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Washington And Lee vs. Guilford
April 18, 2007
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|Lee Mclaughlin
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|Tim Skeen
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|Will Keigler
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|Seth Fishman
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|Seldon Clarke
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|Jim Ryan
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|Ned Rider
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|Grant Martin
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|Chris Lalli
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|Alex Heaton
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|Matt Mason
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|Current Record
|Washington And Lee
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|Todd Bochenek
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|Matt Meriwether
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|Gareth Fuller
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|Colin Davis
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|Dan Orr
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|Andrew Vigne
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|The Game Story:
| LEXINGTON, Va. -- The 19th-ranked Washington and Lee men's lacrosse team jumped out to an 8-1 halftime lead in cruising to a 12-4 victory over Guilford in ODAC action on Wednesday afternoon at Wilson Field.
The Generals (8-4, 3-1) opened the scoring just 1:46 into the game as sophomore midfielder Harry St. John (Essex Fells, N.J./West Essex) scored off an assist from sophomore attackman Tim Skeen (Baltimore, Md./Towson). With W&L leading 2-1 late in the first quarter, senior midfielder Lee McLaughlin (Rockbridge Baths, Va./Episcopal) ignited a six-goal run with three-straight unassisted tallies over the first and second periods as the Generals defeated the Quakers for the 19th-consecutive time.
St. John and McLaughlin paced the Generals with three goals each, while sophomore attackman Seth Fishman (Bryn Mawr, Pa./Haverford) added a pair of goals. Skeen, freshman attackmen Will Keigler (Timonium, Md./Gilman) and Max Mancuso (Northport, N.Y./Northport) each posted one goal and one assist. Senior Chris Lalli (Cranbury, N.J./Princeton) played the majority of time in goal, recording seven saves. Sophomore Alex Heaton (Atlanta, Ga./Lovett) and freshman Matt Mason (Gladwyne, Pa./St. Mark's) also played between the pipes, combining for one save.
Guilford (2-9, 0-6) was led by junior midfielder Todd Bochenek's (Cockeysville, Md./Dulaney) one goal and one assist. Junior Andrew Vigne (Concord, Mass./Middlesex) saw most of the time in goal, making nine saves. He was relieved by freshman Matt Brewster (Manassas, Va./Highland School), who did not make a save in the final 8:26 of the game.
Washington and Lee returns to action on Saturday as it hosts Randolph-Macon for a 1:00 pm contest.


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Evaluation and Medico-Economic Study of FIBROSCAN in Patients With Viral Hepatitis (FIBROSTIC)
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A new approach to the evaluation of liver fibrosis has been proposed using PULSOMETRY. The objective is to evaluate the diagnostic performances of the FIBROSCAN technique, together with non-invasive techniques, and to determine how it is able to predict the histological fibrosis score, defined by the METAVIR score. This transversal study aims to compare the evaluation of hepatic fibrosis obtained by FIBROSCAN and histology (METAVIR score) in 2550 consecutive patients taken in charge for a liver biopsy. The results of the study will compare the respective performances of these techniques in the prediction of the METAVIR score, and help in the recommendation of the care of patients with viral hepatitis B and C; these methods will undergo a medico-economic study.
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Device: FIBROSCAN
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Evaluation and Medico Economic Study of FIBROSCAN in Patients With Viral Hepatitis
biological samples to evaluate the hepato-fibrosis
|Study Start Date:
|May 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Device: FIBROSCAN
The gold standard for the evaluation of fibrosis is considered as the METAVIR score by the clinicians. The results of this score are currently used for clinical decisions and description of the evolution of the disease. FIBROSCAN would be interesting in avoiding liver biopsies, if it was able to predict accurately the METAVIR score obtained if a liver biopsy was performed. The data available on diagnostic performances of FIBROSCAN are incomplete, the number of patients studied and the methods selection (blindness of the results of other techniques) are not precise in some of them. The main objective of this study is therefore to evaluate the performance of FIBROSCAN in the prediction of METAVIR score > 2 (vs F0 or F1). An ancillary study will try to evaluate the diagnostic performance of FIBROSCAN in the global prediction of METAVIR score. A statistical method will be tested using the reference method as an ordinal polytropic variable. Half of the sample (1250 patients) will be used to determine the best THERSHOLD of FIBROSCAN in each of the clinical subgroups of patients, in order to obtain a high sensibility. The second half will be used as the validation sample, and the threshold will be used to estimate the sensibility, specificity and other diagnostic parameters of the FIBROSCAN. The secondary objectives are:
- to evaluate the performance of FIBROSCAN in the prediction of METAVIR score in adjacent classes of fibrosis (F0-F1, F1-F2, F2-F3, F3-F4), and
- to study the association between elastometry and fibrosis surface obtained by morphometry (considered as the best evaluation of global liver fibrosis).
This technique will be applied to a restricted number of biopsies (consecutive biopsies > 2cm).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
patient with hepatitis B or C
Inclusion Criteria:
- Chronic hepatitis B or C
- With liver biopsy indication
- Patient information
Exclusion Criteria:
- Drug hepatitis
- Metabolic hepatology
- Steatosis or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
- Autoimmune hepatopathy
- Non-contraindication to liver biopsy
- Non-contraindication to FIBROSCAN examination
- Ascites
- Obesity
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00318682
|Hopital Beaujon
|Clichy, France, 92110
|Hopital Saint-Antoine
|Paris, France, 75012
|Principal Investigator:
|Francoise Degos, PhD
|Hopital Beaujon
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|Responsible Party:
|Mathieu QUINTIN, Department Clinical Research of Developpement
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|NCT00318682 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 25, 2006
|Last Updated:
|February 11, 2009
|Health Authority:
|France: Ministry of Health
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Digestive System Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Liver Diseases
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
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Golf Rules in Action DVDGolf Rules in Action explains and demonstrates the basic Rules of the game.
Golf Rules IllustratedA clear, detailed, illustrated explanation of the Rules of Golf.
A Guide to the Rules on Clubs and BallsGuidelines to interpret the Rules relating to the design and manufacture of golf clubs and balls.
Birds and Golf CoursesThis book provides guidance on how to support bird populations through effective management of the roughs and out of play areas.
The GolfersThis book examines in detail the historical background to the painting 'The Golfers'.
If it is feasible, the Committee should have a number of representatives on the course to observe play, be available to give rulings and otherwise assist players. Obviously, anyone assigned to the course as a Rules official should be knowledgeable about the Rules.
At The Open there is a walking referee assigned to each group and there are several roving referees assigned to each nine who assist the referees in cases of doubt and carry out timing procedures should a group be out of position and behind the pace of play time schedule.
However, even in professional events, this level of Rules staffing is the exception rather than the norm. Commonly, there will only be roving referees covering areas of the course who will monitor pace of play and give rulings when called upon to do so.
Prior to the competition, it is advisable for a meeting involving all Rules officials to be held. At such a meeting the chief referee may run through the Local Rules, Conditions of Competition, etc. and answer any queries that may arise. Such a meeting will assist in ensuring that any abnormal conditions on the course are handled consistently and that any specific policies are clearly understood.
In Club competitions it is rare to have any Rules officials positioned on the course during play. However, a player is entitled to a ruling, even if this means proceeding under Rule 3-3 in stroke play and seeking a decision once the round is completed. Therefore, the Committee should appoint someone who is knowledgeable in the Rules to be present during the competition to resolve Rules problems. No Committee member or official should give a decision on a Rules matter unless he has been authorised by the Committee to give final decisions in its name.


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The Latin Flavors, American Kitchens Leadership Symposium is an annual invitational leadership retreat presented by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at its San Antonio campus. The symposium focuses on the world heritage of Latin cuisines, their future on American menus, and the advancement of Latin American culinary professionals.
Part of the goal of the symposium and the CIA, San Antonio campus is to help foster a new generation of Latin American chefs in the United States whose cuisines have deep roots in the authentic traditions and flavors of their heritage, and to ensure that the best of Latin flavors find their rightful place at the American table and are rightfully acknowledged as among the finest in the world.
Each October the symposium draws together leading experts in the food and cultures of Latin America, as well as many of the corporate chefs and other foodservice leaders in our industry who are best positioned to advance the future of Latin American culinary talent and Latin-rooted flavors. Attendees of the 2012 symposium included more than 60 volume foodservice professionals and menu-decision makers from across the U.S., 20 presenting chefs and culinary experts, members of the CIA Latin Cuisines Advisory Council Executive Committee, journalists, representatives from the companies and organizations sponsoring the 2012 symposium, students from the CIA's Latin Cuisines Certificate Program, and CIA staff and faculty.
Presenters and guest chefs at Latin Flavors, American Kitchens offered strategies to increase the appreciation of the world-class quality of Latin America's culinary traditions on American menus and advance opportunities for Latin American culinary professionals in the United States.
More than 20 guest chefs and presenters took attendees through the culinary traditions, techniques, and flavor profiles of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and, for the first time, Panama and Venezuela. Some of the program themes they explored include:
Click for the 2012 program, presenter biographies, presentations, recipes and photos of all the dishes demonstrated, along with an extensive glossary of Latin American ingredients, cooking terms, and dishes.
Presenters discussed several key Latin American dishes and ingredients in depth and across cuisines, to provide attendees with a deeper understanding of the role these play in their homelands and the potential they have for American menus. Iliana de la Vega, Edinho Engel, Flavior Solórzano, and Christian Bravo examined chiles, ajíes, and pimentas as they appear in the culinary traditions of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. In a session focused on meat, Federico López of Mexico, Dante Franco and Hubert O'Farrell of Argentina, and Rodrigo Oliveira of Brazil offered traditional and contemporary preparations for beef and lamb. A session on starches and beans focused on the central role of manioc in Brazil, potatoes in Peru, and corn, rice, and beans in Mexico. Other demonstrations looked at the variations between ceviches in Peru, Puerto Rico, and Panama; salads in Mexico, Argentina, Panama, and Peru; and non-alcoholic beverages from Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
In a session on cuisines of the Southern Caribbean, Elena Hernández and Francisco Castro showcased typical ingredients and flavors of Panama, a country where seafood and coconut figure prominently. Culantro, the country's most used herb, to not be confused with cilantro, give Panamanian dishes their distinctive flavor. Geronimo Lopez-Monascal, the executive chef of the CIA, San Antonio's newly opened restaurant, Nao, discussed the culinary philosophy driving the restaurant's menu, along with traditions from his native Venezuela.
Summary sessions by Latin Cuisines Advisory Council Executive Committee members Rick Bayless and Roberto Santibañez, along with a panel led by Chef Bayless, aimed at further helping attendees take the cuisines and concepts presented and apply them to their menus. Gaining a deep knowledge of a particular ingredient by tasting it is useful when thinking of substitutions made necessary because of availability, for example. A dish might then take on a life unique to its American place, but still respect its traditional origin and flavor base.
With a population of more than 50 million, Latinos today constitute our nation's largest minority. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, between now and 2050 (when it is projected that fully one-half of the U.S. population will be people of color) the size of the Latino population is expected to swell to 102.6 million. At that point, Latinos will represent 24 percent of the U.S. population, a projected increase of 188 percent in just 50 years.
These numbers not only illustrate how rapidly the U.S. population is shifting, they also foreshadow significant changes ahead for the American foodservice industry, including the extent to which food and beverage marketing, menu development, and training will need to evolve to stay ahead of these seismic changes in demographics.
Save the date for the 2013 Latin Flavors, American Kitchens Leadership Symposium, which will take place October 2-4, 2013.
Ajíes - Flavio Solorzano, El Señorío de Sulco
Chiles, Ajíes and Pimentas - Iliana de la Vega, CIA
Ceviches - Flavio Solorzano, El Señorío de Sulco
Ceviches in Panama - Elena Hernández, Panamá Gastronómica
Cuisines of the Panamanian Caribbean - Elena Hernández, Panamá Gastronómica
Exploring Non-Alcoholic Beverages - Amy Myrdal Miller, CIA
Exploring Non-Alcoholic Beverages - Dante Franco, Espacio Dolli
Flavors of Panama - Elena Hernández, Panamá Gastronómica
The Food of Latin America - Maricel Presilla, Author
Ingredients in Focus: Meat - Dante Franco, Espacio Dolli
Lamb a la Vara - Hubert O'Farrell, O'Farrell, Buenos Aires
The Latin Wow Factor Strategy - Kevin Higar, Technomic
Let's Talk Coconut - Nelson Milan, San Antonio Country Club
More than Lettuce - Hubert O'Farrell, O'Farrell, Buenos Aires
Panama's Farmers' Markets - Francisco Castro, Panama International Hotel School
Potatoes - Flavio Solorzano, El Señorío de Sulco
Starches and Beans - Iliana de la Vega, CIA
Yierba Mate - Dante Franco, Espacio Dolli


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Banning State Park
Treat yourself to a visit to Banning State Park, just minutes off I-35 near Sandstone. In the spring, watch daring canoeists and kayakers shoot the turbulent rapids at Blueberry Slide, Mother's Delight, Dragon's Tooth and Hell's Gate. In the summer, hike along the Kettle River amid dramatic sandstone rock formations with lush lichens, liverworts and mosses. Visit Wolf Creek Falls, the Log Creek Arches and Robinson's Ice Cave. Stay at the new camper cabin (sleeps five people), which includes bunk beds, a table and benches. Take in the historic ruins of Banning Sandstone Quarry. The park is known for camping, picnicking, cross-country skiing, beautiful trails for hiking and the study of natural history.
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Visitor Alert!
Deer hunt October to November
There will be a deer hunt in Banning State Park on October 31 through November 1. Specific parking area will be assigned to each hunter party after lottery selection. Canoe campsites on east side of Kettle River and "Hell's Gate Rapids" portage trail will be closed October 30 through November 2. The park will remain open to the public during the hunt.
For more information: state parks during fall hunting season.
(Updated Oct. 7, 2015)
Park Notes
Be fascinated. Check out the naturalist programs and other activities scheduled at the park.
Virtual Tour:
Take a virtual tour. It's a great tool to help you plan your next trip to the park!
State Forest Campground:
Banning State Park also manages the Willow River Campground on Zalesky Lake (I-35 Exit 205) within General Andrews State Forest. Camping is available April 28 to October 30. There are 38 drive-in and two hike-in campsites available on a first-come, first-served basis, each with vault toilets and a hand pump for drinking water. A tent-only group camp is also available for up to 50 people. Group camp is $50/night and can be reserved by calling Banning State Park at 320-245-2668. The other campsites are $14/night and do not take reservations.
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Don't move firewood!
Burning non-local firewood can spread invasive species, and it's against Minnesota state law. Learn more. Always buy your firewood at the park, or from an approved local vendor. Find firewood vendors for Banning State Park.
Bird Checklist at Banning State Park.
Park Highlights
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Fall/Spring: Saturday - Monday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Tuesday - Thursday, Intermittent ; Friday 10 a.m - 4 p.m.
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Summer: Daily, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. If no one is available, please leave a message.
P.O. Box 643
Sandstone, MN 55072
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Voorhees professor has work published in mathematics journal
January 13, 2014
Xiqiang Zheng recently published a paper titled "Fast Fourier Transform on FCC and BCC Lattices With Outputs on FCC and BCC Lattices Respectively'' in the December 2013 issue of Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.
In this paper, Zheng, along with additional author, Feng Gu, a former Voorhees professor, developed fast Fourier transform (FFT) methods on face centered cubic (FCC) and body centered cubic (BCC) lattices that allow more efficient three dimensional medical CT imaging based on x-ray scanning.
Zheng has been teaching at Voorhees since 2008. His current research interests include image processing and scientific computation on two and three dimensional optimal sampling lattices: hexagonal, FCC, and BCC lattices. He has published papers in several professional journals such as Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Journal of Fractals, and International Journal of Digital Earth.
He received his master's degree in mathematics from Jiangxi University in 1991. Zheng taught at Nanchang Institute of Aeronautical Technology in China until he came to the United States to pursue his doctoral degree. He obtained his doctoral degree in applied mathematics in 2007 from the University of Florida.
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The Healthy Heart Diet
When Mary Anne Nally of Southold, New York, went for her annual physical, she feared what her doctor might say when he saw her blood-test results. "High cholesterol runs in my family, and even though I eat a relatively healthy diet, I had a sneaking suspicion mine was high too," says the 54-year-old. "I was afraid my doctor might want to put me on a statin drug, which I really didn't want to take." When her doctor did, indeed, suggest a statin, Nally asked him to give her three months to get her cholesterol down on her own. He agreed, but warned her that she'd have to work hard. "He said I would need to start exercising regularly and completely overhaul my diet."
With at least 11 million Americans taking statin drugs to keep their cholesterol levels under control, popping a pill to get your numbers down seems like a no-brainer. But the research is clear: Diet, along with a healthy dose of daily exercise, can do your body just as much good. In fact, according to a recent study conducted at the University of Toronto, eating cholesterol-lowering foods regularly, such as oats, almonds, and barley, can lower your levels just as effectively as statins—and a lot more safely.
"Diet is definitely the key to lowering cholesterol without drugs," says Judith Stanton, MD, an internist who combines conventional internal medicine with alternative and complementary therapies in her Berkeley, California, practice. Stanton sites multiple studies on how a Mediterranean diet—which consists of mostly fruits, vegetables, grains, and olive oil—has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease by 72 percent, while cholesterol-lowering drugs only decrease the risk of heart disease by 34 percent.
Whether you take a statin now, your doctor has threatened to prescribe one, or you want to avoid that possibility, changing your eating habits can have a lifelong impact on your heart health.
Cholesterol 101
Over the last 20 years or so, cholesterol has gotten a pretty bad rap. Fact is, literally every cell of the body needs this waxy, fat-like substance to help digest fats, strengthen cell membranes, and make hormones. Because of the essential role cholesterol plays, the body creates all it needs on its own—about 1,000 mg a day. However, we get even more from some of the foods we eat; egg yolks and meat, for example, have the most, while plant-derived foods have none at all.
In order for cholesterol to reach our cells, it must rely on special carriers called lipoproteins: low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL) to be exact—two terms often tossed around respectively as "bad" and "good" forms of cholesterol. Why the value judgments? To answer that, it helps to know what each one does, says Robert Marshall, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Georgetown Hospital in Washington, DC.
LDL carries cholesterol through the body and deposits it in the cells. HDL transports any cholesterol the cells don't need to the liver, where it eventually gets processed and eliminated. As long as the right balance of cholesterol exists in the body, this LDL–HDL relationship works well. However, when the body has far more cholesterol than it needs—which happens when we eat too many foods high in cholesterol—LDL deposits the excess cholesterol onto artery walls, where it forms plaque that clogs the blood vessels and can ultimately lead to heart disease or even a heart attack.
Diet changes that work
One thing holistic docs know for sure: Watching what you eat can effectively keep cholesterol levels in check. Foods high in saturated fat and cholesterol, such as fatty cuts of beef, pork, and lamb and whole dairy products like milk, cream, and full-fat cheeses, upset the body's natural production of cholesterol. Similarly, foods that have no cholesterol, such as oatmeal, fruits, and vegetables, won't touch the body's ideal levels, but these fiber-rich foods can help lower LDL cholesterol in the body.
"In order to digest a food like oatmeal, the body needs to use bile acids," says Marshall. "To replenish bile acid after digestion, the body actually draws on its own cholesterol sources—like the excess cholesterol floating around in your blood. So foods like this can actually catch that cholesterol before it oxidizes and hardens on your artery walls."
However, while all of this is hopeful news for patients like Nally, who want to try to lower their cholesterol through diet alone, no amount of diet changes can alter our basic cholesterol metabolism. "Thanks to our genes, we all have different ways of metabolizing cholesterol," says Robert Vogel, MD, a cardiologist and chief medical director of the Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa in Aventura, Florida. "Some of us absorb more cholesterol, some less—despite our LDL and HDL levels. That's why one person may eat a healthy diet and still have high cholesterol while someone else cuts out red meat and whole milk and watches her cholesterol levels drop 100 points."
But even if your family history shows that you have a predisposition for high cholesterol, savvy doctors still want to help you avoid statins; if yours doesn't, it might be time for a second opinion. Luckily for Nally, her doctor was on board with her commitment to make the necessary changes to stave off statins.
The plan
To kick her cholesterol-lowering plan into high gear, Nally completely cut out foods that contain artery-blocking saturated fats and trans fats, including her favorite packaged foods. She also doubled her servings of fruits and vegetables, particularly those that are high in soluble fiber (think apples, pears, spinach, kale, and broccoli).
Tougher for Nally, though, was keeping her total cholesterol intake to 200 milligrams or less each day, which meant reading food labels carefully. "Fruits and veggies and the other 'heart-healthy' foods have no cholesterol, but things get trickier when you venture into the packaged food aisles," says Janet Brill, PhD, RD, a nutritionist, exercise physiologist, and author of Cholesterol Down: Ten Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in Four Weeks—Without Prescription Drugs (Three Rivers Press, 2006). "For example, if you eat just one egg yolk, you'll take in 213 mg of cholesterol, and you're already over the top of your daily maximum," says Brill. "Instead, opt for egg whites."
Worried about how many foods you have to cut out? You needn't be. Plenty of delicious, easy-to-eat foods can help you meet your cholesterol-lowering goals. For example, the folate and potassium in orange juice will help increase heart health and reduce cholesterol, says Brill. Experts also agree it's a good idea to boost your intake of omega-3 fatty acids by eating fish two to three times a week. Studies show that in addition to lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of blood clots, omega-3s also reduce inflammation, which can bring your cholesterol levels lower.
In general, shoot for a diet rich in vegetables (ideally six servings per day), fruit (four servings a day), olive oil or canola oil, fish, whole grains, oatmeal, green tea, mushrooms, sesame seeds, and flax, says Brill.
"When I thought about my new diet in terms of what I should add rather than what I had to give up, I missed the sweets and processed foods so much less," says Nally. "It's amazing how when you get in the habit of swapping bad stuff for good stuff—like yogurt instead of ice cream and olive oil instead of butter—you literally stop craving the unhealthy things. They even start to taste worse."
Lambeth Hochwald is a freelance writer in New York City.
Vegetable Frittata
4 to 6 servings
1 tablespoon olive or canola oil
2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 medium, julienned red pepper (1 cup)
2 cups minced broccoli
1/4 teaspoon dry thyme
2 cups chopped spinach
Whisk and set aside:
12 egg whites
3 tablespoons skim milk
(or nondairy alternative)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
3 tablespoons chives, chopped,
reserve 1 tablespoon for garnish
3 oz crumbled goat cheese, reserve
1 oz for garnish
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms in an even layer, and do not move them for
3 minutes. Stir, and continue to sauté for about 5 more minutes until they are browned.
3. Add red pepper, broccoli, and thyme and sauté
3 to 5 more minutes; add 2 to 4 tablespoons of water if vegetables begin to stick. Add spinach, and toss until wilted.
4. Spray a 9-inch pie pan with nonstick spray. Sprinkle goat cheese and chives on bottom ofpan, then add vegetables. Pour egg whites on top and bake for 25 minutes, uncovered. Cover with foil and bake 10 more minutes. Remove from oven and let rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Garnish with crumbled goat cheese and chopped chives.
nutrition info per serving (4): 216 calories; 11. 4 g fat; 5.8 g saturated fat; 22.3 mg cholesterol; 22.3 g protein; 7.5 g carbohydrates; 2.8 g fiber; 564.6 mg sodium
Dark Chocolate & Date Truffles
Makes 24 truffles
1 bag or bar of dark chocolate (12 oz)
1 2/3 cups raw cashews
8 oz dates, finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
Zest of 1/2 of an orange
1. Melt chocolate in double boiler until just melted.
2. Meanwhile, blend 2?3 cups cashews with 2?3 cups water in blender on high for 30 seconds. Chop remaining cashews and set aside.
3. Fold together melted chocolate, cashew mixture, dates, sea salt, and orange zest.
4. Refrigerate until firm, approximately 45 minutes. Roll 3/4-inch balls in hands and then in chopped cashews. Refrigerate until ready to serve. (Note: Truffles will keep in freezer up to 1 month.)
nutrition info per truffle: 105 calories; 5 g fat; 3 g saturated fat; 1 mg cholesterol; 1 g protein; 15 g carbohydrates; 1.5 g fiber; 5 mg sodium
Oatmeal Raisin Pancakes
Makes 16 3-inch pancakes
1 1/2 cups quick oats
1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
2 tablespoons wheat germ
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3/4 cup raisins
3 egg whites
1 1/2 cups skim milk (or nondairy alternative)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ripe bananas, mashed (microwave 20 seconds
if not very ripe)
1/4 cup nonfat plain yogurt
Nonstick cooking spray
1. Mix dry ingredients in large bowl and create a well in the center.
2. Whisk together wet ingredients, and pour into the well and blend.
3. Heat a large non-stick skillet to medium–high heat, and cover with non-stick spray. Pour 1/4 cup portions onto pan and cook approximately 2 to 4 minutes on each side. Serve with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.
nutrition info (per pancake): 93.4 calories; 0.7 g fat; 0.2 g saturated fat; 0.5 mg cholesterol; 3.6 g protein; 19.4 g carbohydrates; 1.9 g fiber; 163.1 mg sodium
Grilled Cod With Black Bean–Mango Salsa
Serves 4
4 1/2 pounds cod fillets
2 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil
Black Bean-Mango Salsa
Makes 6 cups
1 lime
1/2 orange, reserving zest
1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar
1 teaspoon honey
1 small, minced jalapeño pepper (optional)
1 15 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 small mango, diced (1 cup)
1/2 cup green onion, finely sliced
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
1. Mix together all black bean–mango salsa ingredients at least 30 minutes (and up to 24 hours) prior to serving.
2. Lightly brush cod fillets on both sides with extra-virgin olive oil and grill 6 to 7 minutes on each side, until fish is opaque.
3. Mound 1½ cups of black bean mixture on a plate. Lean each piece of grilled cod against salsa.
nutrition info per serving: 339.1 calories; 2.1 g fat; 0.4 g saturated fat; 93.5 mg cholesterol; 46.1 g protein; 33.6 g carbohydrates; 7.8 g fiber; 136.7 mg sodium


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LL parser
In computer science, an LL parser is a top-down parser for a subset of context-free languages. It parses the input from Left to right, performing Leftmost derivation of the sentence.
An LL parser is called an LL(k) parser if it uses k tokens of lookahead when parsing a sentence. If such a parser exists for a certain grammar and it can parse sentences of this grammar without backtracking then it is called an LL(k) grammar. LL(k) grammars can generate more languages the higher the number k of lookahead tokens.[1] A corollary of this is that not all context-free languages can be recognized by an LL(k) parser. An LL parser is called an LL(*) parser (an LL-regular parser[2]) if it is not restricted to a finite k tokens of lookahead, but can make parsing decisions by recognizing whether the following tokens belong to a regular language (for example by means of a Deterministic Finite Automaton).
LL grammars, particularly LL(1) grammars, are of great practical interest, as parsers for these grammars are easy to construct, and many computer languages are designed to be LL(1) for this reason. LL parsers are table-based parsers, similar to LR parsers. LL grammars can also be parsed by recursive descent parsers.
- 1 General case
- 2 Concrete example
- 3 Remarks
- 4 Constructing an LL(1) parsing table
- 5 Constructing an LL(k) parsing table
- 6 Conflicts
- 7 See also
- 8 Notes
- 9 External links
General case[edit]
The parser works on strings from a particular context-free grammar.
The parser consists of
- an input buffer, holding the input string (built from the grammar)
- a stack on which to store the terminals and non-terminals from the grammar yet to be parsed
- a parsing table which tells it what (if any) grammar rule to apply given the symbols on top of its stack and the next input token
The parser applies the rule found in the table by matching the top-most symbol on the stack (row) with the current symbol in the input stream (column).
When the parser starts, the stack already contains two symbols:
where '$' is a special terminal to indicate the bottom of the stack and the end of the input stream, and 'S' is the start symbol of the grammar. The parser will attempt to rewrite the contents of this stack to what it sees on the input stream. However, it only keeps on the stack what still needs to be rewritten.
Concrete example[edit]
Set up[edit]
To explain an LL(1) parser's workings we will consider the following small LL(1) grammar:
- F → a
and parse the following input:
- ( a + a )
We construct a parsing table for this grammar by expanding all the terminals by column and all nonterminals by row. Later, the expressions are numbered by the position where the columns and rows cross. For example, the terminal '(' and non-terminal 'S' match for expression number 2. The table is as follows:
( ) a + $ S 2 - 1 - - F - - 3 - -
(Note that there is also a column for the special terminal, represented here as $, that is used to indicate the end of the input stream.)
Parsing procedure[edit]
In each step, the parser reads the next-available symbol from the input stream, and the top-most symbol from the stack. If the input symbol and the stack-top symbol match, the parser discards them both, leaving only the unmatched symbols in the input stream and on the stack.
Thus, in its first step, the parser reads the input symbol '(' and the stack-top symbol 'S'. The parsing table instruction comes from the column headed by the input symbol '(' and the row headed by the stack-top symbol 'S'; this cell contains '2', which instructs the parser to apply rule (2). The parser has to rewrite 'S' to '( S + F )' on the stack by removing 'S' from stack and pushing '(', 'S', '+', 'F', ')' onto the stack and this writes the rule number 2 to the output. The stack then becomes:
Since the '(' from the input stream did not match the top-most symbol, 'S', from the stack, it was not removed, and remains the next-available input symbol for the following step.
In the second step, the parser removes the '(' from its input stream and from its stack, since they now match. The stack now becomes:
Now the parser has an 'a' on its input stream and an 'S' as its stack top. The parsing table instructs it to apply rule (1) from the grammar and write the rule number 1 to the output stream. The stack becomes:
The parser now has an 'a' on its input stream and an 'F' as its stack top. The parsing table instructs it to apply rule (3) from the grammar and write the rule number 3 to the output stream. The stack becomes:
[ a, +, F, ), $ ]
In the next two steps the parser reads the 'a' and '+' from the input stream and, since they match the next two items on the stack, also removes them from the stack. This results in:
In the next three steps the parser will replace 'F' on the stack by 'a', write the rule number 3 to the output stream and remove the 'a' and ')' from both the stack and the input stream. The parser thus ends with '$' on both its stack and its input stream.
In this case the parser will report that it has accepted the input string and write the following list of rule numbers to the output stream:
- [ 2, 1, 3, 3 ]
This is indeed a list of rules for a leftmost derivation of the input string, which is:
- S → ( S + F ) → ( F + F ) → ( a + F ) → ( a + a )
Parser implementation in C++[edit]
Below follows a C++ implementation of a table-based LL parser for the example language:
#include <iostream>
#include <map>
#include <stack>
enum Symbols {
// the symbols:
// Terminal symbols:
TS_A, // a
TS_EOS, // $, in this case corresponds to '\0'
TS_INVALID, // invalid token
// Non-terminal symbols:
Converts a valid token to the corresponding terminal symbol
enum Symbols lexer(char c)
case '(': return TS_L_PARENS;
case ')': return TS_R_PARENS;
case 'a': return TS_A;
case '+': return TS_PLUS;
case '\0': return TS_EOS; // end of stack: the $ terminal symbol
default: return TS_INVALID;
int main(int argc, char **argv)
using namespace std;
if (argc < 2)
cout << "usage:\n\tll '(a+a)'" << endl;
return 0;
// LL parser table, maps < non-terminal, terminal> pair to action
map< enum Symbols, map<enum Symbols, int> > table;
stack<enum Symbols> ss; // symbol stack
char *p; // input buffer
// initialize the symbols stack
ss.push(TS_EOS); // terminal, $
ss.push(NTS_S); // non-terminal, S
// initialize the symbol stream cursor
p = &argv[1][0];
// setup the parsing table
table[NTS_S][TS_L_PARENS] = 2;
table[NTS_S][TS_A] = 1;
table[NTS_F][TS_A] = 3;
while(ss.size() > 0)
if(lexer(*p) == ss.top())
cout << "Matched symbols: " << lexer(*p) << endl;
cout << "Rule " << table[ss.top()][lexer(*p)] << endl;
case 1: // 1. S → F
ss.push(NTS_F); // F
case 2: // 2. S → ( S + F )
ss.push(TS_R_PARENS); // )
ss.push(NTS_F); // F
ss.push(TS_PLUS); // +
ss.push(NTS_S); // S
ss.push(TS_L_PARENS); // (
case 3: // 3. F → a
ss.push(TS_A); // a
cout << "parsing table defaulted" << endl;
return 0;
cout << "finished parsing" << endl;
return 0;
Parser implementation in Python[edit]
#All constants are indexed from 0
Term = 0
Rule = 1
# Terminals
# Non-terminals
#parse table
table = [[ 1, -1, 0, -1, -1, -1],
[-1, -1, 2, -1, -1, -1]]
rules = [[(Rule,N_F)],
[(Term,T_LPAR), (Rule,N_S), (Term,T_PLUS), (Rule,N_F), (Term,T_RPAR)],
stack = [(Term,T_END), (Rule,N_S)]
def lexicalAnalysis(inputstring):
print('Lexical analysis')
tokens = []
#cdict = {'+': T_PLUS, '(': T_LPAR, ')': T_RPAR, 'a': T_A}
#for c in inputstring:
# tokens.append(cdict.get(c, T_INVALID))
# in the meantime it has been changed on wikipedia to simple mapping above,
# but the original if-elif-elif-else could be indented to make further distinction
# for multi-character terminals like between '-' and '->' .
for c in inputstring:
if c == '+': tokens.append(T_PLUS)
elif c == '(': tokens.append(T_LPAR)
elif c == ')': tokens.append(T_RPAR)
elif c == 'a': tokens.append(T_A)
else: tokens.append(T_INVALID)
return tokens
def syntacticAnalysis(tokens):
print('Syntactic analysis')
position = 0
while len(stack) > 0:
(stype, svalue) = stack.pop()
token = tokens[position]
if stype == Term:
if svalue == token:
position += 1
print('pop', svalue)
if token == T_END:
print('input accepted')
print('bad term on input:', token)
elif stype == Rule:
print('svalue', svalue, 'token', token)
rule = table[svalue][token]
print('rule', rule)
for r in reversed(rules[rule]):
print('stack', stack)
inputstring = '(a+a)'
As can be seen from the example the parser performs three types of steps depending on whether the top of the stack is a nonterminal, a terminal or the special symbol $:
- If the top is a nonterminal then it looks up in the parsing table on the basis of this nonterminal and the symbol on the input stream which rule of the grammar it should use to replace it with on the stack. The number of the rule is written to the output stream. If the parsing table indicates that there is no such rule then it reports an error and stops.
- If the top is a terminal then it compares it to the symbol on the input stream and if they are equal they are both removed. If they are not equal the parser reports an error and stops.
- If the top is $ and on the input stream there is also a $ then the parser reports that it has successfully parsed the input, otherwise it reports an error. In both cases the parser will stop.
These steps are repeated until the parser stops, and then it will have either completely parsed the input and written a leftmost derivation to the output stream or it will have reported an error.
Constructing an LL(1) parsing table[edit]
In order to fill the parsing table, we have to establish what grammar rule the parser should choose if it sees a nonterminal A on the top of its stack and a symbol a on its input stream. It is easy to see that such a rule should be of the form A → w and that the language corresponding to w should have at least one string starting with a. For this purpose we define the First-set of w, written here as Fi(w), as the set of terminals that can be found at the start of some string in w, plus ε if the empty string also belongs to w. Given a grammar with the rules A1 → w1, ..., An → wn, we can compute the Fi(wi) and Fi(Ai) for every rule as follows:
- initialize every Fi(Ai) with the empty set
- set Fi(wi) to Fi(wi) for every rule Ai → wi, where Fi is defined as follows:
- Fi(a w' ) = { a } for every terminal a
- Fi(A w' ) = Fi(A) for every nonterminal A with ε not in Fi(A)
- Fi(A w' ) = Fi(A) \ { ε } ∪ Fi(w' ) for every nonterminal A with ε in Fi(A)
- Fi(ε) = { ε }
- add Fi(wi) to Fi(Ai) for every rule Ai → wi
- do steps 2 and 3 until all Fi sets stay the same.
Unfortunately, the First-sets are not sufficient to compute the parsing table. This is because a right-hand side w of a rule might ultimately be rewritten to the empty string. So the parser should also use the rule A → w if ε is in Fi(w) and it sees on the input stream a symbol that could follow A. Therefore we also need the Follow-set of A, written as Fo(A) here, which is defined as the set of terminals a such that there is a string of symbols αAaβ that can be derived from the start symbol. We use $ as a special terminal indicating end of input stream and S as start symbol.
Computing the Follow-sets for the nonterminals in a grammar can be done as follows:
- initialize Fo(S) with { $ } and every other Fo(Ai) with the empty set
- if there is a rule of the form Aj → wAiw' , then
- if the terminal a is in Fi(w' ), then add a to Fo(Ai)
- if ε is in Fi(w' ), then add Fo(Aj) to Fo(Ai)
- if w' has length 0, then add Fo(Aj) to Fo(Ai)
- repeat step 2 until all Fo sets stay the same.
Now we can define exactly which rules will be contained where in the parsing table. If T[A, a] denotes the entry in the table for nonterminal A and terminal a, then
- T[A,a] contains the rule A → w if and only if
- a is in Fi(w) or
- ε is in Fi(w) and a is in Fo(A).
If the table contains at most one rule in every one of its cells, then the parser will always know which rule it has to use and can therefore parse strings without backtracking. It is in precisely this case that the grammar is called an LL(1) grammar.
Constructing an LL(k) parsing table[edit]
Until the mid-1990s, it was widely believed that LL(k) parsing (for k > 1) was impractical[citation needed], since the parser table would have exponential size in k in the worst case. This perception changed gradually after the release of the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set around 1992, when it was demonstrated that many programming languages can be parsed efficiently by an LL(k) parser without triggering the worst-case behavior of the parser. Moreover, in certain cases LL parsing is feasible even with unlimited lookahead. By contrast, traditional parser generators like yacc use LALR(1) parser tables to construct a restricted LR parser with a fixed one-token lookahead.
As described in the introduction, LL(1) parsers recognize languages that have LL(1) grammars, which are a special case of context-free grammars (CFGs); LL(1) parsers cannot recognize all context-free languages. The LL(1) languages are a proper subset of the LR(1) languages which in turn are a proper subset of all context-free languages. In order for a CFG to be an LL(1) grammar, certain conflicts must not arise, which we describe in this section.
Let A be a non-terminal. FIRST(A) is (defined to be) the set of terminals that can appear in the first position of any string derived from A. FOLLOW(A) is the union over FIRST(B) where B is any non-terminal that immediately follows A in the right hand side of a production rule.
LL(1) Conflicts[edit]
There are 2 main types of LL(1) conflicts:
FIRST/FIRST Conflict[edit]
The FIRST sets of two different grammar rules for the same non-terminal intersect. An example of an LL(1) FIRST/FIRST conflict:
S -> E | E 'a' E -> 'b' | ε
FIRST(E) = {'b', ε} and FIRST(E 'a') = {'b', 'a'}, so when the table is drawn, there is conflict under terminal 'b' of production rule S.
Special Case: Left Recursion[edit]
Left recursion will cause a FIRST/FIRST conflict with all alternatives.
E -> E '+' term | alt1 | alt2
FIRST/FOLLOW Conflict[edit]
The FIRST and FOLLOW set of a grammar rule overlap. With an empty string (ε) in the FIRST set it is unknown which alternative to select. An example of an LL(1) conflict:
S -> A 'a' 'b' A -> 'a' | ε
The FIRST set of A now is {'a', ε} and the FOLLOW set {'a'}.
Solutions to LL(1) Conflicts[edit]
Left Factoring[edit]
For a general method, see removing left recursion.
A common left-factor is "factored out".
A -> X B B -> Y Z | ε
Can be applied when two alternatives start with the same symbol like a FIRST/FIRST conflict.
Another example (more complex) using above FIRST/FIRST conflict example:
S -> E | E 'a' E -> 'b' | ε
becomes (merging into a single non-terminal)
S -> 'b' | ε | 'b' 'a' | 'a'
then through left-factoring, becomes
S -> 'b' E | E E -> 'a' | ε
Substituting a rule into another rule to remove indirect or FIRST/FOLLOW conflicts. Note that this may cause a FIRST/FIRST conflict.
Left recursion removal[4][edit]
A simple example for left recursion removal: The following production rule has left recursion on E
This rule is nothing but list of Ts separated by '+'. In a regular expression form T ('+' T)*. So the rule could be rewritten as
E -> T Z Z -> '+' T Z -> ε
Now there is no left recursion and no conflicts on either of the rules.
However, not all CFGs have an equivalent LL(k)-grammar, e.g.:
S -> A | B A -> 'a' A 'b' | ε B -> 'a' B 'b' 'b' | ε
It can be shown that there does not exist any LL(k)-grammar accepting the language generated by this grammar.
See also[edit]
- ^ Rosenkrantz, D. J.; Stearns, R. E. (1970). "Properties of Deterministic Top Down Grammars" (PDF). Information and Control 17: 226–256. doi:10.1016/s0019-9958(70)90446-8.
- ^ Dick Grune; Ceriel J.H. Jacobs (29 October 2007). Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide. Springer. pp. 585–. ISBN 978-0-387-68954-8.
- ^ http://www.cs.uaf.edu/~cs331/notes/LL.pdf
- ^ Modern Compiler Design, Grune, Bal, Jacobs and Langendoen
External links[edit]
- A tutorial on implementing LL(1) parsers in C#
- Parsing Simulator This simulator is used to generate parsing tables LL(1) and to resolve the exercises of the book.
- LL(1) DSL PEG parser (toolkit framework)
- Language theoretic comparison of LL and LR grammars


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Poaching the chicken helps make this soup easy to make
Serves 6
4 cups water
1 1/3 cups chicken broth
1 pound skinless boneless chicken breasts
1 medium onion, chopped
2 tablespoons Filippo Berio olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
4 medium carrots, cut in 1/3 inch slices
2 celery ribs, cut into 1/3 inch slices
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
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A long time ago, I worked with a guy who had an employee come into his office and say, "These are my demands." His response? "Do you have any hostages? Because if you don't have any hostages, you can't make any demands."
If I make my mark, the biggest failure of the WGA was in misjudging how important their hostages are to the networks.
In premise, I support the writers. I believe they should make a bigger chunk on re-use of their work than studios and networks want to pay them or have paid them in the past for DVDs. But while I support the writers and their premise, I am thinking less and less of the WGA and how it supports its constituents, especially in consideration of the realities of the business.
While we are sometimes prone to making fun of the likes of Les Moonves and Jeff Zucker (and heck, we're pretty sure behind closed doors, even Moonves makes fun of Zucker!) I think the network honchos are smarter than anyone wants to give them credit for. They may talk in public about how DVRs don't matter, but they know the truth of it - people generally fast-forward through commercials on DVR.
They also know this: people are more prone to watching reality shows, sports and other unscripted programming (Idol, Dancing with the Stars) live. So whether it's happened yet or not, in the future there was going to be higher premium for advertising on those shows - shows people are prone to watch live. Ratings could go down for the NFL over the next 5 years, but the advertising revenue may wind up doubling because those live viewers who will see the commercials are so coveted.
My guess is despite whatever positive spin they put on DVR usage, the network wonks are much more fully aware of this than I am!
What does any of this have to do with the WGA? I think it has everything to do with the way the networks are prepared to dig in here. Scripted shows matter, and they still matter. It's not like even a one-third of the viewers for most shows are watching on DVR right now. But scripted shows matter less than they used to matter. The world is moving that way, the networks know it and know that unscripted programming is often better suited for people actually watching the commercials.
The networks may well think, "You know what, #%! these clowns, we need them less and less and less - this is a way, way bigger deal for movies and the box office than it is for TV, we were moving to more unscripted programming anyway - if this accelerates that a little...so what?"
Will more people be watching scripted programming on the Internet in five years than they do now? Of course, though I vehemently doubt that even then it will represent more than 10%-15% of the overall audience. Should the writers be paid for that percentage, whatever it is? Well, in a world where the Internet was GROWING overall viewership, sure. But I try to examine probabilities. All the trends seem to indicate that in 5 years shows like CSI and Grey's Anatomy will have less total viewers, not more.
But even if overall viewers stay the same and it becomes a situation where 15 million watch via television (live or on DVR) and five million people are watching on the Internet instead of all twenty million watching via television, should the writer's be paid more for that net twenty million viewers because five million watched via the Internet? My response is NO.
It doesn't seem like the WGA has mulled the real numbers very much in terms of how it's handled the strike so far. I definitely think writers should get a higher residual than $.08 on a $20 DVD. But online streaming? Online, I think the writers should only make more money if in the aggregate the networks are making more money on the shows because of the Internet. It seems more likely that for now, and for the foreseeable future (at least five years) that the networks aren't going to make more money because of the Internet.
It seems like all this strike is doing is accelerating a path to more unscripted programming that was bound to occur anyway. With the longer view, I don't really see how this acceleration was in the best interest of the WGA's members. From the outside looking in the WGA comes off looking like another poorly managed union that has no chance against "management".
We'd love to hear from any writers, either in the comments or via e-mail, on or off the record. Do you think the union is serving your best interests? Let us know.


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2013. USA. 153 min.
Post-screening discussion with Denis Villeneuve, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, and screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski
Monday, November 25, 2013, 6:45 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
2013. USA. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Working from a strong original script by newcomer Aaron Guzikowski, director Denis Villeneuve's film tells a haunting contemporary tale of every parent's worst nightmare. What if a child went outside to play and never came back? By avoiding easy answers, embracing moral ambiguity, and keeping the viewer in an almost unbearable state of anxiety, Villeneuve has created one of the best films of 2013 and, almost as importantly, made a studio film for that forgotten market segment—adults. Standout performances by Hugh Jackman as a distraught father willing to go to great lengths to find his daughter and her friend, and Jake Gyllenhaal as the workaholic detective handling the case, anchor the film in an unsettling emotional environment befitting its working-class Pennsylvania setting. 153 min.
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CrossFit Anax!!!!!! Cincinnati Ohio!!!!!
There's one thing that me and my fellow Cincinnatians need to know about our hometown athletes:
What high school did he go to? ;)
Kate Foster is a beast!
Happy Father's Day, Dads!
Very small school - Fayetteville
Sunday musings (on Father's Day)...
1) Perfectionist. "His sense of pride was often too much for his ego to handle."
2) Gift. This morning, chez bingo, there was an exchange of thanks, an exchange of "Happy Father's Day" good mornings. The easy, traditional one came my way from Mrs. bingo, of course. I, in return, sent one right back to her.
Think about it for a moment. This "Father" thing is impossible without the participation of a mother. Oh sure, you can toss your genome at a vessel and take home a package, but to be a real Father on the ground, "in country" so to speak, you must have a mother along for the ride. The ride is most often better, smoother and easier, if both of the front seats are occupied.
If you are a Father somebody gifted you with that child. Carried him or her for 9 months, the ultimate "weight vest", before handing you the job of Dad. Maybe did it more than once, too! Give her a hug today. Thank her for a Happy Father's Day.
3) Memories. Most of us have (or had) a Dad who played a role in our lives. Mostly good, often hard, unfortunately not so good in some cases, but undoubtedly memorable in all cases. We have memories. At some point memories are all we have.
Most families have a "thing", a certain activity or place or topic around which memories orbit. Maybe it's a vacation spot to which your family returns as inexorably as the swallow of Capistrano or the Monarch Butterflies of Brazil. For some it's not the location so much as what transpires there. Think family dinner here where the memories are of nightly discourse covering anything from poetry to pugilism, a travel of the mind more than the body.
When it comes to Fathers it's often a case of the child inheriting the father's chosen sport. As I think of this a hundred images appear of tiny children tagging along as their Dad does whatever it is he does. Invisibly tethered to their father by sharing his time with his passion, all the while being infected by that passion themselves. I see little girls in oversized wellies holding their Daddy's hand, his other cradling a shotgun, as they trudge through a marsh. A Dad's bare feet submerged just off the dock as a tiny son's size 2's dangle feet above that same pond while bobbers float just out of view.
For us it was golf, for my brother and me at least. Father's Day meant getting up an hour or so before Dad, cramming in random calories, and then walking to the caddy shack for another Saturday loop. Except on this Saturday the caddy master tossed us a bone and put us in my Dad's group. We were pretty good caddies, my brother and I, and my Dad was a more than pretty good golfer. He made sure to make his game with other of the better golfers on Father's Day. Good caddies always make for better golf, and 4 good golfers squired by 2 good caddies makes for a very good round. Those are some good memories.
We grew to be good friends on the golf course, my Dad, my brother, and I. On one magical morning Ranbingo and I became men, at least in the golf sense. One Saturday morning (sadly not a Father's Day) we headed to the first tee with Dad not as caddies but as real golfers. Partners in his foursome, with caddies of our own. In time we were joined by a brother-in-law as we towed our Dad along on a decades long golf odyssey. We'd found our connection, and like the little girl in her Wellies and the little boy with dangling toes we kept ourselves tethered to our Dad through his passion.
And we made memories.
That's all that's left now, the memories. We'll not try to remember what we have now. These newer memories will not sing as sweetly and so we will try to erase them as soon as they arise. Rather, we will try to share those other, older memories with Dad as the tether frays. Until that one day when we hold our end of the tie and it lies quietly against our side, empty, nobody there to whom we are tethered.
If we are fortunate we reach out a hand and it is filled with tiny fingers, and we walk to wherever tethered to tiny little legs that struggle to keep up as they chase our passion with us. We feel the stillness, the emptiness on the other side where we were once tethered ourselves. If we are very fortunate we realize that maybe we still are. Tethered, that is.
Tethered to the memories of when we were the child of a Father so gifted.
Happy Father's Day.
I'll see you next week...
Musings in the filter around 0625...
Well done bingo.
Happy Father's Day.
Once again your perceptions of the world and our roles in it are spot on.
Enjoy the day.
Happy Father's Day to all!
Sluggish after doing Murph yesterday.
5 HSPUs
7 Pull Ups
10 squat snatch @ 65lb
5 rounds
1 mile row
EMOM 20' alternating between bench press and strict dead hang pull ups
Julie f/43/180/5'10"
95# bench press, 10 reps
Pull ups 2 reps
Mark m/40/205/6'3"
185# bench press, 5 reps
Pull ups, 5 reps
HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all Fathers.
Bingo, that was beautiful. :)
Ran 8.2 miles, felt great.
Bingo, wonderful comments.
Happy fathers day crossfit dads!!
Skills worked on double unders + clean + jerk.
3 mile roller blade with Lil'bingo followed by a (typically) pathetic 2 mile run.
Thanks Bingo.
Awesome video!!! Tks CFit...
Both of them are over extended. Correct it immediately.
Thanks Bingo,
I remember seeing my daughters sneakers on bottom of one to many burpees, and hearing, "Are you going to stay there or get up?" Thanks Suzanne :)
Awesome. Happy CF fathers day.


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Roses, fragrant and beautiful, with their layered petals soft like kitten ears and strong thorns, are among the most beloved of blooms. We have gardens dedicated to them, we send them to in bunches to loved ones to show affection, we paint them, and adorn fabrics with their image. Roses somehow simultaneously evoke feelings of luxury and of homey comfort. Though they're a complete pleasure that would not need any practical value, of course roses are useful beyond their beauty.


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Comparing the accuracy of two secondary food environment data sources in the UK across socio-economic and urban/rural divides
1 UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), Institute of Public Health, Box 296, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK
2 UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
International Journal of Health Geographics 2013, 12:2 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-12-2Published: 17 January 2013
Interest in the role of food environments in shaping food consumption behaviours has grown in recent years. However, commonly used secondary food environment data sources have not yet been fully evaluated for completeness and systematic biases. This paper assessed the accuracy of UK Points of Interest (POI) data, compared to local council food outlet data for the county of Cambridgeshire.
Percentage agreement, positive predictive values (PPVs) and sensitivities were calculated for all food outlets across the study area, by outlet type, and across urban/rural/SES divisions.
Percentage agreement by outlet type (29.7-63.5%) differed significantly to overall percentage agreement (49%), differed significantly in rural areas (43%) compared to urban (52.8%), and by SES quintiles. POI data had an overall PPV of 74.9%, differing significantly for Convenience Stores (57.9%), Specialist Stores (68.3%), and Restaurants (82.6%). POI showed an overall 'moderate' sensitivity, although this varied significantly by outlet type. Whilst sensitivies by urban/rural/SES divides varied significantly from urban and least deprived reference categories, values remained 'moderate'.
Results suggest POI is a viable alternative to council data, particularly in terms of PPVs, which remain robust across urban/rural and SES divides. Most variation in completeness was by outlet type; lowest levels were for Convenience Stores, which are commonly cited as 'obesogenic'.


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In 2002, four guys did what so many foursomes have done before – they formed a band. In this particular case, the gusy in question were Brandon Flowers (vocals/keyboards), David Keuning (guitar), Mark Stoermer (bass), and Ronnie Vannucci (drums), and the band they formed was the Killers.
Flowers and Keuning found each other first, in Las Vegas of all places, with "Mr. Brightside" being their first collaborative composition. Soon enough, Stoermer and Vannucci had been recruited and gigs were booked. Through a UK rep for Warner Bros. Records, London-based Lizard King Records got an earful of the Killers and snatched them up.
Relocating to London resulted in the limited release of "Mr. Brightside" and the start of a major buzz that blanketed both sides of the pond. Sight unseen, the Killers... Read more


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Gangster films have been a main stay of the movie production business and one of those genres that has always appealed to a massive audience because of its seemingly voyeuristic interpretation of the criminal underworld. Here are our top 10 gangster movies, worth watching and even to live by.
We've put together a list of the best gangster movies, we have watched and loved. (So for all those keen to shank us for leaving out celluloid classics, such as James Cagney's White Heat, Le Conzequenza Della Amore or Infernal Affairs, put your keyboard down and take a chill pill.)
1. Goodfellas (1990)
"As far back as I remember I always wanted to be a gangster." Martin Scorsese's cinematic masterpiece spanning over five decades is as good as it gets.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Nicholas Pileggi
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twVYnfNbQGo
2. The Godfather (& The Godfather Part II) (1972,1974)
A film that doesn't need any introduction. No other movie has defined and revolutionised a whole film genre in the same way. When it comes to gangster movies, you can definitely talk about a before and after the Godfather.
The film 'made' Coppola and Pacino and Brando, who shouldn't even have been in it, have never been better. There are also several real life mobsters appearing in the supporting roles. Nino Rota's extraordinary music is often played on mob weddings and it's hard to say who has influenced the other most the movie or the mobsters.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Mario Puzo
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAfWMr26KQk
3. Pulp Fiction (1994)
A film that broke new ground in so many ways. The music, the dialog, the characters, the plot and the has-beens in leading roles created the best movie of the nineties all categories. Unfortunately no other gangster movie has influenced so many terrible follow-ups.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHETuK70Sc
4. Once upon a time in America (1984)
Spaghetti western director Sergio Leone proved that hard boiled westerns wasn't all he was good at. This dreamy 229 minute gangster epos portrays life on the streets of New York from the early 1900:s up to 1968. As all good stories it all starts and ends in an opium den in China Town.
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: Harry Grey, Leonardo Benvenuti
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFobVUhKzGc
5. Scarface (1983)
"Say hello to my little friend." Cuban refugee Tony Montana has inspired the masses across the globe ever since the movie premiered in 1983. The favourite movie of every rapper and wannabe gangster with any kind of self esteem.
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Oliver Stone
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciF2CYn36gA
6. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Quentin Tarantino's master piece about a robbery gone wrong should probably be even higher on the list. This claustrophobic movie hasn't aged on single bit since it was released and parts of the dialog is even better than in Pulp Fiction. How can men in dark suits walking in slow-motion look so damn good?
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvoKT481EmU
7. Donnie Brasco (1997)
A true story about an FBI agent infiltrating the mob. It's hard to say who's the most memorable; Jonny Depp as the troubled Donnie Brasco or Al Pacino as small time mobster Lefty Ruggiero. To see the two masters at work in the same movie is a dream coming true.
Director: Mike Newell
Writer: Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShM8bGKVFXg
8. The Usual Suspects (1994)
Five small time hustlers in a police line up, 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money, but who is this Keyser Söze? Maybe the smartest movie plot ever.
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPuXWtDx9g
9. Casino (1995)
The rise and fall of casino operator Sam 'Ace' Rothstein. Nobody has a better sense of detail and can capture a historic time period better than Martin Scorsese. He gives Las Vegas the portrayal it deserves. And once again we get to see Joe Pesci as the wonderfully psychopathic mobster he does best.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Nicholas Pileggi
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09aGcMjnWM
10. Training Day (2001)
The crooked LAPD detective Alonzo Harris is Denzel Washington's best performance to this date. The long arm of the law has never looked better and more devious.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writer: David Ayer
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caqE0DY5t_8
Movies that almost, but didn't quite make the list:
- Blood in, blood out
- Miller's Crossing
- The Untouchables
- Mean Streets
- Snatch
- Carlito's Way
- Little Caesar
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Trius Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the initiation of Phase 2 testing of the oral form of its second-generation oxazolidinone antibacterial drug TR-701. The multicenter trial will test the efficacy, safety and tolerability of once-daily doses of 200, 300 and 400 milligrams of TR-701 in complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) for five to seven days of treatment.
The study follows the recently completed two-part Phase 1 study that tested the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of TR-701 in single and multiple ascending doses for up to 21 days compared with Zyvox(R) (linezolid), the only marketed drug of the oxazolidinone class. In addition, separate food effect and microdialysis studies measuring the absorption of TR-701 in the presence and absence of food and the tissue penetration of the drug, respectively, have also been completed.
Results of the Phase 1 trials will be presented at the joint annual meetings of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in Washington, D.C in October 2008.
"Our Phase 1 study results indicate that TR-701 will be a once-daily drug with the potential to offer patients several important advantages over linezolid as well as other marketed drugs," said Philippe Prokocimer, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Trius. "The intent of Phase 2 will be to validate these observations in a patient population and to select a therapeutic dosing regimen from the three doses being tested."
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I'd love to tell you that I am already working on my handmade holiday gifts, but honestly, it's not happening. I do like to give gifts with handmade elements like quilting and embroidery, but this year, I'll have to streamline those efforts if I'm going to get it all done.
Some of the edging stitches presented in Bead Embroidery Stitch Samples could be added to napkins or even the collar of a crisp white shirt. I also like the idea of adding bead embroidery stitches to ribbon and wrapping that around a jar of homemade jam.
How to make a one-point beaded embroidery motif.
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iLife '06 for Educators
Thursday, March 30, 2006
2:00-4:00pm, with demo computers available 1-2pm and 4-5pm
Education 2277 (Distinguished Alumni Room) and the Cyberport (demo computers)
The Instructional Consulting staff, along with a colleague from the Teaching & Learning Technologies Center, are pleased to provide a presentation and related hands-on lab session on the use of iLife '06, a suite of multimedia applications for the Macintosh. You are invited!
Apple's iLife '06 suite of multimedia applications (iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, Garageband, iDVD and the new iWeb), which was released in January, gives instructors capabilities that in the past were the province of highly skilled developers. The possibilities of using audio, still images, and video in your teaching and research are almost limitless, and the careful design of this integrated package ensures a short learning curve.
Many of you may have attended past iLife workshops. We encourage you to consider attending this one, because the new version of iLife incorporates iWeb, a brand new program for web development (including blogging), and substantial changes, particularly to Garageband (new podcasting features), iPhoto (new editing and photocasting features), and iMovie (new use of themes).
During this presentation, we will present some possible applications of iLife '06 to postsecondary education, and describe how multimedia can be used to enhance classroom and online teaching. You will get your chance to experience the iLife '06 software before and after the session, in the Cyberport just down the hall.
Presented by Chris Essex, Jingli Cheng, Jung Won Hur, and Karen Hallett, all from the Instructional Consulting office, and Mark Millard, from the Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers.


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Of course, this viewpoint is not politically correct on this forum, but you know how it is with us annoying people who want evidence.
Originally posted by Kwintz
I'm 17 and i can honestly say that my generation is questioning the very basis of EVERYTHING. We're different, accepting. I think we can handle it and i believe my generation....


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The Language Learning Center is located in Babbitt Academic Annex (Bldg 23) Room 107. This is a specialized computer lab that allows students to practice and study their foreign language during open access hours. Courses designated 101-202 no longer require a certain amount of lab time.
Please be aware that the lab is also used as a classroom so there is no open access during class times or when there is no attendant. Students may contact the lab attendant by phone during open access hours only at 928-523-3427 (again, this extension is only viable during open access hours).
Open access hours Spring 2015:
Closed during class times, holidays, and special events.


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(A) The superintendent or the superintendent's designee shall direct the board to deny issuance or renewal or revoke or suspend a certificate if the board finds that the applicant has done any of the following:
(1) Falsify documentation;
(2) Violate any provision of Chapter 3703 of the Revised Code or rules adopted pursuant thereto;
(3) Obtain a license by fraud, mispreresentation, or deception;
(4) Engage in fraud, misrepresentation, deception, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in the conduct of business; or
(5) If a person meets rule 1301:3-7-02(A)(2) of the Administrative Code and performs test and inspections on an isolation device that is not owned by the public water system.
(B) Upon a reasonable cause shown, the superintendent shall direct the board to:
(1) Suspend or revoke a holder's backflow certification for a specified period of time, from a minimum of six months to a maximum of life, which the board establishes.
(2) Require a holder of a backflow certificate to complete additional continuing education courses within a specified time period.
(C) Upon written notification of the action of the board, the aggrieved may appeal pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and rule 1301:3-7-08 of the Administrative Code.
Effective: 02/02/2006
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 02/02/2011
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: RC Sec. 3703.21
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Seminar Abstract
Tim Beechie
Wednesday, May 13, 2005
Some potential impacts of climate change and altered runoff regimes on riverine ecosystems
Tim Beechie (1,2) and Bob Naiman (1,3)
(1) Coastal Rivers Research Consortium, (2) Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, (3) University of Washington
Recent climate change has decreased snowpack and shifted stream
flow timing throughout the western US in the past century. Discharge patterns
of many mid-elevation streams were dominated by spring snowmelt through
the early 20 th century, but are now dominated by rainfall runoff floods.
Consequently, runoff in many streams occurs one to two months earlier, and
projections indicate even more severe changes expected over the next 40-50
years. Spring flows are critical for anadromous fishes - especially steelhead - that
time migration and spawning to coincide with optimal flows and temperatures,
for riparian vegetation that relies on substantial spring freshets for forest
renewal, and for recruitment of large woody debris (LWD) that forms high
quality fish habitat in channels. We hypothesize that shifts in runoff timing
have inhibited successful recruitment of cottonwood because flows now occur
much earlier in the spring. Water tables decline either too early (before
seeds have germinated) or too quickly (leaving roots dry during seedling
establishment). Similarly, small tributaries that formerly has sufficient
water for steelhead spawning now have too little water for successful spawning
or egg incubation, leading to contraction of the steelhead spawning range.
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