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Establishing good eating and drinking habits
There are very strong links between diet and bowel cancer, and one of the most important changes following treatment for bowel cancer will be to establish good eating and drinking habits that are both healthy and interesting to help you (and your family) stick to the new routine – as well as minimising problems associated with foods that can be difficult to digest with a surgically shortened bowel.
During surgery to remove the tumour, a section of your bowel will have been removed. How much is removed varies from patient to patient, depending on the size and location of the tumour, but your digestive system is now learning to function again with this section of bowel missing. For some people, their body also has to adapt to the formation of a stoma during their operation.
This will inevitably lead to some changes in your bowel habit, although these changes will be more apparent for some. People can also experience changes whilst having chemotherapy or during and/or after a course of radiotherapy.
The two most common problems for patients during and after treatment are diarrhoea (passing loose stools) and urgency – when you need to go, you need to go now. Occasionally, surgery for very low rectal cancers can cause problems with incontinence, and you may experience leaking from your bottom too.
It is important to manage your own expectation and be aware that it is unlikely your bowels will be exactly the same as they were before the operation. It might take a period of a few weeks or months to set into a 'new normal' routine and it's important to be patient – however difficult this might be.
It might be a good idea to keep a 'food diary' so you can record:
- What you eat
- When you eat
- The effect the food has on your bowels (including what happens and when it happens).
You may then be able to identify patterns and remove the foods that cause any problems from your diet.
To a certain degree it will be a case of 'trial and error' to see what you can eat and what you can't. You may also find that foods you can't initially tolerate can be reintroduced to your diet after a while with no problems. So don't be too disheartened if your favourite food upsets your system – you may well be able to eat it again in the future.
Maybe you could try eating your main meal at lunchtime to reduce the number of times you need to get up during the night. Also remember to keep drinking a sufficient amount of water if you are experiencing loose stools so you don't become dehydrated.
It is also possible to use medications to help reduce problems with very loose stools, under the supervision of your Stomal Therapy Nurse and GP.
You can download our comprehensive patient information booklet Eating Well - Living With Bowel Cancer.
If your bowels aren't settling down
It may take you longer to adapt to changes if you are having chemotherapy or radiotherapy after surgery. If your bowels really aren't settling into a new routine or you are experiencing ongoing weight loss, do talk to your doctor or nurse. They may recommend referring you to a dietician or be able to prescribe medication to control the symptoms.
Also remember you're not alone – perhaps you could post on our Bowel Cancer Forum, and explain the problems you're having and see if there are others who can give you hints and tips about what they did.
Alternatively you may like to contact our Bowel Care Nutritionist for advice.
Please also refer to the Regaining Bowel Control section of our website.


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Extreme Wine Pairings: What to Pair with Snake, Bat, and Grasshoppers
We help you pick wine to drink with the food you eat.
Red wine with snake meat, white wine with bat?
If you were ever a fan of Survivor, the reality show where contestants survive on some pretty funky foraged foods, you might have wondered if the right wine might have made that meal a little more palatable.
We asked two gutsy, irreverent wine professionals to recommend wines to pair with "extreme" food choices. We even included suggested preparations. Our panel included Corey Bunnewith, consultant and proprietor of Beverage Influential and former cellar master at Balthazar, and Chenin Carlton, owner of Basket Case Wine in Oregon.
Wines for Snake
Taste profile: Described by some as "like a Cornish game hen, with a hint of gamey flavor."
Preparation: Often served in chili, or barbecued.
Corey Bunnewith says: Totally speaks to me, barbecued snake, rich and sweet with game. It says go out on a limb. Chilean Carmenere. Emiliana is a progressive producer that totally kills it with a 100% Carmenere from the Colchagua Valley called "Adobe." Why? Acidity, spice, and plump tannin. This pairing is all about being cohesive rather than contrasting the main flavor profiles.
Chenin Carlton says: I have actually had snake. It was many many years ago during Wild Game Week at the Napa Valley Grille. I think it was King Cobra? I remember trying it with a Zinfandel. So on that note, I'd go with Syrah. The blackberry fruit and spice of the wine are great to pair with strong gamey flavors. Syrah likes barbecue (like Zin) and the smoky-char flavors from grilling also pair well with Syrah.
Wines for Bat
Taste profile: Described as "like chicken," but with some sweetness to the meat.
Preparation: Served in Thailand roasted on charcoal, then mixed with fresh herbs, a little sugar, spicy paste, and fried.
Corey Bunnewith says: Vouvray, yes. Funky minerality, touch of sweetness, plush acidity, with a solid flavor profile of fresh lemon oil, peach flesh, and Jonagold apples. Francois Pinon, "Cuvee Tradition" 2007.
Chenin Carlton says: I'm a bit leery but here goes. I'd go with our Shy Chenin (Chenin Blanc). It's a very versatile dry white wine with nice fruit flavors and good acidity. The fruit flavors also go nicely with spices as well as tame their heat. The crisp acidity of Chenin Blanc pairs will with fried food. We also love this wine with herbed french fries and buttery popcorn as the acidity cuts through the oil and cleanses the palate.
Wines for Grasshoppers
Taste profile: Described as not tasting like much, this is more about crunchy texture than taste.
Preparation: Often dry-roasted and encased in semi-sweet chocolate.
Corey Bunnewith says: Chocolate and crunch. Robert Sinsky, you are my hero. Late harvest Pinot Gris, 2006, Los Carneros. How do I put this—match made in heaven. Thirst-quenching acidity and salty dry roasted grasshopper. Chocolate and ripe bramble berry and red fruit. You need to try this.
Chenin Carlton says: Going with your dry-roasted and dipped in chocolate description, I'm going with our Basket Case Cabernet Sauvignon. I've paired it with lots of chocolate and it's always been a hit. How can a little crunch hurt? Hershey's Crunch anyone? Although I do think it's better with dark chocolate than light chocolate. Maybe a grasshopper-bat mole?
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Actor Jeremy Renner is a dad.
The Hurt Locker star and girlfriend Sonni Pacheco confirmed on Friday that they are the parents of Ava Berlin Renner.
A statement released by Renner's spokeswoman Susan Patricola says the new parents "are beyond thrilled".
Renner played a military explosives expert in the 2008 Oscar-winning film.
Renner has also starred in The Bourne Legacy and The Avengers.


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Butterfly Conservation is pleased that the EU has imposed a ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides which are implicated in the decline of bees.
There are concerns that these chemicals may have sub-lethal effects that disorient bees and cause colonies to fail.
Butterfly Conservation believes that the balance of evidence has recently shifted in favour of a ban as a precaution until better evidence becomes available.
We are also calling for more research on how the pesticides impact on butterflies and other insects that breed in field margins and may obtain nectar from crops treated with the pesticides.
Chief Executive, Dr Martin Warren said: "This two-year ban is a sensible step, but must now be followed by properly designed field trials into the impact of these pesticides on butterflies and other insects as well as bees.
"We need far more evidence to judge whether they cause real harm and whether alternatives might be worse."
Butterfly Conservation's policy on neonicotinoid pesticides can be found here.
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This morning, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) gave her first policy speech urging the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), "a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation." In the speech, Palin cited the need to do more for children with disabilities such as autism:
For many parents of children with disabilities, the most valuable thing of all is information. Early identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism, can make a life-changing difference.
Palin claimed that the amount that Congress spends on earmarks "is more than the shortfall to fully fund IDEA." She then ridiculed some of the projects — such as "fruit fly research" — saying they have little or no value:
Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You've heard about some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.
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Palin did not specify what fruit fly research earmark she was referring to (presumably a grant for olive fruit fly research), but she is apparently unaware that scientific research with fruit flies has led to valuable discoveries that have boosted autism research, as a study at the University of North Carolina demonstrated last year:
[S]cientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for..nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.
The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism.
The study of fruit flies has also been used for other autism research and "revolutionize[d]" the study of birth defects.


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Story highlights
- She is one of the youngest journalists to win a Pulitzer Prize
- Ganim is credited with breaking the story of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal
- Other winners include The Philadelphia Inquirer and David Wood of The Huffington Post
- The committee chose not to make awards in the editorial writing and drama categories
Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting on Monday for their coverage of the spiraling Penn State sex abuse scandal.
They were among the 2012 winners of the Pulitzer Prizes, the top U.S. awards for journalism, including photojournalism, as well as letters, drama and music.
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, 68, faces 52 counts involving sexual acts with 10 boys dating back to 1994. Prosecutors allege he met some of his accusers through a charity he created for underprivileged children.
Ganim, 24, is credited with breaking that story and working to push it forward on the national stage. She is a 2008 graduate of Penn State and has worked as a CNN contributor.
On her personal website, Ganim says she has been a newspaper reporter since she was 15 years old. She joined The Patriot-News as a crime reporter last year.
"I have a police scanner on my nightstand. I fall to sleep and wake up to the morning news. I work 60-hour weeks digging and investigating, chatting up sources, and peeling back layers until I find amazing stories," she writes.
Ganim is one of the youngest journalists to win a Pulitzer Prize, according to administrator Sig Gissler.
In 1985, Jackie Crosby, 23, was given the award in what was then specialized reporting, he said.
"It's unusual for someone that young to win," said Gissler, but "heartening to see that we've got some young journalists that are coming up that are doing terrific work."
The allegations against Sandusky led to the firing of Penn State's heralded head football coach Joe Paterno only months before he died of complications from lung cancer. The investigation also led to former school officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz being charged with perjury and failure to report a crime.
Sandusky has pleaded not guilty and remains under house arrest until his trial begins June 5.
Here is a complete list of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners:
Public Service --The Philadelphia Inquirer
Breaking News Reporting -- The Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News Staff
Investigative Reporting -- Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of The Associated Press and Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times
Explanatory Reporting -- David Kocieniewski of The New York Times
Local Reporting -- Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
National Reporting -- David Wood of The Huffington Post
International Reporting -- Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times
Feature Writing -- Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle (Washington) weekly
Commentary -- Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune
Criticism -- Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing -- No award
Editorial Cartooning -- Matt Wuerker of Politico
Breaking News Photography -- Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse
Feature Photography -- Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post
Fiction -- No award
Drama -- "Water by the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegria Hudes
History -- "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention," by the late Manning Marable (Viking)
Biography -- "George F. Kennan: An American Life," by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
Poetry -- "Life on Mars" by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
General Nonfiction -- "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Company)
Music -- "Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts" by Kevin Puts (Aperto Press)


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Understanding Short Sales
By Keith Loria
No matter where you turn these days, short sales
are still a hot topic. However, if you're in the process of looking for a new
place to call home, the term 'short sale' shouldn't scare you off. In today's
market especially, pursuing a short sale can be a unique competitive advantage.
In its simplest definition, a short sale is when a home is sold for less
than what is owed and the bank forgives the excess debt. Although this was once
considered taboo by banks, with the housing climate that exists today, many
lenders will gladly go this route rather than having the homeowner join the tens
of thousands who have let their house fall into foreclosure.
A home that
is listed as a short sale is more likely to be kept up, as the seller still
wants to get as much money as they can and attract buyers to the home. But
beware. If there are improvements that need to be made to the home, even if they
are necessary to get a loan, it is often unlikely that they'll get
According to Irvine-based data tracker RealtyTrac, in the first
quarter of 2012, short sales grew 25 percent from a year earlier, hitting a
three-year high in the process. In fact, short sales seem to be turning into the
preferred method for many lenders. Owners unloaded 109,521 homes during the
first three months of the year for less than what they owed on the
Unlike in a foreclosure, the bank does not own the property in
a short sale. However, because the bank must approve the sale, it will seem like
the buyer is purchasing the property from the bank.
The entire short
sale process hinges on the hope that the bank will approve the sale, take the
loss and eliminate the costly process of foreclosing, clearing, and reselling a
A short sale can often take longer than a traditional sale because
of the documentation required and the sign-off needed by the lender, so make
sure to work with an agent who has experience in short sales and can help
expedite your transaction and protect your interests.
By checking recent
home sales in the area to get a better idea of which properties are selling,
your agent can work with you to come up with an appropriate price that will more
likely be approved by the bank.
Even though banks lose money when it
comes to short sales, lenders almost always lose more when they foreclose on a
property, making short sales a practical option in today's market. With so much
inventory on the market from foreclosures, it could take years before the bank
sees any money.
One important thing to keep in mind is that with a short
sale, there is no leniency with the closing escrow date and a buyer must close
on time. Because of this, it is important to take care of all loan paperwork
immediately after opening escrow.
For more information about short
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Is there a standard name for taking a homomorphism from the free object over an algebraic structure? Roughly speaking, this should amount to evaluation of any element of the free object under the homomorphism.
For example, take the free commutative monoid over the set of natural numbers; elements of this monoid are finite multisets of natural numbers. By taking commutative monoid homomorphisms we can express many common operations, such as cardinality (map every generator to 1 and take sum as the monoid operation), sum (take every generator to itself and map the monoid operation to sum of natural numbers), product (take product of natural numbers rather than sum) etc.
Since these operations are all abelian monoid operations, we can expect a sensible result which will not depend on our multiset being non-empty or listing its elements in a specific order.
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The Vashon Seals Swim Team is a Level 1 USA-Swimming Club on Vashon Island - located in between Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. We are a member of the Pacific Northwest Swimming LSC. Our team is growing and we are in need of additional coaches. Ideal candidates will have a passion for swimming and working with young athletes in a fun and dynamic atmosphere that promotes camaraderie and personal achievement. Our program is focused on competitive and non-competitive swimmers between the ages of 5 and 18, and we offer six different levels of instruction: Seal Pups, Stroke School, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Swim Fit (60 to 70 swimmers in total). We train at the Vashon Community Pool (6 lanes - 25 yards) and enjoy the best of both worlds with 6 months of outdoor swimming and 6 months of swimming under an inflatable bubble. Vashon is a unique and breathtaking place and we are lucky to have a wonderful group of kids and supportive families. Whether they are just learning to swim or are striving to become an elite competitive athlete, we work with each and every child to help them achieve their goals. For more information contact Coach Randy Turner: firstname.lastname@example.com .
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Archie Comics, the leading children's comic book publisher and home to some of the most recognizable pop culture characters in the world, including Archie, Betty and Veronica, Jughead, Kevin Keller, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Josie and the Pussycats, announced that they have tapped Adam Tracey to serve as Director of Publicity and Marketing.
"We are thrilled to have Adam on board," said Archie Comics Co-CEO Jon Goldwater. "His background and his love of comics are the perfect complement to the Archie team. We are excited to have him handling all aspects of media for Archie as the brand moves forward with some amazing plans for the future."
With a decade of editorial experience and several years of digital media experience to draw from, Adam Tracey joins the publisher at a time of rapid growth and unprecedented success.
"I'm thrilled to help Archie continue the meteoric climb that the company and the brand have seen over the past two years," says Tracey, speaking from the Archie Comics offices. "What's been done up to now has been truly amazing, and with so many more great things on the horizon for Archie, my biggest challenge will be just trying to keep up with everything we have in store!"
Tracey will take over duties overseeing the company's external messaging to the press, social media and marketing outlets. He previously managed editorial for ToyFare Magazine and ran programming for Wizard World Conventions. His background includes time spent on the journalism side writing freelance for video game and entertainment website UGO.com in addition to a stint as Editor-in-Chief of a monthly citywide publication in New Orleans. Tracey's unique skill set combined with his editorial know-how render him expertly equipped to handle the media magnet that is Archie Comics.
Archie Comics is the leading mass market comic book publisher in the world and the home to a wide array of the most popular humor, action-adventure and superhero characters in entertainment, including Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Reggie, Kevin Keller, Josie and the Pussycats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the New Crusaders, Super Duck, Li'l Jinx and many more. Archie Comics have sold 2 billion comics worldwide and are published around the world in a number of languages. In addition to comics, Archie characters have been featured prominently in animation, television, film and music in various popular incarnations.


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Welcome to Cape Coral
April 19, 2011 Welcome to Cape Coral, one of the fastest growing cities in the country. With a population nearing 160,000, Cape Coral is the largest city in Southwest Florida between Tampa and Miami. more »»
Cape Coral City Government
April 19, 2011 The city of Cape Coral operates under the city manager-council form of government. City council members are elected at large from seven district. more »»
History of Cape Coral
April 19, 2011 In 1957 two brothers, Leonard and Jack Rosen, from Baltimore, Md., spent weeks looking over Southwest Florida for a piece of property to develop. more »»
Dircers License information
April 19, 2011 If you're from out of state and planning to stay, one of the first things you'll need to do is change your driver license to a Florida license. more »»
Lee County Schools
April 19, 2011 ELEMENTARY Caloosa Elementary 620 S. Del Prado Blvd, 574-3113 Cape Elementary 4519 Vincennes Blvd. more »»
1970 a year to remember for Cape Coral
August 26, 2010 Flashback 1970: The Baby Boomers all had been born. President Richard Millhouse Nixon was a few years away from stepping down and Spiro Agnew was vice president. more »»
Civic Association pushed for incorporation
August 26, 2010 On March 1, 1962, the Cape Coral Civic Association was formed. more »»
Early residents have experienced the good times — and the bad
August 26, 2010 Cape Coral may have started with only a handful of people, but through the years the community has seen growth and prosperity and a hard economic downturn. more »»
Many service clubs, organizations founded before city incorporated
August 26, 2010 Many people and organizations had a hand in forming Cape Coral. In December 1961, Robert H. Finkernagel Jr., came to the Cape. He was the managing director for Gulf American Land Corp. more »»
City historian recalls the early years, need for incorporation
August 26, 2010 Paul Sanborn said he moved to Cape Coral on May 1, 1962, because he was offered a job to work for Gulf American Land Corporation as the assistant to the managing directo. more »»
Incorporation time line
August 26, 2010 (Editor's note: The following items were taken directly from the headlines published in The Cape Coral Breeze from 1969-1972) 1969 July — Population tops... more »»
Dennis and Ann Duffala watched Cape grow from its infancy
August 26, 2010 When Dennis and Ann Duffala moved to Cape Coral about 50 years ago with their families, the unincorporated community was a world away from the one the teens had come fro. more »»
Handshake in 1957 helps bring power to Cape Coral
August 26, 2010 In 1957, a handshake symbolized a promise between LCEC manager Homer T. Welch Jr. and Gulf Guaranty Land and Title Company President Leonard Rosen to bring electricity to Cape Coral. more »»
Community takes control of its own destiny
August 26, 2010 As Cape Coral made the transition from a Rosen brothers vision to a full fledged city, the earliest of the municipal pioneers were faced with the challenge of delivering upon the services that a cit... more »»
Long-time resident has enjoyed watching Cape develop
August 26, 2010 Clint Kelly, who turned 95 years old Wednesday, July 28, moved to Cape Coral in 1970, after staying in Miami for basic training for the U.S. more »»
Community theater, Yacht Club key elements
August 26, 2010 Recreational facilities throughout Cape Coral have a rich history of their ow. more »»
Cape has always been a special place for Elmer Tabor and his family
August 26, 2010 One family helped shape Cape Coral into what it is today by contributing one of the first businesses to the city in the early 1960s. more »»
A look back to 1970
August 26, 2010 (Editor's note: Cape Coral was incorporated in 1970. Here's a glimpse of the headline news items from that year published in The Breeze. more »»
Residents get history lesson from those who lived it
August 22, 2010 Cape Coral residents learned about the earliest days of the city during a presentation and luncheon Saturday afternoon at the Lake Kennedy Senior Center. more »»
Eagle Skate Park offers skateboarders opportunity to shine
May 28, 2009 Eagle Skate Park 315 S.W. 2nd Ave. Officially dedicated in January 2006, Eagle Skate Park features ramps and boxes and plenty of space catering to skateboarders of all ages. more »»


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BROWNWOOD – June 24, 2014 – TexasBank recently presented $25,000 to Howard Payne University through the Doss Foundation. The donation was part of $88,000 in scholarship funds that will be given to local and area high schools and colleges in 2014.
Within the past seven years, the Doss Foundation has given more than $425,000 to area educational institutions.
"TexasBank is proud to be affiliated with the Doss Foundation, whose gift will give back to local students through HPU's Heart of Texas Scholarship Fund," said Greg Dodds, president and CEO of TexasBank. "The Heart of Texas Scholarship has played a vital role in providing an affordable path to a quality university degree for our local high school students. The success of this program is evidenced by the steadily increasing proportion of the total student population at HPU that is comprised of our own kids from nearby communities. The Board and Ownership of TexasBank value our relationship with Howard Payne University, and we are honored to support this institution and its students."
Photo cutline: Greg Dodds, left, president and CEO of TexasBank, presents a $25,000 check to Dr. Bill Ellis, HPU president.


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Tuesday was a difficult day for Royal Opera House customers who were trying to book for the Spring Season. After six months of error-free booking days, we suffered a serious incident during yesterday's General Booking.
Firstly, we would like to apologize to anyone who had difficulty booking tickets on Tuesday. Caroline Bailey, ROH Director of Marketing, says, 'We all recognize that The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet are very special to a lot of people. Our audience has an emotional and financial investment in what we do, as well as giving us their valuable time, which we very much appreciate. This is most definitely not the kind of service we wish to provide.'
Those of you who have felt the pain of booking days in the past may fear that this is more of the same. The nature of yesterday's problems was very different, even if the frustration for ticket buyers was just as acute. We have cracked the problem of capacity on the website and have had some very good booking days, with no waiting rooms and no errors. Yesterday, however, the website displayed serious technical errors, which took us two hours to resolve. The problems were intermittent and caused errors at random for some customers. I would like to explain what happened and what we are doing about it.
We launched a new version of our website in December to make our website - among other things - compatible with any mobile device. As part of this work we took the opportunity to re-wire the engine behind the website with the intention of improving page load times and making future development more efficient. We moved from a development framework called Zend to a new framework called Symfony. Symfony works differently and allows us to re-use code and build websites in a more modular way. Sections of code then operate like building blocks rather than large, unwieldy chunks of programming. Why change a system that is working? We are continually developing and improving the website, and changing our development framework in this way will allow us to launch exciting new features in future.
We have now discovered that part of that code was causing a problem. One part of the code is meant to check that a user is logged into the website. It is meant to perform this check once on the relevant pages; in fact it was checking 10 to 15 times for each user. The ticketing part of the website was not expecting so many account check requests and started to return, well, nothing. As the website wasn't returning an error that would give us guidance as to the nature of the problem, it took us a while to pinpoint the issue. Once we did, it was a quick fix. It won't happen again.
This begs the question, how did this happen? Well, we have a thorough process of testing both code and load ahead of every booking day, and often reveal issues which we fix before they are seen by the customer. The tests, however, are mechanical and although they test the load to many times the size of a booking day, it's still a mechanical test. So we now need to work on a more organic test, which will work more like a simulation of what actually happens on a booking day. As you can imagine, simulating the real activity of 100,000 people coming to our website could be tricky. There are lots of tools and methods to help achieve this and we are committed to improving the quality of experience for those who use our website and making sure this is a one-off incident.


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Seedling trees for conservation available in Summit County
Summit County Extension and the Colorado State Forest Service are partnering to provide local landowners with low-cost seedling trees, grown from native stock at the Colorado State Forest Service Nursery in Fort Collins.
Seedlings are sold in lots of 30 or 50, and include native mountain species such as Engelmann spruce, Colorado blue spruce, Douglas-fir, limber pine and bristlecone pine. CSFS seedlings offer an affordable way to ensure a diverse, forested landscape on your property in years to come.
Place your order early for the best selection, as popular varieties often run out. Seedlings will be available for pick-up in Frisco in May (exact date to be determined). To download an order form and for more information on selecting appropriate species for your property, visit the Extension website at http://www.co.summit.co.us/Extension, or call the Extension office at (970) 668-3595.
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Team Sky have said that they carried out checks on the Dutch doctor they employed and whose name has appeared in the Lance Armstrong doping controversy.
Geert Leinders was with the team until last week and a spokesman said on Sunday: "Dr Leinders worked with Team Sky on a freelance basis and his contract has now ended.
"This summer, as promised, we looked fully into his work with us, interviewed him and talked to riders and the full medical team. We had no doubts about his work with us or his approach. Before employing him we also made checks, gathered references and he was interviewed by [the sports psychiatrist] Dr Steve Peters.
"Over the summer we have added to the medical team, using staff from outside cycling, and we continually look for the best ways to work and to support our riders."
The former Team Sky member Michael Barry was one of 11 riders who gave evidence against Armstrong to the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
The 26-year-old American was at the US Postal Service team from 2002 to 2006. Since 2010 he rode for Team Sky before announcing his retirement this year but Team Sky's spokesman continued: "We have had no doubts about Michael being clean during his time at Team Sky. We are a clean team and we have shown that you can win clean.
"Michael has retired after 14 years as a professional cyclist. His final race was last month and he is no longer with Team Sky.
"Though we are saddened by the revelations about Michael's early career, he is doing the right thing by admitting to his past and helping the sport to a clean future."


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Suspect in custody in New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting
NEW ORLEANS The suspect in a Mother's Day parade shooting that left 19 people wounded in New Orleans was taken into custody Wednesday night, police said.
Akein Scott, 19, was arrested in the Little Woods section of eastern New Orleans, police department spokeswoman Remi Braden said. She said no additional details would be available until Thursday morning.
Police previously said Scott had an arrest record involving drug and weapon charges.
- Police name suspect in New Orleans parade shooting
- NOPD releases surveillance images of possible suspect in parade shooting
- New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting: 19 injured by gunfire, cops say
Court records show some had been dropped but he was facing a felony charge of illegally carrying a weapon while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Scott was scheduled for a court hearing on motions related to that case Thursday. It was not immediately known whether he would be present for that hearing or whether it would be rescheduled.
Video released Monday showed a crowd gathered for the Sunday parade suddenly scattering in all directions, with some falling to the ground. They appear to be running from a man in a white T-shirt and dark pants who turns and runs out of the picture. Police said they identified the suspect from the surveillance camera images.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said Monday the department had "multiple identifications" of Scott as the shooter, reports CBS New Orleans affiliate WWL-TV. Serpas said police received a "tremendous" amount of tips from Crimestoppers. There had been a $10,000 reward for information leading to Scott's arrest.
As many as 400 people had come out for the event. Officers were interspersed with the marchers, which is routine for such events. The crime scene was about a-mile-and-a-half from the heart of the French Quarter.
Two children were among the wounded.
Gun violence has flared at two other city celebrations this year. Five people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in January after a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, and four were wounded in a shooting after an argument in the French Quarter in the days leading up to Mardi Gras. Two teens were arrested in connection with the MLK Day shootings; three men were arrested and charged in the Mardi Gras shootings.


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Mexican man executed for HPD officer's death
HUNTSVILLE — Edgar Tamayo, the Houston cop killer whose case rallied advocates from Mexico to Washington, D.C., went to his death without a word Wednesday in the state's Huntsville death house.
He was the first Texas killer to be executed this year; the first of four Harris County murderers set to die in the next four months.
Tamayo, 46, was condemned for the January 1994 murder of Houston police officer Guy Gaddis, 24. Tamayo, who had been imprisoned in California for aggravated robbery, shot the officer three times with a pistol hidden in his clothing as he was being taken to jail.
The execution was delayed three hours as the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to take up his final appeals based on mental retardation and the violation of his United Nations treaty rights to contact his consulate.
As Tamayo was escorted to the execution room, police officers who had come to demonstrate support of the victim's family revved their motorcycles.
The lethal injection was administered at 9:15 p.m. and Tamayo was declared dead 17 minutes later.
Tamayo made no final statement, but earlier Wednesday he told prison officials that he was "ready to go."
"Twenty years is too long," he said of the time he had spent on death row.
Gaddis family speaks
After the execution, members of the Gaddis family addressed the media. As reporters waited for them to take the stand, representatives of the Mexican government expressed support for the killer's family and decried the execution.
Then Gayle Gaddis, walking with apparent difficulty, approached the microphone. "A little bit of my shredded heart is feeling better," she said.
Speaking in English and Spanish, the officer's brother, Gary Gaddis, offered condolences to the Tamayo family, but said those gathered "should remember the real victim."
Outside the death house, Tamayo's supporters held aloft a framed picture of Jesus and prayed in Spanish. "Honor Dr. King Stop Executions," their placards read. "Father, Son, Brother. Edgar is Loved By Many."
On the prison's other end, about 50 policemen - part of the usual motorcycle motorcade that arrives when killers of police are executed - talked quietly, awaiting the execution hour.
Gun hidden in clothes
Events leading to Gaddis' death began early on the morning of Jan. 21, 1994, when a man flagged down the officer's car to report that he had been robbed by two men in the parking lot of the Topaz Club in southwest Houston.
Gaddis found Tamayo and the second man at the scene.
The men repeatedly were subjected to pat-down searches, but police overlooked a pistol hidden in Tamayo's waistband. Both were handcuffed and placed in the squad car's back seat.
After extricating the pistol, Tamayo told Gaddis he didn't want to go to jail. Then he opened fire. Two slugs shattered the policeman's skull, a third lodged in his neck. Tamayo escaped by breaking a squad car window but was apprehended a short distance away.
"It's the police officer's fault for not having searched me good," Tamayo later told police.
Gaddis, who had wanted to become a policeman since age 10, had been told just four days before his death that he would become a father.
Tamayo's case gained international attention because authorities failed to tell him that he could contact his nation's consulate under provisions of a United Nations treaty.
Had Tamayo talked with Mexican officials in Houston, his lawyers said, efforts to locate witnesses in Mexico could have begun in a timely manner.
Such testimony, they contended, might have established mitigating circumstances during his trial's punishment phase and saved his life.
State's refusal
The Mexican Consulate was apprised of Tamayo's case about 10 days before his trial.
Intensifying the controversy was the state's refusal to give Tamayo a court hearing to determine how his lost chance to contact Mexican officials affected his trial, his lawyers said.
The Texas attorney general's office said it offered Tamayo a court review, but the killer rejected the offer.
In 2004, an international court ruled that the cases of Tamayo and other prisoners whose treaty rights were violated should be granted hearings. Mexican and U.S. officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, repeatedly called for such a hearing.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry responded that killers committing their crimes in Texas would answer to Texas laws.


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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal wants the children's media network Nickelodeon to drop junk food ads.
On Monday, Sen. Blumenthal and Jennifer Harris, of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, held a morning news conference at Yale University about the effects of unhealthy food advertisements on children.
A 2010 Yale University study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity suggested that Nickelodeon aired 25 percent of all food advertisements marketed towards children under the age of 12.
A similar 2012 study published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest suggested that 69 percent of all food ads aired by Nickelodeon promoted poor nutritional health.
More than one-third of children and adolescents in the United States are considered overweight or obese, the CSPI reported.
The study recorded 88 food advertisements across 28 hours of Nickelodeon programming in October 2012 and said more than two-thirds of the ads featured foods including sugary cereals and candy.
The same October 2012 study by the CSPI indicated that the percentage of unhealthy food advertisements dropped 10 percent between 2008 and 2012 and that the percentage of advertisements specifically for food dropped from 23 percent to 10 percent in 2012.
The CSPI made headlines in March after purchasing a full-page ad in The Hollywood Reporter depicting Spongebob as a criminal "wanted for impersonating a responsible media company while aggressively marketing obesity to kids."
Nickelodeon is not currently a member of the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative and does not have a public policy detailing nutritional standards in marketing.
The Hill reported that Nickelodeon responded in a statement last year.
"No entertainment brand has worked as comprehensively and with more organizations dedicated to fighting childhood obesity over the past decade than Nickelodeon," the channel said.
Blumenthal said he plans to write to Nickelodeon.


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Discuss which way you think your nation (or any nation) should go now they have been knocked out of the T20 WC bearing in mind the next two tournaments are
2014 T20 WC, Bangladesh
2016 T20 WC, India
Discuss which way you think your nation (or any nation) should go now they have been knocked out of the T20 WC bearing in mind the next two tournaments are
2014 T20 WC, Bangladesh
2016 T20 WC, India
The next two are in the subcontinent? Time to **** this hit and giggle **** off then
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I think you go to India for a few tests or something don't you?
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From England's pov I think they have to continue down the path they have gone and continue to back most of the youngsters. Pietersen reintegrating back into the team will do wonders to the make up of the team and the rest of the players should benefit from the experience they have got through this WC.
Batting wise Wright has proved in this tournament he has improved immensely and deserves a prolonged spell at the top of the order. Pietersen and Morgan are class players at 3 and 5. Hales isn't convincing but he surpasssed my expectations this tournament and is a boundary hitter early on against pace. Buttler and Bairstow both have big issues but both are still young and talented and are integral to the fielding makeup of the team. Neither at this stage is a good enough WK to challenge for that spot and neither will be unless they have a prolonged spell as WK in county cricket and both are going to have limited opportunities to do this unless something changes.
Bopara is a mess emotionally and surely will get a prolonged break from the england team. He never was a particularly good bat in T20 cricket but his bowling is useful.
Kieswetter surely is destined for a long break from england colours. You don't drop your WK half way through the WC to bring him back next match. I feel Kieswetter will come again for England and still make it - just not for a few years.
As for wicketkeeper i have no idea where you go given what i have written. Prior has been tried and failed and personally i prefer him as a test only selection where he remains fit and focused. If he comes back to ODI and T20 I feel like he'll have to be superfit to maintain his current test performances behind the stumps and as a batsman with no guarantee he's going to be good at T20. Maybe Chris Read or James Foster who have been continually excellent in county cricket and bat them at 7 or 8 or hope that one of Bairstow, Buttler, Billings starts keeping regularly in county cricket but a good wicketkeeper isn't made over a couple of years. With the next two T20 WC's being in Asia maybe Prior is the best option given the current ages of Read(34) and Foster(32)
Of the bowlers I think they have the right group of bowlers. Finn is very good. I still feel Dernbach should be persevered with. He's erratic but talented and is very different to anything else we have in England. Broad, Bresnan and Swann are fine going forward. Briggs was unfortunate this tournament not to play more but i feel like his lack of batting skills are behind this. Rafiq may come into things long term. They could do with a left armer pacer and there are a few around but none too close to selection. (Mills, Topley, Willey)
IPL contracts are an iffy situation for the younger english players like Hales, Kieswetter, Buttler, Bairstow.... Basically they could really benefit from a few seasons of IPL in terms of their T20 and subcontinent experience. The problem is that the IPL comes at preseason and then the start of the English first class season and for any player hoping to make it in the longer formats this is a no-no in terms of their career prospects. England players in the past have overvalued themselves in the IPL auctions and subsequently and correctly being overlooked by Indian franchises. Some of the guys listed above could do worse than putting themselves available at $25000 or $50000 and getting some experience of IPL cricket.
Prior really shouldn't be wasted in LO I'd genuinely rather preserve him for tests. Would actually willingly tick with Kieswetter at this stage and hope he improves on the Lions tour.
Bairstow I feel needs work in LO its not his best format set.
Buttler I think needs work he's not played enough and tbf he did come unstuck against quality bowling when we've seen him thus far.
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For England - I wouldn't feel the need to make too many changes tbh. Much of the team that played this tournament were in their first year of international cricket. This tournament will have been a learning curve, and hopefully they'll all come back as better players in Bangladesh in two years.
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Right so with the next couple of World Cups in the SC we can basically build a team for those conditions that won't get spanked everywhere else too.
Vettori, Oram and Mills are done. Honestly wouldn't be worried if all three announce their retirement from all forms of the game tomorrow. Nicol can go too.
Still here:
B. McCullum - Yep, stick round son, will only be mid-30s for the next 2 tournies.
Guptill - stop getting out so softly you ****, we need more.
Taylor - see Mccullum, B.
Franko - same as Ross and BMac.
Williamson - few more years of experience and will hopefully have a bit more power by then.
N. McCullum - should make the next tournament at least; our best bowler in this format imo.
Southee - Young, (generally) good, keep working on the batting.
Bracewell - Same as Southee, but please let's not **** up his test bowling.
Milne - Potential. He'll get it sorted by the next WC imo.
Hira - Showed enough last night to let us stick with him, gun fielder too.
Watling - Loves cricket, always need a man like him. Also looked quite good in Windies but never got a shot here.
Neesham - Get him in there.
Latham - Definite chance, same situation at Williamson really; needs to add some more power options and work on rotating strike against spin.
Sodhi - Will be very interesting to see how he goes in domestic cricket over the next season or 2.
Ryder - Please get your **** sorted, big fella.
Ideal team going forward:
Milne (or Bracewell if we really need him)
Why do people group ODIs and T20Is together?
Prior could definitely be an asset in T20Is, he just happens to be useless in ODIs. Dhoni is incredible at ODIs and useless in T20Is. They're very different formats. I'd have no problem with Prior playing in T20s for England, the standard of wicket-keeping would go up massively for a start.
I don't think there will be huge changes for England, something like:
Keeper (Prior or whoever, doesn't matter a great deal and they can go lower in the order)
Left-arm spinner
I think the batting is the hardest to predict, someone like Stokes could certainly break into it if he makes the mental adjustment and something clicks - his bowling and the fact he bats left-handed would fit into the side nicely. But he's just talent at this stage, his T20 record is rubbish.
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I suspect we'll do our usual thing of losing a hilarious number of T20s after the WC is over, moving to a new specialist captain then doing waaaay better than anyone expected at the WC.
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GIVE YOUR BEST BATSMEN THE MOST CHANCE TO SUCCEED. McCullum needs to open and Taylor should be batting at three, as a team you're severely handicapping yourself if you don't do that. Just look at Australia, Sri Lanka and the West Indies for example, they realise this and look at how they've gone this tournament.
I can't stress how much we need to get rid of Jacob Oram either, the **** is seriously useless. Averaged about five with the bat, went at 9.5 with the ball and was an absolute liability in the field. Bits & Pieces players just like any other form of the game are next to useless in 20/20.
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Also definite room for Matt Henry in my XI if he's the same or better post-surgery.
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Need to make bold changes. I think this format requires that more than the longer versions. You can't keep carrying players in poor form for too long. They can hurt the team big in matches that last only 20 overs. We should have been bold enough to replace Gambhir or Rohit with Tiwary.
Besides, captains - all of them - should stop "saving" players in T20s. Raina, ABD, Taylor, Akmal, they all played too low in different games. This pisses me off most when I watch T20s.
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Actually, if you think about it, none of that is really "bold", it's just common sense. Do captains' brains freeze when making decisions in T20's?
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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Dir. Danny Steinmann
Five years after his run in with hulking serial killer Jason Voorhees, 17 year old Tommy Jarvis is still traumatised by memories and nightmares of that fateful night. Released from an institution and sent to live in a halfway house for troubled teens undergoing rehabilitation, Tommy's nightmare is far from over. A slew of brutal murders in the area would suggest Jason has returned from the grave – or that Tommy has flipped out completely. But who's that bit part actor over there with the wild 'n' crazy look in his eye? Is it someone who is pretending to be Jason to avenge the death of his secret bastard son – also a resident at the halfway house?! No! Surely not!!!
A New Beginning is often maligned by fans as it is the only film (aside from Part 1) not to feature Jason Voorhees as the killer. While the killer dresses as Jason and has a motive that also involves avenging the death of a family member, it isn't the real Jason. You might be forgiven for thinking, 'Well, Halloween III didn't feature Michael Myers and that was still an interesting, if flawed, attempt to breathe fresh life into a stale franchise and take it in a new direction.' And you'd be right. But not in the case of A New Beginning, which exhibits nothing fresh about it at all. Particularly coming after a film entitled The Final Chapter!
A cast of mixed-up delinquent teens make up the fodder list, but even this potentially interesting, and surprisingly ethnically diverse, hodgepodge of characters can't save proceedings from sliding into boredom. Seriously this is the least threatening bunch of supposedly 'bad-ass' young criminals/psychotics ever committed to film. The point of them being in the halfway house is because they need to be integrated back into society on account of their criminal/psychotic behaviour. Aside from Vic, who kills the annoying kid with an axe, and maybe Violet, who looks bad-ass all kitted out in her Eighties punk gear and crimped hair, this lot exude less bad attitude than a startled kitten. That includes bad-ass, mutha-fucka 'Demon,' who suffers the indignity of being terrorised and then skewered by
Aside from the mixed-up, 'crazy' teens,
Director Danny Steinmann lacks the ability to inject any sort of tension into proceedings at all. The former adult movie director seems more at home helming the various scenes where female characters take their clothes off. Indeed, much of the film feels like a porn film as it is made up of the same kind of vignettes you might find in an adult film, most of the characters are only introduced for one thing – here though, it's to be killed. Yes, many of the characters in Friday the 13th movies are only introduced to be killed, but at least there are some attempts, as weak as they may be, to flesh them out a little before they're cut up. Even the final chase scene – often the saving grace of many of the other lesser sequels – lacks any sort of impact.
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Bringing the character of Tommy back provides a certain sense of continuity and familiarity. It was probably the only interesting move made by the filmmakers here – and there is some attempt to explore the psychological trauma suffered by someone who has survived Jason. Corey Feldman even cameos in an opening dream sequence where he witnesses the resurrection of Jason and is about to get skewed when he wakes up just in time. As the grown up Tommy, John Shepherd doesn't have much to say, but he still plays the 'traumatised-victim-who-thinks-they're-losing-their-mind-again' quite well. He seems lost and vulnerable, but still has that slight edginess that leaves you thinking 'Well, maybe it is him.' Except the mystery of who is actually the murderer isn't the focus here. Like Part 1, the emphasis is on the kills. Unlike Part 1, this batch of murderlisations is bland and forgettable and ripped to shreds by the censors. Either that or a low budget forced Steinmann to cut away at the last minute from most of them.
An uneven, sleazy and quite messy addition that had so much potential given the plight of Tommy, the wasted 'is-he-isn't-he-the-killer?' angle and a potentially cool cast of juvenile delinquents who should, by rights, have been more than a match for


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text: General Orders, 25 January 1777 General Orders Head Quarters, Morristown, Jany 25th 1777.Parole: Countersign: Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Index EntriesYou Are Looking AtSource ProjectWashington PapersTitleGeneral Orders, 25 January 1777AuthorWashington, GeorgeDate25 January 1777ReferenceCite as"General Orders, 25 January 1777," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-08-02-0159. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 8, 6 January 1777 – 27 March 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 152.]


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Former BioWare game director Trent Oster recently spoke to Eurogamer and revealed a project that was killed by EA.
Think James Bond meets Jason Bourne. Okay, now take that and add a focus on digital action and intense drama. That's what this game was going to be. It had the working title "Agent."
"The idea being that James Bond isn't just a gun that walks around the world and shoots people. He's a suave manipulator, he's a talented martial artist, he's a secret agent. We wanted to cross that 007 with Jason Bourne, where he's been modified in some way; you're not sure what, but he's definitely deadly," Oster explained.
But, EA didn't believe in the idea. Agent "failed to survive the recession" according to Oster.
"And if the company's not behind it, it doesn't matter how hard you struggle you just can't make it happen," Oster lamented.
Too bad. I would have totally played this. Damn you,
EA recession.
Revealing Agent, BioWare's spy RPG that didn't survive the recession [Eurogamer]


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Following the conclusion of spring practices and another successful signing day, the Tennessee State coaching staff will turn its focus to hosting summer camps that benefit high school students as well as children from around the Nashville area.
TSU will hold four camps in total, including three prospect camps around the state and the annual Lil' Tiger Camp on campus.
The first prospect camp will be June 1 at Whitehaven HS in Memphis. The staff will then hold sessions in the TSU Indoor Facility on June 6 and at Tyner High School in Chattanooga two days later.
Each event costs 25 dollars and will provide students interested in becoming a member of the Tigers a chance to be instructed and evaluated by Tennessee State's very own coaching staff.
The Lil' Tiger Football Camp will take place from June 9-13 for kids ages 6-14. For a 135 dollar registration fee, participants will get educated in the game of football and have fun running through tires, catching passes and diving into end zones.
For more information or to sign-up, click here.
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Parent fights to get handicapped son into school
TORONTO — Marcy White has spent the last five months fighting for her 10-year-old son Jacob Trossman to attend Elkhorn Public School more than one half-day a week, but on Aug. 27 she was informed that the Toronto District School Board wouldn't allow it.
Jacob has Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease and is unable to walk or talk. White feels the school meets his needs in ways that other schools can't.
"There's no way I'm letting this go," she told The CJN after learning of the decision. She said she was not given a reason that Jacob would not be allowed to spend more than half a day a week at the school.
In response to a request to talk to Donna Quan, the board's deputy director of academics, who made the decision, TDSB communications officer Ryan Bird said that, "due to privacy and confidentiality concerns, we cannot comment on specific cases. However, I can say that whenever decisions are made with specific accommodations, the dignity and safety of students is paramount."
TDSB trustee Howard Goodman has been an advocate for Jacob and – as he put it – a navigator/translator for White and TDSB staff since she contacted him for help earlier this year.
In March, The CJN published White's first-person account about Jacob's experience at Elkhorn, where he was integrated for a half-day a week last year. She wrote that it was an "outstanding" arrangement, and that everyone benefited from it.
White said that within a week of her article appearing, she received a phone call from then school principal Paul Farrell to inform her that the TDSB wanted the arrangement to end by Easter, but he arranged for Jacob to stay until the end of the school year, she said.
White would like her son to be at Elkhorn three days a week, or even five.
"All I want is for my son to have the academic and social education he deserves," White said. "He's been there for over a year. We should know that it works."
She said that at his other school, Sunny View Public School, there are no children his age at his cognitive level, and the school doesn't follow the standard curriculum, although the staff is "caring [and] loving." He takes part in a communications program there.
White said that Jacob is at his age level cognitively, but that people are quick to assume he doesn't understand, because he doesn't speak and has trouble moving.
"He can understand things, and can respond and learn," she said. At Elkhorn, there were also social benefits: for the first time, he had play dates with his schoolmates.
White noted that there were benefits for other students as well. In a letter she provided, Cheryl Libman – Jacob's teacher at Elkhorn last year – said Jacob's impact was "so significant that his peers 'argue' over who will sit beside Jake, walk beside him down the hall, hold his hand or help him during art or French."
She also wrote that Elkhorn has been "an incredibly accepting and safe" environment for Jacob.
White said there have also been letters of support from parents at the school.
She said she was told that there needs to be a ramp at Elkhorn for Jacob to attend the school. But, she said, "there is a ramp. There's even a handicapped parking spot in the lot."


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Hex Releases Suicide's Run: A Tale of the Hobomancers
Hex Games is proud to announce the publication of Suicide's Run: A Tale of the Hobomancers, the first-ever novel based on the award-winning game Hobomancer. Suicide's Run is a fast-paced race that will leave the smell of coal smoke in your nose and the sound of the whistle singing in your ears. It is written by Hobomancer co-creator Carter Newton and features illustrations by Jeffrey Johnson.
A nation mired in the Great Depression elects a new president. Some men, supposedly "America's elite," fear his reforms. They have a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt and replace him with a dictator they control.
One man has the power to stop this dastardly plot. Unfortunately, after a failed suicide attempt, Jakob's woken up in a hobo camp with no way to tell what he knows. His only hope - America's only hope - are the hobomancers, train hopping hobo wizards defending the world against monsters and evil.
In their way stand a corrupt wizard, vindictive robber barons, sadistic private eyes, and creatures who know only fire and death. The last hope to save themselves, to save the Union, and maybe the world, is SUICIDE'S RUN!
Suicide's Run is a complete standalone novel based in the same world as the Hobomancer RPG; you do not need any familiarity with the game to enjoy the novel. For those who play the Hobomancer game, though, there is plenty of rich material that will help flesh out your game world, as well as game stats for the novel's major characters.
Suicide's Run—as well as Hobomancer, the Hobomancer Companion, American Artifacts, and more—can be purchased in PDF form at www.hexgames.com and at the finer PDF sales sites for just $10.
Learn more about Hobomancer at www.hexgames.com. To see more of Jeffrey Johnson's work, visit his blog at http://lifewithgirls.net/handmade-family/ and his Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/handmadefamily.


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Job Search / Re: 3L Timetable« on: September 17, 2007, 10:11:16 PM »
Actually, 2L hiring usually has no effect on 3L hiring. The firms looking for 3Ls are trying to fill an immediate need. 2L hiring deals with one year in the future. Thus, firms normally determine how many 3Ls they need separately from their incoming 2L class (although the two may be related numerically).That's correct, but an immediate need MAY be created when current 2L's who have summered with the firm have declined that firm's offer for permanent employment. DrAjay, your son's timeline for deciding which firm he will summer with has no bearing on 3L hiring.


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grandad ken's crispy grilled trout with parsley and lemon
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My granddad used to take me fishing when I was about six years old. He has sadly passed away, but the one thing I thank him for is teaching me not to be scared of bones when eating fish.
Preheat your grill to full whack. Slash each trout with a knife, about ten times on each side. Each slash should be about 0.5cm/¼ inch deep. Rub the trout with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Stuff the cavities with plenty of chopped parsley and the lemon slices. Place the fish side by side on a baking rack over a roasting tray.
Put the lemon zest on top of the fish and place the lemon halves on the tray too. Dot the trout with the butter and place it 15cm/6 inches from the grill. Cook for around 6 minutes on each side until crispy and golden.
Squeeze the roasted lemon over the top of the fish and serve with a simple crunchy side salad.
• from Cook With Jamie
• 2 x 300g/10½oz whole trout, scaled, cleaned and gutted
• olive oil
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• a large bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley, leaves picked and chopped
• 2 lemons, 1 zested and sliced, 1 halved
a few knobs of butter
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We were wrong about the turnout.
We were wrong about the makeup of the electorate.
We were wrong about the advertising mix and message that would work.
We were wrong about the effectiveness of President Obama's turnout mechanism.
The simple fact is Republicans spent more and achieved less than Democrats in 2012…
Some Republican analysts and strategists are rushing around with new explanations of what happened and what we must do.
The fact is less than an a week after the election they don't know what happened and they can't possibly know what we should do.
The Republican Party — which, by the way lost women to President Obama by 12 points — needs to run away from its archaic stance. Yes, object to abortion. Yes, work to make it rare. But move on: Abortion is here to stay. (And while you're at it, GOP, it might just be time also to abandon that vaunted "abstinence-only" policy that has been such a dismal failure.)
Second, gay marriage. On this, simply — who cares? America 2012 has enormous problems. Is this really an issue that matters to — anyone? Christians, two men getting married doesn't affect your marriage in any way. Get over it. The Republicans are on the wrong side of history on this issue, and Mr. Obama swept in millions of young voters by his tolerance. It's time to walk away.
On both issues, the GOP can make a clean break: As the party of individual freedom, the GOP can simply say it now sees that Americans — especially women — do have the right to choose their own path. In fact, the party espouses the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, always has, so the turnabout won't even raise an eyebrow.
My age group is one pocket of voters who Republicans should be carrying with ease. Youth is all about rebellion and freedom and independence—things the Democratic Party preaches but doesn't deliver. Behind their clever one-liners lurks a government shackle waiting to be slapped onto the wrists of every young voter they ensnare…
Shame on Republicans for not seizing the opportunity this time around. They could so easily define their brand as the true advocate of rebellion; a "stick it to the government" movement in the spirit of the 1960s hippie wave.
It wouldn't be a smoke-and-mirrors, bait-and-switch trick either, like what goes on across the aisle. Republicans truly are the party of a less intrusive ruling class. Frame the Republican fundamentals—tax less, spend less—as a fresh populist approach instead of Grandpa's adage, and the party is back in business.
Every time I suggest better, smarter GOP outreach to young people, Hispanics, African Americans, and women, many in the GOP old guard wave their pointer fingers at me and insist that I am advocating pandering, that I am allying myself with the Left's divide and conquer tactics.
Let me correct them in writing, as I have done in speech: Outreach is not pandering. They are completely different things. I am not talking about dividing the country up into special interest groups, pandering to voting blocs with speeches telling them what they want to hear in order to win votes. What I am talking about is taking the conservative message, a message that stands to benefit everyone in society, to places the GOP often ignores–local African-American and Hispanic church groups, feminist centers, and left-leaning college campuses, to name a few.
Will your message face resistance? Yes, and that's okay. It gives you a chance to correct false, media-driven stereotypes about conservatives and conservatism. Will you convert the majority in one afternoon? Of course not; these stereotypes have been inculcated over decades. Opening hearts and minds is a process, not a lunch appointment. That doesn't mean you don't get to work. Andrew Breitbart understood that better than anyone.
The darndest thing is I'm listening to all this handwringing and most of it is coming from a lot of people who've never really been conservative or supported conservatism. These people hated our ideas and values when we were winning and now choose this opportunity to sell us out the way they've always wanted. The conservative herd is headed off a cliff led by a consultant class that would otherwise now be swimming in pools full of dollar bills like Scrooge McDuck.
These people would have us believe that we must make fundamental changes to draw in new voters. We must exile social conservatives to bring in young people and single women. We must exile fiscal conservatives to bring in hispanic and black voters. With whatever is left from having exiled both, these geniuses would have us believe the Democrats in whose camp these groups already find themselves will just sit back and let it happen.
The Republican Party will never out Democrat the Democrats. Conservatives will never out liberal Liberals. We should not try.
[T]hough I have my anxieties about the president's next term, I also have a hunch the GOP dodged a bullet with Mr. Romney's loss.
It dodged a bullet because a Romney victory would have obscured deeper trends in American politics the GOP must take into account. A Romney administration would also have been politically cautious and ideologically defensive in a way that rarely serves the party well.
Finally, the GOP dodged ownership of the second great recession, which will inevitably hit when the Federal Reserve can no longer float the economy in pools of free money. When that happens, Barack Obama won't have George W. Bush to kick around.
So get a grip, Republicans: Our republican experiment in self-government didn't die last week. But a useful message has been sent to a party that spent too much of the past four years listening intently to echoes of itself. Change the channel for a little while.
"If Republicans do not do better in the Hispanic community," [Sen.-elect Ted Cruz] said, "in a few short years Republicans will no longer be the majority party in our state." He ticked off some statistics: in 2004, George W. Bush won forty-four per cent of the Hispanic vote nationally; in 2008, John McCain won just thirty-one per cent. On Tuesday, Romney fared even worse.
"In not too many years, Texas could switch from being all Republican to all Democrat," he said. "If that happens, no Republican will ever again win the White House. New York and California are for the foreseeable future unalterably Democrat. If Texas turns bright blue, the Electoral College math is simple. We won't be talking about Ohio, we won't be talking about Florida or Virginia, because it won't matter. If Texas is bright blue, you can't get to two-seventy electoral votes. The Republican Party would cease to exist. We would become like the Whig Party. Our kids and grandkids would study how this used to be a national political party. 'They had Conventions, they nominated Presidential candidates. They don't exist anymore.' "
At the same time, a Republican Party that moves too far leftward on immigration risks alienating its white working-class supporters, an easily disillusioned constituency whose support the party cannot take for granted. These voters already suspect that Republican elites don't have their interests at heart: Mitt Romney lost last week because he underperformed among minority voters, but also because a large number of working-class whites apparently stayed home. If the party's only post-2012 adjustment is to embrace amnesty, they aren't likely to turn out in 2016 either.
What the party really needs, much more than a better identity-politics pitch, is an economic message that would appeal across demographic lines — reaching both downscale white voters turned off by Romney's Bain Capital background and upwardly mobile Latino voters who don't relate to the current G.O.P. fixation on upper-bracket tax cuts.
As the American Enterprise Institute's Henry Olsen writes, it should be possible for Republicans to oppose an overweening and intrusive state while still recognizing that "government can give average people a hand up to achieve the American Dream." It should be possible for the party to reform and streamline government while also addressing middle-class anxieties about wages, health care, education and more.
The common theme here is that the current Republican economic message isn't very compelling to any of these groups. If Republicans addressed that problem, they would find their numbers improving in all of these groups, and outside them too. White, working-class voters, who supported Romney for president but seem to have had low turnout, might have shown up in greater numbers if Republicans had retooled on economics.
Men and women, whites and Hispanics, the young and the middle-aged: All of them want politicians to offer a practical agenda to create jobs, raise wages, and make health care and higher education more affordable. Most of them aren't wedded to liberal answers on those issues. They will take them over nothing, and that's what Republicans have been giving them.
Republicans are unlikely to return to majority status, or even keep their current strength, unless they do better. Looking at voters in categories of race, sex and age won't help them do that.
Why isn't soul searching underway on the left? When the personality at the center of the cult leaves the stage in four years, Democrats will own his results without the benefit of his appeal. We can't know quite what a second Obama term will bring, but if his first term is an indication, there's little reason to expect his party will be crowing. The fiscal cliff is here but a whole landscape of steep drops comes next: the economic cliff (over which lies a possible double-dip recession), the Obamacare cliff (over which lies an unprecedented bureaucratic behemoth), the Iran cliff (over which lies a nuclear bomb), and so on. A precipice in every direction and a president who's given us no reason to presume he can steer clear. Have Democrats stopped to wonder what initiatives they'll have to defend when the dust settles in 2016?…
It is in the nature of personality cults to fail at most things beyond generating and disseminating propaganda. This inability is the result of two things. First, the personality's popularity is not results-driven. Since adoration hasn't been earned by achievement but by the advent of charisma, why kill yourself trying to get results. Second, few people are willing to candidly critique the personality at the center of the cult, so there is little chance of course correction. None of this bodes well for Barack Obama. And for the country's sake, let's hope it's wrong.


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Angelika Brandt was the second recipient of the prestigious SCAR Medal for outstanding service to Antarctic Research.
The Executive Committee of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) honored CeDAMar scientist Angelika Brandt with the SCAR Medal for outstanding service to Antarctic research. Angelika was only the second person to receive the medal, which is awarded every two years. The award ceremony took place during the plenary opening session of the SCAR Open Science Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia in July 2007.
Elizabeth Huck and Eduardo Klein honored by President Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presents Census Caribbean scientist Elizabeth Huck with the highest recognition for a non-military citizen for her participation in Venezuela's first expedition to Antarctica. Fellow researcher Eduardo Klein was also honored.
CoML Caribbean scientists Eduardo Klein and Elizabeth Huck from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas were honored by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on 21 August 2008 for their participation in Venezuela's first expeditions to Antarctica, in which they carried out biodiversity studies related to the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) project. They received the Orden Libertador Simon Bolivar, Third Class, the highest recognition for a Venezuelan civilian.
Lucia Campos honored by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Census Scientist Lucia Campos was recognized for her leadership in Antarctic research.
On a visit to Antarctica, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, presented CAML scientist Lucia Campos with a national award for her work in that region.
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