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Capitol Ideas: Undergrads Take Research Results to Austin
Projects by 4 Explore Properties of Cochlear Implants, Organic Electronics, Eye Injuries
Katherine Borner is a senior chemistry student and Syed Mohammed Rasheed is a pre-med senior majoring in psychology and child development. Both talked about their research projects in Austin.
A passion for science and connecting theory with practice were among the motivations that compelled four UT Dallas undergraduates to take on research projects and show off their results in Austin.
The students displayed their work for legislators and the public last week as part of Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol.
The event highlighted outstanding research conducted by undergraduates at the state's universities, as well as the impact of that research on Texans. About 60 research posters were displayed, representing nearly 50 higher education institutions.
"I was drawn to undergraduate research largely because of the opportunity it presented to challenge myself and enhance my understanding of the field of audiology," said Delaney Welch, a senior in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. She presented research that compares expressive language acquisition in hearing-impaired children who have received cochlear implants and children with normal hearing.
Welch conducted a meta-analysis of 13 peer-reviewed studies and found that children implanted with the cochlear device by age 2 do not differ significantly from normal-hearing peers. Her faculty mentors are assistant professor Andrea Warner-Czyz and Dr. Emily Tobey, vice provost, associate vice president for Diversity and Community Development and Nelle C. Johnston Chair in Communication Disorders in Children.
Delaney Welch is a senior in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences who studied language acquisition in hearing-impaired children.
"The opportunity to work with and learn from esteemed faculty members who share my interests has provided me with invaluable experience that will enrich my career tremendously," Welch said. "My involvement in research has also led to growth and development of valuable skills in critical thinking and time management. I am grateful to my professors and UT Dallas for this opportunity."
Katherine Borner works with Dr. Amy Walker, associate professor of materials science and engineering, in the area of organic electronics. The senior chemistry major is using advanced methods to form tiny copper wires on organic substrates, technology that might one day be used in flexible electronics, sensors and biomedical devices. She said being involved in research allowed her to collaborate with faculty and students on an intellectual level that went beyond the classroom.
"It's given me a connection between the theory I learn in courses and actual practice," said Borner, who also displayed a poster. "The research I have conducted also has given me insight into what field of chemistry I would like to pursue in the future. I am very grateful for the opportunities I have encountered and the people I have met through my research here at UT Dallas."
Eric Graham, a senior in biology at UT Dallas, also represented UT Southwestern Medical Center with a poster at the event. Graham conducted research under the guidance of Dr. Matthew Petroll, professor of ophthalmology at UT Southwestern, as part of the Green Fellowship program, which partners UT Dallas student-researchers with faculty mentors at the medical center.
Eric Graham, a senior in biology, studied the healing of eye injuries.
Graham's research focused on the underlying mechanisms of wound healing, specifically in the eye. His work could contribute to better methods for treating eye injuries and the aftermath of refractive eye surgery.
"There are very few things I am more passionate about in life than science," Graham said. "There is something exhilarating about being involved in a project and doing real research with real potential applications. It's an experience that cannot be attained merely through class, lectures and textbooks. I definitely gained a better understanding of the discipline and patience required by scientists and researchers."
Syed Mohammed Rasheed, a pre-med senior majoring in psychology and child development, also attended the Austin event. His research aims to identify natural anti-inflammatory agents that also show potent antimicrobial activity. Working with Dr. Sukanya Subramanian, a biology professor at Collin County Community College, he found that eucalyptus oil and garlic are effective at killing certain disease-causing bacteria.
"Many anti-inflammatory drugs suppress the immune system and can promote bacterial infections," said Rasheed, whose work was published in the inaugural issue of The Exley, UT Dallas's undergraduate research journal. "Plant products that both reduce inflammation and kill bacteria could have great potential to fight disease without the risk of infection."
Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol is coordinated by the Council of Public University Presidents and Chancellors, the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas, and the Texas Association of Community Colleges.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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The return of Sparrow and the Workshop is upon us. Commendably, considering we reside in the age of bands who regularly take gap years, any temptation for an extended break digging wells in Borneo for Unicef after the release of their excellent debut album Crystals Fall has been ignored. Good news. Young bands are like sharks, when they stop moving they die. Or at the very least they go nowhere.
Sparrow and the Workshop, the Glasgow based bite-size version of the Foreign Legion, have neglected to throw the baby out with any bathwater. They have resisted even acknowledging the baby, instead wisely letting it fester in whatever dirty water they concocted first time around. The traits that made them so enchanting are still here. Lead singer Jill O'Sullivan's vocals are as alluring as ever, if not more so. Nick Packer is still conjuring up dirty guitar lines that duel with the folk elements of the group. And drummer Gregor Donaldson again mysteriously grabs your attention, despite not showing off or impersonating Animal from the Muppets. Most importantly when he duets with O'Sullivan it is still special enough to make your spine tingle.
They have built on these existing foundations with the qualities that you'd expect from a band who spent the best part of 2010 on the road. The performances are tight enough to make it feel like a live album. A pet peeve with SATW was that they were at times audibly indebted to the past. This is less evident on Spitting Daggers. The trio sound more assured, comfortable within their self-made mould.
'Our Lady Of The Potatoes' is fantastic. To be perfectly honest, the title alone would garner some affection from me. Based on a novel about Louis XV's 14-year-old Irish mistress, it is the initial stand out track. 'Faded Glory' and 'Against the Grain' feel a little bit like Pixies tracks that were inexplicably left on the cutting room floor by Mr Black, while lead single 'Snakes In The Grass' has been residing in my head for over a week now.
On every listen you detect something new within the album that had gone unnoticed previously. It clearly is the product of great care and attention. Successfully showcasing a talented band routinely, and easily, veering from eerie folksy lullabies into grubby rock songs. The only negative thing that I can say about the record is that at ten songs, it is over too quickly. You are left pining for future instalments.
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Family Relationships Quarterly No. 17
Special edition on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Articles include: the emergence of healing services; strengthening culture
The Australian Institute of Family Studies acknowledges the traditional country throughout Australia on which we gather, live, work and stand.
We acknowledge all traditional custodians, their Elders past, present and emerging, and we pay our respects to their continuing connection to their culture, community, land, sea and rivers.


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That's awfully decent of the councilman. Putting his neck out there to protect kids from the evils of processed food sold by evil corporations who derive pleasure from marketing poison to our most impressionable citizens.
History has shown that middle and high school students would never do anything self-destructive unless they are goaded into it by large, heartless, national corporations, and that they would never knowingly ingest a potentially harmful substance, even if that substance would bring them immense pleasure.
Gioia would have us believe that long before fast food chains tightened their greasy grip on America's youth, kids would come home from school and reach for apples, oat brain, or steamed tofu for a quick afternoon snack before going out to play, and it wasn't until Henry McDonald grilled up the first Big Mac that the nation's meat lust really kicked in to gear.
We hate to be the one's to break it to Councilman Gioia, but people, and especially teenagers, love things that are bad for them, especially when it comes to food. The councilman has been no stranger to the healthy food bandwagon, having lived on food stamps for a week, and the council as a whole has been going on and on about radishes and beets.
Gioia and the other members of City Council may not understand the pleasures of an entire spicy chicken sandwich squeezed into a double cheeseburger (a delicacy with an hilariously unprintable name that can be bought at your local Mickey D's), but pretty much everybody else in New York City does, and that is the reason that fast food restaurants are doing great business and springing up all over the city. People eat this junk up.
Were Gioia able to legislatively require that schools be surrounded by asparagus carts on all sides and remove any fast food restaurants from a three-mile radius, kids would still run through the wall of healthy options and hustle down to the nearest Taco Bell.
True, they might burn off some of the calories from the double Whopper's they ate the day before, but Pol Position can assure our readers that nothing will keep teens from a fast food restaurant. Like flies flocking to a warm pile of ground beef, they would get to a burger joint. Ban them in Brooklyn and Queens and the kids will go to the far reaches of Staten Island for their White Castle fix.
But when will the madness end. They can keep extending the fast food ban outwards from the schools until the entire state is a burger-free zone, but then what will the legislators do? They'll have to start outlawing other foods that supposedly harm us everyday, ordinary citizens who are unable to make our own decisions. Next on that list will be candy bars and poison apples. (We don't know about you, but those are the things we look forward to nibbling on we get home. As long as we can wash it down with a bottle of Night Train.)
So, if fast food is outlawed, then only outlaws will have fast food, and we sure as heck don't want to make fast food illegal for teens, because then, White Castle hamburgers will be the "gateway drug" into a world of harder crimes.


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The Formatt 138mm Graduated Neutral Density 0.6 Filter is one of the most widely used category of filters. It enhances reality, adding a touch of subtlety or drama to the image.
Often it is necessary or desirable to balance the light intensity in one part of a scene with another. This is especially true in situations where you don't have total light control, as in bright contrasty landscapes. Exposing for the foreground will produce a washed-out, over-exposed sky while exposing for the sky will leave the foreground dark and under-exposed. This filter enables cloud detail to be kept correctly exposed in the picture.
Determining which graduated neutral density filter yields ideal results for any given lighting situation takes knowledge, experience and a collection of such filters. Choose the filter strength which adjusts the lighting to stay within the exposure latitude (greatest difference between bright/dark values) which still shows details in both of the digital or film medium in use.
Speaking generally, the 2-stop value (ND 0.6 - the filter's clear portion allows 4x more light to pass vs. darkest portion) effectively compensates average bright sky-to-foreground situations, and the soft transition is applicable more often to a scene than the hard transition Soft/hard indicates the degree of transition.


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Johnson to stay in Blue Jays' rotation
SEATTLE -- Josh Johnson will stay in the Blue Jays' rotation after throwing five scoreless innings in Tuesday's 7-2 win over the Mariners. The veteran right-hander, who won just his second game of what has been a disappointing season, is being evaluated on a start-by-start basis.
Tuesday brought a lot of firsts for Johnson -- his first win since June 23, his first road win of the season, the first time he did not allow a run since June 17, and the first time he did not allow a home run since July 9. The results were mostly due to a simple mechanical fix.
"I was staying on top of the baseball," Johnson said. "Once you stay on top of the baseball, you can do a lot of things."
"He's moving the ball well, locating his fastball," said Josh Thole, who was behind the plate on Tuesday. "We were pretty much able to throw any pitch when we wanted."
Toronto manager John Gibbons said he liked what he saw from the battery of Johnson and Thole, and will keep it together the next time through the rotation. Thole normally catches knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, and occasionally spells regular backstop J.P. Arencibia. Gibbons, though, wasn't ready to commit to Thole being Johnson's personal catcher.
Thole doesn't give the Blue Jays the best offensive weapon when he's in the lineup, as he entered Wednesday with an .098 batting average and only one extra base hit. But he went 2-for-5 with a two-run double and a run in Wednesday's 9-7 loss to the Mariners to up his average to .121. He got his third straight start with Arencibia a late scratch because of a sore left knee.
Gibbons isn't too worried about Thole's stats.
"In all fairness to him, he gives you a good at-bat and he's had some tough luck this year," Gibbons said. "He sure as heck is swinging it better than the numbers indicate. It's tough in that role to string anything together.
"I think he's definitely doing a good job for what he's been called on to do."


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Teenager eagles the third playoff hole to collect the title as Rory McIlroy tops the European Tour Money list.
Italian teenager Matteo Manassero displayed all the nerve and experience of a seasoned veteran to edge out Louis Oosthuizen on the third hole of a playoff and claim a thrilling Singapore Open victory on Sunday.
The first two days of the $6m co-sanctioned event were dampened by lengthy storm delays but with the weather gods smiling down on the Sentosa Golf Club, the tournament reached a gripping climax over the final two rounds.
As an impressive Manassero threatened to run away with the event on a day when he ended up playing 36 holes, the 2010 Open Championship winner Oosthuizen emerged from the pack and could and should have won the tournament in the playoff.
The duo birdied the par-five 18th in regulation to finish locked on 13-under 271 and after they repeated the feat on the first extra hole, Oosthuizen had a four-foot birdie putt to claim the title on the next but his nervous effort horseshoed around the back of the cup.
Both men found the fairway on their third attempt at deciding a winner, with the South African's approach landing short and left of the flag before Manassero ripped a beauty that rolled down off a slope to within 10 feet of the hole.
Oosthuizen's eagle putt curled above the hole and his opponent made no mistake, picking up a third European Tour event before his 20th birthday with an assured putt into the middle of the cup that was met with a joyous roar from the packed gallery.
"It has been an extremely long day, the adrenaline kept me going and the playoff was just a great honour to play with Louis," Manassero told reporters.
"It's the first playoff of my career and it has just been amazing really. Of course to end it with an eagle was great."
Almost forgotten in the mayhem was a brilliant final round six-under 65 from world number one Rory McIlroy that lifted the Briton up to third place on 10-under and secured the European Tour order-of-merit title with two events to spare.
"I played well all week but just didn't convert the birdie chances I gave myself," said the Northern Irishman, who was cheered on all week by tennis-playing girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki.
"I missed a lot of putts over the last four days. If I had holed a few more it would have been a different story. I am very happy how I played today and how I finished."
Halfway leader Thomas Bjorn of Denmark, who closed with a 68, finished a shot further back, and three-times Singapore Open champion Adam Scott of Australia was tied for fifth alongside Italy's Francesco Molinari on eight-under 276.
Star turn
However, the day belonged to Manassero, who arrived at the course at the crack of dawn to complete his third round and immediately recorded four consecutive birdies on the way to forging a two-shot lead heading into the final 18 holes.
"Fortunately, the key was starting really well this morning after coming back on the course and I started with some birdies in a row which was very good and gave me a lot of adrenaline to go forward," Manassero added.
The 19-year-old Italian stretched his lead to three strokes by the turn as his closest challengers began to wilt in the scorching heat but Oosthuizen was made of sterner stuff and chipped away at Manassero's advantage until he took the lead with his birdie at the last.
Manassero, three groups back of Oosthuizen, had been in defensive mode since the fourth hole and after dropping a shot on the 15th, he needed to attack again and his short birdie putt on the 72nd hole set up the thrilling playoff.


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CANADA - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is up against the ropes and has only himself to blame for Toronto city councilors openly revolting against his greedy subway plan.
Toronto Transit Commission chair Karen Stintz and a majority of council members have signed a petition demanding a special meeting on Wednesday to reverse Ford's subway plan.
Councilors are doing this for four reasons.
#1. Ford's vision for the future proposes costly subways where they aren't needed (rich parts of suburbia where most people drive anyway). Plus canceling an already approved network of fully funded light rail lines in a region that desperately needs it.
#2. Rob Ford's bullying and rowdy behaviour has councilors upset. After a year of enduring Rob Ford's abrasive governing style councilors are finally rebelling against his threats, taunts and refusals to compromise.
#3. Because Rob Ford's subway plan proposes giving billions of $$$ to his brother Doug Ford, who would be in charge of the new subway expansion... can we say NEPOTISM?
#4. Because Toronto City Council is a democracy, not the Kingdom of Rob Ford.
You see normally mayors would build coalitions and make deals to win the support of councilors so that their efforts go through... basically forcing councilors to break their promises just so they can keep different promises.
The problem is that Rob Ford doesn't keep his own promises when he makes deals with councilors. He makes a deal, gets the vote through, and then breaks off the deal before he has kept his end of the bargain. He then forms a new deal with different councilors and repeats the process.
After a year of doing this again and again Rob Ford has run out of councilors who trust him on his word. They want him to uphold promises he made and has already broken. And its apparently too late for him to go back and try and make good on his broken promises.
So its really no surprise all the city councilors he has pissed off has realized hey, lets give the axe to Rob Ford's big nepotism scheme that would see billions of dollars being funneled through his brother. Sure, we do want more subway lines, but we want them in poor neighbourhoods where they are most needed.
Now lets contrast this former mayors David Miller and Mel Lastman.
They almost NEVER lost a vote. They almost always found a way to get council support and get things done because they kept their promises and their compromises. They did lose the rare vote, but it was exceptionally rare.
Rob Ford, only a year in office, has lost control of the budget, has a city council with a majority revolt and is now facing a reversal of his transit agenda.
Between his bullying and promise breaking it is really no surprise. Even the moderates and hard line right-wingers (the backbone of Rob Ford's support) in council are turning against him.
In unrelated news Rob Ford recently lost 20 lbs during his "Cut the Waist" challenge. If he was really serious about cutting waste he would start keeping his promises and treating councilors with RESPECT.
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Lyndsay Faye, today's guest on Names: A New Perspective, is another author that I've been waiting to read for quite a while now. If not for Mount Arcstoberead, I could get to it right now! The premise of her novel The Gods of Gotham is quite intriguing: 1845 New York, newly formed NYPD, murders, the worst slums of the city. Very exciting stuff. Police procedural type fiction isn't typically my kind of reading, but as with all such cases, she comes highly recommended from the blogosphere. Given such a… contemporary historical setting for the novel, Lyndsay's approach to names is just as fascinating as from any writer of SFF fiction.


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When Will We Get a Real SimCity 5? I Ask Maxis
SimCity is what hooked me on computer gaming. It was also one of the first games I played that wasn't about killing guys or jumping on platforms. It made "urban simulation" into a fun, addictive obsession--no easy task, when you think about it.
And yet, as I was hunting down player-made patches for a bug-ridden SimCity 4 the other day, it dawned on me: this poor game is showing its age, and there's no sign of a true sequel. Has the core SimCity series been abandoned? SimCity 4 was released in January 2003. In terms of the delay between releases, this six-year span is the longest drought since the six-year wait for SimCity 2000. By comparison, exactly four years separated each of the following sequels.
What's the hold-up? Recent spin-offs like SimCity Societies and SimCity Creator miss the point. SimCity 3000 ports are fun distractions, but how many more of those can we buy?
When will we see a new version of the franchise that made Maxis? Well, I asked EA Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw, and this is what she said:
And then the interview was ended.
Shack: I was playing SimCity 4 last night. It's been a long time. When are we going to see SimCity 5?
Lucy Bradshaw: You know what, honestly, the Sims division owns the SimCity franchise. I did SimCity 4 with the team, and honestly, I love SimCity. It's my favorite game ever. It's what got me into gaming, and I want to see that franchise do well.
Shack: So... would you say that EA is committed to the franchise?
Lucy Bradshaw: Oh, absolutely. In fact, there's a new SimCity version that's out for the iPhone.
Shack: Yeah. It's pretty good.
Lucy Bradshaw: Yeah, and there's lots of different directions... I think, you know, Maxis games have traditionally been something that allows you to take a lot of different avenues and different directions. It's about, where would we reinterpret [SimCity]. When that comes to the fore, and that passion's in the right place, all of a sudden we'll be able to take advantage of it.
It's not much of a response--but, if anything, the term to focus on here might be "reinterpret."
In my PC gamer mind--which, admittedly, can often become stuck in 1998--the hypothetical SimCity 5 has always been a logical upgrade to SimCity 4. To this point, the series has been predictable in its progression. Curved roads were major bullet-points. Monorails became the stuff of dreams.
But based on Ms. Bradshaw's comments, and the span of time since the last SimCity, it makes sense that a SimCity 5 would be a reinvention of sorts. After all, you can only add so many layers to the existing SimCity model before it becomes more complex than even a typical hardcore gamer wants to deal with.
So what would a reinvention of SimCity look like, other than the rather disappointing twist seen in the recent spin-offs? One option might resemble this:
Well, not exactly this. These screenshots are from Cities XL, an upcoming urban simulator by developer Monte Cristo.
Cities XL will attempt to bring the SimCity formula to an online space. Aiming for a more realistic, high-detail aesthetic, the game will populate planets with interconnected, player-created cities--complete with a global economy and business simulation. It's an incredibly ambitious project, but Cristo supposedly has 80 team members on it, and the company expects to push out a release in 2009. Regardless of a new SimCity, Cities is certainly worth watching.
But while that kind of massive simulation is clearly more complicated than Maxis is willing to stomach, the MMO-style connectivity is reminiscent of Spore's planet pollination, and might serve a SimCity sequel well. This kind of large-scale scenario might simply be a natural extension of the city "regions" seen in SimCity 4.
Another possibility could see elements of The Sims and Spore directly carried over into a new SimCity. SimCity 4's MySims mode was more of an afterthought than an effective franchise-branching feature, and is ripe for improvement with The Sims 3's neighborhood expansion. And the building creation technology of Spore seems like a no-brainer for a SimCity 5. I've always wanted greater control over the look of my cities, but never had the patience to personally create any mods.
Of course, there is a good chance that we'll never see a real "SimCity 5"--that the "reinterpretation" will simply be another disappointing reduction of a once-great brand.
"'SimCity' kind of worked itself into a corner," said Will Wright of the series he created in 2004. "We were still appealing to this core 'SimCity' group. It had gotten a little complicated for people who had never played 'SimCity.' We want to take it back to its roots where somebody who had never heard of 'SimCity' can pick it up and enjoy playing it without thinking it was really, really hard."
Despite my respect for Mr. Wright, and the knowledge that catering to a base of hardcore PC gamers can mean financial suicide, I can't help but feel that this view represents the "easy way out" when it comes to dealing with traditionally complex PC franchises. It's a lot to ask to cast aside financial good sense "for the fans," but I'm not sure there isn't another path.
In the grand scheme of things, World of Warcraft is one of the more complicated titles in history, but Blizzard has managed to hook hundreds of thousands of new gamers on hotbars, item auctions and nightly raids. The Sims may seem simple on the outside, but it's not exactly My Fashion Designer. Captivating, complex games can also be made intuitive and approachable to non-gamers.
As someone that appreciates SimCity, and challenging games in general, I can only hope that Maxis is still open to taking a risk in attempting a SimCity game that services fans of the series without alienating new customers. There must be a way to gracefully streamline a new SimCity without destroying the depth of simulation that defines it. SimCity, as we know it, can't possibly have died in 2003.
Right, Maxis?
What would you want in a SimCity 5? Reticulate some splines in the comments.


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Genre: Music, Party
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Release Date: 20 October 2015
Genre: Music, Party
Language: English
Publisher: Activision
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It's About to Get Real
Guitar Hero® Live is here. FreeStyleGames have reinvented the legendary Guitar Hero franchise, with two innovative new gameplay modes and an all-new guitar controller.
GH Live mode puts you onstage, looking out: you get a heart-stopping first-person perspective as a real crowd reacts to the notes you play. Or switch over to GHTV - a playable music video network, where you can play along in real time, discover new music, and challenge friends around the world.
YOU are the rock star
Playing music in front of a real crowd is like no other experience. With the new GH Live first-person view, YOU'LL take center stage like never before.
Feel the rush of performing in a REAL band, in front of REAL crowds who react in REAL time to your performance. You'll either win the crowd or lose them. Plus, your band mates will also let you know if you're rocking out or need to pick it up. Fight the stage fright and bring down the house.
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Carroll shows his worth, but offense quiet
Right-hander follows up stellar Majors debut with six strong innings
CLEVELAND -- Justin Masterson, Version 2013, returned Saturday night to Progressive Field during the Indians' 2-0 victory over the White Sox.
For one night in this encouraging start to the 2014 season, the '13 White Sox also made an appearance. It only figures that a rough game for Robin Ventura's crew would take place in Cleveland, where the White Sox have now lost eight in a row.
This fourth straight loss overall for the White Sox featured two errors that contributed to two unearned runs scored off of Scott Carroll (1-1) and an absence of clutch hitting that translated into 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. The White Sox are 2-for-20 with RISP over the first two games of this three-game set.
"When we had chances, which was not many, we didn't come through," White Sox second baseman Gordon Beckham said.
"It just happened to be that Masterson was better today than I was," Carroll said.
Masterson (1-1) allowed three earned runs over 32 2/3 innings when facing the White Sox last year, and shut them out over 7 1/3 innings Saturday. But Masterson probably received a little help from the disabled list in this victory.
On April 12, Masterson yielded five runs on seven hits in a no-decision covering 4 2/3 innings vs. Chicago. The White Sox had seven starters who hit from the left side or were switch-hitters in that lineup, with left-handed hitters batting more than 100 points higher against Masterson in '14.
Look at Saturday's lineup card and there was no Adam Eaton or Conor Gillaspie, both of whom are on the disabled list. Switch-hitting Leury Garcia was part of the temporarily short White Sox bench, which also consisted of backup catcher Adrian Nieto and Paul Konerko, as the team went with 13 pitchers for the night.
"You can't do it right now. We are missing a few of them," said Ventura of loading his lineups with lefties against Masterson. "He's tough on righties."
The White Sox finished with four hits and six strikeouts against Masterson, who won for the first time since Aug. 21, 2013. Carroll pitched well enough to earn his second straight win, but didn't get the same result as he did last Sunday during his Major League debut.
Carroll appeared to pitch out of trouble in the second, after allowing Lonnie Chisenhall to reach third on a double and a long flyout, but stranded him there when Jason Giambi's infield popup produced the second out. David Murphy followed with a second straight infield pop, but on a night with wind gusts coming at 17 mph from left to right, Marcus Semien couldn't track the ball, and it tipped off of his glove for a run-scoring error.
Cleveland scored again in the fifth on Jose Ramirez's bunt single, Tyler Flowers' throwing error on the play, Mike Aviles' sacrifice bunt and Nick Swisher's sacrifice fly. Carroll finished without a strikeout and just one walk amidst his 103 pitches, and has allowed one earned run in 13 1/3 innings this season.
"They're trying to get outs, and I would never hold that against them," said Carroll of the defensive miscues. "It's just part of the game, and unfortunately it didn't go our way."
"For a young kid with not a lot of experience in the Major Leagues, he just came out and competed," said Cleveland manager Terry Francona of Carroll. "He threw a lot of his pitches for strikes."
A two-base throwing error from Chisenhall, Jordan Danks' walk and a hit-by-pitch of Flowers loaded the bases in the fifth with one out for the White Sox against Masterson. Semien followed with a line drive that was caught by Swisher and turned into an inning-ending double play when he stepped on first.
Beckham's two-out double put the tying runs in scoring position in the eighth for Jose Abreu, but Cody Allen struck out Abreu on three knuckle curves. Allen expanded the zone outside a little bit more with each of the last two pitches.
One moment of levity came in the sixth, when Chisenhall hit a ground ball to Abreu. The first baseman went to get the ball out of his glove to flip to Carroll covering, but the ball was stuck in the webbing. So Abreu flipped the entire glove to Carroll, who caught it on the run for the out.
"It's a lot easier to catch a big glove than it is a little ball, so I just tried to hold onto it as long as possible and was able to get the out," a smiling Carroll said. "That was a good job by him to be smart enough to toss his glove, because sometimes people would try and fumble with [it] and get the ball out."
Career start No. 2 was a validation moment for Carroll, who needed to prove his worth again in his mind, not knowing how long he would be up in the Majors. A few more starts such as his first two could extend this stint for quite some time.
Meanwhile, the White Sox need to stay close and survive the injury storm until their key players start to get healthy.
"You can't quit. It's not always going to go good," Beckham said. "You're not always going to be as healthy as you want to be, but the guys out there, we've got to find a way to get some wins until those guys get back."
"You'll take your lumps every once in a while," Ventura said. "When you get going, you'll get some wins."


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Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Ws Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by Deepal: http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis2/hackathon_14_06 New page: [08:52] The topic is 'Axis2 -Hackathon @ IU' (set by Deepal) [08:52] [freenode-info] please register your nickname...don't forget to auto-identify! http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup: #apache-axis [08:53] gdaniels has joined [09:15] Deepal: what is the plan today [09:15] Deepal: going through the JIRAs ? [09:17] gdaniels: we should talk about the list Srinath mailed out [09:17] gdaniels: also go through the fault scenarios like we discussed yesterday [09:17] gdaniels: maybe we should start with that after 20-45 min of emailing/JIRA wrangling [09:18] Deepal: ok [09:21] chathura has joined [09:26] jaliya has joined [09:32] srinathp has joined [09:43] srinathp: BTW I am updating Class level comments for MessageContext ect [09:43] Deepal: great [10:10] azeez has joined [10:13] Deepal: we are discussing fault handling [10:13] Deepal: 5 different places [10:14] Deepal: client out ptha, client in path , server in path , server out path [10:14] Deepal: the service [10:14] Deepal: and see whether the client get the right thing [10:20] chathura: Nice [10:20] azeez: glen regarding the ServiceLifecycle mail... [10:21] azeez: is performance the main issue with the current approach? [10:22] azeez: on the nabble.com thread, the user seems to be complaining of a debug level message (NoSuchMethod) [10:23] azeez: that doesn't seem to be a problem.... [10:23] azeez: I don't think that AXIS2-2785 is a blocker [10:23] azeez has disconnected: "Leaving" [10:24] azeez has joined [10:25] azeez: glen regarding ur mail about init & destroy methods in ServiceLifecycle [10:25] azeez: the user seems to be concerned only about a debug level NoSuchMethodError message [10:26] azeez: I don't think AXIS2-2785 is a blocker [10:51] saminda has joined [10:51] saminda: Hi All [10:52] saminda: JIRAS 2316 & 2214 and mail on Client side Proxy configuration ; what would you think [10:54] dblevins has joined [10:55] jaliya: discussing fault handling, based on operation, transport, wsa:ReplyTo, wsa:FaultTo [11:08] Chinthaka has joined [11:09] srinathp: saminda onece we are done ... we will get back to you [11:12] saminda: thank you [11:12] srinathp: to where did you sent "mail on Client side Proxy configuration"? [11:13] srinathp: axis2 dev list? 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The Celtics had a tradition last season of having only one person wear a specially colored sneakers. It is usually Paul Pierce or Rajon Rondo, and last season they wore a bright green sneaker.
The idea seemed limited. Perhaps it was in a rotation or because one player was meant to be seen easily racing up the parquet. In any respect, the one wearing the bright green sneakers was not always the high scorer.
This season again only Rondo or Pierce was shod in the shamrock suede shoes. That is, until the trees went to Brooklyn.
Neon colored sneakers do make the peripheral vision jump-and if you know who's in Cinderella's slippers, you may better make a pass. Taste in footwear in the NBA seems to be in eye of the beholder.
Though we seldom make a serious point in our comments, we wonder if there is a uniformity issue. Does the NBA not check on whether sneakers are the new steroid?
Perhaps the players went overboard when they needed custom-made shoes to accommodate their corns and bunions.
When the only choice of footwear was high-tops or low-tops, democracy went out the window and laces needed their own shoebox.
In the latest preseason game, Rondo did indeed have his keynote green sneaks, but Jeff Green went against his own team and name. He wore the fulvous yellow sneaks, which glowed in the dark and made his feet look happy even when he sat on the bench.
Green himself called the color "volt green" on his twitter account and felt that he had created a sensation with his new "kicks." Mr. Blackwell, the fashion maven, would have said the shoes clashed with the mouthguard.
Since Rondo has interned at GQ, Green might have done well to consult with the only NBA player to own a Star Trek shirt.


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Supernatural: The Musical
Okay, so I also love Glee, and one of my all-time favorite Buffy episodes is Once More with Feeling. I thought, hey, Supernatural, the musical. So I pared down the series to bare bones and tried to find songs for the turning points.
Disclaimer: Some of the songs I picked JUST for the title, not the lyrics.
Dean comes to get Sam to help him find his dad.
Jessica is killed when Sam returns, causing Sam to return to the hunting life.
Song: Highway to Hell
The boys hunt all manner of beasties.
Song: Life is a Highway
Sam begins to learn he has psychic powers, which he hides from Dean.
Song: Am I a Demon by Danzig
Dean finds out, and believes him.
Song: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
They find out there are other kids like him, that lost their mother the same way.
Their quest takes them to their childhood home, restored and haunted by something evil—and their mother.
Song: Can't Find My Way Home by Blind Faith
They are reunited with their dad.
Song: Reunited (I couldn't resist)
Their dad is kidnapped and possessed and tries to kill them.
Instead of killing Daddy, Sam shoots him in the leg, releasing the demon.
Angry Daddy, beat-up Dean and Sam drive off, only to be t-boned by a truck.
Dean is dying.
Song: Knocking on Heaven's Door
Daddy makes a deal to save him, and dies.
Song: Had a Dad by Jane's Addiction
Dean is consumed with guilt, only to be made better when he goes back on the hunt.
They find more psychic children, and Sam goes off on his own, where he's hunted down by Gordon.
Sam is kidnapped by the YED and forced to fight against the other psychic children for the dubious honor of leading Azazel's army.
Sam dies.
Song: Nice to be Dead by Iggy Pop
Dean makes a deal to bring Sam back.
Song: I Can't Live by Badfinger (I know….I tried to find something that WASN'T about love)
Dean kills the YED after the gates of hell have been opened.
Song: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell by Flaming Lips
Sam and Dean are at odds with the rest of the hunting community because they allowed the gates of hell to be opened and a bunch of demons are running around.
Ruby, a witch-turned-demon, comes to help them, though they don't trust her.
Song: Witchy Woman
Dean is dealing with the fact that he has one year to live and can't do anything about it or Sam dies.
Song: Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw
Sam has to watch Dean die over and over in a place called Mystery Spot, to show him how helpless he is.
The boys encounter an old nemesis, Agent Hendrickson, who arrests them.
Song: In the Jailhouse Now
Sam reveals that Ruby told him a demon named Lilith has been looking for him. Lilith comes to the jail after Dean and Sam leave and levels it, killing all inside.
Then Lilith comes for Dean and unleashes the hellhounds. Dean dies.
Song: Fade to Black by Metallica
Dean crawls his way out of the grave.
Song: Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down) by Johnny Cash
He meets an angel named Castiel.
Song: Send Me an Angel by Real Life
The brothers are needed to help stop Lilith from breaking the 66 seals needed to set Lucifer free.
They later learn Dean broke the first seal by torturing souls in hell.
Song: Straight to Hell by The Clash
Sam has learned, while Dean is gone, that he can be more powerful with his psychic powers when he drinks demon blood. He's become addicted.
Song: Dirty Little Secret by All American Rejects
The brothers fight violently when Sam tells Dean he's the better hunter, that Dean is too weak, and Dean is pissed because Sam is still in touch with Ruby.
The brothers discover someone is writing their life story, and he's a prophet named Chuck.
Song: The Prophets Song by Queen
Dean discovers Sam has a demon blood addiction.
Song: Lay It on the Line
Ruby tricks Sam into killing Lilith, which is the final seal, and Lucifer rises.
Song: Apocalypse Please by Muse
The boys are in the middle of a battle between Lucifer and the angels.
Song: Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears
Lucifer claims Sam is his vessel, and Sam refuses.
Song: Devil's Plaything by Danzig
The archangel Michael wants Dean as his vessel, that it's destiny, and Dean refuses.
They look for answers in God, only to learn that God doesn't think it's his problem.


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Cubs waste Lake's 4 hits, lose 6-2 to Dodgers
Junior Lake wouldn't say if he's here to stay. It's hard to envision him being sent back to the minors, now with the way he's hitting.
Lake became the first Cubs player to collect four hits twice in his first 16 major league games since at least 1916, and he was once again the lone bright spot for Chicago in a 6-2 loss to the surging Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.
"I don't make the decision," he said through an interpreter.
Actually, he might be doing just that.
It would be hard to justify sending Lake back to Triple-A anytime soon. After all, his average is at .358 since he got called up on July 19 and he's the first major leaguer since St. Louis' Bo Hart in 2003 to collect four hits twice in his first 16 games.
Even with another eye-popping performance, though, the Cubs lost for the fifth time in six games.
Mark Ellis extended his hitting streak to 13 games before both he and manager Don Mattingly were ejected, and the Dodgers matched an 89-year-old club record with their 12th straight road victory.
Ellis doubled and scored in the third inning before being tossed by plate umpire Alan Porter when he and Mattingly argued a called third strike in the fourth, but that didn't stop the Dodgers from improving to 12-2 since the All-Star break.
The NL West leaders remained unbeaten on the road since a loss at San Francisco on July 6 and matched the 1924 Brooklyn Robins for the longest streak in franchise history.
"It's pretty special," said Nick Punto, who had two hits and drove in two runs. "Pretty cool. Since 1924 someone was saying. That's really cool. This is a really special team."
Adrian Gonzalez and Yasiel Puig each added a pair of hits and scored a run for the Dodgers.
Los Angeles took control early, scoring two in the third and two more in the fourth while building a 5-1 lead and chasing All-Star Travis Wood (7-8).
That was enough for Hyun-Jin Ryu (10-3), who became the first Dodgers rookie to win 10 games since Kazuhisa Ishii in 2002. The left-hander matched a season high by allowing 11 hits in 5 1-3 innings but held Chicago to just two runs. He also struck out six without a walk.
Wood lasted just 3 1-3 innings in his shortest outing of the year, allowing five runs and seven hits. He threw 96 pitches and walked a season-high five, including four in a row in the third to force in the inning's second run after back-to-back doubles by Ellis and Punto and make it 3-1.
Was Porter squeezing him?
"No. I felt like I was just missing," Wood said.
The Dodgers added to their lead in the fourth after Ellis and Mattingly got tossed.
Ryu had just led off with a single when Ellis got called out on a 3-2 pitch. He threw his bat a few feet and raised his arms, leading to an ejection by Porter, and then slammed his helmet in disgust.
"It should never happen," Ellis said. "It's embarrassing to get thrown out of a game, especially when there was no reason for it."
His manager wound up getting thrown out for the third time this season and bumping into Porter as the argument continued. Mattingly thought the umpire actually walked into him.
"I felt like he did," Mattingly said. "I didn't feel like I was going forward. I'm sure the video will show. I'm pretty sure I wasn't going forward. I feel OK about that."
NOTES: President of baseball operations Theo Epstein said July was a winning month for the Cubs, and he wasn't talking just about their 14-13 record. They beefed up their farm system by trading away Alfonso Soriano and Matt Garza and signing draft picks and international players. "It was a good month," Epstein said. "For people who are wanting things to go well in the organization, looking for progress, they can see the progress, seize onto it. It's a time for hope and optimism. That applies to all of us. It was easier to come to work the last few days than it was a couple months ago. It's an important time to remind everyone, remind ourselves, that the progress isn't linear. There are going to be other really bad months."... Mattingly said pitcher Stephen Fife, on the disabled list with right shoulder bursitis, will "chuck" for Triple-A Albuquerque or in Chicago on Sunday. If Fife is with Albuquerque, he would presumably pitch. But Mattingly was a bit evasive when asked if Fife would throw on the side or pitch in a game on Sunday if he's in Chicago. Zack Greinke is scheduled to start that day for the Dodgers, and Mattingly said, "Right now we're in line." ... Former Cubs closer Carlos Marmol worked a scoreless ninth, allowing a hit and a walk in his first appearance at Wrigley Field after being dealt to the Dodgers a month ago.


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The Del Taco Double Cheeseburger in Real Life
Of the many tastes and behaviors I developed in childhood that persist in this manchild, a taste for fast food isn't one of them. I rarely find myself struggling to simply drive by a late night drive through, or finding excuses to take other people's kids out to lunch so as to justify a McMeal. This doesn't mean that I engage in that willful, urban, exaggerated befuddlement over its popularity—I am fully aware that fast food plays on our evolutionary drive toward sugar, fat and salt. And laziness. Most days, you can find me indulging in all four. Maybe I am meant to enjoy fast food. Del Taco, here I come.
...Actually, Robyn gave me the heads up that one of our readers suggested we try on the double cheeseburger at Del Taco. A delicious burger hiding in plain sight? Not so much. Here is what it looks like in real life.
It's not a bad looking burger out of the box, but the flavors just don't do much for me. The bun and meat are bland, and veggies are about school lunch quality. There was one thing that caught my attention: This burger came off a hot griddle with a healthy amount of grease...in the good way.
That said, if you are determined to go to a Mexican restaurant in search of a burger, you'd do so much better to head over to Yuca's. This isn't the first time we've mentioned Yuca's, but, being that my Del Taco experience happened just minutes from the two outposts of the seriously delicious burrito stands in Los Feliz, I had to remind you about their cheeseburger: It's fresh, salty, greasy, and a fast food-level bargain. Del Taco—well, it's just fast food.
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This macro searches for an installed tabix library. If nothing was specified when calling configure, it searches first in /usr/local and then tries with ld's default library search path. If the –with-tabix=DIR is specified, it will try to find it in DIR/include/tabix/tabix.h and DIR/lib/libtabix.a. As a final try it will look in DIR/tabix.h and DIR/libtabix.a as the tabix library does not contain an install rule.
If –without-tabix is specified, the library is not searched at all.
If either the header file (tabix.h) or the library (libtabix) is not found, the configuration exits on error, asking for a valid tabix installation directory or –without-tabix.
The macro defines the symbol HAVE_TABIX if the library is found. You should use autoheader to include a definition for this symbol in a config.h file. Sample usage in a C/C++ source is as follows:
#ifdef HAVE_TABIX #include <tabix.h> #endif /* HAVE_TABIX */
The following output variables are set with AC_SUBST:
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WARNING: This is the _old_ Lustre wiki, and it is in the process of being retired. The information found here is all likely to be out of date. Please search the new wiki for more up to date information.
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For more information about these utilities, see Chapter
For more information about these utilities, see Chapter : ''System Configuration Utilities''in the [[Lustre_Documentation|''Lustre Operations Manual'']]. This section also describes other system configuration utilities, such as ''lustre_rmmod'', ''e2scan'', ''l_getgroups'', ''llobdstat'', ''llstat'', ''lst'', ''plot-llstat'', ''routerstat'', and ''ll_recover_lost_found_objs'', as well as utilities to manage large clusters, perform application profiling, and test and debug Lustre.
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This page describes how to configure a simple Lustre file system comprised of a combined MGS/MDT, an OST and a client. The administrative utilities provided with Lustre, however, can be used to set up systems with many different configurations.
Note: We recommend that you use dotted-quad (dot-decimal) notation for IP addresses (IPv4) rather than host names. This aids in reading debug logs and helps when debugging configurations with multiple interfaces.
Configuring the Lustre File System
Complete these steps to configure Lustre Networking (LNET) and the Lustre file system:
1. Define the module options for Lustre networking (LNET) by adding this line to the /etc/modprobe.conf file. The modprobe.conf file is a Linux file that specifies which parts of the kernel are loaded.
options lnet networks=<network interfaces that LNET can use>
- This step restricts LNET to using only the specified network interfaces and prevents LNET from using all network interfaces.
- As an alternative to modifying the modprobe.conf file, you can modify the modprobe.local file or the configuration files in the modprobe.d directory.
- Note: For details on configuring networking and LNET, see Chapter 2: Understanding Lustre Networking in the Lustre Operations Manual.
2. (Optional) Prepare the block devices to be used as OSTs or MDTs. Depending on the hardware used in the MDS and OSS nodes, you may want to set up a hardware or software RAID to increase the reliability of the Lustre system. For more details on how to set up a hardware or software RAID, see the documentation for your RAID controller or see Chapter 10: RAID in the Lustre Operations Manual.
3. Create a combined MGS/MDT file system on the block device. On the MDS node, run:
mkfs.lustre --fsname=<fsname> --mgs --mdt <block device name>
- The default file system name (fsname) is lustre.
- Note: If you plan to generate multiple file systems, the MGS should be on its own dedicated block device.
4. Mount the combined MGS/MDT file system on the block device. On the MDS node, run:
mount -t lustre <block device name> <mount point>
5. Create the OST. On the OSS node, run:
mkfs.lustre --ost --fsname=<fsname> --mgsnode=<NID> <block device name>
- You can have as many OSTs per OSS as the hardware or drivers allow.
- You should use only one OST per block device. Optionally, you can create an OST which uses the raw block device and does not require partitioning.
- Note: If the block device has more than 8 TB of storage, it must be partitioned due to the ext3 file system limitation. Lustre can support block devices with multiple partitions, but they are not recommended because bottlenecks may result.
6. Mount the OST. On the OSS node where the OST was created, run:
mount -t lustre <block device name> <mount point>
- Note: To create additional OSTs, repeat Steps 5 and 6.
7. Create the client (mount the file system on the client). On the client node, run:
- mount -t lustre <MGS node>
- /<fsname> <mount point>
- Note: To create additional clients, repeat Step 7]].
8. Verify that the file system started and is working by running the UNIX commands df, dd and ls on the client node.
- a. Run the df command.
- [[email protected] /] df -h
- b. Run the dd command.
- [[email protected] /] cd /lustre
- [[email protected] /lustre] dd if=/dev/zero of=/lustre/zero.dat bs=4M count=2
c. Run the ls command.
- [[email protected] /lustre] ls -lsah
If you have a problem mounting the file system, check the syslogs for errors.
Lustre Configuration Example
For an example illustrating the configuration steps described in the previous section for a Lustre installation comprising a combined MGS/MDT, an OST and a client, see Lustre Configuration Example.
Lustre Configuration Utilities
Once the Lustre file system is configured, it is ready for use. If additional configuration is necessary, several configuration utilities are available.
- mkfs.lustre - Formats a disk for a Lustre service.
- tunefs.lustre - Modifies configuration information on a Lustre target disk.
- lctl - Is used to directly control Lustre via an ioctl interface, allowing various configuration, maintenance and debugging features to be accessed.
- mount.lustre - Starts a Lustre client or target service.
For more information about these utilities, see Chapter 31: System Configuration Utilities in the Lustre Operations Manual. This section also describes other system configuration utilities, such as lustre_rmmod, e2scan, l_getgroups, llobdstat, llstat, lst, plot-llstat, routerstat, and ll_recover_lost_found_objs, as well as utilities to manage large clusters, perform application profiling, and test and debug Lustre.


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Recommendations on antivirals in European countries are appropriate, but remain underutilised in practice
Current recommendations in EU countries to use neuraminidase inhibitors (antivirals) for patients with severe influenza are supported by the available evidence, concludes a new expert opinion report from ECDC which is now open for public consultation.
Expert panel reviews neuraminidase inhibitors for the prevention and treatment of influenza
An ECDC expert opinion concludes that there is clear evidence supporting the use of neuraminidase inhibitors in the treatment and prevention of influenza. Moreover, the current recommendations in European countries on the use of the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir and zanamivir are appropriate and should be applied by prescribing physicians.
Influenza vaccination coverage rates insufficient across EU Member States
None of the European Union (EU) Member States could demonstrate that they reach the EU target of 75% influenza vaccination coverage for vulnerable groups, according to a new report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of business travelers regarding influenza and the use of antiviral medicationArchived
This descriptive study evaluated knowledge, attitudes and practices of Swiss business travelers with regards to influenza and the use of anti-viral medication.
Global Review of recent Antiviral Resistance dataArchived
Each year in February WHO convenes a meeting with advisers from the WHO Influenza Collaborating Centres and Essential Reference laboratories in order to achieve consensus and advise WHO on the optimal formulation of seasonal influenza vaccines for the next influenza season.
Two evaluations of the response to the 2009 Pandemic in Spain: Surveillance and Vaccines and antiviralsArchived
Two official evaluations have been made by the national Ministry of Health of Spain of their country's response to the 2009 influenza pandemic. The reviews focused on two particular topics - Surveillance and Vaccines and Antivirals.
How effective were neuraminidase inhibitors during the 2009 pandemic?Archived
This systematic review and meta-analysis of observational data from an established group of specialists assessed treatment outcomes for all three neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs); oseltamivir, zanamivir and peramivir given to hospitalised patients with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 during the 2009 pandemic.
New and updated evaluations of neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza published
This evaluated patients admitted to hospital with laboratory-confirmed or clinically diagnosed influenza A H1N1pdm09 virus infection.


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My father remembering his youth, from the suite Appassionata
Salvatore Zofrea
24 Sep 1946 -
The Appassionata series is the most detailed account of the principal experiences in the life of Salvatore Zofrea, focusing on his birth and early life in Borgia, Southern Italy, his migration to Australia, his travels, maturation as an artist, family, personal relationships and friends.
Zofrea is one of the finest exponents of woodcut in Australia. His work as a painter and printmaker is inextricably linked - his woodcut prints have been influenced by his work as a painter especially in the richness of their texture, composition and ambition, as has his painting by his activity as a printmaker - his paintings have become simpler in expression and design since he has been making woodcuts.
The series is in an edition of 14 with 6 artist's proofs, four of which are on Japanese paper textured by the wooden boards on which the paper is dried after couching.
Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002
Media category
Materials used
woodblock print; black ink on heavy white Japanese Hitachi paper
Hors Commerce
45.0 x 59.5 cm blockmark; 84.0 x 63.6 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed beneath the printed image l.r. corner, pencil "Zofrea". Not dated.
Gift of the artist 2002
Not on display
Accession number
© Salvatore Zofrea. Licensed by Copyright Agency
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
Salvatore Zofrea 'Appassionata': one hundred woodcuts:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 29 Mar 2000–08 May 2000
- Migration Museum, Adelaide 11 Sep 2000–06 Jan 2001
- Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle 02 Feb 2001–21 Mar 2001
- John Curtin Gallery, Bentley 06 Apr 2001–27 May 2001
- Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra 07 Jun 2001–15 Jul 2001
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 30 Aug 2001–28 Oct 2001
- Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains 01 Dec 2001–03 Feb 2002
Referenced in 1 publication
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Salvatore Zofrea: Appassionata woodcuts, 'The artist's commentaries', pg. 16-45, Sydney, 2000, 42 (illus.), 43 (illus., detail), 79. cat.no. 79