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Bridge at Moret-sur-Loing
Alfred Sisley, French, 1839 - 1899
Made in France, Europe
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23 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches (59.7 x 72.4 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
1978-1-29Credit Line:
Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright, 1978
Made in France, Europe
Oil on canvasDimensions:
23 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches (59.7 x 72.4 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 152, European Art 1850-1900, first floor (Toll Gallery)Accession Number:
1978-1-29Credit Line:
Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright, 1978
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ProvenancePrivate collection, Germany [1]; with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris [2]; with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Baron Kojiro Matsukata (1865-1950), Paris and Kobe, Japan, probably by 1934 and possibly still in 1947 [3]. Wildenstein & Co., Paris and New York; sold to Charlotte Dorrance Wright (1911-1977) and William Coxe Wright (d. 1970), St. Davids, PA, April 30, 1957, until his d. 1970 [4]; Charlotte Dorrance Wright; bequest to PMA, 1978. 1. Note in curatorial file. 2. Information from Frick Library photo archives. 3. Bernheim-Jeune and Matsukata provenance names per Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1959 (no. 779). The painting is said to have been lent to a 1934 exhibition "Exposition du Japon," at the Musée Rodin, presumably by Matsukata (cited in exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "The Collection of Mr and Mrs William Coxe Wright," August 28-September 26, 1965, no. 28). Matsukata formed his collection of modern French art, particularly Rodin, from 1916 to about 1935. After 1921 most of the artworks that he bought in Paris were stored long-term at the Musée Rodin awaiting the construction of Matsukata's proposed museum of Western art in Japan. The collection was sequestered by the French government at the end of WWII as enemy property (see Haru Matsukata Reischauer, Samurai and Silk, London, 1986, p. 290-297, and Christina Buley-Uribe, "Matsukata et le musée Rodin: avatars d'une collection," in Rodin et le Japon, Tokyo, 2001). Most of the collection was eventually repatriated to Japan in 1959, with part being retained for the French national collections. This painting does not appear in a 1938 inventory of Matsukata's collection stored at the Musée Rodin, nor was it included in the sale of sequestered works from Matsukata's collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 21, 1947. Thus it may have been one of the works that Matsukata sent to Japan in the 1930's to be sold to pay off debts. He may have still have been the owner in 1947 when the painting was published in Les trésors de l'art moderne, Tokyo, 1947. 4. Information from 1977 Dorrance Wright estate inventory by Carroll Hogan (registrar file).
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.

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PALM BAY, Fla. - Police are urging drivers to make wise decisions when it comes to children and pets in cars as the summer heat climbs to scorching temperatures.
Tuesday, law enforcement agencies did a demonstration of a mistake that they say happens far too often.
In the scenario, a mother has left her son in a parked car. Two women walking by spot him.
"In most cases, it's an accident," said Captain April Hastings with Orlando police.
In a recent case, a Manatee County family left their 3-year-old in a hot car as they attended a funeral. They thought he was with the babysitter, and forgot him in the car.
Local 6 has covered stories where a number of parents have been arrested, accused of leaving their kid in a hot car. Surveillance video from a few years ago, shows a local mom inside a Publix with her daughter as a 3-year-old sat in the car for 40 minutes.
One of the more tragic cases was in Ocoee in 2007. A mother who worked at city hall accidentially left her 22-month-old girl in the car for 3 hours. She died.
"If you leave a child in a car unattended it's a crime," said attorney Richard Schwamm.
Schwamm says the law and the punishment is too weak. Right now, as it stands leaving your kid in a hot car for a few minutes is legal.
"What this law says in a nutshell is that if the motor is off, it's okay to leave a child in the car for up to fifteen minutes..that makes little sense," Schwamm said.
Safe Kids says this year is on track to be the deadliest one across the country. Florida is said to be the worst state. Four kids have died in their own cars in 2013 and summer has just started.
Leaving children and pets in vehicles during the hot summer months can have serious repercussions. Authorities are reminding drivers that leaving children in a vehicle for 15 minutes, even with the motor running, puts their health at risk.
Deputies are intent on informing drivers that on a 90 degree day, the temperature in a car can rise to 110 degrees in only ten minutes.
These risks include heat exhaustion, heat stroke and even death.
The crime would be considered a second degree misdemeanor. If a child suffers physical injury, a driver could be charged with felony child neglect.
While leaving a pet in a vehicle is not punishable by the law, it is important for drivers to remember how dangerous it is for them as well. It could also constitute for animal cruelty, which is considered a first degree misdemeanor.
"We see it happen too often, especially with pets," said Doug Muldoon, Chief of Palm Bay Police. "Unfortunately sometimes we see it when it's too late and the family pet suffers significant heat trauma or is killed as a result.
Officials recommend that in the intense Florida summer heat, pet owners should make the informed decision to leave their pets at home.
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I get kicked after about 5 minutes of inactivity it seems.
Yes it was set down to 5 minutes from what was about 1 hour before. I felt 1 hour was way too long (you could see someone listed as "here" when he's been gone for 45 minutes), but now I think 5 is a bit too short. I just set it to 15 minutes.


text: Show Hide image Politics 5 December 2012 George Osborne has strewn the government's path with policy landmines The Chancellor glosses over the fact that working people feel the brunt of his benefit cuts as much as the jobless. Sign up for our weekly email * One of David Cameron's great concerns ahead of the Autumn Statement on 5 December was the need to avoid "split-screen moments". This is No 10 code for policy reversals so stark that they might be ridiculed in an election campaign by broadcasting two images of the Prime Minister side by side – before and after – saying opposite things. That is why benefits enjoyed by the elderly – winter fuel payments, free bus passes and TV licences – are untouchable in discussions of welfare cuts. Cameron stared down the barrel of a TV camera in live pre-election debates in 2010 and promised to leave those privileges alone. Memory of that footage silences talk of a raid on pensioner perks. When the Prime Minister's personal dignity is not at stake, the government is unafraid of a U-turn. Whitehall stank of burning rubber for weeks after the last Budget, as the Treasury skidded 180 degrees over ill-considered tax wheezes – on pasties, on caravans, on charities. Cameron and George Osborne were determined to avoid a similar unravelling of the Autumn Statement. Yet the whole thing was an epitaph for buried economic promises. None of the things that the Chancellor said would happen to growth, to the deficit or to the national debt is happening as forecast. His plan was to fix the public finances and restore prosperity before an election in 2015. Now he pleads for time, like a cowboy builder, surrounded by the rubble of a bodged repair, explaining to the appalled homeowner that the job is more complicated than it looked. Midterm martyr Osborne believes the public can be persuaded to stick with the current contractor as long as the risk of switching to someone else is painted in sinister enough terms. That optimism is underpinned, according to those who work with the Chancellor, by his self-image as a crusader, martyred in midterm opinion polls for the greater glory of Budget rectitude. "He is confident he will be remembered as a historic chancellor who took the difficult decisions for the sake of the country," says one senior Treasury mandarin. Osborne hopes to cast Labour as the party that hides from the truth about its responsibility for the economic mess and what is required to fix it. That might be a winning attack if Ed Miliband's campaign ignores the deficit and debt entirely. In public, senior Tories portray Labour's position in those terms. Privately, they know the opposition will not make things so easy for them. The working assumption in Downing Street is that Ed Balls will offer to match the broad outline of coalition spending plans some time before the next election. The shadow chancellor's team says it is too early to be talking about such commitments but there is unmistakable intent in Balls's office to kill the "deficit denial" charge before 2015. Meanwhile, the immediate priorities for Labour are pinning the badge of economic failure on the coalition and provoking public outrage at the thought that ordinary families are footing the bill instead of the Tories' millionaire chums. Osborne is alert to the potency of that attack. He could hardly ignore the savage reception for his decision in March to cut the 50p top rate of income tax. Chastened, he inserted symbolic raids on wealth in his Autumn Statement – more tax on high-earner pension contributions, a bigger levy on banks. He boasted that the burden on low-income households would be eased with a freeze in petrol duty and a fresh rise in the income tax personal allowance. Policy minds in No 10 are focused almostexclusively on ways to win the affections of the "squeezed middle" – those whose wages have not kept pace with the cost of living. Very senior Cameron advisers have made it clear to underlings that the Prime Minister will only look at new policy ideas if they speak to the concerns of those hard-pressed families. The most urgent Downing Street discussions these days are about housing, childcare, energy bills and fuel costs. Gone are the nebulous musings about the nature of the state that went on when Steve Hilton was Cameron's quixotic head of policy. Hilton left Downing Street in May but his legacy formally expired with the damp-squib election of police and crime commissioners (PCC) last month. "PCC elections were the last, dying gasp of the Hilton project," says one Downing Street insider. "Cameron is now dealing with bread-and-butter issues." Despite much polarised public polemicising, Labour and the Tories are converging on the same electoral terrain. Senior strategists in both parties are scouring data from a new online tool that maps public anxiety about household finances and confidence in the future. They know the election can be won with the right message for voters who feel pressed for time, strapped for cash and ripped off on all sides. Broken promises Labour's handicap in reaching out to that group is voters' wariness of a party that was so recently evicted from office. The Tories' problem is that the coalition has already legislated for billions of pounds of cuts that will hit precisely the people they are now intent on wooing. Over the next year, cuts to tax credits, child benefit, housing benefit and council tax benefit will all make life harder for financially precarious families – including many with jobs. The Chancellor glosses over the fact that working people feel the brunt of his benefit cuts as much as the jobless. In so doing, he has strewn the government's path ahead with policy landmines – nasty fiscal traps that will detonate under the voters who already suspect the Tories are not on their side. They are unlikely to be persuaded by the Chancellor's occasional, ostentatious displays of charity for the many and confiscation from the few. Nor will their pain be easily justified as the necessary price for balancing the books, since the books will be unbalanced at the next election. No amount of fiddling in the margins can disguise the contrast between what the Tories said they would achieve and what has happened. It doesn't look good however you play it. David Cameron is running a split-screen government. 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The future's in your paws. Shape it well. Roleplay in a cat Clan of warriors. Based off the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. Takes place during the time before the cats in the books existed.
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If you love The Warrior Cats Series by Erin Hunter, you need to join here! Please be active and roleplay a lot. It is mandatory to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
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Welcome to OneClan, the ultimate community for fans of Erin Hunter's Warriors series! Role-play, share art, write stories, play games, participate in events, and even join one of the four Clans!
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Just as the title says where can i download fonts like Sans-serif, georgia, helvetica and etc to use for my prototyping and web design
Well if it's for viewing non web safe fonts in the browser you can use Adobe TypeKit: https://www.typekit.com/
Don't most computers have them installed in their system by default anyway? There are many free fonts available at FontSquirrel that are ready for use on the web via @font-face.
Georgia, yes. Helvetica, no - that's a mac font which isn't installed on Windows by default.
Thanks for links guys, i appreciate the resources for the fonts.
Be darned. So are all those people who complain about Helvetic Mac users? :lol:
I'm sure there are plenty of free look-alikes that are free and ready for web usage.
you can find your choice at fontyukle and 1001freefonts.Hope these two site will work for you ....
As long as it's FREE :3
Dafont.com has an amazing free font collection. There you can find any font you will ever need for your designs.
When using custom fonts. Do i need to install it or just use @font-face in order to apply the custom fonts. For example Quicksand.otf
You need to put the fonts in a folder somewhere on your server and reference them via CSS. @font-face is useful for when you are using a font that most users are not likely to have on their system. If you don't actually provide the font file, @font-face will be useless, as the font it references won't be available.
Thanks for the fast response
Is there a way to convert otf fonts to ttf? I have found out that google chrome does not support extensions .otf
I can't seem to apply to font i like to google chrome. Here is the code
@font-face { font-family: Quicksand_Light; src: url(font/'Quicksand_Light.otf'); font-family: Quicksand_Book; src: url(font/'Quicksand_Book.ttf');}
It is working fine on mozilla but not on google chrome
The best thing to do is go here:
and click the blue "Download @font-face Kit" button. That will give you all the files and CSS you need. You need various versions of the font for it to work in each browser, and they all come in that font kit, along with the CSS you need. It couldn't be easier.
I tried that method but the font won't apply in google chrome hmmm
In the download folder, open their demo.html page. It works fine for me in Chrome.
Then their is something wrong with my coding. I have placed the fonts in the "font" folder hmmm
I can't seem to find the error in my website. I have placed the fonts in the root and i still can get it to work. Not sure what i'm missing T_T


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73 year old male diabetic undergoing treatment for kidneys with cortizone -related medication.
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New York Rangers 3, Philadelphia Flyers 5 (Preseason Game No. 3, Away No. 2)
-The Rangers were defeated by the Philadelphia Flyers, 5-3, tonight at Wells Fargo Center, and are now 1-1-1 in preseason action.
-New York notched two power play goals in the second period, from John Mitchell at 10:09 of the period and Brian Boyle at 15:02.
-The Blueshirts out-hit the Flyers, 17-11, in the contest.
-Andreas Thuresson opened the game's scoring with an even strength goal at 2:36 of the first period, while making his first appearance with the Rangers. He also tied for the team-high with three shots on goal in 9:27 of ice time.
-Brian Boyle registered a team-high, two points, including a power play goal, and also tied for the team-high with three shots on goal in 16:25 of ice time. Boyle has now registered two points (one goal, one assist) in two preseason contests.
-John Mitchell notched a power play goal and logged 20:13 of ice time. He has now recorded one point (goal) in two preseason games.
-Henrik Lundqvist stopped 26 of 30 shots in 59:39 of ice time, and has now turned aside 44 of 49 shots in preseason action.
-Mats Zuccarello and Ryan McDonagh each tallied an assist on John Mitchell's power play goal, and Dan Girardi recorded an assist on Brian Boyle's power play goal. McDonagh also led all skaters with 26:27 of ice time, and Dan Girardi logged 25:21 of ice time.
-The Rangers practice schedule for tomorrow, September 27, is 4:15 p.m. (local time) at Tesla Arena in Prague, Czech Republic.
From twitter reports:
Sauer out a week with a sprained shoulder. Thuresson and Deveaux were assigned to Connecticut.
Here is the Rangers' roster headed to Europe:
Forward (2): Andre Deveaux, Andreas Thuresson
Goal (3): Martin Biron, Henrik Lundqvist, Scott Stajcer
Defense (11): Brendan Bell, Stu Bickel, Michael Del Zotto, Steve Eminger, Tim Erixon, Dan Girardi, Ryan McDonagh, Dylan McIlrath, Blake Parlett, Michael Sauer, Marc Staal
Forward (19): Artem Anisimov, Sean Avery, Ryan Bourque, Brian Boyle, Ryan Callahan, Erik Christensen, Brandon Dubinsky, Ruslan Fedotenko, Marian Gaborik, Carl Hagelin, John Mitchell, Kris Newbury, Brandon Prust, Brad Richards, Mike Rupp, Derek Stepan, Dale Weise, Wojtek Wolski, Mats Zuccarello


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Wittenberg Professor Presents Gallery Talk At The Springfield Center For The Arts At Wittenberg University
March 25, 2011
Filed in Arts and Culture, Arts Scene, Community
Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University Assistant Professor of Art Daniel McInnis presents a Gallery Talk at the Opening Reception for "Presence: Photographs by Daniel McInnis" from 5:30-7:30 p.m. tonight, Friday, March 25, in the Wittenberg-Halley Gallery at the Springfield Center for the Arts at Wittenberg University. The event is free and open to the public.
"Presence: Photographs by Daniel McInnis" will be on display in the Wittenberg-Halley Gallery at the Springfield Center for the Arts at Wittenberg University through Sunday, May 29.
"This portfolio documents the tension between full-body portraiture and the subjects' indigenous spaces," McInnis said. "I use the term 'indigenous' loosely as most of the subjects are photographed in their own neighborhoods, while a few are in spaces that have symbolic meaning to them alone."
McInnis explained that "these images are not so much an attempt at intimacy, but rather a celebration of variation, exploration of choice (locality, clothing) and a consideration of personal detail captured with the abilities of 8 x 10 film and view camera."
McInnis received his BFA in Film and Photography from Ithaca College and his MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
From 2000 to 2003, he lived in the United Arab Emirates where he taught as an assistant professor of photography for the Department of Visual Communications at The American University in Dubai, where he began a long project photographing black and white landscapes using the minimalist work of Harry Callahan and Hiroshi Sugimoto as inspiration. This international photographic survey titled "Balance" was exhibited twice in Dubai, at the University of California at Berkeley, at the Brooklyn Collective Art Gallery and recently at Wittenberg University's Ann Miller Gallery.
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Photo By: Erin Pence


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This tutorial is intended to show how to use the Scrapy framework to quickly write web scrapers. As an example, I will implement a simple scraper to extract comics links and associated alt text and transcripts from xkcd.com.
This tutorial assumes that you are comfortable with Python. It also assumes a basic understanding of HTTP and some familiarity with Xpath notation.
Scrapy works with Python 2.6 or 2.7. If you're on Windows, you will also have to install OpenSSL.
Once you have the pre-requisites, the easiest way to install Scrapy is with pip:
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pip install scrapy
If this does not work for you, please refer to the installation guide in Scrapy documentation.
Scrapy is a framework, which means that it implements a lot of the "boilerplate" functionality for you, and all you need to do is implement the bits specific to your application. Scrapy breaks these bits down into several categories. For this tutorial, we'll only focus on the following:
- Items: these define the data that you want to extract. If you are familiar with ORMs such as Django ORM or sqlalchemy, then Items are equivalent to Models. If you're not familiar with ORMs, you can think of Items as classes that define what comprises a single "data record" that you want to extract.
- Spiders: these do the actual crawling and scraping of web pages. They contain the "business logic" for your crawler. Scrapy comes with a couple base implementations that you can subclass.
- Link Extractors: these are used to extract links that a spider would use to crawl web sites. Scrapy comes with a couple of built-in extractors that should suffice for the majority of use cases.
- Selectors: these are used to extract data from web pages. They parse the contents of the HTTP response into an easily query-able format. If you weren't using Scrapy, you would typically do this with lxml or BeautifulSoup (and in fact, you could just use one of these instead of a selector, if you wanted). Scrapy comes with an excellent Xpath-based selector by default, so we'll stick with that for the tutorial.
Project Structure
The bits you implement need to be located somewhere Scrapy can find them, so you project must follow the structure that Scrapy expects. Luckily, Scrapy can generate the project directory for you. So let's start by creating a project:
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~/projects$ scrapy startproject xkcd_scraper
~/projects$ tree xkcd_scraper/
|-- scrapy.cfg
|-- xkcd_scraper
|-- __init__.py
|-- items.py
|-- pipelines.py
|-- settings.py
|-- spiders
|-- __init__.py
2 directories, 6 files
The top-level project directory contains the Scrapy configuration file scrapy.cfg (which we will not need to worry about in this tutorial) and the Python package with the code for the project (with the same name as the project). Within the package, there are files for defining the various parts of the scraper. In this tutorial, we're only concerned with items and spiders.
Writing the Scraper
First, we need to define what it is that we want to scrape from a web site. We do this by implementing an Item to describe the data inside of xkcd_scraper/xkcd_scraper/items.py. This is as easy as subclassing Item and creating a Field for each individual bit of data we want to scrape:
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from scrapy.item import Item, Field
class XkcdComicItem(Item):
image_url = Field()
alt_text = Field()
transcript = Field()
Here, we're saying that we want to extract the image URL, alt text, and transcript for each xkcd comic.
Now let's define how we are going to extract the data by creating a spider inside xkcd_scraper/xkcd_scraper/spiders/__init__.py
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from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
from xkcd_scraper.items import XkcdComicItem
class XkcdComicSpider(CrawlSpider):
name = 'xkcd-comics'
start_urls = ['http://xkcd.com/1140/']
rules = (
def parse_comic(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
image = hxs.select('//div[@id="comic"]/img')
item = XkcdComicItem()
item['image_url'] = image.select('@src').extract()
item['alt_text'] = image.select('@title').extract()
item['transcript'] = hxs.select('//div[@id="transcript"]/text()').extract()
return item
OK, this is a bit more complicated, so let's break it down.
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class XkcdComicSpider(CrawlSpider):
We're subclassing the CrawlSpider class. A CrawlSpider will start with start with the initial set of URLs and will crawl from there according to a set of rules.
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name = 'xkcd-comics'
start_urls = ['http://xkcd.com/1140/']
rules = (
Here, we're defining the behaviour of the crawler.
- The name is used to uniquely identify the crawler, and we'll use it to invoke the crawler later.
- start_urls is the list of initial URLs that the spider will start crawling. For this, we're specifying the URL of the first xkcd comic we want to scrape (if we wanted to scrape all comics, we would start with 'http://xkcd.com/1/', but that would take a good while to run).
- rules specifies how the crawler will proceed from the initial URLs. Our spider has only one rule -- it will use the built-in link extractor to extract the link to the next comic (the cryptic Xpath just means "find <a> HTML elements with rel attribute set to "next" anywhere in the contents"); it will then invoke the specified callback to process the contents of that URL; finally, with attempt to "follow" that URL, i.e. recursively apply the crawl rules to the contents of that URL).
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def parse_comic(self, response):
hxs = HtmlXPathSelector(response)
image = hxs.select('//div[@id="comic"]/img')
item = XkcdComicItem()
item['image_url'] = image.select('@src').extract()
item['alt_text'] = image.select('@title').extract()
item['transcript'] = hxs.select('//div[@id="transcript"]/text()').extract()
return item
This is the callback that will get invoked for each page the spider crawls, and this is where the actual scraping happens. All we're doing here is using a selector to find the relevant data in the HTML returned in the HTTP response and populating an instance of the Item we've created earlier with that data. We're using Scrapy's HtmlXPathSelector here, but you could use something like lxml if you are more comfortable with that.
OK, that's it. We're done. We now have a fully functioning web scraper. It's time to take it for a spin.
Running the Scraper
To run the scraper, navigate to the top-level project directory (the one with the scrapy.cfg file) in your favorite shell and run scrapy like so:
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~/projects/xkcd_scraper$ scrapy crawl xkcd-comics -t json -o xkcd-comics.json
Here, we're telling scrapy that we want it to crawl using the xkcd-comics spider (the name we've given to our Spider earlier) and we want the output to be formatted as json and to be written to xkcd-comics.json file in the current directory.
Once you type that in and hit enter, you'll see a whole bunch of log output (by default, the verbosity level is set to DEBUG) telling you exactly what Scrapy is doing. When all available comics have been scraped, Scrapy will print out a summary and then exit, leaving the json file with the output. One of the cool things about Scrapy is that you can hit CTRL-C at any point to abort the crawling, and you'll always get a well-formatted JSON file with the data that has been scraped so far.
Batteries Included
This tutorial focused on how to write a web scraper with the minimum amount of fuss. As such, it barely scrapes the functionality available in Scrapy. If there is a demand for it (and if I have the time/motivation), I might cover some of the more advanced features in the future tutorial. For now, here is a subset of the features that are available:
- You can use pipelines to process the items once they are extracted, e.g. to clean the data or handle missing items.
- You can use signals to hook into any part of the scraping process.
- Scrapy provides an easy way of collecting stats about what has been scraped.
- Scrapy has a daemon and a web service for managing several scrapers using JSON RPC.
- Scrapy comes with a command line tool and an interactive shell.
Check out the docs for the full list of features and in-depth guides.


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Every year on October 14th, people from all over the country come together to celebrate a historical and meaningful holiday: National Chocolate Covered Bug Day.
Every year on October 14th, people from all over the country come together to celebrate a historical and meaningful holiday: National Chocolate Covered Bug Day.
Okay, so maybe it's not that historical or meaningful. In fact, odds are that you had no idea National Chocolate Covered Bug Day existed until this very moment. But now that you do know, check out these interesting, largely unappetizing, chocolate covered bugs in celebration of the holiday.
Who knows, maybe you'll even feel inspired to try one (although we don't necessarily recommend it!)
Chocolate Covered Ants
Ants are somewhat of a classic when it comes to insects dipped in chocolate. Because they are so small, many experts suggest using multiple ants per chocolate morsel. Others suggest using large carptenter ants instead. We, on the other hand, suggest none of the above.
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Chocolate Covered Cockroaches (a.k.a. Chocoroaches)
Something tells us that despite this delicacy's admittedly cute name, the actual preparation and consumption of the "chocoroach" is far from cute. Perhaps you should try some fake chocoroaches made with dates, like the ones pictured here, instead.
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Chocolate Covered Crickets
Who knew these everyday pests could be transformed into a chocolate coated snack? Yum...
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Chocolate Covered Larvae
Eating insect larvae, even insect larvae dipped in fresh chocolate, is probably not something you ever want to imagine. It is, however, a great source of protein!
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Chocolate Covered Tarantulas
With a dessert that's both fried and coated in chocolate, you can't go wrong... right? If there are tarantulas involved, maybe you can after all.
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Chocolate Covered Scorpions
Finally, we leave you with a chocolate covered arachnid considered to be a delicacy in some parts of the world: The scorpion. If you are really tempted to try this particular treat, we would recommend making sure the scorpoin isn't poisonous first!
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We're currently accepting payments using Paypal. Their fees are quite steep though especially taking into account the currency exchange rates.
We now pay approximately 4% in fees plus a 2.5% exchange rate loss. Customers pay us in euros and as our Paypal account is in Hong Kong the euros are converted to HK dollars whent transferred to our bank account (though the bank account is in euros).
Does anyone know of a payment gateway with lower fees and where we can keep the balance in euros?
Each incoming payment is of around €300 so the "fixed per transaction fee" is of less importance.
You should try Nochex if you are only targeting clients from Europe. Allied Wallet could be another option.
You could check this list of over 15 credit card processing companies as alternative to PayPal. http://www.staff.com/blog/comparison-of-credit-card-processing-companies/
It is compiled into a Google spreadsheet and was set to be publicly editable so anyone who wishes to add more, they can do so. The list is sorted according to its Alexa ranking, so its really good to figure out which of those that were used by most people.
You can use monebookers (Skrill) If you want to keep the balance in euros. Skrill's default currency is in EURO. It also cost effective.
About a Year ago, I was looking for an alternative to PayPal. I went to my banker. He asked me what i was presently using. When I told him I was using PayPal, he asked my why I wanted to change. According to my banker, and many other bankers, PayPal is the best online merchant account system.
yes, i agree, Moneybooker (Skrill) is one of best alternative for paypal. But as far as i know, paypal fees is better than other payment processor out there. CMIIW
Recently I came across this article, it talks about the top 5 Paypal alternative. I guess you people will like it, read more herehttp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/why-you-dont-have-to-use-paypal-for-online-transactions-5-paypal-alternatives/
I recently applyed for 2checkout account. They are accepting money in almost any currency and they have great options to start accepting credit cards rather than accepting only paypal users.
Couldn't you just keep the money in Euro's and set up a Euro dollar account with a bank? That way you can withdraw your money to that account, and exchange it at the banks exchange rate, which would save you at least around %1 usually.
Have you looked into stripe? Has some a bit better rates than paypal


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Even in the age where it seems everyone and everything is connected digitally, I know some folks who refuse to electronically file their taxes.
Some are just cranky old Luddite farts (they know I still love them!). Other e-file resistors, however, are afraid that somehow their personal tax and financial information will be stolen by identity thieves.
Those fears appeared to be justified when the U.S. Government Accountability Office, or GAO, released a report Nov. 29 announcing that through September, the Internal Revenue Service had identified almost 642,000 incidents of identity theft for this year alone.
This, said the GAO report, is "a large increase over prior years."
The thing is, though, that the ID thefts weren't connected to e-filing per se. Security-wise, the system whereby taxpayers send the IRS their returns seems to work quite well.
The problem, notes Benjamin Souede, an attorney with Angeli Law Group LLC in Portland, Ore., is what other people send to the IRS pretending to be you.
Here's what happens. A crook somehow gets your personal information, either via a tax scam or some other nefarious means, and then files a fake tax return as you. The criminals either use your accurate data and claim your rightful refund or they enter false amounts that produce a refund.
Either way, the IRS thinks it's you. Then when you go to file your real return, the tax agency says, "Wait a minute. We've already processed your return and sent you your refund."
And you get to spend all your free time convincing Uncle Sam that both he and you were victims of tax fraud.
The good news is that the IRS is getting better at catching such falsely filed returns.
The bad news is that the filing system is slowed down for us all, as the agency implements ever more stringent anti-fraud protocols during tax return processing.
The worst news is that some fake returns still make it through.
Shopping and ID theft season
And during the hectic holiday shopping season, you could be setting yourself up for an unwelcome tax surprise in a few months. The personal data that scammers collect now can be used to file a false tax return in a few weeks in your name.
Wait. Aren't we all pretty cautious about identity theft scams by now? Sort of.
"Most people have enough common sense to avoid scams," says Souede, "but we tend to get seasonally stupid. Common sense loses out to the frenzy of looking for deals and making bargain purchases."
The number one sign that something might be a scam is that the offer is too good to be true. "But we're expecting to find deals on Black Friday or Cyber Monday that are exceptionally good," says Souede.
"Plus a lot of people only buy online one time a year, this time of year, so they're not so attuned to the potential for scam and fraud," he says.
So if you make it through this holiday shopping season without any surprise purchases showing up on your credit card bill -- other than those from your spouse! -- good for you. But don't let your guard down.
The identity thieves might just be biding their time until tax-filing season rolls around. In that case, about the only way to beat them at their criminal game is to file your real return before a crook files a fake one as you.
And if you do find your personal data have been compromised, now or any time of the year, it's not a bad idea to let the IRS know, too.
You can call the IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit at 1-800-908-4490 or send in the IRS Identity Theft Affidavit, Form 14039. With this information, the IRS can mark you as a potential victim of identity theft and tag your tax account to identify any questionable activity.
That way the IRS can correspond with you before further processing the tax return to make sure the agency will be sending your refund to you and only you.
Want the latest news on taxes, tax reform prospects, filing deadlines, Internal Revenue Service alerts and tax-saving tips? Subscribe to Bankrate's free Weekly Tax Tip newsletter.
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There's so much going on in Talk and the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.
Meatball Sandwich - Lots of little balls or one big ball?
"One ball. Smashed down a bit; good char on the outside. Lettuce, tomato, red onion. Maybe some cheese.
This isn't a meatball sandwich at all..." — shoneyjoe
Detroit: Elmer's Hamburgers Is An Unforgotten Classic
"There are only so many places in the country where "bullet-proof glass" is mentioned in a review of a hamburger joint."—redfish
One kitchen item you hate to wash?
"Wooden rolling pins. They always warp in the dishwasher. Everytime! I have gone through 30 or so."—Loco_food_guy
"@Loco_food_guy-- you sure had me! My thought was: REALLY??? My Grama just dusted hers off, my Mom just dusted hers off and I've been doing that for 30 years too. What I REALLY thought was: Oh, HELL NO! Not another germophobe ruining a good wooden utensil with over cleaning."—KatherineAnn
Talk: Making over your left-overs...
"'My leftovers magically appear to be consumed cold, standing in front of the fridge by my wife mere seconds before I hope to reheat them for dinner."— ESNY1077
"Leftover mashed potatoes: I place in a casserole and top with pats of butter then sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese and bake until the top is gooey and the potatoes have warmed sufficiently. It puffs up like a souffle. Also, leftover rotisserie chicken or grilled chicken: I cut up the chicken and toss into ramen chicken flavored soups (also toss in older carrots that I cut on the diagonal along with whatever else I find in the crisper that would add flavor and crunch to the soup, and add a bit of mirin and fresh lime juice). It makes a very nice, quick soup." —annzee
Back-to-School Packing List for College Students
"An absolute must: A large eight-cup Pyrex measuring cup. Microwave pretty much anything. Ramen (or any kind of soup), Mac-n-cheese, any kind of pasta or rice dish, boil water for tea, hamburger helper, hot dogs, etc. By far the most useful 'bachelor' cooking utensil." —Mike Logue
Video: How to Caramelize Onions in 15 Minutes
"@Kenji, You can't slip a Weird Al lyric past me.
I like the cut of your bulb." —esjay


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The deadline to submit proposals for the 56th Annual Meeting has been extended to Thursday, March 22 at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST.
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society invites members and nonmembers to submit proposals for the HFES 56th Annual Meeting, which will take place October 22-26, 2012, at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Case studies, debates, demonstrations, competitive product designs, new methodologies, on-site experiments, and posters are welcome.
For complete formatting and submission information, please be sure to read the Call for Proposals prior to submitting your work.
Papers that have been published previously or presented at another professional meeting may not be submitted. All research and analyses described in a proposal must be complete when the proposal is submitted. Program chairs may reject, with or without review, papers that do not present completed work. The sole exception to this policy is for student work submitted for consideration in the Student Forum track, in which case the proposer may report on work in progress.
Note that for all accepted submissions, one of the authors must attend the meeting to present the work. All presenters are required to pay the meeting registration fee.
For regular updates on the 2012 Annual Meeting, be sure to bookmark http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESMeetings/2012annualmeeting.html and check back regularly.
For questions on the submission process, please contact Lois Smith (email@example.com; 310/394-1811).
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We got a lot of visitors to our table last night at the ToneRite-sponsored concert event. People launched Lego horses from Allen's trebuchet and tested their reaction times using Clint's Arduino-powered timer.
Everyone there was stoked to learn about Hackerspace, and we handed out around 20-30 flyers.
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A Bright Idea: Fairfax County Recycles its Fluorescent Bulbs
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A Bright Idea: Fairfax County Recycles its Fluorescent Bulbs
Fairfax County recently had a bright idea to protect the environment. This fall the county instituted a program to recycle the fluorescent bulbs used in its buildings.
By installing these energy-saving bulbs, the county already saves money and helps protect the environment. However, officials thought dimly about dumping these bulbs into our waste stream because fluorescent bulbs contain trace amounts of mercury.
The new Fluorescent Lamp Management Program, created by the Fairfax County Facilities Management Division, aims to recycle approximately 20,000 bulbs per year. Since its kick off in September, the program already has reached one-quarter of its annual goal — recycling 5,000 bulbs so far. The county's new program makes it an environmental leader. Nationwide, only 20 percent of all fluorescent bulbs are recycled, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"Fairfax County demonstrates its commitment to environmental stewardship by focusing on the appropriate management of mercury in the bulbs while supporting 'green purchasing' policies," said Mike Harkness, assistant director of the county's Facilities Management Division. "This is a good program for businesses to adopt to prevent pollution in the county."
All fluorescent bulbs contain small quantities of mercury, a toxic metal that in large amounts can be harmful to people and animals. Mercury is necessary to make these bulbs shine. The county, though, makes a point of purchasing "green tip" bulbs that contain the least amount of mercury possible.
The county's new recycling program recovers the mercury from fluorescent bulbs for reuse. The remaining components are recycled or disposed of according to federal and state environmental regulations.
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It should become compulsory for future prime ministers to announce the election date at their first major speech of the election year.
While that will not happen, Julia Gillard's example will certainly put enormous pressure on future leaders to follow suit.
After all, the dates for polling day in spring are limited, curtailed by football and international conferences, so why not get it over with early, rather than follow John Howard's example of guessing games all year.
The Prime Minister's decisive action means the day of reckoning for federal public servants approaches. They now know when it is likely – if current polling is accurate – that Tony Abbott will begin to severely prune their ranks.
He will appear at the National Press Club on Thursday to follow Gillard's appearance, where he is expected to confirm a Coalition Government would reduce the federal public service by 12,000 through natural attrition.
So there will be fewer personnel to do more, if the Coalition wins and begins swingeing changes to existing policy and implementing its suite of promises.
However, another financial blow for public servants will come earlier than the election; the May Budget means they are in for a double whammy this year, from both sides of politics.
That's because Gillard is promising to cut middle-class welfare to fund her signature policies, such as disability insurance.
That means Canberra, with the nation's highest-paid workforce, will suffer disproportionately. Gillard has shown no mercy with single-parents payments and can be expected to clamp down further on parenting payments for higher paid workers.
Superannuation breaks for the rich will be in the firing line, although the last reduction in the amount workers can salary sacrifice to super – the new ceiling is $25,000 – was extremely shortsighted for a nation facing a huge bill to pay for the health care needs of ageing baby boomers.
Since the May 14 Budget portends cuts to programs, it could mean further lay-offs and dislocation to the public service.
Gillard wants voters to focus on her government's actions rather than believing Australia is suffering a very long election campaign. Good luck with that.
In the ACT the person who will now begin to do some hard strategic thinking is Zed Seselja. Will the ACT Opposition Leader jump into federal politics?


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Player InformationFlames Home > Volleyball Home > Volleyball Roster > Roster Detail
Jade CraycraftClass: Senior
Position: S
Height: 5-11
Previous School: Wooster HS
Hometown: Wooster, Ohio
2012 (Jr.)
• Big South All-Conference first team
• Big South Tournament MVP
• VaSID All-State first team
• Big South Player of the Week (Oct. 22)
• Twice named CVU.com Top Performer (Oct. 23, Nov. 20)
• One of three Lady Flames all-time (also Anthonia Akpama, Kallie Corbin) to be named Big South Freshman of the Year and Big South Tournament MVP during career
• Third player in program history (also Akpama, Corbin) to earn all-conference selection as a freshman, sophomore and a junior
• Competed in 120 sets, making 32 starts at setter
• Led team and the Big South with .343 hitting percentage, scoring 170 kills
• Paced team while ranking fourth in the conference with 1,152 assists (9.60 aps)
• Finished second on squad with 32 aces, placing third in digs (259) and blocks (88)
• With 3,305 career assists, ranks fifth all-time in program history
• Recorded a team-high 11 double-doubles, giving her 24 career double-doubles
• Had 11 40-assist matches, while dishing out 50 assists three times
• Posted five or more blocks six times
• Directed an offense that set a program record with .250 hitting percentage
• Totaled eight kills, 42 assists, three aces and 13 digs against UNCG (Aug. 24)
• Recorded season-high nine kills, to go with 45 assists, 12 digs and six blocks at Kent State (Sept. 7)
• Tied career high with four aces versus High Point (Oct. 6)
• Dished out season-high 56 assists in win at Charleston Southern (Oct. 12)
• Had 47 assists, two aces, 10 digs and a season-best seven blocks at High Point (Nov. 2)
• Recorded 38 assists, 11 digs and five blocks in conference final victory over Coastal Carolina (Nov. 18)
• Named to Big South Presidential Honor Roll
2011 (So.)
• Big South All-Conference second team for the second year in a row
• Preseason All-Big South Team
• Liberty Invitational presented by Pepsi All-Tournament Team
• First Liberty player since Kallie Corbin (2006-07) to be named to Big South All-Conference team as freshman and sophomore
• Appeared in all 117 sets, earning 26 starts at setter
• Led team in assists for the second year in a row, with 869
• Second on the team with 69 blocks and 30 service aces
• Posted seven double-doubles (six assists-digs, one assists-blocks) on the season
• Tied career high with four aces against Rider on Sept. 9
• Set career high with 10 blocks at Radford on Sept. 23
• Added 39 assists at Radford for first assists-blocks double-double in program's rally-scoring history
• Had 42 assists and career-high 16 digs in key Big South win at Winthrop, Oct. 21
• Served up four aces in addition to 40 assists versus Radford, Oct. 28
• Dished out 40+ assists on five occasions, including season-high 53 to go with 11 digs, at UNC Asheville, Nov. 12
• Had double-double with 26 assists and 10 digs in Big South Championship final win over Radford, Nov. 20
• Named to Big South Presidential Honor Roll
2010 (Fr.)
• Big South Freshman of the Year
• Played in all 127 sets, starting each of team's 34 matches
• Big South All-Conference second team
• Only Big South freshman to earn mention on All-Big South team
• VaSID All-State second team
• Big South All-Tournament Team
• Named Big South Freshman of the Week after first two weeks of season (Aug. 30, Sept. 7)
• All-tournament team at East Carolina Classic and UVA Classic
• Ranked third in Big South with 10.11 assists per set
• Rated 90th in the nation in assists per set, including 13th among all freshmen
• Dished out 1,284 total assists, good for second in the Big South and fifth at Liberty under the current rally-scoring format
• Finished second on team with 41 aces and fifth in the conference with 0.32 aces per set
• Only Big South setter with 1,000 assists (1,284), 200 digs (214), 100 kills (127), 60 blocks (64) and 40 aces (41) in 2010
• Posted a triple-double with 10 kills, 43 assists and 11 digs in Big South semifinal at Winthrop (Nov. 19)
• First Liberty player since Kallie Corbin (Nov. 2, 2007) with a triple-double
• Registered 50 or more assists on five occasions, including season-high 57 at UNC Asheville (Oct. 16)
• Collected five double-doubles on season
• Opened career with 50 assists and eight digs Aug. 27 vs. Cleveland State
• Named to Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Led Wooster High School team in kills, assists, blocks and aces
• Tabbed third team All-Ohio as a senior
• Four-year All-Ohio Cardinal Conference honoree
• Helped lead the Generals to the 2008 district title
• Recognized as a 2010 PrepVolleyball.com Senior Ace
• Helped the Ohio Elite club team finish as the national runner-up in the 17-Under American Gold Division at the 2009 USA Volleyball Girls' Junior Olympic Championship
• Voted to the all-tournament team at 2009 USA Volleyball Girls' Junior Olympic Championship
• Daughter of Jerry and Julie Craycraft
• Majoring in advertising
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Hi guys,
I installed MAMP and everything is working fine but php has a problem.
I'm trying to run this script with this link( http://localhost:8888/today.php):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

 <title>Today's Date</title>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type"
 content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

Today's date (according to this web server) is
 <?php

 echo date('l, F dS Y.');

 ?>

Safari shows me an empty white page
Am I doing something wrong or did I miss something?
Please if you can help me I'd be thankful.
You have syntax errors in your PHP section (unless those BR tags were added by you later).
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<title>Today's Date</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
Today's date (according to this web server) is
echo date('l, F dS Y.');
Also, did you verify Apache is running? Also, I highly recommend enabling errors to be displayed in your php.ini file (then restart apache), so you can see what errors are being sent back.
Hi iHamza. Welcome to the forums.
As cpradio's code indicates, none of those
 tags belong in your code. Did you type them yourself, or has you code editor inserted them? If the latter, get a better code editor.
More to the point, if that is what i assume it to be (You've "Save As"'d your Source from the browser window), the problem is that PHP hasnt registered itself with your apache, so the engine doesnt get called to process the PHP tags.
Thanks for your greetings and your reply ,cpradio.
You are right, those BR shouldn't be in my PHP section and I don't know where they came from. Maybe from my browser or my text editor. ^_^
Anyway, I verified Apache is running and I will try to enable errors to be displayed and I will tell you the results soon I hope.
Thanks again.
Thanks for greetings, ralph.m.
Actually I don't know where those BR came from I didn't type them and I don't believe my text editor did. ^_^
Thanks for replying , StarLion.
I will try to figure out how to register PHP with Apache if it is not registered.
Many thanks, cpradio.
I copied your code and it worked.
And I enabled errors to be displayed. My error was this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ' ' (T_STRING) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/h.php on line 11


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Topic: Please provide comments: 2007 Gastro-Intestinal Cancers Symposium
Dear friends,
Next week I will travel to Orlando, Florida to attend the Gastro-Intestinal Cancers Symposium. Due to a very generous invitation from the Colorectal Cancer Coalition, I am able to attend the Symposium as the patient advocate representative for the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation. (Stacie announced the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation here: http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … hp?id=277) The GI Symposium sessions on Bile Duct Cancer are rolled in with the sessions on pancreatic cancer since these cancers behave similarly.
I will do my best to report the content of these sessions once I return. However, while I am at the Symposium, I think I will be in a good position to speak with many of the top cholangiocarcinoma specialists from around the world. Consequently, I hope that the community on here will review the topics listed below and provide any comments and/or questions you may like addressed.
The sessions I am attending are as follows:
General Session I: Prevention, Screening, and Diagnosis
-Screening for Familial Pancreatic Cancer: Clinical and Genetic Insights
-Evaluation of Bile Duct Strictures: How Do We Know if it is Cancer?
-Advances in the Imaging of Hepatobiliary Cancers
General Session II: Multidisciplinary Treatment
-Conformal Radiation Therapy for Primary Hepatobiliary Cancers
-Locally Advanced versus Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: Do We Need to Treat These Groups of Patients Differently?
-Chemoembolisation and Ablation for HCC Techniques
-Bile Duct Cancer: How Aggressive Should We Be?
General Session III: Translational Research
-Epigenetic Inactivation of Tumor Supressor Genes in HCC
-Why is Pancreatic Cancer so Difficult to Treat? Stem Cell Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer
-GIST: The Use of Detailed Mutational Analysis to Guide Therapy
General Session IV: Controversies
-Do We Really Help our Patients when We Treat Them for Advanced Stage Pancreatic Cancer?
I am very excited to attend this conference and cannot wait to report back on the information shared by the speakers and attendees.
As an aside, we welcome any questions the community may have regarding the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation. While it may not be immediately apparent, the members of the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation are busy at work behind-the-scenes addressing the necessary start-up details. We hope to have the website up soon, and that the members of this community become involved as the Foundation continues to grow.
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A UNION leader has spoken out about the new appointment of Ofsted's new chairman.
Blackburn's National Union of Teachers representative Simon Jones said the appointment of David Hoare represented the 'politicisation' of the role.
Mr Hoare is the trustee of struggling academy chain AET, but will step down from this role to take over Ofsted in September.
The Department for Education is reported as saying he was appointed for his business experience.
Mr Jones said: "He is a trustee of one of the largest academy chains. Teachers will view today's appointment as further evidence of the government's politicisation of school inspection."
He added that teaching unions want to see 'impartiality' of treatment between mainstream schools and academies: "This could further widen the credibility gap between Ofsted and schools, and the new chair will need to demonstrate his competence to chair the school inspectorate in an impartial manner with regard to all academy and community schools.
"It is essential that Ofsted distances itself from the pressure to force schools to become academies against their will.
"It's time for a rethink on school support services. We need a bigger role for local authorities and a move away from punitive, centralised, data-driven judgements on teaching and learning. David Hoare should make this a priority."
A UNION leader has spoken out about the new appointment of Ofsted's new chairman.


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Peter Rocheteau
Provincetown, MA
Peter and his brothers, Ralph and Herman, lived in Provincetown Massachusetts, and served in World War II. Their names are listed on a monument at the Town Hall (listing all P-Town Boys who served in WWII. Peter served in the North Africa Campaign, the invasion of Sicilly, and the invasion of Italy. His brother Ralph participated in the D-Day invasion and in the Battle of the Bulge. // After the war, Peter worked at the old Provincetone VFW on Conant Street.


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"I will never understand why the people with the biggest hearts are always the ones that feel like shit in the end."
"This roadway here has actually a lot of curves. What ended up happening, the driver ended up not being able to negotiate one of the curves and actually ended up over steering to the left, causing the vehicle to lose control."
"My friend told me to call the coach because they needed a shooter. I ended up going down there and played some in open gym and got a spot on the team."
"I just started it, I don't know when it will end. But I will know that I started it by the time I know it has ended."
"It really doesn't matter if you were there from the start. What really matters is if you are there 'til the end."


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FrameMaker 12: New Templates Part 2 = Paras, Tables & Object Styles for you
Show: FrameMaker 12 Features
FrameMaker 12 has new templates which provide much more document structure than earlier versions. This brief video explores the intelligence planted in paragraph styles, table styles, and the combination of object styles and graphics on the Reference Page, which allow you to instantly update all of your sample "UI" buttons. New templates in FrameMaker 12 get you up and running much more quickly in your exploration of regular/unstructured projects.


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Chad Makes Jaclyn Eat A Sardine! [Video]
A couple of years back, Moon and I were dared to eat sardines live on the air. And it didn't go really well. Moon bought a can of sardines that were coated in mustard and they were gnarly! Mine were coated in some kind of olive oil or sesame oil or peanut oil or motor oil! Whatever it was, they were just as bad as Moon's! But, we accepted the challenge, ate the sardines and paid for it the rest of the day. We both smelled like the coast of Maine for about 24 hours. So, we decided that it was time for Jaclyn to face her fears . . . and eat a nasty old sardine!


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In the summertime, entertaining needs to be easy — so you have more time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the warm-weather eats. We set out to create fun, complete party experiences using only five essential ingredients, from tasty food and drinks to decor and games. Party on!
Here in Texas, we eat a lot of Mexican food; Tacos, enchiladas and guacamole are such a staple on my dinner table that they practically constitute their own food group. So when the outdoor temps heat up, I love to make these favorites feel a little more festive by throwing a south-of-the-border fiesta complete with frosty margaritas, colorful maracas and a candy-filled piñata. I recently celebrated summer's arrival with such a fête in my backyard, and jazzed up my normal outdoor setup with vibrant flowers, a spicy menu and décor that channeled a Mexican beach town.
To throw this fiesta at home, you need five essential ingredients:
- All the fixin's for the perfect guacamole
- Succulents potted in Mexican food cans (decor and party favors in one!)
- Piñata filled with colorful candy
- Paper flag garlands to string overhead
- Ice cold margaritas — frozen or on-the-rocks!
Click here to see the fiesta in action and get tips on throwing your own Mexican party.
Menu Details
To satisfy a variety of tastes and to make things easier, I set up a self-serve taco bar and let guests have fun building their favorite combinations. I stacked my table with all the toppings my guests could desire: warm flour and corn tortillas, diced grilled chicken, shredded cheese, pickled red onions, cherry tomatoes, a variety of salsas, guacamole and limes. And don't forget necessary condiments like hot sauce and lime wedges! For buffet-style service, it's usually best to place the plates at the "beginning" (the left side) and napkins and flatware at the "end" (the right side.) This creates the optimal flow and keeps your guests from having to juggle too many items as they make their way down the bar. See the buffet table set up here.
To wash down all those delicious tacos, I offered plenty of Mexican cokes, Topo Chico waters, ice cold cervezas and frosty margaritas served in traditional glassware. To make frozen margaritas for a crowd, I recommend a little advance prep. Before guests arrive, mix batches of extra-strong margaritas and keep them chilled in glass pitchers in the fridge. All that's left to do at party time is combine with lots of ice in a blender, then pour into salt-rimmed glasses and serve.
Since I wanted to stay out of the kitchen and celebrate with my friends as much as possible, I kept dessert simple and delicious with key lime tartlets, colorful sugar cookies and Mexican wedding cookies. These can all be prepared a day in advance and look beautiful when passed around on platters at the end of the night. Get the Mexican dessert recipes here.
See how this party came together and get fiesta decorating tips and game ideas here.
Camille Styles is the founder and editor of lifestyle blog camillestyles.com, where she shares creative entertaining ideas for parties and everyday life. She also owns Camille Styles Events, a design and planning firm that transforms ordinary events into extraordinary experiences.


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Ed McGown wraps shoot for Argentina-set horror film
Shooting wraps this week in Argentina on The Rules of The Game, directed by the UK's Ed McGown.
The cast features two of Screen's 2010 Stars of Tomorrow, Jack Gordon and Obi Abili, alongside Jack Doolan, Charlie Bewley and Mike Noble.
Jack Gordon said: "What an incredible experience to come to Argentina to shoot The Rules of the Game. Between the talented crew and actors it's looking fantastic. Ed has so much energy and enthusiasm, you can't keep the man still for two minutes."
Strike Films' Georgina Edwards produces and Lex Filmed Entertainment's Sascha Hecks and Tracey Adam executive produce.
Sam Michell and Chris Hill wrote the script, an adventure film about "the perfect revenge gone wrong".
The feature grew out of a teaser of the same name that won Best Short in Cannes Short Film Corner.
It is McGown's first feature having made award-winning shorts including Out There. He also co-produced Peter Greenaway's Nightwatching.
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Roulette Presents Sally Silvers' BONOBO MILKSHAKE, Now thru 12/1
Roulette presents the radical (& iconoclassical) choreographer Sally Silvers' first large group piece since 2009. After decades of her wild, post-Judson experimentation (& after 5 years dancing for Yvonne Rainer), award-winning 'downtown' choreography springboards into the witty, wistful sophistication of the Broadway stage. In an extreme mash-up, Silvers puts synchronized swimming, martial arts, roller derby, children's games, billiards, ice dancing & other instructional material into the mix at Roulette's gorgeous new Brooklyn space. With a half-dozen Stephen Sondheim musicals as a focus for her madcap lens of off-kilter, playful, inventive dance, BONOBO MILKSHAKE makes for a sexy fresh species of movement art.
Starring an ensemble of 7 dancers (Aaron Draper, Elisa Osborn, Miriam Parker, Jeremy Pheiffer, Veraalba Santa, Christopher Williams & Silvers) joined by "swing cast" dancers Edisa Weeks, Jonathan Kinzel, Carolyn Hall, Rebekah Windmiller, Dylan Crossman, and Daniel Madoff and the beguiling Obie winning actor, David Greenspan. Original soundscape & text by Bruce Andrews, paired with experimental composer, Michael Schumacher. Costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy and lighting by Kathy Kaufmann.
The show will take place at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, corner of 3rd ave, Brooklyn (2,3,Q,B,R,D Atlantic/Pacific) tonight, November 28, November 29 and 30 & December 1 at 8pm. General admission $15, Students/Seniors $10. For more information, visit www.roulette.org.
Sally Silvers has been making dances for 30 years & her association with Roulette goes back almost as far. She has performed and taught (improvisation, composition, repertory) nationally & internationally. Her theoretical writing, scores, and poetry have appeared in several journals including The Drama Review, an anthology of new writings by women published by Illinois University Press, and many poetry magazines. Silvers has received support for her choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts six times, twice from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Project for collaborations with John Zorn and Bruce Andrews, from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and from a Guggenheim Fellowship. Silvers is a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" winner, has co-directed 2 dance films, Little Lieutenant and Mechanics of the Brain, and choreographed 3 musicals for the Sundance Theater Festival in Utah. She developed her concept of "live choreography" (making work live in front of an audience) in the mid-90's. From 2006 to 2011, she danced in the recent new works of Yvonne Rainer.
Roulette – one of New York City's premiere venues for experimental music for over 33 years - has reopened bigger and better than ever. Located in a newly renovated 1920s Art Deco concert hall in Downtown Brooklyn, the new Roulette features two levels of seating for up to 400 people (600 standing), an expanded multi-channel sound system, projection screen for film and multi-media events, state-of-the-art lighting system, modular stage, and a specially designed floor to accommodate dance. Teamed with bold new programming, the new Roulette promises to be one of the most exciting places in New York City - if not the country - to experience adventurous music and art.


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In front of a packed Kingsbury Hall Saturday night, comedienne Joan Rivers was offensive, foul-mouthed and obnoxious.
But, most importantly, she was very, very funny.
Can we talk?
In front of a packed Kingsbury Hall Saturday night, comedienne Joan Rivers was offensive, foul-mouthed and obnoxious.
But, most importantly, she was very, very funny.
In an hour-long set, the 79-year-old skewered every sacred cow in our pop culture-obsessed society, including even a cow itself, which she compared to her godchild Chaz Bono's face.
While Rivers barely made mention of Utah during her routine, she did acknowledge the adoring crowd frequently, but always with a little bite.
"I'm so happy to be here, which shows you how s- my life is," Rivers told the crowd early on.
The most unfortunate part of the night was that her routine was very similar to a routine she delivered in her 2012 DVD "Don't Start With Me," including jokes about topics that have passed their expiration date, including Winona Ryder's shoplifting, Woody Allen's fondness for younger women, and little boys in Chinese toilets aspiring to be adopted by Angelina Jolie. (Don't ask. It's a long story.)
But it was easy to forgive Rivers because of the manic way she delivered her jokes. Although she drops more F-bombs than you'll hear in a Quentin Tarantino movie, she remains eminently likable and somehow manages to seem as if she is on your side, saying things you might think but dare not say in a politically correct world.
And Rivers' gift is going beyond what you think might be too far because as far as she is concerned, anything goes, including calling Justin Bieber an unfavorable slang word for a lesbian and calling Vanna White the word that The Onion had to profusely apologize for several weeks earlier.
A comedy review wouldn't be fair if it didn't include a joke told by Rivers. One of the printable ones included:
Rivers not feeling sad for King George VI's stuttering, because he owns England, Ireland, Canada, Scotland and Australia. The real person we should feel sorry for is a person with a stuttering problem while working for a suicide hotline. And Rivers said speech impediments aren't that bad she would cut off half her own tongue if she could own just a part of Newark, N.J.
And did you see how unfunny I made that seem? In Rivers' hands, the joke was told with a skill that brought the house down. Of course, she added a few F-bombs, too.
But whether Rivers told jokes about Anne Frank, Auschwitz, Mexico having the ugliest people in the world, Khloe Kardashian (whom Rivers called "Lurch"), oral sex from someone with no limbs, Adele's song "Rolling in the Deep" being adapted into "Rolling in the Deep-Fried Chicken" because of Adele's weight, and even wishing Rivers had a son so he could have been molested by Michael Jackson and thus collected millions in a settlement, Rivers showed where comics Kathy Griffin and Anthony Jeselnik get their inspiration.
Though she told the crowd that she could drop dead any minute, Rivers and her comedy lived the high life Saturday night.
Joan Rivers
When • Saturday, March 9
Where • Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City
Bottom Line • Rivers was offensive, foul-mouthed and obnoxious. And that made you laugh.


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Topic: Locations Where Extrahepatic Metastatsis Go &Early Detection By PET
Hi, everyone,
Below is the link about mets if you are interest.
God bless
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Hi, everyone,
Below is the link about mets if you are interest.
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This is good info...thank you.
Thanks for that Percy, a good link.
thanks, Percy. Seems a good reason to "debulk" tumors even if the resection is not curative...... fewer metastases?
Hi, everyone,
Below is an article talking about the timing of PET scan after RFA ( the same apply to microwave ablation) to check on the ablation result whether is successful or not. For practical purpose, just read the last paragraph will be enough.
Below is how the lymph flows through the lymph node. The size of a normal abdominal lymph node ( not swelling) can be 2mm to 20 mm in length and can be as long as 10 mm in width .
https://www.google.com/search?q=peripor … jWtem3M%3A
Below is an other article about different types of lymph nodes; read page 841 and page 842 ,table 1 and 2 , and figure 18 that is more related to the regional lymph nodes in liver cancer to increase the understanding how lymph node diagnosis in relationship with its size and scan results .
God bless.
Thanks for these Percy.
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University News Service
January 21, 2011
The Bernard Osher Foundation is offering Osher Reentry Scholarships to promote a return to college for current non-students on the path to earning an undergraduate degree.
The deadline for applications is June 1.
Candidates for Osher Reentry Scholarships are students who:
Preference will be given to newly matriculating students. In the second year of the program and beyond, returning Osher Reentry Scholars who have re-applied and continue to meet all other criteria may be given preference as well. No individual scholarship may exceed $5,000 per academic year. The scholarship funds will supplement rather than replace existing institutional support for this population.
Scholarship awards are not intended for graduate students or students seeking an additional degree. It is not intended for students who are exclusively enrolled in online courses or for international students who are visiting the United States with the intention of returning to their countries of origin after graduation.
Osher funds will be fully dedicated to scholarship assistance.
The Osher Reentry Scholarship application can be found on the Financial Aid/Scholarship web site under "Headlines."


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Anagram Guru 3Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Two numbers are given in each sentence that need to be replaced by words. Each word is an anagram of the other, except that one word contains an additional letter that the other word lacks. When this additional letter is removed, each word can be made by using the letters of the other word in each sentence. Based on the clues given in each sentence, do your best to figure out what the two words are. The numbers given in each sentence indicate the number of letters in each word. Some of the words may be formed without rearranging the letters, and the only difference between the words in this case is the one letter that has been added to one of the words.
1) The attorney was very happy. Not only had he just become a (7) in the firm, but his wife had just told him that he would be a (6) in a few months.
2) The (7) rode swiftly to fight the fire breathing (6).
3) He read in the ancient (4) that a (5) would strike the earth in ten years.
4) I heard the foreman (6) "look out (5)!"
5) The gambler was able to (6) that his opponent was only holding a (5).
6) The Great (6) was not in 1812. You are in (5).
7) In that (6) lies a hero who lost his life to an archer's (5).
8) A (4) began to form between them when he started to (5) with others.
9) It appeared that the (5) had eaten the young man. All that could be found was the (4) he had worn to the fraternity party.
10) Some people regarded yesterday's event as being (7). There were rumors that the priest had been paid to (6) the historic site.
Answer1) Partner, Parent
2) Dragoon, Dragon
3) Tome, Comet
4) Bellow, Below
5) Deduce, Deuce
6) Terror, Error
7) Barrow, Arrow
8) Rift, Flirt
9) Gator, Toga
10) Shallow, Hallow
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Who Got the Better Ring?
Considering that Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries lasted only 72 days, it's understandable why the press would rush into bestowing a nickname on her new relationship with Kanye West. But friends insist that "Kimye" is the real thing. "It's not a PR stunt," a source told Us Weekly. "They're perfect for each other. He thinks she's his Beyoncé!" And West isn't exactly behaving like a graceful winner. In the lyrics to his song "Theraflu" he takes a shot at Kardashian's soon-to-be ex-husband and implies that he could have Jay-Z get rid of the New Jersey Nets forward: "And I'll admit, I fell in love with Kim / Round the same time she had fell in love wit' him/ Well that's cool, baby girl, do ya thing / Lucky I ain't have Jay drop him from the team."
Though most consider "Bennifer" — Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez—the first celebrity couple with a portmanteau nickname, they weren't even close. (In the 1920s, the Hollywood press referred to the mansion that silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford owned as "Pickfair.") Director Kevin Smith gave Affleck and Lopez the famous moniker during the filming of 2003's Jersey Girl, the follow-up movie to their bomb Gigli, which also died at the box office. As did their relationship—the two broke off their engagement in 2004, and two years later, Smith joked in an interview: "I've learned absolutely nothing, except not to make any more movies with Bennifer." But Affleck must have liked the nickname, because shortly after his split from Lopez, he opted for a sequel— "Bennifer 2"—with his current wife, Jennifer Garner.
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An Ilkley man has been appointed general manager of York City Football Club John McGee, 58, will take up the role on Monday, April 7.
He is retiring from his position at Yorkshire Bank as regional head of the portfolio, assurance and advisory team for the north of England.
He has worked for Yorkshire Bank since leaving school, starting at the Otley branch and later returning there as manager in 1989.
Passionate about football and knowledgeable about issues within the game, John has also worked with a number of professional football and rugby clubs in his roles at Yorkshire Bank and has a good insight into the operations of businesses within the sport industry. He has links with several other clubs and is a keen Sheffield Wednesday supporter.
York City chairman Jason McGill said: "We are looking forward to John joining the team as we look towards our move to the new community stadium in 2016.
"He is extremely experienced at a senior level and will be responsible for implementing the board's strategy for the Club going forward. Our aim is to achieve gradual improvement on and off the pitch and we feel John's appointment will greatly benefit the daily operations of the business."
John said: "I have had 41 wonderful years with Yorkshire Bank, where I have gained valuable business experience working with really great people, both staff and customers.
"I'm really looking forward to my new challenge at York City, which I feel is a club run by people who have its best interests at heart and which has an exciting future ahead including the advent of the new Community Stadium.
"I am passionate about the game of football and I hope my background can benefit the business in many ways and in particular the supporters' experience.
"I will be as accessible as possible to all the staff and supporters and look forward to meeting everyone when I start my role in April."
John Hooper, executive director of Yorkshire Bank said: "John has been a terrific servant of the bank and will be missed by customers and colleagues alike.
"He has made a real difference over the years and I am sure he will bring huge enthusiasm and professionalism to the new role.
"We wish him every success going forward and will be watching the results of the club with a keen interest."