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Horse racing has long been one of the most popular sports to bet on in the world, competing along-side major markets like football betting. There are various betting markets available when it comes to horse racing. The unpredictable nature of the sport means that punters are continuously kept guessing – and betting on – what is going to happen next.
In order to find consistent success in a market as competitive as horse racing, players must be fully aware and take advantage of the most popular horse racing betting markets and the strategies that go hand and hand with those markets. Mastering a market like the each way bet can help solidify a consistent bankroll.
Players need to also always be aware of what factors actually effect the chances of picking the winning horse. Once you have a clear list of all these factors, put them into priority order. Choosing your own 'make-or-break' details will help you make quick calls, and filter out less important factors for certain races. Make sure to evolve your list over time, based on how successful your system becomes.
This sounds very complicated, though in reality it could not be simpler. An each-way bet is where you wish to back on a horse to finish within the places: if your horse comes first, you win the same as a normal win bet, but equally if you come second you also make a profit, though not as much as if the horse had won. This is a very popular method of betting, because it means punters can still collect off horses at bigger prices, even if the horses themselves are not good enough to put their head in front at the winning post.
A relatively new market is the 'bet without', where gamblers can back a horse to win as if the favourite was not involved in the race. For example, Hurricane Fly was favourite for the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in 2012, but his price was too short to reap much dividend for punters. As such, most bookmakers offered the market as if Hurricane Fly was not in the race, making the second horse in the betting, Binocular, the 'fake' favourite. This gave punters the opportunity to bet on a different horse at better odds, according to the horse racing strategy they felt best to go on.
Elsewhere, the accumulator bet is popular, and so is the double, the treble, the goliath and the super-heinz – all bets that involve backing a number of horses, so returns are likely to be high if you pick astutely or get lucky. Websites offer all these types of bets, plus plenty of horse racing tips to help you along the way. Betting on horse racing can be one of the most exciting wagers in sport - it's an easy game when you know how.
The standard wager is, of course, betting on a horse to win but an alternative option is the forecast: picking the first three or four horses to cross the line and the order in which they come. Similarly, you can have a go at the reverse forecast, which entails guessing the first few to cross the line, though without having to predict their order.
When placing the reverse forecast, you must be prepared to double your stake given that the outcome is more likely. The stake of the reverse forecast is similar to that of an each-way bet: you must double it because you're betting on a horse to come in the first two, three or four, depending on the amount of runners in a race.
Studying the form of a horse is a handy starting point for any punter. However, horse racing results can also be influenced by other factors on the day. Look for how previous victories correlate with the variables of the forthcoming race. This is crucial in determining whether a horse is likely to improve, weaken or replicate prior performances.
A horse that's run long distances and been dropped to a shorter course might not have the pace required, whilst a horse that bursts out of the gates may not have the stamina for the long chase. Taking account of the distance a horse will have to travel in comparison to its previous victories may make all the difference when hedging your bets.
Some horses prefer the ground after rain (soft), others prefer it dry (good). Correlate the conditions with previous results to find out whether your horse will perform well on the day. Breeding, size, weight and gait can also be an indication of a horse's preference. It's sometimes said that horses that raise their legs high when running prefer the soft, while those that run low prefer it firm.
Trainers all have strategies, which are evident from their past successes. For example, Richard Hannon specialises in two-year-olds and has a good record for racing young horses. Others train for specific races. Know who to back, or whose presence might pose a threat to a horse you fancy.
Jockeys, like trainers, often specialise in certain distances and styles of race. Tracking a successful jockey, and spotting when a trainer brings a big name jockey on board to push for a large win, can be a powerful betting tool. In some races, experience makes all the difference, as the once retired jockey Leighton Aspell proved when he rode Pineau De Re to victory in the 2014 Grand National.
In short races, it makes a big difference where the horse is drawn, as those on the outside will have to run slightly further. On long courses, this distance can be made up, but in sprints you'll find some horses are written off based on their track position. For example, no horse drawn higher than six has ever won the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita. In the UK, Chester, Beverley and Goodwood are courses where the draw can really affect the final outcome of the race.
The weight of a horse is a hotly debated issue, and tipsters are divided on how much they think it truly affects a performance. Handicapping can indicate a horse that's performing well, but how far the saddle, jockey and handicap cumulatively affect a horse is not always clear.
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Introduction & explanation
As you attempt to learn another language, and particularly if you're using a more traditional grammar text or a linguistics-derived approach, you'll encounter many technical terms. Whether you consider yourself a linguist, grammarian or just a beginning learner, I've placed this resource here to help you find some answers.
Note that I pulled this glossary from my book, Native Grammar: How Languages Work. The numbers following each definition refer to the book's chapters, which explain and give examples of each term.
This glossary is excerpted from my book, and is also tied to nativlang.com's free linguistics courses for language learners.
It's all about words. If you know words, you have a quick key to unlocking larger concepts. You also sound like you know what you're talking about!
These are the key terms used throughout this course. Keep this list handy whenever you need a quick refresher, but don't forget to reread any sections or chapters still hazy in your memory. When you see a bold italic word within a definition, refer to the separate entry for that term.
Adjective: A type of modifier that describes a noun or pronoun. Some languages treat them more like nouns and give them properties like cases, classes, etc. In other languages, they are stative verbs (like Japanese aoi 'be blue' or Nahajo hózhó. 'be happy'). Chapter 5.
Adposition: A type of particle that grammatically relates to an adjacent word or phrase. More specific names for types of adpositions are given based on where they are placed: preposition, postposition, etc. Chapter 6.
Adverbs: A type of modifier that modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs or entire phrases. The sickly in walk sickly is an adverb. Chapter 7.
Affix: A morpheme whose job is to attach itself to another morpheme. A very common type of bound morpheme. The af– of affix and the –'s of mom's dog's food are both affixes. More specific names for types of affixes are given based on where they attach: suffix, prefix, infix, etc. Chapter 1.
Agglutinative (language): A type of synthetic language that prefers lots of affixes tacked on to one base morpheme. Its affixes are often highly specific in meaning. Turkish, Finnish, Luiseño, Japanese and most other synthetic languages in this course are agglutinative. Chapter 1.
Agreement: A type of relationship between words where the property of one word matches the same property of another. In English, run is marked in the singular (he runs) and agrees with its singular subject. Chapter 7.
Allomorph: The different ways one morpheme can show up. If we say that /s/ is the plural morpheme in English, then we would have to admit that we sometimes pronounce it like "z" and sometimes like "s". The plural morpheme /s/ in their hats doesn't sound like the /s/ in their cars. Chapter 1.
Analytic (language): See isolating. Chapter 1.
Articles: Grammatical words that specify a noun. Includes definite articles and indefinite articles. Many languages don't have them. Chapter 2.
Aspect (grammatical): The flow of the action, such as an action that is complete or an action that hasn't been finished yet. Commonly marked on the verb. In Hawaiian, reduplicating a word shows that it's being done over and over again: hoe 'row' versus hoehoe 'keep on rowing'. Chapter 3.
Auxiliary verb: A lite verb (carrying grammatical weight but not much meaning) that refines another verb's grammatical role in a sentence. Frequently used in periphrastic constructions in English, such as the have in I have gone. Chapter 7.
Bound morpheme: A type of morpheme that cannot exist on its own. It must be attached to another morpheme, like an affix, for example. Inflectional morphemes and derivational morphemes are bound morphemes. Chapter 1.
Branch: One immediate daughter language of a proto-language along with all of its daughters. In other words, one distinct lineage within a larger family. Chapter 1.
Case (grammatical): A way to mark the role a noun or pronoun plays in a sentence, such as the subject or the object. Chapter 1 (nouns), Chapter 4 (pronouns).
Circumfix: Type of affix that is placed around another morpheme. In German, sagen means 'say', but gesagt means 'said' (note that both the initial ge- and final -t must be present, making ge-___-t a circumfix). Chapter 1.
Class (grammatical): Categories that some languages divide nouns or pronouns into. The category a given (pro)noun belongs to is its class. In Sesotho, you can immediately tell the class of a noun from its prefix: bo-hobe 'bread' belongs to one class and se-phiri 'secret' to another. Chapter 2 (nouns), Chapter 4 (pronouns).
Clitic: A morpheme that is pronounced as part of the word it sits next to. It is often enough a particle, but is only arguably a free morpheme or arguably a bound morpheme. Chapter 6.
Comment: See focus. Chapter 7.
Compounding: A type of modification where one root is attached to another. The sick in sickday is a compounded modifier. In Chinese, the chõng 'flushing' in chõnglàng (flushing wave) 'surfing' is a modifier. Chapter 7.
Conjugation: In synthetic languages that mark their verbs, a list of the various forms a verb can have. Also used when talking about putting the verb into its appropriate form. Chapter 3.
Conjunction: A type of particle that connects thoughts or sentences. In English, and is a conjunction. Chapter 6.
Daughter (language): A language that descends from a parent language and belongs to that parent's family. Chapter 1.
Declension: In synthetic languages that mark their nouns or pronouns, a list of the various forms a noun or pronoun can have. Also used when talking about putting the noun or pronoun into its appropriate form. Chapter 2 (nouns), Chapter 4 (pronouns).
Declining: See declension. Chapter 2 (nouns), Chapter 4 (pronouns).
Definite article: An article equivalent to the word the in English. Chapter 2.
Derivational morphemes: Can be used in combination with another morpheme to derive new words. The in– of indestructible is a derivational morpheme, deriving a separate word for the concept of "not-destructible". Chapter 1.
Ending: A common word for a suffix. Chapter 1.
Family (language): A bunch of individual languages that scholars found to be related to one another. They all descend from a common parent language. Chapter 1.
Focus: A relationship between words in which one word or group of words gives information about an associated topic. The topic normally occurs within the same sentence. Chapter 7.
Formality: A way of expressing social differences between speakers, often used to show respect or a lack thereof. Sometimes marked on or with pronouns, nouns and verbs. In early Modern English, the second person pronoun thou was casual and you was formal. Chapter 7.
Formally: In this course, used interchangeably with grammatically.
Free morpheme: A type of morpheme that can exist on its own, without being attached to another morpheme. The English word mom and the Luiseño hunwut are free morphemes. Inflectional morphemes and derivational morphemes aren't free, they're bound morphemes. Chapter 1.
Fusional (language): Type of synthetic language that packs a lot of grammatical information into its affixes. Also called inflecting. Greek, Icelandic and most other Indo-European languages are fusional. English is historically fusional, but is now largely isolating. Chapter 1.
Gender: Categories that some languages divide nouns or pronouns into. Similar to class. In Italian, you can often tell the gender of a noun from its suffix: figli-o 'son' belongs to the masculine gender and figli-a 'daughter' to the feminine gender. Verbs and adjectives may agree with the gender of an associated noun, as in Arabic. Chapter 2 (nouns), Chapter 4 (pronouns), Chapter 7 (agreement).
Government: A relationship between words or morphemes where one word or morpheme makes another comply with a specific property. In Latin, the verb occidit 'killed' governs the object form of the noun or pronoun, so it forces its object take a different case (me occidit 'killed me' and not ego occidit 'killed I'). Chapter 7.
Grammar: In this course, morphemes and relations between morphemes, words and relations between words, and the set of rules that defines these relations.
Grammatical(ly): Dealing with the ability of language to distinguish rules by marking them with affixes, particles, word order, by leaving them unmarked, or in some other way (such as changing the "i" in drink to the "u" in drunk in the past tense).
Helping Verb: See auxiliary verb. Chapter 7.
Indefinite article: An article equivalent to the words a and an in English. Chapter 2.
Infix: Type of affix that attaches in the middle of another morpheme. One example in English is the present tense –n– in stand or convince that disappears in stood or convict. Chapter 1.
Inflectional morpheme: A type of morpheme that attaches to another word and has a grammatical meaning. The grammatical meaning of "apostrophe s" in cat's is "possession". Chapter 1.
Intransitive verb: A verb that cannot take an object. In Classical Tibetan, intransitive verbs are marked with the suffix –s in the past tense (khros 'got angry'). Chapter 3.
Isolating (language): A type of language that is not synthetic. A strictly isolating language conceives of all of its morphemes as true and independent words, or free morphemes. Also called analytic. Chinese, Hawaiian and others in this course are isolating/analytic. English is largely isolating. Chapter 1.
Language: Hard to define, but in this course it means the human ability to speak and form new and unique thoughts, and the set of rules in your brain that can tie those thoughts together. Introduction.
Language family: See family. Chapter 1.
Languages: Hard to define, but in this course it means a language or dialect with its own name, its own tradition and its own grammar. We view each language as one possible take on language – it's one concrete, real-world example of the countless ways our brain could form words and sentences. Introduction.
Marked: A feature grammatically represented in a language, such as when a morpheme takes an affix or sits near a particle with some grammatical meaning. The word mom's is marked as "possessive" in English. Common in synthetic languages. Chapter 1.
Marking: See marked. Chapter 1.
Modification: A relationship in which the meaning of a word or phrase is altered by a modifier. Includes the use of adjectives, adverbs or compounding. In English, sick dog, walk sickly and sickday all have modifiers. Chapter 7.
Modifier: See modification. Chapter 7.
Mood (grammatical): A way of framing or nuancing an action. Commonly marked on verbs. In Spanish, cantas 'you sing' is in the basic "indicative mood" and ¡canta! 'sing!' is in the command or "imperative mood". Chapter 3.
Morpheme: The smallest meaningful unit you can break apart. Some are no bigger than one sound: the English –s is not just a letter, but also a morpheme that makes a word plural (the boys). Chapter 1.
Noun: A name or label for people and things. Chapter 2.
Number (grammatical): A property that counts how many people or things are involved. Many languages distinguish between singular (one: dog) and plural (more than one: dogs). Others count more numbers, such as Lihir with its pronouns. Nouns, verbs and pronouns are often marked for number. Chapter 2 (nouns), Chapter 3 (verbs), Chapter 4 (pronouns).
Object: The noun or pronoun impacted by an action. Whoever or whatever the verb is done to. In English, donuts is the object of this morning, I ate donuts. Chapter 1.
Parent (language): A language that stands as the ancestor of its daughter languages and heads a branch or a family. Chapter 1.
Particle: A free morpheme, often fairly short, that has some grammatical function but not much other meaning. The English conjunction and is a particle, as is nearly every grammatical morpheme in Hawaiian: objects are marked with the particle i, subjects with 'o, etc. Chapter 6.
Periphrasis: Beating around the grammatical bush by using a phrase to convey the same information that is marked in another language. In Romanian, orașului has the root oraș 'town' and carries an affix –ului that marks direction towards. Having no such marker, English uses the periphrastic phrase to the town. Common in isolating languages. Chapter 1.
Parts of speech: All the broad grammatical categories that we can divide words into. See nouns, verbs, pronouns and so on.
Periphrastic construction: See periphrasis. Chapter 1.
Person (grammatical): A property that shows the distance between the speaker and the person spoken about. Commonly marked on pronouns, nouns and verbs. In English, I am the first person, you are the second, and (s)he is the third. Chapter 3.
Politeness: See formality. Chapter 7.
Possession: A relationship in which one noun or pronoun controls, is related to or has ownership of another. In English, the affix –'s shows possession, and is attached to the possessor: Giuseppe's elephant. Chapter 7.
Postposition: A type of adposition that comes after the word or phrase it relates to. The no 'of' in Japanese watashi no desu 'it's of me' ('it's mine') is a postposition. Chapter 6.
Predicate: The verb and everything that falls on the impact side of the action. Squeaks, squeaks loudly, and squeaks with a horrifying, spine-shivering screech all act as predicates when I add a subject: that mouse ____. Chapter 7.
Prefix: A type of affix that attaches to the beginning of another morpheme.
Preposition: A type of adposition that comes before the word or phrase it relates to. The to in to the house is a preposition. Chapter 6.
Pronoun: A noun-like word that stands in for a noun. In languages that have them, and not all do, pronouns are a valuable, short-hand resource for referring to people or things. In English, the pronoun he can represent the man, that boy, the driver, etc. Chapter 4.
Proto-language: The top-level parent of a language family. They are sometimes attested (that is, recorded somewhere), but more often they are at least partly reconstructed. Chapter 1.
Reconstructed: See reconstruction. Chapter 1.
Reconstruction: Comparing examples from a language family's daughter languages among its various branches in order to rebuild the parent language. Chapter 1.
Relationship: Used in this course to talk about the connections between words and morphemes, and the properties that define those connections. Chapter 7.
Root: In synthetic languages, the base morpheme carrying the word's central meaning. The root of the word unbelievable is the morpheme believ(e). In Greek, the morpheme log– is the root of epílogos 'epilogue'. Chapter 1.
State: See stative verb. Chapter 5.
Stative verb: a type of intransitive verb
that indicates a state (like Japanese aoi 'be blue' or Nahajo hózhó,
'be happy'). Chapter 5.
Stem: In synthetic languages, a series of morphemes ready to be attached to an inflectional morpheme such as an affix. In Greek, the two morphemes epi-log– form the stem of epílogos 'epilogue'. Chapter 1.
Subject (word order): The noun or pronoun performing the action. Whoever or whatever is driving or experiencing the verb. In English, he is the subject of he ran a mile. Chapter 1.
Subject (part of sentence): The noun or pronoun performing the action, along with all of the morphemes and words that immediately revolve around that noun or pronoun. The big hat is the subject of the sentence the big hat fits perfectly! Chapter 7.
Suffix: A type of affix that attaches to the end of another morpheme. Chapter 1.
Synthetic (language): Type of language that likes to build words by putting morphemes together, often attaching bound morphemes to express grammar. Includes all fusional and all agglutinative languages. Japanese, Greek, Turkish, Icelandic, Swahili, Eskimo and others throughout this course are synthetic. Chapter 1.
Tense: The property of a verb that shows when the action takes place. In English, the present tense is usually unmarked (I ruin), the past tense marked (I ruined), and the future is a periphrastic construction (I will run). Chapter 3.
Topic: See topicalization. Chapter 7.
Topicalization: A type of relationship that emphasizes or shines the spotlight on a specific part of your sentence (the topic). In English, we topicalize with the periphrastic construction as for (as for me, I'd rather not). In Tagalog, the focus is signaled in the verb and the topic marked with the prepositional particle ang. Chapter 7.
Transitive verb: A verb that can take an object. In Classical Tibetan, transitive verbs are marked by the circumfix b-___-s in the past tense (bsags 'gather'). Chapter 3.
Transitivity: Property of the verb that determines if it can take an object. This property shows whether or not the action can be done to someone or something. Chapter 3.
Unmarked: Taking no affix or particle to show grammatical meaning. The opposite of marked. The English word mom is totally unmarked. Chapter 1.
Verb: An action or state. It's what's happening or what's going on in a sentence. Chapter 1, Chapter 3.
Word classes: All the broad categories we can divide words into based on their grammatical use. Also called parts of speech.
Word order: The arrangement of words in a phrase or sentence, sometimes to show grammatical meaning. Chapter 1.
Word order (basic): The main way a language arranges its subject, verb and object (or S, V and O). Chapter 1.
Learn about these concepts and more, including explanations, examples and exercises, in Native Grammar: How Languages Work . This material copyright 2010.

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Monday, June 23, 2014 | 9 p.m.
Rio headliner magicians Penn & Teller perform for Britain's future king Prince Charles at Windsor Castle tonight. It's a charity fundraiser and also includes a Monty Python reunion, which our Las Vegas conjuring duo watched in rehearsals Sunday.
The Pythons will play London's O2 Arena, which means the possibility of a U.S. tour with promoters AEG, who book numerous Las Vegas venues including the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and the new MGM arena behind the Monte Carlo coming next spring.
Final plans are falling into place for Guns N' Roses to return to the Joint for another run before year's end. However, it's already locked into place that KISS will have a four-week run of shows there a little earlier this fall.
Former porn actress Katie Morgan, who has an HBO series answering sex questions, was at the Hard Rock Hotel over the weekend, promptly leading to rumors that she might bring her Porn 101 Q+A to the Joint.
The 34-year-old comedienne who also appeared on "Entourage" started in porn to pay her bail and legal fees after a marijuana arrest in 2000. She won an AVN Award in 2009 for Crossover Star of the Year and was inducted into AVN's Hall of Fame here last year.
Newlywed Kanye West is expected to bring in his extended Kardashian klan when he headlines with The Foo Fighters and OutKast at the expanded three-day Life Is Beautiful festival downtown from Oct. 24-26.
STEVE ROSSI TRIBUTE: It was a sad day Sunday when I learned that my pal Steve Rossi had died after losing his battle with cancer. I had dinner with him and his good friend impressionist Rich Little just weeks ago at Buddy V's Ristorante at Palazzo. Such a warm and genuine gentleman. RIP.
For years, Steve was partnered with Las Vegas comedy king Marty Allen; be sure to check out Editor at Large John Katsilometes' column posted Sunday.
Entertainer Nelson Sardelli summed up best: "Some people just cross your path and never leave a mark. Steve not only made a mark, he walked with you. Steve was the kind of person who made you feel good about yourself."
Sardelli met Rossi in New York at the since-closed Latin Casino. "He was already an established star. He had seem my show and came backstage. We clicked like we had been friends for ages. … Steve was liked by many. He was a great talent."
UNHAPPY & UNAUTHORIZED: Actor Dennis Haskins (Principal Belding on "Saved By the Bell") was at Body English at the Hard Rock Hotel over the weekend and isn't too happy that an unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story about the 1989-93 series is set to air this fall as a Lifetime movie.
A scandalous, tell-all about life on the set was written by cast member Dustin Diamond in 2009 before he turned to a porn career. Along with new interviews, the movie promises to change the way fans look at the classic sitcom.
BRITNEY RUMBLINGS: There are growing rumors that Britney Spears' contract at Planet Hollywood will be extended with a two-year renewal for her show "Britney: Piece of Me" and that dance segments already being choreographed will be added when the announcement becomes official.
ARENA FOOTBALL UPDATE: Has Motley Crue rocker and Las Vegas resident Vince Neil hired TV sports commentator and former college and NFL player Bob Hewko as the first executive of his new Arena Football League expansion team Las Vegas Outlaws?
I'm also hearing that pop artist Michael Goddard is set to design the new team's logo, helmets and uniforms. Is there a possible alternative name of the Las Vegas Rocks?
ICE QUEEN: A warm welcome to 1994 Olympic figure skating champion Oksana Baiul, who has moved here. Sources told me not to expect at this time any announcement of a new residency show for her. The retired Ukrainian figure skater is the only female from her homeland to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
She starred in the "Champions on Ice" show, was a guest for the touring "Broadway on Ice" and appeared in 2007's "Blades of Glory." Oksana first moved to the USA in 1994 and is known here for her poker skills, having appeared on "Celebrity Poker Showdown" and ABC's "Master of Champions."
DINNER POLITICS: The political organization Keystone Nevada has booked Dennis Miller for its annual dinner Oct. 14 at the Venetian.
THEATER UPGRADES: Magician Tommy Wind and his family have completed the renovation of their Strip theater near MGM Grand, upgrading its sound and light system with enhanced special effects and improved bars and seating. Tommy said his facility is now perfect for shows, events, showcases and auditions.
Brad Garrett, Jason Collings and Happy Cole headline at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club at MGM Grand through Sunday.
DJ Martin Garrix is at Hakkasan at MGM Grand.
Our exclusive interview as Las Vegas superstar sports agent J.B. Bernstein of "Million Dollar Arm" plans a return to India to find new cricket players for MLB teams. Plus, our preview of the 2014 NHL Awards at the Wynn.
Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world's premier platinum playground.
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Carnival lasts all year at the Rio. With a float occasionally passing overhead and dropping beads while feathered dancers fire up the gamblers below, the Rio tries to keep its 120,000-square foot casino jumping with excitement. Special Brazilian mixed-drinks are also served throughout the casino. The hotel suites tend to be larger than similar priced rooms on the Strip and many offer excellent views with floor to ceiling windows.
The Rio offers some quality shows like "Penn & Teller" and "Chippendales." Many come to the Rio for the nightlife at the VooDoo Lounge, located on the 51st floor, or McFadden's Irish Pub on the casino level.
Others come for a bit relaxation at the Rio Spa or pool area and still others come to shop at the hotel's 60,000 square feet of shops. In each of these endeavors, the Rio attempts to make the experience a bit more fun and spontaneous.
The Rio also offers guests a variety of dining choices from all-American food at the All-American Bar & Grille to Gaylord India Restaurant for something a little spicier and even Carnival World Buffet for the indecisive.
Catering to the young and modern crowd, Planet Hollywood is a one-stop shop for entertainment with its massive shopping mall, slew of restaurants, spacious casino and clubs.
The ambiance of the casino is retro-chic meets high-tech with black granite floors throughout and colorful LED lights throughout the space. The theme carries into the 100,000 square-foot casino with 250 flat screens topping off slot machines. The casino is also home to 87 tables, a sports book and a poker room.
There's also the Miracle Mile Shops, one Vegas' largest malls, with 140 stores including BCBG Max Azaria, bebe, Urban Outfitters and The Discovery Channel Store.
Following an afternoon of shopping, guests can satisfy their appetites at one of the gourmet restaurants in Planet Hollywood, like the non-traditional approach to steakhouses at Strip House or check out the exotic Far East motif at KOI restaurant and lounge. And if guests are still looking for more, they can spend the after hours at Privé, Triq or Krave nightclubs.
Perhaps one of the resorts biggest attractions came in March with the addition of "Peepshow." The naughty twist on the story of Little Bo Peep is modern-day spin on the run-of-the-mill Vegas topless review. The "Peepshow" stage has seen visiting celebs like Scary Spice Mel B, "Dancing with the Stars" Kelly Monaco and Playboy's Holly Madison.


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A SENIOR UKIP politician was arrested in connection with an assault at the party's election launch event in Hampshire.
Tony Hooke, the deputy leader of the party at Hampshire County Council, was arrested after scuffles between members of the party and protesters.
The meeting at Portsmouth's Guildhall on April 28 had been attended by party leader Nigel Farage and launched UKIP's European campaign ahead of the elections on May 22.
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Players Attorney; Resisting Arrest Charges Dismissed With Prejudice
I spoke with Missoula Chief of Police Mark Muir Thursday afternoon about the arrest of two University of Montana football players early Sunday morning. Chief Muir told me he is waiting for witnesses to step forward and share any video or audio evidence that may shed light on the case, but that no one has yet done so. He also spoke about comments made by the players' defense attorney, and a comment by the Missoulian that he says is inaccurate. That interview is attached.
University of Montana football players Gerald Kemp and Trumaine Johnson appeared in Missoula Municipal Court this morning and pleaded not guilty to all charges stemming from an altercation with Missoula Police early Sunday morning at a residence on North Russell street. The men, both 21, were tased by officers after Kemp allegedly shoved a police officer, and Johnson stepped in to prevent the officer from taking his teammmate into custody. I spoke with the players' attorney Darla Keck with Datsoploulis, McDonald and Lind
about the charges. That interview is attached.
Two University of Montana football players, quarterback Gerald Kemp, and cornerback Trumaine Johnson were arrested early Sunday morning at a residence on North Russell after a physical altercation with Missoula police. According to the Missoula county jail roster, Kemp and Johnson were both charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest, obstructing a police officer, disorderly conduct, and failure to appear, while Kemp was also charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly striking a police officer. Police reports indicate that both players had to be tased in order to be subdued. Missoula Police Sergeant Jake Rosling says alcohol was also a factor in the incident. My interview with Sergeant Rosling is attached.


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Restrepo makes you pinch yourself to remember it's real
Film review: Restrepo sees filmmakers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger join US soldiers in this gripping documentary.
Film-making doesn't get more frontline than this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner. In 2007, debut documentary directors Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (pictured) joined US soldiers as they shipped out to what's considered the most dangerous outpost of the Afghan war, the Korengal Valley.
Movie reviews: More of this week's film releases go under the Metro.co.uk microscope
Intimately capturing everything from the lads' downtime (including a spontaneous dance-off to Samantha Fox's Touch Me) to on-screen death, the result is the kind of astonishing, bullet-dodging, 'copter-swooping footage you have to pinch yourself to remember is real.
'We did not explore geopolitical debates,' reads the directors' statement. 'Our intention was to capture the experience of combat, boredom and fear through the eyes of the soldiers themselves.' Visceral, point-of-view combat drama exploring the adrenalin rush of war over its moral rights and wrongs is hardly new – The Hurt Locker and Lebanon are two of the recent best – but it's still a tough, gripping exercise in cinematic confrontation.


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Sheffield University academic Dr Craig Berry is backing the campaign to lower the voting age to 16 - arguing it would help counter widespread disaffection among young people.
Dr Berry has gathered evidence from Austria and Norway showing that 16 and 17-year-olds are more likely to vote that older first-time voters.
He calls for a referendum on the issue, in which 16 and 17-year-olds would be entitled to vote.
He said: "Voting should be among the first rights that we bestow upon our young citizens, not the last."


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Located near the slopes, this Chamonix City Centre hotel is in the mountains and within a 10-minute walk of Casino Barriere Chamonix, Aiguille du Midi Cable Car, and Planpraz Tram. Planards Adventure Park is 0.8 mi (1.2 km) away.
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- Total number of rooms - 52
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- Number of floors - 5
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W.H. to Boehner: We want specifics too
The White House insisted Tuesday that they have proposed specific spending cuts, rebutting House Speaker John Boehner's charge that the president has yet to identify the cuts he's willing to make.
"The president has put forward detailed spending cuts as well as detailed revenue proposals. It's a simple fact," White House press secretary Jay Carney said at his daily briefing.
Holding up a copy of President Obama's 2011 plan, Carney directed reporters and Republicans to "pages to 17-45," which include "details on proposed spending cuts by the president."
When it comes to cuts, the White House has offered a "higher degree of specificity than we have seen by far from the Republicans," Carney said.
Later, he added, "We would like to see some specifics."
Earlier Tuesday, Boehner made a similar request, saying on the House floor that the White House has not yet "identif[ied] what spending cuts the president is willing to make as part of the 'balanced approach' he promised the American people."
But, as has been the case for weeks, Carney wouldn't get into "the sausage making."
"I don't think it is helpful to give hourly or daily readouts of progress because our interest is in achieving a workable compromise," he said. "These things are possible but they are less possible if we try to negotiate them" in the public eye.


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Fans of vampires, werewolves and witches can revel in a new show from the CW.
�The Originals� airs at 9 tonigh, following the season 5 premier of �The Vampire Diaries� at 8 p.m. The spinoff series focuses on the original vampire family introduced in �The Vampire Diaries.�
I watched the first episode of �Vampire Diaries� on a whim when I first moved to Charlotte four years ago, and I have been hooked ever since. It�s an incredibly well-made show, with an outstanding cast and plot twists and turns at every corner.
When I heard about �The Originals,� I knew I had to at least give it a try. Thanks to the CW, I got a sneak peek of the premiere last week, and I think it has great potential.
The first episode features original vampires Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah and werewolf Hayley from �Vampire Diaries� as well as new characters: witch Sophie and vampire Marcel.
Klaus, the first vampire-werewolf hybrid, travels back to the French Quarter of New Orleans � which his family helped establish hundreds of years ago � after hearing about a potential conspiracy against him. Elijah follows suit to keep tabs on his brother. The two find that Marcel, Klaus� prot�g�, has become the ruthless leader of the supernatural community. Meanwhile, the witches in town have taken Hayley, Klaus� former flame, captive as leverage to help them out of their desperate situation.
I won�t go more in-depth about the plot because I don�t want to spoil anything. However, I will say that I thought the first episode showed great promise. Elena, Stefan and Damon are the main characters in �Vampire Diaries,� and I wondered if �The Originals� would suffer from their absence. However, I think the new and old characters in �Originals� will be able to hold their own, especially Klaus, the character that I love to love and hate.
I also had my reservations about whether the family history and plot would be too complicated to draw in viewers who didn�t watch �Vampire Diaries.� However, the first episode does a good job of explaining the past and the characters� links.
I�m excited to see what excitement and drama will unfold during the rest of the season.
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The CDBB develops scientific initiatives and supports research and research training relevant to the psychological, neurobiological, language, behavioral, and educational development and health of children.
The following theme characterizes all Branch programs: Development is best described and studied as a variable process in which individual differences in cognitive, social, emotional, language, neurobiological and physical maturation, environment, life experiences, and genetics interact in complex ways.
Gap: One out of every five people age 5 years and older in the United States speaks a language other than English in the home; yet there is a paucity of research on bilingual and biliteracy development in dual-language children.
Priority: Stimulate research on bilingual and biliteracy development in children learning English in addition to a language spoken at home, including the differentiation of language impairment from typical language variation in dual-language learners.
Gap:There is a lack of comprehensive, efficient, low-cost measures of cognition, language, self-regulation, and social functioning in typically developing infants and toddlers that can be linked with developmental changes in brain structure and function and that can be used for evaluating developmental status and intervention outcomes.
Priority: Develop low-cost, efficient yet comprehensive neurodevelopmental battery of measures from evidence-based neurocognitive research specific to typically developing infants and toddlers.
Gap: Much of the behavioral intervention research in pediatric primary care is targeted toward short-term outcomes, with a focus on immediate effects or cure. There is a need for more pediatric primary care research focused on
end results of particular health care practices and interventions, such as change in ability to function or increase in quality of life, especially for chronic conditions. There is the additional need to assess better ways to monitor and improve the quality of care in pediatric primary care and related clinical settings.
Priority: Facilitate research on the impact of behavioral and health promotion interventions in pediatric primary care and related clinical settings with a focus on end result child and adolescent health outcomes.
Gap: There is a large literature base on the detrimental effects of high-risk family and neighborhood environments on psychosocial adjustment among children and adolescents. What we do not know are the factors associated with the significant number of children who develop positive outcomes despite high-risk environments. It is possible that those are the factors that can have the biggest impact when incorporated into prevention and intervention approaches for children in high-risk environments.
Priority: Stimulate research to identify developmental factors and mechanisms which promote short- and long-term psychosocial adjustment for children and adolescents exposed to high-risk family and neighborhood environments.
Gap: Interventions that result in significant, sustained, positive academic and school functioning outcomes for disadvantaged children.
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Gap: Although interventions for reading, writing, and mathematics have progressed significantly for many children with learning disabilities, there is still a sizeable number of children, adolescents, and young adults who do not respond to the current state-of-the-art interventions. There is a significant need to identify these individuals early and to develop additional interventions for poor responders.
Priority: Support research on intervention efforts in reading, writing and mathematics that investigate: (a) early precursors of risk for future minimal intervention response; (b) methods to model comprehensive risk for children that inform screening approaches and early intensive intervention efforts; and (c) intensive intervention services for individuals who show minimal intervention response.
Gap: The ability to reason is related to many cognitive processes, including executive function, theory of mind, heuristic analysis, and decision making, necessary for learning, academic success, well-being, and health literacy, yet there is little research on how reasoning ability develops or on the factors facilitating or impeding typical reasoning skills.
Priority: Facilitate research on the neurocognitive development of reasoning (e.g., quantitative, deductive, inductive, causal) in typically developing populations, including the identification of biobehavioral, environmental, cultural, academic, and cognitive factors influencing the development of reasoning.
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Saints released DT Remi Ayodele.
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Saints agreed to terms with DT Remi Ayodele, formerly of the Vikings.
The 29-year-old Ayodele was the Saints' starting nose tackle in 2009 and 2010 before washing out as a free agent bust in Minnesota last season. He could be a big contributor right away on running downs in New Orleans. Ayodele knows the system, plays a need position, and is coming nice and cheap.
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Vikings released DT Remi Ayodele.
The move doesn't clear any cap space, but does take the Vikings off the hook for Ayodele's $2.2 million base salary. Ayodele struggled mightily in Minnesota's scheme last season, failing to attract double teams on the nose and generating no pass rush. His possible involvement in the Saints' bounty scandal didn't help Ayodele's chances of keeping a roster spot, either.
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The Vikings' signing of DTs Fred Evans and Letroy Guion could lead to the release of Remi Ayodele.
Guion's signing clouded Ayodele's future while Evans' may have sealed it. Ayodele was a bust during his first year in Minnesota last season, proving highly ordinary as a run stuffer.
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Vikings DT Remi Ayodele was demoted out of the starting lineup Monday.
Ayodele had started eight games this season, but had just three tackles during that span. On Monday, rookie Christian Ballard got the nod. Ayodele signed a three-year, $9 million contract with the Vikings back in July.
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Vikings coach Leslie Frazier has tabbed newly acquired Remi Ayodele as the team's new starting nose tackle.
Barring an injury to Ayodele or another down lineman in camp, it appears they won't be bringing back free agent NT Pat Williams. Ayodele is strictly a two-down run stopper and not a particularly good one at that. We'd expect the Vikings to be easier to run on this season with Williams and LB Ben Leber on the outs.
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Vikings agreed to terms with DT Remi Ayodele, formerly of the Saints.
The Saints started Ayodele at nose tackle next to Sedrick Ellis, but he was one of the worst players on their defense. For the Vikings' sake, we hope this isn't their answer to potentially losing both Pat Williams and Jimmy Kennedy. Ayodele, 28, would be a little used rotational player on a good defense.


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I hoped I could write a generic helper class that you could use when Refactoring your enum to a class. I wrote this:
class EnhancedEnum<T> where T : struct
public readonly T Value;
public EnhancedEnum(T value) { this.Value = value; }
public static implicit operator T(EnhancedEnum<T> e) { return e.Value; }
public static implicit operator EnhancedEnum<T>(T i) { return new EnhancedEnum<T>(i); }
But since you can't make a struct derive from a class, it's not very useful. Oh, well.
One of the interesting things to note here is the T is no constrained to the builtin integral types, the same way that 'enum' is. That means you could make an enum of any value type. That'd be kinda neat, I think.


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ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Nick Hutchinson, from left, Nick Fernandez and Ryan Salmon were recently awarded the Boy Scouts High Adventure Triple Crown Award. The boys are all members of Boy Scout Troop 1459, affiliated with St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in Alpharetta, and were the first Scouts from this troop to earn this award. Also receiving the award from Troop 1459 were Ryan Loushin and Josh Havrilla.
The requirements to receive this award are participation in any high adventure program at all three BSA national High Adventure bases – hiking at Philmont Scout Ranch (New Mexico), canoeing the Great Northwoods of Northern Minnesota, Northwest Ontario and Northeast Manitoba and sailing in the Florida Keys.


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Outfitters introduce Pakistan's market in year 2003 with a small setup and as with time passing the company operates 42 stores nationwide. It offers casual and stylish cool accessories, for men and women with a wide range of designs all with in affordable range that enables men and women around the country. Outfitters represent a impact of western wear in local fashion market. In Pakistan's fashion industry, Outfitters has outlets in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi,Peshawar, Faisalabad, Multan, Sialkot, Gujrawala and Gujrat.Outfitters main competitor in the market is Crossroads, and the new competitor is Riverstone. The prices of products of Outfitters decrease in the sale of their products.the sale is upto 50% starting from 15th January 2012. The products are of good quality, and their target is to attract youth towards trendy fashions.
Outfitters deals in both western casual men and women wear which includes:
· Shirts
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· Knitwear
· Jeans
· Trousers
· Jackets
· Ladies shoes, bags
· Other accessories
Recently Outfitter has launched its Fall/Winter Collection 2011-2012. In this collection of Outfitters menswear and women wear has introduced. Men jeans, casual pants, shirts and sweaters are all finely stitched and designed. Outfitters Winter Collection 2011/2012 for both men and women is available in its outlets. . Have a look at Outfitter's winter collection for men 2011/2012.


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Effective today telemarketers are required to show there name and # on your caller id. No more "unknown" or "out of area" will be legal. This ,of coarse, applies to areas that are equipped with caller id technology. One small step for man. A giant step towards sanity! Jeff F.
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Ask them if they are naked, if the are playing with *&&^^%^*, when thier supervisor calls do the samething, they will take you off thier call list! What kind of underwear they like, then ask them for thier visa or mastercard number. After just a few eeks of that they will not call you, seems your number is removed for some reason.
I have no more problems with telemarketers after being put on the list except for the few that fit in the loopholes, but that is very few.
Business lines were exempt from this earlier. I sure hope this one fills the gaps.
that must be it. I refuse to pay more just because I am a business. It's a "let's stick it to the business rip off" in my opinion. Fortunately my phone company is the local small town and if I want to advertise in the yellow pages it is a totally different company so I can get away with this.
I did and the telemarketers dropped immensely!
I still get more telemarketers on my business phone vs my home phone (which is also on the do not call list). So it must not take care of everyone. But I think telemarketers see your number on the list (whether business or not) and realize that it's a dead end and remove your number. Just my theory...
I am SO sick of telemarketers. GRRRRRRRRRRR-R-R-R-R-R
My personal policy is this:
I refuse to do business with any company that uses them. And I tell them that.
If it's one that I have no alternative for, like Qwest, .... um, well, let's just say that all of the bad words and insults that I DON'T put on the taxidermy forums are being saved up for a good cause! <grin>


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EDMONTON - When we last left the Edmonton Eskimos after the final regular season game at home last year, three quarters of the seats were empty.
The Eskimos announced a paid attendance of 27,633, the lowest of the season and fourth consecutive announced paid attendance under 30,000.
A more accurate picture was provided by the 50-50 payouts. Those numbers they couldn't fudge.
They went from $127,875 to $80,962 to $61,810 to $61,777 to $49,237 to $43,570.
When we last left the Eskimos after they lost their final home game of the regular season, they had one win at home to show for the entire year.
The Eskimos had never had a one-win season at home.
Not once.
Not ever.
"They deserve better," said quarterback Mike Reilly in an impassioned speech in the dressing room after that game.


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The northeast of Japan remains a disaster zone, with 24,000 people dead or missing and more than 100,000 others still in temporary shelters three months after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the coast of Honshu Island. Radiation levels at the Fukushima nuclear plant remain so high that a group of retired engineers has volunteered to take over the emergency work there because, well, they don't have as long to live anyway. Hammered by the twin disasters, Japan's already fragile economy slipped back into recession in the first quarter of 2011.
One could argue that a power struggle in Tokyo is the last thing the staggering country needs. But Japanese parliamentarians nonetheless turned their fire on Prime Minister Naoto Kan, forcing him to promise he would soon resign, setting the stage for the country to see its sixth prime minister in the past five years.
Facing a no-confidence vote in which his two predecessors as leader of the governing Democratic Party of Japan indicated they planned to vote against the government, Mr. Kan bought time by promising to leave of his own accord as soon as he deemed the country's situation to have stabilized. With the internal party rebellion quelled by his promise to soon leave office, Mr. Kan comfortably survived the no-confidence vote.
While Mr. Kan's political rivals – including DPJ heavyweights Yukio Hatoyama and Ichiro Ozawa – said they expected the resignation to be tendered as early as this summer, Mr. Kan later suggested he could remain in office until work to stabilize the situation at Fukushima is complete, a process expected to take until the end of 2011.
"Cunning Kan didn't mention a [specific] time when he will step down as Prime Minister … but I assume he will be probably forced to resign sooner rather than later, before autumn," political analyst Takao Toshikawa wrote in an e-mail interview.
However long he stays, the 64-year-old Mr. Kan is now a lame-duck leader, just another in a succession of forgettable prime ministers to take and leave office since Junichiro Koizumi stepped down in the fall of 2006.
While opinion polls suggested that Mr. Kan – who was initially praised for overseeing the government's calm response to the tsunami and nuclear crises – had lost the public's trust in recent weeks as the government's handling of the Fukushima debacle came into question, the same polls showed that nearly three-quarters of Japanese wanted politics to be set aside until the recovery work was further along.
Those left homeless and scared by the disasters looked on in disgust as Mr. Kan, Mr. Hatoyama and Mr. Ozawa drew daggers on each other, while the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (which earlier this year rejected an offer from Mr. Kan to join a national unity government to deal with the tsunami and nuclear disasters) cheered from the sidelines.
"I feel anger at politicians who are engaged in [such] actions," Tamotsu Baba, the mayor of Namie, a town of 22,000 that was evacuated because of its proximity to the Fukushima plant, told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper before the no-confidence vote. "They should first make every effort to settle the situation at the nuclear plant."
Mr. Kan's temporary reprieve may allow him to do a little more of that. Having survived the no-confidence vote, his government may now find it easier to negotiate the passage of an emergency budget that is required to pay for the country's biggest rebuilding project since the end of the Second World War. However, there are still unaddressed questions over how to fund the extra spending, with Japan already hampered by a debt that is twice the size of its annual economy and many lawmakers opposed to the introduction of a reconstruction tax.
While the technocratic Mr. Kan is a little-loved figure – one recent opinion poll put his support at just 28 per cent as feeling grew that his government had mismanaged the response to the tsunami and nuclear disasters – the political skullduggery that forced him to offer his resignation will be particularly disheartening to those Japanese who voted in the DPJ two summers ago in what was seen as a rebuke of the long-ruling LDP's backroom deals and revolving leaders. Mr. Hatoyama, who led the party to its breakthrough election win in 2009, was forced to quit early last year over a broken election promise. Now his successor is on the way out too, with Japanese voters – who have played a direct role in choosing just one of their past five leaders – again having little say in the matter.
One problem with the move to oust Mr. Kan is that there are few figures who seem ready to take over the daunting task of running Japan in these difficult times. The DPJ nearly split into two or more factions Thursday (and both Mr. Hatoyama and Mr. Ozawa are widely disliked), while the opposition LDP, led by party veteran Sadakazu Tanigaki, is still reeling from its election loss of two years ago.
Government spokesman Yukio Edano gained a cult following through his tireless work in the weeks following the March 11 disaster, but at 47 he is still seen by many Japanese as too young and inexperienced for the prime minister's job. Former foreign minister Seiji Maehara is another potential candidate, but he was forced to resign earlier this year in a funding scandal. Another possibility is Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku, a close ally of Mr. Kan's.
The Japanese media blamed all sides for the bickering in a time of crisis. Some see the whole affair as linked to Mr. Kan's post-disaster efforts to take on the country's powerful nuclear industry. "These parliamentary manoeuvres are a joke and sickening," read one recent editorial in Asahi Shimbun.
Despite his current troubles, Mr. Kan is just days away from a telling milestone in Japanese politics. If he can hold onto his job until next week, he'll be the first prime minister since Mr. Koizumi to serve more than a year in office.


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Local police to play charity softball game
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GILFORD — The Gilford Police Relief Association will be competing in a Charity Softball Game against members of the Meredith Police Association and featuring: members of the New England Patriots Alumni on both teams. The game will be held on Sunday September 7th, at 3 p.m. at Robbie Mills Field in Laconia. All contributors during the recent fundraiser received complimentary tickets to this event.
Admission is $10 and tickets will be available at the gate the day of the game.


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The Church in Germany has launched a new campaign to promote the family under the theme, "Living Love Together." This campaign will take place over three years and will offer spiritual counseling, formation and access to the sacraments for couples and their families.
The Archbishop of Berlin, Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, explained that this campaign is intended to address the issue of the decline in religious weddings during the last 18 years. He said the abandoning of the Catholic faith, the increase in marriages between couples of different faiths and the lack of openness to marriage among young people are to blame for the decline.
The theme for the campaign this year will be "Preparation for Marriage." In 2009 the theme will be "The Road from Couple to Family," and in 2010, "Love and Spousal Relationships after the Kids Leave Home."
Meanwhile, the German government is re-launching a campaign to get couples to have more children. The campaign "You are Germany" began in 2005 and this year is aimed at encouraging families through videos and other resources to have more children.


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Pipes are situated at V&M Star in Youngstown
Gov. Ted Strickland, ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new TMK IPSCO plant in Brookfield on May 7.
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Vada Reel of Austintown recently celebrated her 90th birthday. She was joined Nov. 20 by more than 200 friends at Smith Corners United Methodist Church. Hosting the event were her sons and their wives: Kenneth (Mary Ann), Gary (Sandie) and Wayne (Judi) Reel. Attending the event were her sisters, Freda Kochera of Austintown and Janice (Bob) Wehr of Dallas. Her family includes eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Mrs. Reel has lived in Austintown most of her life and lives in the house built in 1940, before her marriage, by her late husband, Jack. She is active in Smith Corners Church, serving as the organist and pianist for the past 74 years; the Dublin Grange in Canfield; and the Farm Bureau. From left to right are Gary, Kenneth, Vada and Wayne Reel.
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Artist Jamie Wyeth and writer Barbara Walsh pose in Rockland, Maine. The pair collaborated on the new children's book, "Sammy in the Sky," a story about how one family coped with the death of a beloved family pet.
Bill Nicholas, chief appraiser with the Trumbull County Auditor's office, stands near a bank of computers at the auditor's office that are used by the public to look up property values. Nicholas says the most recent property revaluation conducted in Trumbull County provides one of the most accurate measurements of property values the county has had in close to 20 years.
Canfi eld's Kala Barko (12) shoots over Lakeview's Callie Schmitt (10) during their basketball game Monday at Canfi eld High School gym. The Cardinals downed the Bulldogs, 47-36.
Urban Meyer, an Ashtabula native and former Florida coach, was offi cially introduced as the new head football
coach of The Ohio State Univeristy during a press conference Monday in Columbus.
"Pour Mon Pere" is a moving and soothing collection of songs by Deno Frangopoulos that has been nominated in the Pop Instrumental catgory.


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LONGVIEW/GREGG COUNTY (KYTX) - A Longview teen has been arrested for stealing more than $4,000 in belongings from a 75-year-old woman.
Marco Antonio Valenzuela, 18, was arrested Thursday by Longview police on charges of burglary of abuilding, warrants for burglary of a vehicle and unlawfully carrying a weapon and three outstanding traffic warrants. He remains in the Gregg County Jail today on $16,000 bond.
According to police, Valenzuela took several items from a home in the 1100 block of South Green Street. The items were valued at $4,620.
Valenzuela has been in the Gregg County Jail three times since June 29.


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EVD supporters renew their push
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Shanghai, China -- Backers of a Chinese optical-disk format are trying to rekindle interest in the technology as an alternative to legacy DVDs and pricey HD-DVD or Blu-ray media. But internal friction, controversy and a closing window of opportunity are conspiring against the format's success.
For more than three years, a handful of Chinese companies have been trying to kick-start the market for the Enhanced Versatile Disc, which is slightly higher in capacity than DVDs and is based on proprietary Chinese technology. Backers hoped EVD, as an alternative to DVD, would free Chinese manufacturers from intellectual-property royalties paid to consortia like the DVD Forum. But the effort to get EVD out the door stumbled, resulting in few players on retail shelves and a smattering of content incapable of rivaling what's available on DVD.
That looked set to change recently, when 19 Chinese manufacturers gathered in Beijing to show off about 50 EVD players they said would retail for an average price of $88--about 2.5 times the cost of a basic DVD player--and the EVD Alliance said members would stop producing DVD players by 2008.
That immediately caught the attention of chip makers that make a tidy profit supplying devices to Chinese DVD equipment makers. Phones began to ring, and it turned out the DVD news "wasn't true," said Tim Vehling, senior director of LSI Logic Corp.'s Consumer Products Marketing division. Soon after, many members of the EVD Alliance made their own statements, setting the record straight.
Haier Electronics, aggressive in the EVD arena, estimates its ratio of EVD to DVD players will be 35:65 by 2008, since demand is high for DVD in rural areas. Skyworth Digital, with a dozen EVD models, said half of its production will be for EVD by 2008.
Indeed, most alliance members are waiting to see how the market plays out. "We won't run the risk of quitting DVD or HD-DVD only to support a homegrown standard," said Chao Chen, a marketing manager at Amoi Electronics, which is a member of the EVD Alliance but hasn't started making players yet.
Hollywood unmoved
Chip makers and content providers are likewise taking it slow. Jun Shi, who oversees content development at Antaeus Corp., an investor in EVD, said the company has been in touch with Hollywood studios like Warner but that little has come of it. "If Warner doesn't see the profit brought from EVD, they just won't provide content," Shi said.
That's EVD's problem: Since the players must be compatible with DVD, royalties are still paid, defeating the purpose of developing a DVD rival in the first place. So backers of EVD are trying to create a high-capacity disk. If they succeed, then EVD may be repositioned against HD-DVD and Blu-ray.


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ThermoComp Front Doors - High performance for your Home
After a hard day at work there is nothing better than coming home to a relaxing environment and enjoying your home comforts. To be able to enjoy time with your loved ones, you have to feel safe and at ease in your own four walls, it all begins with your front door.
Traditional range
Whether you live on a Victorian terrace or a modern development, your home is as individual as you are and deserves a facade that makes a unique statement. By choosing a modern, composite door you can benefit from a wide variety of styles, sizes, colours, glazing and fixtures. Exploring the available options gives you fresh ideas and ensures that you arrive at a front door that is highly personalised and a complete reflection of your tastes.
Cottage Range
Character properties are perennially popular among home buyers who are looking for a piece of history. These period houses usually offer several original features which their owners seek to preserve. Even when looking to renovate or improve these homes, attention to detail is key, so modern fixtures with heritage overtones are the ideal solution.
Contemporary Range
There has been a significant number of new homes built over the last 50 years. Often, these more modern houses need doors and windows that are in keeping with the surrounding architecture. There is an increasing number of exciting, contemporary doors and other fixtures available to homeowners looking to give their post-war house a clean, fresh look. These ultra new door styles provide instant sophistication to a home.
The catalogue provides comprehensive information and, of course, your Hörmann partner would be happy to give you individual advice.
Hörmann's ThermoComp Door Designer
It take just 3 minutes to create your own bespoke door. Choose the colour, glazing and the hardware for your perfect door.
Good reasons to try Hörmann's ThermoComp Front Doors
All doors are developed and manufactured by Hörmann. Our highly qualified employees work intensively on new products, continual further developments and improvements to details. Patents and unique products on the market are the result of this. Endurance tests under real conditions ensure mature series products with Hörmann quality.
We are convinced of our products and our uncompromising quality assurance. That is why you will enjoy a Hörmann function in your house for many years.
Hörmann is setting a good example. This is why the company has obtained over 70 % of its required energy from green sources and will continue to increase this percentage. At the same time, many tonnes of CO² are saved each year thanks to the introduction of an intelligent and certified energy management system. And last but not least, Hörmann offers products for sustainable construction. Find out more about
Hörmann's environmental activities in the "We Think Green" brochure.
Our doors are fitted with high security multi-point locking systems as standard. These locks meet the requirements of PAS 23/24 and are tested in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 Quality Assurance. We also supply a 'split spindle' option which further enhances security. The door locks on the latch as soon as the door is shut and requires a key to unlock it. To take the security of our doors to an even higher level, we also fit our specially designed triple dogbolt system as standard. This involves two sets of triple hinge bolts that secure the door to the frame, protecting you against intruders.
Making these doors even more special is the fact that each decorative glass panel has been hand crafted with bevels to complement the door.
Design your door exactly the way you want it, to your own individual taste. You can choose between various colours and decors as well as glazings.


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WASHINGTON, May 27 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the U.S. Army's expenditure of $32 billion on failed weapons programs since 1995 "vexing and disturbing."
The Washington Post reported an Army study not released to the public indicated 22 Army weapons programs were shut down and never built -- some after 20 years of research and development -- building to a cost of $32 billion.
The Army called the efforts "unacceptable;" Defense Secretary Robert Gates went further.
"Since 9/11, a near doubling of the Pentagon's modernization accounts -- more than $700 billion over 10 years in new spending on procurement, research and development -- has resulted in relatively modest gains in actual military capability." That outcome is both "vexing and disturbing," Gates said in an address last week.
Gates said there would be no more "no-questions-asked funding requests," and the services would have to fix up the equipment they have while taking a more deliberate approach to weapon development.
Instead of going with old Cold War muscle and might strategy, the Defense Department and Pentagon leaders are finally questioning whether advanced weapon systems are effective in wars of hearts and minds as in Vietnam and Iraq in which the enemy fought amid a civilian population with basic but deadly weapons, the Post reported.
"It's just time now, with at least one war winding down and another we hope will be winding down and funding definitely coming down, to take a pause, relook where we are and go forward from there in a thoughtful way," said Thomas Hawley, deputy undersecretary of the Army.


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Say this much for the Lansing High boys' basketball players: They're definitely not lacking in confidence. Now depth on the other hand...
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New electronic voting machines in Leavenworth County should get their first official use in this summer's August primary elections involving federal, state and county offices.
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The two largest teachers unions in Wisconsin have agreed to begin discussions on a merger.
From the Wisconsin State Journal:
Leaders of both Wisconsin Education Association Council, an affiliate of the National Education Association, and AFT-Wisconsin, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, say their membership has declined about 30 percent since the state's new collective bargaining law, known as Act 10, took effect...
"It's more useful to us to work together," WEAC president Mary Bell said. "We've had a relationship with AFT for decades, and that relationship has solidified over the past two years."
What would a merger mean for the state's teachers?


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Efficacy and Safety of CDP870 and Methotrexate Compared to Methotrexate Alone in Subjects With Rheumatoid Arthritis
This study has been completed.
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Last Update Posted: September 4, 2013
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|First Posted Date ICMJE
|October 16, 2007
|Last Update Posted Date
|September 4, 2013
|Start Date ICMJE
|October 2002
|Primary Completion Date
|January 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|American college of Rheumatolofy (ACR)-20 responder rate at Week 24
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
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|Efficacy and Safety of CDP870 and Methotrexate Compared to Methotrexate Alone in Subjects With Rheumatoid Arthritis
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|Efficacy and Safety of CDP870 400 mg in Combination With Methotrexate Compared to Methotrexate Alone in the Treatment of the Signs and Symptoms of Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Are Partial Responders to Methotrexate
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|The main purpose of the study was to determine the efficacy of CDP870 in treating RA signs/symptoms in patients who were partial responders to MTX. Other purposes were to show additional efficacy without increased toxicity and the immunogenic response to CDP870 during combined CDP870 and MTX therapy.
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|Choy E, McKenna F, Vencovsky J, Valente R, Goel N, Vanlunen B, Davies O, Stahl HD, Alten R. Certolizumab pegol plus MTX administered every 4 weeks is effective in patients with RA who are partial responders to MTX. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2012 Jul;51(7):1226-34. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/ker519. Epub 2012 Feb 16.
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Is Your Power Company Killing You? Ours Is!
Happy Earth Day! Does your utility share your environmental, political, and social commitments? Not unless the utility executives share the same paper proclamations and treaties you do.
April 24, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Did your power company make a new commitment to your health and lower costs? Does your utility share your environmental, political, and social commitments? Not unless the utility executives share the same paper proclamations and treaties you do.
The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) burns the dirtiest at night while you sleep. They are the silent killers whose airborne pollution seeps in through the fine cracks around our windows and whose pollution settles into our soils and waterways to eventually pollute our drinking water and food.
LIPA still relies on burning coal, oil, fracking for natural gas, and with gratitude no longer is licensed to operate an unsafe nuclear power plant to supply Long Island with electricity. Vigilance is what it took to close the Shoreham Nuclear Power plant; and vigilance is what it is going to take for the elected oversight of LIPA.
Last weekend, Mr. John McMahon was appointed by Governor Cuomo's office to run the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). His title is Chief Operating Officer (COO) with a salary of $275K per year. He is the third COO in six months. Mr. McMahon is a retired veteran of Con Edison. By the way, Con Ed is the last American owned utility in NY State. His salary was once $5.2M, so will he be vigilant? Unlikely. Mr. Richard Kauffman recommended him, which begs the question: who is he to recommend anyone? Mr. Kauffman recently joined the U.S. Energy Department to serve as a Senior Advisor to Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu from Garden City, NY. Trustees are obligated to be whistleblowers --- if they are not whistleblowers they are co-conspirators. As an attorney, McMahon has an affirmative obligation to stop or report future and current crime and injury at LIPA (and PAST crime and injury if LIPA is not his client --- but LIPA is not his client and such an attorney/client role would be a conflict-of-interest that would bar him from being a trustee.) Mr. McMahon is obligated by law and attorney's ethical rules to be a whistleblower --- let's see what happens now!
Their motive is to be determined. However, the timing of Mr. McMahon's appointment should be clearly attributable to lawsuits against the NY State and the utility, since these actions continue to expose LIPA's incompetence, cronyism, and illegal contracts with foreign companies (UK based National Grid). Our democracy was designed to reveal these truths. However, the lawsuit to force ELECTED TRUSTEES into LIPA is currently deadlocked by a pattern of crime suborned by judicial federalist tyranny.
Earth Day provocation 2013: it is said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Take that principal one step further by embracing nature preservation.
The three insurgent ratepayers are driving for more TRUTHs -- an energy expert, a business strategist, and an attorney --- by way of election law for JUSTICE, and to create elected oversight of LIPA.
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3 States Seek Stay Of Clean Water Rule If 6th Circuit Bows Out
(States' injunction motion available. Document #95-151210-001M.)
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