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A little more than a year ago, it was Reed who publicly criticized the performance of his quarterback following the Ravens' playoff victory over the Houston Texans. Few are questioning Flacco these days.
As the Ravens prepare for Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, Flacco will attempt to put the finishing touches on one of the greatest postseasons a quarterback has ever had.
In three games, the fifth-year quarterback has outplayed a rookie phenom (Andrew Luck) and two future Hall of Famers (Peyton Manning and Tom Brady). In the process, he has completed 54.8 percent of his passes for 853 yards, eight touchdowns and zero interceptions, and compiled a 114.7 quarterback rating.
Flacco is currently one of only six quarterbacks to throw at least eight touchdown passes and no interceptions in the same postseason. The other five have all won a Super Bowl and been named the game's Most Valuable Player.
"It's pretty cool," Flacco said Wednesday. "It will mean a lot if we can go win this game on Sunday. I think when you talk about winning quarterbacks in the playoffs, I would think that all of them have Super Bowl victories, so that's really the only one that matters and that's what we're trying to get."
Only two quarterbacks have ever finished the postseason with at least nine touchdown passes and no interceptions — both were 49ers. Steve Young had nine touchdowns and no interceptions in the 1994 playoffs, while the man Young eventually replaced, Joe Montana, threw 11 touchdowns with no picks during the 1989 postseason.
Montana, who shares the record for the most touchdown passes in a postseason with Kurt Warner, was Flacco's favorite quarterback growing up, though matching or eclipsing the Hall of Famer seems to be weighing on his mind about as much as his expiring contract or whether the media feels he is elite or not.
For the record, Flacco had no idea that he was even nearing any postseason milestones, nor did his teammates.
"He's not worried about it. That's the biggest thing. Joe just goes out and plays," said Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith, who has nine catches for 198 yards and two touchdowns in the playoffs. "We've literally been asked the same questions since Day 1 at camp. 'Joe says, he's elite. What do you think?' I'm glad other people are starting to notice, [but] at the end of the day, Joe doesn't care and we don't care. We are where we want to be and we want to win."
Asked if he feels like he has made a statement over the last month, Flacco said: "That's not really for me to worry about. You guys will talk about all of that stuff and debate it no matter what, so it's just our job and my job to go out there and play the best we can and leave all that stuff for you guys to kind of debate. I really don't care. If we come out here and play the game the way we should and the way we can, then I don't care and I don't think anyone else is going to care. We're going to be feeling pretty good about ourselves and what we accomplished."
While Flacco has gotten his due this week, he still hasn't drawn the attention bestowed on 49ers second-year quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who will make his 10th NFL start Sunday. By comparison, Flacco will make his 93rd career start, including his 13th in the postseason.
Also, more focus has seemingly been on Flacco's thoughts on Super Bowls in cold-weather venues — an idea that he called "retarded," comments he later apologized for — and his stoic personality than on his gaudy postseason numbers, which put him right in line with previous Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks.
En route to winning his second Super Bowl MVP last year in the past five seasons, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning threw nine touchdowns and one interception. That bettered his 2007 postseason performance in which he had six touchdowns and one interception. In 2010, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had a nine-to-two touchdown-to-interception ratio, while the New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees threw eight touchdowns to no interceptions in the 2009 postseason.
"He's playing exceptionally well," Brees said Wednesday when asked about Flacco. "The road that they traveled this season, they started off like gangbusters. Then, they had a little bit of a tough stretch there where everybody was catching criticism and wondering where the Ravens went. When it came down to it, they finished the season strong and they've made quite a run during the playoffs. It doesn't get any better than going on the road and beating the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in their home stadiums, which they've done, and Flacco has played exceptionally well along the way."
The 49ers have taken turns praising Flacco this week. Cornerback Carlos Rogers called him "unbelievable," while linebacker NaVorro Bowman said Flacco is in the "elite conversation."
Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, a former assistant for the Ravens, remembers seeing Flacco for the first time and telling Ravens coach John Harbaugh that the organization had its franchise quarterback for the next 10 to 15 years. Fangio compared Flacco's ability to throw deep routes to former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman. According to Pro Football Focus, Flacco has attempted 116 passes of 20 yards or more in the air — 15 of them have been caught for touchdowns and none have been intercepted.


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87-year-old Fairfield resident, Emma Simpson McCarthy died at 9:40 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at Way-Fair Nursing Home in Fairfield. She had been a New Hope School District bus driver; a DCFS Advocate and a farm wife.
Survivors include her husband, Don McCarthy; a daughter, Claudia Berg of Johnsonville; sons, Michael and John Simpson of Fairfield; a step-daughter, Sharon Seifert of Fairfield; a step-son, Randy McCarthy of Tacoma, WA; sisters, Pearl Patrick of Fairfield, Lena Martin of Decatur, IL and Nancy Englebright of Paris, IL; a brother, David Ivers of Jupiter, FL; 7 grandchildren, 4 step-grandchildren; 9 great-grandchildren and 6 step-great-grandchildren.
Services for Emma Simpson McCarthy will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 11 at New Hope Church with burial in Koontz Cemetery.
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New Zealand's Sababa were forced to retire from Race Five of the Royal Langkawi International Regatta's Club Class competition after getting stuck on the shallow coral near the Pulau Selang area and suffering a broken backstay. – GLENN GUAN / The Star
LANGKAWI: Australia's Oi! look poised to land the Prime Minister's Challenge Trophy in the 12th Royal Langkawi International Regatta (RLIR) after another day of consistent sailing.
Oi! ended day four of the regatta with another two second-placed finishes in Race Seven (1'34:11) and Race Eight (2'59:52), which were enough to see them stay at the top of the Racing Class standings with a score of 11.
"It wasn't the greatest day of sailing for our team but we're still in pretty good shape. Jelik (of Hong Kong) had two first (place finishes) and we were a bit unlucky not to win the first race. We were over the starting line and were called back. But we didn't hear, so we came back very late and that cost us the first race," said Oi! skipper Peter Ahern, already a three-time winner of the Challenge trophy.
Jelik, who bagged another double victory by taking Race Seven (1'33:13) and Race Eight (2'56:05), are second in the standings with a score of 15.
Jelik skipper Frank Pong rued their disastrous first day, when they finished third in Race One, fourth in Race Two and a "drop race" (did not take part) in Race Three. A fourth placing in Race Four on day two meant they were always playing catch up with Oi!
"It's unfortunate. We had a terrible first day and incurred such a big deficit. Peter's Oi! has been sailing so well and so consistently this week. Consistency deserves victory ... so, hopefully, we can clinch a comfortable second," said Pong.
In the Club Class event, New Zealand's Sababa, skippered by Grant Wichman, were forced to retire from competition in Race Five after getting stuck on the shallow coral near the Pulau Selang area and suffering a broken backstay.
Two of Sababa's crew members – national sailors Umi Norwahidah Sallahuddin, a silver medallist at the recent SEA Games in the International 420 girls' event, and Khairun Hanna Mohd Afendy suffered minor injuries to the leg and head respectively.
"It happened halfway through the race ... the skipper did not notice the shallow coral rocks nearby and the boat's keel got stuck. Then the backstay broke and we also had a problem with the spinnaker," said SEA Games gold medallist Mohd Faisal Nurizan, who was also part of Sababa's crew.
The broken backstay effectively rules Sababa out of the competition.
Sababa's rivals, Russia's Elena also suffered a broken boom but were able to finish second in the race.
There was also a mishap in the Sportsboats Class when Malaysian Armed Forces 1 also suffered a broken rudder during Race Seven, forcing them to pull out of Race Eight.
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Well, if you haven't been on Mars for the past few weeks, you have experienced the performance of what some call the "Spectacular Spinster," Susan Boyle from somewhere in Scotland. She brashly wowed not just the crowd but the judges of "Britain's Got Talent," with her spectacular voice and her interpreted version of "I Dream a Dream" from Les Mis. I watched it myself and within four bars found tears streaming down my face. From the hullabaloo ever since, my experience was not a singular one, but joined by say a billion or so others.
Inspirational? You bet. But the question is "Why?"
Rather than wax scholastically, let me quote a quite-fine blogger, David Marchese from The Spin Blog, (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/spin/4911/why-susan-boyle-doesnt-matter/), who grasps the wrong answer from his deep pool of cynicism, even as he cites the right evidence.
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"…We're dealing with an ugly duckling tale. That's it. Susan Boyle is by conventional pop standards, unattractive, but sings like an angel, and her notoriety, as the thinking goes, is thus a heartwarming rebuke to an entertainment culture that far too often values looks rather than skill. If this episode sounds familiar, it's because it is–Britain's Got Talent spawned the exact same story two years ago when Paul Potts, a stocky cell-phone store manager, won the competition on the strength of his renditions of tenor arias like "Nessun Dorma." Your mother may have emailed you about him.
Of course, fairy tales are fiction. (Emphasis mine) Potts' success did not result in a radical restructuring of show business norms (though his debut album, One Chance, did go double platinum in the U.K.)–extremely attractive entertainers are still more likely to get the good gigs. Susan Boyle's moment will have a similarly unremarkable effect. For all the back patting (see, we're not superficial!) her moment has allowed us to indulge in, the fact remains that popular entertainment is largely about helping us escape the mundane, whether it's for two hours or the length of a YouTube clip. And it's a lot easier to do that when the person doing the entertaining doesn't look like a crazy cat lady who lives next door. Right now Susan Boyle is an exception. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking she's going to be the rule."
Marchese believes that fairy tales (like "The Ugly Duckling") were made up by ill-meaning story trolls to make ugly people feel good. But they aren't, they are teaching stories, very close to mythology that cite archetypes of reality, in most cases to give us hope that there is something fundamentally right about our world. As such, they are universal. (There are over 200 versions of Cinderella, from nearly as many cultures.)
Susan Boyle inspires us. This is real, not made up, and it is the stuff of hopes and dreams and a belief that we too can become who we are, despite the seemingly over-powering forces of selfishness and cynicism. Even Marchese acknowledges the star-power of Paul Potts, Britain's other telephone-store-to-platinum-record phenom.
The next time you blow off a fairy tale, Mr. Marchese, consider Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Paul Potts more carefully. They were actually pretty popular.
Susan Boyle is the Rocky Balboa of the singing world right now, and we are cheering for her to knock the crap out of the conventional locked-in phony world of Show-Biz. Yep, it's a fairy tale.
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Updated Feb 15, 2013 - 11:19 am
UA recruit selected to McDonald's All American Game
University of Arizona 2014 recruit Rondae Hollis-Jefferson was named to the 36th annual McDonald's All American Game.
Hollis-Jefferson was one of 24 high school athletes selected to the annual all-star event.
The 6-foot-7 forward ranks 16th in ESPN's top 100 and No. 1 in the state of Pennsylvania.
UA coach Sean Miller has now seen three of his recruits attend the prestigious game in two years, including current Wildcats' Brandon Ashley and Grant Jerrett.
The game will be aired on ESPN from Chicago's United Center on April 3.


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Ngorongoro — THE six kilometre ascending road connecting the base of the legendary Ngorongoro Crater to the caldera's rim has been overlaid with concrete blocks.
The Manager of Engineering Services with the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA), Mr Isra Misana, explained that the historic project to surface the six kilometres steep road, meandering from top to the bottom of the world's sixth largest unbroken crater using paving blocks cost NCAA over 2.8bn/-.
The works were being executed by Tumaini Civil Engineering Company, a local firm based in Arusha, whose workers admitted that wild animals scared them stiff during the project and were happy that it was being completed.
The road ascending the crater will be officially opened on June 1, this year, just in time for the 2014 tourism season which usually begins in the third quarter of each year.
The development is set to solve the long-standing tug of war between tour operators, drivers-cum-guides and the NCAA management due to the closure of the road during its construction, causing inconvenience to visitors.
Ngorongoro Crater is the country's most visited tourist site, attracting over 500,000 visitors (or 50 per cent) of the around 1 million tourists who visit Tanzania every year and pumping into the national coffers nearly 55b/- in revenue.
After accomplishing paving the ascending crater road, NCAA is contemplating paving the other two descending roads using the same materials, though this may have to wait for a while.
The NCAA management is also studying the possibility of paving the 88.5 kilometre road connecting Loduare Gate to Naabi Gate in the Serengeti national Park in future.


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Mooer Little Monster AC
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Another day, another miniature valve amp head. The Little Monster comes courtesy of Mooer and offers no frills, one-channel valve tone to die for.
Back in the mists of time, before some genius came up with the idea of the master volume control, the only way to get lovely distortion out of your amp was to turn it up. That's great for playing live, but not so great when your mum's just got back from the night shift and needs her sleep. But that was then and this is now, and we are truly living in a golden age for tiny low-power amp heads.
"We are truly living in a golden age for tiny low-power amp heads"
One such head is the Mooer Little Monster AC. It's inspired by Vox's AC Series amplifiers: the classic tone machines that have powered The Beatles, Rory Gallagher, Brian May and others.
It's hardly packed with features, though. You only get one channel, there's no effects loop or auxiliary input for an mp3 player and the tone controls amount to just two switches. But what you do get is oodles of sweet, sweet valve tone, even at very low volume levels.
Played clean, it's transparent and responsive, allowing the sound of the guitar to come through clearly. True, there's no tone control, but chances are there's at least one on your guitar anyway.
The Thin/Mellow switch is as close to a tone control as it gets, but it produces only a very subtle shift in colour. Flicking it on and off is like going between a humbucker and a P-90, or between the neck single coil on a Strat and the neck and middle pickups together, but much less pronounced.
"The Top Boost switch kicks the amp's arse to make it brasher, louder, toppier and a lot more cutting"
What couldn't be described as subtle is the Top Boost switch, which kicks the amp's arse to make it brasher, louder, toppier and a lot more cutting. It would make a fantastic boost for a solo, if only there were a footswitch included...
With the gain cranked up, there's more shine and shimmer, but with a compelling crunchiness. Plugging in our Gibson Les Paul, the Little Monster kicked out a nice Neil Young bite, but it really comes alive with single coils. The sound we got using a Fender Stratocaster was utterly addictive: jangly, trebly but never harsh and just made for arpeggios. Again, engaging the Top Boost with the gain turned up is like stepping right into Brian May's shoes. It's bloody lovely.
The gain control will only take your so far, however - you won't be playing the riff to Pantera's Walk any time soon. Even the mid-heavy rock roar of Angus Young or Jimmy Page is still a little bit out of reach. Coupled with the limited controls, this is one of our few criticisms: it's not very versatile.
However, a good stompbox is all you need to change that. The other drawback is that for similar money you could get a feature-packed Blackstar HT-5 or similar offerings from Orange and Fender, not to mention Vox itself. But if we're going by pure tone alone, then the Little Monster more than deserves to hold its own among such distinguished company.
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In an effort to enhance the human resource capacity of banking outlets, authorities at the Liberia Banking Association say it would shortly establish a National Banking Institute in Liberia.
The institute, when established would train and certificate employees of banking institutions to help improve the nation's economy, LBA official said yesterday.
The disclosure was contained in a statement made Tuesday by the head of LBA's Secretariat Mr. Milton Weeks during the opening of a four-day credit training forum for bankers in Liberia.
The event is being organized by the Liberia Investing for Business Expansion (IBEX) Program and implemented by the International Executive Service Corps (IESC) through the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) on behalf of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Mr. Weeks said come the end of this month, LBA would begin the implementation process, noting that LBA remains critical to the capacity building of banking institutions. He said currently, his institution was working closely with the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) as well as other banking institutions to ensure that said institute comes to reality. Meanwhile, according to Madam Watchen Bruce, Chief of Party, Liberia IESC/IBEX, the objective of the forum is to help bankers understand issues of credit analysis, loan request methods, screening of loan application and understating strong portfolio management system.
The forum is intended to reinforce and expand the professional skills of bankers and loan officers and provide a comprehensive understanding of the credit process, analysis process, and loan review among others. IESC/IBEX which has a program span of four years in Liberia said it hopes to ensure viability in the agribusiness and renewable energy sectors and further attract banks, investors and other nonbank financial institutions for the Liberian economy. For his part, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) County Director Mr. John Mark Winfield said there can be no investment in Liberia without the direct involving of the private sector. He pledged USAID's support to Liberia's development drive and called for more collaborations between all institutions concern.
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The first issue of Carroll County Kids for the new school year went to press this week and will be delivered to students by Sept. 1.
Wednesday, Aug. 24
Carrollton Rotary Club meets every Wednesday at noon at Butler Park lodge.
AA Big Book study groups meets every Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Carrollton Christian Church, 310 Fifth St.
Cartmell Elementary School Site Based Decision Making Council meets at 3:30 p.m. at the school.
Bingo at American Legion, Fifth Street, Carrollton, every Wednesday. Doors open at 5 p.m. (502) 732-4941. Everyone welcome.
Jesus said a lot of compelling and difficult things when He walked the earth. A reading of the four Gospels in the New Testament portrays a man who had divine insight into the inner workings of the human soul.
Church celebrates its 55th anniversary
Calvary Apostolic Church, 1103 Eighth St., celebrates its 55th anniversary Friday, Aug. 26 starting at 7:30 p.m., with Elder Scott Kerr Jr. from Canton, Ohio and Saturday, Aug. 27, at noon, with Elder Kent Jordan from Indianapolis, Ind.
A meal will be served after each service. Call Pastor Miles L. Miller Jr. (502)732-5808 for more information.
CAYR dinner planned for Aug. 26, 5-7 p.m.
Carroll County was victorious Monday on their home course against border rival Trimble County. The Lady Panthers shot a season low in their 204-251 victory over the Lady Raiders, while the Panthers avenged a previous loss to the Raiders, pulling out a 173-175 win.
Quincy Hogan led the girls' team, shooting a 36. Hannah McMahan shot a 54; Taylor Hayden, 56; Ciara Hamilton, 57; Ashli Childs, 58; and Jadyn Bailey, 66. The Lady Panthers were in action Tuesday at Fairway golf course in Owenton for the All-A Classic. Results were unavailable by press time.
The Lady Panthers defeated the Lady Bearcats twice with back-to-back victories at Fairway Golf Course in Owen County.
On Tuesday Aug. 16, the girls won 212-238, a season low. Quincy Hogan led the team, shooting a 44, followed by Taylor Hayden, 52; Elisha Rabago, 56; and Hannah McMahan, 60. Also competing were Ashli Childs, scoring 63; Ciara Hamilton, 66; and Jadyn Bailey, 67.
On Thursday, Hogan shot a 39, while Hannah McMahan shot a season-low 54. Taylor Hayden shot a 54, followed by Ashli Childs, 62; Ciara Hamilton, 63; and Jadyn Bailey, 65.
The Carroll County Senior Center is located at 110 Sixth St., Carrollton, (502) 732-7026
Wednesday, Aug. 24: Euchre, pool, Wii games, rummy, 9:15 a.m.; Health Department, (vaccines),11 a.m.
Thursday, Aug.25: Euchre, pool, Wii games, rummy, 9:15 a.m.; Bunk-O, 10:30 a.m.; fried chicken pot luck, 11:30 a.m.
Friday, Aug. 26: Euchre, pool, Wii games, rummy, 9:15 a.m.; dancing and dinner in Madison, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 29: Euchre, pool, Wii games, rummy, 9:15 a.m.; mystery dessert, 11:30 a.m.
Carroll County Girl Scout and adult registration night is 6-8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29 at Carroll County Public Library. Volunteers are always needed. Please consider volunteering to lead a troop so even more girls can be a part of Girl Scouts. Everyone is welcome to come to the event and join the fun.
Carrollton Lions Club sponsors the Comedy Magic Show at the Carroll County Middle School Auditorium 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 27. Proceeds will help with the eyeglass program and special eye treatments.
Magician and musician David Cottrell plays a blazing five-string banjo and has performed for the President of the United States, opened for acts such as George Strait, Ricky Skaggs, Allison Krauss and David Copperfield. He is member of Louisville Magic Club and International Brotherhood of Magicians.
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Awhile back, a developer shared with me that C# 3.0 lambda expressions make
him feel "lambdumb". Over the past several months, I've met several developers
that start to look a bit nervous when they see the new "=>" operator. However,
if you've stuck with me thus far on my current series (which presents functional
programming from the vantage point of C# 2.0), there really isn't anything about
lambda expressions that should worry you. This article is minor detour from that
series to demonstrate what lambda expressions are all about.
On the surface, C# 3.0's lambda expressions are very similar in functionality
to C# 2.0's anonymous methods. Just like anonymous methods, lambda expressions
provide a way to declare code inline in a method body and allow the creation of
lexical closures when external local variables are accessed by the inline code.
(For more information on closures, see my article
The most obvious advantage of lambda expressions over anonymous methods is
their conciseness. For example, would you rather write this?
Or this?
Getting rid of the clunky "delegate" keywords and the curly braces certainly
does a great deal to reduce the code. However, I've spoken with some developers
that have been confused by this new syntax so let's break it down step by step.
Here's the first anonymous method:
To convert it to a lambda expression, all we have to do is remove the
"delegate" keyword and add the funky "=>" operator like so:
At this point, it should be clear that a lambda expression is still really a
method. There is a parameter list and a method body just like an anonymous
method but we've reduced the number of characters. Removing the "delegate"
keyword reduced by 8 characters but adding the "=>" operator (and a space)
gained 3 characters. So, by converting the anonymous method to a lambda
expression, we've reduced the code by a total of 5 characters. Not bad, but we
can do more.
(NOTE: Some have asked how we are supposed to pronounce the "=>" operator
when reading code. I prefer to read it as "goes to". So, if I'm reading this
lambda expression: x => x + 1, I would say "x goes to x plus one.")
Our next improvement is to allow the parameter "n" to by implicitly typed by
the compiler like this:
that change reduces the code by 4 more characters for a total of 9. You might
be wondering if you could do the same this with an anonymous method? Well, you
can't. Parameter type inference is a feature specific to lambda expressions.
This results in a compiler error ("Identifier expected"):
Next, the current
C# 3.0 specification available from Microsoft states that "in a lambda
expression with a single, implicitly typed parameter, the parentheses may be
omitted from the parameter list." This means that, because our lambda expression
only has one implicitly typed parameter, we can remove the parentheses like
that gains us 2 more characters for a total of 11.
The last improvement is in the body of the lambda expression. It turns out
that lambdas support two kinds of bodies: 1) an expression or 2) a statement
block. Now, this is actually a bit confusing semantically because a single
statement that returns nothing (or, "void") can be considered an expression. So,
I prefer to think of these two body types as 1) a single statement and 2)
multiple statements. In any case, if the lambda expression contains a single
statement, it is legal to remove the curly braces and the "return" keyword (if
any). If there is more than one statement, the braces and "return" keyword are
Since our lambda expression's body only consists of one statement, we can get
rid of the curly braces and the "return" keyword like this:
The reduces the code by an additional 12 characters for a total of 23
characters removed. If you do the math, you'll find that we've reduced the size
of the original anonymous method by 70%! that's pretty impressive. However, for
me the biggest improvement is that, on an English keyboard, I only have to press
the shift key twice to type the lambda expression (for the '>' and '<'
characters). The anonymous method version required pressing the shift key 5
times (for '(', ')', '{', '<' and '}'). that means that this lambda is much
easier to type that its anonymous method. (This might not seem like a big deal
but remember that I'm one of the developers on the
product so it's very important to me.)
OK, let's take a look at the second anonymous method from our sample code:
This one doesn't reduce as much because there isn't a "return" keyword but we
can still gain quite a bit.
First, remove the "delegate" keyword and add the "=>" operator to convert it
to an anonymous method:
Next, allow the "n" parameter to be implicitly typed:
Because this lambda expression only has one implicitly typed parameter, we
can remove the parentheses:
Finally, since the body of this lambda expression only contains a single
statement, we can remove the curly braces:
The anonymous method version has 29 characters but the lambda expression only
has 13. that's a code reduction of about 55%.
As you can see, brevity is a huge
advantage that lambda expressions have over anonymous methods and we've really
only scratched the surface. Lambda expressions really shine when using them in
traditional functional programming techniques like
currying (the simplest
example yields a reduction of 75%).
Next time, we'll look at how lambda expressions improve the C# compiler's generic type inference.
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If feel a bit behind and need to catch up on WPF, this is the book.
Great book on F# containing from Beginner to Advanced. It even has chapters on more arcane features of the language, such as Computation Expressions and Quotations.
Because this book provides source code in Standard ML, it's a fantastic
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OSAGE COUNTY, Okla. - An Osage County man has admitted to stealing two horses he was hired to break and train.
Michael Delaney Jr., 26, was arraigned on two counts of larceny of domestic animals Tuesday after turning himself into authorities the day before.
A Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, or TSCRA, investigation led authorities to Delaney.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa City released renderings earlier than initially planned on Wednesday, showing what Dubuque Street and Park Road Bridge could look like when the Gateway elevation project is finished.
The project aims to elevate the bridge and roadway because its current low elevation and close proximity to the Iowa River has resulted in frequent flooding.
Special Projects Administrator Melissa Clow said they decided the release the draft renderings to address public questions and concerns about how the project would affect the area.
"The public has had a lot of questions about what it's going to look like and we've stated in our public meetings that we're maintaining the same feeling that we currently have," she said. "It's a very natural and unique corridor, and we wanted to put these out there to show them this is the direction we're heading."
The renderings show how the area would look if the city council decides to move forward with the highest impact choice: raising the roadways to protection for a 500-year flood. Clow said they will also prepare renderings for the city council that depict lower flood protection levels.
"These show them the maximum footprint or maximum impact it would have on adjacent properties," Clow said.
According to the city, Dubuque Street carries more than 25,000 vehicles a day and is plagued by flooding. It was flooded for 54 days in 1993 and for a month in 2008. Most recently, floodwater closed the street earlier this summer.
Tomorrow night, Clow said the Historic Preservation Commission is meeting to decide whether they will stand by their support of the project, initially expressed in August 2012. Clow said the commission may also discuss recommendations for the project, which are "welcomed."
The next step is to submit the final environmental assessment of the project to the Federal Highway Administration and the Iowa Department of Transportation in hopes of receiving a Finding of No Significant Impact.
"That would be the approval that we need from the federal agency to move forward with the final design," Clow said. "At that point, we can minimize the impact on adjacent properties, the council would determine the final protection level that we design to, and we can go from there."
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The UpTake: The President had a bit of fun on his current Asia trip, when he paused to play soccer with one of Japan's newest robots as part of the announcement of a national partnership.
President Obama began his four-country tour of Asia with a visit Japan, where he played soccer with a robot and talked about the extension of a technology agreement between the two countries.
"Japan and the United States have historically led the way in innovations that have changed our lives and improved our lives," Obama said according to the White House pool report, noting that the nations had renewed a 10-year agreement that facilitates technological cooperation.
Describing the experience he said, "We saw some truly amazing robots—although I have to say the robots were a little scary," he said, according to a USA Today report.
In 2012, Japan was the biggest robot market in the world. With sales increasing to 28,700 units, according to an International Federation of Robotics report. But in the same year, shipments to the Americas increased 7 percent year-over-year to 28,100 industrial robots.
Last year Google went on a robot startup-buying frenzy, acquiring eight companies in a matter of months, including Japan-based Schaft, which builds humanoid robots.
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Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard is confident England's managerial saga will not derail their European Championship campaign.
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You may start noticing pregnancy symptoms or be able to detect pregnancy 7-10 days post ovulation. One of these changes is an increase in your blood flow around your body.
By about 6 weeks after a pregnant woman's last period, the amount of blood flowing around her newly pregnant body has increased.
Pregnancy requires dramatic changes in blood flow, the most obvious being that which occurs in the uterus and the development of the placenta to make a baby grow.
Blood flow to the skin increases, making a newly pregnant woman feel warmer and perhaps sweat more, particularly her hands and feet.
Studies show that non-pregnant women have about 100ml of blood per minute flowing through the uterine artery, but in early pregnancy this increases to about 120 ml per minute. Once a woman is near term in her pregnancy, the blood flow has increased to about 350 ml per minute.
Other studies reveal the amount of blood in a pregnant woman's body increases by 40 to 45% during her pregnancy, creating cardiovascular changes and increasing blood flow to various organs of the body.
This extra blood flow boosts body metabolism by about 20%, creating more body heat and make pregnant women less likely to feel the cold.
A pregnant woman's core body temperature will often rise to about 37.8 degrees Celsius (or about 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit), when it is normally 37 degrees Celsius (or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
The extra blood not only helps the body meet the metabolic needs of a growing foetus but also flows to other organs like the kidneys.
Extra blood flow to the woman's skin can also contribute to nose bleeds and bleeding gums.
It is not uncommon to feel a bit light-headed during pregnancy. This is perhaps due to the quick changes to the cardiovascular system, which now has more blood pumping through it. Your heart rate may increase and leave you feeling dizzy,
During normal pregnancy, most women experience a reduction in blood pressure during the early stages. This reaches its lowest point some time in the middle of pregnancy and then starts to rise till it reaches normal level at the end of pregnancy.
While the cardiovascular and the nervous system can handle these changes, at times it fails to do so and it can result in a feeling of dizzy and light-headed.
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The purpose of this study is to see how Post Amputation Pain (PAP) affects the body and brain by using sensory testing (such as pinprick testing), taking pictures of your brain (using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine) and biomedical interventions (such as an injection of pain medicine). All medicines and the fMRI machine used during this study are FDA approved. The investigators hope that by learning the causes of PAP, the investigators can help future amputees.
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Drug: Bupivacaine
Drug: Placebo
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Subject)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Pathophysiology of Post Amputation Pain
- Change in Electronic Pain Diary Ratings [ Time Frame: Ratings 3 times a day for 5 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]A time series analysis will be utilized to compare the change in pain diary 0-10 numeric ratings before and after the injection.
- Quantitative Sensory Testing [ Time Frame: Visit 1 (Week 0), Visit 2 (Week 1), and Visit 3 (Week 5) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]To test whether the afferent response in the residual limb is dysfunctional in patients with PAP, we will compare the residual limb to the contra-lateral (non-amputated) limb on responses to Quantitative Sensory Testing stimuli. QST results in the residual limbs will be compared to the intact limbs for all patients with within-subject t-tests.
- fMRI Imaging [ Time Frame: Visit 2 (Week 1) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]fMRI images will be taken to assess activity related with post-amputation pain in the orbital frontal cortex, insula, anterior cingulated cortex, amygdala, and hypothalamus. Within-subject and between group comparisons will be conducted to identify patterns.
- Infrared telethermography [ Time Frame: Visit 1(Week 0), Visit 2(Week 1), and Visit 3 (Week 5) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]To test whether some patients with post-amputation pain exhibit dysfunctional activity, spontaneous temperatures in the residual limb versus the contralateral intact limb will first be recorded with infrared telethermography. Temperatures will then be assesed after provacative testing. Temperatures in the residual limbs will be compared to temperatures in the intact limbs for all patients using within subject t-tests.
|Study Start Date:
|May 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: Sympathetic nerve block of bupivacaine
Drug: Bupivacaine
one injection of 10ml of .25%
|Placebo Comparator: Dry needling
Drug: Placebo
Dry needling
|Active Comparator: Neuroma injection of bupivacaine
Drug: Bupivacaine
one injection of 10ml of .25%
|Placebo Comparator: dry needling at the neuroma
Drug: Placebo
Dry needling
Detailed Description:
Your participation in this study will last for 5 weeks and you will be asked to come to a total of 3 visits. The first visit will be during the first week of the study, the second visit during the second week of the study and the third (final) visit will be during the fifth (and final) week of the study. For your first visit you will have a physical examination with some sensory stimulation tests (such as vibration and pinprick tests), some questionnaires about your health and pain history, hot and cold sensory tests, and we will take thermal pictures of your body before and after receiving a quick electrical stimulus. You will also be trained on how to use the finger-span device to rate your pain during the second visit, and how to use an electronic pain diary to record your pain scores three times a day during the five weeks of the study.
The second visit will begin with questionnaires from the first visit and thermal images with a quick electrical stimulus. You will then be brought to an fMRI scanner room at Northwestern University. For an hour and fifteen minutes we will take pictures of your brain and these pictures will help us understand the changes in your brain relating to pain. You will then be put into one of four treatment groups randomly.
The study treatment that you will get will be decided randomly or by chance, like flipping a coin. Injections in this study will use the local anesthetic bupivacaine (a long lasting drug like the numbing agent novocaine used by dentists). This drug causes numbness, blocks pain and other nerve function near the injection site for 6-8 hours. Group 1 will get a sympathetic nerve block of bupivacaine, which changes how your nerves transmit pain, in either the neck or lower back (depending on where the amputation is located), Group 2 will get a placebo injection (no active medicine) in either the neck or lower back (depending on where the amputation is located), Group 3 will get a neuroma injection of bupivacaine (a neuroma is a group of nerves at the end of your residual limb), and Group 4 will get a placebo injection (no active medicine) at the neuroma. Some people get the bupivacaine injection and some people get the placebo injection so that we can compare the groups and see if the bupivacaine brings more, less or the same pain relief as a placebo injection. We scan your brain before the injection so that we can see how your brain responds to pain. We also scan your brain after the injection so that we can see if your brain responds differently to pain after the injection has been done.
You will know the location of your injection before you receive the treatment (neck, lower back or neuroma on your affected limb), but you will not know if you are getting a pain medication injection or placebo injection. Only the study doctors will know this information, and it can be told to you in case of an emergency. After the injection, you will have a second hour of brain scanning. After the scanning, you will be asked to complete some questionnaires, sensory tests, hot and cold temperature testing and we will take thermal pictures of your body before and after a quick electrical stimulus.
Your third visit will be four weeks after your second visit. For your third visit you will have the same questionnaires as during the first and second visits, sensory tests, hot and cold temperature testing and we will take thermal pictures of your body before and after a quick electrical stimulus.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- At least 18 years old
- Able to read and speak English and provide informed consent
- Single Amputation, upper or lower.
- Subject has chronic post amputation pain lasting longer than three months
- Subject has healed amputation wounds
- Pain must be ≥3 on a scale of 0-10, 0 being no pain, 10 being the worse pain imaginable.
- If subjects pain is non-existent during fMRI scans, the subject needs to be willing to have their pain induced by targeting pain trigger points (for example, study's postdoctoral fellow would massage certain regions of the affected limb to trigger PAP).
- Subject agrees to 1) Stop taking all aspirin seven days prior to their second visit (Bayer,Ecotrin,Alka Seltzer, etc.) 2) All inflammatory medications 48 hours prior to their second visit (Advil, Motrin, Indocin, Lodine , Ibuprofen, Aleve, Naproxen, etc. 3) Supplements such as Vitamin E and Fish Oil 48 hours prior to their second visit.
- Subject agrees to continue other prescribed medications.
- Subject is willing to have hypodermic needle injections and images taken of them (digital, thermal, and fMRI).
- Able to understand and comply with all data collection methodology including electronic diary.
- If female, is not pregnant and not currently attempting to conceive; if of childbearing potential, use of a highly effective method of birth control (as determined by Pl).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subject is allergic to Isovue 300 or amide-type local anesthetics such as bupivicaine, lidocaine, or mepivacaine.
- Subject has a diagnosis of bleeding diathesis or an immune compromise.
- Subject has pain that is more severe than their post amputation pain.
- Subject has a clinical diagnosis of fibromyalgia.
- Subject has metal shavings and or is frequently in an environment where there is metal work being done or significant amounts of metal shavings.
- Subject has ferrous metal implants, aneurism clips, bioelectric devices, and other implants which can be affected by the magnetic field of the MRI.
- Subject is claustrophobic.
- Subject weighs more than 300 pounds.
- Subject plans to start new pain treatments or therapies during the study (e.g. new pain medication, injections, PT, surgery).
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01632709
|United States, Illinois
|Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Principal Investigator:
|Norman Harden, M.D.
|Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Norman Harden, Principal Investigator, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01632709 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 11, 2012
|Last Updated:
|May 12, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
United States: Federal Government
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Anesthetics, Local
Central Nervous System Agents
Central Nervous System Depressants
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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It all began with the water tank. When Dumaria village in Ballia district got an overhead tank late last year, villagers thought their water problems would finally be over. But they hadn't bargained for what was to follow. The 11,000 volt power line that was supposed to run the tank ran through their 220 V domestic supply lines, sending high voltage racing through the lines. So on June 15, when Sandeep Yadav, 18, turned on the switch at his uncle's home, it proved fatal. By the end of the day, seven others in the village had sustained burns from electric shocks.
Electricity in Dumaria, a village with a population of about 12,000, is about extremes. There is usually no power and if there is, the voltage is so low that even light bulbs barely glow. Then, there is the other extreme that Dumaria witnessed on June 15 — power that kills and maims.
While UP claims that 98.7 per cent of its villages are electrified, the sub-station in Dumaria — ramshackle and abandoned with old wires joined dangerously at various points — tells you why percentages don't always tell the story. While supply rarely matches demand in the state, the real problem lies in faulty lines, poor maintenance and like in the case of Dumaria, abject lack of accountability.
To run the water tank, power lines carrying 11,000 V (to be distributed in three phases from the transformers) were strung up in May last year. But instead of providing a separate network that would have meant installing a few electric poles, this high voltage line was tagged on the existing poles that carried the domestic supply lines.
Villagers say this high-power line was a naked cable that ran through the residential area of the village. The two lines remained dangerously close to each other. Villagers protested when they felt mild shocks, but nothing changed and the tank finally began functioning in December 2013.
The mild tingles continued to be felt every time someone turned on a switch or touched the taps, but nothing prepared them for what was to follow on June 14-15.
"On June 14, I had gone to my neighbour Ashok Lal's house to charge my mobile phone. I had barely put the plug in the switch board when I felt the shock," says Meera Devi, 30. She has a deep cut in her right palm.
Around 9 am the next day, Sandeep died while trying to do the same at his uncle Garju Yadav's house. Sandeep, whose father is a farm labourer, lives in a thatched-roof house without electricity and he would often walk across to …continued »


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Intentions, first published in 1891 as a decorated book designed by Charles Ricketts, collects, in often substantially revised form, several of Oscar Wilde's previously published critical writings regarding art and its place in society: "The Decay of Lying" (1889), "Pen Pencil and Poison" (1889), "The Critic as Artist" (1891), and "The Truth of Masks". These individual works display the development of Wilde's personal theories of art and aesthetics in conversation with the prevalent trends in art and aesthetics of the late-Victorian era. The title Intentions suggests a dialogue with Walter Pater's Appreciations, which Lawrence Danson calls a "…
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Question: How do I rank column B "within" the same category in column A? See picture below. I want the formula to rank text values uniquely.
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Array formula in C2:
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The increase in violence in the health care setting reflects to a large extent the increase in violence in the community. In 1992, private industry reported about 22,400 incidents of nonfatal assaults and acts of violence requiring an average of 5 days away from work (BLS, 1994b). Most of the violent acts involved threats, hitting, kicking, beating, biting, stabbing, squeezing, pinching, scratching, twisting, rape, and shooting. Thirty-eight percent of workers subjected to nonfatal violence were health care givers in nursing homes and hospitals (BLS, 1995d). Most of these care givers were female NAs and licensed nurses. Typically they required 3 to 5 days away from work to recuperate from their injuries. Ironically, some of these workers were injured by patients who resisted their assistance or were assaulted by patients who were prone to violence (BLS, 1994b).
Until recently, studies of violence in health care settings have focused mainly on assaults on staff by patients in psychiatric care settings such as mental health hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, or psychiatric units of hospital. Around 70 to 80 percent of staff in mental facilities reported assaults on them by patients (Lanza, 1983; Poster and Ryan, 1989).
In response to its members' concerns, the Emergency Nurses Association conducted a national survey in 1994 of emergency department nurse managers (Emergency Nurse Association, 1994). In this survey, violence was defined to include verbal and physical assaults with or without weapons. Factors contributing to violence toward staff were alcohol abuse, drug abuse, anger and high stress, overcrowding of the department, open access to the emergency department, and psychiatric patients. Other relevant factors included prolonged waiting times, gang-related activities, increasing numbers of patients needing care for injuries resulting from violence, trauma, and staff-to-staff conflicts. Other studies of emergency and psychiatric departments of hospitals also found incidences of physical attacks on medical and nursing staff and carrying hidden weapons to the hospital (McCulloch et al., 1986; Lavoie et al., 1988; Goetz et al., 1991).


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when you'd use high-speed flash sync / Auto FP
Going to High-Speed Flash sync, ie, over maximum flash sync speed, comes with a penalty. So here's a solid recipe for when it makes most sense to go to high-speed flash sync / Auto FP.
When you need
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As mentioned in the tutorial on high-speed flash sync (HSS), there is a considerable loss of power in going into high-speed flash sync territory. So you wouldn't immediately use HSS in very bright light if you are trying to over-power the sun with flash. While the higher shutter speeds brings the ambient exposure down, it brings the effective flash power down faster than it affects the ambient light. So the sweet spot will always be at maximum flash sync speed. Therefore, using HSS shouldn't just be a default way of working flash.
With this image, the softbox was close enough to Aleona that we were able to get good flash exposure on her, even at a high shutter speed. However, we did remove the one baffle of the softbox.
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A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
Leonid Andreevich Beliaev oversees the Moscow division of the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He spoke with journalist Marisa Robertson-Textor about his recent discoveries within the Kremlin's walls and the impact that today's frantic pace of building has had upon the city's early remains.
Have there been many digs in the Kremlin?
What are you finding there?
Are there any special security measures you have to deal with?
With thousands of construction projects underway in Moscow, what's the state of archaeology outside the Kremlin?
With only five archaeologists on staff, how do you prioritize your work in the face of development?
What questions interest you most?
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Dr. Johnson was born in Houston and grew up in Lake Charles, La., graduating from Lake Charles High School in 1970. He then attended Louisiana College, where he graduated summa cum laude with a major in Religion and minors in Greek and history. At Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary he received the Broadman Seminarian Award for outstanding achievement in biblical studies. In the summers during his years in college and graduate school he served in four different churches in various capacities. While in seminary he met his wife Martha. They have two daughters and now a two-year-old granddaughter.
His first full-time teaching position began at Wayland Baptist University, in Plainview, TX, where he taught from 1982-1992. He then taught at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1992-2002. While there he spent a sabbatical year studying in Tübingen, Germany. In 2003, he took up his current position as Professor of Religion at East Texas Baptist University.
Dr. Johnson is an active churchman. He enjoys singing in choir. He has served on several committees, but he especially enjoys teaching Bible studies. He is both an ordained minister and an ordained deacon.
Students who do well in my class are those who have learned how to listen critically and take good notes, who engage in class discussion, who read the textbooks carefully, and who write papers with thorough research and clarity of expression.
The faculty at ETBU continues to inspire lifelong learning and scholarship dedicated to presenting Jesus Christ as the foundation for all of our life and knowledge.
The students here exude enthusiasm for missions and ministry. It is a joy to behold.
I try to examine everything to see if it is faithful to the Bible as the Word of God. That task demands attention to every area of human existence and learning. This task is simply obedience to the command to take every thought captive to Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 10:5).
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Bachelor of Arts, Louisiana College, 1974
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