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Blog: Why Shah Rukh is my Favourite Khan
Puja Talwar | Monday November 2, 2015
As a teenager, it was Salman Khan's droopy eyes and Aamir Khan's lopsided grin that made me go weak in the knees. But SRK's Sunil struck a chord. As he sang 'Anna Mere Pyaar Ko Na Tum Jhootha' on the streets of Goa or 'Sach Yeh Kahani Hai Sun Lo Meri Jaan,' somewhere he found his way into my heart
After Anna, a Congress Rally to Pressure Modi Government on Land Law
India News | Wednesday February 25, 2015
After Anna Hazare's two-day agitation in the heart of the capital, the Congress took its protest against the Modi government's land acquisition ordinance to Delhi's streets in a mega rally.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to meet Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa despite protests in Tamil Nadu
India News | Edited by Zoya Anna Thomas | Tuesday March 4, 2014
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold talks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit in Myanmar today.
Ratan Tata 4th most trusted personality in India; Nokia most trusted brand: survey
Wednesday January 30, 2013
Owing to his nationwide campaign against corruption, social activist Anna Hazare has emerged for the second consecutive time the most-trusted personality in India, while former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata is the fourth, a new survey has found.
Monday December 31, 2012
Some grabbed eyeballs for the controversies they kicked up, some for their politics, and others for making people smile and applaud. A look at the top newsmakers of 2012 in different sectors.
Arvind Kejriwal greedy for power? Could be, says Anna Hazare
India News | Edited by Surabhi Malik | Thursday November 1, 2012
At a time when Arvind Kejriwal is making national headlines with his series of "exposes" against leaders from both the BJP and the Congress, his mentor and Gandhian activist Anna Hazare has said that the activist-turned-politician does not have greed for money. Speaking to NDTV, Anna praised his former protégé and said he is sacrificing a...
Anna Hazare supporter will be 'common man' in Bigg Boss 6
Sarika | Thursday October 4, 2012
According to reports a supporter of Anna Hazare has been roped in as a participant on the controversial reality show Bigg Boss 6.
It was Anna who asked for meeting to be kept secret: Salman Khurshid
India News | Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Friday August 3, 2012
Activist Anna Hazare, who ends his hunger strike in Delhi this evening, has accused the government of ill-disguised attempts to divide his team. As proof of this, he has said that Law Minister Salman asked him to conceal their meeting in Pune last month from Team Anna members. Anna, who is 75, has also said that a letter written by another ministe...
Highlights: Anna Hazare explains why he met Salman Khurshid
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday July 18, 2012
Mr Hazare held a press conference in his hometown Ralegan Siddhi today. Here are the highlights of what he said.
Salman Khurshid asked me to keep meeting secret, I agreed: Anna Hazare
India News | Anchal Vohra, Imtiaz Jaleel | Thursday July 19, 2012
Activist Anna Hazare has written to the Prime Minister stating, "We don't want to talk to anyone from your government now." In his note, Anna, who is 75, accuses the government of trying to engineer a fault-line in his group of activists, usually referred to as Team Anna. The Gandhian's letter also confirms that he met privately with Law Minister ...
Salman Khurshid hits back after Team Anna lashes out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday June 10, 2012
Team Anna member Kiran Bedi slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and alleged his "tainted team" will not give a strong criminal justice system, inviting a sharp rebuff from Law Minister Salman Khurshid who said the "personal campaign" will not work.
Bollywood producer Nitin Manmohan summoned in IPL betting case
Lovely M | Saturday May 26, 2012
Producer Nitin Manmohan has been summoned by the Mumbai Crime Branch in connection with an international betting racket that the agency is probing.
Highlights: Govt can pass Lokpal Bill later with consensus, says Salman Khurshid
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday January 3, 2012
Amid much pressure from activist Anna Hazare, the government tabled the Lokpal Bill in Parliament this winter session. However, the bill was passed only in the Lok Sabha where the government has a majority. The Rajya Sabha was adjourned without a vote on the bill. Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, in an exclusive interview to NDTV, says the Oppos...
Lokpal row: PM holds high-level meet, Pranab briefs Cabinet
India News | Sunil Prabhu and Sandeep Phukan | Sunday December 18, 2011
The Prime Minister today chaired a high-level meeting on the cabinet note to be circulated ahead of tomorrow's cabinet meet on the Lokpal Bill. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy were at that meeting.
Lokpal Bill to be introduced in winter session of Parliament
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Friday November 18, 2011
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and his activists will have a busy winter as they fight for their version of the Lokpal Bill to be made a law. Salman Khurshid, the Law Minister, said today that the anti-corruption bill will be introduced in the winter session of parliament.
Swami Agnivesh to enter Bigg Boss 5
Harsh | Friday November 11, 2011
The saffron-clad social activist has agreed to be a part of reality show Bigg Boss, which is into its fifth season.
Don't know who Anna means in 'gang of four' accusation, says Khurshid
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday October 25, 2011
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has in his latest blog said the government has "a gang of four" that are bent on harassing the activists who work closest with him. " Every member of 'Team Anna' had to face accusations and character assassination by the 'gang of four'. Who are these people? Those are the very same people who are not in favour ...
Congress won't be affected by Anna's campaign: Khurshid
India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday October 8, 2011
Union Minister Salman Khurshid today brushed aside Anna Hazare's threat to campaign against Congress in poll-bound states if his version of Lokpal Bill was not passed in Winter session of Parliament, saying it would have no effect on the party.
Anna's call for poll reforms sparks debate over Right to Recall or Reject
India News | Vaidyanathan | Monday August 29, 2011
Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said that the EC was considering a law barring criminals from contesting. He also said India should also consider a right to recall their parliamentarians, like some other countries. However, he added that it was up to Parliament to decide these measures.
Lokpal Bill row: After acrimonious exchange, Team Anna says it will meet govt; Rahul expresses concern
India News | Neha Khanna | Thursday August 25, 2011
Lokpal Bill row: Ahead of a crucial and fourth round of talks with Anna Hazare's representatives, the government has indicated it's running out of patience with the activists. Last night, three of Anna's aides said negotiations were "back to Square One" after they met with Law Minister Salman Khursheed and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Lokpal Bill row: Team Anna representative meets Salman Khursheed
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday August 23, 2011
Lokpal Bill row: Hours after Anna Hazare vowed to continue his fast against corruption despite his frail health, a member of his core team has met with Law Minister Salman Khursheed. Anna's aide Arvind Kejriwal reportedly met with the minister. This morning, Mr Kejriwal had said that despite comments to the media about being open to negotiations wi...
Cops beat up Anna Hazare's supporters in Uttar Pradesh
India News | NDTV Correspondent | Sunday August 21, 2011
In Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad district, supporters of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement were beaten by cops who were a part of Union minister Salman Khursheed's security cover.
Government justifies Delhi Police rejecting permission to Anna
India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday August 16, 2011
Anna Hazare latest news: The Government has justified Delhi Police rejecting permission for Anna Hazare's planned fast here from Tuesday, Aug 16, saying a major gathering cannot be allowed in present day circumstances if it is "uncontrolled."
Salman's life inspires Tamil producer's next
Jeevan Prakash | Thursday September 16, 2010
Gauging a strong fan following for Salman Khan in the south, producer B.K. Krishnan of BRK films is set to make a movie on Salman's life.


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CBS was the most-watched network on this first Friday of the new TV season, according to the fast affiliate results from Nielsen, but year-to-year losses for the network (versus the Live Plus Same Day Results on 9/23/11) of 1.48 million viewers and 19 percent among adults 18-49 means sluggish Friday is unlikely to perk up. NBC and Fox also suffered noticeable erosion (ABC was in repeats from 8-10 p.m. on opening Friday in 2011).
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Ada Frances Greene, 89, passed away Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at Emeritus of Harrisonburg.
Frances was born in Augusta County Dec. 21, 1923 and was a daughter of the late W. Bryan and Ellen J. (Saufley) Wonderley.
She worked as a seamstress and was an avid doll collector. She was a member of Mount Horeb Presbyterian Church in Grottoes.
Jan. 29, 1944, she was united in marriage to Leon H. Greene Sr. who preceded her in death June 14, 2009.
Frances is survived by four children, Leon Greene Jr. and wife, Becky, of Grottoes, Nancy G. Cook and husband, Michael, of Grottoes, Garland Greene and wife, Ginger, of Weyers Cave and Kenneth Greene and wife, Linda, of Weyers Cave; a sister, Eva Good of Grottoes; four brothers, James Wonderley of Waynesboro, William "Bill" Wonderley of New Hope, Andrew Wonderley of Grottoes and John Wonderley of Blacksburg. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
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Herzl believed that the indigenous Jewish population in the Holy Land was essential if a homeland was to be established there.
But more on to the root of the whole dispute...Do the rights of 4 million Palestinians trump the rights of 3 million Arabic Jews?
But anyway,
There can't be an independent Palestinian state and peace at the same time.
Any plan has to include ties of dependence between the Israeli state and the Palestinian state--take the EU as a model for this, as the EU has, to this point, prevented another European war and has caused the French and Germans to go from bitter cultural enemies to being the closest allies the world has ever seen.
And, in the case of Israel and Palestine, the dependence has to be equal or else one party can claim to be aggrieved and start a new war.
If you don't have the two sides depending on each other for mundane things, they will never heal their divisions.
France and Germany tied the very basis of their economies together--natural resources--and 50 years later they would never dream of fighting.


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The Port Huron City Council has approved a contract with a company to manage McMorran Place, but the agreement isn't final until the county also approves a contract with the same company for management of the Blue Water Area Convention Center.
McMorran will pay Pennsylvania-based SMG about $30,000 to cover overhead at the main office. The company also will be able to earn up to $30,000 in incentive money a year, based on the number of bookings the company schedules and deficit elimination.
SMG also agreed to make a $30,000 capital contribution to McMorran Place the first year of the contract. ...


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Members of the Newton County Sheriff's Office pose for a photo with NCSO Sheriff Ezell Brown (far left) and Post Leader Investigator Mark Joyner (far right). The group recently won the 2010 National Exploring Excellence Award, meeting eight out of 11 objectives necessary to earn the award. Those objectives included accomplishing scenarios that demonstrated vehicle pullovers, handcuffing techniques, fingerprinting, community service projects and community-oriented policing events. "It's a great accomplishment for these young men and women to achieve this award in such a short time," said Brown, adding that the post had been active just over a year. Brown said he wants to thank the community for donations made to the post, and especially General Mills which contributed $2,000 toward uniforms and equipment for the members.
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He wants that a customer will be able to choose a picture of a jewelery (for example a ring) and the user will write down his name in an input box, and it will generate the jewelery with his name on it.
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You know whats worse? The office ribbon. Turn that crap off and put it back the way is used to be, or at least provide a toggle option.
Businesses should fire all employees who continue to reply to all after an initial warning. They are idiots and should be sitting outside with the idiots.
I work for a client where culture is extremely political where the CYA principles are hard at work and I suspect many corporations and government branches are similar. Therefore the reply to all button is used commonly, unquestionably to the detriment of productivity (and effectiveness of the message as well). The only way to stop it is to change the culture and that is not on a horizon.
maybe you should spell and grammar check next time.
"Some companies have already do so"?
I have never seen such a poorly edited piece appear in the WSJ before. Difficult to retain the content when the spelling, punctuation and grammar are so sloppy.
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Reply to All is the number one complaint I hear when surveying the state of email at companies I help; yet few have the courage to remove that button, as done by Nielsen. A pity, because I've seen the act of graying it out across the company (which is easy for IT to do centrally) work wonders in terms of reducing email traffic at one of my clients; and if you really need to RTA, there's always the keyboard shortcut - but in the 2 seconds you hunt for the keys your brain gets in gear and you ask yourself "do all fifty of them really need to read this?..."
I'll just stop short of stating that email is a North Korean plot to impede the worlds business.
But it certainly is the lowest form of communication invented by modern humans. I imagine two
cave men grunting at each other produced a more meaningful and results oriented dialog.
60% of it is spam, it is totally insecure, and I'm still looking for somebody to tell me their business
communication and productivity has actually improved as a result of it. Removing the reply to all button is a start .
We use the ReplyAll Addin for Outlook from vboffice.net, which warns before replying all, especially if the recipient got a BCC.
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PADUCAH, Ky. (5/14/13) – Larry Barton, president and CEO of Baptist Health Paducah, will retire in October after overseeing more than two decades of expansion and progress in local healthcare.
"Without question, my 21 years at Baptist Health Paducah have been the most rewarding of my career," he said.
Barton's retirement is effective Oct. 4, 2013, according to his letter to Stephen Hanson, CEO of the Baptist Health system headquartered in Louisville.
"Larry consistently has responded to the needs of Western Kentucky residents with advanced technology and significant investments in quality services," said Hanson. "He is dedicated to patients' needs, never forgetting that how we treat patients is just as important as the tools we use to deliver that care. Fortunately, Paducah and its surrounding communities have been blessed with a strong focus on both these needs under Larry's leadership."
Soon after Barton arrived, Western Baptist (now Baptist Health Paducah) celebrated its 40th anniversary; this year, it will celebrate its 60th. Barton is the longest-serving of six presidents at Baptist.
During his two decades at Baptist, these additions made modern healthcare accessible to the region:
- $67 million investment in 1997-2003 for the main atrium; outpatient, trauma, surgical and critical care services; renovation of second, third and fourth floors; and construction of three doctors' office buildings and the area's only parking garage.
- $5.6 million in 2005 for the Baptist Imaging Center. It expanded the center in 2010 for $9.2 million and, this year, added imaging at three off-campus walk-in clinics.
- $20 million in 2007 for the Baptist Heart Center, the area's most comprehensive heart center and first of its kind in Kentucky west of Louisville.
- $17 million in 2012-13 for a surgical expansion, including the area's only da Vinci robotics, two new open heart surgery rooms and the area's largest hybrid operating room; as well as a new family surgical waiting room.
Meanwhile, the hospital stayed focused on patient safety and quality care – earning the region's first chest pain center accreditation, certification of the region's only advanced stroke center and addition of the region's only Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Barton also helped start Baptist Health Foundation Paducah, which has raised more than $7.5 million in eight years to expand technology and improve services.
"We have always focused on the needs of our patients," Barton said, "and I think that's why we continue to be the hospital our region prefers 2 to 1."
Barton called his decision to retire bittersweet. "I will miss the daily association with my hospital family. That's the hard part," he said. The hospital is one of the region's largest employers with about 1,800 employees.
He noted, however, that the hospital is on solid ground to succeed in this new era of healthcare. "The future is bright for Baptist Health," Barton said.
Since it opened in 1953, the hospital has been part of Baptist Health. The Baptist Health Board of Directors will oversee a search committee, including Paducah representatives, to evaluate qualified candidates for Barton's successor.
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COVINGTON - Newton County and the city of Covington have been selected to participate in the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to purchase and rehabilitate foreclosed properties, Board of Commissioners Chairman Kathy Morgan announced Tuesday night.The county's portion of the funding is $1.74 million and the city will receive about $428,000. "This doesn't mean we have the money and we can start," Morgan said, adding that the county will receive some additional information in the mail and will have 15 days to respond to whatever is contained in that correspondence. "We've completed the first hurdle, but there's several other things that we have to comply with to receive the award for the project," she said. The Neighborhood Stabilization Program was created by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which is being administered on the state level by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. The money available to local governments can be used to demolish and redevelop blighted properties and for non-residential purposes, such as the creation of parks. According to Senior Planner Scott Sirotkin, there were 823 foreclosed properties in the county in 2008. In addition, 28 percent of mortgages are financed by subprime loans, the second highest rate in Georgia. Properties must be purchased at an average of 15 percent below market value. Properties must be sold at or below the cost of redevelopment to prevent the county from making a profit. The funds must be obligated within 18 months of receipt. Properties can be purchased directly by the county, through a land-bank or through a nonprofit organization or a development authority. Commissioners have decided to partner with an as-yet unnamed, nonprofit organization. Morgan said the nonprofit organization would be responsible should new owners default on payments. The nonprofit would also be responsible for maintenance and upkeep, insurance and other costs while the houses are on the market, she said. Once properties are sold, the money would go back to the county to be used to purchase and rehabilitate more homes. Sirotkin said about 14 properties could be affected initially, with more to come once some are sold. County projects that could benefit have not yet been publicly revealed. The city is partnering with Builders of Hope, a non-profit organization based in North Carolina. Several locations in the city, including the Green Acres neighborhood, have been identified as potential beneficiaries of the rehabilitation. DCA Commissioner Mike Beatty announced in a Wednesday press release that $54.4 million has been awarded for 23 NSP projects throughout Georgia. Crystal Tatum can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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This past weekend, our Viking Lars a'Loud descended on the Santa Clara ski show with horns on head and skis in hand. And with the promise of new snow (anywhere from 1″ to 4″ in Tahoe City) this weekend, Lars, Bjorn and Frida have snow on the mind.
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Senate leader Harry Reid said a Senate bill to revive plans for opening a national radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain has no chance of passage.
"It is going nowhere," Reid said Thursday of the measure introduced by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and backed by six other Republican senators.
As majority leader, Reid, D-Nev., has had the last word on nuclear waste bills.
Inhofe said his bill aims to move the stalled project forward. Managers are trying to rework the program, which is years behind schedule, in the face of budget cuts and personnel layoffs.
"If you can't build a repository in the middle of a mountain in the middle of a desert, where should it be?" Inhofe said.
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., accused the bill sponsors of "trying to fast-forward a project that should be stopped."
The bill would change the government's strategy for entombing the nation's most highly radioactive nuclear waste at the Yucca site, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
It would let the Energy Department build the underground repository and begin storing waste after proving to regulators it could be operated safely for 300 years. Every 50 years during that period, DOE would seek license amendments to incorporate new research and technology.
At 300 years, the government would be required to show whether the repository could meet radiation standards to ensure the waste can remain shielded for as long as 1 million years. If so, the repository would be sealed.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new
radiation standard based on a much longer period. A federal appeals
court in 2004 threw out a 10,000-year standard in favor of a National Academy of Sciences panel recommendation that the EPA account for radiation releases at the site for up to 1 million years.
Energy Department officials said they were reviewing the bill.
Bob Loux, director of Nevada's Agency for Nuclear Projects, said
the bill was a return to a "phased licensing" idea that was previously rejected by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
He called the bill "more of a political document than a serious piece of legislation."
Most Nevada officials oppose the Yucca project, and favor storing nuclear waste at power plants until another solution is found.
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When I was a young man, we had it rough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick the road clean with our tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife and while we had the Internet we didn't have the Web. And, when you tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya!*
I actually did use the Internet for years before there was a Web, but when Tim Berners-Lee proposed the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system, to his boss at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, we didn't know it but we were on the brink of a revolution.
Say hello to the early days of Web browsers (gallery)
Berners-Lee idea wasn't new with him. You can trace it back to Vannevar Bush's As We May Think article in July 1945. Personally, I think Ted Nelson's 1960 Xanadu hypertext vision had even more influence on how the Web would turn out. And, of course, Apple's HyperCard did give us a hypertext system that might have beat Berners-Lee to the Web... except HyperCard was totally network unaware. Whoops!
In 1989, all Berners-Lee had was an idea. Turning that idea into working reality wouldn't happen until October 1990. Then, by using Steve Jobs' NeXT machines, the BSD Unix-based computers that are the modern day Mac's most direct ancestor, he created the first Web server: info.cern.ch. A version of this lives on to this very day.
By December 25th 1990, Nicola Pellow, a visiting student at CERN, created the first Web browser. This was a simple text-based browser. During 1991, the first real data, the CERN telephone directory, was put online and the WorldWideWeb was made available to other CERN users.
During the next few years, the WorldWideWeb slowly started to spread through academic and research communities and others started to work on it. That's where I came in. I was then a contributing editor at Computer Shopper, part of the same publishing company that would father ZDNet.
I wrote the first "review" of the Web in April 1993 for Shopper. I said "World-Wide Web (WEB) is still a development project, but it is publicly accessible and it provides Internet information hunters with greater power. WEB brings hypertext to the Internet."
I concluded, "Alas, for now, WEB remains mostly potential. The WEB server is only available by telneting to info.cern.ch or nxo01.cern.ch. Its full hypertext informational resources are limited at this time, but they are growing. WEB is the informational wave of the future."
Little did I know! The Web quickly became a tidal wave that would sweep aside such online services as CompuServe and Genie and transform the world.
In the next few years, I wrote endlessly about the Web. I reviewed such early Web browsers as Cello, Mosaic, and Viola .
As a result of the sudden passion for everything Web, I also wrote numerous tales about how TCP/IP, the Internet's fundamental networking protocol, worked. What was far harder was explaining to people how to get it to work on then state-of-the-art Windows 3.1 PC with a program called Trumpet Winsock.
Without this or a handful of similar programs, Windows machines couldn't connect to the Internet. Even with it, you had to do a lot of fiddling with the program, your state of the art V32bis's modem with its top speed of 28.8Kbps, and shouting at your ISP tech support line located above a local Chinese restaurant. I have no idea how many times I explained in stories how to get from your PC to the Web but it had to be in the dozens.
In those early days anyone who wanted to use the Web had to be a techie. As I said in PC Magazine in 1994, "Mosaic is in no way, shape or form a program designed for everyone to use, but anyone who loves computing will enjoy it."
Today, the only time you really think about the Web per se is when a major site, such as Twitter goes down. And even then you don't think of the Web as being in trouble. It's just another annoyance.
In 25 years we've gone from the Web being little more than a thought experiment to where we keep up with our friends on Facebook, where we get all our news, and we sit down in front of our Internet-connected TVs every night to watch Netflix movies. Indeed, had I dreamed where the Web would take us today in the early 90s I too would never have believed it.
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Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm speaks on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 6, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. / Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
It was the speech heard round the world, or at least around YouTube.
And former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who delivered the arm-waving, fist-pumping, eye-winking, decibel-breaking speech at the Democratic National Convention, could barely hear her own words.
"Usually at these conventions, the delegates just keep talking and schmoozing during the speeches, but then they started to react," Granholm said in an interview with the Free Press on Wednesday. "I didn't go out there with the intention of getting as worked up as I did."
But about three minutes into a six-minute speech, when she delivered the line, "In Romney's world, the cars get the elevators and the workers get the shaft," the crowd leaped to its feet, started hollering and didn't stop.
When she started ticking off the auto jobs saved in a half dozen or so states, the noise level -- from Granholm and the crowd -- erupted.
"The crowd was just getting so enthusiastic that I couldn't even hear myself," she said, acknowledging her louder and louder delivery. "It was a very fun and joyous experience to have the crowd so excited."
While the delegates on the floor cheered wildly, viewers back home scratched their heads. This didn't seem like the well-spoken but certainly more reserved woman who was Michigan's attorney general for four years and governor for eight.
"If you combine the energy of all of her years in Michigan, it doesn't come close to what she showed in that speech," said Lansing pollster Bernie Porn. "Between the winks, the wild arm gestures, I had to figure out if I was watching a speech or a Zumba class."
The speech became an instant sensation on Twitter and YouTube, with more than 500,000 people watching various replays. Tens of thousands more watched the inevitable mash-ups of her speech mixed with the scream that brought down Democrat Howard Dean's presidential ambitions in 2004.
"It was like she was possessed," said Lansing political consultant Tom Shields. "It was a speech made for a convention atmosphere. I'm not sure if it was made for prime-time TV."
People watching the speech wondered on Twitter whether she was dangerously over-caffeinated -- even drunk.
"No, I didn't have any Red Bull and no, I wasn't drinking," Granholm said. "And yes, I was high on democracy."
She also was a bit nervous about a speech that campaign officials cut from six pages to four to account for time constraints. Granholm knows she has plenty of detractors in the political arena.
"I was there to rally the base, and the people who didn't like it aren't going to be receptive to the message anyway," she said.
Her time on the campaign trail will be limited by commitments to her current gigs -- "The War Room," a liberal-leaning talk show on Current TV that is scheduled to run at least through the election, and teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. When Barack Obama was elected president, Granholm was mentioned as a potential candidate for several cabinet positions and for the U.S. Supreme Court. This year, her path is less certain.
"I'm sort of doing the campaigning every night in my little way on Current TV. In my own way, I want to make a difference," she said. "I have no idea what's going to happen in the future."
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The clash between high school administrators and students over the latter's online free-speech rights is increasingly being worked out in courts around the US, USATODAY reports. It appears that the participatory Web is forcing everybody – school officials and boards, parents, and students - to know more about First Amendment law than we've ever had to. In some cases students have been expelled for venting about school personnel in blogs or social sites. In a case in Texas, a student "was kicked off her cheerleading team last year when a friend posted a derogatory statement about other cheerleaders on her blog. [School] officials … said the posting was a violation of the code of conduct for cheerleaders [requiring] 'high moral standards'," according to USATODAY. One problem there, it appears, was a misunderstanding of how someone else can post in a person's blog. Anyway, "school officials say students are increasingly crossing the line from innocent rants about teachers to harassment or worse." But an American Civil Liberties Union attorney told USATODAY that punishment is appropriate in cases where students "post admissions of illegal activity - such as high-schoolers who post pictures of themselves drinking, doing drugs or committing other criminal acts … [or] racist remarks or postings that promote or predict violence should be punished." The Associated Press looks at educational and punitive activity at the college level. On a global scale, "bloggers are being asked to show their support for freedom of expression by Amnesty International," the BBC reports. Here's the Electronic Frontier Foundation's FAQ on student blogging and free speech
. Meanwhile, blogging's not going away. Chicago Tribune Internet writer Steve Johnson blogs that, "with 175,000 new ones created every day, blogs [are] about to join the mainstream."


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Okay, you probably love her on Will & Grace, even dug her little M&M commercial, but you've probably never really heard Megan Mullally sing.
Debuting in such crummy shows as Grease (the hawker with Rosie O'Donnell) or the better How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (with Mr. Sarah Jessica Parker), Mullally did some non-musical stints in TV movies (The Children Nobody Wanted with Michelle Pfeiffer!) and was a call girl in Risky Business, starring—um, we forget. But, finally—oh, finally—this Oklahoma gal put together a band, Megan Mullally and the Supreme Music Program, and released one, glorious, fantastic album, Big as a Berry.
Expect this former voice of Pebbles Flintstone to belt out not only killer cover tracks from her CD, such as Randy Newman's "It's Lonely at the Top," the Beatles' "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" and Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy," but also a whole host of other tunes that showcase her bawdy style. Afterward, you can pray to your god of choice that her newly proposed TV gig, The Megan Mullally Show, isn't just a daytime or nighttime chit-chat gig and is, instead, a new sitcom much like the excellent—yet short-lived—Ellen Burstyn Show from 1986, which starred Mullally as Burstyn's daughter and Elaine Stritch as her mother. Sacrifice a goddamn goat if you have to.
Megan Mullally at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 556-2787; www.ocpac.org. Tues.-Thurs., April 20, 7:30 p.m. Continues through April 22. $64.
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Benjamin Pyles is currently the Percussion Director at Morton Ranch High School in Katy, Texas. He majored in music education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with a primary focus in Percussion. His most intensive studies came under the direction of Chris Hestin, Mike McIntosh, Chad Heiny, and Michael Kingan.
Ben has several years of performing and instructional experience at the World Class level, including The Glassmen from Toledo, Ohio; The Bluecoats from Canton, Ohio; The Crossmen from San Antonio, Texas; and Spirit of Atalnta from Atlanta, Georgia. Ben currently serves as the Percussion Caption Head for Spirit of Atlanta.
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Ehrlichia, named for the Dr. Ehrlich who first described them, are a special type of bacteria which infect and live within the white blood cells of their hosts. Different types of Ehrlichia live in different types of white blood cells. Hosts can be human, pet, or wild animals. Ehrlichia are spread from host to host by tick bites and their intracellular location makes them difficult to remove as most antibiotics do not penetrate to the inside of cells.
Ehrlichia were originally grouped according to the type of white blood cell they attacked. The granulocytic line of white blood cells, used by the body in attacking more acute inflammatory invaders, has a very lobulated nucleus and characteristic blood cell appearance. The monocytic line, used by the body for chronic forms of inflammation, has a more rounded nucleus. By finding Ehrlichia inside certain types of white blood cells, one could get a better idea for which type of Ehrlichia one was seeing. Or so we foolishly thought.
Ehrlichia in a granulcytic cell
Ehrlichia in a monocytic cell
With the advent of more specific molecular biology it was found that the rules above are not absolute. Today, RNA sequencing is used to identify the Ehrlichia at hand. In fact, some of the organisms previously believed to be Ehrlichia have been completely reclassified into other groups. We mention this as older terminology dies hard and many people still use the older names of organisms. Here is a current list of the organisms currently classified as Ehrlichia as of a massive renaming/reclassification that occurred in 2001:
Although it was known that dogs could be infected with Ehrlichia, the scope of the illness created became evident during the Vietnam war as the military German Shepherd Dogs became ill with an infection that seemed to wipe out their blood cells. White blood cells as well as red blood cells were affected and the disease was named Tropical Canine Pancytopenia. This condition was studied and found not to be limited to Southeast Asia but was in fact present in the good old U.S.A. as well. In the 1980s it became clear that people could be infected by Ehrlichia, though not the same Ehrlichia as for dogs, and research intensified.
German Shepherd Dogs are said to get a particularly severe form of Ehrlichia infection.
Different Ehrlichia species are spread by different types of ticks. (What ticks are located in a particular area limits what types of Ehrlichia infections are seen regionally.)
The Brown Dog Tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) usually spreads Ehrlichia canis, Ehrlichia ewingii, and other diseases.
The Brown Dog Tick
The Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) is the main vector of Ehrlichia ewingii. (Note the star on the ticks main body.)
The Lone Star Tick
It is important to note, where there are ticks there are many tick-borne diseases: Lyme Disease, Babesia infection, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and probably some agents we do not even know of yet. It is not surprising for a given patient living in a tick area to be infected with multiple blood parasites.
There are three phases of illness with Ehrlichiosis: acute, subclinical, and chronic.
Infections with Ehrlichia ewingii tend to produce arthritis in addition to the above scenario.
Diagnosis does not rest on a single test but instead on a collection of results. The first step is to find a constellation of typical findings:
When Ehrlichiosis is suspected, a blood test for antibodies against Ehrlichia organisms can be ordered. A positive test indicates that the dog has been exposed to Ehrlichia and does not imply active current infection necessarily. A negative titer does not fully rule out Ehrlichia, either, as a very sick patient will be too sick to produce antibodies and an early case may not yet have started to produce antibodies.
The antibody level or titercan be done with an IFA (immunofluorescent antibody) or by ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbant assay). The IFA test is the traditional test and can be positive 7-28 days after the dog has become infected. The ELISA test is included in a new in-house test kit from IDEXX labs (the snap 4DX test) that also includes a Lyme Disease test and a Heartworm test. The 4DX test is geared specifically to detect antibodies against Ehrlichia canis. It is not entirely clear if antibodies against other types of Ehrlichia will be similar enough to be detected by either the IFA or ELISA tests reliably. It takes 6-9 months after infection for titers to begin to drop.
Recently PCR testing for the actual presence of Ehrlichia organisms has become available. The disadvantage of this test is that it gives either a positive or negative results rather than an actual quantitative number that can be tracked. A combination of PCR testing as well as antibody titers are currently recommended by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. PCR testing remains positive for several weeks after infection has cleared as PCR testing does not distinguish between live and dead organisms. It takes time to clear dead organisms from the body.
If one is lucky one will actually see the organisms on a blood smear, and this, of course, clinches the diagnosis.
Despite being one of the oldest antibiotics in use, tetracycline is probably the most effective against Ehrlichia (and any other intracellular blood parasite for that matter). Doxycycline, a more modern derivative, has a more convenient dosing schedule and has become more popular. Expect at least a month of treatment to be needed. Response is initially rapid (improvement is notable in the first few days).
If immune-mediated secondary reactions to the Ehrlichia are a problem (such as immune-mediated arthritis, or immune-mediated platelet loss) corticosteroids such as prednisone can be used to palliate the situation while the antibiotics are starting to work.
After infection, it is possible to become re-infected; immunity is not lasting after a previous infection.
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|Welcome to Pumpkin Land
. Pumpkin Land is Maine's largest Fall "Agritainment Venue". We have designed it for the young
and the young at heart. The theme is, of course, Pumpkins. However there is a plethora of
Halloween themed activities, rides, inflatable bounce houses, visits to the pumpkin
patch and much, much more for families with small children to enjoy during their visit.
Our Goal
Our number one goal at Pumpkin Land is to provide a fun and enjoyable autumn outdoor
experience for families with young children. To ensure that we reach our goal in 2015, our
maintenance and construction crews have been busy as beavers all summer making many
improvements upgrades and exciting additions to Pumpkin Land.
Memories and Pumpkins
As always, each child gets to pick out their very own fresh pumpkin grown right here at Pumpkin
Land. However the best thing that all our visitors will take home with them are the fond
memories of their day at Pumpkin Land.
|Pumpkin Land at Harvest Hill Farms
Rte. 26 125 Pigeon Hill Road
Mechanic Falls, Maine 04256
|Pumpkin Land at Harvest Hill Farms ~ Rte. 26 ~ 125 Pigeon Hill Rd. ~ Mechanic Falls ~ ME 207-998-3259 GPS: 125 Pigeon Hill Road
|Amazing Mazes for All Ages
This year we have added a fun activity to our kids size "Munchkin Maze" designed especially for
our young visitors to Pumpkin Land. Here the young children (OK, mom and Dad too) can have tons
of fun weaving their way through the maze. As they make their way through the Munchkin Maze,
they'll find stations where they can make rubbings of animal tracks. Once they create all the
rubbings, they can compare them to the Scene Tracks info panel (shown above) to find out what
animals their tracks rubbings belong to.
The Big Corn Maze "Maine"Adventure
The second maze is our Big Corn Maze Adventure. It's BIGGER and BETTER this year. It's not
just a maze to wander through, it's an adventure in which you are shown a short intro video about
how the adventure works. Next you're given your game sheet. Then you're off to challenge other
teams in your group. (The Big Corn Maze Adventure is not included in the Pumpkin Land general
admission.) For more info on Our Big Corn Maze Adventure....Click Here.
Hungry...Don't Worry, Be Happy
Don't worry about what to do when the munchies set in. We have plenty of options to handle your
hunger. The Caldron Café is the most popular stop for hungry Pumpkin Land visitors. Here you can
get our own Harvest Hill Farm tasty burgers, hand cut fresh French fries, Italian sausage with all
the spicy extras, chicken nuggets plus soda and bottled water.
You'll be able to get fresh hot pizza by the slice at the Caldron Cafe. All our
pizza is straight from the ovens at our Farm House Pizza Shop in the big yellow
Farm house on Route 26.
For that sweet tooth, you'll want to stop in at the Sugar Shack for some Cotton Candy. Of course
the most popular flavor is Maple Sugar, which is our own Maple sugar as we operate several Maple
Sugar operations in the spring. If that's not enough we have several other food concessions that
sell hot dogs, fresh baked pastries and more!
The Air Cannons and Super -Size Sling Shots have become very popular over the last
couple years. Visitors load small pumpkins or apples into the sling shots or the air cannons
and fire them at the different targets and an old school bus that Pumpkin Land staff
moved into the "Pumpkin Land Firing range.
One of our most popular attractions is the "Giant Jumping Pillow". Kids of all ages
love this new attraction. As you can see in the picture above, you can really "catch
some air" on the giant pillow. So be sure to put this attraction on your list of "Must
see and do"at Pumpkin Land this Fall season.
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Welcome to the website of the Salem County Watershed Task Force of Salem County, New Jersey. We are a committed group of citizens that has been working since 1995 to monitor the health of Salem County's watersheds. We are the only all-volunteer water monitoring group in Salem County. Our activities include water monitoring, environmental education and advocacy.
Citizen participation, interest and support are vital to our success and to the preservation and protection of Salem County's watersheds. We invite you to explore our site to learn more about us and how you can become a part of our organization.
About Salem County
Salem County lies in the southwest corner of the great state of New Jersey. It is bounded by the Delaware River and Delaware Bay to the west and the Maurice River to the east. Oldmans Creek creates nearly one-half of Salem County's northern border, while Stow Creek runs along a portion of its southern divide. Salem County's natural features include six rivers, more than 34,000 acres of unique meadow and marshland, tidal and freshwater wetlands, 40 lakes and ponds, bay beaches, dunes, expansive woodlands, a critical underground aquifer, numerous streams and important headwaters. Salem County covers 338 square miles with nearly half of the land actively farmed. It also boasts a population of less than 65,000 - the lowest population and the lowest density per square mile in New Jersey.
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What's next? A WiiWare Pong clone?!
Super Punch-Out!! is the only SNES cartridge I still own. I'll definitely DL this since I don't have my SNES.
Has anyone played this yet? Is it shovelware or is it decent?
I can't wait to tell my friends I DL'd a game named "Yummy Yummy." They'll be so jealous.
ZOMG! A game where you throw bags. A must DL for me.
Cool. I'll DL this right away! Now we only need is Mega Man X-X3 and I'll be happy.
Whoa, I saw this yesterday. I didn't think it would end up here.
OMG!!!! I LOVE Sudoku as much as I love Tetris. For 500 Points and over 100000000 puzzles, this is a must buy for me!
I love the new avatar Corbie.
You know what this means, we won't get it here for at least 10 months.
If the sales are correct and Luc Bernard is telling the truth that Nintendo gets 30%. This means the devs get 70%. Do the math 140000 DLs = 1.4M. 70% of 1.4M = $980,000. So this is how much they've made.
@ KnucklesSonic8 comment # 21: How did you not expect a 7 from WiiWare World? They always give that score.
I can imagine the guy who thought of this looks very similar to Jabba the Hut.
Thanks Nintendo for making us pay even more money during bad economic times.
I can already imagine Iwata sleeping on a bed made up of hundred-dollar bills.
I would more excited, but I know 96% of these games will be given a 7 by Corbie.
Hello Riverman Jacob. Let's hope you don't end up like wiiboy (bplus).
Interesting, but I would rather see a remake of Rad Racer.
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@x.SuperMario.x: That would be nice.
It figures that Corbie got so tired of changing his avatar, he decided to change other people's avatars.
(crosses fingers for Bomberman Blast on Monday!)
Hey Corbie, I wouldn't mind a new Ganon avatar.
Everyone in Europe shold DL SMB:LL before it's too late again. Oh and congratulations.
I was so excited about Mega Man my stomach nearly exploded.
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Finally the mediocre "My Pokémon Ranch" has been defeated. Everyone rejoice!
first! Cool. Thats how I eat in real life.
Sonic seems slower, probably because the MS didn't have blast processing.
oh well too bad for EU, I hope we don't catch on to this in the U.S. yay I've never been first comment.
I should lock him in a tiny metal box and tell him he's a geek for wanting more space.
You guys list Super SFII Turbo (SNES) as one of the games. It doesn't exist! Only Super SFII and SFII Turbo were released for SNES.
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|Effect of extracellular osmolality on metabolism in contracting mammalian skeletal muscle in vitro.
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|PMID: 20029514 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Extensive research has been conducted on hepatocyte metabolism perturbed under the influence of anisosmotic stress. However, much less is known about the behaviour of skeletal muscle metabolism under similar conditions. After establishing a working model to study anisosmotic stress in resting mammalian skeletal muscle, the current study tested the hypothesis that hyperosmotic (HYPER) stress would lead to increased creatine, lactate, and measured enzyme activity, whereas hypo-osmotic (HYPO) stress would lead to decreased metabolites and enzyme activity vs. iso-osmotic (ISO) stress post contraction. Rat soleus (SOL) and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) were isolated and incubated in an organ bath (95% O2, 5% CO2, pH 7.4, 25 degrees C) altered to targeted osmotic conditions (ISO, 290 osmol.L(-1); HYPO, 180 osmol.L(-1); HYPER, 400 osmol.L(-1)). Muscle samples were flash frozen after 10 min of contraction. Post contraction, muscle water content in the SOL HYPO condition was 18% greater than ISO, and HYPER had approximately 14% less water content than ISO (p < 0.05). In the HYPO condition, EDL had 21% greater water content than ISO, and HYPER had 17% less water content than ISO (p < 0.05). SOL HYPO resulted in higher phosphocreatine and lower lactate and creatine vs. HYPER (p < 0.05) but there were no differences in EDL between HYPO and HYPER. Pyruvate dehydrogenase activity increased in SOL HYPER vs. HYPO, whereas glycogen phosphorylase a increased in EDL HYPER vs. HYPO. In conclusion, fibre-type-specific responses exist after contraction such that when SOL muscle is perturbed in HYPER, as compared with HYPO, media, metabolic activity increases. Future work should focus on glucose uptake-regulation during anisosmotic conditions.
|Naomi M Cermak; Paul J LeBlanc; Sandra J Peters; Rene Vandenboom; Brian D Roy
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|Centre for Muscle Metabolism and Biophysics, Department of Physical Education and Kinesiology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.
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Creatine / analysis
Extracellular Fluid / chemistry*
Glycogen Phosphorylase, Muscle Form
Lactic Acid / analysis
Models, Biological
Muscle Contraction / physiology*
Muscle, Skeletal / chemistry, enzymology, metabolism*
Organ Specificity
Osmolar Concentration
Phosphocreatine / analysis
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide) / metabolism
Random Allocation
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Stress, Physiological*
Time Factors
Water / analysis
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|50-21-5/Lactic Acid; 57-00-1/Creatine; 67-07-2/Phosphocreatine; 7732-18-5/Water; EC 126.96.36.199/Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide); EC 2.4.1.-/Glycogen Phosphorylase, Muscle Form
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Amarillo High 50,Sanford-Fritch 39
Matt Sherwood scored 10 points, and J.C. Meredith added nine to lead Amarillo High past Sanford-Fritch.
The Sandies (11-5) led only 13-8 after one quarter and 29-18 at halftime. They limited the Eagles to five points in the third quarter as they grabbed a commanding 41-23 advantage.
Shiloh Reed led the Eagles with 11 points.
Caprock 58, Frenship 49 Caprock defeated Frenship as J. Fields scored 23 points and Derrick Collins added 17.
Gentry McGaha was the leading scorer for Frenship with 15.
Caprock led 26-22 at halftime but jumped out to a 10-point lead, 44-34, at halftime. It was a tough defensive game with neither team shooting well. Caprock improved to 9-5 on the season, and Frenship dropped to 8-6.
Dumas 58, River Road 43 Dumas made nine of 13 free-throw attempts in the fourth quarter to pull away from River Road. The Demons led 38-29 after the third quarter before expanding their lead to 15 points.
Chris Washington and Chase Potter scored 11 and 10 points, respectively, for Dumas.
Eric Miller led River Road (1-10) with 16 points.
Friona 63, H. Park 42 The Friona Chieftains won the District 6-2A opener for both teams, dropping the Highland Park Hornets.
Highland Park stayed close in the first quarter, thanks to Nick Albino's seven points. Friona led 17-11 after the first quarter and 35-18 at the half.
Nathan Haile led Friona with 21 points. Albino led Highland Park with 22 points. Chance Wade and Addie Nakhienchanh scored six points each.
Canyon 82, Dalhart 43 The Canyon Eagles evened their record to 5-5 by blasting Dalhart.
Canyon was in control the entire game, leading 44-18 at the half. Tate Lombard, who was 5-of-9 from the three-point arch, led Canyon with 28 points. Matt Allen and Stewart Bronson scored 13 points each.
Kade Morrison scored 19 for Dalhart.
T. Fellowship 73,Canadian 55 Trinity Fellowship downed Canadian. The Lions led 27-25 at halftime but had a big third quarter to lead 51-31 at the end of the third.
Paul Goddard led Trinity with 23 points. Trinity improved to 7-3 on the season, and Canadian fell to 2-6.
Clovis 78, Tascosa 56 The Clovis Wildcats outscored the visiting Tascosa Rebels 25-6 in the second quarter on their way to downing the Rebels.
Clovis' press got the best of the Rebels in that quarter as Tascosa managed only a 3-pointer by Noah Williams, a basket by Danny Gilbreath and a free throw by Michael Slade.
Gilbreath led Tascosa with 18 points. Steve Jackson scored 12.
Clovis, which placed five players in double figures for the third straight game, was led by post Irshaun Pickney with 16 points and forward Hank Baskett with 13.
Palo Duro 64, Pampa 45 Palo Duro got off to a slow start, trailing 20-9 at the end of the first quarter, but rallied to take a 30-26 halftime lead in the District 3-4A opener.
Joyce Benson had 27 points for the Lady Dons, and LaToya Gonzalez scored 16.
Palo Duro's full-court press was too much for the Lady Harvesters. The Lady Dons will host Dumas on Friday.
Randall 50, Dumas 44 Randall's Allyson Reed scored eight of her 16 points in the third quarter when the Lady Raiders built a seven-point lead against the Demonettes in a District 3-4A opener at Dumas.
Reed also hit a 3-point goal as the first-half buzzer sounded, breaking a 19-19 tie and giving Randall a three-point lead at the break.
In the pivotal second half, Dumas committed 13 turnovers to only five for Randall (7-7 overall).
Chanel Jones, Lindsay French and Shayla Davis scored 12 points each for Dumas (9-5).
Canadian 52, H. Park 29 Canadian defeated Highland Park in a District 6-2A opener.
Alicia Ornelas had 11 points, and Nikki Gass and Haley Holder each scored four each for the Lady Hornets. Highland Park (4-8 overall) will host Spearman on Friday.
Amarillo High 70,Sanford-Fritch 23 Amarillo High jumped out to a commanding 16-point lead after the first quarter and was never threatened as it rolled past outclassed Sanford-Fritch.
The Lady Sandies (15-1) led 18-2 after one quarter and 29-10 at the half.
Melissa DeGrate, Leah Rush and Jamie Morgan scored 13 points each to lead AHS. Sanford-Fritch was led by Darci Gray's five points.
San Jacinto 70, Hartley 44 San Jacinto defeated Hartley as Loren Higley scored 21 points.
San Jacinto jumped out to a 21-9 lead at the end of the first quarter and didn't let up. The Lady Patriots increased their lead to 20 points at halftime, 39-19.
San Jacinto then took a 58-26 lead at the end of the third quarter.
Canyon 77, Caprock 28 Mandi Moore scored a game-high 19 points, and sophomore Kalee Carey added 17 in leading No. 4-ranked Canyon past Caprock in a District 3-4A opener at Canyon High.
The defending Class 4A state champion Lady Eagles outscored Caprock 22-7 in the first half and then extended that lead to 38-10.
Canyon improved to 12-1 overall.
Caprock (2-10) placed one player in double figures, with Jessica Self scoring 11.
Clovis 54, Tascosa 49 Texas Tech signee Cisti Greenwald scored 27 in leading the Clovis Lady Wildcats past Tascosa in non-district action at Clovis, N.M.
Greenwald and her teammates were near perfect at the free-throw line, combining to make 13 of 16 attempts during the fourth period. Greenwald finished 13-of-16 at the line.
Tascosa, which led 36-35 entering the fourth period, received 12 points from sophomore Catherine Bankhead and 11 from Brittani Bridges.
Clovis is 2-2 on the season.
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Windows and the .Net Framework have the concept of "best-fit" behavior for code pages and encodings. Best fit can be interesting, but often its not a good idea. In WideCharToMultiByte() this behavior is controlled by a WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS flag. In .Net you can use the EncoderFallback to control whether or not to get Best Fit behavior. Unfortunately in both cases best fit is the default behavior. In Microsoft .Net 2.0 best fit is also slower.
The underlying problem that best fit behavior tries to solve is "Gee, Unicode has about a gajillion more characters than 1252, how do we get them all in?". Unfortunately that's the problem, they won't all fit in. 1252 has 256 characters, the nearly 100,000 Unicode characters just won't fit. So what Best Fit tries to do is to cram as many characters as possible into the limited set of the code page by mapping them to things they might look like. So c with a dot above, ċ, U+010b is mapped to a plain old c with no dot. Japanese full-width forms are mapped to their half width forms, etc. There are lots of problems with this solution, and I'll mention some of them here:
Its also worth noting that there are a few rare cases where best fit can happen when decoding data with MultiByteToWideChar or Encoder.GetString or the Decoder class.
For both Windows and Microsoft .Net, the best plan is to use Unicode when possible, either UTF-8 or UTF-16 is usually a good choice. Sometimes its not possible, usually because of a protocol limitation. Often best fit behavior is a poor choice when hitting a protocol problem, since such protocols are usually explicit and such mappings could cause security holes or protocol violations. In those cases finding extensions or newer protocols that handle Unicode are good, but some, like e-mail headers [;)], we're stuck with.
In Windows you can disable the best fit behavior by using the WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS flag. In the framework you can do so by changing the EncoderFallback and DecoderFallback. Encoder.GetEncoding(xxx, EncoderFallback.ReplacementFallback, DecoderFallback.ReplacementFallback) or ExceptionFallback are good choices. Note that in the .Net 2.0 there is no "best fit" fallback, except for an internal best fit fallback that is used by default, so once you change a class's EncoderFallback or DecoderFallback you cannot easily retrieve the best fit fallback.
If you are aware of the limitations of the fallbacks and want consistent behavior anyway, one option to consider is making your own fallback. I made a prototype fallback that uses Normalization to decompose a string to its component parts. This is particularly nifty because characters can be decomposed to their component parts. By doing this, things like the kPa symbol can change to k + P + a. It still doesn't work across all languages though since ü would still become a u instead of a ue in German. So even though this can be a fun experiment, it's still better to Use Unicode!


text: Blake Shelton has been called controversial, sarcastic, ornery, but he says his real fans know the truth about him and his sense of humor, and that's all that matters. "I thank God for the fact that y'all have a sense of humor too. There's nothing cooler to me than when people talk to me and say, 'Oh my gosh, the stuff that you say on Twitter and the way that you and your fans interact, do you ever get nervous about that?' And I say, 'Hell no I don't get nervous about it cause we actually have fun, we joke around with each other.' Me and my fan base, we actually have, I like to think, a realistic, fun relationship to where I don't get on Twitter and just try to sell my fans stuff every day or say be sure and check out this new album. I want to actually joke around and have fun with my fans. " For anyone who takes anything he says too seriously, Blake says, "I just don't take myself that serious and I think once my fans have caught onto that, they don't either, at least whenever they're talking with me and I love that and I appreciate it."