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CHERYL Cole has been dramatically replaced as a judge on the U.S. version of X
Factor, it was revealed last night.
The Geordie beauty's place is expected to be taken by former Pussycat Doll
Nicole Scherzinger.
A senior show source said: "It hasn't worked out. She's homesick and wants to
return to the UK. She's had enough. Whether she ends up back on UK X Factor
is open to speculation."
Cheryl, 27, had already judged some televised auditions in the States after
winning her dream job on the show.
But reports emerged today that she was already on her way back to the UK.
Former fellow X Factor UK judge Dannii Minogue – who was forced to quit the
show earlier this month – sent a message of support this morning via
She told her 563,000 followers: "Judging roles should come with a life jacket,
drop down oxygen and a life raft!"
And Simon Cowell's ex-girlfriend and X Factor aide Sinitta Tweeted: "Yesterday
everyone was saying how well she is doing, I mean open arms if she wanted to
come back right? But I think she should stick it out!
"USAXF! CC should stay, will be the making of her! Next level, use auto que if
necessary!! (sic)"
Cheryl was finally confirmed as a judge on May 5 and secured a £1.2million
contract after months of speculation over whether she would be offered the
But producers included a get-out clause so they could drop her after the first
series if she failed to win over viewers.
After landing the job on the panel alongside Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and LA
Reid, thrilled Cheryl told The Sun: "I'm so excited. I absolutely love
finding new talent and helping them grow, so this is very exciting for me to
take part in.
"It's going be very different for me from our British version just because
America is so huge and the age range on X Factor is going to open it up to
age 12 to age 80.
"But talent is talent no matter where in the world you're from.
"That's one of the special things about it. Talent doesn't have a class or an
accent or a country, it's a gift — and I love finding that in people."
Prior to Cheryl's arrival on the panel, music mogul LA Reid revealed he had
never previously heard of her — or even listened to any of her music.
Cheryl also had the uphill battle of living up to Paula Abdul, whom Simon
Cowell had worked with for eight years on American Idol.
A dodgy bouffant hairdo didn't help Cheryl's first audition in Los Angeles
three weeks ago.
And her choice of clothes were also criticised as she was left in the shadow
of style-winner Abdul, who is 21 years her senior.
X Factor supremo Cowell had said he was "thrilled" for Cheryl when it was
announced she was joining the show.
Days later she admitted she had "stepped out of her comfort zone"
although she believed her strong Geordie accent would not be a problem for
US audiences.
But Fox TV entertainment boss Mike Darnell backed her bid to make it as a US
judge, saying he believed Cheryl had the "whole X Factor package".
Welcoming Cole to the show, he described her as an "incredibly talented artist
and performer" and a "style icon" with charisma that draws in fans around
the world".
There had been reports that bosses at Fox were worried about her being
relatively unknown in the US and that American viewers might find her
Geordie accent difficult to understand.
This morning, comic Russell Brand said Americans might need to "listen
more" after hearing the news about Cheryl.
He told ITV1's Daybreak: "Our Cheryl? That cannae be right!
"Our Cheryl, kicked off X Factor? What, the American one? And I've come
to this country in good faith and they've kicked Cheryl off, our Cheryl? Oh
no! She's Britain's sweetheart."
US telly host Piers Morgan was also quick to voice his opinion on Cheryl's
exit, tweeting: "Just arrived in LA and hearing that Cheryl Cole is OFF
the X Factor in America. Wow."
Possible new judge Nicole, 32, was previously to be a presenter alongside
Welsh host Steve Jones.
Filming of the latest round of X Factor USA auditions was set to continue
today in Dallas, Texas. The show begins on US TV in September.


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I currently just use a laptop, HP Envy 14. Its dedicated graphics, intel SSD, i5, and 8GB ram actually still serve me pretty well for moderate use photo editing, however I wanted something portable that could also play the occasional new gen game @ 1080p res when hooked up to my TV. At the time I bought the laptop, the 5650M could actually play the game out at that time, however now it's a little long in the tooth.
[CASE] First and foremost, I was looking for the smallest possible case that would fit a mid-range video card like the R9 270. I just started researching for this build at the beginning of the month. There were really only 2 choices that came up, the Silverstone SG05 @ ~10 liters, and the Ncase M1 @ 12.5 liters. Everything else like the bitphoenix and evga hadron were just a little too big, considering I wasn't going to put in watercooling radiators or huge tower heatsink.
However, not only was the M1 twice the price, it appeared the indiegogo funding rounds were over, so I couldn't get one quickly anyway, so that left the SG05 by default.
In terms of the build, the SG05 isn't too bad the work in. I will say though, cable management is quite tricky because there isn't much free space when all the parts are in. I had the cables tucked very neatly up until it came time to put in the video card, and realized it wouldn't fit due to how I had bundled the cables together, so I had to unbundle a bit until the card had enough clearance.
The PSU and 120mm fan (spins ~700rpm) are both pretty quiet. No issues for me. Build quality seems pretty decent.
[CPU] Originally I was planning to get the i5-4570 for $149 from microcenter, but when I got to the store, I decided to splurge and get the big boy i7 instead for a little more longevity for this build, and my workload for this computer is more Lightroom/Photoshop work which can utilize the additional threads, rather than games. I'm not overclocking, so the stock HS/fan has been fine for me.
[MOBO] All the Z87 mini-ITX boards are pretty similar, but the Asrock has an eSATA port. I think the other board that has eSATA is the asus deluxe board, but that was twice the price. Also, Microcenter had this one in stock and with CPU bundle discount, so it worked out cheaper than buying it online.
[RAM] Ballistix were on bundle sale at Microcenter as well, not really any more expensive to similar 16GB CAS 9 kits there vs online. No compatibility or stability issues.
[STORAGE] I was originally going to order the 840 EVO online for $160, but I impulse purchased it at Microcenter instead because I was impatient and wanted to get up and running same day.
As far as the storage mechanical disk goes though, I think maybe I should have gone for a 2.5" disk. The 3.5 7200rpm desktop drive is a little loud. IMO its the loudest component in the whole system when it is actively running. I have windows power management set to spin it down after a few minutes of disk idle, so it's not too bad now. Windows seems to do it with individual drives, so there is no issue with any lag on the primary SSD or anything.
[GPU] This was really a huge toss up for me, GTX vs R9. The $180 270 OC non-X seemed to bench almost as high as the $250 GTX 760. I play fairly basic games though, mostly racing and sports [i.e. grid 2, f1 2013, fifa 14, dirt 3, etc.] so I opted to save the $70 and get the R9 instead.
UPDATE: 120mm Silverstone case fan started annoyingly clicking after 3 days of use, so I replaced it with a Noctua NF-P12-1300. Just as quiet at 900RPM, but no bearing noise.

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Kolb will start, DeSean Jackson likely out
Adam Rank | Tags: Andy Reid, DeSean Jackson, Jason Avant, Kevin Kolb, Matt Cassel, Michael Vick, Philadelphia Eagles
Eagles QB Kevin Kolb will start this week at Tennessee, as expected. And it's no surprise that WR DeSean Jackson is unlikely to play this week.
Eagles coach Andy Reid told reporters after Sunday's game that QB Michael Vick was still his guy, but later speculated that Kolb was going to be forced into starting again. Vick served as the team's emergency quarterback against the Falcons and only would have handed the ball off if he was pressed into duty.
Kolb has a tough matchup against the Titans, and is a No. 2 quarterback at this point. Jason Avant will start opposite Jeremy Maclin if Jackson does not go. If you are in the market for a spot-start quarterback this week, Chiefs QB Matt Cassel has a favorable matchup against the Jaguars.
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Ingram has traveled during offseason and looks to narrow basketball offers this summer.
Brandon Ingram will be well-travelled by the time the offseason expires.
The junior forward has committed to the gym while away from Kinston High School basketball and had the opportunity to play ball outside of the state � and soon to be abroad.
Ingram recently played in the Adidas Gauntlet tournamentin Dallas, Texas. Due to SATs, he had to sit out of a tournament in Miami last weekend.
On June 5, the 6-foot-8 Free Press Player of the Year will head to Italy to represent the USA in a 17 and under Eurocamp. He�s never been overseas and will have to obtain a passport.
�I think it�ll be fun,� said Ingram, who is the No. 1 ranked player of the 2015 class in the state, according to ESPN. �A lot of guys have been telling me it�s a great place to be and will be a good experience.�
EPSN also lists Ingram as the No. 2 small forward and the No. 15 overall player in the nation of the 2015 class.
All of Ingram�s involvements over the summer will prepare him for a major basketball decision: where he will commit to play college basketball.
He has nine offers, the most recent from Duke after an in-home visit at the end of April. Ingram was impressed with coach Mike Krzyzewski�s presentation.
�They told me everything about my game, my strengths and weaknesses,� said Ingram, who averaged a conference-best 19.1 points this season. �(Coach K) is a very different person on the court than just talking to him; a very down to earth guy, and he�s just a guy you would like to be around.�
At the end of Kinston�s third consecutive championship season, Ingram said he would narrow down the offers by the summer. He said he is not leaning toward one school more than the other at this point.
His other offers include UNC, N.C. State, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, Minnesota, Louisville and Clemson.


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Franklin County deputies investigated a shooting Sunday night at a Labadie area residence.
Deputies went to the home in the 2000 block of Highway T after the department received a call from a young female who said her mother had been shot in the hand. The caller said the shooting stemmed from a domestic disturbance, according to a report.
Deputies questioned a 50-year-old woman who sustained a gunshot wound to her left ring finger. The woman told officers she found a small-caliber pistol while cleaning out cabinets and the weapon accidentally discharged while she was attempting to throw it into the woods so her children would not find it. She said she does not like guns, according to the report.
The woman was taken to Mercy Hospital Washington for treatment.
Meanwhile, officers questioned other people at the home, including one man who was asleep in a bedroom, but no one provided any information about the incident.
A 43-year-old Labadie man who appeared intoxicated was taken into protective custody and for further questioning at the county jail, the sheriff's office said.
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Taylor Swift Dominates Billboard's 2011 Country Charts
As country music's reigning ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year, as well the all-genre AMA Artist of the Year, there's really no surprise Taylor Swift is the No. 1 country artist of 2011. According to Billboard's year-end Top Country Artists chart, the 'Ours' singer, who landed at No. 8 on the all-genre artists countdown, dominated in every category of the country rankings, including album sales, radio airplay, download sales, tour revenue and ringtone sales. Rounding out the Top 10 (in order) are Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown Band, Blake Shelton, the Band Perry, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley and Luke Bryan.
Taylor also took top honors on Billboard's year-end Country Albums and Country Albums Artist charts for her triple-platinum selling CD, 'Speak Now,' which has spawned four Top 5 singles, including her most recent No. 1, 'Sparks Fly.' The collection also landed at No. 2 on Billboard's year-end, all-genre Top 200 albums chart, placing just behind soul singer Adele's '21,' which has sold more than five million copies in the United States.
Blake Shelton asserted his CMA Male Vocalist of the Year superstar status with his first-place finish on the Country Songs Artists countdown, a comprehensive list based on country radio airplay. The singer charted two multi-week No. 1 singles with 'Honey Bee' and 'God Gave Me You,' which extended his consecutive chart-topping streak to five. Rounding out the Top 10 on the 2011 songs chart (in order) are Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Chris Young, Brad Paisley, Zac Brown Band and Luke Bryan.
The Eli Young Band had a breakout year with 'Crazy Girl,' which earned the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Country Singles chart. The tune landed in the top spot last month after spending more than eight months on the chart. The single has been certified platinum, signifying more than one million paid digital downloads.
Other notable country achievements are Thompson Square and Scotty McCreery's inclusion on the Top New Artists chart, coming in at No. 6 and No. 8, respectively. Alison Krauss and Union Station earned the No. 1 bluegrass album of 2011 with their critically-acclaimed collection, 'Paper Airplane.'
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Think about it. Let's say possession of pistol ammo is forbidden. You can be sentenced to prison for 10 years for possessing 50 rounds. Your father passes away, and you find a 1,000rd case in his garden shed. You had no idea it existed. What do you do?
I would also fetch my shovel.
Acctually atleast here in Sweden when a gunowner dies the guns/ammo was his property so it goes into the estate and can be sold or you can apply for a license (if you meet the prerequisites) they even give you time to take the hunters license to do it.
Licenses weren't required in the past in the same way, and even so very old licenses aren't even in the system so guns do pop up when oldtimers pass away
And for the finnish guy who asked
they are kinda targeting semi-automatic rifles with removable magazines, very hard requirements to get an ar15 for example, and for hunting noting that has got a military background
Much of it was already happening before and then Breivik happened
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Anything you can do, Kacy Catanzaro can do better.
On this week's episode of American Ninja Warrior, the show that pits some of the world's best athletes against insane obstacle courses, gymnast Kacy Catanzaro became the first woman to complete the qualifying course. But she didn't stop there. Catanzaro then became the first woman to complete the finals course, and she made it look easy.
The nearly 10-minute finals course included balancing obstacles, the salmon ladder—which Arrow fans knew a woman could complete—and the much-dreaded spider climb. But Catanzaro used her 5-foot frame to her advantage and landed herself a ticket to Las Vegas.


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So it looks like the MPC Renaissance dropped recently, and I'm seeing quite a few producers (B. Cox, Jermaine Dupri, etc) jump on it. Wondering if yall think its worth purchasing or just a $1200 drum midi controller/hardware sampler?
Reason I ask is because I have a midi controller and drum machine and they suite me fine, but also, I think you could get Maschine for way less with pretty much the same features.
But also, some people still prefer having hardware with their synthesizers or modules. I'm starting to find that not as effective anymore because if you haven't noticed, say you have a track done on reason with 30 tracks, and you create a track on the mpc with 30 tracks, you still have to track out the beat on the mpc one by one which can really slow things down. With something like Reason or FL Studio, once you are done with the track, you can bounce straight to .wav or .aiff.
So I just wanted to you guys thoughts?


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AUGUSTA, Ga. — A 4-iron wasn't the only thing that Tiger Woods broke Sunday at the Masters.
Fractured, too, was the myth that the man couldn't be beat once he grabbed the outright lead in the final round of a major.
Twice before, Woods had been caught and passed. But both times — in the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla and here a year later — Woods came out on top. In this wackiest of Masters, he held the lead for all of a few minutes after making a birdie at the second hole, then spent the rest of the day trying in vain to catch a rotating cast of characters going by him in Augusta National's passing lane.
"I had a chance, but looking back over the week, I basically blew this tournament on two rounds where I had bogey-bogey finishes," Woods said, referring to Nos. 17 and 18.
"That's 4-over on two holes," he added. "You can't afford to do that and win major championships."
Zach Johnson was parked on the 18th green with the winning score of 1-over 289 when Woods walked onto the 17th tee knowing he would need a birdie-birdie finish over those same two holes just to force a playoff.
The greatest front-runner in golf made par at 17 after driving the ball into the right rough and trying to float a wedge on the wind at his back and land it close enough to have a shot at a 3. No sooner had the ball landed in a bunker short of the green than Woods said loudly, "What the hell happened there?"
Though he wasn't officially done until his approach shot from the fairway to the final green stopped rolling some 20 feet to the right of the pin, he knew a miracle finish wasn't in the cards the moment the ball left the clubface.
Asked whether it was different being forced to play catch up, something Woods' rivals know only too well, Tiger simply said, "I'm playing the same holes he (Johnson) is, so if I make the same birdies as he does on the same holes, it's a moot point."
That's true, of course. But there's nobody in the game, no matter what club he has in his hands, that you would rather lay money down on. Woods has been golf's version of Michael Jordan with the basketball in his hands and the clock ticking down, Lance Armstrong with a crushing mountain climb coming into view, Joe Montana with first-and-10 and a minute to go the length of the field. In other words, clutch.
This time he was anything but.
"He guts-ed it," Stuart Appleby, the third-round leader and Woods' playing partner Sunday, said with admiration. "He tried."
But this once, Woods didn't deliver.
He looked ready when his tee shot at 11 came to rest on pine straw under a tree on the right side of the fairway. There, Woods took a stance that ensured his follow-through would drive the shaft of the club squarely against the tree's trunk. He swung hard, anyway, bending the shaft so severely that he snapped it a moment later as easily as if it were a twig.
After a sensational par there, though, Woods had a brief twinge of regret when he bombed a drive around the corner at the par-5 13th and decided to go for the green in two.
"Ironically, on 13, it was the perfect club, that 4-iron. I had to hit a 5-iron as hard as I could over the creek and hook it back," he said. "It's not the shot you want to hit."
But he hit that one, too, and just like the recovery at No. 11, pulled it off. The approach landed a half-foot from the top edge of the 13th green, then trickled down to 3 feet. The ensuing eagle putt dropped Woods to 3-over and two strokes behind Johnson. Game on.
Anybody who had seen Woods hole an almost-impossible chip from behind the 16th green — the ball's logo even posed for a deep breath before falling into the cup — en route to another green jacket two years ago couldn't wait to see what was next. This time, though, most of them watched Woods coming down the stretch by sneaking peeks through the gaps in the fingers covering their eyes.
Johnson couldn't bear to do even that much.
"I really wasn't looking at the leaderboard," he said afterward. "I left that up to Damon (Green), my caddie. I never really knew where I stood.
"I said, 'Damon, should I look? Should I look?' I didn't know until the 17th, and then I realized I just had to play solid and go from there."
Turns out Johnson could have peeked much earlier. After the 13th, Woods uncharacteristically ran out of magic.
He dunked a second shot at the par-5 15th and had to scramble to make par. He hit a 7-iron to 12 feet below the hole at the par-3 16th and missed that.
"It was difficult, very difficult," Woods said. "It was the hardest Masters I've ever seen, with the wind, the dryness, the speed of these things. I told a couple guys out here this week, 'I was glad I had metal spikes on, or I would have slipped on the greens, they were so slick.' "
Woods exited the clubhouse soon after, surrounded by his agent and four security guards, sipping a diet soda and carrying a new driver under his arm. He headed for the driving range and so strong is the legend that's grown up around Woods that a few people following him actually thought he was going to practice.
Instead, he used a back entrance to the players' parking lot, started up the car and drove down Magnolia Lane. There would be no more golf this day. This Masters was over, and with it went a piece of Tiger's aura of invincibility.


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Update: Firefighters Rescue Teenager from Fire
Update: 9:37 a.m.
Lynchburg, VA - Lynchburg fire officials say a 15-year-old was assisted from a burning duplex early Tuesday morning.
We're told the teenager was in the side of the duplex that was not on fire. Officials say the teenager was treated for smoke inhalation.
Lynchburg, VA - One person had to be hospitalized after being rescued from a burning duplex.
At 1:15 a.m. Tuesday, firefighters were called to the 600 block of Edgar Street for a structure fire.
After they pulled the person from the home, EMS crews took them to the hospital.
We're told their injuries are non-life threatening.
Fire officials say the damage to the home is extensive and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The Red Cross is assisting two families at this time.


text: Unwrap a good book this Christmas December 21, 2012 Story Share Of course, all of your packages are wrapped and ready, so this list of gift ideas for multiple ages couldn't possibly interest you. Nevertheless, you are welcome to stay while I recall fondly some of the books I spent time with this year:• On most bookstore shelves this fall is the latest Lane Smith picture book "Abe Lincoln's Dream." Poor old Abe is troubled and restless, and goes on a tour around the White House with a little African-American girl.During the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, during the term of the nation's first African-American president, with that stunning Lincoln film still playing, it is nice to imagine this child comforting the man who freed the slaves.It is also good for the spirit to take a break from the problems of the day, both real and imagined, and admire how far the nation has come. This book is short and warm enough for young listeners, but deep enough to engage older readers.• Another picture book, "Bill the Boy Wonder" by Marc Tyler Nobleman, you may have encountered on West Virginia Book Festival: The Blog. Nobleman was at the Book Festival in October and described how he found and tracked down the forgotten descendants of Bill Finger, the uncredited co-creator of Batman.It is a vibrantly illustrated non-fiction tale that appeals not only to Batman fans and comic book readers, but also to anyone with a sense of justice.• "Dead End in Norvelt" came out last fall, won the 2012 Newbery Medal, as well as the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and is by one of my favorite authors. Jack Gantos, a 2005 Book Festival presenter, set his story in 1962 Norvelt, Pa., one of Eleanor Roosevelt's Depression-era settlement communities, where the author actually lived as a boy.He borrows heavily from his own childhood for this upper elementary/young adult novel about a family and town pulled between their past and future. Jack's father is a World War II veteran who wants to shake the dust of the dying town and seek his fortune where there are jobs and opportunity. Jack's mother was a girl in Norvelt during the Great Depression and wants to maintain the caring community people built there. For all the weighty ideas in this book, it is not heavy. I recently read it to 38 fifth-graders, and they laughed all the way through it.One thread of the plot involves someone buying vacant houses in Norvelt and moving them to Eleanor, W.Va., another settlement community that is growing, not dying, as the character says. I would love to know what people of Eleanor make of some of the book's characterizations • "Alvin Ho" isn't new, but it is one of my favorites for kids who are reading on their own and have started to move into longer books.From the moment in 2008 when I picked up "Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School and Other Scary Things," I was smitten. Alvin is so scared of school, he is unable to speak there. But at home he is the energetic and vocal Firecracker Man. Alvin's adventures are full of suspense and action, despite being limited to the world of home, school and the doctor's office.• When I picked up "A Coyote's in the House," from way back in 2004, I was skeptical. There seems to be no end of well-known adult authors writing kids books that are more about name-dropping than having an interesting and readable story to tell. But with Elmore Leonard, author of gritty, contemporary adult fiction such as "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight," have no fear.Meet Antwan, cool, wild and savvy. He wanders into a Hollywood Hills mansion one day, up to no good, where he meets Buddy, an aging film star who wants to get away, see what he's missing, fill a void in his life. Did I mention almost all the characters are dogs, except for the coyotes?The sharp dialogue and the picture-perfect storytelling make this book go.• Finally, another volume I'm giving this year is "A Tale Dark and Grimm" by Adam Gidwitz, published in 2010. I didn't realize until I saw the Google doodle that this is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I just know this book to be a crowd pleaser. This volume restores the blood and suffering that had been purged from the original stories to make them "suitable" for children. That makes it sound like a lot of gratuitous violence.But it's not. The old Grimm tales have been strung together into a novel about Hansel and Gretel. You'll encounter old folk tales and characters you may not have known, a chatty, easy style, and a story full of love, mistakes, struggle, sacrifice, forgiveness, redemption and growth.That makes it a very seasonal choice, indeed.Miller, the Gazette's editorial page editor, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Charleston restaurant 2 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 3 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says 4 Gazette editorial: Capito has second chance to do the right thing 5 Doug Smock: AAC not ready for Power 6 quite yet Don't take grandmothers' accomplishments for granted Previous Story Tip: Tie education changes to student needs Next Story


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City, which has led the table for most of the season, now trails arch-rival Manchester United by a point with 10 games remaining after losing at Swansea City.
That 1-0 loss came at the end of a bad week in which City was also beaten by the same scoreline in the first leg of its UEFA Europa League last-16 tie against Sporting in
Mancini wants his team to refocus quickly knowing that, with a game against United still to come, the title is still within its grasp.
The Italian said: "I think that in
"We didn't deserve to lose both games but I think we need to play better.
"We can't cry, now is the time to be strong and keep going. We have a top team and we have time to recover.
"We can't cry because we are one point behind Manchester United.
"We have 10 games, our fortune is in our hands and we can change it if we want to.
"Like we lost points against Swansea, United can lose points against Wolverhampton. Every game will be difficult for both teams."
One City supporter was pictured crying after the loss at the
He said: "We want to win the title, to do history for the club.
"We are very disappointed for our supporters after Swansea and I saw on the TV one supporter was crying.
"We want to win for this guy, for all the other supporters. We want to change this.
"I prefer to stay at the top and now we are behind, but it is important to be there at the end of the season. It doesn't change it for us.
"We are disappointed for the defeat against Swansea but now our focus should be about Sporting Lisbon."
City hosts the second leg against the Portuguese side on Thursday evening (Friday morning AEDT).
Mancini has so far given no indication, in words or selection, that he regards the Europa League as a distraction.
It has been suggested since the weekend he may now have to tailor his teams to prioritise the Premier League bid, but he insists he is still going all out for both trophies.
Mancini said: "We can't think negative at this moment.
"We are positive and we think we will win the Barclays Premier League and the Europa League.
"If we thought differently, it would be a mistake. It would be everything to win both competitions.
"We always play with the best team. Even when we change four or five players it is because we have played one game and then another after three days.
"Sometimes these players need to rest - it is impossible the same team can play every game. We have a team of 20 players.
"Tomorrow we want to win and we need to do our best if we want to beat Sporting."
City is hampered by defensive injuries.
Joleon Lescott has a chance of making the bench as he recovers from a groin injury, but midfielder
Barry appeared to show dissent when controversially substituted in the first half against Swansea, but Mancini says he has a fitness issue dating back to last month.
Mancini said: "Gareth has had a problem with his back for 20 days. He can't run well.
"When he went to the national team he had a problem.
"On Sunday he didn't play well but I think that is because he had a problem."
Another player who will not feature, because he is not eligible, is striker
But the Argentinian, who has been training for the past month after ending his dispute with the club, could be back in contention for next Wednesday evening's (Thursday morning AEDT) clash with Chelsea.
Mancini said: "We will see in the next week. It depends on Carlo.
"If Carlo is okay then probably, but it depends on a lot of things."


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Microsoft supports WebGL
In a massive about-turn, after declaring WebGL to be insecure and working on its own http replacement, IE11 will support WebGL and Goggle's SPDY protocol. HTML5 support is also much improved, and some much-needed interface tweaks have been delayed.
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OpenGL BOF at SIGGRAPH 2013
The Khronos Group has posted the official Birds of a Feather (BOF) schedule for SIGGRAPH 2013. Along with the OpenGL BOF on July 24th at 7pm there will be eight other BOFs and a BOF Blitz After-Party™ event for the 10th Anniversary of OpenGL ES. Everyone is welcome! Complete details area available on the Khronos Group website.
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Voreen 4.3 released
Version 4.3 of the open-source, cross-platform volume visualization tool Voreen is now available for download. This version adds an octree-based out-of-core volume renderer implemented in OpenCL as well as an OpenGL 4.3 multi-volume raycaster that supports polyhedral proxy geometries and the integration of semi-transparent geometries.
Jun 14, 2013 | Read article... | Permalink
Apple Adds OpenGL 4 Support in OS X 10.9 Mavericks!
Developers for Apple OS X have been asking for an upgrade from OpenGL 3.x (with GLSL version limitations) to OpenGL 4.x and the powerful core features it exposes like tessellation. With the announcement of OS X Mavericks Apple has added support for OpenGL 4.1 core profile to their operating system.
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GLFW 3.0 released
GLFW is a library for portable OpenGL application development. It manages windows, OpenGL contexts, resolution switching and provides keyboard, mouse, joystick and time input. Version 3.0 removes deprecated features and adds a new API supporting multiple windows and monitors, sRGB, robustness, OpenGL ES, high-DPI, gamma ramps, callbacks for more events, clipboard text I/O, an error description callback, layout-independent keyboard input, UTF-8 for all strings and more.
Jun 13, 2013 | Read article... | Permalink
A texture viewer for 3D graphics engineers
Pico Pixel is a texture viewer for 3D graphics developers. It can zoom in and out on details, inspect color channels and display detailed color information at any pixel. Pico pixel can navigate through the mip levels of textures (2D, cube maps and volumes). Pico Pixel uses OpenGL and GPU technology for fast image operations and smooth user interaction.
Jun 13, 2013 | Read article... | Permalink
OpenGL Space Combat and Strategy Game Programming
Learn by doing with a series of game prototypes to demonstrate the fundamentals of OpenGL-based space combat and realtime strategy game programming. Just released, prototype 5 is focusing on 3D model integration and warp flight visualisation: -simple 3D model (spaceship) rendering with deferred lighting -Visualisation of the activated warp engines -Blurred stars depending on the actual flight direction -Red- and blueshift of the irradiated light (from visible stars and nebulas) depending on the camera view direction -Warp stripes around the spaceship.
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GLFW 2.7.9 released
GLFW is a library for portable OpenGL application development. It manages a window, OpenGL context, resolution switching, keyboard, mouse, joystick and time input, and more. Version 2.7.9 adds fixes for multiple cursor motion bugs on Windows and fixes support for the LFLAGS environment variable on OS X.
Jun 06, 2013 | Read article... | Permalink
GLIntercept 1.2 adds expanded debug context logging
GLIntercept version 1.2 adds the OpenGL 4.3 entry points for logging and expands the logging of OpenGL debug context messages.
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Stella Faye Altizer, 78, of Pulaski, Va. died Tuesday night, March 10, 2009 in the Pulaski Health and Rehab Center, Pulaski. She was born in Pulaski County on May 6, 1930 and was the daughter of the late Noah Simpkins and Dora Hylton Simpkins. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Bentley Altizer and by two brothers, Archie and Willard Simpkins. Surviving are son Darrell Altizer, brothers Clarence Simpkins, Atlanta, Ga.; Millard Simpkins, Pulaski, Va., Joel Simpkins, Pulaski, Va., Paul Simpkins, Buchanan, Va. and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. from the Stevens Funeral Chapel with Rev. Dean Simpkins officiating. Burial will follow in the Trail Cemetery, Hiwassee. Visiting will be Friday evening at Stevens Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
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Six people arrested in 'significant' London anti-terror raids
Six people have been arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism following police raids in London.
Three of the suspects were detained in Ealing, with a 21-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman arrested at separate addresses in the west London borough. A 29-year-old man was also arrested in an Ealing street.
The other three – reported to be aged 18, 24 and 26, were arrested in Newham, east London.
A police spokesman added the 24-year-old was shot with a taser gun during the arrest but did not require hospital treatment.
He said all six had been taken to a police station in south-east London, and that a number of properties in east, west and north London as well as a business premises were being searched.
Although few details were released about the operation, several of the suspects are reported to be British nationals.
Reports have also suggested the arrests are part of a pre-planned operation by Scotland Yard relating to a possible terror plot against UK targets – although police have said it is not linked to the Olympics or Paralympics.
The BBC's Danny Shaw described the arrests as 'significant' but added they did not indicate that an attack on UK soil was imminent.


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Bull rider rodeo with a sunsetNo Comments 14-Mar-2012
My Tattoo Story
I have been riding bulls in competition since I was a kid. I've won a bunch of competitions and finally got a championship buckle when I was 18. To celebrate my dad took me to get a tattoo and I thought it was only fitting to get a rodeo tattoo. The bull tattoo has a lot of meaning for me because it was my first championship and I got it with my dad. I hadn't planned on getting a rodeo tattoo or a particular tattoo at all until I won the championship. I had thought about tattoos but my focus was on my riding. I added the cross in the background of the bull tattoo because I wanted something in there to show that it was my faith in god that got me to the championship and that He helped me win. I think it looks a bit too much like a cactus though. The artist suggested the silhouette and the sunset because otherwise it might have looked a bit like a cartoon tattoo. I'd like the cowboy tattoo anyway even if it did. I guess it's cos I'm southern.
When and Where
I got the tattoo done in Salem Va in 2009 after I won the championship. We live a couple of hours away and drove there for the rodeo so we were in town anyway. The studio is called Mainsteet Tattoo. It's close by the fairground where we were staying in the trailer so that was the only reason we found it and went there for the rodeo tattoo.
The Experience
It wasn't what I expected. I was pretty pumped up about winning the championship so I guess it was the adrenaline getting me through. I guess that's why I didn't really think about nervous about getting the bull tattoo. I think the bit closest to the middle of my chest was the worst cos the pressure and vibration made it so hard to breathe. The rodeo tattoo took about an hour total. We didn't take any breaks but I was dying for a smoke by the end of it. I wanted to just get it finished and done with.
The Future
I know I'm gonna get more tattoos. I have thought about getting more rodeo tattoo stuff but I dunno. I'm really into cars so many like a classic mustang tattoo, or a john deer tattoo is also kinda cool. I thought about putting my gf's name on my arm but I think I'll wait on that. I've heard it's bad luck to get names tattooed.
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After sitting through the county�s public hearing regarding the 2014-15 budget and reading the editorial in The Gazette that stated that the county commissioners and the school board need to find a common ground, I started to think about it and several other areas that I would like to see the county move towards.
I want to point out at this time that the comments below are mine and mine alone and in no way am I speaking for any other county commissioner.
I read the editorial that morning and for the most part I have to agree with its comments and opinions. The two boards did take a step or two backwards. That needs to be remedied and it needs to be remedied soon. I would like to see the two groups work together as statesmen, not adversaries, and put together a formula that will spell out future funding for the local school district as well as an alternative plan in the event of another setback with the state and nation�s economy. There is no good reason or need for finger pointing or accusations from one board to the other or from individual members of either elected board.
With regards to any potential law suit, I can only say that I was once involved in a similar situation many years ago as a commissioner and nothing good came out of that and I would have to believe nothing very good would come out of the county and the school district slugging it out in court over money. We, both elected boards, owe the public a lot better than that.
There are areas that I believe Gaston County needs to stay focused on and move in a direction to address each of the following areas, each extremely important to the well-being of our county:
That Gaston County becomes as economically strong as the top performing counties in the region and state by effectively engaging all available resources. Study and implement new ways and new concepts of doing the people�s business. We have all heard the old saying, �if you keep doing things the same old way you�re going keep getting the same old thing.� The current Board of Commissioners has aimed in that direction and has implemented a priority-based budget process that will allow the county to cut or remove a number of publicly funded programs that are not bringing a value to the folks here in the county.
That education becomes an undisputed priority for Gaston County with strong K-12 schools, even more robust technical and community college training as well as a branch campus of UNCC. Admittedly, Gaston County Schools need to find ways that will provide higher graduation rates and lower drop out rates. Many think our middle schools and senior high schools need to expand in the areas of trades. We need to be willing to fund it if it�s implemented.
Cultural and recreational resources in Gaston County should be enhanced including our park system and the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden become a national attraction.
We need vibrant and �collaborative� relationships to exist between organizations producing models for various forms of development that are the envy of all. The local chambers, Gaston Regional, Montcross, Bessemer City and Cherryville, the EDC, the EDD, Gaston Together, Travel and Tourism all need to find ways to work better together so to improve the quality of life here in our communities and to help eliminate duplication of efforts.
There must be a A bridge into Mecklenburg County is needed. It�s choking the southern portion of the county and will continue to do so until a bridge is built.
Catawba Street in Belmont is bumper to bumper during business hours. Redbud Drive is backed up a half mile at times. Cox Road, S. New Hope Road and Armstrong Park Road are often parking lots and it�s not going to improve. It�s going to get a lot worse.
A new passageway is not only needed to cure traffic woes but look at what else it could bring to Gaston County. Stronger economic ties with Charlotte are created, leading to job growth and fostering a much higher level of prosperity for Gaston County.
I believe that we have all the tools and we have an elected Board of Commissioners that wants to do their best to lead Gaston County into the 21 st century, to help provide our students with a great educational opportunity, to become an economic leader in our region, work collaboratively and allow the county to grow its economy by having a southern route into our county�s future.
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Ketten is nearly done... some extra cargo need to be done, and figure. And most important mud...
Monday, February 13, 2017
Vehicles on the way...
Sunday, February 12, 2017
mud... mud everywhere...
Muddy road... Bussing-Nag 500A...
This time I've decided to test newest AK-Interactive Mud in a jar... What you see is used AK8018 - Dark Earth Mud. Now time to get wet with that mud !
How to - soon on my channel on youtube.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
My first 1/35 diorama !!!! "Last Days" Berlin 1945...
After 10 years of my modelling carrier - here it is my first diorama in 1/35 scale. With my first painted figures since 6-7 years. I'm really satisfied about final results :D
Friday, January 20, 2017
Color modulation video...
Video available... soon subtitles
Oldie from Tamiya... Sd.Kfz 222 Color modulation
Made special for youtube video, painted with Hataka paints & Sparmax SP-020 airbrush.
Colors from Hataka AS-031
signification: 13th Motorized Infantry Division, September 1939
Colors from Hataka AS-031
signification: 13th Motorized Infantry Division, September 1939
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Soon on youtube & here too...
Well - it is time to try something different in scale modelling - Warhammer 40k ! Soon tutorial, photos & videos !
Thursday, January 12, 2017
New SPARMAX tools in my workshop !!
Just on workbench 3x airbrushes & Arism VIZ compressor.
Check their site for more details !!
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Functional food uses of a protein-based surfactant have been developed that can be sustainably sourced from a food grade bacterium, and has been demonstrated to have performance and selective stability benefits over other protein-based surfactants.
A combination of economic, environmental and consumer drivers make sustainable, biological surfactants of great interest for a variety of applications. One class of surface active proteins, the fungal hydrophobins, have attracted significant industrial interest over recent years, but have encountered barriers to wide scale adoption.
Developed by researchers at Edinburgh and Dundee, the protein, called Biofilm surface layer A ('BslA'), is a 'hydrophobin-like' protein produced by the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, an organism used in the production of the Japanese fermented food product Natto, and has also been produced recombinantly up to 100 litre scale. Due to its unique mechanism of action, BslA is capable of forming very stable interfaces in vitro, whilst retaining an ease of use not found in other protein surfactants, especially fungal hydrophobins.
BslA is stable and soluble in aqueous media, and can be lyophilised and redissolved with no loss of activity. Confidential data has been produced that shows BslA successfully stabilises a variety of multiphase systems, including:
UK Priority Application filed on 19th August 2014
Proof of principle data available under CDA.
Supplementary data package in preparation (regulatory pathway, toxicity, allergenicity, production batch scale-up, biodegradability).
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Preliminary results for the 2014/15 season indicate low to null effect of vaccination against influenza A(H3N2)-related disease. As of week 5 2015, there have been 1,136 hospital admissions, 210 were due to influenza and 98% of subtype A strains were H3. Adjusted influenza vaccine effectiveness was 33% (range: 6–53%) overall and 40% (range: 13% to 59%) in those 65 years and older. Vaccination reduced by 44% (28–68%) the probability of admission with influenza.
The 2014/15 influenza season in the northern hemisphere is characterised by the circulation of A(H3N2) viruses belonging to clade 3C.2a and 3C.3a, distinct from the A/Texas/50/2012(H3N2)-like (clade 3C.1) reference strain used in the 2014/15 northern hemisphere vaccine [1]. Preliminary influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) estimates from Canada [2,3] and Europe [4], report a null effect of the current vaccine in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza A(H3N2) with 3.4% (95% confidence interval: (−44.8 to 35.5) against medically attended acute respiratory infection (ARI) and −16.8% (−48.9 to 8.3) against hospital admissions. Early estimates from the United States (US) [5], reported a low effect of 23% (8–36%) against medically attended ARI associated with laboratory-confirmed influenza.
An active annual surveillance scheme in the Valencia Region in Spain monitors IVE in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza requiring hospitalisation [6]. In the current season, a split trivalent vaccine (Vaxigrip; SANOFI PASTEUR MSD, S.A. Madrid, Spain) was acquired by public tender and offered free of charge to non-institutionalised people targeted for influenza vaccination because of age or the presence of comorbidity [7].
We report 2014/15 influenza IVE in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza admissions in patients admitted during the first eight weeks of the 2014/15 influenza season, from 7 December 2014 to 25 January 2015.
We performed a test-negative study in 10 hospitals that provide healthcare to 48% of the 4,937,044 inhabitants of Valencia. The influenza season began in week 50 2014 (Figure 1), as defined by two or more positive influenza hospitalisations identified in two consecutive weeks.
Figure 1. Hospital admissions with laboratory-confirmed influenza per week, Valencia, 7 December 2014–28 January 2015 (n = 210)
Study procedures have been published [6]. Study staff screened emergency admissions for eligible subjects. Patients were included after written consent if they reported symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI) [8] within seven days of admission. We collected a combined nasopharyngeal and pharyngeal flocked swab and sociodemographic and clinical information. A patient was considered immunised if they had received influenza vaccine more than 14 days before the onset of ILI (as recorded by the Vaccine Information System or by recall).
Laboratory confirmation was by semiquantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. The specimens were tested in a centralised virology laboratory at Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica (the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research; FISABIO) following the World Health Organization (WHO) protocol [9].
Influenza-positive admissions were compared (vaccination odds ratio (OR)) with influenza-negative admissions [10,11]. Adjusted IVE was defined as 100 x (1 - adjusted OR). We defined two groups for IVE estimation: (i) all subjects 18 years and older targeted for vaccination, and (ii) subjects aged 65 and older. Other subgroups were not considered to avoid a sparse-numbers bias [2,12]. The sample size sufficient to provide 80% statistical power to detect an IVE of at least 50%, for a vaccine coverage of 50 to 60%, with a delta of 10%, was 130 to 150 influenza cases.
The adjusted OR were obtained by logistic regression. Previous knowledge and directed acyclic graphs (DAG) [13,14] were used to define the variables finally used to improve comparability and exchangeability between vaccinated and non-vaccinated subjects and to clarify the minimum set of variables to be included in the regression logistics models and in the inverse probability-weighted regression adjustment models. The roles of 'previous vaccination' as an instrumental variable highly correlated with current vaccination and 'time to swab', which cannot be considered a confounder but is clearly related to outcome, were made explicit with the use of DAG. We assessed departure from linearity in categorical ordered variables, interaction between potential confounders and vaccination, and clustering by enrolment site or epidemiological week.
We used inverse probability-weighted regression adjustment to estimate the vaccination average effect from observed data [15,16] after conditioning influenza admissions on indicator variables: age in deciles, epidemiological week, number of comorbidities, smoking habits, hospital admission in the last 12 months, number of outpatient contacts in the last three months, time to swab, and recruitment hospital. We conditioned vaccination on the same covariates, excluding time to swab and adding influenza vaccination in the past two seasons.
Sensitivity analyses were performed according to time to swab and vaccination ascertainment in the vaccine information system. All probabilities were two-tailed; p < 0.05 was considered significant. Analyses were performed with Stata 13.1 (StataCorp, College Station, TX).
The Ethics Research Committee of the Dirección General de Salud Pública-Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública (DGSP-CSISP) approved the protocol of the study.
We enrolled 1,136 hospital admissions, 210 with influenza (Figure 2), 196 of them influenza A. Of the 101 influenza A subtyped strains, 99 (98%) were H3. Of all admissions, 1,108 (82%) were patients older than 65 years (Table 1). Of the 210 influenza-positive patients, 110 (52%) were vaccinated compared with 722 (64%) of 1,136 influenza-negative patients (Table 2).
Figure 2. Flowchart showing exclusion criteria, study of mid-season influenza vaccine effectiveness in preventing hospital admissions related to influenza, Valencia, 7 December 2014–28 January 2015 (n = 3,988)
Table 1. Characteristics of included hospital admissions, Valencia, 7 December 2014–28 January 2015 (n = 1,346)
Table 2. Influenza vaccine effectiveness, preliminary results, Valencia, 7 December 2014–28 January 2015 (n = 1,346)
Adjusted IVE was 33% (6–53%) overall and 40% (13– 59%) in those 65 years and older (Table 2). The probability of influenza-related admission in vaccinated individuals was 13% (10–15%) compared with 22% (18–27%) in those unvaccinated (data not shown). Vaccination reduced by 44% (28–68%) the overall probability of hospital admission with influenza (Table 2). These results were not altered in the sensitivity analysis (Table 2).
Our estimate suggests that the 2014/15 influenza vaccine was moderately effective in preventing hospital admissions related to influenza in a season in which most influenza A(H3N2) viruses were different from the component in the 2014/15 influenza vaccine [17]. We can only provide information regarding the genetic characteristics of strains analysed at the Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid [17]. According to their data, 67% of A(H3N2) clades could be considered antigenically and genetically different from the vaccine strain. We cannot make inferences regarding the impact on IVE of the type of vaccine used in Valencia as only one brand of vaccine was used throughout the region (99% of doses according to the vaccination registry).
Previous reviews and reports have shown that the trivalent inactivated vaccine can confer substantial protection against mismatched influenza A [18-20]. Unfortunately, data from mismatched seasons on IVE in people 65 years and older are scarce [21].
There can be considerable variation in reported IVE estimates due to differences in strain circulation among countries, strain proportion within one region, the vaccines used, age-specific vaccine coverage, the population studied, season definition, case definition, ascertainment of vaccination status, differences in the period of surveillance, the variables included or omitted in the statistical model, how they are modelled, and measured outcome (admission, outpatient contact or infection) [11]. A major caveat are sparse numbers. The absence of statistical significance should be expected in studies with low vaccine coverage, IVE or a limited sample size [2,12], as reflected in our sensitivity analysis (Table 2).
Influenza VE estimates generated from surveillance data using the test-negative design have already been presented at the WHO's annual strain selection meeting [11] as a way to improve the vaccine composition. However, variation in the estimates may undermine their credibility and usefulness, particularly early in the season. It is important to focus on sufficient sample size, robustness of the design, representativeness of the population, and validity of adjustment to inform vaccine reformulation and vaccination policies based on epidemiological data.
Our results support the substantial benefit of vaccination in preventing hospital admissions with laboratory-confirmed influenza in the first weeks of the 2014/15 season in Valencia.
The authors thank the staff of Hospital General de Castelló in Castellón; La Plana, in Vila-real; Arnau de Vilanova, in Valencia; La Fe, in Valencia; Hospital Dr Peset, in Valencia; Hospital La Ribera, in Alzira; Hospital San Juan, in Alicante; Hospital General de Alicante, in Alicante; Hospital de Elda, in Elda and Hospital del Vinalopó, in Elx, for their support. We thank all the study participants and their families.
Conflict of interest
The study was funded by a contract between FISABIO and Sanofi-Pasteur. SanofiPasteur did not participate in the design, conduct of the study, analysis or decision to publish the study.
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JPB: study coordinator, data analysis and draft of the manuscript; AMI: data management and data analysis; XLL: molecular analysis; MTG, ABV, MCF, ECF, CCM, RLR, JMM, MOR, GSC, JTH and VGG: investigators. Critical review and approval of the manuscript: all
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Well, let's see... I believe you found it on the Book Arts Web at <http://www.philobiblon.com/drucker/>. The talk was entitled "The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space" and the talk was held at the Syracuse University Library.
Interesting document. You might also like to look at "The Virtual Society" by Harvey Wheeler. In 1987, Harvey Wheeler, then Martha Boaz Distinguished Research Professor, University Library, University of Southern California, laid out the future of the book and the library in "The Virtual Society," one of the first e-books, and distributed it as shareware. You can download it at http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/virtual.htm
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The usual swirl of sounds rolled and clanked in the dim bowling alley. Stella Pagano, 73, was there like she is every Tuesday morning, sipping her coffee, watching the pins fall as her women's bowling league, Good Times, did their thing at Twedt's Lanes in Largo.
At this hour, around 10 a.m., everyone bowling tends to know everyone else.
But this Tuesday, Pagano noticed a stranger moving among the chairs.
"I just had this feeling. I intentionally moved my pocketbook to down below my seat," Pagano said.
She was suspicious. So were other members of her team, the Cinderellas.
The man was wearing a backpack, and the handle of a baseball bat was sticking from the top. He had asked for a job application, but, police said, he was really looking for something else.
Minutes after she eyeballed the man, Pagano said she heard the scream.
"I said, 'son of a b, it's that guy I was looking at!' " Pagano said.
She watched the man sprint from the bowling alley with one of her teammates' purses.
Pagano dialed 911.
Susan Gahan and Christine Guzman, both members of the league, did something else.
"I caught him out the corner of my eye grab a purse off the table. I thought, 'Oh no he did not just grab a purse after we'd be watching him,' " said Guzman, 46. "I figured maybe he'd drop it if we ran after him. I was just so irritated that I saw him take the purse I didn't bother to think."
She ran out the door after him. Gahan ran too, but after her friend.
"I saw Christine run out the door, and I ran after her," said Gahan, 50. "I never thought about that stupid baseball bat."
Bowling shoes clattered against the pavement.
Now in the sunlight, the man darted south along Seminole Boulevard, through the parking lot of a nearby dance store.
The interrupted bowlers remained in hot pursuit, flailing to passing cars, trying to flag down some help.
A man on a motorcycle saw the women, then a man with a purse running ahead of them. The women didn't catch his name, but they caught his attention.
"I said, 'Get him!' " Gahan said.
The man dismounted and charged along with them.
The chase ended soon after.
It went down in the parking lot of the Birdsong motel at 12930 Seminole Blvd. The man on the motorcycle, Guzman said, told them he was a retired police officer. He tackled the man, but couldn't keep him down.
Gahan stepped in.
"He was trying to get up. I was mad. He wasn't getting up," she said.
Others gathered around to lend a hand. Bystanders at the motel called police.
"There was Susan, the retired police officer, they held him in place until the police got there," Guzman said.
When Largo police Sgt. Ryan Dulski arrived at the scene, he was surprised. Not by the middle-aged women who helped detain the suspect, but by what the suspect said to officers.
"The guy was basically saying, 'Help me,' " Dulski said. "They were holding onto his legs."
They held him for good reason, Dulski said.
Police were already looking for the man, identified as Eric Rivera, 33, a repeat criminal who has a record of drug and theft offenses.
Not long before Rivera was apprehended, police say, he tried to break into the rear storage area of a nearby Lowe's home improvement store. He was chased away by store security.
And the items found in Rivera's backpack was what Dulski called a "burglary kit."
"The guy had a baseball bat, a crowbar, slim jim, couple knives, two screwdrivers," Dulski said.
And a crack pipe.
He is being held on $22,150 bail in the Pinellas County Jail on charges of burglary, possession of burglary tools, grand theft, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance
While the whole encounter was a blur, Gahan said she came away with a good feeling.
"I just thought it was so cool how everybody helped," she said. "People do care."
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paul's review published on Letterboxd :
This was way more fun than i remember. A former Wimbledon midfielder and the one armed washer upper from Robins Nest in a prison football film. Then up rocks Statham, who is given 5 lines to growl in a Scottish accent, only 4 of which he manages. Then, fuck me if Danny 'pwoper nawty' Dyer doesn't appear playing a simpleton. He does it well.
Totally ridiculous, but totally fun time.


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Saturday, September 23, 2017
Sarcoidosis, myasthenia gravis and thyroid
I was diagnosed with myastenia gravis last june and during the thymectomy, the biopsy showed sarcoidosis in my lymph nodes and subsequently in my lungs(chest xray). In addition, I have had a total thyroidectomy with two small pockets of cancer in the thyroid( one encapsulated and one not). My question concerns my balance and constant noise in both my ears. Is there any correlation with these symptoms and sarcoidosis in the brain? thanks.
There have been a few published reports of tinnitis (ringing in the ears) and loss of balance in patients with neurosarcoidosis, but there are other potential causes of these symptoms. The best way to screen for sarcoidosis of the central nervous system is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). If the MRI shows some abnormalities, further testing may be required to confirm that the abnormalities detected by MRI are actually caused by sarcoidosis.
Elliott D Crouser, MD
Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University


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A massage therapist moves at a slow, deliberate pace, like an art film about an introverted teen learning to use a kiln. Pace yourself with this Groupon.
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I had breasts before children, no breasts after.. wanted to look and feel happy with myself in a swimsuit and regular clothes. I was stuffed before, so no one has really noticed the change. I only told a handful of people whom really I couldn't avoid it because I was needing a lifestyle change for recovery... workout friends, trainer, business partners.
For the most part I am 100% happy. I am impatient about recovery. Wanting to exercise and buy some pretty bras. My negatives were that.. I had a hard time with the Meds. Perc(oxy/ty). I could not keep it down. Day one I was feeling 100 percent of the pain after surgery meds wore off. I did eventually get a musc relaxer and just took reg tylenol also. The recovery after this surgery is painful. Anyone that tells you that they were just fine, maybe didn't have the implants put under the muscle. Truly more pain then I thought and I have had two children natural and two c-sec. I would have rather had another natural birth. :)
Anyhow 2 full days down for me. If I happened to lean back, to sleep... like 45*... I could only get up with my husband lifting me, using my neck and lower back like he was showed and it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced. Massaging is your friend for sure.. mine are feeling natural already. I am 2.5 weeks post op. Nipples are very hyper-sensitive right now. I did experience the ichy sensation for several days, I do believe this is the antibiotics. If I had known.... I would have rented a room with a friend.. and not tried to recover around my kids. They were absolute troopers and truly wonderful... I on the other hand didn't have the patients for any fighting and it was a little much to make my husband take on everything.