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Becky Thompson is a busy scrapbook designer. She is an online instructor for Big Picture Scrapbooking, a Design Team member for Imagination Project, a Senior Design Team member for Boss Kut and Design Team Coordinator for Zsiage where she is currently looking for two new Design Team members. (See details here). She has her own business Becky Thompson Designs in which she promotes her scrapbooking related work, photography and instructional classes. A sample of her work, entitled "It's All About the Pink," is shown above. This layout was made to celebrate her youngest daughter's obsession with the colour pink.
Becky is a small town girl residing in Western Idaho with her husband of 15 years, Brad, and their 3 children, Samantha (15), Adam (13), and Kristin (10). She describes her scrapbooking style as "classic with a twist." She leans towards using plain backgrounds and adding accents from there, whether it is patterned paper or a new technique she is trying out. Becky loves to "play" and explore new techniques to keep her "growing and learning." As she says, "After all, it's supposed to be fun, and there's nothing more fun than just playing with it and being unafraid to try something new."
Becky's upcoming appearances include the CHA Summer Convention & Trade Show in Rosemont, Illinois from July 21st to 23rd. She will also be at the Memory Trends Conference & Expo in Las Vegas from October 10th to 12th.

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There are things about Jameis Winston we know:
- He won the Heisman Trophy in December.
- He and Florida State won the national championship in January.
- He stole some crab legs last week.
- He's a pretty decent janitor.
Yup, even No. 4 is true. The quarterback, who generally uses his arm to throw game-winning touchdown passes, used it to guide a mop on the floor of North West YMCA in Tallahassee, Fla., this weekend — a stipulation of the 20 hours of community service he was forced to serve after shoplifting $32 worth of crab legs.
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Ray Purvis, the Capital Region YMCA president and CEO confirmed to For The Win that Winston did "janitorial work" four straight days for five hours at a time, last Thursday through Sunday.
"In talking with the staff that supervised his experience, he did some cleaning, mopping, some general cleanup, custodial kinds of activities, and he interacted with some of our members on the fitness floor, and by all accounts was well received," Purvis said. "My staff person tells me he came in and had a good attitude and performed the community service and completed that obligation."reinstated by the baseball program


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The seventeen FP5 External Advisory Groups finished their
work in 2002, and instead twelve new Advisory Groups (AG)
were created to cover the research activities and areas of
The new AGs under FP6 will give the Commission advice on the
overall strategy to be followed in the development in the
various research activities, as well as on the creation of
the European Research Area (ERA). The AGs are run by the relevant
Commission services, which in addition provide the scientific
secretariat and take care of all practical arrangements.
Members participate in the groups in their individual capacity
and each group ensures a balanced participation with respect
to expertise, geographical origin (including candidate and
associated countries), sector of origin and gender. The list
of members of each AG is attached.
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Justin Bieber Baby Mama: Will Mariah Yeater's Embarrassing U-Turn Dissuade Others? (VIDEO)
Mariah Yeater, the woman accusing Justin Bieber of fathering her son, is reported to have dropped her paternity lawsuit against the pop star. Her claim was about to be tested through the submission of a DNA test, which the Canadian singer had decided on taking to prove her claims false.
According to the celebrity website TMZ, Yeater quietly ended her challenge that Bieber fathered her four-month-old son, Tristan Anthony.
Accordingly, two attorneys of Yeater's, Lance Rogers and Matt Pare, have reportedly left the case.
The pressure had been mounting on the California woman to prove her claim that the 17-year-old singer was the father of her child.
Bieber had decided on taking a DNA test to disprove Yeater's claim, upon his return from a European engagement. The singer's attorney, Howard Weitzman, had already informed Yeater's attorneys that the test would be done.
Did Yeater succumb to the pressure of having to face the weight of the law in case her claims were shown to be false?
Accordingly, the singer had planned on suing the woman, once her claims were disproved. Bieber's team believed a law suit would be important as a warning to others that there are consequences for making false charges against celebrities.
Will Yeater's abandoning of her case in the face of tremendous pressure, serve to dissuade others from making the same charges in the future? It is unclear if the Bieber legal team will continue with its plan to sue the 20-year-old woman.


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The Professor and Reuben: Why the Loss of Sitcom Icons Stings
When news broke that Russell Johnson — known to generations of television viewers simply as The Professor from Gilligan's Island — had died, Baby Boomers and post-Boomers alike immediately began expressing their sorrow at his passing, whether through social media or by reaching out to old friends.
When later that same day, it was revealed that Dave Madden, more familiar to most as Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family, had also passed away, the cycle repeated.
Both men lived long lives — Johnson was 89 and Madden 82 at the time of their deaths — and had been largely out of the public eye for decades. More than that, it seems safe to say that many of the people expressing sadness at the passing of the sitcom icons hadn't watched an episode of either of their shows in years. Yet, even with that distance, it still felt as though a relative they had always liked as a child was gone.
For a great number of people over the age of 40, watching sitcoms in syndication was a daily afterschool activity, as much a part of childhood as homework or dodge ball. The cast of The Brady Bunch or The Munsters or The Monkees were as familiar to kids as their teachers, and usually more easily remembered. When an actor that was so intimately a part of childhood memories dies, it brings about an almost visceral reaction, as though some part of the person's youth was just extinguished.
The beauty and comfort of television in the age of online streaming, YouTube and DVDs is that it's easy enough to find reassurance that those shows are still out there somewhere, easy enough to get to with only a couple of clicks. To the millions that quietly — or not so quietly — sang the theme songs to Gilligan's Island and The Partridge Family upon hearing of Johnson's and Madden's deaths, it's nice to know that their work will continue on.
With the fractured television viewing that cable, satellite and online sources have brought about; it's easy to think that these reactions will become more muted in the future; the shared experiences of childhood replaced by target marketing and splintered demographics. Here's a guess, though, that sometime in the distant future, a group of middle-aged people will share a moment lamenting the loss of someone from a current Disney Channel or Nickelodeon show from their youth. After all, while things will always change, those impressions from childhood never truly go away… just as the Professor and Reuben will stay tucked away in people's memories for years to come.


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My husband kindly took me to Ohiopyle State Park this week since the weather's been letting up a bit. I was excited to soak up the winter scenes since I haven't experienced them in years. I also forgot how slippery ice can be! I got teased (rightly so) about being scared to trample on the snow. Thank goodness there were fences on the icy steps or I might have fallen over a not so safe cliff by now. I passed by a lot of places where I'd really like to take some winter portraits of friends/their pets, but I'm not sure who would like to brave the cold for me.
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Join students, staff and faculty in this annual tradition, celerbating those in our community that served in the military. A panel of DePaul Veterans from the Vietnam Era will offer their reflections on veterans at DePaul.
Interfaith Service from 11 am- noon
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Learning to cook can help you to understand idioms such as "out of the frying pan and into the fire" and to avoid having climbed into a frying pan in the first place. Knowledge is power with this Groupon.
$19 for a Three-Course Cooking Session for One ($39 Value)
During 90-minute cooking sessions, participants learn to prepare a three-course meal from start to finish. The meal consists of an appetizer, entree, and dessert, with menus changing every few weeks. Chefs provide all materials and hands-on instruction, unveiling the entire process from food preparation to plating. Each station is equipped with ingredients, tools, an apron, and a chef on hand to help participants through the recipes. In any given week, a participant can choose from four themed menus; examples include Peruvian, Heart Healthy, Scandinavian, and Japanese. Hungry chefs can purchase an additional set of ingredients for $15 each, to make another meal for a friend, or bring an additional participant for $30 ($15 for their ingredients, $15 for their station and instruction). After sessions, participants take their new meals home, heat if necessary, and serve.
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Cook & Go's chefs step out from their hidden kitchens and teach participants the skills necessary to prepare, cook, and serve a variety of quality three-course meals. Each meal centers on a theme such as Peruvian cuisine and light and tasty eats. Preparing each dish under the watchful eye of their instructor, participants then take the cooked meal home, heat if necessary, and serve. During each session, participants earn badges called COOKS, which denote mastery of a certain vital kitchen skill, such as chopping, dicing, or mincing. The New York location represents Cook & Go's first foray on American soil, though it already boasts 14 successful locations throughout France.


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The influence of urban sprawl on farmland prices in Belgium (refereed paper)
Since over half a century, Europe has been undergoing periurbanization; this phenomenon is similar to suburbanisation or 'urban sprawl' in the U.S. Hence, for each plot of land, there is competition for land use (agriculture, urbanisation). We here study the effect of urban sprawl on the price of farmland in Belgium. Using a set of very traditional urban economics variables, we show that the determinants of residential prices also explain the spatial variation of farmland. Indeed, the prospect of conversion from agriculture to residential land uses are high in Belgium, which is a densely inhabited country characterized by a tight urban network and where, moreover, land zoning is permissive. Therefore, urban sprawl largely dominates residential choice since over 40 years leading to fragmented landscapes where agriculture coexists with housing. We here use the Capozza & Hesley (1989) model that was recently developed by Plantinga & Miller (2001) and Cavailhés & Wavresky (2003). This model aims at analyzing urban growth from a microeconomic point of view, where agricultural land is converted in residential plot. Until conversion, the price of farmland is equal to the capitalization of the agricultural land rent; after conversion it is equal to the capitalization of the residential rent. It basically depends upon the commuting distance and the anticipated date of conversion (other determinants are also discussed: Ricardian land fertility, number of inhabitants of the township, income, border effects leading to discontinuities, etc.) A hedonic log-linear equation is used where spatial autocorrelation is controlled by Anselinsà method (1988) and the multicollinearity (if any) by partial least squares (PLS). The same econometric equation is estimated for both developable and agricultural land price. Data were aggregated at the level of the 589 municipalities and made available for an 11 years period (1995-2005). Data are mainly provided by the Belgian National Institute of Statistics (SPF …conomie - Direction Générale Statistiques): for all communes we know the price, surface and the number of transactions per year, for both developable land (but not yet developed) and farmland (meadow and arable land). Distance between the centroid of a commune and the centroid of the closest hub-city is the shortest road distance computed on the real road network (see Vandenbulcke et al., 2007, for more details). Econometric findings show that R2 values are slightly better for developable land (R2 = 0,92) than for farmland (R2 = 0,86), but that the partial R2 value associated to urban influence variables is better for farmland (0,85) than for developable land (0,38)3. The explanation of this paradox can be theoretical (combined effect of distance and anticipated land conversion date), as well as empirical (due to data imperfections: data are aggregated by municipalities). Results also reveal that agricultural prices decrease with distance from job centres and increase with the demographic size of the commune, with population rate of increase, households' income as well as with the contiguity to the coastline. The same variables enter the regression estimated with residential land price. Figure 1 (provisional results) shows the relationship between the slope of land price according to distance to urban centres (CBD) in the 25 urban areas, for farmland as well as developable land. Explaining farmland slope (dependent variable, y-axis) by developable land slope (explanatory variable, x-axis) indeed leads to a high determination coefficient (R2 = 0,62).
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Pittcon puts food safety under the microscope
Safety and quality are top-of-mind concerns for any food professionals; however, the guys in the white coats tend to be the unsung heroes of the food industry. Their full contribution often isn't appreciated until a contamination crisis hits—then, their analytical talents are invaluable.
Science playground
Pittcon 2014, the recent annual conference and exhibition dedicated to analytical technology and techniques, gave laboratory professionals like food technicians the spotlight, if only for a few days. There, Chicago's McCormick Place became a veritable scientific playground, with mass spectrometers and pipettes and laboratory integration software as far as the eye can see.
Granted, a show dedicated to lab equipment probably isn't what anyone would consider sexy. There's no gleaming muscle cars or high-powered sports vehicles to attract the eye, like the Chicago Auto Show that preceded Pittcon by just a few days.
However, while much of the technology on the show floor is geared toward pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and other non-food industries, many the wares on display at Pittcon are important to the food industry. The 2014 exhibitors showcased the latest technology to help food laboratories test for quality, check texture and, most importantly, ensure the safety of their product.
Food-focused conference
The Food Labs Conference, a set of sessions adjacent to the main Pittcon event, brought the technology lessons home. Food safety researchers, forensics experts, educators, and suppliers shared advice on how to make the most out of current and emerging analytical equipment.
Rick Biros, president of Food Safety Tech, said organizers of the Food Labs Conference made sure to provide food safety professionals with sessions covering hard-hitting issues impacting the industry.
"We looked at a variety of issues that encompass food safety," he said. "Sometimes Mother Nature throws us a curveball and we encounter a variety of bacteria that's highly threatening; there's also manmade threats to worry about, such as food fraud."
Companies like Cargill Meat Solutions, Shimadzu, Microbiology International, and others led Food Labs Conference sessions. Topics included texture analysis, food forensics, ready-to-use testing media, and more.
Food Labs speaker Skip Palenik, founder of forensics firm Microtrace, said effective, talented food analysis staff can arrest problems such as pathogen outbreaks or debris contamination, preventing minor incidents from becoming major headaches.
"Food contamination complaints can quickly escalate," he said. "A fast, competent response can address consumer concerns, while reducing media and financial exposure."
Palenik added true professionals in the food lab handle every sample with a high degree of care.
"The best food forensic labs treat food samples the way they would if it were evidence for a murder case," he said. "Any sample could potentially end up in litigation."
The bottom line
Pittcon isn't the right show for everyone on a food operation's payroll. Consumer packaged goods executives care about food safety, but drilling that down specifically into the science stuff could make their eyes glaze over.
However, any food or beverage-focused operation would be wise to send at least a few food safety staffers to Pittcon. If a company wants to arm its quality and safety personnel with advanced, effective, integrated laboratories, Pittcon is a great place to find the equipment to make it happen.


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This week I would like to explore some of the special preparedness needs of the senior and elderly members of our families and communities. At first blush, you may be saying, "Yes, I understand that there are elderly people but how would their needs be any different than mine?".
That is a great question and certainly one that I have asked myself. But consider this: the elderly are less mobile and far less likely to be able to evacuate on their own. Their eating habits may be more finicky and, for health reasons, restricted. The need for life-sustaining prescription medications and medical devices increases with age, and perhaps most difficult of all, the a sense of fear may result in profound depression as the familiar and comforting world around them has changed.
For those embarking upon the family preparedness lifestyle, it is important to consider the special needs of elderly adults and to help educate and assist them now, before they experience a true SHTF situation caused by natural, man made or economic disasters.
The checklist below is designed to be shared one on one with members of our older adult population (our moms and dads, grandparents, and neighbors). Review this list and use it as a guideline for initiating a discussion with these important members of our community.
1. Prepare Now for a Sudden Emergency
In the event of a disaster, local and rescue workers will do their best to arrive quickly but there may be physical or other impediments to a swift recovery effort. The key is to prepare now for a sudden emergency. Here are some things you can do:
- Assemble a disaster kit that includes food, water, first aid items, a flashlight, batteries and some cash.
- Arrange to have someone check on you on a periodic basis.
- Plan and practice the best escape routes from your home.
- Get to know the types of emergencies most likely to occur in your geographical area and find a safe place to shelter in your home if disaster strikes.
- Create window signs that you can use to signal the need for assistance.
- Post emergency phone numbers close to your phone. Do not rely on your memory. If you require special equipment (medical devices, oxygen, wheel chairs), keep a list and the location of operating instructions handy so that rescue workers can find them.
- Be prepared to defend yourself. Get some pepper spray or even some aerosol hair spray to squirt at an intruder who is trying to loot or otherwise steal your stuff.
2. Take Care of Your Medical Needs
- Assemble some spare medical supplies in an easy-to-carry, transportable container such as a backpack, shoulder bag, or duffle bag. Include a 7 to 14 days supply of prescription medicines and be sure to include written instructions regarding the dosage, and a list of allergies, if any.
- Pack up an extra pair of glasses (even if they are old) and hearing aid batteries
- Label your stuff. This includes your bags or other containers, walkers, canes, wheelchairs or anything else that you are likely to need.
- Make a copies of your medical insurance and Medicare cards and include them with your medical supplies along with a listing of your doctors. Also include a list of the style and serial number of medical devices such as pacemakers. Share copies of these documents with a trusted family member or friend.
3. Prepare for a Possible Evacuation
- Learn how to shut off water, gas and electricity.
- If you can, take your pets with you. But, also keep in mind that pets may not allowed in shelters. Ask! If not, you will need to allow for sufficient food and water for an extended period. Put a sign in the window indicating that there are pets inside.
- Leave a note taped to the refrigerator or elsewhere indicating when you left and where you are going.
4. Assess Your Physical Limitations and Coordinate a Plan for Assistance in Advance
- Contact a friendly neighbor in advance and make them aware that you have limitations that will preclude your evacuation in an emergency. Ask for their assistance in helping you or in contacting family members.
- In the event of an evacuation, wear warm clothing (even if it is hot outside) and sturdy shoes. You can always peel away the extra clothing later if you are too warm.
- Make sure that someone you know has an extra key to your home and knowledge of where you keep your emergency supplies.
- If you don't already have one, get a cell phone. In most recent disasters, cell phone service was active long before land lines became functional.
What else can you do?
In addition to having a discussion with the older adults in you life, I would like to suggest that you help them gather supplies and educate them regarding the proper storage of extra food and water. You know what I am talking about: keep your supplies sealed and keep them cool.
You also might want to consider putting a Bug Out Bag together to give to them as gift, or to take them shopping to purchase the necessary supplies.
Perhaps most important of all, you can start to educate the elderly so that when and if the time comes, they are less fearful and less inclined to panic or worst case, shut down completely. I highly recommend that you download this free booklet, Red Cross Disaster Preparedness for Seniors By Seniors which was written a group of older adults who experienced a two-week power outage during a ice storm. It is excellent.
Enjoy your next adventure through common sense and thoughtful preparation!
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Adventure Medical Kits Trauma Pack with QuikClot: This trauma kit is designed to stop bleeding and control serious trauma at the scene so more advanced care can be sought later.
QuikClot Sport Advanced Clotting Sponge: A must for any first aid or emergency kit, Quikclot Sport stops moderate to severe bleeding until further medical help is available.
The Emergency Bandage 6″ (Israeli Bandage): This 4″ wide, all-in-one device consolidates multiple first-aid devices such as a primary dressing, pressure applicator, secondary dressing, and a foolproof closure apparatus to secure the bandage in place.
Cyalume SnapLight Chemical Light Sticks: Read all about light sticks at Lighting Your Way With Chemical Lighting.
Emergency Mylar Thermal Blankets (Pack of 10): You will be surprised at how warm these will keep you. Be sure to test one out in advance so that you have the confidence to trust the blanket in an emergency.
Emergency Shelter Tent: The Emergency Tent is a lightweight and compact emergency shelter. It is wind and waterproof and easy to set up and is roomy enough for two people. Less than $10.
Emergency Sleeping Bag: Another low cost item designed to keep you warm in an emergency situation.
Camouflage Nylon Military Paracord 100 Feet: I need to write an article on the many uses of paracord. Pick your favorite color but be aware that different colors are priced differently. Me? I get the color that is the least expensive although I must admit the camouflage is my favorite.
Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets: Potable Aqua Water Purification Tablets make questionable water bacteriologically suitable to drink. Easy to use and the water is ready to drink in 30 minutes. One 50 tablet bottle treats 25 quarts of water.
UCO Stormproof Matches, twin pack (50 matches): This is another one of those items most people forget about. Each match burns for about 15 seconds even if it is windy, rainy, or cold.
Streamlight 73001 Nano Light Miniature Keychain LED Flashlight: This small and super-bright light, features a high-intensity, 100,000-hour LED that will last up to eight hours on four alkaline button cell batteries which are included.
Shop the Emergency Essentials Monthly Specials: The monthly specials at Emergency Essentials feature discounts of up to 35% off sometimes a bit more.
I have wanted to let you know about their Do it Yourself SuperPail Combo all month but it has been on backorder. The combo kit now appears to be in stock and is great deal at $69.99. It includes 8 x 6-Gallon Buckets with Lids, 8 x Metallized Storage Bags and a 10-Pack of Large Oxygen Absorbers.
Don't forget that you do not need fancy equipment to seal the metalized bag. A cheap hair iron will do the job.
Conair Flat Iron 2″ Ceramic Straightener: I use a hair iron to seal my Mylar bags. Forget about a hose and a vacuum sealer. A $20 hair iron works great – just be sure to get one with 2" plates.
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Udupi: Rev M R T Pal (86), retired pastor of the Church of South India (CSI) southern Karnataka diocese, died in a hospital here on Oct 28.
He had been critically injured when a bike had hit him while crossing the road in front of the church of Mother of Sorrows here on Oct 27.
He had retired after serving for many years in places like Kundapur, Mumbai, Haleyangadi, Uchila, Mulki and others.
Besides being a religious scholar, he had shown keen interest in social service, linguistics, Homeopathy and many other subjects.
He is survived by wife, a son and two daughters. His funeral cortege will leave residence 'Dhanya', Main Road, Vasuki Nagar for CSI Jubilee Church, Udupi at 4 pm on Thursday, Oct 29 for prayer service, followed by interment in Udupi cemetery.
Contact: + 91 98804 25099


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11-year-old Carson Huey-You scored 1770 on the SAT, graduated with a 4.0 GPA and was co-valedictorian of his senior class at Accommodated Learning Academy in Grapevine. Now he's attending Texas Christian University and wants to become a quantum physicist. He's expected to graduate when he's 15 or 16.
Published at 7:21 PM CDT on Aug 27, 2013 | Updated at 12:50 AM CDT on Aug 29, 2013


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HOOVER, Ala. (WIAT) – Fresh off a 10-3 season and a loss to Clemson in the Chik-fil-A Bowl, the LSU Tigers are poised to be strong contenders in the SEC West and in the national championship hunt in 2013. Eight starters return to an offense that struggled in 2012.
Of those starters, senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger is the one who will be looked to as the catalyst, the driving force of the Tigers' hopes and aspirations during the upcoming season.
"Our quarterback, Mettenberger, threw for 2,600 yards a year ago and 12 touchdowns. We expect that quarterback play will be much better," head coach Les Miles said of his signal caller. "Certainly the experience and the want that he has, has helped in leadership, the commitment of a summer program, has all been seen."
Mettenberger has the opportunity to lead an LSU offense that returns its top two running backs as well as its top four receivers from 2012. Sophomore running back Jeremy Hill, who lead the Tigers with 755 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns in 2012, has been involved in legal issues during the offseason. Miles took time to address his standing on the team on Thursday morning.
"Jeremy Hill has a legal entanglement. At this point in time he remains indefinitely suspended. I have a track record with really disciplining my team," Miles explained, "We go through the same process that all of my guys will go through. Frankly, you know, we're gathering information as we go. So he's been separated from his team and teammates for the summer."
PHOTOS: LSU Tigers Media Day
The LSU offense will have to adjust to a new person calling the shots this season. Les Miles hired former Baltimore Ravens and San Diego Chargers offensive coordinator Cam Cameron for the same role, and Miles is confident about his ability to be successful in Baton Rouge.
"Offensively, Cam Cameron will come in. Knowing him as a mentor to quarterback play, knowing him as a quality man and friend, knowing what he'll really do for us in a play-calling position. We're looking forward to this offense," he said of Cameron. "We feel like we'll have an opportunity to be very dominant there. Certainly they're playing much more confidently."
Miles, as is usually the case when he makes an appearance at SEC Media Days, provided plenty of laughs during his time holding court with reporters on Thursday morning. He discussed what he's done during the offseason, but he was quick to note that he's ready to get back to football.
"I repelled down a building. I don't know that that was all it was cracked up to be. It was tall. It was up there. I spent hours at kids' games," he explained. "My son, the eldest, is baseball. He's currently in Pensacola. I told him to come over for it. He said, 'No.' Baseball. I went to Elite 11 as a father, got in the 'dad line,' watched my eldest son compete in a camp in Columbus, Ohio.
"I watched countless baseball games with Ben and Manny, my eldest daughter, who is a swimmer, is home for the summer. We have certainly enjoyed that family peace. . . . So summer went fast. I had no vacation. But I'm looking forward to football, in case you wondered."
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LablGL is an OpenGL interface for Objective Caml. Since it includes
support for the Togl widget, you can comfortably use it with LablTk.
All of the GL and GLU libraries are available. Read a good book
about how to use these. Translating from OpenGL to LablGL is rather
straightforward: there is a LablGL function for each OpenGL one. For
ease of retrieving, both GL and GLU are cut in smaller modules of
related functions.
Please see ${PREFIX}/share/doc/ocaml/lablgl/README for further information.
WWW: https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/lablgl/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/graphics/ocaml-lablgl/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install ocaml-lablgl
cd /usr/ports/graphics/ocaml-lablgl/ && make install clean
pkg install ocaml-lablgl
PKGNAME: ocaml-lablgl
SHA256 (lablgl-1.05.tar.gz) = d8ff03e35b970d2b23a942f9e6ed65da5a6c123986bd0ecf5424a6205af34b61
SIZE (lablgl-1.05.tar.gz) = 296597
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
===> The following configuration options are available for ocaml-lablgl-1.05_2,1:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
THREADS=on: Threaded Tcl/Tk (must match lang/ocaml)
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
gmake tk:85
Number of commits found: 49
Convert USES of tcl or tk from 84,85 to 85
Revision bump of all ports with USE_GL after consolidation of mesa-libs
Approved by: swills (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10845
Reset ports maintained by bf@ until he has time again to work on them.
Submitted by: jbeich
With hat: portmgr-secretary
- Add USE_OCAML_CAMLP4 and USE_OCAML_TK to bsd.ocaml.mk which add
depends on the camlp4 language and labltk ocaml modules, which are
now in separate ports.
- Update x11-toolkits/ocaml-lablgtk2 to 2.18.3
- Update graphics/ocaml-lablgl to 1.05
- Make unison ports use USE_OCAML
- Convert ports to the new flags where needed
- Bump PORTREVISION on ports depending on ocaml-lablgtk2, those need to be
Submitted by: jbeich@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2434
Approved by: portmgr (mat)
graphics category: Remove $PTHREAD_LIBS
graphics/zbar didn't pass check-plist (pre-existing), fixed.
approved by: PTHREAD blanket
Cleanup plist
Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
to GCC 4.8.3.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Tested by: antoine (-exp runs)
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Cleanup Makefiles to allow further work on these ports.
Use staging
Repair instances, almost all courtesy of bf ;-), of spaces
and/or tabs before the =. This made doing regular expressions
on the ports tree really difficult.
Approved by: portmgr (not really, but touches unstaged ports)
Reset maintainership for ports not staged with no pending PR
With hat: portmgr
The FreeBSD x11@ and graphics team proudly presents
a zeising, kwm production, with help from dumbbell, bdrewery:
This update switches over to use the new xorg stack by default on FreeBSD 9
and 10 stable, on osversions where vt(9) is available.
It is still possible to use the old stack by specifying WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in
/etc/make.conf .
FreeBSD 8-STABLE and released versions of FreeBSD still use
the old version.
A package repository with binary packages for new xorg will
be available soon.
This patch also contains updates of libxcb and related ports, pixman, as well
- Missed a TK-related variable
- Convert to USES=gmake tk
- Fix LICENSE
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- adoption of optionsNG
- convert to USES in some cases (pkgconfig,pathfix)
- trim COMMENT/historical headers in some cases
Approved by: portmgr (miwi)
- Get rid of USE_TCL_THREAD and USE_TK_THREAD usages
Switch from libglut to freeglut and retire libglut. Libglut hasn't been
developed in years and has been dropped from the MESA 8.0 distribution.
Freeglut is a rewrite of glut and is actively developed and is used by
many linux distributions instead of libglut.
Bump all ports that directly depend on libglut because of the shlib version
There are some extra items in this patch.
*) Because freeglut doesn't have the same dependancies as libglut, some ports
need extra dependencies added to USE_XORG to make them build.
*) Mark graphics/f90gl broken, f90gl depends on a header that is only shipped
with libglut.
*) Remove option for libglut/freeglut selection in games/cake, only freeglut
remains now.
*) While here fix a png related build issue games/vegastrike.
Thanks to miwi for running the exp-run.
Approved by: portmgr (miwi)
Collaboration with: zeising@
Obtained from: xorg-dev staging area.
add a mirror
Feature safe: yes
update to 20120306; fix Tcl/Tk dependencies and CONFLICTS [1];
add LICENSE and WWW
Adopt during Stas's hiatus
Approved by: stas
- Return my ports back to the pool. I was unable to make any fixes to
my ports in the past 3 weeks while ports were broken on any 10.x
machines, which means I'm unable to maintain them. So let people know
that there's no available support for them until things are back to
normal (which also means that anyone with spare time will be able
to fix them without getting approval).
-remove MD5
- Bump portrevisions on all ocaml libraries, as it appears that compiled
interface files (.cmi) are not backward compatible with a newer ocaml
PR: ports/156195
Suggested by: mandree
Fix typo.
- Mark MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE
Reported by: pointyhat
- Update to 1.04.
PR: ports/132679
Submitted by: Hirohisa Yamaguchi <email@example.com>
- Add forgotten patch file.
- Make ocaml-lablgl to work with tk versions above 8.4.
PR: ports/133113
Submitted by: Scot Hetzel <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Update X.org ports to 7.4+ (few ports are more recent than the katamari).
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libglut since the shlib
version number went from 4 to 3.
- Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libXaw as libXaw.so.8 isn't
installed anymore.
- Couple of ports fixes (mostly missing xorg components added to USE_XORG).
- Update to 1.03.
- Remove unneeded dependency from gtk12/gtk20 [1]
- Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG
- Remove X11BASE support in favor of LOCALBASE or PREFIX
- Use USE_LDCONFIG instead of INSTALLS_SHLIB
- Remove unneeded USE_GCC 3.4+
Thanks to all Helpers:
Dmitry Marakasov, Chess Griffin, beech@, dinoex, rafan, gahr,
ehaupt, nox, itetcu, flz, pav
Tested on: pointyhat
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
- COPYTREE_* are now part of bsd.port.mk
PR: ports/100996
Submitted by: stass
Switch to using new files Mk/bsd.ocaml.mk [1] and Mk/bsd.xfce.mk [2].
Submitted by: Stanislav Sedov <ssedov at mbsd dot msk dot ru> [1], oliver [2]
- Remove unexisting mirror.
- Change my email
Approved by: sem (mentor)
- Depend on TK'ied OCaml (we need this)
- Use new OCaml framework
- Use version-independent patch (via sed)
- Install examples efficiently
- Use common ocaml examples/docs directory
- Update to 1.02
- removed files/patch-ab
- new maintainer: Stanislav Sedov
PR: ports/101127
Submitted by: Stanislav Sedov
Approved by: Ronald Kuehn (old maintainer)
Approved by: krion@
- Update graphics/libglut to 6.4.1.
- Shared lib version and PORTREVISION bumb for all affected ports.
While I'm here:
- Remove USE_MESA knob where it was (35 ports).
It marked as depricated for 2 years.
PR: ports/90247
Submitted by: Ermal Lu?i <firstname.lastname@example.com>
PR: ports/77130
Submitted by: Marius Nuennerich <email@example.com>
unbreak by adding missing dependency
BROKEN: Does not compile
The change of the lang/ocaml port to use tcl/tk 8.4.x broke
graphics/ocaml-lablgl. This patch updates lablgl to 1.00 and
changes it to also use tcl/tk 8.4.x. Summary of changes
from CHANGES:
split togl, move examples to Togl/examples; add mingw support;
reorganized directories and Makefiles; merge ijtrotts' LablGlut;
add glArray support.
PR: ports/63246
Submitted by: Ronald Kuehn <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
This is broken on 4.x as well.
BROKEN on 5.x: does not compile
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 2)
update graphics/ocaml-lablgl: 0.98 -> 0.99
Submitted by: Ronald Kuehn <email@example.com> (maintainer)
lablgl -> ocaml-lablgl
lablgtk -> ocaml-lablgtk
Approved by: portmgr,maintainer
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No vulnerabilities have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
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City of Lemon Grove, CAHome Menu
Fair Housing
To view the documents below, click the following links to documents.
Housing discrimination is illegal. If you believe you have been the victim of housing discrimination, please call the Center for Social Advocacy at 619-444-5700. Free services are available.
If you are having a problem with your landlord, tenant, roommate, or neighbor, call the Center for Social Advocacy at 619-444-5700. Mediation services are provided free of charge for Lemon Grove residents and landlords.
Crime Free Multi-Housing Training for Property Owners/Managers
The CRIME FREE MULTI-HOUSING PROGRAM (CFMH) is successful because it approaches crime on many fronts. Law enforcement cannot solve crime problems alone. Neither can the management or residents of rental properties. However, by working together, the end result has been the most successful approach to crimes in rental communities.
There are three ways criminal activity comes into a rental community:
- The criminal lives there
- They visit friends there
- They come to the property to commit crimes
The CRIME FREE MULTI-HOUSING PROGRAM addresses all three of these possibilities. By implementing the principles of the program, property owners and managers not only reduce the likelihood of crime in the community, they also reduce the number of visitors who come to the property with criminal intent (i.e., to purchase or sell drugs).
For the opportunistic criminal, the CFMH Program uses C.P.T.E.D. (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) techniques to combat crimes that might occur in the parking lots or common areas, including assaults, robberies, drive-by shootings, and auto thefts.
If law enforcement, property managers and residents will make a dedicated effort to crime prevention and the CRIME FREE MULTI-HOUSING PROGRAM, the outlook for success is extremely high. We appreciate your efforts to make our community a safer place to live and enjoy for many years to come.
Rental property owners/managers interested in participating in the CFMH program can contact their local Crime Prevention Specialist
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David Reid
Virginia House of Delegates, District 32
Help elect David
David, a native Virginian, served 23 years in the US Navy Reserve, as a Naval Intelligence Officer, where he retired as a Commander (the equivalent of a US Army Lieutenant Colonel). While in the Navy, CDR Reid was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal, the Navy Achievement Medal, and the Director of Central Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation. CDR Reid made two deployments to South Korea, one deployment to Iceland, a field deployment with the US Army, and participated in a NATO exercise onboard the USS Mount Whitney.
David has over 30 years of experience in strategic management, banking, global telecommunications, and the defense industry. He also volunteered as a recreational and travel soccer coach, and team manager for Ashburn, Loudoun, and Reston soccer clubs. David is also a national and state certified soccer referee, where he still referees high school soccer games in the Ashburn area.
David and his wife of 22 years have lived in Ashburn since 2000. Their eldest daughter is now a junior at the University of Virginia and their youngest daughter is a sophomore at Lynchburg College.
David holds a B.A. in Political Science from Northeastern Oklahoma State University and a Master's Diploma in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College.


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Classic NES Series: Metroid
Title Data
- Genre:
- Action Adventure > Open-World
- Developer:
- Nintendo
- ESRB Descriptor(s):
- Mild Fantasy Violence
- Number of Players:
- 1 Player
- Wikipedia (EN):
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_(video_game)
Release Data
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ATLANTA - The Louisiana Superdome and the area around it is as quiet as Bill Curl has ever seen this time of year.
The Sugar Bowl logos normally plastered throughout the 30-year-old stadium have been replaced by construction scaffolding.
The hustle and bustle of college football fans in from out of town is absent, substituted by the methodical sounds of hammers and drills trying to repair what seemed irreparable five months ago when Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans in tatters.
"It seems like there should be more going on," said Curl, spokesman for the Louisiana Stadium/Exposition Authority. "The people and the workers who are here helping to try to rebuild the city aren't the same people going up and down the streets chanting their teams' names and getting fired up about a football game."
All of that pomp and circumstance has been transported 424 miles east to Atlanta. And if Curl gets his wish, the ruckus and the barge-load of revenue brought in by Sugar Bowl revelers will be back in the Crescent City in 2007.
"It's New Year's and we don't have a lot to celebrate here, but we haven't lost our balance," he said Friday. "It's one of our biggest events of the year. It's critically important to the commerce of the city. At a time like the holidays, when most inner cities are dead in the water, we're packed with people because of the Sugar Bowl. The Sugar Bowl is what drives the train."
Not 24 hours after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, Sugar Bowl officials knew there was no chance of playing their annual game at the Superdome. Bowl president Mark Romig said the Sugar Bowl committee had two options: Play at LSU's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge or the Georgia Dome Atlanta.
"We knew the BCS was going to be looking at us very carefully," he said. "We wanted to try LSU because if we could keep the economic impact in the state Louisiana as much as possible, we're talking $150 to $200 million a year.
"Baton Rouge could've worked if the hotel rooms in New Orleans were available. We normally need anywhere between 30,000 to 32,000 room nights for three days, plus the ancillary days beforehand. But half the rooms are available and the other half are filled with FEMA workers, construction people and insurance workers. And evacuees are still staying in the hotels."
Romig and company had no other choice. For the first time in 72 years, the Sugar Bowl would be played outside of Louisiana. And the for the first time since 1975, the Superdome would be empty around the New Year.
Curl said most folks affiliated with the Superdome were fine with the Sugar Bowl's decision to head to Atlanta for one year.
"It was a good fit," he said. "That was a massive undertaking for an event of that magnitude to relocate the entire staff and all of their volunteers. It's so much more than a football game with the activities and the all the logistics. They've been working their tails off at a difficult time when they've got their own problems at home."
At the latest, Curl said the Superdome will probably be ready to host games on Nov. 1, 2006, which would allow the Sugar Bowl to return to its original home.
Former quarterback Archie Manning, a New Orleans and Sugar Bowl committee member, sure hopes so.
"It's a big part of New Orleans," Manning said this week while in Atlanta. "In this big tragedy, you say, 'Where does sports stack up?' Well it's down the line when you talk about the loss of life and loss of home and loss of businesses. As we rebuild, sports has a place there not only for the Saints and the Sugar Bowl and Bayou Classic, they have an economic impact on our city that we need on rebuilding, they also have a big emotional impact.
"It's very important for us to get the Dome back up and going and get the Sugar Bowl back."
Said Romig: "Atlanta will reap nicely from the Sugar Bowl. But once again, it's being missed in Louisiana greatly."
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With the growing interest in sustainability and corporate social responsibility emerging in Dubai, leadership on workers' rights will make the "S" in CSR more meaningful.
With the growing interest in sustainability and corporate social responsibility emerging in Dubai, leadership on workers' rights will make the "S" in CSR more meaningful.
Obama nailed the GOP when it comes to energy issues, while speaking at the University of Miami last week.
Maybe it's time to start thinking differently about green and smart buildings. Expand the skyline, so to speak. A better approach — and one that is gaining increasing attention and study — would be to plan and work for green, sustainable and carbon-neutral cities.
Water-Gen developed a technology that turns air into water, in order to ensure that military troops have available drinking water even in rough field conditions. The system can be installed on any vehicle and produce 40-80 liters of drinking water per day.
A transatlantic organic equivalence arrangement has been negotiated between representatives from the US Department of Agriculture and EU Agriculture and Regional Development department, allowing for more market access of organic products certified under both the EU and US organic standards. This means that although these sets of standards do contain certain variances, the US National … Continued
By Dr. Lawrence S. Levin One of the most essential yet difficult variables that distinguishes top teams from most executive teams is their ability to engage in honest, candid, and authentic dialogue. Dialogue (from the Greek dia-logos) literally means an exchange of ideas. In our work with teams, and in our observation of top teams, … Continued
A recent editorial in The Economist would have us believe that of all the problems facing the oceans—acidification, plastics pollution, decline of habitat—overfishing is the easy win, the simple fix. Really, the article argues, this whole overfishing mess is the fault of fishermen. If fishers would just wise-up to the long-term environmental consequences of taking too much, they would make the well-informed and uncomplicated choice to just simply catch fewer fish. This naive finger-pointing exercise is about as helpful and logical as driving past an unemployment line and yelling out the window, "Get a job!"
The world's most famous toy company, Lego, recently announced a massive investment in wind energy. Kirkbi A/S, the family holding company that owns Lego, will be buying wind turbines for almost $532 million for a 32 percent stake in DONG Energy's 277-megawatt Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm, which is scheduled to be fully operational in 2015. According … Continued
UK-based New Economic Foundation (NEF) recently issued a report about the economic losses incurred due to overfishing.
Unless governments work actively to build a brighter future for humanity, climate change, poverty and loss of biodiversity will worsen and continue to exacerbate existing global problems, top scientists warned ministers attending the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) governing council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.
A six month investigation conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek found evidence of debt bondage on fishing vessels operating in New Zealand's waters. The report traces the controversial seafood sources to popular U.S. retailers and restaurants.
President Obama announces $30 million in new funding for natural gas vehicles and $14 million for new algae biofuel projects.
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One of the most inspired works that I've seen from highly-regarded filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, "24 Hour Party People" is a docu-drama that takes a fascinating look at the rise of the Manchester music scene (New Order, Happy Mondays) through the eyes of journalist and founder of Factory Records, Tony Wilson (Steven Coogan). Those who have no - or little - idea about any of this music (such as myself) will still likely find themselves wrapped up in this presentation of the rise of the scene, as there's more than enough comedy and wit to make for a compelling presentation.
Take an early scene for example, where Tony watches an early Sex Pistols concert, with an audience of maybe 40. Talking to the camera, he points to various people around the room who will go on to become famous and play in front of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. Wilson talks up the bands from this new scene on his television show, books them at a new club he opens up and eventually starts Factory records, which we see go from a remarkable success to finally closing up shop shortly after the rave scene begins, closed down by the rise of drugs and violence. The opening scene, a darkly funny bit of business where Wilson takes a nasty fall while hang-gliding, is an appropriate way to start the picture.
The movie works surprisingly well, if mainly because Winterbottom has a remarkably good idea on how to play the tone and structure. The film doesn't take itself entirely seriously (see a scene about pigeon poisoning that turns into something like a cross between "The Birds" and "Apocalypse Now" or another bit where Wilson talks to the camera about a scene that "will likely be on the DVD"), with Coogan's often incredibly sharp and funny performance able to make light of the situations (some of the direct-to-camera lines are very funny) and be serious when it's called for. He's kind of a jerk and certainly has an ego, but Coogan's performance still makes the character sympathetic.
Also, Winterbottom's somewhat unorganized structure to the film and the way it uses different film stocks and digital video makes for a film that feels real. I'm not a fan of digital video (it either looks good or terrible), but it's used well here. While one can still tell it's DV, it looks fairly smooth and the camerawork is effective.
Other than the fact that the rave material in the last quarter started to drag out a bit (before the film picks back up towards the end), the film was definitely a pleasant surprise. Winterbottom and the screenwriter have done a fine job tracing the history of this scene, making it clearly understandable for non-fans (everyone's followed one musical "scene" at one point or another and may be able to relate) and likely enjoyable for those who followed the music.
The DVD
VIDEO: "24 Hour Party People" is presented by MGM/UA in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen. The presentation quality is, considering the material, perfectly fine. This is a fairly low-budget feature, which looks to have been filmed on digital video (although I couldn't find anything to confirm that. Still, for DV, it looks pretty decent) and contains quite a bit of archive footage. Throughout the film, sharpness and detail varies up quite a bit, as the picture offers some scenes that look fairly crisp and defined and other low-light indoor scenes that lack fine detail.
Aside from understandably so-so definition at times, the picture thankfully doesn't suffer from too many other faults. Edge enhancement is noticable at times, but only appears rather briefly. Some of the archive footage is a bit scratches up, but the new footage only shows some grain - no marks or scratches. A couple of traces of pixelation were spotted, but these were hardly much of an issue.
The film's color palette is intentionally dreary, but looks fairly solid here, with only a little bit of smearing on occasion, but no other concerns. While not without some faults, MGM has done a respectable job with material that was likely somewhat difficult to get just right on DVD.
SOUND: "24 Hour Party People" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 by MGM. The film's soundtrack is generally very good, with the music sounding crisp and dynamic, with nice reinforcement from the surrounds. Although most of the film's soundtrack comes from the front speakers, the surrounds do contribute nicely when the material calls for it. The only issue that I found with the soundtrack was that the dialogue occasionally seemed slightly low in the mix, requiring the volume to be turned up a bit and then turned down a bit when the music came back in loudly.
EXTRAS: The DVD includes two commentaries, one by producer Andrew Eaton and actor Steve Coogan; the other with the real Tony Wilson. Wilson offers a somewhat inconsistent (some patches of silence) track, but he offers the same sharp sense of humor in discussing his real-life stories that Coogan does in the picture itself. We here more about the music scene throughout, as well as some very funny jokes about the events of Wilson's own life. He also freely admits what he doesn't like about the film. Browsing through this track, I found it both highly informative and entertaining. While I thought the Wilson track had a few patches of silence, it's more consistent than the Coogan/Eaton track, as the two are low-key and don't really seem to have a great deal to discuss. Definitely stick with the Wilson track.
Also: An 11-minute "making of"; a 5-minute featurette on Wilson; 11 deleted scenes (no optional commentary); the film's trailer and a photo gallery.
Final Thoughts: "24 Hour Party People" doesn't always sustain its pace or atmosphere, but more often than not, it's a well-acted, funny and intelligent look at the rise and fall of this particular music scene. MGM's DVD offers good audio/video quality and a nice set of supplements. Recommended.


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The Senators have another Karlsson on their roster.
And if this one works out anywhere near as well as that Norris Trophy-winning guy on their blueline, the Senators have hit pay dirt.
Ludwig Karlsson, a forward who has spent the past two seasons with the NCAA Division I Northeastern University Huskies (with 34 points in 49 games), agreed to a two-year entry-level deal with the Senators Friday.
The 6-3, 200-pound native of Stockholm, Sweden, was limited to 17 games this past season due to a mid-season wrist injury that required surgery. Prior to enrolling at Northeastern, Karlsson played two seasons with the United States Hockey League's Green Bay Gamblers.
Karlsson was invited to attend the Nashville Predators annual development camp from July 9-13 after attending the Anaheim Ducks development camp a year ago.
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Pair found guilty of 'cowardly and callous' murder of Ricky Basra
Gary Narwain and Sarah Singh have been convicted of the 'cowardly' murder of Ricky Basra in Birmingham last year.
Mr Basra, 22, was shot dead at close range in the Edgbaston area of the city on June 21st 2011.
Three people were charged with the killing and the man who pulled the trigger, Barrington Denny, 23 from Birmingham, pleaded guilty to murder at an earlier hearing.
Narwain, 21 of Walsall, and Singh, aged 31 and from Birmingham, were found guilty of the same offence at Birmingham Crown Court today.
All three will be sentenced on February 20th.
DS Rob Bastin, of West Midlands Police, said that although Denny had fired the fatal shot, the other two were equally responsible for the 'cowardly and callous attack' on Mr Basra.
'Sarah Singh played an integral part in this murder; through a misguided loyalty to Denny she lured Ricky to the location so that Denny could shoot him,' he explained.
'Gary Narwain was a close associate of Denny. He was involved in the planning of the murder and assisted afterwards with the disposal of key evidence.'
Ranjit Kaur, Mr Basra's mother, released a statement in which she thanked the police for the investigation and her son's friends for their support.
'Ricky was my loving, precious son and a good brother to Ravi,' she said.
'Nothing can bring Ricky back to us, but we can try to move on now we have justice for him.'


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So Andrew Mitchell is going to pursue his fight with the police over the 'plebgate' row, even though the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to suggest the officer who claimed Andrew Mitchell called him a pleb was lying.
The former Conservative chief whip told a press conference this afternoon that not only is he pursuing his libel action against The Sun newspaper, but that he will use this opportunity in court to force PC Toby Rowland, the officer who wrote the account of the altercation that involved the word 'pleb', to give his story under oath. Rowland is not one of the five police officers facing disciplinary action. In a statement at the start of the press conference, Mitchell said:
'At the start of this episode I was extremely reluctant to suggest that the police had made up this exchange and were not telling the truth. Today we have learned that PC Keith Wallis is being charged with having falsely claimed to have witnessed the incident. I wish now to make clear that Pc Toby Rowland, who was responsible for writing those toxic phrases into his notebook, was not telling the truth. I will seek to say this on oath in a Court of Law and it is our intention to ensure that PC Toby Rowland has similarly to swear his account.'
A number of backbench Conservative MPs attended the press conference to show their support for Mitchell. David Davis gave a presentation of the CCTV footage, entitled '49 seconds in Downing Street', which he argued reinforced Mitchell's case. He said:
'Today my section of this briefing was originally intended as a reminder of what you already know – the analysis of the CCTV of the critical 49 seconds in Downing Street against the so-called 'police log' – in fact an email first published by the Daily Telegraph. After the CPS comments it is perhaps more important than that.
…The video is from three cameras, two inside Downing and one looking down on the FCO building. The timings are synchronised on the Downing Street cameras, but not the FCO one. There is also footage that we do not have, held by the Metropolitan Police from two other cameras. Our lawyer has seen it, however, and it reinforces our case.'
Mitchell says he is pursuing this case not just because of the effect that it has had on him, but because of the number of people who have contacted him claiming they are victims of what he called 'similar experiences at the hands of the police'. He had hoped that today would be the beginning of the end of the 'plebgate' affair. But clearly it is just the beginning of an even lengthier battle.
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Induction and Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy With Cetuximab for Patients With Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
This study has been terminated.
University of Malaya
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: October 29, 2010
Last Update Posted: May 23, 2017
Merck Serono International SA
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Standard of care for treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is chemoradiation with concurrent cisplatin. Addition of a second agent, cetuximab, which targets nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells with high EGFR protein expression, may enhance the effectiveness of radiation and result in better tumour control. This study investigates the addition of 2 cycles of cisplatin/5FU chemotherapy with cetuximab, followed by cisplatin and cetuximab concurrent with radiation, for treatment of locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
|Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
|Drug: Cetuximab
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Induction and Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy With Cetuximab for Patients With Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Further study details as provided by Ho Gwo Fuang, University of Malaya:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Number of participants with adverse events as a measure of safety and tolerability [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Objective response rate [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Assess the response rate of this combination treatment, as measured by imaging and endoscopy findings
- Progression and overall survival [ Time Frame: 1 year ]To assess the PFS and OS at one year
|Study Start Date:
|May 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Cetuximab and chemotherapy
2 cycles of neoadjuvant cisplatin and 5FU (3 weekly), given with weekly cetuximab, followed by 7 doses of weekly cisplatin and cetuximab concurrent with radiotherapy
Drug: Cetuximab
Cetuximab loading dose of 400mg/m2, then weekly dose of 250mg/m2 for 12 doses; Neoadjuvant Cisplatin 75mg/m2 D1, 5FU 1000mg/m2 D2-5, for 2 cycles; Concurrent Cisplatin 30mg/m2 given with radiation 70Gy/35fraction/7weeks.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Signed written informed consent
- Inpatients or outpatients, 18-65 years of age
- Histologically confirmed, newly diagnosed locally advanced (UICC/AJCC stage III to IVB) nasopharyngeal carcinoma requiring radiotherapy
- Evidence of unidimensional measurable disease as per RECIST criteria
- No systemic metastatic disease (M0)
- ECOG performance status of 0 or 1 at study entry
- Effective contraception
- White blood cell count ≥ 3,000/mm3 with neutrophils ≥1,500/mm3, platelet count ≥100,000/mm3, hemoglobin ≥ 5.6 mmol/L (9 g/dL)
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5x upper reference range
- AST & ALT ≤ 1.5x upper reference range
- Glomerular filtration rate > 60 ml/min
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.25x upper reference range
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery (excluding diagnostic biopsy) or any investigational drug for the NPC
- Concurrent chronic systemic immune therapy, targeted therapy, anti-VEGF therapy or EGFR-pathway targeting therapy not indicated in this study protocol
- Known hypersensitivity reaction to any of the components of study treatments
- Pregnancy or lactation period
- Systemic metastatic disease
- Clinically relevant coronary artery disease, history of myocardial infarction in the last 12 months, or high risk of uncontrolled arrhythmia
- Peripheral neuropathy > grade 1
- Previous malignancy except basal cell cancer of the skin or preinvasive cancer of the cervix
- Known alcohol or drug abuse
- Medical or psychological conditions that would not permit the patient to complete the study or sign informed consent
- Legal incapacity or limited legal capacity
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01230476
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01230476
|University Malaya Medical Centre
|Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia, 59100
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Malaya
Merck Serono International SA
|Principal Investigator:
|Gwo Fuang Ho, FRCR
|University Malaya
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Keywords provided by Ho Gwo Fuang, University of Malaya:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
|Responsible Party:
|Ho Gwo Fuang, Medical Lecturer, University of Malaya
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01230476 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Submitted:
|October 18, 2010
|First Posted:
|October 29, 2010
|Last Update Posted:
|May 23, 2017
|Last Verified:
|May 2017
Keywords provided by Ho Gwo Fuang, University of Malaya:
Locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Pharyngeal Neoplasms
Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Nasopharyngeal Diseases
Pharyngeal Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents


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- Ferrari news
Berger defends under-fire Ferrari
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- Gerhard Berger
- Teams:
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Gerhard Berger has refused to join those who have criticised Ferrari's mistake that cost Fernando Alonso his third drivers' title in 2010.
Sections of the Italian press as well as some F1 pundits have called for heads to roll after strategists called Alonso in for an early pit stop in Abu Dhabi that ultimately stranded the Spaniard behind Vitaly Petrov.
But Berger, a former Ferrari driver and ten-time grand prix winner, as well as former Toro Rosso team owner, said he knows how difficult is the task of calling the shots from the pit wall.
"Afterwards, when you've got all the information at hand and you have time to think about it, you're always smarter," he said. "It was easy to criticise Ferrari after that race but it's incredibly difficult to do the right thing in the crucial second."
He added that Ferrari should be criticised for not giving Alonso the right car with which to pass the less competitive Petrov's Renault. "It shouldn't happen with Ferrari that Renault has better F-duct technology than you. The F-duct is a thing that everyone knew about well [by season's end]."
He also predicted a long period of dominance now for Red Bull. "They won't be beaten as long as they have Adrian Newey. What can Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes do in this situation? I would try to take away Newey as a tool [to Red Bull].
"So that's on the aerodynamic side. If I was Red Bull's competitor I would be doing everything politically to reduce the importance of aerodynamics. Today this is done simply with the whole cost argument about wind tunnels."


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All of us have flipped through what seems like millions of cable channels and muttered "there's nothing on." Truth of the matter is that we want more and more video choices. And we're increasingly getting them — on our television, tablet, computer and smartphone — thanks to innovation and consolidation.
Technology and mergers are changing media and communications industries faster than the blink of an eye. Megadeals such as Dallas-based AT&T's pending $49 billion purchase of DirecTV are not only business imperatives but wins for consumer choice.
When the deal is completed, AT&T will become the country's second-biggest pay-TV provider, behind Comcast, which has a deal in place to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion. The pact with DirecTV would bring the satellite system's vast array of sports, movies and television shows to AT&T, helping it expand into new video and data markets.
Naysayers will trot out the old canard that big is bad. But look a little deeper and you'll find that this deal is far less anti-competition and more consumer-content-friendly than at first glance.
Here's why: DirecTV is a television business; AT&T is mostly in the telephone, wireless and broadband businesses. AT&T's television services reach about 6 million customers; DirecTV has 20 million pay-TV subscribers.
This marriage opens up not just competition but innovation. Years ago, cable television gave birth to new content offerings, such as ESPN and HBO, and forced the traditional big three networks to adjust to a new competitive landscape. Today's new platforms and corporate mashups promise that more customers will benefit as companies find ways to reach audiences when and how they want to be reached. Netflix was given the last rites not long ago. Now it is is king of a new business model that consumers are applauding.
A merged AT&T-DirecTV would still face competition from at least two other pay-TV providers in most markets. And a heftier AT&T would gain bargaining leverage with TV networks, sports leagues and TV studios for original shows. Not to mention that it would position the company for the future that consumers want and merged technology can provide.
Such bold opportunities for complementary convergence didn't exist a decade ago. Now landlines, wireless, satellite, Internet, television and video in general are more alike than they are different, allowing subscribers to enjoy video entertainment on their schedule and choice of devices.
Very few people would prefer a return to rabbit ears and three networks. Most of us want the best that innovation can provide. That's the essence of progress and the best reason this deal should be approved.
The proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger would:
Create a nationwide video reach with an additional 20 million pay-TV subscribers.
Expand broadband service to 15 million mostly rural households.
Provide a strong alternative to traditional cable television providers.
Offer the possibility of bundled video, broadband and wireless services.
Accelerate development and deployment of crisper, more detailed video resolutions than the picture on today's flat-screen TVs.


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College Entry Exams Show Money Counts - and Roots
Tel Avivians and kibbutzniks score the highest marks in psychometric exams, while residents of the eastern Galilee score the lowest, a recent analysis of the average grade scores indicates.
The analysis was conducted by the National Institute for Testing & Evaluation, the body responsible for the exams.
The Institute also found that examinees of Ashkenazi (European) origin score higher than those of Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) origin, and that the higher the parents' education and the better their economic condition, the higher their children's score.
In 2007, some 74,000 people took the psychometric exam, which, in addition to matriculation exams, is used as a criterion for college acceptance.
The exam consists of six sections, two on each of the following subjects: mathematics and quantitative knowledge; English; and grammar and logic. The score ranges from 200 to 800 points, with most people achieving about 500 points.
The average score last year was 532 points, marking a 10-point drop in four years. The test results varied considerably by gender - men averaged 558 points, compared to women's 515.
One explanation for the gender distinction stems from the difference in mathematical study in high school. Boys study more mathematics and many of them take the five-unit matriculation mathematics exam.
This means they have an advantage over the girls in the psychometric test's mathematics section, although the required knowledge is equivalent to a three-unit matriculation exam, an expert said.
A breakdown of would-be university students' scores according to their place of residence showed that kibbutzniks and Tel Avivians came first, with respective average scores of 597 and 587, followed by Dan region residents and Jerusalemites.
Examinees from the south and eastern Galilee closed the list with an average of 498 and 495 points respectively.
A breakdown on the basis of the examinees' communities lists the kibbutzniks first (597 points) and villagers, mainly from the Arab community, last (456 points).
The average score among those who took the psychometric exam in Hebrew was 565, compared to 494 among those who took it in Russian and 458 among those who took it in Arabic.
"The psychometric exam reflects the existing education system, which explains the low grades in the south, north and among the Arabs," said a university researcher in education. "The schools are supposed to 'compensate' the underprivileged students but once again it transpires that the education system fails to do so," he said.
About 5 percent of the would-be university students - 3,255 Jewish and 257 Arab examinees - achieved more than 700 points in the test.
The age factor
The test results indicate that ethnic origin and the parents' education and economic situation significantly impact the results.
The average score achieved by examinees whose father had no more than a basic education was 451 points, compared to 590 points scored by those whose fathers had a master's degree or higher. The mother's education had an even stronger effect on the examinees' test results.
The average score of examinees whose family income was "much lower than average" was 476 points, compared to 594 of those whose income was much higher than average.
The difference between examinees of Mizrahi and Ashkenazi origin was 28 points and the gap between examinees whose mothers were born in North America and those whose mothers were born in Asia or Africa reaches 73 points.
The data shows that examinees aged 14 to 18 - i.e. who were still in high school - achieved a higher score than those aged 18 to 20. However, in general, the older the examinees were, the higher their score, up to the age of 25, when the mark was 570. The average score of those aged 30 and above was the lowest - 479 points.
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Stocks Hitting 52-Week Highs
Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ: LAMR) shares reached a new 52-week high of $45.69. Lamar Advertising issued upbeat Q1 revenue forecast.
Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) shares gained 2.09% to touch a new 52-week high of $18.53. Ares Capital reported better-than-expected Q4 earnings.
Big 5 Sporting Goods (NASDAQ: BGFV) shares reached a new 52-week high of $16.45. Big 5 reported upbeat Q4 profit and raised its dividend.
AEP Industries (NASDAQ: AEPI) shares gained 1.07% to create a new 52-week high of $67.97. AEP Industries' trailing-twelve-month ROE is 37.43%.
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