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Below we publish The New Zealand Government preparedness measures for earthquakes.
To be earthquake prepared, people should read these measures again and again. They can save your life.
These preparedness measures also apply for the entire world.
There is no difference in between an earthquake in New Zealand, Japan, Chile, Spain, Serbia or Russia.
You can take some simple steps to reduce the danger to yourself, your family, and property when earthquakes occur.
1. Before an earthquake
¢ Identify safe places very close to you at home, school or workplace, such as under a sturdy table, or next to an interior wall.
¢ Develop a Household Emergency Plan and have emergency survival items so that you can cope on your own for at least three days
¢ Protect property - secure objects and your homes and keep insurance up to date
2. During an earthquake
¢ Move no more than a few steps to a safe place, drop, cover, and hold on.
¢ Do not attempt to run outside
¢ If outside, move no more than a few steps to a safe place, drop, cover, and hold. Stay away as far as possible from building wall (falling objects are one of the major reasons people get killed or severely injured)
¢ If in a lift, stop at the nearest floor and get out
¢ If you are driving, pull over to the side of the road. Stay in the vehicle until the shaking stops
¢ Walk to an outside safe place when the shaking has stopped. Stay there
3. After an earthquake
¢ Expect aftershocks and help those around you if you can
¢ Report injuries or fires to the emergency services.
¢ Put out small fires. Evacuate the building if the fires cannot be controlled.
¢ Listen to the radio for advice and information.
¢ If your property is damaged, take notes or photos for the loss adjustor.
¢ Do not go sightseeing and stay out of damaged buildings
If you are in a coastal area and feel an earthquake that lasts 20 seconds or longer AND/OR if you see a noticeable rapid rise or fall in coastal waters., ALWAYS AUTO-EVACUATE:
- Drop, cover and hold on. You should first protect yourself from the earthquake.
- When the shaking stops, gather members of your household and move quickly to higher ground away from the coast. A tsunami may be coming within minutes.
- Avoid downed power lines and stay away from buildings and bridges from which heavy objects might fall during an aftershock.
What to Do During a Tsunami Watch
- Use a NOAA Weather Radio or tune to a Coast Guard emergency frequency station or a local radio or television station for updated emergency information.
- Locate household members and review evacuation plans. Be ready to move quickly if a tsunami warning is issued.
What to Do During a Tsunami Warning
- If you hear an official tsunami warning or detect signs of a tsunami, evacuate at once.
- Take your emergency preparedness kit. Having supplies will make you more comfortable during the evacuation.
- Take your pets with you. If it is not safe for you, it's not safe for them.
- Get to higher ground as far inland as possible. Be careful : Watching a tsunami could put you in grave danger. If you can see the wave, you are too close to escape it.
Tsunami Alert levels
In most countries there are 3 tsunami alert levels : advisory, watch and warning.
Advisory : (Strong currents likely) A tsunami advisory is issued when a tsunami with the potential to generate strong currents or waves dangerous to those in or very near the water is imminent, expected, or occurring.
The threat may continue for several hours after initial arrival, but significant inundation is not expected for areas under an advisory. Appropriate actions to be taken by local officials may include closing beaches, evacuating harbors and marinas, and the repositioning of ships to deep waters when there is time to safely do so. Advisories are normally updated to continue the advisory, expand/contract affected areas, upgrade to a warning, or cancel the advisory.
Watch : (Danger level not known yet) A tsunami watch is issued to alert emergency management officials and the public of an event which may later impact the watch area. The watch area may be upgraded to a warning or advisory - or canceled - based on updated information and analysis. Therefore, emergency management officials and the public should prepare to take action. Watches are normally issued based on seismic information without confirmation that a destructive tsunami is underway.
Warning : (Inundating wave possible) A tsunami warning is issued when a tsunami with the potential to generate widespread inundation is imminent, expected, or occurring. Warnings alert the public that dangerous coastal flooding accompanied by powerful currents is possible and may continue for several hours after initial arrival. Warnings alert emergency management officials to take action for the entire tsunami hazard zone. Appropriate actions to be taken by local officials may include the evacuation of low-lying coastal areas, and the repositioning of ships to deep waters when there is time to safely do so. Warnings may be updated, adjusted geographically, downgraded, or canceled. To provide the earliest possible alert, initial warnings are normally based only on seismic information.
Information statement : A tsunami information statement is issued to inform emergency management officials and the public that an earthquake has occurred, or that a tsunami warning, watch or advisory has been issued for another section of the ocean. In most cases, information statements are issued to indicate there is no threat of a destructive tsunami and to prevent unnecessary evacuations as the earthquake may have been felt in coastal areas. An information statement may, in appropriate situations, caution about the possibility of destructive local tsunamis. Information statements may be re-issued with additional information, though normally these messages are not updated. However, a watch, advisory or warning may be issued for the area, if necessary, after analysis and/or updated information becomes available.
Some text courtesy American Red Cross
Very important Shake Out earthquake preparedness Videos.
Please watch them. Knowing what to do can save your life.
VIDEO 1 - What to do when an earthquake strikes When You're in Bed
VIDEO 2 - What to do when an earthquake strikes If You're Near a Sturdy Desk or Table
VIDEO 3 - What to do when an earthquake strikes If There's NO Sturdy Desk or Table
VIDEO 4 - What to do when an earthquake strikes If You're Near the Shore
VIDEO 5 - What to do when an earthquake strikes If You're in a Stadium or Theater
VIDEO 6 - What to do when an earthquake strikes When You're Driving


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- Get more details in our Learn section.
- Find out how to manage your seizures in our Get Help section.
- Find out how to connect with your local Epilepsy Foundation and get involved in our digital community.
- Help us make a difference in the lives of people with epilepsy and their families.
Page Summary
- Epilepsy is a condition of the brain causing seizures.
- A seizure is a disruption of the electrical communication between neurons
- Someone is said to have epilepsy if they experience two or more unprovoked seizures separated by at least 24 hours
What is epilepsy? Will I have seizures forever?
You may have a lot of questions about epilepsy. We will help you understand the basics, answer the most common questions, and help you find resources and other information you may need. However, information alone won't help you manage your epilepsy and find a way to cope with the effects on your daily life. You'll need to learn how to use the information and make it work for you.
What is Epilepsy?
Epilepsy is a neurological condition which affects the nervous system. Epilepsy is also known as a seizure disorder. It is usually diagnosed after a person has had at least two seizures that were not caused by some known medical condition.
What are Seizures?
Seizures seen in epilepsy are caused by disturbances in the electrical activity of the brain. The seizures in epilepsy may be related to a brain injury or a family tendency, but most of the time the cause is unknown…
- 65 MILLION: Number of people around the world who have epilepsy.
- 3 MILLION: Number of people in the United States who have epilepsy.
- 1 IN 26 people in the United States will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime.
- BETWEEN 4 AND 10 OUT OF 1,000: Number of people on earth who live with active seizures at any one time.
- 150,000: Number of new cases of epilepsy in the United States each year
- ONE-THIRD: Number of people with epilepsy who live with uncontrollable seizures because no available treatment works for them.
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To Taylor and Andrea Armstrong of Ashland on Monday, July 23, 2012, at Lincoln Bryan LGH East, a daughter, Jaley Grace, weighing eight pounds, six ounces. She was welcomed home by a brother, James, and sister, Jocelyn.
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Puzzle Play Activity: A "Counting by 10's Puzzle Hunt" (& Printable!)
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Last week on the Melissa & Doug blog, we shared a few ways to enjoy our puzzle-themed printable. One idea was to have a puzzle treasure hunt! Our guest blogger Joyce (Childhood Beckons) expanded on this concept in her recent blog post: Counting by 10's Puzzle Hunt!
Here's how the educational scavenger hunt works:
1) Divide your puzzle pieces into 10 separate envelopes (she used our 100 Piece Solar System Jigsaw Puzzle so that each envelope contained an equal amount of pieces)
2) Create rhyming clues for all the place you want to hide the pieces (her examples are below, OR print your own using her blank printable template)
3) Place the clues inside the envelopes, and hide them throughout the house!
4) Once everything is set-up, ask your child to go find the clues to help build their puzzle! (This is perfect for cold, or rainy days as your child can run around a bit and get some energy out!)
5) Once all the pieces are collected and before you begin to assemble your puzzle, use this as an opportunity to practice "counting by tens".
Now, put together your puzzle and enjoy!
For more "puzzle play" activities, check out these related blog posts:
- 5 Cool NEW Ways to Play with Puzzles
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- Create-Your-Own Puzzle Printable (Plus 3 Activity Tips!)
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NASCAR is the second largest spectator sport in America, and the most popular form of Motorsports in the world. Even with that type of success, the sport's governing body is not satisfied and sat down with the media last week to outline some of its new directives.
In an effort to continue improving the show, NASCAR leaders spoke with teams, drivers and fans to determine some of its next steps.
"We're excited about the direction we're headed with our competition," said NASCAR VP of Competition, Robin Pemberton. "We made some changes with the series' leadership back in December and I believe these changes will provide our sport with a greater opportunity for growth and strengthen our position not only in the U.S. but abroad, as well."
Aside from new leadership, the series is also reaching out to new talent. Their diversity program has opened the door to drivers that would not have been given a chance to compete in times past.
"The emergence of young talent on our tours and weekly series might be the best we've ever seen," continued Pemberton. "That certainly bodes well for the future of our sport."
Innovation has become a popular word inside of NASCAR staff meetings. That innovation is bringing new ideas to improve the fan experience on and off the track.
"We'll be debuting our first generation track drying system this season," added NASCAR CEO, Brian France. "What that means is obviously when you're at the track; we're going to be able to dry Martinsville off in 15 minutes. It's going to be a spectacular thing, and all auto racing will benefit from this as we go down the road."
This interest in technology is leading the way for the fans to get even closer to their favorite drivers. Social media is one way that fans can view the sport from the inside.
"The idea is that you're engaging your fans in different ways," continued France. "You're able to, in real-time, communicate those things with our fan base."
So, as you can see, NASCAR is on the cutting edge in hopes of increasing the fan experience. Strides in competition, innovation, and technology are leading the way and with that type of inspection, our sport is in good hands for the future.
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When a User views a PM, there is a "Star" icon placeholder which can be used to denote if a PM is "Important".
By default, a PM is "Normal" and so a Grey Star is displayed.
However, by clicking on the "placeholder", the User can mark the PM as "Important" and a Red Star appears.
(If you have ever used Gmail, then this is a very similar setup!)
On to my question...
So, I am conflicted about what to place in the TITLE attribute for my Star Icon...
Option #1:I could describe WHAT ACTION the User is supposed to take...
Gray Star would display "Click to mark as Important"Red Star would display "Click to mark as Normal"
Nice, but it doesn't tell you the current state.
Option #2:I could describe the CURRENT STATE of the Private Message...
Gray Star would display "Normal PM"Red Star would display "Important PM"
But then you might not realize that by clicking on the Star you can switch from "Normal" to "Important" and back again?!
Option #3:I could go crazy and combine Options #1 and #2!!
Gray Star would display "Normal PM (Click to mark as Important)"Red Star would display "Important PM (Click to mark as Normal)"
Nice, but maybe TMI...
What do you think?
BTW, I don't know research results about the % visitors who read all tooltips! And if the design and functionality of a site is intuitive, nobody will complain about the text in a tooltip.If you can't decide after a while, a dice can make the decision: I think it's not very-very important (a tooltip is only assistance, and shouldn't be a condition for use).
I think you are missing the bigger point...
Not only do I want a website that is intuitive for regular users, I don't want to stymie someone who has a disability.
I thought the TITLE attribute was not only used as a "Tool Tip" but also by screen-readers to announce what an Image or Icon is?
Maybe I am mixing TITLE and ALT up again?! :-/
Regardless, what I want is to make sure that my nifty new "PM Stars" are usable if Images are turned off, or someone is visually impaired, or whatever.
Follow me?
Yes, I think you are. Alt(ernative) text is what the browser displays if the image is unavailable, and what a screen reader uses in place of an image. http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/
A screen reader will also read out title text, so you don't want to have the same text in both. To quote from another thread:
What do you think in response to my OP though?
I've never been able to figure out what those dumb stars are, especially since it turns out they can have like 8 colours. Or something.
Never rely on title text: not all screen reader setups will read it out (especially, usually if there is both alt and title, only one is read out unless you've changed your settings), but all keyboard and touch users will not have access to title either, due to browsers being dippy-dumb and the W3C members not willing to fix title.
They're also not willing to fix alt, which is broken visually in many browsers. Chrome will not show alt unless it fits within the dimensions of the image; Opera will show something always but cuts off text that overflows outside image dimensions. So far as I can tell, only Firefox/Gecko does it right (allows image to remain an inline element and alt text is never truncated).
I'd say the alt text needs to state the state/meaning of the star. So, marked as important! Not marked as important! etc.
Since the stars are clickable, you can have the title show mouse users what the thing does: while not foolproof, you can make a general assumption that someone using a mouse can probably see something of the stars, and so then hopefully the state reflected by size, colour, outline, whatever. Remember colour-blind dudes. So the title can show the function, and off-screen text or label could offer the non-title variant.<text>Change</state>
But as a clickable thingie, HTML-wise they're probably a button (something that can run a script when cliked) or possibly a "fake" button (something like a span dressed up like a button). We of course prefer the former, so we don't have to manually add in all the focusable and keyboard and role junk. But anyway you can have a hidden/offscreen label for the star stating the function. A cool idea with this is, like Gmail, you could offer users later the ability to forego icons entirely and use text... meaning you could, with css and a state remembered by javascript and a cookie, swap the text and image.
You might also be able to use a checkbox. These have labels stating what they do/mean, and a state (checked, not checked). There've been some working and fairly accessible attempts to disguise checkboxes and radios as images of other things, while the control itself is still completely clickable and useable. That way you could have[ ] Mark as important
[•] Mark as important
Here, the state of being checked or not is part of the control by default. You know that the second one IS marked as important, and you have a pretty good guess what unchecking it means. Here you don't need text to describe what state you're in, if there are only two options, only the label text (what the control affects).
So that might be an option, maybe an easier one. The technique for adding stars would use something like this http://csscheckbox.com/ (except make sure focus is visually obvious for keyboarders). I've used the CSSninja method (which is very very similar but the image sits on the label) in our ecommerce stuff for "custom" checkboxes and radios. The important thing here is that visually you get what you want, but the browser can take care of allll the other crap for you and it just works like always as a benefit of using a default control (and yeah, these aren't forms but an interface, but nobody will be too confused by checkboxes outside a form if you're in an interface).
You've said a lot Stomme!
Let me see if I can address your points...
My stars are 2-state: Either Light Gray to denote "Marked as Normal" (i.e. "Marked as NOT Important") or Red to denote "Marked as Important".
Okay, so you are saying the ALT tag should define the current state of the Star ("Marked as Important", "Marked as Normal"), right?
And, are you also saying that all screen-readers should read that ALT text?
You lost me here.
So based on my OP, what are you saying the TITLE attribute should show?
Option #1: What action to take. ("Click to mark as Important", "Click to mark as Normal")
Option #2: What the current state of the Star is. ("Marked as Important", "Marked as Normal")
(Since I believe you are suggesting Option #1 for the ALT attribute, then using good web design, it would seem that for the TITLE attribute you'd say use Option #2, since you're not supposed to have the same verbiage for the ALT and TITLE attributes...)
What I did was to simply use a Form Button and put the Star in as a Background Image like this...
<input type='submit' name='submit' id='pmNormal' value='Mark as Important' alt='Click to mark as Important' title='Click to mark as Important' />\
#viewPM input#pmNormal{
width: 22px;
height: 20px;
padding: 0;
margin: -2px 0 0 5px;
background:url("/images/stars_sprite_85x20.png") no-repeat 0 0;
text-transform: capitalize;
text-indent: -999em;
overflow: hidden;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
cursor: pointer;
border: none;
Much simpler than any silliness using JavaScript...
I agree with poes. (I'd be daft not to - she knows more about all this than I do. )
The alt text should convey the same information which the image conveys - therefore "marked as important" or "marked as normal".
I would expect a mouse tooltip (i.e. title) to tell me what something does, so "Click to mark as important", etc. And as poes is pointing out that not all screen readers will read both alt text and title, and keyboard users also don't get to see tool tips, then an equivalent label for the buttons should provide them with the same information.
My interpretation of Stomme Poes is just the opposite.
=======Other point: a background-image can't have the Alt-attribute.If you use a background-image for the star (in order to get the hover-effect), then there is no foreground-image to hang on the alt="Marked as Important" / alt="Marked as Normal".To get the hook, you can have a transparent image as foreground-image: that can have the Alt.
DEAR FORUMS I AM VERY NOT LIKING THE LOGGING OUT OF MY PERSON WHILE I BUSY TYPING 5000 LOC AND THE ASKING OF THE PAGE REFRESHES FOR GREAT LOSS!!!1Luckily I copied and pasted this crap into a text editor before Opera lost it all.
I was very unclear... I started typing as ideas came to me, and still prefer the last one I said
This is how I deal with graphics-monkeys insisting on special form controls instead of the ones made by the browser (and so in this case, they can be stars):
I have divs or something wrapping the label-input pairs. They need a class.

<input type="radio" name="important_1" id="important_1">
Mark as important
The span's there just if you want some more flexibility in showing/hiding/styling the label text without moving the label itself. You can't move the label here--it's holding an image covering up the real form control!
This is a lot of crufty code: I blame LESS, which another dev at my work had started using. Since I must in LESS, I've gotten lazy and more verbose in my CSS. It does NOT encourage good practice. Bleh.
.starz {
position: relative;
.starz:after {
content: '';
display: block;
clear: both;
height: 0;
.starz:not(#ie8) input[type=radio] {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 25px;<-- SET TO STAR IMAGE WIDTH!
height: 25px;<-- SET TO STAR IMAGE HEIGHT! (and it's best if it's a "square" image)
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
opacity: 0;
cursor: pointer;
//if you haz disabled stars possible
.starz:not(#ie8) input[type=radio]:disabled {
cursor: default;
.starz:not(#ie8) input[type=radio]+label {
min-height: 25px; <-- SET TO IMG HEIGHT-ISH
margin: 0; <-- I OFTEN ADJUST WITH MARGINS
padding: 0 0 0 30px; <-- ASSUMING IMAGE IS TO LEFT OF LABEL. If you're not showing label, make width of image
line-height: 25px;<-- LINE IT UP WITH IMAGE IF LABEL VISIBLE
background: url(path/to/star/sprite.png) 0 0 no-repeat; <-- THIS POSITION IS UNCHECKED/UNSELECTED
.starz:not(#ie8) input:checked+label {
background-position: SHOW SELECTED STAR PART;
//if label visible, do something to make it obvious to keyboarders that they're focussed on it
.starz:not(#ie8) input:focus+label {
color: #00f;
//if no label, either have a sprite image part for radio-is-focussed, or draw an outline around it, or something!
If you have disableds, then you'll add background positions for disabled-unchecked and disabled-checked states.
In addition to this, I have even m0aR code for when mouse is detected like.mouseDetected .starz:not(#ie8) input:focus+label { outline or border or whatever we set: 0;}This might be a must if there's no visible label and you're using a star colour to show that it's focussed on, because in something like Firefox the checked state won't show, only the focussed state! So I'd like an outline: 2px solid #somecolour myself.
This right here is pretty close to hitting everyone nicely.
Because the star is an image or image sprite, this doesn't scale on zoom. SVG and em widths could maybe help this, but I have no good stories about SVG to share yet.This also fails if the image doesn't load for some reason. Detection of image loading and removing the styles could help, but I have no good stories of content-negotiation to share yet.
Because the radio button is the usual available control, it's accessible to everyone as much as regular ones are, because this is a regular radio button. The label, even if you took the span text and hid it, is available to anyone with scripts off/user stylesheets, screen readers, stuff like Dragon, etc.The radio button can give its state and whether it's being focussed on to the browser, who can pass that on to anything asking for it. So a screen reader user for example knows if "Mark as important" is checked or not.
The :not(#ie8) thing is because IE8 doesn't know the :checked css state. However, if you're javascripting this stuff, you could add a class of .checked instead and then you don't need the nots. Me, since I do this for graphics monkeys, I let IE8 just look normal.
Hope this helps.
@Francky: "If you use a background-image for the star (in order to get the hover-effect), then there is no foreground-image to hang on the alt="Marked as Important" / alt="Marked as Normal". To get the hook, you can have a transparent image as foreground-image: that can have the Alt."
I do this all the time with graphics-failures insisting on thuper-thpecial submit images: <input type="image" src="path/to/trans.png" width="bg image width" height="bg image height" alt="SEARCH">input[type=image] {bg: teh bg image;}input[type=image]:focus, input[type=image]:active {bg-position: wuzzup;}input[type=image]:hover {bg-position: lawlz;}
It's clunky but if it's already built into your setup it seems to be okay. It does mean 2 requests, but you can reuse the trans anywhere and let the browser stretch it into the needed dimensions.Back when I was young and stupid, instead of just being stupid, I used to make different-sized trans images. Because, wut.
Long ago I was young and had to serve IE6 as well without the IE png-hack extra's (to get the grey transparent). Since then instead of a transparent.png I'm using a transparent.gif. Modern browsers don't explode with it.
The trick for IE6 (tho a gif for this case was fine) was to make sure the Gimp had set in the palette for the background colour the same colour as the area where the image would be. Not in the image, just the settings in the toolbar at the time of saving.
Gimp would ask, "save background color?" And if you did that, IE6 would, in place of the transparency, show that colour instead. Dunno if this worked in other editors, but prolly did since bgcolor was part of teh image metadata and I guess IE6 was reading that.


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Woof is a big dog. Yap is a little dog.
Emma has 16 dog biscuits to give to the two dogs.
She gave Woof 4 more biscuits than Yap.
How many biscuits did each dog get?
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Even early in the morning, Taylor Swift looks amazing!
The blonde country singer appeared in NYC's Rockefeller Plaza on this morning's Today Show to perform three of her singles for a huge audience filled with her adoring fans. Dressed in a short, blue sparkly dress, the 19-year-old sang "Love Story," "You Belong with Me" and "Teardrops On My Guitar."
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A DISGRACED ex-transport manager had been branded a 'paedo' in Oswaldtwistle after suggesting sex to a frightened schoolgirl over Facebook, a court was told.
Father-of-four Mark Turner, whose 20-year marriage had fallen apart due to his alcohol use, had been subjected to 'public vilification' after his 'disgraceful' conduct became common knowledge in the local community.
Burnley Crown Court heard Turner, 43, had been living alone in a one-bedroom flat and been drinking heavily.
He was said to have been in a state of depression and despair when he told the teenager: "I will get into trouble if I tell you what I want to tell you."
The defendant then said he wanted to make love to her, asked her how she felt and she replied she was scared.
The victim blocked the conversation, but Turner then texted her, telling her he wanted to have sex with her 'big time' and apologising for frightening her. The teenager said no, told her mother and the defen-dant was arrested and questioned by police.
Turner fought back tears in the dock as he was spared jail by a judge who slammed his behaviour as 'disgraceful'.
The defendant, of St Paul's Court, Oswaldtwistle, had admitted inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
He was given a 12-month community order with supervision and a six-month alcohol treat-ment programme. The defendant, who was told to pay £250 costs, must sign the sex offenders' register for five years.
Stephen Parker, prosecuting, said when interviewed by police, Turner told them he was embarrassed, ashamed and his actions had been completely out of character for him. Alan Wolstenholme, for Turner, said: "He could not have done more in terms of candour and in terms of his contrition and remorse for the offence."
Mr Wolstenholme said Turner had been sub-jected to public vilification within the community and had been branded a 'paedo' .
Mr Wolstenholme said Turner, who was now on a course at college, was not assessed by the probation service as being a predator or showing signs of becoming one.
He said: "The defendant is utterly contrite and is terrified of going to prison."


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My dad just got his scan results back about an hour ago and the tumors are shrinking inside liver but not out. He is off the clinical trial at U of M because of the lack of shrinkage on outside tumors. The next option is Folfox with a 30% success rate or two phase one trials with a 5% success rate.
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I know that tumors markers, for some, are not a good indication of cancer but for me, when my number has been elevated I have had new tumors. In June, my CA 19-9 went to 14, this was the first time in over three years that I was in the normal range. In September my number jumped to 42 and then 44 in October. I also had a PET scan at this time which was clear except for a very small spot that lit up in the liver. The radiology report stated that it could be scar tissue or possible the beginning of a recurrence. The plan was to follow up with blood work in seven weeks. My blood work this week was all good and my CA 19-9 went down to 28 and my CEA went to 1.1. My husband has been praying that my number would be 28, I told him he was crazy for the last seven weeks. You can imagine how blessed we felt when we heard the number 28.
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IF you've not made a start on the Christmas shopping yet, Amersham has just the thing for you - with traders offering you the chance to win a hamper worth £1,000 at the same time.
Jam-packed full of boutiques and independent stores, shop owners in the market town are launching their inaugural Christmas Shopping Crawl on Friday and Saturday.
For full details of how to take part in the prize draw, click here to go to our online edition of Elite magazine, then look at pages 17, 18 & 19.
Retailers are keen to spread the message about what Amersham has to offer, with co-ordinator Jen Garrity setting it up after being inspired by a conversation with a friend
Mrs Garrity, the owner of the Coco Marie boutique in Market Square, said: "I was chatting to one of my friends and I told her Old Amersham is great for shopping. She'd never thought to come here, even though she lives in Great Missenden.
"We thought the shopping crawl was a good way to bring people in who might be a bit nervous about going into boutiques or independent shops. There's an amazing range of shops in Old Amersham and we want to get the word out there."
The original crawl was the brainchild of retail guru Clare Rayner, based in nearby St Albans. Her idea originally took off in the USA as a follow-up to Independence Day, with a month long celebration of independent stores taking place Stateside from July 4.
Her idea was slower to take off in Britain but she spotted a gap in the market for a similar celebration to take place in the run-up to Christmas.
Scores of towns nationwide are now taking part in the Christmas crawl, from Camelford in Cornwall to Edinburgh in Scotland, and Amersham is the latest to join the list.
A total of 24 Amersham shops are taking part and shoppers are being set the challenge of visiting every participating store and getting a special map stamped at each one.
The plan is twofold - not only can shoppers enter into a prize draw to win a hamper worth £1,000, but business owners hope they'll have their eyes opened to the range of shops and goods on offer in the town.
The crawl takes place on Friday November 30 and Saturday December 1 but shoppers can pick up the maps from any participating retailer in the run-up.
For more details on Amersham's independent shops and the Christmas Crawl, type 'Old Amersham Indie High Street' into Facebook.


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Top 10: Apocalypse Films
You must see these before the world ends.
Given that the world is obviously ending later this year, we thought we should probably collate the ten apocalypse films you simply must see before we all meet our untimely demise. In film, the end of the world is an increasingly persistent narrative premise which transcends genre and speaks about human anxieties on all scales. From Will Smith busting aliens in Independence Day, to pasty Brits fighting zombies with no more than deadpan wit in Shaun of the Dead , the apocalypse film comes in many forms. Case in point: the upcoming Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a dramedic jaunt starring Steve Carrell and Keira Knightly as they prepare for the end of days. Watch the unlikely pair along with and Oyster #96's Gillian Jacobs (returning in new episodes of Community March 15!) in the trailer below, before scrolling just a bit further to enjoy our certified recommendations for your end-of-days viewing.
10. Planet of the Apes (1968)
You may be surprised to learn that this film is not based on the classic Simpsons episode 'A Fish Called Selma' in which Troy McClure is cast in a musical called Planet of the Apes and sings of hating every chimp he sees, "from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z." Based on a French novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle, the original Planet of the Apes film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and stars Charlton Heston. The year? 3978. The planet? Unknown. A crew of astronauts have crash-landed, stumbling upon a society of Apes who behave like humans. If you have seen the Simpsons episode you will know how it all turns out. You'll never make a monkey out of me!
9. Children of Men (2006)
The year is 2027 and mankind has not been able to procreate for eighteen years. Facing the likelihood of their own extinction, humans must live out the rest of their hopeless, rain-soaked, concrete-wasteland existence knowing that they will go out not with a bang but with a wimper. Unlike other apocalypse films, the force responsible for bringing about the end of the world here isn't a meteor or an alien invasion or a wailing pack of flesh eating zombies, it's a deficiency in human biology which, in turn, brings about an even greater deficiency in the human condition - people start acting like total assholes to one another (save for one pot-smoking Michael Caine living in the woods). Since its release, the realism-based science fiction film has been celebrated by fans for its cinematography and masterful tracking shots. Clive Owen gives a compelling performance as a grieving alcoholic who becomes caught up in protecting the only known pregnant woman on earth.
8. Battlefield Earth (2000)
John Travolta's adaptation of the novel by author and founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard; widely accepted as one of the worst films ever made. What more do you need to know?
7. Independence Day (1996)
In a world where Bill Pullman is President and aliens are coming to invade earth and destroy humankind, our only hope is Will Smith (duh). Quintessential hyper-patriotism in the form of a ginormously expensive cheese-fest. Also includes Jeff Goldblum, your absolute favourite person to have around in a crisis (see also: Jurassic Park).
6. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Mel Gibson roams the Australian dessert in a supercharged V-8, his leather police uniform in tatters. Petrol and food are scarce following a nuclear strike and Max (Gibson) feels responsible for the protection of a small group of oil refinery workers against a biker gang led by a masked man known as 'The Humungus'. Requisite viewing if you like cars, eighties hair, Mel Gibson before his racist alcoholic side came to light, comic-book style western pastiche, near-indecipherable Australian accents and so forth.
5. Zombieland (2009)
Jesse Eisenberg narrates and stars alongside Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin in America's top-grossing zombie movie ever, though many might prefer Simon Pegg's Shaun of the Dead. Either way, the idea of humankind losing the fight against a brain-eating zombie race is much easier to digest in the form of witty comedy, as opposed to something without a thousand layers of irony, say, 28 Days Later or Dawn of the Dead.
4. 12 Monkeys (1995)
A time-twisting, headache-inducing romp by Terry Gilliam, featuring an especially deranged Brad Pitt and a typically heroic/disturbed Bruce Willis, loosely adapted from university film class favourite La jetee. You may need to consult Wikipedia after viewing to disambiguate likely questions on the narrative timeline.
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Better than the first (and better than most films in general), Terminator 2 has so much built into it: Linda Hamilton being a total hero; Edward Furlong being really nineties; Arny being the robot-dad you wish you had/the robot boyfriend you wish you could purchase online; some of the most iconic music cues in film history; and one of the best chase scenes you'll ever see on the screen or in real life.
2. Bellflower (2011)
A love story wrapped in a car-crash, wrapped in a hangover, wrapped in a firey explosion, wrapped in an emotional apocalypse like the one that occurs inside you upon realising that your significant other is a total axe-wound of a stinking succubus sent from hell to destroy you. Bellflower is an ode to Mad Max as imagined by a beer-for-breakfast Californian boy with little but girls and flamethrowers on his mind.
1. Melancholia (2011)
Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg play two sisters at odds with one another as the Earth is about to collide with a rogue planet. Both actresses give heartbreaking performances in what is possibly Lars von Trier's most thoroughly satisfying film, which at once deals with the idea of apocalypse quite literally but presents the events in a very real and engaging way. The film won Dunst a Best Actress award at Cannes last year and some say the film might have won the Palm d'Or had von Trier not mentioned Hitler during a press conference (the director did, however, win himself a life ban from the festival). Accolades and controversy aside, the film itself is visually stunning, all-encompassing revelation that renders the end of the world unlike much else before it.
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HOUSTON - Local 2 Investigates discovered some big names making big donations to help get Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other Republicans elected this fall.
Romney has yet to visit some 16 states, but he's been to Houston twice in the last two months. And it could be the money bringing him back.
So far in the 2012 election cycle, Houstonians have kicked in $23.6 million to Republican causes. That makes Houston third in the nation ahead of places like Dallas, Los Angeles and Chicago.
"Houston is powerful ... powerful, when it comes to campaign donations," Texas Watchdog Editor Trent Siebert said. "The way the federal system works, you can launder all sorts of money, legally."
What Siebert means by that is heavy-hitter donors can give as much as they want and still adhere to federal law.
Houston home building billionaire Bob Perry could only legally give $2,500 directly to Mitt Romney's campaign.
But according to www.OpenSecrets.org which tracks money in politics, he's managed to donate another $14.3 million to Republican and conservative causes this election cycle.
In June, nobody gave more money to Republican political action committees than Perry.
"It is laughable to think that a big campaign contribution doesn't mean access to the White House and it doesn't mean access to the candidate," said Siebert.
A who's who list of Houston names has given the maximum allowed by law directly to Romney's campaign. They include Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, former President George H.W. Bush, and Jim McIngvale, otherwise known to Houstonians as "Mattress Mac." They've all donated $2,500 to elect Romney.
To see the states Mitt Romney hasn't visited during the 2012 campaign, visit http://www.Aei-ideas.Org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/8.17.12-mitts-travels.jpg.
To look up political donors to any party or cause, visit http://www.OpenSecrets.org/.
To see a list of the top political donors in the 2012 campaign, visit http://www.Opensecrets.Org/overview/topindivs_overall.php.
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Thakoon Fall 2014
Outdoorsy might not be the first word that comes to mind when you flip through Thakoon's fall collection, but look closer and you'll see that the hallmarks of all-terrain-wear are all there: nylon puffers (embroidered with a bright floral), fleecy bouclés, a Boy Scout–type stripe in camp-ready colors. There's even a brushed-flannel plaid coat that not-so-vaguely resembles a sleeping bag. "It's a lot of layering," designer Thakoon Panichgul said backstage before the show. "Things are a bit more wrap-y, shapes are scarf-y." In other words, they'll keep you warm. Maybe not extreme-weather warm—"I'd need the experts at Patagonia to do that," he said—but pretty nice and cozy.
Getting everyone's attention—for being distracting or desirable? Maybe both?—were the asymmetrical scarfs shown with the lighter silk dresses, and the knit pullover shrugs that one editor called "ponchitos" on Instagram after the show. Though perhaps a tad restrictive, the ponchitos also do wonders to visually minimize waistlines and hips, and for that reason alone we can see them selling. "They're like shoulder covers," Panichgul called them. Again, nice and cozy.
The prints must be mentioned because they were strong in a collection-defining kind of way. Extroverted (on outerwear and suit separates) and introverted (on jacket linings and dress inserts), the feminine florals and more masculine foulards were ultimately what kept the collection from looking too literally Into the Wild. Anti-earthy color ways were heavy on the hot pink and electric blue and literally pop in the pictures. It felt a little menswear-y in moments—"I think tailoring feels really exciting right now," Panichgul said—with one palest felted wool funnel coat and matching trouser looking very louche. "I wanted to mix the all-terrain aspect with pieces that are a bit more refined," he said, pointing specifically to the collection's coats—one done in gray cashmere and another in full fur. "Goat," Panichgul pointed out. "Because it's a bit more rustic." So, though she hasn't gone into the wild, she's not yet out of the woods.


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Another Day at Band CampProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
Mogmatt was in a drill down at Band Camp. This is where everyone gets into a block and tries to execute commands given by the drum major. If you miss a command, you must fall out. The last one left wins. Mogmatt is an exceptional marcher and will only miss one of every 30 commands. Unfortunately for him, so will all the other 149 band members. What is his probability of winning?
HintIf everyone misses a command, everyone who missed it is still in.
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Schluter Kerdi Drain is an all inclusive drain kit used with new shower construction. A rigid Stainless Steel flange is used in its construction, allowing the borders of the drain to be tiled over seamlessly. The shower drain uses stainless steel as the finish for the drain grate, making your drain grate both effective and appealing to the eye.
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The Patriots are the NFL's hottest team with five straight victories, including a romp past the Broncos before last week's bye. A win over Indy could set them up for home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs.
After besting Peyton Manning, Tom Brady now faces off with Andrew Luck.
"He's a great player," Brady says. "He's in his third year, and he's had a lot of success.
"They score a lot of points, especially at home, and he's kind of the ring leader. He does a lot of things I wish I could do. He's big, fast, shrugs off blockers. He makes a lot of extended plays. He's a great passer."
Luck has similar thoughts about Brady.
"Yeah, I think if you're a fan of football, it's hard not to be a fan of Tom Brady," Luck says. "He's obviously got the respect of everybody around the league, every fan, every player. He does things at a high level, and he's done it for a long, long time and seems to go about it the right way."


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Penn-Dartmouth Box Score (pdf)
PHILADELPHIA - Coming off an emotional win on Friday night against Harvard, the Penn volleyball team made sure there was no Saturday letdown thanks to an extraordinary defensive effort. Led by eight blocks from Susan Stuecheli and 28 digs from Dani Shepherd, the Quakers held Dartmouth to a hitting percentage of only .079 in the match. That, combined with a well-rounded offensive attack, helped the Red and Blue to a 25-16, 25-15, 25-22 win on Saturday afternoon in The Palestra.
The two teams went back and forth early on in the first set until Penn reeled off four straight with a kill from Emma White, followed by an Elizabeth Horner service ace and two solo blocks from Stuecheli. Though Dartmouth used a timeout to slow down the Quakers and did cut the lead to two after that, Stuecheli reignited the Penn rally with three more rejections in short order, two of them with Lauren Martin as well as her third solo block of the first set. With the lead upped to 15-9, the Red and Blue cruised the rest of the way. Kristen Etterbeek led the team with four kills in the set while Stuecheli added three on only four attacks.
The blocks kept coming in the second set. With the score all square at 5-5, a solo block from Michellie McDonald-O'Brien gave the Quakers a 6-5 lead they wouldn't lose the rest of the way. Horner came back with her second ace of the set before a White kill and block from McDonald-O'Brien and Ronnie Bither gave Penn a 9-5 edge and once again forced a break in the action from the Dartmouth sideline. The Quakers continued to gradually extend their lead, never giving the Big Green much opportunity to string points together. Though Dartmouth's Paige Caridi had five kills in the second set, the rest of the Dartmouth squad only had one combined. Etterbeek and Shepherd each notched eight digs in the set to further complicate matters for the Big Green and the final three points of the set went Penn's way in a 25-15 win.
The third set was by far the most competitive of the match, but the Red and Blue fought back from a deficit for the first time all day to bring home the sweep. An early 9-5 lead in the set made it seem that the Quakers would have a cakewalk to the finish line, but Dartmouth stormed back with seven of the next eight points to take a 12-10 advantage. Penn came right back to tie it and the two teams trade side-outs for much of the remainder of the set. With the score knotted at 22, Etterbeek put the Quakers back in front and Martin took over from there, teaming with Stuecheli on one last block and ending the match with a soft hit into the open middle of Dartmouth's defense to give Penn the 25-22 victory.
White once again came through with a double-double for the Quakers, leading both teams with 11 kills and also contributing 11 digs. Stuecheli had nine kills in addition to her eight blocks (three solo, five assists) and Martin added seven kills and five block assists. Alex Caldwell led Penn with 20 assists in the match.
Penn (12-9, 7-3 Ivy) will bring a three-match winning streak into next weekend when they host they Ivy League-leading Yale Bulldogs on Friday night at 7 p.m. Senior Night is next Saturday at 5 p.m. against the Brown Bears.
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Classic Movies #3Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
The names of four (4) actresses from the classic movie screen era have been split into 2-letter segments. The letters in each segment are in order, but the segments have been scrambled. Your task is to rearrange the segments to identify the actress.
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If you want some time away from relaxing on the beach or at the pool, you might like to discover the beauty and diversity of the island of Gran Canaria. There is so much to see - the beautiful natural surroundings in the mountains of the island, the breathtaking scenery at the northern coast, a little bit of culture and sightseeing in the capital of Las Palmas and so much more!
We have chosen the best possible options for you to explore the island from the road, sea or even the air! You will be accompanied by real experts - local companies which prepare the excursions based on their long experience and offer the best possible prices and even special discounts available only for you and exclusively through this web page!
Island tours
If you want to get to know the island of Gran Canaria properly, we recommend you one of the specially designed coach trips with many different routes. Whether you want to see the typical village of Teror or the symbol of the island Roque Nublo, the oldest populated cave village in the valley of Guayadeque or the capital of Las Palmas, a half-day trip or a full day, on Gran Canaria there is something for everybody's taste.
To see another night excursion with a brilliant dinner show, go to Garbo's in the section of Restaurants.
VIP Tours / Jeep safaris
If you don't like big buses, why don't you choose a VIP trip with only eight passengers in a comfortable van? You will explore even more hidden corners of the island and the experienced drivers-guides will give you all the information about Gran Canaria on a more personal basis. And if you want to go off the beaten track and you don't mind getting a bit dirty on the dusty roads of Gran Canaria, you can experience a mixture of fun and adventure during one of the jeep safaris.
Camel safari / Donkey safari
To combine fun and traditional places of the island like Fataga or Tejeda, you must try a Camel or Donkey safari. Apart from the fun you surely experience with these animals, you will also have a chance to taste a typical Canarian lunch.
See also Horse Riding in the section of Sport and adventure.
Helicopter Tours
To see the whole island with a bird's eye view, we recommend you to take one of the helicopter tours and in less than half an hour you will see the complete island with its extraordinary beauty from the air. The helicopter flights are very popular so make sure you book in advance!
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If you have already explored the island of Gran Canaria, you might travel even further and visit one of the neighbouring islands of the Canarian archipelago. We recommend you Tenerife with the highest point of Spain called Pico de Teide and very popular zoological garden Loro parque. Each island of the archipelago is very different, but all of them are worth seeing and if you choose a day trip you can get a taste for it and maybe have a tip for your next holiday.
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Feds on right track on sick leave
Saturday, Jan 04, 2014 06:00 am
Is it union-busting Thatcher style, or a fair and honest approach to correcting a serious financial mistake? That�s the question facing Canadians as the federal government prepares to crack down on civil servant sick days.
Earlier this year a report that was never intended to see the light of day was leaked, reporting the record-setting number of days that federal civil servants were calling in sick. The report, prepared for the Treasury Board, stated federal civil servants were, on average, calling in sick 18 days per year, about double the rate of all other public sectors, and costing Canadians taxpayers about $1 billion per year just in lost wages.
In stark contrast, the report estimated the private sector sees, on average, employees call in sick about seven to nine days a year, making the federal civil servants� sick days total about two-and-a-half times the private sector.
Obviously, the situation is ridiculous. Many in the public sector world state such perks are used to attract the brightest and best to public sector work, in order to compete with private sectors such as the energy industry.
But it�s obvious the pay and benefits in the public sector are completely out of step with the private sector, and the latter in many cases can�t afford to compete for quality employees. Asinine sick day policies, coupled with incredulous vacation time and indexed pension plans give the public sector a taxpayer-funded advantage over the private sector. It�s completely absurd that the public sector is using private sector tax dollars to lure workers to the public system.
Also, the strain on government is considerable. Absenteeism has a serious effect on other employees and projects in many departments. Employees face issues like burnout and resentment and departments can face issues like missing costly project deadlines due to the absence of key people.
The unions that represent federal civil servants are protecting their members by saying Prime Minister Stephen Harper is attacking the middle class.
"Everything that this government is doing on its anti-union agenda is attacking middle-class Canadians," said Jean Lortie, general secretary of the Confederation des syndicats nationaux.
Interestingly, the Conference Board of Canada recently released a report looking at workplace absenteeism in general across the country and found the highest rates were in health care and social assistance sectors, with almost 10 days missing from work per year, while the lowest were in the professional, scientific and technical services industries, with an average of 5.8 days. These industries were also likely not to be unionized, stated the report.
It�s obvious too much absenteeism is occurring at the federal level, and the government is on the right track by ensuring sick leave for civil servants reflects the same rate as the private sector. Addressing absenteeism is the first step in reigning in bloated public sector compensation packages.


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Marchesa Resort 2013
Evening dresses by nature should feel fun. They're meant for parties, after all. But because their price tags often skyrocket into five figures (or higher), they've become big business. Which is why you have to appreciate Marchesa's designer and cofounder Georgina Chapman and cofounder Keren Craig, two women who create some of fashion's most glamorously decorated evening dresses but don't take themselves or their work any more seriously than they should. Listen to Chapman's commentary on a knee-length white dress from their resort collection that has intricately beaded netting on the top and a fringe of plumes under the bust and on the sleeves. "It wouldn't be Marchesa without some feathers," she said with a laugh, taking the piece off the rack for a model to try. No, nor would it be Marchesa without lace, embroidery, crystals, and enough tulle to outfit the Ballets Russes, all of which was accounted for this season. Chapman acknowledged that she and Craig approach resort as a time to offer women the kinds of things they've come to covet from the label. That includes, but is not limited to: 1) loads of drama, as seen in a slinky, matte-gold sequined and embroidered dress with pouf sleeves; 2) statement color, like the rich raspberry of a short strapless number with voluminous folds of taffeta; and 3) tried-and-true shapes, like a one-shouldered party dress, a slim-fitting strapless evening option with cascading ruffles, and caftans for the lucky women who are dressing for lives that resemble Slim Aarons photographs.
One short-sleeved shift in white with a jeweled neckline and matching coat (call it a Marchesa twinset) brought to mind Gatsby, and though the reference may not have been deliberate it's not far off from the designers' actual inspiration: garden parties, dappled sunlight and the romance of summer. As for their ever-expanding bag collection, which includes crystal-encrusted minaudières with chunky, rough-cut stone clasps and envelope-shaped shoulder bags with metal chains and tassels, Chapman said women are buying them simply to own and/or display, not necessarily to wear. But it's probably not because they don't have anywhere to go.


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R.A. Dickey exclusive Q&A session on his book rescheduled
FLUSHING, N.Y., May 17, 2012 – The New York Mets today announced pitcher R.A. Dickey's exclusive question and answer session about his new book Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball (Blue Rider Press) has been rescheduled for Tuesday, May 29 at Citi Field before the Mets play the Philadelphia Phillies at 7:10 p.m. Dickey will be joined by Wayne Coffey, the New York Daily News writer who collaborated with Dickey on his memoir, which landed on the New York Times Best Sellers List.
Tickets for the special event cost $100 and include a seat in the all-inclusive Champions Club with complimentary premium food and non-alcoholic beverage, an autographed copy of Dickey's book, and admission to the exclusive Q&A session. Tickets are on sale now at Mets.com/RAQA. Seats are very limited for this intimate event.
The Mets rescheduled the Q&A because the pitching rotation changed and Dickey pitched on the original date April 25.
About Wherever I Wind Up
A 37-year-old knuckleballer and lover of literature, Dickey has emerged as not only a Met fan favorite but among the most thoughtful and compelling personalities in baseball – and one of the most improbable success stories in the game. Scarcely two years after he was sleeping on an inflatable mattress in Buffalo, pondering whether he should abandon baseball to teach English Literature, Dickey has become one of the most reliable starters in the National League. His ascent is a testament to his perseverance and hard work, and to a faith that has carried him through a difficult life journey. With searing honesty, Dickey writes about growing up in an alcoholic home, surviving sexual abuse and living with crushing shame and fear. He writes with both power and humor as he chronicles the hardships of chasing a baseball dream when very few people think you are good enough to make it.
A man of deep humility and self-awareness, Dickey's candor is as remarkable as his knuckleball is unpredictable – making Wherever I Wind Up a uniquely American story of beating back demons, listening to your heart, and overcoming extraordinary odds – a memoir that as Publishers Weekly says "sets a new standard for athlete autobiographies."


text: By MARTIN CRUTSINGERWASHINGTON (AP) â¿¿ Superstorm Sandy packed a bigger economic punch than most people had thought. In its sweep through the Northeast, the storm halted sales at major retailers at the start of the crucial holiday shopping season, closed factories and slowed home sales in one of the most densely populated areas of the country. On Thursday, for example, Kohl's, Target and Macy's blamed the storm for weak sales in November. Macy's and Nordstrom Inc. reported their first monthly sales drop since late 2009, when the U.S. economy was just emerging from the Great Recession. And the government said this week that new-home sales plunged 32 percent in the Northeast last month and nearly 12 percent in the South. By contrast, sales surged nearly 63 percent in the Midwest and nearly 9 percent in the West. Sandy is being blamed for about $62 billion in damage and other losses in the U.S., most of it in New York and New Jersey. It's the second-costliest storm in U.S. history after Hurricane Katrina, which caused $128 billion in damage in inflation-adjusted dollars. New York is seeking $42 billion in federal aid, including about $9 billion for projects to head off damage in future storms. New Jersey is seeking nearly $37 billion in aid, including $7.4 billion for future projects. Still, reports this week showed that the economic damage was confined mainly to the Northeast. In other parts of the country, the economy picked up in early November, when many New Yorkers were still without power. And next year, rebuilding efforts in the Northeast could help jump-start the broader U.S. economy. That's especially true if Congress and the White House reach a budget deal that prevents sharp tax increases and spending cuts from taking effect in January. Homes must be rebuilt, cars need to be replaced and many people are likely to step up spending once the storm's impact starts to fade. All that would help accelerate growth.


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TPWD News Release — Oct. 15, 2009
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials are reminding coastal anglers that during November flounder fishing is allowed by rod and reel only, with no gigging allowed, and the bag limit has been reduced to two fish.
These regulations, as well as the reduction of the bag limit to five fish during the rest of the year, went into effect Sept. 1. The purpose is to protect greater numbers of migrating flounder as they move to offshore waters during the peak of the spawning run, part of a regulatory strategy to try to increase the abundance of a species in decline.
TPWD Coastal Fisheries Division data shows that the relative abundance of flounder has fallen by about 50 percent since the early 1980s, so that flounder populations are now about half what they once were. Anglers all along the Texas Gulf coast reported a rebound in flounder numbers in 2007 and 2008, also reflected in TPWD sampling, but even that short-term increase in relative abundance places numbers near the bottom of the long-term trend.
The timing of the new rule coincides with the peak of the annual fall flounder run, which has been targeted historically by giggers and rod and reel anglers alike as flounder congregate at Gulf passes. Many anglers consider this run the best time of the year to fill stringers. Unfortunately, flounder have been unable to keep pace with harvest and the new regulations hope to allow more fish, particularly young adults, a chance to spawn and replace themselves prior to harvest.
Coastal Fisheries Division biologists expect that by allowing more fish to spawn that more hatchlings will return to the bays and flounder will become more abundant for anglers. It is thought that because of the relatively short, six-year life span of flounder, within two years anglers will begin to see a noticeable increase in flounder abundance. Modeling suggests the new regulations will result in an increase of spawning stock biomass of slightly more than 80 percent over six years, with the majority of that recovery taking place in the first several years.
Although flounder gigging is not allowed during the month of November and the bag limit will be reduced to two fish by rod and reel only, beginning Dec. 1, gigging will be allowed and bag limits will return to five for recreational fishermen and 30 for commercial fishermen.
For more information about the new flounder rules, anyone can contact TPWD Coastal Fisheries Outreach Specialists Tonya Wiley for the upper coast at Dickinson Marine Lab, email@example.com or (281) 534-0131; or Art Morris for the lower coast at the Corpus Christi Field Station, email@example.com or (361) 825-3356.
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COMMUTERS are facing delays this morning after an overturned lorry has seen the M42 close northbound from junction 4 to junction 5.
The Highways Agency has warned of "long delays" after the incident.
A spokesman said: "Recovery of the HGV is underway and a lighting column on the M42 J5 northbound exit slip road, damaged in the incident, is being removed.
"The Highways Agency will re-open the M42 to road users as soon as it is safe to do so.
"In the meantime road users are advised to allow extra time for their journeys or to seek alternative routes."
A signed diversion is in operation, he said, with all traffic being advised to leave the M42 at J4 and follow the 'black diamond' diversion symbol via the A34 Stratford Road towards Birmingham, the B4025 towards Solihull and the A41 southbound to re-join the M42 at J5.
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Player InformationFlames Home > Track & Field Home > Track & Field Roster > Roster Detail
Kyle WheelerClass: Junior
Position: Jumps
Height: 6-4
Previous School: Trinity Christian HS
Hometown: Wilson, Texas
Top Efforts in a Liberty Uniform
55 - 7.04 (Indoor)
60 - 7.74 (Indoor)
200 - 23.63
LJ - 23-4 (7.11m)
TJ - 46-1.5 (14.06m)
HJ - 7-1 (2.16m) (Outdoor School Record)
Big South Individual Titles (4)
2012 Indoor High Jump
2012 Outdoor High Jump
2013 Indoor High Jump
2014 Indoor High Jump
All-Big South Honors (6)
2012 Indoor Long Jump - 3rd
2012 Indoor High Jump – 1st
2012 Outdoor High Jump - 1st
2013 Indoor High Jump - 1st
2013 Outdoor High Jump - 3rd
2014 Indoor High Jump - 1st
2013 Outdoor Track & Field (So.)
• Made the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team for the second year in a row
• Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• High jumped at the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet for the second straight year
• Shared sixth place in the IC4A high jump and finished 16th in the long jump
• At the Big South meet, came in third in the high jump, eighth in the long jump and 16th in the triple jump
• High jumped a season-best 6-10.75 twice (Shamrock Invitational and Texas Relays)
• Improved his long jump personal best to 23-4 at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier
2012-13 Indoor Track & Field (So.)
• High jumped an indoor-best 6-9.5 to win his second straight Big South indoor title
• Tied for seventh in the IC4A high jump final
2012 Outdoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Big South Men's Freshman of the Year
• Won the Big South high jump title with a meet-record clearance of 7-1 that also tied the school record
• Also placed fifth in the Big South long jump
• Tied for 10th place in the high jump at the IC4A meet and shared 19th place at the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet
• Won the Highlander Invitational long jump with a season-best leap of 23-2.75
• Liberty's top triple jumper on the year, sailing 46-1.5 at the Liberty Collegiate Invitational
• Made the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
• Included on the Big South Presidential Honor Roll
2011-12 Indoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Co-Big South Men's Freshman of the Year, along with teammate Leonard Robbins
• Won the Big South high jump title with a season-best 6-8.75 clearance, while placing third in the long jump and sixth in the triple jump
• Qualified for the IC4A meet in the high jump
• Graduated from Trinity Christian High School
• Named the 2011 TAPPS 4A Male Athlete of the Year after winning state titles in the long jump, triple jump and high jump
• The high jump state crown was his third in a row, after finishing second as a freshman
• Top marks included a school-record 7-0 in the high jump, 23-6.75 in the long jump and 45-10.75 in the triple jump
• Finished 13th at the 2010 TAPPS state cross country championship
• Earned second team all-state honors in basketball as a senior
• Son of Nathan and Carol Wheeler
• Older sister Marianne high jumped for the Liberty women's track & field team.
• Business finance major
• Birthday is on Sept. 18


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Shuttle XPC ST61G4: Tiny Computer with Big Integrated Videoby Wesley Fink on 1/23/2004 12:23 PM EST
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marvinpa - Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - linkFrom all of the reviews I got the impression this box would be very quiet, but
this was not the case. With expectations given by these reviews I must say the machine
keeps quite a loud humming sound. It has 4 fans in it, but the loudest is the one
connected to the cpu heatpipe in the back. The metal casing is also sensitive to resonance
sounds which are quite annoying.
Installing the sata drive was also quite an annoyance.
Apart from that the machine does perform quite well, and is optically pleasing.
Johnmcl7 - Sunday, April 04, 2004 - linkI see recommendations to go with an 865G system, but no actual SFF recommendations - would anyone care to provide some? I'm looking to rehome my 533Mhz P4, not bothered about overclocking and I like the look of the G4 case, as it's quieter and temps are lower. However, I do wish to use a 9800 pro graphics card, so I've been also looking at the Soltek EQ3401, however, this has no card reader and the temperatures are higher although it is slightly cheaper.
John Reply
sprockkets - Friday, January 30, 2004 - linkThe ICE exhaust fan has always been 80mm on Shuttle systems. I use a Panaflo fan to make my system quiet. The picture of the rear of this unit seems dated because the new power supply has a new grill with less restrictions. Unless they changed that. The power supply in my Shuttle ss40G sounds ok to me, with a 2400+ Thorton installed and a Hitachi 120GB drive with Linux and Distributed Folding running it goes around 41C internal and 51c for the processor. Reply
SupermanCK - Thursday, January 29, 2004 - linkwhy no temperature readings...i can make a very quiet case too if there are no fans inside...i think that whenever you have a review with sound measured, you should always measure the temperature of the case too... Reply
artifex - Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - linkWell, from what I've been reading on the manufacturer website, there actually is a floppy connector on the mobo, and a cable, so you could install with an open case and leave the floppy hanging out in order to have the drivers for the SATA RAID when it asks for them.
Still, in the future it'd be nice if actual useability issues like this were addressed a bit more. I'm not asking you to imagine all possible configurations, or anything, but if it says it supports something, a quick test to see if it's practically useable might be nice :) Reply
SUOrangeman - Monday, January 26, 2004 - linkJust as an aside, there is apparently a way to embed drivers (for such things like RAID controllers) into you Win2K/XP/2K3 discs. I don't think that method was used in this case.
In my free time, I'll have to see if this method actually works.
-SUO Reply
vedin - Monday, January 26, 2004 - link::doesn't know jack about setting up RAID:: Um, use a bootable CD? Reply
artifex - Sunday, January 25, 2004 - linkstill wondering about the RAID/installation issue :) Reply
Wesley Fink - Sunday, January 25, 2004 - linkPrinceGaz -
Thanks for catching the typo - corrected. Reply
PrinceGaz - Sunday, January 25, 2004 - linkLooks like a nice small and quiet box for a caravan, dorm-room or the like, but it could never replace my main box.
Its nice to see Intel have a sense of humour with their "Extreme" graphics, or is it meant to stand for "extremely slow"?
One slight typo on page 11- "As we have done on other SFF tests, the ST61G4 was loaded just as a user would likely set up their SFF system. We installed a 3.0 P4, 1 Mb DDR400 memory..." - personally I'd install slightly more memory in my SFF system ;) Reply
Cygni - Sunday, January 25, 2004 - linkThe IGP performance was stellar... if your going to be using the onboard graphics, this box looks like a good choice... but if your going to be using the AGP slot, the i865G looks better. Reply
sipc660 - Saturday, January 24, 2004 - linki think my laptop is running the same ati igp chipset and apart from the crappy celery i noticed performance could be somewhat better..but i don't think that the memory timings are forced that slow..
could it be that the shuttle wanted to keep off any possible temperature issues?
i noticed anything video and or memory intensive turns my rather quite laptop into a godzilla.
i reckon anyone purchasing SFF should still get the shuttle and wait for a bios update....that should close the resulting performance gap
ban the freakin 3andHalf floppy drives... Reply
sipc660 - Saturday, January 24, 2004 - linkReply
gamara - Saturday, January 24, 2004 - linkThe onboard nForce2 was tested in a previous review, and had better onboard video performance with a processor that cost $80(Athlon XP 2600+) instead of $260(P4 3.0). Not sure if the settings were the same, as the previous article did not list what settings it was tested with.
ATI 98 FPS Q3, 50 UT 2003 Flyby, and 38 UT Bot
NForce2 129 Q3, 66 UT Flyby, and 38 UT Bot. Not bad for giving up 1 Ghz on the processor.
artifex - Friday, January 23, 2004 - linkthis may sound stupid, but how do you install Windows to the onboard RAID without a floppy for the RAID driver? Not to mention... where does the other drive in the RAID go? :) Reply
Lonyo - Friday, January 23, 2004 - linkATi - Pentium 4, Intel - Pentium 4. nVidia - AMD. Reply
Rako00 - Friday, January 23, 2004 - linkWhy compare the ATI to intels intergreated graphics card only. At least include the Nforce 2 graphic card too. Reply