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A TV star joined the historic Swan Upping this year, which includes the Marlow stretch of the River Thames.
Martin Clunes, of Doc Martin fame, boarded the boats alongside the Royal Swan Uppers, including the Queen's Swan Marker, David Barber.
The TV star was filming an ITV documentary series called Man and Beast, showing man's involvement with birds and animals the world over.
Mr Barber, who is in his 22nd year as the Queen's Swan Marker, said: "He was absolutely delightful. Hopefully they will make a very good programme."
Martin was on board the boats between Cookham Bridge and Marlow Lock on Tuesday, and appeared to enjoy every minute of it.
Fans had their photos taken with him when the boats stopped to assess the health of young cygnets and swans.
The Swan Upping lasts five days, starting at Sunbury and finishing at Abingdon Bridge tomorrow at 5pm.
Mr Barber said: "It has been going extremely well. The cygnet numbers are up slightly from last year, which is all very positive."
It is a tradition dating back to the 12th century- the Queen's Royal officials take to the waters in their skiffs to do the annual census of the swan population.
Back in the 12th century swans were highly prized for their meat and were served at banquets.
The monarch used to claim ownership of any unmarked mute swans swimming in open water.
In modern times, it has been about conservation. They 'up' any swans or cygnets they come across out of the water before weighing and assessing them for illness or injury.
It also involves the Queen's Swan Warden collecting data.
Cygnets are extremely vulnerable at this early stage in their development and Swan Upping affords an opportunity to help both adults and cygnets that might otherwise go untreated.
Mr Barber said the flooding earlier in the year led to the death of some cygnets.
He said: "After the flooding has receded the river was running very fast. Some of the cygnets got washed over weirs, which is quite common.
"It is just one of those things.
"We have had a lot of dog attacks and shootings this year, which is more than we have ever had before.
"That is the idea of the education side- to try and help avoid all these sort of things- and for people to help look after the wildlife."
Anne Turk, 91, travelled from Bristol to Cookham to meet up with the Swan Uppers. Her grandfather, father and brother were all Keepers of the Swans - and she was the only lady Swan Upper ever


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TREASURY head Martin Parkinson has assured the opposition the department did not breach its "professional and apolitical ethos" in costing Coalition policies.
As former treasurer Peter Costello was dragged into the row over the government's "leaking" of the costings, Dr Parkinson wrote in a letter to shadow treasurer Joe Hockey: "any suggestion that we would be complicit in questionable practices is without foundation".
Fairfax newspapers reported on Monday that three Coalition policies would cost business $4.57 billion in their first full year of operation, according to a Treasury analysis.
The opposition reacted angrily, saying Treasury costing did not deal with offsets — its plan to scrap the carbon and mining taxes and to provide a modest company tax cut.
Mr Hockey demanded Dr Parkinson give an explanation of Treasury's role. Under pressure, the government admitted it had asked Treasury for the costings and took responsibility for putting them out.
In his reply to Mr Hockey on Wednesday, Dr Parkinson said it had long been the case that Treasury was periodically asked by the government of the day to cost or analyse alternative policies, including those from stakeholders or other parties.
Outside of the "caretaker" period, "Treasury does not undertake unsolicited costings of the policies of political parties". On this occasion Treasury had provided advice to Treasurer Wayne Swan on several policies "at the request of his office. As is always our practice, the Treasury did not provide the advice or the underlying analysis to anyone outside of government."
Mr Hockey said that "clearly Dr Parkinson has identified the Treasurer as the person responsible for playing these political games".
Mr Costello rejected suggestions that he had used Treasury material in the same way.
In 2002 Mr Costello said in a statement that Treasury had carried out a preliminary costing of Labor's announcement to oppose superannuation tax measures.
In 2004 Ross Gittins reported in The Sydney Morning Herald that in a dispute over a Labor baby care policy, Mr Costello had "produced a minute Treasury had sent him that very day drastically revising down the estimated cost of the baby bonus". Labor at the time accused Mr Costello of politicising the public service.
Mr Costello said on Wednesday: "The baby bonus was my policy. I had not asked for a costing of their policy." He said he did not remember ever releasing a Treasury minute — "I surely never 'leaked' them". But Fairfax did not have the actual Treasury minute on the costings.
The opposition says it will send policies to be costed by the new Parliamentary Budget Office, but it is waiting until legislation passes to exempt these from freedom of information provisions.
■Labor's primary vote has risen one point to 37 per cent in the Essential poll. Labor trails 47-53 per cent on a two party basis.


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As the severe headaches indicate, 2010 is finally upon us, and there is no going back. What we can do, however, is reflect.
What were your favorite games and mods of the year? The decade? And what cool gaming stuff are you looking forward to in the new year? Let us know in the comments.
Plenty of other sites are running their own series of reflections. GamePro took a lengthy look back at 2009's biggest gaming news, including a highlight of ZeniMax's "surprise" acquisition of id Software. Examining the entire decade, Gamestooge has finished up its Top 50 feature, adding Fallout 3 to a list that already included Oblivion and Morrowind.
With an eye toward the future, two separate G4 staffers have named Fallout: New Vegas as one of their most anticipated 2010 titles. Shacknews is getting fired up about Brink, while The Sixth Axis is excited for both New Vegas and Brink.
We're certainly looking forward to sharing more about both games this year. For now, a very Happy New Year to everyone. Enjoy today's various sporting events — I have a feeling that a significant portion of the team is currently doing the same.


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DETROIT - A judge is asking for opinions about the use of confidential informants as jury selection starts in the trial of seven people accused of conspiring to rebel against the government as members of a southern Michigan militia known as the Hutaree.
Detroit federal Judge Victoria Roberts wants to have a final jury pool of 50 by next Monday.
Jury selection will continue daily this week with 15 jurors questioned individually about their beliefs on the right to keep and bear arms and in this specific case the government's use of an undercover officer in addition to a paid informant who secretly videotaped Hutaree meetings. The government says the Hutaree conspired to try to kill a police officer and plotted further strikes. No one was ever attacked.
An eighth member, Joshua Clough, pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge.
Clough will face five years in prison.
The jury pool will be narrowed down to 12 jurors and 4 alternates. The trial could begin next week and jurors are being told the trial could run six to eight weeks.
Security is very tight with two levels of security clearance and for their own safety, jurors are only called by a number in court. Even the sketch artist was told not to draw jurors faces.
This morning one prospective juror said she had formed the opinion that the eight on trial were guilty based on news reports she watched before being called as a juror. She was excused. Another had her own criminal case involving arson. She is in hold while they get her record. Another man said his wife booked a surprise birthday vacation that would be during the trial. He was excused.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Robert Johnson wasn't the biggest name among guards heading into the NBPA Top 100 Camp, but the Virginia-native played well throughout the camp and will be a player to watch this summer when coaches are out in full force.
Clemson basketball returns home after Barcelona van attack
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson's basketball team arrived back on campus, a day after a deadly van attack in Barcelona that occurred just outside their hotel.
The Tigers were preparing to play their fourth and final game of a summer tour of Spain when a van drove up on a sidewalk and crashed into scores of people in Las Ramblas promenade, killing 13. Clemson canceled the final game and flew back home as scheduled Friday.
Teams from Arizona and Oregon State were also staying at the hotel. A fourth team, Tulane, was in Barcelona at a different hotel. All of the schools said their parties were unharmed.
Clemson coach Brad Brownell tweeted Friday the team had landed in Atlanta and was "excited to be back in this great country."
Tulane's new court design brings back 'Angry Wave'
Tulane's court design is a throwback.
On Friday night, the school revealed the new look inside Devlin Fieldhouse, with the old "Angry Wave' logo taking its place at center court.
A little over a year ago, Tulane University announced that the old 'Angry Wave' logo would be reincorporated into the athletics department as a secondary logo.
Over half a century ago, the "Angry Wave" was born and became one of the most visible marks of Tulane Athletics. Together for the first time with the "T-Wave" the Green Wave now boasts one of the most unique sets of logos in collegiate athletics.
The Green Wave finished the 2016-17 season with a 6-25 (3-15 AAC) record. The program is currently on a foreign tour in Barcelona.
Five-star big man names final two schools
There are only two schools in contention for the services of five-star big man Nazreon Reid.
On Friday night, the 6-foot-10 New Jersey native named Arizona and LSU as the two finalists. Before the start of the July live evaluation period, Reid had trimmed his list to seven programs. Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Seton Hall, and UCLA did not make the latest cut.
The Roselle Catholic High School center has ties to commits from both programs. Jahvon Quinerly, who picked Arizona over Villanova earlier this month, played with Reid, winning championships in 2015 and 2016 with Sports U in the Under Armour Association. According to Andrew Lopez of NOLA.com, Reid has developed a friendship with LSU pledge Javonte Smart through USA basketball and the grassroots circuit.
Reid's commitment will bolster an already star-studded recruiting class for Sean Miller, as Quinerly is accompanied by five-star recruit Shareef O'Neal and four-star guard Brandon Williams. With Dusan Ristic exhausting his eligibility and DeAndre Ayton destined to be a top-10 pick in next summer's NBA Draft, Reid would play a key role down low for the Wildcats during the 2018-19 season.
For LSU, this would add additional momentum for new head coach Will Wade. Since taking over the program in March, Wade has landed commitments from Smart and Tremont Waters.
Reid is listed as No. 13 overall player in the Class of 2018, according to Rivals.
Duke recruit Bagley hoping to play in the 2017-18 season
Marvin Bagley III, widely considered the top recruit in the class of 2018, reclassified this week and could be eligible to play for Duke in the upcoming season.
His decision immediately thrusts the Blue Devils toward the front of the national-title conversation for the 2017-18 season.
But what exactly does it mean to reclassify and how does the process work?
According to the NCAA, all incoming student-athletes must complete 16 core courses from a list that includes English, math, natural or physical science, social science, foreign language, comparative religion or philosophy. Classes such as physical education, health and music do not count as core courses, nor do remedial classes or classes completed through credit-by-exam.
The student-athlete must also show proof of graduation from high school and have an ACT/SAT test score that corresponds to his or her core course GPA on a sliding scale; the higher the GPA, the lower the standardized test score needs to be.
The NCAA eligibility center's amateurism team then determines whether to certify a student-athlete. The process and requirements are the same for every sport.
Bagley is scheduled to graduate from Southern California's Sierra Canyon High School later this month, completing his course work a year ahead of schedule. His transcripts may be a little more complicated because he attended three different high schools and the NCAA will review his final transcript following his graduation to determine if he is eligible to play Division I basketball.
Bagley's move is not unprecedented.
Through the years, five-star prospects who want to get a jump on their college careers — and potentially professional careers — have gone through the same process, though usually not right before the fall semester begins as Bagley did.
Mike Gminski is considered the leave-high-school-early originator, graduating a year early so he could play at Duke in 1976. He went on to become an All-American and played 17 NBA seasons.
In recent years, Kansas' Andrew Wiggins, North Carolina State's Dennis Smith Jr., Duke's Derryck Thornton and Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns were among the student-athletes who graduated early to play college basketball sooner. Kentucky's Hamidou Diallo graduated a semester early and joined the Wildcats in January last season, but did not play. He declared for the NBA draft before deciding to return to Lexington.
Jontay Porter reclassified this year so he could play a year early with his brother, top recruit Michael, at Missouri. Canadian guard R.J. Barrett, considered the top recruit in 2019, has reclassified so he can graduate in 2018.
"With AAU and year-round competition basically, a lot of the players are ready for college-level play at an earlier age," Gminski told WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2015. "And most of these guys have been around a lot. They do a lot of traveling. They tend to mature pretty fast."
Early graduation in football became popular in the early 2000s, though they typically only do it a semester early to enroll in college for the spring semester and participate in spring practices.
Baseball player Bryce Harper left his Las Vegas high school after his sophomore season and earned his GED so he could start playing professional baseball sooner. He played one season for the College of Southern Nevada and was taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 MLB draft by the Washington Nationals.
An opposite trend has started playing out in recent years, with parents holding their kids back a year so they can become bigger, stronger and more polished — some as early as middle school. Many top-tier recruits hold off going to college for a year, instead playing for elite prep schools after graduation for more seasoning and exposure.
Bagley opted for the get-to-college-early route, changing the landscape in college basketball in the process
Did Nike plagiarize JellyFam, Minnesota freshman Isaiah Washington to sell kid shoes?
The JellyFam movement started as nothing more than a way for a little New York City point guard to add some flair to his game, a way to stunt on an opponent when you can't dunk on that opponent, and has grown into something no one, not even Isaiah Washington, could have imagined.
Washington is that little point guard, and a few years ago, he and a couple of his hooping buddies coined the jelly, which, at its root, is essentially nothing more than a finger roll. Where the magic happens is when that finger comes after weaving around an opponent or finishing the layup despite the presence of a shot-blocker at the rim, with a sprinkle of NYC Point God showmanship. Think Kyrie Irving's layup package if they happened at Rucker Park with an And1 Mixtape crew filming the game:
What JellyFam has turned into is a full-blown, grassroots movement powered by social media.
And while Washington is the face of the movement, it's not just him. A half-dozen other talented New York hoopers are members of JellyFam, but Washington is the star. He's a celebrity on the city's hoops scene, drawing massive crowds wherever he goes and garnering more than 335,000 followers on Instagram despite having just 27 posts on the site. It's not as if Washington is a sure-fire NBA All-Star, either. He's a 6-foot-1, 160 pound point guard that doesn't crack the top 50 on any of the major recruiting services and is headed to Minnesota to play his college ball.
His popularity is tied directly to the movement that he created.
It's a shame, however, that he cannot profit off of it, not if he wants to remain an amateur that is eligible to play college basketball.
That doesn't stop corporations from profiting off of what he has created.
Today, Nike released a new colorway for the kid size PG1s, Paul George's signature shoe, that has been dubbed the 'JellyFam PG1'. It's being sold for $90 on their website right now. This is what it looks like:
What you'll notice, in addition to purple and turquoise colors that are a staple in the JellyFam gear that Washington wears, is the straps. On the right foot, it says "score in bunches". On the left foot, you'll see a design that looks like basketballs on a grapevine … or the grape emoji, with basketballs instead of grapes.
Washington and the rest of the members of JellyFam have adopted the grape emoji as their own when posting on social media.
According to a Nike spokesperson, these shoes were "inspired by Paul George's love for fresh grapes."
What Nike is doing here is wrong.
They are trying to capitalize on a movement created by athletes that are not allowed to monetize something they built simply because of the NCAA's amateurism rules. They are stealing the work created by these young men simply because they can. At worst, this is plagiarism.
Washington did not respond to messages from NBC Sports, but on Friday morning he tweeted, "It's crazy bro they know I can't so they just take advantage." That tweet has since been deleted.
If you read this space, you know my feelings on the NCAA and amateurism. It's wrong and it needs to be changed, but that's another column for another day that's been written thousands of times.
This column is much simpler: An international, multibillion-dollar company like Nike is already profiting off of the unpaid labor of amateur athletes.
Stealing their art, their work, their movement to try and sell sneakers to kids for $90 is despicable.
And I'm not sure there's anything else to add.


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What exactly is it that top executives do and does it matter? Due to the recent dramatic increase in high profile corporate failures, Simon Peck's research centers on that very question. His work examines the link between the actions and accountability of the company, characteristics of the board of directors and top management, and the firm's competitive advantage. Peck's work looks closely at topics of executive compensation contracts, board composition and structure, and how top executives do strategic planning.
University of Leeds, 1999
MA, University of Leeds, 1992
BS, University of Warwick, 1990
Interests and Courses
Recent Courses and Syllabi
- International Tour
- Corporate Governance
- Innovation
- Strategic Issues and Applications
- AMES Business Model
- Entrepreneurship and Personal Wealth Creation
Selected Publications
- Conyon, M., Peck, S. I., Sadler, G.
Compensation Consultants and Executive Pay: Evidence from the United States and United Kingdom (vol. 23, issue 1, ). Academy of Management Perspectives.
- Keller, H., Peck, S. I., Ruigrok, W.
Board characteristics and Involvement in Strategic decision making (issue August, ). Journal of Management Studies.
- Conyon, M., Peck, S. I., Sadler, G.
Corporate Tournaments and executive compensation (vol. 19, issue 1, ). Strategic Management Journal.
- Conyon, M., Peck, S. I., Read, L., Sadler, G.
Executive compensation contracts: UK evidence (vol. 33, issue 4, ). Long Range Planning.
- Conyon, M., Fenton, E., Peck, S. I., Pettigrew, A., Whittington, R.
Change and complementarities in the new competitive landscape: A European panel study 1992-1996 (vol. 10, issue 5, ). Organization Science.
- Peck, S. I., Conyon, M. J.
Board control, remuneration committees and top management compensation (vol. 41, issue 2, pp. 146-157). Academy of Management Journal.
- Conyon, M., Peck, S. I., G, S.
New Perspectives on the Governance of Executive Compensation: Examining the Role of Compensation Consultants. Journal of Management and Governance Journal of Management and Governance .
- Peck, S. I., Bailey, B.
Board room strategic decision making: Understanding the Antecedents (vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 131-146). Corporate Governance: An International Review.
Academic and Professional Activities
- Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Management Studies , 2009 - Present
- Editor, Associate Editor, Long Range Planning , 2007 - Present


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SAINT LEO, Fla. –In a game that was a bit closer than most hoped for, the Saint Leo baseball team prevailed in the bottom of the ninth inning on a base hit from Daniel Torres that brought home the game-winning run to beat St. Anselm (2-9-1) in the final game of this two-game set.
Saint Leo (14-6) led 7-2 going into the eighth inning but the Hawks rallied to put up an eight-spot to tie the game at seven before the Lions won it in the ninth.
Taed Moses and Daniel Torres both had a team-high three hits for the Lions in part of the team's 10-hit output in the win. Ryan Brnovich tallied two hits—including a two-run dinger over the right field wall. It was the first round-tripper for Brnovich since 2010.
The Lions got out to a 4-0 lead in the second inning when Michael Revell walked to lead off the inning to jumpstart the Lions' rally. Moses continued things with his first of three hits on the night by singling to the third baseman. Two batters later Frank Rawdow was hit by a pitch—setting up a bases clearing triple from Torres.
The Hawks were able to plate two in the top half of the fourth, but the Lions countered in the bottom half of the inning with two runs of their own. Torres led off the inning with a double down the line and Brnovich followed him up with a two-run line drive homerun that just cleared the right field wall.
Leading 7-2 going into the eighth inning, the Hawks would score five runs—all with two outs—to tie the game at seven runs apiece.
The Lions couldn't get a run in the eighth, but did get a whole lot of momentum back on their side in the top of the ninth when Brandon Terry escaped a situation with men on first and second with no outs to send the Lions into the ninth for the late-game magic.
Newcomb singled up the middle to start the ninth inning off with some momentum but he was thrown out at second on a stealing attempt just a few pitches later. The Lions got back in position to win the game though with a Moses walk and a Frank Rawdow hit by pitch. The very next batter, Torres roped a ball over the center fielder's head that sent the Lions' dugout pouring out onto the field in celebration.
Rick Teasley started the game for the Lions and went four complete innings while giving up two runs. Teasley struck out five batters and surrendered just one walk. Matthew Hewitt relieved Teasley in the fifth and proceeded to throw three inning of scoreless baseball while allowing just one Hawks' hit.
Brandon Terry collected all three outs in the ninth to earn the win for the Lions.
The Lions get back in action on Tuesday, Mar. 12 when they welcome Kentucky Wesleyan to Thomas B. Southard Stadium for a midweek contest. First pitch is set for 11:00 a.m.


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DEDICATED student and aspiring GP Anjali Sharma died of a drug overdose in August 2011 at the age of 17, an inquest heard yesterday.
At a hearing in Salisbury, Ian Singleton, the assistant coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, recorded a narrative verdict, which does not attribute the cause of death to any one source.
The inquest was delayed for 20 months while the coroner awaited toxicology results, which said Anjali had an excessive amount of diphenhydramine, an antihistamine, in her system.
The drug is most commonly found in Benadryl products, and is normally prescribed by a GP for sleep disorders or allergies.
Anjali was found by her mother, Anjana, shortly after 10pm on Monday, August 15, 2011, lying down on the sofa in the lounge at their Lytchett Way home in Nythe.
She had been seen earlier that evening by her brother, Abhishek, watching television after a day of volunteering at a town centre charity shop, and later sleeping between 8pm and 9pm.
An ambulance was called once her mother had made the discovery, following her return from work, but paramedics could do nothing to save the teenager.
No evidence had been found by Wiltshire Police to suggest where, when or how Anjali might have sourced and taken the drug.
Statements read out during the hearing found Anjali was a happy, hard-working young woman, who had never shown any signs of wishing to do herself harm.
She had been in the midst of studying towards a medical exam, due to take place on August 19, 2011, when she died.
Anjali had struggled with insomnia in March 2011, when she was studying for exams as a New College student, but was denied sleeping pills by her GP due to her age.
In their testimony, her family said Anjali had raised no concerns over her sleep or stress ahead of the medical exam, which was described as crucial for her future at university.
In her statement following Anjali's death, Anjana said: "She was very jolly. She loved to cook, listen to music and reading.
"She was dedicated to her studies at New College."
In summing up, Mr Singleton said: "There is no evidence as to when, why or what Anjali's intentions were when she consumed this drug.
"She had no reason to self-harm and she had not complained of sleep problems, as she had in the past.
"There is no indication she wished to take her own life.
"I propose, in these circumstances, to return a narrative verdict."


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Desktop Web Browser allows you to navigate the internet and to display webpages directly on the desktop of the Finder. - You can navigate the internet directly on the desktop of the Finder. - You can set the URL of the webpage loaded by default at start. - You can set the transparency of the browser to see your original desktop wallpaper underneath. - You can set the refresh period of the browser if you want to automatically refresh the webpage periodically. - You just need to press the Alt key to open the links into Safari. - It doesn't need any installation which makes it very easy to use. - It is available in Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish and many other languages. Read the whole documentation for more details...
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It's become trendy to take the music of rock artists and adapt it to an orchestral setting.
With "pops" orchestras leading the way, the genre has morphed from standards in the Great American Songbook to the rock 'n' roll trendsetters from the 1960s onward, starting with the songs of John Lennon and Paul McCartney and later including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson and others. Sooner or later, a modern composer's eye was bound to land on Queen.
But how to transpose into orchestral format such romping, raucous numbers such as "We Will Rock You," "We Are the Champions," "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
New Orleans audiences will find out when the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra performs "One Vision — The Music of Queen" on Friday and Saturday at the Mahalia Jackson Theater as part of the "Jeans 'n' Classics" Series.
Guest Conductor Robert Bernhardt makes his New Orleans debut leading the LPO and the LSU choir for about 20 of Queen's greatest hits.
Michael Shotton sings the lead, fronting a small cover band and backup singers, in addition to the LPO.
Led by the late Freddie Mercury, Queen was indeed the "champion of the world" during its 1970s and 1980s heyday.
The band's music was hard to miss, even if it didn't appeal to you. It was everywhere you went.
"We Will Rock You" was heard in nearly every stadium — in fact, it still is — as was "We Are the Champions."
And the stadium setting was where Queen ruled.
Few groups could rouse a stadium crowd better than this British quartet that minted multiplatinum albums and performed to sellout audiences everywhere it went.
The band released a total of 18 No. 1 albums, as many singles, and 10 No. 1 DVDs. Estimates of album sales range from 150 million to 300 million, placing the band among the world's top-selling recording artists.
Recipients of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1990, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
Classically trained, Bernhardt brings to the podium a wealth of experience conducting the adapted works of rock stars.
About 15 years ago, he conducted the first North American pops shows of Beatles songs in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn., with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, where he also led a recent show of Queen's music.
"It's a real winner; an enormous success," he said of the Queen show. "Everybody there should have a blast."
Of the lead singer, Bernhardt said, "Mike (Shotton) is superior. He's got a great rock 'n' roll voice. While nobody could duplicate Freddie Mercury, (Shotton) still does a superb job. And the band has a very clever way of using the chorus in about a dozen of the songs."
Queen's music translates well to orchestral arrangements, Bernhardt said.
"I believe that Freddie Mercury thought orchestrally. In the studio, he was very careful about how the orchestrations and instrumentation blended.
"In some of their songs, the orchestra was in a key supporting role, always tastefully, and always fitting the style of the band. A lot of the string work (in the adaptation) will sound like the band itself," he said.
Bernhardt also noted that he expects the audience to participate. "Once that powerful music starts playing, we dare you to not get involved," he said.


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As I sit here this evening it would have been a very different picture 40 years ago.
On 31st May 1974 Robin and Sheena Buchanan-Smith officially opened Eriska as a hotel. On one side 40 years must seem a lifetime ago and on another it seems to have flown by. Over that time we have been lucky enough to have worked with some wonderful team members who have helped make Eriska what it is today and we have been fortunate enough that so many have crossed our wee rickety bridge to place their trust in us to deliver a relaxing experience.
However the greatest achievement for us as a family is the fact that even after 40 years we are still here and still operating and running Eriska, although sometimes it feels a bit backwards in that Eriska really runs us and operates us! My father always used to highlight how difficult it was to welcome guests who became friends and how challenging it was to continually evolve and change to meet their needs and demands but in reality the two are intrinsically linked in that Eriska has always been and for as long as we remain involved- always will be- driven to evolve by our guests and the team we work with.
So what has changed over the last 40 years- well we must seem like an oasis of calm this evening compared to 40 years ago- on this night back in 1974 my parents had just held an opening reception for over 100 of the great and good of the area and those who had supported them on the journey from an empty old house back in July 1973 to a vibrant building in May 1974. The official opening was by Tom Flemming and my mother missed it as she was carving Smoked Salmon in the kitchen.
They then went on to serve dinner for a full house plus some gluttons for punishment non residents who stayed on form the lunchtime reception. It was not only the hotels first night but also the team and more importantly my parents first night.
The tight schedule had left no time for a dry run or practice- they were still painting the diningroom at lunchtime before service and my fathers perfection stopped us having wet paint signs visible (history will now tell if anyone left the reception with more of a mark than they had anticipated!) so when the full diningroom, on a hot summers evening were all waiting for the main course it could be excused that my father became slightly distraught with his wee hostess trolley, old fashioned bone handled carving knife and small pheasants to carve and a baying crowd of hungry visitors. I have never been sure how long tables waited or how generous the portion sizes were but as far as I have been told everybody remembers the evening as ground breaking, the team learnt a great deal, my father never took to carving pheasant out of choice and Eriska was reborn and in truth we have tried never to look back except to reflect on the journey we have taken and look forward on the road ahead.
The most amazing thing is that a young lady form Oban with no professional cooking experience and a Church of Scotland Minister from St Andrews managed to bind a hotel and island and team together to look after the guests with simple hospitality and peace and quiet. The good news is that little has changed today and these three ingredients remain in our bowl and remain at our core and will for the next 40 years.
Happy Birthday Eriska!


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Susan Love, M.D., is busier than ever. The UCLA clinical professor of surgery and breast cancer pioneer has partnered with the Avon Foundation on Army of Women, an ambitious research effort to recruit 1 million women to help unlock the secrets of breast cancer.
She finished the fifth edition of her popular breast book and co-authored another called Live a Little!, which debunks health myths. (Eight hours of sleep? Overrated. Eight glasses of water a day? Questionable.)
We sat down with Love at the offices of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif., to learn more about her mission. It's clear that she's not afraid of controversy. Read on for her eye-opening advice on issues that affect every woman's well-being:
What would you tell a patient with breast cancer today that you would not have told her five years ago?There are really five different kinds of breast cancer, at least.
We used to think of it as one disease, so everybody got the same treatment pretty much. Now we realize it's more complex.
It used to be that the bigger the tumor or more nodes [involved], the more aggressive it looked, the more aggressive the treatment. Now we're finding that the treatment needs to match the tumor.So the first thing you would ask a breast cancer patient is, 'What kind of cancer do you have?'Exactly. Then let's figure out how to match the treatment.
What else would you tell her? That cancer is not just about mutated cells.
In the past, we thought about cancer as a foreign invader. It came from somewhere else. It invaded. You have to kill every cell - slash, burn, poison, and blast it away.
But cancer is not Osama bin Laden. It's Timothy McVeigh. It's our own terrorist we grew ourselves.
These cells don't live in isolation. They live in the breast along with fibrous tissue, fat cells and blood vessels. All these cells are interacting.
You can have mutated cells of cancer in your body and not have anything happen. Research and autopsies of women 40 to 50 years old show that 39% of them have cancer cells in their breast doing nothing.
So you need two elements to end [up with] cancer: Not just the cells, but also the "local environment."
What are the most common breast cancer myths?
If you have really aggressive [breast cancer], then it doesn't matter when you find it — you're not going to do well. If you have a really good kind, it probably also doesn't matter when you find it — you're going to do fine. And it's only in some, a sub-group, where you can make a difference.
The American Cancer Society's Web site says that research doesn't support a clear link between chemicals and breast cancer.
It doesn't. We would really like the cause to be the environment, [but] we have not yet found a smoking gun.
What about breast self-exam? Breast self-exam doesn't really work. There was a great study done in China. One group was taught formal, "religious" breast self-exam. They were videotaped and quizzed. The other group didn't do anything.
At the end of 10 years, they found the same number of cancers, size and mortality in both groups. The difference? The control group found their own cancers, not from breast self-exam but by normal poking around.
Do you advise women to do it?I don't recommend formal breast self-exam. The normal poking around we all do is enough. If a woman feels something she thinks is abnormal, she should get it checked out.
What about mammograms?Every 1-2 years after age 50 is worth it.What about ultrasound screening in addition to mammography? Ultrasound is good when you have a lump, but it's not a good screening test.
What do you recommend for women with dense breasts? Breast density is a risk factor for getting breast cancer. This is just beginning to be studied. Screening mammography misses a lot of cancers. MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] finds more things, benign and malignant, than mammograms. So you end up with a lot of extra biopsies you don't need.
[MRIs have] never been shown to make a difference in survival. It's really only recommended for women who are carriers of the [BRCA 1 and 2] gene.You say there are significantly more mastectomies being done. Why? It's a combination [of factors].
On one hand, you get diagnosed with cancer. They say, "Let's do an MRI and make sure there's nothing else."
The MRI finds lots of other things. So you have more biopsies. They turn out to be benign.
You say, "I don't want to have biopsies every year, just cut it off."
The other thing is, doctors are having less conversation with women.
When you're diagnosed, every woman's first reaction is "just cut it off, so I can go on with my life the way it was before."
But you really need to take a deep breath and ask your doctor to explain why lumpectomy and radiation are just as good as mastectomy.
However, what I find is that the woman says, "Maybe I should just have it off," and the surgeon says "OK." And she says, "Maybe I should have the other one off too," and the surgeon says "OK."
And that's the end of the conversation.
Is that because doctors are time-pressed?They make more money [by doing mastectomies] and it's an easier surgery. What's the quality of life for breast cancer survivors at this point?If anything, it's getting worse because we're over-treating them.
If there's a 1% improvement in survival by adding yet another drug, we add yet another drug. And they all have side effects. Adriamycin causes heart damage. Some chemotherapy causes leukemia. Tamoxifen causes uterine cancer.
Oncologists tend to dismiss the long-term consequences. Drug companies don't look at them either. We never study: Is the new drug better alone than combined with the old drug? We just add another drug.
So doctors add drugs because they don't have data that tells them how they act alone?And in part, it's because they get paid more. The more drugs they give, the more doctors get paid. I don't think that individuals are malicious. I think the fee-for-service system we have leads to that.
How does that payment work?As mentioned in the New York Times' article ["Lack of Study Volunteers Hobbles Cancer Fight," Aug. 2 ), oncologists buy chemotherapy drugs at a discount from the drug companies and then charge insurance a higher price, pocketing the difference. In addition, they charge insurance for giving chemotherapy.
So if it's not clear whether a patient will benefit by getting chemotherapy, the oncologist is more likely to give it.
It's also true that the drugs probably always have some benefit, but it can be vanishingly small. Where do you draw the line?How can women find the best doctors to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer?
You were one of the first to sound the alarm on the risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). I wrote a book [Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book, Random House, 1997] and I got a lot of s- - - for it. In it, I said we don't have safety data.
The only data we have that it's so great is observational. You observe a group of people and you say, "Oh look, the women who took HRT had fewer heart attacks, strokes, car crashes, bankruptcies than the women who didn't." But that does not prove cause and effect.
What we never stopped to figure out is: Was it the hormones that made them healthy? Or do healthy women take hormones? It turned out to be the latter.
When they finally did a randomized, controlled trial, it showed that not only did HRT not help, [but] it increased heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, dementia.
Is it right for any woman to do HRT?I think that the default should be not to do it. For women who've had surgical castration or horrible [menopause] symptoms, a couple of years of HRT to tide you over and then taper off is OK.What about "natural" bioidentical hormones? Are they better for women?Nobody has looked at those. Suzanne Somers and Oprah are on them, but that doesn't make them safer. Let's talk about the Army of Women initiative, which the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation jointly launched in 2008. Why did you start that effort?Eighty percent of women who get breast cancer have no risk factors. That means we have no idea what causes breast cancer.
The idea of the Army of Women came from my frustration that we weren't looking at the cause, that most research is either treatment or molecular biology. Neither is moving us along.
So we're recruiting 1 million women [with and without breast cancer] around the country willing to participate in studies. You don't sign up for a study, you sign up to receive emails about it.
We launched [a landmark] study in 2009 with the National Cancer Institute called the Health of Women study, or HOW. How does breast cancer start? We're going to collect information over time on everyone in the Army [of Women].
I see this as a 20-year project.
What would you tell a woman worried about developing breast cancer today that you wouldn't have told her five years ago?We've made much less progress on that front. The things we know that can reduce risk are:
But there's nothing compelling [about this data]. And that's why we started the Army of Women, because we have to figure that out. We just haven't done enough research on it yet.Are you a woman interested in volunteering with the Army of Women? To learn more or sign up, click here.
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Hi all
I'm new to the board and would like to know what everyone thinks is the best book for grilling on a gas BBQ.
I have looked at possibly BBQ USA 425 Fiery recipes and also Weber's Big Book of Grilling.
I just bought a new gas BBQ ( Fiesta Steakhouse signature series) after using a Hibatchi for a few years and would like to move up from the world of just hamburgers all the time
I did my first Steak today and can't wait to get back at it!
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Nov. 7 Already v. Nike Oral Argument Recap
Already LLC v. Nike, Inc.: A Post-Argument Discussion
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Room 603, American University Washington College of Law
For Registration and More Info: https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm
For Live Webcast: click here (webcast available at program start)
Already LLC, doing business as YUMS, designs and produces athletic footwear. Already and Nike produce shoes that look similar. Already received a design patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its shoe. Nike received a trademark registration for its design from the same office. Nike sued Already for trademark infringement and trademark dilution seeking a preliminary injunction. Already defended, in part, by asserting a counterclaim challenging the validity of Nike's trademark and seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement. In the midst of discovery, Nike sent Already a "Covenant Not to Sue" asserting the validity of its rights but stating that the cost of litigation was no longer worth bearing with respect to any alleged infringements caused by sale of YUMS current or past shoes.
Nike filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which Already opposed because it wished to obtain cancellation of Nike's trademark registration and a declaratory judgment. The district court dismissed the lawsuit, the Second Circuit affirmed, and the Supreme Court granted certiorari on the question: "Whether a federal district court is divested of Article III jurisdiction over a party's challenge to the validity of a federally registered trademark if the registrant promises not to assert its mark against the party's then-existing commercial activities." Although this is a question of constitutional law, this issue is highly pertinent in the fields of both trademark and patent law because the scenario is not uncommon.
James Dabney – Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Counsel for Petitioner (also a Professor of Law at Cornell University)
John Duffy – Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP , Counsel for Petitioner (also a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia)
Jonas Anderson – Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (will comment on the patent perspective)
Amanda Frost – Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (will present Nike's argument and comment on the Article III question)
Christine Haight Farley – Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law, Moderator and Trademark commentator
The shoes in suit:
Figure from Already's YUMS shoe design patent registration.
Figure from Nike's trademark registration.


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I read all the time how extra HTTP requests are bad practice. I also see quite a lot of combining scripts and minifying JavaScript and CSS. Maybe I'm a bit too cynical but I can't help feeling, for the most part, this is a waste of time and people are just jumping on a bandwagon.
First of all let me make it clear:
My current qualms are:
So what do you think? Is minifying and combining scripts (and CSS) somewhat of a bandwagon?
It's worth remembering that not everyone who accesses your site will have a nice, fast broadband connection. A growing number of people are accessing the net from mobile devices where a good connection is not always guaranteed, and some home users are still on dial-up! For these users, reducing the number of requests and bytes transferred is going to make a difference.
Thanks for that. Maybe I don't understand HTTP requests but what is the difference between 5 x 10kb requests and 1 x 50kb?
There's overhead associated with making a request (due to headers, cookies etc). You might find this article interesting: http://www.phpied.com/reducing-the-number-of-page-components/
That is very interesting to see how the HTTP requests work. Thank you.
Minifying scrips today has a larger sense.
True, there used to be that you had a monolithic jQuery and minifying it was the only way to shave some bytes.
Today, jQuery has a modular version, following AMD API, which means that you can automatically incorporate in the final file exactly how much you need from jQuery and nothing more, not the whole library.
This is huge gain, and combining the modularization break down with minifying, you can imagine how light your whole site feels now.
However, I've been struck how many websites won't even allow you to view the web page content without javascript turned on. Usually I vote with my feet and move on to the next in my Google search.
If the web development world was serious about saving bandwith (or loading time) it wouldn't be serving up banner ads on so many pages nor making their website completely inoperative without javascript in the first place.
A well designed site, in my opinion, is one that will still work with javascript turned off (even if with more limited functionality).
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The only things I tend to minify are 3rd-party javascript libraries that I don't modify myself. Otherwise, most of the css/javscript files I create aren't that large as far as filesize goes.
However, I make sure to configure gzip compression in the htaccess file.
If you're not using all the functionality they have to offer, and most likely you aren't, you should consider switching to their AMD version. Nowadays all the significant libraries and frameworks have been modularized.
I'll also add that performance rules such as to minimize HTTP requests are based on research -- repeatable, verifiable numbers. And it turns out that of all the things we can do to speed up our pages, reducing the number of HTTP requests is the #1 most important. The reason is because the browser spends more time just waiting for the first byte of the response than it does on downloading the data itself.
See http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html and http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php


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Yes friends, tomorrow, Wednesday, 7:00 PM Central Fox TV-- Looks like the contestants are challenged in a meatball cookout for about 300 children... the toughest critics of all, right? What a display that ought to be, I'm a thinkin' . Anyway, for anyone so inclined, one can also catch up on missed episodes by watching it online here:
And please don't forget to come to our own steak party here: (I know how easy it is to overlook the announcements and sticky sections)


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FANS hoping to see their Warrington Wolves heroes in Australia have had mixed fortunes.
Some from Warrington on holiday in Sydney have bumped into the likes of head coach Tony Smith and new signing Roy Asotasi, while one supporter who lives in Queensland ended up in hospital rather than meeting up with the team he saw win the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley in 2012.
Joiner Mark Giblin, aged 27, a former Woolston High School pupil, seemed delighted to cap his holiday of a lifetime by having the opportunity to chat and have pictures with some of the club's huge stars.
Mark Giblin with Roy Asotasi
Mark Giblin with new Wolves full back Matty Russell
But 72-year-old Eddie Carey's hopes of a catch-up faded after a fall left him in hospital with cuts and bruises.
Ex-Greenalls employee Eddie, who emigated to the Gold Coast from Latchford in 1968, had flown into Sydney for a party with England's Barmy Army cricket supporters at the end of the England 5-0 test series whitewash to the Aussies.
Eddie said: "I was at the Barmy Army farewell party at Darling Harbour in Sydney and about 3am I decided I was tired and to head for my hotel.
"As I was walking over Pyrmont Bridge I tripped and banged my head on a seat and was taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in sydney for five hours.
"I was planning to stay in Sydney for a few days as the 'Wire' had flown in that night but have had to fly home to the Gold Coast. I will miss seeing them training in Sydney, that is really upsetting me."
Eddie in hospital
Eddie with England cricketer Stuart Broad at the Barmy Army farewell reception
He did try to meet up with them though.
"When I was released from hospital the first place I went to was the home of the Roosters just in case the 'Wire' were there but was told they wasnt there so I was feeling a little sore and booked my flight home to the Gold Coast for later that day.
"I've seen the photos on the Guardian website of the players at Redfern and if I had not had this accident I would have been there.
"I can not afford to go back again so will miss seeing my idols in Aussie."
Carey was one of hundreds of ex-pats who converged on Redfern Oval for Wolves' match against South Sydney Rabbitohs at the end of their last training camp Down Under two years ago.
Eddie, now back home on the Gold Coast
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ChristmasLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
For Christmas, six brothers and sisters received some CD albums as presents. The albums were by Madonna, Steps, Robbie Williams, Boyzone, Mozart and Shania Twain. Using these clues, can you determine who received which CD?
Kevin chose a CD by a solo girl singer.
Laura hates pop music but got an album she wanted.
James chose a solo singer.
Rebecca chose a girl singer, but not Madonna.
Joanne and Steve both chose CDs by groups.
Steve chose Steps.
AnswerKevin chose Madonna. Laura chose Mozart. James chose Robbie Williams. Rebecca chose Shania Twain. Joanne chose Boyzone. Steve chose Steps.
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Hello all. My sweet father was diagnosed in March with a stage 1 intrahepatic tumor. Even though he was 87 at the time, he went through y90 treatments and did remarkably well. He has no pain, but is beginning to decline. Due to several falls (he doesn't seem to have the strength to keep himself upright) he went to the ER. His sugar numbers were through the roof, although he was not diabetic until now. And his kidneys are shutting down. He is resting comfortably in a nursing home, and we have already begun hospice. He is very alert most days, which breaks our hearts, but we are trying to make the most of our remaining time. I've read through some of the posts on this site, and almost all talk about the horrible pain. Is this something that Dad will eventually have, or since his CC is primary and the tumor is small could it be that he won't have to face that particular challenge? My heart goes out to each and every one of you!


text: News Article Fallacy of Telepresence When it Comes to Video Conferencing Simon Dudley Published May 22, 2012 in Washington Business Journal Telepresence is another word for the notion of transparency in communications. When you sit in a telepresence room for a video conference, you are indeed seeing through the technology to be part of a meeting. Almost by definition, it is as though you are looking through a window. In that way, you have captured one of the most important parts of video conferencing: the technology has to give users a window to another place. See the Report


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THE public are being given the power to boot misbehaving MPs out of parliament, it has emerged.
The powerful new 'power of recall' can be triggered if the House of Commons resolves they have been involved in "serious wrongdoing" or get sent to prison for less than a year.
Voters would have to collect the signatures of 10 per cent of constituents to force a by-election.
The move was announced in last week's Queens Speech, which revealed the plans for the final year of the Coalition Government up to the 2015 general election.
Sir Peter Luff, who represents Mid-Worcestershire, said: "My inclination is that this power of recall strikes the right balance.
"What it does is make sure people have the opportunity to get MPs out if they are not fit to represent their constituents.
"It won't open the floodgates for vexatious complainants, but it gives people extra rights and that's a good thing.
"I do think if any MP is sent to prison for a criminal offence that's disgraceful and they should go."
The new bills on the way include pension reforms, allowing workers to join-Dutch style pension schemes.
Her Majesty also unveiled a bill designed to protect people who find themselves in court after acting heroically, responsibly or for the benefit of others - for instance if they are sued for negligence or breach of duty after intervening in an emergency.
Planning reforms will enable the construction of new garden cities and support small building firms in a bid to ease the housing crisis Legislation will be brought forward to make good on promises of tax-free childcare worth £2,000 a year per child and free school meals for all infant pupils.
Worcester MP Robin Walker said it was a plan which would "secure the economic recovery".
"These are changes that will make a real difference for the future and benefit thousands of people in Worcester," he said.
Labour's Ed Miliband said that it "failed to live up to the scale of the challenges" faced by Britain.


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THE true cost of Worcestershire's flooding can today be revealed - with the total bill burning through £640,000 of taxpayers' money.
The final figure for dealing with last month's chaotic river levels includes around £380,000 for cleaning up the mess left behind and more than £260,000 on compensating the homes and businesses crippled by the freak weather.
Your Worcester News can also reveal:
- 108 homes and 55 businesses were flooded, with Worcestershire County Council saying the tally would have been far, far higher were it not for the flood defences
- The Environment Agency has ruled out dredging the River Severn, saying it would cost too much money and bring "very little benefit"
- The county council has revealed funding of £1.5 million will be available next year for more flood defences and other alleviation work across Worcestershire
- Ground water levels are so high after the winter, experts say Worcestershire is "not out of the woods yet" and flash floods are likely if we get a wet summer
The costs of the flooding were revealed during a Q&A session at Worcestershire County Council involving expert staff and Dave Throup, from the Environment Agency.
The clean-up operation, which is still ongoing, is likely to cost around £380,000 and the council's Conservative leadership has stumped up a £200,000 kitty to offer grants to businesses affected by the flooding.
Once you factor in a £50,000 pot provided by Worcester City Council to help flood victims and around £12,500 from Malvern Hills District Council for its residents, it means the total cost to the public purse has hit £642,500.
It does not include the costs of providing the shuttle bus over Worcester Bridge, which had to be closed, nor the 'lost' income to retailers by people using the shops less.
It also excludes the bill for having the military arrive in Worcester, which the Government paid for.
In 2007 4,500 homes flooded, but since then the county council has pumped £12.5 million into new defences and other mitigation work like raised banks, which has been widely credited with this year's turnaround.
During the debate Ian Bamforth, highways and countryside manager at the council, said: "Clearly, we're all aware of the impact it had across the county, at the River Severn, Upton, Bewdley and Kempsey.
"It's important to recognise there's been significant success with flooding alleviation - despite the river levels, in many areas the defences worked and homes were not flooded."
But he warned politicians that Worcestershire could face more flooding this summer if the weather repeats itself.
"Thankfully the water levels have fallen substantially but the ground water levels are still saturated and that means a modest amount of rainfall could bring flash flooding," he said.
"We're not out of the woods yet, it could take a number of months to get back to normal."
DREDGING the River Severn has been ruled out by the Environment Agency, which has insisted it would cost too much and bring too little benefit.
Christian Wilcox and Dave Throup, who both dealt with the flooding impact on Worcestershire, took part in the debate and said they'd had lots of people ask them about dredging in recent weeks.
But the duo told councillors the River Severn is too narrow a watercourse, and has big obstacles like Worcester Bridge, which would render the tactic ineffective.
It is the first time officials from the agency have voiced an opinion on dredging in the county.
Mr Wilcox said: "Dredging any watercourse will reduce flood risk, but while it could bring minor benefits it's not the best use of public money.
"In Worcester the river course is quite tight, there's a bridge and houses either side, and we think there's better ways to reduce flooding."
Mr Throup said "the actual difference it would make is very small", backing him up.
He also said the shock cuts to the Environment Agency are still going ahead after it was "on pause" during the floods.
Around 1,700 jobs are due to go by October and the revenue budget is being slashed by £29 million, around five per cent of the total spend.
Mr Throup said the capital budget could be going up 10 per cent, so it's not all doom and gloom.
"It's a changing picture at the moment, we will have budget reductions but we don't know how it'll impact yet," he said.
During the debate all councillors widely praised the efforts to minimise the impact on people.
Councillor Ken Pollock said: "In general it's been brilliantly handled, there's no doubt the overall judgment has to be entirely positive."
MORE money is being stumped up to help protect Worcestershire from floods - with £1.5 million up for grabs.
The county council, which has invested £12.5 million into defences and other alleviation measures since 2007, says despite massive budget pressures flooding protection must remain vital.
The money will be earmarked on new "priority" projects to protect homes and businesses over the next 12 months.
It was announced after Councillor Richard Udall, chairman of the overview, scrutiny and performance board, said he was concerned about public sector cuts.
"One major concern to me is the cuts, not only to the Environment Agency but our own budget, we need clarity over what we're doing to respond to similar weather events," he said.
Ian Bamforth, highways and countryside manager, said the £12.5 million had been spent on around 700 different projects to reduce flooding.
"That investment has been significant but there's another £1.5 million in the pot for next year," he said.
"We'll be looking at how we spend it carefully, we need to use it up prudently, prioritising homes and businesses - we'll see what it brings."
Councillor Simon Geraghty, deputy leader and cabinet member for economy, skills and infrastructure, said: "We have continued to invest in our infrastructure to build up resilience and moving forward, we've got to assess what we do next.
"We've invested just shy of £13 million since 2007 but we know there is more work to be done."
Some of the investment in recent years includes flood defences at Powick and Kempsey, and a raised bank along Hylton Road in Worcester.
With most individual investments funds tend to be matched with other bodies, like the Environment Agency.


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During last week's conference on antibiotic use and resistance, hosted by the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) in Kansas City, Mike Apley, DVM, PhD, a professor at Kansas State University, discussed the current state of antibiotic use and resistance in animal agriculture, and the importance of a true commitment to judicious use.
The years between 1935 and 1978 featured rapid development of new classes of antibiotics, but in recent years that development has slowed, increasing the importance of protecting the efficacy of existing products.
Apley acknowledges that antibiotic use in food animals can change bacteria susceptibility profiles, leading to resistant pathogens that can be transferred through the food chain or through contact with animals. Documented cases of antibiotic resistance in pathogens affecting humans, linked to animal agriculture, and cases of reduced effectiveness of antibiotics for treatment of animal disease, such as bovine respiratory disease from Manheimia haemolytica, necessitate a close look at current practices.
Ionohores, which have no application in human medicine, account for about 29 percent of the total volume of antimicrobials used in animal agriculture, Apley says. Tetracyclines account for about 42 percent of the total and about 64 percent of the medically important antibiotics used in animal agriculture. Most of that use in livestock is for treatment of disease, with smaller percentages for disease prevention or for production purposes. Apley says veterinarians and the industry need to continuously evaluate whether particular uses of specific products are effective and necessary, and if not, reconsider those uses.
Apley outlined guidelines for judicious use, including:
- Use an antimicrobial product when there is not an effective alternative for the treatment or prevention of disease.
- Use the antibiotic based on evidence it will be safe and effective for that use.
- Maintain a commitment to administer antibiotics according to a regimen demonstrated to be safe and effective. Apley notes, however, that research-based evidence for optimum dosing and duration of treatment, with regard to development of antibiotic resistance, is lacking.
- Continuously search for alternative management practices that reduce the need for antibiotics.
Control of antibiotic use in food animals should be in the control of veterinarians, within the context of a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship, Apley says. Education on judicious use and antibiotic resistance should begin in veterinary schools and continue through post-graduate training. The veterinary community and producer organizations should not tolerate inappropriate activities that place public health at risk.
Apley adds that responsible involvement of veterinarians now can help them retain access to the tools they need while protecting their authority and role in the animal-health decision process.


text: futlib 198 Report post Posted April 23, 2013 (edited) I'm working on a 2D game and am starting to see some short lags caused by image decompression (I'm using rather large graphics to support high resolutions). I suppose I'll have to load all my textures upfront and show a loading screen, now I'm wondering how to best go about this. I can think of two approaches: 1. Instantiate all entities for a scene when the scene is being created (Every entity is currently loading its own texture when it is being instantiated, so that should do). The manual effort seems a bit error prone though (easy to forget), and might mess up the code a bit. 2. Have a mapping from image paths to image IDs and use the IDs to load images in the code. That way I can load all the image files when the game starts. But it's tedious to add a mapping for every image I use, and not very flexible as I cannot have loading screens for individual scenes. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about either approach. How is this commonly being solved? I can find some literature on this that focuses on huge 3D games, but that doesn't seem to apply too well to my small 2D game. Edited April 23, 2013 by futlib 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Preservation Week
In 2010, a number of organizations supporting libraries and archives sponsored the first Preservation Week; a week-long effort to bring attention to the many millions of cultural artifacts held in museums across the US that are in need of preservation or conservation care. This year, Preservation Week is being held April 22-28, and institutions throughout the country are highlighting their many efforts to take good care of their collections.
It is also a great time to be reminded about the proper care and preservation of personal collections, as I'm sure that I'm not the only one that has lost digital photos because I forgot to back them up, or found a box of decaying old photographs left forgotten in a relative's attic or garage.
In honor of Preservation Week, here is a sampling of resources available to help guide you in the proper care of your personal family photos and treasures:
Caring for Your Treasures, American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
Family Treasures, Library of Congress
Care of Photographs, Northeast Document Conservation Center
Taking Care, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute
And if you find that the box of decaying old photographs contains memories you want to preserve, you might want to enlist the services of a professional:
Balboa Art Conservation Center


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Hi, I have recently purchased a property in East Maitland, where I live with my older sister and older brother (although he's away for work during the week and some weekends) so mostly just the older sister and I on any given week day. We are friendly and polite. We have a fully furnished house, with the exception of your room, although it has a bed and desk if you wanted to use it we could discuss. I am 32 and my sister is 37. We would prefer someone who is easygoing and friendly, happy to work in with the house chores. We pay a cleaner fortnightly atm and that's $10 per week. The house has nbn, ducted air, nice kitchen, the house is about 10 years old, so it's pretty reasonable. It has a verandah around 1/2 the house which I am working on having some of it enclosed with blinds. By Monday the house will have a 9kw solar system on it, reducing the power consumption. In time we will discuss if you want to get in on a bills savings plan that we have going to save towards bills weekly. Bills are split, at this stage, 3 ways with you, 4 ways. All this can be discussed for interested parties. If you're interested, inquire and we can take it from there. Thanks Adam.
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HOUSTON - The parents of two young children severely burned by a downed power line have filed a lawsuit against CenterPoint Energy.
The 3-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl remain in the intensive care unit after undergoing multiple surgeries, skin grafting and amputations.
Attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the Zarsky family, said both parents are at their side around the clock at Shriner's Hospital in Galveston.
"The injuries (are) catastrophic, they really are," said attorney Tony Buzbee.
It happened in their own backyard on February 17th. The kids were on the play set when they came in contact with a loose live wire.
The children were knocked unconscious by the electric blast. The lawsuit claims the father witnessed his daughter on fire and watched as it spread to her head. He was able to put out the fire, start CPS and revive her.
"These children have a long long road ahead of them," said Byzbee. "There is no doubt Centerpoint is to blame for this."
Buzbee said the family reported the problem to Centerpoint two weeks prior to the kids getting electrocuted.
"He was asked, 'Is this an emergency?' He said, 'I don't know if this is an emergency.' I'm telling you, the wire broke free and Centerpoint never did anything," said Buzbee.
The family is concerned more families could be at risk, said Buzbee.
"Who knows how many backyards across (the) Houston area to have guy wires connected above live electricity," said Buzbee.
Local 2 contacted CenterPoint. A spokesperson said they have no comment because of pending litigation.
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MONTCLAIR -- Our Lady of Lourdes School students in grades Junior-Kindergarten to 8th Grade designed 500 bags for Stater Brothers to share with the community to raise awareness of Earth Day.
The designed bags are being handed out today to customers, while supplies last, at the Stater Brothers on 9575 Central Avenue in the city.
The student's Social Science project was to design the bags made of recyclable paper to bring awareness of Earth Day to the local community. Stater Brothers annually celebrates Earth Day.
The school wide project was coordinated by Kelly Burt, 4th grade teacher at Our Lady of Lourdes, as well as staff at Stater Brothers.


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Pronunciation: u-mah-mee • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: No, today's word is not an illiterate reference to your mother, but a word representing what many believe is a fifth taste. The same taste is referred to as xian wei in Chinese cooking.
Notes: The consensus is that the human tongue can detect only four basic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter and salty. All other tastes are combinations of these plus smell and texture. Some Japanese, however, contend that we have a fifth taste, that of savory, and they have named it umami "scumptiousness."
In Play: Recent years have seen an upsurge of Japanese and Chinese restaurants. Could we be witnessing a umami tsunami "a tidal wave scrumptiousness?" Since the meaning of today's word is narrowly limited the Japanese and Chinese fifth sense of taste, we have little opportunity of using it figuratively: "Everyone, who knows what it is, has a different idea of which foods have umami."
Word History: The Japanese word umami is a derived noun based on uma- "scrumptious, delicious" + -mi "ness", although the character for the suffix is often replaced by the character for mi "flavor". Around the turn of the century, Professor Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University began boiling seaweed called kombu in search of a fifth taste the tongue could identify. He found what he thought was that taste associated with a protein building-block, an amino acid called glutamate, as in monosodium glutamate, a common ingredient in Eastern cooking. Whether glutamate is a fifth flavor or just a natural flavor enhancer is still controversial, but those who support the Fifth Flavor Theory claim it is a meaty or savory flavor. (We are happy that Jim Wilcox of Eugene, Oregon had the uncommonly good taste to share his discovery of today's word with us and to Juliet Carpenter for her editorial services.)


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ROOM for another 4,100 new homes is likely to be needed across south Worcestershire - on top of the 23,200 already on the way.
A revised housing blueprint has today been published revealing how the number of properties in the South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) could surge 17 per cent.
The news was described as "frightening" and "unbelievable" by leading community figures today, with battle lines already being drawn over where it should all go.
Under a new figure suggested by councils in Worcester, Malvern and Wychavon, following pressure from the building industry and a Government inspector, the final SWDP could have anywhere between 26,700 and 27,300 new properties.
It follows a decision by inspector Roger Clews, who said back in October the old figure was not enough during his examination.
No locations have been yet agreed on where all the extra homes will go - with Mr Clews set to hold a new two-day public examination on March 13 and 14 to see if the new figure is acceptable.
He could ask for it to increase further, or give it his backing, and a fresh consultation is then expected to kick off earmarking new sites.
Some people have suggested Worcester should take the brunt of it, but councillors in the city say the onus should fall on rural areas to take the hit instead.
Flooding expert Mary Dhonau also says she is worried about the impact it could have on the drainage systems and the wider environment.
Councillor John Smith, who represents Evesham, said: "It's frightening.
"I might be biased for my own area but Evesham has had loads and loads of houses - the south of Evesham has already been shafted.
"I understand the difficulties in Worcester but they've got to have more - Evesham can't take it."
Ms Dhonau said: "I would be very concerned about the impact on the environment, they must think about flooding.
"I go past Crookbarrow Way (in St Peter's, Worcester off the A38 Bath Road) I know that land is earmarked for new homes but there's standing water there now.
"We need an infrastructure that can cope.
"I know the Government says with new developments you must have sustainable urban drainage, but often it gets flooded from the ground water.
"I would urge the councils to make sure the ground water this leads to does not compromise that.
"Then you've got places like Kempsey, where Hatfield Brook has a flooding alleviation scheme in place.
"But if you get a new surcharge there due to new houses Kempsey might get flooded. They've got think about all these issues."
Other community leaders said they would resist more development in their own areas.
Councillor Roger Knight, a member of Worcester City Council, represents St Peter's, where 2,200 new homes are being planned at the boundary with Kempsey.
He said: "Where does this leave local democracy, where three councils draw a plan and an unelected inspector says it's not acceptable? That's the first thing that comes to mind.
"It's unbelievable. We can't take any more in Worcester, the city is going right up to its boundaries. We need a boundary review."
West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin said: "As I have said in parliament, any econometric forecast of future housing need is imperfect because we can't predict tomorrow, let alone 20 years hence.
"What is crucial is that the local plan is adopted as quickly as possible by the inspector, so that local councils and communities are no longer at the mercy of speculative planning applications in unsuitable locations."
Worcester MP Robin Walker said: "It's far better to have a local plan with local control, than have a system where we get 'development on appeal'.
"I know which alternative is the best one out of those two. I'm glad the councils are going for the lower end of the range in terms of what's been suggested by the inspector.
"It's certainly concerning and will be very challenging, but not as bad as what the developers wanted."
Councillor Pam Davey, a Droitwich parish councillor and member of Worcestershire County Council, said: "I would be extremely concerned if this led to more homes in Droitwich.
"We've already granted a large number of permissions. Across Wychavon, in the plan we've made sure to allow for new homes so you don't change the nature of the place."
Councillor Judy Pearce, who chairs a joint advisory panel that leads work on the SWDP, said: "It is important we move forward with the plan and we hope the inspector will now be able to determine a housing number for south Worcestershire.
"He will need to consider carefully that final number in relation to infrastructure and the environment."
The SWDP earmarks land for housing and jobs up to 2030.
At his October hearing, Mr Clews accepted the fact the plan earmarks land for 30,000 new jobs.
In terms of a revised housing figure, he left it up to the councils to come up with a higher figure than 23,200.
Although he sat on the fence, he did mention a ballpark of 26,000 to 32,000, and ruled out pleas from the building industry that south Worcestershire needs 36,000.


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