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CHICAGO -- The Orioles will face a pair of familiar foes this weekend at Wrigley Field, with right-hander Jake Arrieta slated to start Friday and Tsuyoshi Wada on Sunday.
Arrieta, drafted by Baltimore in 2007, spent four years on the big league club and went 20-25 with a 5.46 ERA. He was traded, along with reliever Pedro Strop, last July to the Cubs in exchange for pitcher Scott Feldman and catcher Steve Clevenger, with Feldman going to Houston this winter as a free agent.
"Scott Feldman pitched well for us and continues to pitch well. Steve Clevenger's a quality catcher, and they got a couple of good Major League guys. It was a good fit for both clubs," manager Buck Showalter said of the trade. "And I don't think it surprises anybody that Jake and Petey have done well, but timing's everything. I think it was a good move for their career, both of them, and I'm excited that it's worked out for them. I hope it doesn't work out [on Friday]."
Arrieta has gone 6-4 with a 2.61 ERA for Chicago this season, showing the kind of consistent success that often eluded him while with the O's.
"It's no surprise," Showalter said of Arrieta's success. "Wish him well. I like Jake. We all pull for Jake."
Wada is more of an unknown for Orioles fans given that he never threw a pitch for the big league club. Signed to a two-year deal following the 2011 season, Wada had Tommy John surgery in May 2012 and spent the following season rehabbing back from the procedure.
"He's finally gotten back to where we thought he would when we originally signed him," Showalter said. "You don't have a crystal ball about the physical part of it, so I'm happy for him. I know it was frustrating for him, the rehab he went through and not being able to get a return for the commitment we had made. But in some ways it kind of shows you why we wanted him. If he's healthy, he'll pitch real well for them, and it looks like he is."
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Case study: An affordable way to build a social community
Marketing and brands are relationships between consumers and products, and relationship building is a two-way conversation. It is not the one-to-many broadcast commercial that defines a customer's relationship with a brand. Rather, it's the more informal -- often personal -- interactions with a product or company that result in long-term brand engagement. Technology, specifically the social web, has transformed marketers' ability to run lower cost, targeted marketing campaigns with measurable return on investment. The result is a new category of marketing: social marketing.
Social marketing is conversational. It's focused on facilitating interactions that are more directly connected to the process of relationship building with customers. And social marketing is, in all cases, propelled by social publishing technologies that turn spectators into member and contributors, and transform websites into community platforms for engagement with customers and future prospects.
Enterprise software vendor JackBe offers an example of this new strategy in action. JackBe sells enterprise mashup software to developers that enables them to use web services to connect internal and external data to create new, loosely coupled (or "mashed up") applications. Because this is a new approach in software development, part of JackBe's marketing agenda is to educate developers about mashups -- what they are, how to build them, and what applications are a good fit for this approach.


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This article was published 28/7/2013 (1483 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I choked down the pink and purple flowers out of a gourmet salad because my friends teased me and forced me to do it, and then I puked them right back up at the table because I was so upset. They all said, "Ewww," and mocked me, and pulled away from me, laughing while the server cleaned up after me. I ran out of the restaurant and took off on the bus, crying all the way home. My mom says they are "mean girls" and bullies and pointed to every other nasty thing they had done to me. She says, "Cut them out of your life now." Easy for her to say. There are 24 hours in every day, I am 16, and they are the only friends I have. There's a whole summer to go before school starts again and I can't make it alone. What do you suggest for me? -- Lonely Girl, New to Winnipeg
Dear Lonely: Rather than cutting off bad friends, it's often better to fade them out and fade others in. Make a new job become your smokescreen. Getting a job sharply decreases the amount of time you have to spend with these girls and provides you with ready-made excuses to see them far less. There are only four or five weeks to go before school starts and many students quit summer jobs in August to have a little holiday, meaning employers are left in the lurch and desperate. Get your mother to help you make a skills-style resumé, listing everything you can do, and look for a part-time job at a fast-food chain or an ice cream palace. That will eat up your time and help you make spending money. At school, join some extra-curricular activities that introduce you to new guys and girls who share your real interests. Your mom is right, you know. These girls are not real friends, so fade them down to casual friends, while you search for a nicer group.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I'm 44 and my husband is 45 going on 25. He thinks he's really hot with his new hair transplants and his dye-job. Now he's shaved his entire body, started "body sculpting," has a stupid new tattoo and wears muscle shirts inappropriately. I think he looks like a fool. Did I mention his new car? It has a lot more go-power than he does. I was putting up with this nonsense as best I could until last night when he came home late with orange lipstick on his neck. I asked him who'd been with, and he turned deep red to his ears, and said, "Out with the guys." I said, "So tell me, which guy wears orange lipstick and kissed you on the neck?" He turned around, got back in his car, roared down the street and didn't come home for six hours. Now we're not talking at all. What happens now? Where did my loving husband go? I am so lost. -- New Statistic? River Heights
Dear Statistic: Your husband is having a loud mid-life crisis. You can become a statistic or fight it several different ways. Now that the lipstick evidence is in, and he has a place to disappear to for six hours at a whack, it's time to find out what's up. Hire a detective to start in a few weeks when your husband thinks this has fight died down and you are letting it slide and he can go back to a possible lover. If he has one, you can suggest two things -- a break up or an open marriage where you are free to see other men as well. That idea will shock him, and that's a good thing, whether you do anything yourself or not. Now there's two in the game and jealousy comes roaring back. Think you may want him to leave? Don't warn him, but quietly see a domestic lawyer he doesn't know and make a game plan. Then announce you're ready to go. At that point you can suggest relationship counselling, and he may be worried and upset enough to go. If picturing that process somehow disappoints you, then you know you don't want the relationship anymore either.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Never before have so few fought for the right of so many to wear so little.
Well, it wasn't exactly like Churchill and the Battle of Britain, but the handful of activists opposing a nudity ban in what's arguably the nation's most liberal and libertine city gave it their all and then some.
In the end, the specter of unchecked bareness was too much even for a city where usually anything goes, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 on Tuesday to enact a public nudity ban.
Moments later, boos and a sudden shedding of clothes by aggrieved audience members led to a hastily called recess as naked people loudly and lustily voiced their displeasure.
Gerhardt Clarke, 55, of Oakland wore only a white stocking cap, white socks and white underwear briefs as he shouted about recalling Supervisor Scott Wiener, the ban's author.
Clarke said he's confident he'll be able to keep on going starkers. Activists last week filed a pre-emptive lawsuit to block the city from implementing the ordinance.
Others more soberly assessed what the ban says about a city that prides itself on openness.
"We used to say two men kissing was bad for children to see, but now we've learned better," Taylor Whitfield, 25, clothed, said in the corridor outside. "This is a step backward."
The supervisors a year ago passed an ordinance requiring nude people to put something between their bare behinds and seats in public places; it also banned nudity in restaurants.
But the outcry from city residents and business owners continued, and so Wiener introduced the ordinance to ban exposure of rear ends and genitals on public streets, sidewalks and transit. Naked breasts are still OK, as is nudity for children younger than 5 or at city-permitted parades, fairs and festivals such as the Pride parade and Bay to Breakers race.
A federal judge will decide in January whether to halt the law's Feb. 1 implementation. It probably will be a tough fight for the plaintiffs: The U.S. Supreme Court has held that public nudity bans don't necessarily violate the constitutional right to free speech.


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BELIEF will be the key for East Thurrock United's bid to beat the Ryman Premier League drop according to their boss.
Ahead of their clash tonight with Margate at Rookery Hill, John Coventry said if his players believe in the talents they have on the pitch then they will avoid relegation.
The Rocks sit in a precarious position with six matches left finding themselves in the league's drop zone.
But a win over Margate would lift them out of trouble and above Wingate & Finchley due to their superior goal difference.
Coventry said he is backing his side to pull themselves out of their relegation battle successfully.
"It is all about belief," he said.
"I have always believed that we can get out of this and stay in the league, but sometimes you look at the players and wonder 'Do you still believe?'.
"The guys just have to keep focused and remember how talented they are.
"If they do this, then survival will come."
He said there are no targets set currently in terms of points needed to avoid relegation or which games to aim for wins.
Coventry said: "I just want to win each game as it comes.
"The fact is if we win the next six games then our job is done and we won't have to worry about relegation.
"We know that when we are in games that we've got the players like Sam Higgins and Lewis Smith who can pop up and get a goal out of nothing, then we just have to keep compact at the back."


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Designer Dossier: Victoria Beckham
To find out what our wardrobes signify, we spoke with Tracy DiNunzio, the CEO and founder of Tradesy, a site that easily and efficiently sells designer clothing straight from women's closets. Before starting Tradesy, Tracy was busy preparing for her PhD in Clothing Psychology at UCLA.
When she began Tradesy, Tracy bootstrapped her business by renting out her room, sleeping on the couch, and working on her kitchen counter, "I was working mostly from home and I realized early on that working in my pajamas kind of hindered my productivity and my focus." In order to curb this, Tracy started dressing for the position that she envisioned herself having, "I would take the bus [throughout L.A], but I would take it wearing secondhand Chanel. When I dressed for the job and the life that I wanted, it kind of helped me get there." In just three years, Tradesy has grossed over 10 million dollars.
Tracy gave us a stripped-down analysis of what our closets are actually harboring. Time to dig deep inside your dresser and find out what really is lying in your wardrobe — you may just want to change out of those sweats.
If almost everything you own is logo-ridden, you may be trying to hide your true identity.
"I definitely see women who will only buy stuff if it has the designer logo on it. That's always a really interesting personality type because there is so much about what you want the world to see and what you don't want the world to see when you put someone's name front and center on your body.
It is really a form of hiding. Again this is an extreme, when everything you buy has a logo on it, it may mean that these women had something happen in their transition from teenager to adulthood. By kind of covering yourself in logos and symbols of other concepts other than yourself, you avoid having to form your own identity."
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CAMPAIGNERS, charities and the general public will need to rally behind the Great Western Hospital to secure £3m over the next four years if plans for a new Swindon radiotherapy unit are to become a reality.
Last week, the board of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust backed plans for a new service to be based at GWH to cope with increasing demand in the region and allow Swindon cancer patients to receive treatment much closer to home.
Members are expected to formally approve detailed plans later this month.
The OUHT will invest a maximum of £14.7m in the development of a satellite service.
But the department will remain a far-away dream unless a minimum of £2.6m is raised by GWH with the help of health groups and generous benefactors.
Several fundraising options have been put forward by OUHT such as having a third-party group lead the appeal on behalf of GWH, such as the hospital's own charity Brighter Futures.
Although consequential, the sum to be secured was deemed realistic and achievable overall by Valentine Morby Associates in a report that was submitted to Oxford health chiefs.
The firm suggested that if it optimised all its resources, GWH's charity alone would be able to raise £2m per year.
"It is estimated that it would take GWH four years to raise the full £3m," the report said.
"A more realistic target for GWH would be £2.6m net income raised within three years.
"The Association of NHS Charities' latest figures show that a reasonably well-run NHS hospital charity can expect to raise around 0.7 per cent of the overall parent hospital budget.
"This would mean that, with a trust budget of £284m in 2012/2013, GWH's charity could be raising around £2m annually."
But the appeal may run the risk of entering in direct competition with other organisations relying on donations to survive, such as Prospect Hospice and Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
It cost more than £5.8m to run the hospice last year, while the air ambulance charity has to raise £2.5m to continue flying each year.
Cancer patients in and around Swindon currently have to travel up to 90 minutes each way to Oxford to use one of five machines available. This is significantly more than the 45 minutes recommended by the National Radiotherapy Advisory Group.
The intensive treatment can involve up to 37 trips to Oxford's Churchill Hospital.
Beryl Bowles, founder of Affect By Cancer, a self-help support group for patients, their carers, relatives and friends, said she, along with campaigners, had been fighting behind the scenes for such a service to open in the town for years.
"It's excellent news and long awaited," she said.
"We have been fighting for this for many years. In the last 12 months it seems to have sped up.
"The treatment only lasts 10 minutes but it takes patients all day when they have to get picked up with other patients and then wait to get home. It will be so much better for them.
"It's definitely positive. And it looks as if it's going to happen a lot quicker than we thought."
On average each year, patients from Swindon and Wiltshire make 13,000 trips to Churchill Hospital's radiotherapy department – meaning combined they spend nearly 20,000 hours, or more than two years, on the road.


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As Girl Scouts around the country straighten out their beanies and practice their sales pitches (sales begin in early February), The Girl Scouts of America announced that troops in some areas are downsizing their annual offerings to just six cookies. Don't panic — Thin Mints, Samoas, Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos, Lemon Chalet Cremes and Tagalongs aren't going anywhere. But some recently introduced varieties, like Thank U-Berry-Munch, Lemonades, Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips and Dulce de Leche are. The scouts are scaling back in hopes that simplicity will streamline sales and ultimately lead to increased profits.
Already mourning the loss of the beloved, but apparently not-so-popular cookies that are about to be axed? Don't be. You can make near-exact homemade versions, door-to-door sales and polyester beanie optional.
The Dulce de Leche cookies, made from caramel and caramel chips and inspired by the traditional Latin American caramel-like sauce, were introduced by the Scouts to add diversity to their lineup, but sales of the cookies didn't soar as expected. But just because America's favorite green-clad youngsters couldn't hawk them, doesn't mean they're not amazing. Make them yourself, with Ingrid Hoffman's classic Alfajor recipe and you'll see.
Thank U Berry Munch, we hardly knew ye. The cranberry and white chocolate fudge chunk cookie was just introduced last year. Is that even enough time to judge sales of a new cookie? Perhaps the Scouts were just regretting the punny name. But if you're missing the good cookie with the bad name the White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies over at Food.com should be an acceptable replacement.
The Lemonades sold by the troops were round shortbreads with lemon icing, but it's much more hip to be, you know, not round. Try Food Network Magazine's Lemon Shortbread Cookies — the dough's flecked with lemon zest, and so is the frosting.
It's sad to see All Abouts, also called Thanks-a-Lots, go. The simple shortbread cookies dipped in fudge and embossed with a thank-you message were like little party favors, like an I Bought Cookies merit badge for the consumer. Make your own thank-you gift with Chuck Hughes' Chocolate and Caramel Shortbread cookie recipe; skip the embossing and add a layer of caramel instead.
Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips were introduced by the Scouts in 2008 to capture the hearts of cookie-loving dieters. If you miss them, try the Sugar Free Chocolate Chip Cookies on Food.com. Or, you could just eat an apple.
Which GS cookies do you stock up on when the girls come to your door?


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A NEW scheme to bring transferee officers into Dorset Police has begun.
There are vacancies for 25 police constables to join the force in 2014/15 from other constabularies across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
The vacancies are for uniform patrol constables and specialist-trained armed response constables.
It comes just six months after Dorset Police launched a recruitment drive for new PCs – the first external campaign in four years.
Chief Constable Debbie Simpson, pictured, said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for current serving police constables to join the Dorset Police team and help make a difference.
"We are fortunate to police a beautiful and diverse county which attracts millions of visitors each year.
"I'd encourage anyone who is interested in forging a career with Dorset Police to visit our website and find out more."
The recruitment process for transferee uniform patrol constables and specialist-trained armed response constables begins today and closes on Saturday, May 10.
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About the Book
The photographs seek to show how sport, and more specifically football, is an important part of South African society at all levels, and an engine for change in the building up of a new nation.. In South Africa, football was initially played by the white population, creating the first team in 1879: Pietermaritzburg Country. At that time, they played only against government teams. In 1903, the all-white South African Indian Football Association was founded. It was only in the thirties that the first football association organised by and for blacks, was created. From then on, football would be played by whites and the "colored" population, Indians and blacks, but without mixing. At the end of the Fifties, as an act of defiance against apartheid., the S.A.I.N. was expelled from the very recent African Confederation of Football (1957). It signaled the beginning of clandestine matches organized between multiracial teams, symbolizing one of the most popular peaceful protests against the regime. From the Seventies up until the end of apartheid, multiracial teams and leagues fought with difficulty to make sure that football remained a rare, if not the only, institution where color of skin was not a cause for conflict. With the fall of apartheid, sport and in particular football, become officially "the principal vehicle for rebuilding the new, reunited South-Africa ". For the first time in the history of South Africa, the national selection, Bafana Bafana, was opened to players of all races. The team symbolized a new country, where black, white, mulattos all fought for victory together. In 1996, they beat Tunisia to claim the African Nations Cup. On the day of victory, a victory both historical and symbolic, South Africa was no longer a just territory inhabited by blacks, whites, or mulattos, it had now become a nation. As a South-African photographer friend said to me: "It was the first time that I felt proud to be South-African, never before had I understood the concept of a Nation". During the tributes to the winning teams, something very unexpected happened: The main three leaders of the country, Nelson Mandela, the Zulu king Goodwill Zwelethini Bhekuzulu and ex-president Deklerk, put aside their differences to congratulate the players on this important victory.
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
160 Pages
- Publish Date May 27, 2010
- Tags south africa, football, documentary, apartheid, photography
About the Creator
Guillermo de Yavorsky was born in Caracas, in 1969, studied Architecture in the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and photography with the Venezuelan photographer Ricardo Armas. From 1990 to 2000 he was a freelance photojournalist for, Domingo Hoy, Evening Standard Magazine, El Mercurio, El Nacional, El Universal, and SIPA Press. He has exhibited his work In a number of exhibitions and Photographic Festivals in, Caracas, London, Paris, Durban, Biarritz. Some of his work is part of the collection of Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. In 1993 he began traveling, to China, India, South Africa, Cuba, Europe, and Latin America. In 1995 during his first trip to Johannesburg, Guillermo started a long term photographic project concerning South African Football (Kenako-Bafana) in 1996 he was awarded the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme to spent 3 month as a resident artist in Bartel Arts Trust (South Africa) working on Kenako-Bafana, Guillermo is living in St Barthelemy (French
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platina3 i know Guillermo's south africa football project since he took the first pictures many years ago .This rare collection of stunning images provides a good view into south african football and not the boring getty images you will see in the news . well done !


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Feasibility of Intraoperative Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy in Brain Tumors
This study has been completed.
City of Hope Medical Center
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
City of Hope Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 20, 2012
Last updated: January 19, 2016
Last verified: January 2016
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Detailed Description:
This clinical trial studies optical imaging in assessing activity during surgery in patients with brain tumors. New procedures, such as optical spectroscopy, may help doctors maximally remove brain tumors and minimize damage to normal brain.
|Brain Tumor
|Other: Interoperative Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Feasibility of Intraoperative Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy in Brain Tumors
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Brain Tumors Diagnostic ImagingU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by City of Hope Medical Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Determination of the effectiveness of intraoperative optical imaging technology and optical spectroscopy. [ Time Frame: Day 1 post surgery ]Optical reflectance images will be analyzed by pixel by-pixel subtraction of a control trial and a stimulation trial. This subtracted image will then be divided by the control image to normalize for differences between subjects and trials. These ratios thus represent proportional changes from baseline.
- Intraoperative determination of the location of critical brain functions. [ Time Frame: Day 1 post surgery ]We will examine the timing and spatial involvement of human cortex intraoperatively to different stimuli using i2DOS. Stimulus parameters will be varied to investigate stimulus-response relationships. We will study areas of sensori-motor and language cortex using customary stimuli for evoked potentials (i.e. transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation), tactile stimuli for exposed cortical dermatome representations, and language tasks for cortical language representations. Results will be correlated with intraoperative electrophysiological measures.
|Study Start Date:
|May 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Optical Imaging
Patients undergo i2DOS
Other: Interoperative Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
Real time processing and display of i2DOS maps in the operating arena
Detailed Description:
I. To develop the instrumentation to achieve real time processing and display of intraoperative 2-dimensional optical imaging and spectroscopy (i2DOS) maps in the operating arena.
II. To examine the timing and spatial involvement of human cortex intraoperatively to different stimuli using i2DOS.
OUTLINE: Patients undergo i2DOS.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Neurosurgical patient population in the City of Hope brain and spinal tumor neurosurgical programs that have been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
- Only lucid patients qualified to consent to neurosurgical procedure will be approached for participation in this study.
- We do intend to enroll subjects with potentially terminal brain tumors. Due to the potential benefit of intraoperative mapping, we are not planning to exclude these subjects.
- Patients with any type of brain tumor will be eligible for participation.
- All subjects must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- There are no exclusion criteria except for individuals without a brain tumor and the location of the craniotomy. If the exposed area of brain is not compatible with peripheral stimuli or volitional activity the subject cannot be enrolled.
- Subjects, who in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01627535
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01627535
|United States, California
|City of Hope Medical Center
|Duarte, California, United States, 91010
Sponsors and Collaborators
City of Hope Medical Center
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|Principal Investigator:
|Neal Prakash, MD, PhD
|City of Hope Medical Center
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Keywords provided by City of Hope Medical Center:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|City of Hope Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01627535 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2012-01074 ( Registry Identifier: NCI CTRP )
|Study First Received:
|June 20, 2012
|Last Updated:
|January 19, 2016
Keywords provided by City of Hope Medical Center:
Brain Tumor
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Brain Neoplasms
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Nervous System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
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Social Engineering [SE from now on] is an everyday technique used by people who may not even use a computer. SE within the hacking community got more attention drawn to it when Kevin Mitnick was arrested and I think you should read a few of his books. He also had a few films made about him, one was bullshit from Miramax that could have damaged Kevin and he may have never got out;the other was made by the 2600 crew...a true documentary of the events.
Johnny Long is also a good social engineer, very good indeed. You should seriously watch his DefCon called No-Tech Hacking. It's a very interesting and funny conference, seriously watch it.
SE has no limit, you could buy a Bell or British Telecom linesman uniform on eBay or design one. Then buy or design one of those engineering tents with red and white stripes. After that you could pose as an employee, work on the street/roads, then after that you go to jail . Joking aside, if you have a good imagination you can do anything with good social engineering skills. I would like to type a lot more, but its getting late.


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It's fun to see star athletes play in college before they sign lucrative contracts to go pro or become stuck inside statues of themselves near the campus stadium. Witness the making of a legacy with this GrouponLive deal to see the Metropolitan Lacrosse Classic, presented by Konica Minolta, at Citi Field on Sunday, March 17. The Holy Cross vs. Navy match starts at noon, followed by Michigan vs. Colgate at 3 p.m. Choose from the following options:
- $9 for one ticket for Excelsior End Line seating (a $26 value, including all fees)
- $16 for one ticket for Big Apple Reserved seating (a $42 value, including all fees)
- $24 for one ticket for Field Sideline VIP seating (a $47 value, including all fees)
For the first time ever, lacrosse invades Citi Field during the inaugural Metropolitan Lacrosse Classic on March 17. The doubleheader begins with a matchup between a pair of Patriot League rivals, including the US Naval Academy, a program that has produced 429 All-Americans and one Captain America. Junior attackman Tucker Hull leads Navy against the College of the Holy Cross and its star senior James Kennedy.
In the second half of the doubleheader, Colgate University stomps onto the turf behind attackman Peter Baum. Recently picked first overall in the Major League Lacrosse draft, Baum won the 2012 Tewaaraton Award for top male player in collegiate lacrosse while setting the Patriot League record for goals. He'll have to fight through the defense and autograph requests of a tough Wolverine team, as the University of Michigan sets out on its second season of varsity lacrosse after winning three straight National Club team titles from 2008–10.


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It's not a difficult question, although finding the answer over the last couple of winters has been anything but simple for Claude Noel and the Winnipeg Jets.
So if Noel could have his team take on one identity -- one clear-cut collective trait -- it would be... well, what, exactly?
"I'd like a team that is hard to play against, meaning a lot of different things," said Noel Wednesday in a pre-training camp address with the media. "We've got good speed on our team and I'd like to use that speed to take away time and space. We've got size on our team and I'd like to use that as well. Does that lend itself to physicality? I would think it would.
"When you become a hard team to play against, you make the other team earn every inch of ice towards your net. That's something we're looking for."
And if there is any one reason the Jets -- and the Atlanta Thrashers before them -- have not qualified for the playoffs since 2006-07 the answer is found in Noel's scouting report on his own club.
Yes, there have been many nights in their return to Winnipeg where the Jets have been a team that is hard to play against.
It's just that there have been more nights where they have been anything but.
That's what should make the Jets' 2013-14 camp over the next two-three weeks such a juicy little drama to watch unfold. The club's brass has added solid, proven pieces in Devin Setoguchi, Michael Frolik and Matt Halischuk and spent millions to lock up a young core that has secured 11th- and ninth-place finishes over the past two years, but has been watching the opening round of the Stanley Cup derby just like every other fan.
But life in the Western Conference and the new Central Division featuring teams that are the epitome of hard to play against -- hello Chicago, St. Louis, for example -- is hardly the same as what the Jets have lived in the Southeast.
"There's a little bit of differences in the conferences but for our team, we've got size (on opening night last year the Jets were the fourth-heaviest team and tied for the tallest) and we've got speed," said Noel. "With the addition of the players we've added, it's given us some depth and skill. The changes we've made during the summer, it fits in with that conference. I like our team, the way it's built, because we have size and speed.
"One of the areas we have to get better, clearly, is our checking game. We have to get better at our goal differential (an ugly minus-16 a year ago). It has to be on the right side of the ledger and in order to do that we're going to need a lot more commitment from players on both sides of the puck. You play teams like St. Louis and L.A., Chicago... a lot of these teams can really check so you're going to have to earn every inch of ice.
"We have size and we have speed and can get after teams. We have to do a lot better job at checking and that's something we're going to focus on."
But that's something the Jets can really bite into after the roster is finalized. In the meantime, Noel & Co. will use camp to start moving pieces around to see what fits where. And he's got more bona fide options to work with now than during the first two camps.
"It's good. The more depth that you have... right now it looks like we're shaping up to have four pretty solid lines with a solid set of defence," said Noel. "The one thing that is good for us is the motor that drives the team is really the competition that gets created between the players. That's something that as a coach you have to drive and you have to do that through accountability.
"Clearly, we've got some options here. I think it's going to be dependent on some players and how they perform through training camp and where they slot themselves. The competition is going be everywhere, whether it's the first two lines or the bottom two lines."
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Implied odds and reverse implied odds are both proverbial slippery slopes, particularly when considering all those marginal holdings—the kind that make up the majority of hands you encounter. With a marginal hand, you generally want to go to a showdown relatively inexpensively—and so do your opponents. With your big hands and a sufficient number of weak bluffing hands to balance your betting line, you want to play big pots. That's generally the plan for most nolimit players. When you have one of those all-too familiar, good-but-not-great hands—the kinds of hands that have only a scant chance of improving—and your opponent either has a better hand already, or is drawing to complete a big hand, future betting rounds could cost you a lot of money. Now the implied odds favor your opponent, and what's worse, you might never know it.
Hands like small pocket pairs and suited connectors are hands that are helped by implied odds. But suppose you have As-Tc and the flop is Td-9d-4h. You've flopped top pair with top kicker, but it's a wet, draw-heavy board that could easily support a flush draw, a straight draw, two pair, or even a set. They're all possible with this kind of flop. Still, your hand might be in the lead right now. Suppose there's $30 in the pot and your opponent bets $20 and is all-in. That's an easy call, and the fact that he has run out of additional money to wager negates the entire idea of implied odds.
But if each of you have $400 in your stacks, what are you going to do if the Jd comes on the turn? If you're first to act, and bet $30, he might reraise. Now what? Even if you call, you'll probably have to call another bet on the river with a marginal hand and a scary board. If you check, he can check behind you and take a free card if he's on a draw, or come out betting and you won't be sure whether he has a big hand or is bluffing.
If he's first to act, he can check, and if you check behind him, he will have gotten a free card. If he checks, you bet, and he checkraises, you're also facing a tough decision.
Reverse implied odds are never pleasant, unless your opponent has no more money to wager. A way to think about reverse implied odds is that they come into play in those situations where you can win the minimum if you have the best hand, but lose the maximum if your opponent has a better hand right now or draws out on you.
Reverse implied odds often punish overly aggressive players. Although they usually win the amount of money currently in the pot when their opponents fold, they stand to lose the maximum if their opponent either has a better hand, or makes one, then snaps off the aggressive player's overly large wager with a marginal made hand that doesn't figure to get any better regardless of which cards fall on the turn or the river.
Reverse implied odds, just like implied odds, are not mathematically precise since they require estimating how our opponents will behave on future betting rounds. If the current pot odds are good, you can often continue playing, even in the face of reverse implied odds. But if the pot odds are marginal and the board is draw-heavy with hands that figure to crush your made hand if they are completed, you should be trying to get to the showdown as inexpensively as possible, or thinking about releasing your hand.
In a nutshell, reverse implied odds should be considered when you are unsure about whether you have the best hand and it will cost more on future betting rounds to find out.
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POLAND, Ohio (AP) -- School board members in a northeast Ohio town have agreed to bolster security at their school buildings.
The (Youngtown) Vindicator reports Poland's board of education moved to allow a police officer in school buildings and spend up to $80,000 in district-wide security upgrades. The officer will be dedicated to school security in the small town outside of Youngstown.
The schools interim superintendent said securing building entrances and adding an officer were recommendations from district parent-staff security committees.
The shootings at a Connecticut elementary school last month have increased discussions across the country regarding school safety.
The Athens Messenger reports a school board in southeast Ohio is considering whether to station an armed resource officer at its school complex. Nelsonville-York elementary, middle school and high school students attend the same campus.


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While it's not a barbecue restaurant, Bombfire Pizza in Sabula, Iowa has a hand-built wood-burning oven so I thought I'd post about it.
A couple of weekends ago we made a trip to Iowa for a friend's birthday and on the way home Sunday we stopped at Bombfire. I discovered it online early last year and had been trying to plan a visit without actually making a special trip. It's in what used to be a general store years ago.
The menus and newspaper clippings are housed in recycled album covers - an interesting touch!
The pizza was quite good; ours came with sausage, portobellos, and black olives. The edges were nice and crispy and the crust was softer in the center because of the cheese, and if (when?) I return (a summer trip via the Great River Road would be fun) I'll request that my pizza be kept in the oven longer in order to get a little brown on the cheese even if it means sacrificing the edges a little bit.
Now as far as Bombfire itself goes, it's without a doubt the most funky, off-the-wall place I've ever been in. It would be tough to do it justice using just words, so check out the video (about 10 minutes long) on the website and these photos.
Yes, that woodstove and box fan are the heating system.
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." is a famous quote of Henry David Thoreau and I think it's extremely relevant when it comes to Bombfire. And as owner Tom Holman says, "I used to be weird. Now I'm eclectic."


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Welcome to Tuesday's The Crap We Missed which, I'm not going to lie, wasn't much. Normally to "miss" something we have to be too busy with worthwhile subjects to the point where we can't devote entire posts to Julianne Hough's butt, but that could have been a possibility today. Seriously, Fish (Wait, why am I still using that moniker?) Ant-Man? I don't know what the fuck that is, but it can't be a real comic book. And yes, I've now turned this post into me just talking to my boss about editorial decisions. What's that, sir? Yes, I'm well aware it's been over 8 months since I found new shots of Jon Hamm's penis. Yes, I've been using the traps…I…NO! NO, IT'S SO DARK IN THE BOX!!
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The Andrews University Office of Campus Safety operates 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week. This office conducts security patrols for the campus, which includes the residential buildings, academic buildings and recreational areas. Our employees have received training in areas such as emergency response, first aid, CPR, life safety and fire code.
The University has given Campus Safety the primary responsibilities for code enforcement within University's buildings to help maintain compliancy with both life safety and fire codes.
Campus Safety seeks to preserve an environment where our diverse social, cultural, and academic environments are able to flourish. Any specific emergency needs we may have for fire or police services are provided by our friends in the Berrien Springs Oronoko Township Fire and Police Depts. They can be reached by calling 911 during an emergency.
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The mission of Campus Safety is to help maintain a safe and secure environment for the entire campus population. We strive to accomplish this by providing a well-trained and professional work force who help maintain a safe environment that is conducive to learning and is consistent with the educational goals of this diverse institution.
- To maintain the highest standards of training for our staff to ensure we can achieve the highest standards of services to our community.
- To effectively deploy personnel and resources in a way that maximizes visibility and minimizes response time to calls for service.
- To promote a sustained crime prevention program in partnership with University community.
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- Professionalism – We will always hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism. We will use our skills, training, and knowledge to serve our community.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is willing to consider giving immunity to US troops in a security deal to be signed next year if his demands concerning "Afghanistan's sovereignty" are respected.
The bilateral agreement is to outline the form a US military presence in Afghanistan will take, including a certain number of troops and bases, after NATO combat troops pull out in 2014.
Karzai said his key demands were that the US hand over all detainees in its custody and shut all its prisons in Afghanistan, hand over control of Afghan airspace and stop military raids on Afghan villages.
"Within those conditions, and once those conditions are fulfilled by the United States with us, Afghanistan is willing to consider immunity for them and I, as the president of Afghanistan, am willing to go to the Afghan people and put that case forward and try to argue for it," he added.
"But, before I will do that, I must make sure that the United States of America respects Afghan sovereignty."
The US still has more than 65,000 soldiers in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.
It is not yet clear how many will remain after 2014.
The US wants to have a status-of-forces agreement included in the security deal, which will specify when US soldiers can be prosecuted in Afghanistan for violating Afghan law.


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Yes, ladies and gentleman, the premiere is in sight! You'll remember the other day when I reported that there was a slight change to the Big Brother page of cbs.com and well, just tonight, within the last half hour, the new Big Brother 11 website is officially up! No word on houseguests yet, obviously, but in place of where the houseguests pictures are, there are 12 boxes, with a shadow of a person and a question mark in each box………soooooooo, 12 houseguests maybe?Details


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In case you missed it, Jeff Carter has been traded from Columbus to Los Angeles for Jack Johnson and a No. 1 draft pick … pending Carter passing a physical.
That pretty much takes the Kings out of play for Rick Nash … which means the Rangers' chances of landing Nash probably have increased. And perhaps means that the pricetag for Nash might go down, too.
Rumors are that L.A.'s Dustin Brown is also available and the Rangers are interested. Stay tuned.
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The SS position has been a major focus of Wayne Krivsky since he took over as G.M., and by all right's it should be. It's very important.
We had Concepcion followed by Larkin and always had a solid defensive SS.
Krivsky took over and saw that Lopez was horrible. He didn't do anything right away as he needed to look at his players in the entire organization through Spring Training so he could have a sound book on every one of his players.
He picked up Phillips, a SS. Though he was the Expos Minor League Player-of-the-Year in 2001 as a SS, and Double-A All-Star SS and Baseball America Minor League 2nd-Team All-Star SS in 2002, he committed a high percentage of errors everywhere he went as a SS.
But, Phillips improved his Fielding Percentage every year by about 7 points from his .915 at the age of 18 to his .958 at the age of 24 (2005 with Buffalo). So, defensively as a SS, he'd be fine if given the chance. At 2nd Base though, Phillips has been better with a .977 last year and .988 this year. His Zone Rating and Range Factors are improved this year, too, ranking 3rd, 4th, and 2nd in the league respectively in those areas. So, he's one of the best 2nd baseman in the league, which may be harder to find than a top SS.
So, at the time of "The Trade", and he wanted to fix the SS position, he decided he had to get rid of Lopez and that he'd go after Gonzalez in the Winter. So, why ask for Harris in the deal? Harris had a reputation similar to Gonzalez and Krivsky doesn't like that type of player. I'm guessing that he took him only so that he could trade him to someone else right away for whatever he could get because he didn't value him in his system. The "cash in return" for Harris would indicate this.
The season ends and he does his two transactions, signing what he believed to be was one of the best defensive SS's in the game in Gonzalez followed by Harris being jettisoned away for some cash ( ) . I know Harris isn't a SS, but he is a 2B, and as someone said, a Phillips/Harris SS/2B combo with the money for Gonzo spent elsewhere would be pretty good. Before trading away Harris, the notion of making Phillips a SS and using Harris at 2B had to be thrown out. At the time (December) their plan was for Freel to be the starting CF, so whatever they used as advice for Harris' ability to play 2B at the Major League level was faulty and wrong. The same may be said for their advice they used to judge the level of Gonzalez' ability at SS.
If you look at the REDS' depth chart at SS in the organization one year ago, you can see why Krivsky felt he needed someone to play solid defense for the next three years, and he went after what he and others considered to be the best available defensive SS of last year's Free Agents. 11 months later, the organization's SS depth chart still justifies the signing. It doesn't justify not moving Phillips over to SS and having someone else play 2B, though. But, clearly, they want Phillips at 2B.
The poor depth at SS is why we still have Juan Castro. There are a number of moves by the REDS that shows us that Krivsky's no more satisfied with Castro than any of us.
1. The signing of 32-year old Mark Bellhorn with an OPS of .837 has 13 games at SS this year in AAA. Bellhorn could easily stink if called up, but not as bad as Castro has been. The problem with moving Castro is the money he's been given. They'll have to pay Castro if no one claims him and you know no one will.
2. 26-year old Anderson Machado is only batting .206 in AAA, though he does have a .350 OBP , but a dismal .344 SLG. You can't bring him up.
3. 24-year old Paul Janish is a disappointment batting .239/.347/.343 at AA. He's played 52 games at SS this year.
4. Krivsky picked up 25-year old Enrique Cruz this year, who's played 11 games at SS this year, but with this being his 9th year in the Minor Leagues he's still only batting .271/.340/.393 at AA. He's also played 49 games at 3rd. His June numbers are phenomenal though ... .441/.593/1.034. Maybe the coaches have found something that's helped him. His power is increasing and his K/AB is decreasing as the season goes on.
5. Earl Snyder played one game at SS in AAA. He's no longer in the organization. Jeff Bannon has played 2 games at SS in AAA, but all his other games are in RF.
6. Jeff Keppinger was brought up from AAA Louisville to help out while Edwin was down in Louisville in May. Keppinger played perfect defense while at Cincy and singled twice and walked once in his 9 plate appearances without striking out once. I'm sure Krivsky wanted to see how the 27-year old would look like in the Majors. Having formed an opinion, they sent him to AAA where they played him at SS 3 times, 3B 13 times, 2B 15 times and LF 10 times (there's another hint that Dunn will be gone). They seem to be grooming him for Freel's spot. Offensively, he's been a juggernaut, hitting .360/.414/.400 in April, .375/.425/.500 in May, and .362/.449/.466 in June while striking out only 11 times in 183 at-bats. But, there's a glaring weakness in him where he seems to choke when it counts. With RISP, he's only hitting .185/.385/.222 with 7 of his 11 strikeouts in only 37 plate appearances. With no one on base he's hitting .403.
7. The problem of backup SS doesn't seem to be solved with Keppinger, so Krivsky picked up another SS in 23-year old Pedro Lopez. He instantly became the top SS on the depth chart who would be closest to being ready to step into the SS role in the Majors. As a 22-year old w/ Birmingham in the Southern League he hit .322/.358/.453 before splitting the rest of the year at AAA Charlotte hitting .274/.320/.404. He regressed further this year at Charlotte hitting .242/.307/.323. The REDS have had him now for 19 games and in his last 7 games he's hitting .360...all singles, but it's a good sign. Maybe he's stroking it harder to get it through the infield or the REDS' coaches have him doing something different. He's always been a good contact hitter being one of the toughest to strike out.
He's played 54 games at SS this year and 5 at 2B, a trend that's reversing where he spent more time at 2B than SS as he went through the Minors. Since the REDS claimed him off waivers from the White Sox, he must remain on their 40-man roster. He's been up and down defensively at SS. In 2005 at AA he had a fielding percentage of .970, then at Charlotte in AAA in 2005 it was .943 at SS. His last two Spring Trainings in 2006/7 he hit a combined .297/.333/.486 with 1 strikeout in 39 PA's.
8. The Switch-hitting 26-year-old Luis Bolivar is playing the same musical chairs as Keppinger with 3 games at SS, 8 at LF, 12 at 3B, and 13 at 2B. Problem is he's not hitting... .247/.314/.364. But, most of AA-Chattanooga seems to be struggling or just getting by. No one's forcing management to think too hard about promoting them.
9. High-A Sarasota is absent of shortstops who deserve a promotion but help is on the way in Low-A through 21-year-old Chris Valaika who's hitting .318/.356/.500.
Looking through this SS depth, I can see why Krivsky wanted to give the contract to Gonzalez that he did.
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A Stourbridge energy expert said this week that a new report highlighting that thousands of lives will be lost over the next few months because of soaring energy prices and badly insulated homes was very worrying.
Colin Priest, who lives in Quarry Bank, said findings by Age UK revealed that living in a poorly heated home was a 'major factor' in two out of five extra winter deaths and that there would be around 8,000 extra fatalities this year for every one degree drop in average temperatures.
In a document entitled The Cost of Cold, the charity said respiratory problems, strokes and heart attacks triggered by a fall in the thermometer and illnesses such as arthritis and rheumatism were costing the NHS £1.36 billion every year.
But Colin, pictured, pointed out that the British figures were worse than Scandinavia, which has colder winters but better insulation in homes.
"Countries like Finland and Sweden have superior building standards and insist on insulation and double glazing leading to warmer houses and fewer health problems," added Colin.
He supported a call by the charity urging the government and local authorities to recognise the issue as a major health priority and to help the elderly with the high cost of energy and to insulate their homes better.
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Why is my "Join the conversation" inline list not behaving here:http://www.clickbasics.com/
/*home page social media links box*/
.social_links {
background: #5d5f5c;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
.social_links ul li {
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Firebug says:
.social_links ul li {}
No inline... :shifty:
I know that, but why...when it's clearly in the css?
how about
.social_links ul li {
display: inline;
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGH! I can't believe I missed that! Thanks.
OK. The inline display is working fine. But the last two items in the list are not behaving like it is. Any clues?
Hi,You need to get that
 tag out of your "RSS" list item.
scroll to the right to see it

[B]

[/B]

Ah1! Looks like Wordpress put that in there as I had a carriage return in my html editor. I remove that, and now the list seems to be behaving better.
The one remaining issue is what's preventing the lines from being longer. I applied 5px padding to the class .social_links and added !important. But something else seems to be involved to cause so much space to the left and right within the box. I see .entry-content ul applying 0 0 0 35px padding and 13px 0 margin. How can I override these settings in .social_links?
Again, firebug doesn't show your 5px padding. Please post the css code for the .social_links class.
/*home page social media links box*/
.social_links {
background: #5d5f5c;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px; !important;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
.social_links ul li {
display: inline !important;
Hi,The problem here is that you are targetting the div and not the ul styles. You don't even need those important declarations.
If you want vertical margins then you can use display:inline-block.
You also closed your padding:5px before you added the important rule.
padding: 5px[B];[/B] !important;
This should get you straightened out.
/*home page social media links box*/
.social_links[B] ul[/B] {
background: #5d5f5c;
color: white;
text-align: center;
 padding: 10px 0 ;
.social_links [B]ul li[/B] {
display: -moz-inline-box;/* for FF2 (inline-box must be used for shrink wrapping)*/
display:inline-block;/* for modern browsers (set vertical margins and dimensions when needed)*/
 margin:5px;
* html .social_links ul li {display:inline;}/* inline-block trigger for IE6 */
*+html .social_links ul li {display:inline;}/* inline-block trigger for IE7 */
When I click on the social_links tab, I see your 35px padding.When I click on the ul, it disappears, and all that is inherited from the social_links class are color and text-align, the padding is taken from .entry-content ul.
The reason obviously lies in the way inheritance works in css, but I'm no expert, so let's see what the guru's have to say about it
Edit: They already did
Great! Thanks!
However, what happened to the background color?
Wait. I'm fiddling with it as we speak.
You also have 35px left padding on the ul.
.entry-content ol, .entry-content ul {
padding:0 0 0 35px;
} /*style.css (line 1197)*/
You can also reduce the white space between items by giving some small amount of negative word-spacing to the ul.
I think I saw that Ray removed the side padding from the ul's parent; if not, do so.
Regarding the "!important" thingie: If you need it, you've messed up your cascade or specificity, or you've decided to override your visitors' user stylesheets. The first two errors involve a bit of trouble-shooting; no biggie. The third requires an attitude adjustment.
I have stopped fiddling. Put your code back in tact, and the background color seems fine.
I think I understand how it works now, except it seems to me the vertical padding should is more than 5px. I'd love to get all the images on two lines. Is the only way to do that by making the images smaller?
Actually I added ul to the end of the parent. I had mentioned that the OP was targeting the parent and not the ul.
All my changes above were applied to the ul
.social_links [B]ul[/B]
The third requires an attitude adjustment
Actually, that's Wordpress advice for making their stuff work. Didn't realize it messes up viewers preferences.
I'm using a sub-style sheet under the K2 (Wordpress theme) primary style sheet. The idea is to not mess with the primary style sheet, so you can keep that as the default.
I would think I could override the parent side padding within the sub-style sheet, yes?
At the moment the sub-style sheet padding is set thus:
.social_links ul {
padding: 10px 0 ;
i.e. no padding to the right and left. Why doesn't that take precedence over the parent?


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HOUSTON - James Gist's law enforcement career spans nearly 30 years. But he said his most recent post, at the Galveston County Constable's Office was unlike any other.
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She also said Gist is suing for sexual harassment because she wouldn't change an employment document in his favor. Matranga also said she finds it suspicious that Gist is bringing his lawsuit just weeks before an election. Nixon said he and his client brought the lawsuit as soon as they could, according to the law.
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Hey, preemptively: can we avoid the "Wilfredo Tovar? The World Series is ours!" sarcasm? Well-run teams get this stuff right, and occasionally it redounds to their benefit. They also don't bleed out their star players without compensation, year after year. I get that. I've written extensively about that.
But it is important to protect prospects, and maximize depth. Try and keep that in mind, those who would castigate the Mets.
Okay, with that in mind: the Mets added the following players to the 40-man roster: Zack Wheeler, Hansel Robles, Gonzalez Germen and Greg Burke, Darin Gorski and Wilfredo Tovar. Here's the elite Jeff Paternostro on Robles. Tovar is a great glove, questionable bat. Burke was just signed, and adding him was an interesting twist to the night. Gorski is the rare lefty starter in the upper levels, though with a low ceiling. German is a big arm, questionable secondary stuff. Wheeler is the team's best prospect by a mile, a reflection on both Wheeler and the upper levels of the farm system.
Will the Mets add in the Rule 5 Draft? You know, I'd be surprised if they didn't. Lots of holes, $50K spent to fill one or more of them. Sure makes sense to try. We'll get into the particulars of who they might take after the holiday weekend.
Meanwhile, on the Wright/Dickey front, you had Jeff Wilpon floating the idea of not signing them, or trading them for valuable talent, but just keeping them. You know, like Jose Reyes. It's the bleeding out method of building a team. Hopefully, it was just talk. But he prioritized keeping them, no extension, ahead of trading them.
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There's a school of thought -- adhered to by pretty much every teenager's dad -- that states nothing good ever happens after midnight.
Annie Sibonney doesn't share that point of view.
As host of the travel/adventure series One Night Stand, Sibonney has travelled the globe -- from Tel Aviv to South Carolina to Glasgow to Barcelona and beyond -- in search of all the great things that occur between sundown and sunup.
Based on what has been presented so far on One Night Stand, which airs Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on Discovery World, the Toronto-based foodie, designer, tour-company operator and enthusiastic world traveller has a pretty convincing argument.
One Night Stand is Sibonney's second TV-series collaboration with former Winnipegger Dale Burshtein -- the pair worked together on the Food Network series From Spain With Love, a romantically adventurous celebration of Spanish food and culture that earned two Canadian Screen Awards (including a best-director nod for Burshtein).
With One Night Stand, Sibonney and Burshtein have maintained the up-for-anything attitude that made Spain so appealing, while expanding the focus of their exploration to a wider range of destinations.
So far, the six-part series has visited Israel, the southern U.S., Scotland and Spain, with Sibonney spending a single whirling-dervish day in each locale. She visits with noteworthy residents -- chefs, restaurateurs, artists and saloon-keepers, mostly -- and spends the dusk-till-dawn hours eating, drinking, laughing, dancing and eating and drinking some more.
It's a pretty simple formula, but it sure does work. Thanks largely to Sibonney's infectious charm and hugely adventurous spirit (if early episodes are an indication, she'll try anything that can be sipped, chewed, explored or ridden upon), One Night Stand feels like the sort of show with which one could build a long-term relationship.
Sibonney, the Toronto-raised offspring of French/Moroccan parents, developed a love for food and cooking early in childhood and started her own catering company while attending university. After travelling internationally for many years -- often to Spain and its surrounding area -- in search of new food-inclined adventures, she created Relish Culinary Tours, a travel company specializing in high-end "gastro-nomadic" tours of Spain and Italy.
Given her extensive knowledge of the region's food and culture, From Spain With Love seemed to be an inevitable next step. And One Night Stand is logically the step after that.
With this week's episode, One Night Stand seeks a closer-to-home brand of mischief in Canada's most culturally adventurous city, Montreal. During a dizzyingly fast-paced, cram-it-all-into-one-memorable-night episode, Sibonney and her crew seek out the best traditional smoked-meat sandwich, sample regional staples such as split-pea soup and tourtière, visit a Catholic church, take in a Habs game and then bar-hop their way through a burlesque show, an urban-graffiti tour and a seafood-and-shots marathon.
After a 3 a.m. serving of poutine and hot dog steamés, Sibonney grabs a few winks before reconvening with her friends for the brunch to end all brunches -- including (but certainly not limited to) maple-bacon pancakes, absinthe cocktails, braised eel, champagne (cork popped with a chef's-knife flourish, of course), gargantuan lobsters and soft-boiled ostrich eggs.
It's captivating, but One Night Stand certainly isn't a how-to travelogue that shows ordinary folks how to experience these somewhat exotic destinations. Either Sibonney is supremely well connected or the show has an efficient advance team that seeks out just the right people for a perfect all-nighter. Whatever the case, One Night Stand never encounters the closed doors, over-filled restaurants and wait-list delays that average tourists face as a matter of course.
Sibonney and Burshtein have created a show that draws viewers in by making them feel like they're sharing in something a bit cheeky, a bit naughty, a bit sexy, a bit excessive and perhaps even slightly out of bounds. This isn't the way you and I would normally vacation, but wouldn't it be fun, just for a night or two, to try?
Burshtein, who started her TV career at Global TV in Winnipeg, has in recent years developed a flair for creating and producing lifestyle shows with a slightly off-centre attitude. Among her credits are the multiple Gemini-Award-winning foodie travelogue The Surreal Gourmet, the pet-obsessed documentary project For the Love of Dog and the culinary-makeover series Crash My Kitchen.
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26th annual Avocado Festival
When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday
Where: Main Street, Fallbrook
Admission: Free
Phone: (760) 728-5845
Online: fallbrookchamberofcommerce.org
Avocado facts
• The avocado is also called an Alligator Pear because of its pearlike shape and green skin.
• Avocado is derived from the Spanish word aguacate, which is in has roots to the Aztec word ahuacatl.
• California produces about 90 percent of the nation's avocado crop.
• San Diego County is the "Avocado Capital of the U.S.," producing 60 percent of all the avocados grown in California.
• There are nearly 5,000 avocado growers in California; the average grove size is about 10 acres.
Source: California Avocado Commission
Avocados, a Jack Russell named Snickers and Fallbrook's Chamber of Commerce share one thing in common: Kathie Richards.
She coordinates the annual Fallbrook Avocado Festival, and every year for the past four years, she has left her home in Murrieta — and her dog, Snickers — in the wee hours of the morning to be in Fallbrook by 3 a.m. on the day of the event.
"Between 3 and 9, it's insane, but once the festival begins (at 9 a.m.), it really calms down," said Richards, who's a staff member of the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the event.
With the support of volunteers, including 80 sheriff's deputies, her mornings have gradually been "less hectic," Richards said.
For Aisha Lund, her day doesn't start as early as Richards' — she arrives around 8 a.m. Lund, who is Miss Fallbrook 2011, joins her court to represent Fallbrook at the festival and mingles with vendors and tourists.
"It's a great cultural experience," Lund, 19, said.
Culture will be front and center for local artists whose works will be featured in the Art of the Avocado contest. Other events include: best-decorated avocado, Avocado 500 race, largest avocado, and guacamole contests.
But there is more to the festival than competitions involving the green fruit: More than 400 vendor booths are expected.
When 5 p.m. rolls around, bouquets of green balloons that marked avocado-related booths are popped, carnival rides are deconstructed, street sweepers come through and the volunteer committee gathers together for a post-carnival party to share stories.
"It is an amazing feat for a small village like Fallbrook to retain the local flavor while accomplishing one of the largest festivals around," Richards said.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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