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The UFC showcases the best talent in mixed martial arts today, despite Georges St. Pierre, BJ Penn and Anderson Silva all taking time away from the octagon.
A number of star exits have paved the way for new talent to take the place as the must-see fighters of 2014, with talent in every division of the organisation. Here is in my opinion, the top ten fighters in the UFC today.
10. Ronda Rousey | Women's Bantamweight
The first and current UFC Women's Bantamweight champion is anything but a surprise inclusion in this list. To date Rousey has won each of her eight fights in MMA with an armbar submission.
Rousey is regularly listed by the vast majority of MMA sites and publications as the number one pound for pound female fighter in the world today.
She became the first female fighter to sign with the UFC in November 2012. She made her debut in the company at UFC 157 in February last year with a win over Liz Carmouche in California and thus defended her UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship for the first time.
She extended her MMA record to 8 wins and no losses at the end of the year, defeating Miesha Tate at UFC 168.
With this victory, Rousey received both Fight of the Night and Submission of the Night honours, only further illustrating her reasons for being included into this elite list.
Rousey will put her title on the line for the third time in the octagon this Saturday night at UFC 170 when she faces fellow Olympian, Sara McMann. The bout is the main event on the card and will be held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This will arguably be Rousey's toughest test to date, however few fans expect anything other than another successful title defense from the undefeated UFC Bantamweight Champion.
9. Urijah Faber | Bantamweight
The former WEC Featherweight Champion is now the number two pound for pound
fighter in the Bantamweight division. Had his recent championship defeat against Renan Barao been a different outcome, Faber could have been possibly been higher.
Prior to his championship bout, Faber was on a four-fight winning streak and
looked a serious threat to Barao's title reign at UFC 169. However the challenger was unable to overcome Barao's onslaught of attack and lost by TKO in the first round.
The biggest test now facing Faber is how he can respond to this recent loss. A significant defeat can either make or break a fighter, the number two Bantamweight will be hoping to get back into the wins column at the very first attempt.
8. Johny Hendricks | Welterweight
The number one ranked Welterweight in the UFC is set to face Robbie Lawler for the vacant Welterweight title at UFC 171 in Dallas, Texas next month. Prior to his loss to Georges St. Pierre in November of last year, Hendricks was on a six-fight winning streak, earning victories over big names such as Carlos Condit, Josh Koscheck and Jon Fitch.
In his 17 MMA fights to date, Hendricks has won 15 and lost just two and has not been submitted or knocked out in either loss. The top ranked Welterweight in the organisation is well known for his powerful striking, particular with his favoured left hand.
Hendricks has been competing in the UFC since 2009 and got his first shot at a title against Georges St. Pierre, who had defended the title on nine different occasions. St. Pierre won the match by a split decision, however a month later he vacated the Welterweight title, leaving the door open for a new champion to be crowned.
With Hendricks being the number one Welterweight in the UFC today, he is favoured to overcome his opponent Robbie Lawler at UFC 171 and win his first championship within the organisation. No matter what the outcome, a new champion will be crowned in the division for the first time in almost six years.
7. Vitor Belfort | Middleweight/Light Heavyweight
The number one contender for Chris Weidman's UFC Middleweight title is on a three match winning streak ahead of his scheduled title fight at UFC 173 on May 24th.
Since his defeat to Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones in September 2012, Belfort has defeated Michael Bisping, Luke Rockhold and Dan Henderson and has each time
received the Knockout of the Night honour for his performances in all three fights.
The former UFC Light Heavyweight champion had an unforgettable 2013 inside the octagon and now has his sights set on becoming a champion in two divisions by capturing the Middleweight title.
Belfort has has won 17 of his 24 victorious bouts by knockout, which indicates he likes to finish fights, and that's exactly what he'll be looking to do against Weidman at UFC 173.
6. Demetrious Johnson | Flyweight
The current UFC Flyweight champion has an official MMA record of 19 wins, two losses and one draw to date. Johnson is on a five fight win streak, the most recent of these coming by KO against Joseph Benavidez in December of last year, a win that earned him the Knockout of the Night honour for the first time in his career thus far.
By defending his UFC Flyweight title three times in a year, Johnson was named the 2013 Fighter of the Year by a number of websites such as FoxSports.com and MMAWeekly.com.
In addition Johnson is the inaugural UFC Flyweight Champion and has successfully defended the title since its debut. He is officially ranked the number five pound for pound fighter in the UFC today.
5. Chris Weidman | Middleweight
Yet another fighter who can look back on a glorious 2013 is the current UFC Middleweight Champion, Chris Weidman. In July of last year, he became the first man to defeat Anderson Silva in the UFC. By doing so he earned the Knockout of the Year honour with MMAInsider regarding the fight as the biggest upset of the year.
Weidman's professional MMA record to date is eleven wins, no losses and to prove his KO victory over the seemingly unbeatable Silva was no fluke, the newly crowned Middleweight Champion repeated the feat in December last, this time with a decisive TKO triumph over the Brazilian.
Following his two comprehensive wins over Silva, Weidman is now set to defend his Middleweight title against Vitor Belfort in May of this year at UFC 173. Given his current form, Weidman will prove a formidable opponent for any fighter, especially Belfort.
4. Renan Barao | Bantamweight
The UFC Bantamweight champion has a fantastic MMA record of 32 wins, one loss and one no contest. Since his no contest bout, he has been on a phenomenal 22 match winning streak that stretches all the way back to 2008 which includes wins in the WEC, UFC and a number of other MMA organisations.
Barao won the UFC interim Bantamweight title in 2012, defeating Urijah Faber. He went on to defend the interim title on two occasions before being promoted to the official UFC Bantamweight Champion.
He defended the UFC Bantamweight Champion for the first time as the undisputed champion against a familiar opponent in Faber at UFC 169 earlier this month with a TKO victory in the first round. The Brazilian looks set to be a star in the UFC for many years to come.
3. Cain Velasquez | Heavyweight
A two time UFC Heavyweight Champion, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt Cain Velazquez is now in his second reign with the title having lost it to Junior Dos Santos in 2011 only to regain the title from the Brazilian just over a year later.
Velasquez possesses superior cardio and an endurance level which allows him to gain the upper hand in fights particularly title bouts which are scheduled for five, five minute rounds. The vast majority of his 13 wins to date have come by way of knockout, with eleven KO's thus far in his career.
With a career record of 13 wins and one loss, Velasquez is a fierce competitor who once gets down to his striking game is near impossible to stop given his pure power and endurance.
With his prolific knockout record, Velazquez has been awarded with the UFC Knockout of the Night honour on three occasions, including his TKO title win over Brock Lesnar in 2013. Velazquez is ranked the number one heavyweight in MMA and the joint third pound for pound fighter in the UFC today.
2. Jose Aldo | Featherweight
Not just the current UFC Featherweight Champion, Jose Aldo was the final WEC Featherweight Champion and was awarded the UFC title following the merger of the two organisations in 2010.
He made his debut as champion in the UFC in 2011 at UFC 129. He defended the title against Mark Hominick, earning the Fight of the Night honour for his performance. Aldo has defended the UFC Featherweight title a further five times since his debut, defeating fierce competition from the likes of Kenny Florian and Frankie ''The Answer'' Edgar.
Aldo holds an excellent MMA record of 24 wins and one loss from 25 fights to date. His most recent win and title defence came against Ricardo Lamas at UFC 169 on the 1st of February 2014. Aldo is recognised for his devastating leg kicks which have helped win him many fights throughout his career so far. He is currently ranked as the number two pound for pound fighter in the UFC.
1. Jon Jones | Light Heavyweight
At UFC 128, Jon ''Bones'' Jones became the youngest champion in the history of the organisation. At the age of just 23, Jones defeated Mauricio ''Shogun'' Rua to become the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Since then, no other fighter has been able to stop the dominance that Jones has displayed in the vastly competitive division.
Jones has defended the title multiple times against former champions of the Light Heavyweight Division such as Quinton ''Rampage'' Jackson, Lyoto ''The Dragon'' Machida and Rashad Evans. His career record stands at 19 wins and one loss with the vast majority of his victories coming by way of knockout.
In addition, Jones has yet to be knocked out, has yet to submit and thus far his only loss came due to a disqualification for illegal strikes. Jones is ranked as the number one fighter in the world by a number of publications as well as the number one pound for pound fighter in the UFC.
Still only 26, Jones looks set to be the star that spearheads not just the UFC but all of MMA into the future, with each passing fight his career record looks more and more impressive.
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ARLINGTON, Va. — Installing child restraints can frustrate even the most capable of parents. A system called Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children is supposed to make things easier by standardizing attachment hardware, but a new study shows that many automakers aren't paying attention to the key factors that make LATCH work. Only 21 of the 98 top-selling 2010-11 model passenger vehicles evaluated have LATCH designs that are easy to use. This is the main finding of joint research conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
The researchers scrutinized LATCH hardware and rear seat designs in a range of passenger vehicles to determine the key vehicle characteristics that would help LATCH live up to its billing. The Institute, UMTRI and other safety groups have previously pointed out usability issues with LATCH.
"Installing a child restraint isn't always as simple as a couple of clicks and you're done," says Anne McCartt, the Institute's senior vice president for research and one of the report's authors. "Sometimes parents blame themselves when they struggle with LATCH, but oftentimes the problem lies with the vehicle, not the user."
The goal of LATCH is to increase the number of children who ride properly restrained by making child restraints easier to install. Consumers who drive 2003 and later models likely have encountered the system. LATCH has two distinct components: lower attachments on child restraints that connect to anchors at the vehicle seat bight (where the bottom cushion meets the seat back) and top tethers on forward-facing restraints that attach to anchors on the vehicle's rear shelf, seat back, floor, cargo area or ceiling. Tethers help prevent child restraints from moving too far forward during crashes, putting children at risk of head or neck injuries.
UMTRI researchers reviewed LATCH hardware and rear seats in cars, minivans, pickups, station wagons and SUVs. To measure and assess how child restraints fit in each vehicle, they used a test fixture and other tools in line with 2009 draft guidelines developed by a Society of Automotive Engineers working group. They then picked 12 vehicles representing a range of LATCH setups and asked 36 volunteers to each install three different types of child restraints in three of the vehicles.
Researchers identified three factors associated with correct lower anchor use: depth, clearance and force.
All three factors are related and are good predictors of how well people are able to correctly install child restraints. Vehicles meeting the criteria were 19 times as likely to have lower anchors used correctly by the volunteers compared with vehicles that don't meet any of the criteria.
"These are things that automakers can do to improve child restraint installations, and most of them aren't hard," McCartt says. "Lower anchors can be designed so they are easy to use."
One common problem researchers encountered in the lab is that safety belt buckles, plastic housing or vehicle seats obscure or interfere with lower anchors. Another issue is that the anchors are sometimes buried deep within the back seats, so parents might have to dig around in the cushions to find them. Lower anchors were visible in just 36 of the 98 study vehicles. Researchers considered the anchors visible if they were easy to see or could be seen by removing a prominently marked cover.
Federal rules dictate the minimum number of seating positions that must have LATCH, the size of the lower anchors and how far apart they can be situated. If the lower anchors aren't visible, markers on the seats must indicate their location. Other design details are left up to automakers. For instance, the regulations don't specify anchor depth within the seat bight or limit how hard someone has to push on a child restraint to connect LATCH. Researchers found that these factors affect the likelihood that people will install child restraints correctly.
Another finding is that only seven of the 98 vehicles surveyed have dedicated LATCH anchors in the center, second-row seats, even though that is the safest place for children to travel. Nine vehicles allow borrowing of anchors from the outboard seats, and 82 have no center anchors at all. In the 21 minivans and SUVs with third rows, 11 have no lower anchors at all in these seats.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires passenger vehicles with rear seats to have a minimum of two seating positions with lower anchors and three seating positions with tether anchors. Few vehicles offer more than the minimum number of required anchors, researchers found. Only 16 of the 98 models surveyed had three or more pairs of lower anchors in back seats, while just 10 vehicles offered more than the three required tether anchors.
In the study, parents correctly used the lower anchors 60 percent of the time. Volunteers who correctly used anchors were more than three times as likely to get a tight fit as volunteers who didn't use them the right way. When anchors were misused, common mistakes included not orienting the connectors properly, attaching them to the wrong hardware and not snapping them in all the way. Twisted straps also counted as an error.
Certified child passenger safety technicians evaluated the installations. They deemed them tight if the restraint didn't move more than an inch sideways or back and forth when pulled. All of the participants currently used child seats in their own vehicles. If they had questions about how to install the seats in the study they could consult owners' manuals but received no other assistance.
Volunteers used top tethers just 48 percent of the time with forward-facing child restraints. When tethers were used, 54 percent of the installations were incorrect. Leaving too much slack in the strap was a common error. Another was attaching tethers to the wrong hardware.
Overall, parents and caregivers correctly installed seats with lower anchors and top tethers to get a tight, secure fit at the right angle in just 13 percent of the cases.
"With tethers, the main issue is use, not usability," says Kathy Klinich, assistant research scientist at UMTRI and the study's lead author. "Many parents don't realize they are supposed to use the tether."
Previous studies have shown that many people neglect to use tethers. A 2010 Institute survey found tethers in use 43 percent of the time, about the same as in the mid-1970s.
"Tethers should be used with all forward-facing child restraints, even if parents opt to secure seats with safety belts instead of lower anchors," Klinich says. "We need to better educate people about tether use."
Making LATCH easier to use might encourage more parents to use child restraints and install them correctly, McCartt says. In 2010, 29 percent of children 1-3 years old and 12 percent of infants younger than 1 who died in crashes were riding unrestrained. Those numbers mark a sharp improvement over 1985, when 71 percent of children ages 1-3 and 35 percent of infants killed in crashes were unrestrained.
"Getting kids into the right restraints for their age and size is the first step," McCartt says. "The next is to install the seats correctly because research shows this improves protection. This is where LATCH can help."
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Explaining human behavior
History and Orientation
Heider (1958) was the first to propose a psychological theory of attribution, but Weiner and colleagues (e.g., Jones et al, 1972; Weiner, 1974, 1986) developed a theoretical framework that has become a major research paradigm of social psychology. Heider discussed what he called "naïve" or "commonsense" psychology. In his view, people were like amateur scientists, trying to understand other people's behavior by piecing together information until they arrived at a reasonable explanation or cause.
Core Assumptions and Statements
Attribution theory is concerned with how individuals interpret events and how this relates to their thinking and behavior. Attribution theory assumes that people try to determine why people do what they do. A person seeking to understand why another person did something may attribute one or more causes to that behavior. According to Heider a person can make two attributions 1) internal attribution, the inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person, such as attitude, character or personality. 2) external attribution, the inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation he or she is in.
Our attributions are also significantly driven by our emotional and motivational drives. Blaming other people and avoiding personal recrimination are very real self-serving attributions. We will also make attributions to defend what we perceive as attacks. We will point to injustice in an unfair world. We will even tend to blame victims (of us and of others) for their fate as we seek to distance ourselves from thoughts of suffering the same plight. We will also tend to ascribe less variability to other people than ourselves, seeing ourselves as more multifaceted and less predictable than others. This may well because we can see more of what is inside ourselves (and spend more time doing this).
Conceptual Model
Not applicable.
Favorite Methods
Various methods have been employed in the measurement and categorization of attributions. Open-ended methods involve the researcher categorizing the oral replies of participants to open-ended questions. Derived score methods require the participant to rate his/her reasons for, for example, a success or failure on 5-point scales for different elements (e.g. ability or effort) related to the attribution dimensions. The direct rating method (e.g. [Benson, 1989), requires the participant to state his/her reasons for the event and then map those reasons onto items referring to attribution dimensions.
Scope and Application
Attribution theory has been used to explain the difference in motivation between high and low achievers. According to attribution theory, high achievers will approach rather than avoid tasks related to succeeding, because they believe success is due to high ability and effort which they are confident of. Failure is thought to be caused by bad luck or a poor exam and is not their fault. Thus, failure doesn't affect their self-esteem but success builds pride and confidence. On the other hand, low achievers avoid success-related chores because they tend to (a) doubt their ability and/or (b) assume success is related to luck or to "who you know" or to other factors beyond their control. Thus, even when successful, it isn't as rewarding to the low achiever because he/she doesn't feel responsible, it doesn't increase his/her pride and confidence.
If, for example, a runner had already been expending high effort, but had failed to reach a race final, then encouraging him to attribute the failure to lack of effort might simply demoralise him (see, e.g. [Robinson, 1990). If the qualifying standard were simply too difficult to meet, then encouraging attributions to lack of effort might serve little purpose, because increasing effort would probably do little to improve outcomes. If the wrong race strategy were used, then increasing effort would not logically lead to improved outcomes, if the same strategy were used in future.
Key publications
- Aronson, E., Wilson, T.D. & Akert, R.M. (2003). Social Psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
- Daly, Dennis. (1996). Attribution Theory and the Glass Ceiling: Career Development Among Federal Employees. Public Administration & Management: An interactive Journal [http://www.hbg.psu.edu/faculty/jxr11/glass1sp.html]
- Heider, F. (1958). The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. New York: Wiley.
- Jones, E. E., D. E. Kannouse, H. H. Kelley, R. E. Nisbett, S. Valins, and B. Weiner, Eds. (1972). Attribution: Perceiving the Causes of Behavior. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
- Harvey, J.H. & Weary, G. (1985). Attribution: Basic Issues and Applications, Academic Press, San Diego.
- Lewis, F. M. and Daltroy, L. H. (1990). "How Causal Explanations Influence Health Behavior: Attribution Theory." In Glanz, K., Lewis, F.M. and Rimer, B.K. (eds.) Health Education and Health Behavior: Theory , Research. and Practice. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc
- Weiner, B. (1974). Achievement motivation and attribution theory. Morristown, N.J.: General Learning Press.
- Weiner, B. (1980). Human Motivation. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
- Weiner, B. (1986). An attributional theory of motivation and emotion. New York: Springer-Verlag.
See also: http://tip.psychology.org/weiner.html
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Youth Guarantee - one year on
The Youth Guarantee was launched throughout the EU in 2013 to tackle growing youth unemployment and regional disparities across Europe. It guarantees that people under 25 will be offered employment, education, training or an apprenticeship within 4 months of losing their job or leaving school. Read our other article on the Youth Guarantee.
In 2014, the European Commission helped EU countries develop their own national Youth Guarantee Implementation Plans, identifying the measures to be taken case by case. In addition, the Employment Committee has developed an indicator framework for monitoring the Youth Guarantee in all EU countries.
Real improvements
Most EU countries have taken some action and introduced employment and education reforms. Some have made substantial efforts and achieved improvements. Examples include: Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Romania. Find out more here.
The Commission has made available almost €1 bn to pre-finance the Youth Employment Initiative. The European Social Fund is another funding source.
- Romania - 27 Youth Guarantee centres were created with European Social Fund support.
- Italy, Portugal & Spain - an e-portal enabled young people to send in Youth Guarantee data to a national register.
- Slovenia, Lithuania & Belgium - public employment services were set up or strengthened
- France, Portugal & Spain - renewed focus on the quality of education & training
- Poland, Latvia & Finland – the transition from school to work was made easier.
For more details and case studies, read this.
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It's the age-old problem when looking for a place to live: buy or rent?
To see which cities offer the best rental opportunities, real estate website Trulia.com conducted an analysis of the most advantageous ratios between rental prices and home values. Trulia looked at prices for two- bedroom apartments, condos and townhouses for sale and for rent in the 50 largest US metro areas. Total costs include rent and renter's insurance vs. buying a home, which includes down payment, mortgage principal and interest, insurance, closing costs, property tax and applicable tax deductions.
The report found that the best places to rent are in urban job centers where rental demand remains high and where home values have declined only slightly. Other advantageous areas are cities that have experienced more stability in home prices over the past decade and have remained regional economic centers.
To calculate the price-to-rent ratio, Trulia compared average monthly rent costs with average monthly home owner payments, arriving at a final number that identifies whether buying or renting offers a better value.
According to Trulia, a price-to-rent ratio over 21 indicates the cost of owning a home is far greater than renting, a ratio of 15 or below tips in favor of ownership is, while a ratio of 16-20 is something of a toss up, depending on individual financial situations, although owning is generally more expensive in this mid-range.
Trulia also concludes that although a city may have a renter-friendly price-to-rent ratio, it is not necessarily unwise to purchase a home there, as prices have fallen during the recession and real estate in these cities could be a potentially good long-term investment.
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2009 Referee Week in Review - Week 33
The usssoccer.com Referee Week in Review is designed to address the issues facing referees at all levels by using video highlights from professional games as well as the U.S. National Teams. Written by U.S. Soccer Director of Referee Development Paul Tamberino and U.S. Soccer Manager of Assessment and Training Brian Hall, the Referee Week in Review will highlight specific areas of focus and current U.S. Soccer initiatives designed to improve performance and aid in the development of officials across the country.
Week In Review
Week 33 – ending November 1, 2009
The first four games of the MLS playoffs are complete with the teams headed to the second venue for the final game in the home-and-home series. With aggregate goals the first tie breaker, teams with an equal number of goals scored would play overtime and potentially move to a penalty shoot out (kicks from the penalty mark) to eventually decide the winner.
The intensity and commitment to win that was mentioned in "Week In Review 32â€Â was evident in each of the four playoff games. Players battled to the last whistle as they attempted to gain an edge going into the second leg of the series. In each match, referees successfully matched the intensity level of the game for the entire 90 minutes. Match officials used their personality to manage the gray areas of the game while, in all but a few instances, correctly punished the 100 percent misconduct situations with a yellow card.
Proactive communication and preventative efforts on the part of officials helped to channel player efforts in positive directions and minimized the need to hand out "cards†to solve problems. With the next game being the deciding match, referees will need to further draw upon the positive player and game management tools.
WEEK 33 – Playoff #1 COMMENTARY
Game Disrepute and Mass Confrontation
For the most part this season, instances of game disrepute and mass confrontation have been minimal. Referees have taken proactive approaches and recognized many of the "warning signs†or "trigger issues†that were noted in U.S. Soccer's 2009 Referee Program Directive, "Game Disrepute and Mass Confrontation.â€Â A classic example of game disrepute involves aggressive behavior on the part of two opponents toward each other in an attempt to provoke and instigate a negative reaction. When game disrepute occurs, immediate preventative intervention is needed on the part of match officials in order to prevent it from escalating to mass confrontation. Mass confrontation, which normally involves three or more players involved in physical and/or verbal confrontations, is much more difficult for officiating teams to manage due to the number of players and the fact they are typically crowded together.
U.S. Soccer recommends match officials utilize the "triangle of control†(see diagram) to manage situations involving mass confrontation. By surrounding the group of players, via a triangle, the referee team maximizes its chances of identifying the culprits and, thus, taking the appropriate action.
Remember, when forming the "triangle of control":
- All officials should not focus on the same hot spot or become too involved in gaining control of the situation.
- Observe and make notes (mental or otherwise).
- Look for positive ways to prevent other players from joining in as these players often add "fuel to the fire.â€
When dealing with misconduct associated with game disrepute or mass confrontation, U.S. Soccer recommends that the referee should punish uniformly.
Video Clip 1: Houston at Seattle (14:44)
A game disrepute situation that escalates into mass confrontation begins with an attacking cross into the penalty area in which an attacker, on the far post, holds a defender and whose body contact with the goalkeeper blocks the keeper's path to the ball. The frustrated goalkeeper then exhibits aggressive and reckless behavior toward the attacker. In following the U.S. Soccer directive entitled, "Game Disrepute and Mass Confrontation,â€Â the referee team does a very good job implementing the focal points of the directive as follows:
Act quickly and attempt to separate
The referee (the closest official to the situation) intervenes quickly and separates the two players in a positive, non-confrontational manner. The referee's attempt to become a positive "third man in†defuses the situation.
Assistant Referees (ARs) enter the field to observe
The ARs enter the field to form the "triangle of control†and provide extra sets of eyes to observe player behavior. The near-side AR does an excellent job of not getting too close by taking a vantage point that gives him excellent sightlines to the group(s) of players. The ARs allow the referee to manage the situation with his presence while they observe.Â
Channel players to neutral areas
The referee works hard to channel the players to neutral areas which eliminates potential conflict and body contact and reduces the aggressive nature of the event.Â
Confer and decide
Once the situation is controlled/defused, the referee calls both ARs together and, while facing the players, gets input from each of his assistants. The referee also does well to hold his conference separated from the players thus eliminating any potential outside interference or influence. Keeping players away when discussing the situation provides a better environment for the exchange of information.
Isolate the affected players and disperse sanctions
Once the referee has decided upon the course of action, he isolates the two players and quickly issues the appropriate misconduct. The referee then promptly restarts the game.
The referee makes the correct misconduct decision by cautioning both players for unsporting behavior. The goalkeeper's actions are not excessive force and he does not make "contact above the shoulder.†The goalkeeper merely makes strong chest-to-chest contact with the opponent. The manner in which the contact was made and the fact that the chest-to-chest contact is in no way endangering the safety of the opponent, makes the contact reckless and, thus, a cautionable offense.
Following the "punish uniformly†guideline, the referee is correct in cautioning the attacker for unsporting behavior for his actions in embellishing the contact as well as for his actions in holding defender on the original cross which initiated the conflict.
Positioning Through Anticipation and Reading Play
Proper positioning requires the right balance of fitness and reading the game (anticipation) as depicted in the image.
The ability to sprint and be agile while moving around the field of play can benefit referees as the speed of the game has increased. Speed/quickness allows a referee to "close down†quick counter attacks and long balls. Fitness also provides the referee an opportunity to add presence to action/decisions around the ball without interfering with play or players.
Reading the Game (Anticipation)
Referees must read the game and anticipate the next phase of play. In other words, referees must think like players and have a vision of the field and the opportunities that exist for the player with the ball. This vision and understanding of player options, lends itself to movement to the next phase of play before the ball is actually played/passed/dribbled.
Often times, referees who possess a strong ability to read the game and anticipate do not need to rely on their speed and quickness to place them close to play or give them the optimum line of vision to a situation. Early movement and the ability to think like a player can enhance the referee's overall decision making by improving sightlines and providing added presence to a situation.
Video Clip 2: Galaxy at Chivas USA (2:55)
In this clip 2, the referee combines good fitness with good movement on a counter attack that starts deep in the defensive half of the field and moves to the far left channel of the referee's diagonal. As the ball is played out of the defensive third of the field, the referee must track the ball and play as it advances. As he moves up field, the referee must also concentrate on maintaining the best angle of vision to play. The optimum angle is achieved, in this clip, by the referee's run. Notice that the referee does not follow directly behind the ball or play/players. The referee takes the most economical route up the middle of the field (and not into the wide channel) so that he has an angle to see through any potential contact/challenge and not through the back of the attacker with the ball. The referee anticipates any potential challenge and sets himself up to make the right call but ensuring the optimum line of vision. Referees should attempt to place themselves at angles so that they can see the "light†between the two opponents challenging for a ball and not at the back of a player(s).
Video Clip 3: Galaxy at Chivas USA (8:48)
The referee exhibits excellent feel and read of the game through proper movement and positioning to ensure that he has the best possible view of the next phase of play. In video clip 3, the referee shows his ability to read the game by advancing forward of the play as it develops. As the referee reads that the ball is transitioning, he moves before the team that has won the ball is able to advance it with speed. As a consequence of his anticipation, the referee gains about 10 yards on the ball/play. The referee's movement also takes him out of the passing lanes and allows him to have as many players in view as the ball is passed up and across the field.
Many times, referees remain flat-footed when the ball is transitioned from one team to the other. This lack of anticipation and movement puts the referee in a deficit position – a position that must be made up later (if it can be) by fitness/sprinting. Watch, as one team wins the ball, how the referee swiftly moves up field and then utilizes backpedaling to ensure that he keeps the ball and play in full view.
Using the "Big Picture†to Decide the Sanction
The "100% Misconduct – Tactical and Red Card Tackles†directive published by U.S. Soccer provides guidance to officials in determining whether a challenge is "careless†(merely a foul and not misconduct) or "reckless†(a foul requiring a yellow card). Often times, challenges fall in the gray areas between "careless†and "reckless.†These "gray area†scenarios require the referee to consider the "big picture†surrounding the match as discussed in the "Game Management Model†directive.
The "big picture†relates to the atmosphere and mood of the match as it is played out and the referee's "feel†for what the game needs at a given moment. If an act by a player could be interpreted as either a yellow card or red card (the act falls within the "gray areaâ€), the referee needs to consider the "big picture†surrounding the match. In these few instances where borderline ("gray areaâ€) cases arise, referees should consider asking themselves:
- Does the player need the card?
- Does the game need the card?
Video Clip 4: Houston at Seattle (25:56)
Video clip 4 is an example of a foul that falls within the "gray area†and one in which the referee should consider the "big picture†when deciding upon the appropriate sanction. When viewing the challenge, the referee must decide whether the foul is "careless†or "reckless†(warranting a yellow card for unsporting behavior).
The action by the player in the orange jersey, depending upon the "big picture†of the game and the moment, may be interpreted as a "careless†challenge or as "reckless.†In evaluating the challenge, the referee should consider the actions of the orange jersey player and must decide whether he was:
The player has shown a lack of attention or consideration when making the challenge or acted without precaution. In other words, the player has not exercised due caution in making the play. This is normally exhibited as a miscalculation of strength or a stretch of judgment by the player committing the foul.
The player has acted with complete disregard to the danger to, or consequences for, his opponent. In other words, the challenge was clearly outside the norm for fair play.
This situation, in the playoff game referenced, was merely "careless†in nature and a direct free kick should be awarded. The player committing the foul showed a lack of attention and made the attempt to play the ball (and not the opponent) without precaution. Additionally, since the player was attempting to play the ball, this can be considered a stretch of judgment.
Since it is difficult to convey the entire "big picture†in the "Week In Review,†it must be noted that other similar challenges may be interpreted as "reckless†(and, thus, cautionable) depending upon how the challenge was initiated and the overall atmosphere ("big pictureâ€) of the game.
Inside or Outside, Penalty Kick or Not: Law 12 – The Penalty Kick
When any of the 10 offenses for which a direct free kick is awarded is committed by a player in their own penalty area (while the ball is in play), the referee must award a penalty kick. This is a simple requirement from Law 12 – The Penalty Kick. In making this decision, the referee and AR must also consider that the Laws of the Game state that the lines "belong to the areas of which they are boundaries.â€
What does this mean for officials relative to penalty kicks? In the case of player-to-player physical contact when challenging for the ball, the officials must note whether the contact occurred on or outside the line making the penalty area. A direct free kick foul that occurs "on the line†should be considered to have taken place inside the penalty area and, when committed by the defending team, a penalty kick must be awarded.
ARs should be prepared to assist referees with this inside/outside decision. This help is particularly critical for fouls that occur on or near the top of the penalty area as the AR has the best view of the penalty area line due to their perpendicular position. As challenges in and around the penalty area lines occur, the referee should ensure they use the AR to assist in making the correct decision. When the referee whistles for a foul, immediate eye contact should be made with the lead AR. If the AR believes the foul occurred inside the penalty area, the AR must signal by draping the flag across their waist as indicated in the picture to the right. Otherwise, the AR should remain at attention and offer no signal.
Video Clip 5: Chicago at New England (12:42)
In video clip 5, there are two critical decisions that must be made by the referee and the lead AR.
Handling decision
First, there is a decision as to whether a handling offense has been committed by the attacker. In watching the video clip, an infraction seems to have taken place. Due to the angle of the attacker's run and his body angle, the AR may be best able to make this judgment. If the AR believes that the attacker has handled the ball, the AR should signal with the flag raised vertically in the hand appropriate for the restart direction and, after making eye contact with the referee, give the flag a slight wave.
Penalty kick decision
Should the officiating team decide there was no handling offense, the second decision for which the AR can provide input is whether the defensive foul has occurred inside or outside of the penalty area. Immediately upon whistling the foul, the referee must make eye contact with the lead AR. The lead AR should then follow U.S. Soccer's guidelines as outlined above in the event they feel the foul has occurred on the penalty area line (and therefore inside the penalty area). This decision must be made based upon the location of the contact between the attacker and the defender's leg and not based upon the location of the ball or the defender's planted foot.
Looking Forward – Playoff Week 2
Referee teams must be prepared for overtime and, potentially, kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner. This is seemingly a simple task but one that is vital to the success of finishing a game. As part of this preparation, match officials must be familiar with the following U.S. Soccer position papers relative to kicks from the penalty mark.
- "Kicks From the Penalty Mark,†October 14, 2004Â
- "Kicks From the Penalty Mark – The 'Reduce to Equate' Principle,†June 11, 2002
- More Position Papers Â
The correct administration of kicks from the penalty mark is technical in nature. There are many variables that can turn a simple process into a nightmare and one that can negatively influence the result. Hence, familiarity by all members of the officiating crew is vital.


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Upcoming racer Need for Speed barrels down Independence Pass in Colorado and puts a big decision in front of the player: Do you race against the tumbling avalanche or simply wait for the *next* Need for Speed game to come out?
Need for Speed: The Run features cars like the Audi R8 and the BMW M3 GTS and is the umpteeth game in the highly successful racing series. It's out this fall.
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The world's first thought-controlled robotic arm is due to be implanted in a patient this winter.
"Our technology helps amputees to control an artificial limb, in much the same way as their own biological hand or arm, via the person's own nerves and remaining muscles," says Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. "This is a huge benefit for both the individual and to society."
Current prostheses are controlled by electrical impulses in the muscles, but have limited functionality as they're difficult to control.
"All movements must by pre-programmed," says Catalan. "It's like having a Ferrari without a steering wheel. Therefore, we have developed a new bidirectional interface with the human body, together with a natural and intuitive control system."
And because today's models have to be attached to the body using a socket tightly fitted on the amputated stump, they're so uncomfortable that only 50 percent of arm amputees are willing to use one at all.
However, Catalan's model is based on the Brånemark titanium implant instead (OPRA Implant System), which anchors the prosthesis directly to the skeleton through what's known as osseointegration.
The researchers plann to implant the electrodes directly on the nerves and remaining muscles, rather than on the skin, meaning the bio-electric signals become much more stable.
The first operations on patients will take place over the next few months.
"By testing the method on a few patients, we can show that the technology works and then hopefully get more grants to continue clinical studies and develop the technology further," says Catalan.
"If the first operations this winter are successful, we will be the first research group in the world to make 'thought-controlled prostheses' a reality for patients to use in their daily activities, and not only inside research labs."


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TAG at Ten: The Year 1993
Jan 8: TAG meets with NIH Director Bernadine Healy re: the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) legislation. She's non-committal.
Jan 16: Hoffmann-La Roche community meeting disrupted by ACT UP and TAG. Shrimp cocktail goes flying. Two arrests.
Jan 20: Bill Clinton sworn in as 42nd U.S. President.
Jan 21: Senator Kennedy introduces S.1, The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993, including TAG's OAR recommendations, onto the Senate floor. Dr. Healy temporarily reinstated as NIH Director. Panic at the NIH.
Jan 22: Emergency meetings at NIH. Directors propose a one year "study" of the proposed OAR changes.
Jan 22-24: Project "Immune Restoration Think Tank" meeting, Rutherford, CA.
Jan 26: Senate Labor & Human Resources Committee unanimously passes Kennedy's S.1.
Jan 28: NIH/FDA ad hoc committee meets on $20 million Congressional gp160 earmark.
Feb 3: House hearing on OAR legislation. Shalala endorses S.1. The AIDS panel is split: Art Ammann, David Ho, Mathilde Krim support reform; three fossils from professional societies oppose it.
Feb 9: ACT UP and TAG members chain themselves to gates and trucks at Hoffmann-La Roche facility in Nutley, NJ.
Feb 17: Senate attaches Nickles amendment to S.1, barring immigration of HIV+ foreigners. Bill passes, 93-4.
Feb 25: A tearful Healy announces her departure from NIH.
Feb 26: Terrorist bomb set under New York's World Trade Center; six killed, hundreds injured.
Mar 2: OAR legislation passes House committee.
Apr 2: Release of Concorde study results showing no benefit from early AZT. Havoc at Keystone HIV pathogenesis meeting.
Apr 19: TAG meets with Boehringer-Ingelheim about its experimental non-nucleoside, nevirapine.
Apr 25: National gay rights march in Washington, D.C.
May 25: House passes H.R.4 (House version of Senate bill S.1) by a vote of 290-130.
May 31: Gregg Gonsalves completes "The Basic Science of HIV Infection: A Report From the Front" for the Berlin AIDS conference.
Jun 8: In Berlin, Maxim Seligmann presents the grim results of the Concorde study.
Jun 10: At Berlin, an all-day barrage of negative results on ddI, ddC, the crash of Roche's tat inhibitor, and others. In Washington, D.C., President Clinton signs the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993.
Jul 1: Political funeral for activist Tim Bailey, whose embalmed body is borne in a demonstration at the nation's Capitol.
Jul 11: ACT UP/NY member David E. Kirschenbaum dies.
Jul 12: ACT UP/NY member Jon Greenberg dies.
Jul 16: Public funeral in New York's Tompkins Square Park for Jon Greenberg.
Jul 20: ACT UP/NY veteran, founding TAG member, TAGline co-editor, and composer Chris DeBlasio dies of AIDS.
Jul 30-1: Project Inform sponsors meeting on "Future Directions in AIDS Research" in Madison, WI.
August: President Clinton nominates Nobel Prize winning virologist Harold E. Varmus as NIH Director.
Sep 20: FDA hearing on full approval for Roche's ddC. TAG, having supported accelerated approval the previous year in spite of very limited data, now opposes full approval because ddC appears worse and more toxic than AZT.
Sep 23: Death of Project Inform's Jesse Dobson, founder of Project Immune Restoration.
Oct 12: Activist Andy Zysman, who focused on accelerating research on AIDS-related cancers, dies of AIDS in San Francisco.
Nov 2: Rudolph Giuliani elected Mayor of New York City.
Dec 7: At 17th ACTG meeting, distribution of Mark Harrington's The Crisis in Clinical AIDS Research, a blistering critique of the year's sequential clinical trials fiascos (rgp160, ddC, "convergent combination chemotherapy," inter alia).
Dec 8: At ACTG, Bill Powderly presents results of ACTG 081/981, showing that Bactrim prevents PCP and fluconazole prevents fungal infections in people with low T cells. CCG meets with Fauci. It's a fiasco: they're infantile; he, defensive.


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Calico Critters Border Collie Family, from Cloverleaf Corners are timeless, classic toys that delight children all over the world. These cute award-winning miniature animal figures inspire the imagination, creativity and promotes family values of each child. Their homes, shops, furniture and accessories have lots of functioning parts and real-life detail.
Calico Critters Border Collie Family characters are fully poseable with movable limbs and turnable heads. Each critters are made from soft and velvety textured flocked "fur". Calico Critters are dressed in removable outfits designed for each individual character. Calico Critters are sold as families, with a Mother and Father, sister and brother. Also, twins are available which are "baby" figures. Adult critters measure approximately 3 inches tall, brother and sister measure 2.25 inches tall and the babies measure 1.25 inches tall.


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Beloved Leader Kim Jong-Il's Flower Is World's Best Flower, Say Unbiased Experts
His magisterial highness the beloved democratic leader KIM JONG-UN today happily ruled over the smiling people's kingdom of the DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, where great tributes and praise for the beloved memory of the late heroic kindly leader of the people in perpetuity KIM JONG-IL, father of beloved current leader of the happily satisfied people and animals alike KIM JONG-UN, are routinely the order of the day. In what way was the memory of the highest imperial democratic inspiration KIM JONG-IL praised today, by the industrious citizens of the world, according to the DPRK's official news agency?
Kimjongilia Tops List of World's Flowers
The pavilion is witnessing more than 10 000 visitors each day. They have unanimously expressed great admiration at the red-colored Kimjongilia in full bloom.
The jury of the expo praised Kimjongilia as the king of flowers, the most famous flower in the world.
[Trust not in the puppet media of corrupt liberal imperialist democracy South Korea. Photo: puppet imperialist "AP" propaganda agency.]


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McLEAN, VA -- Sport & Health Clubs recently acquired a former World Gym in Gainesville, VA. The McLean, VA-based company is continuing its growth in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.
"We have been exploring the Gainesville submarket throughout the last year in search of an opportunity to fill in our footprint," Sport & Health President and COO Mark Fisher said in a statement. "With clubs in Woodbridge, Dale City, Stafford and Fredericksburg (VA), operating in the Gainesville area makes perfect sense to complete our service area."
The 15,000-square-foot-club—the 24th in the Sport & Health stable— includes cardiovascular conditioning equipment, circuit strength training, free weights, group exercise studios, indoor cycling and a smoothie bar, in addition to other health and fitness offerings. The club will undergo renovations to incorporate the Sport & Health brand.
In July, Sport & Health received $25 million in financing from Pittsburgh-based PNC Mezzanine Capital and Wynnewood, PA-based CMS Mezzanine Fund. The company plans to open at least three new clubs each year for the next five years.
"Sport & Health is committed to bringing our wealth of fitness programming to neighborhoods throughout the Washington metro area that are too often underserved," Jonathan Adler, Sport & Health's CEO, said in the statement. "This move into Gainesville falls precisely in line with our strategic plan."


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A winner was selected from 113 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
I am looking for a logo design for a new site that is almost complete. The winning design will encapsulate the idea of the site at a glance. I am looking for something really original.
This is a social neighbourhood site for the city of Toronto. Each neighbourhood in the city has its own page with interactive maps, wikipedia info, business reviews, real estate info, stats, blogs, etc...
The site has a very clean, web 2.0 look and feel to it and I need to logo to similar.
- Item 1...The site has a very clean, web 2.0 look and feel to it and I need to logo to similar. I need to have the url, ByTheBlock.ca, included in the logo, but also have the ability to separate the two for individual use.It would be great if someone could try and incorporate the CN Tower / Sky Dome into the logo or word mark. I was thinking perhaps as the l and the o in Block. If you are not sure of exactly what they look like message me or consult Google.
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The CIO's rapidly evolving role into a more collaborative, business-facing and multi-skilled function is shifting the dynamics of the modern-day executive table, according to the Harvey Nash USA 2013 CIO Survey. The eighth annual survey reports 71 percent of CIOs believe the role of the CIO is becoming more strategic, and 36 percent of CIOs report to the CEO today, compared to 21 percent in 2010. Fifty percent of U.S. CIOs are enabling business change, and almost half of them (47 percent) are managing an IT budget that has grown compared to last year.
At the same time, seemingly paradoxically, CIOs are losing more direct control of their technology vision and sharing it with other departments. Forty-three percent of CIOs say there is a degree of shared ownership of digital technology between the IT and marketing teams. A growing number of CIOs see more than 10 percent of their budgets controlled outside of the IT department: 38 percent today, compared to 34 percent in 2012 and 26 percent in 2011.
"The integration with the marketing team, a direct line to the CEO, a growing dependence on outsourcing and the recent surge of BYOD (bring your own device) have led the CIO to stamp an IT footprint well outside the walls of his department," said Harvey Nash USA president and CEO Bob Miano. "The role of the CIO is undergoing a paradigm shift that is presenting incredible opportunities. The CIO's role continues to grow in influence, with a vision for the organization at the highest level, to drive organizational change and significantly impact company performance in brand new ways."
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text: On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> writes: >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 07:43:19PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >>> As for the daemons, remember that with a proper scheduler, you will >>> switch straight from an incoming network interrupt to a high >>> priority >>> process that is expecting the incoming packet, and that even works >>> correctly on some (but not all) Linux kernels. A user process cannot >>> take priority over other tasks, at least not without someone being >>> quite deliberate about it. >> >> You realize that most big HPC systems are using interconnects that >> don't generate many or any interrupts, right? > > Of course. Usually one even uses interrupt pacing/mitigation even in > gig ethernet on a modern machine -- otherwise you're not going to get > reasonable performance. (For 10Gig, you have to do even uglier > tricks.) > > However, my argument still holds without any change. Until you > actually process the packet, which happens in the kernel, userland > won't see it anyway, and when the kernel processes it, it is free to > switch to whatever userland process it wishes, and (under normal > circumstances) it will do the right thing. > I think Greg is talking about HPC interconnects that do OS bypass, and Perry is talking about the kernel IP stack. Different things. IB, Quadrics, Myrinet, and SiCortex stuff does not go through the kernel, does not interrupt, does not schedule. Typically the application thread calling SEND directly interacts with the NIC, and at the other end, the thread calling RECV directly polls the NIC queue to receive a packet. A sufficently fancy ethernet controller could do similar things, "sockets direct" and so forth. In our code, the fast path from application calling SEND to the application returning from RECV at the other end is 250 machine instructions. There is no time for the kernel to get in the way, no time to switch contexts or address spaces or save registers. I'm sure the OS kernel is a fine thing. We throw it an occasional TLB miss as a bribe not to bother the application. Useful for initialization and ECC, but you wouldn't loan it your car. -L


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Complete Guide to Accredited Fire Schools
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In response to a large number of questions we receive about fire academies, we have adapted a list of schools accredited by the National Fire Academy (NFA). These schools are categorized by college-based training, associate's degrees, degrees at a distance program, bachelor's degrees, and graduate degrees.
The programs listed below will be supplemented in the near future by national accrediting associations recommended by FireLink.
Note from the NFA on Institutional Accreditation
College-Based Training Programs
• Missouri (1)
• Pennsylvania (2)
Associate's Degrees
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary in axils; bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial, opening at dawn or dusk; hypanthium sometimes prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals generally 4(27); petals generally 4 (or as many as sepals, rarely 0), often "fading" darker; stamens generally 4 or 8(2), anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen generally interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally 4 (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, or hemispheric
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like)
Seeds sometimes winged or hair-tufted
Genera in family: 15 genera, ± 650 species: worldwide, especially w North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Gaura, Oenothera )
Reference: [Munz 1965 North America Fl II 5:1278]
Annual, perennial herb, from taproot or lateral roots
Leaves basal, cauline, or both, alternate, simple to 2-pinnate
Inflorescence bracted; spike, raceme, or flowers solitary in axils
Flower radial, generally opening at dawn (rarely at dusk); sepals 4, reflexed (sometimes 23 remaining adherent); petals 4, yellow, white, lavender, often with darker basal spots, generally fading purplish or reddish; stamens (4)8, longer ones opposite sepals, anthers generally attached at middle (or base), pollen grains 3-angled except in polyploid taxa (visible with hand lens); ovary chambers 4, stigma ± head-like or hemispheric, generally > anthers and cross-pollinated (or ± = anthers and self-pollinated)
Fruit straight to coiled, generally sessile
Seeds in 12 rows per chamber
Species in genus: 62 species: w North America (especially CA-FP), 1 South America
Etymology: (L.A. von Chamisso, French-born German botanist, 17811838)
Reference: [Raven 1969 Contr US Natl Herb 37:161396]
Polyploidy and self-pollination have predominated in evolution of genus. Previously included in Oenothera (" O." in synonyms).
Annual, generally reddish; rosette generally ± 0 (to well developed); hairs minutely strigose and spreading (some glandular, especially in inflorescence)
Stem erect, 365 cm, peeling
Leaves 20100(130) mm, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate, sparsely minutely dentate or serrate; lower oblanceolate or not
Inflorescence nodding; flowers generally 0 at lower nodes
Flower opening at dusk; hypanthium 48 mm; sepals (2.7)48 mm; petals 37.5 mm, generally white (red) fading reddish
Fruit 835 mm, 13.8 mm wide, cylindric except base wider than tip, ± curved outward to very wavy and twisted, persistent, tardily dehiscent
Seeds in 1 row per chamber, 1.42.1 mm, generally of 2 kinds (minutely pitted in rows and pale brown; coarsely papillate and dark brown)
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Shrubby or open, dry areas, generally desert
Elevation: < 2400 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area, s San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, Inner South Coast Ranges, Western Transverse Ranges, Great Basin Floristic Province, Desert
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, nw Mexico
Synonyms: O. b. Douglas


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Definitions of gear
n. - Clothing; garments; ornaments. 2
n. - Goods; property; household stuff. 2
n. - Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. 2
n. - The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. 2
n. - Warlike accouterments. 2
n. - Manner; custom; behavior. 2
n. - Business matters; affairs; concern. 2
n. - A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. 2
n. - An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. 2
n. - Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. 2
n. - See 1st Jeer (b). 2
n. - Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. 2
v. t. - To dress; to put gear on; to harness. 2
v. t. - To provide with gearing. 2
v. i. - To be in, or come into, gear. 2
The word "gear" uses 4 letters: A E G R.
Direct anagrams of gear:
ager rage
Words formed by adding one letter before or after gear (in bold), or to aegr in any order:
b - barge c - cager grace d - grade raged e - agree eager eagre ragee g - agger eggar gager h - gerah j - jager l - argle glare lager large regal m - gamer marge regma n - anger range regna p - gaper grape pager parge s - agers gears rages sager sarge t - grate great retag targe terga u - argue auger rugae v - grave w - wager y - gayer yager z - gazer graze
Shorter words found within gear:
ae ag age ar are ear er era erg gae gar rag re reg
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Words formed from any letters in gear, plus an optional blank or existing letter
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PolyVox - The voxel management and manipulation library
This system is no longer under active development. For more details please see this blog post: http://www.volumesoffun.com/wrapping-up-polyvox-development-to-focus-on-cubiquity-2/
PolyVox is the core technology which lies behind our games. It is a fast, lightweight C++ library for the storage and processing of volumetric (voxel-based) environments. It has applications in both games and medical/scientific visualisation, and is released under the terms of the MIT license.
PolyVox is a relatively low-level library, and you will need experience in C++ and computer graphics/shaders to use it effectively. It is designed to be easily integrated into existing applications and is independent of your chosen graphics API. For more details please see this page on our website.


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Protecting user names and passwords, not to mention financial or other personal information, can be a difficult job for any webmaster. Unfortunately there are an awful lot of people out there with nothing better to do than break into your system and steal information, or just wreak havok. One of the tools of the trade for information protection is encryption. There is a built-in function of the PHP language called crypt() which is easy to use and can help you secure information you want to protect.
Crypt is a one-way encryption function. You may wonder then, "What good is it if I can't decrypt what I have encrypted?" The answer is simple. In PHP, crypt can be used to confirm that, for example, an entered password matches a stored encrypted one.
Here is how it works: crypt accepts two arguments and returns an encrypted string. The first argument is the string you wish to encrypt. Use the trim function to ensure that whitespace on either side of the string is stripped away, just to make everything cleaner. The second argument is the encryption "salt," which is a string that is used on which to base the encryption. This is an optional parameter that, if not supplied, will be randomly generated by the function. Here is an example:
$crypted_pass = crypt($password);
The variable Crypted_pass can now be stored in a database or flat file. If you use the encrypted password for the salt argument and use it to encrypt the correct password, entered from a login form for instance, the two encrypted versions will match as below.
//$pass_entered_from_login is the user entered password
//$crypted_pass is the encrypted password from the
//database or file
if(crypt($pass_entered_from_login,$crypted_pass)) == $crypted_pass)
echo("Welcome to my web site.")
You are encrypting it in the same way that you did when it was entered and stored in the database. The difference is that this time you are using the stored encrypted version as the salt. If the correct password was entered then the two encrypted versions will match; the user is welcomed and can proceed.
This allows you to confirm the password without decrypting it, since all you really need to know is if it matches the user's input. You can use this for any information that is short (8 charaters on some systems) and needs to be confirmed but not decrypted. User information like passwords are the most common target for this function.
Crypt uses standard MD5 encryption but can also use DES or other encryption as available. Information on the types of encryption that is available on your system can be viewed through constants set in PHP. Check for which encryption is supported by using the following code.
echo("DES is " . CRYPT_STD_DES."
Extended DES is ".
CRYPT_EXT_DES."
MD5 is "CRYPT_MD5.
"
BlowFish is ".CRYPT_BLOWFISH");
The result will look something like this:
DES is 1
Extended DES is 1
MD5 is 1
BlowFish is 0
If any of these is "0" then it is not supported. Each of these algorithms use a different salt. MD5 uses 12 characters, DES uses 2. Also beware that some operating systems truncate a string that is larger than 8 characters before encrypting it. You should test this in your comparison script on the system that you intend to use it just in case. You can also check CRYPT_SALT_LENGTH to determine the default salt length. It may be 2 or 12 depending on the encryption that is used.
It is not recommended that you use an automatically generated salt if you will be calling crypt repeatedly, such as in a loop. The same salt will be used, which will compromise security.
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First let's set up a form for entering a username and password to add a new user into the system. Let's use an example of a form for an admin interface to administer a Company X product database for Web display.
<title>Company X Products Admin Application Add New User </title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″>

Administration Interface login: Add new User

<form name="form1″ method="post" action="admin_login_newuserbe.php">
<input name="uname" type="text" id="uname" size="8″ maxlength="8″>
Enter User Name
<input name="pword" type="password" id="pword" size="8″ maxlength="8″>
Enter Password

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Add">
When the form is submitted to "admin_login_newuserbe.php" the crypt function is used to encrypt the new username. We first confirm that both fields have entries:
if(empty($_POST[pword]) || empty($_POST[uname]))
echo "

You must enter both a username and password.
Try Again?
Additional validation could be added to this either on the client side (using Javascript) or on the server side as needed. Next we will use crypt to encrypt our password and neatly trim leading and trailing white space from our username. They can then be stored in a database or flat file.
$pwrd = crypt(trim("$_POST[pword]"));
$user = trim("$_POST[uname]");
//Code for accessing you database or flat file goes here.
{mospagebreak title=Login}
Login would use a similar form, but now we are comparing a stored encrypted password with one entered by the user. The usual validating code can be used on the form input. Once this is done we make our database or file connections and retrieve the needed information. We then make our comparisons, and when we receive a successful match, start a new session for our logged in user and redirect them to the admin interface page. If there is no match we simply prompt the user to try again.
You could also set up a way to track the number of times a user attempted to log in within a certain period of time if you wished. Options to reset passwords and have passwords emailed to the user are also good add-ons. Of course keep in mind that wherever you store an unencrypted password, it had better be secure. If the information you are protecting is something like credit card information, it's even more important.
//the array $row is from the database that holds our information.
if(crypt($pwrd,$row[pword]) == $row[pword])
session_start();//start the new session
$sesid = session_id();//get the session id
$_SESSION[logged] = TRUE;//set a session id to check if this user is logged in
header("location: chooser.php?id=$sesid");//redirect the user to the admin interface page
else//whoops no match but be nice and let them try again.
echo "

Sorry No Passord matches.

Try Again?";
{mospagebreak title=A Few Words About Storage and Security}
If you use a flat file for your password storage, make sure to put it outside your Web root. Proper permissions can be set on this file to allow your scripts to access it. As a default on UNIX systems PHP and the Web server run under the user "nobody." Using a flat file is fine for a small number of passwords, but if you have a lot of them a database is a better choice. You could also split your password storage: website usernames and passwords in a database and database access passwords in a flat file.
You also have the option of using the htaccess and htpasswd file if you are using the Apache Web server. Make sure to consult any documentation for your server for more information. Another good general net security resource is available at http://www.net-security.org/. Always keep up with the latest security updates and bulletins for any software you use on your site and apply the available patches promptly.
There are other encryption functions or add ons for PHP as well. Such as md5() or a two way PHP extension called Mcrypt. A good source for information about these or other PHP functions and features is in the PHP manual. You can access the PHP manual on line at http://us2.php.net/manual/en/index.php or through the PHP Freaks web site http://www.phpfreaks.com/.
Using crypt we have made password validation secure and easy. There was no need to ever expose the real password and the logged in user is now on their way to doing some work. Always consider all security measures available when you have important information to protect.


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Definition of hails
plural of hail 1
The word "hails" uses 5 letters: A H I L S.
No direct anagrams for hails found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after hails (in bold), or to ahils in any order:
c - laichs d - halids e - sheila g - laighs p - palish phials t - lathis latish tahsil v - lavish
Shorter words found within hails:
ah ai ail ails ais al als as ash ha hail has hi hila his is la las lash li lis sail sal sh sha si sial
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By Laura Smith-Spark, LONDON (CNN) — Fast food giant Taco Bell said Friday it has taken beef off the menu in its three UK outlets after tests on ground beef from a European supplier revealed traces of horse meat.
The discovery of rogue horse meat in a wide range of beef products has thrown the European meat industry into disarray in recent weeks.
A Taco Bell spokesman said the company had voluntarily ordered testing of its beef products in light of the scandal affecting other European retailers and food manufacturers.
"Based on that testing, we learned ingredients supplied to us from one supplier in Europe tested positive for horse meat," he said.
Beef was immediately taken off the menu and will not be served again until the company is satisfied that suppliers meet its standards, he said.
"We apologize to our customers and take this matter very seriously as food quality is our highest priority," he said.
Taco Bell UK has informed the UK Food Standards Agency, which has been leading the investigation into unauthorized horse meat in Britain, he said.
Two of the three UK Taco Bell outlets are in Essex, northeast of London, and the third is in Manchester, in northern England. There is no link in terms of products to Taco Bell in the United States or other outlets operated by Yum Brands, the spokesman added. Yum also owns Pizza Hut and KFC.
"Our domestic restaurants have not been, and will not be, impacted because we do not use any meat from Europe," Taco Bell said in a prepared statement. "Like all beef in the United States, ours is USDA inspected and then passes our own 20 quality checkpoints."
The horse meat scandal has extended across Europe, with questions raised over slaughterhouses and food suppliers in a number of countries.
The Food Standards Agency released the results Friday of the latest round of testing ordered on products labeled beef across the UK food industry.
So far, more than 99% of tests continue to show no horse DNA at or above the level of 1%, it said.
Horse meat is not harmful in itself but authorities are concerned by its unauthorized presence in case it is tainted with a veterinary drug used to treat horses. Phenylbutazone, also known as bute, is not allowed to enter the food chain because it can pose a risk to humans.
The European Union said last month it intends to begin testing meat across all 27 member states.


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Anchovy, Basil, and Tomato Sandwiches With Aioli Recipe
The greatest column since sliced bread.
Rustic Italian bread slathered with garlic aioli and layered with fresh basil, sliced tomatoes, and a sprinkling of capers all make for a great match with anchovy fillets—almost like a Provencal BLT of sorts with the salty anchovies subbing in for the bacon, and basil in place of the lettuce.
Read more: Sandwiched: Anchovy, Basil, and Tomato Sandwiches with Aioli
- Yield:Makes 2 sandwiches
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
- For the Aïoli:
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons freshly juice from 1 lemon
- Pinch of Kosher salt
- 1 medium garlic clove, finely minced (about 1 teaspoon)
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- For the Sandwiches:
- 4 slices rustic Italian bread
- 8 to 10 fresh basil leaves
- 1 large tomato, sliced
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 8 to 10 anchovy fillets packed in oil, drained
- 2 teaspoons capers, drained
To make the aioli, whisk together the egg yolk, lemon juice, salt, and garlic in a medium bowl. Whisking constantly, drizzle in the oil in a slow, steady stream until all oil is used and sauce is thick. Set aside.
Spread the aioli on one side of each of the bread slices. Evenly divide the basil leaves amongst two of the bread slices, then layer the tomato slices on top of the basil. Season the tomatoes with the salt and black pepper. Evenly divide the anchovy fillets and lay them on top of the tomatoes. Evenly divide the capers between the two sandwiches, then top each sandwich with the remaining bread slices. Serve immediately.
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