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Chess Biographies
One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
Queen of Katwe is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
The Queen of Katwe
Mikhail Tal, the ''Magician from Riga'', was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and this enchanting autobiography chronicles his extraordinary career with charm and humor. Dazzling games are interspersed throughout with anecdotes and witty self-interviews, and in typically objective fashion he relates both the ups and downs of his encounters.
Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Did you ever notice how some famous GM games are more interesting to play through than others? For instance, tell me you have a Tartakower or Nimzowitsch game and I'm sorry, but I just can't get that excited. But tell me you have a Fischer, Alekhine, or Tal game you want to show me and woo-hoo!, break out the milk and cookies because I know I'm in for a real treat! And Mikhail Tal: Tactical Genius by Alexander Raetsky and Maxim Chetverik is loaded with enough tasty treats to satisfy the most demanding of palates.
Mikhail Tal - Tactical Genius
Korchoi and Karpov
This book, the fifth in Garry Kasparov's magnificent history of the World Chess Championship, catalogues the ''post-Fischer'' period in the 1970's and early 1980's. This period was dominated by Anatoly Karpov (world champion from 1975-1985) and his three-time challenger, Viktor Korchnoi. Anatoly Karpov gained the right to challenge Bobby Fischer for the world title by winning through the Candidates series in 1974. As is well known, Fischer refused to defend the title and in 1975 Karpov became champion by default. Although he did not have to contest a Championship match to gain the title, Karpov proved that he was a worthy champion by winning virtually every major tournament over the next decade.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME V
This book brings together the two greatest names in the history of chess. The author, Garry Kasparov, is the world number one and, by common consent, the greatest player ever. The subject of the book, Bobby Fischer, is the only American to have become world champion and is probably the greatest natural talent the world has ever seen.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME IV
Petrosian and Spassky
The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of the chess enthusiasts but of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators. This magnificent compilation of play from the 1960s through to the 1970s forms the basis of the third part of Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship. Garry Kasparov, who is universally acclaimed as the greatest chessplayer ever, subjects the play from this era to a rigorous analysis, the examination being enhanced by the use of the latest chess software.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME III
Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov and Tal
The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles that have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME II
Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine
The battle for the World Chess Championship has witnessed numerous titanic struggles which have engaged the interest not only of chess enthusiasts but also of the public at large. The chessboard is the ultimate mental battleground and the world champions themselves are supreme intellectual gladiators. These magnificent compilations of chess form the basis of the first two parts of Garry Kasparov's work on the history of the World Chess Championship.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors - VOLUME I
The Modern Chess Champions and Their Most Characteristic Games
Meet the Masters contains the biographies of the eight strongest players in the world at that time. It includes their histories, photographs, games and an analysis and critique of their playing styles. Each of these eight players had been invited to the historic tournament at AVRO 1938, regarded as the strongest chess tournament ever held prior to modern times. The eight players generally regarded as the strongest in the world were: World Champion Alexander Alekhine, former champions José Raúl Capablanca and Max Euwe, future champion Mikhail Botvinnik and challengers Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr.
Meet the Masters
My Games with the World Champions
Four-time US Champion Yasser Seirawan provides a fascinating and highly entertaining account of his games and encounters with the world champions of chess including: Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Botvinnik and Max Euwe. Having been involved in frequent battles against world champions over a 25-year period, Seirawan is in an ideal position to reveal how it really feels to be facing the legends of the game. He describes and analyses, in depth, his most memorable encounters - both famous victories and painful defeats, against the best chessplayers of the last 50 years.
Chess Duels
Soltis's research has found material found no where else! He was a chess meteor brilliantly streaking across the sky in only two years after learning the moves. He came and went quickly, this Harry Nelson Pillsbury. But while he was here, he left something for you - his extraordinary life and games. You will learn from his style that mixed and combined that or Steinitz and Morphy. Between 1896-1902, he may have been the best player in the world, superior even to World Champion Lasker. You are going to be a part of history and beautiful games with this book on Pillsbury the Extraordinary! There's a diagram every 3 moves, like a movie, to help you exercise your powers of visualization.
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A brief autobiographical sketch of one of the strongest chess players of the last century, who introduced theoretical innovative ideas in chess.
Nimzowitsch How I Became a Grandmaster at Chess - RUSSIAN EDITION
During his career, Vlastimil Hort, who himself belongs to the same generation as Bobby Fischer, met no less than eight world champions over the board.
Facing the World Champions - Vlastimil Hort
Viktor Kortchnoi Volume 2 features about four hours of Kortchnoi live. The great chess legend portraits the second part of his eventful career, presenting among other things his games against Kasparov (1986), Spassky (1989) and Short (1990) in his typical gripping style.
My Life for Chess - Viktor Kortchnoi - VOLUME 2
Viktor Kortchnoi is doubtlessly one of the most electrifying personalities of the chess world. Still playing successful and attractive chess, the 73-year-old former double world championship finalist is also famous for his candid language.
My Life for Chess - Viktor Kortchnoi - VOLUME 1
All chess fans will enjoy the incredible archive footage found on these DVDs for decades feared lost of British wins by Nigel Short, Tony Miles and Jon Speelman against two of the greatest world champions - Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov.
Great British Triumphs - VOLUME 2
All chess fans will enjoy the incredible archive footage found on these DVDs for decades feared lost of British wins by Nigel Short, Tony Miles and Jon Speelman against two of the greatest world champions - Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. The DVDs feature the players own remarks and has an overall commentary by GM Ray Keene.
Great British Triumphs - VOLUME 1
Exclusive DVD with over 3 hours of commented games and movies by the 12th World Chess Champion in the history of Chess Alexandra Kosteniuk. Every single game she played in Nalchik to win the World Title commented in detail in her own voice.
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK - How I Became the 12th World Champion
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Autobiography of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the World Chess Federation (''FIDE'') from 1995 to the Present. This is an amazing book because it describes the break-up of the Soviet Union and provides an autobiography of how a man realizing the huge changes in the process of taking place in Russian society was able to become a millionaire.
The President's Crown of Thorns
The tragic last years of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946); 45 of his match and tournament games in Spain and Portugal from 1943 to 1946 and 100 other exhibition games from this period and from previous Iberian visits. Most of these 145 games have never been published in an English-language source.
Alexander Alekhine - Agony of a Chess Genius
Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969 and was one of the strongest players in the world throughout his lengthy career. Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Championship on eight occasions (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980).
Tigran Petrosian - His Life and Games
Selected Games 1961-2003
Arthur Bisguier is a living legend in American chess, having met and defeated some of the greatest players in the world. This is a collection of his best games - annotated by Bisguier himself - from 1961 through 2003. Each game is introduced with an anecdote and brief comment about Art's opponent and combined with many archival photos, makes this one of the great chess game collections ever.
The Art of Bisguier
The Life And Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
A chronicle of America's most notorious chess master based on many of his own papers. Includes a detailed story of his life, his loves, his cons, and his many chess experiences in a 60+-year career. along with 570 of his games (some with full notes). Much US chess history and some excellent photos are a notable part of the book. NOTE: This book won the Chess Cafe 'Book of the Year' award for 2000.
Shady Side
A Memoir
The story of Bill Hook's life with his many passions: chess, painting, traveling, photography and blackjack. Bill Hook won a gold medal at the Chess Olympiad and his friends include street hustlers and world champions. He played with the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Harold Schonberg, Marcel Duchamp and Miguel Najdorf. After Bill Hook had beaten him four times in a row, a very young Bobby Fischer started crying. Now Hook lives and plays on the Virgin Islands. An admirable and colorful life. The autobiography of a gambler, painter and chess player.
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The Story and the Games
At the age of 13 years, 4 months and 26 days, Magnus Carlsen became the youngest chess grandmaster in the world. The international press raved about the Norwegian prodigy. The Washington Post even called him 'the Mozart of chess'. Ten years on Magnus Carlsen is the number one in the world rankings and a household name far beyond chess circles. Time Magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013
How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World
My Life, Games and Compositions
Grandmaster Pal Benko is a chess legend: A challenger for the World Championship, an innovator of many modern opening systems, a problem composer par excellence, and a father figure to his close friend Bobby Fischer, Benko has played and defeated most of the top players of the last fifty years. This biography is a celebration of a great man's creative legacy.
Pal Benko
A Biography of a Bohemian Caesar
Long known as one of the greatest chess masters of the nineteenth century, William Steinitz had a rich and elevated career and life, which can now be known as well. From Steinitz's own writings and the fruits of extensive first-time-ever research by the author, a fascinating portrayal emerges of the life and genius of a man widely known as the 'Bohemian Caesar' quite apart from his chess dominance.
William Steinitz - Chess Champion
A Biography with 220 Games
Frank Marshall (1877-1944) reigned as America's chess champion from 1907 through 1936 - the longest stint of anyone in history. A colorful character almost always decked out in an ascot and chewing a cigar, his career coincided with many evolutionary changes in competitive chess.
Frank Marshall - US Chess Champion
This book, about the best chess player of the nineteenth century, analyzes Paul Morphy's games and positions in depth to reveal the essence of his style. The first collection in English of all 413 of Morphy's known games, the volume discusses other players of the period (Adolph Anderssen and Wilhelm Steinitz), Morphy's rare blunders and omissions, as well as selected endgames and openings.
Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory
Now, for the first time, every one of his 736 tournament and match games is presented with insightful explanations and analysis. Best-selling chess author, German International Grandmaster Karsten Muller, annotates each game of the player many believe to be the greatest of all time.
Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion
Bobby Fischer's 1964 Simul Tour
A Legend on the Road deals with Bobby before he had become a household name. A complete unknown he wasn't, not with six U.S. Championships to his credit - including a scintillating 11-0 in the 1963/64 affair - but U.S. chess players bad never had a real opportunity to see him in action without traveling thousands of miles.
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The Most Famous Chess Player Explained
Bobby Fischer's lone fight against the Soviet chess powerhouse made him a global hero, also for people who did not play chess at all. The Russians trembled before him, the Americans and the rest of the world cheered him on. Fischer's chess prowess and his will to win were unparalleled. But so were his eccentric behaviour and his paranoia. After he won the world title, Bobby Fischer vanished and the former prodigy became a mystery. The memories of his successwere clouded by his anti-American and anti-Semite rants.
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This is the autobiography of George Koltanowski, the greatest showman and promoter that chess has ever known. Koltanowski will be best remembered as an exhibitor, writer, promoter and showman. Possessed with an incredibly powerful memory, Koltanowski would often give exhibitions, playing several games blindfold simultaneously.
Adventures of a Chess Master
Howard Staunton (1810 - 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape that is still the style which must be used for competitions. He was the principal organizer of the first international chess tournament in 1851. From 1840 onwards he became a leading chess commentator, and won matches against top players of the 1840s. However, the achievement of Staunton have been neglected or even ignored by his own countrymen and this book seeks to rectify that.
Howard Staunton - The English World Chess Champion


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Corsham Area Board distributed what will be its final community grants before the May elections last week, at a meeting in Lacock Village Hall.
Area board chairman Alan Macrae proposed a £500 grant towards plans to grant five-times Paralympic medallist Stephanie Millward the freedom of Corsham. This was unanimously approved by the board, who praised her work coaching children with their swimming and her support of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The freedom of Corsham will be presented to Miss Millward on March 2.
The Corsham Churches Food Bank also received £500 to increase its storage facilities at St Aldhelm's Church. The board heard how requests to the charity rose from 14 to 35 last year.
A grant of £350 was awarded to the Corsham One Mile Running Club to provide rewards for young people meeting their sporting targets. The club, which is used by children aged six to 14, wants to buy medals, trophies and T-shirts to present to children.
As this was the final area board meeting before the new council is elected in May, it also had to decide what to do with its surplus grant money. This was donated to the community area transport group, to be used for community-related transport projects.
A summary of the board's previous grants showed that in the past four years, £119,655 has been allocated to projects in and around Corsham, 40 per cent of which involved young people.

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I am having this error in the line self->{_seedpath} below..can somebody help!!!!
my @seeds = glob("*r0.32.obj");
@seeds = sort @seeds;
my $seed = pop @seeds;
$self->{seedPath} = "$self->{work_dir}/$seed";
Appreciate if anyone can help! I am confused on how the file is calling when learning up the perl script.FYI, I have files called rr.pl and cafe.pm
rr.pl fileit does "use cafe" that i am not sure if this is the way to call to cafe.pm file
use cafe
cafe.pm fileinside it will do the package cafe
package cafe
How does the code below (in rr.pl file) works with the cafe.pm file as I saw there is a sub new() function calling in cafe.pm. And I am still confused on how the referencing works.
my $temp = cafe->new(%cafe_switches);
And I try to print out the array cafes but it comes with some hash number. What is the right way to print out these variable if i want to see what it pass into these?:(
push(@cafes, $temp);
my $seed = pop @seeds;
You should check to see if something's actually getting popped out before going on to the next line?
I'd write it as:
my @seeds = sort glob("*r0.32.obj");
if(my $seed = pop @seeds) {
$self->{_seedPath} = "$self->{_work_dir}/$seed";
That way the expressions in the if() conditions aren't reached unless $seed is true (defined, etc)
Also the output from glob() can directly be fed into sort(), so your @seeds will be what you want in one pretty line of code.
Thanks!!!:D yeah..the seed isnt valid anyway:(
I have trouble to understand these matching equation and foreach function trying to do:(:(:( anyone can try to explain to me? thanks a million!!
my $testtest="test.txt";open (INFILE,"$testtest");my @line=<INFILE>;close(INFILE);
foreach (@lines) {
my $line = $_;
# Search for new header
if ($line =~ /^\[(.*)\]/) { if ($new) { $header = $1; next; } else { $new = 1; $header = $1; next; } }
my $testtest="test.txt";
open (INFILE,$testtest) or die("Cannot open $testtest: $!"); # It's good to check for I/O failure
my @line=<INFILE>; # read all lines into @line array
foreach (@lines) { # iterate over every line in @lines
my $line = $_; # set $line to current line, which is $_
if ($line =~ /^\\[(.*)\\]/) { # see if a pattern matches
if ($new) { # $new = true?
$header = $1; # set $header to what you've captured in the pattern match (.*)
next; # next line
} else { # $new = false?
$new = 1; # set $new to true
$header = $1; # set $header to what you've captured in the pattern match (.*)
next; # next line
If you use foreach, you can also do
foreach my $line (@lines) { ... }
That way you don't have to assign $line to $_ for every iteration.
Instead of open() you can also use File::Slurp, see http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Slurp/lib/File/Slurp.pm
Thanks for the clear explanation but from the code I see, the $new is initialize as 0so that is mean it wont go into if loop in the first line if the pattern matched, right?
But what is the purpose of doing that?
I am rather confused of the below highlighter item as well...what does it trying to do?=.=
if ($header =~ /PI/) { #
if ($line =~ /psmi_release\\s+(\\S+)/) { $pitool = $1;}
if ($line =~ /handler\\s+(\\S+)/) { $handler = $1;}
if ($line =~ /model\\s+(\\S+)/) {$mdl = $1;}
} else {
if ( $line =~ /^(\\S+):(\\S+)\\s+(\\S+)\\s+(.*)/ ) {
 $options->{$header}->{$1}->{$2} = $3;
Please wrap your code in
tags, it is more readable that way.
means "address the item in hashreference $options with the hashkey equal to the value of $header. So if $header equals 'foo', it'd be $header->{foo}.
$1, $2 and $3 are regular expression captures. The first, second and third capture. So
$options->{$header}->{$1}->{$2} = $3
which can also be more cleanly written as
$options->{$header}{$1}{$2} = $3
Set the hashvalue corresponding with hashkey $2
[which is the hashvalue corresponding with hashkey $1
[which is the hashvalue corresponding with hashkey $header
[which is a hashkey of hashreference $options]
to $3
I suggest you read up on basic Perl data structure and reference use; see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlref.html and http://perldoc.perl.org/perldsc.html
Thanks for the pointer. I have googled and actually read through the link pasted but I couldn't get the meaning when it does the double referencing {}->{}->FYI, this is not my code and i start picking up perl so it is really hard for me to visualize what it is trying to do.:(:(The test even have something like %$tests variable but i couldnt found it in google:(
for my $test (sort keys %$tests ) { my ($seed, $seed2, $seed3, $seed4, $seed5, $nt, $pfmn); for my $label (keys %{$tests->{ $test }} ) {
The documentation I gave you in my previous post explains reference use.
$ => scalar@ => array% => hash
%$hash_reference : dereference the hashreference contained in the scalar $hash_reference@$array_reference : dereference the arrayreference contained in the scalar $array_reference
I would really suggest you read up on Perl. Try to get your hands on O'reilly's Programming Perl book, or O'reilly's Learning Perl. Also, http://www.perlmonks.org has loads of documentation and tutorials. So does http://perldoc.perl.org.
Good luck!
Alright. thanks for the great help!!! appreciate it!
Glad it's useful.
If you want to be explicit in your dereferencing, you can also do:
@{ $array_reference }[0]%{ $hash_reference }{foo}
compare this to
.pl = perl script. .pm = perl module.
"use modulename" (so "use cafe" in case of "cafe.pm") is the correct way of including that.
my $temp = cafe->new(%cafe_switches);
It seems the cafe package defines a class somewhere, which is instantiated with the new() subroutine. For more information on this, please read up on Perl Object Oriented programming, it's probably a bit different to what you're used to.
Please use Data::Dumper, you can install it off CPAN.
Thank you for your help again.
So when this is done. It is referencing a function (new) from cafe.pm?
So when this is done. It is referencing a function (new) from cafe.pm?
anyway, I am not sure how to download the CPAN as i am looking the code from unix/linux environment.
cafe->new(%cafe_switches) # call "new" method in the cafe package, with argument %cafe_switches
This would assign to $temp whatever comes out of new(), usually a class instance in the form of a blessed hash reference. please read up on basic Perl and Perl OO.
If you're on Linux, you can just do (as root) on the commandline:
cpan install Data::Dumper
If that doesn't work, try
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Data::Dumper'
Best of luck.
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/CPAN/misc/cpan-faq.html ++
I have one perl module call cafe.pm but I can print the message in some of its subroutine and some just return me the error message:
Can't use string ("cafe") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use
From the main code:
my $temp2=cafe->Check();my $temp1 = cafe->GetTestName();
Both subroutine are under the same cafe.pm:
This can successfully printed out when I run the main perl script:
sub Check
print "Not yet implement \
But this return the error:
sub GetTestName() {
"; my $self = shift; return $self->{_o}; }
And can somebody tell me if sub new() is a special subroutine in a package??? Coz I cant seems to print any message from it as well. For example when i try to see if it execute the sub new(), I put a print inside the subroutine:
sub new
my $class = shift;
my (%switches) = @_;
my ($self) = { };
bless $self, $class;
foreach my $key (sort keys %switches) {
$self->{$key} = $switches{$key};
print " in xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxst new\
But it doesnt print out the message when i do the:
my $temp = cafe->new(%cafe_switches);
Nevermind about this post now.I have figured it out though.


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Booby Traps Series: Jury duty is sometimes a trial for nursing moms.
In 2008, Maryland mother Elizabeth Jett was called for jury duty. At the time she was breastfeeding her baby boy, Henry, who was less than 12 weeks old. Jett asked the judge to postpone her service until the summer because … Continue reading
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BUSINESS people from areas like Birmingham visiting Worcester are so fed up with the city's controversial Whittington island they are AVOIDING coming off at Junction 7 of the M5.
That's the claim from a former councillor, who says potential investors in the city are telling him how notorious the £1.3 million roundabout has become outside of Worcestershire.
Aubrey Tarbuck, a former Conservative who was first elected in 1966, now attends masonic meetings around the region.
The 83-year-old, who sat on district councils in Worcester and Malvern, was at one masonic get-together with business owners in Evesham last month when he was approached about it.
He said the fellow members, many of whom were from the Birmingham area, said how they "avoid the island at all costs" because of its reputation.
"I couldn't believe it, they were all coming up to me to talk about the Whittington island," he said.
"These are business people in and around Birmingham who spend a lot of time buying, going to areas like China to invest.
"One said they all 'avoid it at all costs', another said they get off at another junction to get around it, another said they came off it one day and saw two cars shunt into each other and won't use it again.
"It's ridiculous, it's already got a real reputation and I don't know why someone hasn't been held accountable for it.
"It's been a disaster, heads should roll really."
His stinging criticism comes just weeks after Worcestershire County Council admitted it would be making changes to the approach to the island, at the top of the A4440 Southern Link Road, to make it safer.
Since being revamped in 2012 there have been six injuries, one serious, as opposed to the zero that had occurred in the two years before the layout was altered.
St John's-based campaigner Lisa Ventura set up a Facebook campaign in May to try and instigate changes.
It is used by 40,000 vehicles daily and the council plans to put up extra signs off Junction 7 of the M5, and additional road markings, to alert drivers about the angled slip-road.
Plans to make the changes are currently being finalised by officers.
Councillor John Smith, cabinet member for highways, said: "It's in the programme (of rolling highways improvements) to be done, not only new signs but also road markings.
"I'll be keeping an eye on it and working with Jon Fraser (highways officer) to make sure it's in place."
The council also says by 2019 the slip lane will be turned into a new access route all the way to Norton island, as part of plans to dual-link most of the A4440.


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FL p3
456 123 595 606 etc
FL p3
793 234 939 345 397 890 187 etc.
NM p3
789 678 123 175 234 567 etc.
KS using the last draw 950 sum of 14.
012 890 595 456 678 etc.
fl p3
079 789 890 567
567 456 123
901 789 190 890 234 etc.
Lakerben, I saved the Triangle program Carlig created for this method a while ago and it works! Only question... how many cpick3 combos does the triangle generate??
567 678 175
So in NY last night was 917 it would be 901,567,175,359,160,717,397,789
I sorta understand how to do the Pick 3 still confused on Pick 4
NM p3 hit last night with the p3 triangle. 607.
I like the 234 432 324 345 .
A different version using 242 from NM last draw.
Fl p3
345 459 234 038 385
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- U.S. President James Garfield is among three "Great Ohioans" being added to an exhibit that's part of the Ohio Statehouse Museum.
The other honorees are football coach Paul Brown and inventor Granville T. Woods. The three were approved by the board that maintains the Ohio Statehouse and presented this week by a foundation that works to preserve its history.
They join a list of 30 "Great Ohioans" recognized since 2003, including aviation legends Orville and Wilbur Wright, author Harriet Beecher Stowe, Civil War general William T. Sherman and Olympic track and field standout Jesse Owens.
"We hope that every Statehouse visitor is inspired by the accomplishments of each one of the great men and women who we have recognized with this honor," Charles Moses, chairman of the Capitol Square Foundation, said in a statement.
Garfield was born in Orange in 1831 and eventually represented the state in Congress before being elected as the nation's 20th president, the board said. He died in September 1881 after being shot several months into his presidency.
Paul Brown became a football legend, coaching high school, college and pro teams across the state. He created a dynasty with Cleveland's team in the 1940s and '50s while introducing pioneering coaching tactics, and later moved to Cincinnati, where he helped found and coached the Bengals.
The Columbus-born Woods, considered the leading black inventor of his time, created inventions mainly related to electricity, included several patents for transmitting messages between moving trains. He also was involved in a legal tussle with Thomas Edison that ultimately decided Woods was the original inventor of the multiplex telegraph, the board said. Woods died in 1910.
The Great Ohioan Award honors people who played a significant role in a historical event at least 25 years ago.
This year's class was chosen from nominations submitted by people and organizations in Ohio, the advisory board said.
The advisory board's chairman, former Sen. Richard Finan, said the honorees "have made pre-eminent contributions to Ohio and the nation."


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Women, Coffee & Hope: Fair Trade is Blossoming in the Hills of Rwanda
Fair Trade and the Hinga Kawa Women's Cooperative
My name is Katie Barrow and I am the PR Manager at Fair Trade USA (you may also know me as the voice behind our Twitter @FairTradeUSA). I have been working for this amazing, mission-driven organization for almost two years, and in this time I have learned more about international trade, coffee and non-profits than I ever thought possible. But despite having spent the past year-and-a-half of my life immersed in Fair Trade, I had yet to actually visit a Fair Trade cooperative. Instead, I relied on the amazing stories from our President & CEO Paul Rice and from my colleagues who had spent time "on the ground." They told me stories of cooperatives that had used Fair Trade premiums to provide entire communities with access to clean water or electricity for the first time. And there were stories of medical clinics built, new roads paved and scholarships funded.
The story that excited me the most was that of the Hinga Kawa Women's Association (part of the Abakunda Kawa cooperative) - a group of women who came together as a community to sell their coffee directly to U.S. buyers. So I decided to take a vacation to visit these women in the far-away hills of Rwanda. My good friend Jenna accompanied me on this non-traditional vacation. She'd been listening to me talk about Fair Trade for the past year and a half, so it only seemed right!
I'll spare you the details of our entire journey through East Africa (though the 30-mile walking safari we took through remote mountain villages in Uganda was unforgettable). Instead, I will just focus on one day - the day we spent with Hinga Kawa. It was one of the most humbling and joyful days of my life thus far.
At this point, we'd been in Africa for a little over a week. One thing we were already used to was getting up early so that we could accomplish all of the day's activities before the afternoon rains came. This morning was a little different; it had been raining all morning. Christine picked us up at our hotel in Kigali in a rugged SUV at 8am sharp, and we began the drive to Gakenke. What an experience that was! The road started off paved in Kigali, but soon pavement gave way to a rocky dirt path (hard to call it a road!) that we followed for another two hours, winding through small villages and farms.
When we arrived at the cooperative, we met Ernest, the manager of Abakunda Kawa. He proudly showed us the coffee washing station and coffee beans from the last harvest. And he was equally proud to show off the cooperative's new copy machine, purchased with Fair Trade premiums. The members of Hinga Kawa began to arrive one by one at the cooperative office. The president of the group introduced herself to me and explained "the rain this morning made the women late." When you depend on the sun as your alarm clock, an odd rainy morning would cause delays!
Finally, all of the women had arrived, and they filed into the coffee storehouse for their monthly meeting. That's when I found out that I was to be a guest speaker! Because of translation issues (Christine translated to Kinyarwanda), I kept my message short. I told them that my job at TransFair USA is to listen to their stories, document their lives, and share this information with the world. Americans love their daily cup of coffee, but it is very rare that we stop and think about where it came from: Who grew the beans and what were the unthinkable challenges associated with this seemingly ordinary act? They received this message well. They thanked me, and then the secretary of the group stood up to share her story on behalf of her colleagues:
"Our lives are not easy," she began. "We wake up very early with the sun, strap our babies to our backs and head to the field where we tend to the coffee. We then make sure that our older children get to school on time, and we begin searching for food to prepare for lunch. In addition to gathering food, we must also find wood for a fire. Because food is scarce and not easy to prepare, lunch is generally the only meal we eat all day. After lunch, we return to the fields and tend to the coffee until the sunset. At night we take care of the children, and after they fall asleep we work on applications for scholarships to help pay for their education. Then we start all over again the next morning." "Many of us are widows or orphans [because of the genocide], and those who are married are still responsible for all of the work at home and in the coffee fields because our husbands spend the days in the villages trying to earn money. This is why we formed Hinga Kawa; it is a way for us to sell the coffee that we grew. It allows us to take pride in our work, and it is also a support network. It is a time for us to come together and talk about our hardships with other women who have experienced the same challenges. And it is a time for us to sing and dance... and laugh. For many women, this meeting might be the only time they've smiled all day."
And with that, the women began to clap as they sang a beautiful song. This song wasn't beautiful because all of their voices were on key, or because it was accompanied by interesting instruments. It was beautiful because of the way that the women were able to let go of all their worries and just pour all of their energy into the song. And then they began to dance! As they danced, the women approached me one by one to hug me and thank me for visiting them. Tears poured down my face. I had never experienced anything so sincere and passionate. I could go on and on about this part of the meeting, but this video I recorded really says it best:
The women even convinced me to dance with them! At that moment, I realized that all of the work I've been doing at TransFair USA for the past year-and-a-half has been for these women: women who work so hard every day just to feed their families, to grow their coffee sustainably (100% organic) and to simply survive. Fair Trade has not made them rich. Not even close. But it has given them enough additional income to pay for their eldest child to go to school and still have money left over to feed their other children. With our help and the continued sales of Rwandan Fair Trade Certified coffee, these women will soon be able to pay for all of their children to go to school... through Fair Trade, not aid.
I promised these women that I would share their story with you. I also promised them that I would help sell more Rwandan Fair Trade Certified coffee - so do them a favor and look for Rwandan Fair Trade coffee that next time you're at the store. You can see more pictures from my day with Hinga Kawa right here.


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At the January Board meeting a motion was passed unanimously to install paper, pen and pencil dispensers in the library. It would be convenient for patrons and add revenue for the library as well.
The library also sponsored a "drop-in" site at the United Church of Christ at Bayberry. Selections were available for "all adults of retirement age" according to the Liverpool Salina Review. Librarian Barbara Herrgesell was named to supervise the depository.
In March the Board heard a report from consultant William Scarborough of The Energy Center on possible expansion of the current facility. He proposed a two level modular structure -to be built off site- that would hold shelving and tables and chairs. The installation would involve elevating the present ceiling by three feet. The Board opted not to do it even though the library was beginning to feel crowded.
On April 28, 1980 the Liverpool Public Library Needleworkers group was formed. It met from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. each Monday at the library. Beginning and intermediate needleworkers were invited to " exchange information" while they worked on their individual projects which ranged from knitting and crocheting to macrame and beading.
Volunteers began to hold a free Hypertension Clinic under the auspices of the American Red Cross at the library every first and third Tuesday of the month.
A coupon exchange took place once a month. Patrons were invited to trade or exchange their grocery coupons, qualifiers and refunders. A box containing subject labeled folders for coupons was kept in the library and patrons were invited to participate at their leisure. The library even had a collection of catalogs available for loan. The collection included retailers like Sears and Spiegels, gardening companies, pet supplies and clothing stores.
A popular activity that year was the playing of "New Games." Librarian Jean Armour attended a workshop and brought the idea back to Liverpool. The non-competitive games were offered to students at Morgan Road and other local schools by Jean and fellow librarian James Shults.
Early in the year the library received a grant from New York State which provided funds to microfilm their back issues of the local newspaper, the Liverpool Salina Review, and to purchase a microfilm reader as well. Local Liverpudlian Virginia Peta donated a few newspapers from 1875 and 1876 and these were filmed as well.
Sometime during 1980 - the sesquicentennial year of Liverpool - the Liverpool Community Chorus began. The all volunteer group of one hundred was directed by local businessman Phil Lambrinos and met at the library every Tuesday evening.
Alas, budget problems resurfaced. The current budget amount for the library was $441,000 and the proposed amount for 1980-81 was $526,000. A second proposition asked for $161,866 to erect a Porta Boutique branch at the Seneca Mall.


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VUDU Wireless Kit
HDX Movies, and New Features
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The VUDU is an incredible movie download device with the highest amount of 1080p high definition (HD) movies available, more than even Blu-ray. Things have changed since last year, with the inclusion of the wireless kit, HDX movies (even better quality 1080p HD), and new features from VUDU Labs. Plus, the much lower price of $149 makes it a best buy in my book.
Wireless Kit
When I first obtained my VUDU in January 2008, the only problem I had was that my DSL modem was in my old office, a good 15 feet from the HDTV in my old living room. I found a 20 foot Ethernet cable and was able to get it to work, but I was curious about wireless options. A quick Google search turned up that people were trying third party methods with very mixed results.
Enter VUDU's Wireless Kit: it's two pre-paired 802.11g wireless adapters that you plug into your broadband modem (or router), and the other into your VUDU device. It's plug-and-play, and you're up and running in no time as I was. Now I can put my VUDU box and HDTV anywhere I want without having to bust out the extra-long Ethernet cable. Of course, speed does change the further the wireless devices are from each other, so don't expect to take it over to your neighbor's house while keep the other wireless device at yours. I was able to rent and purchase movies with the Wireless Kit without any problems. Keep in mind that many of the movies available through VUDU have the first couple of minutes of footage cached on the drive, so you can start watching instantly.
HDX: 1080p High Definition Movies
VUDU introduced even higher quality 1080p HD movies in a new format called HDX. The movies cost a little more to rent and take longer to download, but it's worth the price and time!
I rented The Dark Knight on HDX and compared it on the 42" VIZIO SV420XVT 1080p LCD HDTV (read my review, and compared it to the Blu-ray Disc (BD) version. The quality of HDX was close to BD, and I was very impressed. I wish it went to a more "full view" during IMAX-shot scenes like the BD version, but I am very happy with HDX quality. The quality remains high with SD (standard definition) and HD movies, as well.
iPhone App
VUDU released the free VUDU iPhone App (also compatible with the iPod touch), which allows you to browse movies or TV shows, and purchase or rent something to watch. The movie or TV show will automatically begin downloading. On your way home and stuck in traffic? Pull out your iPhone or iPod touch and rent a movie-it'll be ready when you get home.
VUDU Labs
VUDU Labs is a pretty cool new feature on VUDU. When you click on over to it, you are greeted with many choices for entertainment, including the ability to watch YouTube videos, check out photos on Flickr and Picasa, watch On Demand TV, listen to music from Pandora (this is a great new feature that I'm digging with stereo surround sound), Now Being Watched (check out what others are watching in cities around the country on VUDU with Google Maps), and some neat little games. I'd love to see even more games, if it's possible. Might VUDU video game downloads be in the future? It's just speculation on my part.
I checked out all the features within VUDU Labs and really liked the quality of some YouTube videos I found, even on the 42" VIZIO. And of course, using Pandora to jam out to some tunes was fun, too. Find out more at http://www.vudu.com/vudulabs.html.
No more stringing long Ethernet cables around to watch movies from your VUDU with the Wireless Kit, plus all the new features like HDX movies and VUDU Labs make the VUDU an even more enjoyable "core" in your home entertainment center. Visit www.vudu.com for more details plus a look at the VUDU XL and XL2, which is rack mounted.
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Tiger flashes its claws at watchdogMatt O'Sullivan
Published: February 8 2013 - 12:30PM
- The trick to catch a Tiger
Tiger Australia's Singaporean parent has fired a shot across the bow of the competition regulator, warning that Virgin Australia is the only investor which can help turn around the troubled business.
In a strongly worded statement to the Singaporean stock exchange late on Thursday, Tiger Airways Holdings said it ''does not plan to and will not seek new investors'' for its Australian operations if the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission rejects Virgin's bid to take majority control.
''Virgin is the right party to partner Tiger, and will be able to strengthen Tiger Australia,'' it said. ''Tiger does not see, for example, a buyer who is a financial investor or non-Australian airline being able to provide operational synergies to enhance Tiger Australia's competitiveness. In other words, a new investor will not achieve Tiger's objective to turn around Tiger Australia.''
Earlier on Thursday, the competition watchdog signalled it could go either way in deciding whether to approve Virgin's $35 million bid for a 60 per cent stake in Tiger.
The ACCC raised reservations about the deal because it will effectively return the country to an airline duopoly by removing a third independent player in Tiger.
But it is conscious a rejection could lead to Tiger's Singaporean parent deciding to close the operations in Australia. Since it was launched 2007, Tiger Australia has notched up losses of more than $216 million.
Brokers including Citi and UBS believe the regulator will eventually approve the deal when it makes a final decision on March 14.
While noting that the ACCC's concerns were valid, Macquarie Equities analysts said that Tiger's ongoing losses suggested a worse alternative for consumers.
''Absent the Virgin deal, we believe Tiger Australia is at risk of being shut down given the shift in mindset of the Tiger board of directors who are increasingly concentrating their focus on the ASEAN market, and who have conceded that Tiger is always going to struggle as an independent player in Australia,'' they said.
The analysts believe Tiger and Virgin will talk up over the coming weeks the likelihood of Tiger exiting the Australian market if the deal is not approved.
In contrast to the Singapore-based Tiger, Virgin was careful in its response to the regulator's so-called ''statement of claims'' released on Thursday. The airline issued a three-line statement in which it said the deal would boost competition in the Australian market to the benefit of consumers.
Virgin's purchase of a 60 per cent stake in Tiger's Australian operations is aimed at giving Australia's second-largest airline its own dual-brand strategy to counter Qantas and its budget offshoot, Jetstar.
Last week, shareholders in Tiger Australia's Singaporean parent, Tiger Airways Holdings, voted in favour of Virgin taking majority control. At that meeting, the company warned that Tiger Australia was too small a player in the Australian market on its own and will need massive resources to reach a critical mass.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/business/tiger-flashes-its-claws-at-watchdog-20130208-2e2qc.html


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Bill Clinton makes last-minute pitch for Obama in Pittsburgh's Market Square
A-listers from both parties on Monday urged supporters to make last-minute pitches for President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney as the campaigns reacted to polls showing a tightening contest in Pennsylvania.
Former President Bill Clinton, his voice hoarse from an eight swing-state tour of stump speeches and temperatures in the 30s, pumped up thousands of Obama supporters in Market Square a few hours before Republican Gov. Tom Corbett implored his party faithful in the DoubleTree hotel in Green Tree.
"To me, this election is fairly simple. Who's more likely to restore the middle class and give poor people a chance to work their way into it?" Clinton told a crowd of thousands that filled the middle of the square, Downtown. "It's the candidate who got off the campaign trail and went to work on Hurricane Sandy with Republicans."
The remark was a reference to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican who praised Obama's response to the disaster.
Corbett told an enthusiastic crowd of about 250 people at a rally for U.S. Senate candidate Tom Smith, a coal mining magnate from Armstrong County, that the GOP ticket led by Romney and running mate Paul Ryan has "the momentum behind us" for a victory on Tuesday.
"We're enthused, we believe in our candidate and we believe that our candidate can win," Corbett said, noting that he attended a campaign appearance on Sunday with Romney that drew more than 30,000 supporters to "a farm field in Bucks County."
"The road was backed up for three miles with people trying to get in," the governor said. "People started arriving at 3 p.m. for an event that didn't begin until 6."
In addition to Corbett and Smith, the rally in Green Tree featured D. Raja of Mt. Lebanon, who is running against Democrat Matt Smith for the 37th Ditrict state Senate seat; congressional candidate Keith Rothfus of Sewickley, running against incumbent Mark Critz of Johnstown; John Maher of Upper St. Clair, who is running for auditor general against Democrat Eugene DePasquale of York County; David Freed of Cumberland County, who faces attorney general candidate Kathleen Kane of Lackawanna County; and state treasurer candidate Diana Irey Vaughan of Washington County, who is trying to unseat incumbent Democrat Rob McCord.
Also speaking were U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, Allegheny County GOP Chairman Jim Roddey and U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, who drew a raucous response when he told the crowd that Democrats are "out of ideas, out of luck, out of platitudes and out of time."
Romney visited Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida on Sunday and Monday. Obama visited Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa, the starting line for his 2008 campaign.
Clinton joined many Democrats at the Pittsburgh rally who are involved in close, high-profile races, including Critz, who introduced Clinton, and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton.
"We're the middle class. We're the 99 percent. We need to stand together," Critz told the crowd.
Recent polls indicate both Democrats are in tight contests with their Republican challengers.
Others joining Clinton were U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Forest Hills, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and labor leaders Leo Gerard, head of the United Steelworkers, and Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO.
The presence here of Clinton, the Democrats' cheerleader-in-chief, signals to many that the presidential race in traditionally left-leaning Pennsylvania could be tightening.
Obama and Romney recently began airing campaign commercials in the state, which Obama won by a large margin in 2008 and which hasn't supported a Republican for president since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
"If he's here, it means Pennsylvania is up for grabs," Obama supporter Patrick Connelly, 56, of Mars said after the rally. "It's going to be close."
Staff writer Tony LaRussa contributed to this report. Jeremy Boren is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7935 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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GRANT Turner is looking forward to giving something back to the sport which took him around the world after announcing his retirement from swimming.
The Swindon Olympian has called it a day after considering his future after he missed out on a place at this summer's Commonwealth Games, but is remaining heavily involved in the sport despite ending his racing career.
Along with his partner Jo Jackson, who herself is a former Olympic swimmer, Turner has set up a swimming academy to help youngsters get into the sport and learn the vital skills necessary to stay safe in the water.
His new venture may not quite replace the thrill of walking out to race in front of nearly 20,000 cheering fans at the Olympics, but it's something both Turner and Jackson are extremely excited about.
"These last two years since the Olympics, Jo and I have been setting up our own swimming academy and we've got to the stage now where we're very busy with it," Turner said.
"It's hectic and enjoyable at the same time which is brilliant because we're both so passionate about it, as it offer the chance for swimmers to work with us and improve their swimming.
"We've also got a learn to swim section, which is probably the most exciting thing for us because it helps teach kids water safety which is something which is sometimes overlooked in this country.
"For us it's about the old cliché of giving something back to the sport, but we're very passionate about this because swimming as a sport has given us an awful lot in life and some amazing experiences all over the world.
"We want to give something back and we can do that by teaching children some swimming and giving them the opportunities we were lucky enough to have."
During his career, Turner competed in two World Championship finals, won silver in the relay at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and also was part of the Britain team at the London Olympics.


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The Twilight Connection
Monica Weller's Blog
by January to July 2012
About the Book
The Twilight Connection, Monica Weller's Blog book is a unique insight, for readers of all ages, into filmstar Robert Pattinson's ancestry by his aunt Monica Weller:
Monica is a freelance writer and photographer and author of 'Ruth Ellis My Sister's Secret Life' amongst other titles. Many family histories are not recorded and disappear in time until someone else researches it. In view of this family member's current popularity, as a writer she felt she should record this for the future. Many families drift apart for many reasons, sometimes feuds - in this case partly created by the intrusion of the press. Over the past few years since Robert's rise to fame Monica has been doorstepped by journalists and has been quoted and mis-quoted in newspapers.
"This book is meant as a record of how I see part of our family, as it is now. We are shaped by our roots.Who knows what the future holds? Who would ever have thought that my sister Clare, the little girl in the red-coloured dress who you can see in the Preview here, would become the mother of a Hollywood superstar! This is my story".
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Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
90 Pages
- Publish Date Jul 30, 2012
- Language English
- Tags Robert Pattinson, Lizzy Pattinson, r-patz, Twilight
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Monica's Post about: The Outer Hebrides: copperknobconnection.wordpress.com Monica's India Blog: monicaweller12.wordpress.com I am a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS), a photographic judge, a member of the RPS Licentiateship, Associate and Fellowship Panels and have exhibited my photographs widely. I have held a one-woman show at the RPS HQ in Bath, England and won awards from both the RPS and the London Salon of Photography. I began a freelance journalism course in 2000 and have had articles published in the Financial Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail and numerous magazines. I was on the editorial team for the Royal Photographic Society's Portfolio One, Two and Three. I am the co-author of 'Ruth Ellis, My Sister's Secret Life', which is available on Amazon, and is about the last woman to be hanged in the UK in 1955.
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Central gains split at volleyball tourney
ST. LOUIS, MO.—Working to find a consistent rhythm, Central College split a pair of volleyball matches at the Washington University-St. Louis (Mo.) Bears Classic Friday, outlasting Westminster College (Mo.) 3-2 before falling to top-ranked Washington, 3-0.
Central (5-12) won three straight sets for a comeback 23-25, 10-25, 25-23, 25-21, 17-15 victory against Westminster (6-10). The Dutch were swept 25-12, 25-18, 25-12 by No. 1 Washington (19-1).
Outside hitter Tess Reinig (senior, Manchester, West Delaware HS) led the Dutch with 12 kills in the tourney opener. Middle hitter Ashley Pedersen (senior, Humboldt) had nine while outside hitter Sara Snead (sophomore, Altoona, Southeast Polk HS) and middle hitter Hannah Welter (sophomore, Lincoln, Neb., Southwest HS) had eight apiece.
Setter Claire Stewart (sophomore, Colorado Springs, Colo., Classical Academy) had 43 assists and 11 digs for her third double-double of the season. Libero Tori Zempel (freshman, La Porte City, Union Community HS) had 24 digs while defensive specialist Emily Eberhardt (sophomore, Sperry, Mediapolis HS) had 13.
The Dutch rebounded after a sluggish start.
"We took a collective step backwards in the first match, starting slow and not responding the way we would have liked," coach Kent Clayberg said. "We put ourselves in a pretty bad spot and it was difficult to find positive things other than getting a few clutch kills in the later sets and the defense improving. But we felt much better about the way we played in the second match."
Against the Bears, Reinig, Welter and Pedersen each had five kills. Right-side hitter Liz Ihnen (junior, Sheldon) had a.429 hitting percentage with three kills.
"Liz was very efficient today in both matches," Clayberg said.
Stewart had 14 assists and six digs. Zempel and Eberhardt also dug six balls.
"We played at a much faster rhythm," Clayberg said. "We have to play at the speed of the game rather than a half step behind.
"The game gets very simple—in a moment of time you have to be at the right place at the right position and if you aren't, things aren't going to go well. We didn't have enough good moments in a row, but we saw some moments in the second match."
The Dutch come right back Saturday, meeting Monmouth College (Ill.) (13-6) at 10 a.m. and Knox College (Ill.) (2-19) at 12:15 p.m.
"Tomorrow's another opportunity," Clayberg said. "We need to find the energy and aggressiveness to compete. We're going to have to break teams down instead of waiting for them to screw up"


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A mother who has pleaded guilty to her 10-month-old daughter's manslaughter by leaving her in a car on a hot day was repeatedly warned about the dangers of doing so, a court has heard.
Michelle Nguyen's daughter Thy Tran died on November 5, 2011, after the-then 20-year-old mother left her asleep in the car while it was parked in direct sunlight and with the doors and windows closed.
The temperature on the day the girl died was 26.3 degrees and, at 3pm, was 28.2 degrees.
Nguyen had taken Thy and her other daughter Thao, 3, for a drive to get them to sleep.
After about 30 minutes, when they returned to the Glenroy home where they were staying, Nguyen removed Thao, who had woken, but left Thy sleeping in the car in the driveway.
After settling the older child inside the house, Nguyen returned to the car five minutes later to check Thy. The infant was still asleep, so she closed the car door and then went inside, intending to return soon after.
But while inside, she fell asleep in a chair.
The court heard Nguyen woke in a panic about 2pm, realising that her daughter was still in the vehicle. When she removed her from the car, the child was unresponsive.
She brought her inside and called an ambulance, but the child could not be revived.
Thy's temperature was tested by paramedics and found to be 41.5 degrees.
At Nguyen's pre-sentence plea hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday, prosecutor Mark Rochford, SC, said Nguyen had repeatedly been warned of the dangers of leaving her children in the car before her daughter's death.
Relatives and neighbours had on numerous occasions overheard Thy crying unattended in the car and, on one occasion, Nguyen was also told about another child who had died after being left alone in a car on a hot day.
Mr Rochford said Nguyen had initially given a false account of what happened to police, stating the child must have suffocated after rolling on to her stomach on a mattress.
She later admitted what had happened and that she was responsible for her daughter's death.
Nguyen wept in the dock as details of her crime were read to the court.
Her defence barrister, Saul Holt, said his client was deeply remorseful for her actions.
He submitted that Nguyen was going through a tumultuous period at the time it happened as she was homeless with two small children whom she was struggling to care for while their father was in jail for drug offences.
He said Nguyen had a difficult upbringing, largely due to the fact her mother was a drug addict who was in and out of jail.
Nguyen had herself developed a heroin addiction from the age of 16, suffered from severe depression and, according to one psychiatrist, had shown signs of post-traumatic stress disorder after her daughter's death, he submitted.
She had also lost custody of Thao following Thy's death, but was taking positive steps to get her life in order and overcome her drug habit.
He added that his client would regret her actions for the rest of her life and noted that despite her tendency to leave the children in the car sleeping, she was otherwise a good mother.
He called for a sentence to be served through a community based order.
But Mr Rochford said a higher sentence was warranted to send a strong message to the community that children should never be left in cars.
He said Ambulance Victoria had stated that more than 900 calls were received each year regarding children left in vehicles despite repeated warnings about the dangers.
He did not, however, rule out a shorter than normal non-parole period being imposed.
Justice Betty King will sentence Nguyen at a later date.


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The Division of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology is pleased to offer a new 3 year residency program which leads to a Certificate in Oral Medicine and a Master in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences. Our program has been carefully designed to offer residents a broad based training in oral medicine and oral and craniofacial sciences, and to prepare them for an academic career in the field of Oral Medicine.
UCSF School of Dentistry is a recognized partner on the UCSF Health Sciences Campus. Its close relationship to world-recognized schools of medicine, nursing and pharmacy gives the School access to health professionals from a variety of disciplines when dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of oral disease. The University of California, San Francisco has a wide range of training experiences in patient care and research. The Comprehensive Cancer Center, HIV clinics, and transplant services at UCSF are among the best in country and offer oral medicine residents a unique opportunity to be exposed to care of medically complex patients. The Oral Medicine Center, with its diverse patient population, offers an excellent training ground for residents to gain and increase their knowledge on a wide range of oral diseases and conditions.
There are also many opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaborations. The UCSF campus has one of the richest environments anywhere for a student to do research, whether it is clinical or basic science. A broad selection of courses is available within the School of Dentistry and the other Schools on campus (Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing). In addition, the broad range of research interests among the faculty throughout the Department of Orofacial Sciences and the campus affords students the opportunity to choose among a wide variety of research projects.
The Division of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology annually accepts two postgraduate students into the Oral Medicine Program. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or hold permanent resident status, and must have graduated from an ADA-accredited dental school. GME Funding is available for these applicants if accepted into the program.
The Postgraduate Program in Oral Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco is a full-time 36 month course of study leading to a certificate in Oral Medicine and an M.S. degree in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences. Our three year program is aimed at preparing dentists to diagnose and treat complex oral problems, manage oral conditions and diseases that occur in medically complex patients, recognize and manage oral manifestations of primary and acquired immunodeficiency, and manage oral diseases, salivary gland dysfunction, facial pain and chemosensory disorders. The program's main goal is to train applicants for either a full-time or part-time career in academia.
Instruction in all areas of Oral Medicine is provided through lectures, seminars, conferences, and clinical training in outpatient and inpatient settings.
Residents will spend much of their first year attending core courses required by the American Board of Oral Medicine and the UCSF graduate division. All residents will complete a specially tailored core curriculum that includes courses in biostatistics, oral biology, developmental biology, oral medicine, oral pathology, immunology, behavioral sciences, and medical ethics. Residents also will participate in medical grand round/primary care grand rounds lectures offered by UCSF School of Medicine on the UCSF campus. In addition, students will attend a course on how to conduct clinical research during the summer of the first year. Elective courses depend on the student's area of interest.
The didactic component of the residency program also includes weekly oral medicine seminars, oral biology seminars, journal club and patient management conferences throughout the length of the program which review teaching cases from the Oral Medicine Clinical center and the UCSF Oral Pathology Service. Residents also attend Head and Neck Tumor Board. Students will take a 20 hour course on Physical Diagnosis for instruction in physical exam and assessment which will provide a foundation for their clinical rotation in internal medicine and other clinical rotations taken during the second year.
This fundamental and didactic instruction provides background for and complements clinical rotations taken in the second year.
Development of clinical skills is a strong component of the entire program, with increasing time and responsibilities as the student advances.
Students are expected to spend a significant amount of time in the Oral Medicine Clinical Center learning to evaluate and manage patients with a variety of systemic diseases, and head and neck complaints. During the three year residency, residents will spend approximately 14 months (at least 3 days per week in Year 1, and 1 and ½ day per week in years 2 and 3) in the UCSF Oral Medicine Clinical Center. The Oral Medicine Clinical Center is a referral center for the Bay Area and follows over 5,000 patients a year. This diverse patient population provides our residents with a unique opportunity to learn clinical oral medicine, including in the medically complex patient. The Oral Medicine Clinical Center patient population includes but is not limited to patients with head and neck cancer, HIV/AIDS, Sjögren' syndrome, and mucocutaneous inflammatory diseases. Stem cell and solid organ transplant recipients are also commonly treated in the Oral Medicine Clinical Center since they often develop oral complications (e.g., GVHD for stem transplant recipients, and opportunistic oral infections for solid organ transplant recipients). In the Oral Medicine Clinical Center residents gain expertise in the management of patients with inflammatory oral mucosal disease (such as lichen planus, pemphigoid, pemphigus, and erythema multiforme), infectious diseases affecting the oral mucosa, salivary gland disorders, oral cancer (diagnosis of oral cancer, pre-radiation work-up and follow-up during and following radiation for patients with head & neck cancer), and chronic orofacial pain syndromes. Our residents have the advantage of being able to follow patients over time, which provides them with a better understanding of the natural history of the disease as well as the outcome of therapy.
The second year of oral medicine residency PGY-2 includes a number of hospital-based training rotations in the UCSF Medical Center. Residents will complete a full time 4 week rotation in the Internal Medicine in-patient service in the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine where they perform physical examinations and work up patients, and attend rotation-related lectures and seminars. Additional rotations in several medical subspecialties throughout the year in inpatient and outpatient settings are structured to provide an in-depth varied experience wherein the resident gains a deeper understanding of etiology, pathophysiology, and differential diagnosis and medical management of the medically complex patients and oral medicine conditions. Rotations include Oral Pathology/Radiology, Diabetes, Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology , Infectious Disease/HIV, Transplant Nephrology and Hepatology, Viral Hepatology, Sjögren's syndrome/Rheumatology, and Dermatology.
Internal Medicine Rotation
Site: Inpatient Hospital Service, UCSF Medical Center
Faculty: Bradley Sharpe, M.D.
Residents learn to perform a complete admission history and physical exam, select and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests, develop an assessment, including differential diagnosis, based on information gathered from the history, physical examination and laboratory tests and present patients to the attending. This rotation provides the resident with an excellent opportunity to learn to manage, diagnose and treat (or refer for treatment) general medicine cases. The rotation includes a daily 1 hour conference where residents and fellows from the School of Medicine (who also rotate through this service) get to discuss cases seen that day with attending physicians.
Diabetes Rotation
Site: Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, UCSF Medical Center
Faculty: Dr. Umesh Masharani
Residents shadow the attending physician during consultations. Residents are expected to collect patient history and to present it to the attending. This rotation provides the opportunity to observe a physician manage diabetes, but also diagnose and treat (or refer for treatment) various diabetes-associated diseases (e.g., disorders of the kidney, heart, thyroid, pancreas, and neuropathy). They also learn to monitor laboratory values relevant to the management of diabetes. Residents perform oral soft tissue examination on patients visiting the diabetes clinic, and treat patients who are found to have oral candidiasis.
Heptalogy Rotation
Site(s): Liver Disease and Viral Hepatitis Outpatient Clinic, UCSF Medical Center; Liver Transplant Outpatient Clinic, UCSF Medical Center
Faculty: Dr. Norah Terrault (Liver disease and viral hepatitis); Dr. Philip Rosenthal (Liver transplant)
These rotations take place in three outpatient clinics at UCSF:
- Liver Disease: This clinic offers diagnosis and treatment of all forms of liver disease and evaluation of patients with severe liver diseases for whom liver transplantation is being considered, as well as consultation on patients with complex hepatic problems. Residents shadow Dr. Norah Terrault during her Tuesday morning clinic. Specialized procedures available include TIPS shunt placement for management of ascites or variceal bleeding and genetic liver disease (hemochromatosis, porphyria, Wilson Disease, and others).
- Viral Liver Disease: This clinic specializes in the diagnosis and management of patients with chronic viral hepatitis. Residents shadow Dr. Norah Terrault whose Monday clinic focuses mainly on hepatitis C patients. They learn how to interpret laboratory values of patients with chronic hepatitis C. They also learn about the criteria used to determine eligibility for hepatitis C therapy (mainly with pegylated interferon), and about the responses to, and side-effects of, therapy.
- The Liver Transplantation Program at UCSF is one of the most active in the country, both in terms of volume and clinical research. Programs exist for both adult and pediatric liver transplantation. The pediatric program is headed by Dr. Philip Rosenthal (Pediatric Medical Director). Survival statistics for the Liver Transplantation Program are among the very best in the United States. The program also has performed pioneering research in a number of different areas, including post-transplant viral hepatitis, the use of new immunosuppressive agents, transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure, and the use of live donors for liver transplantation. Residents rotate through the pediatric liver transplant outpatient unit where they shadow Dr. Rosenthal and get to learn about the main causes for liver failure in children, medical management of pediatric liver transplant recipients, and the potential effects of immunosuppressive therapy on the oral cavity.
Nephrology Rotation
Site(s): Inpatient Kidney Transplant Unit, UCSF Medical Center; Outpatient Kidney Transplant Unit, UCSF Medical Center
Faculty: Stephen Tomlanovich, MD
The Nephrology rotation has two components: a rotation in the hospital Kidney Transplant Unit, and a rotation in the outpatient KTU. During the hospital rotation, the residents go on morning and afternoon rounds with the transplant team, and they get to follow patients from intake (pre-transplant) to 5 days post-transplant when patients are discharged. They learn about various kidney function tests, and the complex immunosuppressive regimens, antiviral, antifungal, and antibiotic regimen that are administered after transplant. They also learn about the various causes of renal failure. Then they spend 6 weeks shadowing Dr. Tomalnovich in the outpatient KTU every Thursday morning. Here they learn about the long term follow-up of renal transplant recipients, and how the various drug regiments are tapered to leave only a maintenance immunosuppressive regimen. They also get to learn about the various stages of renal failure, and they can observe patients on dialysis who are also followed in the outpatient KTU.
Infectious Disease Rotation/HIV
Site(s): Outpatient HIV Clinic, UCSF Medical Center; Urgent Care Infectious Disease, UCSF Medical Center
Faculty: Dr. Marc Jacobsen
- Continuity Clinic. This first site is a clinic for HIV-infected patients. Residents observe a broad spectrum of medication issues, and chronic condition issues other than HIV (hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, chronic hepatitis B or C) and behavioral issues.
- Urgent Care Infectious Disease Clinic. Residents get to participate in the work-up of a wide spectrum of disease pathology and differential diagnosis in urgent care.
Oncology Rotation
Site(s): Oncology Outpatient Clinic,UCSF Medical Center; Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic, UCSF Medical Center
Faculty: Dr. Alan Kramer (Medical Oncology), Drs. Biljana Horn and Morten Cowan (Hematology/Oncology)
- Medical Oncology Faculty: Dr. Alan Kramer This rotation takes place on Mondays in an outpatient clinic at UCSF where Dr. Kramer manages patients undergoing chemotherapy as treatment of various types of head & neck cancer, lymphoma, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and leukemia. The chemotherapy is often administered in parallel to radiation therapy (RT). This provides residents the opportunity to understand the mechanism of action of various chemotherapeutic agents, their risks, benefits, and side-effects when these agents are administered alone or in conjunction with RT. Residents also perform oral examinations on patients and manage salivary hypofunction, candidiasis, and ulcerations when these conditions occur.
- Hematology / Oncology Faculty: Drs. Biljana Horn and Morten Cowan This rotation takes place on Wednesday morning in the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant clinic at UCSF. Patients (from birth to age 18 years) who have received a hematopoietic stem cell graft (from various sources such as peripheral blood, bone marrow, or umbilical chord) as treatment of recurrent leukemia or other blood dyscrasia are managed until complete immune reconstitution. Residents shadow the attending physician and learn about the various forms of both acute and chronic graft-versus-host-disease (GvHD) that may occur in this patient population. They specifically learn how to recognize the clinical signs of oral GvHD, and various management approaches ranging from topical steroid applications, if GvHD is mild and limited to the oral cavity, to systemic therapy if GvHD is more severe and affects other organs (e.g., lung, skin, eyes, liver, GI tract)
Head & Neck Radiation Oncology Rotation
Site: Mt. Zion Radiation Oncology Unit, UCSF Mt. Zion
Faculty: Drs. Jeanne Quivey and Sue Yom
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) has been used to treat head & neck cancers at UCSF since 1997. The residents shadow Dr. Quivey during pre-radiation consultations, treatment planning sessions, and consultations that occur at regular time-intervals as patients are undergoing radiation therapy. They also get to observe the simulation phase that precedes IMRT.
Auto-Immune Dermatology Rotation
Site: Auto-Immune Dermatology Clinic, UCSF Medical Center
Faculty: Dr. Kari Connolly
The clinical rotation takes place in the Auto-immune Dermatology clinic, an outpatient clinic that focuses on the management of patient with muco-cutaneous disorders thought to be of auto-immune etiology (e.g., lichen planus, pemphigus, pemphigoid, lupus). Residents get to collect patient history and work up cases with Dr. Connolly. They perform oral examinations when relevant, and learn how to collect a skin biopsy. This rotation is very complementary to the Oral Medicine clinical rotation as residents get to work-up diseases they have encountered in the Oral Medicine clinic among patients with extensive skin involvement.
Orofacial Pain/TMD Rotation
Site(s): The Center for Orofacial Pain, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, UCSF
Faculty: Dr. Charles McNeill, (Center for Orafacial Pain), Dr. David Lee UCSF Pain Management Center
- The Center For Orofacial Pain. Residents learn how to perform a comprehensive work up of patients with temporo-mandibular disorders and other orofacial pain related disorders. They learn about the most up-to-date pharmacologic agents used in pain management, occlusal appliances, and the use of physical therapy in the management of myofacial dysfunction.
- UCSF Pain Management Center, UCSF Department of Anesthesia. The UCSF Pain Management Center (PMC) has been in existence since 1987, treating patients from all over the world with complicated and chronic medical, surgical, and neurological pain problems. The staff, based in the Dept of Anesthesia, consists of a variety of doctors and therapists with specialties in anesthesia, neurology, psychology, nursing, and PT. Patients consult the PMC because of various types of back pain, neuropathic (nerve) pain, cancer pain, musculoskeletal/rheumatologic pain, post-injury or surgical pain, and many others. A wide variety of treatment modalities are available, and each patient's case is personally reviewed by the multidisciplinary staff so that the best combination of therapies is offered to each person. Oral Medicine residents get to shadow faculty at the PMC and observe the process of making a differential diagnosis on a chronic pain patient, and develop an appropriate treatment plan.
Sjögren's Syndrome/Rheumatology Rotation
Site: UCSF Sjögren's syndrome clinic
Faculty: Dr. Ava Wu
Residents shadow Dr Wu as she performs the oral and salivary evaluation of patients with suspected Sjögren's syndrome. Residents learn to perform the parotid saliva collection and the labial salivary gland biopsy. They also shadow the Ophthalmologist who performs Schirmer test, tear break-up time, and ocular staining to evaluate patients for kera-conjunctivitis sicca. The residents shadow the Rheumatologist who performs a comprehensive review of systems among all patients with suspected Sjögren's syndrome.
Research is an integral component of the mission and goals of the program. Early on in their training, oral medicine residents will identify one or more areas of clinical research to pursue over the course of the program with faculty supervision. Research training includes courses in clinical research protocol development, Biostatistics, and Bioethics. Faculty members represent a broad array of scientific fields using, clinical, epidemiological and basic science approaches in their investigations. This diversity of scope establishes a broad base for research programs and training available to the residents. Students are required to complete a master's level research project under the supervision of a thesis advisor and committee, in accordance with the guidelines of the University of California Graduate School.
It is expected that the outcome of this work will be presented at a national meeting and published in the scientific literature.
Our faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their contributions to the fields of Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology.
Oral Medicine Faculty
Caroline Shiboski, DDS, MH, PhD
Deborah Greenspan, BDS, DSc
Ava Wu, DDS
John Robinson, DDS
Piri Veluppillai, DDS, M.S.
Daniel Ramos, DDS, PhD
Oral Pathology Faculty
John Greenspan, DDS, PhD
Richard Jordan, DDS, PhD
Troy Daniels, DDS, MS.
The Division of Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology annually accepts two postgraduate students into the Oral Medicine Program who must be U.S. citizens or hold permanent resident status, and must have graduated from an ADA-accredited dental school. GME funding is available for these applicants.
- DDS or DMD degree
- GRE (Graduate Record Examination) [1] scores. PLEASE NOTE: GRE scores can be submitted after the application and interview process, however, if accepted into the program, you are required to apply to the MS in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences program, as a Master's Degree is part of the curriculum. Please submit a Statement of Purpose which describes your interest in both oral medicine and oral and craniofacial science. In order to be accepted into the MS program you will need to submit the GRE score report no later than April 15th to the start of the program. The minimum requirement to be accepted into the MS program is to obtain 30% in each category (Verbal, Quantitative, Writing) of the general test. Institutional Code: 4840; Departmental Code: 0604.
- Applicants must first submit an application to Postdoctoral Application Support Service(PASS) [2] by the deadline posted on the PASS website (Nov. 15) which should include the personal essay, curriculum vitae (CV), dental school transcript, undergraduate transcripts, 2 letters of recommendation and 1 Dean's letter, NBDE and TOEFL (if applicable) should be reported in PASS.
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November 16, 2012
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – Returning home from Westminster, Utah, where they spent three days competing in the 2012 Westminster Fall Classic, the Lady Mustangs basketball squad extended their season to an undefeated 4-0 in their home-opener against Cal State San Marcos (3-3) Friday night in Bross Gym.
Besides the 11-6 deficit the Mustangs faced in the early minutes of the game, TMC never let the visiting Cougars regain a lead in an evening that eventually showed a final score of 68-47 in favor of the home team.
Theresa Brown (Eugene, OR) broke the tie with 11 minutes left in the first half, which proved to be the first of many runs that the Lady Mustangs would go on. Over the next four minutes, TMC extended their score to 20-11 by the way of a lay-up from Jacquelyn Marshall (San Clemente, CA), a three pointer from Olivia Thompson (Huntington Beach, CA), and a shot from Kelly Burns (Yorba Linda, CA).
That proved to be last time in the first half that the Lady Mustangs would enjoy that extensive of a lead as the Cougars started to make a comeback in the final two minutes, closing it to eight points (28-20) heading into the intermission.
TMC's half-time stats were less than desirable as the squad shot a minimal 28.9% (11-38) from the field.
But, the Lady Mustangs burst out on the scene coming off the break establishing their lead to 37-24 in the first six minutes of the second half. Brown lead the way with a lay-up, Lena Rivera (Allen, TX) added two free throws, Marshall with a three-pointer, and another lay-up by Burns.
TMC wasn't anywhere close to being done as the Lady Mustangs breezed through the second half, and at one point extended their lead by 25 points at the 2:48 mark. Down the stretch, the Cougars would close the game to 66-47 before a lay-up by Olivia Thompson would bring the final score to 68-47.
The Mustangs' accuracy in the second half rose to 48% (13-27) which was plenty as the visitors were held to 35% (11-31) shooting over the final 20 minutes and 31% for the night.
Marshall went 7-12 from the field and 3-3 from the line to earn her 18 points. The junior forward also lead the team with 10 rebounds. Lena Rivera lead the squad with 5 assists, while Zoe Scott (Spokane, WA) and Kelley Burns both tallied 9 points each.
The women's basketball team has plenty to be thankful for going into their Thanksgiving holiday. On top of being 4-0, the program will enjoy a well deserved 10 day break. The Lady Mustangs will return to play in road game on November 26, against La Sierra University (1-6) in a 7:00 PM match.