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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 60,
October 2009 Abstract Supplement
The 2009 ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting
Philadelphia October 16-21, 2009.
Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor and CD74 Regulate Leukocyte Chemotactic Responses Via Facilitation of MAPK and RhoAGTPase Activation
Macrophage PET Imaging as Biomarker for Very Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Macrophage Polarization Conditions and Relative Availability of Ang-1 and Ang-2 Determine the Contributions of Tie2-Bearing Macrophages to Inflammation and Tissue Remodeling
MACTAR, a Patient Perspective Outcome for Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis, Reveals Disease Aspects Not Covered by Traditional Outcomes
Maintained Clinical Response of Infliximab Treatment in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A 6-Year Long-Term Study
Maintenance of Health-Enhancing Physical Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis After a One-Year Coaching Intervention A Long-Term Follow-up
Maintenance of T Cell Rap1 Signaling Protects Mice against Collagen-Induced Arthritis
Major Clinical Response of Rituximab in Active TNF-Blocker-Naive Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis but Not in TNF-Blocker-Failure Patients- An Open Label Clinical Trial
Malignancy in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Malignancy in Pediatric-Onset SLE
Malignancy Risk in Giant Cell Arteritis: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Manifestations of Pediatric Sjgrens Syndrome: Comparison to Adult Sjgrens Syndrome
Mannose Binding Lectin Gene-2 Haplotype Analysis in Korean Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Mannose-Binding Lectin Polymorphisms in Brazilian Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Markers of Bone Formation Are Increased in Psoriatic Arthritis Compared to Rheumatoid Arthritis at Baseline and Increase Further After 3 Years of Anti-TNF- Therapy
Markers of Disease Severity Predict New-Onset Heart Failure in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Massive Parallel Sequencing (MPS) Provides Full-Repertoire Analysis of the B- and T-Cell Receptors in Humans and Mice
Mast Cells Contribute to Synovial Inflammation in Non-Psoriatic and Psoriatic Spondyloarthritis
Maximal Plasma Concentrations of Low-Dose Vs High-Dose Colchicine Are Similar but Total Exposure Is Dose Dependent: Implications for Safe Administration of Colchicine to Treat Acute Gout Flare
May An Intervention On Clinical Inertia Influence the Perception of Pain, Functionality and Quality of Life in Patients with Knee and/or Hip Osteoarthritis?
MD Survey of Patient Adherence to Osteoporosis Medications
Measurement and Characteristics of Fatigue in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis Prior to Anti-TNF Therapy
Measurement of Serum Free Light Chains Performs Better Than Known Immunological Biomarkers for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity
Measurement of Total Serum Activin A in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Measures of Alignment in Knee OA: How Valid Are Clinical Methods?- Data From the Osteoarthritis Initiative
Measures of Tenderness as Predictors of Clinical Pain in Patients with Fibromyalgia
Measuring Body Image Avoidance in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
MEDI5117: A Human High Affinity Anti-IL-6 Monoclonal Antibody with Enhanced Serum Half-Life in Development for the Treatment of Inflammation and Rheumatological Diseases
Medical Education Preferences Among North American Rheumatologists: A 2009 Survey
Medical Resource Utilization and Workdays Lost in a European Survey of Patients with Fibromyalgia
Medication Use in Systemic Lupus(SLE)
Memory T Cells Require the Continuous Presence of B Cells in a Mouse Model of Sjgrens Syndrome
Mesenchymal Stem Celles From Bone Marrow of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: Properties and Pathogenic Perspectives
Meta-Analysis of Six Genome-Wide Association Studies in >25,000 Case-Control Samples Identifies New Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Loci
Meta-Analysis of Tight Control Strategies in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Protocolized Treatment Has Additional Value with Respect to the Clinical Outcome
Metabolic Steroid Side Effects in GCA and PMR: The GRACG, Prospective Double Cohort Study
Methods to Improve the Triage Accuracy of Referrals for Possible Inflammatory Polyarthritis
Methotrexate as An Alternative for Refractory Calcium Pyrophosphate Arthropathy
Methotrexate Monitoring in Children: What Is Necessary?
Methotrexate Reduces Cardiovascular Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review
Metric Properties of Ultrasound Synovitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA- Systematic Analysis of the Literature
Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency: A French Multicenter Retrospective Study
Michigan Lupus Epidemiology & Surveillance Program (MILES): Increased Proportion of Target-Organ Threatening Involvement Among Male Versus Female SLE Patients
Microarray Analyses of Peripheral Blood Cells Identifies Gene Expression Profile That Differentiates Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Form Psoriasis and Controls
Microendothelial Cells Regulate Functional Selection of Proinflammatory T Cells in Takayasus Arteritis
MicroRNA Differential Expression in Minor Salivary Glands of Primary Sjgrens Syndrome with High Focus Scores and Normal or Decreased Function Identifies Altered Salivary Gland Function Related Pathways
MicroRNA Expression Profiles in Normal and Osteoarthritic Human Chondrocytes
MicroRNA Profiling of Minor Salivary Glands Identifies Disease and Inflammation Biomarkers in Sjgrens Syndrome Patients
Microrna-146 Inhibit Human Osteoclast Differentiation in Vitro
Microsomal Prostalglandin E Synthase and Related Enzymes in Rheumatoid Arthritis B Cells and Effects of B Cell Depleting Therapy On Enzyme Expression
Milnacipan Improves Physical Function in Patients with Fibromyalgia: Pooled Results From 3 Phase III Trials
Milnacipran 100 Mg/Day in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Milnacipran Improves Fatigue in Fibromyalgia: Pooled Analyses From 3 Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials
Milnaciprans Effect On Body Weight by Baseline BMI: Results Across 3 Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Fibromyalgia Trials
Minimum Joint Space Width (minJSW) and Mean JSW at a Constant Location in Evaluating Joint Space Narrowing (JSN) in Medial Tibiofemoral Osteoarthritis (OA)-Data From the Osteoarthritis Initiative
MiR-155 and Mir-34a Regulate TNF-Alpha Production by Human Monocytes
Mir-203 Regulates the Expression of IL-6 and Matrix Metalloproteinase(MMP)-1 in RA Synovial Fibroblasts
Mitochondrial Respiratory Dysfunction Regulates the Metalloproteinases Expression in Human Normal Chondrocytes in Culture
Moderate Agreement On the Assessment of Rheumatoid Synovitis Among 18F-FDG-PET, Contrast-Enhanced MRI, and Clinical Examination
Moderate Response to Biologic Treatment After 3 Months May Predict Good Response and Low Disease Activity State in Rheumatoid Arthritis After 6 Months
Moderate to Severe Adult Periodontitis Increases Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Non-Smokers and Is Associated with Elevated ACPA Titers: The ARIC Study
Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Is Associated with Significant Work and Activity Impairment in Brazil: Findings From An Observational Study
Moderate Versus High Titer Persistently Anticardiolipin Antibody Positive Patients: Are They Clinically Different?
Modification of the Myositis-Specific Jo-1 Autoantigen by Reactive Oxygen/Nitrogen Species
Modified Phalens Test as An Aid in Diagnosing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Modified-Release Sildenafil Reduces Raynauds Attack Frequency in Systemic Sclerosis
Modulation of Mir-27b Expression and Regulation of MMP-13 Production by EGCG in IL-1b Stimulated Human Osteoarthritic Chondrocytes
Modulation of TLR7 and TLR8 Activation in Human Macrophages
Molecular and Cellular Characterization of Different Populations of Mesenchymal Stem Cells During Chondrogenesis
Molecular Profiling of Lung Tissues From Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Monitoring Adherence to Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (cSLE) and Possible Impact of Successful Self-Management in Improving Medication Adherence
Monocyte Scintigraphy in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Dynamics of Monocyte Migration in Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease
Mononuclear Phagocytes That Upregulate ITGAM Are Markers of SLE Nephritis Onset and Remission
Morphological Variations in Hip Shape: Validation of New Hip Measurement Software and Provisional Association with Total Hip Replacement-The Chingford Study
Mortality and Cardiovascular Burden in Rural Lupus Patients
Mortality Impact of Extra-Articular Manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Observations From a Population-Based Patient Cohort
Mortality Risk in RA: Simple Tools for Mortality Assessment in the Clinic and Research Setting
Mortality Trends Related to Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 19852007: A Study Using Multiple-Cause-of-Death
MRI Imaging Findings in Neuro- Behets Disease
mTOR Regulates the Invasive Properties of Synovial Fibroblast
Multiorgan Dysfunction, High SLEDAI Scores, and Markedly Elevated Ferritin Levels Correlate with Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Adult Patients with SLE
Multiple Courses of Rituximab (RTX) Produce Sustained Efficacy in Patients (pts) with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) with An Inadequate Response (IR) to One or More TNF Inhibitors
Multiple Effects of FTY On the Immune System, Inflammation, and Bone Remodeling in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Multiple Pro-Atherogenic Pathways Are Activated in Monocytes After Acute Treatment with Pro-Inflammatory HDL
Muscle Interstitial Levels of Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Polymyalgia Rheumatica: Impact of Short-Term Prednisolone Treatment
Musculoskeletal Complications of Hereditary Hemochromatosis: A Case-Control Study
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Assessment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Mutation of Y145 of SLP-76 Reduces FcR- and Integrin-Dependent Neutrophil Functions and Protects Mice From Dermal Inflammation and Serum-Induced Arthritis
Mutations in Complement Regulatory Proteins Predispose to Preeclampsia in Patients with Lupus or Antiphospholipid Antibodies
Mycobacterium-Derived Heat Shock Protein 70 Induces Anti-Citrullinated Protein/Peptide Antibodies
Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) Is Effective for Systemic Lupus (SLE) Arthritis, Final Results of An Organ-Specific, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Mycophenolate Mofetil Dosing and Renal Relapse or Renal Endpoint in Lupus Nephritis
Myocarditis in Systemic Sclerosis Diagnosed through Endomyocardial Biopsy
Myopathy Independently Predicts Mortality in Scleroderma Patients


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So whats the state currently of the Via drivers? There is some very nice hardware coming from Via - how does the new Via chrome graphics fare for instance? Heard it can do hw acceleration on Windows, probably can't do that on Linux at eh?
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Originally posted by SkyHiRider View PostSo whats the state currently of the Via drivers? There is some very nice hardware coming from Via - how does the new Via chrome graphics fare for instance? Heard it can do hw acceleration on Windows, probably can't do that on Linux at eh?
Originally posted by curaga View PostAre you talking about Via or S3 chips?
On the via side, unichrome is stable and fast (2d). Open 3d sucks though.
I have no idea if S3 is Via, but from what I read up on the net, Via is pushing some very nice hardware atm. Their nano gpu comes out great in tests and basically beats Atom with points to spare. And their new VN1000 Gpu looks good too, should have HW acceleration and other cools stuff while having a low TDP. The cpu is also 65nm, and has very similar heat generation and power consumption as Atom, which is 45nm.
I'm just probing out atm to see if it's worth buying a Via netbook or nettop in the near future - it can do HD, has low TDP and power consumption, but not sure if it can run Linux well.
Yes, while Via owns S3, the cores are different, use different drivers, and are branded differently.
Via graphics are onboard ones, like vx855. Foss or binary driver.
S3 ones are both integrated and pci-e, like the 500 series. A separate binary driver from above, only.
The VN1000 has a S3 520 igp. Can't say anything about the features, but the driver lists vdpau (video accel) support:
- H/W accelerated 2D (XAA/EXA)
- H/W accelerated direct-rendering OpenG3.0
- H/W accelerated H.264/MPEG2/WMV-9/VC-1 video playback.
- SAMM / Rotation / Xinerama / Compiz
- XRandR support
- VDPAU support
- KMS Support
I own 2 VIA chips, older models. A CLE266 builtin and a CN700. 2d works (openchrome) but the other drivers do not even compile with somewhat recent xorgs. Whatever is in mesa is so subtle und immature you can forget it. Kernelsides is only the neccessary.
Even framebuffer is a mess. (only unaccelerated)
These chips fit nicely in the low power concept but the drivers are very immature. For years now. You get basic 2d accel, including MPEG2 (though lately it was horribly artifacted on the CN700).
As told here, these chips come directly on the borads with VIA CPUs and chipset. While most other parts work fairly the GPU part still have to see a lot of work. But it's better than VESA anyway.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!


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text: Hey guys. We're in a bit of a pickle at the moment. Our near-new Cat 216 is in the shop again. It's been taken away from us 2 times before to get the hydraulic couplers fixed as they had a constant leaking problem. I'm not talking about a little drip, more of a constant stream of fluid. Well, we got the machine back and the couplers work great, NO MORE LEAKS!!! While it was in the shop, our dealer gave us a loaner at no charge, hats off to our dealer. Now the machine is overheating constantly for no reason at all. Checked the fuses to make sure that the radiator fan was working, fuses are fine. I haven't experienced the overheating, but my dad was saying that after running it for a good 30-40 minutes or so that it would start to overheat and the alarm would go off. Coolant level was of proper level and was checked before use. He also said that he wasn't doing much "fast work" it was more idling while the workers were loading the bucket with rocks, then a run to the pile every few minutes. Now I like the machine when it's not breaking down, but this is getting ridiculous. I know that alot of people on here have Cat machines and praise them, but has anyone else had any problems? It bothers me when a machine designed so well with the best features can't even run 2 weeks without having to go back to the shop. I'm starting to believe that we have a lemon machine and we've decided that if it needs to go in again for something else we're going to have to make a decision of some sort with what to do with it. It has 130 hours on it, not much at all. Our dealer has been awesome, I can't fault them at all. They work real hard to make us happy. What I want to know is if anyone else out there has had obscene amounts of problems with their Cat skid steer or if it's just us with a lemon machine. Thanks guys


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at work, you can't always do much about it, which Palley finds "depressing." But workers stuck in front of their computers can still take a few minutes to meditate, figure out what habits lead to their most focused, productive time, or find a way to reorganize their work to make it less stressful. According to Palley, during their pilot program at LinkedIn, employees reported feeling significantly more focused when they used Spire.
Though many hardware startups have gone the crowdfunding route to prove there's a market for their devices, Spire chose not to. Instead, they waited until they had bridged the gap between a prototype and their final engineering orders before they started taking direct preorders today. "Maybe it's a little old school, but we didn't want to sell a product when we weren't clear on when we could deliver," he says. Conveniently, Palley had also lived in China for seven years. He speaks Chinese, and was familiar with the manufacturing process, so the 11-person team—about half of which is on the ground in China—was able to leverage local networks. "I've been in tons and tons of factories," he says. "I really understand the huge gap between making a prototype and something you can mass product in a factory," he says.
Spire had already shown prototypes to potential angel investors, and "they got it immediately," he says. "So that was a very clear validation point." To date, Spire has raised around $1.5 million from investors including Rock Health, Stanford StartX, and angel investors.
When the company first started creating the device, design was really important. Palley didn't want to make something that looked like just another piece of hardware, and above all, he didn't want to have to plug it in. "More cables just feel like more clutter in our lives," he says. To that end, the stone-shaped tracker refuels by sitting on top of a wireless charger partially made of cork. Together, both devices will cost $149.99. The company expects to ship in September.
Though Palley says no one else is doing exactly what Spire is—after all, the company's patent on wearable respiration sensing is pending—the crowded space does offer a lot of competition. Plus, he says, marketing materials for other devices are making claims like an app can track food intake, when really, users have to input all the data themselves. "I think that's one of the biggest challenges," he says. "We have a very legitimate product that creates a far more engaging experience out there, but there's a lot of money being invested in marketing that is mixing what is self-reported and what is passive data. The winning experience is not sitting there and taking pictures or inputting what you eat or pressing a button when you go to sleep. We strongly believe in passive tracking."
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In previous generations, when kids struggled in school, or acted out in class, they were often dismissed as "slow" or "problem children."
Now, decades of research on learning disabilities, and on how the brain itself functions, have made parents and educators far more aware of the myriad difficulties that can confront children in school and in life.
But there are downsides to these advances, according to Charna Ockman Axelrod, who since 1982 has served as the director of the Psychoeducational Division of the Center for Psychological Services in Ardmore, an organization of mental health professionals who work in a wide array of disciplines like substance abuse counseling and career guidance.
One drawback is that some parents may suspect a disability in a child where none exists.
"Sometimes children are working to capacity, but they are not working to the level that their parents feel they should be," explained Axelrod, 64, who holds a doctorate from Temple University in the psychology of reading. "I will only test a child if I see a reason" to do so.
Testing is a large part of what the Merion resident does in her office, a room that's painted bright yellow and is filled with child-friendly objects. The Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El member spends hours with a child, interviewing parents, teachers, even baby-sitters, to better understand the student and recommend everything from therapy to tutoring.
"I love to figure out the pieces. I see every person as a huge jigsaw puzzle," she said. "Our goal is to make every child a successful human being."
But aren't school districts and school psychologists supposed to do this kind of thing?
"A lot of schools are overburdened with people who are applying for testing," said Axelrod, who has two grown children. (Her daughter, when young, had some issues with word recognition, which helped lead the English major mom — her degree is from the University of Pennsylvania — to become a reading specialist.)
"Oftentimes, a school psychologist won't have the opportunity to do as in-depth testing as we can do," said Axelrod, who added that private testing, of course, can be expensive. "We devise a plan for helping the child meet with better success."
Axelrod said that sometimes learning disabilities and emotional issues go hand in hand.
Trouble reading can affect a child's self-esteem. On the flip side, "children who have emotional problems — often there is so much going on in their heads that they have difficulty paying attention in order to learn."
Axelrod said people shouldn't think "that everyone who has a learning problem has a psychological problem."
The educational psychologist recently received the Pennsylvania Branch of the International Dyslexia Association's Janet L. Hoopes award for her mentoring of psychologists throughout the Delaware Valley.
Along with her husband Bart Axelrod, she will also be receiving the Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education's Kesher L'atid Award. Charna Axelrod serves on the ACAJE board and sits on its special-needs committee. She remains involved with the Akiba Hebrew Academy, which her children attended.
Axelrod said that as testing techniques develop further, learning disabilities will be diagnosed at younger ages. This, in turn, should translate to better success in school, she said.
"Whoever does testing should have the luxury of really learning about the child, rather than making a decision based on limited information," she said. "I really believe that all children want to do well in school and want to be good — and if not, there has to be a reason. The reason can be uncovered if you do due diligence."


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Landscape Infrastructure
SWA Group has a new book on landscape infrastructure. Nate Berg talks with Gerdo Aquino, co-editor of the book:
"'There are all these underutilized corridors like transmission corridors, alleyways, remnant spaces around freeway on- and off-ramps,' Aquino says. 'They serve a municipal function, but they could also be more multi-functioning.'
He says the concept has been kicking around for about 15 yeas, but has only recently begun to catch on and play out in actual designs. It's a two-birds-with-one-stone mentality that's become more politically feasible as funding gets tight and infrastructure continues to crumble."


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AT&T Business Solutions Positioned in Analyst Firm's Leaders Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers
Dallas, Texas, January 28, 2009
AT&T Business Solutions today announced that leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned it in the Leaders Quadrant in their latest report for global network service providers¹.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant report offers a visual snapshot of a market's direction, maturity and participants. In the report, Gartner evaluates vendors of global network service providers on the basis of completeness of vision and ability to execute.
AT&T Business Solutions was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the recently published reports for Pan European² and U.S. based³ network service providers.
"We are delighted with our position in the Leaders Quadrant in the Global, Pan European and U.S. based Network Service Providers reports. We believe this reaffirms our continued investment in and commitment to the global marketplace. AT&T Business Solutions provides a comprehensive portfolio of services that harnesses our IP leadership and mobility capabilities to deliver compelling business solutions to our customers around the globe," said Ron Spears, CEO, AT&T Business Solutions.
"Our drive to seamlessly deliver high-quality managed application services across wired and wireless networks, with the quality, security and professional services our customers expect from AT&T Business Solutions, will continue to drive future enhancements to our core portfolio."
In the United States and around the world AT&T Business Solutions delivers to the business marketplace innovative services designed to help customers manage the complexity of their applications across their enterprises and provide them to employees anywhere, any time.
¹Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers" by Neil Rickard, Robert F. Mason January 23, 2009
²Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Pan-European Network Service Providers" by Neil Rickard, Katja Ruud, December 9, 2008
³Gartner "Magic Quadrant for U.S. Network Service Providers, 1H08 " by T. Chamberlin, R. Mason, J. Pultz, April 2, 2008
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Corn-Fed: Poems by James Stevenson
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The title itself provides clues for the motif in the book. The motif is antique vs modern, nature vs technology, farm vs city, and old vs new, etc. Stevenson does a good introduction to his poem book by telling us about man named Larry who because of weather conditions went from selling cars to selling "buffalo and sheep." It is truly a big, but humorous difference. A very enjoyable book for elementary school-aged children.
A collection of short, amusing poems. Another must read by James Stevenson! He is a very clever writer.
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Hi there, as it's my first post here I'll introduce myself by briefly outlining my situation. My name is John and I am a 25 year old mature student currently sitting the second year of some A2 qualifications. The a-levels I am taking are maths, physics, further maths, and chemistry. I have applied to a couple of universities local to me and I am hoping to study a masters in Mathematics.
The reason I am sitting my a-levels at such a late stage in life is because this will not be the first time I have entered higher education. After school I went straight into sixth form college but subsequently flunked most of my subjects. I managed to get into a university or clearing but later dropped out. A brief explaination follows...
My father is/was (not seen him now in about 6 years) a violent alcoholic and had been throughout most of my childhood. The problems at home this caused were endless, and were only resolved around 2003/2004 when my mother finally had an injunction placed on him to prevent him from coming around anymore. The problem is that these issues coincided with my study at both sixth form and university.
The severity of the problems is well documented. I can provide at least one police report of a particularly severe event around 2003. This event lead to the restraint order and his ejection from our house (and lives). I can also provide reports from social services etc from around this and earlier times.
I have chosen not to go into too much detail here on a public forum, as naturally it is a sensitive issue. Needless to say, the events certainly did effect my life in many ways. I was lethargic and spent most of my days in bed, or at least in my bedroom. I scarcely attended university for the two years I was there (1st year, and a 1st year repeat).
Since dropping out, myself and my family have rebuilt our lives. Having worked for a while I finally felt ready to fulfill my academic ambitions. With bad A-Levels, I decided to go back to a local college and take four new a-levels with full attendance. I am currently estimated grade A's in all of the four subjects I am taking. Mathematics has become something of a passion for me, and I am very desperate to continue at university level.
As I understand it i would be entitled automatically to 4 years (it's a masters course), plus one year, minus whatever years I have had worth of loan previously. Unfortunately because I didn't drop out in an official way, I did start the second year at university after the resit and have in fact received three years of student loan. Thus, I believe I am entitled to 2 years student loan and that I must find the 6 or so grand needed for the first two years.
My situation is worlds different now, and I believe that the last two years studying for A-Level serve as an indication not just of my ability but of my focus, commitment, and determination. My question to someone more knowledgeable about student loans is how I can register Compelling Personal Reasons, when should I do so, and whether or not in their experience a story like mine would prove to be successful in having the SLC reconsider my position. As stated I believe I can provide plentiful evidence of a severe and detrimental living situation prior to my leaving university.
Many thanks, if anybody needs more specific information please send me a private message and i would be happy to discuss it there.
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You would need to provide the documents in order for your case to be considered, and compelling personal reasons are awarded at the discretion of the awards body.
For each year, you would have to apply for CPR. However, I think in your circumstances and speaking from the viewpoint of an assessor, I would only be able to offer one year on CPR. Now, if you had applied for it on your previous course, it would be different as it's not taken into account on the previous study calculation.
That said, I'm of the view that if the evidence backed up your statements, you would get full support in the first year, a maintenance loan only in year 2, and full support in years 3 and 4.
I'm also assuming the MA is integrated with the undergraduate program.
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Thank you so much for the reply. I will certainly need to read into this more. I was unaware that the CPR claims were to a different body than the student loans company. Would I need to actually start the course before I could claim compelling personal reasons or could this be sorted out before commencing the course?
You mentioned a maintenance loan in year two. This would be fine, but i'm curious... Could I apply for this without CPR? I was under the impression that the worst possible circumstances I could be in would be with the last two years full support, and no fees and no loan for years 1 and 2. I'm probably misunderstanding you, but it sounds that even without CPR I might be able to claim for a maintenance loan only for years 1 and 2? That alone, as a worst case scenario would make attending university a lot more realistic for me.
I can and will get the evidence together, thought at this time I can't really comment on how thorough it is.
Forgive my ignorance, but is there any documentation on all this somewhere that I could have access to? I can't see anything relating to it on the student loans website.
Many thanks for your quick reply,
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Ok, all eligibility matters are dealt with by your local authority. However, for entrants in 2009, the system is being centralised by what will be known as Student Finance England. The financial side is from the SLC, and I apologise for the confusion.
The tuition loan and maintenance loan are completely seperate. If you weren't given CPR, then you would only have to a maintenance loan for the first two years. The effect of being granted the repeat for CPR just means you can also get help with fees. Where you are going to be centralised, I imagine there may be the odd difficulty in processing this. I've got no details on how Student Finance England will work, but all cases should be treated individually based on what information has been provided.
Off the top of my head, I don't know of any documents about this. I believe there is a section within The Student Support Regulations 2008, which is unlikely to change much for 2009. Pop that into Google and you should be able to find a bit more info on that. The reason it's not on the main website is because for years, the central call centre have always used the "Call your LEA" getout. They're still trying it now for students beginning next year, despite the fact it's nothing to do with us really.
Hope that helps.
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It helps a lot, and I certainly will seek out those regulations you mentioned. However there is one point I still just need a bit of clarity on. That is of my eligibility for a maintenance loan.
If I can get a maintenance loan for the first two years but no help with tuition fee's, it may mean the difference between my attending or not. I believe I can cover the fee's or the living costs, one of the two.
I know you have mentioned it twice now, but my worrying side still needs clarification. Say for some reason my CPR claim fell through, would I still be eligible for the maintenance loan for the first two years?
If the answer is yes, then irrespective of whether or not my CPR claim is successful, I _should_ be able to still attend university as planned, and this will be very good news for me, lol.
Once again thanks for the replies this evening, and sorry for my constant stream of questions! haha
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Yes, you will still be eligible to receive the maintenance loan as, to my knowledge, you do not hold an honours degree.
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Thanks Taiko, so much. You have really laid my worry to rest. I will still apply for CPR as it has always been my belief that my circumstances affected my study, and help with the fee's would be ideal, however if I am deemed non-eligible from what you have told me tonight I should still be able to manage it somehow
Thanks Taiko, now I can look forward to my ucas replies!
Oh, I don't hold any kind of degree or formal qualification other than AS level/A2 level.
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Glad to be of assistance. Good luck on your course!
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Lucas Troy was Sterling Archer's best friend when they were training together. However, he defected from both ISIS and ODIN, faked his death, and decided to start a bed & breakfast in Vermont, where he was killed by Lana Kane and Cyril Figgis. His voice is provided by Timothy Olyphant.
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Archer, in denial at the fact that Troy was dead, ventured to Vermont and found out that Troy was not only still alive but was planning to open a bed and breakfast in Vermont, just north of Bennington. Troy began to drink wine with Archer as Troy mentioned that he wanted to run the B&B with Archer, revealing that he did, in fact, steal the uranium and murder his fellow agents, but only to fund the two's life together. As Archer passed out from a drug placed on Archer's glass, Troy found out that Archer was followed by Lana Kane and Cyril Figgis.
Lana and Cyril managed to lure Troy into a trap, where a huge tree fell on him. As Troy lay dying, Archer ran to his side. Troy decided that he had to confess his sins before he died, but Archer said that Troy didn't need to. Troy revealed his secret, then died offscreen from his wounds.
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Troy was initially a fun-loving person. He also liked making jokes about people's mothers, only to immediately blurt out, "Oh God, I'm sorry!"
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Today I'm at Soundcheck rehearsal space putting the finishing touches on everything for theYoung Love Tour. I'm still working on the set list, as it's one of the hardest parts; picking what songs get played each night. It always feels like your leaving one of your kids behind at the supermarket.
I wanted to take a minute and introduce you to the band, Leagues. They will be supporting this fall's tour. They are some of my closest friends, including Tyler and Jeremy, who have played in my band for quite some time now.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Japan, China and South Korea in April on his first Asian trip since taking office Feb. 1, U.S. spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday.
In talks with the new leaders of each of the three countries, Kerry "will continue to affirm the (Obama) administration's commitment to further broaden and enhance U.S. economic, security and strategic interests in the Asia-Pacific region," Nuland said at a regular news conference at the State Department.
In Tokyo, Kerry will hold talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida over the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact and North Korea's missile and nuclear threats.
In Beijing, he is expected to meet with new Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials to discuss North Korean issues, as well as bilateral political and economic cooperation. Kerry will meet with newly inaugurated South Korean President Park Geun Hye in Seoul for talks on defense issues in light of Pyongyang's recent missile and nuclear provocations.
Details of Kerry's Asia tour, which will follow an April 10-11 Group of Eight meeting in London, haven't been revealed.
In late June, Kerry plans to visit Brunei to attend a meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum, Nuland said. The ARF is a security dialogue framework between the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and such countries as the U.S., Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and India.
Separately Thursday, the Pentagon said U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will visit Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia for five days from Sunday.
The trips by Kerry and Carter are intended to demonstrate that there is no change in the importance the U.S. attached to ties with the Asia-Pacific region after new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel took office late last month, officials of the department said.
While in Japan, Carter will meet with Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and other officials to exchange views on issues related to the long-stalled relocation of the Futenma base.


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1. The Blue Room (Georges Simenon): Simenon wrote over 400 novels, and although he was not taken seriously during his lifetime, he is now acknowledged as an important Belgian author whose talent lay in creating deeply psychological characters using the simplest language possible. Lauded by Andre Gide as a great writer, Simenon was, to put it simplistically, crime fiction's response to Camus: his stories are filled with the dread of existence, the futility of human action and the insanity of urban life. The Blue Room is my favorite of his; it tells a simple tale in a complicated way, proving that flashbacks should not be as taboo as we are told, and showing just how effective it can be to have most of the novel's action take place in a single setting. This is a dark novel, but a beautiful one.
2. The Beast Within (Emile Zola): Zola is required reading in France, but even his most famous novels in the English-speaking world are barely read. This is a shame. Zola was the champion of 19th-century French Naturalism, a literary movement that focused on "the real world" and refused not to show the grittier aspects of life among the lower classes. The Beast Within is a violent, disturbing look at the indifference with which one can commit a murder, and it is written in the simple style that Zola adopted for his entire literary career. Zola often shocked his contemporaries; even today his novels can cause strong discomfort in unsuspecting readers.
3. Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote): When people talk about Capote, they usually talk about his masterpiece of nonfiction, In Cold Blood. By far the most overlooked of his novels, Other Voices, Other Rooms is, to my mind, the greatest work he penned. It is fundamentally flawed, as are most first novels, but even its occasionally overwrought prose and its cruelty cannot stop this from being a superbly moving story about sexual awakening in the American South. There is something so demonically brilliant about this book that I am surprised so few people have read it.
4. Europeana (Patrick Ourednik): What would the history of 20th-century Europe sound like if it were captured in attention-grabbing sound bites and presented as a novel with no protagonist? Europeana is by far the most neglected work in his list, and that is ridiculous: it's a masterpiece unlike any other because it takes an ostensibly impossible idea (that of fairly assessing the entirety of a century of history) and puts it into practice in a delightfully pithy and laconic way. Ourednik's choice of details is what makes this book so moving. He picks exactly the sort of silly moments in history that most people forget and uses them to tell the story of Europe. All in 120 pages, no less.
5. The Pathseeker (Imre Kertesz): Not much is said about this wonderful, Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Hungary in the English-speaking world. Too bad, because as a Holocaust survivor and extremely talented writer, Kertesz has a lot to say about human nature, and a very eloquent way of saying it. The Pathseeker is the story of a man whose trip to an unnamed village in Eastern Europe turns into a nightmarish journey of self-discovery. As we discover, if we pay close attention to the details, this "Commissioner" is far less innocent than he likes to present himself; and his role in the Final Solution, though only hinted at, acquires the status of true horror.
6. Naomi (Junichiro Tanizaki): If you enjoyed Lolita, you will most likely enjoy Naomi, a 1920s novel about a grown man who marries a young girl whose naivety and inexperience attract him beyond reason. The problem is that Naomi is far more complicated than she seems, and the protagonist is less clever than he thinks; the result is psychological torture, manipulation, and sexual infidelity of the most deplorable kind. The prose is solid and never pretentious, and the author is careful never to reveal too much at once; the result is fantastic.
7. Boy (James Hanley): This is the most overwhelmingly sad novel I have read. Written in the 1930s and promptly banned for its obscene content, it resurfaced in the 1980s and has become a cult classic. It tells the story of a boy who runs from home after his father's abuse becomes too much to bear, and takes refuge on a ship. Sadly, nothing goes right for him, and the end of the book is so horrifically pessimistic and depressing that you can't help but feel that part of your own innocence has been stolen somehow. Read it.
8. Miguel Street (VS Naipaul): One of my favorite comic novels, Miguel Street is the story of a neighborhood in Trinidad populated by conmen, artists, prostitutes, sparring spouses, psychopaths and very silly children. Every chapter can be read as a short story, but the book is best enjoyed as an organic whole. Some parts of the novel are downright hysterical, while others showcase Naipaul's talent for writing about the "depressingly amusing and amusingly depressing" thing we call human life. I recommend this without hesitation to anyone who wants to see what Naipaul was up to early in his career.
9. The Unvanquished (William Faulkner): Few casual Faulkner readers seem to know of this book's existence; I think it's time to correct that. The Unvanquished is a novel told in vignettes, and its subject is the American Civil War. A white boy and his black best friend (and slave), only barely aware of the war at the start of the novel, must come to turns with the war's significance in a series of brutal events that lead up to the murder of the white boy's father. Though it starts out quite lightheartedly, the novel gains in profundity as it progresses, and offers us one of the very few instances in Faulkner's oeuvre where the Civil War is used as a setting for the narrative.
10. The Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat): An unusual and extremely disturbing novel about madness from one of Iran's most important modernists, The Blind Owl was banned for years because of its problematic way of dealing with sex and violence. The narrator is a man whose grip on reality is frail at best, and whose story reads like an extended dream sequence filled with surrealist humor and horrific depictions of the effects of lapses in good judgment. Be prepared to picture a woman being cut up into pieces and shoved into a suitcase in the opening pages.


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Kevin James announces candidacy for Mayor tomorrow
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Prominent members of the media and elected officials are invited tomorrow to City Hall South lawn to watch radio personality Kevin James announce his candidacy for Mayor of Los Angeles.
James's previous government experience is as an Assistant US Attorney. A conservative with a Randian libertarian streak, James also served as co-chairman of AIDS Project Los Angeles.
Campaign consultant John Thomas, who recently handled the first half of the surging Tomas O'Grady campaign, and also drew on John Shallman's experience while working for Carmen Trutanich's successful campaign, will start off at the reins of the James campaign. The timing is opportune for James for two reasons: 1) it gives James the potential to raise a little money before other conservatives move in, and 2) it gives James a chance to distinguish himself among LA's frenetically disorganized libertarians, whose reliance on their friends at the politically weakened LA Weekly and inability to organize meaningfully cost Ron Kaye's Clean Sweep movement so dearly in the past election. James appears to be distancing himself from Clean Sweep in his announcement, as he was one of those on board at the Mayflower Club last July, but his press bulletin doesn't announce the beleaguered movement's participation in the event.


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At La Mascota, the Salcedo family has been churning out Mexican bolillos, a softer, chubbier version of a French baguette, for their Boyle Heights neighbors for more than 50 years. But it's the $1.35 to-go tamales that draw the long- distance eaters armed with empty coolers and ice packs. In the kitchen window across from the bakery, 30-year tamale-making veteran Nachita Morales and her granddaughter, Erika Salazar, spoon the chile-spiked fillings onto masa-lined corn husks. The choices are limited — red chile with shredded pork, green chile with chicken or cheese, and sweet pineapple — but that's a good thing for those with limited freezer space. Plus there's a parking lot in back so you don't have to spend more on the meter than on dinner. 2715 Whittier Blvd., L.A. (323) 263-5513, http://lamascotabakery.com/">lamascotabakery.com.—Jenn Garbee
The Local Place is the more casual of the two South Bay restaurants associated with sweet bread makers King's Hawaiian. Located on Western Avenue in Torrance, near the 405, this restaurant has lengthy lines, but the service is quick. Breakfast is the best bargain, with Spam and egg musubi for $2.05 and breakfast sandwiches for $2.85. For lunch or dinner, the Porky Boy combo ($5.95) consists of a good-sized pork sandwich on a fresh, sweet roll with fries and a drink. Specials, which include the teriyaki bento box ($8.45) featuring beef, chicken and pork, change daily. In addition, the Local Place's bakery is filled with cakes, cookies and pies stuffed with macadamia nuts and coconut. The paradise cake, made with guavas, limes, passion fruits, strawberries and peaches, is a local favorite. Of course, you can also stock up on King's Hawaiian bread here. 18605 S. Western Ave., Torrance. (310) 523-3233.—Liz Ohanesian
Who says Italian food has to be expensive? Between the Mozza empire, the Drago empire, Il Moro and others, L.A. has an abundance of Italian dinner options to set you and your date back a hundred-plus bucks before you've even blinked. It's the wine, especially, that gets you. Yet while you could decide to go the fine dining route and skip the alcohol altogether, you'd also be missing out on an unequivocal truth of Italian culture: Booze goes with food. That's why the phrase "no corkage fee," when uttered in a public place, is guaranteed to prick up every ear within range. At Colori Kitchen, just a few blocks from Staples Center, you can nestle yourself into the spacious and oddly '90s-esque dining room, eat from a menu of basic Italian-American fare, and most importantly, drink freely from your own bottle (or bottles) of wine. Items like tricolore salad, spaghetti and meatballs and spinach ravioli are eaten freely and without judgment, and the cioppino, while one of the more expensive items on the menu, is also packed with enough seafood to make Poseidon weep. A slice of the ricotta cheesecake makes for a nice close to an utterly affordable evening.—Noah Galuten
If you're old enough to remember your parents taking you to a restaurant without consulting a Zagat for fear of choosing the "wrong" place, or not even thinking to ask who designed the interior, and you yearn for that kind of simplicity, Howard's is for you. If you were part of the more progressive, health-conscious generation born thereafter, and your mom never let your precious lips touch white bread, Howard's is for you. Now's your chance to experience this untouched-by-time diner, squat in the middle of an unattractive strip mall without a Starbucks (is that possible?) — where you can park right in front of the restaurant! — just like people did in the olden days. And for $5.35 you can get what the place is famous for: a gooey, drippy bacon and avocado burger tasting of the grill. It puts the Carl's Jr. version to shame. For $3.99 you'll get a classic BLT with four— count 'em—four slices of glistening bacon on toasted white bread. And trans fats be damned, here you can get the unadulterated full-fat version of French Fries ($2.10). In case you've got to know: Décor is by Howard. Go before it all becomes extinct. 11127 Venice Blvd., Ste. 7, Culver City. (310) 838-9111.—Heidi Dvorak
Making tortillas by hand may be a dying art in East L.A., but La Piñata Tortilleria stubbornly refuses to yield to the machine. They spend three mornings a week slapping oblong balls of maize flour on the counter and pounding out hundreds of tortillas a mano for their customers. Yes, La Piñata does offer mass-market tortillas as an option. At $1.89 for a package of 36, these tortillas de maquina offer significant savings, especially if you eat them often. But as far as taste goes, they're not in a league with the softer, thicker, más Mexicana tortillas a mano, made Friday through Sunday mornings. Arrive early, because that's when the food's freshest and sells out fast. Handmade tortillas are $3 for a package of 10 on the day they're made. They get knocked down to half price on Monday and Tuesday — if there are any left at all. La Piñata also makes excellent tamales, which come in pork, beef, cheese, chicken or sweet varieties for $16 per dozen. 607 W. Whittier Blvd., Montebello. (323) 726-0327.—Todd Krainin
Hawkins House of Burgers is most famous, perhaps, for its Hawkins Special, a truly absurd and behemoth creation consisting of three one-pound burger patties, cheese, bacon, chilies, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, fried eggs, pastrami, mustard, a butterflied hot dog, pickles and mayo. It weighs in at five pounds, costs sixteen bucks, and comes with fries and a soda. I'm not sure exactly how many people the monstrosity feeds, but let's hope it's more than one. Yet, while The Special is their claim to fame, it probably shouldn't be. Where else in Los Angeles can you pick up a delicious double cheese burger, an enormous pile of nicely prepared chili cheese fries and a tallboy of Olde English for around five bucks? Also, if you're really looking for a bargain, there's usually a guy on the patio outside selling bootleg DVDs for a dollar (not that we recommend that sort of behavior). And while you're there, take the opportunity to visit the Watts Towers just down the way. 11603 Slater St., Watts. (323) 563-1129.—Noah Galuten


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US Soccer and MLS announced a TV deal partnering with ESPN, Fox and Univision, that will cover the league and US national team rights until 2022.
The exact amount of the deal remains undisclosed, but it has been reported by multiple sources as around $90m per year for combined US national team and MLS rights (eclipsing the amount NBC pays for Premier League rights annually), was described by MLS commissioner Don Garber, as representing "the most comprehensive media rights arrangement in the history of [soccer] media rights in our country."
The deal also firms up the MLS schedule into a more consistent form – a "destination day" strategy cited by Garber as one of the core planks of the agreement. On Sundays, ESPN (5pm) and Fox (7pm) will host a double-header of live games and every Friday night Univision will show a live MLS game at 7pm or 11pm.
The latter development will mean the first time a Spanish language network will have its own exclusive night within an American major league sport, and is an indicator of the premium MLS places on millennials and Hispanics as two of its key target audiences for growing the league.
In relation to that marketing, to millennials in particular, a further significant part of the deal was that the league's current MLS Live and MLS Direct Kick packages, which show all of the league's out of market games, will be taken over by ESPN and shown on either ESPN3 or ESPN Live – exposing the league to a potential 92m ESPN viewers. Importantly though, the league maintained certain key digital rights within the deal (as distinct from NBC's deal for Premier League rights, which covers both TV and digital rights).
For a league that grew up in the rapid business-model turnover of the digital era, (the eight-year length of the forthcoming deal represents almost half of MLS's current lifetime to-date) the retention of these rights, allowing for example live in-game highlights on its website, or indeed new possibilities from emerging technology, is a key part of how it envisions itself and those it's attempting to reach. Speaking after the press conference, Garber described maintaining the digital rights as an important part of the deal and part of why it had taken nearly a year to negotiate.
For the TV partners the appeal is a little more complicated, though all three spoke of the eight year time frame as a major attraction of the deal. And of course all made all the right noises about now being the time to help grow the domestic game by supporting the league and national teams. It's fair to say that the size of the deal is currently much more contingent on rights to the latter, with the league still struggling to move the needle and the league and federation's joint marketing arm, Soccer United Marketing, leveraging the national team rights to help earn the best deal for the league as well.
Still, it's an impressive coup for the league to ensure their part of the deal and the stability it brings – whatever the multi-platform future, the large-scale TV deal is still one of the key unsentimental litmus tests for how a league is translating, and while the network executives, particularly ESPN's John Skipper, acknowledged that "it's a future buy. We're buying pork bellies. We think they'll become more valuable over time," he also claimed that, "We think the next thing to follow will be the national television ratings. We're obviously bullish … this is an ascendant sport."
It's also a crowded marketplace. This weekend saw NBC host live coverage of all 10 closing Premier League games across multiple channels, with overnight figures revealing a 79% overall increase in the viewing figures for the joint ESPN/Fox coverage of the dramatic denouement to the 2012 season, that was the previous high water mark. NBC's acquisition of the Premier League had left their now-superceded partnership with MLS overshadowed, though Garber remained gracious in acknowledging NBC's priorities, saying, "What happened yesterday I thought was very positive for fans of the sport."
Key parts of the deal
• ESPN, Fox and Univision each to screen a minimum of 34 regular season games (ESPN 5pm Sundays, FOX 7pm Sundays, UniMas 7pm or 11pm Fridays plus Sunday round up show)
• "We've never had the level of consistency on any night in the history of the league" – Garber
• ESPN and Fox to alternate MLS Cup and all-star games annually
• ESPN3 will carry out-of-market MLS games
• Each network obtains digital rights for matches it broadcasts live
• ESPN and Fox Sports 1 to split all USA men's and women's team matches (other than road qualifiers, which US Soccer does not own the rights to)
• Univision exclusive live matches to include English audio option


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