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SANTA CLARA -- Jim Harbaugh assigned blame Monday to the entire 49ers unit rather than pick apart Colin Kaepernick's career-worst passing production in the previous day's 10-9 loss to the Carolina Panthers.
"Across the board, we take accountability," Harbaugh said. "We're not going to go through, dissect position-by-position, raking anybody over the coals.
"That's not the best thing for us. We've got a tough game coming up. We're not going to wallow in it."
The 49ers (6-3) return to New Orleans this weekend -- site of last season's Super Bowl XLVII defeat -- to face the NFC South-leading Saints (7-2).
The 49ers and Saints offenses were polar opposites Sunday. The 49ers failed to score a touchdown for the second game this season -- the other was a 29-3 loss at Seattle on Sept. 15 -- and produced only 10 first downs. In contrast, the Saints scored seven touchdowns and set an NFL record with 40 first downs in a 49-17 home win over the Dallas Cowboys.
"Offensively, we were not getting in a rhythm and moving the ball," Harbaugh said.
Harbaugh cited an abundance of "negative plays," from maligned calls that lost yardage to others that resulted in penalties, sacks and turnovers.
Kaepernick was sacked a season-high six times and completed 11 of 22 passes for 91 yards, his worst totals in 19 career starts.
Harbaugh sidestepped numerous questions about Kaepernick and instead repeatedly answered them about the offensive unit, as a whole.
"Everybody involved with it is working harder than you can imagine to be the winning edge we need it to be, championship-type of football," Harbaugh said. "We didn't play championship football offensively this week."
Asked why the offense isn't calling more screen passes, Harbaugh conceded it was "not a bad point," and he echoed that when asked why Kaepernick isn't used more on bootleg runs.
"You bring up a great point which frustrates everybody," Harbaugh said. "Everybody involved in the unit, when you're not in the rhythm picking up first downs and being able to get in deep in your playbook -- get into the screen, get into the (quarterback) movement game, keep things off balance -- it's frustrating to all."
Before losing Sunday, the 49ers had won five consecutive games and scored more than 30 points in each contest.
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03.10.2012 - Clinical data presented at a Congress in Vienna shows that a new Pharmamar drug could step up to the success of its paragon Yondelis.
Pharmamar S.A. from Colmenar Viejo is part of Spain's largest biotech Zeltia S.A. It is known for its marine tunicate-derived anti-cancer drug Yondelis. But there is another potentially marketable drug named PM01183 (lurbinectedin) in the pipeline. On 30 September, new clinical data was presented at the 37th Congress of the European Society of Molecular Oncology (ESMO) in Vienna. Results from the first part of a two-stage Phase II study in patients with platinum-resistant or refractory ovarian cancers were well-perceived, where a confirmed response to the treatment was observed in 6 out of 22 patients. Moreover, the disease had only progressed in 6 patients at the first evaluation, which means that the tumour remained stable in the remaining 10 patients (disease control rate: 73%). The drug showed no toxicity-related problems. The second stage was launched in April with the enrolment of 60 additional patients, who will be randomised to either the PM01183 arm or the active comparator arm where GSK's topotecan is given.
Other indications where PM01183's potential is scrutinised include non-small-cell lung carcinoma and breast cancer. Data of a Phase Ib study also presented at the meeting suggest that a combination of PM01183 with the nucleoside analogue gemcitabine improves the anti-tumour activities in the first mentioned indication when compared to treatments with each drug alone. The latter indication is dealt with in a Phase II study with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients which started in June this year. Here, patients are stratified into one group where the women have certain deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1/2 and another with woman without such mutations. Pharmamar wants to show that PM01183 works for BRCA 1/2-associated MBCs.
Pharmamar also tries to widen the scope of Yondelis, the first cancer medication ever to be developed in Spain. Moving from 2nd line to 1st line indications Yondelis (trabectedin) is currently under investigation for its strength to fight non-operable and/or metastatic soft tissue sarcomas. In the trial named GEIS-20 standard doxorubicin treatment is compared against a doxorubicin-trabectedin-combination. Results of the Phase II, open label, randomised study with 182 patients are expected in Q4/12.
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Refactoring in a Multimedia Project with Inkscape, Blender, and Audacity
One of the special problems with managing a multimedia project (versus a text-based software project), is that there are often links to external data files which can get broken when you try to move the files around -- such as you might do when re-factoring the source code to make it more navigable. Three programs that we use extensively in the Lunatics project present this problem, and each requires slightly different handling. These are Inkscape, Blender, and Audacity. I have never found a compact guide to keeping the links straight in these programs, so I'm going to write one here.


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BOJ Nominee Backtracks After Jumping the Gun
Kikuo Iwata, an economist at Gakushuin University, was visibly excited when he spoke to reporters in the entrance hall of his apartment complex Monday morning, about the phone call he received last week from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In that call, Mr. Iwata said, Mr. Abe asked him to become one of two new deputy governors at the Bank of Japan. Mr. Iwata told the prime minister he would "humbly" accept the position, he said.
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"He said he'd like me to be deputy BOJ governor, but I don't really remember the rest of the conversation," Mr. Iwata said, adding he was too nervous to ask Mr. Abe who he had chosen as governor.
But the 70-year-old professor and long-time BOJ critic may have jumped the gun with his revelation, at a time when the government remains highly sensitive about leaks on who would be tapped to replace outgoing governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his two deputies. That information is supposed to be confidential until the Cabinet officially releases the names to parliament for approval — likely in the next few days. Japan's major political parties recently repealed a rule that would disqualify any candidates whose names were leaked in advance of the nominations, and major press on Monday reported the BOJ picks.
Still, Mr. Iwata's comments made for some awkward moments for Japan's Cabinet — particularly Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who's in charge of investigating such leaks. During a press conference Monday, Mr. Suga insisted that he knew nothing of Mr. Iwata's nomination, and said it "wasn't an official offer" for the post.
"I don't know how the prime minister is going about this, but it's not the final decision," the government's top spokesman said.
Even Mr. Iwata himself, who earlier in the day had gone on at length to describe his policies and his prospects for the new position, appeared to back down when he spoke later Monday night to Japanese media about the high-profile job-offer.
"It hasn't come to me directly, so I'll have to wait and think about it then," he said.
The confusion follows weeks of intense speculation on Mr. Abe's choices for the new BOJ leadership and how they could affect the financial markets, as well as the central bank's efforts to achieve its newly adopted 2% inflation target.
Government and opposition politicians say that Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda, a former Finance Ministry official, will be nominated as the new governor, replacing Mr. Shirakawa, who steps down with his two deputies on March 19. An announcement is expected later this week.
Mr. Iwata has been openly critical of the BOJ's monetary policy over the past two decades for failing to stop price falls, and has been a favorite choice for BOJ governor among "reflationists," who call for more money to be pumped into the economy to jumpstart inflation.


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SAN JOSE -- It's a thought that has left the Nguyen family in agony: 30-year-old Vince Canh Xuan Nguyen, the sole brother in a clan of close sisters, dying alone in a tiny Ho Chi Minh City motel room after a night of drinking and socializing went terribly awry.
In the aftermath of his mysterious July 1 death, three family members caught the first flight to Vietnam only to find disinterested authorities who offered them little in the way of answers or closure, leaving the Nguyens frustrated and angry.
"The hospital, the government there, they are not being very cooperative," said Dee Nguyen, 25, one of five Nguyen sisters, whose eyes welled with tears as she spoke about the ordeal. "Somebody died. There's a life that's missing now. All we want to know is why."
Vince, an affable "jokester" who went to Independence High School and graduated from San Jose State, was in the midst of a major life change. A former furniture salesman who boasted he could seal a deal with even the most frugal customers, he had gone to Vietnam to teach English to 10-year-olds and volunteer at an orphanage. After visiting his parent's native country several times over the years to play soccer with a league team, he returned this time to make a difference, his sisters said.
"He was going through withdrawals," said Jennie-Diem Nguyen, 28. "He had helped out before and wanted to go back to give so much more."
That was last summer.
Since then, Vince had grown weary of what he called a corrupt and broken society and was to return to San Jose next month. He also had just dropped a bombshell -- he was planning to propose to another English instructor he met at the teaching firm ILA Vietnam, but was going to do it right by Vietnamese custom and ask her parents first.
"Everyone was so excited," said Sharon Nguyen, 37. "He was going to bring his girlfriend home, and they were in love. He'd never been so happy before."
Then came June 30.
Dinner and drinks
Vince went out to dinner with his friend Phuong Chan Nguyen, who the family has known for years. They were joined by a couple other individuals and ended up at the Banana Pub and Restaurant in the city's District 7 -- an affluent and modern area home to many expatriates.
According to Phuong Nguyen's account to the family, they drank rounds of whiskey -- something the sisters find odd because Vince was a "conspiracy theorist" who told them never to trust hard liquor in Vietnam because it's often cut with potentially toxic chemicals.
There was some kind of altercation, possibly between Vince and the bartender's American boyfriend. When the family saw his body, a spot on the left side of his head had been shaved, revealing a contusion, and his knuckles bore bruises.
Around midnight, they left and went back to Phuong Nguyen's home, where Vince's condition rapidly deteriorated. He was unable to hold his bowels or bladder. He began vomiting. His bodily fluids and excrement splattered the couch and walls. The next morning, Phuong and an associate escorted a wobbly Vince to the nearby motel.
About 6 p.m., three hours after Vince ordered several liters of bottled water delivered to the room, Phuong was told to come immediately -- motel staff had checked on Vince and found a cold and nonresponsive body.
Vince was pronounced dead after hospital staff tried to revive him for 40 minutes. Listed cause of death: Acute pulmonary edema, or water in the lungs. The family was also told by officials that he died from cardiac arrest caused by excessive water consumption.
Family members bristle that their brother wasn't immediately taken to a hospital just a block away from the motel at the onset of his symptoms, or even hours later when the alcohol should have worn off.
"It's common sense," said Sharon Nguyen. "A normal person would have said, 'You don't look good, there's no way you're going to sleep this off by yourself.'"
Phuong Nguyen, reached in Vietnam via email, said he is too distraught to talk about the matter, adding that some statements that Vince's family have made are "not solid." He declined to elaborate.
"Even if I talk people won't listen," he wrote.
Suspicious deaths
The dearth of information has the family not knowing what to think. They point to other suspicious deaths in Vietnam -- just a week before Vince died, the body of 33-year-old British filmmaker Joseph Lang, who worked for the same language program, was found dumped in front of a Ho Chi Minh City hospital. And last summer, Kari Bowerman, 27, and Cathy Hunyh, 26, died at a Nha Trang hospital after both became sick -- vomiting, having a hard time breathing and showing signs of dehydration.
Jessica Schmit, communications director of ILA Vietnam, called Lang's death a "tragic accident" but said his family did not give permission to discuss details of what happened.
"We helped his family as much as possible when they arrived in Vietnam to deal with the aftermath and to my knowledge they were as satisfied as you can be in this sort of situation with the handling of it and the answers they got," Schmit said.
The U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City could not provide information about the case when contacted this week. Sharon Nguyen said they've also been calling the embassy to get a full autopsy report but have not been successful.
The family is definitely not satisfied, and they have their own theories.
"With all these deaths, it does have to come down to poisoning of alcohol," said Sharon Nguyen. "There aren't any regulations on things that are consumed. Tourists don't know what they are eating or drinking."
Jennie Nguyen said perhaps others didn't get sick because her 6-foot-1, 210-pound brother was targeted and poisoned.
"He stands out as a foreigner," she said. "People notice him. Maybe his friend got the good stuff, and he didn't."
She believes Vietnamese officials are either covering up what happened -- foreigners dying from foul play or toxic cocktails is bad publicity -- or simply don't care.
At her parents' Evergreen neighborhood home this week, matriarch Linda-Hoa Duong sat on a staircase and cried as her daughters spoke to reporters a few steps away. She wants her son's story told, and every once in a while she relayed something in Vietnamese between sobs -- condemnations of a government she once fled that she believes has no value for life.
"He was her only son," said Sharon Nguyen. "That's a big deal in Asian cultures."
Duong's daughters, too, broke down talking about their beloved sibling, who they buried on Thursday.
"People would see us and ask, 'Do you have any brothers?' And we'd say 'Just the one.'" recalled Jennie Nguyen with a tearful laugh. "But how do you go about answering that question now?"
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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A Bulldog Abroad
Study abroad experiences usually involve a calm semester with weekend adventures exploring local sights and venturing into the countryside. Not so for Drake Junior Ian Weller, whose recent experience in Egypt involved an up-close and personal look at a revolution on the streets of Cairo and an emergency evacuation. "This semester will matter, and will […]Read more


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Published: Friday, March 9, 2012 at 3:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 9, 2012 at 3:11 p.m.
SARASOTA - Sheriff's officers have arrested a karate instructor at the Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences on a charge of sexual battery on a child after a female student said the teacher had sex with her in his classroom seven years ago.
John Garcia, 47, of the 2800 block of Poplar Street in Sarasota, was arrested and jailed without bond Friday on the felony charge, according to a sheriff's release.
A former student of Garcia's told detectives that she had sex with Garcia in his classroom at the school seven years ago, when she was 14, the release said.
Garcia was suspended with pay Friday pending the outcome of the criminal investigation; he was not arrested on the campus of the school at 645 Central Ave., said school Principal Tara Tahmosh. His photo and information were removed from the school website Friday.
Tahmosh said a robocall notice was sent to parents on Friday alerting them of Garcia's arrest and that he had been suspended. She said Spring Break starts next week, so the school advised parents to either inform children of the arrest on their own, or wait until after Spring Break, when she and the assistant principal can inform them.
The after-school martial arts program Garcia ran has been suspended; his other classroom duties will be assumed by another martial arts instructor, Tahmosh said.
She said the charter school will cooperate with law enforcement officials as they investigate. She did not have any specific information about the allegations against Garcia, she said.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A reggae band from Sacramento won first place Monday in a Facebook contest to perform at South Lake Tahoe's Dec. 29-31 SnowGlobe festival.
Arden Park Roots will perform a 30-to 45-minute set at the second annual festival at Lake Tahoe Community College. The quartet has three full-length albums, including the recently released "Pipe Dreams," which debuted at No. 2 on ITunes reggae chart.
Two acts from Reno - Boggan and Well Groomed - won second and third place, respectively, and both also will play full sets at the festival.
SnowGlobe will feature a Silent Disco tent where concert-goers will wear headphones. Three DJs were selected in the Facebook contest Monday to play in the Silent Disco: Dreda Dre's DJ Irieyes from South Lake Tahoe, Zeb Early from North Shore and Berkeley's Sam F.
The festival's headliners are Deadmau5, Wiz Khalifa and Cromeo.


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Health Plan
All graduate students who are paying tuition fees at either the Canadian or Quebec rates, GSA Association fees and who have an active registration with Concordia in the Fall or Winter semester, including CIP's, are automatically covered by the Plan. If you have an active registration in the Fall, you are covered from Sept. 1 – Dec. 31. If you have an active registration in the Winter, your coverage is valid from Jan. 1 – Aug. 31.Voted on by student referendum, the plan is a comprehensive package of benefits not covered by provincial health care, including prescription drugs, health practitioners' fees, travel health insurance, hospitalization, dental benefits, and more. The GSA Health and Dental Plan was specifically designed to cover all students, regardless of gender or previous health conditions.
For those who are CIP's or on a leave of absence, it is suggested that you contact ASEQ to verify your coverage status.
Couple/Family Enrolment
You can extend your coverage to your family (spouse and/or dependants) by enrolling them in the Plan and paying an additional fee, over and above your individual fee as a Plan member. Common law and same-sex couples are eligible. For details, visit www.ihaveaplan.ca.
All International students are eligible to enroll in the GSA Dental Plan; those with a Quebec Medicare card can also enroll in the Health Plan. Enrollments are to be completed during the Change-of-Coverage Period, or within two weeks of receiving the Quebec Medicare card.
For fee amounts and other information, please contact ASEQ. Payments must be made by cheque or money order.
Blackout Period
While the insurance company waits for completed enrollment lists from Concordia, there is a blackout on claim reimbursement for new students during the first 2 months of the Fall and Winter semesters. Claims will paid once the blackout is over.
Change of Coverage
The Change-of-Coverage Period is the period at the beginning of the semester when you can either opt out or enrol your spouse and/or dependants in the Health & Dental Plan.
If you are enroled in the fall semester, your Change-of-Coverage Period is from Sept. 6 – 19, 2011. The winter Change-of-Coverage Period (for new Winter semester students only) is from Jan. 3 – 17, 2012. Visit www.ihaveaplan.ca for more details. Please remember that you can combine GSA Health and Dental Plan benefits with another insurance plan. By combining your GSA Plan and other private insurance, you can claim deductibles and out-of-pocket costs that you normally would have to pay.
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Permanent Opt-Out
If you request a permanent opt-out, you won't have to opt out again from the Health and Dental Plan for the duration of your studies at Concordia. Should you wish to re-enrol, certain restrictions and a penalty would apply. Please consider your choice carefully and contact ASEQ if you have any questions.
Annual Opt-Out
If you complete an annual opt out, your opt out is in effect from Sept. 1, 2011 – Aug. 31, 2012. If you return as an eligible student in September 2012, you'll be automatically re-enrolled in the GSA Health & Dental Plan. Should you wish to opt out again next year, you must renew the opt out online.
For more information on the GSA Health and Dental Plan, contact ASEQ at www.ihaveaplan.ca or at (514) 789-8790 or 1-866-795-4437.


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Fosun Plays on Chinese Consumption in Europe
China's Fosun Group has been at the forefront of the Chinese private sector's push into Europe, but its chief executive said bargain prices aren't the group's only consideration when sourcing deals.
Speaking at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong on Monday, Liang Xinjun, head of the Shanghai-based conglomerate, said Fosun made a deliberate decision to invest overseas, but it differs from its Chinese peers–it is doing more than just "buying resources to bring back to China."
Armed with a belief that the Chinese consumer will continue to play an increasingly important role in driving economic growth, Mr. Liang said he is looking for "foreign companies that will benefit from [Chinese consumption]," particularly in the services sector.
To that end, Fosun has invested in European companies such as French resort operator Club Méditerranée SA, in which it has a 9.71% stake valued around 44 million euros.
According to Fosun's website, the company helped Club Med open its first resort in China six months after the deal was struck in 2010. Club Med aims to have five resorts in China by 2015, which would make it the company's largest overseas market.
Fosun also has a 10% stake in Greek jewelry retailer Folli Follie Group, which it bought for around 85 million euros in 2011.
Mr. Liang said that when making investments overseas, he doesn't seek majority control, but would rather strike a deal where he can have board representation instead.
"We want to help these companies expand in China while keeping their original management teams. That way, they will support us more," he said.
European companies battered by the financial crisis have been seeking foreign investment in recent years, which allowed private Chinese enterprises to cherry-pick assets.
However, Mr. Liang said that Chinese companies need to seek acquisitions that would give them technological expertise and internationally well-known brands, as buying an asset just because it's cheap is "a mistake that the Japanese have made in the past."


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Today we learned that George W. Bush was just kicking back with a nice souffle when he got the call about Osama Bin Laden. Very interesting! What were other ex-presidents doing when they found out? One commenter knows about one, at least.
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Coincidentally, when Obama called Bill Clinton, he was just digging into Sue Flay.


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Amira Hass should to a better job of vetting the facts handed to her by Palestinian Christian leaders, because sometimes, these folks simply do not provide factual information to their supporters.
In her recent response to an op-ed by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren about the status of Christians in the Middle East, Hass quotes a letter signed by 80 prominent Palestinian Christians who state the following:
"The exaggerated growth of the Christian population in Israel that Mr. Oren claims is due primarily to the immigration of Russian Christians whom Israel was unable to distinguish from the Jewish immigrants pouring into the country after the fall of the Soviet Union."
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Here are the facts from the Statistical Abstract of Israel.
One: There were 34,000 Christians living in Israel in 1949.
Two: At the end of 2009, there were approximately 152,000 Christians living in Israel. (An increase of 346 percent!)
Three: At the end of 2009, there were approximately 122,000 Arab Christians living in Israel.
Just looking at these numbers reveals that the increase in the population of Christians in Israel is due primarily to the growth in the Arab Christian (and not Russian) community.
Even if every one of the non-Arab Christians came from Russia, the growth in this community would still be dwarfed by the growth of the Arab Christian community in Israel.
In other words, Hass got played by the Palestinian Christian leaders.
Ironically enough, Hass's article is titled "Christian Palestinians: Israel 'manipulating facts' by claiming we are welcome."
Who is manipulating the facts, really?
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Definición de dignity en inglés:
sustantivo (plural dignities)[mass noun]
1The state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect: the dignity of labour
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It is well understood that honour and dignity are more important than everything.
- She has an undefinable quality and she stands for dignity and respect.
- This White House came to Office on a platform of restoring honour and dignity to the White House.
1.1 [count noun] A high rank or position: he promised dignities to the nobles in return for his rival's murder
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- He cultivated an image of Olympian detachment by scrupulously protecting the respective ranks and dignities of the grandees.
- Dealing with the item, the Mayor completely forgot the dignities of the office he holds as a neutral guardian of the rights of each citizen in his haste to score a personal rebuff.
- This is the sort of person who steps up to the plate when offices and dignities are being passed around.
high rank, high standing, high station, status, elevation, eminence, honour, glory, greatness, importance, prominence, prestige
2A composed or serious manner or style: he bowed with great dignity
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- Of course people should be able to deal with each other in a manner of dignity and respect.
- He handed her the rose with all the dignity that such a serious occasion demanded before getting rather unsteadily to his feet.
- Joanna did herself proud, showing that Polish youth can carry themselves with dignity and decorum all over the world.
stateliness, nobleness, nobility, majesty, regalness, regality, royalness, courtliness, augustness, loftiness, exaltedness, lordliness, impressiveness, grandeur, magnificence;
ceremoniousness, formality, decorum, propriety, correctness, righteousness, respectability, worthiness, honourability, integrity;
solemnity, gravity, gravitas, reserve, sobriety, sedateness, composure
2.1A sense of pride in oneself; self-respect: it was beneath his dignity to shout
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- An innate sense of pride and dignity sets them apart from the crowd.
- But on the other hand, that is what poverty does to us in the global south; it makes you lose your sense of dignity and pride.
- Imagine losing a lifetime of memories, your dignity and your sense of pride.
decency, modesty, delicacy;
feelings, sensibilities;
French amour propre
stand on one's dignity
- Insist on being treated with due respect.Oraciones de ejemplo
- First, the Lord Advocate stood on his dignity and solemnly intoned that such an idea was an affront to his independence as a law officer charged with the duty of deciding who to prosecute without fear or favour.
- We know he stands on his dignity, but do we know what, if any, policy the Labour Party has.
- Accuse someone of being a liar and it's almost guaranteed to put the nastiness of any debate up another level and require people to 'stand on their dignity.'
Middle English: from Old French dignete, from Latin dignitas, from dignus 'worthy'.
Palabras que riman con dignitybenignity, malignity
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SANTA CLARA -- General manager Trent Baalke hasn't been shy about trading up on draft day, and ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. has ideas on who the 49ers might get by moving up to fill needs at cornerback and wide receiver.
"They have a major problem at corner right now," Kiper said on a media conference call Wednesday. "If you're going to go up and get a corner, you probably go up to get (Darqueze) Dennard from Michigan State."
Kiper also mentioned Oklahoma State's Justin Gilbert as a cornerback worth trading up for by the 49ers, who lost starters Carlos Rogers and Tarell Brown to the Raiders in free agency.
"If you go up to get a receiver, you probably go up to get Odell Beckham Jr. (from LSU) or Brandin Cooks from Oregon State," Kiper continued. "I'm not talking about moving up into the top (wideout) group to get Sammy Watkins (from Clemson) or Mike Evans (from Texas A&M)."
Kiper noted that the 49ers traded up 13 spots last year to draft safety Eric Reid, who was selected 18th overall. In 2011, the 49ers moved up 11 spots to select quarterback Colin Kaepernick with the fourth pick in the second round.
While cornerback and wide receiver appear as the 49ers' most needy positions, adding a pass rusher also is an increasing possibility in light of Aldon Smith's ongoing legal issues.
One possible candidate is Michael Sam, the NFL's first openly gay prospect. Sam, who was a Missouri defensive end like Smith, is projected by Kiper as a late-round prospect.
"For a designated pass rusher, he's got some value," Kiper said.
The 49ers have 11 draft picks, including five selections in the first three rounds: first round (30th), second (56th, 61st) and third (77th, 94th, 100th). They also have picks in the fourth round (129th), fifth (170th) and seventh (242nd, 243rd, 245th).


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While there is a woman named Tansy in the text—the proprietress of the Peach (III: 330, 331)—it seems very unlikely that she was the person Lord Hoster was referring too. For one thing, his cries were rather anguished, and for another is that a revelation that he slept with her seems to have no bearing to speak of on the story (the one possibility is that she had a child by him, a bastard who might stand as heir—but it would be strange for this to never have been brought up.)
Far likelier is Catelyn's interpretation (III: 31) that Lord Hoster was recalling the time when Lysa was unwittingly given an abortificant, in large part using tansy (III: 913), to get rid of a child she was carrying. This child was Littlefinger's, as Lysa indicated that. It should be noted that some think that Lysa's recollection and claims cannot be trusted at all, given her hysteria and inability to separate fact from fancy (see her sincere beliefs that the Lannisters wanted to do harm to her and her son, based on her lies that they were behind Jon Arryn's murder).
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Published: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 5:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 5:50 p.m.
Two Union residents have been charged with taking more than $40,000 from a vulnerable adult, according to investigators.
Teresa Lynn Best-McGowan, 34, and Jason Michael McGowan, 36, both of 521 N. Pinckney St., have been charged with breach of trust, financial transaction card fraud and exploitation of a vulnerable adult, according to arrest warrants.
The investigation began Dec. 18, Lt. Troy Wright said in a written statement.
The warrants state that between Sept. 21, 2012, and Jan. 17, the couple used the debit card of a woman deemed a vulnerable adult by two doctors. The two spent more than $40,000 of the woman's money on themselves, according to the warrants, which also state that Jason McGowan had power of attorney for the woman.
Best-McGowan and Jason McGowan were arrested Wednesday. They were released from the Union County Jail on Thursday on $15,000 bonds.
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Spicy food should cause chemical burns, or spontaneous human combustion. Your mouth should feel as if it's tangled with an angry badger. Capillaries in your nose should burst. Your gut should sue for punitive damages. If not, your food just isn't spicy enough.
At least, that's how I feel. So, when I say things like, "Here, try some of these mild command-line recipes; they're really quite tasty", you might keep that in mind. One man's "mild" is another man's, "I think you've poisoned me".
If you are ready, settle in, dish up, and keep a nice lager handy. You'll probably need it before we're done.
Base ingredients: input and output
The "Unix Way" is a bit like salsa. (It's also like the Tao, or like processed cheese, or like the way puppy toes smell like popcorn.) As with salsa, there are many ingredients, and no one definition. Many kinds of salsa are made with tomatoes. Others are made without. Some are mild. Some are slightly tingly (these are labeled, "Hot!" in American supermarkets). People recognize salsa when they see it, but there is no one way of making it.
And so the Unix Way is not a single thing, nor a collection of specific things, but a way of combining things. Many have summed up the Unix Way as, "Do one thing, and do it well". What that misses is a simple concept most of us learned on the playground: "Play well with others".
The way most Unix command line utilities play together is through another simple concept, one that dates back to the beginning of the digital computer age: "input" and "output". That is, most of these utilities take some information (input), do something with (process) it, and spit the final product back out (output).
"Input" is handled in many ways. It can be from a file, from user input, from the network, or from another program. Most programs can handle at least three of these: from a file, user input, or another program. Actually, that's only two ways. Programs treat user input and input from another program in exactly the same way. For the sake of brevity, let's give a name to this kind of input. Let's call it, "standard in".
Processing is up to each program. That is what sets each command line utility apart. Mastering the command line is mostly about mastering each program.
"Output" is generally either to a file, or to the screen, or to another program. Okay, like "standard in", these last two are really the same. The output goes to the screen, or you can send the output to another program. Let's call this single output, "standard out".
This might seem complex, but really think of it this way. "Standard out" is just the output of the program, as if it were sent to the screen. So, when you type a command like
ls, the output that is printed to the screen (in this case, the directory contents) is really going to something called "standard out". By default, this is to the screen. "Standard in" is just the opposite: it's as if the user were typing information into the program.
Instant picante: pipes
So, how do you get the output of one program to go to the input of another program?
It's a thing called a "pipe". In the shell, a pipe is created with that broken bar symbol above your
Enter key, like this:
|. This very spicy symbol takes the standard output of one program, and attaches it to the standard input of another. The best way to see how it works is to try it.
No. Really. It's not that spicy. There's hardly any spontaneous human combustion involved at all.
So, give it a shot, starting with the
ps command:
$ ps -e PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ? 00:00:01 init 2 ? 00:00:00 migration/0 3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0 4 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0 5 ? 00:00:00 migration/1 6 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1 7 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1 8 ? 00:00:00 events/0 . . . 8026 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal 8028 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe 8029 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 8684 pts/0 00:00:00 emacs 9010 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
The dollar sign
$ merely indicates the shell prompt. Type only the
ps and hit return. The output will look something like mine, with columns of cryptic and arcane information designed to mystify and enlighten.
Notice how it all goes scrolling by, too fast to read? Try this:
$ ps -e | less
Isn't that better? Now, you can scroll forward one screen at a time by hitting the
space bar, or back one screen at a time by hitting the
b key. Quit at any time by hitting the
q key.
That magic happens by taking the input of the
ps program, and passing it to the
less program.
less is a Unix command for browsing files. Try it on its own like this:
$ less ~/.bash_history
This should allow you to browse your command line history, if you normally use the
bash shell. Note how the input to
less can be a file (e.g.,
~/.bash_history) or the output from another program (e.g., ps -e). This is a common theme among command line utilities.
This simple concept gives us great power.
Extra picante: gluing programs together with pipes
I hope you have your lager handy. This is where it starts to get a little spicy.
See, you can chain programs together using pipes. You can glue as many together as you need, to form a chain of spicy command line goodness. Start simple, with a single program:
$ find . -name \*\.c
This prints out a list of C source files. That's it. If you happen to have some C source code laying around, give it a go.
Next, save that list to a file, but still print it out.
$ find . -name \*\.c | tee c.list
tee simply takes standard input (here, the list of C source files), saves it to a file (here,
c.list), and then prints it to standard out. In fact, the output to the screen will be identical to the
find command on its own. The only difference here is, the list is also saved to a file.
Now, to get really fancy:
$ find . -name \*\.c | tee c.list | xargs grep -l sprintf
This saves a list of all the C source files starting in the current directory, and prints out a list of all those files that contain the string
sprintf. Cool. Or hot. Whichever.
This is just like the example above, but now you pipe standard output from the
tee command directly to the
xargs command.
xargs then uses
grep to search all those files for a string,
sprintf, and prints the name of those files to standard out.
See how processing gets progressively more complex? As long as you know how each individual program processes its standard input, you can figure out what the chain of programs does.
Make it as hot as you want
Okay, you might not be like me. You might not enjoy food that raises blisters on your tongue. That's okay. With the shell, you can make it as hot or as mild as you want. Just keep in mind, when you must swallow an angry badger, you might put it through the pipeline first. It'll make the task a little easier to swallow.
history command
If you want to see your bash history, the command '
history' is probably better. .bash_history only gets updated when you exit your shell, so it will never contain the commands you have used in the current shell. '
history', on the other hand, includes the last 500 commands you've used, including commands issued from the current shell. The 500 command limit can be modified by changing the shell variable HISTFILESIZE.
Thanks for the articles! I know this is supposed to be the year of Linux on the desktop, (or was that last year, or 2003?), but even with KDE, GNOME, Beryl et al, I still think the command line is where the power of GNU/Linux is really at.
Crank up those Colville units
Here's another fun Bash feature: command substitution. Did you know you can put a whole command inside a "<(...)" construct, and Bash will pass its standard output via a named pipe to the containing command? For example, the single-line command:
diff -u <(lsmod | sort | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1) <(ssh hypatia lsmod | sort | cut --delimiter=' ' --fields=1)
compares what kernel modules I have loaded on my current machine (Theon) with those on my other machine (Hypatia).
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Now, that's *spicy*
Nice! That's an excellent use of redirection, one of my favorite things. I did *not* know you could pass in multiple redirects to a single program like that.
First thing: I'm not sure 'picante' actually exists in Spanish - and if you were trying to say it in French, the correct spelling is 'piquante'.
Second thing: there is not three way to process pipe I/O in Unix, not two ways - there's only one way, with three different standard behaviours (those may vary depending on programmer's goal):
- a file is named as input/output: since everything in a Unix system is a file, said file can be... a file on disk, a device, a process. Depending on application, they may only produce input or output on standard I/O, ignoring parameters.
- a file is not named, but '-' is used as input/output: the pipe will be connected with a concurrently running process (usually following with '|') instead of a file if output to a file is its default ehaviour. Many programs will accept this, however depending on input's format not all may know how to handle it.
It can be nice to, say, convert a PDF file to bitmap graphics and do text recognition on it, or to convert a sound file from one format to another, without writing uncompressed data to disk.
- no file is named: default input/output is used. While it depends on program, usually default input is keyboard, default output is screen. Some program REQUIRE a named I/O.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.


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Joe Montana's oldest son Nate, who auditioned for the 49ers earlier this month, will take part in their rookie minicamp May10-12 as an unsigned free agent, the Sacramento Bee first reported Sunday.
Montana was not selected in the NFL's seven-round draft that completed Saturday. He took part in the 49ers' workout for local prospects April 17, having attended De La Salle High School in Concord.
"I love the Bay Area. It's a great, great place," the younger Montana said after that workout. "Coming back to where my dad played, you just have to put your head down and try to make your own name."
Joe Montana launched his Pro Football Hall of Fame career in 1979 as a third-round draft pick by the 49ers. He won four Super Bowls before being traded in 1993 to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he played his final two seasons.
Nate Montana's agent, Marty Magid, told the Sacramento Bee that the 49ers haven't offered his client a contract, at least not yet. Other teams have also expressed interest in Montana for their rookie camps next weekend.
Montana (6-foot-4, 215 pounds) finished his nomadic college career at Division II West Virginia Wesleyan. He previously attended Notre Dame, Pasadena City College and Montana.
Of their 11 draft picks, the 49ers used a seventh-round choice Saturday on University of South Florida quarterback B.J. Daniels, who'll initially compete for a backup role with Colt McCoy and Scott Tolzien behind starter Colin Kaepernick, coach Jim Harbaugh said. Daniels' athleticism also makes him a prospect as a running back, wideout and return specialist.


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SAN JOSE -- Netroots Nation is coming home.
Not that location matters much to online political activists: Blogs, petitions, fundraising and social media know no borders. But as the annual convention of Internet liberals gathers Thursday through Sunday at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center amid new national concern over electronic surveillance and civil liberties, there's a feeling of returning to the place where the seeds of the Internet revolution were planted.
"The netroots -- those who wage politics online -- exist specifically because of Silicon Valley innovations, from blogging tools like Blogger, Movable Type and WordPress, to the all-important research tools that Google provides, to the Apple hardware that powers nearly every blogger and online activist in the country," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder and publisher of the Daily Kos online community that gave birth to the event in 2006 in Las Vegas.
The convention has since been held in places like Chicago, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, but none can match the Bay Area's reputation as the epicenter of liberal politics.
"It is no accident that one of the largest concentrations of visitors to Daily Kos comes from Northern California or, for that matter, that I've happily made my home in Berkeley for the last 13 years," Moulitsas said. "So it's fantastic to finally bring Netroots Nation to the place that has made everything we do possible. The fact that we'll be here at the same time as the PRISM revelations emerge is an interesting coincidence that should provide added color to that debate."
Added color, indeed -- especially as Google and Apple, which Moulitsas named as vital netroots building blocks, are among companies named in a leaked National Security Agency document about PRISM, an anti-terrorism program that collects billions of bits of information from emails, videos and phone calls.
These and other Silicon Valley icons like Yahoo and Facebook have denied involvement in the program, but it's an issue that's sure to be on the lips of more than 3,000 activists as they gather for 80 panel discussions and 40 training sessions plus an array of speeches, film screenings and other events designed to motivate a new generation of liberal leaders.
There will be a Q-and-A with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco; a panel discussion on building a movement to prevent gun violence; and myriad sessions on subjects like engaging Latino voters, leveraging social media in social and political campaigns, same-sex marriage, reproductive rights, oil fracking and more. Registration costs range from $95 for youth participants to $355 for activists.
Netroots National executive director Raven Brooks said the legislative battle over the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA) -- which critics said would curtail online speech and innovation -- in 2011 and 2012 sparked unprecedented activism in the tech community. Bringing Netroots Nation to Silicon Valley this year seemed like a good way to keep those new activists energized and engaged, he said.
Democracy for America Chairman Jim Dean recalled the innovative spirit of tech volunteers who supported the 2004 presidential campaign of his brother, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Both Deans will be at Netroots Nation, aiming to stoke those flames again.
"There's so much synergy about this with Silicon Valley, but it is as much about the entrepreneurial spirit as it is about the technology itself," Jim Dean said. "There's that kind of freewheeling spirit, in part networking but in part competitive for the best practices and the best people."
Expect plenty of electoral politicking from candidates wooing attendees.
"Silicon Valley's values are closely aligned with those of the online progressive community, including many issues I have championed, such as comprehensive immigration reform, civil rights, women's rights, and particularly cybersecurity and Fourth Amendment rights," said Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, who'll be on stage at the convention on Thursday evening. "Netroots Nation is the perfect forum to discuss these issues, as the progressive online community has been at the forefront of the debate between online privacy and national security."
Former Obama administration official Ro Khanna, a Democrat who's challenging Honda next year, will be working the convention crowd while his campaign co-chairman, Jeremy Bird -- national field director of President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign -- will be a panelist.
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 16: Electronic Edition
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1 Q. [Mr Irving] Thank you very much. Were you expressing your true
2opinion in that conversation with Mr Wilmott?
3 A. [Sir John Keegan] Of course.
4 Q. [Mr Irving] Has he accurately reflected in this letter what your
5opinion was at that time?
6 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes. Alan Williams and I were great friends.
7 Q. [Mr Irving] Yes, he was a man of insight and perception. In fact,
8I gave him a silver tray from Harrods inscribed for his
9bravery in publishing my book. He had it displayed in his
10office. Would you turn to page 5, Sir John?
11 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes.
12 Q. [Mr Irving] Is this a panel from the Sunday Telegraph of August last
14 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes.
15 Q. [Mr Irving] Is it headed "Book of the Century"?
16 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes.
17 Q. [Mr Irving] Do you there make your choice of which book you considered
18to be the book of the last century?
19 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes.
20 Q. [Mr Irving] Can you remember what book that was?
21 A. [Sir John Keegan] Of course, it is a 'Struggle for Europe'. I regard it as
22a slightly odd choice, and I do not expect many people to
23support me, but it happens to have been an enormously
24informative influence on me.
25 Q. [Mr Irving] I also read it. I agree with you, for what it is worth.
26It is a very fine book indeed. So your opinion on the
1Chester Wilmott book had not at that time changed?
2 A. [Sir John Keegan] No.
3 Q. [Mr Irving] You still rank it among the highest. Finally, would you
4turn to pages 6 and 7 which, I am afraid, is the only copy
5I have of a two page extract from your recent book 'The
6Battle for History'.
7 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes.
8 Q. [Mr Irving] Will you agree that in that you repeat once again, 16
9years after the first time you expressed this opinion ----
10 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes, I do.
11 Q. [Mr Irving] --- that Hitler's War was a valuable book?
12 A. [Sir John Keegan] Indeed, you are honest enough to include a message on the
13Internet which points out that you omitted ----
14 Q. [Mr Irving] One sentence, yes, in the bundle. Would you read out that
15sentence too perhaps, for the record? This is somebody
16writing an e-mail to me, chiding me.
17 A. [Sir John Keegan] Could I quote the whole thing?
18 MR JUSTICE GRAY: It would help me if you did because I am not
19sure which sentence has been omitted from what.
20 MR IRVING: I am not sure if it is in your Lordship's bundle.
21It would be page 10 if it is in your Lordship's bundle.
22Do you have page 10?
23 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, I do.
24 MR IRVING: Would you read out that brief message on page 10
25from a correspondent?
26 A. [Sir John Keegan] It is a message from somebody called Graham Broad on a web
1site, dated 28th December 1999: "If Mr Irving is going to
2quote John Keegan when Keegan supports him, he might as
3well have the integrity to quote him when Keegan does
4not. He cites at length from Keegan's'The Battle for
5History', but does not, to my knowledge, anywhere on this
6web site quote Keegan's remark on page 10 of that book.
7Some controversies are entirely bogus, like David Irving's
8contention that Hitler's subordinates kept from the fact
9of the Final Solution".
10 Q. [Mr Irving] That is, of course, still your opinion, is it not?
11 A. [Sir John Keegan] I am sorry?
12 Q. [Mr Irving] That is, of course, still your opinion, is it not, that
13I am wrong on the Holocaust, or that my opinion on that is
15 MR JUSTICE GRAY: That Hitler did not know.
16 A. [Sir John Keegan] Well, I read Hitler's War, the appropriate passages, very
17carefully over the weekend, and I continue to think it
18perverse of you to propose that Hitler could not have
19known until as late as October 1943 what was going on to
20the Jewish population of Europe, and indeed many other
21minority groups as well, not only minority groups.
22 Q. [Mr Irving] I do not accept your word "perverse", of course. We have
23spent many weeks here in this very room, examining how
24perverse or otherwise it is to put forward that
25proposition. Would you accept that, to somebody who has
26not had complete access to all the records that are now
1correctly available, it may still seem an unusual opinion?
2 MR JUSTICE GRAY: That is almost by definition an impossible
3question for him to answer.
4 MR IRVING: It became rather tortuous in the utterance, I am
6 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I think, bringing yourself up to date with
7historical knowledge as it has been emerging, do you still
8retain the view that it is perverse to say that Hitler did
9not know about the Final Solution?
10 A. [Sir John Keegan] I think, my Lord, that it defies common sense.
11 MR IRVING: It does indeed defy common sense, and this is what
12makes it such a fascinating subject to investigate. Would
13you agree with that? If it turned out to be against all
14common sense and yet not demonstrable, would it be worth
16 A. [Sir John Keegan] It would be so extraordinary that it would defy reason.
17 Q. [Mr Irving] I agree, "extraordinary" is possibly a better description
18of this conclusion than "perverse". Perverse, would you
19agree, implies a wilfulness, a deliberate tendentiousness
20in the way one looks at the documentation?
21 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well, wrong headed, I think is the meaning.
22 MR IRVING: Wrong headed, yes. Can I ask you finally to turn
23to pages 8 and 9? My Lord, the only reason this is
24included is this is one way of putting this before your
26 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes.
1 MR IRVING: Are you familiar with the United States Holocaust
2Memorial Museum?
3 A. [Sir John Keegan] Well, I have passed it. I have not been in.
4 Q. [Mr Irving] Would you accept that this is an official history
5published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
6by its former director, Michael Berenbaum?
7 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes.
8 Q. [Mr Irving] I am sure I will be corrected by Mr Rampton if that is
9wrong. Would you turn to page 9?
10 A. [Sir John Keegan] Yes.
11 Q. [Mr Irving] Would you accept that Professor Aberhard Jackel is a
12leading German historian?
13 A. [Sir John Keegan] I am never heard of him, but then I am a military
14historian of a rather technical sort and it is not
15necessary that I should have heard of him.
16 Q. [Mr Irving] Could I ask you briefly to read the paragraph number 5,
17beginning with the words "rehearsal for destruction" and
18I will ask you a question about it. Just read it to
20 A. [Sir John Keegan] (Pause for reading) Yes.
21 Q. [Mr Irving] Would you agree that the tenor of that passage is that
22this German Professor is stating that, until my biography
23of Hitler was published in 1977, there had been no worth
24while research on the Holocaust, and that the publication
25of my book provoked the historians of the world into
26finally doing the research on that subject?
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Wednesday, Feb. 22 • 7 p.m. CT
American Bank Center (8,100) • Corpus Christi, Texas
RADIO: NewsRadio 1360 AM KKTX (Steven King)
LIVE VIDEO/STATS: GoIslanders.com
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi returns to conference play on the winning track after posting a 49-47 victory over Central Michigan on Saturday night in the Sears Bracketbusters. The Islanders will play host to UTSA on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the American Bank Center in the second of two "Los Islanders" games this season. Steven King will have the call starting at 6:45 with the Navy/Army Community Credit Union Pregame Show.
The Islanders will look to sweep the season series with UTSA, following up on a 50-49 victory over the Roadrunners in San Antonio on Jan. 11. In that contest, Terence Jones drilled a three with 1:11 to play to lift A&M - Corpus Christi to the win. On Saturday, it was Jones' two free throws with 1.7 seconds left that iced the victory for the Islanders over CMU.
UTSA is coming off an 82-71 loss at Georgia State in the Bracketbusters, and has now lost three games in a row and five of six. The Roadrunners are in third place in the Southland West, behind UT Arlington (12-0) and Stephen F. Austin (8-4).
• The Islanders emerged victorious on Saturday without having a single player finish in double figures in scoring. It is the first time the Islanders haven't had a player hit 10 points this year. It is the first time in A&M - Corpus Christi history that the team has posted a win without a double-digit scorer.
• The Islanders have used at least 10 players in every conference game and in 23 of 26 games this year. A&M – Corpus Christi has also used eight different starting lineups, with 11 different players earning starts. Myron Dempsey is the only player to have started every game for the Islanders on the season.
• A&M – Corpus Christi improved to 4-2 when holding its opponents under 60 points this season. In all four of those victories, the Islanders have scored fewer than 60 as well. A&M - Corpus Christi has held opponents to .344 shooting in wins as opposed to .446 in losses.
• The Islanders' "big three" of Terence Jones, Chris Hawkins-Mast and Myron Dempsey combined to score just 20 points at CMU, their lowest output of the season.
• The Islanders held Central Michigan to just 33 percent from the field on Saturday. Subtracting the 8-for-16 effort from star player Trey Zeigler, the Chippewas went just 8-for-32 from the floor (25 percent).
UTSA has run into some struggles as of late, having dropped five of its last six. The Roadrunners have played four of those games on the road, and all four conference losses have come to the top four teams in the Southland.
Kannon Burrage leads UTSA in scoring, averaging 13.6 points off the bench. Melvin Johnson III (13.1) and Jeromie Hill (12.8) are just behind Burrage in scoring. The strength of the Roadrunners continues to be three-point shooting, as they are hitting at a .398 clip on the season, though that is reduced to .370 in Southland action.
Terence Jones' two free throws with 1.7 seconds left iced the victory for the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team, as it knocked off Central Michigan 49-47 at McGuirk Arena on Saturday night. Trey Zeigler scored 22 points for the Chippewas in a losing effort.
Jones' nine points led the way for the Islanders, who won despite not having a single player finish in double figures. But all nine players who played in the game scored in the win for A&M – Corpus Christi, and five different players scored at least six points. The Islanders held CMU to 16-of-48 shooting on the night and forced 11 Chippewa turnovers in the win.
The Islanders have played UTSA more than any other team with the exception of UT-Pan American, and A&M - Corpus Christi has posted a 10-6 mark since the athletics program restarted in 1998. The Islanders are 6-2 at home against the Roadrunners, but fell in last year's contest at the American Bank Center, 55-47.
Since joining the Southland, the Islanders are 7-5 against UTSA, including a 50-49 win for the Islanders earlier this year in San Antonio. In that contest, Terence Jones drilled a three with 1:11 left to give the Islanders the lead for good. In each of the last six contests, the margin of victory has been in single digits, including an overtime victory for Texas A&M - Corpus Christi on Jan. 23, 2010.
Junior college transfer Myron Dempsey has been an impact player on both ends for the Islanders this season. The athletic rebounder is fourth in the Southland Conference with his 7.5 rebounds per game.
On Feb. 6 at Savannah State, he snapped a cold string with his third double-double of the season, scoring 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting and pulling down 11 rebounds. His finest outing of the season came against Utah State, when he delivered a double-double with 16 points and a career-high 15 caroms.
He is first on the team in steals (32) and is second in blocks (22) as well. He has also improved from the field over the last several games, going 44-for-86 (.512) the last 11 contests.
Looking closer at the stats, it is amazing to see how Dempsey has collected his points. The St. Petersburg, Fla., native has scored a total of 227 points. Of those, 170 (75 percent) have come from in the paint, including 85 of his 97 field goals. He hit two shots outside the paint both games vs. Texas State.


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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-069
This security update resolves several vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services. The most severe vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
XML Notepad 2007 Design
This article introduces a new version of XML Notepad. The tool was first introduced in 1998 but has been unavailable for several years. This version leverages System.Xml and adds new features.


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SANTA CLARA -- Covering tight ends is one of the few flaws in the 49ers defense, and it's been exposed all season.
Of 19 receiving touchdowns allowed, eight have come by tight ends, including one in each of the past four games.
Why are the 49ers struggling against tight ends?
"I'm not sure. I can't say it's been actually that horrific," linebacker Patrick Willis responded. "But it is what it is."
Willis often is most responsible for covering tight ends, and his next matchup will be against the Green Bay Packers' Andrew Quarless in Sunday's wild-card playoff game at Lambeau Field. NaVorro Bowman also could find himself matched up against Quarless, a former Penn State teammate.
"They use the tight end in their offense a lot. It's an important position," 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said.
Now that the Packers (8-7-1) have a stronger running game with Eddie Lacy, that could make life tougher for the 49ers (12-4) when it comes to defending play-action passes to Quarless.
"Sometimes, as a linebacker, you have to play run and pass, and sometimes a good play-action can get you off a little bit," Willis said.
That's just one aspect of the 49ers pass defense that will be tested against Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who returned from a broken collarbone to defeat the Chicago Bears on Sunday and clinch the NFC North title.
The 49ers have allowed two touchdown passes in each of their past three games. The only quarterback to throw for three touchdowns against them this season: Rodgers, in the 49ers' 34-28, Week 1 win.
One of Rodgers' touchdown passes that game went to Jermichael Finley, who sustained a season-ending neck injury Oct. 20. Finley's replacement has been Quarless, a third-year player who has become a popular target in recent weeks.
"Jermichael went down, and we had a few weeks we didn't get a lot of production out of tight ends," Rodgers said. "Then something obviously clicked in for Andrew, and he's been playing really well the last four or five weeks."
Quarless had back-to-back games of six catches for 66 yards and a touchdown in wins last month over the Falcons and Cowboys. He caught only 3 of 10 passes that came his way in the last two games, for 50 yards.
"He's not as shifty as Jermichael Finley, but he's still a tight end you have to defend," Willis said.
Rodgers has ample targets, elsewhere. Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb each had touchdown catches in the season opener at Candlestick. Nelson led the Packers with 85 receptions and eight touchdown catches in the regular season, capped by a 10-reception, 161-yard effort Sunday despite being ill. Cobb made Sunday's game-winning catch. San Jose native James Jones and Jarrett Boykin are other threats, as is Lacy.
The 49ers secondary could be playing without cornerback Carlos Rogers (hamstring) for the first time in three seasons, and the Packers surely will test his replacement, likely a combination of Tarell Brown and Eric Wright.
Last game, the 49ers allowed 407 passing yards to the Arizona Cardinals' Carson Palmer, and although Larry Fitzgerald and Michael Floyd accounted for 204 receiving yards, tight end Rob Housler produced five catches for 78 yards.
"They're going to catch their passes," Willis said of tight ends. "The main thing is just not to have any big plays or touchdowns off of it."
Tell that to Luke Willson (Seahawks), Tim Wright (Buccaneers), Tony Gonzalez (Falcons) and Jake Ballard (Cardinals). Those are the tight ends who caught touchdown passes each of the past four games against the 49ers.
"Obviously we didn't do well enough in certain instances," Fangio said. "But, I don't see that as a major problem."
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.
Sunday's game
49ers (12-4) at Green Bay (8-7-1), 1:40 p.m. FOX
Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
Tight end Andrew Quarless (81) has come on strong for the Packers after an injury to starter Jermichael Finley.


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USA, 2012, 70 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: Czech Republic
Genre/Subjects: Americana, Comedy, DocumentaryLanguage: English, Slovak English Sub-Titles
Matt Reynolds, an American expat in Slovakia with a successful career in journalism, quits his job at Reuters and returns home with one mission: to search for the perfect chicken wing. A native son of Lyons, New York, Reynolds—with his ever-patient Czech girlfriend and Slovak film crew in tow—assembles an eclectic group of wing aficionados to aid in his search. Score cards at the ready, the group hits the road on a gut-busting tour of the so-called Wing Belt of upstate New York.
Reynolds documents the journey as the group traverses the state, consuming wing after wing, sampling some 284 varieties of the dish and covering nearly 3,000 miles. The team bickers about the qualities of each wing, enters wing-eating contests and cook-offs, sleeps in dingy hotels, and inevitably reaches wing fatigue. Beyond the quest for perfect chicken wing, though, the film is about the camaraderie that transpires when a passionate group of people unite. Members of the ragtag group tell their own stories: a normally shy and retiring woodwright, Thor embodies his brazen alter ego as a competitive eater. Ron, worried about losing his job at Kodak, joins the hunt to stave off a midlife crisis. Al, down on his luck, is a folk artist and self-taught blues musician. Ric, a Hawaiian transplant to Europe, leaves his wife and newborn baby at home in Prague to join the project.
Great Chicken Wing Hunt is part road movie, part anthem to the antihero—in this case, Reynolds—who discovers that the thing he's been looking for was right under his nose all along.
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Francisco Angel Bastar, '36, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico; d
29 July '94 USA) Timbales, conga and bongo player/ composer Kako was a popular Latin
bandleader in the 60s, especially in New York, Puerto Rico and Panama. An introverted
character, he began as a dancer in Old San Juan. As a percussionist he performed
with Tito Puente, Arsenio Rodríguez, Belisario López (b
7 Oct. '03, Cárdenas, Matanzas Province, Cuba; d
19 Nov. '69, NYC; wooden flute), Mongo Santamaría, among others. He formed his own
combo mid-'50s and made two 78s on the SMC label, joining Alegre Records '58 (founded
'56 by Al Santiago) and among his earliest recordings on the label was the single
'Tributo A Cortijo' (Rafael Cortijo).


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McPherson police
At 6:42 a.m. Wednesday, officers, EMS personnel and firefighters responded to a report of a minor injury accident that occured at Penn and Walnut. The accident involved Twila Smedley, 19, of Colorado, and William Kresa, 50, of McPherson. Smedley was cited for failure to yield at a stop sign. Both patients refused EMS services.
At 1:37 p.m. Wednesday, an officer took a report of belated theft that occured in the 700 block of South Ash at an unknown time. Stolen was some furniture, with a total value of $3,000.
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PLEASANTON -- After years of planning and a delayed approval by the City Council, Walmart's Neighborhood Market opened Wednesday to excited shoppers and a small, but vocal, group of detractors who held their own welcoming ceremony.
The 33,160-square-foot full-service supermarket -- in the former Nob Hill Foods building on Santa Rita Road near Las Positas Boulevard -- is Walmart's third in the Bay Area. It joins others in San Jose and San Ramon. About 70 would-be shoppers lined up early, waiting patiently for the doors to open at 7:30 a.m. They joined a crowd of workers and local dignitaries inside for a ribbon-cutting ceremony that included representatives of the City Council, the chamber of commerce, Police Chief Dave Spiller and Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Chief Jim Miguel.
According to Walmart, the company hired 85 employees to man the store, which will provide an anchor for the Meadow Plaza shopping center and an affordable grocery option for local residents.
"Revitalizing this formerly vacant space is a multimillion dollar investment," said Delia Garcia, a Walmart spokeswoman. "We're creating jobs, helping customers save money, supporting local businesses and helping stimulate business growth in this shopping center."
Shopper Vicael Goyer, of Pleasanton, who left with a cart full of groceries and school supplies, said she came out for the festivities and figures she saved about $50 on her purchases.
"They gave the community jobs and revived the shopping center -- it looked terrible before." Goyer said. "I still will shop at Safeway too, but when I have a bigger shopping list, I'll come here because they have cheaper prices."
Not everyone was thrilled about the neighborhood's newest arrival. About a dozen protesters gathered across the parking lot with signs reading "Pay A Living Wage" and "Walmart is Bad For Business," drawing honks of support from passing motorists.
Former Pleasanton City Councilman Matt Sullivan, who opposed the store while on the council, said it will have a "detrimental impact" on the local economy and small businesses.
"We have a glut of grocery stores already," he said. "It's Walmart's model to control the market and oust the competitors out of business ... It's not something that I'm going to support."
John Roe, a Dublin Safeway employee and a member of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 -- a union representing thousands of area grocery workers -- said Walmart's anti-union stance would mean lower pay and less benefits for all supermarket employees.
"This will have a negative effect not only in Pleasanton but on the five grocery stores within a stone's throw," Roe said. "This is the opposite of a grocery desert; this is a saturated market."
The protesters capped their "Welcome to Pleasanton" rally with a march to the storefront, which didn't appear to dampen the enthusiasm of the shoppers or Walmart officials.
"The anti-Walmart folks don't speak for the customers who are here to get their shopping done," Garcia said.
Contact Jeremy Thomas at 925-847-2184. Follow him at Twitter.com/jet_bang.


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I have the latest QAD 3.0 installed on windows. I am a new user of QT so please excuse me if I am being dense.
The dynamic script "DiningTable" found in library/misc works brilliantly no problems.
The dynamic script "MyRectangle" found in library/misc shows the size menu but fails to draw a rectangle.
The script "CubeCutOut" posted in http://www.ribbonsoft.com/doc/qcad/3.0/ ... ripts.html fails. I followed the detailed instructions. I can see the icon. I do not see a menu when I drop the script into the drawing area. I also tried using QTCreator for the simple form without success, the code generated is very similar to that posted on the page.
Clearly something is not right as the "DiningTable" is very complex indeed compared to the other two examples.
Any newbie help would be welcome.


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A former teacher at a Moraga middle school rocked by a 1990s sex abuse scandal has come forward to say she warned the school principal and others on multiple occasions during that period about her suspicions but that nothing was done.
Carol Scozzafava said she complained to at least seven administrators at least a dozen times about a teacher later accused of molestation by several students, but was ignored and even punished for her actions.
Now 64 and going by her married name Carol Buchanan, she described to this newspaper a cavalier attitude by Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School administrators at the time, brushing aside serious warning signs from her and leading to her resignation. Her allegations are consistent with a 1990s cover-up by the district unearthed by this newspaper, but suggest district officials at the time may have been even more protective of the suspected abuser than has previously been revealed.
Documents that might have corroborated Scozzafava's complaints have not been discovered, but Superintendent Bruce Burns said his district is still searching.
"We're interested in uncovering as much as we possibly can to move forward with all of this," Burns said. "We've made huge improvements in student safety in this district and I want to continue those efforts."
In 1996, several girls came forward with abuse allegations against Dan Witters, a popular science teacher at the East Bay middle school. He was placed on leave and killed himself days later, halting a burgeoning police investigation. Administrators at the time assured a shocked community the allegations against Witters were new. But an investigative report by this newspaper last year uncovered dozens of documents that show administrators had heard sexual abuse allegations and a litany of improper-behavior complaints from students, parents and a teacher, but did not report them to police as mandated by law -- and allowed Witters to keep teaching. Four victims have now sued the district and three retired administrators for more than $40 million, saying their failures left them vulnerable to the molestation.
Attorneys for the defendants, including former principal Bill Walters, vice-principal Paul Simonin and superintendent John Cooley, did not return requests for comment this week.
Scozzafava, now retired and working from her Davis home on her doctoral degree in education, did not learn the recent revelations about Witters until October, when she read media reports on Kristen Cunnane, a Cal swim coach molested by Witters and raped by now-incarcerated former Joaquin Moraga PE teacher Julie Correa.
"When I read that Bill Walters had not reported, I sat at my computer desk, pounded my hands and just said, 'I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!'" Scozzafava said, tearing up in an interview at a Davis park. "I told them that this was coming down and no one did anything."
Cunnane called Scozzafava's revelations "heart-wrenching."
"I can't believe how many people at the school knew about the sexual abuse and how many warnings the district ignored," said Cunnane. "To find out that there was someone at the school actually trying to help us and that she got punished for it is incredible. Their job is to protect kids -- not each other."
New teacher on campus
Hired in 1989, Witters was popular with students and quickly buddied up with Principal Walters and Correa.
But soon, girls confided in Scozzafava about "weird" incidents in Witters' classroom that made them uncomfortable, she said. Scozzafava advised the girls to talk to the school counselor.
Another girl then came to her, describing more details about being alone with Witters in a backroom, with him rubbing backs and massaging shoulders. Scozzafava said she walked that girl to the counselor to report the incident, but nothing happened.
Internal district documents show a girl writing to the principal in 1994 saying Witters molested her in June 1990 -- his first year on campus -- about the time students began confiding in Scozzafava.
Complaints got worse
As the years passed, complaints increased, Scozzafava said. She said she saw Witters in his classroom with a female on a table, her legs wrapped around his waist. The next morning, she confronted Walters.
She recalls that the principal declined to respond, saying, "I think you should talk to him, it would be much better coming from a peer."
In all of her conversations, she said the allegations were always very "nebulous," with people dancing around the subject as if it was taboo. Internal district documents from 1994 and 1995 show students, parents and a teacher sent Walters at least eight different written notices warning of Witters' inappropriate and abusive behavior. Witters, however, received only minor rebukes and often argued he was being targeted unfairly, according to internal documents.
Scozzafava said one girl in her class regularly requested hall passes to visit Witters' classroom. One spring day, after returning from Witters' room, the girl started crying and hyperventilating, Scozzafava said; an ambulance was called. Witters rushed to the scene, she said, whispered in the girl's ear while she was on the gurney and then turned to Scozzafava, demanding, "What did you do to her?"
Soon after that, Walters brought Scozzafava into his office and showed her a petition signed by a number of parents -- including the crying girl's mother -- calling for the district to reprimand her for poor teaching, she said. Walters sent her home for the day. She said she later was told that Walters and Witters orchestrated the petition.
Later, Scozzafava said, she was temporarily relieved of her teaching duties.
She said she was moved five times in the last seven years of her 24-year teaching career in Moraga.
She said she eventually told Superintendent Cooley about Walters and Witters, and he promised to look into it. After Witters' suicide, Scozzafava went to a school board member's house and told two trustees the same thing.
Cooley recommended Scozzafava take an indefinite leave, she said, which she did reluctantly. After securing a teaching job in Vacaville, she resigned Aug. 26, 1997, the same year she won a Contra Costa teacher-of-the-year award.
"At that point, I was very sick and tired of the whole mess," she said. "I'd done this all these years to protect the kids and I was all alone."
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.