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SAN DIEGO -- Pitcher Josh Johnson, on the disabled list since March 21 with a right forearm strain, will be examined in the next week by noted orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews.
Andrews did the cleanup surgery last October on Johnson's right elbow, removing bone spurs. It was 2008 when Andrews performed Tommy John surgery on Johnson, then a member of the Marlins.
"The general view [of Johnson's rehabilitation] has been good days and bad since we shut him down," said Padres general manager Josh Byrnes. "We'll get him in to see Dr. Andrews next week, get another set of eyes, and see where we are. I wish we all knew more."
The Padres signed Johnson to a one-year deal worth $8 million in November, with the hopes he could rebuild his credentials and be a force in the starting rotation.
The Padres hold a club option of $4 million for 2015 if Johnson is unable to make at least seven starts -- risk protection given his health issues last season.
Johnson was having a good -- and for him, an ordinary -- spring, posting a 3.38 ERA in his four starts when he woke up with a swollen forearm after an outing. He had an MRI shortly thereafter that confirmed the strain in the flexor pronator muscles of his right forearm.
Does Byrnes think Johnson will pitch for the Padres this season?
"I'm not sure," he said. "We'll know more next week."
Johnson received a cortisone shot on April 2 and said he felt better afterward. Still, there have been enough days of not knowing what would happen next to frustrate him beyond belief.
"It still drives me crazy," he said Tuesday. "It's a waiting game. We just want to do what we can to make sure it's 100 percent."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A great recourse of Eurorack module video demos is the blog PatchPierre. This week they posted a great video from Raul Pena which takes a look at the Doepfer A-117 Digital Noise/808 Source. It starts with an audio demo comparing analog and digital noise, shows how the noise can be used as a clock source, what sounds the 808 outputs create (cowbell and cymbal/hihat) and how to use a VCA, ASDR and Trigger to get some basic drum sequencing going.
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His legs reveal the finesse with a cut that will elude a tackler in one moment and then demonstrate power as he runs through a second.
As Aledo senior running back Johnathan Gray concludes one of the most chronicled careers in national high school football history, he's still just wants to be one of the guys.
"The guys in the locker room keep me humble and we just like hanging out and not talking about football,'' Gray said. "The one thing we've done is just getting ready for the next play and never do anything else.''
The son of former Texas Tech all-Southwest Conference running back James Gray, Johnathan's name will forever be in the conversation when high school football greats are discussed. Currently, the four-year starter has rushed for 10,653 yards. That is second in Texas' all-time books behind Kenneth Hall's 11,232. Gray's total is also fourth all-time nationally.
He holds the state's all-time touchdown record and also tied for the national record with 204, holds the most 100+ yard rushing games with 50 and holds the state single-season point scoring record with 408. On Dec. 6, he was named the 2011-12 Gatorade National Football Player of the Year.
And now, the Bearcats (13-2) are pursuing the rarity of a third consecutive state championship. Aledo faces Manvel (15-0) in the Class 4A Division II state championship at noon Saturday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
But his career at Aledo didn't start on the varsity right away. Gray (5-10, 202) began with the freshman team for the first two games in what could now be considered a tune-up. He finished that season with 969 yards as Aledo was eliminated in the area round of the playoffs.
While he dazzled with some special runs, there wasn't the belief that it would evolve into this kind of journey. Now, an athletic scholarship is waiting for him at the University of Texas. Gray, one of the nation's top recruits, is expected to sign his national letter of intent with the Longhorns on Feb. 1, 2012.
His legacy turned out this way because work he put in off the field. Aledo coach Tim Buchanan recalled a story when another coach was working out and saw Gray go through a routine in which he was going through one-legged squats holding 100-pound weights in each arm.
"He looked at me and said, 'I've never seen anything like that,'" Buchanan said. "I just thought well he hasn't seen our offseason but then John does his own routine to what we do. If it was all weights, then he'd be rigid. But he stretches more than anyone I've ever been around in my career.''
Gray spent most of this past summer participating in track meets than in 7-on-7 competition. His goal was to make his legs as primed as possible.
He understands the persona that precedes him the week of the game. That's out of his control. Aledo knows that opponents are going to stack the box with eight or nine defenders. It's up to quarterback Matthew Bishop to make the right decision or for Gray to make a play.
Oh, he'll get trapped in the backfield and have his share of negative plays. But he will find a way to make a play because of those legs.
"For me, it just comes down to mental and physical preparation,'' Gray said. "Our team has been building toward this. In big-time situations, big players make big plays. I've been very fortunate to be in this position.''
Kevin Lonnquist, Recruiting Editor for SicEmSports.com, is also a member of the Aledo radio broadcasting team.
Gray Year by Year
2008 - 969 yards, 16 TDs (Highlight: Made his debut in Game 3)
2009 - 2,813 yards, 59 TDs (Highlight: Scored the state championship game-clinching touchdown on an 89-yard run late in fourth quarter)
2010 - 3,221 60 TDs (Highlight: Rushed for 351 yards in the state championship game against La Marque)
2011 - 3,650 64 TDs (Highlight: Has posted 4 300-yard games)
Totals: 10,653 yards, 204 TDs


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KINGSWINFORD hockey players feared the worst when they resumed their West Midlands League Division One campaign with a trip to table toppers Bromsgrove.
Forced to field a much weakened side, Kingswinford lost out 4-0 with goals from Mark Burchett, Tom Jennings, Matt Russell and Karl Troth causing the damage.
But Kingswinford came out of the game full of credit and went close in the first half with skipper Surjit Takhar firing inches wide while Billy Jawanda couldn't convert from a series of short corners.
Both Colin Morris and Indy Baddhan went close for Kingswinford in the second half, while at the opposite end, Sharm Dhaliwal and Raghvir Singh pulled off goal-line clearences to keep Bromsgrove at bay.
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text: WVU hoops team circling back to Zags By Mitch Vingle November 8, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- You've heard of the circle of life.In regard to West Virginia University's athletic fortunes, that circle is beginning to resemble a basketball.It's somewhat amusing.When we last saw WVU's basketball team against real competition, the Mountaineers had been hammered in the NCAA tournament. I wrote then it was somewhat merciful for the team's fans. No more Truck Bryant going 1-on-4. No more finger drumming awaiting improvement from Jabari Hinds. No more teeth grinding when the ball went into Deniz Kilicli."Once again," I wrote, "it's football season in the Mountain State."Today, many are saying it's basketball season in West Virginia. And the basketball season will start for the Mountaineers against the team that ended their 2011-12 season: Gonzaga.Talk about your circles.WVU will hit Spokane, Wash., for a midnight regular-season opening affair with the Zags this Monday.The event is a made-for-TV game that will be replayed next season in Morgantown. Perhaps, though, it would have been better for the Mountaineers to play this one at home. WVU will be flying all over the southwest as a newbie member of the Big 12. This trip can't help. "Might as well get used to it, huh?" said Mountaineer coach Bob Huggins.Guess so, but this figures to be a stern test for WVU. The last time the teams met, it was right up the road from Morgantown in Pittsburgh's Consol Energy Center, and not much went right for West Virginia.Gonzaga went in determined to show it was as tough as any Big East team and drubbed WVU from start to finish, finally settling for a 77-52 victory."I just feel like they out-toughed us," Bryant said afterward.Huggins called his offense the "worst" and "inept." "It was a microcosm of our season," said the coach that day. Now, though, a new day is dawning for the Mountaineers. Bryant is gone. Huggins has infused his program with transfers. Gonzaga, meanwhile, lost center Robert Sacre to the NBA. (He's now a teammate of former Mountaineer Devin Ebanks, now with the Los Angeles Lakers.)WVU also is catching a break of sorts in that Zags junior forward Kelly Olynyk, who redshirted last season, will be suspended for the game. The bad news for the Mountaineers is another big man stepped in and won the hearts of Gonzaga fans in a 93-45 exhibition victory over Division II Northwest Nazarene University of Nampa, Idaho.Przemek Karnowski, a 7-foot-1, 305-pound native of Poland, scored 17 points and had eight rebounds. And the team returns veterans WVU fans might remember: senior forward Elias Harris and sophomore guards Kevin Pangos and Gary Bell Jr. (Yes, John Stockton's son David is back as well.)Bell, Pangos and junior center Sam Dower were first-team preseason All-West Coast Conference selections. The Zags have been picked to win the WCC.Huggins, however, seems to like his team as well. "We have a chance," said the coach.He said that on Thursday. He's said that all along. "We've got to do better running our offense, rebounding the ball and taking care of the ball," he said. "But we've got a chance."It's almost time to see.Reach Mitch Vingle at 304-348-4827, firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/MitchVingle. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Police seek car driven by woman found dead in Kanawha River 2 Teen pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 3 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 4 Man allegedly cuts father in Rand over argument about sandwich 5 Esa Ahmad ineligible for first half of WVU men's basketball season Frosh receiver Copeland leaves Mountaineers Previous Story Mountaineers preaching attitude, confidence, effort Next Story


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Considering how critical this current Los Angeles Lakers road trip is—it's the annual "Grammy Trip," the one whose importance was laid out in detail by colleague Sean Deveney last week—they can't afford to be picky about their wins.
They won't put an asterisk next to Game No. 3, and Win No. 2. Nope, not throwing this one back. In a season in which everything imaginable and a few things unimaginable have gone wrong, Sunday's 98-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons in Auburn Hills, Mich., will be very welcome.
— Box score/stats | Deveney: Clippers want Kevin Garnett
It ought to be, considering the consequences of losing it. All it would have done was deflate whatever semblance of momentum the Lakers had been building over the previous week. Remember, just seven days before this Super Sunday matinee against the feeble and short-handed Pistons, the Lakers had beaten the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kobe Bryant had re-invented himself as a playmaker and Dwight Howard had figured out a new way to shoehorn himself into the picture for the better.
Things were looking up. Enough that the Lakers could start using the "P" word again, even though they were still out of playoff position in the NBA's Western Conference. All they had to do was keep this up.
They have. Sort of.
True, their first step onto the road was a bad one—a loss in Phoenix, in which Howard re-injured his shoulder. He hasn't played since, and before sitting out Sunday's game in his warm-ups, he had left the team to get plasma treatment. It didn't sound hopeful that he would be back playing right away.
Yet the Lakers have now won two straight on the trip, Friday in Minneapolis and Sunday in Detroit. Helpful.
Of course, they let huge leads get away in both games. But they held on both times—by their fingernails this time, or to be exact, the Pistons' Andre Drummond's fingernails. Drummond couldn't control an inbounds lob to the rim in the final seconds; if he had, the Pistons would have won.
Even worse for Detroit, had Will Bynum's drive with 2.7 seconds left spun around and in, instead of around and out, the situation at the end might have been different. Good for the Lakers.
Yet (once again), the Lakers wouldn't have been in that position had they not missed their last four free throws of the game, in the final 16.8 seconds. Two by Earl Clark and two by Steve Nash. Get up, walk around for a minute, clear your head, sit down again, take a deep breath, and read that again: Steve Nash missed two free throws, with the game on the line.
But the Lakers still won. Good sign.
In fact, they held on even though both Pau Gasol and Bryant heaved up two horrible jumpers in the last two minutes when the Pistons were breathing down their necks. Gasol's was a brick, Kobe's an air ball.
But in all the drama, despite the Lakers holding an 18-point third-quarter lead and a 10-point edge in the fourth, and then allowing themselves to be caught, they not only won, they never let the Pistons take the lead. And it was Bryant who put the Lakers up for good with a three-point play with 1:09 to go.
All's well that ends well. For one day, at least.
The Lakers have no choice but to find pearls amid the garbage of Sunday's adventure. They have now won two in a row on the road for the first time all season (yes, it's February, two weeks from the All-Star break). They also have won two in a row without Howard, after losing all three games the first time he hurt his shoulder last month.
They got a ton from Nash, despite the man-bites-dog aspect of his late free-throw shooting—he had missed only two the entire season until then. Otherwise, he had 11 points and 10 assists. They also got great numbers from Gasol, 23 points and 10 rebounds, although he was disturbingly spotty at the end when the game got tight.
They got neither the 30-point Kobe (18, on 8-for-20 shooting) nor the triple-double, baby-Magic Kobe (five assists, one in the second half) ... but they still won. The drive for the three-point play was good enough.
For that matter, so was the pass that might have been the best of his career, a halfcourt inbound lob to Clark with 0.4 seconds left in the first half. Technically, that eye-popping play (and Detroit's eye-rolling defensive nap during it) was the difference in the game.
They even weathered a flagrant foul (which probably wasn't really one) by Metta World Peace, that riled up an Auburn Hills crowd with long memories. In the end, it affected nothing.
If ever a shaky win deserved to be celebrated, it was this one. Other good news is still in short supply.
This was the cushiony portion of the trip. The next seven days come games in Brooklyn, Boston, Charlotte and Miami. Both Howard and Mike D'Antoni see his return from the shoulder problem as day-to-day, and the Nets game is very questionable.
This win got them back to within four games of .500, 22-26, and within 3½ games of the last West playoff berth, in 10th place.
And no matter how much they seem to testing new, inventive ways to lose, lately the Lakers are managing to win.
They'll take it.


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New federal regulations to make sure feed is safe for animals may have an unintended consequence. Beer brewers are objecting to a proposed federal rule that would make it harder for breweries to sell leftover grains as animal feed instead of throwing them away. Don Ford shows us that involves cows ... and beer.


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HOUSTON - A rouge goat made a rare appearance at a northeast Houston schoolyard early Tuesday morning.
"It was running and attacking. We were scared," said student Kaidin Dorsey.
The students said they had no idea what was happening at Fleming Middle School, 4910 Collingsworth, about 7:40 a.m.
"I got rammed in the leg. I seen my friends running they said, 'It's a goat,' and came at me," said student Kamel Thomas.
The goat caused such a ruckus that a mom walking her twins to school down the street thought the yelling and screaming was the result of a schoolyard fight.
"I heard a bunch of kids hollering, thought they fighting, but, no, I seen the goat -- is that a goat or dog," said Karisha Hackett.
The goat was eventually caught and brought to the Harris County Sheriff's Office Livestock Division.
"Eighteen days, keep him here, advertise in the newspaper and after that it becomes the property of sheriff's department and we'll take him to auction," said Sgt. David Peterson.
If the owner comes forward, there's a $50 fine plus a little extra for feed costs.
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CROWD-pulling events are being staged across York and North Yorkshire this weekend.
Deacon Blue is playing Dalby Forest near Pickering tonight as part of the Forestry Commission's 2014 Forest Live concert programme which has already featured James Blunt and Paul Weller.
Copmanthorpe Carnival, also today, features live music, children's activities and fairground stalls at the Recreation Centre's sports field, along with a reptile roadshow and donkey rides.
Thousands will be flocking to Scarborough today for the resort's sixth Armed Forces Day, for a programme, from 11.30am until 5pm, starting with a Freedom Parade by the 1st Battalion (1 YORKS) of The Yorkshire Regiment and including a fly past featuring a Vulcan, Spitfire, Lancaster, and Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Tomorrow, the 129th annual Malton Show will be the biggest draw for many with livestock competitions, and new events including a children's showground trail, run by the show's nominated charity Ryedale Special Families, races and games. Entertainment includes a stunt show, sheep dog display, live music, artist and blacksmith demonstrations, a showjumping competition, traders' tent and the regional Sheep Breeders Championships.
The show, at Scampston Park, opens at 8am. For more information, visit maltonshow.com
York Minster is holding a service at 4pm on Sunday at the East End to dedicate the new statue of St Peter that will sit at the top of the Great East Window. The service will also be shown via television screens on College Green.
York Minster's Dean Vivienne Faull said: "This is the headpiece for the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in Northern Europe." and a key part of the York Minster Revealed project, the largest heritage conservation project of its kind in Europe, so this new statue is just as significant as the original, carved in the 15th century. It is only fitting that we hold a special service to dedicate this statue."


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Dartmouth Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Dartmouth has been designated as a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) with a grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The CCNE places Dartmouth among top centers in cancer nanotechnology research nationwide and takes full advantage of Dartmouth's culture of cross-disciplinary collaboration. CCNEs are tasked with integrating nanotechnology into basic and applied cancer research in order to provide new solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The CCNE brings together Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth, and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth to focus on the common goal of using magnetic nanoparticles to destroy malignant tumors.
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Intrinsic Safety: A Foreign Concept
Intrinsically Safe I/O Is All the Rage in the Rest of the World, but Not Here in North America. Whats the Problem?
By Rich Merritt
Maybe one answer is blowin' in the wind. North American chemical process plants tend to be wide open, outdoor facilities that enjoy a relatively constant wind, and European facilities tend to be inside buildings. With a higher air speed, explosive dust and vapors can disperse, making the site safer and limiting the number of hazardous areas where safe systems are needed. In Europe, because the buildings are sealed, the entire building is a hazardous area, thus requiring intrinsically safe equipment throughout.
That's as good a reason as any to explain why Europeans have adopted intrinsically safe I/O and North American plants cling to the age-old practice of putting I/O in purged or explosion-proof cabinets. There are other reasons as well.
In 2003, VDC Research did a study of user preferences in hazardous environments, and explosion-proof and purged cabinets came in first and second, with intrinsic safety coming in fourth. The survey was for users in North America and Europe, and VDC reported that Europeans picked intrinsic safety first, while North America picked explosion-proof cabinets first.
One of the study's key finding was, "Based on the survey data, it appears much more likely that users will switch to intrinsic safety in the construction of new facilities and in major updating projects in existing facilities, rather than for replacements and minor projects, where the perceived benefits of switching are less."
However, things may be changing. A recent market study by ARC Advisory Group says that increased emphasis on process safety will cause a 12% growth in safety systems. "The safety system market has experienced unprecedented growth for the last two years," according to Asish Ghosh, author of the study.
Explosion-Proof Cabinets vs Intrinsic Safety
Essentially, there are two basic ways to keep I/O from sparking and causing an explosion in a hazardous area: The first is to put all the I/O in a purged or explosion-proof cabinet, so any sparks that result inside the cabinet cannot cause an explosion outside the cabinet.
The second method is to use barriers to limit the amount of current going to instrumentation in a hazardous area, so that it can't cause a spark if a cable is cut or a connection comes loose (Figure 1). This second method is called intrinsic safety.
Figure 1. An intrinsic safety system uses Zener diode safety barriers to limit the amount of current to instrumentation in a hazardous area.
Explosion-proof enclosures can be put anywhere in a plant, including in the middle of hazardous areas. However, there is a major drawback—servicing anything inside or outside the cabinet requires shutting off all electrical power before opening the door. This can also shut down an entire process unit.
Explosion-proof cabinets are marvels of engineering, with shaped doors and seals that prevent heat or sparks from an internal explosion from getting outside. Unfortunately, such cabinets often have several interlocks and many bolts holding the seals closed. So, maintenance people may forget—or skip the process in a time crunch—to seal the cabinet properly, thus rendering it unsafe.
Intrinsically safe systems have other advantages. Joseph Kaulfersch, market analyst with Pepperl+Fuchs explains, "When one is making $20,000 an hour on a product, and an instrument can be fixed 'hot' or while running, it doesn't pay to stop production. In the case of explosion-proof, users need to get a hot permit which takes time, plus the process needs to be shut down. An intrinsically safe barrier has a 30-sec return on investment."
Figure 2. An intrinsically safe installation using Turck IM intrinsically safe barriers.
Intrinsically safe I/O, such as I/O cards, fieldbus interfaces and other devices, are kept in a non-hazardous area, with Zener safety barriers or isolation transformers limiting power to instrumentation cables going into hazardous areas (Figure 2). This method eliminates the need for explosion-proof cabinets and makes instrumentation in the hazardous area easier to service, because disconnecting wires to service instruments can't cause a spark.
However, since IS limits the amount of current going into a hazardous area, you have to use IS instrumentation, switches, monitors and analyzers that can operate on the limited amount of current available. Fortunately, IS-rated instrumentation is becoming more widely available every day.
So How Are IS Sales in North America?
The answer depends on whom you speak to. "I really haven't seen many requirements for intrinsic safety in North America," says Bruce Jensen, manager, systems marketing and sales support at Yokogawa. "Those requirements and installations we do have in North America are generally in the pharmaceutical industry, where there is a combination of general-purpose, Class 1 Div II and Class 1 Div 1 areas. Here we have used barriers from different suppliers. Yokogawa does make I/O modules for its I/O subsystem in the Centum series with built-in barriers. However, the market for those appears to be mainly the Middle East and Europe."
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Get ready — many LGBT music acts descend on Dallas this week
Every so often, we encounter one of those weeks where lots of LGBT singers and musicians head to town. It's pure coincidence, of course — and together, they probably aren't as gay as one audience at a Lady Gaga show — but it's nice just the same.
Along with Michael Feinstein performing his American Songbook and Rex Reed opining about Ira Gershwin while Elton John rocks Fort Worth, a wide range of out artists representing as much music are here for us to enjoy — and support.
World music can sometimes be a red flag for people expecting foreign language wails over tribal beats. Forget all that and consider catching Concha Buika (or just Buika) Nov. 13 at the Winspear with Spanish singer Lila Downs. The openly bisexual artist recalls some of the jazzy soul of Nina Simone with the energy of Tina Turner. Buika sings flamenco but she adds a contemporary funk to the mix.
Visit ATTPAC.com for details.
Internet-bred Jeffree Star is on the up and up. Pushing himself into self-created Web fame caught enough attention to garner a fanbase. Now that mega-producer Akon has signed him on, the out goth drag artist is downright legit.
Star stopped in Dallas back in May during his 2 Drunk 2 Fuck Tour, but announced a whole new tour for the latter half of 2010 — only this time, he says he's releasing new music along the way. He plays Nov. 17 at The Loft.
Visit TheLoftDallas.com for details.
After 15 years and nine albums, singer-songwriter Rachael Sage still isn't a household name. But her music is made for the small stage, which is perfect for her stop at Poor David's Pub on Nov. 13.
Her latest album, Delancey Street, adds to her consistently strong work. She stays away from the glum-girl-with-a-guitar image and offers upbeat pop with folk sensibilities, as her bisexuality comes through subtly.
Visit PoorDavidsPub.com for details.
— Rich Lopez
Time to get Chill
We figure the Guerrilla Gay Bar peeps are on hiatus since we haven't seen any Facebook invites for awhile. That was leaving a void in our special-event drink time … until SxS Productions filled it nicely with Chill Sunday.
Co-founded by the same gents who head Straight Out Marketing, which caters to an LGBT clientele, the monthly music-and-mimosa mixer upgrades the typical afterwork happy hour into a loungey afternoon.
Bringing in local and national DJ talent (including, this week, Joe Castillo, pictured) Chill Sunday mixes the weekend brunch with bottomless mimosas and downtempo tunes. Could there be a holier trinity for any self-respecting gay person?
— Steven Lindsey
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CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) - Authorities in Maryland say an inmate has died at a prison in Cumberland and a second inmate is a suspect.
The Maryland State Police say an inmate at the Western Correctional Institution was found unconscious in his cell Friday shortly after 9:30 p.m. during the inmates' recreation period.
Officers attempted to revive the inmate but were unsuccessful. The inmate was identified as 29-year-old Jason T. Wallace, and The Maryland State Police said in a statement he was serving time for robbery charges.
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About Education Research and Foresight
Today's world has evolved greatly since the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar and the inception of the Millennium Development Goals and is facing multi-faceted and rapid changes, challenges and opportunities, which all have implications for education. While strengthening our efforts to meeting internationally agreed commitments made, there is a need to start the process of looking beyond EFA and the MDGs. Therefore, and within the overall function of UNESCO as a laboratory of ideas, UNESCO has started to facilitate the process of developing a new vision for education beyond 2015, while looking at the broader connections between education and societal development. UNESCO Bangkok, serving as the Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, will stimulate the shaping of a renewed regional education agenda while enriching global thinking about the international education agenda beyond 2015.
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- UNESCO Bangkok - Detailed paper on emerging trends influencing the future of education policy and delivery (Work in progress) - Forthcoming
- UNESCO Paris - UNESCO Taskforce for Education for the Twenty-First Century (including the Delors Report)
- UNESCO Paris - Beyond 2015: Perspectives for the Future of Education
- UNESCO Bangkok - Reaching the Unreached in Education in Asia-Pacific to Meet the EFA Goals by 2015: A Commitment to Action
- UNESCO Bangkok - Evaluation of the Asia-Pacific EFA Mid-Decade Assessment and Mid-Term Policy Review
- UNESCO Bangkok - Astrolabe: A Guide to Education for Sustainable Development Coordination in Asia and and the Pacific
- UNESCO Paris - Education for Sustainable Development Lens: A Policy and Practice Review Tool
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) - Global Education Digest 2011
- UNESCAP - Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011
- UN Secretary General - Accelerating Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals: Options for Sustained and Inclusive Growth and Issues for Advancing the United Nations Development Agenda Beyond 2015
- UNDP - Accelerating Equitable Achievement of the MDGs: Closing Gaps in Health and Nutrition Outcomes
- WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA and UNICEF - Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- World Bank - Learning for All: Investing in People's Knowledge and Skills to Promote Development
- Janet Dickson, Barry Hughes and Mohammod Irfan - Advancing Global Education (Volume 2: Patterns of Potential Human Progress)
- Mark Bray and Chad Lykins - Shadow Education: Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia
- Ken Robinson - Changing Education Paradigms
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- UNESCO Paris - Education Research and Foresight (ERF) website
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) - International goals website
- Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Millennium Development Goals website
- OECD - Centre for Educational Research and Innovation website
- OECD - Perspectives on Global Development website
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Milone has dominating start in audition for rotation
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Tommy Milone put together his best performance of the spring on Saturday, and it couldn't have come at a better time.
The lefty has been auditioning for a rotation spot all spring, but it wasn't until Friday, when the A's revealed they're likely to start the season without starters Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin, did it become a realistic scenario.
All Milone did Saturday was throw five scoreless innings against the host Giants, giving up three hits and two walks with two strikeouts along the way.
"I worked in the two-seamer a lot more today and felt I was getting a lot of ground balls with it," said Milone, who added the pitch to his repertoire this spring. "I was keeping it low in the zone, so that was good. Keep them on the ground was basically what I was trying to do. It kind of complements my changeup, I think. I can kind of feed off both of them, depending on which one's working that day."
The pitch has given Milone added confidence in his quest to rejoin the rotation. He realizes his window of opportunity has widened, in the wake of his teammates' injuries, but he isn't about to take that for granted.
"I still have to go out there and compete," he said. "I have to throw the ball well and give them a reason to put me in the rotation.
"When two guys go down, it's not ideal, but I think as a team, we're grateful for the depth that we have. We feel like we have multiple candidates that can do the job."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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|Part 2: The major change in BSB4 is that the charts are encrypted, a move that's unfortunately long overdue.
Let's just assume that you'd like as much flexibility with your electronic charts as possible. One route is to use a PC charting program that supports multiple formats. But wait, Maptech, vendor of the best-selling paper-like ChartKit raster charts, just changed its data format to BSB4, and Nobeltec, developer of probably the most popular PC navigation program, VNS, has no immediate plans to support it. Huh? I can't count the boats I've been on that use VNS with ChartKits; there are a lot, but from now on the combination won't work (note that present and future versions of VNS will still run BSB3 and prior).
The major change in BSB4 is that the charts are encrypted, a move that's unfortunately long overdue. For years boaters and even dealers have been swiping Maptech chart CDs like kids downloading tunes. Encryption is another hassle of the digital world, involving phone calls or Web visits and long numbers to be squirreled away for a day you hope won't come, but Maptech claims that its particular technology is thoroughly tested and easy to use. Plus, as a bonus, owners of the format will receive any new chart editions that are issued during the first year. Meanwhile, for the time being, Nobeltec is keeping its software engineers working on current (and interesting) projects rather than modifying VNS for BSB4. The decision is based on the company's confidence in its own Passport vector charts, which are great (and encrypted, by the way), and the availability of its own raster charts, not so great but to be improved eventually.
So if you are a VNS/ChartKit user and want to get new charts, each of the companies will try for all your business (Maptech, after all, has its own improved Offshore Navigator program). Some folks are going to frown on this whole development, but in my view the real monkey business is going on elsewhere, north of the border.
In Canada a small, private company called NDI (Nautical Data International) has the exclusive right to sell or license electronic versions of CHS (Canadian Hydrographic Service) charts. NDI has a history of irritating customers with an early flawed encryption scheme. Now the company is apparently attempting to charge unusually high royalties to the other vendors of Canadian charts. Sparks are flying. Stories vary, but I can confirm that some of the companies that have current agreements are unhappy, and the two that don't—C-Map and Navionics—are very unhappy. Both, in fact, have temporarily stopped shipping Canadian charts (see www.navionics.com for more information). Negotiations are underway and hopefully will successfully be concluded without ghastly price increases. But it's a disturbing trend, especially as an NDI vice president told me that his company is simply pioneering the way as hydrographic offices—and their for-profit sidekicks, I guess—around the world begin to practice "cost recovery."
The situation on this side of the border is strikingly different, and I look forward to detailing NOAA's efforts to vectorize all U.S. charts and give them away. For now I will conclude with some of the big thinking that inspired the column and also puts its worries in perspective. I believe that Enriquez would tell us that the sort of cartography that I've been talking about here is essentially completed; the maps that really sizzle today—the maps that are shaping the future, the maps that might build empires—are being drawn to nano scale by explorers of the human genome. We boat people have already charted the oceans pretty darn thoroughly. Now we're just dotting the "i's" and getting our digital act together. I like to picture a future when these monkey business issues are resolved and perhaps our plotters/computers will even be nimble enough to pull up an antique chart if desired. Just for old times' sake.
This article originally appeared in the March 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Dozens of animal-rights activists rallied outside of the Broward County Governmental Center Tuesday morning in opposition of a proposed ban on pit bulls.
State law does not allow counties to ban certain dog breeds, but commissioner Barbara Sharief has asked her colleagues to consider asking the state legislature for an exception. She wants to ask the state for "home rule control," though the final decision would ultimately be made by the county commission or by putting it to a vote within local municipalities.
Miami-Dade County is the only county in the state that has a ban on pit bulls. Since the county passed the law in 1989, Miami-Dade was grandfathered in and therefore does not violate the state law.
Miami-Dade County voters reaffirmed the ban in 2012. Only 30 percent of voters said that the breed ban should be repealed.
Commissioner Sharief says the southwest Broward County area she represents has become a breeding ground for pit bulls and dogs with pit bull-like characteristics. She contends that it is also a dumping ground for pit bulls for Miami-Dade.
Her proposal is number 52 on the commission agenda for Tuesday morning. It is unclear whether it will be voted upon or passed on for ruling at a later date. The proposal considers asking the state to allow a fine for owners who acquire dogs with pit bull-like characteristics. If passed, it would allow current dog owners to keep their pets.
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Dominguez OK after taking game off
HOUSTON -- Matt Dominguez was back in the Astros starting lineup Tuesday. Dominguez sat Monday as a precaution after being hit on the left elbow by a pitch from Cleveland's Chris Perez on Sunday.
After being hit by the pitch in the ninth inning, Dominguez was removed from the game. An X-ray Monday showed no fracture to the elbow.
"He was actually fine yesterday," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "But a guy getting hit in the elbow and you have an opportunity to give him a day of treatment and an extra day, we just took advantage of that. Matt will be fine moving forward."
Dominguez was back at his regular position at third base Tuesday. He batted eighth in the lineup.
Richard Dean is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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2012 Triggs, John R. and John Mosquera. Cultural Resource Management Archaeology in Bermuda: Ground-Penetrating Radar at Marsden Memorial Methodist Church, Tucker's Town, Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, vol. 22, (forthcoming).
2011 Triggs, John R. A Brave Cedar House: Landscape Archaeology at the Overplus House and Grove. Special Publication, Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 45(1) pp. 141-179.
2007 Fort Bruere 'Ill Laid Out and Wers Executed': Archaeological investigation at Bermuda's Last Homegrown Fort. Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, Vol. 17, 2006.
2006 Peering into the 'Cocoon': Archaeology as a Strategy for Conserving Bermuda's Vernacular Architecture. Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, Vol. 16, 2005.
2005 Social Flux at the Naval Establishment at Penetanguishene, Lake Huron, 1917-1834. Historical Archaeology, vol. 39(2): 105-135. Journal of the Society of Historical Archaeology.
2004 Excavating Below the Hearthstones: Fireside Insights into the Structural Development of Sainte-Marie amoung the Hurons. Volume of Collected Articles on Historic Huron. Huronia Historical Museum (forthcoming).
2004 'The Past Belongs to Us All' in Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America. Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson Jr. eds., Society for Historical Archaeology, pp. 195-199.
2004 The Mississauga at the Head-of-the Lake: Examining Responses to Cultural Upheaval at the Close of the Fur Trade. Northeast Historical Archaeology, the Journal of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, vol. 33: 153-176.
2004 Conservation at Sainte-Marie 1: Masonry Fireplaces Provide New Insight into the Structural Development of the Huron Mission Headquarters. Conference Proceedings of Ontario Archaeological Society Annual Meeting, October 2001, National Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series. (Forthcoming).
2004 Searching for Governor Daniel Tucker's 'Mansion': The First Season of Excavation at Bermuda's Oldest Archaeological Site Outside St. Geroge's. Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, vol. 15: 7-47.
2002 Struggling with structures and stratigraphy: the analysis of superimposed fur trade and war of 1812 period occupations at Burlington Heights. Annual Archaeological Report, Ontario (New Series) vol. 12.


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AN 87-year-old man has been taken to hospital after a crash in Farnworth.
The pensioner, who was driving a red Smart car, hit a black Ford Focus at the junction of Albert Road and Glynne Street, just outside the Shakespeare pub in Farnworth.
Witnesses described the 87-year-old, who had to be cut out of his car by firefighters, as being in a "a bad way" and he was taken to hospital.
His car, which has been destroyed, is on a traffic island and police closed the surrounding roads.
They have now re-opened and police are managing the traffic.
Witness Angela Rothwell, who lives in the Shakespeare pub, said: "We heard a huge bang and came out - there were people everywhere.
"I saw the elderly man - he was in a real state.
"He looked shocked and the ambulance took him to hospital.
"This is a bad corner and there have been accidents here before."
Another witness, who did not wish to be named, said: "This has happened because the filter light on the traffic lights doesn't work, so the older man has obviously thought it was okay to go.
"It's not the first I have seen here - it needs fixing."
Someone else who witnessed the crash and did not want to be named added: "We heard a sound like a gunshot and came running out.
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- UPDATE - Midday June 19 - The man was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital complaining of abdominal and chest pains. He is still in hospital. A spokesman said police were no longer investigating the incident as they do not believe there was any criminal activity.


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Next up for our Winter Design Team is Bev Code! Today's steal, the Crate Paper Acorn Avenue and On Trend Collections are two adorable collections. The 'Acorn Avenue collection' is more of a fall collection with colors and patterns to match. Bev chose the 'On Trend collection', which is full of bright, contrasting colors and patterns and she certainly did a great job on showcasing it!
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This follows the successful transfer of Mesoblast's MPC manufacturing process from the United States to the Singapore facilities of its contract manufacturer Lonza. As the clinical indications pursued under IND by Mesoblast continue to broaden, particularly using intravenous delivery of MPCs for diseases of excessive inflammation and immunity, the Singapore facility will serve to support strategies for new product delineation.
As previously announced, the FDA has agreed that Mesoblast's manufacturing process is acceptable for Phase 3 clinical supplies. Mesoblast plans to use product manufactured in the Singapore plant in global Phase 3 trials.
Mesoblast Chief Executive Professor Silviu Itescu said: "Having multiple geographic sites to manufacture our MPC products to FDA compliance is an integral part of Mesoblast's corporate strategy for product delineation, and offsets risks of single site dependence.
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BOSTON -- The team that showed up for the first A's game of May was nothing like the team that was the best in the American League in April.
For the first time this season the A's were completely not competitive in Friday night's 7-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park.
It wasn't just that the six-run margin of difference was two runs greater than in any of the A's April losses in an 18-10 first month of the season. It was that starter Dan Straily didn't pitch well. Reliever Ryan Cook gave up a grand slam, three of the runners belonging to reliever Dan Otero, who also struggled.
It was that the offense generated no pressure on Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz, a pitcher Oakland had handled with ease in the past. The A's didn't put many men on base, and when they did they were 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position.
Straily wanted to take the loss on his shoulders.
"It was a frustrating day. I was fighting myself," he said. "It felt like I fell behind every single hitter 2-0. When you do that, it's no way to pitch."
Straily was bailed out of a jam in the fifth inning by Fernando Abad. When the sixth inning rolled around, Otero faced four men and three reached base. That led to Cook entering from the bullpen.
Cook turned a 2-1 game into a 6-1 blowout when Dustin Pedroia hammered his 100th major league homer.
"I just hung a slider," said Cook, who had only given up two hits in his first nine appearances.
The right-hander started off throwing two good sliders to put Pedroia in an 0-2 hole. It was the exact opposite of the way Straily pitched, which was good. But the follow-up was disastrous.
"I felt like he hadn't seen a good one," Cook said of Pedroia. "I think it was the right pitch ... if I execute it. If I do, he swings over it or maybe grounds into a double play."
Instead, Pedroia, who hadn't homered in his last 160 at-bats dating back to the middle of last September, hit the top of the wall in left field. The A's challenged that the ball didn't clear the red line at the summit of the 37-foot-high Green Monster, but the review process didn't help the A's one bit.
"Pedroia did what he's supposed to do with it," Cook said.
The A's still have the best record in the A.L. at 18-11 and their starting pitching leads the league in ERA at 2.88.
Straily, though, hasn't been much of a part of that with a 1-2 record and 5.01 ERA. He's the only A's starter to fail to throw at least five innings every time out. Straily's 4??1/3 innings Friday was his second sub-five-inning start.
In a different time and place the A's might begin thinking about their options with Straily. But Oakland has already lost two starting pitchers, Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin, to season-ending Tommy John-style elbow ligament replacement surgery. As deep as they are, the A's don't have an unlimited pool of pitchers.
Still, the A's need to get more competitive innings out of Straily. They'll focus on seeing if he can get back to throwing first-pitch strikes, something he was able to do as a rookie 10-game winner last year.
"When he's not ahead in the count, he can be pretty predictable," manager Bob Melvin said. "He has a lot of weapons, but he's got to be ahead in the count."


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If you've ever craved spiced ham from a can served cheeseburger style for breakfast, you're just the target demo Burger King Japan is hoping to reach with their new line-up of breakfast items.
The Spam burger (¥260, or about $2.50 US), is made with a slice of Spam topped with cheese, tomato, pickles, lettuce, and mayo on a whole wheat bun. According to The Huffington Post, this isn't BK Japan's first brush with Spam. In 2011, the chain introduced Spam sliders, targeting them to women with the slogan "What women want, what women get".
Other items on the new BK Japan breakfast menu include a "Morning Burger" with cheese, a hot dog with ketchup and mustard, a Bolognese burger with meat sauce, a BLT burger, a fish sandwich, and a beef and ham sandwich. For a closer look at all the sandwiches, check out this post on Rocket News.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Tuberculosis Diagnosis
Hi I went to a gulf country where they did my chest x-ray & then they mentioned that I am infected with TB (not sure active or inactive). When I did my chest x-ray in my country it was negative and clear. However, my doctor suggested TBGOLD test which is positive. Now he told me to do a CHEST CT - Kocsh mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Can you please conclude something from this? I am confused. I never took any medicine for TB and no symptoms of the same. Please help.
It sounds as if you had one of the Interferon Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs) for TB done, and the result was positive, which is highly suggestive that you have TB germs infecting you, but doesn't necessarily mean that you are sick with TB disease. You will have to ask your doctor what the results of the chest CT indicate.
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| » Prices drop nearly 5 cents overnight
Just how far the region's gasoline prices have dropped from the sudden, scary peak of nearly three weeks ago could be seen Wednesday at an unbranded station in Calabasas.
Attracting unwanted national attention during the spike, Low-P on Calabasas Road had been charging $5.79 for regular unleaded – and customers were still buying.
On Wednesday, the station was charging $3.999 – about a 30 percent drop.
Similar sharp declines have been seen throughout the region, particularly at unbranded stations, including Costco, that were most affected by the spot market shortages in early October.
Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at market tracker GasBuddy.com, said more price relief is on the way.
"It's moving pretty good right now," he said of the daily price drops. "That's a pretty substantial decline for any market. You could say we're making up for lost time."
DeHaan said regular in the region should be averaging under $4 a gallon by Thanksgiving – just in time for holiday travel.
That's good news for people like Luther Smith. The Bellflower resident owns Luther's Mobile Car Wash and puts about $20 in the tank twice a day. He's logged 345,000 miles on his 2004 spotless Chevy Blazer and was delighted to finally see a 3 as the first digit on the Low-P sign.
He paid 45 cents a gallon more getting gas near his home on Tuesday morning.
"Oh man, it killed me," Smith said of having to pay as much as $4.79 as prices peaked the second week of the month. "I was paying about $60 a day."
Smith has no choice. His clients live in Calabasas and Beverly Hills and he works seven days a week.
Low-P was one of 15 stations in the Los Angeles area under $4 a gallon Wednesday afternoon. The lowest price was $3.89 at a Valero station in Compton, according to LosAngelesGasPrices.com.
That's a real bargain, too, as the National Automobile Club Daily Fuel Gauge Report had regular averaging $4.40 a gallon Wednesday in Los Angeles, down 4cents from Tuesday.
Prices in the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area are now 30 cents under the record high of $4.705 set on Oct. 9.
In the Riverside-San Bernardino area the price of regular fell 5 cents overnight to $4.37 a gallon. That's 32 cents under the record high of $4.688 set on Oct. 8, according to the auto club.
The sudden price spike earlier this month was blamed on a shortage of fuel caused by a power problem at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance and ongoing repairs to a Chevron refinery in Richmond damaged in a fire this summer.
The soaring prices prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to order an early switchover to the winter-blend fuel to boost supplies.
At some stations like Low-P, customers have to pay cash to get the cheapest price. Fuel bought with a debit or credit card cost 10 cents more.
Tanya Barklhordar, Low-P's manager, is glad to see prices falling and customers pumping gas again.
Her wholesale price jumped almost $10,000 per tank load earlier in the month.
"It must be the winter blend for the prices to have dropped as much as this," she said. At one point she had to price regular at $5.79 a gallon and premium at $5.99.
"Thank God, everybody is coming back," Barklhordar said of her customers.
Ronee Pena of Running Springs has been conservative about how many trips he takes out of the San Bernardino Mountains, but the dip in gas prices motivated him to come down the hill for a doctor's appointment Wednesday.
"The prices went down, so now is the time to take care of business," he said.
He fueled up his Chevy HHR at the Arco am/pm mini mart on Base Line in Highland, where prices Wednesday were $4.15 a gallon for regular fuel.
"I think it's great," he said. "But I don't think it's low enough."
Janelle Poole and her husband bought gas for their Honda CRV at the 76 station, also on Base Line, where the price was $4.39 for regular gas.
"Certain things I try to be frugal with, but gas, I just kind of accept it," the Lake Arrowhead woman said.
Auto Club spokesman Jeffrey Spring said that wholesale prices began falling shortly after Brown authorized the switch over to the winter fuel supply.
Wholesale prices took big a drop on Tuesday, with regular falling to $2.73 a gallon from $4.25 on Monday, he said. On Wednesday it fell 5 cents to $2.68 a gallon.
"It's sort of bittersweet news. It's trending down," Spring said of wholesale and retail prices. "This is the trend we should have been seeing in September and October anyway."
Analyst DeHaan said another factor helping drive down prices is that demand is weakening as it always does this time of year.
"There is limited upside potential for prices so a lot of the speculators are getting out of the market," DeHaan said.
Woodland Hills resident Mark Mullen, a contractor, burns lots of gas driving to clients so he's happy to see his operating costs coming down.
"It was horrible," he said of the high prices. "It was cutting my profit by about 15 percent. It's about time they fell."
Despite a more than 25 cent drop in gas prices in areas of the Inland Empire, many motorists say they are still being cautious when it comes to spending money at the gas pump.
"I don't drive as much, and I cut out long trips," said John Ensor of Bakersfield on Wednesday afternoon as he fueled up at the Mobil station on Vineyard Avenue just south of the 10 Freeway in Ontario. "I had to cut out a trip to see my parents."
Ensor is not alone as other drivers say they have felt some relief at the pumps but worry prices can quickly take an upward turn.
"It's still a little iffy," said Saul Villacorta, 30, of El Monte. "Prices are still not low enough."
Tamika Greene, an employee at the Ontario Mobil, said she hasn't seen a major drop in customers since prices reached their peak of $4.68 about a week and a half ago, but she did notice people waiting to fill up.
"Sometimes they would wait for paydays to get a lot of gas, but in between they get just a little (to get them through the week,)" she said.
She has noticed those who had previously bypassed the station for economy gasoline starting to return.
"Sometimes they will ask for $2 just to get them to the Arco station where it's cheaper, but then they come back and say the cheaper gas messed up their system," Greene said.
Staff Writers Melissa Pinion-Whitt and Beatriz Valenzuela contributed to this report. email@example.com 818-713-3743 twitter.com/dngregwilcox


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Hello, after a long pause with webdesign because of studying I'm back.
My experiences is basically only doing websites in dreamweaver, HTML & CSS.
I wanna start doing freelance webdesign and start my own little company.The clients at 95% want to be able to update their websites so therefor I need to learn Wordpress right?
I don't know where to start reading and how I can become good at doing websites with wordpress for clients with their own needs and designs?When you work with wordpress do you still use dreamweaver?
WordPress is really for blogging, so if they want a blog, then WP might be a good fit. If you find you need to build something other than a blog, then it's worth considering a proper CMS before jumping blindly at WP.
I don't know where to start reading and how I can become good at doing websites with wordpress
The WordPress site has a ton of info and some very nice intro tutorials. There are also lots of good books. Do some research.
When you work with wordpress do you still use dreamweaver?
You certainly can use DW. Make changes to the files on your computer and then upload. You can use any code editor, of course.
I guess I'm gonna do websites for small companys, they wanna have a uniqe design and maybe wanna be able to upload pics to a gallery and change some text, maybe add a employer to their team.
What CMS would be for that?
You can do that with WP, but it's sad to see everyone flock towards WP just because it's fashionable, rather than because it's worth using.
There are lots of great CMSes out there, both free and commercial. There are so many threads around here and elsewhere on the web that I think it's time you did some Googling. In the end, no matter what anyone says, you will have to make choices for yourself, because there's no right answer.
[ot]"Wanna" is not English, and this is an English language forum.
I advise you not to use it, as it's really ugly in writing.[/ot]
If you don't have a lot of programming experience, Wordpress might be a good choice for you. Yes there are a lot of other CMS's out there but Wordpress has a ton of add-ons and general support (which you will most likely need).
Wordpress is good for blogging but you can also make a traditional website out of it. In fact, some websites built with wordpress look nothing like a blog like this one,
http://www.hollandsearch.com/or this one,http://toughmudder.com/
You can pretty much make them look like whatever you want to and there is lots of information available if you get stuck.
Hope that helps,
If your experience is primarily with Dreamweaver, you should take some HTML and CSS tutorials and start writing your own code with a text editor. Notepad++ is a great tool for that. The problems with just using Dreamweaver are: 1) You will find some situations where you can't get the page to display exact how you want it. You need to be familiar with HTML and CSS in order to tweak it. 2) The code will be much cleaner if you write it yourself. Code generators often insert extra code that should be cleaned out. Also, you will find that after you learn HTML and CSS (which are VERY EASY to learn) it is quicker or about as fast as using a tool like Dreamweaver.
That being said, in regards to CMS, I like Joomla for a website CMS and Wordpress for a site that primarily wants to blog.
The biggest challenge with setting up websites for any CMS (Joomla and Wordpress included) is understanding templates and learning to create your own from scratch and modify others. You need to familiarize yourself with PHP or you will just become very frustrated with the whole experience!
If you really want to learn how to do things the right way and produce quality websites for your clients, this is what I would recommend for you, based on my own experience: 1. Learn HTML and CSS 2. Learn JavaScript 3. Learn JQuery 4. Learn PHP 5. Learn about the CMS platform(s) that you want to offer your customers
The best book I've come across for Wordpress is "Professional WordPress: Design and Development" by Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern. I've never found a good book for Joomla -- just figured it out myself -- that's where you need to know the other programming languages.
Don't rush into offering a web design business until you're certain that you have the tools, knowledge, and expertise to offer a quality product. There are too many "iffy" or bad web design companies. If you start out and aren't able to provide websites that your clients are paying for, you will quickly be out of business and in addition, will have earned a negative reputation. Good luck!
Only if they primarily want a blog. For a more flexible web site where they can upload content themselves you'd probably do better with a more general CMS such as Joomla or Drupal.
Wordpress is a good platform , as its one of the very popular CMS now a days.
To start learning wordpress you need to learn PHP and mysql before moving to wordpress atleast you must know basics of PHP to move to wordpress. And also the best way is to start with twenty ten child theme start modifying it and play around with the code.
And use this to learn various functions and code of the wordpress codex.wordpress.org


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- Emphasize content quality. It is more important to send content-rich emails than ones only emphasizing a sales pitch. When your contacts receive helpful content, they are more likely to respond to offers. A gardening materials supplier that offers horticulture tips is in a great position to make a sale when prospects need seasonal planting materials. Identify email topics by listening to your readers—the people who take time to contact you are the most likely to become customers. Study their requests, questions, likes and dislikes. Create how-to articles—or even new products or services based on your customers' input—and they will likely remain loyal.
- Apply readership analytics. Evaluate how recipients interact with your emails. Many email services include analytics tools that monitor how much time readers spend with your emails, if they are forwarded to colleagues and which landing pages are visited. Prioritizing your follow-up efforts for individuals who exhibit the greatest signs of interest can materially impact campaign results. For example, Chalaran Direct Marketing helps tourism services and entertainment providers in Barbados maintain a steady flow of business. The company uses a Sage E-Marketing tool to study open rates of its email campaigns to local hotels, and calls recipients who have opened an email multiple times or shared it with a colleague. Charlan also examines messages recipients do not open much in an effort to improve those offers.
- Test methodically. Your emails may look good, have compelling calls to action and pass spam checks, but still exhibit weak open rates. You need to always be isolating and testing specific elements of your campaigns, which takes some time but really isn't difficult. Try one change at a time. Explore what days recipients are more likely to open your email. Divide your list and send each set the same email on different days to see if a specific day produces better responses. Next, determine what time of day people are most willing to open your emails. This could vary by industry or each recipient's role. Again split up your list and send the same email at different times of the day. When there is a specific day and time recipients are most responsive, examine your content. What subject lines gain the best response? Do recipients react more to graphics or text? Consider the placement of your call to action. Is one position more effective than another? Do recipients read lengthy pieces or quick bursts of information?


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I had my laptop out and the television on.
It was 10 minutes before the Oscars started Sunday night, and I was ready to entertain millions of people — OK, dozens … maybe just my mom — on Facebook and Twitter with my witty insights on those wacky Hollywood folks at the Academy Awards.
I got up to get a snack, came back to the family room and found the television off. But it wasn't off. The little green light was still on. It was just empty.
Figuring it was a quick glitch, I turned it off and on a couple of times. I went to post something on my Twitter account. However, that was gone as well.
That's right. I suddenly was pop culturally blind as a bat on perhaps the year's biggest night in pop culture.
No magic button
This had happened with my Internet service a few days earlier, requiring three or four attempts at unplugging the modem until it came back. So I tried that again … and again … and again. It's called "rebooting," I think, and it now applies to all forms of technology and, well, life. For example, when we burned the turkey on Thanksgiving, we just turned the oven off, then back on — voila, a perfectly cooked bird emerged.
It was after my fifth reboot on Sunday that my neighbors probably started hearing the cursing.
I called my service provider, whose name I won't mention (Comcast). I spent the next 40 minutes on the phone with a pleasant young man I suspected might be in another country, who had me recite all sorts of numbers and things while he tried to fix the problem remotely.
Finally, he promised to send someone out to solve the problem as soon as possible. On Tuesday.
I paused, trying to remember if the Oscars would still be on Tuesday morning, sometime between 8 and noon.
Probably not.
This wasn't good. It felt weird — almost claustrophobic. It wasn't just the Oscars I was missing. For the next 36 hours or so, while at home, I wouldn't be able to tell what was happening in the world (I don't trust my cellphone — it's slow, and I don't like the way it looks at me).
I'm hooked
What was worse was realizing what a slave to technology I've become. To add insult to injury: I don't understand technology at all, which makes me feel even dumber for needing it so badly. It's like being the colonized native who lives among advanced settlers but doesn't understand how their big, shiny machines work.
I know I'm not the only one. At least I'm old enough to be familiar with the concept of living without the Internet and having only 13 channels on TV. My kids — whom I frequently throw outside on weekends when their eyes glaze over in front of their iDoodles, or whatever they're called — might need some sort of rehab if technology ever goes away for more than a few hours. It's hard to imagine what it will be like for future generations. For some of us, there is no getting away from the techno trap. Here's an idea: When the high-tech world decides to be uncooperative, call the cavalry, hunker down and read a book (a real one, with paper pages). Or go buy a newspaper (this one, to help keep me employed). That's how I learned about what happened at this year's Academy Awards. They may not be as flashy or fast, but at least newspapers don't disappear in your hands while you're still reading them.
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As people on the East Coast prepare for Hurricane Sandy, they are likely to do what hurricane-preparers have done for years ― stock up on milk, bread and other staples.
"You never know in these types of situations. That's why I bought all the things I did," Cindy Sabol of East Stroudsburg, Pa., told the Pocono Record as she bought powdered milk and other items at a Walmart on Saturday. Read more.
"They're getting milk and bread first, gas second and booze third," store clerk Mickey Grocki told The Westerly Sun in Rhode Island on Saturday.
Millions of people in the Northeast are preparing for Hurricane Sandy to make landfall ― perhaps in New Jersey late Monday or early Tuesday. Forecasters have said it may be the worst storm to hit the Northeast in decades.
A check of newspaper articles over the years have put milk, bread and batteries among the top items that people buy in the face of approaching hurricanes.
But hurricanes often bring power outages. If refrigerators lose power, milk may spoil. That is why powdered milk could be the way to go in these extreme situations.


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Tom Folsom's new book on the life and work of Dennis Hopper is a knockout.
Madman, shaman, mystic, brilliant actor and filmmaker and a complete pain in the neck, Dennis Hopper started out in the early 50s with a chip on his shoulder and enormous talent, falling in with James Dean and appearing in Rebel Without A Cause, though clashes with the director, Nicholas Ray, caused his part in the film to be severely cut down. What followed was an epic journey through the last days of the Hollywood studio system, the making of the counter-culture classic Easy Rider, and his lost masterpiece, The Last Movie, which as Folsom makes clear went through so many different edits that a "definitive" version of the work is almost impossible to identify. After that, a spiral into drugs and madness, and then one of the biggest comebacks in film history in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, a whole second career as a director of his own films, an artist, and a world class collector of other people's work.
Using archival sources and interviews, writing in a free form style reminiscent of both Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Folsom paints a compelling, multifaceted picture of this deeply conflicted and influential filmmaker, pursued by countless demons of his own making, and yet still able to create work of lasting beauty and quality despite it all. I met Hopper just once, at a screening of The Last Movie at Preview Theater in New York in 1971, just before the film came out; I was editing one of my own films there, and stumbled into him in the hallway, looking for change for the Coke machine. He invited me to the screening, which was specially set up for critic Judith Crist — who clearly didn't like or understand the film — and was polite and forthcoming about the difficulties of the film even for an unsympathetic viewer, which Crist clearly was. Universal hated the movie, too, and dumped it in one theater, where it closed in a few weeks; never mind that it had won the Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
For myself, I was knocked out by the film, and had another connection to it — my friend and colleague Brad Darrach at Life Magazine, where I worked as a writer and critic in 1969-70, had gone down to South America for the shoot, and witnessed all the madness, excess and brilliance of the production first hand, so I had a pretty good idea what to expect. Sadly, and somewhat amazingly, the film isn't available legally on DVD, though bootlegs and downloads abound, perhaps appropriately for such an outlaw film. But it would seem that it's time for Universal to put out The Last Movie in an official version, so that everyone can see for themselves what Hopper was capable of when left alone with a decent budget and complete creative freedom, including final cut — one of the most adventurous, challenging, and utterly original movies ever made.
Until then, The Last Movie is yet another "lost" film that needs a DVD release; in the meantime, read Tom Folsom's book.


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Okay, this is just the HD-DVD player. Shortly after picking this up on clearence, I ordered a lot of HD-DVD's because they were HD movies, and they were cheap. Sadly, my 360 died about a month later, leaving my HD-DVD player w/no purpose. So here's what you get.
HD-DVD player updated to play later movies. I bought quite a few movies, but not at home to look and see which ones they are. Here are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Hot Fuzz
Nacho Libre
Knocked Up
Balls Of Fury
The Thing
I Am Legend
Children of Men
Polar Express
Blade Runner
The Bourn Ultimatum
King Kong
That could be all of them, maybe I'm missing a few. Man, I read some crap reviews on how the 360 HD-DVD player wasn't that good, but I got to say the pic was awesome on my Sony Bravia flatscreen. It's a 720p set, and I had it hooked up w/a HDMI cable. "The Thing" was impressive as I watched my old DVD version compared to the HD-DVD version, wow, what details, and that was on all the movies I checked out.
I don't know what is is w/Blu-Ray. I have Kung Fu Hustle and House of Flying Daggars and sadly they don't look half as good as any of the HD-DVD movies I watched. Maybe cuz they're older movies, I don't know, but HD-DVD's definitely look awesome.
For those not in the know, you need to have a Xbox 360 to attach the player to. Make me an offer.


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Brilliant Ways to Set Your Spring Table
Interior designer Ryan Korban might be better known amongst fashion followers than decor devotees. For the past several years, the young talent has been steadily booked by longtime friend Alexander Wang to design a slew of stores for both the fashion designer's Alexander Wang label and Balenciaga (where Wang serves as creative director). With his store design-stuffed calendar permitting little residential projects, Korban admits his taste has evolved. "My style used to be 'more is more,'" say Korban in his NYC apartment. "But my retail work is more pared down and now I am leaning in that direction." Formerly, his maximalist aesthetic consumed his home. "I would fill the surfaces until they couldn't be filled anymore." Then it was time for a cleanse. "I got rid of it all and learned how to edit down with it still feeling accessorized—that's the moment I am in right now."
I love the idea of having a surface by a sofa—whether it's in front or on the sides. I never like a sofa that seems like it's floating by itself.
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