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CHESHIRE cats will prowl through Oxford as part of this year's Alice's Day celebrations
The annual festival celebrating the wacky and wonderful world of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will this year take place on Saturday, July 1.
The Story Museum in Pembroke Street is planning a mesmerising day of theatre, live music, circus and family games across the city.
The theme for this year is 'riddle and games', with visitors invited to dress up as the Cheshire Cat and take part in his scavenger hunt, join the Hedgehog protest as they fight back against the Queen of Hearts and march with a troop of confused playing cards.
David Gibb from The Story Museum said: "Venues across the city will be involved, including Christ Church College, the Ashmoleam Museum, the Museum of Oxford, Oxford Castle and the Botanic Garden.
"All this, as well as facepainting, crafting, puzzles, and games, means you're sure to end the day with a grin worthy of the Cheshire Cat himself."
The day's events start from 10am and most of them are free.
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It's that time again when Sony releases smaller form factor consoles, or slightly modified ones. The PS Vita isn't getting 1, but 2 revisions. The first one is a smaller, lighter version of the current Vita hardware.
The PS Vita 2.0 – let's call it that – will to 20 percent thinner and 15 percent lighter than the current Vita 1.0; sporting an LCD screen as opposed to OLED. It will only be available in WiFi and include a 1GB memory card. Vita 2.0 (again, that's what I'm calling it) will launch in Japan first, in October, for around $200. This is the new Vita price point.
Now to the really juice announcement of the day.
Not only do we have a PS Vita handheld revamp, but a home console version as well. The PS Vita TV will contain all of the insides of the handheld version, but can connect it to your home TV. The highest resolution support is 1080i. Vita TV will lack a gyroscope, camera, microphone and back touchpad, which means there are some Vita games that will not be playable on it. It will utilise a standard PlayStation Dual Shock 3 controller.
Sony is touting the PS Vita TV as a home media system (using services like Hulu) and cheap home console. This will allow lower income households to play console quality games for around $100 for the system. Like its handheld brother, the Vita will also be compatible with all downloadable PSP and PS1 Classics games.
A future update will allow it to steam PS4 games to the TV it's connected to.
PS Vita TV is set to launch in Japan on November 14th.
Sony's PS Vita sales have been suffering since launch – has anyone purchased one? – But the PS Vita TV & 2.0 will hopefully give them some ground against Nintendo's 3DS and 2DS systems.

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Name the Seattle biotech company with a drug shown to help men live longer with prostate cancer, which recently raised cash, is negotiating with potential partners, and has seen its stock boom from as low as $2 to $30 a share yesterday.
Hint: It's not Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN), the developer of the first-of-a-kind treatment for stimulating the immune system against prostate cancer.
Give up?
It's Bothell, WA-based OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OGXI). This company, which was so obscure at one point last year that zero shares changed hands one day, has suddenly morphed into one of the surprise biotech success stories of 2009. Whereas its neighbor across Lake Washington has been known to unfurl a giant banner proclaiming success, OncoGenex has a way more low-key style. Yesterday, I caught up with CEO Scott Cormack, who dialed in from his office in Vancouver, BC, where he spends part of his time.
How understated is OncoGenex? Last month, when the company decided to raise some money to give it a little more cash cushion while it was negotiating with partners, it could have easily raised $50 million or more, but it only took $9.5 million. And instead of hiring an underwriter to pitch the shares, Cormack and Stephen Anderson, the chief financial officer, just started personally calling institutional investors one Friday afternoon in July. After a couple hours, they sold 475,000 shares at $20 apiece, at just a two percent discount to the prior closing price, without any fancy derivatives, or warrants, and without having to pay any of the usual commissions to a banker. The money should give the company about 10 more months of operating cash, to take it to December 2010, Cormack says.
"We just picked up the phone and started dialing," Cormack says. "We didn't have an awful lot of runway left."
Selling OncoGenex stock was that easy for a reason. Researchers reported the company's experimental prostate cancer drug, OGX-011, was able to help men live longer than standard chemotherapy in a clinical trial of 82 patients, according to data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in May. Men with terminal prostate cancer who got the OncoGenex drug in combination with docetaxel, the standard chemotherapy, lived a median time of 23.8 months, about 6.9 months longer than those who got docetaxel by itself.
OncoGenex has a lower profile than Dendreon, partly for both business and scientific reasons. OncoGenex, originally based in Vancouver, BC, failed in an effort to go public on its own, but found a way onto the Nasdaq last year when it merged into the shell of a failed public company, Bothell, WA-based Sonus Pharmaceuticals. The OncoGenex treatment also doesn't have quite the gee-whiz factor of Dendreon, which is attempting to introduce the first FDA-approved treatment that can actively stimulate the immune system to fight prostate cancer cells like a virus. The OncoGenex drug is an antisense therapy, which means it is genetically engineered to block the RNA that gives rise to a protein called clusterin, which is associated with enabling tumors to resist chemotherapy.
Still, the magnitude of the survival benefit in the OncoGenex trial was slightly longer than the one seen in Dendreon's pivotal study, so this generated a lot of interest in the cancer community. An estimated 30,000 men die of prostate cancer each year in the U.S., and analysts are predicting the Dendreon therapy will easily eclipse $1 billion in annual sales at its peak.
OncoGenex has mapped out a game plan to build up enough evidence to get FDA approval of its therapy, although the trials haven't yet started. The company is planning to run a pair of clinical trials enrolling a combined 1,100 patients—some getting their first course of chemotherapy, and others getting their second course.
OncoGenex only has 26 employees, so it doesn't have enough people or resources to pull off a trial that big by itself. The company is in talks with potential partners, who are discussing a variety of options to divvy up the worldwide commercial rights, and the costs of running such big trials. One early budget projection for those trials was about $70 million, according to what Cormack told me back in December, before the ASCO hubbub, when his company only had $17 million in cash in the bank.
The talks involve more than one pharmaceutical company, and are "competitive," Cormack says, although he wouldn't say how many companies are in the running. He' has been scoping a number of options, in terms of the usual financial mix of upfront payments, milestones, and royalties, as well as global deals versus more regionally focused collaborations. OncoGenex is also vetting partners for their cancer drug development expertise and, how broad their vision is for the product, and mulling how involved its team wants to remain in the future development plans, or whether it wants to mostly hand off the ball.
Because the clusterin protein plays a role in multiple cancers, OncoGenex is hopeful that a partner will want to think bigger than just prostate cancer, and consider opportunities to test the drug further for lung and breast malignancies, Cormack says.
Partnership talks always take a good amount of time, although Cormack says he's confident the deal can get done by the end of this year. He' has been trying to send a signal to Wall Street that he's serious about doing a deal, and not trying to find a way to do the trials alone, and he's hopeful that the latest financing will have proved his point.
"If you believe that we're going to do a partnership deal, and that is going to bring in more money and expertise, then why would you raise more money and unnecessarily dilute your existing shareholders?" Cormack says. "If we had raised $60 million, people would have said, 'they're not that confident they're going to do a partnership, and maybe they'll do it themselves."
That's partly why Cormack isn't seizing the moment to do any empire building. The company has 26 employees, andsays it isn't hiring. The core management team is made up of Cormack, Anderson, Cindy Jacobs, the chief medical officer, and Monica Krieger, the vice president of regulatory affairs.
Staying lean may not be great for all the talented unemployed people in town, but it's the kind of thing potential acquirers like to see in a company that's dressed up for a sale. Fewer HR headaches, or integration issues can crop up that way. Cormack says he's not ruling any options out.
"Our focus is on doing a partnership, but having said that, if an offer came to acquire the company, it wouldn't be the first time that partnership talks evolved into something else," Cormack says.


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Nine-year-old plagiarism allegation leads to retraction of math paper
It is often said that science is self-correcting, but it is usually more accurate to add "in the long run" to that statement.
Take, for example, this retraction of a 10-year-old paper in Entropy that had been questioned since 2005. Here's the notice for "Statistical Convergent Topological Sequence Entropy Maps of the Circle:"
The editors were made aware that a paper published in Entropy in 2004 [1] may have plagiarized an earlier paper by Roman Hric published in 2000 [2]. After checking with specialized plagiarism software, we found that this claim is indeed correct and almost the entire paper is a verbatim copy of the earlier one. After confirmation of this fact, the editors of Entropy have decided to retract the paper immediately.
We would like to apologize to the readers of the journal that it took so many years to notice this error and to retract the paper. Apparently there is a comment on MathSciNet (http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/) since 2005 that points out this case of possible plagiarism [3], however the editorial office was not aware of this until recently. We request readers of the journal to directly get in touch with the editorial office and the editors of the journal for similar cases in the future, so that they can be handled promptly.
1. Aydin, B. Statistical Convergent Topological Sequence Entropy Maps of the Circle. Entropy 2004, 6, 257–261.
2. Hric, R. Topological sequence entropy for maps of the circle. Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin. 2000, 41, 53–59.
3. MathSciNet, MR2082710 (2005f:37075), http://www.ams.org/mathscinet getitem?mr=2082710
The paper has yet to be cited, according to Thomson Scientific's Web of Knowledge.
Hat tip: William T.A. Harrison
"After checking with specialized plagiarism software, we found that this claim is indeed correct and almost the entire paper is a verbatim copy of the earlier one."
Luckily they had this "specialized plagiarism software", what would they have done otherwise?
"Plagiarism software" is a time saving device, nothing more. It can be useful for screening large volumes of material but when it comes to investigating a particular case of alleged plagiarism – as in this case – there is just no substitute for doing it 'by hand' – i.e. by Googling bits of it.
My understanding is that the software was used to check the claim that two known papers are indeed close to identical. You might see that directly and certainly no Googling is required, but yes, also for that purpose a tool like: http://de.vroniplag.wikia.com/wiki/Quelle:Textvergleich might be helpful to see the text overlap at a single glance. However, to proudly mention a "specialized plagiarism software" in this context I find quite hilarious …
You may have to use "specialized software" to make sure that the paper is not plagiarizing other papers as well. Specialized software does more than a simple text comparison: it can, for instance, also compare references lists of different papers to detect papers that could be an entirely rewritten version of another, publisher paper.
Or you could compare the reference lists yourself.
Plagiarism detection is natural language processing – computers are not better at this than us (yet) although they can do simple stuff faster.
Oh wait I see what you mean: it could compare the reference lists against a *corpus* of previous papers.
I thought you were referring to comparing a paper to a single alleged source.
Based on a hint dropped by Jeffrey Beall, we wish to make an anonymous report of potentially duplicated figures involving three original research papers.
Samy E. Oraby, Ayman M. Alaskari (2010) Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Topographical Surface Characterization of Multilayer-Coated and Uncoated Carbide Inserts. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol:46 2010-10-24, pp. 402-413
Ayman M. Alaskari, Samy E. Oraby, Abdulla I. Almazrouee (2011a) SEM and AFM Investigations of Surface Defects and Tool Wear of Multilayers Coated Carbide Inserts. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol:49 2011-01-26, pp. 534-538
Samy Oraby, Ayman Alaskari, Abdulla Almazrouee (2011b) Prior Surface Integrity Assessment of Coated and Uncoated Carbide Inserts Using Atomic Force Microscopy. Materials 2011, 4, 633-650; doi:10.3390/ma4040633 (MDPI)
2010 and 2011a recovered from http://www.waset.org/author/samy-e-oraby
Potentially duplicated figures:
Fig. 1 (2011a) = Fig. 3 (2011b)
Fig. 15 (2010) = Fig. 1 (2011b)
Fig. 2 (2010) = partly identical to Fig. 2 (2011b), although 2011b acknowledges the source while 2010 does not.
Fig. 2 (center) (2011a) = Fig. 10c (2011b)
Fig. 3 (2010) = Fig. 4 (2011b)
Fig. 3 (right) (2010) = Fig. in Table 2, Sample 2 (2011b)
Fig. 3 (top row, right) (2010) = Fig. 11b (2011b)
Fig. 4 (three lower 3D graphs) (2010) = Fig. 5 (2011b), which may be = to Fig. 6 (2011b)
Fig. 5 (2010) = Fig. 7 (2011b)
Fig. 6 (2010) = Fig. 8 (2011b)
Fig. 4b (2011a) = Fig. in Table 3, Sample 2 (2011b)
Fig. 4a (2011a) = Fig. in Table 3, Sample 3 (2011b)
Fig. 7 (top) (2011a) = Fig. in Table 3, Sample 5 (worn-Pos. 2) (2011b)
Fig. 9 (bottom) (2010) = Fig. 12 (2011b)
Fig. 11 (2010) = Fig. 11c (2011b)
Table 1 and 2 figures (2010) = almost identical to Table 2 and 3 figures (2011b)
We call on the retraction of all three papers since duplication is the antithesis of originality and multiple, potentially simultaneous submissions to avoid detection would violate submission ethics requirements of both publishers.
COPE states: 'Retraction is a mechanism for correcting the literature and alerting readers to publications that contain such seriously flawed or erroneous data that their findings and conclusions cannot be relied upon'. http://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf
We hope this will take 9 days and not 9 years to retract.
We present two additional Samy E. Oraby cases to ponder, as we are drawn to his professional profile here:
Case 1
Samy E. Oraby, Ayman M. Alaskari (2011) Mathematical Modeling Experimental Approach of the Friction on the Tool-Chip Interface of Multicoated Carbide Turning Inserts. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol:51 2011-03-22 http://waset.org/publications/2691/mathematical-modeling-experimental-approach-of-the-friction-on-the-tool-chip-interface-of-multicoated-carbide-turning-inserts
A.M. Alaskari, S.E. Oraby, H.K. Al-Khalid (2011) Mathematical Modeling Experimental Approach of the Friction on the Tool-Chip Interface of Multicoated Carbide Turning Inserts. International Journal of Advances in Machining and Forming Operations, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 167-183.
Would Dr. Oraby be gracious enough to make the full text of the 2011 IJAMFO paper available for scrutiny as it is currently behind a pay wall?
Case 2
Hamad K. Al-Khalid, Ayman M. Alaskari, Samy E. Oraby (2011) Hardness Variations as Affected by Bar Diameter of AISI 4140 Steel. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol:51 2011-03-29, pp. 231-237
Why was the AISI 4140 data of the WASET 2011 paper not referenced or mentioned in the 2012 MDPI Materials paper?
Al-Khalid H, Alaskari A, Oraby S. Statistical and Graphical Assessment of Circumferential and Radial Hardness Variation of AISI 4140, AISI 1020 and AA 6082 Aluminum Alloy. Materials. 2012; 5(1):12-26.
At least, blogs are working better than editorial staffs: this case of plagiarism has been commented on the Beall's blog on 19 February 2014:
The retraction is released by "Entropy" on 21 February 2014.
I feel the "specialized software" used by MDPI is named "Internet". Many researchers over the world have been used "Internet" for a long time, you know.
Please, Editors, YOU MUST NOT FOOL THE SCHOLAR COMMUNITY. WE ARE NOT IDIOTS.
And by the way, please STOP to publish papers you don't understand.
The review of this paper at MathSciNet, available since 2005, points out the plagiarism. In light of this, it is hard to accept the journal's claim that they did not know about it.
MathSciNet is only available to a subscriber list, so the only people who could have been aware of this are those subscribers, none of whom apparently thought it was a good idea to notify the journal involved.
According to this blog entry:
they were made aware of the plagiarism, but chose to ignore it.
The Math2.0 post (Nov. 2012) you quote reads:
"the representative of the journal has protested against the review instead of being thankful for the service of finding the cheater".
This is quite a different behaviour compared to "they chose to ignore it".
You're right, that behaviour is even less ethical. My point being, the editor in chief of Entropy in 2005 must have been aware of the problem. It took the controversy in Beall's blog for them to finally take proper action and to retract the paper.
Wrong, if someone (obviously with MathSciNet access) had not mentioned the plagiarism in a comment to one of Beall's blog posts there is no way the journal could ever have known about this.
Well, I have by now seen some e-mail correspondence between the MathSciNet reviewers and representatives of the journal proving that the journal did, in fact, know about it.
Meh, Entropy's not a real scientific journal anyway.
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By Dawn M. Swidorski
Mango is native to the Indian subcontinent and belongs to the genus Mangifera. Botanically, this fruit belongs to the family of Anacardiaceae, which also includes numerous species of tropical fruiting trees, such as cashew and pistachio. The common mango, or Indian mango – is the only mango tree commonly cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions, and its fruit is distributed world-wide.
Mango's have been cultivated in the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years and reached East Asia between the 4th and 5th centuries BC. By the 10th century AD, cultivation had begun in East Africa. Mango are also grown in Andalusia, Spain, which is one of the few places in mainland Europe that allows growth of tropical plants and fruit trees. Now cultivated in most frost-free tropical and warmer subtropical climates; nearly half of the world's mangoes are cultivated in India.
Mango trees grow to be 65 –130 ft and are long-lived, with some specimens still bearing fruit after 300 years. The leaves are orange-pink when young and change to a dark glossy red, then dark green as they mature. The flowers are small and white with five petals and have a mild sweet fragrance, similar to "lily of the valley". The fruit takes three to six months to ripen.
The fruits grow at the end of a long, string-like stem with sometimes two or more fruits to a stem. The fruits are 2 – 9 inches long and may be kidney or oval shaped. They range in size from 8- 24 ounces. The leathery skin is waxy and smooth.
The ripe fruit is variable in size and color from yellow, orange, red or green, and carry a single flat, oblong pit that can be fibrous (or hairy) on the surface. Like other drupaceous fruits, mangoes come in both freestone and clingstone varieties. Ripe, unpeeled fruit gives off a distinctive resinous, sweet smell. Inside the pit is a thin lining covering a single seed, which contains the plant embryo.
Sometimes called "the king of the fruits", mango's are one of the most popular, nutritionally rich with a unique flavor and fragrance. The flesh of a mango is peach-like and juicy. The flavor is pleasant and rich, being high in sugars and acid. Mango is generally sweet, although the taste and texture of the flesh varies across cultivars, some having a soft, pulpy texture similar to an overripe plum, while the flesh of others is firmer, like a cantaloupe or avocado.
The mango skin may be consumed if the fruit is unripe or pickled, but has potential to cause an allergic reaction to people with latex allergies. In ripe fruits the skin may be thicker and bitter tasting, so is typically not eaten.
Mango contains essential vitamins A, C and E Vitamin B6, vitamin K, other B vitamins and phytonutrients, such as beta-caroten, lutein and alpha-carotene.
How to select a mango and tell if it's ripe
Look for skins that are taut and smooth without any bruises or cuts. The fruit should feel heavy for its size, a sign of density and juiciness.
Give it a gentle squeeze. If it's ready, it will yield a bit. Remember that mango's will continue to ripen off the tree, so if you're not planning on eating them for a few days, it might be better to buy ones that are a bit firmer.
Unripe mangos can be kept at room temperature for few days, and to ripen, keep them in paper covers. Ripe mangos should be stored in the refrigerator. Bring back to normal temperature when the fruit is to be eaten to get the natural taste and flavor.
How to peel and cut a mango
Look over your mango: It will have two flatter or wider sides. The large pit will mirror this shape and will be roughly the middle third of the fruit, depending on variety.
With a sharp paring knife, slice off the two wide, flatter sides, each about one-third of the width of the mango.
Hold one of the mango lobes, skin side down, in the palm of your hand. With the tip of your knife, gently score it with lines a half inch or more apart, all the way to the skin but being careful not to poke through it. Now, rotate the mango 90 degrees and score it again, making a square or diamond pattern.
Hold the scored mango, flesh side up, with both hands and flip it inside out, so the fruit pops out like a porcupine. Either slice off the mango diamonds or serve the fruit just like that.
Serving Tips
- Mangoes are widely used in cuisine. Sour, unripe mangoes are used in chutneys, pickles, or side dishes, or may be eaten raw with salt, chili, or soy sauce.
- Ripe mangoes are typically eaten fresh; however, they can have many other culinary uses including juice and a popular drink made throughout South Asia by mixing ripe mangoes or mango pulp with yogurt and sugar.
- Ripe mangoes are also used to make curries.
- Ripe mangoes are often cut into thin layers, dried, folded, and then cut. The fruit is also added to cereal products like muesli and oat granola.
- Mangoes may be used to make juices, mango nectar, and as a flavoring and major ingredient in ice cream, sorbet and fruit bars.
- Mango fruit can be enjoyed alone without any additions.
- Fresh mango cubes are a great addition to fruit salads.
Mango leaves are used to decorate archways and doors in Indian houses during weddings and celebrations. Mango motifs and paisleys are widely used in different Indian embroidery styles, and are found in Kashmiri shawls, silk saris, etc.


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Perez returns to mound after hospital stay
"He threw a bullpen [Monday] -- it went real well, and he's accelerating fast," manager Ron Roenicke said. "He had a smile on his face and he felt good."
Perez, 33, has played in parts of three seasons for the Pirates and Phillies, going 1-1 with a 4.79 ERA in 32 relief appearances. The left-hander was a non-roster invitee to Spring Training and pitched well enough early on to gain serious consideration for the bullpen, yielding zero runs and two hits while striking out two over the course of three appearances and 3 1/3 innings.
"I think he probably will be ready [to pitch in a game before the Brewers break camp], but I don't know that he will," Roenicke said.
Perez is expected to throw another side session on Thursday, and Roenicke said it was "to be determined" if he still had a chance at making the 25-man roster for Opening Day.
"We're OK with where he is in his status, because he's on a Minor League deal," Roenicke said, meaning the Brewers don't need to worry about keeping him out of Cactus League games in order to backdate a trip to the disabled list to start the season.


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Total joint replacement of knees and hips in the United States is a procedure of last resort that, remarkably, has also become quite routine, and it is increasingly being performed on younger people.
Given the success stories, it's small wonder: When cartilage breaks down and bone begins to rub on bone, otherwise healthy people find walking unpleasant at best; stairs can become a nightmare. Beloved activities like playing with children or taking part in sports can hurt.
So a new joint can be like a dream. For that reason, the procedure enjoys a good reputation. At 74, Sally Smith of Grand Prairie tossed away her walker soon after total hip replacement, declaring, "I feel great, I might as well say it!"
Despite great strides in artificial joints and in surgical skills, total joint replacement remains a drastic step.
"I'm a little surprised sometimes when people come into the office thinking that joint replacement is for anyone. They take it very lightly," says Dr. Joseph Borrelli, an orthopedic surgeon at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital and the Texas Health Physicians Group. "It's important to know the magnitude of putting in a total joint. The No. 1 thing is that you have to remove your own total joint. It's akin to an internal amputation, it's not like a valve replacement in a car."
Osteoarthritis, where the cartilage protecting bones in the joint breaks down, is by far the most common reason for joint replacement. A combination of overuse, overloading and genetics leads to this degenerative condition, says Robert W. Bucholz, professor of orthopedic surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Obesity is a major factor, he says.
A February 2012 study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston cited a "disproportionate increase in total knee replacements among younger patients." The study concluded that the aging population and rising rates of obesity — two reasons that are often cited to explain the trend — can't account for the rise. The authors speculated that factors might be either more knee injuries or that surgeons are finding more reasons to do the procedure.
Bucholz says there have been more joint replacements in middle-aged people in part because neither doctor nor patient wants them to endure pain during what many consider the best years of life.
Borrelli would like to see people be more proactive about seeking treatment when they first have pain or other difficulties in their joints, before osteoarthritis becomes harder to treat. "If they can prolong the life of their joint, they're better off," he says. "I would hope that any surgeon would try all conservative means first."
Treatments and especially lifestyle changes can protect the joint, say doctors and the National Institutes of Health.
Medicines are largely aimed at reducing pain. Some patients report success with glucosamine and chondroitin, over-the-counter remedies that enjoy only mixed approval from physicians. Pain-relieving capsaicin skin cream is applied externally. Corticosteroids or artificial joint fluid can be injected for pain relief and increased ease of motion.
There are also things you can do to slow the advancement of osteoarthritis. Adjustments in activity or lifestyle, aimed at taking pressure off the joint, are most effective for people whose condition hasn't advanced and who aren't prone to it genetically. Physical therapy or other exercise can improve muscle strength, which eases the destructive forces on the knee.
Exercise options
If athletic activity is a contributor, you can change the way you use the joint. For example, trade high-impact exercise like running for an activity like cycling. Tools such as canes or braces unload weight.
For many Americans, the best prevention would be significant weight loss.
One looming potential consequence of having a joint replaced at a younger age, Borrelli notes, is that a patient could outlive his or her joint, requiring another major surgery at an older age. Indeed, the authors of the Brigham and Women's study concluded that revision surgery for knee replacement patients younger than 70 is likely and cautioned further evaluation of the pros and cons of replacements for younger people.
This is especially true of overweight patients, says Bucholz, because overloaded artificial joints break down just as human ones do.
Borrelli advises seeking a second opinion if total joint replacement is prescribed, especially if you haven't tried other treatments, including possibly less extreme surgery. "There's no going back — you can't put it back in. This is a big step. Most likely you'll be better than before, but you could be worse."
Daphne Howland is a freelance writer in Portland, Maine.


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Natural gas-focused energy company, Questar Corp. reported bright third quarter 2011 results, reflecting strong transportation revenues and solid contribution from its expansion venture.
Earnings per share came in at 20 cents, surpassing both the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 17 cents and prior-year result of 16 cents.
Total revenue came in at $146.7 million, up a modest 1.0% from the year-ago level of $145.2 million. The result reflects higher production volumes across most of the business segments.
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Questar Gas: The segment generated $89.8 million in revenue, flat year over year. The segment registered a loss of $7.9 million, narrower than the loss of $9.1 million in third quarter 2010.
As of September 30, 2011, Questar Gas served 912,698 customers, up 10,415, or 1.2% year over year.
Wexpro: Consolidated sales were up 13.1% year over year at $6.9 million in the quarter. Segmental income from continuing operations increased to $25.6 million from $22.2 million in the prior-year quarter, driven by a higher average investment base.
However, Wexpro reported a 1.6% decline in quarterly production of natural gas (12.6 billion cubic feet (Bcf) from 12.4 Bcf in third quarter 2010).
Questar Pipeline: Consolidated revenues of $50.0 million were up 1.4% from the year-ago quarter and income from continuing operations came in at $18.8 million, reflecting an increase of 15.3%. The income improvement was attributed to additional revenues from the Overthrust Loop Expansion Project along with reduced operating, maintenance, and interest expense.
Total natural gas transportation volumes in the quarter were 188.5 million decatherms, up marginally from the prior-year level of 187.9 decatherms.
As of September 30, 2011, Questar had long-term debt (including current portion) of $906.4 million, with a debt-to-capitalization ratio of 45.3%.
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Management increased its 2011 earnings guidance to $1.11 to $1.14 per average diluted share, from the prior forecast of $1.07 to $1.11. The company initiated 2012 earnings guidance at $1.15 to $1.19 per diluted share.
Questar expects to register strong growth in the coming months with a high investment base at Wexpro, multi-year pipeline-replacement program and robust transportation revenues.
Questar plans to expend $355 million in capital investments, with $125 million targeted toward the Wexpro business segment in 2011. For 2012, the total spending is also expected to be around $355 million.
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The Calexico School Board approved the issuance of bonds in which the renovation of the Calexico Swimming pool could happen.
The board deliberated on this issue at their regular Tuesday meeting in which they discussed approving this resolution that would give the District over $1 Million Dollars in bonds. The board had previously tabled this item since they requested more information about this bond. Trustee Joong Kim asked for a joint City Council-School Board meeting to discuss this item and see how the money would be used. The City of Calexico has issued millions of dollars in bonds for the City projects for economic development and other uses. The bonds for the School District would be used to improve various areas in the Districts.
At last Tuesday's meeting City Manager Oscar Rodriquez spoke to the board about this bonds and said that this bonds are an urgency item since this might be the last chance the City could issue bonds for the district since the Redevelopment Agencies could be gone anytime.
"Redevelopment Agencies have not been phased out like the Governor wanted so this gives us a window of opportunity to get these bonds and use it for the swimming pool." Rodriquez said.
Rodriquez said that the Redevelopment Agency survived by only one vote since one Republican Assembly member voted against it. The Acting City Manager said if the board votes to approve these bonds then they can meet on how the money would be used for the District afterwards. Calexico RDA consultant Marshall Lynn said that every week RDA is on the chopping block and said his team will be on the phone the very next morning to get the bonds ready in the next couple of weeks.
"Waiting two more weeks will be a mistake because the monies will not be there anymore and the opportunity would be lost to rebuild the swimming pool." Lynn warned the board.
Trustee Joong Kim was the only board member against the issuance of the bonds and cited the problems other cities have experience because of bonds. A lot of discussion about the benefit of the bonds took place but in the end the board decided to approve a resolution to go forward with the bonds with the vote of 4-1 having Trustee Kim being the only vote against it.


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Afternoon News Brief - Half of Wisconsin bank CEO's believe the state's economy will grow over the next six months
Half of Wisconsin's leading bankers believe the state's economy will grow over the next six months. That's according to a new survey of local bank CEO's by the state's Bankers Association. The executives who responded said they also see evidence of more demand for business loans, and a more stable housing industry. Only 23 percent of bank executives rated the demand for business loans as "poor." That's down from 52 percent in the most recent survey. And one of five bankers said they expected businesses in their communities to add employees over the next six months. Rose Oswald Poels, the CEO of the Bankers Association, said Wisconsin's economy appears to be stabilizing after the Great Recession. She said loan demands are quote, "not booming by any means." But they're seeing fewer past due payments, and more optimism by bankers and businesses about their local economies.
Wisconsin's second largest city is getting a new temporary leader for its public schools. Jane Belmore, the administrator at Madison Edgewood College, will spend the next year as the interim superintendent of the Madison School District. In the meantime, the School Board will look for a permanent replacement for Dan Nerad. He'll leave on July 27th, to become the superintendent in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham Michigan. Nerad has been Madison's top school official since 2008, after he held a similar job in Green Bay. He promised to help Belmore get acquainted with her new role. Before going to Edgewood, she spent 29 years in the Madison schools. For five years, Belmore was an assistant superintendent for elementary schools.
The state's top law enforcer has been chosen as the President Elect of the National Association of Attorneys General. Wisconsin's J.B. Van Hollen was elected at the group's recent annual meeting. That's after he became the vice president a year ago. The association conducts policy research, conducts training, and helps state Justice Departments coordinate their handling of various state and federal issues. Van Hollen says the national group has served Wisconsinites in a variety of ways, and he looks forward to his new leadership role and quote, "other opportunities in the interest of justice." Maryland's attorney general, Doug Gansler, will be the group's president for the next year.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has released its plan for this fall's wolf hunt. Those hunters will be allowed to take 201 animals, with the number of hunters limited to 10 times the quota. That means Wisconsin will license 2,010 hunters for the season. Ecologists say they weren't comfortable with a higher quota for this, the hunt's first year. The state will be divided into six zones, with quotas larger in the north where there are more wolves living. Wisconsin's Chippewa tribes can reserve up to half the total quota for their members in the ceded territory. That's basically the northern one-third of the state. The Natural Resources Board will discuss the plan two weeks from today.
Adams County authorities are holding 53 year old Robert Ruck behind bars in connection with a stabbing early this morning. Callers reported Ruck was fighting with 18 year old Cody Olson just after 3:15 a.m. Ruck is from Oxford. He reportedly went to his wife's home in Springville and got into a fight with the teenager. Olson was taken to Moundview Memorial Hospital with injuries not thought to be life threatening. Ruck left his wife's home and was arrested in Marquette County.
Wisconsin veterinarians are reporting Parvo is spreading fast around the state this year. Parvo is a viral disease which makes dogs vomit and suffer with diarrhea. At least 30 dogs have died for it in the past few weeks. Vets say the chances for a dog to contract the highly contagious disease from other dogs increases dramatically during the warm weather months. They strongly urge dog owners to buy the $15.00 preventative vaccination.


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Future, the international media group and leading digital publisher, today announces the promotion of Lee Nutter to Group Publisher for the Entertainment Group.
The promotion comes in recognition of Lee's development and leadership of the Total Film and Official Nintendo Magazine brands. www.totalfilm.com continues to go from strength to strength, recording its highest traffic figures ever in December 2012, with 2.49m global unique users, up 107% year-on-year*. Whilst Official Nintendo Magazine successfully delivered a new look in Novemeber 2012 to coincide with the UK launch of Nintendo's Wii U games console.???
Lee joined Future in 2003 as Editor of PSW. Since then he was launch Editor of Official Nintendo Magazine, before moving to Publisher for the Entertainment Group in 2006.
Lee will continue to report to Clair Porteous, who was appointed Head of Entertainment in October last year.
Clair says:"This well deserved promotion reflects the work Lee has put into the Total Film and Official Nintendo Magazine brands. Lee's experience in the videogames sector is exceptional and as we continue to drive and accelerare digital growth in the Entertainment Group, Lee will play a pivitiol role in pushing this agenda forwards."
Lee says:"This is a fantastic opportunity. The structure is now in place to even further accelerate our huge audience expansion across digital platforms in both games and film. This is an exciting time for the Entertainment Group with some big announcements set for later in the year."
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The HeartSmart website was created to improve the care of dogs and cats with heart diseases. The main objective of this website is to provide pet owners with a clear and credible source of information about veterinary cardiology. This resource helps pet owners better understand their pet's health and provides tools to help them actively participate in the recognition, treatment and prevention of heart disease.


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How do Australian plants cope with phosphorus deficiency?
Determine how Australian native plants can cope with phosphorus deficiency
Associate Professor Charles Warren
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Plants have multiple strategies to cope with phosphorus deficiency such as modifications of root architecture, mycorrhizal associations, and exudation of compounds that increase phosphorus availability in the soil. An additional strategy that is only just receiving attention is replacement of phospholipids with non-phosphate containing membrane lipids.
This exciting and novel project will determine the role of lipids in tolerance of phosphorus deficiency. Such information can then be used to develop agricultural and forest crops that are more tolerant of phosphorus deficiency.
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Mass spectrometry will be used for lipid ID and quantification. Field experiments will make use of the wide variety of ecosystems and soil types in and around Sydney. Manipulative greenhouse experiments will enable testing of ideas under controlled conditions.
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- Korean Grand Prix - Qualifying
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Jules Bianchi has been handed a three-place grid penalty and reprimanded for impeding Paul di Resta during qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix.
Di Resta caught the Marussia at the penultimate corner on his flying lap, while Bianchi was just speeding up to start his own flying lap in Q1. Ultimately, di Resta made it through to Q2 while Bianchi dropped out in 21st place, but having been summoned to the stewards Bianchi was hit with the penalty as he had been warned over the radio.
With the original penalty only dropping Bianchi down one place to the back of the grid, the stewards also imposed a reprimand. Speaking before the penalty was announced di Resta claimed he felt the effects of the incident even in Q2.
"The incident with Jules; obviously he was the one who affected my lap but unfortunately I think it cost me a little bit in Q2 because I didn't have the confidence to put the front wing on that I needed to based on the insight that I had with the car beforehand," di Resta said. "Whether that was one position out of place I don't know … at the end of the day we got through. If it had cost us getting through it would have obviously been quite a downward turn but the important things is we've given ourselves hopefully a chance of scoring points."
Bianchi's reprimand leaves him on two for this season and therefore one away from an automatic 10-place grid penalty. Charles Pic is also now on two reprimands after failing to stop at the weighbridge during Friday practice.


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SALT LAKE CITY - Real Salt Lake DF Eddie Pope has been called into U.S. Men's National Team camp by Manager Bruce Arena as part of the 18-man roster that will face CONCACAF foe Jamaica and rookie RSL MF Ryan Johnson on Tuesday, April 11 at the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary, N.C. at 5:00 p.m. MT, live on ESPN2.
Pope, along with RSL teammate MF Chris Klein, rejoined the U.S. for its game against Germany on March 22, the team's first loss in its run up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany. Prior to the Germany match, Pope anchored the U.S. defense on February 27 helping to shut down FW Carlos Ruiz and the rest of the Guatemalan attack on February 19 at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas. In the match against Guatemala, Pope played a full 90 minutes along with RSL teammate Klein for the U.S.
The High Point, N.C. native notched his seventh career U.S. goal in the 5-0 rout of Norway on January 29. Pope has 77 career appearances and has tallied eight goals for the U.S. since his first appearance on November 10, 1996 against Trinidad & Tobago. He started and played in 20 RSL games during the 2005 season, and tallied one goal against the Los Angeles Galaxy on May 14.
The U.S. is undefeated in 16 meetings with Jamaica, holding a 9-0-7 record against the Reggae Boyz. The teams' last meeting came in the quarterfinals of the 2005 Gold Cup, the U.S. collecting a 3-1 win on the strength of goals by Josh Wolff and a pair from DaMarcus Beasley. While never dropping a match to Jamaica, there have been a number of close match-ups with five of the nine victories coming by just one goal.
The U.S. has kicked off the year in solid form, going 4-1-1 and netting 14 goals while surrendering six. After drawing with Canada on Jan. 22 in San Diego in their opening game of 2006, the U.S. has produced four straight victories against Norway, FIFA World Cup finalists Japan and Poland, and Guatemala, three by shutout.
Goalkeepers (2) - Tony Meola (New York Red Bulls), Matt Reis (New England Revolution)
Defenders (5) - Chris Albright (Los Angeles Galaxy), Nick Garcia (Kansas City Wizards), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids), Eddie Pope (Real Salt Lake)
Midfielders (7) - Clint Dempsey (New England Revolution), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Pat Noonan (New England Revolution), John O'Brien (out of contract), Ben Olsen (D.C. United), Steve Ralston (New England Revolution), Kerry Zavagnin (Kansas City Wizards)
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NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE mission had a smashing ending early Friday morning when the US space agency crashed the spacecraft into the moon's surface. The ground controllers, monitoring the spacecraft's operations from NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, confirmed that it impacted the lunar surface as planned sometime […]
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Dynasty tells the story of Rome's first dynasty of emperors, from its establishment by Augustus Caesar in the last decades of the first century BC to its final, florid extinction less than a century later. The line of autocrats known to historians as the 'Julio-Claudians' remains to this day a byword for depravity.
The brilliance of its allure and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes still haunt the public imagination. When people think of imperial Rome, it is the cities of Tiberius and Caligula, of Claudius and Nero that is most likely to come into their minds.
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ELYRIA — City officials took the first steps Monday toward placing a 0.5 percent income tax renewal issue on the upcoming November ballot.
By passing two ordinances saying they intend to go to the electorate in the near future and support efforts to pass the issue, City Council members are beginning the process OF starting a campaign geared toward educating voters on the issue. Every five years, city officials must have residents pass a ballot issue so the city can continue to collect 0.5 percent of the total 1.75 percent income tax rate. It does not increase the amount of money taxpayers pay, but must be voted on before it expires to ensure collection can continue.
The temporary tax accounts for roughly $6 million in yearly revenue for the city.
"We just need to do this before we can go on the ballot and I wanted to start now before Council goes into its summer schedule," said Law Director Scott Serazin.
Mayor Holly Brinda said the one is the most important issue facing the city this year. If it fails, the city finance director would have to reduce next year's expected revenue by millions and a second vote could not happen until November 2014.
"This will help us," Brinda told Council members after the unanimous passage. "I think an ordinance of support will put us in a much better position to rally volunteers for the campaign, by showing a united front between Council and the administration."
The November general election is set for Nov. 5. So far, the income tax renewal is the only city issue to appear on the ballot. City officials have until Aug. 7 to certify to the Lorain County Board of Elections that it plans to place an issue on the ballot."
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I have been watching all your tutorials and it's been a pleasure to have you on YouTube with such a wonderful blog and tutorials. I am a student in Swinburne university first semester and studying 'C Programing' for the first time in my life, I have a project submission in 2 weeks' time which is about developing a game called "UNBLOCK ME" using C language. Am using Quincy btw as it is assigned to us by the university. I was just wondering if you could post some tutorials on how to do this game.
Right now I'm completely exhausted to find out the solution. Here is the link to that game which uni gave us to have an idea and along with that they have provided us an .exe file as well with all the description. Can I send u the description??? And maybe you can help me out … because it's getting so tense out here…
( http://www.flashgamesplayer.com/free/unblock-me/play.html )
Thanks & Regards!
Junaid Khan
Swinburne University of Technology.
Unblocked Me is a logic game that allows player to drag the blocks and move them left, right, up or down, depending upon their orientation. The goal is to move the targeted block out through the opening on the right of the board.
Develop a game with C that will automatically generate a set of random blocks (represented by single digit integer) on a 6 by 6 game board (2-dimensional array).
You are free to select the number of blocks for your game. Minimum requirement is to have at least 7 blocks (vertical blocks and horizontal blocks).
You are allowed to design your own combination of random blocks with more than 7 blocks. However, you will be required to design a mechanism to avoid initializing blocks combination with no valid solution.
The targeted block is represented by symbol '*', the goal is to move it out through the opening on the right of the board. The initial position of targeted block should be located either at column 2 or column 3 of row 3 in the array.
The players will be allowed to select any block and move it either horizontally or vertically.
The performance of the player may be measured by counting the number of steps taken for the targeted block to exit the board (You may introduce other ways of measuring player's performance).
Each element of array contains the following suggested attributes :
a variable of number representing the block
Indicator to indicate the dimension (vertical / horizontal) or length of the block
Or any other attributes you think appropriate to your program
Thus, the element can be described as "struct" of array in the C programming language.
The record of previous players is stored in a plain text data file. The information of all the previous players should be displayed at the beginning of the game. User / player will also be prompted to key in their information, and that information will then be stored in the same text file.
Input to the system is through a DOS command window.
Output should be printed on DOS window to show the latest layout of the board.
Graphical window interface can be used as an alternative (optional)
The assignment must be written in C using Quincy 2005. Build options must include strict ANSI/ISO compliance, C99 support.
Use an iterative process (spiral or prototype SDLC) to design and implement a solution to your program. That means
write a small program to do a little bit of the problem
compile and run the small program
next, add a function or two
compile and run the improved program
repeat step 2 until you are finished
Functionality to run the game
This program must first prompt the user (in the command window) for the next action to be carried out. (Do provide appropriate menu of actions).
After each action entered by the user, the latest layout of the board will be printed / displayed.
The user should be able to terminate the program at any time.
The program codes MUST be in functions. DO NOT write all the code in the "main()" function.
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have you got the solution in C? i would want that as well. If you do have it, can you share it with me? don't worry, I'll change the codes a bit so that it won't be the same and not plagiarized. thank you
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48 KHz at 32bit vs. 96 KHz at 32 bit audio capture ?
So, I have a Creative Soundblaster 5.1vx card, and it can clock up to 96k/32bit. However, the current ALSA drivers only support capture at 48 KHz. So, am I missing something? Am I not using my card to it's full potential?
Points to consider are:
1. The final mix would have to be "downsampled" to 48 KHz anyway since Ogg (or any other lossy format for that matter) doesn't support 96/32
2. I've googled a lot, and people generally agree that bits per sample is generally more important than the sample rate itself. So, few, if any, would be able to tell the difference between something recorded at 48/32 vs. 192/32 (so I've heard)
3. Since I would be recording from an $8 Microphone (which is still pretty good) and a $50 Guitar processor, does 48 vs. 96 really even matter? I mean, even if I went to a "professional" studio, my guitar would still sound the same, right?
4. It's more about the content than the quality, even though quality does matter a lot too. Surely even thousands of dollars worth of equipment can't make Justin Bieber sound good, or can it?
Any ideas, comments?
Generaly 96 khz is audiophile thing. Audiophiles would pay any money possible to get better sound (sometimes even if the sound remains practically the same.)
1- No, it wouldnt actually. Vorbis goes to 96kHz and beyond-
Dont ask me how you get 96kHz or 192kHz vorbis files, I've never bothered checking how its done (no point having a lossy file with that high a samplerate IMO).
2- 'People'? Maybe some people do, and maybe in some situations its true, but not in others. DSD (Direct-Stream Digital) uses 1bit samples at a huge samplerate of 2.8224 MHz, and is being pushed insome quaters as better than even 192kHz/24bit PCM files.
3- Dont forget the creative card. They were never really made for high quality input. With a creative card, a $8 mic, and $50 pedal, no, its not worth worring about 48kHz/96kHz.
4- No. Justin Bieber is always going to sound awful. But then again, so does a lot of the popular music around now...vocoder and autotune users should be shot. :mad:
Apart from issues of taste, yeah a couple of grands worth of equipment (and an engineer/producer who knows how to use it) can make a big difference vs less than $100. ;) If it didnt, semi-pro and pro home music studios would be using cheap stuff.
BTW, there is a point of diminishing returns- a $250 'home studio' level sound card is going to sound a lot better than a $35 'desktop' sound card in recordings. Spending $500 would sound better again, but it would be a lot closer to the $250 sound card than the $250 sound card was to $35....
That's true. Plus, it would be better to upgrade all equipment bit-by-bit. An $8 mic would perhaps sound the same with a $35 card as with a $350 card.
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SEATTLE, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Pro Bowl left tackle Walter Jones of Seattle Tuesday signed a one-year tender with the Seahawks worth $5.73 million.
Jones missed his second straight preseason this summer. The Seahawks have designated him as a franchise player for the last two seasons, requiring them to pay him the average of the five highest-paid offensive linemen in the NFL last season.
The St. Louis Rams did the same with their Pro Bowl tackle, Orlando Pace, and he too sat out through most of the preseason before signing his tender last week, reportedly worth $5.73 million.
Jones' return was especially important with starting right tackle Chris Terry sidelined for the first four regular season games after violating the league's substance abuse and personal conduct policies.
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Welcome to the first edition of HTML Lessons, where Bre and I will showcase some really simple web development practices that you can use on your blog or site.
Up first, the span tag. In its simplest form, you can use the span tag to change a block of text from the rest of the text. The span tag alone won't change anything, but paired with a little CSS styling, ( you've heard the term CSS — Cascading Style Sheets thrown around, here's your chance to use it! ) you can do some pretty neat things on your blog posts or site. Here's an example:
RESULT → I love the color orange, every time I see anything in orange, I wanna buy it!
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If you'll notice, anything between <span> and </span> is orange and in the second example, anything in between <span> and </span> is orange and bold. Pretty neat, huh? You can use that to change font styles, weights and many more things but to keep it simple, we'll wrap it up here. Go on, give it a shot! Remember if you wanna use any HTML in your blog posts, switch to the HTML editor (in WordPress, it's the html tab rather than the visual).
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John West rolls out global data management
Applied Principles is installing its Principle Suite system across all MW Brands' worldwide production sites. This includes John West Foods' UK warehouse, CEVA Logistics, at Mendlesham in Suffolk, through which all its fish products pass. At this facility, Stuart Neal, John West's UK laboratory intake manager manages a range of information using Datalogic Elf devices.
The Principle Suite will enable MW Brands to increase productivity through customised mobile electronic data collection and real-time reporting. The Elf hand-held devices will enable employees to capture data across all MW Brands' production sites.
The system will give MW Brands consistent data management, such as good manufacturing practice audits, intake and product audits, together with health and safety and quality control.
At the Mendlesham facility, it is used to carry out organoleptic checks on products, which assess their taste, smell, texture and appearance. It is also used for integrity and coding checks on labelling, can seaming, barcodes and 'use-by' dates. The facility also carries out vehicle inspections and reporting trend analyses.
The project is expected to be completed in February 2013.
JJ Kotze, md of Applied Principles, said: "The 12-month pilot delivered excellent results and we look forward to implementing it over the next six months."


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Compelling color combinations, undulating abstract patterning, and some very fine toppers done in shaved furs (or deeply-pigmented wools, trimmed in lush pelts) marked Roksanda Ilincic's vision for Fall. Shiny silver belts cinched most looks, sported oversized buckles, sometimes with a plush fur stole even tucked into the belting. The silhouettes were quite '40s-inflected, and gauchos (including some patterned iterations) peeked out from under calf-grazing coats and vests. As always, Ilincic is masterful with her palettes, evidenced by getups like look 18, where a delightful, collarless cornflower blue coat swirled with horizontal maroon markings got paired with aqua-tinged orange kicks. Ilincic had her fangirls covered for evening or more somber occasions too, with a finale series of noir-focused looks that, thanks to cheeky PVC detailing and checkering embellishments, still felt light and fun despite the dark hues.


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KAMLOOPS — A memorial playground in honour of teachers Courtney and Skye Buck has received $120,000 as one of the grand prize winners of the Aviva Community Fund.
The Bucks were teachers at Raft River Elementary School when they were both killed, along with their unborn son, in a car accident in December 2012. The community considers the Bucks local heroes that were always there for the kids and decided to honour the young teachers by creating a real playground at the school.
The Parent Advisory Committee submitted the project-which includes new playground equipment, court areas, sitting areas and greenscaping-to the contest Sept. 24 and it quickly gained momentum, earning enough votes to move on in each round of voting.
This morning the program announced the winners in each of the categories and the Raft River playground project was named as one of the grand prize winners, earning $120,000 in the large project category.
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