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César Rodríguez Álvarez (June 29, 1920, León, Spain – March 1, 1995, Barcelona), also referred to as César, is a former Spanish Catalan footballer and manager. César played for, among others, CF Barcelona, Spain and the Catalan XI. During his career with CF Barcelona he played 348 games and scored 235 goals, making him the highest goalscorer in the club's history . In the history of La Liga, only three players, Zarra, Hugo Sánchez and Alfredo Di Stéfano, have scored more goals. He helped CF Barcelona win five La Liga titles and in 1949 he won the Pichichi after scoring 28 goals. After retiring as a player César became a manager and coached both Real Zaragoza and CF Barcelona.
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After playing as a youth in León, César first joined FC Barcelona in 1939. However military service saw him posted to Granada, delaying his senior debut with the club. He spent two seasons on loan at Granada CF and in 1941 helped them win the Segunda División. The following season, 1941-42, both César and Granada CF made their debut in the Primera División. During the season he scored 6 goals in a 7-3 win against CD Castellón and eventually finished as second top goalscorer.
In 1942 César returned to FC Barcelona and won his first La Liga title in 1945. During his playing career at the club his team mates included, among others, Antoni Ramallets, Velasco, Josep Escolà, Joan Segarra, Estanislao Basora, Josep Gonzalvo and Marià Gonzalvo. In 1951 he scored twice in the 3-0 win over Real Sociedad in the Copa del Generalísimo final. Then together with Estanislao Basora, Ladislao Kubala, Eduardo Manchón and Moreno, he was part of a legendary forward line that helped the club win five trophies during the 1951-52 season. He scored again in the Copa final, a 4-2 extra time win against Valencia CF. He also scored the winner in the Copa Latina final, a 1-0 win against OGC Nice.
After leaving FC Barcelona, César had spells at Cultural Leonesa and Perpignan F.C. before joining Elche CF. As a player, and then player-coach he helped Elche, rise from the Tercera División to La Liga in three seasons. In 1958 Elche were promoted to Segunda División, Group 2 and the following season they were promoted to La Liga after they were champions of their group. During the 1959-60, César he also coached Elche in La Liga.
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Between 1945 and 1952 César also played 12 times for Spain. He scored on his debut in a 2-2 draw with Portugal on March 11 1945 and was included in the squad for 1950 World Cup. Between 1943 and 1954 he also played 10 times for the Catalan XI. On October 19 1947, at the Sarria, he scored twice as the Catalan XI beat Spain 3-1.
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After his success with Elche CF, César became coach at Real Zaragoza. In 1961 he guided to them to third in La Liga and in the following two seasons they finished fourth and fifth. In 1963 they also finished as runners-up to FC Barcelona in the Copa del Generalísimo. This attracted the attention of his former club and in 1964 he succeeded his former team mate Josep Gonzalvo as manager. However he was not a success and he was only in charge for 85 games.


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Lift Every Voice Gospel Choir Celebrating Black History Month
The Sage Colleges will proudly host a series of culturally rich programs and educational events commemorating Black History Month throughout the month of February. "Lift every Voice!" is the chosen theme for Sage's 2011 celebration of black Americans who have shaped our country's history and continue to do so.
Date: Friday, February 11th, 2011
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Lift Every Voice Gospel Choir Celebrating Black History Month
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Friday, February 11, 2011 | 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Historic Bush Memorial Auditorium, Russell Sage College campus; Troy, New York
General Public: Please register through the Office of Student Life (518-292-1753).
Please join us as we Celebrate Black History Month 2011 together!
The Black History Month Advisory Committee is also proud to officially partner with two student clubs at The Sage Colleges. This year additional support and guidence is being provided by the Black and Latina Student Association (BLSA) at Russell Sage College and the Sage African, Latino, Asian, and Native American (SALANA) Student Organization at Sage College of Albany. Both clubs have been instrumental in making Black History Month 2011 a month to remember!
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My kid's crazy about dogs, so the last three movies we went to see in the theater all centered on canines. While Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Hotel for Dogs were live-action films, they were not nearly as lively (or recommended) as the animated Bolt, a film kids and adults should all enjoy.
Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) plays a dog with superpowers on a popular TV show, which also features his young owner as his co-star. From the time he was a pup, he's been led to believe he really is a superhero, a ruse his owner and handlers pull off by keeping him in the tightly controlled environs of the studio set, all for the sake of keeping his on-screen performance as believable as possible – he never knows his on-screen adventures are pure fiction. (If this plot sounds familiar, perhaps you've seen The Truman Show, which is much more existential and angsty than Bolt.)
Through a series of mishaps, our hero ends up on his own thousands of miles from his owner and known life, and must find his way back, with the help of a streetwise cat (with abandonment issues akin to Jessie's in Toy Story 2) and superfan hamster (who also stars in the cartoon short exclusive to the Bolt DVD, which includes a hilarious send-up of Hannah Montana, Bolt voice actress Miley Cyrus's alter-ego). He also has to come to terms with the truth about his superhero abilities, sometimes discovering the truth midway through some harrowing situations on his cross-country journey.
Bolt's a lot of fun, and possesses more charm and depth than most films aimed at the family audience. If you're a dog lover, you may want to see all those films I'd mentioned having seen on the big screen – but Bolt's the only one that's not a real dog.
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Off and running: Catholic girls, Buffalo boys capture relay titles
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It didn't take long for the Kanawha Valley to make its presence felt Friday at the state track meet.
Try the first event.
Charleston Catholic's girls and Buffalo's boys captured victories in the Class A 4x800-meter relay, the opening event of the 96th state meet at Laidley Field.
The Irish girls won despite posting the second-best time in the state coming into the state meet and just the 11th-fastest time in last week's regional meet. The quartet of Peyton Keener, Sarah Joseck, Quincy McKown and Payton Mullen completed the course in a season-best 10 minutes, 4.68 seconds.
"In the regionals, it's so much harder on athletes than the states,'' said Irish coach Scott Welch, "so we try to substitute runners into the 4x8 - normally sort of like our fifth and sixth runners instead of the top four -so that they can qualify in other events later in the meet.
"We figured it was between us and Williamstown, but knocking off all that time from our previous best [10:28] was a little more than I anticipated. I was figuring 10:12 or 10:14 to be able to cope with Williamstown, and then three of our four girls ran their personal bests.''
A short while later, Buffalo's boys successfully defended their Class A crown in the 4x800, winning in a season-best 8:13.66, shaving nearly 22 seconds off their previous low.
"We wanted to break our state record from last year [8:09.05],'' said junior Isaiah Robinson, the group's lead runner. "But I'm just glad for the guys. We've been working hard all year, every day putting the time in - and it all pays off right here.''
Robinson handed off the baton to Jonathan Torman, then he gave it to Conner Lamb and the anchor leg was run by Dylan Rich, a state champion last year in the open 800 and 1,600.
In fact, Buffalo coach Richie Wyant asked his lead runners to stay within a reasonable distance the first three legs so Rich didn't have to wear himself out completely trying to overcome a disadvantage, allowing him to save a little gas for the 3,200 later on Friday.
"We wanted to get out to a lead as big as we could,'' Robinson said, "because we knew Charleston Catholic, Doddridge and Williamstown would all be a threat from the regional meet. We knew that from where Dylan got the baton [10 yards back] that we had it won.''
A real showdown is brewing in the Class AAA girls 100-meter high hurdles finals at about 1:05 p.m. today.
All year long, defending champion Emily Godwin of Buckhannon-Upshur, a North Carolina recruit, has kept a small lead over St. Albans sophomore Anacia Hines and beat Hines by a good margin in an early season meet at Laidley.
But over the past few weeks, a wild card has been thrown into the mix with John Marshall freshman Tori Derrow, who has run times faster than anyone.
"I haven't been running hurdles that much,'' Derrow said after running in the trials on Friday. "I haven't run them since seventh grade. But I built my way back to the place I had to be and kept training hard.''
Coming into the state meet, Derrow's best time was 14.82 seconds, Godwin's 15.08 and Hines' 15.11. In last week's regionals, it was even closer - Godwin 15.08, Derrow 15.11 and Hines 15.21.
"I'm very excited and ready to run against her,'' Hines said of meeting Godwin again. "I've been waiting all year because my first race I ran against her, I didn't do too good. But I feel very confident this time.''
In Friday's qualifier for today's finals, Hines (15.12) beat Derrow (15.20) by a small margin in one heat, and Godwin ran a time of 14.94 in the other heat.
Derrow and Hines give up a couple of years of seasoning to Godwin, but both feel confident going against the nine-time state meet event winner and a 40-point scorer last year with four firsts.
"That's my goal,'' Derrow said, "to beat Emily, a three-time state champ, and I guess everybody's favorite pick. It'd be nice just to get off with a bang and show them what I can do.''
Hines thinks the race could be too close to call.
"If [Derrow] does her best,'' Hines said, "and I do my best and Emily does her best, I think it'll be real interesting in how it turns out.''
When you think of defending Class AAA champion Buckhannon-Upshur, you think of Godwin and, in a previous era, Chelsea Carrier.
But the Bucs have shown depth in their squad, especially in one of Godwin's specialties, the hurdles. They showed that for the fourth year in a row in the shuttle hurdle relays, the last three without Godwin.
On Friday, the Bucs won by about a second and broke their own state meet record, finishing in 1:03.86. The previous record was 1:04.13, set in 2010 with freshman Godwin in the quartet.
Godwin has gone on to win three individual events in 2010 and four last year, and is a favorite to do it again. She competes today in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles, the long jump and high jump.
The shuttles team that won Friday consists of Hannah Stankus, Katy Riley, Courtney Reed and Lauren Cvechko. Cvechko has been as much a constant over the last four state meets, and ran the anchor leg this time around.
Cvechko said Godwin does indeed cast a broad, positive influence on the rest of the team's hurdlers.
"Training with her for the past four years has helped me a lot, actually," Cvechko said. "I watch her and try to do what she does. We're really, really close friends. I think we help each other a lot because we do the same events."
Levi Moreland is pretty sure he won the first boys individual state title in Hampshire High history, and father Micah also thinks that's the case.
Moreland won the discus by about 31/2 feet, hurling the disc 160 feet, 5 inches. As with most competitors, he thought he could have gone a few feet farther.
"It was my new [personal record], and I broke the school record four times this year," the senior said. "I came in predicted to win and I was confident, but I knew I had competition. I just relaxed."
While the Trojans aren't known as a track power, the Morelands have gone to some 21st-century lengths to reverse that. They have worked with Matt Ellis, a throwing coach based in Rhode Island.
But the Morelands need not journey to Providence for their tips. They begin their hookup with Ellis through the website primalatc.com
"We shoot a video and send it to him," Micah Moreland said. "He does analysis and teaches it back on YouTube. You can stop the video and everything."
As for the rest of the Trojans, Levi Moreland said the team qualified the most in his career - about 12 girls and eight boys (relay participants included). Two or three years ago, it was barely five.
Reclassification has probably hurt no athlete in any sport more than it has Scott's Will Shaffer.
Shaffer won the Class AA 3,200 the last two years at the state meet, but athletes from Fairmont Senior and Bridgeport have proved to be thorns in his side after both schools dropped from Class AAA.
That fact was illustrated again on Friday night when the Polar Bears' Nick Trefz edged Shaffer by a little over six seconds to claim the event.
"I won the 32 the last two years and got second just now, so that's obviously not what I wanted," Shaffer said. "But I can't complain. It's a blessing to be out here running and running fast."
Shaffer, who will run cross country at Marshall next year, said he was focused more on his personal time than who was running around him and he took his second-place finish in stride.
"The time is what matters," Shaffer said. "In basketball and football you measure how good you are by wins, but in track and field you can see by your times. There's no such thing as a moral victory in those sports but here, if I had run a 20-second [personal record] and come in last, I wouldn't have cared."
That's what happens when an athlete as decorated and accomplished as St. Marys' Maggie Drazba is turned loose one last time. The senior earned yet another win in the event, this time by a full lap plus around 11 seconds, arriving at the finish line in 10:31.83.
That effort bested her own Class A record by over 27 seconds and set a new all-class mark, besting a time of 10:49.14 set by Preston's Ari Kasprewicz in 2009.
Reach Rick Ryan at 304-348-5175 or email@example.com. Ryan Pritt and Doug Smock contributed.


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Proposals to add isolation for bidi content in HTML5
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Unicode 6.3 will shortly be released, and will contain new control codes (RLI, LRI, FSI, PDI) to enable authors to express isolation at the same time as direction in inline bidirectional text. The Unicode Consortium recommends that isolation be used as the default for all future inline bidirectional text embeddings. The CSS Writing Modes specification has already been adapted to accommodate this new development, and now we need to ensure that HTML5 encourages and enables content authors to adopt and apply isolation as the default whenever they set direction on inline content, and discourage future use of
dir=rtl or
There are three proposals on the table currently.
Proposal A is to change the semantics of the
dir attribute so that isolation is always applied to the content surrounded by the element with the dir attribute.
Proposal B is for new values for
dir, specifically
r and
l. It is offered as an alternative if Proposal A is not acceptable.
Proposal C is for a new
direction attribute. It is also offered as an alternative if Proposal A is not acceptable.
The Internationalization Working Group supports Proposal A. This is by far the cleanest approach and the most author-friendly.
If you are new to the idea of bidi isolation, you may want to start with the Background material at the end, then read about each proposal.
For a more in depth overview of inline direction in HTML, and a description of current capabilities in HTML4 and HTML5, see What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup.
Key objectives
Note that any proposed solution must:
- move all authors in time to using markup that isolates by default while setting base direction.
- support backwards compatibility with dir as currently used in older pages, and as used during the transition.
- be intuitive enough for authors to readily use in place of dir=ltr/rtl
- not require that users understand or appreciate the concept of isolation in order to mark up up their text
Proposal A: change the dir semantics
The very best solution would be to simply change the styling associated with the current dir attribute, so that it applies isolation by default.
In other words, the HTML default stylesheet specification for dir="ltr" and dir="rtl" should be changed to result in unicode-bidi:isolate (or, for , unicode-bidi:isolate-override), instead of unicode-bidi:embed (or, for , unicode-bidi:bidi-override).
No special steps needed.
- Content authors don't need to learn to do anything different, nor do they need to understand isolation vs. embedding or different usage for block vs. inline elements. Their code just simply works better.
- Nothing special is needed to cover the transition period while browsers adopt the new semantics: the code will work better in browsers that have implemented the change, but just work the same as before in browsers that haven't.
- Problems with existing legacy pages (such as badly rendered inserted names before numbers) will be fixed automatically by this change.
- Once a browser supports isolation it is trivial to implement the change in semantics for dir in the browser.
- It is possible that a small number of web pages would behave differently as a result of this change, but this only affects the uncommon cases where people have put in place undesirable workarounds (hacks) in the past. (For details see 'Do we still need non-isolate embeddings?' in the Background section below.) On the other hand, it appears that version 8 and above of Internet Explorer are likely to be breaking those pages already (for details see Internet Explorer behaviour in the Background section below). Furthermore, this change would probably fix other parts of such pages that currently don't work well.
Proposal B: new values for dir
Keep the "dir" attribute, add values "L" and "R" (uppercase used here for readability - value is case-insensitive, as usual).
Convince people to move away from using the ltr and rtl values completely in time.
Transition period
- If CSS can be assumed, trivial - just add the following to your stylesheet:
[dir='l' i] { unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: isolate; direction: ltr; } [dir='r' i] { unicode-bidi: embed; unicode-bidi: isolate; direction: rtl; }
- If CSS can't be assumed, use markup: "dir=ltr/rtl" for blocks and use "<bdi dir=ltr/rtl>...</bdi>" or "<element><bdi dir=ltr/rtl>...</bdi></element>" for inlines.
We can speed up the transition period by getting the required CSS fragment into libraries.
- Keeps the existing "dir" attribute, which is reasonably well-known among authors, which reduces teaching burden.
- New values are even shorter than existing values, which helps encourage people to use them.
- Avoids the risk of transposition typos that the "lri/rli/rtl/ltr" proposal had.
- The transition plan works slightly better in the future - the block fallback can't be used at the same time as the new markup, so switching forces you to abandon the old stuff; the inline fallback can technically be used at the same time, but it's less convenient than just dropping the element entirely, so people are more likely to do just the new stuff as it's less work.
- The transition markup for this is actually less characters than for the "direction" attribute in proposal C's transition markup, in both cases.
- If an implementation already has support for isolation, making it accept new "dir" values is completely trivial - even less work than making it recognize a new "direction" attribute.
- Content authors need to learn to use the new values and move away from the old ones.
- The bdi workaround for inline elements is cumbersome and requires authors to be aware of and use different approaches for inline vs. block elements.
- Content authors need to do something special during the transition period, and decide when the transition period is sufficiently complete to allow them to only use the new values.
- You can't assume CSS is available in all situations, eg. for blog or tweet aggregators, etc. This means that the CSS-only approach needs to be used with care.
- rtl and ltr still sound like the default values - the reasons for using r and l are difficult to understand, and so authors may continue to use ltr/rtl without understanding why they should change.
The value names
Initial feedback from discussion during the i18n telecon was the question about whether there is a better alternative than r and l as value names.
Note that we need to choose value names that are sufficiently distinct from rtl and ltr to avoid confusion and simple mistakes, and yet need to be intuitive and similar enough to be readily understandable.
One suggestion was to use rl and lr, although it's not clear whether these are far enough removed from rtl/ltr to avoid confusion. Another suggestion was to us rli and lri, which are the same names as used for the isolating Unicode control characters, but content authors should not be concerned with what the i stands for. Furthermore, rli/lri are subject to the same typos as are seen when content authors transpose letters in rtl and ltr.
Proposal C: A new 'direction' attribute
This is a proposal for a new attribute for HTML5 called "direction" with values "ltr", "rtl" and "auto". The new attribute can be used on both block and inline elements, but for the latter automatically applies isolation. The existing "dir" attribute retains its current non-isolate semantics, but its use should be discouraged and the intention is that eventually for new content dir will be completely replaced by the direction attribute. In the interim, dir and direction can be used side by side to manage the transition: when both are given the browser should use the direction attribute if it supports it.
The use of the bdi element to achieve isolation can continue, and is particularly handy when the direction of the content is unknown. However, it can not continue to be the only way to achieve isolation in markup, since it relegates isolation to being a little-known power tool instead of the default for bidi content, and since using a special element for this purpose is impractical in some scenarios
- The use of the name 'direction' is clearly understandable by content authors, matches the direction property in CSS, and does not rely on them making choices based on understanding the value of isolation.
- Authors continue to use rtl and ltr values, so this is intuitive and easy.
- Using two attributes makes it possible to transition in a way that provides a guaranteed fallback for browsers that don't support the new attribute. If direction is not supported, dir takes over. There is no need for CSS to produce the expected outcome.
- It allows for a clean break in usage from dir without supposing that authors understand the value of isolation and choose the right values. All advice about how to manage bidi text can simply recommend use of the direction attribute, rather than the dir attribute, and deprecation of dir will encourage authors to make the switch.
- it doesn't rely on CSS being available.
- The name "direction" is significantly longer. This is significant for "plumbing"/"structural" attributes, which should get out of the way and not distract from the "meaningful" attributes and content. It also means that the transition from "dir" to "direction" will be harder, since people like short names.
- Having two attributes that do the same thing is confusing. We've already suffered through this with things like "lang", and it's painful and confusing to tell exactly which attribute authors should be using.
- The transition plan (add both "dir" and "direction") makes for ugly markup, which means it's less likely to be used by authors (see the argument about "plumbing" attributes, above). Also, this kind of advice is precisely the kind of thing that is nearly certain to be cargo-culted FOREVER, since there's no functional downside to doing it long after all browses support the new stuff.
Other alternatives that were rejected
This section lists alternative ideas that were considered, and why they were rejected.
Use of bdi
Currently, HTML5 requires the use of <bdi dir="ltr|rtl"> to get a bidirectional isolate when the first-strong auto-direction heuristics of dir="auto" are inappropriate. To get a bidirectional embedding, on the other hand, one does not need to use an additional element; all you have to do is put a dir="ltr|rtl" on an existing "inline" element. When one considers that bidi isolates are what embeddings should have been all along, and should be used in new documents instead of using the old-style non-isolate embeddings, the fact that it is more difficult to set up an isolate than to set up an embedding begins to look quite strange.
This lack of symmetry is unique to HTML5. In CSS3, the choice between unicode-bidi:embed vs unicode-bidi:isolate, and in Unicode, the choice between LRE|RLE...PDF vs LRI|RLI...PDI is entirely symmetrical.
But, after all, what's an extra element between friends? Yes, it is easier to write
פיצה
than to write
<bdi dir="rtl">פיצה
פיצה
but who cares?
We care:
- As long as isolates are more difficult to set up than embeddings, embeddings will be the default, and isolates the exception; the use of isolates will not replace the use of embeddings.
- A single attribute has historically been and should continue to be sufficient to do all the bidi in HTML. Why should the preferred way to embed opposite-direction content inline now require the use of both a special-purpose element () and a special attribute (dir)?
- HTML document authors must be instructed that when a "block" element like
 gets opposite-direction content, they should indicate it by putting a dir attribute on that element. For "inline" elements, however, it depends. An element like <textarea> or <input> or <option> whose content is inherently "out-of-flow" and thus directionally isolated can also get the dir attribute directly on it. However, when an "ordinary" "inline" element like  gets opposite-direction content, they should not just put the dir attribute directly on it, but on a special <bdi> element especially inserted for that purpose either within the  or around it. (Which, by the way?) As for , put the dir attribute directly on it if it has "block" descendants, but add a <bdi> otherwise. The distinctions are impossible to justify or explain!
- When an HTML or XHTML document tags a data item with microformatting or some other form of data export, it makes good sense to also indicate the data item's direction using an attribute on the tagged element, so that consumers of the data will know how to display it properly. It makes little sense to put it on a surrounding element, where consumers of the data will ignore it (unless they bother to ask for the tagged element's computed direction style) or on an element especially introduced within the tagged element for the purpose of carrying the attribute, suddenly turning what had been a nice plain-text data item into HTML. If the attribute goes on the tagged element, and it happens to be inline, we want it to be isolated, so now the tagged element suddenly has to be <bdi>. Do we need to update the RFCs on microformatting to require the use of <bdi> for all microformatting (except where a "block" element is used)?
In brief, we must make it possible to set up bidi isolates by using a direction attribute alone.
Use dir plus an additional isolate attribute
Another possibility is to create a new attribute such as isolate, which would be used to complement dir. This ensures that lagging browsers display the new-style markup at least as well as HTML4.
One problem with using an additional attribute (such as in ...) is that it doesn't encourage use of isolation by default. It also adds a significant, permanent burden for the author creating bidi text since this markup will be used anywhere there are directional changes in pages written in right-to-left scripts (and that's a lot). The additional effort required to create extra markup is no longer insignificant in such a context. It also appears to place a choice before authors which requires them to understand the concepts related to isolation vs. non-isolation: this is actually not something they need to concern themselves with.
Bidi isolation applied by styling
If new pages should be using bidi isolates, and we want to make it possible to set up a bidi isolate via the dir attribute alone, but can not break backward compatibility by making dir="ltr" and dir="rtl" themselves define isolates by default, perhaps the answer is to recommend to content authors to do so in their own custom stylesheets. It's easy enough, something like
[dir] {unicode-bidi: isolate} pre [dir=auto], textarea [dir=auto] {unicode-bidi: plaintext} bdo [dir] {unicode-bidi: bidi-override} bdo [dir=auto] {unicode-bidi: isolate-override}
Obviously, to avoid breaking existing documents, document authors should only do this for new documents built to use bidi isolates.
Unfortunately, this old/new dichotomy is extremely inconvenient for document authors with a large existing codebase. Any software library that generates HTML that may use the dir attribute must either use it as an isolate or as a non-isolate embedding. Thus, it can not be used to generate both "old" and "new" pages. The move from "old" to "new" thus can not be made gradually: either a page and all the software used to generate it is "old", or the page and all the the software used to generate it is "new". There is no middle ground.
This approach is also problematic when HTML needs to be converted to plain text, since the choice between LRE|RLE...PDF and LRI|RLI...PDI is no longer apparent in the mark-up, but must be relegated to consulting the style.
Alternative names for the direction attribute
The name direction is a little on the long side, and we considered various alternatives, such as bdi, bd, idir, etc. The alternatives were all rejected either because they assumed a knowledge of and interest in bidi isolation on the part of the author, or because it didn't work as well on block elements as on inline.
The name 'direction' is a very simple and intuitive name, which can be used anywhere, and, moreover and usefully, it appears to mean the same as dir. in fact, for some authors, 'direction' will be a lot more meaningful and memorable than 'dir'.
Bidirectional isolation
Over the last couple of years, the CSS3 and HTML5 standards have added a new feature to ease dealing with bidirectional text: bidi isolates. Bidirectional isolates are expected to make it much easier to insert text data that contains (or may contain) text of the direction opposite to the context, e.g. Hebrew or Arabic text in an English or Russian-language page, and vice-versa, without unduly affecting the display of the content around it.
A bidirectional isolate directionally isolates its contents from its surroundings:
- The content inside the isolate has no effect on the bidirectional ordering of the content surrounding the isolate.
- The content surrounding the isolate has no effect on the bidirectional ordering inside the isolate.
- The element as a whole has the effect of a neutral character on the visual order of surrounding content, regardless of its dir attribute value.
In HTML, this feature is currently exposed primarily via the new <bdi> element. Thus,
<bdi dir="rtl">פיצה: 5 reviews
is quite unsurprisingly displayed as:
פיצה: 5 reviews
This contrasts to the effect of a traditional bidi embedding, which is what one gets when one puts a dir="ltr" or dir="rtl" on an inline element other than <bdi>. An embedding usually has the same effect on the visual ordering of the surrounding content as a strong character of the same direction. Thus, for example,
פיצה: 5 reviews
displays the same as without the  i.e. the rather more surprising and quite useless
פיצה: 5 reviews
where the number "stuck" to the RTL text preceding it by the rules of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm for embeddings (as opposed to isolates).
HTML5 also directionally isolates any element that uses the new "auto" value of the dir attribute, which also sets its direction according to its first strong character. And, in fact, dir="auto" is the default for <bdi> (unless it is given an explicit dir="ltr" or "dir="rtl"). Despite the considerable overlap in functionality between the <bdi> element and dir="auto", bidirectional isolation and automatic direction are functionally distinct. While dir="auto" does provide bidirectional isolation, it should only be used for content of unknown direction. When the direction is known (e.g. a phone number is always LTR) or when an estimation method other than dir="auto"'s first strong must be employed, the dir attribute must be given an explicit "ltr" or "rtl" value, but bidirectional isolation is still equally important.
For both dir="auto" and <bdi>, bidirectional isolation is actually achieved via the new "isolate" value of the CSS property unicode-bidi. In other words, the exact and only difference between  and <bdi dir="..."> is that the former is by default assigned unicode-bidi:embed, while the latter gets unicode-bidi:isolate.
The Unicode technical committee is currently in the process of adding bidirectional isolates to Unicode 6.3, with new bidi classes that are the isolate equivalents of LRE, RLE, and PDF: namely LRI, RLI, and PDI. There is also FSI, "first strong isolate".
Do we still need non-isolate embeddings?
Over the past year it has become increasingly clear that if the concept of bidirectional isolation had been around and its benefits understood at the time that bidirectional embeddings were being worked into the Unicode standard back in 1999, bidirectional embeddings would have been defined with isolate semantics. LRE and RLE (and thus dir="ltr" and dir="rtl" on any inline element) would have been behaving as bidi isolates all along. This statement is not controversial. In fact, it is the current consensus.
The reason that embeddings were originally defined to have (basically) the same effect on the text surrounding them as that of strong characters is that, after all, they wrap strong text. But the only reason that strong characters have such a strong effect in the first place is to heuristically arrive at a reasonable implicit ordering for bidirectional text. These implicit heuristics are misplaced when the exact boundaries of directionality have been explicitly indicated. Thus, it makes perfect sense to make embeddings have the same effect on surrounding text as a neutral character.
Here are a couple of examples of edge cases where authors have put workarounds in place that try to make embedded text behave like isolated text. This bidi cruft only works given the old embed semantics.
Example 1
Let's take a real-life example. In an LTR UI, one data item is followed inline by another, and one or both of them can on occasion be RTL. Depending on the what's around them, it is often important to make sure that the first item remains to the left of the second, even if both are RTL. (For example, the two fields could be an email's subject and a "snippet" of its text; when a list of such lines is presented, it is better to have all the subjects on one side, even if some emails are LTR and some are RTL.) Well, one popular way of doing so is to wrap the separator between them (e.g. a dash) in a . Would applying isolation to this span break the page? It depends. If each of the two fields is itself wrapped in a , and isolation applies to those spans too, then the page will continue to work. But if neither field is inside an element with dir="rtl", then isolating the dash span will break the page.
Does that mean that we really need the old embed semantics for this page? No, the  around the dash is cruft. It doesn't even work unless one puts neutral characters (e.g. spaces) on both sides of the dash. And conceptually, the things that need some sort of bidirectional treatment are the RTL data items - not the innocent dash. The right way to do this page is to put each of the fields in a span declaring its direction, with no span around the dash. An LRM between the two fields - or isolation on their spans - will prevent them from "sticking" to each other, and they will come out in the desired order.
Example 2
In a converse example, also taken from a real web page, it is sometimes highly preferable that two fields like the ones above do "stick" to each other, i.e. that the first data item appear to the right of the second when both are RTL. (Why would it be preferred here when the exact opposite was important above? Because on this page, we do not have a whole list of such lines, so we want the first character of the subject at the start of the line, not somewhere in the middle, and the end of the subject to be followed by the start of the snippet, since the latter could easily be a continuation of the former.) In such cases, pages currently often simply do nothing special between the two data items (i.e. no LRM and no  around the separator). With current non-isolating embed behavior, even if each of the fields is wrapped in a separate dir="rtl" element, the two "stick" to each other and appear in the desired order. If isolation were to be applied to these elements, however, they would no longer stick, and the page would look broken. Does that mean that we really need the old embed semantics for this page? No, the right way to do this page is to explicitly make the two fields a single directional unit that, at least when they both have the same direction, flows in that direction. To achieve that, one simply puts the element of one of the fields inside the element of the other, e.g. subject snippet. This gives the intended display under both embed and isolate semantics.
Thus, while we do not really need the old embed semantics in new documents, and should deprecate their use, we can not substitute them with the new isolate semantics in existing documents without breaking them.
Internet Explorer behaviour
In Internet Explorer versions 7 and below, as well as in IE8 and above when working in quirks mode or IE7 mode, inline elements bearing the dir attribute affect the visual ordering of their surroundings just like a strong character of the element's directionality. Thus,

א ==> *

is displayed as
* <== א

* ==> ב

* ==> 123

is displayed as
123 <== *
This is because the RTL span forms a single RTL run with the RTL character before or it or the number or RTL character after it, even when separated from it by some neutrals.
Since this is usually the effect that directional embedding is supposed to have under the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (and since its exceptions, like empty embeddings and nested embeddings where the inner embedding is at the very beginning or at the very end of the outer embedding, are not commonly encountered), it is fair to say that IE7 closely approximates embedding semantics for the dir attribute on inline elements.
This is no longer true in IE8 and above (except, of course, when working in quirks mode or in IE7 mode). Here, an inline element bearing the dir attribute affects the visual ordering of its surroundings as if it were immediately preceded by an invisible character of the element's directionality, but immediately followed by an invisible character of the parent element's directionality. Thus,

א ==> *

is displayed as
* <== א
which is the same as IE7 and below, but

* ==> ב

* ==> 123

is displayed as
* ==> ב * ==> 123
which is the opposite ordering from IE7, and from all other major browsers.
This unusual approach cannot be said to approximate the standard embedding semantics. While it certainly is not isolation either, its effects are actually the same as isolation when both of the following conditions are satisfied:
- The dir attribute value assigned to the inline element is the opposite of its parent element's directionality.
- If the first strong character preceding an inline element with a dir attribute has the same directionality as that element, it too is inside an inline element with a dir attribute.
These conditions are actually more commonly satisfied than not, because:
- It is usually redundant to put a dir attribute on an element if its parent already has that directionality.
- If a software application creating a web page bothers to declare the directionality of one piece of opposite-direction text that it needs to display inline, it is likely to do the same for another.
Thus, once could say that under the most common circumstances, the behavior of IE8 and up is closer to isolation than to embedding. But even if that seems like a stretch, it is quite safe to say that currently there is a lack of interoperability in the behavior of the dir attribute between the current versions of IE and of the other major browsers (which continue to follow the current HTML specification and give the dir attribute embedding semantics).
Given that:
- The currently specified semantics of the dir attribute, embedding, are known to be inferior to (and are deprecated by Unicode in favor of) isolation, and
- There is already a lack of interoperability in dir attribute behavior between major browsers, and
- The behavior of one major browser is, under the most common citrcumstances, akin to isolation
then it seems like the best solution to the dir attribute semantics problem is to simply change the HTML specification for the dir attribute to use isolation instead of embedding.
In other words, the HTML default stylesheet specification for dir="ltr" and dir="rtl" should be changed to result in unicode-bidi:isolate (or, for , unicode-bidi:isolate-override), instead of unicode-bidi:embed (or, for , unicode-bidi:bidi-override).


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William Johnson and Clinton Dawson both from Plymouth, are charged with 216 felony counts of theft between them. Michael Hill of Windsor, Leon Davis of Dunn, and Timothy Hankins of Garner have 100 felony counts between them in the case.
During the nearly two-year investigation involving 19 eastern North Carolina counties, law enforcement agencies and the DMV, police say they discovered over $1-million in equipment was stolen. A little over half that in value has been recovered.
Thefts and recoveries in the case occurred in Chowan, Pitt, Martin, Washington, Beaufort, Greene, Craven, Brunswick, Wake, Harnett, Lenoir, Nash, Duplin and Wilson counties; recoveries of stolen equipment occurred as far away as Mecklenburg County.
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I often wonder: What drives people to do the things they do? I'm not sure there's usually an easy answer.
What motivates people, especially those who partake in what many might think of as something too dangerous, came to mind again when I read Olympic gold medal winner Lindsey Vonn seriously injured her knee a few days ago and might not be well enough to make the next Olympics.
Then, of course, there was the death of extreme sports snowmobiler Caleb Moore after he attempted a backflip in the freestyle event at Aspen's Winter X Games, the skis on his 450-pound snowmobile catching the lip of the landing area, sending him flying over the handlebars. Moore landed face first in the snow and his snowmobile rolled over him. He died a few days later at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction at the age of 25. It was the first death in the 18-year history of the X Games.
You might not know, but his brother, Colten, was injured in a separate crash at the X Games, too. He suffered a separated pelvis.
Now, athletes getting injured doing what their skills, desire and hard work drive them to do isn't new. I'd imagine one of the very first Olympic athletes
in ancient Greece pulled a hamstring
or two.
But, what pushes someone to barrel down a mountain on two pieces of wood (or plastic or whatever they make skis out of these days), or get on a 450-pound snowmobile and perform tricks and stunts on slick ski slopes?
Now, I don't mean to disparage Moore or any other young, talented skier or athlete at the X Games. They're certainly entitled to do what they want to do. What they do is usually pretty amazing. And I'd say most people would have no desire to do what they do. Again, I'm just asking: What drives people to do the things they do?
Competition is certainly part of it. The rewards that come with success. I get all that. But isn't there something more, some thrill or high that comes with risking life and limb? And why do these athletes still do it?
Another one: Mixed martial arts and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. That seems to me to be way too violent and harmful. Yet it's very popular, with a pay per view business similar to boxing and professional wrestling.
Confession: As a youngster, I followed boxing, back when Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and the like were beating each other up. That was before we knew how much damage getting hit in the head can cause. Although you'd think we would have at least had an inkling. But I never had an urge to get in the ring myself.
And look at the all the issues surrounding football and the damage those hard hits can, and have, caused players. It apparently drove Junior Seau and maybe some other former NFL players to take their own lives.
Yes, anyone who partakes in potentially harmful or dangerous activities likely realizes it. But that circles back again to my original question: What drives people to do the things they do? Especially when they know the risks?
In other fields, motivation doesn't usually lead to potential physical or mental harm, even death. OK, maybe it can in law enforcement or something like that. But when it comes to entertainment - and that's what all sports are - I ask one final time:
What's drives people to do the things they do?
Mike McKibbin is the editor of The Citizen Telegram.


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Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Jordan Eberle recorded a goal and two assists to
get the Edmonton Oilers back in the win column with a 4-1 victory over the
lowly Colorado Avalanche.
Justin Schultz added a goal and an assist for the Oilers, whose six-game slide
coming in had them on the cusp of being eliminated from playoff contention.
They still trail the Columbus Blue Jackets for the final playoff spot in the
Western Conference by eight points with five games to play.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Taylor Hall also found the back of the net, and Devan
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P.A. Parenteau accounted for Colorado's offense while Semyon Varlamov allowed
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SYRACUSE Up-and-comers in the Central New York music scene will compete for prizes as well as the coveted title of "Best Band" this weekend, and they'll support a good cause at the same time.
Battle of the Bands
The following musical acts will compete in Stand Against Suicide's Battle of the Bands starting at noon Saturday, April 20, at SRC Arena;
Stone Soul Foundation
Without Regret
Far From Over
Glass Skeleton Death March
Enemy Down
Second Dam
After the Clearing
The Gunrunners
Zen Kura
Weekend Crush
Civil Servants
Mike Brandisi & The New York Rock
Headliners are hip hop artists Lost Cause.
Stand Against Suicide will host its inaugural Battle of the Bands on Saturday, April 20, at the SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College. Doors open at 11 a.m. and bands begin competing at noon. Tickets are $7 for students and $12 for adults. Eighteen bands will compete for a chance at the title as well as prizes.
"The first place band wins $1000 cash. It is important to know that this money does not come from donors but from businesses that have chosen to sponsor our event," said SAS President Tara Dennee, who founded the Elbridge-based organization in 2011. "Kinney Drugs Foundation, J&B Installation, Biographix Tattoo Studio and Paul Landers are among the sponsors of this prize. Second place band will receive four hours of studio recording time from DRM Studios. Third place will receive a complete band photoshoot from Anderton Photography. Fourth place will receive a music video production by EM Video Productions. All of these prizes were also generously donated by our supporters."
Dennee, who lost her father to suicide in 2008, founded SAS to raise awareness about the risks of mental illness and to encourage those in need to get help. The organization offers peer-based support groups every Tuesday for those suffering from suicide-related loss and mental illness, as well as memory baskets to families who've lost a loved one to suicide. SAS also distributes awareness literature and materials and hosts a website, standagainstsuicide.org. Events like the Battle of the Bands provide a unique opportunity to spread the organization's message.
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The following is a list of missions in Grand Theft Auto London 1969
Chapter 1 - Boys will be Thieves
In this chapter, the player has only one mission to complete. The mission starts in North Chelsea. The protagonist needs to follow the arrow until he gets to the phone in North East Chelsea an answer it. The protagonist gets some instructions to pick up a mod scooter in East Chelsea for The Crisp Twins's old dear. After the protagonist gets the scooter, he will also get some police atention. After that, the protagonist has to get the scooter to Harold Cartwright's place in Southeast Mile End. After the mission is complete,Harold will have a word with the protagonist, and the first chapter is complete.
Chapter 2 - Mods and Sods
In this chapter, most missions are against the Mods gang who are irritating the Crisps.
- Phone 1 (from East to West)
The protagonist gets instructions to pick up a car in East Camberwell. After that, he drives the car in Northeast Bow and kill the Noles brothers who are in a deal. Then, the
protagonist goes to Central Camden Town to keep a low profile and the job is complete.
- Phone 2
After the protagonist answers the phone, he gets instructions to pick up a rocket launcher from the Central Brixton way district. When he picks up the weapon, the next objective is to destroy the Ranger's football coach (bus). After the coach is destroyed, the team needs to take taxis for transportation, so that means that the protagonist need to take one from Southeast Camberwell and give two football players a ride. They need to be taken to Ray's Auto Garage in West Brixton. After the protagonist gets them there, the mission is over.
- Phone 3
Harold's boys have arranged a deal with the Mods. The protagonist needs to go to their club in East Chelsea and meet them. Once there, there is a guy that won't talk until the protagonist gives him a punch. He says that the Mods are on the roof of a building in Southwest Westminster and they are expecting a delivery. The protagonist drives there, picks up a flamethrower and kills them. After that, he takes a bike and jumps from roof to roof and then, he takes the bike to a garage in Northeast Westminster. He drives the bike in the garage and the job is complete.
- Phone 4
The protagonist is told to go to Northwest Bow to find his contact, Keith. Keith tells the protagonist to pick up a car in Northwest Angel and to find Chalkie to tell him where are the drugs. After a good slappin' Chalkie tells the protagonist where are the drugs, but after he makes the pick-up he needs to go back and murder Chalkie. Then, the protagonist goes to West Soho and plant some explosives next to a building. After the building blows up, the mission is complete.


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I'm from Tucson but as my user name denotes I spend a lot of time in Alpine. I like hand guns and hunting elk. My most recent carry gun is a HK V53P. I used to race horses and have spent many years on the race track.
Welcome from a guy who splits his time between Ohio and Arizona.
Welcome to the site!
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Bryce Dawkins is the Deputy Mayor of Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV. He is frequently mentioned in the game and contributes to the plot, but is not seen in person (although billboards feature his face and look-alike pedestrians can be spotted).
Public Image
Dawkins is a right-wing politician infamous for anti-gay legislation and family values views. He is often criticized for homophobic comments that he makes; one of which suggested a link between homosexuality and terrorism, which he later apologized for saying "Some of my best friends are gay, I just don't want to know about it". Dawkins also endorsed the misogynistic children's toy Gender Role Doll, saying it is a very important tool for suppresing homosexual feelings and supporting family values.
He lives with his wife and children in a Westdyke, Alderney mansion (strange as he is a politician of a different state). He also owns a Tropic, Infernus (later given to Niko Bellic) and Turismo (stolen by Niko on orders of Stevie), suggesting he was a wealthy stockbroker prior to his political career.
Gay Sex Scandal
In reality he is a closeted homosexual in a relationship with Bernie Crane, who he first met at a foam party at the Tony Prince-owned gay club Hercules while Bernie was high on ectasy. Bryce is blackmailed at least twice: once by Russian mobster Dimitri Rascalov for control of certain unions, and again by Thomas Stubbs III for an unspecified legislative goal. Bernie recruits the help of his old army friend Niko Bellic to threaten Dimitri away, who was coincidentally a prior mortal enemy of Niko's. After the threat is removed, Bernie rewards Niko with an Infernus, originally a gift from Bryce to Bernie.
At the end of the game, Dawkins' affair is leaked to the public by Thomas Stubbs III (who obtained information and proof of Bryce's escapades through a bug that he had paid Johnny Klebitz to put in Bryce's Infernus). Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bryce insists he is not gay and his gifts to Bernie were only out of charity and platonic friendship. He does, however, admit to personal failures and enters a rehab clinic which is strongly rumored to treat sexual addictions. Although it is not made clear, the possibility is presented that Bryce may have had other boyfriends.
Dawkins is a parody of Bruce Barclay who was involved in a gay sex scandal, at least 15 of which are listed here. The most recent incedents at the time the game was developed involved Bob Allen, Larry Craig and Richard Curtis among others. Dawkins may be a member of the ultra-conservative Constitution Party, the largest third-party in the United States, which supports family values, and strongly decry homosexuality.
- Although he is the Deputy Mayor of Liberty City, he lives on Owl Creek Avenue in Westdyke, Alderney - a completely different state, as revealed in The Lost and Damned, when his Infernus is stolen by Johnny Klebitz to have the car bugged on orders from Congressman Tom Stubbs III.
- A popular fan theory is that there is a link between Bryce Dawkins and Bryce Montrose, a character in Rockstar Vancouver's game Bully.
- Despite him being deputy mayor he still uses sites like Love-Meet.net. He uses the name Troy Harder or could be another person with the same character model.
- When questioned about his sexuality on Weasel News (TLAD), he states "I have sex with my wife all the time! She loves it in the fartbox". His wife is on later, stating "I wish he would put it somewhere else", implying he only performs anal sex with his wife.
- It is unknown why Bryce was at the foam party where he met Bernie, because if he was seen, it could have spread more rumors about him being homosexual. However, the party may have occured before he was Deputy Mayor.


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OKLAHOMA - A local Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop will be conducting Crash reduction operations through February.
The enforcement started Tuesday morning and will last through 5pm everyday in February.
Troop F along with OHP aircraft are focused on I-35 and county roads southwest of Pauls Valley.
The same operation will take place between Pontotoc and Garvin Counties.
The effort will continue statewide and is focused on reducing fatal accidents.
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