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A woman receives the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine at a clinical trial in Conakry, Guinea. The vaccine appears effective after only one shot.
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July 31, 2015 In a small trial, an experimental vaccine protected 100 percent of people at high risk for Ebola. But more data are needed to figure out exactly how well the vaccine works.
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Slum dwellers near Calcutta get their water from a municipal pipe. Water coming out of the tap on the left is for bathing and so is untreated. The blue Zimba chlorinator is hooked up to the tap on the right, which is used for drinking water.
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July 17, 2015 They're both featured on a list of 30 innovations that could save millions of lives over the next 15 years.
A family receives treatment for cholera at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in October 2011, a year after the overwhelming outbreak began.
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July 10, 2015 A cheap, oral vaccine — about the size of an "energy shot" — offers fresh hope for preventing cholera epidemics, like the one that has killed nearly 10,000 people in Haiti.
Russia has strict rules on dispensing painkillers. Family members say some cancer patients killed themselves because they could not obtain the medicine and the pain was too great.
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July 10, 2015 The rules have been altered following cases where patients killed themselves, saying they couldn't bear the pain and couldn't get painkillers. But advocates say the changes haven't gone far enough.
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A woman in Yatta, Kenya, explains how to make clean water using a car battery and just the right mixture of salt and water.
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July 2, 2015 A clever device uses technology developed by the military to make chlorine quickly and cheaply. The goal is to give schools and hospitals around the world an easy way to purify water.
Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood sample from a child to test for the Ebola virus. On Tuesday, the workers tested people in the village outside Monrovia where a 17-year-old boy died of the disease over the weekend.
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June 30, 2015 A teenage boy tested positive for Ebola in a town outside the capital city. It's unknown where he caught the virus, and health officials are concerned the case could spark another outbreak.
Having many different species of animals around may reduce people's risk of catching some diseases.
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June 26, 2015 Protecting the environment may reduce many diseases, such as Lyme and West Nile, a study finds. The tantalizing idea suggests that conservation and human health may be more connected than we thought.
An Aka man smokes hemp while hunting in the Central African Republic.
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June 23, 2015 When it comes to reefer madness, nobody can top a group of traditional hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin. About 70 percent of men smoke cannabis. The drug could be doing more than getting them high.
The outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome is slowing down in South Korea, but people were still wearing surgical masks around Seoul on Monday.
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June 22, 2015 When Middle East respiratory syndrome erupted in South Korea, people started wearing masks everywhere, even at weddings. So how good are these masks at stopping MERS or even the flu?
A police officer guards the home of a family under a 21-day Ebola quarantine in Freetown, Sierra Leone, back in March.
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June 19, 2015 Over the past few months, case tallies have dipped toward zero, only to bounce back up. Health officials worry the outbreak could never end if people keep hiding cases and dead bodies.
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Pills are prepared for HIV/AIDS patients at a caregiving facility in Thailand. A new report on global health spending shows HIV/AIDS is the top priority.
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June 18, 2015 ...is $228 billion. A new report breaks it all down: Who gave the money (spoiler alert: the U.S. is a very big donor) and where did it go?
In front of the emergency room at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, medical workers care for a man suspected of having the Middle Respiratory syndrome on Monday.
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June 8, 2015 So the spread of the Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea is probably due to other factors, such as a delayed response to the outbreak and poor infection control at hospitals.
Primal posture: Ubong tribesmen in Borneo (right) display the perfect J-shaped spines. A woman in Burkina Faso (left) holds her baby so that his spine stays straight. The center image shows the S-shaped spine drawn in a modern anatomy book (Fig. I) and the J-shaped spine (Fig. II) drawn in the 1897 anatomy book Traite d'Anatomie Humaine.
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June 8, 2015 There are a few populations in the world where back pain hardly exists. One woman thinks she has figured out why, and she's sharing their secrets. Have Americans forgotten how to stand properly?
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Patient one: A businessman brought the Middle East respiratory syndrome to South Korea in early May. Since then, he has likely spread the virus to more than 20 other people. Several of those have passed the virus onto others.
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June 4, 2015 In the past week, cases of the Middle East respiratory syndrome have more than tripled in South Korea. Researchers now have a clue to why the outbreak has grown so large, so quickly.
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Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti, February 2011. The cholera outbreak in Haiti began in October 2010. Nearly 9,000 people have died.
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May 28, 2015 Cholera has been spreading in Haiti for over four years. But this year looks especially bleak. In the first four months, there were nearly four times the number of cases as in the same period in 2014.
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Patients receive treatment at the Chest Disease Hospital in Srinagar, India. The country has one of the highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the world, in part because antibiotics for the disease are poorly regulated by the government.
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May 27, 2015 The problem has gotten so bad that some doctors are pondering a "post-antibiotic world." The World Health Organization says countries need to boost surveillance for resistance and develop new drugs.
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The Ebola outbreak "overwhelmed" the World Health Organization and made it clear the agency must change, WHO's director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan, said Monday in Geneva.
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May 21, 2015 The World Health Organization isn't ready for the next pandemic or international health crisis, so the agency's leader is calling for major reforms. But will the changes be enough?
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Worth a little pain? Back in 1990, a school boy got a measles shot in the U.K., and it turns out, he got more than protection against the measles.
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May 7, 2015 When the U.S. introduced the measles vaccine, childhood deaths from all infections plummeted. Scientists think they might know why: Benefits of the measles vaccine go way beyond the measles.
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Lucy Barh, head of the Liberian Midwives Association, says of the impending end of the Ebola outbreak: "It is a joy, it is a joy. And I am so grateful to God. The Lord almighty has love for this nation. That is why we have come to this point."
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May 7, 2015 On May 9 — 42 days after the last reported case — the World Health Organization will announce that the epidemic has ended in the West African nation. Its citizens are proud, sad and a bit leery.
A patch that's the size of a nickel could one day administer the measles vaccine.
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May 3, 2015 Step aside, injections! The next flu vaccine you see might look more like a bandage — a patch covered in 100 microscopic needles that dissolve in the skin in just a few minutes.
Health worker Jackie Carnegie delivers a rubella vaccine in Colorado in 1972.
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April 30, 2015 It took 15 years and 250 million vaccines, but this week, health authorities officially declared North America and South America free of rubella — a virus that can cause severe birth defects.
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A surgeon and nurse anesthetist a baby by emergency cesarean section at a hospital in Rwanda.
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April 30, 2015 One-third of global deaths occur because people don't have access to safe surgery, a study finds. Dirty operating rooms and unskilled attendants make going under the knife extremely risky.
A student reads inside her home in Srinagar, India, as her sister points to a sketch resembling a male police officer in a first-grade textbook
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April 19, 2015 In almost every corner of the world, women are either completely written out of school books, or they're portrayed in stereotypical, subservient roles, a report says. What will it take to fix this?
Liberian workers dismantle shelters in an Ebola treatment center in the Paynes Ville neighborhood of Monrovia. Doctors Without Borders closed the center last month because it was no longer needed.
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April 17, 2015 International banks are promising nearly a billion dollars in aid to the three countries hardest hit by Ebola. The number of weekly cases has dropped below 40 — the lowest level since last May.
A woman cultivates seaweed off the coast of Madagascar to counter overfishing. She's working with Blue Ventures, a business that supports its conservation projects by giving ecotours.
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April 17, 2015 Entrepreneurs are figuring out ways to make the world better without relying on charity. It's called social entrepreneurship, and its rising stars showed us how it works at a conference in Oxford.
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Bryan Adams' Hit-Heavy Fox Show
By Jeremy Essig
Lightning Bolt's Sharp New Sound
By Jason Robinson
Fleetwood Mac Back with Classic Lineup
By Hans Morgenstern
Here's Who's Making STL Noisy This Spring
By Joseph Hess
Beatles Sister Louise Harrison Departs the Midwest
By Peter Gilstrap
By Julia Burch
Working Class Dogs to Honor Rick Springfield
By Jeremy Essig
Torche Gets Back Into Its Heavy Groove With Restarter
By Nathan Smith
If you're one of those folks who believe that rock is dead, buried by its own increasing irrelevance, or by whatever the latest trend may be -- ska, swing, electronica, teenybopper pop, whatever -- Monster Magnet may just be the band that will restore your faith in the music. The group's latest release, Powertrip (A&M), rages from end to end with heavy-metal thunder and is filled to the brim with tales of frontman Dave Wyndorf's hedonistic urges -- there are lots of sex and drugs to go with his rock & roll. Throughout the album's 13 tracks, Wyndorf is alternately lazy ("I'm never gonna work another day in my life," he boasts on the title track), philosophical ("Some people go to bed with Lucifer, then cry when they don't greet the day with God," he muses on "Bummer," quite content with the side of the line he stands on), and frightfully honest ("When you get tired of their crap, baby, move over here and maybe buy some of mine," he offers, also on the title track). There's also some first-class riffage to be found on songs like "Crop Circles," "Space Lord" and "See You in Hell." It may have had precious little competition, but there's little doubt that Powertrip was the finest hard-rock album of 1998.
Monster Magnet, of course, has not been a stranger to St. Louis in recent months. They played on the second stage at Pointfest a while back, a performance during which Wyndorf was memorably lap-danced by an overenthusiastic member of the audience. (He didn't seem to mind.) They also opened for Rob Zombie a few months back. Now they're back with a full headlining set, which is all the more reason to see them when they perform at Mississippi Nights. Kid Rock and (hed)pe open. (DD)
Vanilla Ice
Friday, Feb. 5; Galaxy
Vanilla Ice, a.k.a. Robert Van Winkle, once sat on top of the rap world. He sold millions of records, made two movies, made a sex book with Madonna, all the while earning dumptrucks full of money. Then his 15 minutes were up, and the man who put the V in VIP lost millions to rap kingmaker Suge Knight in a shady deal, churned out laughable cheese-rap ballads and got heavily into drugs. It seemed that His Vanillaness had melted under the heat of superstardom.
Now the Iceman is trying to thaw his frozen career with a new album, Hard to Swallow (Universal); a new look; and a new-found belief in God. Gone are the parachute pants, the 6-inch pompadour and the gold chains. Instead of sporting Filas, Vanilla Ice wears ripped shirts, tattoos and a close-cropped haircut that screams for the street cred he's never going to get. His new sound, a funk/metal hybrid reminiscent of Korn, forgoes the inane bad-boy rap, the bitch-dissin' and the frontin' of his earlier work and is more on the introspective tip. All of this begs the question of whether we really want to know what's going on inside the Iceman's mind. That indeed could be hard to swallow. Once he let himself be typecast as a clown, the image became indelible.
Oh, yeah, if you must ask, he still does "Ice Ice Baby." (MH)
Blind Boys of Alabama
and the Persuasions
Saturday, Feb. 6; Edison Theatre
The classic gospel groups of the '40s and '50s -- the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travelers, the Golden Gate Quartet and the Blind Boys of Alabama -- created soaring, powerful music built on finely tuned vocal harmonies and the emotional call-and-response between lead singer and supporting voices. These soulful gospel groups proved an inspiration for doo-wop, rock & roll and rhythm & blues, in addition to providing early training for legendary singers like Sam Cooke, Clyde McPhatter, Wilson Pickett and Johnnie Taylor.
You can hear the best of both sacred and secular harmonizing when the Edison Theatre's Ovations! series presents a double bill comprising the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Persuasions.
The Blind Boys of Alabama recorded for the first time in 1948, but the roots of the group actually go back a decade earlier, when Clarence Fountain and six of his friends at the Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind decided to form a gospel-singing group. They originally called themselves the Happy Land Jubilee Singers -- a name they would keep until changing it to the Five Blind Boys of Alabama in 1950. Amazingly, the Blind Boys still feature three founding members: Fountain, George Scott and Johnny Fields. Perhaps that continuity explains why the group has kept its popularity over the decades and continues to gain new fans.
The Persuasions began performing vocal harmonies a cappella on the street corners of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the early 1960s, and more than three decades later the group's motto is "still ain't got no band." Like the Blind Boys, the Persuasions have remained a remarkably stable group. Original member Herbert Rhodes died in 1988, and the Persuasions worked as a quartet for the next eight years before adding Bernard Jones (a former member of the Drifters) in 1996. The Persuasions have released such classic recordings as We Came to Play, Chirpin' and Street Corner Symphony, and they haven't lost their ability to make beautiful music a cappella. (TP)
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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 1998 The U.S. contingent in Bosnia will soon shrink by about 600, but it's too early to say what NATO will do now that Bosnian elections are over, U.S. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said during his recent trip to Europe.
Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, was a stop on Cohen's seven- day, late September itinerary. While there, he spoke to U.S. service members and met with U.N. and other military and civilian officials.
During the past several months, the U.S. contingent had increased to about 7,500 to provide added security at 2,300 polling sites during Bosnia's mid-September elections. The force will be cut to roughly 6,900 by mid-November or early December, Cohen said.
The NATO-led stabilization force includes 28,000 other troops from 36 nations. U.S. and NATO authorities currently are reviewing the Bosnian situation to determine if other force cuts are advisable. Cohen said a decision is due in December.
"I would suggest that we wait until that review is conducted to see exactly where we are on the benchmarks and then make a determination as to whether or not there can be a gradual reduction of forces," he said.
When the second U.N. mandate for the Bosnia mission ended this summer, NATO authorities set benchmarks to measure the mission status and progress toward lasting peace rather than set an end date.
Cohen said there's room for further troop cuts, given that the recent elections were conducted successfully and a number of moderates were elected. International officials said more than 70 percent of the population voted.
"The recent elections were free and fair," Cohen said. "Voters went to the polls with almost no security incidents." He said the United States will work with all the newly elected officials "as long as they support the Dayton accords and do so not only with their words but also by their deeds."
During his visit, Cohen toured a recently demined Jewish cemetery in the hills above Sarajevo that had been a Serb artillery site used to shell the city. Freshly dug holes indicated where the Serbs had strewn mines. NATO officials repeatedly warned the Cohen entourage, photographers and reporters to stay on paved areas, because no demining operation guarantees 100 percent safety.
Cohen also saw a demonstration by the newest addition to the NATO-led stabilization force, the Multinational Specialized Unit. The 350 Italian police officers who currently make up the force are trained to deal with civil disorder. They demonstrated crowd control and displayed equipment for the secretary and his party. Romanian and Slovenian platoons and an Argentine company are slated to join the unit.
"This is one example of our efforts to move beyond military stabilization to civil rehabilitation," Cohen said, after watching the display. "As we prepare to complete NATO's six-month review in December, we will be looking for other ways to substitute civilian institutions for military force."
Although economic energy and cultural creativity have returned to Sarajevo, the capital is not yet the cosmopolitan, multiethnic city it once was, Cohen noted. "We need more progress on refugee returns and reconciliation," he said.
Accelerating civil implementation is the challenge, Cohen said. "The parties must do more to cooperate on minority returns, to end corruption, to build a multiethnic police force, to provide security to all Bosnians.
"SFOR and the other institutions have sown the seeds of peace and prosperity in Bosnia," the secretary said, "and now those seeds must be cultivated and harvested by the Bosnians themselves."


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We don't know about you, but some small forgotten part of our brain lit up during last night's Oscars and said, "Hey, didn't that guy used to churn out smooth sexy jams?" Luckily for us, despite what his trip to the Oscars or his upcoming film Friends With Benefits might suggest, Justin Timberlake hasn't retired from music. "I have not retired from music," Justin scoffed to Entertainment Weekly on the Oscars' red carpet. "I am unemployed right now and that is very dangerous. It gets hard to motivate yourself to do anything besides golf." We have two jobs too, and believe us, the last thing we'd do if we weren't working would be to play golf. Probably because the first thing we'd have to do is sell our clubs for food.
As for Timberlake's new album, Justin is certain his next big hit is on the way. "I haven't been hired for anything so I may hire myself to write some music," Justin explained to E! "It's right around the corner." In the meantime, Timberlake has sex scenes with Mila Kunis to tide him over. "That's an easy thing to do," Justin explained about filming nude with his lovely co-star. "I think I could speak for all the men in the world when I say that's the easy part." Wow, we hope things turn around soon for Timberlake soon. God forbid he has to go without seeing an A-list actress naked or singing some baby-making tunes for long. Damn this economy!


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Odd, is it not, in the third of our half term reports to be filing a 'could do better' on Williams and Sauber, today's teams? Williams after all had seemed, just 11 races or one half season ago, to be in the process of 'doing a Leeds'. Their current standing and attainment made you wonder whether they really were that Williams. You know, the one with Alan Jones and Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet and Damon Hill and that over-rated Canadian bloke?
Yeah, that Williams: Senna's last team.
2011 now looked like it might have been the team's nadir. Two laps from the end of the first race of this season in Australia, Pastor Maldonado was set to eclipse the points tally of both its drivers in the whole of the 2011 season. Then he threw it in to the wall and quite possibly gave us a spooky premonition of Williams' 2012 championship; surprisingly fast and economical car, too regularly trashed by its lead driver.
Maldonado has become the bloke to avoid in F1 in 2012. The Ozzie accident aside, he opted to take himself and Lewis Hamilton out the race in Valencia rather than risk losing a podium. He and Perez weren't fighting for a podium at Silverstone yet the same thing happened. 'Crashes'; it's what you think of when you think of Pastor Maldonado.
He even stuffed it when he took the car home to Venezuela to celebrate his victory.
Yes, his victory, from pole position in Barcelona, was possibly the surprise of the season to all but the team that's been rebuilding Williams from the ashes of the six-point 2011 campaign. Sadly, like we say. That's not what we think of now when we think of Maldonado.
Twenty-five points for win remember. Maldonado has 29.
That Williams' other driver, the adorable, and hopefully now starting to get his fast on, Bruno Senna, has 24 and has not troubled the podium. Bruno celebrates his first full year in F1 at Spa next weekend and does so off the back of his best race yet in Hungary. Everyone of the sofa here is hoping he can do enough in the next nine races to get another year.
Williams then gets a B-Minus even with the staggering turn around in form. Sauber gets a B. This year's Sauber-Ferrari, still largely devoid of sponsors but for an odd Chelsea FC logo, is one of the tidiest, fastest and easiest on its tyres in the field. How they do it with no money we have no idea, but if we were starting 'Sunday Afternoon F1', we'd buy huge amounts of Dairy Milk and try and tempt some of the Swiss team's engineers to jump ship.
The C31 has a model's appetite when it comes to tyres, and like the Williams, it's this flexibility on top of the car's pace that's put it in winning positions (it can go so much further on one set of soft tyres the teams can one or two-stop when everyone else is on a two or three). Especially in Malaysia where, and we're going to stick our necks out here, Sergio Perez should have beaten Fernando Alonso.
Perez was quicker than Alsono and the team's caution and that caution's unsettling effect on Perez cost them what would have been an historic win. That's quite remarkable when you think that as effectively both the 'works' Mercedes and BMW teams in F1 in its time, Sauber has only ever managed one victory. Once again, they know how to spend money, those crafty Swiss.
Time, then, for Sauber to step up and show some balls and likewise its drivers. In 2011 Perez was a revelation; it was Kamui Kobayashishi's turn the year before. This year they're both, sort of… meh? Evenly matched in qualifying, they're not top ten shoe-ins, and both seem unable or unwilling to regularly show the extra flair required to make Q3, or make better of a Q2 slot. Don't get us wrong, we have their posters on the Sunday Afternoon wall, and they've got a lot more flair than anyone who's come through the Toro Rosso Academy recently, but they need to over-deliver a little more, just like their cars' designers have.


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Filed under: Art,Photography
Humans have long been drawn to the heavens for everything from guidance to power to art and the intrigue remains to this day. Taking cues from ancient architecture, Vancouver-based artist James Nizam's sculptures harness the light in his fleeting pieces made permanent through a series of photographs titled "Trace Heavens."
The photograph above, titled "Shard of Light", is the most striking of the series. It was created in a house that was slated for demolition but not before Nizam purchased the structure for one dollar, tore apart a portion of the roof, wall and floor and rebuilt it with a 1-inch thickness. He then cut a slice that, when the rays of the sun shown through, would create a precise geometric form of light. With the help of some artificial fog to create an atmosphere for the light, a completely dark room and a whole lot of patience, Nizam's sculpture comes to life for a short period as the rays pass through the opening at just the right time.
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DURHAM, N.H. -- Suzanne Poretz (Alexandria, Va.), a junior at the University of New Hampshire, was named Gymnast of the Week by the East Atlantic Gymnastics League on Jan. 27.
Poretz won the all-around competition with a career-best score of 38.850 to lead the Wildcats to a 192.925 – 191.950 victory against the University of Massachusetts on Jan. 22. The former T.C. Williams High School standout also bested her career mark on the uneven bars with a score of 9.825. Poretz, a 1999 All-EAGL second team selection on the beam, placed second on that apparatus with a score or 9.800. She also placed fourth in the vault (9.500) and helped the Wildcats set a season-high score of 48.975 on the floor exercise with her 9.725.
Poretz established a career-high 9.550 on the vault Jan. 16 against Penn State and also set a new benchmark with a 9.775 on the floor in that meet. Her best mark of 9.85 on the balance beam was accomplished last season.
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'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration'
— Thomas Edison
My father used to tell me that if you want to get ahead in this world, work harder than the person sitting next to you. Get to work before him, leave after him, and before long you'll have his job.
The opportunity to get ahead through hard work may be even greater today, because the competition is fierce, but the will to work for many is no longer so.
Of equal importance is to take pride in everything you do, wether it is digging ditches or building bridges. You should be able to look back at the end of the day and be proud to have your name associated with the work you just performed.
And, last but not least, for every hour you spend inside, spend two outside. The outdoors will bring you solace, and ground you when all else seems off course.
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After 25 years of being in the "real world" after high school graduation, I can safely say that life's been an adventure.
Growing up in Tupper Lake, I wanted nothing more than to leave my hometown. By my senior year in college, I wanted nothing more than to live in the Adirondacks. I was able to return home and earn a good living in the media industry. I'm finally living the dream, but it's not been an easy road.
To the Class of 2012, I say if you want to come back to the region after college or military service, you can. Brain drain is real, but it's overrated. We need you. Consider coming home. And get a dog. Dogs are nice.
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Aug. 26, 2011
Friday: Lobos 2, Towson 0
By Richard Stevens - Senior Writer/GoLobos.com.
Was it a coach's instinct? Was it a good guess or maybe a lucky guess? Was it a brilliant move or was it simply time to get some fresh legs into the match?
Whatever prompted Lobo Coach Jeremy Fishbein to look over at his bench and insert James Rogers and Giovanni Rollie definitely was a well-timed move for the New Mexico side of the scoreboard.
The two Lobos entered the first half of New Mexico's Friday night run with Towson at the 35:09 mark. They teamed up for a goal at 43:43.
That strike was all the Lobos needed in their 2-0 season-opening win. UNM (1-0-0) added an insurance goal in the second half when Lawrence Robledo drilled in a direct kick from about six yards out of the box, and almost dead center in front of the Towson net.
"We were very good tonight," said Fishbein, whose Lobos next play at home on Sept. 9 against Columbia in the TCL Heating & Cooling Lobo Invitation. "We played a mature game.
"We were focusing on keeping the ball and being dynamic with our runs and I thought we did that for the most part."
Rollie's goal definitely was dynamic. The Lobos moved the ball well on the right side of their attack with Michael Green getting the ball to Rogers. Rogers slanted in toward the net and spotted Rollie on a power run. He put the ball at Rollie's feet. Rollie put the ball into the net.
"I got a lot of help," said Rollie. "I give James Rogers a lot of credit. We moved the ball around and the ball came from the right side and we crashed the ball. He brought it to me and it all happened so quickly.
"I just got a foot up and it went off my shin guard and went in. I just swung my foot. I had no spot in mind."
The Lobos dominated the match on every part of the field. Towson's attack was anything but dynamic and the Tigers probably had only two good chances to score.
Lobo keeper Victor Rodriguez made an outstanding save on one of those Towson shots reaching out at the last moment with his right arm to scoop in a shot headed toward the net.
The Lobos had 20 shots on goal to six shots on goal for the visitors from Maryland. Rodriguez had to make only two saves on the night.
The Lobos second goal was set up by Devon Sandoval, who was weaving the ball through the Towson defense when he was tripped. That set up the free kick almost directly in front of the Towson net and a few yards out of the box.
Towson set up its wall to take away one angle, but wall ended up with a crack in it. Like they say: "There's a crack in every defense. That's how the goals get in." Robledo wasn't so sure that he found the crack as much as his shot found the crack.
"I was going to go over the wall, but the guy on the outside moved and it went right around him," said Robledo. "It looked like the keeper got screened by his own wall. The defender leaned and the shot went by him.
"It was a little lucky, but I'll take it."
Fishbein had used 10 Lobos off his bench in both UNM's exhibition games, but used only five subs against Towson: Rogers, Rollie, Javier Gomez, Carson Baldinger and Adrian Mora-Delgado.
"A couple of guys hadn't played 90 (minutes)," said Fishbein. "There was a little bit of fatigue in our decision making. That's a mental thing and it should improve as our fitness gets better.
"I thought the guys who came off the bench made a difference. When you have a deep team, guys don't come off the bench to keep you in it. They come off the bench to make you better. I saw that tonight."


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Trip to Eden for runaway teens ends in Durham
They met on Facebook when a 15-year-old Michigan boy typed, "I want to run away and I need people to run away with."
It ended on Highway 70 in Durham on Thursday about 1 a.m. when a Durham County Deputy stopped a Cadillac Escalade for driving erratically.
When he looked in the SUV, he saw five kids ranging in age from 13 to 15 and two men in their 20s. Their plan, as it slowly came to light in juvenile court Thursday and Friday, was to pick up a couple of other kids, drive to California, start their own community and call it Eden.
Durham County District Court Judge Marcia Morey required the parents to come to court to hear their children tell them what they had done.
The Herald-Sun does not print the names of juveniles involved in the court system, and one parent asked that her name not be used since it would identify her daughter.
The story was told in court by Boy #1, who said he contacted other kids online and planned the trip with them.
"On Monday night, I packed my bags and stole my mom's car," he said.
When he packed his belongings, he took two .22 rifles from his home and a filet knife, then drove north to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since he was just learning to drive, it was a difficult trip. He got lost several times and ran into a light pole as he tried to negotiate a roundabout.
In Ann Arbor, he picked up Girl #2, a ninth-grader who waited outside the public library. When Boy #1 arrived, she jumped in the Cadillac with $15.
Boy #1 and Girl #2 hadn't ever met before in person, but they headed east together to Hazleton, Penn., where they picked up Ryan Tyler Wurzel, 20, and Hang "Alex" Wu, 22, at a bus stop.
Next on to Colesville, Md., to pick up Girl #3, a 14-year-old eighth-grader. She brought along $24 in pennies.
While in Maryland, they also picked up Girl #4, who had just turned 13 two weeks earlier. Then on to Durham to pick up Girl #5. She slipped out of her house after midnight, and they picked her down the road from her home.
With Wurzel at the wheel, according to Boy #1, they were on their way to Florida to pick up another boy, Boy #2. The next day in court, however, it was revealed that wasn't the truth. Boy #2 wasn't in Florida. He was in California and they planned to pick him up there, stopping along the way to pick up more kids they had met on the Internet along the way.
But they didn't get that far.
The deputy who stopped the Escalade on Highway 70 took all the juveniles into custody and let Wurzel and Wu go.
In court, the judge made Boy #1 turn to his father and tell what he had done.
The father, who had flown in from Detroit that morning, was aghast.
"You call your friends and say goodbye," the father said. "We think you're going to kill yourself or something. You have rifles."
The father also asked him how he could have driven so far.
"You don't even have a license," he said. "You could have killed somebody."
The mother and siblings of Girl #3 drove in from Maryland and arrived during the middle of the hearing. The mother told her daughter that after she discovered her daughter was missing, she called the sheriff, went online begging people for help, called everyone she knew, printed photographs and posted them around their town.
"Am I going to have to go identify your body somewhere?" she asked.
Also during the hearing, the father of Girl #5 walked into court, along with Wurzel and Wu. He and his former wife tricked the pair into thinking they were stopping by the courtroom to pick up Wurzel's wallet.
Morey asked them to step forward, and when they did Detective Ron Christie, and a court deputy cuffed Wurzel and Wu and took them into custody.
Wurzel, wearing tattered jeans hanging low on his hips and a white tank top, had something to say.
Wurzel told the judge that he had known people who had committed suicide. "I know running away isn't the best, but it's better than dying," he said.
On Friday morning, another hearing was held for the father of Girl #2, who had driven to Durham from Michigan to pick her up. Christie explained to him what his daughter had done, and he broke down in tears. She had run away before and he didn't know what to do, he said.
Because she had shown signs of mental illness, juvenile court authorities huddled with him to develop a plan to help him get treatment for his daughter.
The mother of Girl #5 also came to the hearing. She had talked to her daughter and done research on the Internet. Wurzel, she said, was the mastermind behind the plan.
"These boys basically brainwashed them," she said.
"We can go live in our own little community and we'll call it Eden," she quoted him as saying on a website. "You girls were going to be used as his little Eves!"
Christie agreed, saying that when he interviewed Wurzel, he was reminded of the Manson family. The plan was to start a community out in the woods of California and live off the land, and Wurzel was going to be the leader.
"For him, you all were his family," Christie said.
One girl was left in the courtroom; the small girl who had just turned 13. Her mother wouldn't be able to come pick her up, she said, because their car was broken down.
She was afraid, she said. Morey assured her they'd take care of her and she was in no danger.
Meanwhile, Wurzel and Wu made their first appearance Friday morning. They each were charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of stolen firearms. Wu also was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and he was held for staying in the United States after his visa had expired.
Each was being held under a bond of $53,000.


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What's a speedster — or conflicted "Heroes" viewer — to do? (pic link) Why do I suddenly find speedster Daphne so endearing? Is it that bleach-blond, almost straw-like pixie hairdo? The way her nose scrunches just so when faced with uncertainty? Or is it that, like the remaining "Heroes" viewers who haven't yet jumped ship, […] [Read More]
'Heroes' 3.5: 'We are badasses now'
Not the cantina scene you expected, huh? [pic link] Just about everyone switched halos for horns this week on "Heroes" and I loved it. Not only did we get unpredictable twists, a brisk narrative, the return of a sick villain, the exit of a sad "villain," the reveal of another big bad and some great […] [Read More]
'Heroes' 3.4: Stop this crazy thing called the future
What's wrong with this picture? Too much future shock. (All images courtesy NBC Universal Media Village) We knew from last episode that the adventures of (Present) Pete and (Future) Pete would take us back to the future, where bleakness runs darker than Future Claire's eyeliner. But did it also have to be as muddled and […] [Read More]
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They're just like Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in Black." Only one's a psycho and the other actually has a personality. (All pics from here.) After suffering the two-hour rubber-band ball of plot knots that bounced all over our living rooms last week, the latest chapter in our Heroic little saga mercifully […] [Read More]
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"Heroes" returns with not one but two chapters of glossy superhero action and it's so all over the map (literally global, baby) that I think my head's about to split open like a world in an ominous painting or like Sylar just gave me the Ginsu finger. [Read More]
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Never fear. Hiro always rises. (NBC Universal Media Village) Trail mix. Tasty in some parts, too dry in others. So goes "Powerless," the 11th chapter in our Heroic little tale. (And pretty much the whole second little volume.) For every tasty bite of the night (Hiro versus Peter and Hiro versus Adam) there was the […] [Read More]
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Hurray for Micah, puncher of Damon! (NBC Universal Media Village) It's all about the Shanti virus in this latest chapter of our Heroic little tale. And I do mean little since this ep isn't much of much to write about. Thing is, "Truth and Consequences" measures up to be pretty much the lull before the […] [Read More]
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Hopeful conducted herself with dignity
Posted: November 07, 2012|
HOW refreshing to see a candidate who hopes to be elected to public office conducting herself with great dignity.
At a hustings organised by Victim Support, Victoria Atkins demonstrated her excellent qualities for the role of Police and Crime Commissioner after she was barracked by some members of the public as she set out why she believes she will make a good commissioner.
In essence, she explained how she will act without fear or favour for all the people of Gloucestershire, how she will be very comfortable taking the Oath of Impartiality and how she will do her duty as this important position requires.
Finally she pledged to ensure the best value for money and not to increase the burden on Council Tax payers. She will be the people of Gloucestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner.
Anthony Powell Chalford
The editor would like to make readers aware that Victoria Atkins is standing for the Conservative Party. Also contesting the vote are Alistair Cameron (LibDem), Rupi Dhanda (Lab) and Martin Surl (Ind).


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DULUTH -- Partial to bluegrass and chili?
You'll fit right in at the second annual City Council Chili Cook-Off, scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday on the Town Green in Downtown Duluth.
The event will feature a beer garden, mini-pies, activities like tug of war, sack races, trivia and bluegrass music by Smokey's Farmland Band.
Admission is free as well as the chili-tasting. A fee will be charged by the vendors for other food and beverages. Large bowls of chili can be purchased by giving donations to the Hands of Christ food bank.
According to a news release, Smokey's Farmland Band blends musical influences "ranging from bluegrass to gypsy jazz to Cajun, creating a progressive sound they like to call Goodtime Eclectic Bluegrass."
Concert goers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs. Outside food and beverage is welcome too.
For more information, visit www.duluthga.net, or call 770 476-3434.
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The pediatric residency believes in a healthy work-life balance for residents and their families during this busy time. We promote and encourage our "Get a Life" contest to our entire program. Here is just a sampling of what we encourage you to try:
See at least 3 lighthouses on the Oregon Coast
Visit at least 5 museums
Eat a perfect French crepe at Le Happy
Go to Portland or Beaverton Farmer's Market
Enjoy at Dutch Baby at the Original Pancake House
Take in a Portland Trailblazer (NBA) or Portland Timber (MLS) game
Portland is Oregon's largest metropolis, and has also been named one of the most livable cities in America. Downtown Portland is full of culture and commerce: museums and galleries; a thriving theater community and music scene; dozens of parks, plazas and gardens; a zoo; a great eco-friendly mass transit system; an NBA basketball team; and a wide variety of shops and restaurants. Radiating out in all directions are diverse and affordable neighborhoods in a setting that's hilly, green and clean.
Portland is right between the scenic mountains to the east, and the beautiful Oregon Coast to the west. In the near distance, is Mt. Hood which towers above its neighbors in the Cascade range, beckoning outdoor enthusiasts to its ski slopes, campsites and hiking trails. There are more mountains to the west, beyond which lies Oregon's pristine and rugged coastline. Oregon is famous for its varied terrain, its rivers and lakes, desert and rangeland, national forests and parks. Much of Oregon's land is publicly owned, providing thousands of acres of wilderness. In fact, Portland alone contains 37,000 acres of park land, including Forest Park, the largest urban wilderness in any American city. Portland also has the distinction as the most bike friendly city in North America.
Residents receive a debit card to purchase meals, which is prepaid by the hospital based on the frequency of call. We also provide white lab coats and business cards.Book and travel money for CME conferences is provided to residents also.
Vacation & Leave
Residents receive nearly four weeks of paid vacation per year. Vacation is taken in three blocks spaced throughout the year. These vacation blocks are outside of the call schedule. Thus, the call schedule does not change from q4 to q3 as residents take vacation.The ten days in late December through New Year's Day are outside of the rotation schedule. During this time, critical service areas are covered by half of the residents. Each resident has a block of five days off during this holiday time.
Five days are available for educational leave. Travel money is available from the department to assist residents who attend a medical meeting. Two weeks per year of personal leave is granted and can be accrued. Maternity/paternity leave is available in line with state and federal law.
Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance options are available to residents and their families. Residents receive a monthly stipend (in addition to salary) to purchase these benefits. Medical liability coverage is provided through the State of Oregon.
A house officers retirement plan is offered to all residents. The plan provides a fully-funded contribution from OHSU, an attractive choice of investments, the ability for you to make voluntary, pre-tax contributions and service and planning support.
The year begins with a week of orientation, including certification in Pediatric Advanced Life Support and Neonatal Resuscitation. This week gives the new residents a chance to get acquainted and meet faculty and residents in the program. In September, residents and their guests attend an off-campus weekend retreat to socialize and attend workshops to enhance evaluation, teaching, and other skills.
Annual Resident Retreat
In September all of our residents attend a weekend retreat at a get-away resort in Oregon . Families and significant others are included. Retreat agendas focus on education, self-awareness, well-being, and residency program improvement. Most importantly, it is a time for residents to get to know each other, relax a little, and have fun.
Chief Residents 2014-2015
Sara Rourke - U. Iowa
Allison Roland - UT San Antionio
Catherine Caruso - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Erik Frandsen - Creighton University
Karen Heisler - Loyola University
Laurel Hoffman - OHSU
Amiee Janesky - Commonwealth Medical College
Jessica Marsh - University of Kentucky
MaryAlice McNamara - SUNY Upstate
Carol McFarland - Penn State
Cate Kent - OHSU
Nicki Nabavizadeh - University of Oklahoma
Kellee Parker - Rocky Vista University
Erin Perkey - University of Illinois
Kirsten Reinecke - Indiana University
Katelyn Saarela - Western University
Jason Soh - Virginia Commonwealth
Maria Velazquez Campbell - University of Colorado
Mandie Wiebers Jensen - OHSU
Abbie Bauer - UT San Antonio
Amanda Burrage - UMass
Ittai Bushlin - Mt. Sinai
Antwon Chavis - Meherry Medical
Katie Cotterell - Creighton
Matt Dietz - U. New England Osteopathic
Allison Empey - UC San Francisco
Alicia Friend - OHSU
Megan Furnari - UMass
Ben Gern - U. Wisconsin
Michelle Gern - Medical College of Wisconsin
Lauren Kilgore - U. North Carolina
Jillian Sanford - Texas Tech U.
Michael Sethi - OHSU
Cristina Swanson - U. Colorado
Jennifer Tsai - Case Western
Casey Ward - Loma Linda U.
Lucy Amory - U. Rochester
Julia Carr - OHSU
Andy Cave - Case Western
Allison Christy - Northwestern U.
Rachel Cichowski - Western U. of Health Sciences
Paco Corbalan - U. Vermont
Kate Cronkhite - UT San Antonio
Paul Goodwin - UT Galveston
Theresa Graif - Columbia Univ.
Lauren Harris - Loma Linda U.
Tanvi Hathiwala - Chicago Medical
Michael Jones - U. Hawaii
Brenna Lewis - U. Washington
Courtney McGirr - Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine
Lane Miller - Medical College of Georgia
Sara Taub - Loyola Univ.
Leah Yieh - UT San Antonio


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Christ Church scored the game's final 17 points to defeat Johnsonville 27-18 Friday afternoon for its second straight SCHSL Class 1A-Division 1 state championship. In the process, the Cavaliers' extended their winning streak to 25 games.
Johnsonville led 18-10 with 8:28 to play after a 73 yard touchdown run by Tushai Edwards. But the Cavaliers responded with a 9 play, 54 yard drive capped by a one yard run by quarterback Demetrius Anthony. Anthony also ran in for the two point conversion to tie the game with 5:15 to play.
Back to back break downs in the kicking game sealed Johnsonville's fate. First, the Golden Flashes were forced to punt from their own 25 but the snap was high and recovered in the end zone by Johnsonville for a safety. On the ensuing kickoff, Quan White went 56 yards for a touchdown, and the extra point clinched the victory.
Christ Church won despite managing just 139 yards to 353 for Johnsonville. Anthony passed for 160 yards but was sacked four times. Brison Allison led Johnsonville's wishbone attack with 205 yards and two touchdowns. Edwards added 146 yards and one touchdown.
Christ Church finishes the season at 14-0 and Johnsonville at 13-1.
AUDIO: Christ Church coach Don Frost post game interview [3:03]
AUDIO: Johnsonville coach Lewis Lineberger post game interview [2:21]


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Kirk Evans is a Microsoft Architect for the Azure Center of Excellence.
Introduction to SharePoint and Azure IaaS
Building SharePoint Apps with Windows Azure Platform as a Service
SharePoint Solutions and Architectures on Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
Understanding Authentication and Permissions with Apps for SharePoint and Office
Looks like this is an interesting topic to a lot of people since part 1 of this series made it to the front page of Digg today. Good thing that I was already working on part 2 :)
In Calling Web Services via AJAX - Part 1, I highlighted how easy it is to use client-side script to call an ASP.NET web service leveraging the ASP.NET AJAX library. In this post, I will show how to replace the ASMX service using a WCF service.
Most people think of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and WS-* synonymously. To clarify, WS-* refers to the set of specifications (WS-Addressing, WS-MetadataExchange, WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging) that compose the set of web services specifications.
Windows Communication Foundation, by contrast, is an implementation of those specifications. The confusion is partially earned as the first implementation of WCF was squarely positioned as the most complete implementation of the WS-* stack, and using POX with the first version of WCF was a bit of a kludge. Not to mention the name confusion between WCF and WS-*... blame that on the marketing folks since many still call it by its code-name "Indigo".
The architecture of WCF separates how a message is serialized from its underlying transport, and the internal representation of a message for WCF is the XML Infoset. This means that, despite WCF's internal representation of a message, it can be serialized using a wide variety of formats including text or binary. The binary serialization is useful for implementations such WCF's binary format or interoperability formats such as Fast Infoset. The text serialization capabilities include a number of formats as well including SOAP (1.2 or 1.2), POX, or even JSON... which we will look at closer in this post.
.NET 3.5 introduces several important features for WCF, including an easy-to-use HTTP web programming model, support for creation of RESTful services, UriTemplates, and support for JSON encoding. WCF makes programming REST, POX, and AJAX just as easy as programming SOAP.
I have covered exposing a WCF service using JSON several times over in previous blog entries. Let's look at a simple example.
using System;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Activation;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
[ServiceContract(Namespace = " ")]
public interface Service
string HelloWorld();
public class ServiceImpl : Service
public string HelloWorld()
return "Hello World";
This service says absolutely nothing about it will be hosted, says nothing about JSON or XML or SOAP or HTTP. This is what I meant before by the WCF architecture separating concerns of addressing, serialization, and activation. Those capabilities are expressed in the web.config for the service.
<service name="ServiceImpl">
<enableWebScript />
WCF 3.5 introduces the webHttpBinding to provide great interop with the ASP.NET AJAX library, specifically providing support for the "D" JSON encoding (more on that in a minute). The webHttpBinding tells WCF that the endpoint should be accessible using an HTTP web programming model (using HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, and the like). We also configure the enableWebScript behavior which tells WCF to serialize messages using JSON encoding.
Just like with ASMX, we can ask the service to hand us a pre-built JavaScript proxy by appending "/js" to the end of the querystring.
The WCF-generated JavaScript proxy is identical to what is generated from ASMX save for the path being different, noted in the second to last line that uses set_path to point to the service.svc file instead of the service.asmx file.
Service=function() {
this._timeout = 0;
this._userContext = null;
this._succeeded = null;
this._failed = null;
_get_path:function() {
var p = this.get_path();
if (p) return p;
else return Service._staticInstance.get_path();},
HelloWorld:function(succeededCallback, failedCallback, userContext) {
return this._invoke(this._get_path(), 'HelloWorld',false,{},succeededCallback,failedCallback,userContext); }}
Service._staticInstance = new Service();
Service.set_path = function(value) { Service._staticInstance.set_path(value); }
Service.get_path = function() { return Service._staticInstance.get_path(); }
Service.set_timeout = function(value) { Service._staticInstance.set_timeout(value); }
Service.get_timeout = function() { return Service._staticInstance.get_timeout(); }
Service.set_defaultUserContext = function(value) { Service._staticInstance.set_defaultUserContext(value); }
Service.get_defaultUserContext = function() { return Service._staticInstance.get_defaultUserContext(); }
Service.set_defaultSucceededCallback = function(value) { Service._staticInstance.set_defaultSucceededCallback(value); }
Service.get_defaultSucceededCallback = function() { return Service._staticInstance.get_defaultSucceededCallback(); }
Service.set_defaultFailedCallback = function(value) { Service._staticInstance.set_defaultFailedCallback(value); }
Service.get_defaultFailedCallback = function() { return Service._staticInstance.get_defaultFailedCallback(); }
Service.HelloWorld= function(onSuccess,onFailed,userContext) {Service._staticInstance.HelloWorld(onSuccess,onFailed,userContext); }
We save that generated proxy into a file called proxy.js, and then our actual UI implementation code remains unchanged with 3 simple lines of JavaScript code.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<title>Calling a Service</title>
<script src="MicrosoftAjax.js"type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>
<script src="proxy.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function onClick()
Service.HelloWorld(onSuccess, onFailure);
function onSuccess(sender, e)
function onFailure(sender, e)
alert("Problem retrieving XML data");
<input type="button" onclick="onClick();return false;" />
Again, this HTML would look identical if it were generated from JSP, ColdFusion, PHP, Ruby, whatever, because it is all just HTML and JavaScript.
When you view this page and click the button, an alert box is shown with "Hello World" in it. What that does behind the scenes is issue an HTTP POST to the following URL:
That HTTP POST also includes the following HTTP headers, useful for using a tool like Fiddler to create your own HTTP request.
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0)
UA-CPU: x86
There's no body in our example here, but there would be if our service include parameters. The service accepts this request, maps it to the appropriate service and method, then uses the information in the configuration file to serialize the reply. We specified the enableWebScript behavior, which told WCF to serialize the result as JSON. The HTTP response looks like this:
Server: ASP.NET Development Server/184.108.40.206
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:38:05 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 19
Connection: Close
{"d":"Hello World"}
Which leads us to an interesting discussion.
There's a potential security exploit called "array object constructor hijacking" (several interesting articles listed in that search result). There's a really good write-up of the vulnerability and exploits in Joe Walker's post, "JSON is not as safe as people think it is". The reason that ASP.NET AJAX uses the "d" wrapper is to protect against this particular security vulnerability. If your service returned an array, it would be succeptible to this attack without a type wrapping the array, hence the "d" wrapper. In most cases, the "d" wrapper should be transparent to you.
In case you run into situations where you need tighter control, WCF provides 2 ways to use JSON in WCF. The first is as described above using the webHttpBinding and the enableWebScript behavior. The second is to use the webHttpBehavior and UriTemplates. Justin Smith explains the different design goals for the two different scenarios: enableWebScript behavior was designed to simplify working with the ASP.NET AJAX stack, while webHttpBehavior provides control over the UriTemplate.
It should be noted that using the webHttpBehavior and WebInvoke attribute with a JSON result does not use this wrapping technique. Let's look at an example by changing our WCF service just a bit.
We added the WebInvoke attribute to our service and explicitly specified the result to be encoded as JSON. Since we are using the WebInvoke attribute, we need to change our configuration slightly as well.
<service name="ServiceImpl">
The only change here is that we changed the behavior from enableWebScript to webHttp, which enables us to control the projection of this service using the HTTP programming model.
If we invoke this service using a tool like Fiddler (using the same HTTP headers and URL mentioned above), the result looks like this:
Server: ASP.NET Development Server/22.214.171.124
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:06:52 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 13
Connection: Close
"Hello World"
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Hi, I contacted you over email, about this, and your original response was helpful in getting me to think of just how to go about with the project. If you don't recall I'm attempting to make a server-side AJAX (and hopefully WCF). The resources you sent me, should be good. But unfortunately I've hit a couple of snags. On everything the documentation of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK it refers to a tools folder that would contain all the tools I'd need for Visual Studio. I've installed a good 4 or 5 times and no such folder ever appears. That said, even if I get that done, is there any way at all for me to use the tools with Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition for Web Development?
I appreciate your help Kirk, I really do, I'm just having troubles getting this thing started.
Any suggestions on cross-domain service consumption?


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He knew what he wanted!
My christmas work out. And what happens to people from Philadelphia! I mean they have snow there, right?
Then the man was convinced we had a lot of mud here -- and by "here" I thought he meant Arches because that's where we were. Tried to tell him we had sand and sand gets harder in the rain -- not muddy. But, what do I know? I'm a woman. Anyway, he had no idea what the park looks like without the snow all over it. They must have asked 3 times if we had grass. Well, we do have grass, but not their kind of grass. Also flowers and what kinds and what colors. They had seen Tuscon, and told me that we didn't have cactus here. Well, they did tell me that.
Also the park was crammed (imo) with Asians. I couldn't believe it. There was even a tour bus. I thought I would have the park pretty much to myself. It was a surprise.
I ran into a young American guy of Japanese heritage, who was excited to be back in the park to see it in the snow. I said something about the tourist who kept taking pictures of his wife/gf in the middle of the road and noted the tour bus. I said that I didn't expect so many Japanese to be here. He responded, "They're not Japanese," and glancing toward his companion added, "If they were Japanese we would know."
He said he thought they were Chinese which was even more of a surprise to me. Hope they didn't go to our "chinese" restaurant.
Then he said that he had also seen a Korean family. This kid was so cute. I wanted to put him in my pocket. Plus he was so excited about the park in the snow.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Auburn quarterback Cam Newton failed to live up to the hype during his throwing session Sunday at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Newton definitely showed the strong arm everyone expected and looked comfortable in his pass drops, especially for a QB who played in a run-first, spread-option offense in college.
While quarterbacks often struggle to throw accurately at the Combine, working with random receivers, Newton struggled more than most other QB prospects Sunday. Many of Newton's passes were way high because he seemed to be over-striding, trying to throw so hard his passes took off. Several of his passes, too, were behind receivers or a tick late.
Going forward, Newton must show improved accuracy at Auburn's on-campus pro day March 8. Newton proved to be an accurate thrower on game film last year, so he must demonstrate that Sunday's performance was an anomaly.


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Monarch Group announces return to profitability
The Monarch Group is announcing a return to profitability in its pre-close statement for the year ending October 31, 2013.
Unaudited results released today show that all the group's trading divisions were profitable following a two-year turnaround plan.
They reveal a gross turnover for the entire group of £1.24 billion, a 15.5% increase on the statutory figure of £1.07 billion for 2012.
Drilling down, the figures reveal Monarch Airlines' turnover was £763 million, up 11.7% while its tour operations revenue grew by 15.4% to £336 million.
Furthermore, the group's websites unique visitors grew by 9.5% to 21.9 million, spending £520 million, an 8.6% increase year on year.
Elsewhere the successfully delivered efficiency programmes achieved annualised cost savings of £52 million and an increase of intra group turnover of an additional £31 million.
Executive Chairman Iain Rawlinson said: "I am delighted to announce the return to profitability of the Monarch Group in 2013.
"This was the outcome targeted by our 2011 refinancing, which was based on a clear plan that combined the achievement of business efficiencies and intra group synergies with growth strategies for each business area.
"All these elements have been delivered in tough markets.
"Whilst we are encouraged by the more positive recent economic news of late, in the short-term there remains overcapacity in the aviation industry and we believe many travel customers are cautious about the economic outlook.
"However, our group structure, combining the three mutually supporting business areas of the scheduled airline, tour operations and aircraft engineering, each with its own independent growth strategy, provides us with resilience in this very competitive market environment.
"The actions we have taken in the last two years provide strong foundations from which to plan the next phase of growth and development.
"Our steady investment in this period - in strengthening the group and divisional management, raising awareness of our trusted travel brands, improving distribution, introducing business efficiencies, and answering the needs of customers - provides a strong platform from which to complete our modernisation agenda. "
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(recipe) Gluten-Free Corn Dogs
July 2, 2012
As you know, the Fourth of July falls on a Wednesday this year. Thanks to my husband's crazy-busy work schedule, we're not doing anything special this year. I'm not even sure if we'll grill. (Although he loves to grill; so that might happen.) I was thinking about something fun to make and thought, "Hmm...maybe I'll make corn dogs."
Corn Dogs are something that I only eat--maybe--once a year. If I do decide to make 'em, this is the recipe I'm using!
Five Keys for Making Gluten-Free Corn Dogs
Dry the dogs. Before coating the hot dogs, dry them. It doesn't matter if you use natural casing dogs or gluten-free veggie dogs, they need to be dry. Remove them from the refrigerator, allow them to come to room temperature and then roll them in a towel to dry. Remember to dry the ends.
Coat them in flour. While researching how to make corn dogs at home, I noticed one compliant coming up again and again: the batter slides off the dog. To keep the batter on the hot dogs, roll them in white rice flour before coating with the cornmeal batter. Again, remember to coat the ends.
Use a tall glass. Evenly coating the corn dogs with batter can be the toughest part of making corn dogs. To make it easy, fill a tall drinking glass with batter and dip the dogs, one at a time, in the cup.
Work quickly. While the white rice flour helps the batter to adhere to the hot dog, some batter still drips off the dog after coating. Set your batter-filled drinking class next to your deep fryer or heavy-bottomed pot. Dip the dog in batter, taking care to cover the end of the dog that meets the stick. Lift the dog out of the batter, allow it to "drip" for a second, swirling or shaking it lightly and place it right into the deep fryer. Remember, don't drop the corn dog into the fryer. Lay it in the fryer gently, tip first. This helps to prevent splattering.
Wrap the stick after frying. When I fried my first corn dog, I got excited! It was so pretty and corn dog-y. After allowing it to drain for a second or two on a paper towel-lined plate, I picked it up. And...I dropped it down. That stick was HOT. Before serving, wrap the stick in a paper-towel.
That's it! A little practice makes perfect. But, happily, the not-so-pretty corn dogs are perfectly delicious!
Are you celebrating July 4th? What's on your menu?
Talk to you soon!
Gluten-Free Corn Dogs
This recipe first appeared on SeriousEats.com as part of my Gluten-Free Tuesday column.
Ingredient Note: Not all hot dogs are gluten-free, be sure to read labels, as always, before selecting your hot dogs.
1 1/4 cups gluten-free cornflour (finely ground cornmeal)
3/4 cup white rice flour, plus additional for coating hot dogs
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 cup milk
2 large eggs
3 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
8 gluten-free hot dogs
1 quart vegetable oil
8 skewers, about 6-inches long


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Ever wish you could master the art of making risotto! It's actually easy once you get a couple of tries under your belt. You can see the process on the video here, but first big news if you're a risotto fan. The 9th annual International Risotto Festival is this Sunday at the Houston Design Center!! […] [Read More]


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Three things we learned about the Red Sox in Saturday's 10-7 win over the Astros.
1. The Sox aren't rolling over and dying.
No, you're not going to hear the old "anything can happen" speech right now.
The Red Sox are not going to make a late playoff push, sorry.
But . . . they're also not just mailing in the rest of the season. If anything, their offense has looked the best its been all season. Granted, it's coming against the lowly Houston Astros, but it's there. It's real. You can see it for once!
On a night where Rubby De La Rosa allowed baserunner after baserunner, the Sox hung around, and hung around . . . and ORTIZ BOMB!
It's their fifth win in six games, and second time this series that they've batted around in the order (they did it in the seven-run 6th inning on Thursday).
This isn't the NBA. There is no "tanking". The Sox are still leaving it all out there on the field, led by their 400-homer man Ortiz, who gives a very simple answer on why he continues to mash despite the team being out of contention.
'Pride. You need to have pride in what you do," Ortiz said. "You got to make sure you go 100-percent out there and you play your best. The fans come in to watch you play and you have to give them what you expect."
2. David Ortiz is better at hitting a baseball than you are.
Assuming the immortal Troy O'Leary isn't reading this one, the above statement holds true.
Also true: Ortiz is now tops in the Majors among all left-handed hitters in home runs (28) and RBI (91). Ortiz came into this game trailing Cubs slugger Anthony Rizzo by one home run, but his two Saturday night leap-frogged Rizzo. He already led the way in RBI, but expanded his lead after tying a career-high with six RBI. Ortiz also moved up to third among left-handed hitters in extra-base hits with 51. He's behind Michael Brantley (52) and Freddie Freeman (56).
What does all of this mean? It means that at age 38 Ortiz is having a remarkable year. Despite the .252 average, he's a lock to go over 30 home runs and 100 RBI, no small feat especially for somebody getting up there in age. He's been the team's offense all season (which I know isn't saying much - but come on).
Aside from Yoenis Cespedes, the player next on the Sox in RBI is Dustin Pedroia with 45. So yes, Ortiz has more than double the RBI than the second-highest player on the team this season. Yeesh.
"Every time David comes to the plate," Farrell said, "you think there's an opportunity or a chance we might see the ball go out of the ballpark. And on two occasions tonight that was the case."
It's unfair to expect numbers like this for Ortiz next season, or the next, but then again it feels like every season we're waiting for a steep decline and it doesn't come. The day will obviously come (maybe?), and when it does you hope that GM Ben Cherington has done enough to make up for it.
Cespedes is certainly a good start and somebody that may help with the post-Ortiz years if in fact the team does re-sign him after next season.
But it is kind of wild to think that a 38-year-old is still the bulk of the team's offense.
3. Daniel Nava is coming around, but . . .
The good news for Daniel Nava is that he's found his stroke again. After an abysmal start to the season in which he was demoted to the PawSox in order to right his wrongs at the plate, Nava has turned things around since being recalled to the team on June 2.
On Saturday, he went 3-for-4 with a double and 2 RBI, his third straight multi-hit game. Since being recalled, he's hitting .331 (54-for-163) with a .399 OBP.
You'll also remember he gunned out Jake Marisnick at the plate on Thursday.
But while Nava can enjoy this now, he may find himself on the bench again very soon.
With Allen Craig set for a rehab assignment on Monday, he could be back on the field in Fenway by the middle of the week. That will obviously cut into Nava's playing time, and we'll probably have a platoon-type situation on our hands.
Three things we learned about the Red Sox on Saturday
Three things we learned about the Red Sox in Saturday's 10-7 win over the Astros.


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HAMDEN, Conn. The Quinnipiac University men's cross country team was picked first in the 2008 Northeast Conference Preseason Coaches Poll, the conference office today announced. The Bobcats claimed eight of the eleven first-place votes for the upcoming season. The Bobcats are seeking their third straight men's cross country conference championship in 2008.
Four-time NEC Coach of the Year Ed O'Conner will lead a Bobcats team that will rely on a mix of upperclassman and younger runners to capture their third NEC crown. Seniors Dan Martin (Commack, N.Y.) and Nick Rezendes (Ledyard, Conn.) return to help guide the Bobcats in 2008 after finishing their junior seasons 16th and 12th, respectively, at the NEC Championships last fall.
Tyler Dinnan (Juneau, Alaska) finished the 2007 season as a member of the All-Conference Team after finishing ninth at the NEC Championships with a time of 26:54.20 before moving on to the NCAA Division I Regional. He was the Bobcats' top runner in that meet, helping the Bobcats to a strong showing in their final event of the season.
Quinnipiac begins their season on Friday, August 29, when they travel to Stony Brook, N.Y. for the Stony Brook Invitational. The men's meet begins at 3 p.m.


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I am glad to say that Border House is back! Let's celebrate with a What Are You Playing:
- What games are you playing this week?
- Would you recommend those games to other Border House readers?
- What games have you ranting?
- Are any of those games listed ones that you want to see covered on the site?
In the last few weeks I have mostly played World of Warcraft. But, I did spend some time with LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and Dark Souls. I cannot seem to defeat the 4 Kings in Dark Souls right now. Finally, I started Moebius Empire Rising.
Hopefully I will be getting more gaming time in soon.
What have you all been playing?