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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 7/4/2013 (1598 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Healthy foods are for rich people.
And even if you could find some well-priced nutritious items, you just don't have the time to prepare them.
These are common excuses Canadians tell themselves to justify filling their grocery carts with frozen, deep-fried french fries, cubes of salt that pass for soup stock and processed cheese slices that bear little resemblance to anything found in nature.
But these excuses aren't based on reality, says Winnipegger Gina Sunderland, a registered dietitian with CancerCare Manitoba.
The mother of two teenage sons is a master at finding healthy foods for good prices.
"It just takes a little bit of planning," she says.
Sunderland headed to a local grocery store with the Free Press in search of healthy foods that are actually cheaper than their junkier counterparts.
This is Part 2 of our findings:
Cheese-flavoured pre-popped popcorn (Cost: $3.49 for a 220-gram bag) vs. stove-top popcorn (Cost: $4 for a nearly two-kilogram bag)
Dietitian's Assessment: With 16 grams of fat for a three-cup serving, bagged, flavoured popcorn is more fatty than a McDonald's cheeseburger. Even worse is its sodium content -- 400 milligrams a serving, or 17 per cent of what you should consume for the day. Not good for your heart and blood pressure.
Sunderland warns that if you're like most North Americans, you don't usually count out serving sizes for your favourite bagged snack food such as chips, nachos or popcorn.
"You keep eating it until it's gone and wonder why you're so thirsty after," she says, noting the salt content is not only bad for the cardiovascular system, it's dehydrating.
Stove top popcorn popped the old-fashioned way is low-fat and full of fibre, says Sunderland, who regularly cooks popcorn in a pot with a drizzle of heart-healthy canola oil so various herbs and even some fresh black pepper will stick. Her version contains no sodium and is a real bargain at 22 cents a serving (100 grams of dry product). "That's awesome," she says.
Microwave popcorn, on the other hand, is full of chemical flavourings, salt and fat.
Processed cheese slices (Cost: $3.50 for a 500-gram package) vs. avocado ($1.69 for one large fruit).
Dietitian's Assessment: Processed cheese slices contain about 200 mg of sodium in each slice as well as food colouring and other ingredients that don't contribute to health. Even though processed cheese slices contain some calcium, Sunderland says she prefers brick cheese over processed cheese slices since brick cheese contains less things "your body doesn't need."
Sunderland suggests turning to avocados.
"Avocados are absolutely one of my favourite foods. Not only do I love the taste of them, I love their nutrition profile. They contain fibre. They contain all the heart-healthy fats. They even contain some of the plant-based omega-3 fats," says Sunderland. "Because they are so creamy and rich... a little goes a long way. Use a bit on sandwiches in place of cheese. Refrigerate the rest and cover with lime juice and plastic wrap to slow down oxidation and add a zing."
Boullion stock cubes (Cost: About $3.54 for a 63-gram pack.) vs. homemade stock (made of chicken bones, a large onion, parsley and a few carrots, Cost: $2 to $3 for several litres)
Dietitian's Assessment: People add boullion stock cubes, little, square flavour-boosters to their soups, stir-fries and stews without realizing that a mere half-cube (5.75 grams) contains nearly half of your day's worth of salt while only yielding one cup of stock.
"That's out of control," says Sunderland, noting that any food that contains 15 per cent of your daily value of sodium is considered a high-salt food. Meanwhile, boullion cubes contain virtually no valuable nutrients.
Using your own homemade stock -- rather than just cubes of packaged salt -- adds flavour and nutrients to any meal, says Sunderland, who saves chicken bones and carcasses in her freezer until she's ready to make a stock, made of just a few ingredients. She says slowly simmering chicken bones, fresh parsley (which costs 99 cents for a giant bunch) and a few vegetables for several hours results in a collagen, vitamins and mineral-rich broth that can feed a family for days. "This goes a long way," she says, noting that you are in control of the salt content of homemade stock.
Ramen noodles (Cost: $2.08 for a 64-gram serving) vs. whole grain pasta
(Cost: $2.62 for a 375-gram box)
Dietitian's Assessment: Ramen noodles contain 290 calories, 12 grams of fat (six of which are saturated), 1,290 milligrams of sodium (54 per cent of your recommended daily intake) and only three grams of fibre. Sunderland notes that ramen noodles are deceiving; they are actually high in fat because they are deep-fried before they are packaged. Moreover, the little flavour packs they come with are nothing more than salt, dried herbs and chemicals such as monosodium glutamate.
An 85-gram serving of whole wheat pasta contains 310 calories, 1.5 grams of fat -- all unsaturated -- 12 grams of protein, no salt and a whopping eight grams of fibre. Sunderland loves the fibre content of whole grain pasta; one serving, she says is equal in fibre to four slices of whole grain bread. The fibre not only keeps you full longer, it keeps your colon healthy and your arteries free and clear of heart-attack inducing plaque. Sunderland's pasta tip: Top it with a bit of olive oil and Parmesan cheese -- or make a quick sauce out of canned tomatoes.
Red potatoes (Cost: $2.50 for a five-pound bag, about 15 potatoes) vs. frozen french fries (Cost: $4.41 for a 650-gram bag)
Dietitian's Assessment: "This is a super bargain. You can make your own oven-baked fries, you can make mashed potatoes, you could make baked potatoes. The sky's the limit. I think a lot of people look at the potato as the lowly potato, but they are loaded with potassium and vitamin C," says Sunderland, noting the type of fibre that's good for the colon resides in the skins of potatoes.
Frozen french fries are deep-fried and full of sodium. Each 16-piece or 85-gram serving contains 4.5 grams fat, 140 calories and 170 mg of sodium.
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Baby Spinach Salad with Tuna
The 3 components of this salad can be readied ahead of time and later mixed together for a healthful lunch. For the freshest tasting salad, open the can of tuna right before serving.
Source: Everyday Food, May 2006
- 2 tablespoons plain low-fat yogurt
- 1 to 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 3 ounces baby spinach (about 3 cups, loosely packed)
- 1/2 cup seedless red grapes, halved lengthwise
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion (optional)
- 1 can (3 ounces) chunk light tuna packed in water
- Flatbreads, for serving (optional)
In a small bowl, whisk together yogurt, Dijon, and lemon juice; season with salt and pepper. Place dressing in a resealable plastic bag or airtight container. Place spinach, grapes, and onion, if using, in another airtight container (separate from dressing). Refrigerate, up to overnight.
Just before serving, drain tuna, add to salad, and toss with dressing. Include flatbreads, if desired.

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Hello,I have an object which consists only in setters and getters methods. All the setters are called upon instantiation. Then it's all about using the getters.
I was wondering if it would acceptable to do that:
$foo = $object->get()->foo;
Instead of:
$foo = $object->getFoo();
Is there any advantage? I somewhow find the syntax cleaner.
How would the internal of the object work to reach the first syntax?
Would there be a third, even shorter, syntax possible?
$foo = $object()->foo;
Well I'd first like to ask the reasoning behind getters and setters. However... what about this:
class Foo {
protected $properties = array();
public function __get($name) {
return isset($this->properties[$name]) ? $this->properties[$name] : null;
public function __set($name, $value) {
$this->properties[$name] = $value;
$foo = new Foo;
$foo->bar = 'bar';
echo $foo->bar;
However, if the reason you're using getters/setters is simply to enforce an API I'd argue getters/setters are redundant and you should just do:
class Foo {
public $property1;
public $property2;
What is the reasoning behind using getters/setters?
Are getters and setters bad? I thought it was the correct way to create properties, at least in the following situation.
function setBlah( $_GET )
if(!isset($_GET['blah'])) {
$this->blah = NULL;
$this->blah = $_GET['blah'];
That seems rather redundant.
This will have the exact same effect
class Foo {
public $blah = null;
You don't even need to declare $blah as null, as that's the default value.
I would also never pass $_GET into a function, rather send the required variable.
Hi jjshell,
Generally in the OO world there is an acceptance that getters/setters are bad as they expose too much of the API of objects. They break OO hiding principles and if the scope of the library/application grows large then they make objects much harder to maintain .
Here is a decent article (in the java world) that everyone using in PHP can understand. I does talk a little about Java specifics, but we can garner the rational for trying not to use them: Why getter and setter methods are evil
I hope this gives you some ideas on the subject.
Of note, TobB's magic method for getters/setters can help when you have a large number of them. The point though, is that you should avoid setter/getters so should their really be a need for this use of the magic methods? You also have to be careful as they make things harder to understand.
To be fair, in PHP most of the criticisms in that article are redundant as php isn't strongly typed.
Unless I'm mistaken it's advocating this:
class SomeObjectWithProperties {
protected $foo = 'foo';
protected $bar = 'bar';
public function process(SomeObjectThatNeedsInformation $obj) {
return $obj->formatWithdata($this->foo, $this->bar);
class SomeObjectThatNeedsInformation {
public function format($foo, $bar) {
return 'Foo: ' . $foo . '
Bar:' . $bar;
$a = new SomeObjectWithProperties;
$b = new SomeObjectThatNeedsInformation;
echo $a->process($b);
Essentially the visitor pattern but I may be mistaken! The problem with this approach, and I'm happy to be proven wrong here, but it seems that you're moving far too much processing into the first object. For each possible way the information needs to be displayed (for each subset of data) you need a method. It seems very messy to me.
Hi TomB,
No need to prove you wrong.
The general idea about reducing this is to provide object that give back values rather than passding data into object.
Yes this can be a bigger deal when looking at strongly typed languages, however the same rings true if you have assessors that when the internals of an object are changed they may need to be updated in hundreds of places in an application.
Setters/Getters in PHP or strongly typed languages usually bloat code, make assignments more difficult to understand and in many cases blow-up encapsulation. The encapsulation part can be argued as it can provide an opportunity to change the implementation behind the scenes without affecting the inputs to an object, but most often in php this is done very poorly, so in most cases it breaks encapsulation. Here is another article to chew on regarding the reduction of encapsulation using setter/getters [Doing it Wrong: Getters and Setters and a short blog about PHP getter/setters [URL="http://athos.blogs.balabit.com/2011/07/getter-setter-methods-vs-performance-in-php/"]Some thoughts on getter-setters](http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=23)
Let's look at some of the reasons people use setters/getters in PHP:
What can happen if getters and setter are overused:
If Frameworks required them and you use a framework then it isn't the end of the world.
People see getter/setter in very many examples so they think that that is how things should be done. But you have a right to argue that it is not.
Constructor based injection is generally considered safer than setter/getters this includes when dependency injection is used in PHP. However you may run up against circular dependencies when doing constructor based dependency injection. In this case you will likely need to use a setter, but luckily this does not happen too often.
Essentially many will argue that public members are bad in OOP design. There is not much of a difference between a public member and a public setter.
The increase of coupling is a bad thing.
In PHP where we have lots of freedom, we can create instances based on configuration or constructor parameter and should be ready to go.
Getters/Setters make it a nightmare to reverse engineer an applications you are asked to take over.
You are right that we can reduce setter/getters in value objects, but we can must also ask ourselves if the data required by objects should really be part of an object and not just passed into it.
Setters and Getter are not always wrong, in some cases limited usage of setters/getters is ok, like:
I don't think getters and setter are evil, I just think that we should stop and think what we are doing and are we creating more coupling than required or needlessly reducing information hiding/encapsulation?
Keep in mind that every time you want to refactor a class you will need to locate all the places that implement the getter and setters. This is true every time you add, remove, or change a member you need to check where and how it is set or get?
If you keep the instance variable of an object protect/private, we ensure that other classes don't depend on them and it gives us the flexibility to chaange a variable's type or implementation however we want without adversely affecting anything else.
So the idea is for an object to be responsible to compute somethin with its' own data and then return a result without needing getter/setters.
I guess I've flogged this horse to death.
Hope this stimulates ideas
I can see the negatives of public properties over setters: Public properties are dangerous even in PHP because you could potentially override a dependency with something unexpected. At least setters can enforce integrity by checking what the variable is being set to. That said, the number of times I use setters rather than constructor injection is so minimal this shouldn't be much of a consideration.
Getters, however, request object state. Any method in a class which returns a value beyond a success/failure condition is essentially a getter. If objects can't request the state of their dependencies
I can entirely understand the advantages of removing getters and even moreso setters, but I've yet to see a viable alternative. The visitor pattern I posted above creates separation of concerns issue and adds complexity.
I am totally open to having my opinion changed on this if someone can provide a sensible answer.
Let's take a very simplistic case. In a lot of cases accessors are used to transfer data from the model layer to the view layer:
class User {
public $name;
public $email;
public function __construct($name, $email) {
$this->name = $name;
$this->email = $email;
class UserFormatter {
public function output(User $user) {
return 'Name: ' . $user->name . ' Email: ' . $user->email;
$user = new User('Tom', 'foo');
$userFormatter = new UserFormatter;
echo $userFromatter->output($user);
Here we've enforced separation of concerns. The user object has a state an exposes that state. Which apparently is bad. Whether we use getters or public properties here is irrelevant.
So what's the solution? One would be to combine both the classes but that's even worse as it hugely limits flexility and reusability. Using inheritance to fix that causes more problems than it solves. So the visitor pattern solution which retains the separation of concerns and avoids getters looks like this:
interface UserDetails {
public function writeInfo($name, $email);
class User {
public $name;
public $email;
public function __construct($name, $email) {
$this->name = $name;
$this->email = $email;
public function requestDetails(UserDetails $info) {
$info->writeInfo($this->name, $this->email);
class UserFormatter implements UserDetails {
protected $output;
public function output(User $user) {
return $this->output;
public function writeInfo($name, $email) {
$this->output = 'Name: ' . $name . ' Email' . $email;
However, is this really an option? This has vastly increased the complexity, maintainability has become a nightmare. I want to add a surname field so now need to modify 3 times as many lines of code.
Beyond that, the User object needs to know what other objects need to know about it. This has removed any idea of separation of concerns. Why should the user object need to have any idea about how it would ever possibly need to be used?
Again, perhaps I am totally misunderstanding but... yes getters and setters cause problems but I can't see a solution that avoids them and doesn't cause more problems than it solves. Again, I'm totally open to being proved wrong!
Let's keep in mind that a common PHP script will take a request, query a database and, format the result in some way and return it to the user. Most of the processing here is transferring that data between the layers. That data needs to be transferred and formatted somehow.
Hey jjshell,
Hopefully you don't feel we've hijacked your thread. I have been putting forth ideas to try to answer your question regarding 'Are getters/setters bad?'. TomB has presented some valid arguments. So it is up to you to decide if you like the idea of reducing your use of setters/getters or you don't
You are right that using inheritance especially the limited type that PHP allows us to use does not solve this problem. Although in php 5.3 traits allow some of this flexibility where it starts to make sense.
I don't think you've missed anything. I was going to type out some examples of what can be done, but being a lazy programmer I found an article that describes some of the techniques that I use: How to remove getters and setters. Obviously the techniques described can't be used in ever situation.
I don't think you should abandon setters and getters just maybe when the opportunities present themselves, consider other ways that don't use this public interface. If your design is best served using getters/setters then use them, but understand that you weaken the private/protected encapsulation of the objects member/properties that are tied to the getters/setters. This coupling means that it may be harder for you to swap out behaviour in the objects that use them.
Setters and getters in the 'flat' sense -- aka not verifying what's calling it with something like debug_backtrace or get_included_files never made any sense to me... it's an extra far call for ZERO security improvement... at least so far as having a setter present is concerned. If they can set it with the method, what's the difference?
Now if that method validates input or validates what's calling it, or sets the value itself without being passed data, THEN setters and getters make sense -- but I seem to see it, much like 'objects for nothing' being thrown into code any old way lately; like a sick fad programmers discover it, then suddenly like the joker with a hammer sees nothing but nails.
@jsshell: That code example you posted passing $_GET... whiskey tango foxtrot is that?!? Manually passing a superglobal?!? Of course the reverse check logic for no reason and lack of a decent result handler... but that's just my obsession with passing boolean FALSE instead of null.
To me, you're describing an (associative) array. It takes a bit more for your data to become an object in the real sense of the word.
The difference between a property and a method returning a property is that a method should do some processing first, setter or getter. In your case it looks like you want to store some data and then retrieve it, without much processing. It would make sense if you want to make some under-the-hood redirects or return properties that are not existing, and some other inter-modules compatibilities reasons, otherwise a getter is redundant.
The difference is that you can later expand/change what the getter does if needed. For example if you have a webshop with only one currency and a class representing an item that can be bought with a property price, and later on you want to add another currency you need to change code all over the place. If you had a getter instead, getPrice(), you can rewrite that getter to check which currency in currently in use and return the price using that currency. Small change, done if a few minutes, and a lot less error prone than the alternative.
Which is fine, data processing on a getter -- it's when the setter is, well... not doing any validation or processing that it's a problem. What I meant was that a lot of people seem to think setters and getters are useful for security, when in a lot of implementations they're just a waste of code and do nothing in that regard.
I would argue to those that believe that setters and most getters are not security problems or useful for security that they are mistaken. The more you provide any public access to your code there may be attack vectors that can break in. As the public API gets strewn through most code, it is very hard to track and to patch when more significant changes are needed. Thus part of my encouragement to move away from them.
Same reasoning holds though. If you ever wanted to add validation or processing to a property and it's just a property you need to add a lot of code to your codebase (namely everywhere you set the property), whereas if you already had the setter -albeit completely useless at that point- it's easy to change the behavior later on by simply changing the setter.
I couldn't agree more that getters/setters and security have nothing to do with one another, but that doesn't mean that they can't serve any other purpose, as stated above
I have to agree with Tom. It's possible that the concept of getter/setter having a bad name is somewhat more about bad programming than about bad design.
You may call your method fetch() instead of get(), store() instead of set(). The fact is that they are getters and setters. And that's why objects are instances of classes.
Properties are not constants. They can be, but they are not limited to.
Setters change object state. Any method that successfully changes a property is essentially a setter. If objects can't change state...
...that means I'd have to only use constructors and I'd have to create a new object every time I need a property changed?
You are correct that getter/setter have been given a bad name and generally frowned upon for all the reasons (Post 7) previously mentioned.
You are also right that properties are not always constants and nor should they be. The fact is, that there are a number of 'Tell' methods which include Constructor Passing, Object Composition (of objects that have the most knowledge in regards to a property/process/method(s)), Double Dispatch, Value Objects, and Command Change Set. There is also the idea of designing your objects to not require as much 'passing around data' and making your classes more focused (not God Like) and weaving such objects together. All of these are reasonable ways, other than immediately choosing a Setter or Getter.
Again Setter/Getters are not evil, we as programmers just have to think about what we give up, and what difficulties we make for ourselves in doing so. It is not the end of the world to use them. In a small application, it may over-complicate an applications design to not use them. If an application grows, then they can be factored out. However, so many courses, books, and web articles/examples show setters/getters as the way to set and get data in PHP applications. This, in part, is because they are easy examples to demonstrate and use for teaching, but I wonder how may people understand the trouble that one can get into and the alternatives to using setter / getters?
I see what you mean. But I guess it rather applies to setters?
Let's consider this. A real world object, a dog: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/concepts/object.html
Dogs have state (name, color, breed, hungry) and behavior (barking, fetching, wagging tail).
Say you want to first inspect a dog object rather than alter its behavior state, to establish further interaction course. When you have to inquire about behavior state, getters come to mind: getBarking(), getFetching(), getWaggingTail(). Like one of the sources you've mentioned, it's about messaging.
Are there better alternatives to this messaging? Like you, I believe there are. But getters are easier to work with. It's like a bad practice becoming standard, a necessary evil.
I posted reasons and ways not to use setters and getters; however as TomB originally said and others have supported, setter / getters cannot or should not always be avoided.
Lets use your Dog class to show a few different things:
class Dog {
protected $name;
protected $date_of_birth;
protected $fur_colour;
protected $collar_type;
protected $collar_collar;
public function __construct ( $name, $date_of_birth, $fur_colour, $collar_type = '', $collar_colour = '') {
$this->name = ucfirst ($name);
$this->date_of_birth = $date_of_birth;
$this->fur_colour = ucfirst ($fur_colour);
$this->changeCollar( $collar_type, $collar_colour );
$this->dog = array();
public function describe (){
$this->dog['Name'] = $this->name;
$this->dog['Age'] = $this->age();
$this->dog['Fur Colour'] = $this->isGoingGrey();
$this->dog['Collar'] = $this->getCollar();
$html = '
My Dog

';
foreach($this->dog as $key => $value) {
$html .= "
$key: $value
";
$html .= '
';
echo $html;
protected function age() {
$today = date('m/d/Y h:i:s a', time());
return $this->dateDiff($this->date_of_birth, $today);
protected function dateDiff($time1, $time2, $precision = 3) {
// If not numeric then convert texts to unix timestamps
if (!is_int($time1)) {
$time1 = strtotime($time1);
if (!is_int($time2)) {
$time2 = strtotime($time2);
// If time1 is bigger than time2
// Then swap time1 and time2
if ($time1 > $time2) {
$ttime = $time1;
$time1 = $time2;
$time2 = $ttime;
// Set up intervals and diffs arrays
$intervals = array('year','month','day','hour','minute','second');
$diffs = array();
// Loop thru all intervals
foreach ($intervals as $interval) {
// Set default diff to 0
$diffs[$interval] = 0;
// Create temp time from time1 and interval
$ttime = strtotime("+1 " . $interval, $time1);
// Loop until temp time is smaller than time2
while ($time2 >= $ttime) {
$time1 = $ttime;
// Create new temp time from time1 and interval
$ttime = strtotime("+1 " . $interval, $time1);
$count = 0;
$times = array();
// Loop thru all diffs
foreach ($diffs as $interval => $value) {
// Break if we have needed precission
if ($count >= $precision) {
// Add value and interval
// if value is bigger than 0
if ($value > 0) {
// Add s if value is not 1
if ($value != 1) {
$interval .= "s";
// Add value and interval to times array
$times[] = $value . " " . $interval;
// Return string with times
return implode(", ", $times);
protected function isGoingGrey() {
$age = $this->age();
$age = explode(' ' , $age);
$age = (int)$age[0]; //Array index 0 will contain the number of years
switch ( $age ) {
case $age >= 15:
return $this->fur_colour . ' with very grey face, belly, brow and fur around the eyes.';
case $age >= 10:
return $this->fur_colour . ' with grey chin and slightly grey brow.';
case $age >= 7:
return $this->fur_colour . ' plus a little grey on the chin.';
return $this->fur_colour;
public function changeCollar( $collar_type, $collar_colour ) {
switch ( $collar_type ) { //Some type of validation for this setter, normally test for boundary conditions
case 'leather':
case 'vinyl':
case 'woven':
case 'rope':
$this->collar_type = $collar_type;
$this->collar_type = 'Not a valid collar type';
$this->collar_colour = $collar_colour; // Should validate and test for boundary conditions
protected function getCollar() {
return "Has a $this->collar_type $this->collar_colour collar";
$o_Dog = new Dog ('Spot', '11/11/2005', 'black' , 'leather', 'brown');
I think this is not a bad (but also not great) example of when a setter is needed for a state change but is avoided in others.
In that dog example you have a describe function which does a lot of display logic. Surely separation of concerns would require this to be done elsewhere. The problem it creates is limited flexibility. The details on the dog can only ever be displayed in one way. Maybe sometimes I only want to show the name and age? Do I need to add a new method to the dog class for that? It's very messy.
Essentially it's push vs pull. Something (e.g. display logic) needs to know the details about the dog. A push method (the dog passing the values into the display logic) means the dog class must know what information is needed for display, breaking separation of concerns.
Using this push method (e.g. pass something into the describe function which contains the display logic) if I add a new property, let's say weight, to display this, the method which pushes the data into the display logic needs to be updated.
Using a pull method: public properties (or getters) the display logic can request what it needs from the Dog object when it needs it. It's a single edit to add/remove a field because you're avoiding a step.
The added complexity of using double dispatch or the lack of flexibility and loss of separation of concerns introduced by your describe function, to me, are far worse than the issues which arise from getters/public properties in most cases.
That said, I think your example is good because you've put as much logic as possible in the dog class itself. You've avoided setters which don't do anything and kept everything reusable. But that's avoiding setters as much as getters. A lot of your methods are essentially getters. Your age() function is a getter, for instance.


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A TALENTED stonemason says he is "absolutely delighted" after winning a prize in a top national industry competition.
Darek Malecki, 31, of Moorlinch, came third in his category in the national final of SkillBuild, the UK's largest multi-trade competition.
Darek, who works for Wells Cathedral Stonemasons and attends Weymouth College, was up against five other finalists in the three-day competition at Preston College in Lancashire.
He said: "It's great to be in the top three. The competition was tough, but it has been worth all the hard work and preparation.
"I'd like to thank my college and employer for all their support and help, and everyone at SkillBuild for a great competition."


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Setting up the monkey patch RSL took a bit of work. First
you needed to create an externs file from a link report. Then you needed to
figure out the inheritance dependencies and remove them from the externs file.
Wouldn't it be nice to have the compiler to this for you? The compiler knows
what the inheritance dependencies are, right?
It turns out that writing the prototype for the new compiler option wasn't all that hard. I called the new compiler option "include-inheritance-dependencies-only".
It only works with compc and the -include-classes option. Normally compc
will include all the dependences of classes linked into a swc. But when the new
option is used only the inheritance dependences will be linked in. So the
command to build the RSL swc for the mx.collections.ListCollectionView monkey
patch becomes:
-include-classes mx.collections.ListCollectionView -include-inheritance-dependencies-only
-source-path . -output lcv2 -directory
The new option is just a prototype. It may never see the
light of day. If you think this option would be useful please leave a comment
to let me know.


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Attention current players and all incoming students who wish to tryout - the Saint Leo University men's lacrosse team is going to hold its first team meeting on August 23rd at 5:00 p.m. in Classroom 4 in the Marion Bowman Activities Center. Please bring a pencil and something to write on.
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2014 ITA Men's and Women's East Region Coach of the Year Makes Move to Saint Leo
SAINT LEO, Fla. - Saint Leo University Director of Athletics, Francis X. Reidy, has announced the appointment of Chris Frusci as the head coach of the Saint Leo University men's and women's tennis programs. Frusci joins the Lions after spending four years at the New York Institute of
Technology (NYIT), including three as the head coach.
"We are excited to welcome Chris to our staff," Reidy stated. "He is a strong recruiter and has demonstrated he can be very successful in the dual role of men's and women's coach. He has enjoyed great success on both the regional and national levels in his young career, and I believe he will continue to build our nationally ranked programs. He is very familiar with Division II and is ready for the challenges of the SSC."
"I want to also thank and congratulate Sarah Summerfield and Martin Parkes, who both did a tremendous job as the acting head coaches this year," Reidy continued. "Both took their respective teams to new heights, and I believe we have put together a very strong, balanced staff to lead the programs."
In his time at NYIT, Frusci has proven himself to be a contender within the competitive world of Division II Tennis, leading the Bears to national prominence in its four seasons. Most recently, the Lynbrook, N.Y. native led the NYIT men's team to its second consecutive trip to the NCAA DII round of 16, all while leading the women's team to an appearance in the NCAA DII Quarterfinal round, the farthest the Bears have advanced in their short four-year history as a program.
"Words cannot express the excitement of my new appointment as the head men's and women's coach at Saint Leo University," said Frusci. "Ever since I've been traveling to Saint Leo to play during spring break over the last few years, I've always wanted to be a part of the tennis culture here. Being a part of the Sunshine State Conference is something very special and I'm looking forward to the challenge. I am also looking forward to building on a very strong returning women's team that has the potential to do very big things. As for the men's team, they lost a very talented group of seniors that will be hard to replace, but I feel that with the help of Coach Parkes, the transition will be very smooth."
The 2014 ITA Men's and Women's East Region Coach of the year, and 2014 ECC Co-Coach of the Year, joins the Green and Gold with a resume stacked with success. Under his tutelage, both NYIT tennis teams finished the year ranked the ITA top-20, with the women finishing at No. 11, and the men coming in at No. 15. Both the men and women clinched their second-straight ECC Championship Titles throughout the course of the 2013-14 academic year, and in his three seasons as head coach, he has led 25 ECC All-Academic selections, 20 All-ECC selections, four CoSIDA Academic All-District honorees, four ECC Rookies of the year, three ECC Players of the Year, one ECC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, one ITA Women's East Region Player to Watch, one ITA All-American, and one CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America selection.
"I want to first thank Mr. Reidy and the rest of the staff at Saint Leo for giving me this opportunity. I also want to thank NYIT for giving me the resources to grow as a young head coach and allow me to find my passion. Lastly, I want to thank my family for being so supportive in this life-changing career path. I have high expectations for this program, and I can't wait to get to work."
He inherits teams that reached impressive new levels of success throughout the 2013-14 academic year. The men's team saw themselves reach the program's highest ever national ranking, coming in at No. 4 on the March 27th ITA National Rankings. Owning a record of 18-5, the men's team closed out their Spring campaign defeating Florida Southern, 5-1 in the Sunshine State Conference Quarterfinals before being bounced out by top-seeded Barry in the semifinals.
The women's squad saw the Lions earn its highest ranking in program history, as well, concluding the season ranked No. 3 in the nation after an impressive post-season run that saw the Lions become the first ever women's program to advance out of regional play to NCAA Tournament action, as well as become the first ever program for Saint Leo to advance and become national semifinalists.
Frusci received his B.S. in business administration with a concentration in marketing from Muhlenberg in 2008.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's and women's tennis programs, fans can visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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Side-by-sides are the biggest thing most people have never heard of in off-road motor sports. They can scramble up piles of boulders or skid through mounds of sand and carry up to four people as they do it.
Annual sales of these four-wheel-drive fun machines increased 22.5 percent in 2012, to a total of 166,449 units, according to a sales report released last week by the Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Assn. in Irvine. For perspective, that's more than half the sales for new on-road motorcycles last year.
"Comfort, the ability to carry passengers and cargo all make them appealing, but one of the reasons this segment is thriving is that it's also picking up users from the four-wheel-drive community," said Paul Vitrano, ROHVA's executive vice president.
With steering wheels, seats and seat belts, side-by-sides offer a similar driving experience to cars, only there aren't full doors and many lack windshields. So drivers need to wear helmets and goggles.
Made by at least 15 manufacturers – including Arctic Cat, Polaris and Yamaha – they have a top speed of about 35 mph, transmissions that run in low or high gear, and drive settings that easily switch between two and four wheels. That makes them as capable as a Jeep or Land Rover in rough terrain.
That capability just comes at a fraction of the cost. Side-by-sides start at about $10,000.
Side-by-sides offer a value proposition that is affecting sales of other off-roaders as well, most notably single-passenger all-terrain vehicles. ATVs cost only slightly less than two- and four-seat side-by-sides, which offer just as much fun for less money per passenger.
ATV sales have plunged from 752,000 units in 2007 to 289,000 last year, according to ROHVA.
Side-by-sides may also ding sales of dual-sport motorcycles that can be ridden both on and off highway, especially by law enforcement.
"Side-by-sides are a much more stable platform," said John Leahy, of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Between 2003 and 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Commission tracked 116 deaths from side-by-sides. That accident rate is comparable to ATVs, according to Vitrano. He helped spearhead a new safety class for the vehicles, which launched last year and is available through ROHVA at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine and 29 other sites throughout the country.
Leahy teaches motor officers from various Southern California agencies how to safely operate on- and off-road motorcycles and will soon expand his training program to side-by-sides.
"You can go as many places as a dual-sport motorcycle, but you can have two officers if you need them, and you can carry more equipment in a search-and-rescue situation," he said.
Side-by-sides were first known as UTVs, or utility task vehicles. Largely used by the agricultural and hunting communities, they have been on the market since at least the early 2000s through agricultural equipment companies such as John Deere.
But in the mid 2000s, the market started to become more recreation-oriented, with power-sports manufacturers such as Can Am and Kawasaki making sportier versions that seat up to four. That made them popular with off-roading families.
Kawasaki first started making side-by-sides for the agricultural market. It introduced its more recreation-oriented Teryx two-seater in 2006 and a four-seat version in 2012.
"They're very utilitarian," said Jeff Herzog, senior public relations coordinator for Kawasaki in Irvine. "They can be a workhorse one day and a playmate the next."


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2012 is almost behind us. As a salute to a great year, we're highlighting what you loved most about Cooking Channel, from the top posts on Facebook to the shows you loved most and the recipes you couldn't get enough of, like I Want to Marry You Cookies. See how this year stacks up against 2011 and 2010.
Cooking Channel's Top 10 Shows of 2012
Paula Deen's buttery Southern comfort dishes are so indulgent, she has become the stuff of memes. Her son Bobby has taken to a more fit lifestyle but, naturally, doesn't want to give up the incredible flavors his mom served up his entire life. He's made it his mission to take his mama's recipes and transform them into lighter, lean, yet still delicious dishes. Our fans love his results so much, millions have flocked to his healthy substitutes of his mom's recipes that cut down on calories and fat, but still deliver on taste.
Not My Mama's Meals took the top spot in 2012 of most visited show pages on our site. Here are the rest of the contenders:
1. Not My Mama's Meals
2. Kelsey's Essentials
3. Everyday Italian
4. French Food At Home
5. Rachael Ray's Week in a Day
6. Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen
7. Extra Virgin
8. Symon's Suppers
9. Chuck's Day Off
10. Unique Sweets
Cooking Channel's Top 10 Chefs of 2012
Kelsey Nixon initially created her own cooking show in college. Now she host's Kelsey's Essentials on Cooking Channel. She's the real deal. We've had Facebook chats with her and watched her ability to answer complex cooking questions in a very helpful, concise and straight-forward way on the fly. Her ability to break down the basics, teach proper technique and make anyone feel comfortable in the kitchen has made her the well-deserved most sought-out chef on CookingChannelTV.com in 2012. Here are the top ten:
1. Kelsey Nixon
2. Giada De Laurentiis
3. Laura Calder
4. Bobby Deen
5. Ching He-Huang
6. Chuck Hughes
7. Rachael Ray
8. Michael Symon
9. Ellie Krieger
10. Debi Mazar & Gabriele Corcos (we'll count them as a team)
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Rice has a high trust culture that obligates individuals to preserve our legacy of honor. Developing principled leaders starts on day one. Academic integrity (Rice Honor Code, which students need to write and sign on every exam and paper that they submit for credit at Rice) and business honor (the MBA Oath) are presented as soon as a student begins the Rice MBA program. The code reads:"On my Honor, I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid on this [exam/paper/etc.]"The three main student responsibilities of the Rice honor code are:
The Rice Honor Council is a group of students elected by the student body to investigate accusations, handle cases of suspected violations, orient new students to the system, and seek improvement to the Honor System. It is an objective third party and is not responsible for accusing students. The entire student body is responsible for ensuring that the Honor System continues to operate effectively.
Along with the Rice Honor Code, the Student Mission Statement was created to set the long-term direction of the student body and to carry that culture of integrity beyond graduation. The Student Mission Statement reads:
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In accordance with this commitment we hold ourselves accountable to be prepared, respect the wisdom of our faculty and peers, and practice intellectual curiosity. We will also hold our instructors accountable to help us develop the skills and intuition necessary to distinguish Jones School graduates as superlative leaders.
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I created the OfficeBench test script back in 1999/2000 while my company, Competitive Systems Analysis (CSA), was under contract to Intel's Desktop Architecture Labs (DAL). CSA was responsible for a great deal of internal benchmarking and white paper development surrounding the Pentium III and Pentium 4 CPU launches.
OfficeBench was designed from the beginning to be a "run anywhere" benchmark. By "run anywhere" I mean that the script will execute reliably under almost any Windows runtime environment. At the time it was being developed, this meant Windows 2000 and Terminal Server. As Windows evolved, so did OfficeBench. Today it supports every version of Windows since 2000, including XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, all flavors of Terminal Server, and all known application and desktop virtualization environments.
OfficeBench is also version independent. That is, it's designed to work with any version of Microsoft Office. When it was originally conceived, the state of the art was Office 2000. Since then, Microsoft has rolled out three additional versions: XP, 2003, and, most recently, 2007. OfficeBench runs unmodified across all four versions. Combined with the support for the various Windows platform releases, OfficeBench is the only test script of its kind that allows you to compare performance across multiple generations of Windows and Office.
OfficeBench uses OLE automation to drive the applications. This is different from most test scripts, which use window messages or keystroke and mouse click simulation. Using OLE automation has numerous benefits, including allowing test scripts to run unmodified across the four Office versions. It also factors out any input-related anomalies while eliminating the chance that a UI change or third party modification will somehow break the script.
Key OfficeBench tasks include the following:
- Reformat all section headers and subheads in Word.
- Generate multiple chart objects in Excel.
- Generate complete multi-slide presentation in PowerPoint.
- Multi-page scroll w/copy paste of chart objects into Word.
- Slide sort/apply multiple templates in PowerPoint.
- Multi-page scroll/print preview/print-to-file in Word.
- Multi-chart print preview/print-to-file in Excel
- Global search/replace in word (multiple).
- Multi-slide preview/print-to-file in PowerPoint.
- Navigate simulated research Web site in IE (multiple).
The above are just some highlights. There's a lot more going on than meets the eye, and the key is that it's the exact same set of tasks executing across all versions of Office.
OfficeBench doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's delivered as part of a sophisticated, extensible, multi-process testing framework we call DMS Clarity Studio. DMS Clarity Studio provides a variety of scalable workload objects for testing everything from client/server database connections to MAPI-based message store access to streaming multimedia. OfficeBench has been engineered to run in parallel with these workloads, providing for a rich variety of targeted test scenarios spanning the range of Windows client and server platforms. It's all coordinated through the DMS Clarity Studio framework and also seamlessly integrated with the exo.performance.network's Clarity Analysis Portal.
Note: DMS Clarity Studio is offered for free as part of the exo.performance.network. It's also part of the larger DMS Clarity Suite framework in use across thousands of trading workstations and other mission critical systems in the financial services sector. Some of the largest trading firms in the world trust DMS Clarity Suite to tell them when their systems are under-performing.
In summary, OfficeBench is part of a proven testing ecosystem that spans the range of Windows platforms and runtime scenarios. It is a sophisticated, version-independent benchmarking tool that executes reliably under almost any Windows runtime environment, allowing IT organizations to accurately assess multi-generational performance across all versions of Windows and Office.


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Topic: Pacific Cultures at Te Papa
Is part of topic Te Papa's Collections
The foundation of the Pacific Collection was laid in the early days of the Colonial Museum in the nineteenth century, when some important gifts were received. These gifts included a cloak made from wool and fibre derived from an indigenous Cook Island plant. It was presented to the New Zealand government by a Cook Island chief.
The collection was boosted by major gifts in the early years of the twentieth century - by Lord St Oswald's Collection, for example, which was derived from the voyages of Captain James Cook. It has been growing ever since.
Of special importance are the several groups of items collected during the voyages of Cook, and particularly the magnificent feather cloak presented to Cook by the Hawaiian chief Kalani'opu'u on 26 January 1779. Other outstanding objects include historic canoes from Samoa and the Cook Islands, and many beautiful examples of mats and tapa (decorated bark cloth).
It is only since 1993 that Te Papa has managed its Pacific treasures as a separate collection. For most of the institution's history, Pacific items formed a significant part of what was called the Foreign Ethnology Collection.
As currently defined, the collection consists of about 13,000 items and includes both historical and contemporary material from the Pacific Islands, including Papua New Guinea but excluding Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia. An exception is made for the Torres Strait Islands, part of Australia but culturally more aligned to Papua New Guinea.
There is now an important focus on the art and material culture of Pacific peoples living in New Zealand.
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The pattern of the market for weeks has been soft opens and strong closes. That is textbook bullish action. But this morning saw gap-and-fail action and, even worse, some downside momentum as profit taking picks up. It has been a while since a trend-down day, but the signs are there today and I've tightened up.
My message lately is to stick with the trend until there is weak price action. There is some today, and if we take Friday's lows at 1494, we have the makings of a rollover pattern. Breadth is running better than 2-to-1 negative on the NYSE and there are good hits to recent winners like 3D Systems (DDD), Stratasys (SSYS), Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG).
The key to dealing with this action is to honor your stops. Take the hit and don't just sit there and hope it is a temporary hiccup. It might be and you can always rebuy, but the important thing is to protect profits and capital.
A few things on my radar this morning are Arris Group (ARRS), PBF Energy (PBF) and Opko Health (OPK), but I'm keeping it small and tight. The bears may finally have a small victory if we don't see a bounce in the next hour or two.


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After purging a house on Queen Anne filled with 20-plus years' worth of accumulation, I could not have agreed more. The process of letting go had been daunting, excruciating.
But the work paid off. I was propelled into a freedom I had never known in my life. As closets emptied and yard sales ended, I felt unburdened, lighter.
Comedian George Carlin was right when he hilariously blasted our insane attachment to "stuff." Our stuff controls us, he railed, because we need to clean it, rearrange it and protect it. It is a force to be reckoned with, and getting rid of it requires, simultaneously, discipline and abandon.
Letting go
When we began spending winters in Panama, I collected shells, sea glass, pieces of driftwood and bamboo, planning to bring to fruition my husband's décor idea. But that's all I did: collect it. When it comes to using my hands to make something — sewing, beading, knitting, drawing — I am stumped. I didn't know where to begin.
This past winter, I promised myself that I would make some beautiful wall hangings. I was going for beautiful, balanced, impressive.
I began with a small, curved, silver-gray stick; a delicate, white, translucent shell; and a small blue bead with a floral pattern — all remains of a mobile my daughter made but a storm had blown apart.
Carefully arranging shells underneath it, I considered weight, color pattern, sizes and shapes. I worked on it all of one afternoon and was pleased with the symmetrical, color-coordinated result.
Meanwhile, inside the casita was a collection of sea glass and assorted shell fragments waiting to become my second creation. A week or so later, feeling somewhat of an expert, I started.
I organized the pieces into piles according to color and shape. I laid them out in various patterns. I considered. I rearranged. I drilled holes. I rearranged again.
Time passed. And then, thinking I had abandoned the project, my husband cleared it all away one day to prepare for visitors who would be staying in the room I called my studio.
But I wanted to do this, wanted to finish it. So I just said, "To hell with it."
I dumped the formerly carefully categorized bits and pieces in a great lump on the table. I used a piece of driftwood with a dozen or so holes long ago formed by sea worms or bugs. I picked the first shell somewhat randomly, a coral-colored fragment, worn to its present shape by years of water and sand movement, and tied it to one of the holes.
I gravitated next to a lumpy, spotted piece of shell that had a natural place to attach the string and tied it on. Next, an elongated triangle piece of green sea glass.
And so on. I just let go and let each piece call to the next.
The time passed quickly, and as it began to take shape, I saw that by letting go of control, of attempts at symmetry, of a desire to impress, the pieces collaborated with me, and together, we made something beautiful. It is imperfect and graceful and makes me smile whenever I look at it.
Free as a child
Relinquishing our need to organize and control whether we are moving or creating sets us free to find out what we are capable of. Surrendering self-consciousness brings purity to our work and life.
Have you ever seen the way a child draws? They just pick a Crayon or a marker and go for it. And their drawings are authentic and fabulous. I have framed many of my children's early artwork just for that reason.
If we can let go of the wheel and allow forces outside — and deep within — ourselves to lead us, what beauty and goodness we can create.
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The eSkills for Jobs campaign is a response to the growing demand for ICT-skilled professionals which is currently not met, despite high levels of unemployment in Europe. The main focus of the campaign, that is running in 21 European countries, is to inform about the education, training, jobs, and other opportunities that are available to people with eSkills – those who know how to effectively use digital technologies.
Stakeholders will also receive visibility via the campaign dissemination activities and channels:
eSkills for Jobs stakeholders can also participate by collaborating with national contact points in the 21 countries taking part in the campaign:
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HOUSTON - A man was critically injured Monday by a hit-and-run driver in southwest Houston, police said.
A witness, Anthony Bell, said he saw a pickup truck run through a yellow light on Westpark at Hillcroft and hit a man crossing the street at 2:15 a.m.
"The truck caught him on the edge and kept going," said Bell. "When he picked up speed, the truck caught him at the tip of the truck and the guy flipped in the air. That's when I saw him laying on the curb."
Bell told Local 2 he tried to help.
"He was breathing with blood coming from his nose and mouth. His legs seem to be broken and his arms seemed to be dislocated," he said.
The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. His name was not released.
Detectives said the truck did not slow down after the crash.
"It would be like non-human for someone to do something like that, especially if you know you did it and not stop to come back and check. So, with that saying, he's in a lot of trouble. I know he is," Bell said.
Police investigated the scene for hours, collecting evidence that can help them track down the driver.
Police are looking for a dark-colored Dodge Ram pickup truck with front-end damage. The headlight was knocked off during the crash.
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East Central guts out 2nd straight title
Updated 10:18 pm, Saturday, April 28, 2012
East Central junior Chris Armstrong can run a 4.4-second 40-yard dash, which has helped him get a few football scholarship offers.
And somehow he's a pretty fast limper, too.
Running the anchor of the 800-meter relay at the Region IV-5A meet Saturday, Armstrong's left leg cramped more than 100 meters from the finish line. Armstrong limped for the rest of the race and still managed to finish second.
Judson swept all three relays, but East Central's versatility and Armstrong's limping finish helped the Hornets clinch their second straight team title.
"At first I thought I pulled a hamstring, but I had to keep going," Armstrong said. "I was just determined to finish."
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Entering the last curve of the relay, Armstrong grabbed his leg and said he considered stopping as Judson's Jerome Gatewood passed him. Armstrong managed to keep going anyway.
The top two finishers in each event advance to the state meet in Austin on May 11 and 12. Armstrong said he'll be ready to run by then.
The finish was crucial to team points, as the Hornets finished with 92 to Judson's 82.
The Rockets nearly took the title on the strength of their relays, as Keith Barnett ran the first leg and Gatewood anchored all three of the events. East Central was also second to Judson in the 1,600 relay.
"When we won last year, everything seemed to fall into place," East Central coach Robert Johnson said. "This time, we had a lot more adversity, but our kids showed their guts."
Steele won the girls team title with a slim 68-64 margin over second-place Stevens. After entering Saturday without any points in the field events, the Knights won the 400 and 800 relays and got a victory in the 200 from Alaysia Hampton.
The Knights won their first district title in girls track this season and now have their first regional title.
"We knew we had to place in pretty much every event we were in," said senior Domonique Smalls, who was on both winning relays and finished second in the 100. "We showed up and showed out."
Highlands' Jourdan Doffeny qualified for the state meet in four events, finishing first in two hurdles events (100 and 300) and second in the 200 and long jump.
Doffeny had some close calls, beating Edinburg Economedes' Leigha Brown in the 100 hurdles by a hundredth of a second. Doffeny's lean at the end gave her a time of 14.82 seconds, while Brown finished in 14.83.
Doffeny, who signed with Nebraska, also edged out Wagner's Tiaira Carter by a tenth of a second for second in the 200. Carter will advance to the state meet with a victory in the 400.
"I really got pushed by the competition," Doffeny said. "Now I'm going for at least two golds (in) the hurdles events at state.
"I want to signal to Nebraska that they have something good coming."
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Correction: Nick Coleman was the East Central athlete running in a 1,600-meter relay Saturday. The runner and the event were misidentified in a photo caption on Sunday's page C5 of the Express-News and on mySA.com.


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NATHAN Greaves admitted he was overwhelmed after winning his first ever race at Blunsdon on Monday night but knows he must now prove his heat two win was far from a one off.
Having struggled in his first three Elite League meetings, teenager Greaves took to the track for heat two of his home debut on teammate Simon Gustafsson's bike and proceeded to storm to victory in a style the Blunsdon faithful are more used to seeing from Peter Kildemand.
The victory brought about a huge cheer from the Robins fans, leaving the 16-year-old in a state of shock and hugely grateful to the generosity of Gustafsson.
"I don't really know what happened to be honest, I'd never seen the track before and I was on Simon's bike, so it was all very odd," he said.
"There was a problem with the spare bike, and my dad couldn't do the other bike quick enough, so Simon lent me his. I'm pretty glad he did now.
"That wouldn't have happened in the National League, no chance, they would have just let you miss your race so I'm really grateful to Simon.
"In the race I was just trying to ride like I can and I don't really know what to say, I just did it. It got close on a few occasions but just managed to hold on.
"I didn't expect this to happen going into it but, although it was never going to happen, you have to hope to get a maximum from it.
"Hopefully I can do it again in the next one now. I'm overwhelmed to be honest, I really like the track and I really hope I can do a few more of them."
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ADNAN OKTAR: From Surat al-Ahqaf - "Say: 'Have you thought about those you call upon apart from Allah? Show me what they have created on the earth'." This verse is just the question for Darwinists. Look, "Say: 'Have you thought about those you call upon apart from Allah'." They worship atoms. "Show me what they have created on the earth. Or do they have a partnership in the heavens?" They say that space creatures were responsible for creation. The Qur'an also indicates that. "Or do they have a partnership in the heavens?" They say that space creatures have, that they created. "Produce a Book for me before this one or a shred of knowledge if you are telling the truth." In other words, a book, a scholarly work of some kind on the subject, some reminiscence of science, I mean a fossil, an evidence that might suggest that proteins could come into being by chance; if there is any such thing, says Almighty Allah, bring it to Me. But there is not. He tells the Prophet (saas) what to say. And what am I saying? I am saying that I will give 10 trillion Turkish lira to anyone producing such a fossil, such evidence. If you have any evidence that a protein can form by chance, bring it to me and I will also give you 10 trillion liras for that as well. But there isn't any, so they can't." The Qur'an is referring to that. "Who could be further astray than those who call on other things besides Allah, which will not respond to them until the Doomsday and which are unaware of their prayers?" For example, the atom does not know they worship it, and nor do the aliens. They regard beings from outer space as divine, or they regard the atom as divine, but the atom knows nothing. It is just an ordinary piece of matter that neither sees, feels nor hears, insha'Allah.


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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania's head coach of women's golf, Mark Anderson, has announced his incoming class for the 2013-14 season. Four women will join the Quaker roster as freshmen in September.
"I am very excited about this incoming class of freshmen," said Anderson. "They are going to give our team some much-needed depth and will allow our team to be more competitive. With seven strong players on the squad this year, we will be battling every week to see who will make the top five. I have no doubt that we will have one of the strongest teams we have had in the past few years. I am looking forward to having this group play for Penn for the next four years and lead us to many more championships."
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Personal: Daughter of Jenny and Ying Chen … Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.
Delray Beach, Fla./Saint Andrew's School
High School: Lettered seven times in golf at Saint Andrew's, three-year captain … Member of three district and regional championship teams … Took first place at the AJGA's Burgette H. Mooney Jr. Rome Classic in 2011 … 2012-13 Booster Club Scholar Athlete Award recipient … Cum Laude Society member … National Honor Society member … Penn Book Award recipient.
Personal: Daughter of Renee and Gary Kay … Mother played tennis at Tulane … Uncle, Aaron Krickstein, was a standout professional tennis player … Cousins with current LPGA standout Morgan Pressel … Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.
Philadelphia, Pa./Penn Charter
High School: Lettered in golf and tennis at Penn Charter, captain of both teams … Placed third at the 2011 PAISSA Boys' Golf Championships … First-team All-InterAc as a senior, second-team All-InterAc as a junior … Two-time Coach's Award recipient in golf, once in tennis … Cum Laude Society member … Class of 1897 Award recipient … Yearbook editor … Co-founder of Book Club and Science Peer Tutor System … Co-leader of Business Club … Spanish Club member.
Personal: Daughter of Patty and Adrian Lo … Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.
Kungsbacka, Sweden/American Embassy School (New Delhi, India)
High School: Played golf outside of school … Won Skandia Regional in 2012, second in 2011 … Second at 2012 Skandia Riks national tournament … Won the regional championship in Madrid, Spain (Castilla La Mancha) … Third at 2010 Madrid Junior Championships (Copa Principe de Asturion) … Fifth at 2010 Madrid Ladies Championship … In high school, lettered in volleyball, tennis and track & field … Captain of volleyball and tennis teams … Won her school's Valuable Scholar Athlete award … Helped tennis to second in MESAC in 2013, volleyball to third in 2012 … Track & field team won gold at 2011 SAISA Championships … High Honor Roll/Director's Recognition … National Honor Society member … National Society of High School Scholars … Service recognition participant (Aanchal, Teach India, Embajadores) … Ericsson Award recipient … Excellence awards in several subjects.
Personal: Daughter of Cecilia and Magnus Rahm … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.


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Thalia Zepatos of Freedom to Marry to speak at "Politics & the Pollsters" event in NYC
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Join Thalia Zepatos, Director of Public Engagement at Freedom to Marry, this Thursday, October 13th from 6 pm-8 pm to hear her speak on American public opinion data and the freedom to marry.
Leading Republican and Democratic Pollsters Find Rapid Increase in Support for the Freedom to Marry
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New study by bipartisan pollsters shows a rapid increase in support for marriage, changing the political equation as the emerging majority supports the freedom to marry.
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A handful of Senate Democrats who would be the deciding votes on an amendment to ban marriage equality said Tuesday they won't join minority Republicans to force a vote this year.
Barring a change of heart, that means the effort to allow a public vote on a constitutional amendment to ban the freedom to marry is dead in the Iowa Legislature this session.
Time for government to show all families deserve protection
Postedon Feb 01, 2011 at 06:30 am
A recent study by The Williams Institute showing the South to be home to more gay parents than any other region in the nation demonstrates clearly why winning the freedom to marry nationally is crucial to gay and lesbian families.
Freedom to Marry Commends Governor Quinn on Signing Civil Union Bill, Calls for Next Step
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A statement from Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, on today's signing of the Illinois Religious Freedom Protections and Civil Unions Act by Governor Quinn.
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Wait, I created this yesterday, but it got deleted...
So when I create something, it doesnt' count and gets deleted. But if any of you do, it's valid and it stays, right?--NaruHina fan (talk) 04:19, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
- No, there was a discussion on it here, it has nothing to do with you.--Deva 27 04:33, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
I deleted the article you had made because you simply went ahead and created it without taking part in any discussion whatsoever, before the community could discuss if it was better creating a new article or if it was better listing it under Yasaka Magatama. I have since redirected the article you had created. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 15:17, February 17, 2012 (UTC)
Enton: Magatama - Blaze Release: Curved Jewl
Wouldnt it be appropriate to change the jutsu name to Enton: Magatama - Blaze Release: Curved jewl instead of Blaze Release Magatama as we know the translation for Magatama ? --Zenryoku90 (talk) 13:31, February 18, 2012 (UTC)
- First, since this is an unnamed technique so far, there's no point in listing a Japanese name, because it doesn't have one. Second, since magatama itself is a term that I believe isn't usually translated, there's no point in translating it. It's kinda like translating sushi. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 15:51, February 18, 2012 (UTC)
I understand completely on the unamned justu part and the magatama part but the Blaze release surely that would be Enton. sorry for this as im new to the discussion and edition of wiki but im simply trying to understand for this why exactly calling it blaze release when we know the japanese romanji is Enton --Zenryoku90 (talk) 16:03, February 18, 2012 (UTC)
- That's because when it comes to techniques, we always use the English translation of the name, save for a few circumstances, for example, when the Japanese name is vastly more known and used (as Rasengan and Chidori, and some of their derived techniques), when the technique's name in Japanese is meant to have an English pronunciation (many Kumogakure techniques), or when terms in the technique's names aren't usually translated (for example, mythological figures, like Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi). Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 16:14, February 18, 2012 (UTC)
Okays thankyou for clearing it up for me --Zenryoku90 (talk) 16:52, February 18, 2012 (UTC)
Blaze Magatama & Eye strain?
I think that the reason that Amaterasu comes from the blaze magatama now instead of the eyes is because it successfully removes the strain from the eyes, which has always been one of the downfalls of Mangekyou. I wasn't sure if i should add it to the wiki or not though.
Iowndisciti (talk) 03:49, February 19, 2012 (UTC)
- Pure speculation. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 04:23, February 19, 2012 (UTC)
Incorrect EMS removes eye strain from the user's dojutsu. This technique is merely a combination of shape transformation and nature transformation combined. --ElvinWindSword (talk) 02:29, September 22, 2013 (UTC)ElvinWindSword
The flame is the flame, which (the God) Shiva wears in his hand! Can that be? 126.96.36.199 (talk) 09:27, February 21, 2012 (UTC)
Unlikely, most of the religious things in Naruto are based off Buddhist and Shinto beliefs.--TricksterKing (talk) 09:54, February 21, 2012 (UTC)
But it's possible since many Hindu references are made. Ex.1) Deidara's C4 Chakra Garuda, 2.) Concept of Chakra (although Kishi uses a unique application), 3.) Reincarnation, 4.) Enma (Sarutobi's monkey summon), 5.) Concept of Rinnegan (Eye of Reincarnation or Eye of Samsara) are all based of Hindu concepts. Buddhism has borrowed certain elements from Hinduism.--Elven Windsword (talk) 04:23, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
I hope I don't offend anyone of either religion when I say this but because those religions are predominantly practised on that same continent. It's somewhat inevitable that some things would overlap in their faiths. All of those things you mentioned 1-5 are found in both the Hindu and Buddhist faiths, it's just more possible that they originated from the one (I'm assuming) Kishimoto is more familiar with.--Cerez365™(talk) 10:51, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
Cerez you are right in the sense that both religions overlap, but Hinduism predates Buddhism so most Buddhist concepts are derieved from Hinduism. That said there are some unique Buddhist concepts, like how in Naruto there is a pure world (the place where all dead people go). The pure world concept is a Buddhist concept as far as I know. --Elven Windsword (talk) 18:25, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
Made-up Name
How come this Jutsu got a made-up name if it's unnamed in the manga? Shouldn't it just be Sasuke's Susano'o Magatama Jutsu, or something? Dueler65 (talk) 14:29, April 12, 2012 (UTC)
It was discussed and settled upon, when the manga or databook reveals how it's called, it will be renamed.--Elveonora (talk) 15:15, April 12, 2012 (UTC)
Because when a technique is used without being given a name, we give it an appropriate one. Calling it Sasuke's Susano'o Magatama Jutsu just sounds bad. We know it's Blaze Release because Shape Transformation has been applied to that Amaterasu flames in the form of a magatama. When a technique wasn't named, it's put in itaics on the user's jutsu list by the way. Skitts (talk) 15:49, April 12, 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, I knew about the italics thing. I guess it's just because the norm here is to call it something that accurately describes what the jutsu does, so anyone wanting to find it can search a literal description of the jutsu they saw and find it. Never before have I seen an unnamed jutsu been given a temporary name that included a nature transformation. I guess it doesn't matter, but I just thought I'd mention it.
But can we at least put a colon after the "Release"? It's driving me nuts. Dueler65 (talk) 17:11, April 12, 2012 (UTC)
Unless I'm mistaken, the colon was left out because this would make it into a format that is more commonly associated with actually named techniques, which would only make random IPs add fake Japanese names. That's my guess. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:44, April 13, 2012 (UTC)
I think that in fact, this jutsu, and his black flame Susanoo sword is simply the normal weapons Susanoo has, only they are covered by black flames of Amaterasu, aka Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi. --VolteMetalic (talk) 10:41, May 16, 2012 (UTC)
- @VolteMetalic Er, no. The Magatama are ejected from the orb in Susanoo's hand. There's nothing that's simply coated with Amaterasu here. Skitts (talk) 12:23, May 16, 2012 (UTC)
Is there a special reason for not adding Kanji to this article, but to this, even though they are both unnamed? Also, to go with the other articles, I think Blaze Release: Magatama would probably be better. Seelentau 愛議 11:58, June 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Shield of Black Flames is so named because this was term used by Karin to describe it. It wasn't used like a technique name as other jutsu names were, but since it was used, the kanji were added. This technique on the other hand, was only shown, but never mentioned or described, hence the placeholder name. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 12:04, June 1, 2012 (UTC)
- ah, thought so. Thanks :) Seelentau 愛議 12:10, June 1, 2012 (UTC)
Parent Technique
Why is Yasaka Magatama considered this technique's parent? The techniques are only similar in that they form magatama-shaped projectiles, they aren't actually created through the same method and this can't actually be based on that technique because Sasuke hadn't even seen it yet when he used this, let alone used it himself as the infoboxes now imply. Listing it as parent only because of this technique's game-only name seems like a mistake, when there is a decent chance that this wasn't intended to be anything other than a nameless application of Kagutsuchi, just like the sword variant is.--BeyondRed (talk) 20:21, April 22, 2013 (UTC)
Exactly, it should be related not parent, there's no string with magatama on it, just magatama like projectiles from amaterasu orb--Elveonora (talk) 20:26, April 22, 2013 (UTC)
Fair enough. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 20:44, April 22, 2013 (UTC)