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The formula is 2*3.14+2*3.14?
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Height, Radius, Area, Integer;
Writeln ("Enter height to calculate");
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Writeln ("Enter Radius to calculate");
Readln (Radius);
Writeln ("Display the result of Area");
Area=2*3.14 (r * r) + 2*3.14 * r * h;
Writeln Area;
What are the rules you have to follow to introduce a variable to a program?
First you have to identify the data types and the size of the variable your going to use.
You have to introduce (declare) these are the variable you are going to use.
The section of the declaration area. This declaration must directly after the program heading and is marked by the VAR Keyboard.
The variable name are maximum of 32 alphanumeric characters. First letter of the data name must be alphabetic.
We cannot use scientific symbols, keywords, space for variety declaration.
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Uses wincrt- is to indicate that windows environment is used in your program.
Begin- Defines the starting point of the program.
Cirsir- is to dear the console screen.
End- This must always be the final statement of a Pascal program.
Output– the keywords write and writeln are used to display outputs.
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Here's why these songs should be in your collection!
Serious music fans and collectors know that Pharrell Williams is only the latest musical artist to have a hit song called "Happy." And they know he is in good company. Dozens of songs have the word "happy" in their title. Several hits with that one-word title come from the R&B genre. Generally, each one is different. Here are some examples.
In 1969 William Bell released "Happy" as a single from his album Bound To Happen. It became one of his greatest hits on the Stax label.
In 1975, "Happy" became the title of a hit single from The Hit Man, the sixth solo album by former Temptations member Eddie Kendricks on the Motown/Tamla label. R&B fans enjoyed both the album version and the 45rpm single.
In 1987, Bernard Jackson, David Conley, and David Townsend took "You Make Me Happy," a song they had written in 1984 for Hi Tension, a British funk band, and rerecorded it as a band called Surface. "Happy" soared to #2 on R&B charts with album and single versions.
These songs are available on various albums in CD and MP3 format from major vendors. Please consider purchasing them from a local independent record store.
Here's an interesting fact!
"Happy" is also the title of songs by Michael Henderson, Leona Lewis, and The Rolling Stones. Ironically, Pharrell Williams was not the first artist to record his version of the song; he originally presented it to Cee Lo Green.

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Most of our New Year's resolutions center on creating a stress-free lifestyle and environment for ourselves. For most marijuana growers, this is easier said than done. But one sure fact of life for every cultivator is that when our plants are down, so are we.
So here is a short list of the top 5 plant stresses to keep an eye out for in 2014. Remember, less stress on plants means less stress on you.
1. Water Stress:
This plant stress is the easiest to prevent and occurs when plants get either too much water or too little. Both instances cause a build up of abscisic acid, which close stomata, and inhibit respiration and photosynthetic processes. Make sure that grow mediums have a chance to dry out between water cycles so that air can permeate the root zone.
2. pH Stress:
The pH balancing of nutrient solutions is a hard trick to master, because the levels are fluctuating constantly. Wide variances in both the plants' water and feeding solutions can reduce the nutrient uptake and cause deficiencies. An inexpensive pH meter can go a long way in preventing pH headaches.
3. Irregular Light Cycles:
Inconsistent light cycles create hormonal imbalance: plants naturally use the duration of light cycles to trigger points in development. Of course, the most obvious light cycle trigger in cannabis is the transformation from vegetating to flowering plant. Erratic changes will confuse and stress a plant, and may even cause them to hermaphrodite (produce seeded buds).
4. Nutrient/Mineral Stress:
Plants absorb minerals from the nutrient solution we provide. When there is an imbalance in the nutrients, there is also an imbalance of minerals within the plants' tissues. This slows growth and creates deficiencies that lead to disease and pest infestations. These stresses may be ongoing without being visibly noticeable until the problem is too far gone to correct. Remember to always start out with less and add more as needed.
5. Plant/ Root Damage:
Physical damage to a plant can be a stressful situation to both the plant and grower. Physical damage causes a change plant chemistry and biological processes as the plant works to repair itself. This means less energy for more important aspects of development such as bud and trichome production (i.e., yield and potency). And as far as roots go, roots do not repair, rebuild or regenerate damaged shoots, so every tiny root lost means less uptake until a new root tip can grow.
If any of you have seen my instructional grow DVD entitled Nico Escondido's Grow Like A Pro, then you may have noticed I was less-than-delicate while handling some plants during a transplanting segment (this was an unfortunate byproduct of a very rushed filming segment). My apologies to those lovely ladies in NorCal that were mistreated that day, but in earnest, plants -- and roots especially -- require very delicate handling and in return, they just may pack a punch!
Happy New Year to all and until next time amigos!


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According to recent reports coming from IGN, Final Fantasy XIV will support remote play on the Playstation 4 console which has been a topic of discussion as of recently on social networks. Originally back in February Sony revealed that the remote play functionality would be available from day one; whether that is still the case remains to be seen. Earlier this week, Square Enix announced that early Final Fantasy XIV players will receive compensation for their horrendous server troubles, and this remote play news could be an excellent thing for next-gen console players. Square Enix Origin has more from game director Naoki Yoshida.
Final Fantasy XIV Will Support Remote Play On PS4
Final Fantasy XIV Game director Naoki Yoshida thinks players will want to experience dungeons and raids on the big screen explaining,
"But like, when you're all, 'let's form a party and go to a dungeon!,' then you go sit in front of your monitor and enjoy playing that on a big screen. In that regard, you can choose your play style.
"Depending on whether you feel like playing at a certain time or on a certain day, you can select between relaxing play or giving it your all. I think expanding those options is itself something new."
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Let $k$ be a field, $R=k[X,Y]$ and $I=(X,Y)$, so that $R/I\simeq k$. I proved, using a projective resolution of $k$, that $\text{Tor}^R_2(k,k)= k$. I also proved that in general $$ \text{Tor}^A_2(A/I,A/J)=\ker(I\otimes_AJ\to IJ) $$ where $I,J$ are ideals in a commutative ring $A$. When trying to see this by computing $\ker(I\otimes_AJ\to IJ)$ for $A=R$ and $I=J=(X,Y)$, though, I get to an impasse.
Since $X,Y$ generate $I$, then $\{X\otimes X,X\otimes Y,Y\otimes X,Y\otimes Y\}$ is a system of generators of $I\otimes_R I$. In particular $\alpha=X\otimes Y - Y\otimes X \in \ker(I\otimes_RI\to I^2)$ since $\alpha \mapsto XY-YX=0$. But then $\forall f\in R$ we have $I\otimes_R I \ni f\alpha \mapsto f\cdot(XY-YX)=0$, so $R\alpha\subseteq\ker(I\otimes_RI\to I^2)$. What am I missing here?
Edit: @GeorgesElencwajg cleared my doubt, though I still don't see how to prove that $\ker(I\otimes_RI\to I^2) = k$ without using homological algebra.


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Jason Borrelli enters his fifth season as Stanford's head coach in 2012-13, looking to build on last season's success and accomplishments. In his first four years, the Cardinal was 36-37-3 in dual meets and has had five wrestlers qualify for the NCAA Championships a total of 12 times.
Last season, Stanford recorded an 8-8 dual record and a third-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships in Boise, Idaho, which marked the highest team placing since the 2007-08 campaign. Despite just sending two wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo., the Cardinal turned in the third-highest finish (16th) in school history. Under the guidance of Borrelli, senior Nick Amuchastegui became the first Stanford wrestler to reach the NCAA Finals on multiple occasions and just the second to garner three All-America honors, while junior Ryan Mango earned his second career All-America accolades.
In 2010-11, Stanford prodeced arguably the most successful season in program history. After registering a 9-9-1 dual meet record, Stanford finished fourth at the Pac-10 Championships and sent four wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in Philadelphia, Pa. Junior Nick Amuchastegui finished as the national runner-up at 174 pounds and garnered his second career All-America honors. Senior Zack Giesen (197 pounds) and sophomore Ryan Mango (125 pounds) both placed sixth in their respecitve weight classes to secure their first All-America honors. The team finished a program-best 11th (44.0 points) at the championships and produced three All-Americans in the same season for the first time in school history.
In 2009-10, the Cardinal posted a 11-7-1 dual meet record and sent four wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Neb. Highlighting the group for Borrelli was 165-pounder Nick Amuchastegui. After capturing his first Pac-10 title in Davis, Calif., the sophomore placed fourth at the NCAA Championship and garnered his first All-America honors. His fourth-place finish marked the highest finish by a Cardinal wrestler since 2004.
In 2008-09, Borrelli led the Cardinal to eight dual wins, had four top-three Pac-10 placers for the first time in more than two decades and sent two wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in St. Louis.
A former Central Michigan standout, Borrelli came to The Farm as an assistant coach in 2007 and quickly helped guide the Cardinal to one of its most successful seasons in school history. Working with the lower weights, Borrelli helped the Cardinal win 13 duals, post its highest Pac-10 finish in school history, its second-highest national finish and send a program-best five wrestlers to the NCAA Championships. Under Borrelli's guidance, 125-pounder Tanner Gardner captured his second consecutive Pac-10 title, became the school's first three-time All-American with a fifth-place national finish and broke both Stanford's career and single-season win records. Another lightweight, freshman Lucas Espericueta, qualified for the NCAA Championships and finished his rookie season as one of the five winningest freshmen in school history.
As a team, Borrelli and the staff led Stanford to a 19th-place finish nationally, matching the program's second-highest finish in school history and just its third all-time top-20 finish. Owning two of the conference's four All-Americans, the Cardinal's 19th place finish was the best in the Pac-10.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Borrelli served as an assistant coach at Central Michigan and ran a youth wrestling club. In his first year on the staff, he helped the Chippewas to their ninth consecutive Mid-American Conference Championship. The squad finished the season ranked fifth in the final dual meet rankings and finished 15th at the NCAA Championships in Detroit, Mich. Borrelli also helped guide three CMU wrestlers to All- America honors during the 2006-07 season.
A Mt. Pleasant, Mich. native, Borrelli was a two-time Michigan State Champion in high school before beginning his career at Central Michigan in 2001. A four-year starter at 125 and 133 pounds, he was part of five consecutive team Mid-American Conference (MAC) championships. As a junior in 2005, he captured the 133-pound MAC title. Borrelli qualified for the NCAA Championships at 133 pounds twice, in 2005 and 2006, and captained the Chippewa team as a senior. A four-year NWCA All-Academic selection, Borrelli graduated from Central Michigan in December 2005 with a degree in business administration.
Borrelli and his wife Jenna were married in July 2009 and reside in Palo Alto.


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NIU-EMU Notes
Game 13 - vs Eastern Michigan (DeKalb, Ill.)
Saturday, January 12 (1 p.m.)Live Stats: NIUHuskies.com
Radio: WLBK 98.9 FM, 1360 AM (12:45 p.m. pregame); NIUTubePlay-by-Play: Andy Garcia; Ethel Gregory
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BACK HOME FACING THE WESTAfter hitting the road for a single MAC West showdown at Toledo, Northern Illinois returns home to the Convocation Center once more to take on Eastern Michigan Sunday January 12. Tipoff will begin at 1 p.m.FOLLOW THE HUSKIES ALL SEASON LONGNorthern Illinois women's basketball can be followed in a myriad of ways throughout the season. Audio of all of NIU's games will be available for fans to listen to live and on on-demand (subscription required). Play-by-play man Andy Garcia, now in his third year, will be on the call for all of NIU's games this season and is joined by former Huskie assistant coach Ethel Gregory during home games. Fans can also follow the team on Facebook and Twitter. Like "NIU Huskies" on Facebook and follow @GoHuskiesWBB and @NIUathletics on Twitter. Gameday updates and scores from all women's basketball games can be followed on Twitter @NIUscores.FREE PARKING FOR ALL HOME BASKETBALL GAMESThe NIU Convocation Center will offer free parking for all basketball home games this season. Fans are asked to park in the C-2 and C-3 parking lots. For more details on other changes to gameday and to view a detailed parking map of the area, visit NIUHuskies.com.THE HUSKIES AND THE EAGLESNIU trails the all-time series with EMU, 30-9. The series has predominantly been played in the regular season, having met only once in the Mid-American Conference Tournament (2000). The Eagles have taken the last nine games in the series with NIU last winning January 17, 2009 at the NIU Convocation Center, 69-62. The Huskies fell by only five points in last year's first meeting in Ypsilanti as Satavia Taylor scored 23 points.LAST TIME OUTThe Huskies went to Toledo, hoping to improve to 2-0 in the MAC for the first time since 2001. After taking an early 6-5 lead, Toledo went on a 14-0 run and controlled the half with its 17-of-30 shooting (.567). Northern Illinois ended the period with momentum as it stopped the Rockets on five-straight possessions to end the half, trailing 40-26.NIU started with that same momentum, getting another three stops to start the half. As the two teams traded baskets for most of the half, with the Huskies trailing by 17 points, a sea change occurred in the final 9:21 of the game as Alexis Lindstrom hit a three 20 seconds later to spark a 22-10 run for Northern Illinois.Natecia Augusta, Amanda Corral, Ally Lehman and Danny Pulliam led the charge for NIU as the quartet combined for 56 points. Corral led all scorers with 20 points. With 38.1 second left, Toledo wound down the clock with a two point lead, trying to put the game out of reach with only seconds left. The Rockets failed to convert a layup and the Huskies pushed down the floor to force overtime. Pulliam took the ball on the drive and put a layup off the glass, that rolled off the rim at the buzzer and left the Huskies two points shy, 73-71Pulliam scored 13 points and dished seven assists with zero turnovers in the game. Augusta also scored 13 points and Lehman rounded out with 10 points.SCOUTING THE EAGLES Through 13 games this season, Eastern Michigan is 11-2 overall and 1-1 in the MAC. The Eagles have three wins over non-Division I opponents this season and have won in spurts with streaks of six and five wins. After winning its MAC opener at Kent State, 88-70, EMU lost at Ball State last Thursday, 70-66. Eastern Michigan is averaging 84.9 points per game this season, the top-mark in the conference this season.On November 30, the Eagles scored a season-high 120 points versus Marygrove, defeating the Mustangs, 120-35. It was the second of three occasions Eastern Michigan surpassed the century mark. EMU last did so December 15 at Detroit as they defeated the Titans, 104-96.Janay Morton leads the Eagles in scoring with 13.9 points per game this season, but only narrowly, as Cha Sweeney is averaging 13.8 points. Olivia Fourty is nearly posting a double double a game as she is averaging clips of 12.8 points and 9.2 rebounds per game. Desyree Thomas has been solid from the point as she's scoring at a rate of 12.9 per game and dishing 5.1 assists per outing.LEHMAN DOING HER THINGFreshman Ally Lehman has been in a spectacular run of form the last three games, each of which has led to a double-digit scoring effort. In the last three games, Lehman is shooting a team-high .714 from the field and averaging 10.3 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. Versus UIC, Lehman was 5-for-7 from the field and scored 10 points. She followed up against Ohio in the conference opener and one upped her performance against the Flames, scoring a career-high 11 points and grabbing 10 rebounds on the defensive glass for her first career double-double. She added 10 points against Toledo January 9.ARE YOU IN GOOD HANDS?With the return of Danny Pulliam this season, the Northern Illinois point guard position is well taken care of. Through 12 games, Pulliam leads the Huskies with 43 assists, an average of 3.6 per game, with only 17 turnovers, an average of 1.4. At Toledo on Thursday, the redshirt junior had a season-high seven assists with zero turnovers and 13 points. As a freshman versus Western Michigan in 2011, Pulliam had a career-high eight assists but had three turnovers and was 0-for-8 from the field.SHARING IS CARINGIn its last three games, Northern Illinois has been spreading the wealth offensively, averaging 15.7 assists per game. Against UIC, the Huskies dished out a season-high 18 assists on 23 field goals. In the MAC opener versus Ohio, NIU dished 15 assists on 26 field goals, aiding in the Huskies 74-51 victory. Last time out, the Huskies distributed 14 on 28 baskets, marking the third time NIU has recorded assists on at least 50 percent of its baskets.CORRAL ROLLING ON 20'SAfter her 20 point performance at Toledo January 9, Amanda Corral surpassed the 20 point mark for the fourth-time in her NIU career. It was the second-time this season she accomplished the feat, after scoring a career-high 26 points versus Lamar on November 30 at the Aggie Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic at New Mexico State.SECOND HALF SHOOTING AND SECOND HALF DEFENSEIn the last three games Northern Illinois has executed offensively and defensively. In that time frame, NIU has shot 42-of-78 (.538) from the field and limited its opponents, UIC, Ohio and Toledo, to 19-of-70 (.271) from the field.WHERE THEY RANKBoth Amanda Corral and Danny Pulliam are ranked in the top-250 in the NCAA in their own statistical categories. Corral is 167th in the country in field goal percentage, an impressive feat for a guard, with a clip of .446. Pulliam is 27th in assist/turnover ratio at 2.53 and 228th in assists per game at 3.6 per game. For a complete ranking of the Huskies statistically in the MAC and the NCAA, turn to page nine of the notes.KNOCKING THEM DOWNIn their last three games, the Huskies have hit 104-of-219 shots taken, for a field goal percentage of .475 in that time. NIU's lowest clip was a .426 performance against Illinois-Chicago on New Year's Eve. However, the Huskies are 1-3 in their last four games.PULLIAM APARTPlaying an inspiring brand of basketball, Danny Pulliam has been one of the Huskies top-scorers in the last four games, averaging 13.3 points per contest, just behind Amanda Corral's 14.0. Pulliam scored 13 points with seven assists and zero turnovers at Toledo and led NIU across the board versus Ohio with a career-high 17 points, four assists, seven rebounds, zero turnovers and a steal. The Indianapolis, Ind. native scored 12 points against UNI and another 11 versus UIC. In the last three games, she's also averaging 5.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists per contest. Pulliam is averaging 10.0 points and 3.6 assists per game through 12 appearances.THE LAST CHANCEWhile missing the last shot can always be a heartbreaker, like the Huskies did January 9 at Toledo, getting the last shot off is not always a guarantee. In last year's home game with Toledo on January 26, 2013, trailing 44-42, the Huskies were unable to put up a last second shot and ended the game with possession, stalled by the Rockets defense.THE EXTRA NINE PERCENTIn the last four games, the Huskies are shooting nine percent better than its opponents. Northern Illinois has made more baskets, shooting 104-of-219 at a clip of .475, while opponents are shooting 79-of-206 (.383).NEXT UP
The Huskies will be back on the road for two straight games, as it heads to Central Michigan Wednesday, January 15, then comes back home and heads back on the road for a trip at Miami on January 18. Tipoff with the Chippewas will begin at 6 p.m.


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Sarkaria, J N; Kitange, G J; James, C D; Plummer, R; Calvert, H; Weller, M; Wick, W (2008). Mechanisms of chemoresistance to alkylating agents in malignant glioma. Clinical Cancer Research, 14(10):2900-2908.
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Intrinsic or acquired chemoresistance to alkylating agents is a major cause of treatment failure in patients with malignant brain tumors. Alkylating agents, the mainstay of treatment for brain tumors, damage the DNA and induce apoptosis, but the cytotoxic activity of these agents is dependent on DNA repair pathways. For example, O6-methylguanine DNA adducts can cause double-strand breaks, but this is dependent on a functional mismatch repair pathway. Thus, tumor cell lines deficient in mismatch repair are resistant to alkylating agents. Perhaps the most important mechanism of resistance to alkylating agents is the DNA repair enzyme O6-methylguanine methyltransferase, which can eliminate the cytotoxic O6-methylguanine DNA adduct before it causes harm. Another mechanism of resistance to alkylating agents is the base excision repair (BER) pathway. Consequently, efforts are ongoing to develop effective inhibitors of BER. Poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase plays a pivotal role in BER and is an important therapeutic target. Developing effective strategies to overcome chemoresistance requires the identification of reliable preclinical models that recapitulate human disease and which can be used to facilitate drug development. This article describes the diverse mechanisms of chemoresistance operating in malignant glioma and efforts to develop reliable preclinical models and novel pharmacologic approaches to overcome resistance to alkylating agents.
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Ask Bill Roberts: MMA fighter Chael Sonnen failed two anti-doping tests which revealed that he used exogenous testosterone. At his recent hearing, his defense was that he was on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). My question is, how would TRT effect the T/E ratio? Does exogenous testosterone also shutdown epitestosterone production creating a scenario where someone can have a high ratio due to exogenous test, and suppressed epitestosterone production, while sill having "normal" testosterone levels? [Read more…]
Testosterone Replacement Therapy and Anti-Doping Tests
Canadian Football League – Summer Camp for Violators of NFL Steroid Policy
The Canadian Football League (CFL) is the only professional sporting league in North America that has not yet implemented steroid testing for its football players. Former WADA chief Dick Pound had previously called the CFL a "summer camp" for NFL players suspended for violations of the NFL policy on anabolic steroids and related substances [Read more…]
Nanotechnology HGH Urine Testing at 2008 Growth Hormone Summit
The 2008 Growth Hormone Summit was held by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in conjunction with Major League Baseball (MLB) and the law firm of Foley and Lardner at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California on November 10, 2008. Dr. Gary Green, professor of family medicine at the UCLA medical school, chaired the conference of leading anti-doping experts and scholars. "Growth Hormone: Barriers to Implementation of hGH in Sports" addressed several scientific, legal and ethical issues involving testing athletes for human growth hormone ("Landmark conference to look at use of human growth hormone by athletes," October 22). [Read more…]
WADA Funds False Consensus Effect Study to Catch Dopers
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) spends considerable money funding research aimed at catching athletes who use prohibited performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). WADA has always been on the losing end of an ongoing cat-and-mouse game. Anti-doping agencies are faced with several emerging doping methods such as synthetic blood doping, gene doping and designer steroids created via dynamic combinatorial chemistry (DCC).
A recently published study in the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology suggests that WADA has opened the door to social analysis and psychological profiling to catch steroids users and users of other banned substances. The WADA-funded researchers hope to establish a reliable indicator of self-reported use of performance-enhancing drugs.
The proposed anti-doping tool would ask the athlete various questions about their own self-reported doping, hypothetical doping scenarios, and the doping behavior of other athletes. If the athlete's responses to the questionnaire fit the psychological profile of a doper, then this might represent evidence that athlete is doping even if the athlete does not admit to doping! The research is based on the False Consensus Effect from social psychology research.
Infinite Number of Undetectable Designer Steroids with Combinatorial Chemistry
Researcher Jason Thomas, a graduate student in the doctoral program for synthetic organic chemistry at City University in New York, takes us inside the mind of a designer steroid chemist in an interview with Culturekiosque. Thomas describes a powerful tool that has the potential to create an infinite number of undetectable, designer anabolic steroids.
Once steroid designers specify the essential features and desired biological activity for steroid drug design, hundreds of novel designer steroids could be synthesized or simulated through Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry (DCC) [Read more…]
Organized Doping in Greece Involving Anabolic Steroid Methyltrienolone
The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) president believes organized doping is behind the fifteen Greek athletes who have failed anti-doping tests before and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Former 400-meter hurdles champion Fani Halkia, swimmer Ioannis Drymonakos, 400-meter runner Dimitrios Regas, sprinter Tassos Gousis and eleven unidentified Greek weightlifters all tested positive for the same prohibited anabolic steroid – methyltrienolone ("HOC president: Greek sports face organized doping," August 18). [Read more…]
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Dara Torres Takes Moral High Ground Despite Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs
Swimmer Dara Torres is an extraordinary athlete. The possibility that a 41-year old mother can compete alongside the best elite swimmers in the world with a legitimate chance at winning a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics is nothing short of phenomenal. There is nothing – no news or revelation – that could diminish her achievements in my eyes.
Having said that, I am disappointed to see Dara Torres publicly assert her moral superiority over other athletes who use performance enhancing drugs. Torres comes across as disingenous if not hypocritical when she decries the lack of a conscience in other competitors who use performance enhancing drugs.
Cyclist Marta Bastianelli Uses Benfluorex Unaware of Similarities to Banned Substance
Italian cyclist Marta Bastianelli tested positive for a banned stimulant. She tested positive for the diet drug fenfluramine in a doping control conducted by the International Cycling Union (UCI) at the "Under-23 World Championships" in Verbania, Italy on July 5, 2008.
Bastianelli claims she never knowingly ingested a banned substance. She admitted to her obsession with weight control stating "I wanted to lose weight, like any girl." She consulted with her doctor to find weight loss products that were not on the WADA banned substance list. Her doctor prescribed the drug Benfluorex. Benfluorex is an anti-diabetic drug that improves insulin sensitivity and glycemic control; as such it is often prescribed for weight loss. Benfluorex is not on the WADA banned substance list but it is structurally similar to Fenfluramine (which is listed) [Read more…]


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Sebastian Giniaux: Viper's Dream
Viper's Dream
Sebastian Giniaux (guitar)
Selmer #607 (LDC Studio)
Sebastian Giniaux (guitar),
Guillame Singer (violin), Ghali Hadefi (guitar), Jérémie Arranger (bass).
Composed by Fletcher Allen.
Recorded: Montreuil, France, January 2008
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
The term "viper" is 1930s slang for one who habitually partakes of marijuana. By most accounts the author of this piece, Fletcher Allen, was an enthusiastic viper. Since Django Reinhardt recorded this quirky number in 1937, it has been a staple of the jazz Manouche repertoire, covered by Stochelo Rosenberg, Bireli Lagrene and many others.
Sebastian Giniaux, one of the five extraordinary guitarists invited to play the venerated Selmer 607, had his musical beginnings on the violin at age 6, not picking up the guitar until 19, when he became enthralled with Gypsy jazz. On this track the fruits of his efforts are abundantly clear. His guitar work manifests the confidence of one born to play the instrument, and is yet one more reason the Selmer #607 album is a must-have for any jazz guitar enthusiast's collection.
Sebastian's "Viper's Dream" is a marked departure from the typical arrangement. Starting with the tune's standard intro and head played in a relaxed, confident strut, the ensemble makes a sudden transition into a frantic, up-tempo 2/4 solo section, a runaway caravan on a rollercoaster descent into madness. Over this furious vamp, Giniaux roams free, throwing nearly everything from his extensive vodjangulary into the mix but the proverbial kitchen sink. Insane? Over the top? Sure, but why not? This is, after all, the 21st century – with a world on the brink, even our vipers have reason to panic.
Reviewer: Bill Barnes
Tags: 2000s jazz · france · guitar
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Richard Emanuel Quinn Jr.
Position: TE
Height: 6-3 Weight: 260 lbs.
Born: September 6, 1986 in Huntsville, AL
High School: Maple Heights
College: North Carolina (school history) (Quinn college stats)
Drafted by the Denver Broncos in the 2nd round (64th overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
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Nov. 2, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Three Bruin men's tennis players were in action on Wednesday, as qualifying for the 55th Southern California Intercollegiate Championships got underway at UCLA's Los Angeles Tennis Center.
After receiving a bye in the first round of qualifying, newcomer Michael Hui needed to win just one match to earn a spot in Thursday's main draw. He did just that, defeating Concordia's Ryan McNamara, 6-3, 6-0. Hui's opponent in the main draw has not yet been decided.
Junior Evan Lee and freshman Maik Ulrich came up just short in their bids to qualify on Wednesday. After winning the first set in a tiebreaker against BYU's David Doehring, Lee unfortunately wasn't able to hold on, as Doehring battled back for a 6-7(5), 6-4, (10-6) opening-round victory. Ulrich, who advanced to the second round when his opponent, Daniel Moss of Pepperdine, withdrew with an injury, suffered a 6-1, 2-6, (10-3) loss to San Diego's Garrett Taylor.
In addition to Hui, UCLA's Dennis Mkrtchian, Warren Hardie, Alex Brigham and Clay Thompson will all be in action on Thursday.
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Ragnar Bohlin, Director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this season, has now founded a professional chamber choir of 24 singers. Bohlin has long had an interest in a cappella music; and this new ensemble, called Cappella SF, will provide him with an opportunity for the ongoing investigation of a repertoire he has described as "transformative and magical." To this one should also add the observation that the repertoire continues to grow at a healthy pace, allowing the debut concert of Cappella SF to include a world premiere, "A Spiritual for peace" by the Swedish composer Fredrik Sixten. Other contemporary composers to be included on the program will be Eric Whitacre ("Leonardo dreams of his flying machine"), David Conte ("O Sun"), Anders Hilborg ("Mouyayuom"), and Mason Bates, whose 2008 "Book of Matthew" was premiered by Chanticleer.
The program will begin with one of the earliest secular part-songs of the Renaissance, "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen," by the Dutch composer Heinrich Isaac. This will be sung in Isaac's original setting, followed by variations by Michael Praetorius and Johann Sebastian Bach, who appropriated it for his BWV 97 cantata, In allen meinen Taten (in all my deeds). The nineteenth century will be represented by "Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?" (why is light given to the weary), the first of Johannes Brahms' two Opus 74 motets, which features a six-voice fugue on a text from the book of Job.
Cappella SF will make its debut on Saturday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. The venue will be St. Mary's Cathedral at 1111 Gough Street, just below the intersection with Geary Boulevard. All tickets will be $35. They may be purchased online through a Web page managed by Eventbrite. A festive reception will follow the performance.


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Player of the Day: William Keeton
by Stuart Vose
Inside-right a true multi-sport star.
Thirties inside-right William Keeton was notable for making appearances at professional level across two sports - football and cricket.
Born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, he joined Sunderland from Grantham Town in October 1930, making his debut against Arsenal at Highbury the following January.
He made a total of 11 appearances for the Lads before moving on to Nottingham Forest for a fee of £450 in September 1932.
However, football was but one of William's sporting loves - he was a superb right-handed opening batsman and had made his first appearance at county level for Nottinghamshire in 1926.
Having exited professional football in 1933, Keeton made rapid progress in the cricketing world despite being injured when knocked down by a lorry in 1935.
He would play cricket until 1952, playing in two Tests for England and hitting 54 centuries at county level while reaching the 1,000-run mark in 12 seperate seasons.
Perhaps his most notable performance was 312 not out during a match against Middlesex in 1939.
After retiring he ran a sports shop and later worked for the National Coal Board.


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Lecane Rotifer
Presented below is a photomicrograph of a loricate rotifer belonging to the Lecane genus. This digital image was captured with the DXM 1200 ACT-1 control software in single-image acquisition mode utilizing DIC illumination.
Rotifers of this genus are mostly loricate (having shells) and live in littoral areas of freshwater bodies. They are found in many habitats, grazing among aquatics and algae. The dorsal plates of some of these rotifers are ornamented with ridges and folds, important characteristics in identifying species.
Rotifers are extremely common and can be found in many freshwater environments and in moist soil, where they inhabit the thin films of water surrounding soil particles. Their habitats may include still water environments, such as lake bottoms, as well as rivers or streams. They are also commonly found on mosses and lichens, in rain gutters and puddles, in soil or leaf litter, on mushrooms growing near dead trees, in tanks of sewage treatment plants, and even on freshwater crustaceans and aquatic insect larvae.
Nearly all rotifers have chitinous jaws called trophi that grind and shred food. The trophi are the only part of a rotifer that can be fossilized and have been found in amber dating back to the Eocene epoch (38-55 million years ago).
Many rotifer species have no males, females producing only females (parthenogenesis). In some rotifer species, stress can cause females to produce eggs that hatch as males. They have no mouth or digestive tract and die within hours or days. The appearance of males is followed by sexual reproduction. The females then produce resting eggs, which settle to the bottom to hatch when conditions permit. The tiny eggs can withstand desiccation for considerable periods of time and can be carried by wind or birds to any place that holds water (even bird baths and gutters) where they will hatch.


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It might have become apparent by now that leek is pretty high on my top-5 list of vegetables.
The playful way in which it hides lumps of dirt between its leaves, reminding you how freshly from the earth it comes ; the distinctive sound of the knife, cutting through the layers when you chop the whites ; the sweet oniony taste, so good it hardly needs any seasoning ; the soft, moist, velvety texture it takes on when you cook it over gentle heat, slowly.
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Rate of fatal work injuries rises with age
August 17, 1999
Workers age 65 and over had the highest workplace fatality rate of any age group in 1997. There were 13.8 fatalities per 100,000 workers among those who were 65 years old and over, compared to an overall rate of 4.7 fatalities.
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The occupational fatality rate rose with each age group. The youngest workers shown in the chart, age 16 to 17, had the lowest rate, at 1.5 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers. For the next group, 18 and 19 year olds, the rate was nearly twice as high (2.8). With each successive group the rate increased, with the biggest change occurring between 55-to-64 year olds and those 65 and over. Differences in industries and occupations accounted for some of the variation in risk among age groups.
These data are a product of the BLS Safety and Health Statistics Program. Additional information is available from "Fatal Workplace Injuries in 1997: A Collection of Data and Analysis," BLS Report 934.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Rate of fatal work injuries rises with age on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/aug/wk3/art02.htm (visited June 26, 2016).
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More details have been posted regarding the motion capture process of the upcoming cross-generation console game, "WWE 2K15." According to a report from Gerweck on June 26, the development teams are currently recording several performers at a studio that has been set up in San Francisco. The names include a famous personality along with a surprise name.
The first notable name is Paul Heyman, who is currently working as a manager. He teamed up with Cesaro, who was also motion captured, on the Monday Night Raw episode following the Wrestlemania XXX pay-per-view event. The same manager also worked with Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Curtis Axel and Ryback in the past. You can find a photo of Paul Heyman near the top of this article (courtesy of the "WWE Games" Twitter page).
Another individual that was asked to participate in motion capture for "WWE 2K15" is Harry Smith, who also goes by the aliases of Davey Boy Smith, Jr., David Hart Smith and DH Smith. The wrestler, who is best known as the son of the British Bulldog, was part of the main roster of the WWE until 2011. Although he hasn't appeared with the company for three years, Harry Smith surprisingly decided to work with the upcoming game.
However, being motion captured does not necessarily mean that Harry Smith will be added in "WWE 2K15." The same report noted that the development teams typically use former wrestlers to record movements. This may be due to the active roster being constantly on the road and performing in one city after another.
Along for the aforesaid characters, 2K Games previously announced that Bray Wyatt, Hulk Hogan, John Cean and Roman Reigns will be added to the "WWE 2K15" roster. More playable characters should be announced in the coming months with a full reveal potentially being planned near the end of Aug. A majority of the active roster should end up being added to video game, which is coming out on Oct. 28 for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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Boylan's Bottleworks
by Boylan Bottling Co.
Product Type
Carbonated Soft Drink: Regular
12oz glass
Nutritional Info
Serving Size: 12 fl. oz. Servings per Container: 1 Amount per serving: Calories: 160 Sodium 35mg Total Carb. 40g Sugars 40g
carbonated water, cane sugar, pure vanilla extract, natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preservatives)
Review: Creme Soda
Posted: Feb 25, 2001 at 12:00 AM (Last Updated: May 31, 2001 at 6:09 PM)Boylan's Creme soda is a nice French Vanilla cream soda. It has a light, sweet taste, that has a slightly bitter finish. The flavor is not too strong and results in an easy sipping cream beverage. This cream soda is definitely worth a try.


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A massive boycott has gone viral on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. The boycott is called National Black Out Day and the main participants are African-Americans. However, many Caucasian people have also indicated that they will participate.
The boycott pictures have been shared thousands of times on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter. September 8th is the date when the boycott will begin. On this date, several members of the African-American community will plan to boycott any businesses which are not black-owned and operated.
A separate boycott has also begun to go viral called No Racism Day on September 5th, in which African Americans are asking people nationwide not to use their debit cards as a show of solidarity against racism.
"Action is my personal responsibility" said Nika Revader who plans to boycott on September 8th.
One site dedicated to the No Racism Day has more than 13,000 followers, and is growing every day.
There is no way to know how many people will participate, and if an economic impact will even be made.
"I will participate, I want to see if it works," said Landon Bench, a Caucasian male from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sylvester Graham stated his thoughts "Boycott today means progress tomorrow"
Andrea DeBerry who plans to also participate in the boycott, said, "I fight for those who are asleep; I fight for those who are afraid; I fight for the blood that's been shed by my people; I fight for the future of the people. I'm not going anywhere ; as long as I have breath-- I will fight!"
The boycott comes on the heels of the events in Ferguson, Missouri where an unarmed black youth named Michael Brown was recently shot and killed by a police officer. His death lead to increased racial tensions and marches through out the world.
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Chapter 9! Woo! X3 Still going strong on this thing! Hope everyone is still liking it. Enjoy!
The two friends managed to return to Peaceful Pines in one piece. Lydia breathed a sigh in relief to that as she and Beetlejuice road into town on Doomie. It had gotten darker as they arrived. Street lights were just coming on.
"I feel like we'll be just in time for dinner!" Lydia said.
She hadn't expected to be out so long but she definitely had fun! She couldn't believe all the new, freaky things she saw today. All this amazing stuff existed and she had no idea. The Central Neitherworld was beyond her wildest dreams and she loved it! They made memories that would last a lifetime, she thought, especially since she got some of it on camera.
The Vespa came to a halt.
"We're here, Babes
" Beetlejuice said.
Lydia removed her hands from his waist as he got up and soon after, she jumped off too. She pet Doomie as if he were an animal and he beeped for her. Her bag in hand, they began walking towards her house. That was when she had a pause of nervousness. She had almost forgotten that Beetlejuice was coming to dinner via her parents' invitation.
She tugged on his jacket and he looked back at her, "Please don't pull anything on my parents
"Reeeelax, Babes! That's the furthest thing from my mind!" He assured.
She didn't really believe him but she had no choice. There was no getting out of it. She just hoped he would have enough self-control; and let's face it, with Beetlejuice that was scarce. They got to her doorstep. She set a hand on the handle and turned.
Walking inside, she shouted, "I'm home!"
"We're in the kitchen, dear!" She heard her mom say.
Lydia motioned for Beetlejuice to follow. He removed his pinstriped jacket and placed it on a nearby coat rack and then ran to catch up with his friend. When they entered the kitchen, they saw her mom stirring something on the stove.
She glanced back, "You're getting in pretty late, Lydia
Lydia smiled cheesily, "Sorry about that, Mother
Me and BeetleUm, Mr. Beetleman managed to find a lot of things to photograph so we lost track of time. It won't happen again.."
"Oh, goody! So, you managed to get all you need for the Photo Show?" Delia asked her.
"Yup!" Lydia nodded.
"Sound's great, pumpkin." Her father added, "I'm sure you managed to take pictures of a lot of relaxing things; the sky, birds, the trees"
Lydia laughed nervously and that's when Beetlejuice chimed in.
"Haha, well she did get a picture of a tree but I wouldn't exactly call it relaxing! Pfft!"
He began to laugh and Lydia elbowed him, causing him to glare slightly as he rubbed his side. He began speaking again.
"So, what's for dinner, Miss Deetz? Hot Dogs?" with that he changed into a giant hot dog, "Maybe, with a side of mashed potatoes?" then he changed into a giant potato and a giant anvil appeared from nowhere and mashed him into the floor. He spoke once again, weakly, "..More like smashed potato..Ohnnn
Her father saw the whole thing and began to freak out. He began shaking and pointed at Beetlejuice, "D-d-d-did you see that, Delia?! He just--!"
Delia turned to him, "What are going on about, Charles?" She had been turned around the whole time, still focused on what she was cooking so she couldn't have noticed.
He turned to Lydia and proceeded to ask her the same question.
Lydia laughed nervously once again and denied, "Um, no
What could you mean
Her father just stood there dumbfounded. He felt like he was going crazy. He saw what he saw but no one else did.
"Perhaps you should go lay down, Daddy
" Lydia suggested.
" Beetlejuice added, "You're not looking too well
" And just like that, he changed into a well in front of him.
Charles' eyes grew huge and then he shook his head. Once he looked again, Beetlejuice was back to normal. He placed a hand on his head.
"I think maybe you're right, dear
I'm so tired, I think I'm seeing things!" He began to walk off. "Call me down when dinner's ready
I just gotta try to relax
"So, Mr. Beetleman
" Delia began but Lydia interrupted.
"Uh, sorry. But
Mr. Beetleman has to use the bathroom" She said and then glared, "Don't you
Beetlejuice was taken aback and gave her a confused look, "What? No, I don't---WHA-OA!" He yelled slightly as Lydia yanked on his tie quite violently, "I mean, Oh yeeeah
Yes, I do!" His voiced sounded rather choked.
"I'll show you where it is
" She said a bit sternly and then looked at her Mother, "We'll be back!"
"Alrighty!" Her mom replied optimistically, "Dinner will be done shortly!"
She dragged him away and he walked rather funny as Lydia still had a hold of his tie. His arms waved and he walked with his legs bent. After a moment or two, they were out of sight.
Beetlejuice and Lydia arrived in the hallway upstairs. She let go of his tie in a bit of a shove.
"Whaaaat?!" Beetlejuice said. He didn't like the glares he had been getting from his friend.
She wagged a finger at him, "You said you wouldn't pull anything on my parents!" She raised her arms to the side, "You got my Father thinking he's crazy!"
Some of the best people are crazy!" He laughed, "I mean, hey, look at me! Besides, all that stuff was child's play
" He changed into a child version of himself, wearing a spinner hat and a long black and white shirt with blue jeans and sneakers. In a second he was back to normal, "It's not like I can help the literal translations
It comes part and parcel with the powers!" He changed into a brown package and appeared in her hands, "You gotta forgive me, Lyds! Can't help it!"
Lydia gave a sigh and threw him up in the air. He changed back to normal and just floated there
"Well, you can try watching what you say! If you're not careful, it's going to get you into big trouble! If you keep pranking people every chance you get, someone's going to find out about you!"
Beetlejuice took her warning into consideration even if he didn't believe it. What's the worst that could happen? No one knew who he was and with such a perfect disguise, he could get away with anything he wanted! Still, he did care about Lydia
He didn't want to let her down. Especially, with the next thing she said.
Lydia set a hand on his shoulder, "Please, Beetlejuice
It's important to me
Oh, now that just hit him straight in the heart. He placed both of his hands on her shoulders, "Okay, Lyds! You twisted my arm! I won't prank 'em!" Just as he said that, both of his arms connected and got all twisted, trapping Lydia, inadvertently pulling her close to him. "Whoa..ah, whoops!"
Lydia giggled and he smiled. She was happy again. Shaking his thoughts away, he began pulling his arms, trying to disconnect them. Accidentally, he pulled too hard and he fell to the floor, taking Lydia with him. They both shouted slightly as they fell.
"I've always known I was twisted but this is insane!" Beetlejuice said as he struggled.
After a second or two, his eyes fell on Lydia, whom because of the fall, was lying on top of him. He took in her features and blushed slightly. This closeness was making him feel strange inside; a good kind of strange but still strange. He was feeling
nervous? And he had no clue why! This made him struggle even harder with a few loud grunts.
Lydia shook her head, "Here, Beetlejuice
Let me help
Lydia moved herself slightly and was able to get free. Then, she took both of his arms and proceeded to turn them in odd ways, untangling them.
She laughed, "I'd hate to see you get tongue tied!"
He said up with an annoyed, blank stare, "Oh, don't even get me started!"
Lydia shook away his previous statement and stood up, offering a hand to help him up as well. "Come on, Beetlejuice. We should get back to my Mother"
Beetlejuice straightened his collar and waved his hand, "Ahh
You go ahead! Got something to take care of
" He pointed a thumb at the bathroom door.
Lydia eyed him strangely but then shrugged, "Okay, don't be long!" She set a hand on the railing and looked back, "Haha, and try not to fall in the tub again!"
Beetlejuice leaned on an invisible wall, "Trust me, Babes
I'm not that sick!"
Lydia just rolled her eyes with a small laugh and walked downstairs. He waved goodbye and once she was gone, he set a hand on the bathroom door. Just before he opened it, he stopped. He cleared his throat and his eyes trailed to the side, glancing at another room down the hall. Beetlejuice stretched his left leg until he had a full foot in front of the room he was eyeing; her parents room. Just then, his entire body snapped back to his leg and he now stood in front of that room. His nature was beginning to take over again, almost forgetting his promise to his new best friend. The urge in him was sometimes just so strong that he couldn't help it!
Just then he heard the handle jiggle and he gasped, throwing himself against a wall, turning transparent. Charles walked out of the bedroom, rubbing his face in a stressed and/or tired way. He walked down the hall and entered the bathroom. Once inside, Beetlejuice became visible again. He put a hand under his chin and tapped his bottom lip with a finger. Slowly, a large, mischievous smile flew across his face.
Beetlejuice slapped each side of his face with his hands, softly and looked up, "Gee! I diiid tell Lyds I had something to take care of in the bathroom!"
He rubbed his hands together and gave a low laugh. He just loved finding loopholes. Beetlejuice set a palm on the bathroom doorknob and instantly changed into a liquid, seeping under the door crack.
Once inside, the puddle developed eyes and scanned the area. He could see Charles' silhouette through the shower curtain. He gave another low laugh and transformed himself into the showerhead, black and white stripes included. Suddenly, the nice, warm water became ice cold before turning into oozing green slime!
Charles' shrieked loudly as he used his arms to block it. Some got in his mouth and he spit, repeatedly. He coughed a little before falling out of the tub. He quickly grabbed a nearby towel to cover himself, trying to wipe some of the slime off. He heard a voice and then he looked up. The showerhead had stretched and was now just a few inches away from him. "Heeey, Chuckie
Charles looked petrified.
"I think you forgot to wash up
" The showerhead said, as shampoo and soap floated in front of him.
Charles threw his hands up in terror, "AAAAAAAAH!!" He snatched his robe and zoomed out of the bathroom, followed by insane amount of Beetlejuice's laughter.
Charles ran downstairs, now wearing his robe.
"Delia!!" He screamed and shuddered as he entered the kitchen.
Lydia and Delia gasped at his sudden appearance.
"Charles! You're a mess!" Delia said and lectured him slightly, "If you're going to go walking around the house, especially the kitchen, at least have a good bath first!"
That's where I just came from!" Charles protested.
Lydia and Delia looked at him wide-eyed as he continued.
haaaaaaunted!! There were bottles and they were floating! Slime was everywhere! And there-there was this laughter!" He explained as he moved his hands with each description.
Lydia put a hand to her mouth as Charles pulled on Delia's arm and convinced her to come with him to show her.
After a few minutes, Lydia heard some of their conversation.
"Honestly, Charles!"
"But it-it was there!! I swear!"
She heard them getting closer. Her mother was the first to enter the kitchen, eyes closed and shaking her head, "You and your active imagination
" She got back to making her meal.
Lydia blinked as her father came in with a dumbfounded look. The kind of look that said 'Maybe I am crazy
And almost in a flash, Beetlejuice entered with an innocent smile, leaning on the entrance of the kitchen, "Sooooo
.What's cookin'
Lydia glared and folded her arms, speaking a little low, "Trouble
And that's where I end it! XD Hope it was entertaining. If anything, it was definitely fun to write and picture. Poor Charles. Always the object of BJ's pranks. His poor nerves. Haha, More soon!
Un Coleoptere...Chapter 9 by Goosie-BoosieWatch
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June 5, 2014 | Volume 44, Number 22
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Detective Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones (Jason Hughes) are once again doing their best to curb the many murders and mysteries of the English village. Series 10 includes the mysteries 'Dance with the Dead', 'The Animal Within, King's Crystal', 'The Axeman Cometh', 'Death and Dust', 'Picture of Innocence', 'They Seek Him Here' and 'Death in a Chocolate Box'.
Barnaby and Jones have to investigate a murder where at first they believe that the man died of suicide but when they start to look at the man's girlfriend, her lovers suicide takes the back seat in the episode 'Dance with the Dead'. In the episode 'The Animal Within Faith' Alexander travels to Midsomer to visit her uncle Rex. When he goes missing and later comes up dead all his friends have wills claiming his inheritance. What is funny is that Rex told everyone that Faith is dead and it's up to Barnaby and Jones to muddle through all the possibilities of who murdered him.
The show 'Midsomer Murders' has been one of the most entertaining mysteries to ever come out of England. The mysteries all keep you riveted to your seat and I must admit the actors truly bring the show to life.
Acorn is bringing this wonderful DVD set to us on September 2, 2014. The quality of the DVDs are excellent. The sound and visual are of the DVD are exquisite. This is one of those shows that you truly need to have in your personal library. They are some of the greatest murder mysteries ever made.
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On 15-18 November 2012 Director of the Mykola Zerov Centre for Ukrainian Studies Professor Marko Pavlyshyn participated in the 44th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in New Orleans, USA. The ASEES convention is one of the largest gatherings of scholars specialising in Slavic Studies, including Ukrainian Studies.
Professor Pavlyshyn convened one of the convention's panels, which dealt with the contribution of literature and literary criticism to a Ukrainian national identity in the 1830s and 1840s. Professor Yuliya Ilchuk (Colgate University) considered the way in which simultaneous identification with both Ukrainian and Russian culture gave way to the necessity of choosing one or the other. Professor Taras Koznarsky (University of Toronto) re-examined the work of the influential Russian critic Vissarion Belinskii, arguing that the evolution of his views on literary writing in Ukrainian from acceptance to vehement rejection was part of the crystallisation of his conception of a Russian national literature. Professor Pavlyshyn examined the different visions of an audience for Ukrainian writing and writing about Ukraine in the works of the prose writer and dramatist Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. The discussant for the panel was Professor George Grabowicz (Harvard University). Professor Pavlyshyn was also the designated discussant for the panel "The Language of Ukrainian Culture," speakers at which were Olga Pressitch (Victoria University,Canada) and Roman Ivashkiv (University of Alberta).
Professor Pavlyshyn attended the meeting, within the ASEEES program, of the Ukrainian Studies Association of America, where he promoted the conference "Ukraine: Language, Culture, Identity," which is to be held at Monash in February 2013.
He also conferred with Professor Serhii Plokhii about further stages in the editing of the publication based on the conference "Ukraine and Europe" (Gargnano, June 2011).
One of the participants in the ASEEES convention was Yuri Shevchuk, author of the textbook Beginner's Ukrainian that is used by students of Ukrainian introductory.
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Dana L. Stringer: Black Consciousness and Those 'Benjamins'
*I can't imagine life without music and entertainment. For African Americans, music and entertainment has always served as the creative outlets for expressing, interpreting, understanding and surviving struggles that are unique to the black experience. And when given the opportunity, I believe it's important that we support our artistic endeavors. But unlike many of us, … Continue reading Dana L. Stringer: Black Consciousness and Those 'Benjamins'


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Aug 10, 2010, 09.55 AM | Source: CNBC-TV18
JSPL has target of Rs 657, says Mitesh Thacker, Technical Analyst, miteshthacker.com.
Thacker told CNBC-TV18, "Infact JSPL has gone through a lot of base building activity in the range of around Rs 625 to around Rs 610 and yesterday we got some kind of a buy signal on the charts. I think in the short-term atleast it could head towards the weekly or the daily moving averages, which is at levels of around Rs 657. That is the price target and the stoploss here would be around Rs 629."
The company's trailing 12-month (TTM) EPS was at Rs 17.30 per share. (Jun, 2010). The stock's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio was 36.88. The latest book value of the company is Rs 57.98 per share. At current value, the price-to-book value of the company was 11. The dividend yield of the company was 0.86%.


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My favorite model was Dorothea Towles. She'd gone to college (as we were expected to do); she'd married a dentist (we were supposed to marry professionals); she'd decided to follow her sister (who was studying to be a concert pianist) to Paris. And there she'd fulfilled our wild secret fantasies of Josephine Baker crossed with Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face: She'd become a model, first at the House of Dior, then at Schiaparelli and Balmain.
I admired her, I envied her, but I didn't worship her as I worshipped Suzy Parker. Dorothea was in Ebony, not Vogue. My white friends didn't know who she was. Diana Vreeland didn't have to know or care.
Did Dorothea turn her back on her people? Certainly not! In 1954 she returned to the U.S. and barnstormed the country with a trunk of her own haute couture clothes, organizing all-black fashion shows for all-black sororities and charities. Jetloved to chronicle her flamboyant doings: "Model Dorothea Towles created a sensation when she strolled into a white fur shop in Birmingham and asked to rent $10,000 worth of furs for the Alpha Kappa Alpha fashion show."
Please note that Dorothea Towles returned to America the year the Supreme Court decreed segregation illegal in public schools. Separate but equal was being challenged on all fronts. And four years later, my mother's friend Eunice Johnson took up that challenge, expanding on what Dorothea had begun. Her husband, John H. Johnson, published Negro Digest, Ebonyand Jet, and it was Eunice who had given Ebonyits bold, pre–Black Power name. Now she launched the Ebony Fashion Fair, a touring fashion show inspired by Dorothea's but grander. Eunice didn't use her own clothes. She'd attend the top shows in Paris, Milan and New York, sit in the front row beside the white editors and buy clothes. She'd go in search of young black designers and buy clothes. Then, thanks to Eunice, cream, beige, tan, buff, brown, sepia and (eventually) ebony models would stride and sashay down hotel runways in city after city, wearing the designer clothes she'd supplied for their colored/Negro/black/African-American audiences. It was spectacular.
We were not wholly equal, of course; the white world was still dominant. It had made the rules that excluded us; now it altered those rules to include a few of us. Politics was changing the culture and the marketplace; the aesthetics of fashion and glamour were changing, too. But we had been there all along. Before they noticed or acknowledged us, we were there.
I often look through the clothes my mother has given me over the years. I cherish the Pauline Trigère brushed-wool, funnel-shaped coat, beige with thin stripes of pale mauve, white and lilac blue. I feel like a craft object when I enclose my body in this coat. And I feel vindicated, too, because Trigère was the first top American designer to use a black model regularly.
Brava, Madame Trigère! Still, the piece I most love is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket, designed by Malcolm Starr. The dress is sleeveless, with a nipped waist and a skirt just wide enough for a feminist to walk in without mincing her steps. The jacket is trimmed with gold braid; so is the skirt's front panel.
It's "flip and flirty," as my mother prescribed. It's crisp yet splendid. It makes me feel I've put on not just a dress but made-to-order armor.
My mother's armor.
Armor that helped shield me from exclusion.
Armor that shielded me from -inferiority.
MARGO JEFFERSON is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and the author of On Michael Jackson. She teaches in the writing program at Columbia University.
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Hank Mobley: I Should Care
I Should Care
Hank Mobley (tenor sax)
Another Workout (Blue Note 0946 3 62646 2 2)
Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums).
Composed by Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl & Paul Weston.
Recorded: Englewood Cliffs, NJ. December 5, 1961
Rating: 94/100 (learn more)
Hank Mobley
Artwork by Michael Symonds
Hard bop and ballads were strange bedfellows. Many hard-bop drummers didn't own wire brushes for their snares, preferring sticks the size of Hank Aaron's bat. Another Hank, surnamed Mobley, was one hard-bop stalwart with a soft spot for pretty tunes. Moreover, at the time of this recording, Hank and his cohorts were either current or former sidemen of Miles Davis—a preeminent balladeer. Even when resorting to the jazzman's time-honored recourse of double-timing over a slow tempo, as he does here, Mobley's slightly overcast tone was mobilized in the service of lyricism. And, yes, Philly Joe uses brushes. Another knockout.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
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I Do Not Know How I Feel About It (Tai Chi)
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I still can't figure out whether I like Tai Chi or not.
There is a "field trip" happening in two weeks, with a couple of beginner classes from nearby cities going to the Retreat for lunch and a tour. Part of me wants to sign up and go, and part of me says it's silly to do that if I am only going to give up Tai Chi after this 10 week class is finished.
I keep saying I want to practice in a room with mirrors -- well, apparently a nearby city has a dedicated building with a proper studio that has mirrors on the walls. Maybe if I popped over there sometime I could get a sense of how I look when I am doing Tai Chi.
I am really concentrating these days on taking smaller steps and placing my feet in such a way that the movements flow better. That's sort of why I feel that giving up after one 10-week session would not be doing justice to it. It seems like it takes plenty of practice to get halfway competent, and I have certainly not given it enough time yet.
Again, I can't decide whether I keep going because it was a lot of money to spend on classes only to not go, or whether I actually like it.
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Many practice for years and decades to feel competent. I guess it teaches us to be patient with ourselves 1st and then get in to the flow of the movements and feel that flow in life.
Personally sounds like a great way to spend resources.
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Tau Chi huh? I have two videos, and I decided that you can't learn it from a video. It looks so easy, but not really. I know though, it has to help with grace, and stress, and there is nothing more serene then a graceful space cadet. For real, you are my heroine. I say if you like it do it, and if not, after ten weeks Nov e on to something else. Qi Gong is a possibility.
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That's how I felt about yoga for months and months. It was sort of like brussels sprouts to me ... I knew it was good for me, but I didn't get what everyone else raved about, and I was only taking it because my martial arts instructors told me it would help my martial arts. Then all of a sudden I realized I was saying things to my husband like, "at least I get to take yoga tomorrow" and I realized that I had gotten to the point that I loved it.
If you think the physical environment is a factor in your attitude, then by all means try a different location and see if that makes a difference! Focusing on something specific, like the smaller steps and smooth flow, also seems like a really good idea. As for the field trip, does it sound like it's going to give you a better sense of whether tai chi is really for you, or is it mostly going to be a sales pitch to try to get people to book a full retreat? Think about what you would want to get out of going on the field trip, and whether you think you would get that, even if what you want is a fun trip someplace you haven't been before with people you like, and tai chi is incidental.
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It has been announced that next year's Cleveland International Piano Competition will be a partnership with the Canton Symphony Orchestra. The four finalists of the competition (two in the Junior Division and Two in the Senior Division) will perform with the Canton Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Gerhardt Zimmermann and will determine the final rankings. This marks the first time that the Canton Symphony will be performing in Cleveland's University Circle area.
"This partnership presents an opportunity for young pianists to play with an outstanding orchestra made up of top tier musicians," said CIPC President and CEO Pierre van der Westhuizen. "It is not only a tremendous incentive to do well in the competition; it is an amazing learning opportunity for the pianists with the skills and confidence to make it to the final round."
"The Canton Symphony is very much looking forward to our collaboration with the Cleveland International Piano Competition for the Young Artists Competition," stated Gerhardt Zimmermann, Music Director of the Canton Symphony Orchestra. "It is always a joy to work with upcoming young artists, those musicians who will be the bright stars of the next generation."
CIPC Young Artists is an international competition for pianists ages 12 through 18. The event will be held May 13-22, 2015 at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, with the final round taking place in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Friday, May 22, 2015. Contestants will participate in two age groups: Juniors (age 12 to 15) and Seniors (age 16 to 18).
Participants in each age group will be required to perform three solo rounds and one final round with the Canton Symphony Orchestra. The final round will take place before a live audience and an international jury. All participants will perform two rounds prior to the first jury vote. This will result in six performers from each group to advance to the semi-final round where the field will be narrowed down to the final four representing the best two of each age group.
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The Cleveland International Piano Competition, recognized worldwide as one of the most respected and high profile roads to a professional career in classical music, will soon celebrate its 40th anniversary. In these 40 years, it has grown from a competition organized by volunteers into a multi-faceted, professionally managed organization that presents four major programming components: The Cleveland International Piano Competition; The CIPC Young Artists Competition; CIPC ArtsConnect; and the CIPC Concert Series.
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Commercial trade fairs, brand experiences, themed attractions, world expositions, museum galleries, visitor centers, historic houses, landscape interpretation and art installation are all areas that can be categorized under the broad umbrella term of 'exhibition'. The Author of this Book is Pam Locker Millions of people visit exhibitions of one sort or another every year and globally it is a multi-billion dollar industry. Array ISBN . Basics Interior Design: Exhibition Design offers a better understanding of the complexity of exhibition design as a discipline, by exploring the role of the exhibition designer as a creative practitioner. Basics Interior Design: Exhibition Design available in English. It considers the blurring of borders with other design disciplines, but interior, graphic design and marketing in particular. Supported by case study examples and practical in nature, this book offers a guide on how to approach the design of the narrative.


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The first Concert with Conversation event for 2014, held at the Community Music Center (CMC), will take place at the end of this month. The "performing and conversing" artist will be soprano Jessica Rivera. Rivera is a former Artist-in-Residence for San Francisco Performances (SFP); and she made her SFP debut in the Young Masters Series in April of 2012. She also gave the final event of last season's Salon series at the Rex Hotel this past May. In addition to her SFP commitments, she alternated with Dawn Upshaw in singing the soprano part in John Adams' Nativity oratorio El Niño with the San Francisco Symphony in December of 2010.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Like Santa Claus on that one foggy Christmas Eve, Microsoft has summoned Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to guide some precious cargo — a holiday marketing campaign for its Bing search engine.
The advertisements, debuting online and on TV this week, star Rudolph and other characters from the animated story about the most famous reindeer of all. The campaign is part of Microsoft's attempt to trip up Google Inc., an Internet search rival as imposing as the Abominable Snowman was before Yukon Cornelius tamed the monster.
Google has been countering with its own emotional ads throughout the year. Most of Google's ads show snippets of its dominant search engine and other products at work before swirling into the logo of the company's Chrome Web browser.
The dueling ads underscore the lucrative nature of search engines. Although visitors pay nothing to use them, search engines generate billions of dollars a year in revenue from ads posted alongside the search results.
The holiday season is a particularly opportune time for search companies because that's when people do more searches — to find gifts online, look for party supplies and plan nights out on the town. That means more people to show ads to. Advertisers also tend to be willing to pay more per ad because they know people are in a buying mode.
To capture that audience, Microsoft and Google are both thinking outside the search box to promote their brands.
Although the text ads running alongside search results do a fine job of reeling in some customers, they still lack the broader, more visceral impact of a well-done television commercial, said Peter Daboll, chief executive of Ace Metrix, a firm that rates the effectiveness of ads.
"It's instructive that these companies who are all about the Internet and doing things in real time are actually doing these emotive ads on TV," Daboll said.
Search engines are particularly difficult to sell because the sophisticated technology required to make them work isn't something "you can touch or feel in a store, so you need to bring some emotion to it," said Sean Carver, Bing's advertising director. "The storytelling is important."
Microsoft Corp. licensed the rights to the characters from Rudolph's 47-year-old holiday special after convincing their owners that the Bing commercials would add an endearing chapter to the reindeer's story. The rights to Rudolph and the rest of the cast are owned by the children of Robert L. May, who wrote the story in 1939 while working as a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward department store (May's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks, later wrote the famous song).
Microsoft is far more experienced at marketing than Google.
For one thing, it's 23 years older than Google, which was founded in 1998.
More important, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were so contemptuous of traditional marketing campaigns that the company never bothered to advertise its search engine on national TV until the 2010 Super Bowl. Spending millions to be a part of TV's annual advertising extravaganza was so out of character that Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO at the time, heralded the Super Bowl ad with a post on Twitter that concluded "hell has indeed frozen over."
Since that breakthrough, Google has caught the advertising bug. Without breaking down its total ad budget, Google disclosed that it has spent $583 million more on television and other advertising during the first nine months of this year than it did at the same time last year.
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