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The Test of Metal locals-only registration period—which opened to residents living from from Furry Creek to Darcy at 6pm, Dec. 1—closed at 9:07 pm the same evening when all 200 reserved spaces were filled, just three hours after opening.
The Test of Metal continued with the locals-only registration period after the success of the past three years.
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"It went really smoothly," said Race Director Cliff Miller. "It seems we sell the first 100 spaces really quickly, and then the next hundred take a little time. Still, we didn't advertise this registration beyond our past riders list and the website, and the spaces still go quickly."
Local riders who were not successful at this registration period still have the opportunity to register at the general registration at 6pm PST on January 1, 2011.
Miller also said that the Test of Metal will continue with its no wait-list policy of the past couple of years.
The Test of Metal, a 67 kilometre mountain bike race, is the most successful cross-country mountain bike in Canada and has sold out for the last 14 years.
Test of Metal Inc. is a not-for-profit limited company run entirely by volunteers. Since its inception, the Test of Metal has donated more than $125,000 to community organizations and events.
Registrations will only be accepted on-line through the Test of Metal website at www.testofmetal.com.
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LAS VEGAS, March 28 (UPI) -- Dierks Bentley and Brad Paisley have been added to the lineup of performers at the 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards show in Las Vegas, CBS said.
The ceremony will take place Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Bentley and Paisley will join previously announced performers Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride with Pat Monahan, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Chris Young, The Band Perry, Lady Antebellum and Rascal Flatts.
Lionel Richie and Taylor Swift are to be presenters alongside previously announced stars Beth Behrs, Hunter Hayes and Nancy O'Dell.


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UN Deputy-Secretary General Jan Eliasson today finishes a two day visit to Brussels where he has had meetings with European officials. Among others Mr Eliasson met with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
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HelloBeautiful.com's "Base Level" column features the hottest new artists we're buzzing about. Before they make it to the summit of superstardom, we spot them at base level–the beginning of their hopeful journey to the top.
Jassie Tristina may be young, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know what she's doing.
The Washington, D.C. native started singing before the training wheels came off, and began to pursue her musical career at the age of 12. The benefits of getting a head start: How about being a part of the 2012 Grammy camp, recording with Quincy Jones, working with John Legend, and singing "Oh Holy Night" for "The Best Man: Holiday" soundtrack! She's done all this amazing work and can't even buy liquor (legally, that is).
Jassie Tristina dialed in from L.A. to talk to #TeamBeautiful about her career, her new single "The One" and how her musical idol has inspired her career.
Like we said, she may be young, but she knows what she's doing.
Name: Jassie Tristina
Age: 18
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Who are some of your musical influences: I love Brandy. She has wonderful riffs. Sade. Etta James and Stevie Wonder.
When did you realize that music was your passion? I've been singing since I was three and professionally since I was 12 and I did a lot of background work for Quincy Jones, The Jonas Brothers and John Legend. Working with all those professional musicians was when I realized this was something I wanted to do.
What has been your biggest break thus far? I would definitely say that working on the Quincy Jones soundtrack "Soul Boss Nostra" CD. I sang a remake to John Legend's song "Tomorrow" that was a big deal. I wasn't nervous, instead I was excited to do it and it was my first big project to be a part of.
If you could be the love child of two artists-dead or alive-who would they be and why? Definitely Brandy because she has a wonderful tone and she has done everything at my age, that I as a young female artist want to do. She wasn't boxed in. Then Etta James. She has wonderful tone and impeccable songs that I really love.
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Oxygen to Premiere New Docu-Series GIRLFRIEND CONFIDENTIAL: LA, 9/3
Oxygen Media's new tell-all docu-series, GIRLFRIEND CONFIDENTIAL: LA, captures the ups and downs of four beautiful and intelligent women taking the city of dreams by storm, beginning Monday, September 3, at 11 PM ET/PT. This six-episode series features former "America's Next Top Model" winner, Eva Marcille, and her best friends as they help one another navigate the tumultuous waters of love and celebrity life against the cutthroat backdrop of Hollywood's entertainment industry. Eva and her friends form a trustworthy support group including actress Denyce Lawton, dynamic interior and product designer Nikki Chu, and talent and brand manager, Kelly Marie Dunn.
"Girlfriend Confidential: LA" is a perfect match for Oxygen viewers: sexy, vibrant women at the top their games and going for their dreams," said Rod Aissa, Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development for Oxygen Media. "Our viewers can relate to these four amazing women in so many ways. Eva and her friends are at various points in their lives, and they're taking career risks, looking for love, and just trying to figure out the next step. Yet they know that whatever happens, they're anchored by their unbreakable friendship."
"Girlfriend Confidential: LA" Cast:
Eva Marcille- @evamarcille
At the epicenter of this savvy group is fashion model, actor, and producer Eva Marcille. She rose to fame as "America's Next Top Model," but is now working hard on her acting career and wants to market herself as an entrepreneur and not just a model. Eva's current love interest, Anthony, fits perfectly into her private life because he is a normal guy with a huge heart. However, with their one-year relationship mark quickly approaching, Eva must decide if Anthony will be in her future.
Denyce Lawton- @denycelawton
Having starred in "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," Denyce Lawton is a rising actress who keeps it real and tells it like it is. She is trying to adapt to the single life after recently breaking off an engagement, while also grieving the tragic loss of her brother to a senseless murder.
Nikki Chu- @lovenikkichu
Nikki Chu is a high-profile design diva who wants to be the next Martha Stewart and has worked hard to build her design company, Nikki Chu Design. As the most Zen-like of the group, she's constantly laying out her "wisdom" to the ladies.
Kelly Marie Dunn- @kellymariedunn
Also known as the "Pink Piranha," Kelly Marie Dunn is a tiny bundle of beauty, brains and sassy ambition. She made a name for herself as the day-to-day product manager for Lady Gaga when the singer was on the verge of massive superstardom and she is currently rebranding herself.
Fans of "Girlfriend Confidential: LA" can "like" the show's official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/GirlfriendConfidentialLA and follow along on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/gclaonoxygen for access to exclusive content.
"Girlfriend Confidential: LA" is produced by Ish Entertainment with Michael Hirschorn, Wendy Roth, Madison Merritt, and Gil Lopez serving as executive producers.
About Ish Entertainment
Ish Entertainment is a three-year-old Production Company based in New York and L.A. that produces series for multiple networks and digital outlets. Ish currently has more than a half-dozen series and numerous other projects in production, including "All About Aubrey" and "Brooklyn 11223" for Oxygen, "Fix My Family" and "I Do Over" for WE, "Styled By June" for VH1, and not-yet-announced series at other nets. Under its recent overall with MTV Networks, Ish produced several series for MTV: "Gone Too Far," an 8-part documentary project about youth and drug addiction that starred the recently deceased Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein; "Road To Redemption," a series that followed the rapper T.I. during his year before serving a jail term for guns possession; "The Money and Power," a series starring the rapper 50 Cent in which he gave street advice to aspiring entrepreneurs; and several seasons of "Paris Hilton's My New BFF" for domestic (MTV) and international markets. "My Antonio," a reality dating show starring Antonio Sabato Jr., aired in 2009 on VH1. Ish recently created a co-venture with former Sundance CEO Larry Aidem, Iconic Entertainment, to develop and run digital networks. Company founder Michael Hirschorn was the head of programming at VH1 from 2004-2008, where he spawned numerous hits and helped double the network's ratings.
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Oxygen Media is a multiplatform lifestyle brand that delivers relevant and engaging content to young women who like to "live out loud." Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's media by changing how the world sees entertainment from a young woman's point of view. Through a vast array of unconventional and original content, including "The Glee Project," "Best Ink," "Bad Girls Club" and "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," the growing cable network is the premier destination to find unique and groundbreaking unscripted programming. "The Glee Project" is a winner of a 2012 Gracie Award which honors programming created for women, by women and about women for "Outstanding Reality Show." A social media trendsetter, Oxygen is a leading force in engaging modern young women, wherever they are, with popular, award winning features online including www.OxygenLive.com, the real time social viewing party that is also available as an app for the iPhone and iPad. Oxygen is available in 80 million homes, and can be found online and on mobile devices at www.oxygen.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/OxygenPR. Oxygen Media is a service of NBCUniversal.


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Police confirm Vermont's first bath salt death
Man overdosed in June
Vermont State Police confirm the state's first bath salt-related death.
Bath salts were sold in stores in the Green Mountain State until last week when the state added them to its banned substance list.
The state's chief medical examiner has determined Christopher Tsacoyeanes, 28, died from an overdose of the synthetic drugs. Tsacoyanes was found deceased inside his Clarendon, Vt., residence on June 23.
"Legal or illegal, it's deadly," said Dr. Harry Chen, Vermont's health commissioner. "It's not your grandma's bath salts -- it can kill you."
They're called bath salts on the street, but they're not what you would use in the bathroom. The drugs contain addictive amphetamine or methamphetamine-like stimulants causing hallucinations, paranoia and even death, Chen said.
The chemicals can be fatal with the onset of seizures, which can lead to suffocation, he said, or over stimulation of the heart leading to arrhythmia.
"We know that the effects can be devastating and deadly," said Keith Flynn, the state's public safety commissioner. "We know that now for a fact."
On the heels of a bath salt-related death, state officials want to continue to caution the public on using the illegal drugs.
"These are substances that are made not for human consumption," Chen said. "Obviously they're extremely dangerous if not deadly. These are literally created to get around regulation and laws about ingesting substances."
Police also found a large amount of chemicals inside Tsacoyeanes' residence, a spokeswoman said.
Last week, 86 of the designer drugs were added to Vermont's regulated drug list. The list bans the making, selling or usage of the drugs statewide.
'What we've been trying to do in Vermont… is to make them all illegal, but as you might expect chemistry can be creative," Chen said.
The state plans to add 84 more synthetic drugs to the list in the weeks to come, Chen said.
According to a health department spokesman, 11 people went to the hospital because of bath salt-related reasons in Vermont in 2011. But, those numbers do not include unreported incidents.


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Last New Year's Eve, a three-year-old child in Brooklyn suddenly collapsed, had a seizure and was rushed to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. The doctors inserted a tube in her throat to breathe, and another tube through to her stomach for nourishment.
The child never regained consciousness.
Thus was the beginning of a case that has resulted in a humane decision by Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, one that would not have been necessary if the New York State Legislature would pass a bill called the Family Health Care Decisions Act.
The Case
The doctors diagnosed the child as having suffered "massive loss of brain functioning" from an abnormal rate of heart muscle contractions. The child, the doctors concluded, would remain permanently unconscious, totally unaware of her environment, without the ability to think or interact - a vegetative state..The child was kept alive by a mechanical ventilator and the feeding tube.
The child's mother visited the unconscious child every day. Unwilling to continue to watch her daughter suffer without hope of recovery, the mother consulted the doctors, the hospital's medical ethics team, her family, and the child's father on whether to terminate life support. All parties agreed that ending life support was in the best interest of the child and the mother was fully capable of making that decision.
But the Health and Hospitals Corporation, the city agency that oversees the hospital, refused the mother's request.
Why The City Refused
In denying the mother's request, the Health and Hospitals Corporation cited its policy that prohibits staff from withdrawing or withholding care without the individual's consent.
The policy is rooted in the legal recognition that competent adults may refuse treatment. Children, however, cannot make this decision because they are not old enough. The question then arises, who can make that determination on behalf of a child in a vegetative state?
Most states, recognizing the care and love of family members, have left this determination to the family. New York, however, has not.
In 1981 the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in the State, ruled that the state is responsible for making the determination on behalf of a child and can supersede the wishes of the family. That case, Matter of Storar, found that the state serves as the omniscient parent for the public and may supercede a family's refusal to treat an individual.
Throughout the 1980's and 1990's most states began to recognize a parent's right to refuse unwanted medical care on behalf of their child in consultation with doctors without receiving court approval. In 1993 the first proposal in New York for family decision making to terminate life support was introduced in the Assembly. Every time the bill passed the Assembly it languished in the Senate..
Currently, New York and Missouri stand alone as the only two states that do not recognize that responsible parents, in conjunction with doctors and medical staff, are in the best position to determine whether to end a child's life support.
Justice Ling-Cohan's Decision
Earlier this year the mother filed suit to prohibit the continued languishment of her child. The mother sought to have the Health and Hospitals Corporation's policy declared void.
At trial, several doctors testified that the child had no hope of recovering and that the mother was a caring, devoted and loving parent. In addition, the doctors and a guardian appointed for the child testified that the mother made a fully informed decision.
Then the mother testified. The record is sealed as to what she said.
In May in a strongly worded decision, Justice Ling- Cohan ruled that "[a]bsent extraordinary circumstances such as incapacity, conflict of interest, or disagreement between parents, a parent of a minor child with an established diagnosis of persistent vegetative state should have the right to decide whether to terminate life support in the best interest of the child, without the necessity of judicial intervention."
The decision, Justice Ling-Cohan concluded, "to end the dying process of a minor child is a personal decision for the parents, in consultation with the child's medical providers, as they bear the legal, moral and ethical responsibility for their child. . . . [There is no] State interest great enough to compel [the child] to remain subjected to this extraordinary life-sustaining measure."
While the image of a three-year-old child lying in a persistent vegetative state is horrendous, it is hard to imagine how much pain her mother suffered watching her own child in that state and then being forced to testify about it.
A bill now pending in the Senate, the Family Health Care Decisions Act, would rectify this by making judicial intervention unnecessary when numerous safeguards are met. It would be irresponsible, particularly in light of the existence of these laws in 48 other states, for the Senate not to move on this bill.
Matter of AB, Index No. 401184/03 (Ling-Cohan, J.) (N.Y.Cty.Sup.Ct.) May 20, 2003 (N.Y.Cty.Sup.Ct.) (Attorneys: Elisabeth Benjamin, Samuel Davol, for AB; Salvatore Russo, Stacey Mondschein, Kenneth R. Larywon, Michael Zhu, for HHC).


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For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit for full-time use inside the United States to deal with national emergencies, including terrorism, natural disasters and civil unrest.
Beginning today, the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division will be placed under the command of US Army North, the Army's component of the Pentagon's Northern Command (NorthCom), which was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with the stated mission of defending the US "homeland" and aiding federal, state and local authorities.
For 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.[…]
After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.
"Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future," said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. "Now, the plan is to assign a force every year."[…]
They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the "jaws of life" to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.
The 1st BCT's soldiers also will learn how to use "the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded," 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.
The package is for use only in war-zone operations, not for any domestic purpose.
"It's a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they're fielding. They've been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we're undertaking we were the first to get it."
The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.[…]
The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced "sea-smurf").
"I can't think of a more noble mission than this," said Cloutier, who took command in July. "We've been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home … and depending on where an event occurred, you're going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones."[…]
Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all or part of the brigade could be scrambled there, depending on the extent of the need and the specialties involved.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.100 n.12 Pretoria Dec. 2010
HIV diagnosis in a mobile unit
To the Editor: I read the article on HIV diagnosis in mobile unit with great interest.1 Van Schaik et al. concluded that 'Mobile services are accessed by a different population compared with facility-based services'.1 I agree that the HIV diagnosis via a mobile unit can be a useful approach for early diagnosis. However, there are some problems to be kept in mind. Quality control (QC) of the HIV test should be carefully considered. There can be problems in this regard in good hospital laboratories, and there is no doubt that QC could potentially be more difficult in a mobile unit.2 To optimise the usefulness of the mobile HIV screening programme, standardisation and quality management are very important.
Viroj Wiwanitkit
Wiwanitkit House
1. van Schaik N, Kranzer K, Wood R, Bekker LG. Earlier HIV diagnosis - are mobile services the answer? S Afr Med J 2010;100:671-674. [ Links ]
2. Proffitt MR, Yen-Lieberman B. Laboratory diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection. Infect Dis Clin North Am 1993;7(2):203-219. [ Links ]
Van Schaik et al. reply: We agree that adequate and regular quality control of HIV test kits as well as adequate training in performing HIV tests are extremely important.
HIV tests performed at the mobile clinic, community clinic and hospital are all rapid HIV tests, performed outside a laboratory by nursing staff, and are subject to the same quality control issues.
Staff working on the mobile unit are all trained in the use of the rapid tests and our standard operating procedures. We have our own quality control programme and are part of an external quality assurance programme run by the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), where to date we have scored 100%. In addition we have an informal quality control method in that we see many known HIVpositive individuals who request re-testing. Any discrepant results are confirmed with laboratory HIV enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)/polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
HIV test kits are stored at temperatures of less than 30ºC in our offices and only enough for that day's testing are taken out on the mobile unit.
For our own quality control programme, samples from known positive and known negative individuals (confirmed by laboratory HIV ELISA testing) are run with each new batch and monthly thereafter. The control samples must give the intended response (i.e. positive or negative). The staff member who performed the quality control procedure records the results on the rapid HIV testing quality control log sheet, which then gets filed. Any control problems are immediately reported to the project manager and acted on.


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Saying the ads on Facebook don't work, General Motors Co. plans to stop advertising on the social media website, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
… The company's marketing executives determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers, people familiar with the matter said, a move that comes as more companies question the effectiveness of advertising on the social networking site.
The largest U.S. auto maker will continue to expand its use of marketing through Facebook's pages, in which markers can display content at no cost, these people said.
The move comes just days before Facebook's much-publicized stock offering, Forbes.com said.
GM spends about $40 million a year on Facebook marketing, according to the Wall Street Journal, about $10 million of which is for paid advertisements. It will continue to post relevant content about the company and its brands on GM's Facebook pages.
GM marketing chief Joel Ewanick told the Journal that GM "is definitely reassessing our advertising on Facebook, although the content is effective and important."


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I don't tend to make a habit of being in Central London before 9am on a Saturday, but I chose to break my own rules as part of my quest on learning how to code.
International technology school Decoded has generated a bit of a buzz in recent months. From Brand Republic's Editor in Chief Danny Rogers giving it a thumbs up to founder Kathryn Parsons 'selling it' in Stylist, my colleague and I were eager to check it out. On a Saturday. Have I mentioned that already?
Wooed by the appeal of a continental breakfast, we made our way there. But, on the way, I made a mental note of what I wanted to get out of the day. After all, at more than £400 a pop (and that's just the weekend rate), Decoded needs to deliver results.
So, how did it do?
1) I'll be able to read code well enough to understand when, and where, there is a problem within the text
Going through the fundamental principles of HTML, CSS and Java Script, in theory I should be able to read and write in code. It helped that Decoded's system underlined errors in red, but going forward this is a case of practice makes perfect. If I keep at it, and focus just as much on the coding – opposed to just the visuals – it won't be long before I'm fluent.
2) I'll be able to simplify the fundamentals in order to make recommendations or flag issues to clients
The demonstrators did a great job of breaking the complex content down for us. And, like the above, if I can truly understand the basics then I'll be well-equipped to explain it to others. But, in the meantime, I can always rely on Decoded's follow-up resources pack to ensure I become a savvy wordsmith.
3) I'll get to know what elements generate the best call to actions and how to input these into my projects
Because this is a starter course, we didn't delve into techniques that manipulate websites to increase engagement, interaction or sales etc.
Instead, we spent the day working on an app that allowed customers to check-in from a single geographical location, in order to collect rewards. That in itself was definitely more than I bargained for – teaching me the 'not so subtle' differences between the front and back end of websites.
4) I'll be able to code an aspect of the projects I work on without simply rewriting existing templates
Yes and no. Using the foundations of coding, technically I can create content from scratch. But, whether I could do this within my company's house style is yet to be tested. We remained very much in the safe territory of Decoded's web design editing system. And, after nine hours of intense learning, I was grateful for that.
Overall, I was highly impressed by the professionalism of the course. It was relaxed and informal, but very effective. It's definitely empowered me to carry on pushing myself to learn new things. After all, I can't have primary school pupils showing me up in a few years time now that coding is on the curriculum.
Having these skills now will help a budding brand storyteller like myself profit in the future.
And, I must admit, it felt darn good to be sat around a big table carving out a digital masterpiece on a MacBook Air.
Very New York.
Have you been 'Decoded'? What did you make of it?


text: Division I quarterfinals Maryland vs. Bryant (at Hofstra), Saturday, noon (ESPN2) Sophomore midfielder Henry West of Darien has 14 goals and eight assists for the Terrapins, including an assist on the last-second winning goal in the first round against Cornell, his former school. Junior defender Eric Parnon of Darien has played nine games for Maryland. Bryant has a host of locals, nine in all. They're headlined by senior midfielder Colin Dunster of Greenwich, an All-NEC selection, who had two goals in the Bulldogs' shocker over Syracuse in the first round. The others are freshman attackmen Brett Baker (Ridgefield) and Drew D'Antonio (Norwalk/McMahon), sophomore long-stick midfielder Will Gould (New Canaan), junior midfielder Robbie Cordisco (Weston), sophomore middie Jack Clippinger (Stamford/Salisbury), junior defender Kevin Maiorano (Easton/Fairfield Prep), sophomore defender Joe Marx (Fairfield Warde) and freshman defender Charles South (Ridgefield/Taft). Notre Dame vs. Albany (at Hofstra), Saturday, 2:30 (ESPN2) Redshirt freshman Eric Scala of Ridgefield had a couple of points in 11 games at midfield for Albany. Former McMahon standout attackman Zack Bartolo hasn't played as a freshman for the Irish. Duke vs. Johns Hopkins (at Delaware), Sunday, noon (ESPNU) Former Darien standout Case Matheis had three goals in a first-round win over Air Force for Duke. Blue Devils senior midfielder Charlie Payton, who's played every game and picked up 21 ground balls, and freshman middie Teddy Henderson are from Greenwich. Junior midfielder Bronson Kelly of Easton has started three games for Johns Hopkins. Denver vs. Drexel (at Delaware) Sunday, 2:30 (ESPNU) Norwalk appears on both lineups: Denver sophomore midfielder Colin Woolford, former Choate player, has played eight games. Midfielder Clifton Simeon has been limited to one game as a junior for Drexel. Division II semifinals LIU Post at Adelphi, Sunday, 1 p.m. Post has three locals, led by junior defender Steve Gruse of New Fairfield, who's forced 10 turnovers in 15 games, among the team leaders. Also on the team are sophomore goalie Adam Winne of Ridgefield and sophomore midfielder Michael Pristouris of Danbury. Tampa at Limestone, Sunday, 1 p.m. The one matchup in all three divisions without a local. Division III quarterfinals SUNY Cortland at Tufts, Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. Tufts includes sophomore defender Curt Townshend of New Canaan and Brunswick, who played all 18 games for the Jumbos. Freshman midfielder Mike Mattson of Redding is also on the roster. SUNY Cortland senior goalie Nick Costabile of New Fairfield has played in 13 games. His brother, C.J., scored the game-winning goal in overtime in the 2010 Division I national championship game. Union at RIT, Wednesday, 4 p.m. The Dutchmen have a mere 12 locals, including junior Adam Sands of Greenwich, a unanimous All-Liberty League selection on defense. Attackmen Richard Gregory (junior, Darien), Charlie Ross (junior, Westport), Nolan Stauffer (sophomore, Redding) and Puck Richardson (freshman, New Canaan) and senior midfielder Jon Andrews of Wilton are among the team's leading scorers. Other locals include senior goalie Devyn Jefferies of Wilton and freshmen Jack Scheufele (Weston, midfielder), Kyle Mason (Fairfield, attack/midfield), Lance Longergan (Westport, defender) and Derek Hanley (New Fairfield, defender). Former Staples standout Nate Greenberg, a senior midfielder, is fighting Ewing's sarcoma and has not played this year. Denison at Salisbury, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Denison includes two local freshmen, attackman Liam Rooney of Redding and midfielder Kevin McLam of Ridgefield. Rooney has 21 points in 15 games. McLam scored four goals in six games. Salisbury junior goalie Dan Feeney of Greenwich has played four games this year. Washington (Md.) at Stevenson, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Washington senior defender Casey McKnight of Ridgefield was named Centennial Conference defensive player of the year; he's a three-time all-conference selection. Stevenson junior defender Kyle McNamara of Newtown has played all 21 games, forcing 11 turnovers and picking up 36 ground balls. Freshman long-stick middie Shawn Dunster of Greenwich (brother of Bryant's Colin) is also on the roster. -- MICHAEL FORNABAIO


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Amazing news: Thawks = apparently being shown on a channel called Big Centre TV! I hadn't heard of that one; I hope it's one of my numerous Sky channels. In any case, good for them!!! I remember being informed here that the original negatives had gone walkies, but LWT had kept nearly all the episodes. Goodness, when this section of the forum was most active, I didn't yet know my dear Napoleon & Kitty existed; now, my glorious decade with them = over. The years are passing too quickly!
I don't know if reincarnation = true; if so, I have to be resigned to the fact that in the next life I'm more likely to be introduced to the dreary old 1960s' Anderson shows, than to Thawks. But then, I could be reborn into a tribe in a far-off jungle somewhere, and therefore not be able to make head nor tail of any sci-fi. Right, I'll stop wittering for a while.


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How to remove last character only if it's there?
OpenOffice.org/m openOffice.org/ozm Pers. Pfg. phil. Prof. resp. Roonstr./m roonstr./ozm
desired output:
OpenOffice.org openOffice.org Pers Pfg phil Prof resp Roonstr roonstr
I got it so far that only the dot is left but unfortunately the last sed command removes also letter
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$ cat filename | grep "\." | cut -d"/" -f1 | sed 's/.$//'


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New Child Insurance for Pre-Schoolers
Childsure is a private medical health insurance that has been designed specifically for children. This is an affordable insurance that costs £13.50 per month for one child.
The Child Health Solutions policy from Childsure, in association with Aviva, offers some of the most comprehensive benefits in the market for one of the lowest prices available.
In addition to comprehensive in-patient, day-patient & out-patient cover, Child Health Solutions also provides cover for your GP to refer your child to see a Speech Therapist, which includes an assessment. Your child will also be covered for routine dental treatment, access to a 24 hour, 7 days a week GP Helpline. If for any reason your child is treated on the NHS you can claim £100 per night up to a maximum of 30 nights in any one policy year.
Not forgetting all newborns can be added free of charge until your next renewal, this could save you up to £12.50 per month.
Steve Backley, OBE, Olympic silver medallist & former world record holder, is a Childsure policy holder for his two children, Steve says " As a father of two children, I welcome the peace of mind that Childsure medical cover brings that should anything happen, diagnosis and treatment is immediately available!".
For more information on Child Health Solutions please look at our website, www.childsure.co.uk


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Paul Hamilton's locker cleanout day notes included the following gems:
– Gaustad and Pominville will play for Team USA in the World Championships. Miller hasn't decided if he will play yet. I'm a little surprised by the Pommerdoodle choice. By playing for Team USA this year, Pommers effectively casts his lot with Team USA for 2010, instead of Canada, which is what most Sabres fans identify him with. And can we please HONK for the Goose? The guy had a career year. I'm glad to see him rewarded with a spot. I'm not surprised about Miller's non-decision decision. I think he needs a rest, and time to deal with a lot of off-season shit, but at the same time, it's playing for your country. He's going to be damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
– Hecht turned down an opportunity to play for Germany. He's having surgery on his wrist, which has been injured since January. So, how many of us knew Yo-Yo was injured. He wasn't running around in the media complaining about his owie, doing interviews wrapped in heating pads…TIMMY. The fact that no one outside the room knew about it helped, in my opinion, solidify his position on the team as a leader.
– Roy-Z will play for Canada, Kotalik for the Czech Republic and Vanek for Austria.
– Teppo and Max haven't decided whether they will play for Finland and Russia respectively.
– Hank told Sweden to buzz off. He wants to spend this offseason training, something he hasn't been able to do for the past two seasons due to injuries.


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Lady Monarch Rowing Sweeps Miami
By ODU Athletics
April 2, 2011
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NORFOLK, Va. -- The Old Dominion women's rowing team had a beautiful day to host the University of Miami in hosting its first races on the Lafayette River since the official opening Women's Intercollegiate Rowing Center. The Lady Monarch swept all three races with ODU's Varsity 8, 2nd Varsity 8, and Varsity 4 boats all victorious.
"I couldn't be prouder of the effort that our Lady Monarchs put in today," said head coach Dan Garbutt. "Its definitely the results of a lot of hard work, preparation and having the full benefit of having this facility (ODU's Women's Intercollegiate Rowing Center) to train out of this winter."
The Varsity 8 finished with a 10.7 second margin over Miami's boat with the Lady Monarchs' rowing to a first place time of 6:47.9.
The 2nd Varsity 8 race saw the Lady Monarchs take an early lead. Although the Hurricanes managed to close the gap midway through the race, Old Dominion pulled out a three second victory claiming first place with a time of 7:22.0.
This was the second time the Lady Monarchs have taken to the water against Miami this season having competed against the Hurricanes in the fall at the Head of the Hooch. Garbutt noted that Saturday's results showed vast improvement in squad from winter workouts. At the Head of the Hooch, Miami's Open 8+ took fourth place in the race, over 30 seconds ahead of the Lady Monarchs.
The Old Dominion women's rowing team returns to action at Knect Cup in Cherry Hill, NJ, April 8-10.
RESULTS - ODU vs. Miami - Lafayette River - April 2, 2011
Varsity 8:
2. Miami - 6:58.6
2nd Varsity 8:
2. Miami - 7:25.0
C - Allison Giegerich
8 - Abby Voss
7 - Callie Roadcap
6 - Jennifer Easterling
5 - Laurel Bransfield
4 - Paige Madison
3 - Elizabeth Hess
2 - Maeghan Pardy
1 - Heather Earle
C - Olivia Pryor
8 - Christina Gravelle
7 - Chelsea Trice
6 - Alissa Williams
5 - Catherine Merendino
4 - Mary Kent
3 - Jamie Baldwin
2 - Nicole Meyer
1 - Amanda May
C - Ashley Payne
4 - Kiersten Stephens
3 - Marie Gately
2 - Shelby Favre
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Yet again we answer the most pressing questions posed by Halo 2 players during the past week. This week, lots of Bungie.net, Xbox Live and online questions. We address 'em all with the help of Max Hoberman, David Candland and many, many more!
Almost everyone asks,
I love the Party system, but there's a few things I'm not clear about, such as how to take my party into Live games, and how to exclude random people from joining.
You can find out everything you need to know about our Party System by clicking right here.
Check out our Party System overview.
David C asks,
I saw somebody with an emblem online that I didn't know was possible. A Ninja that wasn't on fire. Is there something I'm missing?
Did you know when you choose your player emblem foreground that pressing the (X) button will toggle the secondary part of your icon off or on? This allows you to be a Ninja instead of a flaming ninja, a spear instead of a trident, or a pair of lips instead of a heart with lips. Play around with it!
Oki Asks,
When is the novel for the game coming out?
No decision has been made at this time about when the next novel is coming out. To specifically address your question – about the novelization of the Halo 2 story, that's a different conversation. Will the next novel be an original story, or will it be a retelling of the game plot? That's a question being asked internally at Bungie too.
UncleFud asks,
How do I make a Clan? Is it somewhere on Bungie.net?
No, you MAKE a clan in the game itself. It's very simple. Sign into Xbox Live in Halo 2. Press Y to access the Friends Menu and scroll right or left to reach the Clans menu. If you have not already created or joined a Clan, you will see the option to create one. Go ahead and do so. If you are already IN a Clan, this option will not appear until you choose to leave your Clan.
WarierRelic asks,
Hey Frankie I'm a diehard Halo fan, and after I beat Halo 2 I was left with a sense of incompletion. Now I'm not complaining, Halo 2 is excellent especially multiplayer, but I just need to know something. What was the reasoning behind the ending, did you guys intend on the cliffhanger initially or did you guys just run out of time. I'm just so frustrated, I wish you guys would just use the current engine and make the second half of this story. I just cant wait 3 years to get to the REAL battle.
Halo 2's ending is a cliffhanger. Intentionally.
KottonmouthKlown asks,
Will Bungie remake old maps from the original Halo, or will they all be new maps.
All will be revealed in due time, but nothing is out of the question.
Fock asks,
How does proximity voice work?
It's really very straightforward. Proximity voice works like this. If you're within "earshot" of another player or players, they can hear you speaking through your Xbox headset whether you're using team chat or not. The radius is about 30 feet in real world terms, is not affected by walls or floors, and is sort of spherical in its bounds. The only way to avoid being heard is to shut up (or simply not attach your headset). The theory behind it is simple – you're using a radio when team chatting, so it would be like using a radio or a cellphone in the real world. If they're close enough, people can hear you. The volume of voice can also give you a clue as to how close they are, as it diminishes and increases through your TV speakers as the guilty party gets closer or further away.
A good example of how this works occurred in a game of Assault. I had crept into a Coagulation basement with the bomb. Thinking it was all clear on the motion detector, I teamchatted to call for backup, and the jerks who were hiding in the base suddenly appeared as red dots on my radar. I was of course, doomed.
Lisa asks,
How do you know when you have run out of time on Xbox Live for the week?
Erm, there is no time limit. You can play 24-7 as long as your ISP connection stays true. I suppose you know when you've really run out of time is when an angry spouse, relative or significant other says so…
Tom asks,
Why is it that when I try to view my Friends List on Bungie.net it claims that I HAVE no friends?
The system is trying to insult you. Not really. This is caused (again) by a couple of technical issues between the way Xbox Live and Bungie interoperate rather than the simply game or the website. We're looking in to ways to fix, heal, alleviate or remove the problem.
Micky asks,
What's going on with forums? Sometimes I make a post and it doesn't appear.
Any time you add an additional million people to a system, things get a little shaky. In our forums, "shaky" means posts sorting incorrectly, posts taking a long time to appear, or vanishing and reappearing without cause, etc. Many of these issues can be traced back to a problem in our forum pager (the thing that sorts the pages of threads and posts). We're testing a fix for this and several other issues right now, we hope to have it ready for the live site by next week.
Garrett asks,
How do I avoid seeing the following message?
Group On Sixty Day Probation!
Probation started on 12/2/2004 6:20 PM PST, 59 day(s) remaining.
Bungie.net System Notice:
You have sixty days from the time listed above to restore activity and membership to this group above the minimum thresholds, or this group will be deleted. This is your only warning.
A group can be maintained very simply by ensuring that there are a minimum of three members, with periodic group activity. The system is designed so that people can really use their groups properly, and not simply make and then abandon a group.
Japyers asks,
Having played several games, I check my Rumble Pit stats on Bungie.net only to find that it says I haven't played any games at all.
Sometimes it can take up to a long time for your stats to appear. There are occasionally issues in the way that Bungie.net and Xbox Live servers communicate. We're working on ways to make the process faster. Your stats and games played should show up eventually.
Mack asks,
Why is my rank not showing up for Team Slayer games?
It's a bug, and we're aware of it. Your rank IS being tracked, so you will be matched appropriately, it just isn't being displayed in your info or on the website, so we're looking into it. One short term solution, more of a workaround really, is to join or create a Clan. Hey presto, your rank for Team Slayer games will appear online.
Mike asks,
Is it true that it's possible for objects to pass through a wall?
Unfortunately yes. There are some glitches in certain geometry that allow objects to pass through seemingly solid surfaces. Players can and have taken advantage of this fact, but where it became rampant, we edited the playlists to avoid that kind of cheating. There are still a couple of areas where this occurs and we are looking at ways to mitigate the problem.
Sarah asks,
I've seen movies of "Sword Flying," and wonder if that is something that can be taken advantage of in the multiplayer game.
Sword Flying is a real and occasionally fun phenomenon. However, in multiplayer games, its practical applications are pretty limited. We'll be keeping an eye on that situation however, to ensure it doesn't become a common in-game exploit.
Lots of players ask,
I have (for various reasons) more than one Passport account. As a result, signing in with my Passport to Bungie.net does not let me retrieve my stats and other data. How can I fix this?
For most cases, you should simply re-link your Passport account using the one you'd prefer to use for Bungie.net. For most people, the problem is actually related to having or wanting a new email address. In that case, you can simply go to your Passport account and change the associated email address.
Finally, a reader asked if I could explain what I meant by Katamari Noguchi. Well, his disgusting desk is fast becoming one. As this new Mister Chief sorta illustrates.
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How Diablo III's Solo Experience Reveals A Hollow Game
Repeat Until Unfunny
My companions have stopped following me. The map has suddenly blanked out. The dungeon doors aren't opening. And despite my just having cleared out a two-storey dungeon for the second time, there hasn't been a checkpoint in over a half an hour. If I quit out to fix it, the entire area map will be reset yet again (a previous quit to see if there was any way to raise the difficulty had already done this to me once, and is how I discovered the dungeon wasn't checkpointing), so in total an hour's play time lost, and, well, here's the thing: Diablo III just isn't brilliant enough to warrant this.
Diablo III is mostly very slick. It's a very decent game. The first three hours are very gratifying, a sense of having everything done right. It's an aRPG born of decades of experience, streamlined and minimalist to the point of diamond-like perfection. But much like a perfect diamond, it bears a lot in common with a bit of glass. That all-encompassing need to Just Keeping Clicking is there, the sense of continuous, satisfactory progress is in place. You're never not improving your equipment, skills and crafting abilities. It's the concept of Diablo, and of a decade's Diablo clones, refined. But with absolutely nothing new.
As I explore Act II, I'm still bewildered as to how they could have taken so long to make a game that adds so little. The engine is pretty enough, lavishly detailed, it does the job, but remains extremely dated in concept – there's no analogue zoom (you can uselessly zoom right in on your character, which is great for screenshots and not a lot else), you can't rotate the camera, you can't interact with the world while the map's on screen, the inventory covers up the map, and the tool-tips for loot seem completely arbitrary as to whether they'll show up or not. No, rotating cameras aren't necessary. But it's important to keep in mind how relatively primitive the game is, when then taking into account its failings.
And they all come in the form of the always-on DRM. Yes, people are sick of the topic. But that doesn't make it something that can be ignored. It was because the connection dropped in the solo game I'm playing that all those events in the first paragraph took place. Eventually, about fifteen minutes later, it admitted the connection was gone, and restarting yet again put me back at the last checkpoint, one dungeon and an entire map ago. And nothing – absolutely nothing – interesting lies between me and where I've reached twice before.
These failings, the DRM-based brokenness of the game, breaks the spell. While you're able to just endlessly progress, endlessly improve, endlessly move forward, the illusion is cast around you and there's enormous fun to be had. But in repeatedly forcing you to pointlessly repeat swathes of the game, it reveals just how little there really is.
Right, but quickly, here are some things I am loving about the game. That seems fair. I love how loot bursts out of chests. It's so rewarding. I adore how much of the scenery can be smashed, and how satisfactorily it crumbles apart – and especially that it then awards you a bonus for doing this. I love that you can, on occasion, use the environment in fights, albeit infrequently and mostly ineffectively. I love how much care has obviously gone into so much of this stuff – nothing crucial to how the game actually plays, but the set dressing, that belies a love for the sheer act of creation.
But what does Diablo III actually add to the franchise, and even to the genre it created? The skills are made more simple, but in doing so actually end up feeling restrictive. Switching off those limitations only seems to confuse things. The inventory is less of a Tetris-frustration, but in that regard just means you portal to your base, sell all, return, and it plays no meaningful factor. (And the Act II base is hopelessly poorly laid out, meaning running to the one merchant is a bore, and the nearby town a chore.)
Monsters don't attack in interesting new ways. While what almost everyone wanted was a click-fest, it would have been nice for there to be a reason for having those extra skills. I forget they're there until I reach the toughest bosses, and then just hammer randomly. I think I've died four times thus far, playing solo, and try as I might can find no way to increase the difficulty to anything halfway interesting. I mean, I've 87 health potions in my inventory – what are they even for? The game drops so much health in every fight that it's mostly impossible to get hurt.
The only novel enemy attacks I've noticed are the waspy dragonfly things, who just fly away from you, meaning if you're not playing a ranged character they're just tedious to fight. And there's the beasts that cast fear on you, constantly taking away your controls, which has been fun in this many games: none.
The other huge problem is loot and shops. I've bought almost nothing from a merchant, since their goods are always generations poorer than anything I've looted. And worse, weapon drops haven't meant anything since the merchant I helped out in Act I sold me weapons literally twice as powerful as I've found since. The balancing here is utterly dreadful, and that's perhaps the most crucial thing for an aRPG to get right.
Of course, people will argue that to solo Diablo is to miss the point. Two responses to that. Firstly, the game does offer a solo game, and is designed to be played that way, so it's absolutely vital that it be balanced and worthwhile. And secondly, and perhaps more crucially, of all the points above the solo aspect really only affects the difficulty levels – the rest remains an issue no matter how it's played. Oh, and if you've not had server issues, others have, and that doesn't make server issues okay – kind of a crucial one to remember there.
And yet, all these gripes, all these issues, I'd likely have just clicked past were the game not so woefully and deliberately broken. It's fascinating to realise just how important the spell is to Diablo, and quite how damaging it is to have it broken. What's revealed is a hollow game, that in no way fills in the gaps with the frankly abysmal writing. Of the three companions so far, none is even tolerable, and my monk is a sanctimonious moron. My NPC accompaniment repeat their lacklustre lines of nothingness with the sadness of a dementia patient, half the time talking at the same time as a book I'm reading. And as I face repeating the same damned map for a third time, watching my characters stagger about trapped in lag despite my strong, steady internet connection, I just start thinking about Grim Dawn and Torchlight II, and how much I can't wait to see what they add to the genre. Because as far as I can tell Diablo III, as fun as it is when the spell lasts, has added little more than wantonly stupid DRM.


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Beachler has published numerous papers and articles on Congress, elections and voter turnout as well as two books in the "Winning the White House" series on presidential elections. His book "The Genocide Debate: Politicians, Academics, and Victims," which examines how different episodes of mass killing--in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nazi Germany and the Ottoman Empire--have been politicized. He also co-authored "When Good Companies Go Bad," a book examining the disasters that happen when companies forget ethics, take operational shortcuts, or willingly endanger customers and the general public in their quest for profits.
Research Focus
- Redistricting
- Medicare and social security reform
- Economic policy
- Foreign policy
- Voting and elections
- How we view and respond to genocide
Curriculum Vitae for Don Beachler
Faculty Page for Don Beachler
Cornell University
Ph.D., American Politics/ Minors in Comparative Politics and Political Theory, 1992
Dissertation Title: The South and Divided Government
Cornell University
M.A., Government, 1985
West Virginia University
B. A., Philosophy/ Minors in German and Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, 1979


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THE SYNTAX OF CLEFT CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE: A BASE-GENERATION ANALYSIS by Yasuhiko Miura A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Yasuhiko Miura
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|The aim of this thesis is to examine the cleft constructions in Japanese, specifically, the CM-Cleft in Japanese, in the hope that it will provide insight into the properties of the Computational System, which is assumed to be at the core of the language faculty. I pursue a base-generation analysis of CM-Cleft in this thesis. I adopt the EPSA (Evaluation of Predicted Schematic Asymmetries) method advocated by Hoji (2009 and subsequent works), which is a method of hypothesis testing in line with the hypothetico-deductive method and it aspires to obtain testability, reproducibility and quantitative analyzability in language faculty science.; Chapter 2 provides a review of previous works on the CM-Cleft in Japanese. The analyses of the CM-Cleft in Japanese proposed in the literature are divided into two types based on how the focus phrase gets to its surface position: "base-generation analysis" and "movement analysis" I present problems posed by each analysis and issues to be addressed. The discussion in this chapter leads to the adoption of the base-generation analysis proposed in Hoji 1987 and his subsequent works.; Chapter 3 introduces the EPSA method, which I will adopt throughout this thesis. I will summarize the methodology and explain some of its important concepts that are crucially relevant to this thesis.; Chapter 4 provides some schematic asymmetries independently established in other works that could be regarded as having been confirmed, together with the relevant experimental designs and results. They will be the basis for the experiments on CM-Cleft conducted in the following chapters.; Chapter 5 presents a base-generation analysis of CM-Cleft pursued in this thesis in line with Hoji 1987, 1990. Based on the analysis, I will make predictions in regard to BVA (Bound Variable Anaphora) and DR (Distributive Reading) and conduct experiments. The results of the experiments are in favor of the proposed analysis. The proposed analysis, however, cannot account for all the BVA facts, so that I will make some modifications on the proposed analysis by introducing two new hypotheses. I will then show that the predicted schematic asymmetries about BVA obtained based on these two hypotheses get confirmed. Thus, the results of the experiments provide support for the proposed analysis.; Chapter 6 provide two arguments for the base-generation analysis over the movement analysis of the CM-Cleft, which are based on NSE (Neg(ation)-sensitive elements) "licensing" and possibility of resumption in CM-Cleft. I will show that the base-generation analysis proposed in this work, but not the movement analysis, can account for these phenomena, thereby giving support to the proposed analysis.; Chapter 7 concludes the discussion, recapitulating the base-generation analysis of the CM-Cleft proposed in this thesis. I also discuss the significance of this work in the light of the pursuit in generative grammar.
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|THE SYNTAX OF CLEFT CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE: A BASE-GENERATION ANALYSIS by Yasuhiko Miura A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Yasuhiko Miura


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