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Goals from marks, numbering of players and Sunday internationals
John Griffiths
February 17, 2009
Australia's Julian Gardner and England's Gary Rees vie for a loose ball during England's first Sunday international in Brisbane in 1988 © Getty Images
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In his latest lesson for us all, John explains goals from marks, the numbering of players and the origins of Sunday internationals.
Q. On the subject of the drop goal from the mark, I concur that the rule preventing a drop goal from a free kick was made in 1977; however, regarding the fair catch from a mark being restricted to the defenders' 22 (or 25 to me!) was this not made Law as a result of the Australian dispensation in 1969? Paul Grey, Wales
A. The Australian Dispensation Law (introduced September 1968) only restricted direct kicking to touch from inside a defender's 25. Marks claimed for a fair catch were not affected until the free-kick clause entered the Laws in 1977. Indeed, there were a few goals from marks kicked in first-class matches even in the 1970s.
For example, in the France v Romania international at Béziers in December 1971 the visiting centre, Valeriu Irimescu, scored one in his side's 31-12 defeat. The following year Trevor Morris kicked one in the final New Zealand Trial before the All Blacks toured Britain, Ireland and France. The last goal from a mark in a first-class match was kicked by All Black Kit Fawcett for Waikato against Wairarapa on 10th September 1977, a couple of weeks before the end of the Southern Hemisphere season. The goals were scored from marks outside the kicker's 25.
The free-kick Law arose from a long and vigorous press campaign to introduce a differential penalty for minor offences. The media argued that too many important matches in the 1950s and 1960s were decided by penalty goals kicked for minor technical offences. Under the free-kick clause, which entered the Laws in September 1977 in the Northern Hemisphere, a direct attempt to kick a goal was not allowed. That's when the mark was downgraded to a non-scoring free-kick and only permitted from inside a defender's 25.
Q. Which of the early internationals, televised or otherwise, are available for viewing? George Tuck, Canada
A. An excellent source for highlights old international rugby matches is the Pathe News archive available at www.britishpathe.com.
The archive, which is easy to navigate, is a treasure-trove for anyone interested in the history of rugby. There are in the region of 700 rugby films covering the game from club level to Five Nations and tour Tests. All the famous matches and tries are there - Alex Obolensky's for England against New Zealand in 1936; Peter Jackson's last-minute winner for England against Australia in 1958, and Richard Sharp and Andy Hancock's efforts for England in the Calcutta Cup matches of 1963 and 1965 respectively.
Nor is the coverage restricted to Twickenham. There are films from most of the Five Nations games played in Paris, Murrayfield, Cardiff, Swansea, Dublin and Belfast between 1920 and 1970. One match, labelled "rugby 1920-29", clearly shows the French and Welsh teams lining up prior to their 1920 game in Paris. There are also snippets from the France-Germany matches of the 1930s, when France were barred from the Five Nations, as well as coverage of their surprise 15-14 defeat against Romania in Bucharest in 1968 when the French were the reigning Five Nations Grand Slam champions.
For Southern Hemisphere enthusiasts, all the major tours to Britain and France since the 1920s are included and of special interest to New Zealanders will be film of their win against the "Mother Country" in the final of the 1919 King's Cup tournament - the peacetime international competition featuring British and Dominion Forces sides that helped rugby get going again after the Great War.
The cinema had given way to television as the prime source of news by the 1970s and for subsequent rugby coverage the BBC and, more recently ITV (for the last five World Cups) and Sky, have provided excellent broadcasts. Many of the outstanding matches have been reproduced on video and DVD.
Films of matches dating back to the beginning of the 20th century are in existence. The Museum of Rugby at Twickenham has an interesting short from Leicester's match against Plymouth at Welford Road in 1901, and the earliest international coverage shows the French and English players taking the field for their 1911 match at Twickenham. Douglas Lambert, a giant of a man, scored 22 points for England that day. He can be seen third from the end as the teams file on to the field, while the last man out for England in that film is Len Haigh, the Manchester forward. Haigh is happily chatting away with the over-coated Welsh referee, Mr Johns.
Many years ago there was a programme shown on Welsh television featuring the pioneering British film-maker, William Haggar. His fairground bioscope shows were a popular attraction in South Wales during Edwardian times and his film of Wales's Grand Slam win against Ireland at St Helen's, Swansea, in 1909 is possibly the earliest of a Test staged in Wales.
Film of the 1905 All Blacks' tour of Britain also exists and has been edited for use in histories of New Zealand rugby. Footage includes the All Blacks' match against Glamorgan in December of 1905 and clearly shows Dave Gallaher, their captain, playing at St Helen's with its unmistakable backdrop of the old cricket pavilion.
Q. When was the numbering of players altered from 1 for full-back to 15 for full-back adopted internationally? Zaal Gui-gui-nei-shvili from Georgia living in Australia.
A. The New Zealand side that toured Australia in 1897 introduced the idea of enabling spectators to identify players by placing numbers on their backs. Match cards (programmes) were sold listing the players' names and their corresponding numbers, and these proved popular with the public.
The numbers used on that tour were 1 to 15 (from full-back to the forwards) for New Zealand and 16 to 30 for the host teams. The Australians quickly adopted the practice. For their Tests against New Zealand (1903) and the British/Irish (1904) they numbered teams in reverse with the full-back wearing 15, as today. The All Blacks wore numbers when they made their first official tour to Britain, and for the famous Wales Test at Cardiff on December 16, 1905 both teams were numbered: 1 for full-back (Wales), but 15 for full-back (New Zealand).
Even so, the practice was not particularly popular in Britain and Ireland and it was not until the 1922 Wales-England game at Cardiff that each side was numbered in a Five Nations match. It gradually caught on in the Home Unions, though many eccentric systems were adopted until the 1950s.
Official programmes were usually very flimsy productions produced by the Union staging a Test, but there were often "pirate" versions issued by opportunists out to make a fast buck. The Unions deliberately chopped and changed numbering methods to outwit the pirates, and the public were warned, in the press and at grounds, that only the official programmes had the "correct numbers for players."
England, Scotland and Wales finally followed the French and Irish practice of consistently numbering the full-back 15 in 1961, but it wasn't until 1967 that the International Board finally laid down that for all international matches the numbering of players should follow the left-to-right system used in the Home Unions:
Fullback: 15
Q. And why do the British media list teams from 15 to 9 and then 1 to 8? Zaal Gui-gui-nei-shvili from Georgia living in Australia.
A. The British/Irish convention of listing teams from back to front - in soccer and hockey as well as rugby - goes back to the very beginning of international matches.
The first Test played under rugby union rules was Scotland v England at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, on March 27, 1871. The most detailed coverage of that match appeared in the next day's edition of The Scotsman. Nearly 24 inches (60 cm) of column space was given to the game and the teams were prominently displayed to show clearly the players' positions on the field. The English Twenty was listed first, with the backs preceding the forwards. The so-called "Scotch" Twenty was listed underneath in the same way.
Formations varied many times in the late 1800s. Teams were reduced to fifteen-a-side for the 1877 international matches, but it was not until 1894, when all four of the Home Unions adopted the four three-quarter system, that team line-ups began to resemble today's formations.
For many years teams were listed with the words full-back, three-quarters, half-backs and forwards added for clarification. Nowadays the British/Irish press assume their readers are familiar with team formations.
The earliest Test cards (programmes) that are still in existence date from the Scotland v England match of 1873 at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow. The teams were listed from back to front on that card, as indeed they were on the England v Scotland 1876 card for the match at The Oval and the Ireland v England 1875 card for the game at the Rathmines Cricket Ground in Dublin - the earliest-known programmes still in existence for English and Irish home Tests.
It is probable that the media took the team lists from the match programmes.
Q. Scotland and Wales played their recent Six Nations match on a Sunday, but when was the first Sunday Test played? Anon
A. Sunday sport has been an institution on the Continent since the early days of the 20th century. France was the first national side to stage a full Test on a Sunday when they played the United States at Stade Colombes, Paris, on October 10, 1920. The Americans had beaten a French side - not the fully representative international team - in the 1920 Olympic Games at Antwerp a month earlier and stopped off in Paris on their way home to play a full international. France won 14-5.
France's next major Sunday Test was against Cliff Porter's 1924-25 All Blacks, the Invincibles, in Toulouse on January 18, 1925. New Zealand won 30-6. Most of France's Tests with Germany, Romania and Italy from the late 1920s to the 1980s were staged on Sundays. On May 19, 1957, when France won 18-15 against Romania in Bucharest, their Sunday match was watched by 95,000 spectators - still the record attendance for any international involving France. The French were also involved in the first Sunday Test televised in Britain. Eurovision showed the second half of their 19-0 win against Australia in Paris on March 9, 1958.
England's first Sunday Test was against Australia at Ballymore in Brisbane on May 29, 1988. After leading 13-3, England were beaten 22-16 with Michael Lynagh landing six penalty goals for the winners. Regular Sunday Test rugby in Britain began with the 1991 World Cup. Wales's Black Sabbath came on October 6, 1991 when, at Cardiff, they were beaten 16-13 by Western Samoa, who went on to reach the quarter-finals in their first appearance in the tournament. It wasn't until March 22, 1998 that the Five Nations first staged a Sunday match, England beating Scotland 34-20 at Murrayfield.
Q. Who scored the last four-point try in international rugby? David Thorburn, Scotland
A. The last Test played under the four-point try Laws was Australia v Scotland in a Sunday match on June 21 1992 at Brisbane's Ballymore Ground.
Scotland were beaten 37-13 but their captain, David Sole, had the honour of scoring the last four-point try in international rugby when he crossed near the end of the game. It was his 44th and final Test for his country.
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I thought I would repost my reasons for switching from being a lifetime Labour voter to the Scottish National party in the 2007 election. This piece appeared as a guest blog on the YouScotland site just before the May 3rd election, on May Day 2007.
Why I am voting SNP May Day 2007
In the Glasgow I grew up in, if you didn't support the Labour Party, you were either well-off or something more complex, aspirational. My widowed mother and I lived in a decaying tenement in Dennistoun; my father had died of tuberculosis, after the humiliation and degradation of unemployment in the 1930s. We typified the kind of people for whom the Labour Party had been brought into existence, and our support for Labour was instinctive and fundamental.
I have always been a Labour voter, but never a Party member. My support has been at the ballot box, with occasional canvassing and leafleting activity, and some modest financial support. Throughout the nightmare years of Thatcher, I railed against the infighting of the Party that kept it from effectively challenging the Tories, and I was ecstatic when Tony Blair strode into Downing Street on a great wave of popular acclaim, carrying with him the hopes of millions like me.
But then the progressive, insidious betrayals began - the gradual erosion of cabinet government, the cynical news management, the toadying to money and celebrity, the marginalisation of dissent, the attack on personal freedom under the law. It seemed only a matter of time until a great defining political issue would reveal the fault line in Blair's government, and it came - Iraq.
As we moved inexorably towards the war, I began to write to the newspapers, especially the Glasgow Herald, and in early March 0f 2003, closed a long letter by saying -
"Iraq has become the defining political issue of our time, and the questions that will be asked of politicians (and all of us) is - where were you when there was still time to stop it?"
In May of 2003, after the resignation of Claire Short, I again wrote to the Herald -
"There are two kinds of dictator - those who seize power by force and those who erode parliamentary and cabinet processes gradually while maintaining the appearance of democracy. To Labour MPs I have this to say - get him (Blair) out before it is too late for the party and the nation. Our own Scottish Parliament is now finely balanced enough to permit a debate and a vote on the threat to our egalitarian traditions posed by this man, who appears committed to the belief that the fundamental organising principle of the State is war."
Labour MPs and MSPs did neither. Gordon Brown, the man who boasts of his moral compass, fully complicit in bankrolling the war, did nothing, either from political cowardice or because he endorsed it.
I have carried in my head over all the decades the rationale for supporting the Labour Party, or indeed any political party, inculcated into me in my early youth in Glasgow.
Be loyal to a political party only to the degree that it shares your ideals. Policies reflect ideals - a party with ideals and no policies is a waking dream, but a party with policies and no ideals is an empty shell.
Scotland made the Labour Party, and Scotland can unmake it if it betrays its ideals.
Both of these maxims have now come to haunt me in the dog days of Blair's government. Blair, Brown, their supporters, and the toom tabard, Jack McConnell, have betrayed my ideals, and, I believe, the ideals of millions of Labour Party supporters and members. The majority of Labour MPs and MSPs are fully complicit in that betrayal. I reject them and all their works. The Labour Party I knew and loved is dead.
Only one politician of stature asks me to lift my head and look at a horizon that reveals a vibrant, nuclear-free Scotland, an equal partner in the European community of nations - only one politician and one party offers to restore my political idealism - Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party.
The SNP will have my vote on May the 3rd 2007. I have never been a nationalist by instinct, but I believe that it now represents our last, best hope.
May the Labour Party rest in peace among its honourable dead, while Blair, Brown and their cohorts contemplate the charnel house they have made of Iraq, and their destruction of a once great political party.
My faith in the Scottish National Party and Alex Salmond has been fully vindicated in the five years since then, and any vestiges of respect and sympathy for the Labour Party have been utterly extinguished by their behaviour in Westminster and in Holyrood. I trust the Scottish National Party to bear in mind my old Glasgow political maxim -
Be loyal to a political party only to the degree that it shares your ideals. Policies reflect ideals - a party with ideals and no policies is a waking dream, but a party with policies and no ideals is an empty shell. (The SNP needs to remember that too ...)


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Clete's career night caps Twins' comeback win
MINNEAPOLIS -- With Aaron Hicks going on the disabled list with a strained hamstring on Monday, it meant Clete Thomas would be taking over as Minnesota's regular center fielder in his absence.
The Twins were simply hoping Thomas, who wasn't even on the 40-man roster to start the season, could hold his own after impressing at Triple-A Rochester.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- With Aaron Hicks going on the disabled list with a strained hamstring on Monday, it meant Clete Thomas would be taking over as Minnesota's regular center fielder in his absence.
The Twins were simply hoping Thomas, who wasn't even on the 40-man roster to start the season, could hold his own after impressing at Triple-A Rochester.View Full Game Coverage
Thomas did that and more on Wednesday night, as he set a career high with four hits, driving in the game-tying run and scoring the winning one in the eighth to help lead the Twins to a 4-3 win over the Phillies at Target Field.
"It was a great game," Thomas said. "All the balls fell. I hit some hard and just found all the holes. I was really lucky. It was great."
The Twins entered the eighth down a run with left-handed reliever Antonio Bastardo on the mound for the Phillies, but Oswaldo Arcia opened the inning with a double to right field for his third hit of the night. Thomas then came through with an RBI double to tie the game with his fourth hit of the game.
Eduardo Escobar dropped a bunt down to reach on an infield single and advance Thomas to third with nobody out. Right-hander Justin De Fratus came in and was able to get Pedro Florimon to line out sharply to second, but then threw a wild pitch with pinch-hitter Chris Parmelee at the plate to allow Thomas to score the go-ahead run from third.
"I pulled a sinker," De Fratus said. "It was supposed to be low and away, and it was down and in. He had no chance to catch it. It was completely on me."
"I was going right away," Thomas said. "I saw it squirt away and I was going and just hoping it didn't kick hard off that wall. It stayed back there."
Mike Pelfrey didn't factor into the decision but was solid for seven innings, allowing three runs on five hits and a walk while tying a season high with seven strikeouts. It was just his fourth quality start of the season.
"Luckily I was able to command both sides of the plate," Pelfrey said. "Obviously it's another step in the right direction, and then we pulled it out in the end, which makes for a good night."
Pelfrey was hurt by a missed call by first-base umpire Bruce Dreckman in the first inning, as Ben Revere was ruled safe while trying to beat out a throw from third baseman Jamey Carroll, but replays showed Justin Morneau tagged Revere out on the play. After Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard walked to load the bases with one out, Domonic Brown brought home a run with a sacrifice fly before Delmon Young singled home Rollins.
But Pelfrey settled down from there, as he went on to retire 12 straight batters before giving up a two-out double to Michael Young in the fifth. Revere then plated Young with a bloop single to left field.
Pelfrey was able to bounce back and throw two more scoreless innings to mark his longest outing of the year. His previous high was 6 1/3 innings in his last outing against the Royals on Thursday.
"Pelfrey did a really nice job out there," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "I thought his last two innings were just as good as his others. The ball was coming out of his hand and his breaking ball was better. So that was fun to watch."
The Twins finally scored in the fourth against Phillies right-hander Tyler Cloyd on an RBI double from Thomas to plate Arcia after he singled to open the inning. But Thomas was held at third on a single from Escobar and was stranded there with Florimon striking out and Carroll grounding into an inning-ending double play.
After Cloyd exited following five innings, the Twins scored in the sixth after Arcia and Thomas led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Escobar bunted over both runners and Arcia scored on an RBI groundout from Florimon, but Carroll grounded out to leave Thomas at third.
But the bottom half of the lineup still did its job on the night, as Arcia, Thomas and Escobar combined to go 9-for-11 with four runs scored and two RBIs.
"We had a lot of hits from the bottom of our order -- some big hits," Gardenhire said. "So it was a fun win. It didn't look like much was going on through the early and middle part of the game, but we got rolling after that and had a lot of excitement. Clete Thomas a big, big night. A huge night for him and our ballclub."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.


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2. Host a Q&A (The New York Times)
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One quick lesson: After you post your hangout to YouTube, embed the video on your home page.
3. Do live product samplings (Cadbury UK)
Cadbury invited members from its Tasters Circle to sign up to taste of some of the chocolate maker's new products. Cadbury sent three new chocolate bars to everyone who signed up, and awarded nine lucky participants the chance to participate in the live On Air Taste-Off.
The results were stellar. The post announcing the winning bar received 126 +1s and was shared 24 times, while the recording received 73 +1s and was shared six times.
4. Host a giveaway (Taylor Guitars)
To build interest in its brand, Taylor Guitars teamed with Daria Musk for a series of concerts and live guitar giveaways. These hangouts sparked interest and then some, winning more than 500 views on YouTube.
5. Launch a product (Taylor Swift)
Taylor Swift hosted a hangout to announce her new album. Once she made the announcement, she answered questions from around the world, told people what to expect from the record, and even debuted the album's first single.
6. Serve your customers (Dell)
Dell has hosted dozens of hangouts already, using them for customer service, sales calls, industry discussion, and more. Its multifaceted approach shows just how much your business can do with a Google hangout.
One takeaway: Dell empowers its employees to host these hangouts from their personal Google+ pages. Any business can do this while still hosting live hangouts from its official brand page.
Frank Salatto is a writer at Vocus, where a version of this article originally appeared.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president, but the Austrian-born Terminator knows he's limited by the Constitution.
"Without any doubt," Schwarzenegger told Jay Leno when asked Thursday on "The Tonight Show" night if he would run for the White House if the presidency wasn't limited to U.S.-born candidates.
Over the years, there has been talk and even some Legislative support for amending the Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to hold the nation's highest office. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch proposed such an amendment in 2004. But to be adopted, it would require approval by two-thirds majorities in both houses, and then ratification by three-fourths of all state Legislatures.
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Reds finalize deal with former Tigers catcher Pena
The Reds on Tuesday formalized their two-year agreement with catcher Brayan Pena that was first reported late last week.
The former Detroit receiver passed the requisite physical and took to Twitter to proclaim his feelings about officially joining Cincinnati:
The Reds on Tuesday formalized their two-year agreement with catcher Brayan Pena that was first reported late last week.
The former Detroit receiver passed the requisite physical and took to Twitter to proclaim his feelings about officially joining Cincinnati:
"Im happy to announce that i will be a RED for the next couple of years , and i will wear that uniform with PROUD and RESPECT.!! Thank you !"
The Reds hope Pena is the first step in the offensive improvement general manager Walt Jocketty identified as an offseason priority in an interview last week with MLB.com.
"You have to try and improve the offense," Jocketty said. "That could be another hitter in the lineup. If we lose [Shin-Soo] Choo, we'll have to address the leadoff situation again. There's really no clear answer to that right now."
Pena, who will turn 32 in January, is a native of Havana, Cuba, but now a United States citizen. Over 71 games during his lone season with the Tigers in 2013, the switch-hitter batted .297 with a .315 on-base percentage, four home runs and 22 RBIs.
Not known as much for his defense or game calling, Pena made three errors this season and had a .995 fielding percentage. He caught 24 percent of baserunners attempting to steal.
Signed to be a backup to Alex Avila, Pena boosted the Tigers while the regular catcher struggled at the plate. Pena played more regularly in June and August while Avila spent time on the disabled list.
Pena batted .397 (25-for-63) during the month of August but was used sparingly the rest of the way once Avila returned. On Oct. 30, the Tigers told Pena that he wouldn't be brought back, and he hit the open market as a free agent.
In the big leagues since 2005, Pena has also played for the Braves (2005-08) and Royals (2009-12). Lifetime, he is batting .258 with a .292 on-base percentage, 18 homers and 120 RBIs over 406 Major League games.
Cincinnati currently has two catchers under club control on its 40-man roster. Veteran Ryan Hanigan, who completed a three-year, $4 million contract in 2013, is third-year arbitration eligible and can be a free agent after 2014. Devin Mesoraco just completed his second season in the Majors and is a year away from arbitration eligibility.
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Several teams are in search for veteran catching help with a focus on defense -- including the Rays, Mariners, Rangers, White Sox, Yankees and Phillies.
Hanigan, 33, is coming off of the worst season of his career -- offensively. He batted only .198 with a .306 on-base percentage, two homers and 21 RBIs in 75 games. Injuries may have played a part as Hanigan had two stints on the disabled list because of a strained left oblique and a sprained left wrist.
An undrafted free agent who worked his way to the big leagues, Hanigan has been a patient hitter who rarely strikes out and can get on base. He is a career .262 hitter with a .359 on-base percentage since first coming up to Cincinnati in 2007.
Hanigan's reputation is big on the defensive side. He worked with a rotation that had four starters throw 200 innings in 2012 and had a Major League-best 3.04 catcher's ERA. His caught-stealing percentages -- 48 percent in '12 and 45 percent in '13 -- were both best in the league.
This season, Hanigan caught three of the Reds' five complete games and 10 of the staff's 17 shutouts. He usually caught three of the five members of the rotation, including ace Johnny Cueto, Homer Bailey and veteran Bronson Arroyo. In each of the last two seasons, Hanigan was behind the plate when Bailey threw a no-hitter.
Because of Hanigan's injuries, Mesoraco got more starts, with 84. The 25-year-old batted .238 with nine homers and 42 RBIs in his 103 games -- and made a stark improvement from a rough 2012 rookie year on both offense and defense.
If Hanigan doesn't return, it looks like Mesoraco will get his chance to show what he can do on a regular basis.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.


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BOSTON – Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disease that causes progressive loss of vision and is caused by mutations in more than 50 genes. Conventional methods for identification of both RP mutations and novel RP genes involve the screening of DNA coding sequences.
In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and others tested DNA with the use of whole genome sequencing, a technique that takes into account all variants from both the coding and noncoding regions of the human genome. With this approach the authors report a number of unique RP mutations, a previously undescribed disease gene called NEK2 that involves the retinal photoreceptors, and structural DNA rearrangements originating in introns.
This paper supports the advantages of the use of whole genome sequencing to search for mutations in patients with RP.
The researchers performed whole genome sequencing in 16 unrelated patients with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (ARRP), a disease characterized by progressive retinal degeneration and caused by mutations in over 50 genes, in search of pathogenic DNA variants, the authors wrote. Eight patients were from North America, whereas eight were Japanese, a population for which ARRP seems to have different genetic drivers.
Using a specific work flow, they assessed both the coding and noncoding regions of the human genome, including the evaluation of highly polymorphic SNPs, structural and copy number variations, as well as 69 control genomes sequenced by the same procedures. They detected homozygous or compound het erozygous mutations in 7 genes associated with ARRP (USH2A, RDH12, CNGB1, EYS, PDE6B, DFNB31, and CERKL) in eight patients, three Japanese and five Americans. Fourteen of the 16 mutant alleles identified were previously unknown. Among these, there was a 2.3-kb deletion in USH2A and an inverted duplication of 446 kb in EYS, which would have likely escaped conventional screening techniques or exome sequencing. Moreover, in another Japanese patient, they identified a homozygous frameshift (p.L206fs), absent in more than 2,500 chromosomes from ethnically matched controls, in the ciliary gene NEK2, encoding a serine/threonine-protein kinase. Inactivation of this gene in zebrafish induced retinal photoreceptor defects that were rescued by human NEK2mRNA. In addition to identifying a previously undescribed ARRP gene, the study highlights the importance of rare structural DNA variations in Mendelian diseases and advocates the need for screening approaches that transcend the analysis of the coding sequences of the human genome.
This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant 310030_138346) and the Gebert Rüf Foundation, Switzerland (Rare Diseases-New Technologies Grant); a Center Grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness; National Institutes of Health Grants DK072301 and MH-084018; Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan Grant 23300101 and Grant 23300201; the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences; and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientic Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and Takeda Science Foundation.
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Rackspace Primps Up Its Private Cloud Ware
As part of the new release, Rackspace has extended its service portfolio for Rackspace Private Cloud
By: Maureen O'Gara
Nov. 16, 2012 08:45 AM
Rackspace says it's gussied up its free Private Cloud Software, a k a Alamo, boosting remote support capabilities for on premise OpenStack-powered clouds, helping companies to monitor their private clouds, and providing more storage capabilities.
It claims that since Alamo launched in April thousands of organizations in 125 countries - from Fortune 100s to colleges and research centers - have downloaded the product.
Some of the new features of the Private Cloud Software include highly scalable block storage, which turns external storage into an additional storage volume for a private cloud environment based on OpenStack Cinder; object storage powered by OpenStack Swift, which lets users create massively scalable storage resource pools that can be used by a Rackspace Private Cloud environment for storing files as well as server images, taking advantage of commodity hardware to reduce costs; and monitoring apps, Graphite and Collectd, to extend the monitoring and alerting capabilities available to private cloud environments.
According to Mike Aeschliman, head of engineering and product for Rackspace Private Cloud, "With the new release, we can now offer Fanatical Support to customers' cloud software using our remote access tools. This is a huge step in our mission to enable organizations to start realizing the benefits of clouds and trust them for mission-critical workloads."
As part of the new release, Rackspace has extended its service portfolio for Rackspace Private Cloud. The new support level, Core Software Support, now includes 24x7x365 remote access support for the Rackspace Private Cloud Software stack.
Rackspace is offering this new service level in addition to the Software Escalation Support that already exists.
With Core Software Support, Rackspace engineers will now remotely log into customers' Private Cloud environments to provide services such as installation, configuration, patching and troubleshooting.
The latest feature release of Rackspace Private Cloud Software incorporates the latest release of the OpenStack Cloud Software platform, Folsom, released to the public in September and the same platform that powers the Rackspace Cloud supporting thousands of customers. The Folsom release was developed by the OpenStack community which implemented about 185 new features.
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Hi, all was perfect! The TTs where very well packed and Patch is a very fast and nice seller !
Hi Patch, Thanks for the advice on the Behringer! Any idea if the DDM4000 it has the ability to Echo out on a track? So an echo can be applied on one track "echo out" so I can bring in the next track? Or enabling the echo on a word so that word echos but track keeps playing without echo?
We love Bristol, was there in January visiting one of your local DJ's Steve Rice...lovely town!
Hey Patch. I have a question, can the DDM4000 act as a Audio interface like Traktor Z2 as pictured in here? http://www.quanta.com.br/wp-content/...l-timecode.png
Thanks for the suggestions patch. I would love some templates to mappings if you have them. Should I get a launchpad or push or apc40?
Just wanted to say thanks for the suggestions. You input was much appreciated
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From The Beacon: Fantasy titles for every kind of reader
All fiction is fantasy. An author asks, "What if?" and writes an imaginative story. Speculative fiction writers take it one step further and introduce an unreal element -- a strange setting or an event that never happened. Some "spec-fic" is high fantasy or hard science fiction, but many titles are great for readers of realistic fiction.
If you like hard-boiled detective stories, try Jim Butcher's series "The Dresden Files." Harry Dresden conducts investigations and consults for the local police department. As a wizard, he can take these investigations further than most private eyes. Start with "Storm Front," the first in the series.
Fans of heists or adventure will love "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch. Locke, an orphan in a fantastic city, has an extraordinary gift for thievery. Sold to a local con artist, he grows to lead his mentor's band of tricksters. No wealthy noble is safe from their delightfully outrageous confidence games.
Alternate history is an easy fit for history lovers. This genre examines what might happen if historical events had happened differently. In "The Man with the Iron Heart" by Harry Turtledove, a post-World War II Nazi group launches terrorist attacks against occupying Allied forces. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon follows residents of a Jewish refugee settlement in Alaska established during World War II.
History buffs and thriller fans will enjoy the parallel plots of Ann Benson's "The Plague Tales." In 14th-century Europe, Jewish doctor Alejandro Canches works to cure the Black Death, keeping a detailed journal. In a dystopian near-future, Dr. Janie Crow finds the aged journal and uses it to deal with a new outbreak of the plague.
Political enthusiasts should check out "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. A green-skinned, sharp-tongued college student named Elphaba takes on the dystopian dictatorship of Oz. A far cry from the original Oz stories, Wicked tackles myriad social and political issues in a fantastic setting.
J.D. Robb's "In Death" series will thrill romantic suspense readers. In "Naked in Death," Eve Dallas is a New York homicide detective in 2038. She's asked to investigate a murder committed with a gun -- an outlawed weapon available only to licensed collectors.
Romance readers will love "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. A World War II nurse is hurled two hundred years into the past, away from her new husband and into the arms of a passionate Highland warrior. Also try "The Time Traveler's Wife," a strange, sentimental love story in which Henry DeTamble and his wife cross paths -- and timelines -- in unusual ways.
Looking for another classic? Gabriel Garcia-Marquez popularized the Latin American genre of magical realism, a subtle form of fantasy, with "One Hundred Years of Solitude." This family saga is grounded in reality, but strange things happen in the village: the entire town is afflicted with insomnia, a woman ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide defies the laws of physics.
Laura Hayden is a fantasy-loving reference librarian at the Beaufort Branch of the Beaufort County Public Library, at 311 Scott St., Beaufort.


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Of course perhaps the phrase 'dressing up' evokes images of pirates' costumes, glittery shawls and sunlit childhood afternoons, rather than structured tailoring and catwalk shows. And yet, if one looks a little longer then the similarities begin to seep through.
Entering the courtyard of Somerset House, the first impression takes in small flocks of street style photographers. Their camera lenses are like beaks, snapping for 'the' outfit, 'the' person walking past who can be swooped on and asked, "excuse me, may I take your photo?"
Accordingly, plenty of those attending (including me) take it as a great occasion to dress up. Feathers, fringing, Marie-Antoinette - style taxidermy headgear. All this and more can be found striding across the cobbles. I enjoy it. Having the chance to spend a couple of days submerging myself in a world that celebrates and revels in style, plus observing all those who make diverse careers out of it, is fascinating.
In the words of my good friend, photographer Dvora, of Fashionistable (who is currently shooting for Vogue UK here), being behind the camera at London Fashion Week is like, "being in a sweet shop" – colours, textures and ideas abound everywhere. There are some who may see this as a negative - an opportunity for narcissism – but what's the problem with enjoying conscious dressing?
My own experience of LFW is certainly enhanced by being able to dress creatively in outfits I don't necessarily get the chance to wear every day. I may be there to learn, to observe, to take notes and photos and to pay homage to favourite designers - but I may as well have fun too. After all, many of the outfits I put on my blog might only be appreciated by the sheep in local fields or the occasional bemused walker who wonders if I'm really going hiking in heels and chiffon.
It thus seemed apt that a theme of 'dressing up' ran through many of the collections I saw. My London Fashion Week started with Paul Costelloe. I had caught a tube, run along the Strand and paused to change my flat shoes for lace-up, heeled brogues, before heading towards the entrance. It was an enjoyable beginning, with a collection that referenced the sixties. While I sat in the dark, my small notebook clutched in one hand, I tried to imagine how I would write about the clothes. The thought I kept returning to was the idea of days spent in grand houses playing hide and seek. Details such as ruffled necks and puffed sleeves gave it the look of a carefree afternoon of dressing up and playing charades. For me, Costelloe captured the innocence, cut and elegance of sixties styling – a decade that I am more than partial to.
Another element involved in dressing up is the creation of a narrative. My friend Ellen is my long-suffering model when it comes to assembling characters such as zombies or figures in paintings (see previous posts). Armed with the contents of my dressing up box, we have a great time whipping up fictional scenarios.
It's probably not surprising then that I find myself drawn to collections and shows with a very strong sense of identity and narrative - where the models are not only being dressed up, but also inhabit the spirit and story of the collection.
Perhaps the best designer I saw at London Fashion Week to illustrate this is Corrie Nielson. She certainly knows how to put on a show. Her latest: Arbiter Elegantiarum, was inspired by 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' mixed with oriental influences. It took place in what I assume was a concrete car-park, that had been appropriated for the occasion and kitted out with a panel of large, bare light bulbs hanging over the catwalk like a modernist chandelier.
The models didn't stride – they sauntered – as the eerie music pulsed and camera shutters clicked like moths. What of the clothes? Folds of fabric cascaded in all directions like artfully re-arranged satin curtains, with acres of ruching, layering and pleating in between. My favourite piece was a green (I assume satin) jacket that fanned out below the bust like book pages or an elaborate ruff. It summed up the collection: the dramatic clothes that called to mind decadence and sumptuousness; the cuts that mixed together elements of Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen. They almost made me want to dress up as a china doll and wander around graveyards looking melancholy – but that might be going a little too far.
Watching various collections drew out threads of comparison. The design process is akin to a writer creating a story – there must be a plot (the order of clothes), an inspiration, and in current economic times, a selling/marketing point too. But sometimes there is also a muse, as with Corrie Nielson above, and also with the design duo Fyodor Golan.
Although I wasn't lucky enough to see this ultra-talented pair win the Fashion Fringe - which they more than deserved - I did get a close look at the clothes the next day when they were being exhibited. Gobsmacked is not a word I often use in relation to anything, but it is appropriate here. The muse for the collection was Frida Kahlo, and she was most certainly present – in the flower and bird motifs, in the low backs revealing the line of the spine, in the idea of transformation and metamorphosis. As a girl who has enjoyed a closer than usual relationship with her spine, I loved it. I will definitely be returning to this collection in a future post.
While at London Fashion Week I also saw Jaeger, Masha Ma and Jean-Pierre Braganza, but to borrow a fairytale line – "that's another story," for another day - or at least, for a Part 2.
The photos above were among the first ones I came across of my outfits at LFW. Many thanks to the photographers credited. And if anyone happens across other images elsewhere I'd really appreciate any links.
Finally, dressing up and narrative collections aside, what really made my LFW enjoyable were the people: Style East, Stella, Dvora, David, Jill, Dina, Nadia, Frances, Peony, Vanessa, Pearl and Craig among a whole host of warm, friendly, lovely individuals. It's the people there who make a good experience into a great one.
She Loves Mixtapes did of me? You can see more images on her blog. I was shocked (in the best possible sense) when she emailed them to me - how wonderfully talented she is.


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Lemmings 2: The Tribes (SNES)
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DescriptionThe sequel to Lemmings has a plot describing how the Lemmings have split into 12 distinct tribes, each of which has their own landscape and their own cultural identity - they include Egyptian, Circus and Highland. However, Lemming Island is now in danger, and you must complete 10 levels for each tribe in order for them to reunite and reassemble the Talisman from the 12 pieces.
Across the 120 levels there are over 60 skills, although no more than 10 are in use on each screen. The Classic tribe has the ones from the original and is perhaps the best option for first-time players.
The others range from digging methods such as a scooper (diagonally downwards) and club basher (horizontal), building skills such as a planter (takes time to produce the desired raise to the landscape) and a sand pourer, and various methods of movement including a Pole-Vaulter and a Skater (the only Lemmings who can cross ice). Some of these are only subtly different to others, and their exact uses are unclear, but there are 4 Trainer levels where you can select any combination of skills and experiment.
Unlike the first game, the player is rewarded for saving as many Lemmings as possible, rather than simply passing or failing. The ultimate aim is to save all 60 Lemmings through all levels, thereby earning a Gold Medal for that tribe - Silver and Bronze are also on offer. The player can also go back over levels in the hope of saving more Lems.
Because there are 12 tribes, and the player can switch between them at any point, you have to be stuck 12 times in order to be unable to progress. The game saves progress rather than using passwords as in the first game.
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- "レミングス2" -- Japanese spelling
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There are no reviews for the SNES release of this game. You can use the links below to write your own review or read reviews for the other platforms of this game.
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|Mega Fun
|Oct, 1994
|91 out of 100
|Play Time
|Nov, 1994
|91 out of 100
|GamePro (US)
|Jul, 1995
|4.5 out of 5
|Mar 11, 2011
|17 out of 20
|Total! (Germany)
|Dec, 1994
|2 out of 6
|Video Games
|Nov, 1994
|79 out of 100
|Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)
|Feb, 1995
|39 out of 50
|Power Unlimited
|Feb, 1995
|7.1 out of 10
|Video Games & Computer Entertainment
|Mar, 1995
|7 out of 10
|ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)
|Jan, 1995
|7 out of 12
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Jul 17, 2013
ExtrasSpecially marked versions of PC CD-ROM edition include the original first Lemmings.
Super ScopeIt's not mentioned in the manual, but on the SNES version you can plug a Super Scope into port 2 and shoot the lemmings to blow them up.
Unreleased Master System and Game Gear versionsThe game was ported to the Sega Master System and Game Gear by Matt Taylor. Due to the limitations of the 8-bit platforms 20% of the levels had to be redesigned. The port was completed in 1994, but because of the declining market for the 8-bit consoles Psygnosis decided not to release those. At least the code was reused for the GameBoy version.Source: Posting by Matt Taylor
- Amiga Joker
- Issue 02/1994 – #3 Best Genre Mix in 1993 (Readers' Vote)
Related Web Sites
- Lemmings Universe (Facts, Solutions, History and more about all of the Lemmings games.)
- Tribes Full Solution (Walkthrough written by David Crooke)
PCGamer77 (3233) added Lemmings 2: The Tribes (SNES) on Jun 07, 2002
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Santiago Cathedral
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Plaza del Obradoiro, s/n.
15704 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña (Galicia)
Tel.:+34 902044414
A priceless heritage
Access to the Cathedral Museum is via the Plaza del Obradoiro square. It is located in the westernmost part of the cloister of Santiago Cathedral.
The museum's collection includes important archaeological exhibits, sculpture, painting, precious metalwork, tapestries, rugs, liturgical robes, ceramics and furniture. It is also home to the library, where you can see priceless volumes including the Calixtinus Codex, Liber Sancti Jacobi, Los Tumbos and La Historia Compostelana, along with numerous documents of paramount importance to the history of Galicia and, above all, to the Church in Santiago. The museum exhibits are arranged over various rooms, with an important collection of tapestries based on cartoons by Ginés de Aguirre, Teniers, Rubens, Van Tulden, Bayeu and Goya. One of the rooms is dedicated to Goya himself, with twelve tapestries on display from the Royal Santa Bárbara Factory in Madrid. Two of them are the only ones of their kind: Children with a Cart and The Fountain.
- Designation: Diocesan museum
- Content: Religious art
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- From Apr 01 to Oct 31
From Monday to SundayFrom 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- From Nov 01 to Mar 31
From Monday to SundayFrom 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
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GusC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
Green Monster Offshore
Green Monster Offshore Pty Ltd is a newly formed rental equipment company providing specilised mechanical construction equipment to the offshoreindustry.
We are located in Perth, Western Australia a well established oil and gas hub in the Asia Pacific region but we plan to rent our products all around the world.
We are innovative and aggressive, like the equipment we rent out.
Our equipment is:
- Rugged
- Reliable
- Robust
Our rental products are used in the installation, construction and operation of some phenomenally large equipment in one of the harshest environments on earth.
The name "Green Monster" was stragegically chosen to:
- be memorable, (something slightly homorous that our clients remember)
- complementary to our company colour (more on that later)
- the embodiment of strength
Our clients are companies working in the offshore construction, oil and gas exploration / production industries.
Our sister company AME Pty Ltd provides engineering design and construction services to the above mentioned industries. Please follow the link below to understand a little bit more about these industries and the companies we are targeting.
Whilst initially our marketing efforts will be directed towards the Asia Pacific region the end game is to rent equipment to clients the world over.
The designer should keep in mind that the targeted industries are male dominated and there is a certain element of machismo i.e. the logo should be TOUGH and MANLY.
ANYTHING will be considered and as we want to encourage creativity we will try to stipulate as few guidelines as possible, but a few essential elements are:
1. Incorporation of a bright lime green colour into the logo. Our chosen colour is Kikuyu - G36 as per AS2700 or 12E53 as per BS5252.
2. Given all equipment will be painted this bright green, if the colour is incorporated into the background of the logo this will facilitate easy stencilling onto equipment
3. The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Scalable vector format - .eps in colour and black and white.
Native Illustrator format, so the images/logo can be expandable to any size
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Star Schools (V-D-7)
Distance learning can enrich regular classroom instruction and provide high-quality instruction in remote or high-poverty locations where students otherwise do not have access to specialized courses such as advanced placement courses. In addition to providing affordable access to learning opportunities, high-quality distance learning can produce learning gains at least as large as those from traditional instruction.
By 2000, nearly all public schools and 77 percent of their classrooms in the United States had access to the Internet. This ratio has steadily improved. Distance learning is increasingly widespread at all educational levels, including the emergence of "virtual schools" in many states.
The Star Schools Program encourages improved instruction in mathematics, science, foreign languages, literacy skills, vocational education, and other subjects. It emphasizes learning opportunities for underserved populations, including the disadvantaged, illiterate, limited English proficient, and individuals with disabilities through the use of telecommunications technologies.
How It Works
Applications are received from eligible statewide or multistate entities, which may include a public agency, corporation, or a partnership that includes three or more of the following entities: a school district, a state education agency, an adult and family education program, an institution of higher education, a teacher training center or academy, a public broadcasting entity, or a public or private elementary or secondary school. Funding is provided for such activities as development acquisition, maintenance and operation of telecommunications facilities, development and acquisition of live interactive instructional programming, and technical assistance for the use of such facilities and instructional programming.
Key Requirements
Applicants must propose high-quality plans that provide instruction consistent with state academic content standards or otherwise provide significant and specific assistance to states and districts undertaking systemic education reform.
A five-year grant must not exceed $10 million in any single fiscal year.At least a quarter of the total program funds must be used for instructional programming, and at least 50 percent of the available funds shall be used for the cost of facilities, equipment, teacher training or retraining, technical assistance or programming for districts eligible for Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies. The federal share is capped at 75 percent for the first and second years, 60 percent for third and fourth years, and 50 percent for the fifth year.
How It Achieves Quality
The secretary of education may use up to 5 percent of funds for dissemination, evaluation and other activities that are designed to enhance the quality of distance learning.


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I was given a few bar carts to choose from, and there are tons more at the Chairish site (see their entire bar cart collection here). They were all nice, but I picked this mid-century brass beauty as my favourite.
The "essentials" in my mind include an ice bucket, a variety of serving trays for snacks, napkins, and assorted stemware/glassware for drinks. I also jumped at the chance to scour the Chairish site for some decorative pieces (art, lighting, etc.) Here's what I came up with:
Sources (click through for details on each item):
3,4] Art Deco Copper Ice Bucket and Silver Tongs
6] Partly Cloudy Napkins (These are SO cool and only $38)
7] Gold Stripe Cocktail Set (I love how the gold stripes echo the lines of the cart!)
There's a whole lot of good stuff to see over at the Chairish site. Pop on over and have a look! And, Chairish, thanks for the good excuse to browse your fabulous site for hours on end; I had a blast (and my "I want that" list has somehow gotten twice as long)!


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t had been about nine months since my last piercings (long enough to have a baby!), so when Earth's Edge added a store in Greensboro, NC, called Kingpin Studios, I knew it was time. Now it's been two whole weeks! The trouble was, I had no idea what to do.
I already have a fourchette and a navel, and I had a vertical spinal that rejected (the piercer used a straight barbell...not a great choice). I have a friend who works at Kingpin, O., and I pestered him constantly about what piercing I should go for. Considering my tendency to wear super-tight t-shirts, O. recommended I get my nipples done.
The funny thing is, I really hate my breasts. In a super push-up bra, they're fine, but on their own, I find them saggy, boring, and upsetting. And I always wear those t's because I got in the habit when I weighed 20 lbs less and felt okay about my body and now I just can't change my taste. Perhaps I should - I would look less unseemly.
But I really couldn't stand my breasts, and never have, so it didn't make sense. But something in me kept wanting them, and so one Saturday, I went for it with two 12ga, 5/8" barbells.
The experience itself sucked ass. Byron Weeks, the super awesome piercer, did a fantastic job placing, so they tilt slightly toward my navel, and he was fun and professional and helpful, but it HURT. More than any other I've had, partly because the pain didn't stop for quite a while, even after the jewelry was in, and it stayed just as intense as the piercing itself for about 30 minutes. Whoa! I hardly made a noise, but it was intense. And all of a sudden, I realized I LOVED the piercings.
I had been worried for two reasons about doing my nipples: breast-feeding and that BIG UGLY NIPPLE THING. Good news in both categories: whenever I choose to have kids, I will be able to breast-feed. There are 12-15 ducts in the nipple, and piercing takes out only about 3-5. But don't wear captive bead rings while breast-feeding: the ring will choke and possibly kill your child. No kidding. Also, since my nipples were always on the petite side, they are now are slightly smaller than the unpierced-erect size. Considering the photos I saw here on BME, I was worried that my nipples would suddenly become gargantuan, taking over my entire chest!!!!! But because of my personal shape, I didn't have to worry. They are still fairly petite but somehow look fuller. Pics to follow soon, don't worry.
The nipple piercings have really changed my relationship to my breasts. I feel more feminine now, more wily, and more seductive. I have actually begun to flirt more with strangers in public. And when wearing those tight t's I hope strangers see three bumps instead of one! I feel racy! And I want to go topless all the time!
I am not ashamed of my breasts now. The piercings are healing incredibly well, and they show off my breasts to their fullest! Even though my breasts are still saggy, and I feel sort of silly about that, I will now flaunt my naked breasts (with fabulous piercings) to ANYONE who asks......
Piercing can really make you learn more and enjoy more about your body!
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The area now known as Hampton-Pinckney was purchased in 1815 by Vardry McBee who spent $27,550 for 11,028 acres of land in what is now the center of Greenville. McBee had great aspirations for the little frontier village of Greenville and played an important role in the city's development. A true philanthropist, he donated land for the Greenville Male and Female Academies and for the city's first 4 churches. The first house in the area was built by McBee's son Pinckney, prior to the Civil War. In the 1890s, part of the land McBee willed to his family was subdivided into residential lots. Cotton growing, selling and production were important to the economy as was the railroad terminal nearby. Hampton-Pinckney became the first "trolley car" neighborhood in Greenville.
It was also a period of rapid expansion for Greenville's textile industry. Today the Hampton-Pinckney Historic District, one of the oldest in town neighborhoods, has the most important representation in the city of fanciful, sometimes exuberant dwellings of the Victorian Era. During the First World War, the production of cloth for uniforms and other war materials kept the mill industry thriving. The resulting strong economy paved the way for another building boom in the early 1920s. The Hampton-Pinckney neighborhood was still growing, but other new neighborhoods also began to take root and thrive. The district was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, becoming Greenville's first National Register District. In 1977 the neighborhood became the first locally designated Preservation Overlay District.
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The home page (and variations of it) will be our landing page. So FYI matching that in message will be a nice aim - i.e. panic attacks are less relevant for this one.
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The pitter-patter of crazy Koolaid the bird's feet makes while he runs after his ball in this video is probably the greatest sound ever. Sorry, Beethoven — yer DONE!
We hereby proclaim little Koolaid chasing his tiny ball the best sound to ever grace human ears. No seriously, watch it. It made us feel at LEAST as happy as we did the first time we heard ol' Ludwig's ninth symphony.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Playing at home in its last game of the season, the Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team defeated Centre in a thrilling overtime victory, 84-81, Sunday afternoon in Bill Battle Coliseum.
The Panthers end the season at 15-10 overall, 10-6 in the SCAC; the Colonels fall to 17-8, 11-5 in the league.
Seniors Jamie Key and Katelyn Wilson were honored prior to the game.
BSC came out and opened up a 10-4 lead in the first three minutes of the game, and held a lead until the 11:56 mark, when a jumper by Paige Baechle gave Centre a one-point 16-15 lead. After a few traded baskets, the Panthers stretched their lead back out to seven, 29-22, with 6:57 remaining in the half. The Colonels came back and tied it up once before halftime (29-29 at the 3:48 mark) but the Panthers stayed in control and led 40-33 at the break.
With the exception of a 51-51 tie at the 10:19 mark, BSC kept the lead until the final minute of regulation. A three-pointer by Jane Goatley tied things up, 71-71, but sophomore Caroline King nailed a jumper in the lane with 30 seconds remaining to put the Panthers back up, 73-71. Centre's Chelsea Benham made a layup with 21 seconds left to knot it back up at 73-73, and BSC missed a shot at the buzzer, sending the game to overtime.
BSC junior Ashton Spurgin scored the first basket in overtime, and the Panthers led for the entire five minutes. Centre was able to cut it to one, 81-80, with 12 seconds remaining, but junior Sam Davidson went to the free throw line and sank both shots to put the Panthers back up by three with seven seconds on the clock. Centre's Maggie Prewitt went to the line after that, and hit one of two, cutting the lead to two with five seconds left. The Colonels were forced to foul after that, and sent sophomore Alex Adams to the line with three seconds left, where she missed the first but sank the second, putting the Panthers up by three once again. Centre was unable to get another shot off, and BSC picked up the three-point win.
Wilson led the Panthers with 18 points, followed by King with 16 and Spurgin with 13. Spurgin also recorded a double-double with 10 rebounds, and Wilson also led with three assists and three steals.
Prewitt led the Colonels with a game-high 27 points and eight assists, while Benham added 19 points and Lauren Huter had 12. Benham also pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds.
Both teams shot fairly evenly from the field, with BSC hitting 26-of-55 (47.3 percent) and Centre hitting 30-of-64 (46.9 percent). The Panthers were more effective from long-range, hitting 14-of-26 (53.8 percent) from three-point range to Centre's 5-of-14 (35.7 percent) performance, but the Colonels fared better at the free throw line, going 16-of-18 (88.9 percent) to BSC's 18-of-26 (69.2 percent) showing.
Centre out-rebounded BSC, 35-31, and turnovers were even at 11 apiece.
BSC defeats Centre in overtime season finale, 84-81
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Playing at home in its last game of the season, the Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team defeated Centre in a thrilling overtime victory, 84-81, Sunday afternoon in Bill Battle Coliseum.


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THE actor James Franco at U.C.L.A. John M. McHugh, the former Army secretary, at the State University of New York at Oswego. The commentator Ben Stein at the University of Vermont. All are notable figures who were invited to participate in college graduations in recent years, only to withdraw or be disinvited in the face of campus protests.
Commencement season has arrived, and with it a perennial debate over free speech on campus. So far this year, students on at least 10 campuses have protested speakers invited to commencement events. Robert B. Zoellick, the former president of the World Bank, withdrew last month as a commencement speaker at Swarthmore College — his alma mater — after students mounted a campaign on Facebook calling him an "architect of the Iraq war" and a "war criminal" because of his support of the 2003 invasion. Benjamin Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon and conservative icon, dropped out as a commencement speaker last month at Johns Hopkins University after students protested comments he'd made lumping together homosexuality, pedophilia and bestiality.
Earlier this month, President Obama was the subject of a controversy at Morehouse College, where he is slated to give this year's commencement speech. Morehouse also invited a Philadelphia pastor, the Rev. Kevin Johnson, to speak the day before Mr. Obama. But after the minister wrote a column in The Philadelphia Tribune criticizing Mr. Obama for failing to appoint African-Americans to cabinet positions, the university told Mr. Johnson — in a move that alumni later criticized — that they wanted to provide a broad spectrum of views so he would not be the sole speaker at that event. Mr. Johnson publicly withdrew as a speaker.
Even though most free-speech advocacy groups do not compile data on such protests, "It does appear that 'disinvitation season' incidents have accelerated in recent years, with this year inspiring an uptick of these episodes," said Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
In the era of Facebook and flash mobs, university administrators appear to be more skittish, knowing how quickly ideas — be they good, bad or just plain unruly — can go viral.
"It's difficult for an institution to identify speakers who don't raise the ire of some group but can still provide a thought-provoking commencement speech," said Rae Goldsmith, a vice president at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, an educational association. Some commentators regard student protests against invited speakers as another indicator of the divisiveness of American culture and part of a larger trend of politically correct "orthodoxies" on campuses. Universities are meant to be bastions of open-mindedness and free speech, they say, but are more prone to censoring disagreeable ideas or drowning them out — a practice some have labeled "the heckler's veto."
"By giving in to protesters, colleges are denying the majority of students their right to hear controversial opinions and drawing their own conclusions about those opinions," said Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist and commentator, in a recent USA Today online debate.
But other free-speech advocates contend that these protests actually represent an increase in free speech and that students should be able to influence campus decisions. The aim of such protests, these advocates say, is not usually to prevent controversial speakers from presenting their ideas but to encourage them to take the microphone at a time other than commencement day.
"This isn't about tolerance or intolerance," Mark Schwartz, a Swarthmore alumnus, told the campus newspaper about the successful protests against Mr. Zoellick's appearance on campus, where he was to receive an honorary degree. "It's about whether or not you honor somebody within the highest ideals of Swarthmore's Quaker tradition."
The protests take various forms. In 2002, Syracuse students held up their wallets during the commencement speech by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City. The wallets were meant to recall Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant who was shot at 41 times by policemen in 1999 after he reached for his identification. The conservative commentator Ann Coulter canceled an appearance at the University of Ottawa in 2010 after about 2,000 students, angered by her comments about Muslims, crowded the entrance to the hall at which she was scheduled to speak.
Some schools have tried to insulate themselves by avoiding civic leaders and politicians, and turning instead to pop culture icons like Kermit the Frog, Dolly Parton and Stephen Colbert for commencement addresses. (But even this does not always work: Mr. Franco's invitation from U.C.L.A. was protested for its lack of gravitas.)
Other universities have reserved the guest speakership for campus figures, like popular professors or university chancellors. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, more than 70 universities have tried to corral protesters into "free speech zones" — designated places where rallies are permitted but are often removed from main events or in fenced-off areas.
Still, the protests show no signs of ebbing. Cuts to education and welfare spending by Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania spurred an online campaign against his scheduled commencement appearance at Millersville University in central Pennsylvania. And in April, Skidmore College students stormed a faculty meeting to protest an invitation to Cynthia Carroll, the former chief executive of the mining company Anglo American, citing her company's environmental and human rights record.
"It's my commencement," one student told faculty members. "Not hers. Not yours."


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This is Jimmy Jablon. This is his motorcycle. He is going to raffle it off in a ceremony in Florida where a 22-year-old girl will dive into a pool of live 'gators. What more do you need to know?
Not much, as it turns out: The motorcycle was assembled by 60-year-old Swedish craftsman Benny Ohrman over the course of twelve months and at a cost of roughly $80,000. It contains the skin and skull of one Florida alligator; the animal was caught by Florida wildlife authorities as part of of an effort to combat overpopulation. The alligator, which was originally ten feet long, had to be soaked in Ohrman's swimming pool for three weeks before it could be molded onto the bike. The skin is detachable, but the head is permanently affixed to the handlebars. Gauges live in the back of the skull, and an Ultima V-twin provides power.
Raffle tickets cost $100, and only 1000 will be sold. (You can purchase tickets here.) The winner will be decided in what is quite possibly the most amazingly awesome contest conclusion ever: Each entry will be printed and tossed into a swimming pool full of live alligators, and a 22-year-old model named Amara Tamura will dive in and grab one (an entry, not a 'gator.) According to Jablon, the entire process is completely safe:
"It's not dangerous," he said. "We're not going to attach cooked chicken to her or anything."
So, you know, she's got that going for her. Which is nice.
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Each section may establish standing and ad hoc committees and discussion groups necessary to conduct the work of the section.
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text: Monday, November 21, 2011 CMS Delays Enforcement of Version 5010 for 3 Months The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed enforcement of Version 5010 transaction standards used for electronic health care claims for 90 days. January 1, 2012, remains the official deadline to adopt Version 5010. However, CMS will wait until March 31, 2012, to begin enforcing the new standards. Implementation of Version 5010 is a prerequisite for using the updated ICD-10 CM diagnosis and ICD-10-PCS inpatient procedure code set in electronic health care transactions effective October 1, 2013. CMS' Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) encourages all covered entities to work to become compliant with the new standards and to determine their readiness to accept the new standards as of January 1, 2012. While enforcement action will not be taken, OESS will accept complaints associated with compliance with Version 5010 transaction standards during the 90-day period beginning January 1, 2012. If requested by OESS, covered entities that are the subject of complaints must produce evidence of either compliance or a good faith effort to become compliant with the new standards during the 90-day period. OESS is delaying the enforcement period based on industry feedback revealing that, with only about 45 days remaining before the January 1, 2012, compliance date, the number of submitters, the volume of transactions, and other testing data used as indicators of the industry's readiness to comply with the new standards have been low across some industry sectors. OESS also has received reports that many covered entities are still awaiting software upgrades. To help providers prepare for implementation of Version 5010 and ICD 10 code sets, CMS recently released several new resources, including enforcement FAQs, Version 5010 and ICD-10 transition basics fact sheets, a Version 5010 readiness fact sheet, and a timeline widget. Sign up for industry e-mail updates and receive news and information about new resources to help ensure smooth transitions to Version 5010 and ICD-10.


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Varsity cheerleaders earning a varsity chevron were Kimberly Gallagin, Michelle McLane, Mikala Metter, Morgan Thompson, Corrine Burnley, McKenna Marsh, Morgan Miller, Karsten Kersey, Brett Wyatt.
Cheerleaders earning reserve certificates were Meghan Brane, Brittany Strickler, Katie Baxter, Jessi Cox, Corynn Estes, Haley Baker, Natalie Knoblock.
Jeremy Keller earned a reserve trainer certificate.
Earning boys freshman basketball certificates were Isaak Davis, Christian Deeter, Andrew Finicle, Brandin Frazier, Clay Hinrichsen, Brennan Kelly, Aaron Ross.
Boys earning reserve certificates in basketball were Luke Elliott, Logan Paris, Dolph Struck, Noah Kirk, Jacob Lloyd, Austin Schlemmer, Alex Harmon.
Earning varsity chevrons in boys basketball were Shane Smith, Levi Sutton, Jackson Blair, Zach Hobson, Corey Phillipy, Ross Philliipy, Robbie Cole, Nathan Hollars.
For boys basketball, earning a varsity mananger chevron was Noah Stouffer. Earning reserve certificates were Drew Rhamy, Sami White, Delayne Gentry, Bailey Hobbs.
Special awards for boys basketball were Shane Smith, complete player award. Jackson Blair, mental attitude. Corey Phillipy, most improved. Levi Sutton, top defender. Shane Smith, top rebounder.
Earning reserve certificates in girls basketball were Meranda Friend, Abby Houlihan, Emily Lehner, Aleesha Phillips, Grace Whitham, Josey Brubaker, Emilie Harnish, Ellie LaBonte, Kiley Leach, Mariah Paris, Kelly Schmidt.
Earning varsity chevrons in girls basketball were Ana Farlow, Kaley Harness, Mollie Harnish, Emily Murphy, Sarah White, Amy Bowman, Haley Heath, Katie Stouffer.
Earning a varsity manager chevron was Brylee Murphy, while Kassidy Carter earned a reserve certificate.
Special awards for girls basketball were Aleesha Phillips, most improved jv player. Ana Marie Farlow, mental attitude. Katie Stouffer, most rebounds. Ana Marie Farlow, best percentage shooter. Sarah White, most outstanding player.
Special awards in wrestling were Colton Dawes, most outstanding wrestler. Jonathon Friedersdorf, mental attitude. Nicholas McCown, most pins. Zachary Gunter, most outstanding underclassman. Chance Enyeart, most improved.
Earning varsity chevrons in wrestling were Casey Baxter, Jonathon Friedersdorf, Garrett Porter, Colton Dawes, Alex Hults, Nick McCown, Brenden Schleining, Brandon Simpson, Jacob Smith, Dustin Curless, Chance Enyeart, Tristyn Howell, Nicholas Rebholz, Zachary Gunter.
Earning reserve certificates were Jeremy Keller, Dylin Porter, Austin Sarll, Keaton Weiss, Nathan McCown, Kale Weiss.
Earning varsity manager chevrons were Kate Baxter, Madison Rebholz, Raina Simpson, Lauren Webb.
Earning a jv certificate was Jessica Foley.
Earning letter jackets were Jackson Blair, Morgan Miller, Ross Phillipy, Robbie Cole, Haley Heath, Emily Lehner.