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|A reliable method for monitoring intraabdominal pressure during natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery.
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|PMID: 17285385 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) provides surgical access to the peritoneal cavity without skin incisions. The NOTES procedure requires pneumoperitoneum for visualization and manipulation of abdominal organs, similar to laparoscopy. Accurate measurement of the pneumoperitoneum pressure is essential to avoid potentially deleterious effects of intraabdominal compartment syndrome. A reliable method for monitoring pneumoperitoneum pressures during NOTES has not been identified. This study evaluated several methods of monitoring intraabdominal pressures with a standard gastroscope during NOTES. METHODS: Four female pigs (25 kg) were sedated, and a single-channel gastroscope was passed transgastrically into the peritoneal cavity. Pneumoperitoneum was achieved via a pressure insufflator through a percutaneous, intraperitoneal 14-gauge catheter. Three other pressures were recorded via separate catheters. First, a 14-gauge percutaneous catheter passed intraperitoneally measured true intraabdominal pressure. Second, a 14-gauge tube attached to the endoscope was used to measure endoscope tip pressure. The third pressure transducer was connected directly to the accessory channel of the endoscope. The abdomen was insufflated to a range of pressures (10-30 mmHg), and simultaneous pressures were recorded from all three pressure sensors. RESULTS: Pressure correlation curves were developed for all animals across all intraperitoneal pressures (mean error, -4.25 to -1 mmHg). Endoscope tip pressures correlated with biopsy channel pressures (R2 = 0.99). Biopsy channel and endoscope tip pressures fit a least-squares linear model to predict actual intraabdominal pressure (R = 0.99 for both). Both scope tip and biopsy channel port pressures were strongly correlative with true intraabdominal pressures (R2 = 0.98 and R2 = 0.99, respectively). CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that monitoring pressure through an endoscope is reliable and predictive of true intraabdominal pressure. Gastroscope pressure monitoring is a useful adjunct to NOTES. Future NOTES procedures should incorporate continuous intraabdominal pressure monitoring to avoid the potentially deleterious effects of pneumoperitoneum during NOTES. This can be achieved by the integration of pressure-monitoring capabilities into gastroscopes.
|M F McGee; M J Rosen; J Marks; A Chak; R Onders; A Faulx; A Ignagni; S Schomisch; J Ponsky
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|Fetal growth disorders in twin gestations.
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|Twin growth is frequently mismatched. This review serves to explore the pathophysiologic mechanisms that underlie growth aberrations in twin gestations, the prenatal recognition of abnormal twin growth, and the critical importance of stratifying management of abnormal twin growth by chorionicity. Although poor in utero growth of both twins may reflect maternal factors resulting in global uteroplacental dysfunction, discordant twin growth may be attributed to differences in genetic potential between co-twins, placental dysfunction confined to one placenta only, or one placental territory within a shared placenta. In addition, twin-twin transfusion syndrome represents a distinct entity of which discordant growth is a common feature. Discordant growth is recognized as an independent risk factor for adverse perinatal outcome. Intertwin birth weight disparity of 18% or more should be considered to represent a discordance threshold, which serves as an independent risk factor for adverse perinatal outcome. At this cutoff, perinatal morbidity is found to increase both for the larger and the smaller twin within a discordant pair. There remains uncertainty surrounding the sonographic parameters that are most predictive of discordance. Although heightening of fetal surveillance in the face of discordant twin growth follows the principles applied to singleton gestations complicated by fetal growth restriction, the timing of intervention is largely influenced by chorionicity.
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Camping Jansjo battery powered light
Materials: Jansjo lamp, Li-ion battery, socket, wire
Description: I want to share with you a simple "invention" I made to have a camping Jansjo.
At home I have three lamps JANSJO–. They are powered by a switching power supply. The cable lamp is connected to the 4Vdc power supply by an old type speaker connector (in Italy we call it "Punto-linea" connector).
Within the head, close to the LED chip, the current is adjusted with a special IC (I have opened one head, but I do not remember: I think there are two 340mA regulators in parallel for a total of 680mA) and a voltage of 3.4 V is enough to obtain the maximum intensity.
Having some Lithium cylindrical 3.7V nominal (3 ~ 4.2V according to the actual state of charge) 2.4 Ah cells salvaged from old laptops battery packs (I also use that cells for the flashlight, etc., and charge them with a specific Li-ion charger Soshine SC-S1 V3) I thought it might be suitable for JANSJO.
So I connected a small piece of red and black wire to female speaker connector and the other two ends to a
cell, holding them by a slice of bicycle inner tube. (anyone who repair bicycles has some of them to give). The night between the 14th and the 15th of August we had four hours of great lighting at about no cost in the gazebo at the beach!
Ah … I had also brought the gas lamp, but the light was ridiculous compared to a single JANSJO–!
Have a good camping!
~ Gianluca Giangreco, Roma, Italy
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I found this article and its comments interesting. I've recently come into possession of one of these lamps without the power supply. I wish the author would have shown a picture of of the connector and shown what pin should be positive and which negative. Where can you obtain the speaker connector adapter. That is a helpful device. And, regarding using multiple batteries for longer life, connect the batteries in parallel. That will keep the voltage into the light at 3.8 or thereabouts, and yield the longer life you want. A series hookup will up the voltage and yield some life length, but also lots of waste heat in the regulators. Those regulators, especially if they are linear regulators, bleed off voltage by dissipating energy as waste heat. I'd be interested in trying the USB powered unit, but I'd be willing to bet those aren't the same powerful LEDs as the ones powered by the mains plug in supplies.
Can you remember the chips that are used to to regulate the current? I would like to work out the possible input voltage range I could use (i.e possibly x2 18650 in series) to extend battery life
If you need a handy camping light, you could also buy the Jansjö USB Led-light, and plug it in a Smartphone Portable Charger (USB-outlet).
It's a simple solution, now that there is a USB version.
You wrote you opened up one head of the Jansjo lamp. Is it possible to close it again neatly or will it get damaged and not close again?
Could you describe how to do this?
I also did some transformation of three Jansjo lights, but probably broke something, so I'd like to check the led inside the head.
It have been a bit tricky. If I remember, I opened the head screwing in the little space a very sharp screw. Paint is tough, I damaged it only a bit.
Any ideas on converting the light to run off a 12V connection? ie an automotive battery.
You can use a converter like this:
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Motorola quits LiMo Foundation board
updated 04:55 pm EDT, Thu October 8, 2009
Motorola leaves LiMo Foundation board
Motorola has quit the LiMo Foundation, the mobile Linux group of which it was a founding member, according to a Thursday report. Christy Wyatt, the VP of software applications and ecosystems at Motorola, said on Tuesday she has given up the board of the foundation. The company will instead remain as an associate member and retain an active role as a contributing member.
The cellphone maker is now no longer listed as the founding member on the LiMo website. A Motorola spokesperson says changes in a consortium like LiMo foundation are normal.
This indicates the handset maker is committed to the open-source Android operating system instead. Android is a competing Linux-based operating system that is not part of the LiMo foundation.
"At this time it feels that the Android platform gives it a richer, more consistent foundation with strong support for the ecosystem and developer community," Motorola said in a statement. The company is committed to Android, stating it wants to offer its products on all US carriers.
Motorola has said that it is focusing most of its mobile phone development efforts on Android and that the vast majority of phones it releases next year will use the software.
Other LiMo members, including another founder, Samsung, have released their own Android-powered handsets, and Verizon Wireless has plans to do so as well. About 40 handsets in the worldwide market use LiMo's operating system.


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LYNDON B. JOHNSON STATE HISTORICAL PARK. Lyndon B. Johnson State Historical Park is a strip of land bounded on the north by the Pedernales River and on the south by U.S. Highway 290, 1½ miles east of Stonewall in eastern Gillespie County. The park, which is two miles long and a half mile wide, comprises 718 acres. It commemorates the life and career of Gillespie County's most famous citizen, Lyndon B. Johnson, whose birthplace and ranch just across the river are part of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department accepted 269 acres along the Pedernales from various friends of President Johnson in 1967 and, after various improvements funded in part by a federal land and water conservation grant, opened it to the public on June 1, 1969. The park was officially dedicated on August 29, 1970, in a ceremony attended by Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird. By 1975 the state had expanded the park to its current size at a cost of more than $1 million.
The area was the home of as many as ten different groups of primitive peoples between 5000 B.C. and A.D. 1500, and the 25,000 artifacts found at the park indicate that it was once the site of a stone quarry and midden. Besides the visitors' center, which houses a display of Johnson memorabilia and a 250-seat auditorium, the park includes the Behrens Cabin, built in the 1870s by German immigrant Johannes Behrens and furnished with typical nineteenth-century furnishings; the Sauer-Beckmann Farmstead, a historical farm operated as it was in 1918; and a nature trail through wildlife enclosures with buffalo, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, longhorn cattle, and other native fauna. Other facilities at the park are an outdoor amphitheater, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a baseball diamond, and a number of picnic areas. In its first five years of operation the park attracted over 3½ million visitors.
Dallas Morning News, June 22, 1975. Lyndon B. Johnson State Historic Park (brochure, Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1977).
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Gerry Trier of Ankeny reads a Western Union telegram announcing her the death of her brother Bill, who was killed in World War II. She has three unopened letters from her parents to her brother and says she will never open them. / Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
Gerry Trier of Ankeny has the original telegram from Western Union, which announced the death of her brother Bill, who was killed in World War II.
The soldier scrawled a few sentences to try to reassure his family back in Iowa.
�Can�t say much, but don�t worry about me,� he wrote. �I will be all right.�
But that Feb. 27, 1942, letter would be the last from Cpl. William �Bill� Francis Schmitz in World War II.
Bill died June 10, 1942, in a prisoner-of-war camp, six months after the Japanese had attacked the Philippines � simultaneously with their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii � and eventually won surrender of Allied forces stationed there.
Yet mere paper, more fragile than the life of the veterans it represents, it has endured to give an increasingly louder voice to the Greatest Generation.
Long before this 60th annual Veterans Day � first observed in 1954 � there have been countless stories about how WWII veterans can be reluctant to share their memories, their battle trauma. Stories of how the Greatest Generation, more than 400,000 of whom were killed in the war, now are dying off at a fast clip. Recurring tales of their old letters discovered, recovered, or delivered decades late.
But there�s also a rising tide of WWII letters connecting with a new, wider audience in this modern digital age. Sites such as privateletters.net, based on the correspondence of an Iowa infantryman, have memorialized and spread soldiers� unique voices for future generations.
For the Schmitz family, letters kept private and sealed have been just as important in honoring the memory of their slain son and brother.
Bill was the oldest of seven siblings raised in Ottumwa by Frank and Edith Schmitz and had spent about a year deployed as a welder at Nichols Field near Manila.
Final word of the soldier�s death didn�t reach Ottumwa until a Western Union delivery boy pedaled his bicycle up to the family�s home on July 30, 1945.
�We were all on the porch, and we were discussing detasseling,� remembered younger sister Gerry Trier, who was 14 at the time and now lives as a retired teacher in Ankeny.
A boy on a bike clutching a telegram was an ominous sign.
�Which one is it?� Edith asked.
She meant which boy. Edith and Frank (a World War I veteran who was a truck driver in Ottumwa) had two more sons in the war, sons who survived: George was an infantryman on the Anzio beachhead. Jack served on a Navy destroyer in the South Pacific. (George later fought in Korea with yet another brother, Francis.)
The telegram read: �AM DEEPLY DISTRESSED TO INFORM YOU CORRECTED REPORT JUST RECEIVED STATES YOUR SON TECHNICIAN FIFTH GRADE WILLIAM F SCHMITZ WAS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION DIED TEN JUNE FORTY TWO IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AS RESULT OF VINCENTS ANGINA ��
Vincent�s angina, aka trench mouth, was an unsurprising cause of death considering the malnourished, disease-ridden condition of the American and Filipino soldiers who suffered the infamous Bataan Death March to the prison camps.
That sad telegram � among Trier�s collection of delicate paper memorabilia of Bill�s short life � today is yellowed and frayed and easily rips at the folds.
Mail was precious for WW II soldiers
Trier, 83, and her sister, Veronica Babb of Ottumwa, 85, are the only remaining members of the Schmitz nuclear family.
�My mother, she just about collapsed, and of course we were all crying,� Babb said of the day the telegram arrived on the front porch. Their mother �went into the bedroom and closed the door and laid in there grieving.�
Frank Schmitz scribbled numbers in pencil at the bottom of the telegram: 36 months and 23 days � presumably how long the family waited to hear of Bill�s fate after he was reported missing in action.
That protracted limbo seems incredible today when soldiers in Afghanistan are able to blow kisses and read bedtime stories to their toddlers while Skypeing on their iPhones.
But as a writer and journalist, I love the notion that the veterans� own words from 70 years ago could become the crucial, collective memorial that endures � not the 17,000 massive granite stones that make up the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., not somebody�s blockbuster movie, not a belated historical reinterpretation.
As the Smithsonian puts it: �For members of the armed forces the importance of mail during World War II was second only to food.�
With the story of Bill, I�m struck by the fluttering paper trail that has sustained his memory.
The family didn�t have his body: The soldier�s remains were interred in grave No. 717 beneath a white cross in Manila, and his parents and siblings never visited.
The family home at 806 E. Pennsylvania Ave. in Ottumwa � where the fateful telegram was delivered in 1945 and where a war banner with two blue stars and one gold star hung in the window to indicate the three boys overseas � has long since burned to the ground, and in 1998 was replaced by a church.
A white statue of a guardian angel placed in the front yard in honor of Bill crumbled before the house burned.
Yet Bill�s own words survive.
Family cherishes letters, mementos
In a letter from Bill dated Nov. 13, 1941, the soldier boasted that he earned $79 per month.
�So you see, dad, I have plenty to get by on and save a little bit, also,� he wrote.
Before his capture, he was struck by the scenic landscape of the Philippines: �Boy, you know, this is really beautiful country from the air, and you should see the mountains � all covered with trees as green as can be.�
He fretted: �I like to fly a lot. It�s a lot of fun. But so many of these guys crack up, you never know when you are going to be next.�
Trier and her siblings were given an issue of the July 20, 1942, Life magazine (with a leggy blond model on the cover) that featured a story on American prisoners of war in the Philippines. They spotted a soldier and his unique posture, hands against his waist, in a photo of a prisoner lineup that the family swears is Bill.
It was only about five years ago when Bill�s two sisters finally tracked down a 1940 Ottumwa High yearbook in a local shop. Amazingly, that copy happened to feature Schmitz�s signature beneath his senior class photo.
Letters from parents to remain unopened
But perhaps the most important paper memorial as far as the family is concerned: three letters to Bill from his parents mailed in 1941 and �42 � all returned to sender � that remain sealed.
�We talked about opening them,� Trier said. �And we decided that this was Bill, this is how we remember Bill. That�s why we never opened them. I don�t see any reason to open them now.�
The mom, Edith, who died in 1983 and lived with Trier the last three years of her life, always said that they would open the letters only when Bill returned. Trier and Babb have been adamant about honoring that sentiment as the letters are handed down in the family.
Each is stamped with �RETURN TO SENDER SERVICE SUSPENDED.� The last letter was mailed two or three times by the desperate, persistent parents.
The mailman honked his car horn, Trier remembered, all excited when the first letter came back � mistaking it for fresh word from Bill.
But the last lines from Bill already had been delivered. And now this soldier�s written voice remains stowed in Trier�s apartment in Ankeny.
�Tell mom to put away my � letters and other things I have there,� Bill wrote to his father in one of his final notes home. �So that the kids don�t take them and lose them. It may be quite a while before I am back.�
Seventy-one years and counting.
Kyle Munson can be reached at 515-284-8124 or firstname.lastname@example.com. See more of his columns, blog posts and video at DesMoinesRegister.com/munson. Connect with him on Facebook (Kyle Munson's Iowa) and Twitter (@KyleMunson).


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Nirmal Bang has come out with its report on Railway Budget 2012-13.
Nirmal Bang has come out with its report on Railway Budget 2012-13.
Our Analysis Railway budget with Safety as Priority! Railway Minister Mr. Trivedi announced Railway Budget for FY12-13 today with a clear focus on Safety and Modernization. Passenger fare prices have been marginally increased across the board for the first time in a decade whereas freight rates were already increased with effect from 5th march. On account of the deteriorating financial health of Railways, we have seen decline in various key investment activities like doubling of line and gauge conversion of line. The increase in Freight rates and Passenger fares are well directed to improve the financial strength of Railways. Overall the railway budget is not encouraging for Railway related companies.
Addition of 725 km new lines in one year: The government has announced that there will be an addition of 725 km new lines (v/s 709 km new lines planned in the last budget) in the next year. The government has also planned 700 km doubling (v/s 750 km last year), 800 km of gauge conversion (v/s 1017 km last year) and 1100 km electrification targeted in 2012-13 (v/s 1000 km last year). The total outlay for each of the above planned activities is Rs. 6872 cr for new lines, Rs. 3,393 cr for doubling, Rs. 1,950 cr for gauge conversion and Rs.828 cr for electrification. This will be negative for the railway companies like Kalindee Rail and Stone India. We expect companies like KEC International and Kalpataru Power to gain from increase in outlay of railway electrification projects.
Key Budget Highlights:
1. Marginal increase in passenger fares across the board.
2. The ministry aims to attract 10% of the Rs 20 lakh cr government expects to spend on infrastructure during 12th Plan.
3. 487 approved projects are at various levels of execution.
6. Long Term Goals
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Ahhhhhh, such sweetness, it is only 9:30pm and all three of my little ones are tucked away dreaming sweetly and even my dear husband is catching some much needed zzzzzz. These are the few moments I relish. You know the ones, right after a full rewarding day, but just before you collapse out of exhaustion. Yes, here I sit sipping a sweet cup of tea and having a quick visit with you before bed. Thankfully these moments are becoming a little more frequent as we return to our "normal" rhythm, with home, school and work. Baby girl also is finally falling into a more consistent napping & bedtime rhythm, which is so amazing in and of itself. And all this allows me to ponder a bit, for it has been so long…what do I want to do with these few precious moments as time marches forward this year?
Oh, of course I could do house work, or write, or play a game or work on a project, and likely I will from time to time. But no, these moments are precious to me, they are the only moments of my day that I claim to be mine. Therefore, I think I'll choose my most favorite way to unwind, yes I shall do a bit of reading.
This past year It seems I have stacked up so many wonderful books in my paperback swap list and on pinterest that I know I won't get to them all if I don't get started. So, just to keep myself on track here are the titles I plan to browse over the next few months:
#1 on my list because it is already in my hand's: One thousand gifts, a dare to live fully right where you are, by Ann Voskamp, so far this book is absolutely riveting, though slightly… horrifying (...in a revives your perspective on life sort of way) in the beginning, but press on it does get better, much better!
#2 Baby Catcher, Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent. I am a bit of a birth story nut, and this book has been on my list for far too long, so ordered it is and soon to be in my hands.
#3 is Desperate by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson Hope for the mom who need to breath. Because I so need to, and because I love anything by Sally Clarkson.
#4 Educating the Whole Hearted Child We have delved more fully into homeschooling this year and as I have said before I love Sally Clarkson's writing. I am very interested in reading something by her husband Clay. This book looks to offer some great resources and insights.
#5 Handmade Home by Amanda Blake Soule. Amanda is the creator of one of my favorite blogs Soule Mama. I'm pretty sure she is super woman. But never the less she is very creative I have read her first book The Creative Family and loved it and reference it from time to time as a reminder of the many crafts that I can do for and with my children. So I look forward to this book and what it has to offer our family.
#6 Simplicity Parenting by Kim Jon Payne and Lisa M. Ross. I look forward to reading this and gaining some perspective on how busy or not busy our family needs to be. Its one of those books that looks of offer steps toward that elusive goal of living a balanced life.
So, that is all for my 2013 reading list. Oh, I hope I can say I read many more books than the six listed here. and I know that I will keep reading on birth and finishing the books on the Doula reading list in preparation for my Doula certification (this fall I hope).
Also, there will likely be a little fluff (read: just feel good fiction) sprinkled in.
I am curious for anyone who wants to share, what are you reading or planning to this year?
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Alvarez will coach Rose Bowl for Wisconsin
Barry Alvarez will return to the sideline to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl.
By JESSE TEMPLE FS Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — Barry Alvarez's cell phone buzzed incessantly Tuesday night with calls from colleagues inquiring about his finding the next football coach at Wisconsin. Alvarez, the Wisconsin athletic director, was understandably too busy to answer most calls. He was simply trying to formulate a plan for who would coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl next month.
At the time, he had no inkling it would be him.
But when Alvarez reached for his phone to check his messages, he saw there were two from a Green Bay area code he did not recognize. They belonged to Badgers senior linebacker Mike Taylor, a co-captain, who had poured his emotions into the phone.
The captains had decided they wanted Alvarez to coach Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, Taylor told him. Alvarez's prior coaching success and significance to the program made him the perfect man for the job.
"I just thought that would be the right thing to do," Taylor said. "Kids like me came up in Wisconsin watching him coach on the sideline. That's just something you always dreamed of, playing for a coach like that. That's what really was the driving force behind it."
The messages were poignant enough to lure Alvarez, a College Football Hall of Fame coach, out of retirement for one game only. Although he has not coached a game in seven years, Alvarez had no reservations about returning Taylor's call and accepting the offer.
"I told him I would be honored to coach them, and I wanted them to understand, if I were going to coach, we weren't going to screw around," Alvarez said Thursday during a news conference. "We were going to go out there to win."
The decision capped a stunning three-day period in which Wisconsin won the Big Ten Championship Game against Nebraska to advance to a third straight Rose Bowl, lost head coach Bret Bielema to the same position at Arkansas and then gained a local icon to lead Wisconsin (8-5) against No. 6 Stanford (11-2) on Jan. 1 in Pasadena, Calif.
A spot in the Rose Bowl is nothing new to Alvarez, who compiled a 118-73-4 record in 16 seasons at Wisconsin and helped guide the program from a Big Ten doormat into a perennial contender. During Alvarez's tenure, the Badgers played in three Rose Bowls and won each time. Wisconsin defeated UCLA in 1994 and 1999 and beat Stanford in 2000.
"It doesn't get a bit old to me," Alvarez said. "I will enjoy every second of it."
Wisconsin lost both of its Rose Bowl appearances under Bielema the past two seasons, falling to TCU and Oregon.
Alvarez, who is 8-3 all-time in bowl games with the Badgers, has a chance to tie Ohio State's Woody Hayes for the most Rose Bowl victories by a Big Ten coach.
"The respect that he demands by having success in that type of situation is something that we're all extremely excited about," said Wisconsin quarterback Curt Phillips, who also implored Alvarez to coach the team with a phone message Tuesday night.
"Obviously he's never lost a Rose Bowl, so I'm definitely hoping he can shed some light on that for us. We've had some struggles with that the past couple of years. It's an awesome opportunity."
Alvarez, 65, insisted Thursday that he wouldn't have accepted the one-game opportunity if players hadn't asked. When Bielema informed Alvarez on Tuesday that he was leaving for Arkansas, he suggested Alvarez coach the team for the Rose Bowl.
Alvarez said no.
"But when the players asked — it's about the players," Alvarez said. "I don't want this to be about me. I want it to be about the players. I want to give them as good an opportunity, as good a chance to win the Rose Bowl as we possibly can."
As for how involved Alvarez will be on a day-to-day basis, he said he would leave much of the game planning up to Wisconsin's remaining assistant coaches. After all, Alvarez also has to look for the program's next head coach.
"I'll manage the game, but I can't step in there," Alvarez said. "I will oversee both sides of the ball. … I'll take that pressure off of them, but I expect them to game plan, and they've already started breaking down film.
"I'll go up and start taking a look at practice and the practice schedules and what we have and implement the things that I believe in. I think we had a pretty good routine that we did, and I want to make sure that we continue to do that. I think we can have an advantage."
Taylor and Phillips admitted they had no reason to believe Bielema, the hand-picked successor to Alvarez in 2006, was looking to leave. On Monday night, Bielema gathered Wisconsin's players for a team meeting and assured them he was staying.
The next day, Bielema was gone.
"He kind of ended it by saying his name may be brought up with a couple places but to not make anything of it," Phillips said. "So when we got the news that we were going to have a team meeting the next morning really early, we assumed that something probably happened."
Alvarez, meanwhile, is a man who hasn't left Wisconsin since 1990. He is so revered in Madison that a bronze statue of him resides outside one of the entrances to the football stadium.
Without question, players are hoping his infusion to the team will serve as a cathartic release of sorts and give them the drive to accomplish something they never did under Bielema.
"Obviously, this is something that we didn't expect, but coach Alvarez stepping in here is something that guys are extremely excited about," Phillips said. "It gives guys a little bit extra motivation. Whether it's because they think they might have had somebody bail on them, whatever your personal opinion is, it just provides a little extra motivation to go out there and take care of it."
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP)- The U.S. showed its support Tuesday, March 4, for Ukraine's new leadership as Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke out against Western involvement.
Secretary of State John Kerry walked through Kiev today, where police gunned down nearly 100 anti-government protesters last month. Kerry promised those clamoring for American assistance that aid was on the way.
The Obama administration announced a $1 billion energy subsidy package, and Kerry told Ukrainians that Obama is planning even more assistance.
Kerry left a bouquet of roses at a shrine set up to memorialize protesters killed during the unrest.
U.S. officials traveling with Kerry say the Obama administration is considering slapping Russia with economic sanctions, but Putin already said he won't be deterred.
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6 Dead, Thousands Without Power in Midwest Storms
At least six people are dead and dozens more wounded after a series of storms in the U.S. Midwest. Dozens of tornadoes were reported, most in Illinois. The storms left widespread damage, leveling homes and buildings while knocking out power to tens of thousands of people. Large parts of the town of Washington, Illinois, were destroyed. Rescue operations have been underway seeking people trapped in their homes.
Over 4 Million Displaced from Typhoon Haiyan
Relief efforts continue in the Philippines 10 days after Typhoon Haiyan. The United Nations says some four million people have been displaced, up from 900,000 last week. The toll of the dead or missing stands at around 5,000. In the devastated city of Tacloban, homeless residents continue to gather at the city's airport in the hopes of being able to flee.
Aika: "There is no food, no shelter, and we could have a — we could be sick here, because of the air, because of the dead."
Ajustin Cabidog: "We've been here yesterday since the early morning. We have nothing to eat, and we're struggling, and we don't have any energy."
Some 56,000 people are said to face unsanitary conditions in Tacloban. Fears are growing, meanwhile, for residents of remote islands that have yet to be reached since the typhoon hit.
Multiple Bombings in Iraq Leave Dozens Dead
A series of bombings in Iraq has left at least 44 people dead and more than 100 wounded. More than 22 were killed in the capital Baghdad.
Japan Begins Removal of Fukushima Radioactive Fuel Rods
In Japan, a dangerous operation is underway at the earthquake-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Engineers are removing more than 1,500 radioactive fuel rods from a storage pool as part of the plant's decommissioning. The rods could release toxic gases if they break or are exposed to air. Some of the tasks underway as part of Fukushima's decommissioning have never been attempted anywhere else.
Bachelet Leads 1st Round of Chilean Presidential Vote; Student Leader Elected to Congress
Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is poised to return to office after winning the first round of presidential elections. Bachelet took close to 47 percent in Sunday's vote, more than 20 points ahead of her closest rival, but just short of the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff. That vote will be held next month. Bachelet served from 2006 to 2010 as Chile's first female president. She has run on a platform of tackling income inequality and reforming a constitution dating back to the regime of General Augusto Pinochet, when she herself was a political prisoner. In the congressional vote, the Chilean activist Camila Vallejo was elected to a seat in parliament. Vallejo helped lead Chile's student uprising in 2011, which saw massive protests for affordable university education and deeper structural changes.
Protests Mark 2-Month Detention of Greenpeace Arctic 30
Protests were held in more than 260 cities worldwide on Saturday to mark two months since the detention of the Greenpeace "Arctic 30" for protesting gas drilling by Russia. The 28 activists and two journalists are facing charges of "hooliganism" which carry up to seven years in prison. Saturday's rallies focused on urging Russia's state-controlled oil company, Gazprom, and its partner, Shell, to back calls for the Arctic 30's release.
2 Killed in Colorado Mining Accident
A mining accident in Colorado has left two workers dead and another 20 injured. The mine is near the southwestern town of Ouray. The dead workers were apparently trapped underground after chemicals were accidentally released.
House Dems Join GOP to Challenge Obamacare on Old Plans
The House has approved a measure that would permit insurance companies to keep selling health plans that fail to meet the standards of the new healthcare law. In a challenge to President Obama, 39 Democrats joined with the Republican majority. President Obama granted a one-year reprieve to the substandard plans last week amidst anger over his failed pledge that all policy holders can keep their plans. But the House measure goes further in having no time cap and also allowing insurance companies to sell the plans to new customers. The White House has threatened a veto.
Charges Filed Against Homeowner in Shooting of Renisha McBride
Michigan prosecutors have filed charges against a Detroit-area homeowner for the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American woman on his porch. Nineteen-year-old Renisha McBride was apparently seeking help after a car crash when she came to the door of the suspect, Ted Wafer. McBride was killed by a shotgun blast to the face. After a more than week-long investigation that saw the case attract national controversy, prosecutor Kym Worthy unveiled charges on Friday.
Kym Worthy: "She was found with a very large gunshot wound to her face. It's alleged that she was shot to death by the homeowner after she knocked on his locked front screen door. By all reports, she was unarmed, and there were no signs of forced entry to the home. We obviously do not feel that the evidence in this case feels that the defendant acted in lawful self-defense."
Wafer faces up to life in prison on charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and possession of a firearm in a felony. He has claimed the gun fired by accident and that he thought McBride was an intruder. At a news conference, McBride's mother, Monica McBride, addressed Wafer publicly.
Monica McBride: "I'm not going to call you a monster. You said it was an accident. When you accidentally do something to someone, you say you're sorry or you apologize. You did no accident. You took a life, and you took a beautiful life that was starting to blossom into a beautiful woman."
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The computer hacker Jeremy Hammond has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Hammond has admitted to being a member of the group Anonymous and to stealing files from Stratfor, as well as other government and corporate sites. Some five million Stratfor emails ended up on the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, showing how the firm monitors activists and spies for corporate clients. Hammond pleaded guilty earlier this year in part to avoid a longer sentence of at least 30 years in prison. He has already spent 18 months behind bars, some of it in solitary confinement. On Friday, Hammond attorney Sarah Kunstler said Hammond's sentencing judge had overlooked his political motivations.
Sarah Kunstler: "The words that the judge used a lot and that the government used a lot in their sentencing submission were 'maximum mayhem.' And the government and the judge felt that the idea of causing mayhem or causing destruction was incompatible with Jeremy's stated political goals. And we disagree with that. You know, advocating for political change, struggling for political change involves being disruptive at times. It involves being destructive at times. These are some ways the — sometimes the only pathways to change."
Hammond's 10-year sentence is one of the longest ever in a criminal hacking case. During his sentencing, Hammond said an FBI informant had directed him to hack into the websites of several foreign governments, including Brazil, Iran and Turkey. According to Hammond, the FBI used him and other hackers to disrupt vulnerabilities in the home pages of foreign states. (Click here to watch Democracy Now's full coverage of this press conference.)
Nobel Prize-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94
The Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing has died at the age of 94. Lessing wrote more than 55 works of fiction, poetry and operas. Her 1962 book, "The Golden Notebook," is widely considered to be the first feminist novel. She died three weeks after the passing of her son Peter, whom she cared for through years of illness.
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I.R.I. Golf Group Combine Efforts for Mixed Team Event
Nation's top junior golfers to play in
one-of-a-kind team event in Tucson
I.R.I. Golf Group and the American Junior Golf Association
will once again combine efforts by adding the AJGA I.R.I.
Golf Group Arizona National Mixed Team Challenge to the 2004
schedule, the AJGA announced Monday.
The mixed team event will take place May 7-9, 2004, at Arizona
National Golf Course in Tucson, Ariz. The teams, made up of
one boy and one girl, will compete using the four-ball, foursome
and modified scotch formats.
AJGA is trying to create some different formats that are fun,
unique and will get the kids excited about the upcoming season,"
said Stephen Hamblin, AJGA executive director. "We have
enjoyed this relationship with I.R.I. Golf Group and hope
to see events such as this continue and grow over the years."
The I.R.I. Golf Group also sponsored events at Highland Creek
Golf Club in Charlotte, N.C., and Oakridge Country Club in
Garland, Texas, in 2003 and will continue through 2005.
Golf Group is a Southern California-based company that has
been involved in the acquisition, development and management
of more than 55 golf courses. Run by PGA golf professionals,
I.R.I. brings practical, insightful knowledge to every aspect
of creating and operating a golf course.
Arizona National has received numerous accolades in such publications
as Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, Golf for Women and the Arizona
The par-71, 6,776-yard layout Arizona National played host
to the AJGA I.R.I. Golf Group Arizona National Junior in 2003.
Esther Choe of La Quinta, Calif., took top honors in the Girls
Division while Daniel Lim of Gilroy, Calif., was victorious
in the Boys Division. Choe and Lim were both named honorable
mention Polo Golf Junior All-Americans.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization dedicated to the overall growth and development
of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships
through competitive junior golf. The AJGA, the largest Association
of its kind, has a junior membership (boys and girls ages
13-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states
and 30 foreign countries.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and
professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently
play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than
280 wins. AJGA alumni include Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods,
Davis Love III, Mike Weir, Charles Howell III, Jim Furyk,
Dottie Pepper, Grace Park, Cristie Kerr and Beth Bauer.
For more information, please contact Matt
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Hiren Ved, Director & CIO, Alchemy Capital Management expects the market to remain rangebound unless earnings pick-up. "Earnings will keep a lid on the index. We will continue to be range bound for a while," he said in an interview to CNBC-TV18.
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Disappointing Q4 earnings by index heavy weight Infosys hit the market hard, pushing the Sensex down 300 points on Friday last week.
Hiren Ved, Director & CIO, Alchemy Capital Management expects the market to remain rangebound unless earnings pick-up. "Earnings will keep a lid on the index. We will continue to be range bound for a while," he said in an interview to CNBC-TV18.
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First quarter is seasonally a slow one as far as earnings are concerned, so the market may be biased on the downside going ahead. The soft patch seen in earnings is likely to remain for another quarter or two, he added.
Continuing his bearish tone on IT sector, he cautioned that the sector may be headed for a de-rating in days to come.
However, he feels IT giant Infosys problem is company specific and one should wait for Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS ) to announce its Q4 earnings before taking a call on the IT sector, he added.
Meanwhile, Ved holds his bullish stance on auto major Tata Motors , he feels Good performance by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is making the stock attractive.
Valuations are very reasonable. There is potential for the company to standout in this kind of a difficult environment. With many new models coming in in JLR, we will continue to see good momentum," he elaborated.
Below is the verbatim transcript of Hiren Ved's interview on CNBC-TV18
Q: How would you approach Infosys and the IT sector now after what you have heard on Friday?
A: I would still like to believe that it is a company specific issue and would wait for the TCS results to come out to take a broader call on the IT sector. We are going to see far more volatility on a quarter-on-quarter basis in IT companies than what we saw in the past when there was a secular growth in the sector.
Q: The problem is that this was one of the few sectors helping the market stay afloat. Would you expect to see more pressure on the market because of what happened with Infosys and the turn in mood towards IT?
A: When you have such a large company with a significant index weight and most institutional investors having some kind of exposure to a company like that and the company does not deliver, it definitely puts pressure on the market. So the trend that we have been seeing over the last few quarters is that the market is getting more and more narrow. It will continue to be the case, until we see the broader market earnings bottom out and start to move up again and that is still sometime away. So, the market is going to get even more narrow and that will keep a lid on the index and we will continue to be range bound for a while.
Q: With the base around, do you foresee more pressure on the market?
A: The Q4 earnings season is generally a better quarter, but this time the earnings are not going to be too great. We are going to see one of those fourth quarters that will be pretty low in terms of revenue growth, profits and margins as well. Q1 is also seasonally a slow quarter, so there could be a downward bias to the market. We might consolidate here for a while till the earnings season is on and then people will take a call after they have seen most of the large earnings in this quarter. We are going to see a soft patch for one or two quarters more.
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Why Google Instant Is Good for Microsoft
For months, Google has been playing catch-up with Bing. When Microsoft added page-less image search, Google followed. When Microsoft unveiled a slew of search menu options, Google followed. And when Microsoft introduced background images, Google followed. (Microsoft's response? "We've lost a background image. If found, please return to bing.com.")
Today, however, Google is back on the offensive, launching one of the most dramatic updates in years to how we search on the Web. Should Microsoft continue this game of one-upmanship? Absolutely not. Here's why.
The whole point of developing new features and interfaces for Bing was to distance itself from Google. Yet with each change came a noticeably similar Google upgrade. How could Bing ever set itself apart with Google's reactionary mindset? The answer now is to simply stay where they are — remaining, in effect, as Google Classic.
With each letter typed, results flash before your eyes in real-time—no "Search" button necessary. "Don't be alarmed," Google warns when users first try out its Instant search engine. "Feelings of euphoria and weightlessness are normal." But what about anxiety and seizures? For new users of Google's "streaming" search engine (see: the world), the service may be too overwhelming.
It's hard to imagine how anyone—especially the elderly test-subject Google showcased today as a satified customer—will be able to keep up with Google Instant without a combo platter of Red Bull and cocaine. (Why do you think they called their new indexing system "Caffeine"?)
Let's try a search for Google Fast Flip. Punch in "F" to a Google search box, and loads of "Facebook" results now appear. By "Fas," there are miles of links to "fashion" sites. The next moment, "Fast" brings up page after page for "Fastenal," a leading supplier of industrial supplies. By "Fast F" users start seeing results for "Fast Food." And only by "Fast Fl" do we arrive at the correct results.
If that leaves you with a headache, you'll have to go a long way to find some "aspirin." "A" leads to "AOL"; "As" to "Ask.com"; "Asp" to the American Society of the Prevent of Cruelty to Animals...
So Google Instant plays right into Microsoft's hands — especially given the company's "Search Overload Syndrome" ad campaign. Everything about Google Instant search screams search overload—the unfortunate side-effect of sifting through millions of results regardless of relevancy.
It seems likely that this shift in search technology may prove too radical or too overwhelming for many users. But will they just turn off streaming search—or turn off Google?
In today's press conference, Google boasted that only a "small percentage" of users in their tests turned off Instant search, and that they mainly did so because of connection issues. That seems an all-too rosy portrait of adoption rates. Clearly, there is a learning curve for such a novel service—after all, we've been clicking the "Search" button for more than a decade now. Doesn't it seem unlikely that users would latch onto Google Instant so, well, instantly? Maybe in Google's test-cases.
But out in the real world, Google's new service may not appeal to users so quickly. Now how—and where—do I search for "market share"?
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well bings from microsoft and its MICROSOFT windows (crome OS is just internet and notepad,etc(B A A A A D),but its free).
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'google redirect virus' is officially reffered to as of now 'search engine redirect virus'. bing should find a sollution to that. that would be nice. :) :D
and theres a virus called the 'google redirect virus' it redirects you each time you click the link its a STUPID virus
but if you have it you need to (if you still want to use google) right click and say open in new tab(if no tabs open in NEW WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)i can see how that can frustrate somone like me but i somtimes have (literally) 8-15 tabs(8-15 windows with no tabbed would drive me CRAZY!!!!!!)
How to turn off Google Instant - as easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. go to http://www.google.com/preferen...
2. Scroll to the bottom option titled Google instant, and click "Do not use Google Instant"
3. Press "Save Preferences".
It's that easy.
You can turn off Google Instant. Moron.
Surely you're missing a major part of the point of instant search...
What I want in search is the best answer first time. If I'm looking for something kind of obvious, chances are there's no benefit in the real time response. But who cares what search engine you use to find something obvious?
When search really is search, the process can be laborious. I try a query - and the first page is full of irrelevant stuff, because either the query's not specific enough or I'm looking for the second or third main category of things suggested by my search terms. So I have to add words to give a stronger clue, or exclude terms that are taking the search the wrong way, or defeat the waves of 'SEO' detour junk.
Instant response means that I'll often avoid the two, three, four pages I work through that first search before working out how to refine, and the two, three, four searches I try out on the way.
I'm not convinced that search in two years will look much like this - the magic will be when search results feel to me like they have intuition. And I can believe Google will get to that point - probably in the same kind of way that Gmail has become arguably the world's best spam blocking mail system.
Bings web crawler is really awful! It does not update and it doesn't keep up with Google Search. The world is changing so fast and Microsoft is too big to move and slow to innovate. Searchers needs updated results and not dead links.
Where did you get this bit of fantasy? How do you quantify search results from Google with results found by Bing?
Never mind Brian, because you can't. If you could you would have said how you got to this. Then you move to the "broad brush" of company size and a nonsense assumption about what MS developers can and cannot do; things you can't possibly know.
I like Chrome for the exact feature that is now instant search.
haha... Google Classic new name for Bing? let me check.... damn! domain name already taken.. by... Google (LOL)
Yeah, they're such copycats. Like last week I saw Steve Ballmer wearing these really cool jeans. Then yesterday I saw Eric E. Schmidt and he was wearing the same jeans! OMG!!!!


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Laini Taylor
Lips Touch Three Times
Arthur A. Levine Books
Young adult fantasy
October 1, 2009
From Amazon.com:
Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls:
Goblin Fruit: In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take to tempt today's savvy girls?
Spicy Little Curses: A demon and the ambassador to Hell tussle over the soul of a beautiful English girl in India. Matters become complicated when she falls in love and decides to test her curse.
Hatchling: Six days before Esme's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turns from brown to blue. She little suspects what the change heralds, but her small safe life begins to unravel at once. What does the beautiful, fanged man want with her, and how is her fate connected to a mysterious race of demons?
It's been a while since I reviewed an anthology. These stories are all pretty short, and I really don't want to give anything away, so this review is going to be short and sweet. Read: vague. I'll mainly be giving my overall impressions of each story as well as any stand out likes and/or dislikes.
Before we get into the stories themselves, the book's physical appearance inside and out is well worth commenting on. Firstly, the cover, which I find absolutely striking. I've seen this book around for quite a while now online and it just never gets old looking at it. I was told by the Book Smugglers that the artist is the author's husband, one Jim Di Bartolo, and all I can say is if they have kids, lucky kids to come from two such talented people. The artist also rendered some gorgeous comic book-style art inside for each story and the layout overall is so pretty. In physical terms, the book is well worth the price of a hardback, and I don't say that too often about hardbacks period, let alone a young adult, whose pages usually number far too few for me to be comfy paying escalated prices. This volume though – gorgeous. Love it. I'm glad to have it in my collection as a good example of getting ones money's worth from a hardback.
Now, in terms of story:
Goblin Fruit:
This was by far my favorite story of the three, and unfortunately the shortest. The heroine, Kizzy, has a wonderful voice and even though she and her family are the strange ones in town, she does have two good friends who she has great dialogue with about a new boy in their class. I loved their conversations – Kizzy and her friends, I mena – and laughed plenty at their fresh and easy talk. Well done and I can picture kids today talking like these did.
Goblin Fruit made it evident that the book isn't typical of a lot of YA these days in the sense that the book isn't about romance, nor is romance in any way a goal with these stories. These are much, much darker tales. And that's OK. I actually liked that Goblin Fruit focused on a great mythology-drawn tale and the consequences the heroine faced in it. Overall, a great story, even if I did wish for it to have been longer so as to flesh the whole thing out even more. I think it would've made a great, longer short story.
Spicy Little Curses:
Taking place in India, Taylor's voice changes oh so subtly enough in this short story to give a wonderful, aromatic appeal to the setting. I'm not wild about romances set in India, so I wasn't sure how I'd take this decidedly different fantasy tale. Again, I found the author's realization of it through her very lovely prose to be quite refreshing.
Unfortunately, the story itself ended up not really working for me. The premise is as fresh and unique as the others int he book, but the characters this time were not as well-rounded as I would have liked. The idea behind it all -fascinating. But the girl that it all ultimately hinges on was lack luster.Because she wasn't one I could really get into, she kind of ended up just deflating the whole story by the end.
By far the strangest of the three stories. Like it's predecessor, Hatchling starts off strong, with a very compelling premise and initial execution. I admit, while already having realized this wouldn't happen, to falling for the possible There Might Be a Romance Here. And maybe there was, I'm not sure. Frankly, this story confused the heck out of me.
One part takes place in the form of flashbacks to these alien-esque/demonic creatures and the life of one human that is kept by their queen for an unknown purpose. The setting was very cool and wild and the demons were the kind that are unrepentantly self-serving. I was quite horrified on behalf of the humans they dealt with. While readers will find out all eventually, I was quite turned around almost the entire time and ended up frustrated by this more than anything. The amount of imagination in this particular story, while very impressive and quite enviable, ended up being rather un-enjoyable for me because I couldn't quite put my finger on what in the world was going on. It all came to me eventually, but I was disappointed not to have fully enjoyed such a thoroughly imaginative and strange tale all the way through.
I've heard a lot of good about Taylor's writing and was very glad to have finally experienced it. As much as I love to read fantasy, I can honestly say that I have never read anything like this. If you're curious about her writing, too, I do recommend these short tales as a way to introduce yourself. Her work here isn't centered on Happy Ever Afters, but they are engrossing, odd and so, so intriguing. Despite not fully enjoying all the stories, I am in awe of the author's imagination and skill. The writing is quite beautiful and where I couldn't quite enjoy where a story might be going, I could fully admire the writing itself.
I'm intrigued enough to try more of Taylor's work and hopefully will be doing so in the near future.


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Randa Starr is a hosiery model living a life of luxury. She has a beautiful mansion, clothes, and all the money she could want. She also has Nick, her manager, to take care of her need for rough sex.
Blaise Chardone is a circus performer. He is gentle and caring, everything his partner and older brother Sean is not. He acts as assistant to the circus's owner Culley.
When Nick nearly beats Randa to death, he runs scared and drops her off at a local hospital. When Randa wakes up, she realizes she has to do something because it is clear that Nick tried to kill her. When Nick makes a second attempt, this time by strangulation while she is still in the hospital, Randa knows she has to disappear. On her journey through homelessness, drunkenness, and deception, Blaise finds her. However, he thinks she is a boy and cannot reconcile his feelings for her. Even when she reappears as a woman he cannot make the connection. And they have another problem; Sean wants her for himself. After Sean is fired for attacking Randa, accidents and murder begin happening at the circus. It becomes a race against time to find Sean and stop him from destroying the circus and their love.
Dark Masquerade is a high-speed ride through the underbelly of inner cities, and the world of circuses. Highly descriptive, it is clear Ms. Godwin did her research. The emotions of both Randa and Blaise are well written, and easy to relate to. The secondary characters fit smoothly into the story and add to the richness of it. My only disappointment is that some of the situations felt contrived to me; because of this they were hard to believe. However, I look forward to more from this author.
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My brother can play the guitar very well and although he has taught me how to play the guitar, I am more interested in learning how to play the piano. There's just something about the black and white keys of the piano and the sounds it make. Actually, I do have a touch response keyboard at home where I can practice if I want but I would prefer to take lessons with a professional piano teacher. But some teachers I know would prefer if you practice on a real piano rather than a keyboard even if it is a Korg 88 key touch response digital piano. Why the prejudice?? Whatever it is, I just hope it's not too late to learn.
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Eärärion Punishes SC Pitchers This Week
Monday, August 13th, 2029
27-year-old Friagorn Eärärion sent shock waves through Tolkien Baseball last week with an eye-popping performance that brought him the Shire Conference Player of the Week Award.
A newcomer to the league, Eärärion made the establishment sit up and take notice, punishing opposing pitchers with a .385 average, 10 hits in 26 at-bats, 5 home runs and 11 runs batted in.
Where the Lake Town Archers center fielder goes from here, only the baseball gods know for sure, but Eärärion certainly made his mark last week.
In 94 games this season Eärärion is batting .276 with 102 hits and 31 home runs. He has scored 51 runs and driven in 82.Posted at May 19, 2014 09:53 PM | more from Lake Town, more from League News


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Posts tagged XPath
Stopping Duplicate Attachments in Workspace
When using the attachments feature on the User service, you may have encountered a situation where attachments are being duplicated at each step of the process. This will happen whether you reference the "list of document" variable itself or the XPath expression of the variable.
The way to get around this issue is to reference the XPath expression of the variable and append [1] to it.
In Workbench, navigate to the Attachments tab of the User service.
In the Output Attachments section, make sure that the dropdown is set to XPath expression.
Select your variable of type list of document and append [1] to it.
It should now appear as /process_data/myAttachments[1].
Make sure you use this same notation (/process_data/myAttachments[1]) on each User service step.
Original article at http://blogs.adobe.com/ADEP/2011/08/stopping-duplicate-attachments-in-workspace.html.
Introducing LC Keywords-Logical Operators– and,or
I was experimenting with xpath expression and found that the 'and' and 'or' works perfectly as the logical operators.
I'm perosnally so happy to see them working. In few cases it was too hard to configure the conditional routes with just OR/AND joint.
I've attached an example to demonstrate a simple usage of 'and'-'or' logical operators. This is the condition that I've put in the example.
(normalize-space(/process_data/@Input_Value1)='555′ or normalize-space(/process_data/@Input_Value1)='666′) and (normalize-space(/process_data/@Input_Value2)='777′)
I believe that this is going to make workflow design so much cleaner. Instead of nested conditional routes and 4-5 decision points or set value steps we would be able to do lot more things in few steps now.
I think this is an XPath Explorer feature so is not limited to just route conditions. All of the places where XPath expression is evaluated should be able use these.
Hope this helps to you too!!!
Original article at http://blog.pandyaparth.com/2009/07/introducing-lc-keywords-logical-operators-andor/.
Conditional set value using XPath
In my quest to use XPath functions & expressions more efficiently in LiveCycle I managed to achieve 'conditional set value' yesterday.
Example scenarios:
- Add some text to email body if some condition is true/false.
- Add some text into T&Cs if certain product is selected.
- In a generic/single Email or Set Value step you need to construct a big block of text. eg. Offer letter with certain paragraphs based on few conditions.
Approach 1: The usual way (or one of the usual ways):
An orchestration in Workbench with few setValue steps and few conditional routes to add/append the desired text to existing text.
And these steps need to be in certain order.
Approach 2: The XPath trick
I used substring() and number() function with pure XPath expression to construct conditional set value. See the usage below.
Consider a requirement in which you wish to send an email with few extra lines added to it if product A is ordered. And if contract term is 12 months then we need to add another T&C statement in the email body.
Let's implement that with both approaches…
Approach 1: Few set value step and routing conditions to set process variables that get used in email body.
Process Diagram:
Email body:
Dear Provisioning Team,
Please send the below details to John.
System:{$ /process_data/@System $}
Agent Name:{$ /process_data/@Agentname $}
Product ordered: {$ /process_data/@Product $}
{$ /process_data/@ProductAConfigurationDetails $}
Terms and Conditions:
blah blah blah from Legal
{$ /process_data/@TCFor12MonthsContract$}
BOH Team
Approach 2: Conditional set value with XPath
Process diagram:
Email Body
Dear Provisioning Team,
Please send the below details to John.
System:{$ /process_data/@System $}
Agent Name:{$ /process_data/@Agentname $}
Product ordered: {$ /process_data/@Product $}
{$ substring('This is where the actual text gets put about the product configuration',
50000000 * (number(/process_data/@Product !='Product A'))
) $}
Terms and Conditions:
blah blah blah from Legal
{$ substring('12 Months T&C content is written here or can be xpath expression',
50000000 * (number(/process_data/@ContractLength !='12′))
) $}
BOH Team
- The above expression marked in blue puts the text in email body if the condition at the end of it fulfills.
- By moving this logic into the email step itself I could clean up the process design significantly. I believe that LC is too good to do data transformation but common…few set value and few conditional routes for a simple text insertion?? I reckon the XPath trick gives much more cleaner approach to solve this.
- First thing to notice in the expression is the use of a large number 50000000 . This is used to return blank substring value if the expression is false. Please adjust if your input text can be larger than this.
- Second thing to notice is the use of comparison operator. I wanted to have 0 (zero) value for substring start value if condition is true. Boolean true is 1 so I'm using opposite operator. Eg. if(product="Product A") is represented as product!="Product A"
As this is an XPath based expression we can use it in any LC component. I tried implementing if-else clause as well but that didn't turn out well.
If you managed to read through this much then I'm sure you would love to see the undocumented 'and' 'or' keyword usage in XPath expression. I found that while experimenting and it's an instant hit among few of my fellow LC users. It can be found here..
Let me know if you find this useful!!!!
Original article at http://blog.pandyaparth.com/2009/11/conditional-set-value-using-xpath/.


text: Hi, I have a preexisting Perl CGI application (http://www.lightandmatter.com/spotter/spotter.html) that I would like to interface with maxima. For instance, I'd like to add a little utility to it for doing integrals, sort of like Wolfram's integrals.com. The app is something my students use (I teach physics), and it already has a mathematical input language that my students are used to. The language is not all that different from Maxima's, but, e.g., it allows implicit multiplication. So the idea is that, rather than telling them they can go to integrals.com to compute an integral they don't know how to do, I can have them enter it into my CGI application in the notation they already know, and my app will then parse it and convert it to Maxima syntax, and display the result (either as ascii-art math, or as LaTeX-generated graphics). Does anyone have any experience with embedding Maxima in a script like this? For example, I want to make sure there isn't any tricky way for users to do inappropriate things, like deleting all my files. (OK, since it's going through my own parser first, it would probably be hard for them to accomplish that anyway, but I'd still be interested in hearing if anyone else has tackled the issue of sanitizing input appropriately.) It would also be nice to make sure they can't inadvertently send my server spinning off on a computation that will eat up 99% of its CPU for the next month :-) Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Ben Crowell (Moderator: Sorry about sending this earlier from a different address than the one from which I was subscribed. I got a message saying that one was awaiting moderation, since it wasn't from a subscriber. Please delete that one.)


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No more Warren Jeffs 'revelations'?
It's been almost two months since Warren Jeffs had his followers sent out "revelations from God."
The last record I have of a packet received by the Utah Attorney General's Office was on June 12. Before that the revelations promising apocalyptic consequences if Jeffs wasn't freed were being sent out around the world regularly, sometimes more than once a week (see the record in my big revelations calender here, and an example revelation here).
From what I've heard, the imprisoned leader has been keeping busy sending out excommunication orders left and right even for dead people. Most are thrown out for the nebulous crime of "the murder of unborn children," (story here) something I'm told includes having a miscarriage.
So has he decided that the direct appeal route won't work? Have we seen the last of the "revelations?"


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