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1997-1998 Juniors: Wiersholm, Nava, Kozlov, Tiafoe, Mmoh, Blumberg, Ponwith, etc.
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Novikov and Halebian Reach 18s Final; Wiersholm and Gozun to Decide 16s National Champion Sunday
In the 16s semifinals, played Saturday morning, local favorite and No. 2 seed Paul Oosterbaan fell to No. 32 seed Sasha Gozun 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Gozun, a 16-year-old from Sarasota, Fla., felt the pressure of being from Kalamazoo might have kept Oosterbaan from performing at his best.
"I don't know if it added pressure to Paul, because he's hometown boy," said Gozun, who moved to Florida from Moldova, a small country between Romania and Ukraine, four years ago. "Everybody thinks he has to win it. But I respect him, he's a very good player, it was just my day today."
The first set opened with some nervous and sloppy play by both Oosterbaan and Gozun, and after four holds, there were five consecutive breaks of serve. Serving for the set at 5-4, it looked as if a sixth straight break might be coming when Oosterbaan fell behind 0-30. But although his serve gave him trouble later in the match, it came through for him at 30-all, with a service winner, and he earned the first set with a forehand passing shot.
In contrast to the first set, the second was all holds, with Gozun holding more easily than Oosterbaan, who needed to save break points in two of his service games. Serving at 5-6, Oosterbaan fell behind 15-40 when Gozun hit two forehand winners. He saved one when Gozun netted a second serve return, but double faulted to lose the second.
The 10-minute break didn't help Oosterbaan and it didn't hurt Gozun. Gozun took a 3-0 lead, and although he was broken for the first time since the last game of the first set to make it 3-2, he got the break right back, feasting on Oosterbaan's second serve.
"I didn't really serve well the whole match," Oosterbaan said. "He started serving better as the match went on. Mentally he stayed tough and I broke down. It was awesome to have the crowd out there helping me all week, it helped me get through a lot of matches, but not today."
Gozun, who as the No. 32 seed would be the lowest seed to ever win the 16s tournament in its 70 years in Kalamazoo, acknowledges that he is just beginning to tap his potential.
"Everybody's telling me I play much better than I am ranked, but it's also mentally," said Gozun. "It's one thing to have good ground strokes, another thing to be prepared mentally. I was relaxed here, didn't feel so much pressure."
Gozun's opponent in Sunday's final will be No. 12 seed Henrik Wiersholm, who defeated top seed Mitch Stewart 7-6(2), 6-2 in a battle between two friends from the Pacific Northwest.
Stewart fell behind 3-1, and as he had done in his quarterfinal match with Logan Staggs Friday, he fought back to take the lead, winning four straight games. But he was unable to serve out the set at 5-3, and Wiersholm dominated the subsequent tiebreaker.
"He wasn't missing," said Wiersholm. "But for a while there, I wasn't missing either. When he got the break and I went down 5-3, I told myself I was just going to go out there and start making balls, getting positive energy flowing, get a little bit in-your-face in how I'm going to come back and win this set. He got a little bit tight, I have to say, made some key errors, but I also started going for a little more, taking it to him. I really took it to him in the tiebreaker."
Stewart is known for his mental toughness, but he met his match in Wiersholm.
"I think it's a really good trait, but most guys don't expect when they're up--they expect people to cave in," said Wiersholm who won the 12s national championship in 2009. "But when I'm down, I start playing better, taking it to them more, and that's what I did today."
Wiersholm didn't lose focus when he lost the first game of the second set, breaking right back, and although he could hold his 3-1 lead, when he broke Stewart for the third time in the set to go up 5-3, he didn't falter in the final game, closing it out quickly, a rarity in the two and a half hour match.
Gozun has a recent win over Wiersholm, having beaten him 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the first round of the Orange Bowl 16s, played on the Har-Tru courts in Plantation last December.
"Sacha's a great player," said Wiersholm. "He's a big guy who's going to hit a lot of big balls. I'm just going to be solid and find a way."
Wiersholm found a way to his first gold ball of the tournament later in the day, when he and Daniel Kerznerman, the No. 4 seeds, beat top seeds Aron Hiltzik and Oosterbaan 6-2, 7-5. Hiltzik and Oosterbaan were on their heels most of the match, but fought back from 5-2 down to save five match points before Hiltzik was broken serving at 5-6 to deliver the victory to Kerznerman and Wiersholm....
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Dry January is over. HURRAH! To celebrate and to prepare ourselves getting back in the game of drinking (again, HU-FUCKIN-RRAH!) we take a look at the drunk alter egos we've hopefully left behind. Forever. Or at least until next Tuesday.
Who are you? You've got to have at least one drunk alter ego. Such are the rules of drunking...
1. Tearful Tammy
Who hasn't at one time or another turned into an inexplicable ball of emotion tragically huddled in a corner balling about how nice everyone is being whilst clutching an empty bottle? The kicker with Tearful Tammy is where the fuck did she come from and why is she so freaking bipolar?
2. Angry Amy
For some she comes often, for others she is a sporadic visitor. But who knew you could throw down like the WWF when you wanted to? Amy did. "Wow there bitch, did you just say you don't like Beyoncé – somebody hold my earrings."
3. Sad Suzy
That old adage that alcohol is a depressant is certainly an accurate one and sometimes its effects seem to hit a little harder. When Sad Suzy rears her head it is usually from the first drink and she won't be going anywhere. To avoid Suzy maybe don't drink if you know you are already feeling low.
4. Belligerent Betty
On a daily basis most of us think we are right most of the time, we just do, because we are. That said, Belligerent Betty – with a couple in her – like to hammer home her points a little more forcefully than she normally would. Who hasn't woken up with the faint suspicion that an apology is on the cards for telling someone that they were an idiot and their opinions totally invalid? Ah shucks.
5. Whining Wendy
We can all moan at times and there are always those friends that excel at whining a little more than others. However, we all have a deeply irritating whiner inside of us – Wendy – and when she is in the mood to complain ain't no one gonna stop her.
6. Happy Holly
Occasionally the insanely Happy Holly pops up to make us feel like drinking our weight in tequila is a positive life choice that will end well for everyone. Naturally come the morning she is quickly replaced with Horribly Hanging Happy Holly, live it learn it.
7. Messy Molly
Like Happy Holly, Messy Molly makes you feel like more and more booze is an awesome idea. However, Messy Molly is much less of a class act and is likely to drag toilet paper attached to her shoe around the dance floor and will be found face down in a Dominoes box come 3am. Oh Molly, why?
8. Ugly Una
Una'a one of the worst as she may not even make it to the club. A few drinks at home and she is crying, trying on eight different outfits, putting her hair up. And then down. No one can convince Una she looks good, she feels fat, she feels ugly and she hates everyone around her for looking better than she does. When Una appears call for Dr Ben and Nurse Jerry and wish everyone a good night because you are dunzo.
9. Famished Frankie
Sometimes your hunger overrules all other emotions that you are experiencing. Seriously all of them. All you can think about after only a couple of drinks is snacks and fries – always fries.
10. Loose Lucy
Her tongue gets everywhere and she just doesn't care. Loose Lucy often shows slightly bisexual tendencies after a bottle or two and is going to try and make out with anything in site because she is a woman on a mission – get in her way and you may get dry humped.
11. Bitchy Becky
She has made an appearance in EVERY female. Some embrace her whilst others pretend to be shocked after she has spoken. Bitchy Becky has the stank-eye for just about everyone in the room, no one is safe from her tongue lashing and most of the time she is just gonna sit there and call it as she sees it, bitch.
12. Aggressive Anita
A close cousin of Angry Amy but different in that her aggression usually turns only to males. She's all like "that shirt makes you look like a douche, you sound like a douche when you speak, only a douche does that for a living, you're a fucking douche for living".
13. Dancing Daisy
She's a dancer, she loves to dance – she feels the rhythm in everything and if she is making an appearance she really doesn't care what she looks like, who sees her or where she busts a move. Yes she will do the cowboy, she will ride the beat, kill the beat, bang the beat – the beat is her bitch.
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DETROIT - Karen Smith was all set to return home to metro Detroit from a Caribbean vacation with her husband and three sons. She had her e-boarding pass and was waiting at the airport gate when U.S. Air employees told her she'd need a new "flight coupon."
Smith left her family at the gate and went to get this new document, although neither her husband nor her kids were instructed to get a coupon. Forty-five minutes later the plane took off while Smith was still waiting for the airline to print the document.
While her family made it home as scheduled, Smith was stranded in the Dominican Republic. She said she spent about $1,500 for a hotel room and another flight home the next day.
U.S. Air blamed Delta, who handled the family's flight down, for the snafu and hasn't reimbursed Smith for the extra cost caused by missing the flight. However, at least one travel agent is calling shenanigans on the entire situation.
"They don't print coupons because everything is paperless," said travel agent David Fishman. "So what was printed? What's the coupon?"
U.S. Air said it takes up to 30 days to fully process a customer complaint.
More than getting her money back, Smith said she's like to make sure this never happens to anyone else.
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This release of the Tasking toolset brings support for the RH850/C1x, RH850/D1x, RH850/E1x, RH850/P1x and RH850/R1x device variants in addition to the RH850/F1x series. Altium intends to continue to add support to the toolset for future RH850 variants, including specialised solutions for new on-chip modules. Added to this release of the toolset is support for the Renesas E1 On-Chip debugging emulator, next to the Instruction Set Simulator debugger. The debugger's graphical user interface is integrated into the Eclipse-based IDE and accessible through the debugger perspective. This brings to the developer a single coding and debugging front-end for RH850 application development, which is both comprehensive and very cost-effective compared to separate solutions.
Altium sees a requirement from automotive designers to support the Renesas RH850 microcontroller family through its Tasking VX compiler technology. The Tasking compilers have code optimisation techniques and track records in automotive applications such as powertrain, body control, and chassis control, including safety critical applications. Tasking's multi-core support implementation was jointly developed with a leading Tier-1 supplier in the powertrain area.
New code generation optimisations have been added to this new compiler release, such as MIL linking and code compaction (reverse inlining), techniques that have proven to be highly effective in Tasking's compilers for automotive microcontrollers. Measurements on a wide range of different application sources including powertrain applications, Altium says, show improvements up to 40% in code compactness.
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ohh no amneris! yes dear, 2 spoonfuls is wayyyyy too much. a pea to nickle size will do the trick with a lot of conditioner. don't worry about the size of the honey because you will notice the effects as long as you mix it well through whatever you are going to mix it with. honey acts like a small package and remember, big things do come in small packages
. also, honestly, i wouldn't use it as a leave in unless you are using it for styling purposes. i would say a drop of honey to big dallop of conditioner would be great as a leave in or rinse off. honey will make your hair crunch but using a nice oil/water spray such as coconut oil and water will really help to soften it up but still leave you with the intended results of the honey which is hold and incredible shine. i hope that helps you girl
curltopia, so you want my secrets huh? shhhh don't tell! haha
ok well here is the deal, i use honey the majority of the time as a styling aid in my gel along with a styling creme. i sometimes use it with my conditioner if i don't plan on doing my normal routine.
here's my routine...i wash/condition my hair, rinse the condish out and squeeze the water out. i next spray my hair with my coconut oil/water mixture (about 1:4 ratio), then i proceed to styling. i guess the oil/water is my leave in condish? so then in my hand i drop a dime size of honey, dime size of aveda universal styling creme, then a big dallop of FOTE aloe vera gel (enough to fill my palm) and mix it throughly. i clip up 3/4 of my hair, spray that with oil/water and then spread the mixture on the hair that's left out, then comb it through with a wide tooth comb and spray again. i do same thing 3 more times cuz girl i've got a ton of hair. then after i've applied all my styling mixture, i spray my hair again with some oil/water just to make sure it's saturated nicely. this oil mixture is great because it keeps my hair moisturized and it keeps the honey from being too crunchy. so then i use my diffuser on the cool setting and blowdry my hair for about 10-15 mins while styling with my fingers in all directions. after that i air dry the rest of the day.
the next day i respray with the oil/water mixture to wake up my curls and blowdry on cool again. my hair is softer than the first day. my hair last a whole week like this and it looks great everyday. the honey really helps me because it makes my hair more durable when i go to sleep since i don't sleep with anything on my head. honey is so great, i'm in love
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When in First Person Camera mode, if I look at the edges of the screen while moving the camera around, the world seems to stretch. It's only with a 2-inch border around the screen, and it makes me rather dizzy.
Just seeing if anyone else experiences this, or knows how to get rid of it. Maybe it's my math? I don't think so, as I got my knowledge through a proven, successful book/course.
But it's like the edges are magnified. Very annoying.
Perhaps your viewing plane is too close? I think I got what you're describing, but fixed it just by changing the parameters, what matrix are you using for perspective distortion?
Basically, it's just caused by using too wide a field of view. Turn the FOV up to something huge like 120 degrees and you'll see the effect is magnified.
Unfortunately it's not really something that can be avoided if you want to actually be able to see a fair amount of the world.
I use the standard 1.0f for the near plane. I've been changing that, but don't really notice a different at all. 1, to 1000, to -10 doesn't make a bit of difference. Pretty weird.
But yes, the FOV was, I think, the main cause. 60 degrees seemed to be the best, even though I'm still not satisfied. I tried 45, but that was like looking through a scope (like in Halo, how it zooms in).
How do games do it then? I've never noticed this before. Maybe when you have a crosshair and aren't paying attention to the sides you don't notice it. Currently I'm just looking around, but it still shouldn't be this bad.
What I'm concerned about is making a spaceship type game. Warping the sides would suck.
I'll keep trying it and see what I can do to fix it.
45° shouldn't look bad. What API are you using? And how do you set up your view & proj matrices?
View and proj matrices are held in my Camera class. The view is updated relative to the camera, by extracting its look, up, and right vectors. The Proj matrix is set up using the D3DXMatrixPerspectiveFovLH() function. Near plane is 1.0f, far plane is 1000.0f, the whole thing basically just a default setting.
Maybe it looked zoomed in because I'm used to having it wider. You go from being used to the normal FOV in walking around, to a narrower FOV instantaneously. It did look like I was zooming in with a scope, lol.
But I think I'm just not used to it. I'll keep messing around and try to get something that works. But I guess it's only the camera, and that's always fixable/tweakable, so I can worry about that later.
I see, things sounds good. One other thing that might cause weird results: does the aspect ratio match your screen ratio?
I use the standard 1.0f for the near plane. I've been changing that, but don't really notice a different at all. 1, to 1000, to -10 doesn't make a bit of difference.
Of course not, that doesn't change the projection, only the near clipping (and distribution of z values in the z buffer).
It's a completely natural phenomenon, (video)camera's with wide view lensens experience the same effect. What you do by changing the fov is basically crop the image around the center, and enlarge that across the screen. So a smaller fov reduces the effect, as you move the areas that show the effect outside of the screen
All FPS games have this problem. Of course it varies depending on the FOV that the individual game uses. How noticeable it is may also vary depending on other factors. In other types of games you may not notice it so much (although all perspective projection based cameras have the same effect).
I played some Counter Strike tonight, specifically looking for the eyglass effect. It was there... amazing. I never noticed it before, probably because there are so many things happening at once and you don't take the time to notice things like that.
So I'll narrow my POV to 60ish and keep working.
Another thing that is affected by this is fog. In a game like Americas Army, where alot of the levels have some dense fog, it is a common 'trick' to scout around by viewing with the side of the screen, because it allows you to look a great deal further and get the drop on the enemy. If they just used radial fog, this wouldn't be an issue...


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"Every decision is focused on how to facilitate pedestrians and bicycle usage in downtown," says John Desmond, vice president for urban planning for the Downtown Denver Partnership. "You see all these chess pieces downtown, but how do you connect the board together to move people quickly and easily through the urban center?"
It's not an easy question to answer. While the new sixty-page plan abounds with vivid images and descriptions of a vital and bustling urban center, making it happen isn't going to be easy. Then again, many of the seemingly far-fetched objectives in the city's first twenty-year Downtown Area Plan in 1986 — from designating LoDo a historic district to redeveloping the Central Platte Valley — are now reality.
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Auraria: There are plans to connect the Auraria campus to the downtown core by encouraging development along Speer Boulevard and by adding or enhancing pedestrian walkways along the street. Higher-education-oriented development has proved beneficial in East Coast cities, such as Hartford and Philadelphia, where there were blighted neighborhoods. The difference in Denver is that the area around Auraria isn't blighted. Critics argue that development on Speer would eliminate or obstruct much of the campus's green space, and they wonder if the development would actually attract high-end shops or restaurants.
Arapahoe Square: Little-known Arapahoe Square is labeled in the plan as "Downtown's new neighborhood." Located just northeast of the commercial core and bounded by 20th Street, Larimer Street, Park Avenue West and Tremont Street, the 24-block region is roughly the size of the Central Platte Valley — and could hold just as much potential, some say. The plethora of vacant lots seems fertile ground for urban lofts and trendy retail. But Arapahoe Square is also home to many of the city's homeless shelters. Figuring out how and where to move them could prove to be a political conundrum.
· The Commercial Core: Downtown Denver has long had one primary "spine": 16th Street, running from Union Station to the Civic Center. With the development of Auraria and Arapahoe Square, the Downtown Area Plan suggests widening that spine into a square, with the commercial core in between enlivened by new transit services, improved pedestrian corridors and attractive retail, such as a European-style public market. How and where to get all that done, however, may be tricky. Some potential redevelopment sites, like the Federal Reserve Center, could be tied up by those arguing that the buildings should be preserved. Other vacant lots could be stymied by stubborn landowners.


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Elderly man found murdered in senior care facility
Eugene Larkins was found in his room in the Warren Plaza Apartments in midtown Detroit apparently beaten to death.
Trena Denson has lived on the 8th floor of the apartments for three years next door to Larkins.
"He was a sweet little guy," Denson said. "He bought me cheesecake, he would come over. He would (say) 'Hi, how you doing.' If he didn't seem me for a few days he would ask me where I've been and said 'I miss you.'"
Larkin's body was found inside his apartment on Saturday. Police say its appears he died from blunt force trauma and they are investigating it as a homicide.
"I just saw him Friday, he was walking to the store," Denson said.
Denson stayed at her sister's residence Friday night.
"When I came home I just saw a big hole in his door," she said. "I just broke down crying because it's a hurtful thing."
Larkin's death raises a lot of questions about her own safety. Residents have a key card to get in, but as she invited FOX 2 in to have a look, the lack of security was apparent. She did not need to swipe the card to get in on this occasion.
Once inside there was an empty security desk and a sign in sheet. Denson says each room can monitor the lobby from their room's television.
"You can put your TV on channel 6 and see the front door, who comes in and out of the front door," Denson said. "Somebody had to see something."
Hopefully it will lead to clues as to who is responsible for Larkin's death.
A lot of older people stay in this building." Denson said. "It makes them scared. It's just sad, a life gone for what?"
Police tell FOX 2 right now they have some leads as to who may responsible for Larkin's death but so far no arrests.
If you have information on the incident, contact Detroit police at (313) 596-5300.


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C of I set for revamped Homecoming week
With its date moved back to coincide with the Nov. 8 C of I/NNU rivalry basketball game, Homecoming 2012 will be the latest in College of Idaho history.
Alumni relations director Sally Skinner '78 also is hoping to make it the greatest. With a "Bringing Back the Pack" theme and a week full of events aimed at attracting more alumni, more students and more fun, Skinner hopes Homecoming will indeed bring more Coyotes back to campus than ever before.
"We're trying to build something that people will look forward to," Skinner said. "Our alumni really treasure the College, so we want to see them come back to campus and reconnect with the school, with each other, and with the experiences we all enjoyed here."
Homecoming festivities begin Tuesday, Nov. 6, with a presidential election watch party featuring political economy professor Kerry Hunter. The week concludes Sunday, Nov. 11, with a non-denominational church service featuring an alumni choir. In between, more than two dozen events are planned for alumni and their families as well as C of I students, faculty and staff. For a full schedule of events, click here. Online registration before Oct. 31 is highly recommended and is available by clicking here. Here are some Homecoming highlights to look forward to:
Thursday, Nov. 8: United Heritage Insurance Mayors' Cup basketball game featuring the C of I men's team taking on archrival NNU. Festivities begin with a pre-game tailgate BBQ, followed by a 7:05 p.m. tipoff inside the J.A. Albertson Activities Center. All attendees are encouraged to wear purple to the game, and free purple T-shirts will be included in admission to the tailgate. For tickets, contact the alumni office at [email protected].
Friday, Nov. 9: Friday's events include a wine pairing dinner for the Connect '87 alumni celebrating their 25-year class reunion. This is a new tradition that Skinner hopes to continue every year as alumni reach the halfway milestone to their 50-year Golden Jubilee reunion. The highlight of the night – and for many, the entire week – will be the Homecoming Dance, themed "A Purple Tie Affair." The dance is open to all C of I students, alumni, faculty and staff. Admission is free and there will be a no-host bar. Dress is business casual to semi-formal, with purple ties left open to creative interpretation. Music will include dance hits from the decades, as well as live music by Innocent Man, an alumni band from Boise. "We really wanted to involve students in homecoming this year," alumni coordinator Jake McClean '06 said. "This dance was the students' idea, and I think alumni will enjoy seeing their energy on campus."
Saturday, Nov. 10: The activities start early with the inaugural C of I 4K Classic run, which is free and will feature prizes for winners and fun for all. In the afternoon, settle in for the "Yote U" lecture series featuring alumni winemakers Ron Bitner '68, John Danielson '76 and Martin Fujishin '01 along with professor Scott Johnson. Guests will have the chance to sample, purchase and drink wine during the lectures. The evening brings the annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner featuring Professor Joe Golden and honoring award recipients Dr. Richard Moore '79, Dr. Mary Barinaga '91, Gene '67 and Sandy Ralston '69, and Abbey Griffitts '02. Festivities conclude with the C of I Quiz Bowl Extravaganza, a team trivia contest hosted by Professor Jasper LiCalzi. It will be a night full of prizes and laughs – and admission is free for those who RSVP before Oct. 31!
For more information about Homecoming, or to RSVP for events, please contact Skinner at (208) 459-5770 or McClean at (208) 459-5306. Inquiries also may be sent to [email protected].
Founded in 1891, The College of Idaho is the state's oldest private liberal arts college. It has a century-old tradition of educating some of the most accomplished graduates in Idaho, including six Rhodes Scholars, three Marshall Scholars, and another 11 Truman and Goldwater Scholars. The College is located on a beautiful campus in Caldwell, Idaho. Its distinctive PEAK curriculum challenges students to attain competencies in the four knowledge peaks of the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and a professional field, enabling them to graduate with an academic major and three minors in four years. For more information on The College of Idaho, visit www.collegeofidaho.edu.


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Newborn Pakistani babies receive phototherapy treatment against neonatal jaundice at the nursery room of a hospital. Countries around the world marked the world's population reaching 7 billion Monday with lavish ceremonies for newborn infants symbolizing the milestone and warnings that there may be too many humans for the planet's resources.
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A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket is transported to the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Three Glonass-M navigation satellites will be launched on Nov. 4 aboard the Proton-M. Glonass is Russia's Global Positioning System designed for military and civilian usage.
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Fine weapons. I'd buy one from the CZ Custom Shop, with trigger work already done. (Some need it, new in box, some don't.) I don't know if they all now come from the factory with the two-way adjustable trigger (for overtravel and takeup), but guns from the Custom Shop can have that feature.
The SA models have slightly different slides and frames, and ambidextrous safeties. These guns come in both .40 and 9mm. The .40 version has a full-length guide rod; the 9mm version does not.
Over the past 6-7 years, triggers straight from the factory have not been all that great, but they do improve greatly with use. With the SA, this is less of a problem -- but I'd still consider having trigger work done, up front.
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More than 70 Blackstone employees joined over 1,000 climbers to support inMotion's Story by Story stair climb to end domestic violence. The third annual event was again held at 1411 Broadway, a 42-story skyscraper in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The event was a tremendous success raising nearly $600,000.
Employees from across the firm raised in excess of $64,000 to support inMotion's critical mission of providing free legal services to low-income women and their families in New York City. Equity Office Properties, a Blackstone portfolio company, was again one of the prime sponsors and host of the event at 1411 Broadway.
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15 months later, there is no Juvederm present any more but it sounds like I might have a hematoma on the upper left lip. I can't stand the unevenness in my lips and rarely smile anymore. Has anyone had success with steroid injection to break down and reduce the scar tissue that is causing my lip lump? I don't want to have surgery to remove it as this may cause sever scarring. All advice is welcomed.
Will Using Steroid Injections Remove Scar Tissue from Lip Inject Work 15 Mos. Later
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Unevenness in Lips after Fillers
Yes, I think you should leave your lip alone for another 6-9 months. If this unevenness is the result of a lip filler like Restylane or Juvederm, hematoma or not, the effects should all be gone by 2 years. Injecting steroid into the area will only add another variable into the lip with the possibility of making things even more lumpy and bumpy. Sometimes the most difficult thing, for patients to do, is to wait. However, often this is the most logical and reliable way to proceed.
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Steroid for scar tissue
First thing's first, injectable filler substances rarely cause scarring. It is possible for scar tissue to develop after numerous filler procedures involving numerous needle sticks over a long period of time. However, this doesn't seem to be the case in this patient. While it is true that corticosteroid injections into hypertrophic scars (thickened scar tissue) or keloids (very thickened scar tissue) will improve their appearance, it doesn't sound like this is the case here. Hematomas are pockets of blood that may develop after surgery or other invasive procedures; they typically resolve within several weeks and are not long lasting. Additionally, they should not be treated with steroid injections.
Scar tissue can be improved with steroid injections
In your earlier photos it did look like there was a hematoma with swelling and a purple discoloration of the left upper lip. By 15 months all of filler and the hematoma have resolved. Most likely the unevenness is from a scar. I don't recall any unevenness in your before photos.
Consult a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon for an evaluation. Steroid injections are usually done once a month. Make sure the doctor you see is experienced with steroid injections. Too much steroid can thin the tissue irreversibly, too.
I would be interested in seeing your progress.
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Treating Scar Tissue from Juvederm with Steroid Shots
Fifteen months after your Juvederm injection there will no longer be any Juvederm present, There will not be a hematoma present as well so the swelling is most likely due to scar tissue. Steroid injections can often be used quite successfully to break down and shrink scar tissue. Low concentrations of steroid solutions should be used at first to be safe and the strength can be increased in additional injections if necessary. I recommend you be evaluated for this treatment by an experienced Dermatologic surgeon in your area such as Dr. Mary Lupo.
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Will Using Steroid Injections Remove Scar Tissue from Lip Inject Work 15 Mos. Later
Most likely. At least worth a try of 3 sessions every 3 weeks. I have seen this treatment work after a few years.
Treatment of Lip Scar Tissue
You're at the point where you need a good doctor to examine the area and determine what will be the best option. You don't have any hematoma at this point and you probably don't have any remaining Juvederm. The most likely cause of the swelling is scar tissue, but somebody needs to examine your lips to really determine what is going on and what will be the best treatment option. Intresional injections of steroid can improve hypertrophic scarring, but even steroids have potential risks. See a dermatologist or plastic surgeon with extensive experience in soft tissue fillers and facial surgery and let them evaluate your problem. Best of luck.
Learn more: http://www.dermatology-center.com
Steroid shots do good to shrink scar tissue but often need to be done a few times.
Steriod shots are easy to get and usually done every 2-4 weeks to reduce scar tissue or organized hematomas at a cost of roughtly $100 per session and 2-4 sessions common. Good Luck,
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Steroid for Scar Tissue
From what I can tell in your pictures, it doesn't seem to me that there is a major scar on your lip. Did you have any trauma to the area during or after the injection? At this point, I think whatever may be causing the irregularity you are noticing (and I don't see any in the photo), you'd be better off with watchful waiting than to inject a steroid into the area. Because the lips are such an unforgiving area to work with, I'd hate for you to end up less happy after another injection. Speak with your physician about what might be causing the irregularity you're noticing and perhaps he/she can offer a solution such as evening out the other side or enhancing your lips again.
Best of luck!
Asymmetric lip after Juvederm
You should see a physician who can evaluate your condition. How does it feel to their examination? Is there substance in the lip that feels consistent with residual product, scar, or organizing hematoma, or is there an asymmetry of the lip from a lack of elevation on that side that could be related to an unbalance of the smile muscles, whether related to prior Botox injections near the lower eyelids or volume injected with fillers in the cheeks and smile folds? You need an in-person evaluation. Dr. William Coleman in Metairie, and Drs. Mary Lupo and John Yarborough in New Orleans are experts in their field.
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Scar/steroid shot
I agree that it would be best to have evaluated by an experienced physician. I do think that if they think that this is scar tissue that intralesional steroids would be a good option. In the correct hands you should not have much of a chance of additional troubles.
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I fell in love with Bavarian and Czech food as a teenager at Adolf Thum's venerable Bohemia restaurant in Hot Springs. Since the closure of the Bohemia (although they have opened under new ownership), I hadn't found anywhere that came close to capturing the quality and flavor of good, authentic Eastern European cuisine – until we tried The Pantry Restaurant in Little Rock. Jess and I had a very tasty and pleasurable meal there recently, and I was much impressed by the delicious food and excellent service – and it scratched an itch for flavors I've been missing for years.
Our idea was to beat the weekend crowds and eat at the Pantry on a Thursday night, but the restaurant was crowded and bustling with folks enjoying the warm Arkansas evening. We were met with a large smile by Tomas Bohm, the owner, who graciously welcomed us to his restaurant and took us to our table. We started with the house-made pate, served classic-style in a small jar with pickles and French bread toast (above left). I love pate, and found the Pantry's offering to be very good; full of flavor and spice but with a wonderful earthiness that was accented perfectly by the sour pickles. Even Jess spoke highly of it, and she's usually not one for anything involving liver. I could make a light lunch of just this appetizer alone.
For her entrée, Jess chose a classic dish, Baked Cod in Parchment Paper. The cod fillet was huge, and steamed perfectly with spinach, lemon and vegetables in white wine and olive oil. If you've never had fish done this way, try the Pantry's version because it's one of the best versions I've ever tasted. The fish was flaky and tender, and the sizeable fillet hid a treasure trove of mixed vegetables and spinach that soaked up all the good flavor of the wine and lemon. This isn't a dish you'll find a lot of places, but it's something different and fun to try.
For my entrée, I chose the Roasted Pork Shoulder with Czech Potato Dumplings and Braised Red Cabbage. This dish was amazing, and it embodied all those good flavors I've loved for so long. The cabbage was just the right amount of tart, and the potato dumplings soaked up the juices from the cabbage and pork with their firm, mealy texture. The pork was cooked so well that I just closed my eyes and savored the first bite for half a minute. You see a serrated knife in the picture above, but let me tell you: I didn't use that knife once – the pork was fork tender and bursting with flavor. We ended our meal with a slice of the Pantry's homemade cheese cake, which was creamy and rich with a carmelized sugar topping. It was almost like having cheesecake and creme brulee all at once – very good.
We'll definitely be back to the Pantry for more – they have some very tasty looking burgers and sandwiches on their menu, as well as a charcuterie board on the appetizer menu that I'm dying to try. The service was excellent – any restaurant where the owner himself will get you a refill when your server is busy with a six top is great in my book. The Pantry Restaurant is located at 11401 Rodney Parham Road in Little Rock. They're open for lunch 11:00 am – 4:00 pm Monday-Friday and dinner from 4:00 pm – Midnight Monday-Saturday (the bar is open later). Give this one a try for something different, and Enjoy!


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Demand no additional cuts to SB County museum
Let this letter serve as a dire warning to those who have enjoyed the unique and informative exhibits and programs offered by the San Bernardino County Museum over the years. Severe cuts in funding and personnel are now jeopardizing these programs and exhibits.
An example in point is the Interactive Animal Station, one of the most popular exhibits at the museum. Just recently the employee who ran this exhibit was let go due to cuts in the budget. The exhibit is often closed, and in the future, the museum may be forced to get rid of the animals.
Help us ensure that the museum will continue to provide you and your family with very special learning experiences for all. Write the San Bernardino County Museum board and demand no more cuts!
— Karen Braun, Grand Terrace Editor's note: The above letter was submitted by a San Bernardino county museum volunteer on behalf of four additional volunteers.
Road safety a red herring in license debate
In the editors' review of late bills facing California lawmakers (Sept. 10), the first one commented on — driver's licenses for illegal immigrants — gets the summary analysis, "But the issue isn't immigration. It's the safety of our roads."
No, it's the reverse.
There are two kinds of unlicensed undocumented immigrants on California roads: ones who are good drivers and ones who are not. If the former successfully acquire licenses, they remain good drivers. If the latter fail their test, they'll just go back to driving poorly as they did before. Since they're willing to drive without a license now, what incentive is there for them to spend money licensing them to do what they'll do anyway … unless it's to get a badge of legitimacy that inevitably will entitle them to other sorts of validation?
"Road safety" is a red herring wrapped in a fig leaf. This bill is just one more subtle way to affirm "illegal" as "legal." Such efforts to scuttle meaningful rule of law should be shot down, and hard.
— Rick De Prisco, Twin Peaks
Rep. Miller must not subvert immigration laws
I read the article "Advocates call on lawmakers for immigration reform" (Sept. 10). The article only shows the viewpoint of those in the country illegally. Where are the quotations for those of us who respect and uphold the law?
We are a great nation because we are nation of laws. Why in the world are U.S. legislators writing bills for those who are not supposed to be in this country? I think these so-called lawmakers are derelict in duty and violating their oaths of office when they advocate for this law-breaking.
Congressman Gary Miller should vote to reflect and uphold our laws and should not fall prey to the pressure exerted by those who are subverting our laws!
— Eileen Olson, Upland
Navy Yard rampage sends another frightful message
The D.C. Navy Yard massacre of 12 employees by crazed former Navy reservist Aaron Alexis sends another frightful message to America:
Lack of leadership and attention to military screening and security allowed Army Major Hasan to carry out the massacre of soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, and Aaron Alexis to enter the Navy Yard with a weapon to begin his murderous rampage.
Unfortunately, the same security failures apply to the treasonous release of military secrets by Army Pvt. Manning, and NSA secrets by contractor Edward Snowden — all of which substantially increase threats to our national security.
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yields 20-25 appetizers
3 medium just-ripe avocados
3 tablespoons sour cream
salt and pepper
dash or two of cayenne pepper
3/4 teaspoon lime juice
1 skinny French baguette, sliced
garlic salt
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
4 slices center cut bacon, fried until crisp and chopped
1 medium tomato, chopped finely
cilantro leaves or Italian parsley, optional
lime wedges, optional?
Prepare the easy guacamole: Cut avocados in half and scoop out the avocado into a medium bowl. Mash the avocado with a fork. Stir in sour cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper, cayenne and a squeeze of lime juice.?
Make the grilled cheese toasts: Preheat oven to broil and set rack in the middle of the oven. Place baguette slices on a baking sheet. Spread each slice lightly with butter, and sprinkle with garlic salt. Broil the bread slices 1 to 2 minutes, just until beginning to crisp. Top the bread slices with shredded cheddar. Broil again until the cheese is melted and toasts are browned lightly on the edges (1 to 2 minutes). Remove from the oven.?
Assemble the bruschetta: Place the grilled cheese toasts on a platter. Spread each toast with a generous smudge of guacamole, a few bacon pieces and tomatoes, and a garnish of cilantro or Italian parsley. Serve immediately with lime wedges added to the platter for optional squeezing.
bacon recipe courtesy of: Lori Lange, RecipeGirl.com, January 28, 2013
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If you go into settings and scroll all the way down, you should see an option to use waze with a supported head unit. Make sure that is on (may need to restart app)
palmerit wrote:The speedometer works for me. However, I have run into the steretched screen issue before. Haven't been able to determine a cause. What I do know is that when the dispatch is stretched, I don't see the "appradio" screen on the phone. Its almost as if the display is just being mirrored. Usually force quit / restart app fixes it. Ive been trying to find steps to reliably reproduce the issue, as that is hugely helpful for Waze to identify and fix the problem.
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Entered data, stories, and sources for almost 3,000 relatives
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hi guys
quick question i have some floats floating side by side and they work fine but when i add too much text into one box the box beneath it does not float directly under it, i am adding a screen shot of the problem, the floats are outlined to help you see what is going on
here is my css
.floaty {
width: 247px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
.floaty img {
border: #8f0c12 2px solid;
Floats float as far as they can one way or the other from where they are. If something is in the way they snag on it which is what is happening in your example above.
You would need to set exact heights on every float (and hide the overflow for IE6) if you want then to align automatically in rows.
If you want different height floats then you will need to either float them in pairs and then set a clearing element after every second float so that a new row starts. It is no good just adding clear:both to the third float because the fourth float would still snag.
Or alternatively us inline-block instead of floats although it is a little more complicated and requires hacks for older browser support.
That's how floats work. A box that has float:left will be shifted as far to the left as it can go. That means until it reaches the padding edge of the parent or until it bumps into another float (which is what happens in your case).
You can add clear:left to the box to make it drop below the taller one, but that requires you to know which ones will be taller and which ones will go below them.
My husband ran into this recently with a list of addresses of varying heights. These were li's inside a ul. What we did was give them all a min-height in em units, and height to IE6, so that snagging stopped and also if text was enlarged the height wouldn't cut off content.
Paul, do you have a version of inline-block but with differently-heighted containers?
You would still need to ensure that the height was greater than you ever need otherwise it would still snag
There's this one although its a couple of years old.:)
oh rite...i just specified a height to it...im not the one who will be adding content to the floating boxes so hmmmm
Yes this is what we did... looked at the longest address and measured its height, and used that as our min-height.
mari, that you are not the one adding the content, that may be a problem unless you know the maximum height allowed. Or maximum number of characters.
If you don't know this max height, then another solution might be necessary... would display: table be possible here without adding a ton of classes to the HTML?
would display: table be possible here without adding a ton of classes to the HTML?
No because table cells can't wrap to another line (and IE7 doesn't support display:table anyway).
The inline-block solution is the best solution for variable height adjacent containers that wrap to many lines.:)


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Nancy Reagan's Fall Wasn't Her First
Last updated: May 24, 2012
The first time the loved one in your care falls, it's unnerving. But it can get downright scary when the falls happen repeatedly -- as is surprisingly common. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan has had the latest in a series of falls, breaking several ribs. News of the fall, which happened in March at her home, became public when she missed an event at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, because her recovery time was slower than expected, reports CNN.
In 2008, Reagan, now 90, was hospitalized for two days after a fall at home. Later that same year, she broke her pelvis. As is common in patients with a fractured pelvis, Reagan didn't see a doctor for a week after the fall, when persistent pain finally drove her to seek help. Older adults often dismiss falls or keep them secret for fear of losing independence.
Last year, Senator Marco Rubio caught her before she hit the ground when she lost her balance at a speech. Frequent falls can have many causes, including balance problems due to medication, inner ear disorders, changes in blood pressure, general physical frailty, and fear of falling after you've fallen once before; no word on what, if anything, beyond bad luck might be underlying Mrs. Reagan's falls.
She became one of the most famous faces in caregiving when her late husband, President Ronald Reagan, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and the couple largely receded from public life. President Reagan died in 2004.
Although the petite former First Lady has been hale enough to make occasional public appearances since his death, such as for the unveiling of the Reagan statue in the Capitol Rotunda and on behalf of the Alzheimer's Association, she's no less vulnerable than other 80- or 90-somethings to accidental falls.
It's helpful for every caregiver to be aware of ways to help someone avoid falling and what doctors should evaluate after a fall.
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Brad Penny allowed one unearned run in one inning in his injury rehab debut with San Jose, and Alex Burg hit a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh inning as the Giants opened their final trip of the season by rallying past the Quakes. Penny, who had been sidelined by a shoulder impingement, allowed two hits, walked a batter and had no strikeouts. Palo Alto High product Joc Pederson had three hits and drove in two runs for the Quakes.


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Gary Bauer tracks inventory levels of unsold homes. Overall, there's a 1.49-month supply. There is still a 20.6 month supply for homes over $2 million.
There is less than a two-month supply of unsold single family homes on the Denver-area market, according to an analysis by independent broker Gary Bauer.


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- A new disease-specific machine learning approach for the prediction of cancer-causing missense variantsEmidio Capriotti
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Genomics 98:310-7. 2011..86, and area under ROC curve of 0.98. When compared with other previously developed algorithms such as SIFT and CHASM our method results in higher prediction accuracy and correlation coefficient in identifying cancer-causing variants...
- Improving the prediction of disease-related variants using protein three-dimensional structureEmidio Capriotti
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 12:S3. 2011..Although sequence-based predictors have shown good performance, the quality of these predictions can be further improved by introducing new features derived from three-dimensional protein structures...
- Bioinformatics and variability in drug response: a protein structural perspectiveJennifer L Lahti
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
J R Soc Interface 9:1409-37. 2012..Finally, we highlight tools for analysing protein structures and protein-drug interactions and discuss their application for understanding altered drug responses associated with protein structural variants...
- Phased whole-genome genetic risk in a family quartet using a major allele reference sequenceFrederick E Dewey
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PLoS Genet 7:e1002280. 2011..These ethnicity-specific, family-based approaches to interpretation of genetic variation are emblematic of the next generation of genetic risk assessment using whole-genome sequencing...
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Bioinformatics 27:1741-8. 2011..Widespread availability of low-cost, full genome sequencing will introduce new challenges for bioinformatics...


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Chukanov takes championship lead and Baiz wins for Venezuela
After the first days racing in Imola the fights in both championships were shaken up after two action packed Ferrari Challenge Europe races
The drama began even before the start of the first Trofeo Pirelli race in as British Driver Alex Martin lost a wheel and was forced to limp back to the pits. With Ukrainian title contender Sergey Chukanov starting in Pole position and championship leader Daniel Mancinelli at the back of the grid, the race was always going to be a struggle for the young Italian.
Chukanov pulled away into a comfortable lead which he never relinquished, his title rival was not having such an easy time at the back of the grid. Mancinelli was trying to pass an equally determined Philipp Baron who in his turn was looking for a way past Dario Caso. As the trio traded paint there was more bad luck for Martin who lost a tire due to a cracked rim. The dark hand of fate was soon to touch Baron too, a cracked ECU terminating his race.
The bad luck didn't stop there, Caso suddenly slowed with a gear box problem leaving Mancinelli to close on Giacomo Stratta. With just over two minutes of the race remaining second place man Raffaele Giannoni slowed with a misfire and low fuel pressure costing him a podium finish and promoting Scuderia Praha boss Robert Pergl to second position and Stratta to third. Luck was clearly not on Mancinelli's side in this race with under two minutes of the race left he suffered a left rear puncture at the final corner which he did well to control. After a new wheel he finally finished fifth behind Renato Di Amato.
This dramatic race throws Chukanov into the lead of the championship with 146 points and Mancinelli on 132. The pair resume the battle tomorrow at 10:50 when Chukanov starts fourth and Mancinelli sixth.
With Championship leader Dirk Adamski recovering from major surgery, it was vital that David Gostner had a good race to keep his Coppa Shell title hopes alive. Fernando Baiz lead the field away but Eric Prinoth was a little too eager clipping the back of Giosuè Rizzuto who allowed Gostner to slip through to second place. Fons Scheltema was showing the full force of his sharks tooth liveried Ferrari Challenge car taking on Eric Cheung – he kept up this spirited pursuit until he ran wide, span and leaving debris on the track eventually retired to the pits.
Rizzuto and Gostner continued to battle over second place with the pair both pulling off excellent avoidance maneuvers to keep the cars on track. With nine minutes of the race left Gostner went off at the chicane allowing Rizzuto to take a hard fought second place.
Sossio Del Prete almost caused a premature end to the race when his car, that had been leaking fluids since the a front end accident, chose the start finish straight to catch fire on the penultimate lap. Thanks to the swift action of the marshals the race was able to run its full course and a delighted Baiz took the flag.
"I am so happy for this race, I love Imola," Baiz explained on the podium. "I have raced here three times so I feel so happy to win. Now I want to go back to Venezuela and show everyone my trophy and to show how great my country is."
After this evenings race Dirk Adamski still holds the lead in the championship with 153 points but Gostner closes in with 134. The Coppa Shell class will race again in Imola tomorrow at 14:10.


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Bonnie Fuller's Got Snot in Her Food
Loving this. This was posted today by Page Six.
SOME of Bonnie Fuller's miffed minions have gone to disgusting extremes to exact revenge on the hard-driving editorial director of American Media.
An anonymous former staffer tells the March issue of Vanity Fair that a few of Fuller's fed-up editorial assistants befouled a free meal that Bonnie had ordered them to pack up and send home in a company car so she and her husband could enjoy it later.
"She was just being so, so horrible to so many people and . . . look, I swear to God, we're really nice people," the ex-staffer tells the magazine. "You just don't know what we went through." One assistant "had a bad cold, so she, um, pulled some stuff out of her nose. That went in the mini-souffle chocolate cakes. And the loaf of bread . . . that went inside my pants."
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T in the Park 2011 kicks off as rain showers and thunder forecast
T in the Park 2011 has kicked off, with festival-goers warned rain and thunder are forecast over the weekend.
Thousands of people pitched up tents at the Balado campsite last night, ahead of three days of live music and plenty of mud.
Arctic Monkeys are headlining the event today, with Plan B, Welsh crooner Tom Jones and 2ManyDJs among the others taking to the stage tonight.
Tomorrow will see big-name acts including the Manic Street Preachers, Beyoncé and Coldplay performing, while the Foo Fighters and Blondie are among those on the Sunday night line-up.
Around 85,000 people are set to attend the festival, which boasts performances from more than 200 acts across 11 stages.
Festival-goers are being urged to both party hard and stay safe at this year's event.
Tayside Police Chief Superintendent Roddy Ross told the Scotland Courier: 'Every year a small number of people get themselves into trouble at T in the Park because they don't follow simple advice – look after yourselves and each other and make it a weekend to remember for all the right reasons.'
Music fans have been advised to ensure they have waterproofs packed for the weekend ahead, with wet weather expected today, as well as bright intervals.
Forecasters suggest the wet conditions could plague the whole of the festival, which ends on July 10th.


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Irvine, Calif.-based Eaton Corp. (Booth No. 5967) recently celebrated the successful flight testing of its arc fault circuit breaker (AFCB) technology as a stand-alone replacement for existing circuit breakers. Completing more than 350 normal service flights aboard a U.S. Navy DC-9 and the FAA Research Center's B-727, the Eaton AFCBs accumulated more than 5,000 hr of operation in multiple circuits ranging from fuel boost pumps to position lighting.
Because AFCB units can detect wire arcing in a typical aircraft 115-volt, 400-Hz electrical system, this presents a critical improvement in circuit breaker technology since the FAA and NTSB have cited electrical system arcing as one likely cause of the cabin fire and crash of Swissair Flight 111 and the explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800. According to Eaton sources, arcing conditions resulting from damaged or old wiring insulation can reach temperatures of more than 6,000 deg. The AFCBs use integrated electronics to diagnose when arcs or intermittent short-circuiting occurs in the wiring, then immediately isolates the circuit from the rest of the system.
Eaton AFCBs can be installed as direct replacements to existing circuit breakers with no additional connections, wiring or site preparation.


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Ten Minutes by RCZ
Dec 22 2010
Category: Dinner, Lunch, Modern Australian, Mornington Peninsula, Winery restaurant
There once was a car named the Peugeot RCZ
It came out of nowhere, leaving the Batmobile for dead
The Batmobile fought to catch up but it was all in vain
The RCZ was already in Main Ridge, bathing in champagne.
1333 Mornington-Flinders Road
Main Ridge VIC
It's an hour and a half from bayside Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula, a drive lined with urban beaches, cyclists and glimpses of underused tollways. At the end of our latest trek lay Ten Minutes by Tractor, a Main Ridge winery restaurant that had been on my 'to-eat list' for some time. In the rather concise words of Queen, I wanted it all. And I wanted it now.
'Now' was a sunny Saturday evening that called for pretty silk dresses to be worn and multiple glasses of red wine to be consumed. As we stepped down to the front door, verified our last-minute reservation and were seated in the dining room, it was clear we had entered a pretty swish establishment. The sleek dining room was fitted out with polished wooden floorboards, shapely brown wooden chairs, and crisp white tablecloths upon which slender flowers reclined in silver vases. With gorgeous views of the vineyard and a corrugated iron ceiling, it was shed dining at its finest.
Tubbymaster and I both chose (not to share) the night's entrée special, a scallop and pea risotto. The dishes arrived as the waiter described the special to the table behind us, but the scallops weren't blushing a shade of red. They were lightly pan-fried, on a vivid green bed of risotto, tiny flecks of bacon punctuating the dish with en-dashes of colour and saltiness. It looked as lovely on the plate as it felt on the palate, and tasted so good, I wanted to cancel my main and go twelve rounds with the risotto.
The mains were comparatively disappointing. My duck (Blue Mountain duck breast, pearl barley, beetroot, Tuscan cabbage) and Tubbymaster's steak (Cape Grim beef fillet, pumpkin puree, shallot, mustard jelly) looked promising – the pumpkin puree and jus of Tubbymaster's steak dish a futuristic backdrop for the brown of the steak and orange of the carrots. Both dishes certainly were not (Cape) grim, but were not fork-as-shovel brilliant like the risotto. The cauliflower in our 'seasonal panache of vegetables' was only just cooked, a flashback to my childhood when I attempted to avoid this vegetable as much as possible.
We shared the orange-themed dessert: orange meringue tart, citrus salad, suzette sauce, rosemary espuma, chocolate ice-cream. As we ordered, I had visions of diving through luscious peaks of meringue into a buttery pit of orange, but the tart was deconstructed – without any pastry that may have placated my tastebuds or, conversely, pushed my stomach past full. Mind you, if I knew that petits fours would arrive with our coffee – and those chocolate morsels would be as delicious as they were – I would have slowly backed away from the dessert menu, for they was a very nice end to an evening of droolworthy highs, and good-but-not-as-droolworthy plateaus.
TUBBYMISTRESS SAYS: What surprised me most about Ten Minutes by RCZ – I mean, Tractor – was how refined the whole experience was. Google Maps defines the restaurant's ambience as 'relaxed'; I prefer 'special-occasion', 'upmarket' or even 'posh'. The sophistication of the dishes; the price point; and special touches such as the extensive, leather-bound wine list elevate the Tractor into what I'd consider an elite group of winery restaurants in the region. Indeed, there were synergies with our Montalto dining experience from earlier in the year:
A selection of bread to select from basket
Mushroom and truffle oil soup (amuse bouche)
Pan-fried scallops, leeks and smoked salmon in a pea soup
Duck breast with baby beetroot and an apple and onion compote
Sherry and raisin soufflé
Obese credit card bill
Ten Minutes by Tractor
A selection of bread to select from bucket
Ocean trout amuse bouche
Pan-fried scallops, pea, bacon risotto
Duck breast with pearl barley, beetroot, Tuscan cabbage
Orange meringue tart
Obese credit card bill
As far as taste and consistency are concerned, Montalto wins … by a soufflé, half a duck and a waiter's smile. Both dining experiences were classy but, for me, the Tractor was a bit 'Toorak': it lacked warmth, the kind of x-factor that entices you to linger over coffee. Should we return, I hope our next ride on the Tractor is a little less machine, a lot more personable; and that all dishes are as amazing as that risotto.


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Alexander G. Merzhanov
Alexander G. Merzhanov was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 1931, graduated from the Rostov-on-Don University (Faculty of Physics and Mathematics) in 1954, and then started his research work at the Institute of Chemical Physics first in Moscow (1954–1960) and then at the Branch of this Institute in Chernogolovka. In the period of 1954–1967, Merzhanov was engaged in combustion studies (thermal explosion, ignition, and flame propagation). He received his Candidate scientific degree in 1959, and in 1967, he discovered (with his coworkers) the phenomenon later termed "solid flame" and a method of Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis (SHS). Alexander G. Merzhanov is the organizer and first director (1987–2004) of the Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science (ISMAN). Nowadays, he is a Scientific Advisor (emeritus) at this institute. He also headed the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Consortium TERMOSINTEZ until the collapse of the USSR. His pioneering works on the theory and practice of solid-flame combustion, structural macrokinetics, chemistry, and technology of inorganic materials have been widely recognized all around the world. Merzhanov is a Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and several academies of sciences abroad, he organized 10 international symposia on SHS, he is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis, a Member of other numerous editorial boards in domestic and international journals, an Honorary Professor of some Russian and foreign universities. In 2002–2006, Alexander Merzhanov was the President of the International Advisory Board at the World Academy of Ceramics (headquarters in Faenza, Italy).
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THE INVASION OF the Falkland Islands in the spring of 1982 would have a significant impact on Anglo-Irish relations during the course of the summer.
Days after the Argentine forces landed on the tiny islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, asserting their control over its 2,500 or so residents, the British government attempted to gain international support for a series of sanctions on Argentina, then under the control of a military junta.
As a temporary member of the United Nations Security Council and a close neighbour of Britain, Ireland was seen as a crucial country to have on board.
By mid-April the government here had voted in favour of the UN Security Council Resolution 502 which condemned the hostilities and demanded an immediate Argentine withdrawal from the islands.
But with Argentina continuing to act in defiance of the UN resolution, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote to Taoiseach Charles Haughey asking for his "urgent help" in bringing through further sanctions through the European Economic Community (EEC) of which both countries were members.
She said that Argentina's defiance of a Security Council resolution, adopted on 3 April, was "unacceptable" and said that "all available means" should be used to pressure the Argentines.
Thatcher letter
"Economic and financial measures would have a particularly powerful impact," she wrote, adding: "I now seek your personal help to bring about the urgent introduction of economic and financial measures against Argentina by national action coordinated among us".