderboard.
Two more Florida women shot under-par in round one of The Alamo: redshirt sophomore Katie Mitchell and junior Camilla Hedberg, finishing two-under (70) and one-under (71), respectively.


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Every time I see Howard Coble he asks four questions.
�What high school did you attend?�
�How�s Jim Wicker doing?�
�Did you ever know Junior Teague?�
And, �How�s your mom getting along?�
Those may seem like random things for a sitting member of the U.S. Congress to ask a newspaper editor. Then again, Coble � and from here on I�ll break with traditional newspaper form and just call him Howard � has always been folksier than most elected officials who serve in Washington. It�s a strength rather than a weakness in this case.
That�s because there�s a method to it. Those four questions are the best indicator.
The first question is one he asks nearly every North Carolinian he meets. Somewhere along the line, Howard cultivated a special talent for knowing the nickname of nearly every single high school in the state. Test him sometime.
So when I respond with �South Stokes.� Howard immediately smiles and points, �You�re a Saura.�
Indeed, I am.
Jim Wicker, of course, is the longtime and now retired Times-News reporter who covered Coble�s political career from the first time he ran for the congressional seat that represents Alamance County. Wicker faithfully wrote about Howard�s exploits in Washington from 1984 until Wicker retired himself in 2005. If Coble could pick a biographer, it might well be Jim Wicker.
And the late Junior Teague was a quiet but staunch Republican leader in Alamance County for decades, serving on the Alamance County Board of Commissioners and later in the state House. Howard fondly recalls those trademark Junior Teague political barbecue suppers, a stump must-attend from way back when. I get the idea Howard would relish another plate of that famous Junior Teague barbecue if he could get it.
The oddest question in the mix, though, is the one about my mom. Several years ago, I told Howard that my mother attended Guilford College at the same time he did. He asked her name, and when I said �Barbara Tuttle,� his face registered a look of delight and he said he remembered her very well. I wasn�t sure that was the case, but it was nice of him to say.
Usually when I saw Howard thereafter he would look me over and say, �Your mom�s Barbara Tuttle, right? How�s she doing?�
Amazing. Even at age 82, Howard�s memory is nothing short of incredible.
That, in part, is what�s so darned likable about Howard and helps explain his longevity in office. Put it this way: According to polls conducted over the last five years, Congress is consistently ranked right there with Satan in terms of the ability to spread hate and discontent. Generally speaking, fire ants, sharks, kudzu and copperheads are more popular.
But everybody likes Howard. Or, at least, they think he�s OK. Even Democrats, as Howard approached the end of his nearly three decades in a job he has to get a renewal for every two years, concede that Howard is a decent sort but quickly add, it�s time for a change.
Now, Howard agrees with them.
Thursday, Howard Coble announced his plans to retire from being a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District, a job he�s held since defeating Robin Britt in 1984. He�s represented all or part of Alamance County since that time.
And he obviously enjoyed it. My hunch is, he isn�t looking forward to giving it up.
A year ago I wondered if Howard might retire after this term. He told me then that he would decide in enough time for candidates to make plans to run. But he had just taken over a reconfigured district with counties he hadn�t campaigned in before. He seemed to look forward to the challenge of representing new territory. He hit those new counties � including my native county, Stokes � with gusto.
He was going about the political business of winning friends.
Thursday, though, Howard told a crowd gathered at his press conference that a bad back and recurring bouts of skin cancer were making it tough to serve. His mind is still pretty sharp, he told the assembled media and friends. Aside from an expected senior moment here or there, I already knew that. He called me a couple of weeks ago after we mentioned in an editorial that he would not be accepting his salary during the government shutdown. He thanked me for the positive notice, and we chatted for a moment or two. And then he posed a question.
�How�s your mom doing?� he asked.
It�s impossible not to like Howard Coble. And for a politician, there are far worse legacies.
Madison Taylor is editor of the Times-News. Contact him by email at firstname.lastname@example.com


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — There's no mistaking the desire of Iran's new president and his allies to open greater contacts with Washington over nuclear talks and possibly other regional crises such as Syria. The messages that really matter, though, come from the ultimate decision-maker in Tehran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The immensely powerful Khamenei opened the door a bit six months ago by saying he wouldn't oppose closer diplomatic exchanges but did not believe the Washington was ready to make meaningful accommodations. Now, it appears Khamenei is giving President Hasan Rouhani critical room — for the moment at least — to explore potentially groundbreaking overtures with Washington.
A series of statements this week from Khamenei — including saying Iran can show "heroic flexibility" in diplomacy — suggest a significant shift could be underway. Khamenei appears to be aligning his views more closely with Rouhani's initiatives to repair tattered relations with the West and reopen stalled nuclear negotiations with world powers.
Perceived backing from Khamenei would bestow major credibility to the outreach appeals by Rouhani, who is scheduled to arrive in New York next week for the annual opening of the U.N. General Assembly session. Already, Rouhani's foreign minister, Mohammad Jadad Zarif, was in New York on Thursday making preparations, and Iran's only Jewish lawmaker, Siamak Moreh Sedgh, told The Associated Press in Tehran that he will be part of the delegation.
There also is increasing speculation that Rouhani could use the sidelines of the U.N. gathering to seek — directly or indirectly — more dialogue with the White House following the recent exchange of letters with U.S. President Barack Obama. One possible pathway is a planned meeting in New York between British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Zarif.
While it's still too early to declare Khamenei clearly in support of Rouhani's quest for new diplomatic openings, some of his recent comments have closely mirrored Rouhani's in substance and tone. Rouhani also told NBC News in an interview Wednesday that he has "full power and has complete authority" to negotiate over Iran's nuclear program — an apparent reference to a unified front with Khamenei and Iran's ruling clerics.
The last Iranian president to advocate greater outreach to the West, Mohammad Khatami, did not have full backing from the ruling clerics because of internal battles over reforms.
"Nothing is possible without the supreme leader's approval," said Scott Lucas, an Iranian affairs expert at Britain's Birmingham University and editor of EAWorldView, a foreign policy website. "Khamenei seems interested in giving Rouhani the chance to see where his outreach leads."
The reasons most likely circle back to the painful Western sanctions, which have slashed Iran's vital crude oil exports by about half. Khamenei appears ready to re-explore the options of some nuclear concessions — possibly scaling back uranium enrichment — in exchange for easing the economic squeeze. Past negotiations, however, hit dead ends over the same type of scenario.
In the NBC interview, Rouhani repeated Iran's claim that the West is wrong to think Iran seeks nuclear weapons. But Rouhani also has stood strongly behind Iran's declarations that it will never relinquish its ability to make nuclear fuel for its energy and medical research reactors — a program the U.S. and allies fear could eventually produce warhead-grade material.
Any deeper diplomatic exchanges between Iran and the U.S. also cannot ignore Syria, where Tehran is a lifeline for Bashar Assad's government.
The U.S. has revealed that Obama's letter to Rouhani touched on the nuclear standoff and possible ways for Iran to demonstrate that its program was exclusively for peaceful purposes, said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Rouhani, however, has suggested the letter went beyond the nuclear impasse, though he's given no details.
"From my point of view, the tone of the letter was positive and constructive," Rouhani said in the NBC interview. "It could be subtle and tiny steps for a very important future."
In a similar way, U.S. officials are parsing recent remarks by Khamenei that suggest his backing for Rouhani's moves.
On Tuesday, Khamenei echoed Rouhani's views that Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard — effectively the muscle behind the Islamic system — should steer clear of politics. Khamenei also told Guard commanders he is not opposed to diplomatic gambits, an apparent nod to Rouhani's appeals to ease the nearly 30-year diplomatic estrangement with Washington.
"I am not opposed to correct and logical diplomatic moves in diplomacy and domestic policy. I believe in the same thing that I described many years ago, heroic flexibility. It is all right," said Khamenei, who used the phrase in the past in reference to a peace deal between feuding Islamic factions in the early decades of the faith in the seventh century.
But hard-liners were quick to press their view that Khamenei did not mean any significant rollback from Iran's "nuclear rights" such as uranium enrichment. And pressure could mount on Khamenei's experiment with Rouhani if his outreach fails deliver positive results for Iran in the coming months.
Behrouz Shjaei, a journalist with the pro-reform Shargh newspaper, interpreted the comments as Khamenei's view that Iran "should break the taboo of direct talks with the U.S. if Iran intends to play a bigger role in the international arena."
Timing also plays a part.
Years of crackdowns have left opposition groups in disarray. Khamenei and others may now feel secure enough to work in tandem with Rouhani, who has urged the release of political prisoners but is not seen as a threat to the ruling system. On Wednesday, Iran freed dozens of prominent pro-reform figures and protesters detained after the massive unrest unleashed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed presidential re-election in 2009. Among them was Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer who defended opposition activists.
Khamenei's apparent unity with Rouhani is also another slap at Ahmadinejad, who had a huge falling out with the ruling establishment after attempting to challenge Khamenei's authority in 2011. Many analysts had predicted Khamenei would wait until Ahmadinejad was out of office before making any bold diplomatic forays with the West.
"Heroic flexibility clarified that Iran is ready for a historic step toward engagement with the world," wrote Jafar Golabi, a political affairs analyst in the pro-reform Etemad daily. "It is obvious that all these references set the ground for potentially important events during Rouhani's upcoming visit to the U.S."
Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


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The Comiket organisers have announced their response to terrorist threats against the event is to ban all works featuring the subject of the threat – Kuroko's Basketball – and hold Comiket 83 as normal, if absent the hundreds of circles comprised of Kuroko fans, a decision they blame on the police and venue.
The official response runs as follows:
It is exceedingly regrettable, but we must insist on suspending the participation of the below listed "Kuroko's Basketball" circles [a long list of circles is attached], and ask any circles planning to distribute related goods to refrain from so doing.
This decision was made in order to protect the safety of participants and ensure the continuation of Comiket, and it is most inexcusable and we offer our sincere apologies.
Please also consult the tightened security restrictions for Comiket 83 [this describes baggage searches and forbidden articles].
They also provide their version of the events leading to the decision:
In October we received written threats demanding we not allow the participation of Kuroko's Basketball related circles at Comiket 83.
As a result we coordinated with police and venue to tighten security as we did for 2008's Comiket 74, where similar threats were received.
However, with the culprit's threats having forced the complete cancellation of a Kuroko-only event in November, and with Jump Festa also cancelling its Kuroko-related activities, we were faced with the unprecedented and unyielding demand from the venue that we either postpone Comiket until the culprit was caught, or hold it without any Kuroko circles.
We also received similarly strong demands to not allow any Kuroko content from the police.
The venue and police raised the following objections at our discussions:
1. The threats appear to be escalating and may not end with Comiket and the venue
2. The threats were posted nearby and may actually be acted upon
3. The threats are starting to hinder non-doujin events at the venue
4. If something did happen the chaos would likely disturb nearby residents and businesses, and influence the holding of future events
5. Letting the sale of Kuroko related articles go ahead may further stimulate the culprit
We, the organisers, appreciate the nature of these concerns, but yielding to such wicked and base demands sets an odious precedent and so we would prefer to go ahead as normal with increased security, but the concerns of the police and venue were very strong and the safety of attendees is our highest priority, along with the likelihood of further restrictions on our use of the venue, so tragically we have no recourse but to go along with them.
We have no intention of issuing further restrictions and will endeavour to minimise all such restrictions in future, but there is only so much that is practical.
Obviously the person to blame here is the one making all the threats. It may be that they are only concerned with Kuroko, but this sort of behaviour may not stop at Kuroko, and could extend to anime and manga doujinshi of all kinds, and have a correspondingly negative social impact.
We'd like to express how much we'd like the culprit to stop this sort of behaviour.
Kuroko-related threats of chemical attacks have already been made against a school and have also forced the cancellation of other doujin events, and appear to be judged credible.
Some even feared Comiket itself might be forced to cancel, but it seems the result of them "considering their response" was a Kuroko ban instead, which is presumably judged a safe compromise between risking the threat of a gas attack and shutting down the world's biggest anime event because of a crazed fan – the option of waiting for Japan's police to catch the culprit having been overlooked for some reason.
All this has caused consternation amongst Comiket followers online (to say nothing of the poor Kuroko fans who are having their doujinshi systemically hounded out of existence by a maniac):
"Submitting to terrorism, we've seen how well that works."
"So they've caved to the criminal? If they were going to do anything they would have done it already."
"As usual, the police are really getting serious about this."
"Rather than arresting people whose PCs were infected by viruses, why don't you clods try arresting this guy?"
"Well, the safety of several hundred thousand people is at stake. Sorry fujoshi, you'll just have to wait until they catch them."
"They have cancelled the participation of 900 circles though…"
"It's a bit damn late. They'll all be preparing their doujinshi and have booked passage."
"All this the result of some crazed fujoshi? Delicious."
"Are they a man or a woman? I'd think a woman…"
"Seems the criminal is a real crazy though, not just the type who revels in the reaction his threats cause."
"They've been making threats to any place related to the author. They are obviously completely out to lunch."
"Why would anyone hate this manga so much?"
"What happens to Kuroko hardly matters, the real issue here is the precedent they have set. Anyone making similar threats can now expect to get any event they like shut down."
"They have discovered how to shut down Comiket."
"How can the police have completely failed to catch this person? They've been making threats for months, do they not care at all?"
"Have you seen some of the posts they've made? 'Wait in fear lest I come die at your place' – I bet the cops and everyone else would rather they did hurry up and die."
"The culprit must really hate the author to be hounding all these Kuroko events into cancellation like this."
"Everybody is laughing at the fujoshi now, but this has opened the floodgates to every nut who wants to get a particular title's events cancelled. It's not like any of the Kuroko fujoshi are going to have much love for Comiket after this."
"Pretty amazing of them to single out Kuroko to be cancelled like this. Expect fireworks from the fans."
"The worst thing you can do in the face of terrorism is give in to their demands. It'll get a lot worse than this now."


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Enumerable.Select<TSource, TResult> Method (IEnumerable<TSource>, Func<TSource, TResult>)
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Projects each element of a sequence into a new form.
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public static IEnumerable<TResult> Select<TSource, TResult>( this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TResult> selector )
- source
A sequence of values to invoke a transform function on.
- selector
System.Func<TSource, TResult>
A transform function to apply to each element.
Return ValueType: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TResult>
An IEnumerable<T> whose elements are the result of invoking the transform function on each element of source.
Type Parameters
- TSource
The type of the elements of source.
- TResult
The type of the value returned by selector.
source or selector is null.
This method is implemented by using deferred execution. The immediate return value is an object that stores all the information that is required to perform the action. The query represented by this method is not executed until the object is enumerated either by calling its GetEnumerator method directly or by using foreach in Visual C# or For Each in Visual Basic.
This projection method requires the transform function, selector, to produce one value for each value in the source sequence, source. If selector returns a value that is itself a collection, it is up to the consumer to traverse the subsequences manually. In such a situation, it might be better for your query to return a single coalesced sequence of values. To achieve this, use the SelectMany<TSource, TResult> method instead of Select<TSource, TResult>. Although SelectMany works similarly to Select, it differs in that the transform function returns a collection that is then expanded by SelectMany before it is returned.
In query expression syntax, a select (Visual C#) or Select (Visual Basic) clause translates to an invocation of Select.
The following code example demonstrates how to use Select<TSource, TResult>(IEnumerable<TSource>, Func<TSource, TResult>) to project over a sequence of values.
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Available since 3.5
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Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Available since 2.0
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Available since 7.0
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - King College head men's basketball coach George Pitts has announced the dates for the 2011 men's basketball individual and team summer camp information.
The individual camps will run June 13-16 and July 18-21. The June camp will be a fundamental and shooting camp while the camp in July will focus on the position the camper is most interested in improving at. The cost of the camp is $95.
The boys' team camp has dates from June 6-11 for high school varsity, junior varsity and freshmen teams. Last year's camp had 50 teams from Tennessee and Virginia. Also offered for 2011 will be a middle school team camp June 10-11 and a girls' team camp June 15-18.
For more camp information, contact assistant coach Nick Pasqua at 423-652-6031 or email email@example.com
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Despite being squashed directly by ASUS, rumors of a cheaper, lower spec'd $99 Nexus 7 continue to swirl. In the past, we've heard that a 1GHz processor and slightly lesser screen may be what helps bring the tablet down in price. If that's true, we may now know just the device ASUS and Google plan on using for a cheaper Nexus 7.
GLBenchmarks for the ASUS ME172V have found their way into the hands of bloggers with some key specs attached, leading to speculation that it could very well be the cheaper Nexus 7 that's been rumored for quite some time now. According to the benchmarks, the ASUS ME172V (the Nexus 7 was known as the ME370T; there was also a ME171) sports a 1GHz processor, a Mali-400 GPU, a 1,024×600 display and Android 4.1.1.
If Google and ASUS were teaming up to release a cheaper Nexus tablet, the ME172V would fit the bill. There are rumors that the ME172V will support microSD, which would mean it's not going to be a Nexus device, but I wouldn't count it out yet.
The most important thing to take away from the ME172V's benchmarks is that, Nexus or not, there is a very affordable ASUS tablet in the works. ASUS is well known for timely updates and adding very little in the way of software customizations to their tablets. Even without the Nexus name, the ME172V may turn out to be a great buy.


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MEDIA, Pa. (AP) - August 29, 2013 --A former tax collector in a suburban Philadelphia borough is charged with stealing $1.3 million from the borough and local school district for whom he worked
Officials said 78-year-old Robert Park was arrested Thursday after admitting that he stole more than $200,000 from Aldan Borough and about $1 million from the financially troubled William Penn School District from 2003 to 2012.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan said Park is charged with theft by deception, receiving stolen property and other offenses.
Park's attorney Arthur Donato called it an "unfortunate situation" and says his client is cooperating with authorities.
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To mod this game, all you need to do is follow these simple steps.
1) If doing something for campaign, then all the data is in base.wz (which is a zip file)
2) if doing something for multiplayer (and skirmish) then all the data is in mp.wz (which is a zip file)
3) The best way to handle either case is to unzip whatever you picked above to another directory someplace, and play with it there.
4) Once done playing with it, you can then zip it back up exactly* like it was before, and then name it something.wz
5) take something.wz and put it into your mod folder and start the game with --mod=something.wz
6) you now have a mod.
7) No, you can't have a mod loaded, and try to join a game that doesn't have the same mod, it will kick you.
Note, I highly suggest you DON'T mix maps with mods at this time. While it may currently work, that will not be the case for future builds.
*While in this case, I said exactly, in truth, you can just archive what you need, just make sure the directory structure is exactly the same on the things you modified, or it will not work.


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In 2005 the editors of the ecumenical poetry annual Fulcrum sent out a questionnaire on "poetry and truth" that ventured to ask the big questions, no matter how self-serious or old-fashioned they seemed: "What is poetry's essential nature (if any)?" for instance, and "How does poetry relate to the human condition?" For the nineteen poets and critics who responded, including Billy Collins, James Wood, Lyn Hejinian and Charles Bernstein, the exercise was something of a Rorschach test of their comfort with the questionnaire's elevated tone. Some matched its earnestness note for note ("Poetry, among all arts, probably comes closest to the search for truth since it expresses itself in language, which is the truth medium"–Russian poet Alexei Tsvetkov); some answered it with Steinian riddles ("The greatest poets….accomplish nothing, which is everything"–Hejinian); and some deflated it with absurdist humor ("Poetry is to truth like rubber to the rubber tree: it bounces"–Bernstein).
And then there was Eliot Weinberger, cultural critic and award-winning translator of Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges, who pushed back against Fulcrum's questions about poetry and truth with a story about poetry and the failures of criticism. (It is included in Weinberger's new collection of prose pieces, Oranges and Peanuts for Sale.) In sixteenth-century India, Weinberger's story goes, a poor but devout farmer enlists the god Shiva to write a poem for him so that he might win a prize of a thousand gold coins promised by the king of Madurai. Shiva does write a love poem, but the royal assembly rejects it for what seems to be a trivial reason: the poem describes a woman's hair as naturally fragrant and, according to the critic Natkira, the court's official aesthetic treatise does not allow for such a thing. When Shiva appears at the royal court to argue for his poem–its features, embellishment and sentiment–Natkira is unbending, pointing again to the treatise and its rule on the description of hair. At this point, Weinberger writes,
the god became enraged and revealed his terrifying third eye of flame. The critic said, "I don't care if you have eyes all over your head. Your poem is no good." So Shiva cursed him and turned him into a leper.
Weinberger was clearly having some fun with Fulcrum's questionnaire: instead of answers, he offered a booby-trapped parable, advising all critics to be wary of the dogmas they subscribe to, lest they find themselves on the wrong end of another summary judgment. But though there is a dash of humor to the parable (the unflappability of Natkira when confronted by Shiva's exposed third eye; the testiness of Shiva and the quick flick of his punishment), it's undeniably a revenge fantasy too. Critics often presume to wield control over the fate of artists, but here it's the artist, unbound by aesthetic and legal convention, who relishes the power to literally flame his critics. Which is fitting for Weinberger: he's the sort of critic who often takes up arms against other critics, speaking for an aesthetic vision that is like that "terrifying third eye"–normally hidden from sight but incandescent and disturbing when revealed. Creativity and castigation, invention and moral judgment, are the alpha and omega of Weinberger's work.


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Killed in Friday's horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults. The shooter's mother was also killed Friday. Stories of the adult heroes of this tragedy and tributes to the children who lost their lives are being shared on Facebook and Twitter, by the families and in obituaries. Following are reports about the victims, gathered from news sources and Courant reporters.
Charlotte Bacon, Age 6
Charlotte Bacon, who would have turned 7 in February, was anything but shy.
"The family will forever remember her beautiful smile, her energy for life, and the unique way she expressed her individuality usually with the color pink," a statement released by her family said. "Charlotte never met and animal she didn't love, and since the age of two wanted to be a veterinarian."


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Alex Lynn won't mind a bit of wet weather if the Spa-Francorchamps circuit lives up to its reputation as the GP3 Series returns this weekend after a four-week break.
The racing driver from Dunmow will return to track duty with a 31-point lead at the top of the GP3 standings, with the round in Belgium one of only four remaining in the 2014 championship.
Consistency has been the key to Lynn's success so far as he has picked up points at every round so far as the Red Bull Junior driver continues to try to impress Formula One team bosses.
The Spa circuit is one that the 20-year-old rising Essex star enjoys and with the Belgian venue notorious for providing drivers with rainy conditions to deal with, he is anticipating that wet tyres may be needed at some point over the weekend.
Lynn, who is driving for the Carlin team in GP3 this year, said: "Obviously Spa is one of the greatest tracks in the world – it doesn't need much bigging up "It looks fantastic and it is fantastic.
"All the corners are amazing and most are flowing and high speed.
"The rain factor depends on what situation you're in.
"If you've been quick all weekend and you're on pole you probably don't want to have any change, but if you're struggling you don't mind a bit of weather to even things up.
"It's so difficult to call which way the weather will go.
"I would be excited if it's a bit of a mixed weekend, I usually like those conditions."
GP3 qualifying is due to take place at Spa at 8.45am (British time) on Saturday, with the first feature race at 4.20pm that day and race two at 8.25am on Sunday.


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Microsoft has sent an email to Messenger informing them that the service will be closing on 15 March 2013.
Skype was acquired by Microsoft in 2011, and recent changes to Skype have allowed users to sign-in using their Microsoft Account, meaning migration is pretty straightforward.
The email says the change will affect all users except those in China, where Messenger will continue to be available.
Essentially there's little to the transition process: all you have to do is head over to Skype, download the software and sign-in with your Microsoft Account and you'll find your Messenger contacts available there.
The Skype software, on desktop or mobile devices, currently lets you sign-in with either your Skype ID or Microsoft Account.
If you're concerned about the move, then don't be. We've found our Messenger contacts are all present and correct, and Skype's wide range of cross-platform support and services brings plenty of advantages.
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LeRoy J. Neubert, 70, of 86 Worral St., Wilcox, died on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 at his residence following a lengthy illness.He was born on Dec. 15, 1942 in Benzinger, son of the late LeRoy E. and Anne Danko Neubert.He married Doris Stewart on May 3, 1973 in St. Callistus Church in Kane, who survives.Leroy resided in Wilcox all his life. He was a graduate of Johnsonburg High School in 1960.He was a member of St. Ann's Church in Wilcox, the Wilcox American Legion, the Wilcox Sportsmen's Club, and the Wilcox Senior Center. He was also a driver for area veterans as well as an avid hunter, fisherman, trapper and beekeeper.Leroy was a Vietnam era war veteran serving overseas as a EN2 with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Sea Cat (SS-399).He retired from SGL Carbon of St. Marys in 2000 after 28 years of service. In addition to his wife, Leroy is survived by one son, Jason J. Neubert and his wife Lacey of Johnsonburg; and one daughter, Jolene, Mrs. Frank Cornelius of DuBois; two granddaughters, Alayna and Jenna Cornelius; three sisters, Maryanne, Mrs. Ron Peterson of Wilcox, Joanne, Mrs. Frank Snook of Wilcox and Marilyn Stanko of Beaver.He was predeceased by his parents.A Funeral Service for LeRoy J. Neubert will be conducted at the Anthony F. Ferragine Funeral Home on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 at 10 a.m. Officiating will be Rev. John G. Barwin. Interment will be at the Wilcox Cemetery.Friends will be received at the Anthony F. Ferragine Funeral Home, 401 Chestnut St., Johnsonburg on Friday, Sept. 20 from 6-8 p.m.Military honors will be accorded by the Johnsonburg-Wilcox Servicemen's Detail. Detail members are asked to assemble at the funeral home Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m.Share your condolences at www.ferraginefuneralhome.com.


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The Government Accountability Office will issue an agency-by-agency review of sequestration planning and implementation, according to Federal News Radio.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., chairman of the House Budget Committee, requested the review in a letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro earlier this month. Ryan asked GAO to monitor the Obama administration's compliance with the Budget Control Act and explain how agencies defined "program, project or activity" for the purpose of sequestration.
GAO will also review two White House budget memos, one from July 31, 2012 -- which called for agencies to continue normal spending and operations -- and another from March 1, the day sequestration went into effect.
Ryan also called on GAO to determine the necessity of furloughs and whether there are "alternatives available to [agencies] to achieve some or all of the savings" required by the across-the-board cuts.
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Pediatric Study Finds Alternatives for Radiation of Low-Grade Brain Tumors
Chemotherapy may help delay cranial radiation and minimize damaging side effects
A multi-institutional study led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has found that using chemotherapy alone and delaying or avoiding cranial radiation altogether can be effective in treating pediatric patients with unresectable or progressive low-grade glioma. The study was presented Sunday at the 40th annual International Society of Pediatric Oncology Meeting in Berlin, Germany.
Low-grade glioma is the most common brain tumor in children. If eligible for surgery, overall survival rate for these children is 95 percent. However, for patients with tumors in locations that prevent surgical removal or whose tumor is progressive after surgery, prognosis is worse.
A majority of pediatric oncologists use cranial radiation to treat patients with unresectable or progressive brain tumors. Although radiation is often effective, the long-term effects such as mental impairment, hormonal deficiencies and increased rate of stroke late in life can be detrimental to young patients - causing some physicians and families to decide against treatment.
This is the first large, multi-institutional study to investigate using chemotherapy as an alternative to cranial radiation, says Joann Ater, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the Childrens Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson. The results have confirmed the ability of chemotherapy to control the disease.
Ater is principal investigator for the Childrens Oncology Group (COG) study and developed the Phase III trial, which compared two different chemotherapy regimens across three different patient groups. Smaller pilot studies have shown a carboplatin and vincristine (CV) regimen to be effective against low-grade glioma. However, the COG trial with 401 patients enrolled, showed that a thioguanine, procarbazine, lomustine and vincristine (TPCV) regimen was more effective than the CV regimen and resulted in a five-year event-free survival rate of nearly 50 percent.
Patients under 5 years old averaged 2.2 years before the disease progressed on the CV regimen, while patients between 5 to 10 years old, averaged 5.3 years before disease progression. Patients on the TPCV regimen fared better, with those 5 to 10 years old averaging more than eight years without disease progression. The trial also studied chemotherapy for neurofibromatosis patients who had low-grade gliomas. This patient population had the best response to chemotherapy among the three groups.
If we can delay radiation, then we allow more time for our youngest patients to develop physically, which could decrease some of the long-term effects from treatment, Ater says. This trial at least gives parents more information and alternative options when making decisions about their childs treatment.
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FC Dallas Youth has over 190 boys and girls Select teams ages U11 to U19 with over 3,000 players. Teams are located throughout the Dallas area and play at all levels including Divisions I, II, and III in classic league and lake highlands girls classic league, as well as in Plano and Arlington. Our teams continue to excel both locally and nationally. FCDY players represent our program in the most prestigious programs including (but not limited to) ODP, id2, ECNL, Development Academy, various National Teams, and have also been drafted to play professionally both here in Dallas, and for International Clubs worldwide. FCDY has several teams that annually participate in Dallas Cup. FCDY players who do not play professionally move on to the top U.S. colleges. FCD players are generation adidas players, homegrown players, and are at the pinnacle place for national and international recognition, recruitment, and development.
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As a member of FCDY, you will have access to a wealth of resources, opportunities, and assistance. The FCD Curriculum, The FCD Professional Team and Professional Coaching staff, Toyota Soccer Center and Toyota Stadium, MLS games, The FCD Juniors Program, Elite Clubs National League, FCD player appearances, a full time front office staff to help in administrative work and collections, fundraising opportunities, the FCD Foundation, college advising, international partnerships, a rapidly growing affiliate program, pool training, national recognition, School of Excellence camps, continuing education for our coaches, professional camps and clinics, distinction, continuity, tradition, and success… The future of youth soccer is in The FCD Way©.
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The list of coaches for our Select teams can be found on the Teams Tab. After locating the appropriate coach(s), please contact them for information on practice times and locations. We may have more than one team in one age group. One team may be more convenient geographically than another. In order to contact the appropriate coach, you will need to know which age bracket your child falls under which is determined by their birthday.
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What do the rough-and-tumble Diablos and the ever-so-spiritual Sisters have in common? The Diablos, who play one of the roughest team sports, compete in the not-gay Texas Rugby Union and participate in the International Gay Rugby Association. Part of their mission is to forge friendships and celebrate differences.
And nothing in Dallas could be more different than The DFW Sisters, a mission of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. But that group is also dedicated to respecting diversity. And both groups include fundraising for community organizations as part of their core mission.
So what else could the Diablos do but accept the challenge when The Sisters invited them to play a game of kickball for charity?
"What a fun and zany way to raise money for Legacy," said Legacy Executive Director Melissa Grove. "I applaud their ability to create a new and fresh event. I've been doing this a long time and this is the first time I've seen anything like this."
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I don't remember just how many Beltwide Cotton Conferences I've attended over the years but I seem to remember a gentleman named Whitney speaking in the mechanization session at one of the early ones.
Suffice it to say, I've attended, covered and wrote about quite a few and look forward to the opportunity every year. Well, I look forward to the Beltwide with a mixture of anticipation and dread.
I know I'll eat too much, drink too much Kool-Aide, stay out too late, get up too early and wear out a pair of shoes walking from one session to another. I usually come home with a sinus infection picked up most likely from shaking hands with hundreds of people carrying interesting germs and viruses. It's par for the course.
It's a long, hard week. But I wouldn't miss it. I see people at the Beltwide I've known ever since I started plying farm writing as a means of earning a living. That may not go back to Eli Whitney's day but it covers more than half of my lifetime.
Beltwide, as I've said before, is part technical conference, part endurance race, part family reunion and part party. It's fun, frustrating and filled with information. I love it.
The latest session was no exception. I got home exhausted—partly from a flight that took a shortcut from Orlando through Cincinnati to get back to Dallas. I also stayed out too late, slept too little and walked until my feet ached. Typical Beltwide. I spent some time with my Farm Press co-workers—catching up, as well as with writers for other cotton publications and the wonderful media folk with the National Cotton Council, that we've known for years and enjoy seeing on occasion.
The educational sessions, as usual, were packed with information that we'll do our best to present over the next few issues—both online and in print editions.
We also hosted another successful High Cotton Awards Breakfast, at which we honored four most deserving cotton farmers for their productivity, contributions to the cotton industry and their commitment to natural resource stewardship.
Shawn Holladay, who farms near Lamesa, Texas, represented the Southwest region and is an exemplary representative of Farm Press Publications, the Southwest Region, Texas and Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., where he serves as secretary-treasurer. Shawn is an excellent ambassador for agriculture, a well-spoken, knowledgeable farmer who can hobnob with politicians and association leaders and still talk cotton with his peers.
Meeting Shawn's wife, Julie, was also a treat. She's equally involved in the farm operation as well as more charitable institutions than I could keep up with. We enjoyed a leisurely dinner one night at Beltwide and we talked about cotton, families, books and the meaning of life as we know it.
We laughed a lot.
At the awards breakfast I was impressed with each of our winners—Kent Wannamaker from South Carolina; Coley Bailey, Mississippi; Don Cameron, California; and Shawn Holladay, of course, from Texas. Each winner expressed gratitude to family, friends, and other farmers and credited them for a large part of their success. They were all understandably proud of their accomplishment but all were reluctant to take much credit.
I was proud to be in the room with them. The High Cotton Award and the Beltwide breakfast are two of the most enjoyable things I do every year. They make the long hours, the meetings, the treks across the Southwest and the deadlines worth the efforts.
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Sure bacon is delicious, but when a classic chop is on the table, there's just no competition in my pork heart.Cut by the local, traditional butchers at Cumbrae's farm, this grilled Berkshire pork chop with mashed potatoes, Ontario peach preserve and wilted Chick-a-Biddy greens ($23) is a nostalgic taste of Fall on a plate.
Tender seared pork with the balance of fresh, sweet Ontario peach preserve and a bit of green for relief–it really doesn't get any more pork-perfect than this. Balance out your bacon cravings with a real pork chop, it's the right thing to do.


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PHOENIX – The Arizona Legislature embraced a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care law Thursday after a drawn out battle that divided the state's Republican leadership and saw GOP Gov. Jan Brewer work closely with Democratic lawmakers to expand Medicaid access.
The Legislature passed Brewer's $8.8 billion state budget and Medicaid expansion after months of stalled negotiations, tense debates and political maneuvering from both sides.
Brewer called it a "sweet victory" for Arizona's budget and its people. The expansion will provide health insurance to an additional 300,000 poor Arizonans under a key provision of the Affordable Care Act.
"The day has been a red-letter day for the people of Arizona," Brewer said. "It was a win, win, win all the way around."
A newly formed coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans worked closely with Brewer to push back against the conservative leaders who run the Legislature and had blocked debate on the Medicaid expansion for six months. Lawmakers worked through the night Wednesday to get the plan through the House, and the Senate vote came hours later Thursday afternoon.
Brewer, an early critic of the Affordable Care Act, surprised the nation when she embraced the Medicaid expansion as the law of the land in her State of the State address in January. She noted that rejecting an expansion would mean Arizona taxpayers would subsidize care for those in other states while receiving no benefits themselves.
The expansion is expected to help reduce the amount of uncompensated care hospitals must absorb and help cut what Brewer called a hidden health care tax that people who buy insurance pay, through higher premiums, to cover others' care.
After the Legislature secured her political win, Brewer softened her support for the health care law Thursday.
"Medicaid was here long before Obama health care. I have never liked Obama health care," she told reporters after the vote. "It has nothing to do with Obama health care."
Republicans control the Legislature and all statewide elected offices in Arizona, but the Medicaid fight highlighted internal fractures between those who want smaller government and others who, like Brewer, say broader health care access is good for the state.
"The bottom line here is greed," said Sen. Al Melvin, a Tucson Republican who is running for governor and voted against the Medicaid expansion. "The people who want this know in their hearts that Obamacare is going to collapse under its own weight."
The expansion is optional under last year's Supreme Court decision upholding the health care law, and many Republican governors rejected it.
In all, 23 states plus Washington, D.C., are moving ahead with the expansion, while 15 states have turned it down. Another 12 states are still weighing options.
Nearly all the states refusing are led by Republicans. Several of the states accepting have Republican governors, but most are led by Democrats.
Washington will pick up the entire cost of the expansion for the first three years and 90 percent over the longer haul. It's estimated that less than $100 billion in state spending could trigger nearly $1 trillion in federal dollars over a decade.
In Arizona, Republican leaders in the Legislature called the expansion a massive government overreach that would drive the federal government deeper into debt. They predicted the government promises of paying for the expansion would turn out to be false.
"This is the biggest mistake we've made in the Arizona Legislature this year and maybe ever," said Republican Sen. Kelli Ward, of Lake Havasu City. "It's going to decrease the quality of care in Arizona, it's going to decrease access of care in Arizona and it's going to increase costs for all of us."
Republican Sen. Michele Reagan chastised conservative business leaders who sided with Brewer in the health care debate.
"I wonder how many businesses would make a decision to fund something so large and so unknown for an indefinite amount of time without a check and balance guarantee in place?" said Reagan, of Scottsdale.
The Senate president and House speaker had blocked action on the expansion for months, with the Senate finally adopting it in May. Speaker Andy Tobin continued to stall as he tried to get Brewer to compromise, but she finally had enough Tuesday and called the Legislature into a surprise special session. Both chambers started afresh Tuesday evening.
As the debate progressed, Brewer's allies refused to so much as answer questions on the floor or discuss provisions in the proposed budget. Instead, lawmakers exchanged barbs and policy rebuttals on Twitter long into the night as conservatives ranted on the floor.
"I've never seen the case where a governor has rolled over her own party because she was throwing a temper tantrum," said Republican Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, of Gilbert.
Senate President Andy Biggs said lawmakers had little information about what was in the budget before passing it. He said he only learned of the special session after a reporter called him Tuesday afternoon.
"I am deeply and profoundly disappointed at the manner at which this came down," he said.
Brewer dismissed the insults, predicting that all would be forgiven and Republican leaders would move forward together.
"Tomorrow they'll probably say `I'm sorry' or we will just forget it," she said. "I just try to listen and let it go."
The Medicaid plan would cover people making between 100 percent and 138 percent of the federal poverty level and restore coverage to more than 100,000 childless adults who lost Medicaid coverage because of a state budget crunch. About 1.3 million Arizonans already are covered by the state's plan.


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