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A woman slipped a torn piece of paper into Mayor Thomas M. Menino's hand while he bantered with a pianist at the Pine Street Inn homeless shelter yesterday.
"Can you get this street light turned on?" asked Kim Bullock, 45, a resident of the shelter since February. Her dog was adopted by a veterinarian who lives on a dark street and has promised to return the pet when Bullock gets back on her feet. She wants the street to be safe for the doctor and the dog.
"It'll be done," the mayor said over the Thanksgiving Day noise and commotion.
A few minutes and a short rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" later, Menino brought a smile to Bullock's face when he informed her that his staff had "already called it in."
Like Bullock, many of the hundreds of other people under the Harrison Avenue roof of the Pine Street Inn - from residents to staff to volunteers - found reasons to be grateful yesterday as they prepared, served, or ate a meal complete with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, vegetables, rolls, cider, and two types of pie.
There are nearly 7,000 people homeless each day in Boston, according to statistics provided by the inn, one of the largest shelter, housing, and job-training resources in New England. It serves 1,300 men and women a day, providing 700 beds and more than 3,000 meals.
This week, more than 250 volunteers helped prepare 1,500 Thanksgiving dinners for people at four Pine Street Inn sites, on the streets, and at 10 other nonprofits, which are served by Pine Street Inn's social enterprise venture, Abundant Table. Abundant Table is staffed by residents of the shelter, who learn culinary job skills through helping to prepare and deliver meals to other area agencies.
There were so many volunteers this year that some like Marine Corps veteran James Hughes, who has been coming to the shelter at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day for 17 years with his sister, left two hours earlier than they normally do.
In the kitchen, Menino and Lyndia Downie, the shelter's executive director, carved the first two turkeys with the assistance of two young helpers: Menino's 9-year-old grandson, Will, and Amanda Coolidge of Arlington, the 9-year-old daughter of a shelter employee, who were thrilled to go home with a wishbone.
Downie said she was grateful for the mayor's support of the homeless, not only yesterday, but for the work he does all year.
"He's someone who works hard so the poorest people have a seat at the table - both at a policy and practical level," she said. "We've been able to reduce the number of people sleeping on the street by 40 percent in the last three years because of him and his staff."
Menino visits several homeless shelters each Thanksgiving Day, he said, with the intention of telling people: "Don't despair. We're there."
And for many residents of the shelter, the support is received with gratitude.
"It means a lot for me to see strangers I'm not related to serving us, hugging us, treating us with respect - it's unconditional love," said Kathy Dwyer, a former drug abuser who recently moved from the shelter into her own home, one of the Inn's 500 affordable housing units.
While Dwyer and the other women waited to be served dinner, they listened to songs played by local entertainer Peter O'Malley, who said he's thankful for the chance to get the shelter's residents smiling on holidays.
The holiday was especially tough for resident Sydney Shiner-Spagone, who said she greatly missed watching football and cooking for her son, but being homeless was so "embarrassing" she didn't let him come see her yesterday. However, Shiner-Spagone couldn't contain her gratitude for the staff, shouting out to them as they walked by.
The former East Bridgewater resident lost her home to foreclosure and had other painful setbacks. But in the five months since she has been at the shelter, she has received counseling and the job assistance she needed to get employment at Macy's.
"I'm clean, I'm healthy, I have a bed at night," she said, "and a staff who supports me - they pack me a lunch for work, make sure I get my phone calls, take me to doctor's appointments. I'm lucky."
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West Ham vs. Boreham Wood: Preseason Friendly Recap, Highlights and ReactionJuly 12, 2013
West Ham continued their preseason with a 3-0 win over Boreham Wood on Wednesday. We have match highlights as well as a postgame interview with assistant manager Neil McDonald.
It was West Ham's second preseason game after they defeated Cork City 6-2 a few days earlier, and things looked good. While the opponent wasn't of the highest quality, West Ham came away with some positives.
Ravel Morrison, Ricardo Vaz Te and Kevin Nolan all scored for the Hammers, and Nolan's goal was quite a peach, as you'll see in the highlights. Just as with their game against Cork City, the Hammers featured two separate teams of 11 in either half.
West Ham was up 2-0 within 22 minutes, with Morrison scoring off the rebound and Vaz Te getting some height to head home. Nolan provided the third goal in the last 10 minutes of normal time.
Despite the wholesale changes in the second half, West Ham were dominant throughout the match. The London side were generally in control of the match, a fact that West Ham assistant manager McDonald affirmed on the club's website.
I thought we were dominant, we passed the ball really well and moved it on with a bit of tempo, more so than we did on Sunday, so that's encouraging. We were nice and tight too, so all in all it's a good start to pre-season and it gives everybody lots of confidence to try and push on.
New boys Razvan Rat, Adrian and Danny Whitehead all played 45 minutes in the game, while Andy Carroll missed out due to injury. McDonald was pleased with his new signings as well as youngster, Pelly Ruddock.
They've all settled in really well, he added. Last week in Cork and now this week back here...
Pelly Ruddock led the team out and that was nice for him. He's developed into a decent player since he came from Boreham Wood last year.
Everyone can see a difference, he's much stronger, much more comfortable on the ball and he seems to be enjoying the position we're playing him in.
So let's see how he progresses and hopefully he can put pressure on some of the first team players.
They all played in the club's first game against Cork City, and continued to ease their way into side. They still have yet to play with one key player in the West Ham setup in Andy Carroll.
Rat is likely to be the only starter out of this trio, but the others will certainly have a part to play in West Ham's season.
McDonald's comments about Ruddock suggest the youngster may see some time with the senior squad next season, though that is more likely to happen in competitions like the Carling Cup. He may improve his chances further if he continues to impress during the preseason.
The victory didn't mean much for the Hammers in the grand scheme of things. In all, the game against Boreham wooded provided little more than match fitness.
The win was expected, and though there may have been some tweaks sorted out, the Hammers know they cannot use this game as a measuring stick.
It was, however, a good opportunity to get another early game in during preseason and to continue integrating new signings. The integration of new signings is especially key.
Team chemistry, fitness, and the opportunity to knock out bad habits against opponents who aren't likely to hurt West Ham too much are also things to take away from this game. The defensive unit will be happy to have kept a clean sheet, while the attack will be pleased with nine goals in two games.
West Ham won't have a new look when the season begins but will sharpen up their style with tougher challenges against Mainz, Hamburger and Portuguese side Pacos de Ferreira, which surprised many by finishing third in last year's Portuguese league.
Next up, though, is a trip to AFC Bournemouth. West Ham will be hoping to continue the positives.


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Sargent, Thomas D. and Jagodzinski, Linda L. and Yang, Maria and Bonner, James (1981) Fine structure and evolution of the rat serum albumin gene. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 1 (10). pp. 871-883. ISSN 0270-7306. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:SARmcb81
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The exons, their boundaries, and approximately half of the intronic deoxyribonucleic acid of the rat serum albumin gene were sequenced. In addition to the 14 exons identified earlier by R-loop analysis, a small exon was detected between the "leader" exon (Z) and exon B. The leader exon encoded the 5'-untranslated portion of albumin messenger ribonucleic acid and the "pre-pro" oligopeptide present on the nascent protein. The sites of initiation and termination of transcription were tentatively identified by comparison of the 5' and 3' gene-flanking sequences with those of other eucaryotic genes. All 28 intron/exon junctions conformed to the "GT-AG rule" (Breathnach et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 75:4853-4857, 1978). The three homologous domains of albumin were encoded by three subgenes that consisted of four exons each and evolved by intragenic duplication of a common ancestor. The second and forth exons of each subgene appeared to be the result of an even earlier duplication event. We propose a model for the evolution of this gene that accounts for the observed patterns of exon size and homology.
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Love lasts forever (Episode 12)
Hi guys !! Thanks for ur support.
Have a great time, guys.let's start the episode.
After three months,
Arnav gets ready for work. He leaves .he stops in a temple.
Arnav removes his shoes and he goes inside the temple .
Arnav to himself: please God!! Make things normal !!
Arnav leaves. Hamari adhuri kahani plays.
Oru kal oru kannadi udayamal modikondral kaadhal plays.
At mehra mansion,
Akash: I'm leaving for office.
Payal: ya sure
Akash: arey Mrs .akash for how many days will u be like this?? I know it's hard to digest. Believe me
Every thing will be OK.
Payal hugs akash.
Payal: I'm missing kushi.
Akash: don't worry payal. Akash has tears in his eyes. Learn to accept reality.
Janam janam plays.
Pesugiren pesugiren UN idhayam pesugiren plays.
Abhi: y this house is like this??
Pragya: what should I do???
Pragya leaves from the room but abhi holds her hand.
Abhi: I know you are not leaving bcoz u r angry. Pls don't cry pragya.
Pragya: abhi vo
Abhi hugs pragya
Sanam re sanam re plays.
Kadhale kadhale plays.
Abhi: I don't know y we are facing these situations.
Pragya: I am missing kushi.
Abhi: even me
Pragya: I thought we all can stay together but kushi and she starts crying heavily.
Abhi makes her sit on the bed.
Abhi: meri jaan. You cannot change the past by crying .
Pragya: I know that abhi but did you see arnav.
He is behaving in a weird manner.
Abhi: I will talk to him.
At arnav's office,
Arnav to himself: within three months,my life has changed. But I'm still lagging. I cannot move
Forward .arnav sees Kushi's photo and he cries.
Hamari adhuri kahani plays.
Neethane enthan ponvasantham plays.
Raman : hi arnav!!
Arnav: ishita and raman you guys are here.
Ishita: y we should not come ah
Arnav: no formalities between us ,ishu.
Raman: I know Mr.arnav owner of AR companies that you are busy always. But spend some time
With your friends also.
Arnav: I'm sorry I cannot make it to ur engagement.
Ishita:: hmm
Raman: arey leave it ishu. Arnav stop looking the photo and he grabs kushi's photo.
Arnav: please raman
Ishita: understand raman.
Raman: you do something. He places the photo and he leaves.
Arnav. Gets worried.
Ishita: I will take care.
Raman leaves but ishita stops him
Ishita : y r u hurting arnav,raman.
Raman: ishu pls don't support him.
Ishita: arnav loves kushi .
Raman: I accept. The truth is that we have no information about the whereabouts of kushi.
Ishita: we can find her.
Raman: it has been three months. After payal engagement things got really complicated.
But still we did not trace kushi.
Ishita: raman we should make arnav happy.
Raman tells something to ishu.
Ishu: u r the best my dear.
Jeene lagaan ho plays.
Kadhal kankatudhe plays.
Raman: come let's go.
Arnav comes out and calls raman.
Raman: tell me,arnav
Arnav: where r u?
Raman: at the car parking.
Arnav comes there and hugs raman.
Raman: arey arnav come on man. I have to tell you something.
Arnav: what
Ishita: our wedding is taking place in Chennai.
Arnav: y
Raman: we met each other for the first time in Chennai only.
Arnav smiles.
Raman: we are leaving tomorrow yaar.
Arnav: but
Raman: you are coming ,it's an order .
Arnav: k
Ishita: so we are going to Chennai.
Raman and arnav smiles.
At Chennai in an NGO,
A lady is singing . tum hi ho
Everyone claps for her.
It's a NGO for children.
The children are playing with the lady.the children shout
Kushi di wait.
Kushi turns and smiles and she leaves.
Kushi goes to a temple .
Kushi to herself : everyone should be happy.
Kushi goes for shopping and she returns to the NGO.
The children ask kushi to sing nagira.
Kushi sings nagira.
Her moments with arnav flashes in her mind. Her eyes gets filled with tears.
Kushi wiped her tears and started preparing food for them.
Kushi is in charge of five kids.
For the past three months the children became kushi's family.
Kushi served dinner.
The children are happily.
Kushi showed the sky to the children.
Kushi: life is like a star everyday it shines but it depends on how u see it.
The children gives a confused look to kushi.
Kushi: arey mere bacha let's sleep.
At mehra mansion,
Arnav was looking at the stars.
Arnav: where r u kushi?? I m really missing u . please come back to me.
Hamari adhuri kahani plays.
Oh penne penne plays.
Arnav cries.
Precap::no precap.
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The 151st annual reunion was held in the College hall on Saturday, 15th July 2017, when 68 members and 12 guests enjoyed a splendid buffet lunch, provided by the college caterers. Our guest speaker was Andy Sloggett, who attended the grammar school from 1961 to 1968. Andy, who trained as a pharmacist, spoke of his interesting career in medicine and especially his time with Save the Children as a member of the management team for the ailing Mulago Hospital in Uganda. His talk included some fascinating anecdotes, some of which we were thankful that we heard after we had eaten!
Details of the 152nd annual reunion, to be held on a Saturday in early July 2018, will appear here when they become available
I progressed from Taunton House Prep. school to to the school in September 1944. I received an email from Eric Gill recently reminding me Richard Hicks moved at approximately the same time. Also there was Michael Till, Roy Sinclair Ronnie Fox and others whose names I forget. The only 2 ex. pupils, other than myself who reside in Southern Ireland are Don Tidey (who I last met at the 150th reunion luncheon) and Peter Solly, who lives about 30 miles from me, and was speaking to only last week. Peter and I spent years trying to catch record sea fish off the Co. Waterford beaches. Paul Tomsett Paul Tomsett
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Did Oxford Drop the Oxford Comma?
The serial comma kerfuffle
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Who Invented the Oxford Comma?
The first style book to recommend using the serial comma came out in 1905 in England, and Strunk's first edition of The Elements of Style, which came out a few years later in America, in 1918, also recommended the serial comma.
The 1905 book credited with establishing the serial comma rule is Author and Printer: A Guide for Authors, Editors, Printers, Correctors of the Press, Compositors, and Typists by Francis Howard Collins, and it appears that Collins and his famous biologist/philosopher friend Herbert Spencer hashed out idea of the serial comma in a personal correspondence that Collins later quoted in his book. Collins and Spencer did not give it the name serial comma or Oxford comma, instead, Collins addressed the point in an entry about the word "and" with the heading "and" or ", and." Here's what that entry says:
"The late Herbert Spencer allowed me to quote from his letter: -- 'whether to write "black, white, and green," with the comma after white, or to leave out the comma and write "black, white and green" -- I feel very decidedly in favor of the first. To me, the comma is of value in marking out the component elements of a thought, and where any set of a component of elements are of equal value, they should be punctuated in printing and in speech equally. Evidently therefore in this case, inasmuch as when enumerating these colours black, white, and green, the white is just as much to be emphasized as the other two, it needs the pause after it just as much as the black does.'" (See the manuscript scan at Google Books.)
An interesting side note is that Spencer is also credited with coining the phrase "survival of the fittest."
As far as we know, that's the origin of serial comma rule. It originally had to do with giving each element equal weight rather than being valued for adding clarity to lists. Either way, I'm glad the Oxford University Press is still using it.
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Yeah, thats a good alternative. Charge should stay as it is.
Well fuck.
I would have preferred the charge nerf over what they're doing with disrupting shout.
Strength Determination Merciless Forever
This is what a blizz blue said about charge and also they are putting pummel and disrupting shout on the same DR seriously blizzard its hard enough as a warrior to beat casters so now we going back to the good old days of free honor kill warriors for casters. fuck you blizzard always nerfing the wrong shit cos you listen to the 10 yr olds of wow not the proper players.
We're going to revert the Charge and Warbringer changes from the 5.4.7 PTR and make a different change. Here's some context:
We feel that Warriors are too disruptive vs casters in PvP at the moment. To a certain extent it's intended that it should be more difficult to get casts off if there's a melee DPS sticking to you, but Warriors just have too many options along those lines currently. That's part of the thinking behind the change to Charge: as a root, Charge would not interrupt casting, so it would be useful purely as a gap closer and rage generator, not as a way to lock down a caster.
We're reverting it because, although we do think it's a good change and something we're likely to revisit in the future, it's a bit too big of an overall change for 5.4.7. There's a bit of a ripple effect here; making Charge a root certainly accomplishes the goal of scaling back Warrior interrupts, but it opens up some secondary issues (such as "what happens when you Charge a target with Hand of Freedom active?") that we'd need some additional time to clear up. Put another way, we wanted to nerf Warriors' ability to disrupt casters, not their mobility, and at this point in time the Charge change would have been a nerf to both.
So instead, we're making a different change: Pummel and Disrupting Shout will have a 15-second shared cooldown. To be clear: Disrupting Shout will remain at its current 40 second cooldown, but you won't be able to use it within 15 seconds of using Pummel. Likewise, using Disrupting Shout will put Pummel on cooldown.
We may still come back to the Charge change in Warlords, where all sorts of other changes will have happened (especially to CC) that allow it to make more sense, and we can spend more development and testing time on making sure it doesn't have any unwanted side effects. For now, the shared cooldown on Pummel and Disrupting Shout will fill our original intention of making Warriors just slightly less difficult to cast against.
I'm sorry about the language but you have to be fucking joking Blizzard.
This new change is an even worse impact on PVE than the previous one. Many PVP warriors don't even use disrupting shout, but I bet just about every PVE one does. Ugh.
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Crazy. Changing one of the if not the most iconic abilities in the entire game...9 years later. Makes no sense.
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Then again two interrupts in PVP is pretty powerful, at least against spellcasters.
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If anyone missed it.Pummel and Disrupting Shout will have a 15-second shared cooldown. To be clear: Disrupting Shout will remain at its current 40 second cooldown, but you won't be able to use it within 15 seconds of using Pummel. Likewise, using Disrupting Shout will put Pummel on cooldown.
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warlocks: they have about 3 fears and cc effects from that pet that makes u sleep
mages: pet can use frost nova so can you and use about anoter 6 cc's
hunters: have disengages to stop damage and there leap of faith with a root and pets that cc
tbh warriors need 2 spell interupts to deal with all the bullshit spells casters have, guess wod is gonna be world of castercraft agian
I'm hoping they're gonna tone down the mass use of CC in WoD a bit.
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I say this as an exclusively warrior player, this change IS for the better. CC DOES need to be addressed but nerfing charge isn't right in anyway. They need to remove access to shockwave and/or stormbolt for arms warriors.
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I didn't say that I am suddenly going to be fucked or I'm pissed off because I'm a bad player and won't be able to cope. I played warrior for a LONG time and I am fine with only having one interrupt. It's not a problem. This is a change I expected to happen eventually.
The problem is that they are nerfing PVE class mechanics MID-TIER for the sake of toning down DPS warrior control in PVP. Exactly as I said about the charge change, if they do this at the end of the expansion or start of a new raid tier, I have zero problems with it.
But changing something like this mid-tier when many guilds are still progressing on heroic SoO and especially Garrosh (a fight where double interrupts is very handy in a 10-man raid) is very irritating, especially when they were fine with the mechanic in every tier since the start of MoP and this is clearly a PVP-motivated change.
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Sigh. I can see how now that they make a nerf that doesn't affect PVP warriors in a big way, you all turn around suddenly and it's like "Get out PVE noob, l2p!"
Funny how people turn their backs when it doesn't affect them any longer.
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People will complain about anything.
"Disrupting Shout and Pummel now both share a 15-second cooldown when either ability is used. Disrupting Shout's 40-second cooldown remains unchanged but the ability will be unavailable for 15 seconds after using Pummel."
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They should just make Disrupting Shout replace Pummel when you talent it, if they're doing this.
TBH it makes that talent tier more interesting for me — usually I just keep it parked on Disrupting because it's so much better than the other options. Now it's Piercing Howl by default, Disrupting iff I have a legitimate reason to interrupt in a radius vs. keeping a priority target locked up.
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Strictly Come Dancing judge and now panto superstar Craig Revel Horwood returns to an area which means so much to him with a new show celebrating the music of Neil Diamond.
Craig is director and choreographer for Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show which plays Goodwood Racecourse from May 10–15 - just a few miles from Chichester Festival Theatre, the venue where he enjoyed so many of his early opportunities.
Craig is convinced that it was the CFT's willingness to back an unknown which has launched him so high.
Strictly Come Dancing is now the biggest show in the world, he says - confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records.
Just as it came to another triumphant conclusion just before Christmas, Craig was revelling in panto at Crawley, another great experience.
"I just had such a brilliant time. I was far more relaxed this time, and I was engaging with the audience a lot more. They had a real go at me, which was great. You can hide behind the wigs and the lashes and you can get away with murder! You can just turn round and tell them to shut up. You can get away with it, and it was a sell-out show."
Now he's turning his attention to Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show which will be presented within a fully-heated and specially-adapted Big Top venue.
Featuring Neil Diamond hits including Sweet Caroline, Cracklin' Rosie, Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon, Love On The Rocks and I Am... I Said, it stars Brian Conley as the ever-zealous preacher Brother Love.
With his 15-piece band, he'll be offering a theatrical concert performance on a Mission of Love, inspired by his belief that the Power of Neil can conquer all.
"It's not conventional theatre," explains Craig. "It's a concert. That's the way to think about it, but it is a concert with a concept. I have got Brian Conley and Darren Day, and I am getting them to play different roles within the piece.
"It's bringing Neil Diamond to the people. It's intelligent music, and there are such wonderful stories within the songs. Rather than just singing them, we are going to be bringing those stories to life. We are trying to give it a bit more edge by making it conceptual."
And they are going everywhere - from racecourses to cricket grounds, anywhere there is an open space.
Meanwhile, the Strictly Come Dancing story continues to grow.
Craig reckons last year's series was one of the best ever - thanks to the casting, crucial too to this show. The point is that you have got to get the right people: "Strictly is basically just fantastic entertainment. If you tried to call it a dance competition, you would be going awry. If you want a real dance competition, you should go to Blackpool. It's about getting people dancing who don't think they can dance.
"We had some fantastic dancing and we had some appalling dancing."
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Whirlpool Recalls Thousands of Microwaves Due to Fire Hazard
Here's the list of the 10 models that have been impacted.
If you have an over the hood microwave from Whirlpool, you're going to want to check its model immediately. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Whirlpool is recalling about 15,200 microwaves due to fire hazards.
Whirlpool received five reports of fire incidents, including one home fire, two fires involving surrounding cabinets, one report of smoke and another of burning odor. The reason these models are catching fire is because they're "arcing" or sparking. This usually happens when you've placed something metal in the microwave, or is otherwise a sign that the microwave needs to be repaired. While a spark alone is very dangerous, the microwaves in question are sparking and then igniting an internal plastic piece in the appliance, causing it to catch fire.
The defunct microwaves were sold at Best Buy, HH Gregg, Lowe's, and Sears, and cost between $370 and $470.
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|Tratk & Field Oheddrick Fields comes down for a landing. The freshman participates in the sprints and the long jump, drawing comparsions to former Cougar Carl Lewis, who just happens to have a fewr gold medals. Photo by Thomas Nguyen, (center) Dawn Burrell also draws a lot of comparsions to a former Cougar. She, like her brother, Leroy, runs and long jumps. Photo by Thomas Nguyen, (below) Jump To New Lengths Fieldsf Spiller get the jump on SWC competition It seemed as though the Bayou City had become a sort of haven for jumpers. Long jump watchers had their eyes trained on both Houston's and Rice's track teams as a grand jump off was taking place. Rice junior Kareem S tree te-Thomp son defended a string of three consecutive SWC titles against UH freshmen Sheddrick Fields and Billy Spiller. Streete-Thompson took the SWC indoor championship, with a jump of 25 feet, 5-and-a-quarter inches at the meet in Fort Worth. Spiller and Fields, both former Texas State high school champions ._< fared well in their first major college competition. Fields placed fourth with a jump of 24-2 1/4, while Spiller gradually improved on his jumps and took fifth with a 23-10 1/4 leap. Houston Coach Tom Tellez was excited about the potential in his prized freshman. Fields was the sports 1992 National High School Athlete of the Year, posting a national best leap of 25-11 1/4 for Dallas South Oak Cliff. Jumping with a heel injury, he lost the class 4A state title on the last jump of the competition. He won the 1991 4A championship and competed in the 1992 Olympic Trials in New Orleans. The6-3,195-pounds Fields owned a personal best of 26-8 1/2, and also possesses 10.3 speed in the 100 meter dash. He was often compared to former Cougar Carl Lewis, whose work with the UH track team was a primary reason why Fields chose to sign with Houston. Spiller capped his senior season at Killeen by capturing his second consecutive class 5A long jump title. His 25-10 jump in the 1991 state meet was a Texas high school record. "They've got the talent, speed and attitude to do the job," said Tellez. "We're working with them on some new things, but they are on the way to big things." The "thing" Tellez was working on was the hitch-kick technique he made famous with Lewis, allowing the three time Olympic gold medalist to join world record holder Mike Powell as the only athletes to surpass the 29 foot level. "Coach Tellez is helping us with the new technique, and it's coming along," Spiller said. "It'll help us in the future. It also helps to have someone to jump with (Fields), because it will only make you go farther." The UH jumpers had stiff competition in Streete- Thompson, who won another SWC title. The Rice junior was a two-time NCAA qualifier and grabbed attention in 1991 with a 27 foot jump against Carl Lewis at the UH Invitational. He looked forward to future challenges from Spiller and Fields. "Like any other jumper, they're going to get jumping in pressure situations," Streete- Thompson said. "I wish them luck, but the main thing is to not lose your focus, take care of your own business." -Michael Edwards 140 Sports Track & Field 141


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A woman may have symptoms of a heart attack that are not typical and when she has no heart risk factors such as smoking or high cholesterol, doctors may scratch their heads about the diagnosis. Now, a new study finds that an inexpensive test may help to see if the heart is causing the symptoms.
The new study shows that this test may be the best to see if a heart problem is causing chest pain symptoms such as 57-year-old Carmen Estevez's.
Carmen got nervous after an abnormal heavy pain and tingling in her arm and face.
"She was typical of women post menopause who present with a multitude of complaints, some related to heart disease and sometimes they're not," said Dr. Regina Druz of North Shore-LIJ.
To find out if the symptoms are heart-related, Dr. Jennifer Mieres, North Shore-LIJ, studied 800 women who answered questions to find out if they were fit enough to do treadmill exercise.
Over two years, she compared the treadmill with an EKG to monitor the heart, with one using a radioactive dye to monitor the heart.
The inexpensive EKG test was as effective as expensive radioactive imaging in predicting heart attacks and deaths.
"If you can exercise for six minutes, the plain exercise stress test is the way to go," said Dr. Mieres.
The women had very few risk factors for heart attacks.
Some women must have the nuclear scan, for example women who cannot exercise well on the treadmill are women who are older or out of shape.
Carmen, though, had a normal test and is keeping her heart healthy with better diet and exercise. For low risk women, a simple exercise test can be a life saver.
Heart disease is an equal opportunity killer and it is recommended by the North Shore-LIJ doctors that women go in and speak with their doctors and discuss their risk of heart disease.
The EKG treadmill stress test does not involve injections or radioactive chemicals, which is certainly a plus. One criticism of the study was that in women with more heart risk factors, the radioactive imaging test may have found disease better.


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His Influence Background Bob Dylan was born as his real name Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. He is 71 years old today. Dylan grew up with his brother David Zimmerman. By Paul Anderson Timeline Dylan goes to college in Minneapolis and gets known as a folk singer. Fun Facts Dylan received a D-plus in a music-appreciation class at the University of Minnesota. Citations http://www.biography.com/people/bob-dylan-9283052 http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/bob-dylan/bio/ Dylan started out writing and singing protest songs about the Vietnam War. Then he started doing other kinds of music like Rock, Pop, and Folk. Dylan changed the vocalist role by breaking down everything and saying a singer must have a good voice. Dylan basically made electrified folk-rock and country-rock. He signified folk too because he made it not unusual to write your own folk song instead of singing the traditional ones. Dylan sold over 100 million albums in all. Dylan new how to play harmonica and piano by age 10 and he was a self-taught guitarist. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915 1955 to 1960 Columbia Records President John Hammond signs Dylan to a five-year recording contract. 1961 http://folkmusic.about.com/od/bobdylan/a/Bob-Dylan-Timeline.htm He releases his first album called Bob Dylan. 1962 He performs at the Newport Folk Festival. 1963 Dylan plays at George Harrison's Concert. 1973 Dylan converts his life to Christianity and his song "You Gotta Serve Somebody" earns him his first Grammy award. 1979 to 1981 Dylan has a tribute to him celebrating 30 years of Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden, to perform at what Neil Young called "Bobfest". 1992 He writes his memoir book called Chronicles: Volume One and it goes to number 2 on the new fork best seller list. 2004 2009 Dylan releases Christmas in the Heart, donating all the extra money to feed the hungry. Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde went 2x platinum which he is the most known for. He has 5 songs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has 6 songs in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Dylan performed with the Mumford and Sons and the Avett Brothers for the 53rd Grammy awards. Milestones He was an editor for "Broadside," the folk-music magazine. None of his singles has ever reached No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. http://www.riaa.com/bobdylanFull transcript


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ERIE - Faced with a nearly $1 million budget deficit next year, Mason Consolidated School officials are weighing significant cuts that could include teacher layoffs and increased athletic fees to play sports.
Superintendent David Drewyor last week announced a list of recommendations that were compiled by the district's administrative team to offset a projected $930,646 deficit for the 2009-10 school year.
The recommendations, which will be reviewed by the board of education at its regular meeting on May 4, call for eliminating three classroom teachers and an enrichment instructor and increasing the play-to-participate fee for athletes.
If implemented, the suggested cuts in transportation, athletics, and staffing would erase about $837,326 of the deficit, leaving the district about $93,000 short of balancing the budget, Mr. Drewyor said. A budget must be approved before July 1.
Mr. Drewyor said he hoped the board could fill the gap by seeking wage and benfit concessions from the unionized teachers, staff, and administrators, who are scheduled to have their contracts reopened for wage negotiations.
"This is an ongoing process," he said.
Other potential cuts and cost- saving measures include:
•ending elementary lunch recess to eliminate playground aides.
•eliminating high school and middle school athletic positions and assigning the duties to other administrators.
•decrease discretionary spending for textbooks and equipment in the elementary, middle school, and high school levels.
•cutting four weeks from the annual work schedule of secretarial and administrative assistant positions.
•consolidating bus routes, leasing four buses, and selling one bus.
•converting paid coaches at the middle school and ninth grade to voluntary positions and using third party contracts.
•freezing wages and step increases for employees, including the superintendent's salary.
•eliminating cell phones for staff.
The board of education implemented cost-saving measures, including teacher layoffs, to address a $557,000 shortfall in the budget in June, shortly after Mr. Drewyor was hired.
School officials said flattened state revenues and increasing operating costs are contributing to the deficits, but the major factor is declining student enrollment, which is projected to a drop of about 40 students next year.
"That is what is killing us," Mr. Drewyor said.
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Every taste of success Pepper have encountered has come with a grain of salt. Before their riffs hit the mainland's auricular sphere, lead singer Kaleo Wassman, bassist Brett Bollinger and drummer Yesod Williams stepped away from bussing tables to play semi-successful gigs on the Big Island. Unfortunately, it would take a re-issuing of their debut album, Give'n It, and three years for their debut single to hit after its initial release for Pepper to arrive.
No longer 19 and out of the sexual peak they were in when the lusty ska title track was recorded in 2001, Pepper are back with a mature flare that still encourages the horny stoner to phone his booty call for some late-night action. When the Kona, Hawaii, natives first hit the scene, comparisons to Sublime and 311 challenged the bifurcation of their island-Metallica sound with radio's other reggae-based favorites.
Today, it'd be foolish to confuse the combination of raunchy lyrics and Wassman's strong vocals with anyone else. Five LPs later, resting on the laurels of past hits and reputable tours (Vans Warped Tour and the group were once synonymous) would have been a decent way for the group to ride the rest of the wave that was their career, but a boyish radiance still oozes from all three original members, signaling the callowness they'll offer for years to come.
"Honestly, it was like college for us," Williams says about the ambitious attitude they brought with them into the handful of SoCal studios where they recorded their self-titled album. The eponymous nature of the album is said to reflect the "relaunch of Pepper" from the aforementioned chasm.
After not vibing with past producers, Pepper went hands-on with their 2010 EP, Stitches, to ensure they could convey their self-projected sound. In what they deemed a pre-production to their upcoming record, the five-song EP, though lacking in acclaim and SoundScan numbers, did something much more to perpetuate the existence of the three amigos as a jolly, joke-spouting, melodic unit. Proving to industry professionals and themselves they could produce quality tunes sans the help of producers was an esteem boost for them.
Williams calls the solo effort "reinvigorating," while Wassman likens their new recording style to a mainland American hero. "It was like the training montage in Rocky II," he says. "We were running on the beach . . ."
Their self-help attitude extended beyond the studio to An Evening With Pepper, a small circuit of West Coast shows, including an appearance at the Troubadour. The group satirically detail the slew of responsibilities they took on to make the warm-up tour happen. "We were the opening act, the headliner . . . the DJ at the end," Wassman says before Williams and Brett add they were also the janitor and strip-club owner next door to the venue.
"[We've had our] heads down, digging the ditch," Bollinger says. They've been so busy in the days preceding the Sept. 3rd release of the new album, they were unaware of the prime position on alternative charts of the single "FKARND."
Apart from the grind that has kept Pepper in the game, their ability to righteously goof off, or FKARND, appears to be the key to their longevity. Such antics as Wassman's nipple-rubbing flirt session with KROQ's Stryker during their performance at the Red Bull Sound Space makes for easy listening and an awesome performance.
Pepper perform with the Expendables, Fishbone, Tomorrow's Bad Seeds and more at the Shoreline Jam at the Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 435-3511; www.queenmary.com. Sat. See website for show times. Tickets, $25-$100; parking, $15. All ages.
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A recent post on Boing Boing discussed the newly discovered "rules for jazz performers during the Nazi occupation." Jewish and Black people — two groups targeted by the Nazis — were also the primary innovators of jazz music. But Germans loved jazz! How to handle such a contradiction? Rules for playing jazz music: no "Jewishy gloomy lyrics," no "Negroid excesses in tempo," and no "hysterical rhythmic reverses characteristic of the barbarian races."
It's well worth a look, as is this post from 2010 explaining how many groups vilified by Nazis survived the Holocaust by playing jazz for Nazi soldiers…
I have a favorite historical musician: Django Reinhardt.
Reinhardt was a Roma jazz musician. During World War II both Roma and jazz musicians were targeted by the Nazi regime. Over a million Roma were exterminated for presumed racial inferiority and jazz was believed to combine the worst of Blacks and Jews (i.e., "musical race defilement"). Just listening to a jazz record could get you sent to a concentration camp.
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As Richard Horton's post says, the latest Johns Hopkins University study of mortality in Iraq, published in the Lancet is horrible news. When the previous study was published, a horrendous chorus of hacks sprung up and suddenly discovered a new-found expertise in epidemiological statistics.
Tim Lambert, the Australian science-blogger, and I ended up spending a lot of time and energy fighting on the online front of this Campaign For Real Statistics, and so it is with heavy heart that I see that President Bush - who is probably a better statistician that many of his online supporters as he has at least been to business school - has already expressed an uninformed opinion on the matter.
There will be a concerted attempt to persuade people that the statistical issues involved in this study are difficult. They aren't. The correct way to think about this is as follows:
First, don't concentrate on the number 600,000 (or 655,000, depending on where you read). This is a point estimate of the number of excess Iraqi deaths - it's basically equal to the change in the death rate since the invasion, multiplied by the population of Iraq, multiplied by three-and-a-quarter years. Point estimates are almost never the important results of statistical studies and I wish the statistics profession would stop printing them as headlines.
The question that this study was set up to answer was: as a result of the invasion, have things got better or worse in Iraq? And if they have got worse, have they got a little bit worse or a lot worse. Point estimates are only interesting in so far as they demonstrate or dramatise the answer to this question.
The results speak for themselves. There was a sample of 12,801 individuals in 1,849 households, in 47 geographical locations. That is a big sample, not a small one. The opinion polls from Mori and such which measure political support use a sample size of about 2,000 individuals, and they have a margin of error of +/- 3%. If Margaret Beckett looks at the Labour party's rating in the polls, she presumably considers this to be reasonably reliable, so she should not contribute to public ignorance by allowing her department to disparage "small samples extrapolated to the whole country". The Iraq Body Count website and the Iraqi government statistics are not better measures than the survey results, because one of the things we know about war zones is that casualties are under-reported, usually by a factor of more than five.
And the results were shocking. In the 18 months before the invasion, the sample reported 82 deaths, two of them from violence. In the 39 months since the invasion, the sample households had seen 547 deaths, 300 of them from violence. The death rate expressed as deaths per 1,000 per year had gone up from 5.5 to 13.3.
Talk of confidence intervals becomes frankly irrelevant at this point. If you want to pick a figure for the precise number of excess deaths, then (1.33% - 0.55%) x 26,000,000 x 3.25 = 659,000 is as good as any, multiplying out the difference between the death rates by the population of Iraq and the time since the invasion. But we're interested in the qualitative conclusion here.
That qualitative conclusion is this: things have got worse, and they have got a lot worse, not a little bit worse. Whatever detailed criticisms one might make of the methodology of the study (and I have searched assiduously for the last two years, with the assistance of a lot of partisans of the Iraq war who have tried to pick holes in the study, and not found any), the numbers are too big. If you go out and ask 12,000 people whether a family member has died and get reports of 300 deaths from violence, then that is not consistent with there being only 60,000 deaths from violence in a country of 26 million. It is not even nearly consistent.
This is the question to always keep at the front of your mind when arguments are being slung around (and it is the general question one should always be thinking of when people talk statistics). How Would One Get This Sample, If The Facts Were Not This Way? There is really only one answer - that the study was fraudulent.[1] It really could not have happened by chance. If a Mori poll puts the Labour party on 40% support, then we know that there is some inaccuracy in the poll, but we also know that there is basically zero chance that the true level of support is 2% or 96%, and for the Lancet survey to have delivered the results it did if the true body count is 60,000 would be about as improbable as this. Anyone who wants to dispute the important conclusion of the study has to be prepared to accuse the authors of fraud, and presumably to accept the legal consequences of doing so.
So what? This is always the other line from the people who want to ignore this study. Even if we accept that the invasion has been a disaster (in the strictest sense, the doubling of the civilian death-rate is usually taken to constitute a humanitarian crisis) for the Iraqi people, what should we do differently? The majority of the deaths by violence are a result of action by the insurgents, so we can't just pull the troops home. Isn't this kind of study just "picking over the rubble", to quote the Euston Manifesto and a distraction from the real debate about humanitarian intervention?
Well, there is something that we can do. We can ensure that the people responsible for this outrage suffer the consequences of their actions. A particularly disgusting theme of some right-wing American critics of the study as been to impugn it by talking about it being "conveniently" released before the November congressional elections. As if a war that doubled the death rate in Iraq was not the sort of thing that ought to be a political issue. Nobody is doing anything about this disaster, and nobody will do until people start suffering some kind of consequences for their actions (for example, no British politician, soldier or spy has lost his job over the handling of the Iraq war and no senior member of the Bush administration either).
There has to be some accountability here. It is not good enough for the pro-intervention community to shrug their shoulders and say that the fatalities caused by the insurgents are not our fault and not part of the moral calculus. I would surely like to see the insurgents in the ICC on war crimes charges, but the Nuremberg convention was also correct to say that aggression was "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole". The people who started this war of aggression need to face up to the fact, and that is a political issue.
[1] In the context of the 2004 study, I was prepared to countenance another explanation: that the Iraqis were lying and systematically exaggerating the number of deaths. But in the 2006 study, death certificates were checked and found in 92% of cases.
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Government Money Is No Answer to California Drought
The drought in California is one of the state's worst weather-related disasters in decades, despite some recent rainstorms. The images are dramatic: Folsom Lake in the north is so dry that receding waters have revealed a Gold Rush ghost town. Farmland is bare and parched, which will lead to increases in food prices nationwide. In Sacramento, agents have been seen snooping around neighborhoods looking for improper water use.
Yet unlike hurricanes, blizzards and tsunamis, a drought has no obvious response -- no rescue, no cleanup, no rebuilding.
With no way forward, the state's water wars have reignited, as the usual suspects -- farmers, cities, environmentalists -- battle over "their" fair share. The conflict has intensified since officials announced late last month that water agencies can expect zero deliveries from the California State Water Project this year. This is the first time in the project's history that the enormous system of dams and canals won't provide any water, leaving local regions largely on their own.
The most divisive battleground has been in Washington. California Republicans representing agricultural districts pushed through a House bill that would divert water away from river restoration and other environmental projects and toward farms. Democrats are expected to kill such legislation in the Senate. If they don't, President Barack Obama will veto the bill, on the grounds that it "would undermine years of collaboration between local, state and federal stakeholders to develop a sound water quality control plan."
In California's capital, the debate is over the size and priorities of a water bond on the November ballot. In 2009, the legislature approved an $11 billion measure that has since been delayed twice given the lack of public support. The bond plan may still be too larded with pork-barrel projects to pass muster with voters, even in a drought.
In the debate of alternative bond proposals, Republicans want more dams and diversions from the state's rivers and more water for farmers. Democrats offer a much-smaller, alternative bond plan focused on environmental priorities (conservation, levee rebuilding and the like).
Governor Jerry Brown's main approach is a plan to build two giant tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, an estuary that has long been ground zero in California's water wars. The project doesn't necessarily promise more water, only a more reliable supply by addressing the environmental conditions that are killing the endangered Delta smelt fish and leading to water cutbacks.
In the throes of a drought, the "build more storage" side might have a short-term edge over the "conserve more" crowd in a political landscape that has long favored environmentalists.
"You cannot conserve what you don't have," said Gary Arant, a board member of the San Diego County Water Authority, referring to environmentalists' efforts to fight more dams and other storage projects (reflecting his personal view, and not necessarily that of his agency).
The State Water Project is the largest water conveyance system in the U.S., but "is essentially the same physical system it was 40 years ago," he added. "What has changed is that it now serves roughly twice as many people, and because of environmental restrictions, has been less and less reliable delivering less and less each year."
Conservation has helped, with Californians using far less water now than they did decades ago -- an environmental success story, of course. But the "conservation" mantra would be more compelling if those reciting it weren't so dead-set against new water sources, a stance that reinforces the claim that they are using water politics to halt growth.
For instance, the California Coastal Commission approved an ocean-desalinization plant in Carlsbad, but changing politics on the commission has led it to delay an almost identical facility at an industrial site in Huntington Beach. The environmentalists who control the powerful agency are worried about the plant's effect on plankton.
After Brown declared a drought state of emergency last month, there's been a bigger push for widespread, mandatory rationing, but a better way to promote conservation would mean pricing water in a way that more accurately reflects supply and demand. Paradoxically, the more people have conserved, the higher their water rates, given all the fixed costs (infrastructure and salaries, for instance), which has created a perverse incentive.
Water is viewed as a "public" resource and suffers from the tragedy of the commons. Since prices are set based on complex regulatory factors rather than the market, it's in everyone's interest to use as much of it as possible. Users often don't pay for its true costs. In most of Sacramento, for instance, homes don't even have water meters, which in part explains why the city's residents use about three times as much water per capita as San Franciscans. In one of the driest regions on Earth, the Imperial Valley, farmers grow water-intensive crops such as hay.
The state needs a more market-based system. For instance, a decade-old deal where Imperial Valley farmers sell water to San Diego County cities was approved by the courts in August, after years of litigation. A 2012 study by the Public Policy Institute of California found that such "water marketing" and "water banking" -- that is, storing purchased groundwater in aquifers -- promotes conservation, local infrastructure development and cooperation among water agencies.
Chris Rufer, president of the Woodland-based Morning Star Co., the world's largest tomato processor, told me that political restrictions make it almost impossible to transfer water around the state to foster such marketing. "Similar systems are very well developed in the private sector, with the oil and gas industry," he said, referring to oil and gas pipelines. It's never easy to predict how a market might work, but a move toward profit and losses rather than bureaucratic decisions would help assure that water flowed to the highest-priority uses, especially during a crisis.
It's hard to know what kind of market-pricing system can satiate environmentalists' endless thirst for water diversions for habitat protection. But more predictable water supplies would help their goals, too. A state that has developed a cap-and-trade system to divvy up air-pollution costs also might be able to divvy up water credits.
There's little that will help Californians right now other than some downpours such as the one last weekend. But the sooner the state comes up with a better way to impose market discipline on its precious water resources, the better it will be able to withstand the many "worst ever" droughts of the future.
(Steven Greenhut is the California columnist for U-T San Diego. He is based in Sacramento. Follow him on Twitter at @StevenGreenhut.)
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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has rapped Wigan Athletic boss Roberto Martinez for discussing their interest in Wilfried Zaha.
Those comments have incensed Parish, who believes Wigan are trying to turn the England Under-21 international's head and force a cut-price deal.
Writing on Twitter, the Eagles chief said: "Some fascinating quotes from a manager about our player.
"So having nicked Victor due to administration and then selling for £9m (where I don't recall them being worried about Chelsea getting value for money), Roberto would like it ever so much if we would roll over.
"In the meantime I guess he'll just try to unsettle our player using the papers.
"We didn't reveal any details of their bid we prefer to do these things privately and politely, different rules I guess for 'big' clubs."


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Statement by Senator Ivor Callely given to the Sunday Independent yesterday
Very serious allegations have been published regarding the mobile phone expenses of Senator Ivor Callely initially in the Mail on Sunday, and subsequently taken up by other print and broadcast media, causing his family and Senator Callely personally considerable distress.
He is also aware of the impact and concern of the general public and his colleagues in Leinster House.
Ivor Callely today stated that he submitted to the Houses of the Oireachtas in November 2007 the four receipts to cover the period of January 2002 to July 2006, totalling €1,907.64.
He received these receipts in good faith and submitted these receipts in good faith for vouching purposes in the belief that they were correct.
He had no reason to believe that the said receipts were not in order.
The circumstances under which receipts were issued are being investigated.
He does not know how these receipts were issued by a company that had ceased trading.
It is now clear that these claims should not have been made. He regrets the difficulties that this has created, all of which will be fully dealt with in the course of the investigation and he will be assisting with any enquiry concerning same.
He therefore withdrew these claims and refunded all monies to the Leinster House authorities in respect of the said invoices concerning the amount paid on mobile phone expenses (total €2,879.45).
Ivor Callely has also contacted his legal advisers today for the purpose of assisting the investigation and vindicating his position. He has been advised not to make further comment pending the investigation.
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RECAP: Trevor Crowe lined a one-out single to left off Twins left-handed pitcher Brian Duensing to give the Astros a 6-5 walkoff victory Wednesday at Houston. Duensing had gone 13 straight appearances without allowing an earned run.
Ryan Doumit had tied the score with a solo homer to lead off the ninth.
Alex Presley launched his first homer with the Twins, a three-run, game-tying shot in the top of the third. That homer, his third of the year overall, came on the 13th pitch of his duel with Astros right-hander Jordan Lyles. Liam Hendriks needed 39 pitches to get through the first inning, after which the Twins trailed 3-0, and was lifted after 4 1/3 innings.
MEANING: Falling for the first time in six games this year against the Astros, the Twins close out their Texas road trip at 4-2, winning both series.
ETC.: Hendriks would have thrown a scoreless first on nine pitches had shortstop Pedro Florimon not dropped the toss from Brian Dozier on a potential inning-ending double play. This was the Astros' fourth walkoff win of the season.
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This was my most satisfying make in a while. Over the month of May I wore at least one handmade item each day and I came to realise that I should be sewing more casual wear as that is what I like to wear on a day to day basis, not pretty dresses.
Immediately after I saw this cardigan pop up on my Instagram feed I downloaded myself a copy, printed it out, and got to sewing. It was such a fast make and I finally got over my fear of my serger ( which I have since broken, yet another lesson that I should buy quality goods. )
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Home and Abroad: "Can You Say 'Illegal?' "
"Let's see, hawks on the left and right are appalled by the Preznit's power grab. Senators are pissed. Constitutional scholars are outraged. The only people backing up Bushie on this are the ones on his payroll -- well, and Yoo, who is on the hook for coming up with the idiotic idea in the first place, but let's just call that CYA support, shall we?and in by no means unrelated news there's this from the Washington Post:
To use the argument so beloved of the Bush Administration. "If he has nothing to hide why won't he testify?" Funny how that one works isn't it?
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July 19, 2013
Researchers Add 'Sense Of Touch' To Gaming Experience
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Disney Research has developed a method to engage the sense of touch to add to the interactive gaming experience.A new technology called AIREAL uses controlled puffs of compressed air to create the impression of a ball bouncing off a hand, a tingling from the flutter of a butterfly's wing, or the rippling of air as a seagull circles a user's head.
Scientists used vortices for the virtual experience, which can travel longer distances than jet streams and be targeted more accurately. They were able to create a number of tactile effects, including objects with textured surfaces and force feedback for gestures.
"What makes this particularly exciting is that we can create these effects literally out of free air, without the need for people to wear special gloves or vests, hold haptic devices or sit in instrumented chairs," said Ivan Poupyrev, senior research scientist at Disney Research, Pittsburgh. "The technology for creating these effects is scalable and relatively inexpensive, so we can envision using AIREAL to create magical experiences both for large groups of people and for an individual in her living room."
Rajinder Sodhi, the lead researcher for the AIREAL project, said creating haptic displays in free air has been a long-standing challenge, but one that has gained urgency with the advent of Microsoft's Kinect depth camera and Nintendo's Wii controller and the gesture-controlled games they enable.
"One of the big challenges in these games is that you get visual feedback, but you can't feel anything," Sodhi said.
The Disney Research team was able to use five two-inch speakers as actuators to create a pulse of air that is directed through a 3D-printed flexible nozzle. The pulse of air forms into a ring as it exits the nozzle and is able to maintain its shape and energy over a relatively long distance.
The team found that the vortices could be controlled effectively to a distance of a few feet, and could be felt at more than twice that distance. They said the generators are inexpensive, so several might be used to create effects. The device can also be scaled to any size.
"You can make the technology small enough to attach to a mobile device, or you can make it big enough to emit sensations that travel across multiple rooms," Sodhi said. "One of our long-term visions is to create complete 3D shapes in the air. Imagine holding out your hand and feeling someone's face. This will start truly eroding the boundary between real and virtual".
Virtual reality is not a new concept, but is gaining more and more ground lately. Scientists have even suggested that virtual avatars could help put a dent in the growing obesity epidemic.


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2K and Total Control Pitching Dominate The Show
Chad Whitney / Feb 20th, 2013 No Comments
There is the popular idioms, "Same old, same old" and "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Most likely a significant amount of the readers have said or thought this about MLB 2K13. On the other hand, there is MLB: The Show 13, which has promised to have a different feel between Regular Season games, Playoff games, and of course the World Series, along with toning down the infamous difficulty on offense, along with the addition of game modes such as Online Road to the Show amongst others. While MLB 2K13 won't be having any revolutionary features, they have the most impressive feature in MLB simulation; Total Control Pitching. Now for those who aren't up to speed on this years installments of Major League Baseball simulations, then please sit down, grab a blanket, some warm cocoa, and prepare for a crash course. While the MLB was strategically waiting out Dec 21 2012 before signing a new deal with Visual Concepts, the developers best known for developing Take-Two Interactive's 2K series of sports games, Sony Computer Entertainment San Diego Studio (SCE San Diego Studio) was making some intriguing enhancements to their MLB: The Show series. The announcement of MLB 2K13 stunned the world, as few expected a deal to actually be reached between MLB and Visual Concepts.
[adsense250itp]The two companies continue to release more information on the new features of their respective titles as the calender draws nearer to a Chicago Cubs World Series. The Show showcases a presentation that closely resembles a MLB broadcast presented on FOX, where MLB 2K takes more of an ESPN feel. The big difference, and what makes Major League Baseball 2K13 the better game is the pitching. The Show presents a challenge to its audience by subjecting them to extraordinarily difficult batting. Imagine being put in the batter's box against Randy Johnson. Most likely, there won't be much contact made in the first place, nor is there likely to be any impactful result if contact should be made. Rather than make it insanely difficult for the players, MLB 2K13 revolves around the pitching system. Total Control Pitching, as Visual Concepts named it, puts a spin on pitching that has not been duplicated or even replicated. From a dynamic Fastball pitcher like Jeff Samardzija to a pitcher with some mean breaking action in their pitches like Stephen Strausburg, the player feels as if they are on the mound shooting for the Perfect Game. Batting isn't as unforgivingly difficult as in The Show, but the battle between the pitcher and the batter creates a challenge. When Shawn Kemp comes up to the plate in the 6th inning of a close game, and that pitcher is starting to get worn down, it is up to the player to battle their way out of the inning with a strategic range of pitches and velocities. This is allowed by 2K's pitch system that identifies how predictable a pitch has become over the course of a game by marking them green, yellow, or red. The Show features three different pitching styles to choose from, but none of those options come close to the pitching of MLB 2K. There is one innovative style, but for the most part the pitching is out dated… Like, "get this thin line exactly over that thin line, and by the way it will be moving light speed if the player really wants to give his/her pitch good velocity" out-of-date. But that is OK, because The Show is truly built around batting, and the rest falls into place.
This year, however, Sony has promised to make hitting less difficult. They admit that the error margin was far too small, but they promise also to stick to the trademark difficulty and feel of The Show that has gotten them to this point. In terms of MLB games, it is good to remember that baseball starts and ends with pitching. Good hitting is clearly needed if teams want to score points, but even the best hitter can fall victim to a knee-buckling Curveball. Thus, due to a much more robust pitching system the MLB 2K series edges out Sony's offering. Regardless, fans should check out both titles this, as they look amazing. MLB 2K is without a doubt the better game in terms of Major League Baseball simulations. However, The Show is very entertaining, and the depth of the Franchise mode make it hard to write off in the long run. Each series has its strengths, but overall, Total Control Pitching for the win!
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What at first seemed like a chirpy but shallow add-on to the Pokeverse began to look alright at about the half-hour mark, and even had me thinking that perhaps there was life after handhelds...
But it didn't last long.
Okay, so Pokepark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure is very clearly aimed at kids rather than 28-year-old Wellingtonian urban professional upwardly mobile manchildren like me. But still. Even young gamers ought to find this a little bit weak. Just how weak, as always, will be subjective, but the best thing I can say about this game is that it's not completely worthless.
My favourite non-traditional Pokemon game has to be the N64's brilliant (or at least brilliantly realised) Pokemon Snap. And there are shades of that here. The premise of Snap was simple: travel around various zones where you'll find all sorts of Pokemon, but rather than catch them and use them for what is basically socially acceptable cockfighting, you'll take only pictures (and leave only footprints - is that a Forest & Bird thing? Where I have I heard that?). The premise of Pokepark isn't much more complicated: travel around various zones where you'll find all sorts of Pokemon, but rather than catch them and use them for what is basically socially acceptable cockfighting, you'll befriend them (you can take photos of them, too, if you wish). Oh, and you're not a human in this one: you're an electric mustelid.
Mew needs Pikachu's help in the Pokepark. Once an area of great happiness, where all the myriad Pokemon romped together under slow moving stratus, things have gotten ugly. The Zone Keepers (big daddy Pokemon like Venusaur and Empoleon) shut the gates between the Zones and the Meeting Place. But that goes against the whole Pokepark spirit, so something needs to be done.
Mew lives in a legendary Sky Pavilion, which is powered (and is thusly able to give gravity the bird) by the Sky Prism. The Sky Prism is powered in turn by the happyclappypeacenlove in the Pokepark. Pikachu needs to visit the Zone Keepers, convince them to re-open the Attractions which are the backbone of Pokepark, and collect the pieces of the Sky Prism so that Mew's crib doesn't come crashing down.
The story is wafer.
Wii Remote functionality has been kept to a minimum. As you best some of the Attractions (vine swings, running races, snow slides) you'll have to shake and move a little, but for most of the game you'll simply get about in the third-Pikachu, holding the Wii Remote like you would and old NES controller. Actually, for many gamers of my generation, this will be quite welcome. You can dash, use Pikachu's Thunderbolt, and use the Remote to survey your surroundings. Scrappy movement is brought under control somewhat by a camera-centering B button, but overall, getting Pika from A to B is serviceable rather than inspired.
Aside from completing the Attractions and earning Berries (which you can use as payment to travel long distances between certain points, and buy a limited number of upgrades) the core of the game is exploration, minor puzzle solving and making friends with the couple of hundred Pokemon that populate the various areas. Whenever you step up to an Attracion, you can use any of the Pokemon you have made friends with - some with better suited abilities for a particular attraction than others. The rest of it is just about collection; and gamers who are wedded to the traditional Pokemon games for this very reason may find this quite exciting. Then again, maybe not.
Friendship doesn't always come easy in the Pokepark. Sometimes you'll have to battle, sometimes you'll have to play chase (tag) and sometimes hide-and-seek. Depending on what Pokemon you have just encountered and what game they wish to play will depend on how easy it is to get them into your friend index. Slowpoke chose to play chase: easy peasy. Ultimately, it's all very basic stuff.
Bizarrely, Pokepark does best in the visual department. The Pokemon are cute, well-rendered versions of their handheld-selves. Colours are bright and arresting; the environments feel spacious and their natural calm and beauty allows you to feel a real sense of peace as you wander around. This is a good thing: that sense of peace is what you're trying to preserve, and even improve on, which is a great mix of very obvious context and purpose.
The music isn't actively offensive (except at the loading screen, in which it sounds like one of those music boxes you wind up and hang above babies' cots - and these are frequent, as there is no smooth transition between zones) but some of the sound effects are. Pokemon, as you'll probably be aware, only know how to say one thing: their own names. Some of these are sort of adorable and winning (Oddish) while others are painful (Spearow!).
There isn't a huge amount to keep you coming back, so this game is going to be most popular among kids who go straight for the box, collectors who have to have everything with Pikachu's face on it, and video game journalists who give it 5.8 out of 10 and almost feel bad about it.
Like I said; not worthless.
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Gianluigi Buffon saved three kicks in a shootout as Italy beat Uruguay 3-2 on penalties to take third place in the 2014 Confederations Cup on Sunday following a 2-2 draw.
Italy took the lead in the 24th minute when Alessandro Diamanti's venomous free kick sailed over goalkeeper Fernando Muslera, hit the post, and then rebounded off Muslera's back to Davide Astori, who tapped it over the line.
Uruguay got a deserved equaliser after 58 minutes when Walter Gargano picked up the ball on the halfway line and laid it off to Edinson Cavani whose perfect side-footed finish evaded the diving Buffon.
Italy looked to be struggling but they took the lead against the run of play in the 73rd minute with a beautifully struck Diamanti free kick from 25 metres.
Cavani replied with another free kick five minutes later to send the match to extra-time and penalties where Buffon from Diego Forlan, Martin Caceres and Walter Gargano.
Image: Gianluigi Buffon of Italy celebrates with his team-mates after saving the penalty of Walter Gargano of Uruguay to clinch victory in a shootout during the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 3rd Place match at Estadio Octavio Mangabeira in Salvador
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