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Ten patients with lupus nephritis and marked proteinuria (3.9 g or more /d) that did not respond adequately to treatment with prednisone alone or prednisone in combination with azathioprine were treated with total lymphoid irradiation in an uncontrolled feasibility study. Within 6 weeks after the start of total lymphoid irradiation, the serum albumin level rose in all patients in association with a reduction in the serum level of anti-DNA antibodies, an increase in the serum complement level, or both. Improvement in these variables persisted in eight patients followed for more than 1 year, with the stabilization or reduction of the serum creatinine level. Urinary leakage of albumin was substantially reduced in all patients. Side effects associated with radiotherapy included transient constitutional complaints in ten patients, transient blood element depressions in three, localized viral and bacterial infections in four, and ovarian failure in one. The results suggest that total lymphoid irradiation may provide an alternative to cytotoxic drugs in the treatment of lupus nephritis.
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I just got done reading the letter to the editor in Sunday's paper and had to add a comment of my own.
I'm part of the Trinity Playhouse, which is a block down the street from the Steel Trolley, and believe me when we first painted our building we had some negative feedback on the color also.
I think Lisbon is a beautiful town, with the new library addition, the courthouse and village square. Why not add to that beauty by cleaning up the buildings with a fresh coat of paint?
The Steel Trolley has done a wonderful service by updating the buildings surrounding it. The colors are beautiful and welcoming to visitors.
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class Category(models.Model): name = models.TextField?(maxlength=50) # ... other fields here and in other models omitted class Project(models.Model): categories = models.ManyToManyField?(Category) class Developer(models.Model): projects = models.ManyToManyField?(Project)Django doesn't dynamically reflect the physical DB schema to add attributes to model instances, but nothing in Python stops that, and you wouldn't want it really in Django, because the model is also used to define additional metadata about fields, such as validation etc, not to mention documentation. Python easily provides the metaprogramming facilities needed for this. (BTW, Django does come with database introspection tools to write the models for you if you've done the DB already, or DB generating tools if you start with Python code, the latter being ideal). I should also point out the Django and Turbogears would currently be considered Python competitors to Rails, not Subway as above. Django in particular is not playing 'catch up' to Ruby, having been developed and used in-house for a few years before being open sourced. -- LukePlant?
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A Harrison County doctor has been charged with supplying excessive amounts of prescription pain medication to people for non legitimate medical reasons, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld.
Dr. Edita Milan was arrested Thursday for conspiracy to distribute schedule II, III, and IV controlled substances. Milan allegedly supplied large quantities of painkillers to her customers for no legitimate medical purpose. According to the news release, Milan's actions are believed to be financial in nature and are believed to be linked to several drug overdose deaths.
The Greater Harrison Drug Task Force had been investigating Milan and her practice for several months when in June, 2013, one of Milan's neighbors, as well as a patient of Milan, was found dead in his home in Fairmont, according to the news release.
According to the criminal complaint, the man had been prescribed large quantities of painkillers by Milan prior to his death. The complaint also states that Milan misrepresented the cause of the man's death to the medical examiner and also conspired to throw away many of the man's pill bottles after his death to conceal her connection to him.
The complaint also alleges that although the deceased man had not been in to see Milan for three months prior to his death, Milan continued to prescribe oxycodone and morphine to him, a method of prescribing that is against legitimate medical practice.
A review of State Health Department records was also conducted and showed that between 2010 and 1011 three additional patients of Milan died as a result of overdoses from pharmaceuticals that she had prescribed to them, according to the criminal complaint.
In 2009, Milan received authorization to open a narcotic treatment program, also referred to as a "pain clinic", and was permitted to treat up to 30 patients with narcotics. The investigation indicated that she was treating more than twice as many patients than she was authorized to treat, according to the news release.
It is also believed that Milan prescribed pills to people "off the books". Officials said a State Board of Pharmacy data review revealed that Milan had at least 37 patients "who are known by law enforcement to have involvement in the illegal diversion of prescription pills."
The initial investigation focused on an employee of Milan's practice who was selling painkillers in the parking lot of the office to an undercover police officer. Officials said the employee was charged in federal court and convicted.
Milan's sister, who had a prior felony drug conviction, replaced that employee, according to the news release.
Information received from a Harrison County pharmacist caused the focus of the case to change to the large number of prescriptions being written by Milan to her employees and their families, according to the news release. Surveillance conducted by task force officers confirmed these allegations.
Search warrants were then served at Milan's home and her office in Bridgeport in late June, 2013. Milan agreed to voluntarily surrender her DEA registration number on the day the search warrants were issued, according to the news release.
Hundreds of patient files were seized by investigators as a result of the execution of the search warrant at Milan's office. Officials said patients wishing to obtain copies of their medical files should make a request to the U.S. Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 591, Wheeling, W.Va., 26003. Patients should include their name, date of birth, address and phone number in the request.
Dr. Milan was arraigned by video conference Thursday afternoon and released on bond, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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CROWLEY – A two-out error in the fifth inning allowed Sacred Heart to score three unearned runs and ultimately slip past the Crowley Gents, 7-5, Tuesday afternoon in a summer league contest at Miller Stadium.
Sacred Heart had taken a 2-1 lead earlier in the fifth, but a throwing error on what would have been the third out allowed another Trojan to cross the plate and extend the inning. Michael Fruge then capped the frame with a two-run single.
The Trojans added another run in the sixth inning on a single from Benjamin Bergeron and one in the seventh on Hunter Reed's RBI single to right.
Crowley rallied in the bottom of the seventh when Luke Ancelet and Mackay Mouton were issued free passes to start the frame. Mickey Morgan then reached base on an error before Kaleb Istre drove in two runs on a single to left field. Ben Broussard followed with a single down the left field line to plate two more runs.
Both teams scored one run in the first inning.
Sacred Heart got on the board in the top of the first when Nick Firmin walked and scored on Fruge's triple to left field.
Crowley answered in the bottom of the frame when Jon-Riley Mouton scored on a wild pitch after singling to start the inning.
Sacred Heart's Andy LaFleur earned the victory after pitching four scoreless innings. He gave up two hits and two walks while striking out three.
Phillip Vidrine was credited with the save. He gave up four runs on two hits and two walks.
Crowley's Bubba Daigle was tagged with the hard-luck loss. He gave up four runs, one earned, on two hits and three walks.
Ancelet pitched the first two innings and gave up one run on two hits and two walks. He struck out three.
Mackay Mouton and Jon-Riley Mouton each gave up one run in one inning of work.
Morgan, Istre, Broussard, Jon-Riley Mouton and Luke Stutes each had one hit for the Gents.
The Trojans were led by Fruge's 2-for-4 performance that included a triple and three RBI. Evan Mire added two hits while Reed and Bergeron each had one hit.
The Gents will be in action again this evening when they play host to Mamou at 5 o'clock.


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BECAUSE SHE KEPT HER HAIR SHORT UNTIL SHE WAS 13, Amanda Peet says that during much of her childhood "everyone thought I was a boy." But her scene-stealing turn as a wannabe contract killer wearing nothing but a pistol and a smile opposite Bruce Willis in the surprise hit The Whole Nine Yards leaves no doubt that Peet, 28, is all woman. "Amanda walks into a room and everything stops," says her Nine Yards costar Matthew Perry. "She has this great eye and smile thing working for her." Still, there is something tomboyishly appealing about the 5'6" star of The WB series Jack & Jill, in which she plays the title character with the masculine name. Her beau, actor Brian Van Holt, 30, with whom she lives in L.A., says that it was Peet's way with his male friends—not her "amazing blue eyes, incredible lips and beautiful skin"—that made him fall in love with her. "One night we were with some of my buddies, and she let out the coolest belch," he says. "It was incredible seeing this beautiful woman do that." Peet, who was raised in Manhattan by Charles, a lawyer, and Penny, a social worker (they divorced in 1990), says that some of her other attributes are less appreciated. "Makeup artists always want to take my eyebrows away. They practically come at me with a lawn mower. And last year someone at a studio said I have horse's teeth. People started calling me Mr. Ed!" For a rising star, Peet, a 1994 graduate of Columbia University, is refreshing in her candor. "I haven't worked out in months," she says. "And I love junk food. I have a thing for Cheez Doodles." She's not kidding, says her friend, actress Lauren Holly. "On the way to a party the other night, she was eating this bag of them in the car, and when we got to the party, she kept asking if we could leave soon," says Holly. "Then I realized she just wanted to get back to the Cheez Doodles."
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Reasons to write TEFL reviews
Many nervous types think they could never write a review
In my erstwhile role as editor of Teflnet Reviews, I have helped many people write their first ever reviews and I've had many nervous types who thought they couldn't do it but no one who actually found they weren't able to or that it wasn't worthwhile. In fact, most people volunteer to do more. Here are 15 reasons why you might want to give it a try too:
1. Free books
Most of the places that review TEFL books supply you with a free copy of the book you are going to write about, usually with all the extras such as CDs and DVDs. You can usually choose which title you want, and this includes the very latest titles and ones that are not available in the country you are in.
2. Cash
Even if the magazine your review will appear in doesn't pay (I don't think websites ever pay), there can be other financial payoffs such as saving yourself or school money on buying books, being able to sell the review copy or writing reviews leading onto paid work (see below).
3. Makes you try something new
Being given a new book of photocopiable materials, for example, that you have to use is a great way of forcing you to try something new that can even result in your teaching being permanently changed for the better.
4. Good on your CV
Having a "publications" part of your CV with reviews on it shows a prospective employer that you are serious about your teaching, have access to new materials, can talk about teaching in a logical way, have used a variety of materials, and that you read the kinds of teaching magazines and websites.
5. Learn how to analyse materials
Writing down what you think about a book and why you have that opinion makes you much more constructively critical about all the other materials you use and helps you learn how to quickly select good books and other supplementary resources for your classes.
6. Learn how to discuss materials
Discussing which is the best book for a class or even the whole school is notoriously difficult, but writing down your ideas about ELT materials in a way that other people can understand is great practice for getting involved in such decisions.
7. Be listened to by your school
If you know about a new book before your boss does, have a review copy of a nice new title you'd like them to order you can show them, have contacts at the publishers or have a point of view that a well-known magazine or website is happy to publish, your boss should take your views on such matters as choosing the set texts for next year more seriously.
8. Helps you when you write your own materials
This is true if you just write the occasional worksheet, and even more so if you want to write published materials such as textbooks. This is because you will have thought more deeply about what makes good materials, and simply because you will have seen more materials and looked at them more carefully.
9. Easy way to start writing
Writing reviews is not just an easy way of getting published, but also an easy way to get used to putting your ideas down on paper. Starting with reviews and making sure they have paragraphs with clear topics, interesting introductions, content of interest to a wide range of readers etc is great practice for other kinds of writing such as articles of teaching ideas. It is particularly good practice for writing pre-publication reviews (see below).
10. Get noticed by publishers
Several people from the major publishers have contacted me through seeing my published reviews to ask me to submit proposals for other kinds of writing work or to offer pre-publication reviewing work, including ones who didn't know I was already doing work for other parts of their own company or that my CV was probably already sitting at the bottom of their in tray!
11. Influence people's buying decisions
Perhaps the most selfless motivation for writing reviews is that you will have a chance to influence which books people buy and use all round the world, even if you are in the situation where you don't have such influence in your own school!
12. Influence future titles
There are also almost certainly even more important people reading your reviews- the publishers. There is therefore a chance that the next series of books from that publisher will be better because of something you pointed out.
13. Use it as a way of spreading your ideas
Another way you can influence other people through a review is to use it as a platform to talk about your own ideas of teaching, for example by criticising the PPP approach of the book.
14. Get your name of the internet
This means future employers etc putting your name into Google will see a list of books you have reviewed and TEFL-related places you have been published (rather than your Facebook page).
15. Link to your other stuff on the internet
Most places that publish reviews also give you the chance to mention other publications of yours, e.g. your own blog or a list of publications on it.
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I think Thanksgiving gets a little overlooked with all of the hype leading up to Christmas. It's such a great time to contemplate all of our blessings. So when Shutterfly asked me to come up with a Fall Tablescape idea - I knew I wanted to create a Thanksgiving table! … [Read more...]
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Michele Bachmann Is On Her Way to Becoming an Official Right-Wing Martyr
Earlier this year, Jerry Boykin pulled out of a speech he was scheduled to deliver at West Point after People For the American Way and others spread the word about his conspiratorial and extremist anti-Muslim views. But while Boykin made a career out of attacking the rights and faith of Muslim-Americans, the Religious Right turned him into a martyr, declaring him a victim of supposed anti-Christian hostility. Frank Gaffney, who collaborated with Boykin on a report called "Sharia: The Threat to America," said at the time that the call for West Point to disinvite Boykin was a direct attack on the freedom of speech -- ironic, since Gaffney frequently demands that conservative groups stop working with Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan because of what he says are their ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now just as conservatives turned Boykin into a martyr after his anti-Muslim activism came back to haunt him, they are trying to do the same thing for Michele Bachmann after her McCarthy-esque attacks on Muslim-Americans serving in government led to an immediate backlash, including denunciations from her fellow Republican leaders.
Praising Bachmann as a hero and comparing her to John the Baptist and Margaret Thatcher, right-wing activists as well as radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bryan Fischer have rushed to her defense. Yesterday on The Janet Mefferd Show, Gaffney, whose work is cited by Bachmann in her letters concerning Muslim government officials, expressed his "horror" and "anger" about criticism of Bachmann and her Republican allies . "They have been subjected to the most egregious and in some cases just flat out uninformed criticism that I've experienced in these thirty-six years in Washington and I find it appalling," Gaffney said, warning that the Muslim Brotherhood is using "pre-violent" means and its allies in government "to shut down the investigations we need into this kind of subversive activity within our wire."
The ties these individuals give rise to a reasonable concern at least that maybe these people are trying to get the United States government to conform to the wishes of the Muslim Brotherhood and then you've got all these examples of how it is doing so and it's a perfect fit to I think at the minimum ask members of Congress who have oversight responsibilities to seek formal inquiries into these kinds of questions. For that, they have been subjected to the most egregious and in some cases just flat out uninformed criticism that I've experienced in these thirty-six years in Washington and I find it appalling and I'm so glad to hear people like you and I'm sure your listeners responding as I am in horror and anger at it.
For people to turn a blind eye to this civilization jihad as the Muslim Brotherhood calls it that they're waging, not the violent kind of Al-Qaeda and so on, they will get to that in due course, but what's really pre-violent in character, stealthy, subversion from within. That's what we are up against, that's what Michele Bachmann and her colleagues have called attention to, that's why they are being assailed as they are, it's to shut down the investigations we need into this kind of subversive activity within our wire.
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Cal men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery has agreed to a two-year contract extension that will keep him with the Bears through the 2015-2016 season, the school announced today.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
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- May 24, 2012 at 6:41 PM
beautiful pictures. I don't know which I like better, the food or the dishes.
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Trail mixes
Bacon wrapped anything?
A group of friends and I are getting together this weekend at the beach. We're all contributing some food and I need to make some "beach" snacks. They're all "normal" eaters and that's the kind of food they'll be contributing. Any suggestions on some primal snacks I can make (and preferably prep ahead of time)?
Thanks all!
Trail mixes
Bacon wrapped anything?
deviled eggs
kebabs of some sort
fruit salad
tomato, basil and fresh mozzarella drizzled with balsamic vinegar
shrimp cocktail
salad, dates stuffed with mascarpone
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buffalo chicken dip with celery.
Isn't it a faux pas to eat only the food that you yourself bring? Why not prepare some "normal" stuff and eat their "normal" stuff and enjoy it?
You lousy kids! Get off my savannah!
bacon wrapped shrimp stuffed with smoked gouda....or just bacon wrapped shrimp...
sausage stuffed dates wrapped in bacon. Your guests will fight over them. You can use ground italian sausage, spicy sausage, chorizo, etc.


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Peoria Rivermen head coach Jean-Guy Trudel announced Monday that defenseman Tyler Amburgey has been traded to the Pensacola Ice Flyers as part of a three-player deal. In return, the Rivermen received rookie forward Justin Alonzo, the rights to defenseman Mike MacIntyre and cash, shortly before the league's trade deadline passed at 2 p.m. CST. Both Alonzo and MacIntyre were part of Pensacola's championship team last season.
For a full list of Peoria's transactions this season, click here.
MacIntyre, 22, is currently on call-up with the St. Charles Chill (Central Hockey League), where he has been since Dec. 29. In 24 games for the Chill this season, the Belle River, Ontario native has recorded seven assists and 36 penalty minutes. He began the season with the Brampton Beast (CHL) and played seven games with no points before being signed to a three-game tryout by Pensacola on Nov. 9. With the Ice Flyers, MacIntyre appeared in 18 games and collected seven points (4g, 3a), 30 penalty minutes and a plus-8 rating.
Last season, the 5'11, 200-pound defenseman began his pro career in the Federal Hockey League with the Williamsport Outlaws, where he produced four assists and 14 penalty minutes in 16 games. MacIntyre went on to play 42 games for the Ice Flyers and tallied 17 points (8g, 9a) and 60 penalty minutes.
Alonzo, 25, appeared in 36 games for the Ice Flyers this season and recorded 21 points (6g, 15a), 28 penalty minutes and a plus-5 rating. Last season, the San Jose, California native kicked off his pro career with nine games for Pensacola, which followed a four-year career at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont. Over 97 collegiate games, Alonzo produced 106 points (34g, 72a) and 235 penalty minutes.
From 2006-2009, the 5'10, 195-pound forward played three years of junior hockey for the Boston Junior Bruins in the Eastern Junior Hockey League. There, he was a teammate of current Rivermen winger Steve Morra.
Amburgey, 22, skated in 36 games for the Rivermen this season and notched 21 points (5g, 16a) and 33 penalty minutes. He also spent more than a month on the injured reserve from Nov. 13 to Dec. 16.
A native of Rowlett, Texas, Amburgey began his pro career last season with the Quad City Mallards (CHL) and registered two assists in 17 games. He also played two games with the Fort Worth Brahmas (CHL). Prior to turning pro, the 6'2, 215-pound defenseman spent three seasons in the United States Hockey League between the Dubuque Fighting Saints and Tri-City Storm. In 2010-11, he collected three assists in 11 playoff games and helped Dubuque win the USHL's Clark Cup Championship.
The Rivermen return home on Friday for a 7:15 p.m. puck drop against the Louisiana IceGators at Carver Arena. Friday is "Superhero Night" featuring appearances by Batman, Spiderman, Captain America and more. Plus, fans are invited to participate in a superhero costume contest. The game can be heard locally on CD Country 107.9 FM or online here. Fans can also follow along via the live video and audio stream at americaonesports.com.


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In addition to fieldwork conducted by the members of Praxis, with particular focus on Central Asia besides Turkey, Praxis hosted a series of conferences since 2006. Since then, Praxis has also brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and policy-makers in its National Sociology Congresses, the third of which was organized in May 2010. With the 1st International Praxis Conference on Cultural Memory and Coexistence that is to be organized after the three nationwide conferences, it is aimed to improve inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural researches on cultural memory, with particular focus on the potential of developing common meanings and understandings.
Literature on cultural memory has extensively developed in the last two decades. Several scholarly works and conferences have been dedicated to it. The "new wars" (M. Kaldor, *New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era*), as well as the current global paradigms drawing on the language of clash have particularly reflected a strong link between cultural memory and conflict.
In opposition to the conventional thinking, this conference aims to raise the fundamental question of how individual and collective memories (M. Halbwachs, *On Collective Memory*) can generate intercultural dialogue practices and therefore used as tools for conflict resolution. We especially aim to generate research on how to develop shared meanings and common understanding at the level of ordinary people belonging to different cultural and ethno-religious communities, therefore reproduce everyday cosmopolitanism. Some of the fundamental questions that will be addressed in the conference are:
1. How is cosmopolitanism experienced in everyday life and urban spaces by members of different social groups?
2. Which are the ways in which memories of conflict and collaboration are transmitted?
3. In what ways coexistence is represented in members` and their communities` symbolic domains?
4. Which are the instruments and roles played in these transmission processes? (first-hand memoirs and narratives; historiography and historians; spatial designs and architects; novels; cinema etc.)
5. What are the ways of the construction and reconstruction of gendered memories?
6. How the sites of memory, i.e. visual history and museums, and imaginary topograhies function to shape the discourses of conflict vis-ŕ-vis experiences of coexistence and collaboration?
7. What kinds of interactions or tensions are experienced between public and private memories?
8. How do remembering and forgetting/amnesia function in justifying the present and constructing the the future?
9. How can the past be dealed through examples of the good?
10. How can narratives and oral heritage be developed as a tool for understanding and overcoming conflictual issues?
11. How can the constructive experiences be adopted as shared models for the (re)building of coexistence and inter-communal trust?
12. What can be the impacts of local experiences on identity-formation at the regional and global level?
In addition to the thematic panels, the conference will host photography exhibitions and book panels as well as film presentations on cultural memory.
300-word paper abstracts with a 200-word bio should be sent by 1 October 2010 to Ali Murat Yel (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com) and Onder Cetin (e-mail: email@example.com). Selection of the papers will be made on the basis of quality and relevance to the conference themes. Selected papers will be published in a special volume in English and in Turkish.
- Submission of abstracts: 1 October 2010
- Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1 November 2010
- Submission of full papers: 1 January 2011


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HOBOKEN – After two years of being cheated out of their Halloween fun, not even gray skies was going to hold back thousands of Hobokenites who marched in the 2013 Ragamuffin Parade today.
This year there was a Prince Charming with his Evil Queen and their two princesses. Elvis Presley rode atop a float. A spookie car pulled wheelies and bounced along behind. There were Evanoras, screams, werewolves and a half-skull or two.
The parade stepped off from Washington Street and 13th streets led by the Hoboken High School Rocking Redwings marching band. All along the route, merchants handed candy to kids who crowded around the store fronts.
Last year, the parade was held after it was postponed a couple of weeks because of superstorm Sandy and the year before the city's annual spooktacular had to be cancelled because of an unseasonal winter storm.
"Last year was Sandy. The year before that it was the snowstorm," said Hoboken resident Nina Lord, whose 16 month old daughter Stella was practicing baby steps in a little yellow bird costume. "We have had two years of pent up Halloween tension that is exploding."
After reaching Fifth Street, the costumed participants headed down to the Little League Field on River Terrace for a contest hosted by MC Polka Dot.


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Graph using PHP GD library
Say if you want to generate graph on your website using data from a data base, you might be wondering how to go about it. Well the best way I would do it is use free PHP GD library.
Here is a class i wrote to generate a graph in a PNG image for me.
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Enjoy using this,
Do let me know if you have any queries or suggestions.
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I've tried your code and it's working perfect
but there're many imp. things are missing !
you can see what kind of graphs in my mind by looking at the attached picture :)
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Mine was a simple demonstration. For advanced graphs, check this out http://pear.php.net/package/Image_Graph
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In this example we are going to draw a simple Bar graph. Take a school for exmaple. We are going to draw a graph for week days and the total number of student that come to school.
First of all we declare two arrays. The first for the student and the second for week days. Then we calculate the maximal number of student. On the basis of that number we are going to calculate the percentage length of the other bar graphs.
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Warning: imagejpeg(): Unable to open 'graph.jpeg' for writing in /test.php on line 49
What is the image graph.jpeg supposed to be?
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Not bad.. still it's more for learning. i don't think GD was planned for something like this. PHP shoud just return data, drawing or bulding graphs shoud be done on cliend side (with flash or js)
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The America brought the freedom!
I'm TURK!
by Lydia HowellAs the Bush Administration's distortions (mis)leading us into war on Iraq are exposed, thoughtful people might ask: What defines real "debate"? During two weeks of evening news surrounding Colin Powell's presentation of (now discredited) "evidence" to the United Nations last winter, media watchdog FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) conducted analyses of NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS. They found 393 instances of arguments for war; only three against. Yet, right-wing commentators still relentlessly claim a "liberal media bias.
an interview with Flo Razowsky by Ed Felien
"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable." —John F. Kennedy
Flo Razowsky, Pulse correspondent in Palestine, former cook and manager at Hard Times Café, and dedicated peace worker, was arrested Sunday, March 14 while protesting, non-violently, against Israeli bulldozers that are creating a walled ghetto for Deir Qaddis and eight other Palestinian villages.
by Mark Connor
The bus drivers and mechanics for the Metropolitan Transit Service have been on strike for more than two weeks now. The last time they were on strike was in 1995. Then the fight was over working conditions more than pay, and although that dispute was settled with the contract that just expired, the agreement was a compromise, and at that time some employees could already foresee the potential for conflict.
by Dennis Curran
For University of Minnesota students, the bus strike brings mixed emotions. On the one hand, most students-cum-bus-riders are thrilled at a legitimate excuse to miss that 8 a.m. course (Sorry, Professor, I forgot how to ride my bike seeing as I normally take the bus). On the other hand, however, many of the students dependent on public transit grow familiar with a given route's drivers, appreciating their promptness, courtesy, safe driving and quick service. Students want the striking workers, the familiar faces, to receive due compensation.
by Chris Allison
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It was one year ago this Sunday when 47 people were killed in that train tragedy in Lac Megantic.
A train filled with oil derailed and exploded in the town's downtown area.
CJAD's Aaron Rand broadcast his show from the town on Friday.
Amoing his guests was MNA Ghyslain Bolduc, who's chairing a cabinet committee overseeing the reconstruction.
He's says they're defining the framework for financial assistance so that the town is rebuilt properly.
Bolduc adds they're also working to secure the budget to complete the reconstruction ans that his schedule has four parts, including determining a budget.
It has been a extremely difficult year since the tragedy.
"You see more prescriptions more anti-depressants, and we see more pills for sleeping, (sleeping aids). Life is not as usual; (people are) stressed and anxious. I know a few families that get separated, that divorced because there's tension", local pharmacist Claude Charron told CTV News.
Jean Clusiault lost his daughter Kathy in the disaster.
He told CTV News he thinks of her often and explained how he's manatged to go on.
"Faith, family and friends. And me, I'm lucky. I've got a lot of people around me, but I know that some people are very, very alone" said Clusiault.
Mayor Colette Roy Laroche says it wasn't easy for her council to allow trains to continue running through the town for economic reasons.
Her popularity soared following her courageous leadership following the disaster.
CJAD News will be in Lac-Megantic during the weekend.
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Build a Popsicle Stick Bridge Activity
A bridge is a structure built to span a body of water or other physical obstacle. Designs and materials vary, depending on the purpose of the bridge and the setting that it's in. If your child could design her own bridge, what would it look like? Inspire her to put on an engineer hat for the day, as she constructs her very own, double-decker bridge out of popsicle sticks.
What You Need:
- Popsicle sticks
- All-purpose glue or wood glue
- Invisible tape
- Construction paper
What You Do:
- Have a discussion with your child about different types of bridges, and explain that a double-decker bridge has two levels. Look online together at pictures of double-decker bridges.
- Help her construct the sides of the bridge first. Have her lay down three popsicle sticks, end-to-end.
- Then, she should glue two popsicle sticks end-to-end, on top, so that they overlap the bottom three sticks.
- Now, help her break one stick in half to glue over the ends of the bottom sticks.
- Have her repeat steps 3 and 4, three more times (creating a total of 4 bridge sides).
- Next, she'll glue the supporting beams. Her beams can be straight up-and-down, or triangles, as shown in the photograph. Have her glue beam sticks to the top and bottom of two bridge sides (using eight popsicle sticks for up-and-down beams as shown below).
- Have her repeat step six, with eight more popsicle sticks for two other sides of her bridge. (More sticks will be used if she decides to make triangle beams.)
- Now, she'll make two bridge decks. Have her glue popsicle sticks across the bottom of two bridge sides, and over the tops of bridge sides.
- She can also cut construction paper into rectangular bridge "roads" to glue or tape onto bridge decks.
- For additional math, have her estimate how much weight her bridge will hold, and carefully test out various weights!
Beth Levin has an M.A. in Curriculum and Education from Columbia University Teachers College. She has written educational activities for Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and Renaissance Learning publishers. She has a substitute teaching credential for grades K-12 in Oregon, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.


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Ruth Patrick, 94, a Philadelphia biologist who has researched the effects of water pollution for more than 60 years, will receive a lifetime achievement medal from the Heinz Family Foundation.
The foundation, established by Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz in 1984, is to announce the award today.
Patrick is currently the Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology (the study of bodies of fresh water) at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Among her early successes 50 years ago were studies that quantified the ability of tidal wetlands to absorb pollutants, thereby acting as natural wastewater-treatment plants.


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25 Cool Things to Do with Wine Bottles
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Chalk All Over Wine Bottles
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Life is too short to waste on boring crafts. Instead of doing the same old recycled crafts, try out some wine bottle projects. This Chalk All Over Wine Bottles craft from Melony Bradley will let you explore different paints to create totally unique home decor. The glossy and vibrant colors stand out even more against the chalkboard paint on these bottles. Use these refashioned wine bottles as vases to show off your freshly picked flowers. You'll love walking by these brilliant vases and seeing a personalized message chalked on the bottles.
- Used wine bottles
- DecoArt's Gloss Enamels in Bright Orange and Calypso Blue
- Oven
- Brush
- Cardstock
- DecoArt's Chalkboard Paint
- Flower mold
- Clay
- DecoArt's Americana Acrylics
- Glue
- Hemp
Brush on Gloss enamels in Bright Orange and Calypso Blue onto bottle. Once you have several coats on the bottle in the desired opaque finish, bake them according to the manufacturer's instructions to cure the paint.
Use a rectangular card stock template to trace the shape using a black permanent marker.
To add the chalkboard paint to the bottle, use DecoArt's Chalkboard Paint for glass and a 1" brush to paint inside the traced rectangle. It will take more than one coat to get a nice opaque covered here.
While paint dries between coats, use a push mold and white Sculpey III to form several leaves and flowers. Bake according to manufacturer's instructions and let cool.
Use DecoArt's Americana Acrylics to paint the pieces in shades that coordinate with the Gloss Enamel colors.
You can dry brush your pieces with Lamp Black for a vintage look.
Use a super strong adhesive to glue the clay shapes to the edges of the bottles while the bottles lay on their sides. Work on one area at a time.
Add some hemp from Hemptique to the neck of the bottles, wrapping around several times and securing with tacky glue.
Switch the messages out depending on whatever sentiment inspires you or with the changing of the seasons. These colors will be suitable through Spring, Summer and well into Fall.
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CAMDEN - A child and an adult were victims of unrelated shootings late Tuesday, law enforcement officials confirmed.
Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
A man was shot in the abdomen shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Federal Street and Leonard Avenue.
Later that night, a 2-year-old child was reported wounded by gunfire. Additional details are expected later today.
Both victims are said to be recovering from their injuries.
These shootings came just hours after two men were shot to death in Camden on Tuesday, bringing the city's 2013 murder toll to 57.
Police said 31-year-old Jorge Chavis and 23-year-old James Anderson, both of Camden, were shot around 12:15 p.m. on the 700 block of Division Street. Both victims were dead at the scene, according to authorities.
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I don't exactly know where Nike is going with this viral video campaign with KD's neighbor, but I must say, the videos are getting pretty good. At first, it was kind of weird with the taking out of the trash and ordering pizza stuff. But now, they're getting a little more creative. The latest one is Durant showing off his little Man Cave which is really a Man Shed. It's kind of weird that they built that cool little hut just for this, but still, neat.


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A dance festival is going on in Denton
March 22 & 23 is Collage 2013: Denton Dance Festival. It doesn't seem like an entire year has gone by since I was writing about the 2012 Denton Dance Festival, but it has.
The annual festival is hosted by Denton City Contemporary Ballet, and it always promises a variety of dancers and genres. This year is no exception with diverse area companies again uniting to celebrate the art of dance. Returning from last year is Green Space Dance. Joining them is FireWalk Dance, imPulse Dance Project and Simple Sparrow Dance. A former dancer with the Kiev Ballet of Ukraine, Yulia Ilina, will perform as the special guest.
Tickets are $12.50-$16.50 and are available from Denton City Contemporary Ballet.
Thursday, Mar. 3, 8 p.m.
Friday, Mar. 3, 8 p.m.
Campus Theatre
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Upcycled Denim Tote Bag
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Recycled fabric projects can extend the life of your old clothes and help you save money on supplies. Use an oversized or outdated pair of jeans to create a sturdy Upcycled Denim Tote Bag from Cyndee Kromminga. You can use this bag all year long and store everything you need.
- Old blue jeans
- Measuring tape
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- Sewing machine
- Fabric for the lining
- Iron
Cut 18, 6-inch squares from your stash of old blue jeans.
Position your squares in two different nine-patch arrangements. The nine-patches will be the front and back to the tote. Sew the arranged patches together by placing each square with the wrong sides facing each other and using a 1/4-inch seam allowance. The raw seams will be on the outside of the tote bag. Open the seams and iron them flat.
Place the two, nine-patches together with the wrongs sides facing each other. Align the edges and choose which edge will be the bottom of your tote. Cutting through both layers, round the bottom corners.
Cut out a jean pocket 1/4-inch beyond the edges. Center the pocket on the front of one tote bag side and pin. Sewing through the extra fabric at the edge of the pocket, attach the pocket. Tip: A zipper foot will allow you to get as close to the edge of the pocket as possible.
Fold your chosen lining fabric into two layers with the right sides facing each other. Place one tote bag side on the layers with the right side facing up. Using the bag side as your pattern, cut through both layers of the lining fabric. Including the tote bag side, you now have three stacked layers. Lay the remaining tote bag side on your work surface with the wrong side facing up. Place the layered stack on top. Pin around the sides and bottom to keep the pieces from shifting. Do not pin along the top edge or the first couple of inches down from the top.
Cut two 2 1/2-inch-wide by 18-inch-long strips from the lining fabric. These are your handles. Fold one handle in half with the right sides facing and the long edges matching. Pin the long edges together and sew using a 1/4-inch seam allowance. Do not sew the ends. Repeat with the remaining handle strip. Turn the handles right side out and press. Top stitch along both long edges of each handle 1/4-inch from the edge.
Lay the tote on your work surface. Insert 1/2 inch of the ends on one handle between the top two layers of the stack. Center one end behind the seam of the first two squares and the other end behind the seam of the last two squares. Pin the two layers and the handle together. Flip the bag over and pin the remaining handle in the same way.
Fold the top edge on the back of the tote out of the way. Sew the top edge on the front using a 1/4-inch seam allowance. This will secure the handles and finish the top edge. Flip the bag over and sew the other top edge in the same way.
- Sewing through all the layers of the tote bag, sew the pinned side and bottom edges.
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May 01, 2016
Another great denim tote to make. I love that you have used different color jeans and cut out squares. This gives it a completely different look. And another recycle project. This is so super easy and is so quick to make but does not look it. I love the pocket outside but I think I would add a few inside too different lengths and widths. I love my pockets to store things. Thanks for tutorial.
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Skip to comments.Krauthhammer: No Pro-Israeli American Would Vote for Obama...
Posted on 07/28/2012 3:59:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
Nationally syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer has never been one to mince words when discussing the presidents ever-growing litany of foreign policy blunders. And, apparently, he has no intentions of stopping now. In fact, during a recent panel discussion on Special Report With Bret Baier, he seems to have taken his public criticisms of the president to a whole new level, essentially saying no one who is pro-Israel would re-elect Barack Obama unless theyve been in a coma for three and a half years. Via Fox News:
Friday Lightning Round: US relationship with Israel
Despite Krauthammers misgivings about the presidents leadership capabilities -- and unconscionable failures on the international stage -- a recent Gallup poll nevertheless shows Jewish Americans overwhelming support President Obama this election cycle.
While Republicans may look favorably on Romney's visit to Israel, another group with keen interest in U.S.-Israeli relations -- Jewish Americans -- solidly backs Obama in the election.
Gallup Daily tracking from June 1-July 26 finds Jewish registered voters favoring Obama over Romney by 68% to 25%. That is essentially the same as Gallup's prior update on Jewish voting preferences.
Although one goal of Romney's Israel visit could be to attract greater support among Jewish voters in the U.S., Jewish Americans have been a traditionally strong Democratic group, so they are unlikely to become much more supportive of Romney regardless of the outcome of the trip.
On Sunday, Mitt Romney will arrive in Israel where he is expected to receive a warm welcome from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and other Israeli leaders.
No one deserves to be suprised at Barack Hussein Obama's hostility toward Israel or the policies this evil man practices; e.g., midwifing the Iranian nuclear bomb.
I agree and I wont vote for Romney either...
p.s. I am not so sure I believe Gallup either.
We will be fortunate if the Jews don't vote for him both in NY and Florida. They are as dense as Black voters when it comes to voting Democrat.
It never ceases to amaze me that folks like yourself are so willing to impose 4 more years of evil on my wife, children and grandchildren and this once grat nation. Stay home on election day and think what I'm thinking about you.
Good going pal
It has become pointless to point out to the 3rd party or stay at home voters the damage their tantrum will cause.
Good for you..now go commit suicide by yourself. I aint having no part in it. And BTW. When the shooting starts if Obama gets back in by your hand, and those like you. I expect you all to be right there alongside the rest of us.
I wont hold my breath and I doubt the rest of us will either.
Exactly!! Krauthammer intelligence is so over rated!
They are liberals and only care about themselves and certainly not the land given by God to Abraham and his descendants. They are Jewish for holiday purposes only.
A 40 year journey for an 11 day trip shows a hardened heart towards the things of God and that mindset is still prevalent. However, God always has a remnant and still does and those moved into the Promised Land and will, again.
Well, duh.
In my mind, Romney, aided by a GOP Congress, probably does more long term damage to America than Obama, opposed by a GOP Congress, can do in four more years.
That title works for me. More importantly, "No Pro-United States U. S. citizen" would either.
It's not his intelligence that's in question here,it's his appreciation of reality.It's logical for a guy like him (or any reasonable person) to assume that Americans would support a civilized,Western nation like Israel.His error is his inability to understand just how far down the toilet Western "progressives",including those in the US,have sunk.
And knowing full well what would happen, the Judenrat told European Jews that homes and farms had become available in the East and the following 1,000 Jews were to report to the train station for transport to their new homes.
I think that's an astute observation. I'm glad to see others adopting that kind of logic. It goes beyond the RNC soundbites to make assessments based on what the reality would really be with Romney and a Republican controlled Congress.
The one kicker there is this. Unless the Republicans get a filibuster proof Congress and Senate, Obama can still rule by Executive Order. And nothing would discourage that dip-stick from ruling in that manner.
Under that same scenario, he could also refuse to sign any legislation whatsoever, if he so chose.
The Romeny/Congress(R) would be as troublesome as the Obama/Congress(R). That's why some of us were screaming bloody murder earlier this year when leading Republicans were kissing Romney's feet.
Good luck now fellow campers.
Come back to earth. If Obama wins, there will be no GOP congress.
The party that wins the presidency always gains seats in the house and the GOP is only holding on to a very small majority.
So yes, by not firing Obama you are effectively handing the country over to the enemy and there's no silver lining about it. People will suffer, people will die and the country may never recover.
So who are you going to vote for then? You could right in Ralph Nader he would like your vote.
that Americans would support a civilized,Western nation like Israel
Many many do but they are Christian, not Jewish.
Bottom line - he does know it - it's just an attempt to woo them towards Romney. Now the jerk should have used something they are interested in instead of being deceptive.
Sad. My brother is going to vote Obama again. No doubt his wife as well, and probably their friends. I thought he had wised up. Obama HAS hurt him personally, financially, and will do much more damage. My brother loves Israel and donates, etc.
Krauthammer is right — lots of Jews are IDIOTS.
However, please, on this thread, use the word "most.". There are those f us who get it. Don't tar all Jewish FReepers and conservatives, including Mark Levin, with your generalizations... Some of us are ashamed at how sheeplike our brethren are.
Some people obviously never learn
Ah, thanks! So the old Kraut worships whatever evil is in vogue, I see.
So, it means you will vote for that arrogant, lazy, lying pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, is that correct?
At least we have some chance in Romney. In Obama there is none. A chance at life vs certain death? God vs Allah?
I think you're being very foolish.
Ronald Reagan was the first President I voted for, and I have never voted for a rat and never will
I don't believe that Charles Krauthammer is talking particular about Jewish voters. I am Catholic and I support Israel and the Israelis
re: It has become pointless to point out to the 3rd party or stay at home voters the damage their tantrum will cause.
well said!
There is no doubt. that should the Marxist Obama be president for a second term, the U. S., as it has been known for the past 100 years, as a nation of individual freedoms, prosperity, fairness, and growth will end. Obama intends to destroy our nation as he bows to the Marxist terrorists of the world. The only way to stop him is to impeach him now for the offenses he has already committed. There will undoubtedly be fraudulent voting in November, the likes of which no one has ever previously seen in this nation.
I bet most of these people that say they won't vote for Romney, voted for obama and will again.
Just you wait. There'll be plenty of "proud Jews" and "proud Zionists" who will vote for him because it's dogma to them that liberal Democrats are the best for Jewish issues, including Israel.
I hope you are joking.
I no longer care what it takes, this criminal Pimp in Chief has got to go! He is a Traitor to the constitution and republicans who have caught him in endless lies need to step up and treat him as such. Get rid of this disgustingly deceitful POS now! November can't come soon enough.
I wish I were too.
I read numerous times on this site regards impeaching Zero.
Some want to do it now, others after they vote third party and obama wins a second term, to show him, yeah that's the ticket.
The house votes on the indictments, simply majority.
If indicted (impeached), it then goes to the senate for a trial, with the 100 senators sitting as judges. takes 2/3 vote to convict and remove.
.The question is, do you believe in your lifetime, much less in a scenario where zero wins a second term, there will be a 2/3 majority in the senate to convict?
If so, I would like to hear how. If not, it is nothing more than pissing in the wind, verbal diarrhea.
I think it's more important to them to keep the country safe for abortion on demand and gay marriage and no torte reform than to safeguard Israel. They have to be self loathing Jews to vote for this guy.
It's insane. You'd think abortion (on which Judaism doesn't have the exact same position, but it's mighty close) was the most important thing in Judaism. How in the world did Jews manage to live in the US until 1973? Was abortion so central before then?
The Jews were chosen to represent G-d to the world. Now many of them think their mission is to combat chrstianity and secularize the world.
Speak to the establishment and stop the drama of blaming others for THEIR deliberateness and mitt's tactics w/them that was long in the making and well planned to deceive voters.
I expect you all to be right there alongside the rest of us.
No. The establishment will be as they own you now. What comes down is all THEIR doing but since they don't give a flip about you - you need to vent somewhere. Get yourself a pillow - because we aren't listening.
But a beltway insider who is a semi-conservative columnist and yet supports gun control might vote for a centrist Mormon whose principles are "flexible."
Or Romney either for that matter. Jews are Gentiles.
Define "Zion" and I guarantee Mitt's definition is different.
The problem with your thinking is that Obama does what he wants, regardless of the law, or what the Congress does, or doesn't do. He simply states a law or a directive, even when it has been voted down by Congress, and because of his illegal, Satanic power, it is done. It is obviously that vast amounts of people who should be standing against him, are very afraid of the powers behind him. They may be being threatened, as well as their families. Something is keeping people in authority frozen when it comes to stopping him. Even if we elect him out, it will be by grace if he goes. He is obviously not a lawful, legally abiding President, but a despot.
God help us, because if He doesn't, Obama and minions will undo us. The answer, first, is that we all must repent and plead for God's merciful grace and help, rather than His justice. Decent, God loving people should be calling for National days of fasting and praying, encouraging Americans to change our life styles from self centered indulgence to serving the living God. As David killed Goliath, and Israel won the battle because David believed in God's ability to conquer, so must we become, if we are to prevail. The stakes have become way too high for us to ignore our real need for God's intervention.
"Poor Barack.If He's Reelected,Think Of The Mess He'll Inherit!"
Love your tag line!!! Send that to various T-Shirt and bumper sticker companies if you originated the thought!
As for Krauthammer, I think he's angling for the FEW American Jews who still feel a connection to Israel.
The rest of American Jews are hopelessly in the Obamatard camp.
-—"It never ceases to amaze me that folks like yourself are so willing to impose 4 more years of evil on my wife, children and grandchildren and this once great nation."
Exactly!! I can't bear the thought of it. I fear this Nation will not be able to recover another 4 years of Fascist King Narcissus.
Better scrub hard to get that yellow streak off your back.
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Major blunder of (Timerman) and Cristina Fernandez in Vietnam
Argentine president Cristina Fernández tour of Southeast Asia came to an end on Monday with an embarrassing admission by the leader that she had "put her foot in it" in a press conference in Hanoi by making a statement which was factually incorrect regarding when Argentina recognized Vietnam as a state.
However, the President responded by blaming her hapless Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman for giving her the wrong information.
The incident occurred during the final day of Cristina Fernández tour of the region, in which she described Vietnam as the "icon of struggle" of its generation, after meeting with her counterpart President Truong Tan Sang to strengthen commercial ties.
The Argentine president was hosted at an official reception by her local counterpart, whom she invited to visit Argentina to "forge denser bilateral ties."
The President also referred to her meeting with the CEO of the top 18 companies in Vietnam as "very, very good" and mentioned the interview with the CEO of the Hong Kong Noble Group and "major investors in Santa Fe."
These groups "pledged investments (with late former president Néstor Kirchner) and fulfilled their obligations. They announced that they continue and will continue to invest," said the President.
As to the mishap, Cristina Fernández in her speech on Monday said she was happy after "40 years of bilateral relations" and that Argentina, after Cuba and Chile, was "one of the first countries to recognize a unified Vietnam," although the President said that this occurred under the presidency of Héctor Cámpora.
Argentina officially recognized Vietnam during the late Juan Domingo Perón's third stint as president in 1973. Cristina Fernández later recognized her mistake, admitting that she "put her foot in it," though blaming Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman for the blunder.
"(Héctor) Timerman mixed up the date; he told me that (the recognition) had occurred during Cámpora's presidency, and I put my foot in it at the press conference," confessed the President.
Full diplomatic relations were established 25 October 1973 during Juan Domingo Peron's very short third presidency from September 1973 to his death in July 1974.
Vietnam opened its embassy in Buenos Aires in 1995 and Argentina in 1997 when then President Carlos Menem visited the country and officially opened the embassy in 1997.
The Argentine president also had to admit that the Vietnamese outwitted her even with Argentine history: via Twitter she described Monday talks as "excellent", adding "a more intense day would have been impossible" and paying tribute to her counterpart's knowledge of Argentina: "(Truon) spoke about Juan José Castelli as a great speaker of the May Revolution...I almost fell out of my chair".


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AT&T CENTER – Asked what he learned after his team defeated the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio 111-100 on Saturday, Indiana Pacers head Coach Frank Vogel responded, "Nothing."
Why was it nothing that he learned about his team on a night when they led by 26 points at one time?
"It's a regular season game," explained Vogel. "What if we won game seven (of the Eastern Conference Finals) and played these guys? I don't think it would have been anything like today."
For San Antonio, Saturday marked their fourth loss of the season and coincidentally, their fourth loss to a top-talent team. The Spurs currently sit at 15-4 on the season, still placed second in the Western Conference and third overall in the NBA through 19 games. Against teams that are .500 or better record-wise (winning teams), the Spurs are 5-4.
Looking at their 5-4 record against winning teams in more detail, the Spurs are scoring 96.5 points per game while giving up 97.8 points per game against those nine teams – a margin of -1.3 points per game.
Some critics might say the Spurs can beat the bad teams (10-0 vs. competition below .500), but they are having trouble with teams they could potentially see in the playoffs. If there's one trend against the top notch teams, it's the Spurs' ability to fall behind in games and at times, not make that leap in recovering.
A week before playing the Pacers, the Spurs found themselves down 23 points at home to the Houston Rockets. The Spurs would battle back to reclaim the lead before Houston finally put San Antonio away in the closing minutes. Going back to the second game of the season in Los Angeles, the Spurs found themselves down 15 at one point against the Lakers but they were able to climb the hump and beat the Lakers by six points that night.
Falling behind has been a larger occurrence for this Spurs team against winning teams than has gaining a big lead on said teams. Against the nine winning teams they have faced, the Spurs have fallen behind by 10 or more points 6-of-9 times while they have only held a 10 or more point lead 4-of-9 times against those teams. When you put those numbers into total type statistics, here's how the total points winning opponents have been ahead on San Antonio and the amount of largest leads total San Antonio has been ahead on those teams.
Opponents' largest lead combined Spurs' largest lead combined
118 points – 13.1 point average 76 points – 8.4 point average
That's a difference of 42 points. When you play better competition, obviously your numbers aren't going to be as spectacular as when you beat up on the bad teams. Better ball clubs will exploit your weaknesses and as has been witnessed through six of those nine games against winning teams, winning teams can take a large lead in some cases, and then the Spurs haven't been able to recover.
For this Spurs team, it's been a number of issues that become exploited against top talent teams – stagnant offense at times, turnovers, missed assignments on defense, lack of focus and energy, etc. It's all part of the process that comes in November and December as part of an 82-game season. In fact, the Spurs have matched their record through 19 games last year as they went 15-4 and suffered losses to the Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks, Clippers, and Miami Heat. All four of those teams made the playoffs and the Spurs ended up being less than 30 seconds from a title in game six against the eventual champion Heat.
When a team wins 50-60 games a year and hasn't missed the playoffs since Tim Duncan joined the franchise, some critics of the team might at times overreact and find any type of weakness to pin-point since winning is the norm and losing is not a consistent issue.
In the Spurs' locker room, there reads the famous quote by Jacob Riis on 'Pounding the Rock.' There's a reason why the Spurs have built their team by this concept year after year – because they know it's all part of the process and like Vogel said Saturday, this won't be the Spurs team that the Pacers would play in a playoff series should they meet in the future.
Yes, the Spurs are 5-4 against winning ball clubs and they may lose more games to those types of teams but as Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said on November 30 when the Boston Celtics were in town, it's too early to over-analyze teams, you just have to worry about your own team.
"I haven't watched anybody except ourselves," said Popovich that night on whether he's watched the Celtics.
"I haven't sat down and scouted anybody or watched anybody because at this point in the season there's enough to fix on your own team," continued Popovich, "and if you do those things well, you'll be in pretty decent shape. You'll worry about those guys (opponents) as the season progresses."
The Spurs lost to another winning team Saturday, but as history tells us, there is going to be a huge difference from how this team looked one December night to the finished product come April.


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Hostile Attribution Bias
From PsychWiki - A Collaborative Psychology Wiki
While driving home one day, Tim sees a car swerving from one lane to another. As Tim draws closer to the car, he decides to merge away. He curses at the reckless driver and continues on his way home. What Tim did not know is that inside the other car there was a woman in labor and the other driver was swerving through traffic in order to arrive at the hospital as quickly as possible. What just occurred is an example of a hostile attribution bias. Just like Tim, many people would also make this same assumption and would react in the same manner. Hostile attribution bias is one type of aggression that can be explained by the C.N.A. model, which examines two techniques that can be used to prevent such an event.
Robert A. Barron and Deborah R. Richardson (1994) define Hostile Attribution bias as a tendency to perceive hostile intent on the part of others, even when it is really lacking. Look back at the example where "Tim" perceived that the other driver was intentionally driving recklessly and he became hostile. Hostile attribution bias can lead to aggression by the process of the reactive response to provocation theory. When being reactive, the person believes that they are responding to provocation by the other person. The person will become aggressive to a provocation that only he perceived. A recent study was conducted to show how men can perceive a friendly or platonic encounter with a female and make the assumption that there was a sexual or romantic basis for the encounter. When a woman approached them and initiated contact, an assumption was made that they were looking for more than "small talk". Their perception was incorrect, as the women were only being sociable, and when this mistaken attribute of intent resulted in rejected sexual advances, the men became angered. It was also proven that the manner in which the woman was dressed played no role in the man's mistaken attribution. (Farris 2010).
Hostile attribution bias leads to aggression by the Cognitive Neo-association Model of aggression which states that: frustration or aversive stimuli instigate aggressive reactions by creating negative affects. The interpretation of the persons affect by telling the person to fight or flight. All will depend on how the person has perceived the affect as negative (the person would flee) or positive (the person is angry and looking for confrontation) (Barron & Richardson 1994 "29"). In the previous example about the driver; the stimuli was the other driver, which evoke his aggression. His negative affect was his malignant perception of the other driver. Tim's response was to flee (flight) because he decided to merge away from the car. In the Dodge study it was show that juveniles had a tendency to become angry but did not act out there aggression to others (Dodge 1900). Just because they did not act out the incident does not meant that they didn't remain hostile.
Now that we know that hostile attribution bias can lead to aggression lets look at two different ways that we can prevent hostile attribution bias to prevent/reduce aggression. First, we should help individuals change their trait when it comes to attribution. Traits are characteristics that we have since birth. If we can find a way to make alterations to those traits we can help develop a rational person. Then he/she won't assume the worst, next time he/she bumps into someone. Secondly, to teach individuals that fighting is not always the answer. That just because they can fight doesn't mean we have to (Hostile attribution, n.d., para 1). Many people feel that when provoked you should act out.. Have they not heard; "turn the other cheek", or "be the bigger person". Sancilio, Plumert and Hartup conducted a study that measured the hostile attribution bias that a child would have to a friend vs. a non friend. The child's reactive responds were mildly different to either person. They didn't give their friends the benefit of doubt or shrug off provocations from them. Like presumed to the "not friends" they tended to be aggressive (Sancilio 1989). In this case study we can see that children can aggress against friends and strangers. It all depends on the person's perception.
In conclusion Hostile Attributional Bias is the perception of a hostile intent of another person when there really isn't one. Hostile Attributional Bias does lead to aggression by the reactive reaction response and by the definition of the C.N.A. model of aggression. In example of the males' misconception the woman's intent for a conversation was seen as a sexual invitation. Two different preventing techniques that we can use are: to manipulate a trait that helps alter perception and to teach the idea that fighting is not always the answer to confrontation.
Example / Application - Real-life
A recent report on CNN spoke about teachers in Arizona being discriminated against because of their foreign accent. The Arizona education board is re-examining these teachers to see if they're adequate to teach the English language because they don't want students to learn incorrect pronunciations - which could affect their comprehension of reading and writing the English language. The belief is that teachers with "faulty English" will not be able to properly teach students. Arizona also just passed a law related to illegal immigration. This problem can be seen from two different perspectives, the teachers' and the Education board's. The teachers' believe that the government is discriminating against foreign teachers. The educational board claims that they are only improving education standards and have no issue with a teacher's accent - the issue is competency. In this incident it will be hard to address the prevention of hostile attribution bias. (Teachers 2010).
Example / Application - Columbine
In 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold committed an infamous mass murder at their high school (Columbine). They arrived heavily armed and began selectively and randomly shooting students and faculty before finally killing themselves. One of the factors cited as motivating Harris and Klebold to commit these acts was that both students were bullied by their peers. Early media accounts portrayed a situation where two "misfit" students were driven by the mistreatment of their peers into committing mass murder. It was reasonable to portray hostile attribution bias as one of the motivating factors behind Harris and Klebold's rampage but in recent news it was shown that both students were also bullies themselves. They were also severely depressed, which was the main motivator for their actions. Hostile attribution bias did not play a major role in the motivation to kill but it came into play when Harris and Klebold selectively shot some individuals and spared others. It was more of a psychological problem that led them to such horrible acts. To go out in a killing spree was not the correct answer. We could have worked on approaching the situation differently. To explain to students that just because you can become aggressive does not mean that you have to (Toppo 2009).
Barron, R. & Richardson D. (1994). Human Aggression. New York: Plenum press.
Dodge k., Prince, J. & Newman, J. (1990). Hostile attribution biases in severely aggressive adolescents. Journal of abnormal psychology, 99(4), 385-392.doi: 10.1037/0021-843x.99.
Farris, C., Treat, T., & Viken, R. (2010). Alcohol alters men's perceptual and decisional processing of women's sexual interest. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119(2), 427-432. doi:10.1037/a0019343.
Hostile attribution (n.d) May 13, 2010, from http://psychwiki.com/index.php?tittle=psy307-hostile_attribution_bias&principle=yes.
Sancilio, M., Plumert J., & Hartup, W. (1989) Friendship and aggression as determinants of conflict outcomes in middle childhood. Developmental psychology, 25(5), 812-819, doi: 10.1037/0012-16184.108.40.2062
Teachers with accents (May 24, 2010). Teachers with accents under fire. May 24, 2010, from:http://cnn.com/video/#/video/bestofv/2009/10/23/cb.perception.of.latinos.cnn?iref=videosearch
Toppo, Greg (2009). 10 years later the real story behind columbine. May 12, 2010, from http://usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-o4-13-columbine-myths.n.htm
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Originally a racial slur directed at Filipinos created by American Soldiers during WWII meaning "fucking little island people." However, many Filipinos today have come to use the term when referring to the word Filipino. Also, a recent ad campaign for a company in the Philippines changed the meaning to "Fine Looking Island People"
WWII Soldier: Damn! Where are those FLIPS? They were supposed to reinforce us an hour ago.
DtodaAtodaEtodaBによって 2006年09月01日(金)
A derrogatory term meaning "fucking little island people", usually used to insult those of Filipino ancestry.
I hate that fucking, flip!
jay pimpizzleによって 2005年06月07日(火)
A Deragatory term used against those of Filipino culture. The word is an Acronym for the phrase "F**KING LITTLE ISLAND PERSON" or "F**KING LITTLE ISLAND PEOPLE"...etc..
an example isnt needed...
the example is the stupidity in those that use the term without knowing its meaning and origin.
the example is the stupidity in those that use the term without knowing its meaning and origin.
anonomicによって 2005年05月29日(日)
To take a sample of an old song and change it or rework it into something new in different
Did you hear the way he flipped that on 80's joint...It was phat
mxjcmxjcによって 2008年07月10日(木)
acronym that stands for "Fuck Love I'm Pimpin"; anyone who's not ready for love yet, through with love, or just wants to chill and have fun without getting to serious in relationships
Johnny said he loves me but I can't deal with that right now, Im in F.L.I.P mode
simona88によって 2007年03月21日(水)
1. My head flippin hurts!
2. Let's flip this weekend
3. I got flipped off!
2. Let's flip this weekend
3. I got flipped off!
JKixによって 2005年05月20日(金)
A derrogatory term for filipinos, means Fucking Little Island People, as some soldiers would call filipinos during world war two. The teenager of our days now use it as a name for filipinos, which is not right at all since they should be educated on the roots of that word.
WW2 Soldier - These fucking flips better hurry up and make their own weapons because we aint helping them make it.
Kristoffer Barizoによって 2006年03月12日(日)