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49ers: Manningham not forgetting hometown
Updated 12:13 am, Sunday, September 30, 2012
Warren, Ohio --
For many, this town of about 40,000 is just a relic along the Rust Belt, another city whose population and relevance dwindled when the steel mills shuttered decades ago.
For 49ers wide receiver Mario Manningham, though, this is both his home and sanctuary.
At the University of Michigan, Manningham returned to Warren so often that his late grandfather retired from his job at a phone company to make the frequent 400-mile round-trip trek. In his first four seasons with the Giants, Manningham kept returning in the offseason.
His addresses have changed - from the Big House to the Big Apple - but he's remained woven into the fabric of Warren. Routinely referred to as "Super Mario," the introverted Manningham relishes the chance to be just Mario here.
"This is his comfort zone, where he doesn't have to worry about anybody trying to get something from him," said Warren G. Harding High football coach Steve Arnold. "The most someone is going to ask of Mario is an autograph."
Manningham was back in Warren last week, thanks to the 49ers' five-day stay in nearby Youngstown in advance of Sunday's game against the Jets.
On Friday, the Harding football team attended the 49ers' final practice at Youngstown State, a visit Manningham helped arrange. Afterward, the Harding players readied for a home game against Shaw, where every one of them wore cleats purchased by Manningham in August.
During a meeting with the media, Manningham flashed a wide smile when a Warren Tribune reporter, whom he later greeted with a hug, mentioned Harding's 4-1 start after a series of lean years. Manningham follows the Raiders' fortunes more closely than Michigan's, if his introduction in past "Monday Night Football" games is any indication: "Mario Manningham, wide receiver, Warren G. Harding."
"They've been supporting me since I first got on the field, court or whatever," Manningham said. "That's the type of city I come from. Everybody loves sports and loves to be there and support it."
A football-mad town that has produced at least 14 NFL players, Warren began its love affair with Manningham in 2002 when the 15-year-old sophomore had an epic performance in an epic game, a 31-27 win over mighty rival Massillon.
On Friday, Harding athletic director Paul Trina, standing next to a framed picture from that standing-room-only contest, was recounting Manningham's four-touchdown performance when Arnold entered the room.
"We were talking about the Massillon game," Trina said.
What year? Arnold knew: "Oh, Mario's coming-out party," he said.
The win over Massillon helped put Harding back on the map after it had endured 12 straight seasons without a state title. Warren, whose population peaked at 75,000 in the '70s, received an emotional lift when the Raiders went 32-7 and won two Associated Press state championships in Manningham's final three seasons.
"We were losing population and the city really needed a boost," Trina said. "And here came Mario Manningham and his teammates."
If not for Arnold, Manningham might have never been part of Warren's gridiron lore, which includes Pro Football Hall of Famer Paul Warfield and late Vikings offensive tackle Korey Stringer.
In the summer before his sophomore season, Manningham told Arnold, then Harding's basketball coach, he was quitting football to focus on basketball. The arrangement would have benefited Arnold (Manningham earned all-state honorable-mention honors in basketball), but he knew the sophomore's future was on the field.
Arnold said Manningham effortlessly scored 31 touchdowns on the freshman football team.
"I said, 'Listen, football is going to make you a lot of money one day: You're playing football,' " Arnold said. "He said 'Coach, I'm not playing football.' We're going back and forth - I'm going back and forth with a 15-year-old. Finally, I said, 'Listen, if you don't play football, I'm cutting you from the basketball team.' Now, I wasn't going to cut him, but I had to come up with something."
It wasn't the only time someone in Warren steered Manningham in the right direction. Trina's wife tutored Manningham during high school, and the family often hosted him for dinner. As Harding board member Bob Faulkner said: "We all helped raise Mario."
But no one was more influential than his grandfather, Gerald Wayne Simpson, his regular chauffeur in college and the strongest male influence in his life. Manningham lived in a house that included his grandparents and mother growing up.
On Aug. 24, Simpson, referred to as "Big Daddy" in the community, died of a heart attack at 60. The grief-stricken Manningham returned home for a funeral at jam-packed New Jerusalem Fellowship Church, where Simpson's laundry list of jobs included deacon, intercessory prayer leader and volunteer in the soup kitchen.
Manningham, who stayed in Warren for about a week, wrote an anguished message on Twitter the day of his grandfather's death: "Lost for words. I just lost a man that knows me better than anyone can imagine. have mercy on me!!! Rip Big Daddy."
Since his grandfather's death, Manningham and Arnold, already tight, have become even closer. On Friday morning, Arnold laughed as he shared a recent text message from Manningham. At 10:18 a.m., Manningham wrote: "What up?"
Arnold laughed. "Not much, Mario," he said, speaking to a few visitors. "We're just coming to see you in a couple hours."
Indeed, Harding's football team was close to leaving for Youngstown to watch the 49ers. The invitation to attend practice was another example of Manningham's desire to give back to Warren, an increasingly forgotten place from which he's escaped, but never for too long.
"Just being from this area and knowing how tough it is to get out of this area," Manningham said, "I'm happy to be back and say anything positive to any kid to help them. ... They need someone to tell them how it's done and anything is possible. Stick with your dreams."
49ers (2-1) at Jets (2-1)
10 a.m., Channel: 2 (810/1050, 107.7)
Spotlight on: RB Frank Gore. Yes, Jets All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis is sidelined for the season, but the 49ers might lean on the ground game against the NFL's 28th-ranked run defense. Last week, Gore had 63 yards but only 12 carries as offensive coordinator Greg Roman called 21 passes on the 49ers' first 29 offensive plays. The 12 carries marked Gore's second-lowest total in a game he's finished since 2010. Gore is averaging 88 yards a game and 5.9 yards a carry. "We're always going to do what we think is best to win the game," Roman said when asked about Gore's light workload. "And every game is going to play out differently." Given New York's defensive struggles, Sunday's game could feature more of Gore and Kendall Hunter (four carries last week).
Injury notes: 49ers - RB Brandon Jacobs (knee) and WR Ted Ginn Jr. (ankle) are questionable after they were limited in practice last week. Nose guard Isaac Sopoaga (knee, ankle), also listed as questionable, will be replaced by Ricky Jean Francois in the starting lineup. Sopoaga didn't practice last week. Jets - Rookie WR Stephen Hill (hamstring) is doubtful and will probably be replaced in the starting lineup by Jeremy Kerley, who is averaging 23.1 yards on eight catches. Linebacker Bart Scott (toe) and tight end Dustin Keller (hamstring) are questionable. Tight end Konrad Reuland, who spent last year on the 49ers' practice squad, had four catches with Keller sidelined the past two weeks.
Big Three
-- Revis was the Jets' No. 1 cornerback, but Antonio Cromartie is considered among the league's best at the position. Quarterbacks have a 69.6 rating when targeting Cromartie, who figures to match up against 49ers WR Michael Crabtree.
-- In his past six games, including the playoffs, 49ers TE Vernon Davis has 31 catches, 579 yards and eight touchdowns. Over a 16-game season, those numbers project to 83 catches, 1,544 yards and 21 touchdowns.
-- Jets LT D'Brickashaw Ferguson, who will face OLB Aldon Smith in passing situations, has allowed no sacks and just one quarterback hit this season, according to Pro Football Focus. The 49ers didn't have a sack last week for the second time since the start of the 2011 season.
- Eric Branch
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"Her friend looked momentarily horrified at the exposure, but conceded that, yes, her family was on food stamps. She had recently completed acupuncture school and her husband had just finished a graduate program in art history."
The Creative Class, bringing that economic mojo!
I have no issue with using food stamps at a public market. People can make their choices in terms of amount vs. quality, especially if the market is matching. What I do have a problem with is the last line where she uses her savings for flowers!!! She gives truly deserving food stamp holders a bad name and this article just makes me angry.
Now why would any couple with one having a degree in acupuncture and the other in art history, ever have a need for food stamps?
That's not the creative class, as the destestible phrase is defined. That's bohos.
And these are the people "Mayor" Creepy wants more of in Portland. We are doomed...clueless creative class hipsters.
This is a great example of America in decline.
But hey, NoPo Guy, they ride bikes!
Now why would any couple with one having a degree in acupuncture and the other in art history, ever have a need for food stamps?
Acupuncture could actually land you a decent job in PDX, but art history? Im guessing he will getting work experience in the "barista arts" soon.
The food stamp program allows people to buy chips, soda pop and candy with their cards. This is food?
That's not the creative class, as the destestible phrase is defined.
Actually, it is. The "creative class" as specifically defined by Florida, includes almost half of all employable adults in the country. It's meaningless.
The food stamp program allows people to buy chips, soda pop and candy with their cards.
New York's trying to end that cognitive dissonance. IN Portland, the problem (as elsewhere) is that even though farmer's markets accept food stamps, few recipients are using them there. It's apparently not a matter of cost or "freshness", it's a matter of habit and convenience. That's an uncomfortable fact that locals don't want to face.
And, one wouldn't need to drive to the Sandy River for wild blackberries - try around Rose City golf course, or any water way, or unmaintained street in Portland, and you could find plenty this summer.
Our senators and congressmen (the folks who set rules for the food stamp program), decided that they didn't want poor people to feel stigmatized by disallowing certain types of food. Pretty much any food item except for prepared foods, alcohol and cigarettes are OK. Unbaked pizzas are OK, halloween candy is OK, and... you get the idea. It would be horrible indeed for any person who accepts food stamps to feel bad about the experience!
Does anyone know if folks who get tokens at the farmers' markets are able to buy non-food items with the tokens? Are the flower merchants able to accept the tokens and redeem them for cash even if they are only meant for food?
I suspect the rules regarding sodas and candy have much more to do with the clout of the sugar and beverage lobbies than with any concern about stigmatizing food stamp recipients.
Having been on the receiving end of the federal food program in the 60's as a grade schooler; maybe if these people were stigmatized a little more, they would have the incentive to find work more quickly. Nothing motivates quite like powdered milk, bulgar, shortening and other goods in packaging that states that it comes from USDA programs at that time. Not only that but having to learn to cook with unfamiliar items reinforces the fact that you need to explore other options. Being able to buy from the farmer's market really does not reinforce the desperation like this program did.
The best part is watching people buy cases of water with their "Oregon Trail Card", then dump them out in the parking lot to get the bottle deposits back as cash and buy booze with it.
The fact that she's living in a single-family house in inner NE might have something to do with the fact that she can't pay her bills. Maybe a move out to Rockwood would keep her off SNAP?
Poverty FAIL.
Makes me misty-eyed, so much have I missed the reaganesque railing against welfare queens in their Cadillacs. Heartfelt thanks to Jack and the commenters for this wistful trip down memory lane.
I am angry , angry I say , that you can buy death-in-a-can pop with food stamps , and not home grown , good-for-the-heart micros , + those are Oregon Jobs over at our Breweries Widmer/Bridgeport/Deschutes....
It's a wonder how federal/state programs like SNAP, OTC and unemployment decides the everyday life of many.
A friend who received two years of unemployment, even "retaining education" (which he did use to take classes he always wanted to after his long ago undergraduate degree)suddenly realized that another continuation of unemployment for his situation would end. His sabbatical, as he called it was coming to an end unless Congress stepped in again.
Guess what, in two weeks he found a well paying job and he hadn't even applied for it yet-they called him based on his information at the Oregon Unemployment Office.
Our welfare state is working well. And pardon me if my friend deciphers who I'm writing about.
I recently had to accept food stamps for two months, as I was not allowed to purchase an Austin taxi permit for three months due to training class schedules...I had to wait and wait, and wait some more to be trained to drive a cab in my home town, where I had driven a cab before, due to new layers of bureaucracy.
My savings was gone, many things dear to me had been sold off, and the odd manual labor jobs I could scrounge paid for rent, but that was it. No one will hire you for work in a recession if they know you are just going to leave in a few months for something better.
I hadn't taken them since the early 90s. I hate talking welfare, it's utterly humiliating for a person with a strong work ethic, who simply is not allowed to work. Well, maybe some people actually like sticking their hands out for freebies. I don't.
So...reluctantly...I got in line for a little free food until I was allowed to work again. When I began work, I promptly informed Big Brother to cut them off.
But what I found was remarkable. They gave me $210 per month on an electronic card. That is about seven dollars per day. What one person requires seven dollars per day worth of food ? Some retarded fatso who cannot cook ?
My room-mate was stone broke at the time, from attempting to pay off her mortgage. I fed both of us quite well...with money to spare...on $7 per day. I still have lots of canned tuna left over. Hell, instant oatmeal is twenty cents per packet. A few pounds of cheap cuts of meat can be barbequed, chopped up on tortillas and feed an army. And you don't need to eat that much meat at all to stay healthy...rice and pasta cost hardly anything at all.
What an incredible waste of money. They could be giving people $100 per month each, and they wouldn't even be close to hunger.
I'm about as bleeding heart as they come for truly poor folks, having lived on quite little for a while; however, I've always thought that the only foods you should be able to buy with food stamps are those available through the WIC nutritional supplementation program (Women, Infants, and Children) -- that's pretty much all solid foods, fruits and vegetables.
Give every person who registers for food stamps an electric pressure cooker/hot pot and a recipe book for the WIC menu items and we'd be miles ahead.
Yeah, pressure cooker, great for killing all the nutrition in fresh foods.
The real pressure cooker are those who insult the people who are actually needy. Savings to buy flowers? So what! $2 for a small bunch of delight isn't going to make a difference in the budget.
I notice that the majority posting here are of the insulting class. Spend your time complaining about the bailouts which crippled financing for businesses! Welfare for the rich? Acceptable. Welfare for the needy? Stick it to 'em!
. . While the US unemployment rate remains stuck at 9.6 percent, pay on Wall Street is likely to rise another 4 percent.
To what? $144 billion, according to an estimate by the (paid restricted) Wall Street Journal published Tuesday.
The Journal's estimate is based on only some of the houses on Wall Street -- those that are large and publicly traded, and include banks, investment banks, hedge funds, money management firms and securities exchanges.
"Compensation was expected to rise at 26 of the 35 firms," the paper's reporters wrote, with the total payouts leaping to $144 billion, "a 4% increase from the $139 billion paid out in 2009."
The left's bête noire, Goldman Sachs, is expected to see a sizable revenue decline ($39.1 billion from $45.2 billion) but is still projected to increase staff payouts by 3.7 percent, the Journal says. Goldman's new compensation total? $16.8 billion. .
Is this why so many more are on food stamps in our country? Hopefully not more and more, but class warfare is most likely coming into play here. Let us not fight amongst ourselves.


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A PR firm has secured a £25,000 contract from Worthing Borough Council to oversee a marketing campaign to attract shoppers to use the town's multi-storey car parks.
As of April 1, for a three-month trial period, Worthing Borough Council will reduce hourly parking rates for shoppers in its multi-storey car parks, from £1.70 an hour to £1 an hour, in an attempt to attract more people to the town.
However, some businesses and groups such as nurses will see their monthly parking fees significantly increase in an attempt to make fees 'fair and transparent'.
Cobb PR, based in Brighton and Eastbourne, saw off competition from nine Worthing marketing businesses to secure the contract, which runs until the end of June.
Paul Yallop, leader of Worthing Borough Council, said: "As well as presenting the best campaign Cobb PR was chosen on the basis of its strong links to the regional media."
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Sunday 30 August
10am Morning Worship at St Stephen's
Service led by Full Time Assistant Dougie Wolf
11.15 Sacrament of Holy Communion at the Old High
SUNDAY BULLETIN ITEMS should be sent to Jim Monro: jimjimmonro.com . The deadline for all items is Wednesday at noon.
For further information and contact details on any of the items listed below:
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KIRKING OF THE COUNCIL is one of the most important events in our congregation and community, and deserves the support of us all. This year's service will focus on volunteering. Those taking part will include Lt. Kate Donaldson of the Salvation Army. As always, this is a Congregational Service, with no service at St Stephen's so that we can all take part. The service will be on Sunday 13 September at 11.15am at the Old High- all welcome!
MUSICIANS AT ST STEPHEN'S Pam McCulloch, our organist and choir director, would like to know of anyone of any age who would like to help accompany our singing with any instrument to enrich our hymn singing occasionally with a small band. Contact Pam at pam.41tiscali.co.uk or speak to her or any choir member at the Sunday service
LUNCH CLUB will meet at 12.30pm on Thursday 27 August at the Craigmonie Hotel. Transport is available, please consider joining us for good food and fellowship. Contact Val Cantlay.
OLD HIGH MUSIC The autumn series begins with a concert by "Voiceworks" at the different time of 7.30pm on Friday 4th September. This will offer a mixture of solo and choral pieces from the classical repertoire. We hope this varied programme will have something for everyone! Details: Andrew Stevenson stevenson.atabtinternet.com.
OHSS MAGAZINE the editor of the OHSS Magazine, urgently requires articles and photos for the next issue, which is due out at the end of September. Please submit whatever you can to: williekenilweb.com . Deadline is Friday 18 September, but the earlier the better.
OLD HIGH ORGANIST We continue to seek applications and recommendations for this post. Contact: Andrew Stevenson stevenson.ata<at>btinternet.com).
SILENT AUCTION 19 September at 7.30pm. Would you like to offer any items for this event? Also using your time & talents would you offer some hours as part of the Auction, eg gardening/cleaning/painting etc. This would be greatly appreciated by other members of the congregation. Please also state the minimum bid you feel is appropriate. Details: Margaret McAleer.
HOBBY/CRAFT EVENINGS re-commence fortnightly from Wednesday 26 August 7.30-9pm. We will be making items for Christmas Coffee Morning at end of November and would ask more crafters to join us. The more we make/sell the more the Church gains. It is a very relaxed atmosphere with tea/coffee & biscuits. Your company/talents will be most appreciated. Details Margaret McAleer.
CROSSREACH NEWS and PRAYER DIARY are available at church doors.
THE GENIUS OF JESUS WORSHIP SERIES Today is the last of our summer worship series, 'The Genius of Jesus'. Today's theme is Jesus: Inviting Action (John 4:4-42).
THE CARING AND SHARING SHOP at 68A Church Street, Inverness collects and sells used articles and clothing from their shop, with all profits going to local charities. The shop is always looking for donations of toys, equipment, books, small furniture etc. At the present time they are in urgent need of gent's shirts and shoes to meet local demand. Should you have any such clothes lying around that is no longer being used please consider dnating them to this excellent cause along with any other 'surplus' items/goods you may have. If you have any query etc please contact the store direct.
DORNOCH SPONSORED WALK Saturday 26 September 2015. 5, 10 or 15 mile sponsored walk in and around the stunning area of Dornoch to raise funds for Blythswood Care and help us to transform lives. With three routes to choose from, there is something for everyone! Contact Adrienne Dempster adrienne.dempsterblythswood.org.
Our Church Leaders. Peter Nimmo; Arthur Sinclair; Dougie Wolf; and all the elders as they visit the congregation in preparation for Communion in Old High
Our Church To focus honour and praise in Jesus's name; that the person you have in mind to be the organist at OH steps forward
New Beginnings In Sunday School, nursery, primary and secondary school. For those away from home at college or university and especially for the first time
The Hurt. Those hurt by the church, or whose faith has ebbed away
Prisons. For prisoners, and their families, to have their lives changed by meeting Jesus. For the prison staff, the chaplains, Prison Fellowship and activities of Christian organisations working with ex-offenders
The Countries of: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. For their churches, which have experienced new vitality. For economic development, good government, and equal opportunities to all citizens
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Like two great tastes that (surprisingly) go great together, a new, downloadable game called Mari0 combines one of the most iconic games of the past and one of the most groundbreaking games of the modern era.
Created by indie studio Stabyourself, Mari0 is a full recreation of the original Super Mario Bros that gives Mario his own Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (from Portal, naturally) and lets hijinks ensue. The game is free to download for PC, Mac, and Linux, and comes with a ridiculous amount of other features beyond the whole "Mario with a portal gun" element that make it a truly absurd experience.
Along with offering four-player simultaneous co-op play, there's a level editor, free downloadable maps, game modifier packs, and a few other creation tools that make it share some similarities with Minecraft, too. (Watch the game trailer and you'll see what we mean.)
Oh, and just in case the feature you really want is a wide variety of hats for Mario to wear, the developers have you covered. According to the specs, there are 33 hats for Mario to choose from.
They have clearly thought of everything.
Is it too early to declare Mari0 the Game of the Year?
Editors' Recommendations
- 'Mario Kart Tour' will reportedly be 'free-to-start' like 'Super Mario Run'
- Nintendo and 'Minions' studio partner up for a Mario movie
- Shigeru Miyamoto sets a high bar for possible Super Mario movie
- 'Mario Tennis Aces' and tons of Switch ports revealed in sudden Nintendo Direct
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04 February 2014
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Elena Curti
London transport strikes: TfL have parked the common good in a siding
I have only fainted once in my life. It happened last May on a tube train just as it was pulling into Turnham Green station in west London. I was standing up when I passed out and a fellow passenger helped me onto the platform. Very quickly a member of the station's staff took over and I was able to explain to him that I had suddenly felt very ill at work after eating a takeaway salad. I can remember how through a haze of nausea the staff member looked after me for close to an hour, arranged for a cleaner to come and clear up the mess and then put me on a train home, putting me in the first carriage and telling the driver to keep an eye on me.
As I was leaving he also told me that the London mayor, Boris Johnson, was getting rid of jobs like his and that soon there would be no station staff left.
One afternoon a few days later, I went back to the station with a card and a small gift. There were no station staff around but I found someone in an office who told me the man who had helped me had a job working at a number of stations and wasn't on duty at Turnham Green that day.
What will happen after all the ticket offices at tube stations have closed if Transport for London (TfL) and Boris Johnson get their way? TfL says on its website that all stations will be staffed and controlled at all times with more staff visible to help customers.
The RMT and TSSA unions don't believe it and are staging a 48-hour strike starting tonight and another 48-hour stoppage next week.
Their grounds for scepticism are well-founded because TfL is giving precious few details about its plans for staffing tube stations. It says it want to cut close to 1,000 ticket office jobs and to redeploy some 200 people to work on the planned 24-hour tube service beginning in 2015. With TfL involved in a heavy investment programme it is a fair bet that it is anxious to cut staffing costs as the unions claim. The only guarantee that stations will be staffed is to keep ticket offices open. In contradiction of TfL's current plans, Boris Johnson pledged in his 2008 manifesto to stop proposed ticket office closures in outer London saying that "manned ticket offices provide a reassuring, visible presence".
However, even now finding a member of staff at some suburban stations is a matter of luck as my experience showed. We need staff at our stations to make us feel safe, to assist with routine enquiries and of course to help us in emergencies. There is the potential for every tube passenger to need help at some point and so staffing stations serves the common good. As the Bishops of England and Wales said in their 2010 document, "Choosing the Common Good": "'Because we are interdependent, the common good is more like a multiplication sum, where if any one number is zero then the total is always zero. If anyone is left out and deprived of what is essential, then the common good has been betrayed" (Chapter 8). Hang the expense, we can't afford not to have station staff.
The strikes are mighty inconvenient and I am dreading the long queue at the bus stop, the overcrowded buses and the likely long walk to work. But until TfL backs up its claims with details of precisely how many staff it plans to have on each station and the hours they will work I know whose side I'm on.
Elena Curti is The Tablet's deputy editor
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City mourns death of its first black police officer
William Hines, Shreveport's first black police officer, died on Wednesday.
Hines joined the police force in 1954, walking his beat for many of the years when parts of the city were still segregated and he wasn't allowed to have a police car.
He served on the force for 21 years before he won a class action lawsuit against the department to force it to promote more black officers and allow them to work in more areas of the department.
He retired from the police department in 1975 and entered the ministry in 1978.
"Bill Hines was a true trailblazer not only for the police department but for our entire city," Mayor Cedric Glover said. "The courage it took for him to maintain his professionalism and stay focused on doing the job that he was called to do during a time when racism was overt and obvious is something that very few of us can actually imagine, let alone relate to. So, the debt of gratitude we owe him for the sacrifices he made is one that can never be fully repaid."
Funeral services for Hines are pending.


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Simon Mann, the British mercenary who attempted to organise a coup in the West African state of Equatorial Guinea four years ago, was sentenced to 34 years in prison at a court hearing in the capital, Malabo, yesterday. The sentence was two years more than the prosecution asked for.
Mann, 56, stood in silence as the sentence was read out by Judge Carlos Mangue in the heavily guarded courtroom.
Another defendant, Lebanese businessman Mohamed Salaam, received a jail sentence of 18 years, while four Equatorial Guinean nationals were given terms of six years each. Another was jailed for one year and one defendant was acquitted.
Mann was also ordered to pay a fine and compensation to the Equatorial Guinea state totalling around $24m.
The judge said the long sentence was justified because of the "seriousness of the crimes" and the weight of evidence. Asked if he had a message for his family, Mann said: "I love you - and chin up."
During the four-day trial the former special forces officer admitted he had tried to topple the government of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo with a gang of mercenaries hired in South Africa.
Legs shackled
Diplomatic sources believe Mann may eventually be granted clemency, perhaps using his health as an excuse. But last night he was back in Black Beach prison with his legs shackled.
He said that having already served four years in prison in Zimbabwe he would be able to cope with yesterday's lengthy sentence. "If I have got to push it I have got to push it. And at least I know now I can push it after four years in Zimbabwe," he said.
Having admitted his role and given the government details of the plot, it remains to be seen whether the privileges he has enjoyed - such as wine with his hotel-food lunch - will be continued now that he is a convicted prisoner.
The case has been closely monitored by Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command at the request of the EG government, which alleges that the plot was planned and financed principally from London. Last week the attorney general, Jose Olo Obono, was in London to deliver a dossier of evidence of financial transactions through Mann's Guernsey bank accounts.
The EG government has issued international arrest warrants against Sir Mark Thatcher, who funded a helicopter for the coup plot, and the alleged main financier, Lebanese businessman Ely Calil, who has always strenuously denied any involvement. Calil says Mann was pressured into repeating in court allegations that had previously been extracted under torture in Zimbabwe.
A dilapidated Antonov 12 cargo plane on the tarmac of Santa Isabel airport is the only visible sign of the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea four years ago. The Antonov was supposed to be the lead vehicle in a swift assault on Malabo, which would have replaced the dictator Obiang and made Mann a very rich man, thanks to the vast oil and gas fields located off the coast. It now stands as a monument to vanity, folly and greed.
As Mann now readily admits, "I should have called cut" as the plan gathered momentum in early 2004 and reports of its imminence became discreet chatter among intelligence agencies.
The government of Equatorial Guinea has exploited the coup plot on the international stage with relish. From Mann's evidence, Obiang was able to demonstrate that his country, once an international pariah for its human rights record, became a victim of the latest colonial scramble for Africa's resources.
Even the US, which has a colossal investment in the burgeoning oil and gas industry, was not let off the hook. Condoleezza Rice may have since welcomed Obiang as a "good friend", but the word at the time of the planned coup from Washington, obsessed with the security of oil supplies, was that regime change might not be a bad thing.
Spain, the old colonial power now cut out of the oil bonanza, was implicated. South Africa, a fierce public opponent of African coups and mercenary escapades, knew all about it but apparently allowed it to proceed. It is also known - thanks to a reluctant admission from the then foreign secretary, Jack Straw - that Britain had good intelligence about the exact timing and planning of the plot.
Only Angola and Zimbabwe, which stopped the mercenary flight on the ground in Harare, remained true friends to Equatorial Guinea. They both gave the alert to Obiang.
Mann may have been naive in thinking that a group of 80 lightly armed men could have toppled the then ramshackle security forces on Bioko island in the oil-laden Gulf of Guinea. He believed all the encouraging nods and winks and talk of an internal palace coup that his friends and co-conspirators fed him.
But, facing a stretch in Black Beach prison, during his trial he deflected attention from his own role in the coup, describing himself as a mere manager. He gave evidence about the alleged consortium of financiers, most prominently Thatcher, who the EG government is continuing to pursue. Scotland Yard has been eyeing the case for four years and has now elevated it by giving it a name - Operation Antara.
Hernia trouble
For his cooperation, and perhaps because of his troubling hernia, Mann may yet find his way home to his wife, Amanda, and the child, his seventh, he has never seen.
In Malabo, meanwhile, the black gold is having a superficial effect. The derelict city of around 100,000 is being transformed with new housing developments, office blocks and paved colonnades of shops arising next to squalid shanty areas.
Last month saw the installation of an Italian marble water fountain outside the Spanish gothic cathedral in the main square, which must have been a perplexing wonder to the 50% of people who do not have access to decent drinking water. While Obiang and his extended family flaunt their wealth, the people have one of the lowest levels of expenditure on education and health in the world.


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As someone who uses Windows Vista practically daily, I've always wondered where all the negativity in the media comes from. Sure, Vista isn't perfect (as if any operating system is), but I just don't see where all the complaints are coming from. It runs just fine on my old (6 years) machine, all my software and hardware is compatible, and it's stable as a rock. Microsoft has been wondering the same thing, and after a little test, they may have found out why people seem to dislike Vista so much.
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Hey, I really don't get the Vista bashing.
I'm running Vista Ultimate on my computer, which consists of 512MB ram and a 2.8GHz P4. It runs no slower than a modern Linux distro.
I like Vista much better than XP, too.
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In the past, I would cook more food than we needed and it would be eaten. Now we are cooking the number of servings we need and adding other healthy things to fill out the meal. The end result is we are getting full on less food.
For example, a whole bag of Ore-Ida fries, or eight biscuits for four people.This is particularly helpful for pasta, which often has a serving size based on uncooked weight.


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June 16, 2008
Energy West, Incorporated Announces Management Team Realignment
GREAT FALLS, Mont., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Energy West, Incorporated , a natural gas utility and energy marketing company, today announced that it is realigning its management team to enhance existing operations and to focus on its acquisition strategy. Kevin J. Degenstein, previously the Company's Senior Vice President of Operations, now serves as President and Chief Operating Officer. James W. Garrett, previously the Company's President and COO, will assume the newly-created position of Vice President of Business Development.
Richard M. Osborne, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "The realignment of our management team provides us with additional focus on our growth strategy which includes the acquisition and expansion of our natural gas utility operations in small and emerging markets while maintaining the high standards of customer service and operations management we have come to expect. I am confident that the entire management team will continue to work together for the short and long-term goals of the Company."About Energy West
Energy West, Incorporated distributes and sells natural gas to end-use residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It distributes approximately 23 billion cubic feet of natural gas to approximately 36,000 customers through regulated utilities operating in Montana, Wyoming, North Carolina and Maine. The Company markets approximately 1.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas to commercial and industrial customers in Montana and Wyoming on an unregulated basis. The Company also has a majority ownership interest in 162 natural gas producing wells and gas gathering assets. In addition, the Company owns the Shoshone interstate and the Glacier gathering pipelines located in Montana and Wyoming. The Company's Montana public utility was originally incorporated in 1909 and is headquartered in Great Falls, Montana.
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The Company is including the following cautionary statement in this release to make applicable and to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for any forward- looking statements made by, or on behalf of, Energy West. Forward-looking statements are all statements other than statements of historical fact, including, without limitation, those that are identified by the use of the words "anticipates,""estimates,""expects,""intends,""plans,""predicts,""believes" and similar expressions. Such statements are inherently subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed. Factors that may affect forward- looking statements and the Company's business generally include but are not limited to the Company's continued ability to make dividend payments, the Company's ability to implement its business plan, fluctuating energy commodity prices, the possibility that regulators may not permit the Company to pass through all of its increased costs to its customers, changes in the utility regulatory environment, wholesale and retail competition, weather conditions, litigation risks, risks associated with contracts accounted for as derivatives and various other matters, many of which are beyond the Company's control, the risk factors and cautionary statements made in the Company's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other factors that the Company is currently unable to identify or quantify, but may exist in the future. Energy West expressly undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement contained herein to reflect any change in Energy West's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
For additional information or clarification respecting Energy West, please contact: Kevin J. Degenstein, President and Chief Operating Officer, at 406-791-7554.
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I saw the question below and I was thinking about this question. Some people pick paths not based on destination but based on enjoying the journey. Some people pick paths because they want to make sure they get to their desired location.
So if you were wrong about what you believe, would you stick to your path? Would you change it? What would influence you to keep practicing, or to abandon your lifestyle? What would you need to convince you that you were wrong?
Just some interesting questions. I think it will be different for all of us because we all look for truth in different sources. Some let their hearts guide them, some let spirits guide the, some let holy books guide them, some science, I believe I am guided by the Holy Spirit, etc.
So what are your thoughts?
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Though admittedly I don't think there is a right... so maybe the question is too easy for me.
Answer by nysa00 at 3:45 PM on Nov. 15, 2009
I would like to know if there is one right path and what that is or if there isn't one right path at all. I think that would be good information to have. I know there are religions that say they are, but I would like to hear it from "God" himself. It would bring a lot of peace to my mind
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Add this to the growing list of reasons humans aren't so special, after all: Monkeys can subtract.
The discovery marks the first time a nonhuman species has been seen having "widespread success" with subtraction, scientists announced last Thursday.
Rhesus macaques placed in front of touch screens in a Duke University laboratory were able to subtract dots—not by counting them individually but by using a more instantaneous ability researchers call number sense.
In each session a monkey was presented with a number of dots.
Next, a large square would hide all the dots.
Then some of the dots would glide off the screen from "behind" the shape.
Only the big square, with the remaining dots "hidden" behind it, would be left on screen, as seen in this two-second video:
Finally, decision time: Two groups of dots would appear on screen—one of them the correct number of remaining dots—and the monkey would indicate its answer to the math problem by touching one of the groups (see picture of monkey making selection). Each correct answer was worth a serving of Kool-Aid.
(Related: "Lemur Logic May Provide Clues to Primate Intellect Evolution.")
Monkeys Subtract as Well as College Students?
In the vast majority of trials, the monkeys chose the right answer without counting, said psychologist Jessica Cantlon, who co-led the studies at Duke.


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You will enjoy the inspection process when you join Bob as we detail the home you have selected. When you work with Bob Lunda, you are working with an objective honest professional.
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PQI is going to show a 256GB 2.5" solid state drive at Computex next week. PQI also announced a range of 226x speed flash media available in sizes up to 16GB.
The 256GB drive has a rated transfer speed of 60MB/s and has SATA interface. Two 32GB SSD drives will also be on display, one in 1.8" form factor and one for PCI Express slots.
SSD is quickly becoming a popular storage technology despite its high costs. For notebooks and industrial usage, SSD is an excellent technology, as it's not sensitive to vibration.
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The tour will be led by UD alumnae Abby (Garner) Urban, C'03 and Mikaela Tully, C'09
Visit the lower level of the Aquarium where you can see and learn about all the animals, how they're cared for, and other programs. Guests will also visit the pump and life support room that keeps the aquariums and animals up and running. Tour the National River Center, where guests will get an opportunity to view the Gulf of Mexico Aquarium from above and behind! At 30,000 gallons, the Gulf of Mexico Aquarium is the largest in Iowa and features rays, sharks, moray eels, and other schooling fish. Stay after the guided tour and view the rest of this amazing facility on your own!
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|Carbon monoxide (CO)-releasing molecule-derived CO regulates tissue factor and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 in human endothelial cells.
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|INTRODUCTION: Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is the rate limiting enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of heme into biliverdin, free iron, and carbon monoxide (CO). The first human case of HO-1 deficiency showed abnormalities in blood coagulation and the fibrinolytic system. Thus, HO-1 or HO-1 products, such as CO, might regulate coagulation and the fibrinolytic system. This study examined whether tricarbonyldichlororuthenium (II) dimer (CORM-2), which liberates CO, modulates the expression of tissue factor (TF) and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), and TF expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Additionally, we examined the mechanism by which CO exerts its effects. MATERIALS AND METHODS: HUVECs were pretreated with 50μM CORM-2 for 3hours, and stimulated with tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α, 10ng/ml) for an additional 0-5hours. PBMCs were pretreated with 50-100μM CORM-2 for 1hour followed by stimulating with lipopolysaccharid (LPS, 10ng/ml) for additional 0-9hours. The mRNA and protein levels were determined by RT-PCR and western blotting, respectively. RESULTS: Pretreatment with CORM-2 significantly inhibited TNF-α-induced TF and PAI-1 up-regulation in HUVECs, and LPS-induced TF expression in PBMCs. CORM-2 inhibited TNF-α-induced activation of p38 MAPK, ERK1/2, JNK, and NF-κB signaling pathways in HUVECs. CONCLUSIONS: CORM-2 suppresses TNF-α-induced TF and PAI-1 up-regulation, and MAPKs and NF-κB signaling pathways activation by TNF-α in HUVECs. CORM-2 suppresses LPS-induced TF up-regulation in PBMCs. Therefore, we envision that the antithrombotic activity of CORM-2 might be used as a pharmaceutical agent for the treatment of various inflammatory conditions.
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Wondering what AT&T's proposed spectrum transfer would mean for T-Mobile? Check out the above graphic, from GigaOM. Created by a reader named Andrew Shepherd, this map displays which regional coverage T-Mobile will gain from the transfer, which was submitted to the FCC this week following the companies' failed merger. As you can see, AT&T is poised to sacrifice some of its AWS spectrum in some key markets, including Boston, Seattle and the Bay Area. According to Shepherd, however, the carrier only gave up enough AWS spectrum in areas where it had enough 700MHz capacity to fill the gap, without posing too great a risk to its LTE expansion. For a closer look, check out the source link below.
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shotaro hidari: thanks for your answer.. thx.. :))
ShadowMagnus: it should be possible. I know ShukuenShinobi had a PDF file with all the printable cards for the Decadriver. I recommend checking google first for them and if not then check ShukuenShinobis review of the driver where in the description he should have the link to the file. I hope this helps you out and thank you for the question. ~ShadowMagnus
shotaro hidari: hey.. nice video. i want to ask. i dont have any of attack ride card can i serch it at google then print it ?
ShadowMagnus: The new reissues are both worth getting if you dont own either one. So it depends on which one you like best and if you are able to get it with the aftermarket prices. If not then you can go with the Bandai Korea versions since those are now the budget ones(bear in mind that the W drivers memory sounds were changed)
ShadowMagnus: Thank you :)
RozzaSarcasmo: The cards look fantastic and very close to the cards in the show, might pick this up just for those haha, nice to see they haven't changed much else (unlike the korean W toys), nice review
RozzaSarcasmo: Decade's FAR is with his DX figure (like the 9 riders FFR's are with theirs and Diend's attack ride blast is with his), the ridebooker has decade's attack ride slash card in it, if that clears things up
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ShadowMagnus: @fagget243 there is someone here on youtube who makes custom belt mods for the decadriver to fit adult sizes. I think his name is mrarmyshop. I people have shown vids of their belt mods by him.
nessy: @unitzero001 Thanks is it also possible to change the belt fit someone's size?
ShadowMagnus: @fagget243 ebay from a korean seller.
nessy: What site you used to buy the Driver?
ShadowMagnus: @mastermanchief21 well you can store the cards inside the ridebooker so its a nice storage device. the k-touch is only to complete the decade gear so if you feel like a completist get both if not then I recommend the ridebooker.
mastermanchief21: Okay i'm gonna get the Belt, should I get the K-touch or ridebooker?
ShadowMagnus: @01kamenrider The belt comes with the same cards the jap ver comes with. Decades Henshin card and the other 9 Heisei rider cards. The Final Attack Ride cards are sold separately. Decades FAR card comes with the DX Ride Booker, the other Heisei rider FAR cards can only be acquired now via ebay or a middleman service since they were exclusive to Japans Gashapon game.
ShadowMagnus: @vistram2 Glad you could acquire one. Its a neat piece to have. belt extenders I recommend CSToys. For the K-touch, theres a seller in ebay who also has the korean version of the K-Touch. Gandaride cards those I recommend Middleman services or checking the tokusatsu forums like HJU and Rangerboard. Hope this helps :) ~ShadowMagnus
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Tổng quan bài trình bày: 1. Khái quát về Public Relation (PR) 2. Khái quát về Marketing - Mix 3. PR đóng vai trò gì trong Marketing - Mix? 4. PR hữu dụng trong những tình huống nào?
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Quan hệ (relation) là một bảng dữ liệu hai chiều gồm nhiều hàng (mẫu tin hay bản ghi) và nhiều cột (thuộc tính hoặc vùng tin). Mỗi cột tương ứng với một thuộc tính của thực thể. Mỗi dòng chứa các giá trị dữ liệu của một đối tượng cụ thể thuộc thực thể.
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Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Object-Relational Features describes how to use the object-relational features of the Oracle Server, 10g Release 1 (10.1). Information in this guide applies to versions of the Oracle Server that run on all platforms, and does not include system-specific information. Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Object-Relational Features is intended for programmers developing new applications or converting existing applications to run in the Oracle environment.
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Spotlight on Community Relations • Companies are starting to get it – conscience isn't just trendy, it's necessary • "Sustainable development plans" are becoming commonplace • No one wants to be Martha, Enron, etc. • The Bonus: Doing good = Good for business A Gradual Shift • PriceWaterhouseCoopers 2002 Sustainability Survey Report – 140 U.S. companies – 70 percent had no broad-based sustainability program in place yet. – 69% were reviewing or revising ethics programs or their corporate-governance process. ...
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Learn effective and scalable database design techniques in a SQL Server environment. Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation covers everything from design logic that business users will understand, all the way to the physical implementation of design in a SQL Server database. Grounded in best practices and a solid understanding of the underlying theory, Louis Davidson shows how to "get it right" in SQL Server database design and lay a solid groundwork for the future use of valuable business data....
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Cụm từ tiếng Anh "Cause related marketing" (CRM), có thể dịch đơn giản là "tiếp thị có ý nghĩa xã hội", ngày nay đã không còn xa lạ với các doanh nghiệp khi soạn thảo kế hoạch tiếp thị. Theo số liệu nghiên cứu của Tổ chức Business in the Community (BITC) thì có đến 73% các công ty thường xuyên sử dụng hình thức tiếp thị này trong các chương trình xúc tiến thương mại.
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Ebook Issues Related To Translation: Part 1 presents the following issues related to translation chapter 1, the business of translating, thoughts for the future, what every novice translator shouldnt know, what makes a translator ?, polishing of translation style, myths about translation and translators; chapter 2 issues related to interpretation, interpreting, the interpreter, what does an interpreter by working with simultaneous interpreters ?, strategies for new interpreters.
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Invite you to refer to Part 2 of the book Issues Related To Translation to capture the following: Chapter selections for further reading 3, quick answers to general questions, constructing a model for analysis shift in translation, professional language translators, ethics and professionalism in translation, text translator.
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To explain the role of public relations, sponsorships, and corporate advertising in relationship marketing and integrated marketing communications. By integrating public relations, event sponsorships, and institutional advertising with its general advertising activities, a company can improve the overall effectiveness of its marketing efforts.
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Quan hệ công chúng (tiếng Anh: public relations, viết tắt là PR) là việc một cơ quan tổ chức hay doanh nghiệp chủ động quản lý các quan hệ giao tiếp cộng đồng để tạo dựng và giữ gìn một hình ảnh tích cực của mình. Các hoạt động quan hệ công chúng bao gồm các việc quảng bá thành công, giảm nhẹ ảnh hưởng của các thất bại, công bố các thay đổi, và nhiều hoạt động khác.
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In writing An Atlas of Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders, I have been conscious of the need to find an appropriate match between the text and the illustrative material. The text is designed to provide a basic overview of the conditions discussed, inevitably concentrating on those areas which lend themselves best to photographic illustration. Some movement disorders, by their very nature, do not lend themselves to still photography whereas others, characterized by sustained postures, are ideally suited to the technique.
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[ Team LiB ] Recipe 2.17 Displaying Columns from a Related DataTable Problem You want to add a column to a DataTable that displays a value from a row in a related table in the DataSet. Solution Use expression columns to retrieve lookup values based on DataRelation objects.
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SQL is full of difficulties and traps for the unwary. You can avoid them if you understand relational theory, but only if you know how to put the theory into practice. In this insightful book, author C.J. Date explains relational theory in depth, and demonstrates through numerous examples and exercises how you can apply it directly to your use of SQL. This second edition includes new material on recursive queries, "missing information" without nulls, new update operators, and topics such as aggregate operators, grouping and ungrouping, and view updating.
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Research " THE IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING ON EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS: THE TUNISIAN "
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Relation Decomposition and Insufficiency of Normal Forms (cont.): Attribute preservation condition: Each attribute in R will appear in at least one relation schema Ri in the decomposition so that no attributes are "lost". Another goal of decomposition is to have each individual relation Ri in the decomposition D be in BCNF or 3NF. Additional properties of decomposition are needed to prevent from generating spurious tuples
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The basic set of operations for the relational model is known as the relational algebra. These operations enable a user to specify basic retrieval requests. The result of a retrieval is a new relation, which may have been formed from one or more relations. The algebra operations thus produce new relations, which can be further manipulated using operations of the same algebra.
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This is the exercise book to accompany the present author's An Introduction to Relational Database Theory. With two exceptions, these exercises are copies of those given at the ends of Chapters 1-7 of that book. The exercises using Rel given with some of those chapters are also included. The first exception is Exercise 7 for Chapter 7, which I have replaced by a precise, detailed specification for a comprehensive database design. The second is a set of additional exercises using Rel, exploring virtual relvars and user-defined type definitions....
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Epidemiology Idiopathic MDS is a disease of the elderly; the mean age at onset is 68 years. There is a slight male preponderance. MDS is a relatively common form of bone marrow failure, with reported incidence rates of 35 to 100 per million persons in the general population and 120 to 500 per million in the elderly. MDS is rare in children, but monocytic leukemia can be seen. Therapy-related MDS is not age-related and may occur in as many as 15% of patients within a decade following intensive combined modality treatment for cancer. Rates of MDS have increased over time,...
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Myelodysplasia: Treatment The therapy of MDS has been unsatisfactory. Only stem cell transplantation offers cure: survival rates of 50% at 3 years have been reported, but older patients are particularly prone to develop treatment-related mortality and morbidity. Results of transplant using matched unrelated donors are comparable, although most series contain younger and more highly selected cases.
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Why build from source? First, because as with any open source projects, if there's a bug \*you\* can fix it. Second because you can get money for that. Finally, because even with GlassFish v3 Prelude around the corner, GlassFish v2 is still going to be in production for a long period at many customer sites.
v3 is very easy to build using the latest and greatest
svn and
mvn while building GlassFish v2 from source still requires CVS, maven 1.0.2 (1.1 doesn't work) and Java 5 (no Java 6). All this is detailed on this wiki page. The following is a stripped down version of the process for GlassFish v2ur2 (tagged
Update: the tag for v2.1, released in January 2009 is
Update: the tag for v2.1.1, released in october 2009 is
First, make sure you have Java 5 as de default version by setting
JAVA_HOME appropriately. Also set
MAVEN_HOME to use 1.0.2 and
MAVEN_OPTS to
"-Xmx1024m". Finally, have
$HOME/build.properties configured (or pass those as
-D maven options):
glassfish.os.name=<OS Name: Possible values : WINNT | SunOS | Linux | SunOS_X86 | Darwin>
The first step is the CVS checkout of the bootstrap (first magic string is the branch tag):
% cvs -d :pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvs login
% cvs co -r SJSAS91_UR2_BRANCH glassfish/bootstrap
% cd glassfish/bootstrap
This should complete in a matter of seconds.
The second step combines the full checkout and build process (second magic string is the correct set of maven goals)
% maven bootstrap checkout build build-jarinstaller
Checking out the entire source tree takes 15 minutes (modulo your bandwidth of course). The rest of the process takes another 15 minutes on my fairly recent laptop (and compiles around 10k classes in the process). The resulting installer jar can then be found in the ./publish directory:
% ls ./publish/\*.jar
-Dmodules= flag helps you checkout or build a specific set of modules. This and a lot more is documented on the wiki. Julien discussed building v3 a few weeks back. Whatever the version, remember we like bug reports and patches even more! :)


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March 4, 2009
New Rocket Helps Satellites Maintain Proper Orbit
Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the correct path. MIT scientists are developing a new rocket that could make this and other spacecraft maneuvers much less costly, a consideration of growing importance as more private companies start working in space. The new system, called the Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster, is much smaller than other rockets of its kind and runs on gases that are much less expensive than conventional propellants. credit: MIT


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Is Champions League the target?
Just what is the target for Everton this season?
The good start to the season is so unusual for us in recent years that it's very difficult to be positive about what can be achieved in November.
Usually we don't start playing until around this time of the year and normally put together a good run which sees us just miss out on Europe.
If we managed to maintain that form, or even the form we've shown so far this year until May just what might we achieve?
Bryan Oviedo clearly thinks that a top four finish should be the target.
"It is very important for us to win this weekend because we what to stay in the top places. We need to win to keep close to the Champions League positions. he told The Echo.
Now of course the 22-year-old who recently made the move to Goodison Park from Copenhagen has the benefit of not knowing just how poor our recent starts to the season have been and his fresh outlook on the squad is a better reflection than my, perhaps negative stance based on nothing but previous frustrations of years gone by.
He added: "we have a very good team, very strong defenders and good players in midfield and attack.
"The team has a strong mentality. We have come back from being 1-0 and 2-0 down in recent games and the team is very united."
All sounds great, but I still can't help to wonder when our bad run of form is coming. Three draws to Wigan, QPR and Liverpool, three games we really should have been winning, have seen us drop from second to fifth.
The next four games are crucial if this seasons target is European qualification of any kind.
Fulham, Sunderland, Reading and Norwich. We have to be looking at a minimum of eight points from those games. Especially when you take a look at the five week spell of games from the end of this month through December.
Arsenal, Manchester City, Tottenham, Chelsea are all coming up before the turn of the year and we have to be well placed before we reach that run of games.
Vital Everton is 100% interactive. Not only can you have your say on the articles and the forums but you can also write an article to be published on the website or a suggest a poll so you can air your views.


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Avocet Rises After Gold Buyback, Shareholder Loan: London MoverThomas Biesheuvel
Avocet Mining Plc, a miner of gold in Burkina Faso, rose in London trading after securing a loan from its biggest shareholder and buying back some of its hedged production of the precious metal.
Avocet climbed 9.3 percent to 20.5 pence by the close in London after earlier gaining as much as 25 percent. Elliott Management, with 27 percent of the company, agreed to a $15 million loan facility, Avocet said in a statement. The company bought back 29,020 ounces of hedged gold output and seeks to clear the remaining hedge book by 2016.
The mine operator said last month it planned to restructure its finances after cutting gold reserves at its Inata mine in Burkina Faso by half. It aimed to "substantially" reduce its hedge book and was exploring options including raising equity.
"The company has a lot of work to do to achieve growth going forwards, but this appears to be a positive step considering the company's current situation," Westhouse Securities wrote today in a note to investors.
The company has been dogged by operational setbacks at Inata. The stock tumbled 62 percent last year after Avocet cut its output target and is still down 71 percent this year. Avocet lowered its 2013 output guidance to 135,000 ounces last month.
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We strongly encourage anthropology majors and minors to enrich their growing anthropological knowledge by participating in study abroad and internship programs. Within the last two years former and current students have completed semester-long academic programs in Australia, Brazil, China, Greece, Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Syria, and Vietnam, among others.
Other anthropology majors have completed internships across the United States and working on salient issues such as food security, organic farming, museum outreach and education, and heritage management. Still others have applied anthropological perspectives and methods to internships in Argentina, Ecuador, France, Ghana, Malawi, Morocco, New Caledonia, and Switzerland.
We also encourage our students to pursue research-intensive field programs in anthropology, such as the archaeological field schools offered by the Institute for Field Research (IFR). The IFR offers academically challenging, culturally-immersive experiences that cover the depth and breadth of the human experience. Recent programs range from early hominins at Olduvai (Tanzania) to historical archaeology at Ifugao (Philippines), and from the Neolithic period at Yangguanzhai (China) to the excavation of unmarked burials in San Bernardino (California). Connecticut College is the school of record for IFR offerings, and students participating in these intensive summer programs earn 8 credit units that can be applied to the major and satisfy the requirement for a methods-intensive offering.


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It was all about college in their future for upper class students at Park View Elementary School Friday morning as the sixth, seventh and eighth graders filed into the multi-purpose room wearing their colorful college T-shirts and sweatshirts.
The highlight of the morning was an open competition on college trivia between eight students seated near the stage at the front of the room. Their student audience watched as questions about college life were flashed onto a large screen – questions that they had to answer and logos they had to identify.
Seventh grader Tommy Vaughn had the most points and won first place in the contest. Sixth grader Andrew Huynh finished second and third place was a three way tie between Deanna Boyce, Adam Wood and Myles Kinsey.
One of the questions asked about the most popular college major in today's world between Psychology, Liberal Studies, English and Business Administration. The correct answer was Business Administration fielded by Adam Wood in the contest.
As the students entered the room they were greeted by college fight songs as they moved to their seats. Three Ripon college grads volunteered to talk to the students about their high school and college experiences.
The trio included Nathan Clark, a UC Davis grad; Marcia Hofman, a CSU Stanislaus grad; and Alicia DeJong, a current Fresno State student. They told of their activities in both high school and college and noted that involvement in sports and music help in making friends and learning leadership skills as colleges looking for leaders.
Enoch High School Counselor and Park View Parent Jen Brogan along with Ripon High counselor Dawn Goudeau shared a Power Point presentation detailing what the students need to be doing now to prepare themselves for high school.
The women touched on the requirement to get into college and the grade point averages that are specific to certain colleges for admission.
The students learned that it is sometimes better to go to a community college such as MJC or Delta College for the first two years before going onto a more costly four year college or university. The cost for a junior college is $49 per unit throughout California.
Modesto Junior College guarantees their units to be transferrable to a four year institution, Brogan noted. She added that Santa Barbara City College is a beautiful place to go and it is right on the ocean.
Students wanting to go into medicine or law are most likely going to apply to the schools in the UC System that are also "more rigorous" to get into, it was noted, with UCLA being the most difficult to get accepted.
Out of the 23 CSU facilities up and down the state Cal Poly San Louis Obispo is the toughest to get into focusing on engineering and science.
Ripon High Counselor Dawn Goudeau urged the Park View students to "complete your homework every day" and keep an organized binder.


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What is class variables
Answer: When you define any variable static that is called class variables. Instance variables declared as static are, essentially, global variables. When objects of its class are declared, no copy of a static variable is made. Instead, all instances of the class share the same static variable.


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APOPKA, Fla. - The final push is underway late Tuesday afternoon to get votes in for several big elections, including the runoff race for mayor in Apopka.
Orange County supervisor of elections officials said more voters have come out Tuesday to cast ballots in the race between longtime Apopka Mayor John Land and his challenger Joe Kilsheimer, than did during the first election in March.
About 3,400 absentee ballots were tu
rned in in the race, more than the previous election.
Slow and steady is the way one observer inside Apopka's only polling place described the turnout Tuesday.
Some wondered if the rain would affect the turnout, or if apathy would keep voters away.
"I'm sure it's important enough but I'm just too busy to get involved, I guess," said Apopka resident William Bishop.
"Don't you care who's mayor of your city?" Channel 9 reporter Kathi Belich asked Bishop.
"It doesn't affect me that I know the difference," Bishop said.
Last month, Land beat Kilsheimer, his first challenger in 12 years, by more than 400 votes. But neither man had more that 50 percent of the vote, which made Tuesday's run-off necessary.
Belich learned that both candidates have been courting absentee voters, encouraging them to vote and helping them turn in their ballots.
One registered voter told Belich that her decision not to vote is a rejection of both candidates.
"I look at them and if I don't feel comfortable and I don't agree with them, I don't vote," said Margaret Bickert.
The turnout is still only about a fifth or fewer of the 26
,653 registered voters in Apopka, according to elections officials.
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Growing Bolder "Still Having Fun" Orleans: They're Still Having Fun - Think you know music? Who sang "Still the One," "Dance With Me" and "Love Takes Time?" Orleans was the band, but who was the singer? Leave it to Growing Bolder to introduce you to one of the most recognized voices but least-known names in music. In for the Long Haul - Siphiwe Baleka is a one-of-a-kind Yale graduating, globetrotting, God-fearing, truck-driving, fast-swimming family man. And he's got a new mission -- to help long-haul truckers everywhere improve their health, fitness and quality of life. D
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Arts In Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers, The "Workshop 1. What Is Art?" The Learner Teams and students explore the nature of theatre, music, dance, and visual art as they consider their own definitions for each art form. They watch an excerpt from Quidam, a surrealistic performance piece that combines the four art forms in unusual ways, and begin to explore connections between fantasy and reality. D


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It's often said that we know less about the deep ocean than we do about the surface of Mars. Looking at the 2016 winners of the Underwater Photography Contest, I can't help but agree. Life beneath the sea is as alien and entrancing as any ancient, dust-blown crater on the Red Planet.
Although only in its second year, the Underwater Photography Contest has already put itself on the map as a prestigious international competition. This year, the contest drew thousands of applicants, who vied for awards in eight photo categories, including macro, wide-angle, behaviour, and more. In addition, four special awards recognised exceptional photographers, and up-and-coming talent, both in the UK and internationally.
The scope, scale, and subjects of the winning images are breathtakingly diverse. I've collected a few of my favourites below, but if you're as captivated as I was, you'll want to check out all 80 award-winning photos here.


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New figures from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirm the ongoing negative economic impact of Obama-era policies such as the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Act, controls on energy production and transport, and Keynesian stimulus spending.
In an update to its annual Budget and Economic Outlook yesterday, the CBO projects lower gross domestic product (GDP), lower wages and salaries, and reduced retirement income for Americans in the years ahead.
According to CBO's updated outlook, recent GDP growth has not met its previous projections, and the economy simply isn't recovering as fully as it has from past recessions. This lower growth will have a significant impact on long-run economic growth and incomes. Compared to its February 2014 outlook, CBO now projects that GDP will be 0.8 percent (or $1.8 trillion) lower over the 2015–2024 period. Wages and salaries will be 1.0 percent (or $1 trillion) lower.
For a median-income family making $50,000 a year, CBO's downward revision to wages and salaries amounts to a loss of $4,500 over the next 10 years. But it won't just be working-age Americans who will have less income. CBO also projects that retirement incomes for older Americans will be smaller due to lower interest rates and lower stock returns.
In short, the CBO report describes an economy on the wrong track. Federal spending and debt are out of control. Federal taxes, regulations, and crowding out of resources are hampering economic growth and preventing the private sector from flourishing. What the nation needs instead are policies that reduce government interference and allow the private sector the freedom to drive job creation and long-run economic growth.


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Recipe adapted from "The 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes."
Oatmeal Bars
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cup coconut sugar
3/4 cup applesauce
1/4 cup coconut oil
1 cup cooked oatmeal
1/2 cup dried cranberries or raisins (or any dried fruit)
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. In another bowl, combine applesauce and coconut sugar until well mixed. Stir in coconut oil. Add cooked oatmeal and mix until well combined. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. Stir in dried fruit and walnuts.
Spread batter into a lightly greased or parchment paper lined 8x8 pan. Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until the center is set (do the toothpick test). Let bars cool and then remove and cut.
**My favorite way to do flour these days is grind regular oats and buckwheat into a flour. I like this simple combo for baking and it feels easy to digest for all of us. It's also nice because I can buy both of those grains in bulk from Country Life.


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Learning curve for Buchholz
He's well-adjusted this time around
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