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Employment: East Coast Divers, Inc. (www.ecdivers.com)
Nick Fazah began his underwater career as a scuba instructor in the Florida Keys. He was first certified as a NAUI/SSI instructor in 2004 at Hall's Dive Center, then made the move to teach in Boston, MA. During the first few years he picked up a whole bag of tricks from the very experienced people that East Coast Divers kept on staff.
"There are so many different types of student out there," Nick said. "With each student comes a different challenge and set of circumstances in which they learn best under. The first couple of years at ECD really molded me to the instructor that I am today."
Since 2004 Nick picked up his PADI instructor certification as well as earning the title of Instructor Trainer with SDI/TDI.
After a couple of years teaching in Boston Nick moved to the Florida keys and spent a couple of years teaching everything from Open Water to Instructor students. In his spare time he would get away from the dive shop and head out to the reef to get in some spearfishing.
"I loved being in the water, especially out with just a couple of friends spearfishing," he said. "The challenge of different tactics that comes with hunting and the pushing of ones own personal limits was addictive. I am the kind of person who really likes to know what's going on while I'm doing it. That's really what got me thinking about furthering my education about Freediving."
In October 2010 Nick took his Performance freediving instructor course and has been back up in Boston with ECD since February 2009 and is line to take over the dive center October 1st 2012.
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Kenya : Gor Mahia awarded abandoned match against Sony Sugar
Gor Mahia have every reason to smile yet again after a joint meeting between Football Kenya Federation(FKF) and Kenya Premier League(KPL) upheld the decision by FKF to award Gor Mahia maximum points of the abandoned premier league match played in Awendo.
According to a statement released by FKF after the joint meeting on Thursday, FKF chairman Sam Nyamweya said both parties agreed to award Gor Mahia the match.They urged Sony Sugar F.C to make an appeal if they so wish to the Appeals Board within 72 hours upon receiving the information.
Nyamweya insisted that the relationship between FKF and KPL remains strong and cordial and that the two will continue working together to cement their relationship for the good of the game.
The 1 September match went smoothly until the 85th minute when Gor Mahia's David Owino scored to level the scores at 2-2.
Later, KPL found none of the two sides liable for the abandonment and ordered for the match to be replayed o Septeber 18 in Nakuru a decision that was bitterly protested by Gor Mahia prompting the federation to intervene.
After the confirmation, Gor have opened their lead against second-placed Sofapaka FC to eight points with 44 points.
Another decision is set to be made today(friday) where FKF will issue a ruling regarding the Gor Mahia versus AFC Leopards clash staged in the first leg that ended with Police throwing tear gas to cool down tempers .

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A large section of people in India are yet to see a bank in their neighbourhood. But the RBI is set to change all that with its financial inclusion plan. Heres how:
Financial inclusion has been a much debated subject for several years now and, over the last few years, it has gained a lot of momentum. While the issue has been a subject of discussion and development of various financial services industries banking, capital markets, mutual funds and insurance, pension funds, etc the last two weeks witnessed at least two reports on financial inclusion.
Rating agency Crisil came up with its Inclusix index for the financial year ended March 2012 that covered the extent and growth of financial inclusion across 638 districts. Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low-Income Households chaired by Nachiket Mor submitted its report. While the Inclusix showed the extent of bank account and credit penetration across states and their divergence across them, the RBI committee submitted various recommendations for the banking system along with its vision to provide, by January 1, 2016, an electronic bank account to every Indian adult who has an Aadhaar card.
The committee has also presented its vision to provide low-income households and small businesses with access to formally regulated lenders by January 1, 2016. If the plan goes through, it will not only provide everyone with a bank account and thereby a formal system for monetary transaction, it will also be beneficial to the economy as it will help channelise domestic savings which otherwise goes to the informal system gold, unregulated collective investment schemes where investors end up losing lots of money.
The current situation
Crisils Inclusix index that rates districts on the basis of the number of bank branches, deposits made and credit provided has given a score of 42.8 to the country on a scale of 100 and that reflects under-penetration of formal banking in the country. The report also said that only one out of two Indians has a bank savings account and only one in seven have access to bank credit.
The RBI report states that close to 90 per cent of small businesses have no links to the formal financial institutions, and as high as 60 per cent of the rural and urban populations does not have a functional bank account.
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int k = keyCode; //keyCode being a variable declared by a keyPress
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//k and keyCode are working properly.
if ((k - UP)*500 == 0); //int UP=38;
println((k-UP)*500 == 0);
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The result? "false" (and by removing the '== 0', a number that isn't 0). As far as I know only when you use the arrow keys (k==37,38,39,40; 38 being UP) make this condition true.
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MVP signs contract
It looks like MVP has found himself a new home in professional wrestling. The official announcement has been made in regards to him signing a new contract to remain with TNA for at least another year. The former United States Heavyweight Champion has been quite pleased with how the company has been utilizing him since he started with them. His status with the company had been a bit of a question mark with Samoa Joe leaving.
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Merlin (wizard)
From Celtopedia
Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys; also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the Wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in accounts of King Arthur starting with Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Other accounts describe a far different Merlin.
Indeed some texts clearly distinguish two different figures named Merlin. For example the Welsh Triads state there were three baptisimal bards: Taliesin, Chief of Bards, Myrddin Wyllt, and Myrddin Emrys. If these two bards called Myrddin were originally variants of the same figure their stories have become so different in the earliest texts that we have about them that they are best treated as separate characters, even though similar incidents are ascribed to both.
Merlinus Caledonensis, Myrddin Wyllt
This Myrddin had nothing to do with Arthur and flourished after the Arthurian period. The earliest Welsh poems that concern the Myrddin legend present him as a madman living a wretched existence in the Caledonian Forest, ruminating on his former existence and the disaster that brought him low: the death of his lord Gwenddolau, whom he served as bard. The allusions in these poems serve to sketch out the events of the Battle of Arfderydd, where Rhydderch Hael king of Rheged slaughtered the forces of Gwenddolau, and Myrddin went mad watching this defeat. The Annales Cambriae date this battle to AD 573, and name Gwenddolau's adversaries as Gwrgi and Peredur, the sons of Eliffer.
A version of this legend is preserved in a late fifteenth-century manuscript, in a story called Lailoken and Kentigern. In this narrative, St. Kentigern meets in a deserted place with a naked, hairy madman who is called Lailoken, although said by some to be called Merlynum or "Merlin", who declares that he has been condemned for his sins to wander in the company of beasts. He added that he had been the cause for the deaths of all of the persons killed in the battle fought "on the plain between Liddel and Carwannok." Having told his story, the madman lept up and fled from the presence of the saint back into the wilderness. He appears several times more in the narrative until at last asking St. Kentigern for the Sacrament, prophesying that he was about to die a triple death. After some hesitation, the saint granted the madman's wish, and later that day the shepherds of King Meldred captured him, beat him with clubs, then cast him into the river Tweed where his body was pierced by a stake, thus fulfilling his prophecy.
Welsh literature has many examples of a prophetic literature, predicting the military victory of all of the Celtic peoples of Britain who will join together and drive the English -- and later the Normans also -- back into the sea. Some of these works were claimed to be the prophecies of Myrddin; some of it was not, as for example the Armes Prydein.
This wild prophetic Merlin was also treated by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Vita Merlini which looks like a close adaptation of a number of Myrddin poems.
A Scottish example of the legend of Merlin comes from 577 which was the year of the Battle of Arderyth. This was a battle between fierce enemies Rydderych "The Bountiful", King of Strathclyde, and Aeddam "The Perfidious", King of Kintyre. While few have heard of the main protaganists, among Aidan's contingent was the Celtic bard, Merlin. Merlin's patron, Gwenddolan was killed during the battle in which he was awarded for his verses recording the battle.
Merlin Ambrosius, Myrddin Emrys
It was Geoffrey of Monmouth who introduced Merlin into the myths of King Arthur. The name Myrddin is altered to Merlin to avoid a resemblance to the obscene French word merde (meaning excrement). While Geoffrey is remembered most for his character of Arthur, it was Merlin whom he concentrated on, making the prophetic bard a central character of his three books: Prophetiae Merlini, Historiae Regum Britanniae and Vita Merlini. As a result of this second book, where Merlin appears in the tales of the king Vortigern, Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon who reigned immediately before Arthur, Merlin in some later works also became a character in tales of Arthur.
Geoffrey tells only two tales of Merlin. Merlin is begotten on a king's daughter by a demon and the episode is now placed at Carmarthen, in Welsh Caer Myrddin. As a young boy was already known for his prophetic abilities, and was consulted by King Vortigern to explain why his castle would collapse every time it was rebuilt. He revealed there was an underground lake, with two sleeping dragons, a white one and red one and explained they, respectively, represented the Saxons and Britons (and portent for things to come).
Nennius had recorded this tale in the Historia Britonum of the 9th century, but attached it to Aurelius Ambrosius rather than Merlin. Geoffrey conflated the two sages and incorporated them into his work, simply and baldly stating that Merlin was also called Ambrosius to cover over his changing of Nennius. A long section of prophecy is added at this point. The first tale tells how Merlin created Stonehenge as a burial place for Aurelius Ambrosius. The second tale tells how by shape-changing magic Merlin enabled Uther Pendragon to enter into Tintagel in disguise and father his son Arthur. These episodes also appear in many later adaptations of Geoffrey's account.
Somewhat later the poet Robert de Boron retold this material in his poem Merlin with many expansions but with details garbled and changed in a way that suggests that the version of Wace, who adapted Geoffrey's account into Anglo-Norman, had entered oral tradition and that this oral tradition was what Robert knew along with some other Merlin tales. Only a few lines of the poem have survived. But a prose retelling became popular and was later incorporated into two other romances.
In Robert's account Merlin is begotten by a devil from hell on a virgin as an intended Antichrist. But his expectant mother, advised by her confessor and counsellor Blaise who realised what was amiss, had the boy baptized at birth to foil this Satanic plot. However, being half-demon, Merlin still had tremendous magical powers to know what was happening past and present and God himself gave him prophetic knowledge of the future.
Robert de Boron lays great emphasis on Merlin's power to change his shape, on his joking personality and on his connection to the Grail. This text introduces Merlin's master Blaise, who is pictured as writing Merlin's deeds which Merlin dictates to him, explaining how they came to be known and preserved. It also connects Merlin with the Holy Grail.
As the Arthurian mythos was retold and embellished upon, Merlin's prophetic aspects were sometimes de-emphasized in favor of portraying Merlin as a wizard and elder advisor to Arthur. On the other hand in Prose Lancelot it is said that Merlin was never baptized and never did any good in his life, only evil. Medieval Arthurian tales abound in inconsistencies.
In the Prose Lancelot and later accounts Merlin's eventual downfall came from his lusting after a woman named Nimue, who coaxed his magical secrets from him, eventually turning the magic he had taught her against him and imprisoning him either in a cave where he died or in a magical and invisible palace where he may live still. This was unfortunate for Arthur, depriving him of Merlin's counsel.
There are three such accounts of Merlin in Arthur's day which also cover the early days of Arthur's reign. The earliest, known as the Vulgate Merlin, includes Robert de Boron's Merlin. It was intended as a sort of prequel to the three romances of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. An incomplete variant version known as The Book of Arthur also exists. The second is sometimes called the Huth Merlin or the Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin. It is part of a long prose romance that has not survived intact but which is now known as The Book of the Grail or the Post-Vulgate Cycle, intended as an entire history of the Grail and of Arthur and his knights. This also includes Robert de Boron's Merlin. The third work is called The Prophecies of Merlin and contains long prophecies of Merlin (mostly concerned with thirteenth century Italian politics!), some by his ghost after his death. The prophecies are interspersed with episodes relating Merlin's deeds and with various Arthurian adventures in which Merlin does not appear at all.
Later fiction about Merlin
Novels and plays
(Many of the novels in the article King Arthur also include Merlin as a character. The following works are either told from Merlin's point of view, or are based on the earlier legend of Merlin.)
- Mark Twain made Merlin the villain in his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
- C. S. Lewis used the figure of Merlin Ambrosius in his 1946 novel That Hideous Strength, the third book in the Space Trilogy. In it, Merlin has supposedly lain asleep for centuries to be awakened for the battle against the materialistic agents of the devil, able to consort with the angelic powers because he came from a time when sorcery was not yet a corrupt art. Lewis's character of Ransom has apparently inherited the title of Pendragon from the Arthurian tradition. Merlin also mentions "Numinor," a misspelling of N�menor, in a nod to J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Merlin, by Robert Nye , (1978, Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 0241899524)
- T.H. White's Arthurian retelling, The Once and Future King, in which 'Merlyn', as White calls him, has the curious affliction of living backwards in time to everyone else.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon retells the Arthurian legend with Morgan Le Fay as protagonist, in the tradition of John Gardner's Grendel. It includes two distinct characters who, in succession, lead the Druids by taking on the title of "The Merlin of Britain".
- Stephen R. Lawhead - Merlin (1988) Here, Merlin (Myrddin) is half-Cymric (from his father, the bard Taliesin) and half-Atlantean (from his mother, the Lady of the Lake, an Atlantean princess who escaped its destruction).
- William Rowley, The Birth of Merlin (play, 1622)
- Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy. 'Myrddin Emrys' (Merlin Ambrosius) is the protagonist of the first two novels, The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills, which are based on earlier traditions of the character, as shown above. The last book of the trilogy, The Last Enchantment, and a related book, The Wicked Day, focus more on Arthur and Mordred, though the former is still told from his viewpoint. Stewart portrays Aurelius Ambrosius (brother to Uther Pendragon) as his father, and thus makes him Arthur's cousin.
- Nikolai Tolstoy wrote a non-fiction trilogy covering the life of Merlin the Wild as a magnificently over-the-top comic tour-de-force. The books in this trilogy are:
- Ren� Barjavel's L'Enchanteur.
- T.A. Barron portrays Merlin as a young man in his Lost Years of Merlin series, and is an adult in its sequel series, The Great Tree of Avalon. Merlin also figures prominently in Barron's book The Merlin Effect, which may be in the same fictional continuity.
- Merlin—or Merlyn, this time—is the protagonist in many of Jack Whyte's The Dream of Eagles series (known as The Camulod Chronicles outside Canada).
- Peter David depicts Merlin, Arthur and the familiar cast of characters from the Arthur stories appearing in modern-day America in his King Arthur trilogy, Knight Life, One Knight Only, and the upcoming Fall of Knight. In these stories, David employs T.H. White's idea that Merlin is living backwards in time, as the character appears physically to be a young boy in these stories.
- Kara Dalkey has written a trilogy called Water for young adults where Niniane and Merlin (known Nia and Corwin respectively) must recover Excalibur to save Atlantis, the underwater city in which lives in. The books are subtitled Ascension, Reunion, and Transformation.
TV and Film
Naturally, Merlin is featured in many Arthurian films, like:
- Excalibur (1981), which featured Nicol Williamson as an eccentric Merlin.
- Merlin (1998), a made-for-televison movie starring Sam Neill as Merlin, Miranda Richardson as the villainess Queen Mab, Martin Short as her servant Frik, Isabella Rossellini as Nimue, and Rutger Hauer as Vortigern. The film depicts his life, from his magical birth through the reigns of Vortigern, Uther, and Arthur, and ends with him as an old man.
- King Arthur (2004), purportedly a "historical" take on the legends, which featured Merlin (Stephen Dillane) as the leader of the "Woads" (Picts), who resist Roman rule, which is enforced by Arthur (Clive Owen). The two later join forces to fight the Saxons.
- The animated version of The Sword in the Stone, made by Disney, this Merlin also appearing in the Kingdom Hearts series to help train Sora in the arts of magic.
- The Legend of Prince Valiant, an animated adventure series that aired in the early 1990s. As well as being royal advisor to Arthur, Merlin serves as mentor to the titular hero.
- Doctor Who's 27th season featured "Battlefield" (by Ben Aaronovitch), a 4 episode story in which Arthur and his contemporaries are revealed to be of extraterrestrial origin, and that the good Doctor and Merlin may be one and the same.
Other media
Merlin has appeared in various comics, usually in stories where King Arthur plays a part. Some examples include:
- Captain Britain, where he appears as the guardian of the multiverse, and
- stories featuring Etrigan the Demon, who is Merlin's half-brother.
- John Constantine (Hellblazer) encountered Merlin, Arthur and Bran the Blessed in a storyline involving the Holy Grail.
See also
- Asteroids 2597 Arthur and 2598 Merlin, named after the Arthurian figures
- KOTRT (Knights of the Round Table), a popular drinking game.
External links
- Vita Merlini, Basil Clarke's English translation from Life of Merlin: Vita Merlini (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1973).
- At Grove of the Great Dragon: Manuscripts
- At Branwaedd (PDF)
- Merlin: or the early History of King Arthur: a prose romance (Early English Text Society [Series]. Original series : 10, 112), edited by Henry Wheatly. (1450s) (The complete prose Middle English translation of the Vulgate Merlin. Chapter I to VI cover Robert de Boron's Merlin.)
- Prose Merlin, Introduction and Text (TEAMS Middle English text series) edited by John Conlea, 1998. (1450s) (A selection of many passages of the prose Middle English translation of the Vulgate Merlin with connecting summary. The sections from The Birth of Merlin to Arthur and the Sword in the Stone cover Robert de Boron's Merlin).
- Of Arthour and Merlin: Auchenlich Manuscipt (National Library of Scotland) (1330s). (A Middle-English verse adaptation of the Vulgate Merlin combined with material closer to Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia. Lines 1-3059 cover approximately Robert de Boron's Merlin).
- The Cry of Merlin the Wise, translated into English by Dorothea Salo from the 1498 Burgos publication of the Portuguese El baladro del sabio Merlin. (The original is essentially a medieval Portuguese adaptation of the Post-Vulgate Merlin. From Prologue 3 to Chapter 18 to the sentence And thus was Arthur king in Londres, and held the land in his power and in peace corresponds to Robert de Boron's Merlin).
- The Beguiling of Merlin, Edward Burne-Jones
- Merlin: Texts, Images, Basic Information, Camelot Project at the University of Rochester. (Numerous further texts and art concerning Merlin.)
- Merlin : Opera by Ezequiel Vi�ao with a Libretto by Caleb Carr, (Words and Music. Excerpts from the opera)
- www.merlinwebdesign.com/ games_merlin_revenge_2_game.shtml. Online adventure game featuring Merlin and his brother Berlin.
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The UN REDD Programme, the Ateneo School of Government and UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)co-hosted a workshop on REDD+ finance in Bangkok on Friday 7 September, to explore private sector finance for REDD+. The event took place immediately after the REDD+ Partnership meeting as this was a good opportunity to bring together the key target audience of REDD+ negotiators and the members of the private sector.
The workshop started with contributions from the UNEP FI, Terra Global Capital, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. UNEP FI set the scene for the discussion by elaborating on the difference between the source and types of financial flows involved in REDD+. Terra Global Capital delivered some thoughts on REDD+ from the perspective of a private sector investor and developer. Bank of America Merrill Lynch touched on how demand might be scaled up over time and what the key policy signals might be for the private sector.
The ensuing discussion in the question and answer period revolved around four main themes: the role of the private sector in REDD+; the potential financial contribution of the private sector; the risks of private sector engagement; and the signals the private sector needs to scale up investment.
The dual roles of the private sector in REDD+, as potential sources of finance but also as a driver of deforestation and degradation through corporate activity, was a topic that was discussed during the first theme. The conversation later moved onto the potential ways the private sector could be involved in REDD+ during Phases 1 and 2.
The second theme touched on the very large volume of investments held by the private sector. One estimate from 2010 put the total global assets under management by the private sector at around US$ 126 trillion. Government policy will be key in redirecting a portion of this capital towards green investments. Even if 1 per cent was redirected, it would represent a significant contribution to the sums required for long term climate finance.
The discussion on risks involved debate over how risks for investors and risks for forest communities can be managed. This strand evolved into the differences between permanence and reversal, and also the management of risks over difference time horizons.
The concept of "advance market commitments" was raised during discussions on signals, with the success of GAVI (a public-private global partnership committed to children's health) being used as an example. This wide-ranging discussion also touched on the role of standards and certification, compliance markets and disclosure initiatives.
In this issue
New Civil Society, Indigenous Peoples Observers Selected for UN-REDD Policy Board
Zambia Strengthens its Monitoring and MRV Systems with New Assessment
Viet Nam Shares REDD+ Lessons with Myanmar and Cambodia
DRC Advances Work on REDD+ Safeguards and Multiple Benefits
UN-REDD Workshop Round-Up
Features & Commentary
Nigeria Engages Further in Forest Conservation and Green Development
By: Josep A. Garí
Indigenous Peoples in Asia-Pacific Call for a Strengthened Role in REDD+
By: The Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Designing Meaningful Participation for REDD+ in Ecuador
By: Danae Issa
Reports & Analysis
Viet Nam Releases New REDD+ Reports on Phase 1 and Awareness Raising
Two New Go-REDD+ Issues from UN-REDD in Asia-Pacific
Looking ahead
World Forest Week
24-28 September, 2012: Rome, Italy
Regional Forum on Anti- Corruption and REDD+
1-3 October, 2012: Lima, Peru
REDD+ Day at CBD COP11
16 October, 2012: Hyderabad, India
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'Lincoln,' 'Argo' face off for Britain's Oscars
nepal Hollywood stars squelched up a soggy red carpet Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, which pitted presidential biopic "Lincoln" against epic musical "Les Miserables" and Iran hostage crisis drama "Argo."
Steven Spielberg's stately historical drama about slavery-abolishing U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has 10 nominations at Britain's equivalent of the Oscars, including best picture and best actor, for Daniel Day-Lewis - though no directing nomination for Spielberg.
British-made favorite "Les Miserables" and Ang Lee's magical realist journey "Life of Pi" received nine nominations each. James Bond adventure "Skyfall" got eight and "Argo" seven.
"Skyfall," the highest-grossing film in the Bond series' 50-year history, was named best British film - rare awards-season recognition for an action movie. Thomas Newman's score also won the best-music prize.
Director Sam Mendes said he was accepting the trophy on behalf of the "1,292 people" who worked on "Skyfall."
"We all had high expectations for this film and it's fair to say all of them have been exceeded," Mendes said. "Here's to the next 50 years."
The early prizes were shared widely, with "Les Mis" taking trophies for sound and makeup/hair, "Argo" winning the editing prize and "Life of Pi" receiving the honor for cinematography.
Quentin Tarantino picked up the original screenplay award for "Django Unchained," and Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for playing a loquacious bounty hunter in Tarantino's slave-revenge thriller.
Waltz said his victory was entirely due to Tarantino - "you silver-penned devil, you."
Anne Hathaway was named best supporting actress for her brief but powerhouse performance in "Les Miserables." Hathaway said she was "overjoyed" - and so taken aback that "I almost walked past George Clooney without hugging him."
Writer-director David O. Russell won the adapted screenplay prize for "Silver Linings Playbook," a comedy about characters confronting mental illness.
Before the ceremony, stars including Clooney, "Argo" director and star Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper braved a chilly rain that turned to snow outside the Royal Opera House.
For once it was hair, even more than frocks, that drew attention - though Marion Cotillard defied the dull weather in a canary-yellow gown. Beards were de rigeur among male stars including Clooney, Affleck and Cooper, while Helen Mirren turned heads with a pink `do, sported in honor of breast cancer awareness.
Jackman, who has hosted the Tony Awards several times and is up for a best actor award, said it was far easier simply to be a nominee.
"After hosting an event like this or two, it's just so much more relaxing just to watch the show," he said.
The British Academy Film Awards, known as BAFTAs, are increasingly glamorous - despite a well-earned reputation for dismal weather - and ever-more scrutinized as an indicator of likely success at the Hollywood Oscars. In recent years they have prefigured Academy Awards triumph for word-of-mouth hits including "Slumdog Millionaire," "The King's Speech" and "The Artist."
This season's movie with momentum is crowd-pleaser "Argo," based on the true story of a group of U.S. diplomats spirited out of Tehran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It has been building steam with big prizes at ceremonies such as the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild and the Directors Guild of America Awards.
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> Hello folks,
> I've got a little question concerning the processing of a many-to-many
> relationship. I will use a concrete example for my problem, although I came
> across this issue quite often; now I wonder how professionals like YOU would
> do it :-)
> Basically, I've got a 'person' relation, a 'country' relation and a 'visits'
> relation providing a many-to-many relation between person and country.
> I'd like to print a list of all (or some, no matter) persons, and for each
> of them a comma-separated enumeration of all countries they visit. Clearly
> this is an application layer issue, however, I hope you don't mind ;-).
Something like
SELECT p.person_id, p.surname, c.name
FROM Persons p, Persons_Countries pc, Countries c WHERE p.person_id =pc.person_id
AND pc.country_id = c.id
/* AND p.surname_ucase like '%SMITH%' etc. */ ORDER BY p.person_id, c.country_id;
> When retrieving the data from a RDBMS, would you JOIN the relations, thus
> producing several tuples for each person with one different country each?
yes; I would filter the stuff (i.e. get rid of the recurring person_id's using the person_id). Let the DBMS do as much as possibly for you; depending on your set-up and application, it may even be cheaper to get all the tuples, rather than the 20% you're interested in (the like '%SMITH%' bit), and throw away the 80% locally too.
> By sorting appropriately (e. g.on person's PK) and adding some lines of
> code, one could achieve the goal. However, there's some overhead (memory,
are usually immeasurably cheap, as are CPU cycles
> network)
why network?
> for the data that is processed several times.
> On the other hand, one could first select all persons and then query for
> each one's countries successively. The disadvantage is a higher amount of
> statements to process.
no, the amount of network round trips; they'll be hurting.
> (If this is the wrong newsgroup, could you please point me to another one?)
seems OK to me. Cheers,
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Mrs. Borrego was born Sept. 16, 1948, to Refugio and Victoria Dominguez, the youngest of five daughters.
Survivors include her son, Jose Dominguez; brothers, Ernest and Rogelio Dominguez; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Mauro Borrego, in 1992; her sisters and four older brothers.
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From tutus to cutting boards, Osolo craft bazaar had it all
ELKHART — If you're looking for signs of the American entrepreneurial spirit, look no further than the collection of Emergency Duct Tape Key Chain and Zipper Pulls.
The different-colored patterns of duct tape caught the eye of Chrystal Pedler of Union, Mich., and the gimmicky Christmas gift idea stuck.
Pedler had just arrived at the Osolo Craft Bazaar on Saturday when she saw the display. She bought six for $10.
"We have Boy Scouts, and we're going to give them away for Christmas gifts," Pedler said as she and a niece stood in a hallway of Osolo Elementary where the key chains were displayed on a table.
The 32nd bazaar, which benefits the school's Parent Teacher Organization, has become a hot spot for shoppers who prefer hand-crafted items to mass-produced merchandise.
"I don't like giving the usual things," Pedler explained. "Unique things — I think — mean more because you took the time to really look."
The key chains were made by Kelly Wisler of Wakarusa. She said the idea was inspired by her husband, Glen, who challenged her to start making something guys would like.
The craft work is a side business, she said.
"This is how we pay for our Christmas presents every year," Wisler said.
Wisler was among a large number of crafters whose work was displayed on 180 tables spread through the gym and into every hallway and crevice on the first floor. The displays featured a bevy of items people might not need but still can't resist.
Among the treasures to be found: candles, statues, ornaments, magnets, cake mixes, pet supplies, jewelry and trinkets of every kind.
For Green Bay Packers fans, there was the stuffed dog, tea towels and ceramic coasters — all emblazoned with the famous green and gold logo.
Looking for something more feminine? "Bella's Fancy Tutus and Leggings" offered a plethora of princess skirts, perfect for the little girl who wants to dally in the delicate every day. Next to that dainty display was an "endless" selection of infinity scarves — very trendy — made by two sisters whose company name, Saffron and Nutmeg, is taken from two beloved cats.
Down the hall and around the corner was Bob Rosentreter's Corian cutting boards. He and his wife, Karen, do all the cutting, routing and polishing. For $20, shoppers could pick up a collection of three differently sized and shaped cutting boards.
"I started with about 60 sets and I have about 20 left," Rosentreter said.
Numerous vendors described the traffic as heavy and steady Saturday.
The secret to the bazaar's success is simple. Limit vendors to selling only hand-crafted items, says Amber Kreider, a crafter who was overseeing the event for the first time.
To ensure that policy, organizers prohibit commercial operations and regularly inspect the wares to make sure nothing is coming off an assembly line.
Kreider said she's occasionally asked vendors to put away certain items that clearly did not appear to be crafted at home. Most appreciate the approach.
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Steve Nugent was named the Washington State University Head Soccer Coach, Cougar Director of Athletics Bill Moos announced, Thursday.
Nugent becomes the sixth mentor in program history after spending the last three seasons at UNC Greensboro. His 2012 UNCG squad captured the Southern Conference regular season title.
"I often say the hardest thing to do in our athletic programs is to sustain success once it has been achieved," Moos said. "I am confident Steve Nugent is the ideal choice to maintain one of the premier women's soccer programs in the Pac-12. His experience, an upgraded facility and quality student-athletes put us in a great position to meet and exceed the goals we have set."
"A big thank you from me goes to (WSU President) Dr. Floyd, Bill Moos, (Deputy Athletic Director/SWA) Anne McCoy and the support staff I met during my visit to Pullman," Nugent said. "I was looking forward to the prospect of being the next head coach at Washington State and learning more about what it means to be a Cougar from those with whom I met put it over the top."
Nugent added, "Everyone made me feel right at home. I am extremely happy to be coming to Pullman and I am very excited to build on the success the program has established in recent years. With the returning group of student-athletes, an improved facility and the Pac-12 Networks exposure, this is a tremendous opportunity for my family and me."
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Among the accomplishments were a school-record tying 14 victories (14-3-4), hosting an NCAA postseason match for the first time since 2000, five all-conference honors, four all-region awards, and one All-America selection.
A 1996 graduate of Florida Atlantic, Nugent was a volunteer assistant at Lynn and helped the Fighting Panthers capture 1994 and 1995 NAIA national championships and a runner-up finish in the 1996 NCAA Division II Championship.
He has been an assistant coach at Rice (2001) and Georgia (2008-11) prior to becoming the UNCG head coach. The Bulldogs reached the NCAA postseason in 2008 and 2009. In addition, he won 15 state championships and mentored nine full National team players during his time as a club coach (1989-2000, 2002-08).
A native of South Boston, Mass., Nugent and his wife, Janna, have three sons: Trevor (seven), Brady (five) and Connor (three).


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I looked at this guide to setting up alias redirects but when we create the same alias name, say "MyOldServer" I get errors on connecting to an untrusted domain using Windows authentication.
Short of reinstalling SQL to the same place on all these machines? How can we make it so that they're all pointing to the same name (preferably (local) but I don't care either way.
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<add name="masterDb" connectionString="integrated security=true;Data Source=(local);Database=masterDb" />
Colleague's connection string (also working on their local machine)
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We would like to use one or the other so we have one local config checked into source. I'm okay with changing both our connection strings ... but I'd like us to have the same connection string without installing SQL if possible. We're onloading more developers and having them all reinstall SQL to conform will be cumbersome.
Alias configuration (my machine):
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Other notable performances for the Wildcats were Stephanie Nelson, second in the women's javelin (40.06 meters) and shot put (12.95 meters); Reggie Harris, second in the men's 100 (11 seconds); Jeremiah Korn, second in the men's shot put (6.24 meters); and Jeremy Gathright, second in the men's triple jump (14.25 meters).
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Four Wildcats came away with first-place finishes. Jason Robbs won the men's hammer throw with a throw of 57.79 meters. Taylor Nall took gold in the men's 3000-meter steeplechase in 9:57.56. Aubree Gustin won the women's javelin with a mark of 43 meters for her third consecutive victory. Katie Thurbon took first in the women's pole vault with 3.5 meters.


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Ohio's new third grade reading guarantee, which will require third graders to pass the state reading test in order to be promoted to fourth grade, is a big deal in Ohio elementary schools this year.
It caught the attention of PBS NewsHour, which devoted a segment to the topic this month.
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[NewsHour's] JOHN TULENKO: But Florida spent heavily on interventions, including summer school. Ohio hasn't, betting the threat of holding students back will be enough to guarantee that all third graders will learn to read.


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Manchester United have been put on alert after Memphis Depay announced that it was possible that he could leave his current side this summer. The young winger confirmed that he would have the final say on his future, giving hope that a deal with The Premier League side could be possible.
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Cotton futures fell on concern that demand will ebb amid signs of slowing economies. Orange juice increased.
Japan's government today downgraded its assessment of the world's third-biggest economy for the first time in 10 months, the Cabinet Office said in a monthly report released in Tokyo. Risks include a "further slowing down of overseas economies and sharp fluctuations in the financial and capital markets," according to the report.
"A slower world economy has a negative impact on cotton, as purchases can be delayed, unlike food commodities," Sid Love, the president of Joe Kropf & Sid Love Consulting in Overland Park, Kansas, said in an e-mail.
Cotton for December delivery dropped 0.7 percent to settle at 75.62 cents a pound at 2:30 p.m. on ICE Futures U.S. in New York.
China, the world's biggest cotton user, may sell about 1 million metric tons from stockpiles and release 400,000 tons of import quota to help textile companies cope with increased raw-material costs and weak export demand, said Dong Shuangwei, an analyst at Beijing Capital Futures Co.
Hurricane Isaac may bring heavy rain to the lower Mississippi Valley and cut the quality of the cotton crop in the region. Flooding from storm surge and rainfall is expected, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The U.S. is the world's biggest exporter of the fiber.
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I've one two little problems with CC3:
1.) The dimensions of CC3 are miles x miles and not pixel x pixel .. so if I want to draw a map with a north->south dimension of 3000 miles the map is a little but large - okay not the really problem but it seems that CC3 has some problems with maps over 1000 miles (scrolling lag and the software works really slowly). Is it better to draw more small maps or smaller parts of the large one and combine them with other programs? I'm not very enthuses to split my continent into four or more parts - or is that the way to handle this problem?
2.) If I draw smaller maps the symbols are very large and I can resize them - no problem. But if I'm drawing large maps the symbols are large too. Is there a possibility to calculate the size to the right scale of my map? I'm not sure but is a size of 1.000 of a tree the standard for a 1000 miles map? If so do I have to resize the tree symbol to 0.200 if I have a 200 miles map or to 3.000 for a 3000 miles map? I tried to have the same size of mountains and trees but everytime the trees look too large sized when I see the mountains between.
Thanks for help and sorry for this confused english


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August 2, 2011 | By: Pov M. Xyooj, Hmong TV Network
FRESNO, CA -- On Saturday, July 30 TX Entertainment held its first Huab Tais Zab competition at Fresno State's Satellite Student Union. The stand-up comedy competition consisted of four contestants from the Fresno area: Sher Lor, Zab Kub Xyooj, Pov M. Xyooj, and Doua Lor.
The competition had two portions for the contestants: the talent and the King's speech. The MC of the event was Akihiro Klondike. Each competitors were given 10 minutes to perform their talent or routine for the audience to watch. Afterwards, each gave a King's speech answering the question, "If you were crowned Huab Tais Zab, what are some of the things you would do or give back to the community?"
For the King's speech, Sher Lor stated that:
Yog hais tias nej maub kuv ua tsa los ua nej tus huab tais mas kuv yuav muab nej cov av, yog hais tias nej muab nej cov qaib pov khiag ces tag ki nej sawv tsees los ces tau khiag ob lub McChicken. Hos yog tias nej muab tus nyuj pov khiag ntawv ces tag ki sawv los nej yuav tau lob lub McDouble no nawb. Hos yog hais tias nej muab nyiaj pov khiag rau ntawv ces nej tua saib ces pawv lawm os.
The competition opened with a skit of the competitors fighting over the Huab Tais Zab crown. As the skit came to an end no one was able to take the crown for themselves and ended up in the hands of the MC. This lead way to open the competition for Huab Tais Zab.
During the competition there were two guest performers. The first guest performer was John Vwj who does a variety of different dances. The second guest performer was Ricky Cha (aka Bboy Aira) a bboy dancer.
As the competitors finished their talent and King's speech, the audience were given a ticket with a stamp on the back to vote for their favorite comedian. There were boxes located in the back of the seats for the audience to put their ticket in to be counted. There were well over 200 individuals in the audience who came to watch the competition.
In the end, after the tickets have all been counted, the winner of the competition through majority vote was Zaj Kub Xyooj. As he was being crowned as Huab Tais Zab 2011 he stated that:
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An Interview with Jennifer Lee: What is Stereotype Promise?
Jennifer Lee is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. Currently a Visiting Scholar, she is the co-author of Diversity Paradox, which uses population-based analyses and in-depth interviews to examine patterns of intermarriage and multiracial identification among Asians, Latinos, and African Americans. Find her essay on stereotype promise here.
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Q: What is "stereotype promise"?
A: "Stereotype promise" is the promise of being viewed through the lens of a positive stereotype that leads one to perform in such a way that confirms the positive stereotype, thereby enhancing performance.
Q: How does stereotype promise differ from a self-fulfilling prophecy, the model minority stereotype, and the Pygmalion effect?
A: Stereotype promise differs from all three concepts in critical ways. A self-fulfilling prophecy begins with a false definition of the situation, evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true. In Ophelia's case, she never believed that she was an exceptional student from the start; rather, teachers and school administrators made assumptions about her ability based on her race/ethnicity rather than her past academic performance. The stereotype promise then exerted an independent effect; Ophelia began to try harder to prove that she was a good student, which ultimately boosted her performance.
Stereotype promise also differs from the model minority; the latter is a divisive trope that pits one racial/ethnic minority group against another, and suggests that if all minority groups worked as hard and persevered, they would be just as successful as the model minority, in this case Asian Americans. The explicit comparison in the model minority stereotype is among racial/ethnic minority groups. However, stereotype promise does not necessitate comparisons with other racial/ethnic minority groups. Moreover, stereotype promises emerges in a diversity of settings, including predominantly white settings, and like stereotype threat, stereotype promise may operate with other groups and in other domains.
The Pygmalion effect refers to the work of Rosenthal and Jacobsen, among others, who found that teachers' expectations influenced students' performance; when teachers were led to expect enhanced performance from particular students, those students did, in fact, show improved performance. While the Pygmalion effect—or the expectancy effect—focuses on teachers' expectations of individual students, stereotype promise refers to the way in which group-based stereotypes positively affect outcomes for members of a particular group.
Q: Would you say that stereotype promise is advantageous for Asian American students?
A: While some Asian American students benefit from stereotype promise, it is critical to note a number of unintended consequences. First, it places extraordinary pressure on Asian American students to academically excel. Second, it makes Asian Americans—an enormously diverse group—who do not excel feel like failures because they do not measure up to the high-achieving success frame. In some cases, the pressure to excel can lead to depression, and in extreme cases, to suicide.
Third, the success frame and stereotype promise can place Asian American students at a disadvantage during the university admissions process. For example, in their study of university admissions, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford found that Asian Americans need a nearly perfect SAT score of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted into one of the top universities as Whites who scored 1410 and African Americans who scored 1100—reflecting what Mitchell Chang describes as the "Asian tax."
Espenshade and Radford conclude that they cannot confirm that Asian American students face discrimination in the admissions process because there may be other variables that their study did not or was unable to measure. However, if we look back historically, we find the competitive disadvantage of Asian American students today is not unlike the discrimination that Jerome Karabel described in The Chosen when Harvard, Yale, and Princeton tried to resolve "the Jewish problem" in the 1920s by instituting quotas and other class-biased measures to restrict their admission—including personal interviews, essays, recommendation letters, and descriptions of extracurricular activities that disadvantaged "the wrong kind" of college applicant.
That Asian American students face similar barriers to admission today indicates that despite their educational attainment, race continues to remain significant, even for the most high-achieving members of today's 1.5- and second-generation. Ironically, the success frame and stereotype promise that helps to promote educational attainment can have the unintended consequence of disadvantaging the most high-achieving Asian American students.
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It's mass-produced by Jimmy Dean's, a food company founded by the late country singer and actor (best known for his performance as Willard Whyte in Diamonds are Forever). Whether you've made it yourself or purchased it ready-made, the last step before chomping into this exquisite dish is to dip it in yummy Baconnaise – bacon-flavored mayonnaise.
Voilà! You are now ingesting the signature dish of the declining American empire.
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I felt compelled to ask this question because of some of the TWA 800 lawsuits that I read which I feel were not necessarily true about the planes at the time. While TWA was the operator of the plane that crashed as TWA 800, a lot of people claimed that the 747, which was originally designed for a 60,000 hour service life and had 92,000 hours of service as of July 17th, 1996, was dangerous because of this very reason. My understanding was that Boeing had never recognized that N93119 had an equal chance of explosion as any other aircraft, age or not....747 wiring and placement of the air conditioning packs below the fuel tank and hot temperatures and the type of fuel used caused the accident to my knowledge. Plus, I've seen many airlines operate aircraft much older than N93119 was at the time it exploded...NW is operating 747s that are 30 years old, and DC-9s in excess of 40 years old. i guess my question is, how much more dangerous does an aircraft become when it is beyond its useful service life? Was age a contributing factor to this accident? Let me know. Thanks.
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Students from the Morris Area High School EMT class had an opportunity to visit Hennepin County Medical Center recently. While there, the students participated in high fidelity simulated training scenarios in the HCMC "Sim-Center", learned more about the various careers available in the medical fields, and toured various departments at HCMC including the ED, EMS, NICU, Hyperbaric Medicine and Poison Control Center. Students attending included Eric Staebler, Maddie Richardson, Trent Ostby, Emma Zosel, Matthew Vinson, Dalton Uphoff, Lindsay Flogstad, Carlie Zimmel and Nick Boots. Instructors for the class are Josh Fischer and Jessica Velde.
Now in its 25th year, the Emergency Care program at MAHS is provided through the Stevens County Ambulance Service EMS Education department. The program provides students with valuable medical education, as well as college credit through a partnership with Ridgewater College. The program has educated over 500 students since its inception, with over half of those students going on to careers in the healthcare field, many returning to rural areas.
"With rural healthcare sustainability continuing to be a topic of discussion, we are fortunate to be able to offer these students a launching pad into the medical field. It is a great benefit to the students individually, and also has proven to bring high quality medical professionals back to our rural areas to practice." says Josh Fischer, Director of Stevens County Ambulance Service and course instructor for the MAHS E mergency Care program. "Being able to partner with HCMC to provide the students with opportunities like this is a great way to expose them to some of the options they have as they go on to pursue careers in healthcare and other fields."
For more information about the MAHS Emergency Care program, contact the Stevens County EMS Education Department at 320-589-7421.
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BEVERLY HILLS—Henry Hopper, son of late actor Dennis Hopper, is being accused of raping a 15-year-old girl after the alleged victim and her mother came forward at a news conference in Beverly Hills.
According to the now 17-year-old victim, who remains as Jane Doe on police reports, the two met on Facebook through a mutual friend in Feb. 2011 when she was 15. After months of talking online, Hopper, who was 20 at the time, invited the girl over to his house in Venice where he allegedly fed her alcohol and drugs and pursued sexual activity with her despite conscious will.
According to the lawsuit against hopper, filed in August 2012, he performed intercourse, forced copulation, and sodomy after supplying her with drugs and alcohol that muddled her judgment and compliance. The lawsuit claims, "[Hooper] preyed upon a young impressionable child, suggesting that he cared for her, luring her into his home with promises of alcohol and illegal drugs, and then repeatedly taking advantage of her youth [and] vulnerability."
According to Doe's attorney Jeffrey Herman, the same lawyer in the case against "Sesame Street" puppeteer Kevin Clash, Doe's mother has pursued a lawsuit against Hopper in order to shed light on this kind of issue that is prevalent in the entertainment industry. She is hoping to ensure safety of other young females and that other girls will come forward.
The girl, an aspiring model, claims that there were multiple attacks, nearly 7 or 8, over a span of several months after the first attack on April 21, 2011. According to the alleged victim's mother, the girl's emotional, mental, and physical health suffered in the months following the claimed rapes. She ran away from home, attempted suicide, was hospitalized for mental problems and substance abuse, and her grades dropped significantly.
The accused's father Dennis Hopper died in 2010 at age 74 from prostate cancer. He was best known for his roles in "Apocalypse Now," Speed," "Easy Rider," and "Blue Velvet." While Henry Hopper's career is at its beginning, the 21-year-old actor's biggest role yet was in Gus Van Sant's British American Drama "Restless," which released in September 2011. At 14, he took acting classes at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and later studied painting and sculpture at the California Institute of the Arts where he dropped out at 18 and went to Berlin, Germany where he lived in an artist's collective.
Hopper denied allegations on Monday, January 7 through his lawyer Joe Mannis.
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MIAMI — Down by 18 points midway through the opening quarter, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder looked well on their way to witnessing a rout.
That's exactly what happened.
And they enjoyed every moment.
Durant remained sizzling with 33 points, Serge Ibaka added 22 and the Thunder roared back from an abysmal start — they trailed 22-4 early — to embarrass the Miami Heat 112-95 on Wednesday night, erasing that big deficit out of the gate by outscoring the two-time defending champions by 43 points over a 33-minute span.
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"They were ready for us to come in and play," Durant said. "They hit some tough shots early on, a few threes, and we didn't panic. We just tried to stay together, and that's what we did. Our bench was great in getting us back in that game."
The Thunder led by as many as 25, and shot 16 for 27 from three-point range.
Durant has scored at least 30 points in 12 straight games, matching the league's longest such streak since Tracy McGrady did it in 14 consecutive outings in the 2002-03 season.
LeBron James scored 34 points for Miami. After the game, James apologize for using the word "retarded" while answering a question posed in a pregame interview.
James says the word's usage is a bad habit that he's trying to break, and that he'll try not to use it again.
"I mean no disrespect," James said.
Nate Robinson injured
Denver Nuggets guard Nate Robinson, the former Rainier Beach High School and UW standout, left Wednesday night's game against visiting Charlotte Bobcats in the first quarter with a left knee injury.
Robinson had started the game in place of injured point guard Ty Lawson, who remains day to day after suffering a left rotator-cuff strain in Sunday night's game at Sacramento.
The Nuggets said Robinson was scheduled to undergo an MRI on Thursday to evaluate the injury, which the team initially described as a sprain.
Charlotte beat the Nuggets 101-98 behind Al Jefferson's 35 points.
• Kevin Love had 30 points and 14 rebounds to finally carry the host Minnesota Timberwolves over the .500 mark with an 88-77 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Timberwolves (23-22) got over .500 after failing in their previous 10 chances.
The Pelicans were missing star forward Anthony Davis with a dislocated left index finger, an injury that is not expected to cost him any more games.
• Houston's James Harden missed his second straight game with a bruised thumb on his shooting hand but the Rockets still won, 117-115 at Dallas.
• San Antonio guard Manu Ginobili will miss the next three to four weeks with a strained left hamstring.
• The Detroit Pistons' game at the Atlanta Hawks was postponed due to the winter storm that has made travel unsafe in Atlanta.
• Guard Goran Dragic scored 30 points before sustaining an apparent injury to his left elbow, leading visiting Phoenix to a 126-117 win over Milwaukee.


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Getting to know docs
This week, the federal government is releasing a massive database providing patients with much information about their doctors.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that runs Medicare, is posting detailed information about how many visits and procedures individual health professionals billed the program for in 2012, and how much they were paid.
This data, which covers 880,000 health professionals, adds to a growing body of information available to patients who don't want to leave picking a doctor to chance. But to put that information to good use, consumers need to be aware of what is available, what's missing and how to interpret it.
As it stands, patients can go to websites such as Yelp or Healthgrades to read reviews of their doctors submitted by other patients. They can go to the websites of state medical boards to find out whether doctors have ever faced disciplinary action. If they're really adventurous, they can seek out lawsuit filings.
At its website, ProPublica maintains a database on which patients can check whether their doctors have received payments or gifts from any of more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies. Another ProPublica database allows patients to look at which medications a doctor has prescribed to patients in Medicare's prescription drug program. This data enables patients to compare doctors with their peers, seeing if they have unusual practices or conflicts.
This fall, under a little-debated part of the Affordable Care Act, the federal government will release data on personal, promotional and research payments to doctors from all pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Patients will be able to at least ask whether their doctors have prescribed a drug because it is the best one for their patients or because of a financial relationship.
It's important to remember that data can be misleading. There's a big difference between, say, a hospice doctor giving almost every patient a narcotic and a podiatrist doing the same thing.
Seeming anomalies are sometimes easily explained. One Alaska nurse practitioner appeared to write an excessive number of orders for antipsychotics. But she told us that she wrote prescriptions for only a few days at a time to monitor patients' responses. Her explanation was borne out in the data.
These new tools all have limits. They won't tell you whether one doctor's patients are sicker than another's and need different therapies. They won't tell you about a doctor's bedside manner or willingness to return a call at 3 a.m. They won't tell you about surgical skill.
It's also far from certain whether patients will embrace the tools. An array of information is available about hospitals and nursing homes, but it's unclear that it has made much of a difference in where patients seek care. Some people would simply prefer to make decisions the old-fashioned way.
Still, our experience in making data available suggests lots of people are eager to use this information to drive health care choices. Millions have visited our Prescriber Checkup and Dollars for Docs news applications to find out more.
Despite grumbling from the medical establishment, the health care system has not collapsed because patients are learning more about their providers.
We're still a ways from having enough information to compare the quality of care from one physician to another.
But Medicare should be applauded for its new release. It should also encourage private insurers and public programs to follow suit.
Access to information is crucial if patients are to have hope of answering that most basic question: How does my doctor practice medicine?
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So, I've been looking at the screenshots for the last....well....since they came out. I've been intregued with the new 737, and its blended winglets. Does this mean its a new model, like the 737-700? I haven't known any 737-400s to have these winglets, but I suppose its entirely possible. The screenshots look as though the plane is too short to be a 737-800 or -900, but a 737-700 looks possible.
Also, what is the new biz jet? It looks like a Gulfstream.
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