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For the third match in a row at the Shanghai Rolex Masters, third seed David Ferrer came from a set down on Saturday to defeat fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-3 in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 hard-court tournament. "Maybe today I played the better match of this week," stated Ferrer.
"When I lost the first set, I tried to forget the tie-break and I tried to focus again. I played better in the second and the third [sets]. I served better. Finally in the third set, he did three double faults in the important moments and I took my chance."
In his previous two matches the Spaniard had saved three match points to beat Juan Carlos Ferrero and edged Andy Roddick in a third-set tie-break after dropping the first set to the American. Ferrer's heroics this week have earned him the fifth spot at the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London next month.
The Valencia resident overturned a 1-6 hard-court head-to-head record with the No. 28-ranked Lopez as he defeated the left-hander in two hours and 11 minutes. After losing the first set on the tie-break, Ferrer quickly stalled Lopez's momentum with a break of serve in the third game of the second set. He broke a second time in the ninth game to level the score and won the final three games of the match from 3-3 in the final set.
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The 29-year-old Ferrer is through to his third ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final, his first on hard-court after runner-up finishes on clay at the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome (l. to Nadal) and at this year's Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters (l. to Nadal). "I will try to do my best for the win tomorrow," Ferrer said. "I've never won a Masters 1000, and it's very important for me, for my tennis career."
World No. 5 Ferrer is chasing his third ATP World Tour title of the season, following victories at the Heineken Open in Auckland (d. Nalbandian) and the Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco (d. Almagro). He has a 51-14 match record on the season.
In the final he will face either second seed Andy Murray, who has won 23 of his past 24 matches including victory over Ferrer in the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships semi-finals last week, or Japan's Kei Nishikori, who is through to his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final.
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EAGER fathers and expecting mothers were spotted leaving the Penang International Sports Arena (PISA) with bags full of baby items.
From the latest aerodynamic
baby strollers to fancy princess frocks and Angry Bird merchandise, the Mom & Baby Expo 2012 saw a large crowd thronging the event on the first day.
Inside PISA, colourful balloons and cartoon characters decorated the various booths with activities galore.
Today, games like musical chairs and baby diaper changing, baby crawling and bubbly twins contests will be held.
Father of two Jimmy Chew, 28, said the freebies were an added reason for him to rush over during his lunch break.
"To be honest, my main aim
is to stock up on cheap diapers but my wife will be happy with the goodie bags and free samples," the engineer said.
The three-day event ending tomorrow is organised by a publi-sher of Kuala Lumpur-based mo-ther and baby magazines.
Today Publishing executive di-rector Patrick Kok said this is the first time the company had brought its successful annual exhibition up north.
"For four years, we've been
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we are established in the central and southern regions, we will include Penang in our annual exhibitions from now on.
"The response since the exhi-bition opened here has been
very good and we are expecting some 50,000 visitors by it ends," he said.
He said most of the exhibitors were from Kuala Lumpur.
"Many of them are 'big boys' in the industry," said Kok.
"There are a total of 200 booths carrying 320 renowned brands
and I believe this is the largest parenting expo in the northern region — it's very targeted and completely dedicated to expecting mothers."
He said 8,000 goodie bags worth RM600,000 would have been distributed by the time the expo ends.
"The hourly lucky draws and non-stop games are included to make the event more exciting and fun for the family.
"With the 'dragon baby boom' this year, many exhibitors are repor-ting brisk sales," he said.
Opening hours are from 11am to 9pm.
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I'm not sure where some people got the impression that the STO team was staffed up. We're trying to staff up, but the team is not any larger than it has been in the past... and is smaller in some critical areas. Staffing up will take time. I didn't talk about the second half of 2012, because we hope to do a lot more once we have more staff... but it depends on a lot on how successful we are at finding the right people to hire.
I'm sorry that the news that we can't produce more featured episodes is a surprise. I was not aware that anyone indicated that it might be possible to get a more continuous stream of them going. I was really happy that I might be able to get 3 series out in one year, and getting 3 serious out seemed like an "epic win" for the dev team to me... but I didn't know that anyone had expectations that more than 3 series in a year was possible. I don't really think it is possible unless the team grows significantly. So I'm sorry that I get to break the news to you all.
The Klingon faction work is definitely on 2012's list, but I can't promise any date or details at this time. Once I have a more confident dev schedule, I'll share what I know. I don't want to share anything until I have an actual dev schedule that makes it very likely to happen.
I'm also sorry about how little came to the game in the middle of 2011. I can't do anything to change the past, though. I inherited the game as it was in late September, and I'm doing my best to bring you as all much as I can as quickly as I can.
I'm also trying to set realistic expectations with you all about what the team can do and plans to deliver. The STO dev team is amazing, and while they can't do everything that this forum crowd apparently wants, I think that 2012 is going to be a great year for the game.
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C.A.R. Industry Leaders make Swanepoel's Power 200 ListCongratulations to the C.A.R.'s Industry Leaders who were named one of the 200 most powerful people in residential real estate for 2015! "The SP200 serves to identify those leaders that impact and lead the residential real estate brokerage industry," said Rob Hahn, executive editor of the Swanepoel Power 200. "We acknowledge their enormous influence and contribution to our industry by detailing their role in improving the overall home buying transaction and the real estate business in particular.Swanepoel states, "These are the leaders of our industry. They are the drivers! They are the ones making the biggest difference!...There is no pay-to-play, no old boys club, and no favors for friends."
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AB 1513 (Fox), C.A.R.'s sponsored legislation which creates a pilot program to deal withsquatters, was approved by the legislature and is waiting on the Governor's desk for his signature.
Under California law it can take 60-120 days to evict a squatter. There are currently no statutes designed to assist homeowners and law enforcement officials with preventing occupancy of, or removing unauthorized residents (squatters) from, vacant properties. AB 1513 creates a pilot program, limited to the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale in L.A. County and Ukiah in Northern California, which will be in place through December of 2017. This program will permit the owner of a vacant property to register it with local law enforcement and file a "Declaration of Ownership" with the District Attorney. Upon notification that "squatters" are on the property local law enforcement will respond and require them to provide written evidence within 48 hours that they are legally entitled to be there. AB 1513 also provides that occupants who are unable to provide such verification can be subject to a restraining order and injunction prohibiting them from trespassing; as well as possible arrest for failure to adhere to such orders.
AB 2018 (Bocanegra), C.A.R.'s sponsored legislation creating regulation for "team names," was approved by the legislature and is waiting on the Governor's desk for his signature. The use of "team" names in advertisements and marketing materials has become a popular practice among real estate professionals. The California Bureau of Real Estate (CalBRE) in its Spring 2013 Real Estate Bulletin suggested it was considering adopting regulations that would only permit salespersons to work under "team" names if the name was bona fide fictitious business name that was registered with the County by the employing broker. The lack of clear regulation has created confusion throughout the real estate industry on what is and what is not a fictitious business name. AB 2018 will resolve this ambiguity by statutorily defining how a salesperson, with their brokers permission, can use a fictitious business name, while also establishing clear standards for the use "team" names that are
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AB 2039 (Muratsuchi), C.A.R.'s sponsored bill dealing with liability and shill bids in auction company transactions, was approved by the legislature and is waiting on the Governor's desk for his signature. Some lenders have begun to make approval of short sale contracts contingent upon the short seller allowing the home to be put out to auction to validate the home's value, and in doing so limiting the listing agents' control over the sales transaction and exposing them to potential liability. This measure would prohibit a lender or auction company that takes over management of a sales transaction from a listing agent from requiring the homeowner or listing agent to defend or indemnify the auction company for any liability resulting from the auction company's actions. AB 2039 also prohibits the use of "shill" bids (bids not from a bona fide purchaser that are used in auctions to drive up the sales price during the auction process), while permitting "credit bids", and seller bids with full disclosure.
AB 2540 (Dababneh), C.A.R.'s sponsored bill allowing email address collection by CalBRE, was approved by the legislature and is waiting on the Governor's desk for his signature. Under current law the Bureau of Real Estate (CalBRE) is empowered to require licensees to provide a valid business or mailing address as part of the license process. However, the current law is silent on email addresses and phone numbers. This measure will empower CalBRE to collect and maintain valid contact information from licensees, including an email address and phone number. This will allow CalBRE to reliably communicate with licensees in a more cost-effective and efficient manner.
SJR 19 (Correa), C.A.R.'s sponsored resolution pertaining to federal loan limits, was adopted by the legislature. Existing federal law provides for standard and "high-cost" conforming loan limits. High-cost loan limits provide residents in regions with high housing costs access to safe and affordable mortgages. The current cap for high-cost and standard loan limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $625,500, and $417,000 respectively. In December of 2013 the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which has conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, requested comments on a proposal to decrease national conforming loan limits from $417,000 to $400,000 and to lower the existing cap for high-cost loan limits from $625,500 to $600,000. The FHFA ultimately decided to maintain existing loan limits. However, C.A.R. sponsored SJR 19 as an affirmative statement of the California Legislature that any reductions in federal loan limits will have a negative impact on California's housing market, which is still struggling to recover from the economic downturn. This measure makes legislative findings that lowering loan limits would be harmful to California's housing market and declares the California State Legislature's support for preserving existing federal loan limits.
Due to a sustained red alert effort by C.A.R., AB 2416 (Stone), the bill creating employee lien rights for wage disputes that C.A.R. opposed, was defeated on the Senate Floor. Under current law, an individual who works on the creation or improvement of a property can record a mechanic's lien against the property to ensure payment. AB 2416 would have authorized an employee to record a new kind of lien for unpaid wages against their employers real or personal property. C.A.R. opposed this measure because it jeopardized financing of properties by the creation of a new lien "clouding" title without due process for property owners.
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|Doug Lair, Steve Dogiakos, American Tradition Partnership, American Tradition Partnership PAC, Montana Right to Life Association PAC, Sweet Grass Council for Community Integrity, Lake County Republican Central Committee, Beaverhead County Republican Central Committee, Jake Oil, JL Oil, Champion Painting and John Milanovich
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|FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW OPINION AND ORDER. IT IS ORDERED that the Court's order declaring the contribution limits in Montana Code Annotated § 13-37-126 unconstitutional and permanently enjoining the defendants from enforcing those limits is hereby confirmed subject however to the Circuit's temporary stay order received only minutes ago. Signed by Judge Charles C. Lovell on 10/10/2012. (HEG, )
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|ORDER granting in part and denying in part 9 Motion for Preliminary Injunction. The Court GRANTS the motion as to MCA Sections 13-37-131 and 13-35-225(3)(a). The Defendants are ENJOINED from enforcing those statutory provisions pending further o rder from the Court. The Court DENIES the motion as to MCA Section 13-37-216(1),(3),(5) and the corporate-contribution provision in MCA Section 13-35-227. The Court DENIES as moot the motion as to corporate-independent-expenditure provision of MCA Section 13-35-227. Signed by Judge Charles C. Lovell on 2/24/2012. (DED, )
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Does anyone know whether the NetBackup restore requires extra disk space to store temporary files during the restore process just as the backup does?
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I'm not sure what you are refering to that NetBackup uses disk space for doing backups unless you are either using a disk storage unit or disk staging. Normal NetBackup backups to tape do not use additional disk space. It is all done with memory buffers.
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The average Clinical Data Analyst in the United States can expect to rake in roughly $59K per year. Earnings sit near $36K on the lower side but can approach $83K per year on the higher side. Career duration and the particular city each impact pay for this group, with the former having the largest influence. A large number enjoy medical while most get dental coverage. Vision coverage is also available to the larger part. There are more female Clinical Data Analysts who answered the questionnaire than male, making up 66 percent. Work is enjoyable for Clinical Data Analysts, who typically claim high levels of job satisfaction.
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Clinical data analysts manage and examine clinical data for their organization. Their typical duties include data reporting, data analytics, and data mining, as well as coordinating with relevant departments (for example, the clinical operations and clinical strategy departments) to determine areas for analysis and the appropriate metrics to ensure data analysis is optimally useful. They must develop plans for data-related projects, identifying necessary resources and determining timelines and milestones. Other tasks performed by clinical data analysts may include performing data validation, handling data reconciliation, and working to retrieve missing data as needed.Read More...
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I can't hear this music and not think "early-'80s new wave girl-pop style," so I feel that the music is being applied rather than created, as if the sound were in place before anyone actually played it. Whether deliberate or not, there's a distanced effect. Maybe that's felt as some kind of strength, as if it says, "We're not what you see and hear; we're the puppet masters backstage, the ones pulling the strings." (Unexplained sentence fragment in my notebook: "rush of beauty on a whoosh of sound; this one the beauty lives deeper.")
For sure, all performers play with their identities. All human beings play with their identities, sometimes to find ones they like to inhabit, sometimes to find ones that are an interesting alternative to the ones that they normally inhabit. But why do Fabulous Disaster choose one so clearly and nonvirulently not now? Well, maybe for them it's what allows them to ride a whoosh into beauty. In fact, this is my favorite album so far this year. I perceive them at a distance, but I feel the high harmonies and the drum crash just fine. Anything that works.
Fabulous Disaster are just one of a slew of mostly female mostly good mostly retro punk bands I've been enjoying lately. Another is Detroit's Gore Gore Girls, who sound totally ripped and fried, not like go-go girlsat least not like go-gos onstage, though maybe like go-gos after stage, their minds fried and battered. Everything about the Gore Gores' Strange Girls (Get Hip Recordings) is fried. My eardrum got fried listening to them. Everyone seems to be playing Telecasters with the treble on superbright, the woofers and tweeters all torn up, the CD recorded in the girls' lavatory at Detroit's East Central Death and Atomic Warfare High School. The microphone has marbles in it. Occasionally, the girls grow weary of shredding their vocal cords, and come through with sweet, clear harmonies while the electric storm swirls around them. Since the sound is essentially slash-your-face-and-throw-rocks-at-the-window, it all registers as extreme punk; but the musical underpinnings come from several different sources: high-wailing girl group, early-Kinks freneticism, garage rock, rockabilly, girlabilly, rockagirly. And despite all the wind and sleet, there is form and beauty, amidst the gore. The ongoing storm has diminishing returns, howeverwith the needle always in red, a lot of the sound is muffled. But three songs stand out as incredible energy and great songwritingone might compare them to a certain great, long-defunct Detroit band that many groups are compared to but none really sounds like, and indeed the Gore Gore Girls don't have the whole dance-around-and-toss-the-notes-back-and-forth motion of said mythical band; but nonetheless on these three songs guitar-player Amy Surdu proves she's mastered James Williamson's fast guitar vamps and lightning melodies. Damn exciting, for those three songs, and restlessly sweet on many of the others. I'm curious what they'd do with a recording budget.
The Candy Ass Orgy EP is on Rock And Fucking Roll Records, though perhaps this is a Rock And Roll Fucking Record as well, given that the cover has the three Candy Ass women dolled up in fake furs and high heels in a police lineup. The promo page describes them as "tough sluts," which makes them a pleasant relief from all the gangsta bitches and street hoes I've been listening to recently. Like the Fab Disasters, these women have "style" as well as a stylethough with a discrepancy between the two, since the guitarist is playing a Pistols-Buzzcocks buzzsaw while the singer glides by in her limo, polishing her Debbie Harry sheen. It's a fun combination, energetic, spelling NASTY in capital letters, but it doesn't hit me with a lot of emotion. The stylization allows them to play at being shallow while also stepping aside and being . . . whatever you are when you're standing next to shallowness: shallow, maybe?
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But that's the thing. A designer doesn't have to set up a complicated collaboration with rev share. They can just send their file to a service and whiz bang they have a template. I was just kind of saying that it seems odd that no one has set up that kind of thing in reverse for developers.
Not exactly, they will get hammered on support. If a designer uses a service to do the coding they won't be able to answer any questions from buyers. They might hire someone to do the coding and keep them around for the support, but a service isn't going to answer your support questions on ThemeForest for you.
Why don't you hire a designer for a single project? You can pay them for the design, code it yourself and don't have to share any of your sales with them.
Someone beat you to the idea: http://wireframeplus.com/
I like this idea. I find it hard to make really good designs sometimes. But if someone makes the design I can code it up.
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Why don't you hire a designer for a single project? You can pay them for the design, code it yourself and don't have to share any of your sales with them.
I wasn't talking about for myself. I was speaking in general terms.
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Grant could have longer school day
ESCONDIDO -- Grant Middle School is considering extending its school day to improve standardized test scores to meet federal requirements, administrators said.
The concept is one of many being floated at the school and with Escondido Union School District administrators, said Randy Garcia, principal of the Mission Avenue campus.
"It's just tossing ideas out now in case we do end up at the point where we need to make hard decisions on what to do differently," Garcia said.
Right now, students spend five and a half hours in class each day; administrators haven't decided how many more minutes might be added.
Whether to extend the school day could hinge on how Grant's students perform on standardized tests this spring.
For the last four years, consistently low scores for the schools' Latino, low-income and beginning English-speaking demographic groups have forced the school on a path of penalties required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
The requirements for so-called "failing" schools intensify each year that the school does not meet the federal requirements.
For the last three years, 13.6 percent of students and demographic groups had to be at grade level in reading and writing, while 16 percent of students must test at grade level in math.
The requirements nearly double for this spring's tests.
Grant is in its third year of dealing with the consequences of not meeting the federal targets. The "penalties" include offering students transfers to other schools and giving teachers more training.
Next year, if any of Grant's demographic groups do not meet the required minimum standards, the school must either extend the school day, replace its staff, implement a new curriculum, decrease school administrators' authority, or appoint an outside expert to help or rework the school's organization.
Garcia said the school has been considering all of its options, and has already implemented many of them.
Teachers at Grant had a variety of reactions Thursday to the possibility of an extended school day.
English teacher Doug Haycock said a longer school year, rather than a longer school day, would be more effective.
Students are sometimes "wiped out" by the current school day, and the extended summer break hampers their progress, Haycock said.
Extreme help is needed, though. In an average class of his, Haycock said, half the students begin the year four years behind their grade level, Haycock said.
"If we had to move them a year, that would be easy," he said. "But four years… ."
Beth Crooks, the school's literacy assessment coordinator, said a longer school day would help Grant's students.
"There doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to cover the content we need to cover to help the students at Grant to move up and be successful," Crooks said.
In Wisconsin, where she used to teach, school was 45 minutes longer each day and students managed well, she said.
Superintendent Mike Caston said he supports Grant's efforts to improve and noted that the school's scores have risen dramatically in recent years.


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In reviewing the nearly 2,000 stories written by our news staff during 2009, it was apparent that there were a few big issues on the community's mind – traffic, water, budget, schools and government being just a few. Crime was slightly up, new fundraisers were introduced, some big festivals got bigger as others went away and politicians were, well, politicians.
We sifted through and found the stories that to us, made the biggest difference to our community. Today, we present the top ten, to be followed tomorrow by a Year In Review and on Thursday by the ever-popular "What Were They Thinking?" list of some of the off-beat true stories from the SCV. You may not agree with our list, which is OK. Let us know how you feel, we like input. And as an old wise cartoonist who has shuffled off this mortal coil used to say, "They might be mad, but at least we made 'em think."
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10. Tony Alamo sentenced to 175 years in federal prison. No longer a local resident.
9. Las Lomas project rejected by state Supreme Court. Finally.
8. Santa Clarita Valley's water source, the San Joaquin River, named "Most Endangered" by American Rivers group. Some drips of info here
7. CEMEX legislation re-introduced by Congressman Buck McKeon. It's a fight that's been going on for 10 years, but one that nobody is willing to give up. Here's the latest.
6. Lennar bankruptcy plan approved by judge, giving Lennar 15 percent ownership of Newhall Ranch project. The details, here
5. Westside governance: They came, they read, they talked, they voted, and the only sure thing is that nobody wants a brand new city. It wasn't always easy. First the county had its report, here
Then, the city's report, after a long wait is here
But the final showdown came on election night, thusly
4. Saugus senior and US Marine Nicholas Laccabue was denied the right to wear his dress blues instead of the traditional cap and gown at graduation. This conflict led to legislation signed by the Governor guaranteeing that right to Laccabue and all future troops who have completed both high school course work and basic military training. The first story is here
and Principal Bolde's editorial response here
and the final story, after Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the bill into law is here
3. The state budget and its trickle-dump effect on programs and people. Santa Clarita's sales tax revenue drops 15 percent; charities such as the Domestic Violence Center and the YMCA look for temporary grants and legislative help to get by – this year. The city's reaction to the shortfall
2. Taxpayer frustration (voting down every budget measure on the ballot except the one cutting legislators' salaries in deficit years), Tea Parties, asking government to live on a realistic budget. The Tea Party story's here
Here's the election info
And election background
1. Disney's plans to build 12 new sound stages and studio services in Placerita Canyon on Golden Oak Ranch in its StudiosAtTheRanch project, adding 3,000 new jobs to the local economy. The whole story is here
Don't miss our rundown of the year itself – with all the local politics, crime stats, human interest, and commentary – tomorrow on hometownstation.com.


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Demand for the safe return of more than 234 missing Nigerian school girls has spread to New York and the U.S. Senate.
Frustrated U.S. citizens have taken their support for the kidnapped students and their families from social media to the streets. Not satisfied with simply showing solidarity through a hashtag, people gathered in New York and D.C. over the weekend to continue calling global attention to the abduction of the young ladies.
In New York, supporters gathered in Manhattan's Union Square on Saturday to call out the Nigerian government and the U.N. for their ineffective attempts to handle the mass abduction.
"I am angry!" Makho Ndlovu of Brooklyn shouted during the rally , according to the New York Daily News. "It makes no sense that girls can be abducted and the world doesn't care. I am angry! To the Nigerian government, our eyes are watching. To Barack Obama, our eyes are watching. To the United Nations, our eyes are watching."
In Washington D.C., supporters gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to add their voices to the movement.
Meanwhile, a new U.S. Senate resolution about the situation has been introduced. Senator Barbara Boxer of California announced the measure, condemning the mass abduction. The bipartisan resolution is also being backed by Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ). It states that they are urging "the U.S. to assist in efforts to rescue the students."
Sadly it seems that there may actually be more girls missing than previously believed. According to the Associated Press, the number of kidnapped girls is now being estimated at more than 300. One Nigerian police official has stated that 53 of those girls have managed to escape, which is more than what had been reported before.
The number of abductees could continue to rise, however, as Police Commissioner Tanko Lawan revealed during a press conference in Borno, Nigeria that students from several schools had been brought to Government Girls Secondary School for final exams.
"The students were drawn from schools in Izge, Lassa, Ashigashiya and Warabe A." Commissioner Tanko said. "That is why, after the unfortunate incident, there were various numbers flying around as to the actual number of girls that were taken away."
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Resurrection Health Care and Vanguard Health Systems Sign Letter of Intent to Transfer Ownership of Westlake Hospital and West Suburban Medical Center
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CHICAGO-- Resurrection Health Care, Chicago, and Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville TN, have entered into a non-binding letter of intent to transfer ownership of Westlake Hospital and West Suburban Medical Center to affiliates of Vanguard (collectively "Vanguard"). Vanguard will also acquire Resurrection's outpatient facilities located at 7411 Lake Street in River Forest. The West Suburban College of Nursing, which is located on the campus of West Suburban Medical Center, will continue to operate as part of Resurrection Health Care.
Sister Patricia Ann Koschalke, CSFN, Chair of the Resurrection Health Care Sponsorship Board, said, "The Resurrection Health Care Board of Directors and Sponsors wish to stress that our decisions have been guided by a sensitivity to the impact this change will have on our employees, physicians, community supporters and the public at large. We are pleased that Vanguard shares a similar mission and philosophy of caring, so that the good work of these institutions can continue to grow."
"We are pleased that Vanguard will continue to serve these communities," said Sandra Bruce, Resurrection Health Care President and CEO. "Vanguard's corporate structure provides access to capital that is far greater than what Resurrection would be able to invest in today's difficult economy."
Under terms of the proposed transaction, Vanguard will continue to operate Westlake Hospital and West Suburban Medical Center as acute care facilities under their existing names, maintain all graduate medical education programs and establish governance structures that ensure continued local input on community services provided by the hospitals. Additionally, Vanguard will assure that each Hospital provides at least the same level of charity care discounts and services to Medicaid patients as well as continue the existing policies on indigent and charity care. The hospitals will continue to follow Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. The Archdiocese of Chicago has been fully informed of the agreement.
"Vanguard has always focused on making long-term commitments to the communities we serve. We have provided care in the Chicago area for the last decade and are excited to expand our ability to serve communities in the western suburbs," said Charlie Martin, Chairman and CEO of Vanguard. "Through MacNeal Hospital we have become familiar with communities served by West Suburban and Westlake, and look forward to working with Resurrection to build upon their many years of commitment at West Suburban and Westlake."
In 2009, Vanguard provided over $90 million in charity care and over $300 million of uncompensated care at its 15 facilities nationwide. In addition, over the last five years the company has funded capital expenditures of over $925 million and increased its workforce by approximately 5,000 employees across its respective hospitals. Vanguard has also invested millions of dollars in a nurse training and accreditation academy.
Resurrection Health Care has invested more than $91 million in the two hospitals since 2004. Westlake Hospital joined the Resurrection system in 1998. West Suburban followed six years later in 2004.
Hospital systems in the Chicago area and nationwide have been affected by financial pressures caused by the weakened economy and the increasing cost of operations. Resurrection Health Care and its facilities have felt these pressures, but especially at West Suburban Medical Center and Westlake Hospital. Resurrection has been exploring strategic options that would ensure a continued stable future for the two hospitals, their employees and physicians, and the communities they serve.
Resurrection considered redesigning services offered at the hospitals or using them for other community purposes, but these options were deemed insufficient to assure continuity of care and employment opportunities in these communities. For the same reasons, closure of the hospitals was considered an undesirable option.
Vanguard Health Systems operates 15 hospitals in Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts and Texas, including MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Under the Sponsorship of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and the Sisters of the Resurrection, Resurrection Health Care continues to provide an extensive network of health care services to many Chicagoland communities. In addition to six other hospitals, our healing ministry includes seven nursing homes, four retirement communities, home health services, behavioral health programs and numerous outpatient services.


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Due to requests of many participants who were affected by Typhoon "Maring," the management of Las Piñas Coliseum announced yesterday the new schedule of its annual "LPC Anniversary 6-Stag Derby."
The 2-stag elimination round will be held on Aug. 29 and the 4-stag finals follows on Aug. 31.
The stagfest, to be hosted by Mayor Nene Aguilar, dangles a guaranteed prize of P1 million. Entry fee is P15,000 and minimum bet P5,500.
Participants must submit entries on Aug. 28, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
For inquiries, call 0927-2122644 or 0908-5564053 (Julius).
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PYONGYANG, North Korea North Korea will launch "merciless" strikes if South Korea goes through with planned live-fire drills Monday in a disputed front-line area near their disputed sea border, a North Korean officer warned in an interview with The Associated Press.
North Korea doesn't want a war but its people are always ready to "dedicate their blood to defend their inviolable territory," officer Sin Chol Ung from the North"s Korean People's Security Forces told AP on Sunday as South Korean troops prepared to hold the drills in an area that was the target of a deadly artillery attack in 2010.
South Korea is scheduled to stage regular one-day artillery drills Monday from front-line islands in waters off the western coast that North Korea claims as its territory. South Korea informed Pyongyang of the training plan on Sunday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in Seoul.
Soon after, Pyongyang's military called the drills a "premeditated military provocation" and warned the South it would retaliate for an attack on its territory. North Korea urged civilians living or working on the islands to evacuate before the drills begin, the western military command said in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
The threat of an artillery attack like the one that killed four South Koreans in November 2010 after a similar exchange between the two Koreas comes two months after the death of leader Kim Jong Il and as his son Kim Jong Un takes the helm of the nation of 24 million.
Early Monday, the powerful Political Bureau of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party announced it would convene a special political conference in mid-April to "glorify" the late leader and to rally around his son.
The last time such a conference was held was in September 2010, when Kim Jong Un was named to a high-ranking party military post in the first public confirmation that he was being groomed to succeed his father.
Kim Jong Un has been declared "supreme leader" of North Korea's people, party and military, but was expected to gain new top titles and positions as part of the process to solidify his role as the third-generation Kim to lead North Korea. His grandfather, Kim Il Sung, remains "eternal president," while Kim Jong Il ruled as chairman of the National Defense Commission.
The tension on the Korean peninsula, which has remained in a technical state of war since the three-year Korean War ended in a truce in 1953, comes as North Korea prepares to celebrate a major milestone in its history: the 100th anniversary of the birth of late President Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder.
"We are now facing honorable tasks to build a thriving socialist nation by firmly defending the revolutionary ideas and line and undying revolutionary feats of the President and Kim Jong Il and successfully materializing them without an inch of deflection under the leadership of Kim Jong Un," the Politburo said in a statement obtained by AP.
Kim Jong Il died of a heart attack Dec. 17 at age 69. South Korea has barred all but two private delegations from visiting Pyongyang to pay their respects to Kim - a decision that infuriated North Korea's leadership.


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The tiny Himalayan nation is the only country in the world to measure and act on its citizens' happiness quotient. But the emotional focus could be harming Bhutan's growth. Read More »
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At the Forge - Firebug
which, on the Linux Journal home page, produces the following form header:
<form id="cvb_form" action="/" method="get">
Firebug also has extensive capabilities for monitoring functions, setting breakpoints and profiling functions. Go to the Script button, and you are greeted by the source code for an included JavaScript file. (You can change the file you're looking at by choosing from a menu.) Pointing to a line of code with the mouse cursor brings up information about the current state of those objects.
Clicking on the code allows you to set a breakpoint (including a conditional breakpoint) to copy the function (useful when trying to communicate with other programmers or even when writing a column about programming) or to handle a breakpoint by continuing or stepping through the code.
To find out which JavaScript functions have been taking the most time, and which are invoked most frequently, use Firebug's profiler. It's amazingly simple to use. Click on the Console/Profile button, and then go about your business, using the Web site as much or as little as you want. When you click the Profile button again, Firebug reports the number of times each JavaScript function was called, the time each call took and where each function is defined.
Finally, the Net button makes it easy to keep track of any Ajax calls embedded in the page. Clicking on Net and XHR produces a graphical indication of the Ajax calls that have been made on this page, as well as how long each took to execute. If you are developing an Ajax application, this is the best way to find out where your bottlenecks are.
It's rare for me to call a product revolutionary, but I am sorely tempted to do so in the case of Firebug. It puts a lot of information in one nicely designed, easy-to-use package. The ability to interact with my packages has a vaguely Lisp-like feel, in that I'm suddenly interacting with a live environment. Firebug has given me the ability to "see" what my pages are doing and to better understand them.
Firebug has become an indispensable tool in my arsenal, alongside the Web Developer extension. In this way, Firefox is beginning to demonstrate that it is indeed a platform for Internet applications, rather than merely a Web browser.
The Firebug home page is www.getfirebug.com. There is limited documentation, including a FAQ, on that site.
An introduction to Firebug by its author, Joe Hewitt, in Dr. Dobb's Journal: www.ddj.com/196802787.
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RUMOR: Splinter Cell: Black List to be Announced at E3
Posted on May 31, 2012 AT 07:04am
According to a new source, the next Splinter Cell game will be announced at E3 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U.
The rumor claims that Splinter Cell: Black List will be announced at the show and is scheduled for a January 2013 release. A NeoGAF forum user claims to have seen the a promo for the game and says that Sam Fisher "is looking good as always with no grey hair, full body suit, and his mighty night goggles." The poster goes on to say that the game appears to be a direct sequel to Conviction.
Ubisoft Toronto producer Jade Raymond has previously confirmed that the next Splinter Cell game is in development at the studio and will focus on the franchise's roots. If the game is going to be revealed at E3, then expect it to happen on Monday at Ubisoft's press conference.
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Things have shifted; and the generation (and the +/- 30 years that bracket it) that drove our American gas-powered car and moto culture (which fueled competitive racing) is passing. Probably happening in other markets as well.
Consider that the latest sportbike market, which at the top (1000cc) was being driven by boomers and at the bottom (600cc) by easy credit to younger people, has apparently (or at least somewhat) collapsed. So the manufacturers probably have less interest incurring the expense of racing in a national series.
Now the boomers (many of whom can't fit comfortably onto sportbikes anymore
) are moving into cruisers, nakeds, and adventure bikes; and the younger folks seem to be more interested in (relatively) cheap/utilitarian and "cool looking" (which is always subject to change and being directed) bikes.
I suspect there will always be a market for sportbikes/racereps, but probably no where near the volume in the past which fueled all the race activity it did.
So maybe we need a race series that reflect that changing set of facts. It might be far-fetched to imagine a 1800cc cruiser race series (would be fun to watch though), but a naked class (i.e., no clipons or side bodywork) would be reasonable.
Times change.
But, otoh, sometimes they come full circle. Motorcycling was in a real funk at the end of the 70's and early 80's. Then it got spectacular and remained so for 20 years. So let's hope for the best (and buy a new bike this year!).
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Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
1 portrait of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
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Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
by Thomas Anthony Dean, published by Harding & Lepard, after William Derby, after Sir Peter Lely
stipple engraving, published 25 December 1827
16 in. x 10 in. (407 mm x 254 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1966
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- Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (1602-1671), Lord Chamberlain and parliamentarian army officer. Sitter associated with 20 portraits.
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- Thomas Anthony Dean (1801-1860), Engraver. Artist associated with 63 portraits.
- William Derby (1786-1847), Watercolour and miniature painter. Artist associated with 132 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Harding & Lepard (active 1826-1836), Publishers. Artist associated with 73 portraits.
- Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 829 portraits, Sitter in 18 portraits.
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Morphing Material With Great Potential
December 10, 2013
Heating a sheet of plastic may not bring it to life – but it sure looks like it does in new experiments at Rice University. The materials start as flat slabs, but they morph into shapes that can be controlled by patterns written into their layers.
Credit: Rice University
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