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After several sluggish years, mergers and acquisitions activity within the Middle East is showing signs of revival, giving hope to global banks which scaled back their regional operations because of a dearth of deal flow.
Traditionally, the Gulf has been a major source of outbound deals, with its cash-rich sovereign wealth funds and state entities snapping up stakes in Western companies ranging from banks to automakers and football clubs.
But M&A activity within the region - deals to acquire Middle Eastern companies - suffered after 2007 as the global financial crisis and then Dubai's corporate debt crisis of 2009-2010 caused investors to pull in their horns. From nearly $45 billion in 2007, Middle East M&A transactions sank to about $25 billion in 2008, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Now, however, bankers and industry experts say they are encouraged by an increased level of intra-regional business, as corporations seek to expand beyond their borders and governments back consolidation in some sectors. Middle East M&A rebounded to $20 billion in 2012, double the level in 2011.
First-quarter 2013 volumes saw a 10 percent drop from a year earlier, but bankers said the level of business negotiations underway suggested the rest of this year would be strong.
"What we are seeing is that activity levels are definitely better than last year and there is greater confidence in the overall economic system," said Paul Skelton, HSBC's regional head of global banking in the Middle East and North Africa.
"The cross-border deals are happening and it will continue given the cash levels with entities in places such as Qatar. There are more middle-market deals and discussions taking place which are intra-regional."
A few years ago, because of the uncertain economic outlook, there were big differences in the valuations that potential buyers and sellers assigned to companies, causing many of the negotiations that did occur to fail, bankers said.
This prompted many international banks, such as Switzerland's Credit Suisse and Japan's Nomura Holdings, to cut jobs in their investment banking teams for the region.
In the past year, however, Gulf economies have set the seal on their recovery from the global crisis; the private sector in Saudi Arabia has boomed, while Dubai's real estate market - a key barometer for confidence in the United Arab Emirates - has started to recover.
Meanwhile, despite the political and economic disclocation, the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were seen by many Gulf companies as creating long-term business opportunities, by opening North African economies to fresh competition.
So Gulf companies across the banking, telecommunications, retail and energy sectors are looking to expand regionally
The UAE's state-owned telecommunications firm Etisalat and Qatar's Ooredoo are competing to buy Vivendi's 53 percent stake in Morocco's Maroc Telecom, a deal potentially worth up to $8 billion if minority shareholders are also bought out.
Large banks such as Qatar National Bank and Dubai's Emirates NBD are studying the possibility of more acquisitions in the region after they bought assets in Egypt last year to diversify from their crowded home markets.
"M&A activity this time around is underpinned by strong industrial logic as regional companies are today far more sophisticated and financially strong, and are coming out of a consolidation phase in home markets," said Omar Iqtidar, Citigroup's Dubai-based investment banking head for the Middle East.
Differences over valuations are narrowing as companies' earnings growth improves and tangible cash flows make expectations more concrete, bankers said.
"We are working on a deal currently where the asset failed to sell a number of years ago due to vendor's valuation expectations," said Declan Hayes, managing director for transaction services at consultancy Deloitte in the UAE.
"A combination of multiple realignment and some growth in operating earnings makes the deal possible now."
Hayes said several of Deloitte's clients, including private equity firms and corporates, were seeking acquisition opportunities to position for growth in Saudi Arabia, the largest Gulf Arab economy.
The lack of major M&A for several years has left inefficiencies and room for consolidation in some industries. In some cases, that is now being addressed by mergers.
In Saudi Arabia, Sahara Petrochemical and Saudi International Petrochemical Co (Sipchem) said this month they were in talks on a potential merger.
In some countries, governments are backing the consolidation. Dubai and Abu Dhabi agreed to merge their aluminium smelting companies this month to create a national champion with an enterprise value of $15bn; the combined company will be the world's fifth largest aluminium firm. Morgan Stanley advised Abu Dhabi in the deal.
That merger has raised speculation that the Abu Dhabi and Dubai governments might move forward in merging the country's multiple stock exchanges, a deal which stalled three years ago because of political differences.
Earlier this year Abu Dhabi agreed to combine its two biggest real estate firms, Aldar Properties and Sorouh Real Estate, in a state-backed deal. The deal involved advisory roles for several banks such as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.
Mergers among Bahraini lenders have been encouraged by the country's central bank, especially among smaller Islamic banks hit hard by a local real estate crisis and political unrest in the tiny island nation.
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BROCKTON, Mass. – On the final day of the Little East Conference regular season, baseball gave their nine senior members a gift to remember as the Beacons picked-up their first conference sweep with an 11-1 (8 inns.) and 5-4 victories over Rhode Island College Friday afternoon at Campanelli Stadium.
With Saturday's sweep the Beacons (17-20, 7-7 Little East) have locked-up the fourth seed in this year's conference tournament, which will be held at Eastern Connecticut State University starting on Wednesday, May 9. The Warriors swept the University of Southern Maine in Gorham to earn a share of the regular season title, and the right to host next week's conference championship. Despite the sweep the Anchormen (12-21, 5-9 Little East) managed to sneak into the conference tournament, and will be the sixth seed.
UMass Dartmouth and Plymouth State University will be the third and fifth seeds respectively in the tournament. The Little East Conference will announce official start times as well as the finalized bracket later this weekend.
The Beacons huge day was fueled by perhaps two of their most impressive all-around performances of the 2014 season. In game one UMass Boston pounded out 21 hits to earn the first mercy rule victory of the year with the 11-1 decision. In game-two the Beacons trailed for only a half of an inning, but with an RBI Charlie LaPaglia (Marshfield, Mass.) and a save by Daniel Heefner (Tracy, Calif.) the Beacons earned the huge one-run win over RIC.
Kyle Szatrowski (Agawam, Mass.) and Lucas Ilges (Gloucester, Mass.) each walked away with wins on Friday, with Szatrowski picking-up his fourth and Ilges his third. The duo combined for eight strikeouts respectively and went a total of 13 complete innings.
At the plate, Chris Adams (Whitman, Mass.) crushed the baseball in the doubleheader sweep finishing 6-for-9 with three RBI, two runs scored, and three doubles. Freshman Daniel Mantoni (Northbridge, Mass.) also had a huge game one for the Beacons as he went 3-for-4 with three RBI a run scored and was a home run shy of hitting for the cycle as he picked-up a double and a triple.
GAME ONE – UMass Boston 11, Rhode Island College 1 (8 innings)
In the opener the Beacons combined for seven runs through the first three innings to take a commanding lead in a must-win game. RIC's lone run, a solo home run by Justin Rainville was earned in the top of the fourth. The Beacons would then tack on two runs in the bottom half of the inning, before scoring another run in the seventh and the game-winning run in the eighth on a RBI single to left by Ezold, which plated Charlie LaPaglia.
While the offense was firing on all cylinders, Szatrowski was dominant through the first seven innings allowing the only Anchormen run on five hits. The Agawam native struck out five and did not surrender a walk. Matt Dziok (Southampton, Mass.) closed out the eighth as he retired all three batters in order.
For the Anchormen, the game one loss went to C.J. Tsoumakas as he surrendered nine runs, all earned, on 14 hits in four innings. Rainville produced two of RIC's five hits in the game-one loss.
Between the two games the Beacons honored their nine senior members, seven of which are on the pitching staff. This year's seniors consisted of Ilges, Dziok, Heefner Jamill Moquete (Boston, Mass.), Jose Pena (Boston, Mass.), Will Barrack (Lancaster, Va.), Gabe May (Portsmouth, N.H.), Tom Cole (Mattapoisett, Mass.), and Ryan Augustine (Burlington, Conn.).
GAME TWO – UMass Boston 5, Rhode Island College 4
In the nightcap the Beacons had to grind out the huge win with key hits in the later innings. The first inning saw RIC strike first with a run in the top of the inning, but the Beacons did not let that lead last long as they tacked on two in the bottom half.
After two and a half scoreless innings, UMass extended their lead to 3-1 on a RBI double by Anthony Gomes-Sirianni (San Francisco, Calif.), which plated Bryan Failla (Torrington, Conn.). Neither team would record a run in the fifth, but in the sixth the Anchormen tied the game at 3-3 as they scored on an RBI double by Tyler Santaniello and on an infield error with two outs on the scoreboard.
Just like the first inning the Beacons did not waste anytime retaking control of the contest, as Ezold, who entered the contest as a pinch hitter, crushed a double down the right field line to make it 4-3 in favor of UMB.
In the seventh the Beacons extended their lead to two as LaPaglia was credited with an RBI hit by pitch with the bases loaded. The Beacons would keep the bases loaded in the inning, but RIC was able to get out of the jam to keep the deficit at two. The Anchormen cut the lead back to one in the top of the eighth on a passed ball with only one out on the board. Following the unearned run, Josh Cummiskey (Lowell, Mass.), who entered the game in the seventh settled down and got out of the inning with runners on first and third on a line out to Mantoni at third base.
In the bottom half of the eighth the Beacons would threaten as Moquete crushed his 11th career triple to center field. Unfortunately, the Anchormen were able to get out of the inning again on a foul out to the third baseman.
As the game moved into the top of the 9th, head coach Brendan Eygabroat, went to Heefner to close out the victory. Heefner, who leads the program in most career appearances and saves got the first batter he faced to pop up to Mantoni. He then struck out the second batter looking. The Anchormen then got a break on a throwing error by the shortstop to put a runner at first base. That runner then moved over to third following a single up the middle by Dean Beshansky. With runners at the corners, Heefner managed to focus back in, and ended the contest on a pop out to Mantoni. The save marked the eighth of Heefner's four-year career.
Brad Van Fechtmann was handed his fifth loss of the year after allowing the go-ahead run in 2 1/3 innings. Kyle Morvan went the first 5 2/3 and struck out six, while allowing four runs on nine hits.
Baseball will officially close out the 2014 regular season on Sunday when they travel to Amherst College for a 12 and 3 p.m. non-conference doubleheader. The Jeffs will be the fourth regionally-ranked team the Beacons have faced this week, as they look to extend their now three-game win streak.

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A Minnesota state legislator will introduce a bill on Monday that would permit the Mayo Clinic to release the medical records of Yankees great Lou Gehrig for medical review.
State Rep. Phyllis Kahn, who was born in Brooklyn, wants researchers to be able to look into whether concussions played a role in Gehrig's death which is now attributed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. She was inspired, in part, by a story in the New York Times last year, "Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic ALS." That story, which posited multiple concussions brought about a different fatal disease, mentioned that the Mayo Clinic, which treated Gehrig, wouldn't release the records and prohibited a doctor who examined them from talking to reporters.
If passed, the bill would change Minnesota state law to release medical records without consent if the person's been dead for at least 50 years, but they could be sealed if direct descendants object. Gehrig died childless.
'Gehrig bill' would free Yankee star's medical data for ALS-concussion probe [MinnPost]
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A guest blog from Vegetarian for Life on the increasing number of older vegetarians and vegans, and why care caterers should make the most of this.
People who are vegetarian or vegan are found in at least one in every four British care homes.
As a result, it's really important for care homes and caters to know their needs and how they should be cared for.
Dietary requirements
Knowing what vegetarians and vegans do and don't eat is an essential starting point.
Most vegetarians do not eat meat or fish, but will eat eggs and dairy products.
Vegans choose not to eat or use any animal products at all. So they do not eat meat or fish, and also avoid all animal products such as honey, eggs and dairy.
This might sound a little restrictive but a wide range of meals can be made vegan or vegetarian, from hearty full-English style breakfasts, through to quiches, curries, pizzas, and cakes.
Reasons for making this choice
There are many reasons why someone could be vegetarian or vegan. It could be to do with animal welfare, the environment, or religious, spiritual and moral beliefs.
For instance, vegetarianism is particularly important in the Hindu, Buddhist, Rastafarian and Jain faiths, and a considerable number of Quakers are vegetarian too.
In addition, older adults' uptake of meat-free meals is rising. They have cut back their meat consumption at a faster rate than the rest of the British population. This trend reflects practical concerns, such as perceived health benefits, and saving money.
Why should care caterers make the most of this?
Providing a few veggie options on the menu can be better for everyone and may save money in the process.
Firstly, vegetarian dishes should not be seen as 'special' food. Meat-eaters in care settings nearly always eat the two or more vegetable accompaniments on their plate and some days could prefer the option of a full vegetarian meal.
What's more, because our ability to chew and digest certain foods can deteriorate with age, vegetarian and vegan foods can really come into their own, being easier to swallow and digest.
Don't forget that vegetarian cooking can easily be cheaper. Indeed, soya mince and pulses tend to cost much less than even the cheapest cuts of meat.
So taking the time and care to provide a plant-based diet for vegetarians and vegans could prove to have wide appeal, with other residents benefiting too.
Vegetarian for Life
Vegetarian for Life is a charity dedicated to improve the quality of life of the UK's older vegetarians and vegans. Offering a range of training and support, we have also produced a free catering guide and a Code of Good Practice to help your catering efforts.
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The worst people are the one's who never served in the military but they'll use their spouse's service or a relative's service to push their agenda. I've seen women who will stand up during a public forum and tell how their father served in the military and he would be ashamed of what others are advocating. First off, the woman never served so don't bring in your father's service because it has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Second, her father's service is his service and what he did isn't something that is inherited or transferred to his offspring. Third, don't use your father's service to wrap yourself up in the flag and implying anyone who opposed you is unpatriotic. Fourth, just shut up about your father's service and tell us what your opinion is because no one is interested in what your father did or didn't do.
I've never understood why a person's veteran status has to do with a news story. For example, "Navy veteran mugged in the downtown area." Instead, it should be "Man mugged in downtown area."2) When the person's coincidental status as a veteran is used to stir outrage....i.e. Headline: Veteran denied a room at Super 8. or other such nonsense. Okay, so a guy got denied because he's 42 and doesn't have a credit card to put down...he was a veteran for a 3 year tour in 82-85...he wasn't denied because he was a veteran, and just cuz he was doesn't mean he gets to bypass all other policies...gimme a break.
Whether a person is homeless has less to do with their veteran status than with the cause(s) of why they are homeless. If a person really cares about why someone is homeless then identify and deal with the causes.3) When people say 'No veteran should ever be homeless.' Really? So, everyone that's every done a single enlistment should be given a place to live for life? Sorry. Now, if the guy is disabled from military service and is entitled to benefits, that's great. But, not every veteran who ever served is entitled to not be homeless if that's what their life has come to...not any moreso than any other person. Would be great if we didn't have any homeless, sure.


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A menacing Noah who enjoys experiments and cold-blooded sacrifices, rules over the ark's passengers, animals, people, and Lucifer in disguise
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In 2008-09 Jennifer Hines returns to Seattle Opera for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as Flosshilde and Schwertleite, and makes her debut with Atlanta Opera as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. She also debuts with Palm Beach Opera as Maddalena in Rigoletto, and sings as soloist in Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky with the San Antonio Symphony. Recent highlights include her debut with Portland Opera as Bertarido in Rodelinda; performances of Suzuki with Opera Grand Rapids and Nashville Opera; the title role of Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires and Suzuki, both at Aspen Music Festival; excerpts of Maria de Buenos Aires in concert with Third Angle New Music Ensemble; Page in Salome with the National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin conducting; her debut with Washington National Opera as Flosshilde in Das Rheingold; and performances in the title role of Carmen with East Texas Opera. She has performed the role of Suzuki with New York City Opera, Opera Tampa, Dicapo Opera, Opera Longview, the Eastern Music Festival, and with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Hines may be heard on the Koch label recording of Maria de Buenos Aires, conducted by Murry Sidlin.


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Sept. 30, 2008 -- New discoveries about the genetic roots of gout may lead to new gout treatments and new tests to gauge a person's risk of developing gout.
Researchers including Abbas Dehghan, MD, of Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands report that news in tomorrow's online edition of The Lancet.
Dehghan's team studied gene data from three long-term health studies that together included more than 26,700 participants in the U.S. and the Netherlands.
The key findings:
- Two new gout genes. Gout and high uric acid concentration were linked to certain variations in the ABCG2 or SL17A3 genes.
- Another gout gene confirmed. The researchers confirmed that a variation in the SLC2A9 gene is linked to uric acid concentration and gout risk.
- Gout gene risk score. The researchers calculated participants' odds of having gout, based on how many of the gout gene variants they had.
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In their report, Dehghan and colleagues suggest that their genetic risk score might help predict who will develop gout. The researchers also write that the genes they identified "could be useful" in developing new drugs to improve gout treatment.
It's not clear if the genetic risk score will catch on, and scientists don't yet know exactly what the two new gout genes do, but the discoveries may lead to better understanding of gout, according to an editorial published with the study. The editorialists included Martin Aringer, MD, of Germany's Technical University of Dresden.
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June 10, 2013
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- ARL unveils new facility that houses supercomputing systems that military engineers use to create future systems
- New home of ARL Supercomputing Research Center
- Two of the world's fastest supercomputers are housed within Army Research Laboratory at APG
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 10, 2013) -- Supercomputers Army Research Laboratory engineers rely on to influence the direction of future armor solutions and other unprecedented capabilities for the Soldier moved into a space large enough to house five supercomputers each with 4,000 to 20,000 processors each. In the next four years, the center will quadruple its computing capacity.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) vowed continued congressional support during his remarks at the ARL Supercomputing Research Center ribbon cutting and open house here today. His visit comes on the heels of a national cyber security dialogue with China during a recent congressional visit there.
"Cyber security work done here is critically important to our national security," Cardin said.
Army researchers use the center's supercomputing systems, also known as high performance computers, to design and develop military technologies, such as future armor systems and other unprecedented capabilities for the Soldier.
The center will provide key enabling computational technologies in support of ARL's cyber security collaboration research alliance with academia, industry and other government research organizations to develop a fundamental understanding of cyber phenomena, including aspects of human attackers, cyber defenders and end users, so that fundamental laws, theories, and theoretically grounded and empirically validated models can be applied to a broad range of Army domains, applications and environments.
ARL Director Dr. Thomas Russell's said the role laboratory researchers played in the modern computer age is part of the basic research laboratory's historical contributions in hardware, software, advanced networking and computational science research.
"If we look back to 1992 and the state of computing then compared to today, we can only imagine what computational capability the future will bring that will take discovery and innovation to heights yet unseen," Russell said.
The new facility has over 20,000 square foot of supercomputing room space, which will house up to six large supercomputing systems by fiscal 2016.
Until recently, older buildings that housed these supercomputers, including a former horse stable, were "ill-equipped to hold computational resources" for the kinds of "transformational technology" discovered and created at APG, said Col. Gregory R. McClinton, APG garrison commander.
The center holds two machines in the top 100 fastest computers in the world. The IBM iDataPlex 'Pershing' and 'Hercules' systems are the 62nd and 81st fastest computers in the world, respectively. In total, the center will have a cumulative computational capability of more than 1.2 petaflops of processing power. That's 1,200,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. By 2016, the center's capacity will grow to 4.8 petaflops.
That kind of processing power enables the kinds of simulations and calculations that were difficult -- and sometimes impossible -- to realize before HPC, said David Kleponis, who leads the Passive Hybrid Armor Team within ARL's Multi-Threat Armor Branch.
"Armor design is a product of the knowledge we gain from a scientific and engineering process," which includes high performance computing," Kleponis said. "This knowledge is greatly enhanced by HPC and is gained by observing processes that occur in microseconds, namely how armor actively disrupts and disperses a penetrator, like an improvised explosive device, for example. The insight we gain through computation is a multi-dimensional view inside very complex and violent physical events so we can learn from those observations and design very efficient armor solutions which ultimately save lives."
With HPCs, research engineers can "see inside a target, and inside threats" in unconventional, often brand new ways, he said.
"It's kind of like seeing inside a locked room without windows; it's like standing outside the door trying to see what's occurring inside that space," Kleponis said. "HPC unlocks our ability to see inside that space, inside the physics."
Such was the case with the Interim Frag Kit 6 and the MRAP expedient and spiral armor programs, each designed to defeat IEDs.
Had they used desktop computers, it would have taken research engineers 17 centuries to compute what HPCs did in about a month.
"In that time, ARL scientists and engineers used HPC to generate knowledge which led to the design of the armor system that was subsequently validated in a significantly reduced experimental effort because of the physics based simulations," Kleponis said.
Spinoffs from that project resulted in armors for route clearance vehicles including Husky, Buffalo and RG31 and also launched the MRAP Expedient Armor Program (IED armor) and the MRAP Spiral Armor Program (IED armor) for the RG-33, IMG MaxxPro Plus and Caiman; and the quick reaction armor support (including development and analysis) to theater. He said all of these were supported by an equally intense computational effort.
"For all of the platforms ARL supports, we currently rely on modeling and simulation to provide this type of insight into the mechanisms that become armor on U.S. platforms. Each HPC simulation may easily be worth tens of costly traditional experiments which didn't have to be conducted because we had high performance computing capabilities," Kleponis said. "This invaluable tool results in highly efficient protection technologies, protecting and enabling the warfighter."
ARL is the largest user of the Supercomputing Research Center resources. Other APG-based organizations use the center. All RDECOM organizations, including those based at APG, have access to the center.--
ARL is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, which has the mission to develop technology and engineering solutions for America's Soldiers.
RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. AMC is the Army's premier provider of materiel readiness -- technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment -- to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, eats it or communicates with it, AMC provides it.


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Two brothers have grown together through playing basketball on the same team.
They�ve played basketball together for as long as they could remember.
In fact, the sport was part of their family before they were even born � their dad played, uncle played, aunt played, grandparents played.
It�s no mistake that brothers Darnell and Darius Dunn found their way to Kinston basketball.
�It�s important,� said the 15-year-old Darius. �Almost everybody in our family played, so we want to try to keep it going.�
They are the sons of former North Lenoir basketball standout and coach Paul Dunn III, who was inducted in the North Lenoir Sports Hall of Fame in September.
Darnell, 16, moved up to varsity in the middle of his freshman year at Kinston. The junior forward earned a starting job this season, and it�s his younger brother�s first year playing on the varsity squad.
�We�ve played together a long time, so it�s pretty cool to see him playing up here,� Darnell said of his younger brother, who�s advanced with him through elementary and middle school basketball.
Darnell hopes to teach Darius, �how to do good on and off the court. (I�m) just trying to lead him in the right direction.�
Going from recreation league to championship-caliber basketball, the Dunn brothers have grown together through the sport, and their bond brings a special aura to the court.
�It�s neat to have two from the same family,� Kinston coach Perry Tyndall said. �They come from a good family; they�re good boys, very respectful, and we�re glad to have them with us.�
Perry said Darnell has been a staple and �an integral part of our success,� as his role expanded at the beginning of this season.
�He plays bigger than he is, and he�s been good for us most recently,� Tyndall said of the 6-foot-4 Darnell. �At times, he�s carried us. He�s kind of quiet. Both their demeanors are kind of the same: quiet.�
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Quiet doesn�t keep Darnell from averaging nearly 10 rebounds per game, grabbing a game-high 12 in Kinston�s last non-conference contest Tuesday against Wilson Hunt.
Quiet didn�t keep Darius from filling in as a starter while some two-sport athletes finished the football season. In the West Craven game in early December, he dished out a game-high four assists, adding four rebounds to his effort.
The 6-foot-1 sophomore guard is still adjusting to the pace of varsity ball with a distinguished Kinston basketball team.
�It�s an eye-opener,� Darius said. �It meant a lot (to move up to varsity) because this is one of my first experiences playing with the talent I�ve been playing with.�
Kinston (8-4) will host North Lenoir (5-9) today in its first Eastern Carolina 2A conference battle. The Vikings will try to bounce back from their first home loss since the 2011-12 season.
Darnell is accustomed to the intensity of playing the intra-county rival Hawks and Tyndall recognizes North Lenoir coach Anthony Loftin will ensure his team brings the heat.
�We�ve got to be prepared,� Tyndall said. �I know (Loftin) is going to have those guys fired up. They�re going to play hard, they�re going to be trapping, they�re going to hit us with stuff they think is going to give us problems.
�Everybody in our conference is playing good basketball in different ways.�
Whatever Kinston throws toward North Lenoir, Loftin hopes his guys are also ready.
�(The Vikings) just lost their first home game, so I expect it to be a challenge,� the Hawks coach said about today�s matchup. �We�ve got to be good because they�re the defending state champions. We want to try and make them do some stuff they�re uncomfortable doing.�
Tyndall said the Vikings are capable of becoming more elite if they can be consistent. Darnell, he said, has Grade A post footwork, while Darius is a tremendous defender.
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Through Tyndall�s career at Kinston, he�s also seen brothers Angelo and Denzel Keyes play for the Vikings at the same time. Brothers challenging each other can bring a competitive edge to the team�s hardwood because of their basketball battles at home, Tyndall said.
The Dunns, who also have a younger brother Damian, 12, said they don�t discuss much at home outside of hoops. Even though they root for different college and professional teams, basketball keeps them close.
�It�s different because when we were younger, we just played together,� Darius said. �Now I feel like we�re growing with each other by playing. We�re getting closer than we were before.�
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Notify users of events received by an event or IoT hub
For more information about this sample, see the Notify users of data received from sensors or other systems topic in this repository.
If you are using Azure Stream Analytics or Azure Machine Learning to generate alerts based upon data coming from your devices, you have various options on how to display those alerts. For example, as in the Connect The Dots project, you could display them on a website, so users could see them in real-time if they are looking at a web page. By contrast, the code here, in the AppToNotifyUsers solution, provides a very basic and stand-alone application for selected users to be notified of alerts. It does so by creating an Azure Cloud Service (worker role) that monitors the assigned event hub and pushes that data to a notification service specified by the administrator. Notification options in the solution include:
- Phone
The user can easily add alternative notification options (such as Twitter), following the work flow in the current solution. Note that each of these solutions require a subscription to an external service (e.g. an email service if notifying users over email). A different architecture, using Twitter for Notifications is shown in Olivier Bloch's posting Tweet vibration anomalies detected by Azure IoT services on data from an Intel Edison running Node.js.
Note that this solution is a DIY, developer-focused example only. It does not address enterprise requirements such as redundancy, fail-over, restart upon failure, etc. For more comprehensive and production solutions, check out the following:
- Using connectors or push notifications from an Azure Notification Hub available in Logic Apps
- See this Notification Hubs Overview for background on Notification Hubs
- Broadcast push notifications to millions of mobile devices using Windows Azure Notification Hubs by Scott Guthrie
This application runs in the cloud, and will push ALL the data your event hub of choice receives to the users you list. The anticipated scenario is that you monitor an event hub that is dedicated to receiving alerts on a sporadic basis (maybe once a day or once a week), in which case your targeted users will get an alert pushed to them once a day or once a week. If, however, you monitor an event hub that is getting data every second then your users will get an alert once a second. Realize that it may take a few minutes to stop a cloud service once it is running, so that your user(s) may get 60 emails a minute until the service is fully shut down if you make the wrong choice - assuming you are at a computer and able to connect to the Azure management portal to stop the service! We strongly suggest you do not set this up and then go away for a two week vacation without testing anticipated scenarios...
In order to configure and deploy the AppToNotifyUsers application you will need to have set up an Event Hub and know the Connection String. The easiest way to do this is to use AzurePrep in the Connect The Dots repo, but that is not a prerequisite - set up the Event Hub manually if you like.
You will also need an account or subscription to the user service of your choice - for example an email service such as your ISP, or a computer-to-SMS or Voice service.
Setup Tasks
Setting up the application once you have an Event Hub and its Connection String involves the following tasks, which will be described in greater detail below.
- Get and set up a subscription for the notification service of your choice
- Clone or copy the project to your machine
- Open AppToNotifyUsers.sln solution in Visual Studio
- Edit App.config in the Worker Host folder to provide the following
- The connection string to your Event Hub
- The URL for the web service which you will use to push the data
- The credentials you will use for accessing that web service
- The information about the sender
- The information about the users to be notified
- Build the project from the BUILD menu (Select Release, not Debug)
- Publish the application to your Azure subscription
- Generate an alert by doing something to one of your devices, and verify that the alert is making it to your event hub (ehalerts)
- Verify that the alert is making it to the targeted user (email, SMS, or phone call received by the listed users).
Editing app.config
There are three sections of App.config you will need to change - to specify the Event Hub to monitor, to specify the method by which the messages will be sent, and to specify the sender and recipients of the messages.
Step 1: Specifying the Event Hub to Monitor
The code in AppToNotifyUsers creates an Azure Cloud Service (worker role) that monitors an event hub identified by a URL you list a config file, App.config, together with the Shared Key that grants you access. The strings in App.config that needs to be modified are the following:
<add key="Microsoft.ServiceBus.EventHubToMonitor" value="[Event Hub name]" />
<add key="Microsoft.ServiceBus.ServiceBusConnectionString" value="[Service Bus connection string]" />
If you deploy the example in the Connect The Dots, that event hub is called ehalerts, and you would replace [Event Hub name] with 'ehalerts', and the ServiceBusConnectionString string with the connection string for it, that you can find in the Azure management portal. It should look something like this:
<add key="Microsoft.ServiceBus.EventHubToMonitor" value="ehalerts" />
<add key="Microsoft.ServiceBus.ServiceBusConnectionString" value="Endpoint=sb://mynamespace-ns.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=StreamingAnalytics;SharedAccessKey=X4a22abcXiRnA3dhBbzu0oHml3a6aLbTNuffrHJ0vHY=" />
The EventHubReader module in the code uses this information to get messages from ehalerts, and put it in a queue to be sent by whatever method you specify.
Step 2: Select the outbound messaging service
Notification options in the solution are encoded as separate subroutines that are called depending upon entries in the App.Config file. Currently there are three options included in the sample code:
- Phone
As with the Event Hub, you need to specify in App.Config the service you will be using to push the alerts and the credentials for that service. The keys are as follows:
<add key="NotificationService" value="[Service option]" />
<add key="SmtpHost" value="[host name]" />
<add key="SenderUserName" value="[user name]" />
<add key="SenderPassword" value="[user password]" />
<add key="SmtpEnableSSL" value="true" />
If you want to use email to send your alerts, replace [Service option] with 'SMTP', the SMTPHost with your email server name, and enter the credentials that are allowed to use that service. If you want to use SMS, and have a subscription to a service such as Twilio, replace [Service option] with 'SMS', and so forth. You can add additional or alternative notification options easily, such as using Twitter, following the work flow in the current solution. Note: Each of these solutions require a subscription to an external service (e.g. an email service if notifying users over email).
To repeat what was said earlier, this solution is strictly a DIY, developer-focused example only. For more comprehensive production-level solutions, please check out the other solutions listed at the beginning of this file.
Step 3: Identify the Sender and Recipients of the Messages
Once you have specified how messages will be sent, you need to identify from whom, and to whom, they will be sent. If the Notification Service is SMTP, either using an SMTP host to which you have access, or using SendGrid, you would specify an email address in the sendFrom address in App.Config:
<sendFrom address="firstname.lastname@example.com" displayName="Sender Name" subject="CTD Alerts" />
If you are using an SMTP (email) sender, this would be the display name and email alias shown on the From and Subject lines of the email. Note that the sender address you enter will be that shown on the email as received by the recipient. If they are expected to reply, that should be a real email recipient. Furthermore, if you are sending a lot of email to various recipients, make sure that they are ok with getting those emails, so your sender does not get labeled as a spammer!
If you are using a service like Twilio to send SMS messages, this would be the phone number Twilio assigns to you for the sender of the SMS. Similarly for the recipient list:
<add address="firstname.lastname@example.com" />
<add address="firstname.lastname@example.com" />
Publishing the application
You use Visual Studio to publish and start the application. The steps are as follows: * In Visual Studio, right-click on 'WorkerRole' in Solution 'AppToNotifyUsers', and select Publish. * In the Publish Azure Application, answer the following questions. * Name: [pick something unique] * Region: [pick same region as you used for the Event Hub] * Database server: no database * Database password: [leave suggested password] * Click Publish, and wait until the status bar shows "Completed". At that point the application is running in your subscription, polling the event hub you listed, and pushing everything it receives to the users you listed over the service you picked.


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As previous studies have showed in Wales damaging setts 'could worsen bovine TB risk.
The QUB study is the first to examine the effects of illegal persecution of badgers in Northern Ireland, rather than government backed culling programmes
Farmers have been warned that damaging badger setts does not reduce the risk of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle and could make the problem worse.
The warning has come from researchers at Queen's University, Belfast, who carried out the first study into the effects of illegal badger persecution.
About 5% of setts in Northern Ireland had recent signs of illegal damage.
The study found that this practice "contributed significantly to new bovine TB breakdowns in nearby cattle".
Bovine TB affects about 6% of cattle herds in Northern Ireland and there has been a long, controversial debate about the extent to which the disease is linked to badgers, which share a similar strain.
Dr David Wright, who led the study said: "Whilst interference with badger setts was relatively rare, it was clustered in known bovine TB hotspots in cattle and we hypothesised that those taking action against badgers may actually contribute to maintaining the disease.
"So we were interested in investigating the interaction of cattle and badgers in disturbed and undisturbed populations."
The study found the risk of bovine TB was "significantly elevated" in areas with dense badger populations and also in areas where there was high rates of sett interference, which has led to a degree of uncertainty over the findings.
QUB's Dr Neil Reid, who lectures in conservation biology, said: "The relationship between badger persecution and bovine TB in cattle could either be because persecuting badgers perturbs the population stimulating spread of the disease or farmers are more likely to persecute badgers if their livestock have previously had a TB breakdown.
"We can't say which way round the relationship is but we can say that persecuting badgers certainly does not lower TB risk in cattle, it is illegal and may make the situation worse.
"Farmers should be aware of the risks incurred by disturbing badger setts," he added.
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The study found a number of sett entrances blocked with soil, boulders and branches, while some were pumped full of slurry.
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Researchers also found evidence of digging around setts, which they said was "indicative of badger baiting".
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Not a huge deal but that gives at least 3 competant WR's right now. Add Morgan back in and I'm not really worried about the position since I think Randle El could never run a route properly and when Roethlisberger threw INT's that looked horrible it was almost always to Randle El.
Looking at the Steelers, who survived free agency with very few holes to fill, pretty much a punt returner and that's it, they are in good shape right now but you look at Seattle who is getting gutted and have to feel happy.


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I was given 3 Clones as an early "Easter" gift tonight. Gotta love mom and the random gifts.I got a 41st, an E2 Sergeant, and a Combat Engineer. I must say, I know some guys didn't dig the eu repaints but that Combat Engineer is a pretty neat figure when you look at it... SA, removable helmet, plus he's got the pouches on his bicep like he's got extra gear for demolitions and stuff. I love that figure. I gave some of mine some "gear" I have around and they look cool running alongside other Clones to do some damage to obstacles or whatnot. I'm sorta surprised at how slow the Sergeant sold by the way... I can't speak for everyone of course but my area I've seen him rather frequently, and given he's an SA E2 Clone in a color that wasn't terribly common... I figured he'd have sold well. Great figure to have a lot of too since Sergeants of course would, theoretically, be common sights.
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If you're anything like me, you're getting a little bit tired of the constant heated, dry days of summer and are looking forward to some cooler weather to come. That's right – autumn is almost here (don't panic, there's at least a whole month of summer left!) But now is the perfect time to plan that fall vacation; the kids are back in school, the crowds have dissipated in our natural areas, and the cooler temperatures of September and October are moving in. What better place to plan a vacation than Havasupai, an offshoot of the Grand Canyon!
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It was just another Saturday in Rio de Janeiro. Yet for some reason, the traffic was bumper to bumper on the interstate and hordes of people were walking around town decked out in black and white.
It was not until the following day, 5 December 1976, that the uninitiated finally realised what was going on, as around 70,000 Corinthians fans descended on the Maracana for the Brazilian championship play-off semi-final against Fluminense.
Not even petrol rationing or the fact the game was being televised live could dissuade the Timão faithful from making the 400 km journey from Sao Paulo, a mass pilgrimage that would become known as A Invasão Corintiana (The Corinthian Invasion), one of the most remarkable events in the history of Brazilian football.
Some 36 years and six days on from that show of force, the club's followers were on the move in their thousands once again, making light of the even greater distance separating Sao Paulo from the Toyota Stadium to cheer their heroes to victory over Al-Ahly on Wednesday, in the first semi-final of the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2012.
"It's the biggest support in the world," Corinthians fan Alex de Andrade told FIFA.com. "There's nothing like it. Let me put it this way: every team has their fans but our fans are a team."
The 33-year-old from Sao Paulo had planned to go on holiday with friends to Cancun and Canada in July. As he explained though, the night his beloved team won the Libertadores those plans went out of the window: "I cancelled the lot. It's Corinthians for me."
The devotion and dedication of the fans did not go unnoticed by the players, among them centre-half Paulo Andre: "It's fantastic. We guessed it might be like this, but you just can't explain what it means to feel this and see it with your own eyes. It's amazing what these fanatics do for the team, and I'm sure even more of them will come for the final."
The tradition goes on
As the defender went on to say, impressive as their display was, it was no real surprise to see so many Corinthians fans partying in the stands at the Toyota. All the indications were that they would be turning up in numbers, with many of them on hand to greet the team on their arrival in Japan and to cheer them on at their subsequent training sessions.
After all, as they showed back in 1976, the Alvinegra diehards think nothing of travelling long distances to support their team. On that legendary, rainswept day at the Maracana their side forced a 1-1 draw with Flu before getting through to the final on penalties.
It's the biggest support in the world.
Waiting for them there were Internacional, who denied them their first title in 22 years, a trophy drought that would nevertheless be broken the following year when the Sao Paulo state championship was secured.
Writing in O Globo, the celebrated journalist Nelson Rodrigues described what Rio de Janeiro witnessed on that December weekend: "The match kicked off the day before, when the faithful took the city by storm. The Timão fans partied the whole night long on the Leme, Copacabana, Leblon and Ipanema. They came in droves. A tourist with a notebook would have been tempted to write: 'Rio is an occupied city'."
Over three and a half decades on, it is the turn of Toyota City to feel the black and white force. "There are more people than I thought there would be, a lot more," commented Alex. "Everywhere you go you see Corinthians supporters."
A sacrifice worth making
For some fans, the journey to see the team has been a short one. Situated a mere 15 minutes from the Toyota Stadium, the Homi Danchi residential development is home to a large Brazilian community, the Timão-supporting members of which have been excitedly planning to welcome their compatriots for many months.
The majority have travelled many miles to be here, though, among them the 21-year-old Mateus Fernandes from Sao Paulo and his brother Murilo, two years his junior. The two siblings study in Santa Catarina and have made the long trip at the most important time of the academic year.
"It's exam week at university and we've decided to miss them and do the lot in the second sitting in February," said Mateus. The two students have parental approval too, with their father Francisco making a late decision to join them.
"We're going to be the champions," he said. "We decided to come about two or three weeks ago. I'd been thinking about it since the Libertadores final. I wasn't sure about it at all and it seemed very expensive, but one morning I just came out and said: 'You want to know something? We're going (laughs). We'd been planning to go to Las Vegas, but we decided to come here instead."
The next stop for this "gang of fanatics", as they like to call themselves, is Yokohama, the venue for Sunday's FIFA Club World Cup final. The match comes 12 years after the team's appearance in the final of the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup, against Vasco da Gama in Rio.
The 73,000 crowd that day contained 30,000 Corinthians fans, some way down on the 1976 show of strength but a sizeable number all the same. They saw their team win the trophy too, on penalties, after the game ended goalless in normal time.
The worshippers on the latest Timão pilgrimage will be hoping Corinthians can get the job done in 90 minutes. Yet, having come so far, they will not mind one bit if it takes a little longer.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today the issuance of an order settling an administrative proceeding against Stephen Pierce of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The CFTC order, entered on January 21, 2003, finds that, from approximately March 2000 through July 2002, Pierce, a registered commodity trading advisor (CTA), sold subscriptions to his futures trading recommendation services through various internet websites.
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Rolling down the Neches ... After a whirlwind of activities over two weeks, the 63rd annual Neches River Festival came to a wonderful close Sunday at the farewell brunch held in the lovely home of Crissy and Todd Clarke. Our future Beaumont leaders started the second weekend of the NRF with a get acquainted party co-chaired by Nicole Saba and Dynasy Phelan at the Jefferson Theater. Dressing '80s style, many of the creative seniors brought their own flair to the retro fashion.
A royal good time … Once again, our fair city kicks off spring with magnificent Neches River Festival events. Beginning with the unmasking of King Neches LXIII at the Collier Ferry Dock on April 5, guests were thrilled when social chairs Melanie Heartfield and Tracy Bean revealed NRF King Thad Heartfield. Observing the presentation were Cornie Heartfield, Knights of the Neches and princes and princesses of the royal court.
"There's no place like home" … A fundraiser for the Anayat House proved to be a sensational success under the reins of Robin Gerhardt and her tireless committee, who donned ruby slippers to greet guests arriving in costumes from the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz." The Phelan Mansion made for a perfect venue for this fantastic event. Mid-Life Crisis with the vocals of Jennifer Parker (fab when she sang Barbara Lynn's song "You Lose A Good Thing") was followed by the terrific sounds of Three Car Garage.
So grand … If you're holding a fundraiser in the future, the surefire recipe for success would be to honor Judy and James Black and have Michele and Mitch Smith serve as the co-chairs of the event. This past Saturday evening, Lamar University's College of Fine Arts and Communication hosted the 2011 Le Grand Bal: "Rhapsody in LU" at the Montagne Center. The evening began with cocktails, conversation and perusing of LU student/faculty art available for purchase.
Swing into spring … The Arc of Beaumont will sponsor an "Arc Family Spring Fling" for the entire family. Families are invited for an afternoon full of fun activities including an Easter egg hunt, pictures with the Easter bunny, painting flower pots, volleyball and other family games. These springtime events take place on Saturday, March 26, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Spindletop Center North Campus in Beaumont. There will be a $3 fee for Arc individual participants, $10 fee for Arc families of four or more and a $6 fee for non-members.
Gold strike … The Art Museum of Southeast Texas held the annual "Go for the Gold" fundraiser last week, and it was a golden success. More museum supporters attended the reverse drawing than ever before. Dynamic duo and GFTG chairs Carla Allen and Linda Foutz did a fantastic job rounding up so many folks to attend this terrific event.
His royal highness … Everyone's friend Brad Klein, by channeling Elvis at the Mr. Habitat 2011 competition, won the crown. His first costume was as Elvis in white, and the second Elvis costume was in black and silver — with blue suede shoes! First runner up with his beer-can tool belt was Clark Winslow, and coming in second and third were Ronnie Ramirez and Mike Blueitt. People's Choice award went to Kevin Steele. Also working their stuff on stage were Gordon Williams, Chuck King, James Johnson and Shane Howard.
I'm too sexy for my clothes … In the name of fundraising (or is that fun-raising?) nine generous gentleman will vie for the title of Mr. Habitat 2011. Our divine diva Barbara Quinn will emcee, making sure the audience is aware of all of the contestants' attributes as she keeps the show moving along. It all happens Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Rockin' A Café. Plan to attend as you support your favorite Habitat guy — Clark Winslow, Mike Blueitt, Gordon Williams, Shane Howard, Kevin Steele, James Johnson, Ronnie Ramirez, Chuck King and Brad Klein.
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LONDON — An interesting passage from Pope Benedict's speech to cultural and political leaders this evening at Westminster Hall in London touched on economic development as an area where moral and ethical values are sorely needed.
After saying the global economic crisis was partly caused by a lack of moral input in the world of finance, the pope turned to the fate of poorer countries:
I also note that the present Government has committed the United Kingdom to devoting 0.7% of national income to development aid by 2013. In recent years it has been encouraging to witness the positive signs of a worldwide growth in solidarity towards the poor. But to turn this solidarity into effective action calls for fresh thinking that will improve life conditions in many important areas, such as food production, clean water, job creation, education, support to families, especially migrants, and basic healthcare. Where human lives are concerned, time is always short: yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed "too big to fail". Surely the integral human development of the world's peoples is no less important: here is an enterprise, worthy of the world's attention, that is truly "too big to fail".


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I must have been about 4 or 5 years old, when I sat with my father in a darkened movie hall watching a grainy-white documentary that showed strange men using sticks to pull up strings off the table to stuff it in their mouths. And I loved it right away. By the time I got to my teens, I could not think of anything more sophisticated than insouciantly picking up my roast pork with chop sticks while holding a conversation with an extraordinarily gorgeous Japanese lady. Of course, it hasn't happened quite that way (the Japanese lady part that is) – but I still think it is way cool to eat with chop sticks. So, a few years ago, I decided to learn how to do it.
It is pretty simple really. Here is how you do it.
You grasp the chopsticks within the fingers of your right hand (ie. if you are genetically left-handed; otherwise, hold it in your left hand). Then push them into a bowl of noodles (always a bowl, never a plate). The chopsticks will immediately come off your fingers. Next, you hold them a bit more steady and try to dig out the noodles harder. The whole caboodle will come out of the bowl and fall on the table. Keep repeating this till your companions at the table (in my case, a wife and two incredulous little boys who could'nt understand why they were not allowed this kind of fun) ask you to go away. Do this for about a month. You will crack it. I did – so I know you can too.
Yup, now I can hear the question. Is there a simpler way of learning to use chopsticks? Unfortunately, No. But, the good part is, this will seem really simple when you realise you need to use chopsticks and the chinese soup spoon simultaneously to get the sang-froid look. That, my friend, is another story.
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