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Bath have been just about the most inconsistent side in England this season but when they are good, as they often are at this time of year, it is good news for English rugby. The national side received a fillip in the shape of Lewis Moody's return here, almost without hiccup, and a two‑try display of touch and power from Matt Banahan, playing at inside centre.
Bath are demonstrating quite a penchant for Twickenham. This six-try win was an improvement even on the dazzling four‑try win they recorded over Wasps at the same venue this time last year. Tom Biggs, a pocketful of gunpowder, scored a hat‑trick of tries by half‑time. He played a blinder, prompting some to talk in terms of a late bid for the England squad. That may be a long shot but Banahan, somewhat larger, is all but certain to be in the World Cup squad. His second try racked up a 36-3 lead in the third quarter. Besides his usual qualities, he showed that as a pivot in midfield he could bring others on to the ball with some facility. "I would have thought Martin Johnson will be delighted that he has an out-and-out winger who can play in the centre," said Sir Ian McGeechan.
Nick Abendanon thrived in the wide open space and Michael Claassens may not be English but his string-pulling was a joy to watch. Moody, the England captain, was making his latest comeback from injury. He retired as planned after 48 minutes. He had, though, taken a knock to his gluteus maximus but will be fit for their trip to Newcastle this weekend. If Bath win that and the return at the Recreation Ground in the last round, with bonus points, they will have an outside chance of making the play-offs.
Wasps' interest in the season, however, is over. They used to be the ones who had the penchant for playing at Twickenham, but this was a manner of defeat it would be hard to imagine Lawrence Dallaglio et al countenancing. They were woeful.
"I feel sorry for those supporters who have seen this happen two years now," said Leon Holden, Wasps' acting director of rugby. "I feel sorry for the supporters who are new to rugby union. OK, they might have seen one side play well but the whole point of this exercise is to see us play well. They didn't see that."
Last season Wasps attracted 60,000 to this fixture; this time the attendance was less than 40,000. Their deal with Twickenham for St George's Day fixtures has another year to run. They will have to put in one hell of a performance at next year's event if the arrangement is to be deemed a success.
Nevertheless their team selection on Saturday may prove even more relevant to England's future than Bath's does, notable as it was for the three exceptionally young Englishmen they fielded. Two of them, Elliot Daly, a centre playing at full-back, and Billy Vunipola, a No8 of nearly 20 stone, are 18 and still at school. The third, Joe Launchbury, is 20 and plays in the second row. Simon Shaw is old enough to be his father, as are Danny Grewcock and Ignacio Fernández Lobbe, his opponents, yet he was one of Wasps' better players.
"He'll play for England," said Holden. "Physically, he's there, and his composure off the field is top notch. All three of them are very impressive young men. I've coached schoolboys in New Zealand since the late 90s and all three are right up there for their attitude off the field. If you haven't got that as a young guy, it doesn't matter how talented you are, you're not going to make the big time."
A little further down the track to the big time is Joe Simpson, who scored a brilliant solo try for Wasps midway through the second half. There is life at Wasps, but just now they are caught between the past and future.
Wasps Daly; Haughton, Jacobs, Flutey, Varndell (Lewsey 58); Walder (Van Gisbergen 58), Simpson (Berry 68); Taulafo (Beech 65), Lindsay (Ward 58), Broster, Shaw, Launchbury, Hart (capt), Ward-Smith, Vunipola (Betsen 65).
Try Simpson Con Simpson Pen Walder.
Bath Abendanon; Boussuge, Carraro, Banahan, Biggs (Scott 75); Vesty (Roberts 75), Claassens (capt; McMillan 68); Flatman (Catt 60), Mears (Dixon 60), Wilson, Lobbe, Grewcock, Skirving, Moody (Mercer 49), Taylor (Ovens 68).
Tries Biggs 3, Banahan 2, Carraro Cons Vesty 5 Pen Vesty.
Referee Wayne Barnes. Attendance 38,074.


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France is the world's leading superpower and has a seat in la Chambre des Superpuissances. France still has considerable influence over all European nations, a reminder that they were once protectorates or satellite nations. France was the founder of many international organisations: the FN , the Council of Europe (CE), and the Organisation of Australasian Nations (OAN).
Main Article: History of the French Empire
Napoleon Bonaparte seized power of the French Republic in 1799 in a coup d'etat. In 1804, Napoleon crowned
himself Emperor of the French . One year later, he defeated the Austrians and Russians at the Battle of Austerlitz, consolidating French power in Central Europe. An alliance with Russia in 1807 proved useful four years later when Franco-Russian forces added Prussia, Denmark-Norway and Sweden to the French Empire. In 1813, angered at the slow rate of advance in the Peninsula War against Spain and Britain, as well as the failure of the Continental System, Napoleon invaded Britain, taking out France's only major remaining rival and cutting support to rebels in Spain, leading to the latter's incorporation into the empire.
In 1815, eager to enjoy all the benefits of his successful campaign in Spain, Napoleon invaded the former Spanish colonies in the Americas, which were in a state of rebellion. In the seven years of war that followed, France managed to regain about half of what Spain had lost in the Americas. In that time, France had also set about taking over the Dutch colony of Cape Town.
Napoleon I died in 1833, and was succeeded by his twenty-two year old son Napoleon II . The second Napoleon, nicknamed the "Peacemaker", strengthened France's alliances with Russia and the United States, as well as improving ties with Brazil and the Ottoman Empire. On his death in 1851, he was succeeded by his son, Maximillian. One year later, he was in turn overthrown in a coup d'etat by his father's cousin, who would become known as Napoleon III. In his Mexican exile, Maximillian was prevailed upon by his Austrian in-laws to raise a rebellion to regain his throne. The three-year War of the Imperial Succession that followed resulted in total destruction for the Maximillianists, the abolition of the Austrian Empire, and the execution of Maximillian.
After the war's conclusion, the new Napoleon oversaw the redesign of Paris, the rapid industrialisation of France, the reorganisation of the empire, and the expansion of its colonies in Africa and South-East Asia. Napoleon III died in 1873 and was succeeded by his son, also a Napoleon. Napoleon IV was an energetic, military man, who oversaw the modernisation of France's military, as well as bringing the process of industrialisation to the Eastern European Provinces. His death in the Cape colony, leading his troops against the Zulu, sent shock waves through the empire.
For the next forty-six years, Napoleon V, the second cousin of the late emperor, would rule France. His reign saw massive economic and military growth, the rise of Sino-Japan, the 1902 intervention in the Russo-American War, and the 1920 reorganisation of the Empire, elevating all French colonies to integral provinces of France. He died in 1926.
His successor, Napoleon VI, was not so lucky. He reigned through the defeat in the Asia-Pacific War, and the post-war depression. However, military, governmental and economic reforms meant that by the end of his reign, France remained the world's premier superpower.
Since the current emperor, Napoleon VII, took the throne in 1997, France has managed to maintain its position as the world's leading power, despite the competition with Sino-Japan.
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Prior to the reforms of Napoleon V, all the non-European provinces were colonies of France, with no representation in the French Parliament. However, the reforms made the former colonies into integral provinces of France, each sending representatives to the parliament in Paris. Terre Napoleon was granted home rule in 1931. It has its own parliament, which has considerable control over domestic affairs. Terre Napoleon still sends representatives to the Imperial Parliament, and laws made in Paris can overrule laws made by the Corps Legistlatif de Terre Napoleon.
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Relations with the Sino-Japanese Empire are very strained. The two nations and their allies fought each other in the Asia-Pacific War. Both nations still have conflicting interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Some commentators have described the present state of relations as a "Cold War". However, the economic interdependence of the two empires undermine this definition somewhat.
France is an active member of the FN and the OAS, sending troops for peacekeeping missions and being a major aide donor.
The Imperial French Military consists of the French Army, the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Air Force, and the Gendarmerie. The army is the third largest in the world, behind the Sino-Japanese and the Russian. The French Navy and French Air Force are both the largest and most professional in the world.

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Premier Greg Selinger has stepped in to ensure a new home for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will be built at the University of Manitoba, in spite of the delays experienced by David Asper's Creswin Properties.
Sources confirmed late Friday Selinger, Creswin, the City of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Ottawa are close to hammering out a new deal to build a scaled-down stadium, likely beginning this summer.
Costs are unknown, but sources said government has no choice because the longer the new stadium is delayed, the more expensive it becomes to fix up Canad Inns Stadium at Polo Park.
"It's pay me now or pay me later," one source said.
One estimate has the new price tag at about $100 million, down from the $135-million deal first announced in April 2009 between Creswin, all three levels of government and the University of Manitoba.
Under the deal announced last year, Creswin owner Asper would pay for a big part of the new stadium, but that was to be based on the success of a new upscale shopping centre called The Elms on the site of what's now Canad Inns Stadium. The recession has delayed Creswin's plans, as American retailers have so far been shy to sign onto long-term leases.
Another source said new Premier Selinger does not want the deal to die on his watch -- he's 15 months away from an election campaign and needs a high-profile project.
It's also an acknowledgement the Bombers need a new home and a show of support for Asper.
Under the reworked deal, Creswin will be granted a seat on the Bombers' board and an option to purchase the team when the company is able to secure enough tenants to get its high-end retail concept up and running. The length of the term of that option is unknown.
In the interim, the Bombers would continue to be run as a community-sponsored, non-profit operation presided over by the board of directors. Asper is a former member of the board.
Selinger and Mayor Sam Katz declined requests to comment.
Asper said on Friday he had no knowledge of any change in the stadium plan.
"(I) have said before and will say again we have a deal with the Blue Bombers and will only make further comment when there is a substantive basis to do so," he said in an email.
A spokeswoman for senior Manitoba MP Vic Toews said the federal government has received no request to review the stadium funding agreement. But the agreement for funding from Ottawa is with the province, not Creswin or Asper, she added.
Winnipeg Football Club vice-chairman Bill Watchorn was unavailable.
The stadium, which will serve both the Bombers and U of M Bisons, will be built at the northwest corner of Chancellor Matheson Road and University Crescent. The deal signed last year also called for upgrades to neighbouring University Stadium and other recreation improvements at the university.
Ottawa pledged $15 million toward the recreation facilities, while the Manitoba government pledged $20 million toward the stadium component.
The City of Winnipeg agreed to sell Creswin the existing Canada Inns Stadium site at full market value to allow Asper's company to build The Elms. Its profits would then fund the stadium project. The original deal called for the stadium to be owned by the public, but managed by Creswin.
Creswin had hoped to assemble enough tenants at The Elms to proceed with stadium construction last fall, but received a one-year extension after the deadline passed in October.
The longer it takes for the Bombers to move into the new home, the greater the cost to the Winnipeg Football Club. Every year the team continues to play out of Canad Inns Stadium will cost the club $150,000 to $200,000 in repairs and maintenance, plus more losses stemming from fans refusing to attend the 56-year-old ballpark, board chairman Ken Hildahl said in October.
An even longer Creswin delay would prove costlier, as Canad Inns Stadium will require millions in upgrades as soon as 2012, Hildahl added.
The unknown factor in stadium-upgrade costs is what Provincial Court Judge Mary Kate Harvie will say in an imminent inquest report into the death of Andrew Szabo in August 2006. Szabo, 52, fell from the stands during a football game and suffered serious injuries. He died in hospital.
Harvie is looking at possible safety upgrades at the football stadium and the medical care Szabo received.
As the Selinger government could eventually wind up on the hook for some of those upgrades, building a new stadium now may be a cheaper option.
University of Manitoba public affairs manager John Danakas said he was not aware of any changes to the project.
-- With a file from Nick Martin
Political football?
Construction of a new football stadium will be announced within days.
The recession kicked the air out of plans to start construction last year, so an extension was granted to give businessman David Asper more time to develop a new shopping centre on the old stadium site.
Premier Greg Selinger. The rookie premier needs a boost to get his face out there in advance of the Oct. 4, 2011, election. With construction of the stadium to begin this summer, it can be finished before Manitobans head to the polls.
While Selinger could be criticized for spending money so soon after his government tabled a multi-year deficit budget, it can be quickly countered that as each day passes, Canad Inns Stadium will need a significant injection of cash for upgrades. Selinger can also say the project will put people to work and benefit the province through various construction-related taxes.
Stadium shuffle
Kickoff: November 2004.
Location: West of the Perimeter Highway, on the existing Red River Ex grounds.
Key players: The Winnipeg Football Club, Red River Exhibition and the Canad Inns hotel chain.
Third down: Then-premier Gary Doer and Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz were not too keen on funding a stadium on the outer edge of the city. Punt.
Kickoff: January 2007.
Location: On the existing site of Canad Inns stadium.
Key player: Creswin Properties.
Third down: Ottawa shows little interest in dumping money in a project that would primarily be used for professional football. The punt team is sent in.
Kickoff: March 2007.
Location: At the former Canada Packers site in St. Boniface.
Key player: Canad Inns.
Third down: Leo Ledohowski's proposal for an indoor stadium gets the boot when the Winnipeg Football Club chooses to hand the ball off to David Asper and his Creswin group.
Kickoff: June 2008
Location: Northeast of downtown, just east of the Disraeli Freeway and south of the CPR Keewatin line.
Key player: Creswin Properties.
Third down: Trouble from the get-go, as the costs of accessing land and changing the surrounding infrastructure proved to be too expensive. Asper decides to take the safety and find a better field position elsewhere.
Kickoff: September 2008.
Location: The northwest corner of Chancellor Matheson Drive and University Crescent.
Key players: Creswin and the U of M.
Third down: With the province and Ottawa committing a combined $35 million and Asper in for $100 million, the project's hopes hinge on Creswin selling retail space on the current stadium site. As the retail engine sputters, Asper -- who was supposed to take over the football club in 2010 -- is granted a 12-month extension in October. With little movement on the original plan, a scaled-down version of the project is now being considered. Time out on the field.
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"Flight" joins a long list of movies including "The Lost Weekend," "The Days of Wine and Roses," "The Verdict," "Clean & Sober" and this year's Sundance Film Festival hit "Smashed" (arriving in theaters later this month) that spotlight the ravages of alcoholism and provide a showcase for an actor to sink his teeth into a really meaty role.
In "Flight," that actor is Denzel Washington, already established as one of our best and proving it again with a moving portrayal of a complex and prickly character whose moment of triumph is also the start of his descent to rock bottom.
Washington plays airline pilot William "Whip" Whitaker," who shows up for a morning flight shaking off the previous night's bender with a hit of cocaine to bring him up to consciousness. This chemical leveling-off is such a familiar ritual that Whip can easily pour vodka mini-bottles with one hand while calmly reassuring passengers from the galley.
Then disaster hits. The plane goes into a sudden nosedive, and Whip must try a risky flying maneuver to crash-land in a field. Of the 102 people on board, 96 survive a "miracle," Whip is constantly told, because all logic and expertise indicates that everyone on board should be dead.
The crash is breathtakingly realistic, thanks to the special-effects care applied by director Robert Zemeckis (making his first live-action movie since "Cast Away"), but it's really the biggest MacGuffin in movie history. It's, in the end, inconsequential to the real story, which centers on Whip's substance abuse and the competing forces to allow him to confront it or maintain denial.
On one side after the crash are enablers including a hotshot lawyer (Don Cheadle) trying to quash a toxicology report, a pilot's union rep (Bruce Greenwood) who flew with Whip in the military, and Whip's best friend/drug dealer, Harling (John Goodman) who helps Whip cover-up his boozing to serve their own interests.
On the other side is a rehabbing junkie, Nicole (played by British actress Kelly Reilly), whom Whip meets in the hospital after the crash. Nicole's character is a tricky one, veering from a damsel requiring Whip's rescue to a Jiminy Cricket trying to prick his conscience, and Reilly's performance hits all the right notes.
Zemeckis sometimes gets in the way of John Gatins' screenplay, telegraphing the emotional cues. This is particularly glaring on the soundtrack: Harling's entrance is accompanied by the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," while a scene of Nicole shooting up comes with a double shot of heroin-related tunes, Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" and a Cowboy Junkies cover of the Velvet Underground classic "Sweet Jane." The music does the feeling for us, depriving the audience of the chance of connecting with the characters for themselves.
But "Flight" is at heart Denzel Washington's show, and he makes the most of it. He digs deeply into the self-delusion of Whip's invincibility and the self-loathing when his world literally comes crashing down around him. It's a powerful performance that doesn't need any of Zemeckis' tricks to soar.
Denzel Washington's powerful performance raises this drama about a pilot facing his alcoholism.
Where • Theaters everywhere.
When • Opens Friday, Nov. 2.
Rating • R for drug and alcohol abuse, language, sexuality/nudity and an intense action sequence.
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Not only did someone at Morgan Stanley have the right idea on Monday when panic selling of Whitehaven shares began following the dissemination of a fake ANZ press release. Their timing was superb.
As revealed on Friday, clients of Morgan Stanley were the major beneficiaries of the hoax press release, which had some people thinking
During 22 mad-cap minutes, shares in the miner plunged by almost 9 per cent before recovering a bit ahead of the stock going into a trading halt.
The selling began at 12.19pm, when the shares were $3.52 and hit $3.21 at 12.37pm. When they came out of a trading halt, they were back at $3.52.
Morgan Stanley was the only broker to have a sizeable amount of buy orders for Whitehaven stock during the market mishap. Analysis of Iress data on when Morgan Stanley brokers did their buying shows most occurred when the stock was at its low point. Big licks of buy orders – four for more than 10,000 shares a pop – were matched when it was below the $3.30 mark.
Morgan Stanley is keeping shy about who exactly made the wise decision to buy up Whitehaven – and it is possible the broker was simply acting on orders of a well-informed client.
But with some quarters campaigning to get the ASX to cancel the share trades on the basis that the market was misinformed, it's worth highlighting that for every loser there's a winner and not everyone was duped by anti-coal activist Jonathan Moylan's nefarious press release writing.
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Mr MITCHELL (McEwen) (17:33): I rise today to support the federal government's Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2011-2012 and Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2011-2012. Success and progress have never come from those who stand still. This government will be successful because we never stand still because we create change using methods that give us a far better society. One of the measures supported through these bills is our comprehensive plan for securing our clean energy future. I am very proud to be part of a government which is championing this vital initiative. The plan will cut the nation's pollution and drive investment which will help ensure that Australia continues to compete internationally and that it will remain strong now and into the future.
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Under our Household Assistance Package, more than 20,900 pensioners in McEwen will receive pension payments increased by more than the average price impact of an emissions trading system. Pensions will increase by $338 per year for singles and $510 per year for couples combined, and concession card holders who rely on essential medical equipment will also be eligible to receive a $140 essential medical equipment payment each and every year. Family assistance payments like family tax benefit A will increase by 1.7 per cent. Nine out of 10 households will receive some assistance through tax cuts or payment increases. This monetary support is permanent and will increase in the future. The Gillard government will review the adequacy of assistance each year and will increase it further if required.
I am proud to be part of a government that makes the big decisions that demand courage right now, decisions for the future which, when we look back, will be seen as the right decisions. The coalition, who are trying to manipulate and grasp anything they can to promote their own political ambition, would claw back this support for all these people in McEwen. Just like Medicare and the superannuation reforms that we have proudly introduced, you would think no party would seek to undo them, because they have irrefutably changed Australian society for the better, but if the coalition had had their way none of these essential reforms would have seen the light of day. In the context of this government's clean energy future initiatives, we again hear the opposition cranking out the same old broken record of their negative spin.
Consistency is not the Liberal Party's strength. As we all know, Mr Abbott, the Leader of the Opposition, dismissed climate change as 'absolute crap', yet they still have their own carbon plan which will tax individuals $720 on average a year to fund support for big polluters. Last year on radio the Leader of the Opposition said:
I've never been in favour of a carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme.
But in 2009 he stated:
We don't want to play games with the planet. So we are taking this issue seriously and we would like to see an ETS …
That is what he said at the time. In the same year he also said:
You can't have a climate change policy without supporting this ETS …
Yet last year Mr Abbott criticised the proposed five per cent carbon emissions cuts as 'crazy', even though the coalition support the target. They have their own policy for the same target. You really have to ask: can you ever get a straight answer out of that lot opposite? Last year he repeatedly commented that measuring carbon dioxide was near impossible, and he said:
It's actually pretty hard to do this because carbon dioxide is invisible and it's weightless and you can't smell it …
The member for Wentworth quite eloquently put an end to that.
You have to wonder—this is a bloke who is a Rhodes scholar, yet he must have failed year 9 science to not understand that sort of thing and spew out the garbage that he does. But we should not be surprised that he thinks this, as most of his views are from the dark ages. What is even sadder is that it was the Howard government which introduced standards for emissions accounting—a government that he was a senior minister in. It is clear that those on the other side do not understand science. Over the years, when you look back and you look across, it is just a litany of contradictions from the Liberal Party and the National Party.
In speaking on this bill, I would also like to touch on the foreign aid component which this legislation is seeking to fund. Over a year ago, I was delighted to be involved with Plenty Valley Christian College, a school in my electorate that has been working extremely hard on the Make Poverty History campaign. After the students learned about the hardship and the challenges that people face in other countries, they decided to stand up and take action to raise awareness and help others less fortunate than us. Year 10 students led the college in organising the school to be involved in a worldwide campaign to help raise the issue of poverty around the world. The students collected hundreds of birthday cards from the school community to raise awareness in our wider community. They brought to the government's attention our commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, particularly goals 3 and 4 to improve child and maternal health. I would like to say as their local member and as part of the Gillard government that I am proud to represent such caring young people from my electorate.
Our government is committed to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, which are the agreed targets set by the world's nations to reduce poverty by 2015. This bill will see Australia providing $127.3 million to support developing countries in transforming their resources into significant, valuable and sustainable benefits for all their citizens. I would like to stress that the Australian aid program does not fund mining ventures. The aid program recognises that mining in developing countries is inevitable and that Australia would be better placed in helping these developing countries to develop their economies with sustainable practices. The potential benefits for developing countries to lift their economic status are enormous, especially for improving incomes, employment, education and enterprise opportunities for poor people in both rural and urban areas.
Many of our developing partner countries have substantial natural resource endowments, which, if well managed and regulated, can accelerate poverty reduction efforts. For example: in Papua New Guinea, mining employs over 30,000 people and provides 80 per cent of export earnings, and this is before LNG revenues are realised. Australia has already helped many countries to make progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, such as in Papua New Guinea, where more than 900,000 children were immunised against measles and other childhood illnesses between 2000 and 2009. In East Timor, Australian assistance contributed to a decrease in infant mortality from 60 per 1,000 live births in 2003 down to 44 in 2009. In Indonesia, more than 2,000 new junior secondary schools were built or renovated between 2006 and 2010. That created places for about 330,000 more children to get a decent education. I am looking forward to getting back to my electorate and visiting Plenty Valley Christian College again and talking to those students who are now in year 12 about the progress that we are making with our responsibilities as a member of the global community.
The Gillard government is committed to our Millennium Development Goals and to assisting nations that are not as lucky as we are. The early stages of a child's development are extremely important. It is well known that what happens to children in their early years has consequences throughout the course of their life. The electorate of McEwen has one of the largest zero- to 5-year-old populations in the country and it is continuing to grow, with large numbers of families and their children moving into the area. Another measure in this bill introduces reforms to strengthen incentives for parents to have their children immunised, which will improve immunisation coverage rates. As we know, immunisation helps to guard against harmful infections before they come into contact with humans. Immunisation helps people stay healthy by preventing serious infections. Immunisation is the safest and most effective way of giving protection against diseases. After immunisation, your child is far less likely to contract a disease when there are cases of disease in the community. We know when enough people in our communities are immunised that an infection can no longer be spread from person to person and that can help kill off a disease altogether. This is how smallpox was eliminated from the world and how polio has now disappeared from many countries.
The Family Tax Benefit Part A supplement, which is worth $726 per child per annum, will now only be paid once a child is fully immunised at one, two and five years of age. These new conditions will be implemented at a new immunisation checkpoint at one year of age, along with the existing checkpoints at two and five years of age. This means that over the three immunisation checkpoints families will now have an incentive of more than $2,100 to insure their children are fully immunised. Health is obviously a very important issue in my electorate. That is why we have seen things like the GP superclinics in Wallan and South Morang going ahead and there has been the removal of GP training place caps. All of these things are designed to help give us better health and a better standard of living.
It is important that these things be funded and continue to grow to make sure that we have a better future for our kids and their kids as they come along. It is important that these bills are passed speedily so that we can get on with the job of delivering a better Australia for our future.


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BOSTON (AP) Boston Celtics star Kevin Garnett (FSY) could miss two weeks because of a strained right calf.
General manager Danny Ainge said Thursday that an MRI and a thorough examination showed Garnett's injury Wednesday night was muscular and unrelated to a right knee injury that forced him to miss the 2009 playoffs and was surgically repaired.
"It's not anything to do with his knee, which is great news," Ainge said on WEEI radio. "It's one of those injuries that may keep him out for a couple of weeks at the most, I would say."
Garnett was hurt when he jumped for a dunk with 2:38 left in the first quarter of a 104-92 loss at the Detroit Pistons. The forward, who is averaging 15.4 points and a team-leading 9.8 rebounds, limped down the court before leaving the game.
The injury is the latest in a string of them for the Celtics.
Rajon Rondo (FSY) missed the last six games with a sprained left ankle, Delonte West (FSY) has been sidelined for the last 15 with a broken right wrist and Jermaine O'Neal (FSY) missed 19 games with sore knees before playing the last three. Kendrick Perkins (FSY) has been sidelined the entire season following surgery for a knee injury suffered in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, won by the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games.
The Celtics lead the Eastern Conference with a 24-6 record but have lost two of their last three games after winning 14 in a row. They resume play on Friday at home against the New Orleans Hornets.
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In the fifties and sixties, award-winning Danish couple Anni & Bent Knudsen launched numerous designs through the Danish design export organization "Den Permanente" in Copenhagen. This simple, colorful Fish Mobile was among Anni & Bent Knudsen's first mobiles to be introduced in the late 50's.
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Project DescriptionUrban Design
Past Progressives
Victor Gruen's 1956 Plan For Fort Worth, Texas, while Never Fully Realized, Influences That City And Many Others To This Day.
Winner of a 1957 P/A award, Victor Gruen's plan for downtown Fort Worth, Texas, heavily influenced development in that city and many others—for better and worse. It called for a highway ring around the downtown (as opposed to through it, as was proposed by state highway engineers), with pedestrian-only streets, below-grade service roads, and second-level skyways connecting buildings, all surrounded by parking garages at the downtown's edge. The ring of highways got built, as did a couple of skyways and some pedestrian streets and parking garages. But other cities, from Minneapolis to Fresno, Calif., embraced Gruen's vision to a greater degree.
The results have been mixed. Pedestrian-only streets often seemed empty of life, so many cities have reintroduced cars to them. Likewise, rings of highways and garages around downtowns have tended to isolate business districts and accelerate the decay of adjoining neighborhoods. And the extensive skyway systems deployed in some cities have had negative effects on street life.
Still, the impact of Gruen's plan remains undeniable and some of his ideas are worth revisiting. Fort Worth is currently planning Sundance Square, which will involve closing part of Main Street to cars and creating a downtown pedestrian plaza, as Gruen proposed. And as significant residential communities have grown in many downtowns, cities have begun to re-examine the need for more open space and pedestrian-only areas to accommodate greater population densities, as Gruen predicted. Gruen called his plan "A Greater Fort Worth Tomorrow"—it's just taken a while for tomorrow to come.


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Lamar Odom has been busy training with his new team, the Dallas Mavericks, and this week, he will be returning to his old stomping ground to play his old friends, the LA Lakers. When Lamar returns to the LA Lakers court this week, it may be awkward for his old team. This is because some of his old teammates have been reaching out to Lamar after he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks, but he has ignored every attempt to speak with his old friends. At least that's how they feel. Almost every attempt made by Pau Gasol and Luke Walton to talk to their former team player has been ignored.
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External Procedures
The database initiates the call to an external procedure through the listener and the external procedure agent. The database stores the library alias and the call specification (count, dataypes of parameters and so on).
The listener waits for external procedure requests and then starts the external procedure agent process (at most one per session).
The external procedure agent receives calling information (location and name of shared library (dll), parameters and so on) from the database and calls the corresponding function in the shared library. This external procedure agent is the extproc(.exe) executable in the ORACLE_HOME/bin directory.
The shared library contains the function to be called.
The library alias defines the location of the shared library within the database and is used in PL/SQL call specifications.
Sequence of events
1: The user invokes call specification that correspondents to an external procedure.
2: The database finds the name of the shared library and the name of the desired function through the call specification.
3: The database looks up the adress of the external procedure listener in the tnsnames.ora file under the service name extproc_connection_data.
This third step is only performed once per session.
4: The listener starts the external procedure agent and returns its address to the database.
5: The database transmits all necessary information to call the function to the external procedure agent. The agent converts PL/SQL data types.
6: The external procedure agent loads the shared library (dll) and calls the function.
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But Fellowes faces the challenge with the rigor and calm that would make a grantham proud.
(tie) Margaret Thatcher: From grantham to the Falklands by Charles Moore (5 votes)6.
" Downton is a symbol of Britain, really," said Hugh Bonneville, who plays Robert Crawley, the Earl of grantham.
Vacations are as mysterious to me as weekends are to the Dowager Countess of grantham.
To Miss grantham's detached and philosophic mind this conclusion, when she reflected on it, seemed extremely sound.
From grantham to Doncaster the railway opens up so many memories.
Miss grantham spoke to the terrace generally in a detached manner.
He must be very angry if he has decided on going to grantham.
He turned southward instantly, and by forced stages, hurried towards grantham.
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LEWISTOWN, ILLINOIS — A pre-Civil War landmark that some residents hoped to renovate was gutted in a blaze that fire officials said was suspicious in origin.
The Hotel Spoon River building, which housed a barbershop and beauty salon, caught fire early Tuesday morning and burned for seven hours. The cause of the fire was under investigation, but Lewistown Fire Chief John Spotloe said the blaze is suspicious.


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Subject: Re: [htdig] Mirror Sites and Rsync
From: Geoff Hutchison (email@example.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 08:03:34 PDT
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Brad Handy wrote:
> Is rsync set up on the ht://Dig server yet? If it is then I must have
> missed the announcements.
Here's the problem--the bandwidth for the htdig.org servers is provided by
Andrew's company, Evoke Communication. While they're nice enough to host a
large amount of bandwidth for the site, rsync is a much bigger hog than
CVS. So they don't want to host rsync there.
I'm looking at possibilities for rsync hosts, but haven't turned up any
good possibilities. SourceForge, unfortunately, also does not allow it.
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Hope this works for you!
I don't think Edit>Replace will work, but I'm not sure. You may have to use =Clean(A1) and copy down and across, then PasteSpecial as values over the top.
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You may have to use =Clean(A1) and copy down and across, then PasteSpecial as values over the top.
Hi Josh
CLEAN is an Excel function that removes all non printable characters frm text. In my example "=Clean(A1)" this would remove any single quotations preceding the text in cell A1.
Here is what you should try:
Insert a new Worksheet and then put:=TRIM(Sheet1!A1) Of course you would substitute "Sheet1" with your sheet name.
Copy this down rows and across columns until you have referenced all your cells that have text with the single quote preceding them.
Now highlight your entire sheet (grey square in the corner of "A" and "1") then push Ctrl+C (to copy), now go to Edit>PasteSpecial-Values-OK. This will replace all formulas with their values.
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April 01, 2014
Russell Lee Ayscue, a junior chemistry major and Patrick Henry Scholar, has been named a 2014 Barry Goldwater Scholar, one of only six Virginians to receive the award.
The Goldwater Scholarship is awarded to students who have displayed outstanding potential and intend to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. This year the Goldwater Foundation has awarded 283 scholarships nationally. The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,166 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. One hundred seventy-two of the Scholars are men, 111 are women, and virtually all intend to obtain a Ph.D. as their degree objective. Twenty-two Scholars are mathematics majors, 191 are science and related majors, 63 are majoring in engineering, and 7 are computer science majors. Many of the Scholars have dual majors in a variety of mathematics, science, engineering, and computer disciplines.
According to Lee, "I was very surprised and excited to receive such a prestigious honor. Luckily, I was able to share that excitement with my parents and grandparents, who had visited me over the weekend as I was being induced into the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society. Receiving the Goldwater has strengthened and amplified my interest, drive, and ambitions in scientific research. Even though I am the recipient, the honor also belongs to all those who made this extraordinary opportunity possible. The incredible amount of support which I received from Office of Fellowship Advising during the preparation and review of my application was the key to my success. The education and opportunities at Hampden-Sydney are unmatched because of the devotion of its faculty and staff to the students. I am truly blessed and very thankful for the full support of my family, friends, and the Hampden-Sydney community'"
"In the upcoming year, I will continue my studies in chemistry and physics. Throughout my senior year I will perform a departmental honors research project in chemistry focusing on the synthesis of catalytic compounds which have potential application in a reaction that recycles carbon dioxide emission. Also I will compete on the varsity swim team for my fourth season. After H-SC, I will pursue a chemistry or materials science graduate program in the study of catalysis, combustion chemistry, and/or hazardous materials management. My main areas of interests are the development of compounds for hazardous materials control and the advancement of military defense technologies. My interest in chemistry has been significantly influenced by excellent science teachers throughout my academic career and my father's profession as the hazardous materials captain for the Lynchburg City Fire Department in Lynchburg, Virginia."
The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established on November 14, 1986. The Scholarship Program honoring Senator Barry Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
The Effects of the Anti-CD22 Monoclonal Antibody Epratuzumab on Peripheral Blood B Cells and Immune Responses In Vivo, and Immunoglobulin Production In Vitro.
Shock1, Anthony, Brown2, Derek, Crook2, Kenneth, Shaw2, Stevan, Bourne2, Timothy, Foulkes2, Roland, Rose2, Geoffrey
UCB, Slough, Berkshire, Slough, United Kingdom
UCB, Slough, Berkshire, UK
Epratuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody against CD22 currently being evaluated clinically in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The aim of the current study in cynomolgus monkeys was to investigate the effects of epratuzumab on circulating B cell numbers and on the immune response to the challenge antigens keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) and tetanus toxoid (TT). Additionally, the effect of epratuzumab on immunoglobulin production from human B cells in culture was assessed.
In one study, cynomolgus monkeys received 4 weekly doses of epratuzumab at 10, 60, or 160 mg/kg and peri-pheral blood CD20+ B cell numbers were enumerated by flow cytometry. In a second study, cynomolgus monkeys received epratuzumab at 3 different dose levels (1 × 60 mg/kg, 1 × 10 mg/kg or 4 × 60 mg/kg), or saline. The primary immune response to administered KLH and the secondary immune response to TT were then monitored over time using ELISAs to measure anti-TT and anti-KLH titers in serum. Human peri-pheral blood mono-nuclear cells (PBMC) or purified B cells from human tonsils were cultured in vitro with a range of stimuli and the effect of epratuzumab on IgG and IgM production, assessed by ELISA, was monitored after 5 days in culture.
There was a 5060% reduction in the numbers of circulating B cells in cynomolgus monkeys after treatment with epratuzumab at all doses tested, which occurred within 24 hours of dosing. Animals treated with saline showed a primary anti-KLH response, with an increase in both IgG and IgM antibody levels. Epratuzumab did not inhibit this response at any dose tested, and there was no significant difference between the groups when area under the curve of the response over time for each animal was assessed. A robust IgG anti-TT was demonstrated but, again, no significant difference was observed between the differently dosed groups and saline controls. The production of IgG and IgM from human PBMC or tonsil B cells in culture was unaffected by incubation with a range of concentrations of epratuzumab.
Epratuzumab treatment caused a reduction in B cells but had no effect on the capacity to raise an antibody response to challenge antigens in cynomolgus monkeys in vivo. The production of immunoglobulin by B cells in culture was also unaffected by epratuzumab. This might indicate that the efficacy of epratuzumab in SLE patients is unlikely to be accompanied by a gross effect on the capacity to generate an adaptive immune response.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Shock, Anthony, Brown, Derek, Crook, Kenneth, Shaw, Stevan, Bourne, Timothy, Foulkes, Roland, et al; The Effects of the Anti-CD22 Monoclonal Antibody Epratuzumab on Peripheral Blood B Cells and Immune Responses In Vivo, and Immunoglobulin Production In Vitro. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :752
DOI: 10.1002/art.28520


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... This month one of the countrys most senior judges, Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court, praised the Mail for exposing the secret jailing of Mrs Maddocks by the court, which was set up in 2007 under Labours Mental Capacity Act.
It gave the State draconian powers to intervene in the lives of those deemed unfit to look over their own affairs.
The Mail highlighted Miss Maddockss shock when police arrived at her father Johns care home to cart her off to jail. She had been sentenced in secret for disobeying court orders by trying to remove him from the home. She served six weeks.
The case forced Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, to order that no one else should ever be jailed in private without the sentence and reasons for it being announced outside the closed courtroom...
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...(T)he mid-1980s closure of the mental hospitals by Thatcher was a key pathway change, opening up the possibility for a more responsive third wave post asylum system with enhanced social and participative rights. While this possibility was initially signalled by the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, there was quickly an assertion of controlling imperatives in the wake of high profile carnage in the community cases of killings by mental health users such Christopher Clunis (1996) and Michael Stone (1996)... New Labour measures have had a contradictory impact. Though elements of a third wave emphasis on social and participative rights can be detected, this is countered by a coercive communitarian approach that has produced the 2007 MHA. Since the 1998 Human Rights Act (HRA) is restricted largely to CP rights, the denial of which is actually sanctioned by the ECHR, it does not offer enormous scope for improving mental health...
... The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 created real difficulties for the government as it emphasises that treatment should be voluntary where people have capacity. It enshrines principles such as self-determination and informed consent, and enables people to state future treatment wishes in advance of losing competency. The Mental Health Foundation had wanted this to be incorporated in the Act, but instead it is simply referred to in the Code of Practice. While competent patients may refuse treatment for physical ill health, treatment for mental ill-health may be legally imposed, subject to second opinion procedures. There is a strong case to be made that separate mental health legislation is inherently discriminatory, and some propose a merger with incapacity legislation to ensure consistent ethical principles across medical law (Dawson and Szmukler, 2006). A systematic review of research into mental capacity found that a majority of psychiatric in-patients have capacity (Okai et al., 2007).
Finally, debates around mental health and human rights have primarily focused on those compulsorily detained. This arguably diverts attention away from two other groups. First, those who may be informally treated, but as we have seen are subject to discrimination and even abuse in the mental health services and wider society (Thornicroft, 2006). Second, the expansion of prisons in a law and order society has arguably led to reinstitutionalisation, with ONS statistics suggesting that 90 per cent of prisoners have at least one mental disorder (APPGPH, 2006)...
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Joel McHale
The host of The Soup talks about his upcoming roles
If you don't recognize Joel McHale from The Soup, E!'s satirical examination of the week's pop-culture misfires, then you've probably mistaken him for that other dapper host from the same network: "I'm the poor man's Ryan Seacrest," McHale jokes. But this fall, the 37-year-old married father of two will get triple exposure when he stars as a phony lawyer in NBC's Community, a sharply written comedy from the Emmy-winning Arrested Development team, then appears in this month's The Informant!, directed by Steven Soderbergh. And he'll still be Soup-ing it up on Friday nights, which means he'll be busier than, well, dare we say...Seacrest?
How did you go from Friday night basic cable to starring in an NBC Thursday night comedy?
Well, I slept with the appropriate men. No, I took The Soup because of the pedigree of Greg Kinnear [who hosted Talk Soup from 1991 to 1995]. He was able to launch out of this. I thought it would open up the correct doors. And it did. Thank God, because The Soup is basically me doing stand-up for 22 minutes a week. Casting directors started calling me in. Then [Community] came up. It was the best script I'd read in years. We shot it, and I prayed that we got picked up. I knew we had a pretty good shot because Chevy Chase is in it.
Your character in Community forms a study group to get closer to a woman. Have you ever done anything dishonest to impress a lady?
When it came to women, I was always like, "Here comes lanky Skeletor!" I was never one of those guys that just made shit up to get women to like them. When you show up in an '89 Nissan Sentra, you're like, "Oh yeah, this? This is actually a very rare car." It's not impressive.
With Chevy Chase on set, do you ever find yourself in line for craft service quoting lines from Caddyshack?
Yes, and Fletch, too. And Vacation. I'll sit down next to him and we'll be getting a take, and I'll just be like, "Dad, do you think he's gonna pork her?" And he's like, "Rusty, no. Enough. Yes, he might pork her."
You're a dad. Do you try to censor your two kids from the trashy TV you cover on The Soup? What idiot would show their kids some of these shows?
The good news is that my one-year-old and my four-year-old do not care about television at all. My four-year-old only cares about trains. So if it's Rock of Love Train next year, then we're going to have a real problem in the family.
You're also in The Informant!, starring Matt Damon. Huge.
Literally huge. He put on, like, 40 pounds, so Matt is bigger than ever. But then I saw him last January, six months after shooting, and the guy was already ripped. Jerk.
And you're still on The Soup. It's going to be busy.
Still, I will only be one-twentieth as busy as Ryan Seacrest because I have only two jobs and he has 17 at this point.
Probably 18 by now. We have been talking for a few minutes.
You're right, he probably just got a lawn-mowing job up the street. He's omnipotent.


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The question some will have is why would Ibeh and Ridley go to the same school in the same class since both are low block centers, well the answer is they are very different.
At roughly 6-foot-10 and 275 pounds, Ridley is one of the biggest centers in the class. He scores around the rim with post moves, toughness, and strength. A big bodied player, Ridley is solid running the floor, but is not a major shot blocking threat. He defends the post well, and is just a problem to deal with given his size, nimble feet, and feel for how to play.
Conversely at 6-foot-11 and 210 pounds, Ibeh is one of the best big men in the country at changing ends and blocking shots. Ibeh is a big time athlete who plays well above the rim, and has the ability to change the game on defense. However he is still raw on the offensive end, needs to get stronger, and is lacking much of a go to move on the block.
While Ibeh is one of the best long term prospects in this class given his upside, he might be a year or two away from being a consistent contributor at a school hoping to compete for Final Four's and conference titles.
With the presence of Ridley already in the class, this gives the Texas coaching staff the opportunity to develop Ibeh at the right pace and allow him to translate his physical gifts into a well rounded and productive player on both ends of the floor.
Add in that a skilled high-post player in Connor Lammert is also in the class, and the Longhorns are going to be able to throw bodies at teams and wear them down on the low block. Lammert can play both center and power forward.
Like Lammert's ability to play multiple positions gives a great deal of versatility, it is another reason why Ibeh and Ridley will not only be able to coexist but also possibly thrive.
Ridley can only guard one position, center. Meanwhile with his length, athleticism, and ability to move laterally, Ibeh can guard a power forward at times. Being able to have two big bodies like that on the floor, and not lose anything in terms of being able to guard, is just not something that many programs have the luxury of doing.
While there is no guarantee how quickly Ibeh will be ready to produce, or how long Ridley will stay on campus in Austin, the bottom line is this duo could be one that makes an impact in college basketball. This time of year every school is looking for quality big men to come in and make an impact, every team that is except for the Texas Longhorns. They are very well set at the center position, and in college basketball that is very rare to say.


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The LMP8100A provides four levels of internal frequency compensation,which at the higher gain settings increases the usable signal bandwidth. Itsinput zero calibration feature allows the user to measure the output offset voltage to calibrate any errors resulting from temperature or voltage shifts.The amplifier's control modes are programmed via a serial port that also allows several devices to be cascaded, permitting an array of LMP8100 amplifiers to be programmed by a single microcontroller serial data stream. The device's control-mode registers are double-buffered to ensure glitch-free transitions between programmed settings.
The LMP8100A has a slew rate of 12 V/us and a 33 MHz unity-gain bandwidth. The device's supply voltage range is 2.7V to 5.5V, with a 5.3mA supply currentand output current of 20 mA. A power-conserving shutdown mode reduces current consumption to 20 uA.


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DENVER (AP) Scott Podsednik's struggles at the plate forced him to go back to the basics. It paid of handsomely Saturday night.
GAME REPORT:Rockies 7, Pirates 1
Podsednik had three doubles among his four hits and two runs scored, and Jorge De La Rosa pitched six gritty innings to give the Colorado Rockies a 7-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Podsednik, a career .272 hitter, came into Saturday's game hitting .217. After a session with hitting coach Alan Cockrell, he showed immediate improvement.
"Ace and I did some work in the cage a couple of days ago," said Podsednik, who boosted his average to .240. "Since then, I've had a real good feeling at the plate."
It translated into the eighth four-hit game of his career, and his three doubles were a career best. Podsednik's last four-hit game came May 1, 2006, at Cleveland when he was playing for the Chicago White Sox.
Podsednik singled in the first and double in his next three at-bats. He had a chance for a career-high five hits when he batted in the ninth, but he grounded out to second and had to settle for four hits.
"I'll take a few more of those this season," Podsednik said.
Podsednik's big night helped the Rockies to their third straight win over Pittsburgh in the four-game series. Freddy Sanchez had three hits for the Pirates, who have dropped four straight and five of six.
"There is no magic button, there's nothing you can say or do, you just have to go out and do it," Sanchez said of the losing streak. "You have to keep battling. That's what we're trying to do right now."
The Rockies, despite being 42-57, are only seven games behind Arizona in the National League West.
"It's only three games. This pendulum swings big both ways," Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said. "We've got to focus on the game tomorrow. We won the series; that was objective No. 1. We're in a good place."
It looked dicey early but De La Rosa (4-5) got through a rough first inning to strike out seven. He gave up a run in the first and faced seven batters but settled down, scattering four hits over his last five innings of work.
"He pitched a good, efficient ballgame for him," Hurdle said. "A problematic first inning, but he was able to navigate through it with one run, which was big for us at the time."
Pirates starter Yoslan Herrera (0-1) had a tougher time, leaving after retiring two batters in the second. Herrera, making his second major league start, was roughed up for five runs in the first inning and two more in the second. He left after Garret Atkins singled home Podsednik and Brad Hawpe drove in Atkins with a double to make it 7-1.
"He got behind the 8-ball quick and just couldn't stop it," Pirates manager John Russell said. "He got behind in the count and he had to start throwing the ball over the plate."
In the first, Herrera nearly escaped with only minor damage. After surrendering a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to Atkins, Hawpe grounded into a fielder's choice. With runners on the corners and two outs, Yorvit Torrealba and Ian Stewart singled, and Omar Quintanilla doubled to make it 5-1.
The Pirates took a 1-0 lead in the first on Ryan Doumit's single.
Notes: Pirates OF Xavier Nady rejoined the team Saturday. Nady was away due to the birth of his son Tuesday, Xavier Henry Nady. Nady got a pinch-hit single with two outs in the ninth. ... The Rockies acquired minor league INF Mike McCoy from the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday in exchange for minor league INF Juan Castro. ... Hurdle said SS Troy Tulowitzki (lacerated right hand) could be activated from the 15-day DL Monday.
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Docket Management
Docket: 00D-1598 - Voluntary Labeling Indicating Whether Foods Have Been Developed Using Bioengineering
Comment Number: EC -31
Accepted - Volume 17
Comment Record
Mr. Richard Thomas
2001-01-31 11:44:39
Comments for FDA General
1. General Comments
Although I am employed by a completely unrelated industry, metals, am I concerned about regulations that are being proposed on the biotechnology industries. I believe that voluntary labeling requirements are sufficient, and that should be strictly voluntary without conditions. I have read where protestors say that there cannot be a 100% garantee that all bioengineered products will never hurt anyone anywhere. These people will never be satisfied with any levels of labeling, assurances or amount of testing on any product. I believe that unless the bioengineering industry is allowed to grow, without the attacks on products like Starlink, that many future lives will at stake. I feel that many safe solutions to present and future problems, such as food supplies and jobs to afford food, will be at stake. I don't believe that the harm that is possible from this technology, and there are possible harms possible with any technology, and even from living one's life in a cave, will come from these industries that are trying to improve foods, medicines and other benefits to our society.


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I did "assUme" that you are running majordomo-1.94.5 when I sent my previous response. I am still making that assumption, and that your sendmail is at least version 8.9.3 or higher. Did you look at the first paragraph of text in the archive2.pl script? It also allows you to do daily, monthly, or yearly archives. Archive2.pl is just a newer version of archive.pl. # archive -f <archive> {-u|-a} [-d|-m|-y] [file ...] # -f <archive> REQUIRED; specifies base file name for archive # -u Input is a UNIX archive (separated by "From " lines) to split # -a Input is a message to append to archive # -d Archive file is <archive>.YYMMDD # -D Archive file is <archive>.YYYYMMDD # -m Archive file is <archive>.YYMM # -M Archive file is <archive>.YYYYMM # -y Archive file is <archive>.YY # -Y Archive file is <archive>.YYYY # Exactly one of "-u" or "-a" must be specified. # At most one of "-d", "-D", "-m", "-M", "-y", or "-Y" may be specified; # if none is specified, archive name is simply <archive> The key here, is that you are also allowed to use alternate majordomo.cf files. The -C /path/to/majordomo.cf is undocumented except in the perl code itself, and must be the very first argument to the command. Neither of the archive tools will "send" messages out, but only create the file with contents of that day's messages, and give the filename an extension that indicates the period of time in it's content. What it really sounds like your end goal is though, is to create a daily digest of messages and send those out rather than creating an archive. Setting up a -digest of your list requires additional aliases, and a listname-digest.config file (which purges received lines) for each list. A daily cron job can send a command to majordomo to "force" a digest to be compiled and sent out. Just be careful NOT to run this cron as root or majordomo. Dan Liston firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: > > Dan: Thanks for the suggestion, but if my understanding of archive2.pl is > that it accumulates each incoming message into a monthly archive. My > workaround accumulates all of the messages for a single day into a holding > file. I was hoping to use the "archive.pl" tool rather than the archive2.pl > to next take the day's file containing all of the messages (in the order > received) and remove the "white noise" or all of the extra headers. > Archive.pl indicates that it will do the following: > > #Here is a perl program I wrote to keep mailing list archives. > #It is designed to produce list archive files similar to Revised > #Listserv. Each message is separated by a line of "==="s and > #most of the header "noise" is gone. Instead of being stored > #in one big file, they are split into one file per month with > #the name logYYMM where YY and MM are the numeric year and > #month. > # > #I call it from /usr/lib/aliases using: > # > # listname-archive: "|/usr/local/mail/majordomo/wrapper archive.pl \ > # /usr/local/mail/lists/listname.archive" > # > #Where the last parameter is the directory name to put the > #log files into. > > I thought the script could be applied to a DAY'S list of messages and then > sent out stripped as described above. I would still need to deal with the > file name problem and change it to a day "logDDMMYY" instead of a month > "logYYMM"... then mail it out at midnight to the digest list.... > > I don't have "root" permission, so I have some limits at the level of admin > for my dedicated server.... > > Any more thoughts would be appreciated. I've seen many of your other > suggestions and you seem very willing and able on this stuff.... thanks! > > At 03:47 AM 6.6.2001 -0500, you wrote: > >try using "-C /path/to/xxvhst.cf" as the first argument to archive2.pl. > > > >Dan Liston > > > >firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: > >> > >> My sendmail is modified to recognize different vhost aliases and there is > >> a xxvhost.cf for each domain. The archive script seems to want the main > >> majordomo.cf. > >> > > > > > > Best regards, > > Jack L. Stone, > Administrator > > Sage-American > http://www.sage-american.com > email@example.com


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A Marine from Draper died Saturday in a motorcycle crash in California.
Cpl. Joshua Vielstich, 21, died on Interstate 10 in Palm Springs, Calif., after his motorcycle hit the rear of a sedan, according to the Riverside County Coroner's Office. He died at the scene. Vielstich was serving at Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.
His mother, Annette Vielstich, said her son was in the U.S. Marine Corps about 3½ years. He served in Afghanistan for about seven months, she said.
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Your applications can use the standard APIs supported by the CloudHSM, such as PKCS#11, Microsoft CAPI/CNG and Java JCA/JCE (Java Cryptography Architecture/Java Cryptography Extensions). Please see the AWS CloudHSM FAQ for a complete list of supported APIs. The CloudHSM client provides the APIs to your applications and implements each API call by connecting to the CloudHSM appliance using a mutually authenticated SSL connection.
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FRANKFURT — Wrangling is expected to continue over Cyprus' controversial bank tax, with the island's parliament resoundingly voting against a deposit levy.
The vote was a key step to securing an international bailout for the country and avoid default.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Cypriot government had proposed to spare smaller depositors from paying the levy.
But this wasn't enough to secure the support of the country's parliament.
Global markets have been rattled in recent days after Cyprus was forced to seek billions of dollars in bailout funds from Europe to help prop-up its ailing banking system. While the Cypriot economy is relatively small, concerns remain of contagion spreading to other banks.
"Apart from the creation of unprecedented uncertainty, the key question is what happens now?" said ANZ economists on Wednesday in a note to clients.
Cypriot banks are due to re-open on Thursday and if there is to be an attempt to re-negotiate the bail-out terms, this may be extended until next week.
Under a deal struck over the weekend with Cypriot creditors, a 6.75 per cent levy will be placed on all deposits under 100,000 euro. For deposits over this amount, the levy will increase to 9.9 per cent.
The tax is aimed at raising funds to help pay for the 10 billion euro bailout needed by country's crippled banks.
However, a draft bill submitted by the Cypriot government to the country's parliament earlier Wednesday proposes to scrap the levy on bank deposits below 20,000 euro.
Cyprus central bank chief Panicos Demetriades told the country's parliament that the island's banks would lose 10 per cent of their deposit base within days if deposits below 100,000 euro were hit with the tax.
Apart from the creation of unprecedented uncertainty, the key question is what happens now?
The draft rules had set that deposits between 20,000 and 100,000 euro incur the 6.75 per rate, while the 9.9 per cent tax on all deposits above that level remains.
The proposed rules came as the former Cyprus central bank governor Athanasios Orphanides said Europe's governments were "essentially blackmailing" Cyprus.
Speaking on Bloomberg TV, Mr Orphanides hit out at the bank levy.
"What we're witnessing is the slow death of the European project. We are in a situation where some European governments are essentially taking actions that are telling citizens of other member states they are not equal under the law," he said.
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"The way the strongest governments of Europe have blackmailed the Cypriot government to confiscate deposits is essentially sending a message that no one with deposits in a small country like Luxembourg should feel safe about their deposits. No one with deposits in a weak country, like Spain, should feel safe about deposits," he said in the interview.
There were two Cypriot banks operating in Australia over the past decade, although both have since sold their operations in recent years.
Australian banking exposure to Cyprus is small, running at just $76 million, according to latest Bank for International Settlements figures.
Much of the large deposits held by Cypriot banks reportedly belong to Russians.
In other developments, Cyprus' finance minister Michalis Sarris has left for Moscow to seek an extension to an existing 2.5 billion euro loan which has provided essential funding for the Cypriot government.


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The 29-year-old singer enjoyed the summer rays alongside her husband Eddie Cibrian and friends in Los Angeles, where she donned two skimpy bikinis. First up was a peach-colored number with a ruffled crop top. Next, Rimes showed off her svelte figure and toned tummy in a turquoise two-piece.
The country crooner tweeted about her fun in the sun, writing:
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Watford head coach Beppe Sannino praised his team's stamina after the Hornets' 1-0 win over Birmingham City and singled out Troy Deeney and Marco Cassetti for special praise.
Deeney's strike in the 33rd minute proved the difference between the two sides as Watford held on for a morale-boosting victory which sees them move up to 13th in the Championship.
The match came three days after the 2-2 draw at Leicester City on Saturday and Sannino rotated his side as Ikechi Anya (calf) and Fitz Hall (Achilles) were left out as a precaution while Sean Murray was rested.
"First of all it's important to underline we did some rotation and were still able to win the game," Sannino said.
"We haven't complained about that and I have to pay compliments to my players because they have been able to keep the focus high and win the game."
He continued: "I think in the first half we were the better side on the pitch. We only conceded one shot on goal when they hit the bar but I think in the box for us there were a couple of times when we deserved something more than we got.
"In the second half it is normal to expect them to show a response because they were losing but I cant remember Almunia making any difficult saves."
Cassetti started at the centre of the back three for the second consecutive match and the Italian impressed with an assured display.
Sannino was pleased with the veteran's performance and hailed his, and Deeney's, contribution to the win.
"I think Troy Deeney and Marco Cassetti were brilliant tonight," Sannino said.
"Troy missed the ball and then he scored and he is a great player for this reason.
"He was able to stay standing and this is a good quality - I have seen it many times when a player would fall over in that situation."
Watford are nine points behind the last play-off spot with a game in hand but Sannino was coy when asked if the Hornets could still make the top six.
"I'm not watching the table at the moment," he insisted. "What I am watching is match after match.
"On Saturday we have another match which is very important and from tomorrow we have to start thinking about the next game against Middlesbrough.
"Today's game belongs to the past now."