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Researchers from Indiana University, the University of Michigan, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified and validated a biomarker accessible in blood tests that could be used to predict which stem cell transplant patients are at highest risk for a potentially fatal immune response called graft-versus-host disease.
Although transplant specialists have been able to reduce its impact, graft-versus-host disease remains a leading cause of death among patients who receive a stem cell transplant from another person, known as an allogeneic transplant. Such transplants are used to treat blood and bone marrow cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma, often as a last resort. Graft-versus-host disease occurs when immune cells from the transplant see the patient's body as foreign and attack it.
Approximately 20,000 allogeneic stem cell transplants were performed worldwide in 2012. Thirty to 40 percent of stem cell transplant recipients whose donor is related will experience graft-versus-host disease. The percentage could rise to 60 to 80 percent if the patient and donor are not related.
The researchers found that patients with a high level of a protein named ST2 were more than twice as likely to have graft-versus-host disease that resisted standard treatment with steroids; and nearly four times as likely to die within six months of the transplant. Their findings were reported in the Aug. 8 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"What we found particularly significant was that this marker was a better predictor than the clinical severity of the disease when it was diagnosed," said Sophie Paczesny, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.
Thus, patients with low ST2 levels were more likely to respond to treatment regardless of how serious their graft-versus-host disease was graded, while patients with high ST2 levels were less likely to respond to treatment, whether their disease was graded less serious or more serious.
"This blood test, which is currently available to clinicians, will make informed treatment possible as the clinicians will now be able to adjust therapy to the degree of risk rather than treating every patient the same way," Dr. Paczesny said.
In addition, while the disease most commonly appears about 30 days after the transplant, higher ST2 levels in blood samples taken as early as 14 days after transplant -- far before the clinical signs of graft-versus-host disease are apparent -- were associated with an increased risk of death from the toxicity of the transplant.
Therefore, the authors noted, early identification of patients who likely won't respond to standard treatments is important and would allow physicians to consider additional therapies and early intervention. On the other hand, patients with low risk will not need to have additional medicine further suppressing their immune system. But, they cautioned, additional large prospective studies are needed to better define the levels of risk predicted by the ST2 marker.
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Nigeria and Iran delivered the first draw of the World Cup on Monday as they ground out a scrappy 0-0 stalemate in their opening match in Group F.
The draw at the Arena da Baixada in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba followed 12 mostly high scoring and attacking games.
After a first half in which Nigeria failed to capitalize on its dominance, chances were few and far between in the second.
In the early passages of play, Nigeria had shown menace, with much of its attacking thrust coming down the left with Emmanuel Emenike and Victor Moses combining to cause problems for the defensively-minded Iran side.
Nigeria came closest to scoring in the seventh minute when an Ahmed Musa goal was disallowed after John Obi Mikel was adjudged to have fouled Iran goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi at a corner.
Iran grew more confident as the game progressed and came close to scoring in the 34th when a Reza Ghoochannejhad header required a sharp save from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
In the second half, both sides were guilty of sloppy passages of play, to the growing annoyance of the mainly Brazilian crowd. Players from both sides snatched at chances, and neither goalkeeper was troubled despite some frantic late pressure in the final minutes.
Both sides must now look to beat tournament debutant Bosnia-Herzegovina in a group that most expect to be won by Argentina. Lionel Messi scored one of the tournament's best goals in Argentina's 2-1 victory over the Bosnians on Sunday.
Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said the result was "fair" and that his players deserved "sympathy and respect" for performing on the biggest stage despite the impact of economic sanctions on the country which made it difficult to arrange friendlies.
"We're not here to perform the role of the happy loser," Queiroz said.
"The fans need to know the conditions we have endured for three years to get here."
Queiroz wouldn't talk about the team's next game against Argentina.
"Now I'm so tired just let me enjoy this point we collected from Nigeria," he said.
The result will be a disappointment for Nigeria, the current Africa Cup of Nations champion. Following a long slump, the team had been showing signs of some of the flair and power that had marked the country's football in the 1990s.
The draw means the winless World Cup runs of both teams continues, dating back to France 1998. For Iran, though, this was the first time it had not conceded a goal at the World Cup finals.

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Monday Morning Cooking Club
First there's tea, and then there's talk of recipes, and before you know it, there's a Monday Morning Cooking Club. But this is no ordinary cooking club — when you bring together a group of Australian Jewish women who draw their culinary identities from such far-reaching places as Russia and Hungary, China and South Africa, Great Britain and Poland, the dishes coming out of the kitchen are bound to be anything but ordinary.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Monday Morning Cooking Club
• Who published it: Harper Collins
• The angle: Recipes are as much about community and history as they are about nourishment.
• Number of recipes: Over 100
• Recipes for right now: Bean Soup with Csipetke, Soufflé Pancakes, Chocolate "Bread and Butter" Pudding, Rice Paprikash, Portuguese Peri Peri Chicken Livers, Sara's Pickled Brisket, Gina's Hair-Raising Honey Cake, Almond Kifli, South African Cheesecake, Chicken Persian Pilau
• Other highlights:
More than maybe any other cookbook I've come across in the past few years, this Monday Morning Cooking Club feels like a modern day version of the old community cookbooks. Personal anecdotes and bios of club members are tucked between the recipes. The recipes themselves are a giant jumble, seemingly thrown together at random. In any other book, this would feel hopelessly frustrating, but given the spirit of this cookbook, it instead feels charming and exactly right — there's a sense of paging through someone's personal cooking diary with new discoveries on every page.
Unlike those old community cookbooks, though, this one comes extensively tested and curated by a team of six core club members. It's also beautifully photographed throughout, which is handy when you're wondering what, exactly, Buba's Eggplant might be.
But most of all, I am amazed by the diversity of recipes here, which is representative of the diversity of this community. I love cookbooks that show us how real, everyday home cooks put food on the table, and this one has given me so much inspiration. I've never heard of kilfi biscuits, but now I want to make them. I'd expect to find dishes like Masala Chili Fish and Peri Peri Chicken on restaurant menus, but the fact that they are in this cookbook being offered by fellow home cooks makes them feel completely approachable.
• Who would enjoy this book? Anyone who's been feeling bored with their cooking and needs to shake things up.
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Monday Morning Cooking Club
• Visit the author's website: Monday Morning Cooking Club
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SACRAMENTO -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit supporting the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and urging the court to affirm the states' rights to protect the health and safety of their citizens.
"The law strikes an appropriate, constitutional balance between federal and state authority over the health care system," Attorney General Harris said. "It establishes federal standards, backed by federal funding, to expand access to affordable coverage while conferring considerable latitude on states to design systems that work best for their citizens."
Attorney General Harris, joined by nine other attorneys general, asserted in the brief that the federal health care law bolsters, rather than usurps, state authority to address problems in the national health care economy that the states cannot solve effectively on their own.
According to the brief, the health care law solves a national problem in a way that gives greater power to states by building on a successful model of cooperative federalism. Further, the brief states that the framework established by the law "empowers states to create enduring solutions to those problems, and to do so with federal support." The attorneys general also argue that the minimum coverage provision is a constitutional and integral element of Congress's interstate solution to the health care crisis.
California was joined in this brief along with Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.
In July, the same group of attorneys general filed a friend-of-the court brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia urging that court to affirm the constitutionality of the federal health care reform law. Attorney General Harris also filed similar briefs in April in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in March in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and in January in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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XFree86 comes with extensive documentation in the form of manual
pages and typeset documents. Before installing fonts, you really
should read the mkfontdir
(1) manual page; other manual pages of
interest include X
(1), Xserver
(1), xset
(1) and showfont
(1). In addition, you may want to
read the X Logical Font Description document, by Jim Flowers, which is
provided in the file `xc/doc/xlfd.PS.Z
The comp.fonts FAQ, which is unfortunately no longer being maintained, contains a wealth of information about digital fonts.
xfsft home page
has been superseded by this document, and is now obsolete; you may
however still find some of the information it contains useful. Joerg Pommnitz' xfsft page is the
canonical source for the `ttmkfdir
' utility.
The documentation of X-TrueType is available from the X-TrueType home page.
A number of East-Asian CIDFonts are available from O'Reilly's FTP site.
The Unicode consortium site may be of interest. But you are more likely to find what you need on Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ.
The IANA RFC documents, available from a number of sites throughout the world, often provide interesting information about character set issues; my favourite is RFC 373.


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When I think of shortbread cookies, I think of simplicity. Shortbread cookies usually have a high percentage of fat and slightly less sugar than other cookies, leaving you with a not-too-sweet cookie that has a nice buttery flavor to it. I like them plain, but because they are often plain they are a great foil for other flavors to be added. Like chocolate chips, for instance.
I gave some basic chocolate chip cookies a shortbread cookie makeover in this recipe. I used brown sugar, salt and vanilla in addition to butter to incorporate some of the flavors often found in chocolate chip cookies. I also added a generous amount of chocolate chips, of course! Brown sugar has a way of making cookies slightly chewy, so I added in a little bit of cornstarch to help the cookies stay a little bit crisper and more shortbread-like, although I have to say that these are not the super-crisp variety of shortbread cookie in the end anyway. What they are is easy to make and flavorful, with a nice balance of butter, chocolate, sugar and salt that is perfect to satisfy just about any cookie craving.
This dough should be refrigerated for about an hour before using it, so you can slice it easily into even cookies. If you want to make it further in advance, or only want to bake some of the cookies off at a time, you can freeze the dough (probably for about 2-3 weeks, well wrapped) and defrost it in the fridge before baking. I used dark chocolate in these cookies, but feel free to go with semisweet chocolate, milk chocolate or a mixture of different chocolates to get a cookie that suits any given chocolate craving.
Dark Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp cornstarch
1/2 tsp salt (pref. kosher salt)
1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate or dark chocolate chips
In a large bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar until light. Blend in vanilla extract and salt. Sift flour and cornstarch over the bowl and mix until no streaks of dry ingredients remain. Dough may still look crumbly, even after everything is incorporated, and this is ok. Stir in dark chocolate and press dough into a log about 1 1/2 inches in diameter with your hands.
Wrap dough log in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Slice dough log into rounds less than 1/4-in thick (thinner rounds will yield crispier cookies, thicker will be slightly chewier) with a sharp knife. Place on baking sheet.
Bake for 11-14 minutes, or until cookies are lightly browned around the edges.
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European residents will have the right to open a basic bank account in any country of the EU and compare the fees charged by providers, under new plans. |
European residents will have the right to open a basic bank account in any country of the EU and compare the fees charged by providers, under new plans.
The European Commission is outlining proposals to make it easier for customers to compare charges and switch to another bank.
At present, many consumers find it difficult to open an account in another EU country where they are not resident.
The Commission also hopes to reduce the numbers who do not have accounts.
It estimates that about 58 million consumers across the EU, aged over 15, do not have a payment account. The levels vary hugely across different states of the EU.
Only France, Belgium and Italy have laws in place that ensure people have access to a basic bank account in line with the proposals.
The plans would mean anyone could open an account, even if they have been made bankrupt or unemployed, with at least one provider. This would allow them to perform basic operations such as to receive their salary, pensions and benefits, or to pay utility bills.
The Commission also wants banks to send information to customers that lists the fees for common services, and the charges that have been levied in the previous 12 months.
It also plans to set down rules that ensure an account is switched for free within 15 days between providers in the same country. The UK is already going further, with a speedier seven working-day switching plan.
The Commission wants to see free switching between providers in different EU countries to take place within 30 days.
"By making it easier to compare fees and change bank accounts, we also hope to see better offers from banks and lower costs," said EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier.
(Source: BBC News)
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Nativity Fast Begins on November 15
November 15 is the beginning of the Nativity Fast, one of the four Canonical Fasting Seasons in the Church year. This is a joyous fast in anticipation of the Nativity of Christ.
In the weeks between now and December 25, Orthodox Christians prepare themselves to celebrate the birth in the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ. As we begin the fast, we encourage both believing Orthodox and inquirers to review the reflections and resources in our special Nativity section.
For additional general resources on the Orthodox Christian tradition of feasting and fasting, visit the Feasts and Fasts section of Discover Orthodox Christianity.


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33 S.Ct. 41
57 L.Ed. 189
BUCK STOVE & RANGE COMPANY et al., Plffs in Err.,
C. C. VICKERS et al.
No. 10.
Argued December 19, 1911.
Decided December 2, 1912.
Messrs. Seneca N. Taylor, Malcolm B. Nicholson, and William J. Pirtle for plaintiffs in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 206-208 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Stephen H. Allen and Robert Stone for defendants in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 208-211 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the opinion of the court:
By suits begun in the district court of Morris county, Kansas, and consolidated for purposes of trial and judgment, seven judgment creditors of one Vickers sought to set aside, as fraudulent, a conveyance by him, and to subject the land included therein to the satisfaction of their several judgments. The plaintiffs were corporations organized under the laws of states other than Kansas, and four of them were doing a purely interstate business in that state, but without complying with its laws presently to be mentioned. The defendants set up this noncompliance by an answer in the nature of a plea in abatement, and the court sustained the plea and dismissed the suits as to the four plaintiffs. As to the other three plaintiffs, relief was denied for other reasons, which need not be stated. The judgment was affirmed by the supreme court of the state, against the contention that the laws of Kansas under which the plea in abatement was sustained are violative of the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States (80 Kan. 29, 101 Pac. 668), and then the case was brought here.
Some minor questions of appellate practice were urged upon our attention, but their statement and consideration have become unnecessary through the concession of counsel for plaintiffs in error, made during the oral argument and acted upon at the time, that the writ of error might be dismissed as to the Aultman and Miller Buckeye Company, the Consolidated Steel & Wire Company, and the Galveston Rope Company. Therefore, attention need be given only to the ruling upon the plea in abatement.
Our power to review this ruling is challenged, because of the statutory provision that there shall be no reversal in this court upon a writ of error 'for error in ruling any plea in abatement, other than a plea to the jurisdiction of the court.' Rev. Stat. § 1011, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 715. This provision has been part of the judiciary acts from the beginning, and often has been applied upon writs of error to the circuit and district courts, but never to a case coming here from a state court. Piquignot v. Pennsylvania R. Co. 16 How. 104, 14 L. ed. 863, and Stephens v. Monongahela Nat. Bank, 111 U. S. 197, 28 L. ed. 399, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 336, illustrate its application in cases brought here from circuit courts, and International Textbook Co. v. Pigg, 217 U. S. 91, 54 L. ed. 678, 27 L.R.A. (N.S.) 493, 30 Sup. Ct. Rep. 481, 18 Ann. Cas. 1103, and International Textbook Co. v. Lynch, 218 U. S. 664, 54 L. ed. 1201, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 225, are cases in which it was not applied upon writs of error to state courts. This difference in the treatment of the two classes of cases has not been inadvertent, but deliberate, and the reason for it is at once apparent when § 22 of the original judiciary act (1 Stat. at L. 84, chap. 20) is examined. The provision originated in that section and was there associated with other provisions which unmistakably show that it was intended to embrace only writs of error to the circuit and district courts. At the time of the revision in 1873, § 22 was divided into several shorter sections and included in the revision according to an arrangement, adopted for purposes of convenience only, whereby the several parts of the original section became more or less separated; but that, in the absence of some substantial change in phraseology, did not work any change in their purpose or meaning. Rev. Stat. § 5600, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 3751; Hyde v. United States, 225 U. S. 361, 56 L. ed. 1123, 32 Sup. Ct. Rep. 793; McDonald v. Hovey, 110 U. S. 619, 28 L. ed. 269, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 142. This is a writ of error to a state court, and so our power to review the ruling upon the plea in abatement is not affected by § 1011.
The statute of Kansas under which the plea was sustained is embodied in the General Statutes of 1905, and provides, in §§ 1332-1336, that to entitle a corporation organized under the laws of another state to do business in Kansas it must (a) make application to, and obtain the permission of, the charter board of the state, (b) accompany pany its application with a fee of $25, (c) file with the secretary of state its irrevocable consent that process against it may be served upon that officer, (d) be organized for a purpose for which a domestic corporation may be organized, (e) pay to the state treasurer, for the benefit of the permanent school fund, a specified per cent of its authorized capital, and (f) file with the secretary of state a certified copy of its charter. And by § 1358 the statute provides that each corporation for profit, doing business in the state, except banking, insurance, and railroad corporations, shall annually prepare and deliver to the secretary of state a complete and detailed statement, exhibiting: '1st. The authorized capital stock. 2d. The paid-up capital stock. 3d. The par value and the market value per share of said stock. 4th. A complete and detailed statement of the assets and liabilities of the corporation. 5th. A full and complete list of the stockholders, with the postoffice address of each, and the number of shares held and paid by each. 6th. The names and postoffice addresses of the officers, trustees, or directors and manager elected for the ensuing year, together with a certificate of the time and manner in which such election was held.' This section further provides that a failure to file such statement by and corporation doing business in the state, and not organized under its laws, shall work a forfeiture of the right or authority to do business in the state, and that 'no action shall be maintained or recovery had in any of the courts of this state by any corporation doing business in this state without first obtaining the certificate of the secretary of state that statements provided for in this section have been properly made.'
The four corporations against which the plea was sustained were corporations for profit, organized under the laws of states other than Kansas, were not banking, insurance, or railroad corporations, were doing business in Kansas,—a purely interstate business,—and had not complied with the statute just described. There can be no douby, therefore, that if the statute, especially § 1358, is valid as against such corporations, the plea was rightly sustained; otherwise, it should have been overruled. So, the question for decision is whether, consistently with the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States, a state may thus restrict and burden the right to do interstate business within its limits. This precise question was presented to this court and decided in the negative in the case of International Textbook Co. v. Pigg, 217 U. S. 91, 54 L. ed. 678, 27 L.R.A.(N.S.) 493, 30 Sup. Ct. Rep. 481, 18 Ann. Cas. 1103,—a case in which the supreme court of Kansas had applied the provisions of § 1358 (§ 1283, Gen. Stat. 1901) to a corporation of another state, doing an interstate business in Kansas. And the decision of this court in that case was shortly thereafter followed in the similar case of International Textbook Co. v. Lynch, 218 U. S. 664, 54 L. ed. 1201, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 225, brought here on error to the supreme court of Vermont. It is due to the supreme court of Kansas to observe that this court's decision in the Pigg Case had not been made when that court's decision in the present case was given; but in saying this we would not be understood as implying that this case announced any new doctrine in the Pigg Case, for it but reiterated and applied principles which were already well recognized, as was shown in the earlier cases of Paul v. Virginia, 8 Wall. 168, 182, 19 L. ed. 357, 360; Cooper Mfg. Co. v. Ferguson, 113 U. S. 727, 734, 28 L. ed. 1137, 1139, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 739, and Crutcher v. Kentucky, 141 U. S. 47, 56, 35 L. ed. 649, 652, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 851.
As accurately reflecting what was held in the Pigg Case, we excerpt the following from the opinion of the court, delivered by Mr. Justice Harlan (pp. 109, 112):
"To carry on interstate commerce is not a franchise or a privilege granted by the state; it is a right which every citizen of the United States is entitled to exercise under the Constitution and laws of the United States; and that the accession of mere corporate facilities, as a matter of convenience in carrying on their business, cannot have the effect of depriving them of such right, unless Congress should see fit to interpose some contrary regulation on the subject'
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'How far a corporation of one state is entitled to claim in another state, where it is doing business, equality of treatment with individual citizens in respect of the right to sue and defend in the courts, is a question which the exigencies of this case do not require to be indefinitely decided. It is sufficient to say that the requirement of the statement mentioned in § 1283 [§ 1358, Gen. Stat. 1905] of the statute imposes a direct burden on the plaintiff's right to engage in interstate business, and therefore is in violation of its constitutional rights. It is the established doctrine of this court that a state may not, in any form or under any guise, directly burden the prosecution of interstate business. But such a burden is imposed when the corporation of another state, lawfully engaged in interstate commerce, is required, as a condition of its right to prosecute its business in Kansas, to make and file a statement setting forth certain facts which the state, confessedly, could not control by legislation. It results that the provision as to the statement mentioned in § 1283 [§ 1358, Gen. Stat. 1905] must fall before the Constitution of the United States, and with it—according to the established rules of statutory construction—must fall that part of the same section which provides that the obtaining of the certificate of the secretary of state that such statement has been properly made shall be a condition precedent to the right of the plaintiff to maintain an action in the courts of Kansas.'
Following the decision in that case, we held that the statute upon which the plea in abatement was rested is unconstitutional and void, and that the plea should not have been sustained, but overruled.
The judgment is reversed as to the remaining plaintiffs in error, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
Mr. Justice Pitney did not hear the argument or participate in the decision of this case.


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This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
Editor's note: Sia Figiel is one of six CNN viewers selected to be a part of the Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge program. Follow the "Sassy Six" on Twitter and Facebook as they train to race the Nautica Malibu Triathlon with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on September 14.(CNN) — At 400 pounds I had little self-confidence. I measured my value not by my abilities but by the number of pounds on a scale.
No matter how reassuring friends, family and co-workers were, I saw myself as a failure because I couldn't manage my weight or my diabetes.
After a move to the U.S. mainland from American Samoa almost two years ago, I picked up walking and swimming, and started eating more fruits and vegetables. I avoided anything that came in a can or a box.
As the weight came off slowly, I started believing in myself — and in my ability to turn my life around.
After our first Fit Nation meeting in Atlanta, I committed to walking in the mornings and training in the evenings. My walking partner would pick me up at 7 a.m. daily, and we would go to Tampa's MacDill Park, where we walked two miles.
Every morning we saw a girl running nearby, and we would marvel at her speed and form. She ran with such grace.
"One day," my friend told me, "you're going to be running just like her, mi amiga!"
There was passion in her voice when she said it — a passion that meant she believed in me. But I found it hard to believe it myself. After all, the runner was smaller. Much smaller. And there wasn't an ounce of fat on her body.
Up until that point I was walking for five minutes and then jogging for a minute. That minute felt like an eternity. Before I even got to the 30-second mark, I would be gasping for air.
But each morning I saw the runner, I felt inspired. I knew I needed to put more effort into my workouts. Each week I added another 15 seconds to that minute until finally, three weeks later, I decided to give it a shot and run two consecutive minutes.
To my surprise, I kept running long after the two minutes were over — until I realized I had run my first mile nonstop.
Two weeks later, I ran four miles nonstop in a time of 1:04. I remember being so excited and needing to tell someone. But my sons didn't quite get it when I rushed through the door, breathless, and told them I had just run nonstop for an hour. All they said was, "Cool, Mom, what's for breakfast?"
In the past, this lack of encouragement would have stopped me. But I've since realized I don't need to be reassured by anyone. There's something that happens once you chose to believe in yourself; out of nowhere, you'll sprout wings you never knew you had.
Each Saturday since, I've been running for four miles. Last Saturday I ran my best time of 57:55, with one of my laps at 13:27.
My goal is to run a 10-minute mile.
Beating my own time is my newest joy. It is a rush that keeps me going daily.
There's nothing like hearing my sons complain when we're walking to school in the mornings. "You're always running, Mom. Why can't we just walk?"
I may not be the most graceful runner on Saturday mornings, but I'll keep going till I get to my goal.
I've learned that you don't have to be thin to run. You just have to believe that you can.
I'm running.
Only this time, I've forgotten to be afraid.
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iOS: Weekly Ads & Sales shows you all the sales and price drops for nearby retailers, whether grocery grocery, electronic, or even video game stores.
Back in the old days, people used to sift through these things called newspapers to find the week's sales and price drops at your local grocery stores. If you don't feel like digging through the newspaper, though, Weekly Ads & Sales is a super-convenient way to keep track of the week's deals at stores near you. It'll show you all the supported stores near you on a map or list based on your location, and let you browse their ads and coupons for the week. It's simple, but really convenient if you don't get a physical newspaper anymore.
Weekly Ads & Sales is a free download for iOS. You can also grab a $1.99 pro version that'll let you save your favorite stores for quick access and easy browsing, so you know which stores to visit on that week's grocery trip.
Weekly Ads & Sales | iTunes App Store
You can contact Whitson Gordon, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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Installing fonts in XFree86 is a two step process. First, you need to create a font directory that contains all the relevant font files as well as some index files. You then need to inform the X server of the existence of this new directory by including it in the font path.
The XFree86 server can use bitmap fonts in both the cross-platform BDF format and the somewhat more efficient binary PCF format. (XFree86 also supports the obsolete SNF format.)
Bitmap fonts are normally distributed in the BDF format. Before
installing such fonts, it is desirable (but not absolutely necessary)
to convert the font files to the PCF format. This is done by using the
command `bdftopcf
', e.g.
$ bdftopcf courier12.bdf
You may then want to compress the resulting PCF font files:
$ gzip courier12.pcf
After the fonts have been converted, you should copy all the font
files that you wish to make available into a arbitrary directory, say
'. You should then create the
index file `fonts.dir
' by running the command `mkfontdir
(please see the mkfontdir
(1) manual page for more information):
$ mkdir /usr/local/share/fonts/bitmap
$ cp *.pcf.gz /usr/local/share/fonts/bitmap
$ cd /usr/local/share/fonts/bitmap
$ mkfontdir
All that remains is to tell the X server about the existence of the new font directory; see Section Setting the server font path.
The XFree86 server supports scalable fonts in four formats: Type 1, Speedo, TrueType and CIDFont. This section only applies to the former three; for information on CIDFonts, please see Section Installing CIDFonts later in this document.
Installing scalable fonts is very similar to installing bitmap fonts:
you create a directory with the font files, and run `mkfontdir
to create an index file called `fonts.dir
There is, however, a big difference: `mkfontdir
' cannot
automatically recognise scalable font files. For that reason, you
must first index all the font files in a file called
'. This file has the same format as a
' file, and typically looks as follows:
cour.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
cour.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2
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The first line indicates the number of entries in the file.
Each line after the first consists of two fields separated by a space;
the first field is the name of the font file, and the second one is
the name under which the font will appear to the server. This name
should obey the X Logical Font Description conventions (see Section
The X Logical Font Description). The
format of this file is fully described in the mkfontdir
(1) manual
Note that multiple lines may point at the same font file. This is most commonly done in order to make a single font available under multiple encodings; please see Section Fonts and internationalisation.
While it is possible to create the `fonts.scale
' file by hand, it
is simpler and more convenient to have it generated automatically.
Utilities to perform this task are available, but are not currently
included with XFree86. For Type 1 fonts, you may use a utility
called `type1inst
' which is available from
standard Free Software repositories throughout the world.
For TrueType fonts, you may use `ttmkfdir
', available from
Joerg Pommnitz's xfsft page.
After the `fonts.scale
' is created, you may run `mkfontdir
' as
above; this time, however, you need to create an index of encoding
files called `encodings.dir
' in addition to the
' file. This is done by using `mkfontdir
' with
the `-e
' flag:
$ cd /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1
$ mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/font/encodings
For more information, please see the mkfontdir
(1) manual page and
Fonts and internationalisation later in this document.
The CID-keyed font format was designed by Adobe Systems for fonts with large character sets. A CID-keyed font, or CIDFont for short, contains a collection of glyphs indexed by character ID (CID).
Adobe make some sample CIDFonts and a complete set of CMaps available from O'Reilly's FTP site.
In order to map such glyphs to meaningful indices, Adobe provide a set
of CMap files. The PostScript name of a font generated from a
CIDFont consists of the name of the CIDFont and the name of the CMap
separated by two dashes. For example, the font generated from the
CIDFont `Munhwa-Regular
' using the CMap `UniKS-UCS2-H
' is
The CIDFont support in XFree86 requires a very rigid directory
structure. The main directory must be called `CID
' (its location
defaults to `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID
' but it may be
located anywhere), and it should contain a subdirectory for every CID
collection. Every subdirectory must contain subdirectories
called CIDFont
(containing the actual CIDFont files), CMap
(containing all the needed CMaps), AFM
(containing the font
metric files) and CFM
(initially empty). For example, in the
case of the font Munhwa-Regular
that uses the CID collection
, the directory structure should be as follows:
After creating this directory structure and copying the relevant
files, you should create a <`tt/fonts.scale/' file. This file has the
same format as in the case of (non-CID) scalable fonts, except that
its first column contains PostScript font names with the extension
' appended rather than actual filenames:
Adobe-Korea1/Munhwa-Regular--UniKS-UCS2-H.cid \
(both names on the same line). As above, running `mkfontdir
creates the `fonts.dir
' file:
$ cd /usr/local/share/fonts/CID
$ mkfontdir
Finally, you should create the font metrics summary files in the
directory `CFM
' by running the command `mkcfm
$ mkcfm /usr/local/share/fonts/CID
If no CFM files are available, the server will still be able to use
the CID fonts but querying them will take a long time. You should run
' again whenever a change is made to any of the CID-keyed
fonts, or when the CID-keyed fonts are copied to a machine with a
different architecture.
The list of directories where the server looks for fonts is known as the font path. Informing the server of the existence of a new font directory consists in putting it on the font path.
The font path is an ordered list; if a client's request matches multiple fonts, the first one in the font path is the one that gets used. When matching fonts, the server makes two passes over the font path: during the first pass, it searches for an exact match; during the second, it searches for fonts suitable for scaling.
For best results, scalable fonts should appear in the font path before
the bitmap fonts; this way, the server will prefer bitmap fonts to
scalable fonts when an exact match is possible, but will avoid scaling
bitmap fonts when a scalable font can be used. (The `:unscaled
hack, while still supported, should no longer be necessary in XFree86
4.0 and later.)
You may check the font path of the running server by typing the command
$ xset q
The `xset
' utility may be used to modify the font path for the
current session. The font path is set with the command xset fp
a new element is added to the front with xset +fp
, and added to
the end with xset fp+
. For example,
$ xset +fp /usr/local/fonts/Type1
$ xset fp+ /usr/local/fonts/bitmap
Conversely, an element may be removed from the front of the font path
with `xset -fp
', and removed from the end with `xset fp-
For more information, please consult the xset
(1) manual page.
The default font path (the one used just after server startup) is
specified in the X server's `XF86Config
' file. It is computed by
appending all the directories mentioned in the `FontPath
' entries
of the `Files
' section in the order in which they appear.
FontPath "/usr/local/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/local/fonts/bitmap"
For more information, please consult the `XF86Config
'(5) manual
If you seem to be unable to use some of the fonts you have
installed, the first thing to check is that the `fonts.dir
' files
are correct and that they are readable by the server. If this doesn't
help, it is quite possible that you are trying to use a font in a
format that is not supported by your server.
XFree86 supports the BDF, PCF, SNF, Type 1, Speedo, TrueType and CIDFont font formats. However, not all XFree86 servers come with all the font backends configured in.
On most platforms, the XFree86 servers are modular: the font
backends are included in modules that are loaded at runtime. The
modules to be loaded are specified in the `XF86Config
' file using
the `Load
' directive:
Load "type1"
If you have trouble installing fonts in a specific format, you may
want to check the server's log file in order to see whether the
relevant modules are properly loaded. The list of font modules
distributed with XFree86 is as follows:
: bitmap fonts (`*.bdf
', `*.pcf
and `*.snf
: Type 1 fonts (`*.pfa
' and
') and CIDFonts;"speedo"
: Bitstream Speedo fonts (`*.spd
: TrueType fonts (`*.ttf
' and `*.ttc
: alternate TrueType backend (`*.ttf
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Better numbers heartening for community banks
AMG National Trust Bank and Flatirons Bank in Boulder, Mile High Banks in Longmont and Summit Bank and Trust in Broomfield recorded a "significant improvement" in their return on equity, a key metric of bank health, said Jenifer Waller, senior vice president of the Colorado Bankers Association in Denver, a trade group.
Waller calculated ROE, as it's called in the industry, as well as other key bank metrics, using statistics from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s latest quarterly call reports.
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As a group, the four banks recorded an 8.3 percent return on equity, compared with a 2.3 percent return on equity in 2012, Waller said.
The four banks recorded noncurrent assets (the formal name for delinquent loans) of 6.9 percent. That was down from 9.4 percent for the same period a year earlier, Waller said. The drop in delinquent loans appears to reflect an improvement in the regional economy, she said.
The four banks' risk-based capital was 13. 7 percent compared with 7.9 percent in the same quarter a year earlier, a very healthy growth, Waller said.
"The capital ratios simply blow me away," Waller said.
Three of the banks also reported net income for the quarter. Mile High reported $1.9 million; AMG National Trust reported $887,000; and Flatirons reported $210,000.
Summit Bank and Trust reported a net loss of $45,000.
At Mile High Banks, executives are looking forward to building the business again, said Ken McCormick, chief executive of Strategic Growth Bancorp in El Paso, Texas, the new owner of the bank. Mile High Banks parent company Big Sandy Holdings went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, although Mile High Banks operated independently. Strategic Growth Bancorp bought Mile High's stock for $5.5 million and. recapitalized the bank with $90 million in a transaction approved by the Colorado Division of Banking at the end of 2012.
"We're enjoying it. It's going great," McCormick said in response to the first-quarter net income numbers.
While the four Boulder Valley banks appear to be doing well, based on the latest metrics, Waller said she is cautious in making broad statements about how all banks did across the state in the first quarter.
"There is such a significant presence of out-of-state banks doing business in Colorado … that numbers on these four banks cannot tell the entire banking story," Waller said.
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What happens when a group of middle school kids – helped by college students and professional investor volunteers – put $25,000 into the stock market? They pick a portfolio that returns about 2 percent in less than two months.
That was the case of Summit Charter Middle School students who took a financial lessons class this spring from accounting and finance students at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.
While final tallies are not in, two top-performing stocks in the portfolio were Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq: SSYS), a 3-D printing company that brought in a return of nearly 18 percent, and Under Armour (NYSE: UA), a sports clothing company that brought in a return of 10.5 percent, according to Alan Jagolinzer, the associate professor at the Leeds School who directed the project.
The $25,000 used to invest in the market was allocated to the project by an unnamed nonprofit group that supports the school.
The middle-school students researched companies and pitched their ideas to a volunteer group of professional investors.
CU-Boulder students also helped the middle schoolers launch a business club that opened a small school supply store called "$um Stuff."
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Kim Kardashian -- Dreaming Up an Album
Kim Kardashian is recording an album. As in music. As in singing ... TMZ has learned.
We're told Kim's recently been in the studio with top notch writer/producer/performer The-Dream, whose hits include Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."
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Best car sales since early '08
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. car buyers flooded showrooms in September, sending auto sales to their highest level in more than four years.
Overall sales were were up 13% from a year ago, according to sales tracker Autodata, which put the pace of sales at an annual rate of just under 15 million vehicles. That easily topped most forecasts and was even better than the spike in sales caused by the government's "Cash for Clunkers" program three years ago. The last time sales reached this level was February 2008, before gas prices surged and the financial meltdown caused a deep, sustained drop in auto sales.
The sales pace came despite some disappointing results from the two leading Detroit automakers.
General Motors reported only a 1.5% increase in sales from year-ago levels on Tuesday, while Ford Motor sales slipped 0.1%. Both results were a bit below forecast.
But Chrysler Group reported that sales jumped 12% from a year earlier, easily topping forecasts. Toyota Motor also beat expectations, reporting its sales surged 41.5% from year-ago levels, while Honda Motor posted a 30.9% jump in sales as well. A year ago both automakers were struggling with limited supplies of vehicles due to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. But it wasn't just the Japanese automakers who posted strong gains. Volkswagen Group, which includes the VW and Audi brands, posted a 32% jump in sales while Hyundai Motor, which operates the Hyundai and Kia brands, posted a 23.4% gain.
"Pent-up demand continues to be released, and it's being supported by the fact that car loans is more widely available," said Michelle Krebs, senior analyst with Edmunds.com.
The automakers were able to achieve the strong sales even without using cash-back offers and other discounts to attract buyers.
"It's a dream scenario for automakers - low incentives, higher sales. It all equals higher profitability," said Jesse Toprak, analyst with TrueCar.
Consumer confidence has also been on the rise, which helps to boost sales. But Americans are also hitting showrooms due to the limited supply -- and high prices -- of used cars, said Krebs. Production of new cars was at such a low level three to four years ago that the supply of late-model used cars is now much tighter than normal.
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GM and Ford had strong months a year ago due to the supply problems at Japanese competitors, which kept them from posting some of the big gains that their rivals reported in September. Part of the reason both companies missed forecasts was a drop in their less profitable fleet sales to businesses such as rental car companies. Sales to consumers, the more important sign of strength, were pretty much on target.


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Model Amber Rose has been in and out of the spotlight for a number of reasons throughout the years, ranging from dramatic romantic drama to daring fashion feats. Although most of the attention has chosen to pay attention to her gorgeous curves and bright, blonde hair all this time, since her break-up with Kanye and embarrassing NSFW photos making their way onto the web, she's been cooling off with her main squeeze, Wiz Khalifa.
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The superheroic Batman made it to the silver screen for the first time in 1943, four years after the character's comic-book debut in the pages of Detective Comics (and five years before Superman's first live-action film). Like most serial adventures, Lambert Hillyer's 15-chapter Batman, was essentially run-of-the-mill, cheaply produced (by Rudolph C. Flothow) and flatly filmed with "B" talent. Since it was also a wartime serial, Batman is marred by "patriotic" racism levelled against the Japanese, personified by evil spy Dr. Daka. On balance, however, Columbia Pictures' Batman is just about as good as the next serial, which spells plenty of two-fisted fun.
The serial's opening moments embody the whole production. The requisite portentous serial music (here, by Lee Zahler) underscores credits followed by a cheesy narration that introduces Gotham City's much-needed vigilantes Batman and Robin: "They represent American youth who love their country and are glad to fight for it. Wherever crime raises its ugly head to strike with the venom of a maddened rattlesnake, Batman and Robin strike also." The first sight of Batman on film depicts the caped and cowled crime-fighter brooding behind a desk in a cave shadowed by fluttering bats. The subterranean "Bat's Cave," as it's called in the serial, was adopted in the comics as a refinement of the hero's headquarters; ever since, the Batcave has been a part of the Batman mythos.
Quickly, though, this surprisingly forward-thinking conception yields to a more light-hearted, kid-friendly aesthetic, as Robin the Boy Wonder bounds into frame, and Batman—now grinning ear-to-ear—leaps into action. Lewis Wilson gives a sturdy performance as Batman, though the character's masked crimefighting comes off as generic serial heroism. Wilson strikes good notes as supposedly idle-rich Bruce Wayne, an avuncular, vacuous, and self-deprecating wisecracker, in counterpoint to his secret identity: the no-nonsense Batman. Better yet, Douglas Croft's Robin/Dick Grayson marks the only time a boy actor has ever played Robin the Boy Wonder on screen. Sixteen-year-old Croft looks and sounds the part, lending an authentic "gee whiz" manner to the stock teen sidekick character (he actually chirps, at one point, "Swell! Let's get into our outfits!").
It's best not to ask too many questions, or expect too much, of the simplistic plot. Wayne's gal pal Linda Page (Shirley Patterson) goes to meet her Uncle Martin in Chapter 1, but he's already been kidnapped by "the League of the New Order," disgraced businessman and underground underminers of American democracy (Linda's wooden response to Martin's disappearing act: "I can't understand his actions"). Dr. Daka (J. Carroll Naish) commands the conspirators, serving the Emperor by converting people into zombies with electrical brains, stealing radium to power an atom-smashing gun, and plotting to rid Gotham of the meddling Batman.
Serials are known for their unhurried pace and poor editing, and Batman is no exception, but each chapter ends dutifully with a nail-biting "cliffhanger," many of them fiery or explosive. Chapter One ends with Batman plummeting from the top floor of an office building ("Will Robin have to carry on the struggle alone?"), but of course, surely Batman will be back in "Chapter 2 of Batman at this theatre next week!" (it wouldn't do to keep calling the serial Batman without him, now would it?). In demonstration of the "cliffhanger"'s namesake, one chapter climaxes with Batman leaping from the Batmobile, clambering around, an armored car, and letting himself in by the passenger door; as he and the driver struggle, the car plunges over a cliffside. You've got to love the chapter that ends with a deathtrap perennial: walls, festooned with metal spikes, closing in on our hero.
Batman is no great shakes in the production design department (Wayne lives in a suburban house, and the "Batmobile" is a factory-stock 1939 Cadillac Series 61 Convertible), but some elements of the Batman universe appear and advance in the serial. As in the comics, Batman attaches to captured criminals notes to the police, signed with a Bat-symbol. The Bat-signal appears, sort of, in the form of a portable device used to scare crooks; other gadgetry includes pocket radios for Bruce and Dick. The secret Batcave door, disguised as a grandfather clock, became a staple image for Batman.
In character terms, Batman is mostly a benign do-gooder, but toughens up for the regular fisticuffs and an interrogation scene in which he threatens a thug with "our little pets" in the Bat's Cave. Batman's fearful image is supported by Daka's assertion that the skilled escape-artist must be "a magician or a devil!" Perhaps the most striking moment in all fifteen chapters comes when Batman, surrounded by flames, yells out for the presumably endangered Linda; his genuine concern betrays rare emotion for a serial, however unearned by Wilson and Patterson elsewhere in the story. Writers Victor McLeod & Leslie Swabacker & Harry Fraser are careful never to threaten the Boy Wonder in the cliffhangers, though he does get punched out in one scene and briefly brandishes a gun!
More of a chauffeur here than a butler, trusty Alfred (William Austin) has a leaner appearance than in the comics of the time; when the serial hit, the comic-book Alfred got a makeover to more closely resemble Austin in appearance and mien. Alfred anchors the serial's comic relief: in one scene, he's jumpy as he nervously reads a detective novel (in a bit of unintentional humor borne of the one-take nature of serials, Austin has trouble getting the car to start in one scene). The serial pays service to Master Bruce's mastery of disguise, and even Alfred gets to don a fake beard for one episode. No Commissioner Gordon yet: just Police Captain Arnold (Charles C. Wilson), who heads up an inept bunch that's ineffectual at trapping crooks or the spirited vigilantes.
The strongest impression is left by Naish, who wears a Colonel Sanders outfit and speaks in a dialect that's "Japanese" by way of Brooklyn. The barefaced racism includes Daka's hideout (hidden behind a "Japanese Cave of Horrors" amusement ride), references to "shifty-eyed Japs" and "the squint eye," and Daka's stereotypical catch-phrase "So sorry." Batman has his own unfortunate moments, exclaiming "Ah—a Jap!" and "Why, you Jap devil!" Naish's performance, though racist, lends color (pardon the pun) to the generally bland scenes between bursts of action. One scene is constructed of dueling propaganda between Daka ("You might as well try to stop the tides and the winds") and a patriotic resistor ("You underestimate the American will to fight, Daka!"). Another chapter depicts a Kamikaze-style sacrifice ("His mission is completed," says Daka. "He is very happy to die.") For the record, one chapter also includes a stereotypical "Indian" (Native American).
Overall, the two-plus hours make up a straight adventure story with laboratories, exotic technology, secret doors, spies, and fillips of humor (how can you not love Alfred saying to Bruce, "Splendid, sir! May I say that now you're cooking with gas!"). However thinly conceived, it is a detective story, and die-hard Batman fans will certainly get a kick out of it. Though stereotyping is unpleasant, the villainous Daka of 1943 can be mitigated by placement in his historical context. In its pulpy way, Batman is quite entertaining.
Chapter Titles: Chapter One: "The Electrical Brain"; Chapter Two: "The Bat's Cave"; Chapter Three: "Mark of the Zombies"; Chapter Four: "Slaves of the Rising Sun"; Chapter Five: "The Living Corpse"; Chapter Six: "Poison Peril"; Chapter Seven: "The Phony Doctor"; Chapter Eight: "Lured by Radium"; Chapter Nine: "The Sign of the Sphinx"; Chapter Ten: "Flying Spies"; Chapter Eleven: "A Nipponese Trap"; Chapter Twelve: "Embers of Evil"; Chapter Thirteen: "8 Steps Down"; Chapter Fourteen: "The Executioner Strikes"; Chapter Fifteen: "Doom of the Rising Sun".
NOTE: In 1965, Columbia re-released Batman to theatres, uncut, under the title An Evening with Batman and Robin.
Batman's first-ever film appearance has never looked better on home video than it does in Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's unexpurgated new DVD edition: Batman and Robin: The Complete 1943 Movie Serial Collection. Chapters One through Seven reside on disc one, chapters Eight through Fifteen on disc two. Sony understandably decided against extras, but also boldly eschewed any contextualization of the racist WWII propaganda (congratulations are in order for this first official home video release that presents the complete film, but a warning is warranted for inattentive parents).
Given the film's age, the transfer is adequate, but variable by chapter (Chapter One looks the worst, with little contrast or detail, but the image improves significantly with the next chapter). Expect dirt and scratches, but short of a frame-by-frame digital touch-up, this is as good as it gets, with the helpful additions of close-captioning and conveniently encoded chapters to skip past the repeated title sequence for marathon viewing. The handsome keep-case packaging should appeal to fans of the brooding Dark Knight of today; hopefully, they'll know what they're in for with this genially heroic tale of yesteryear.
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Submitted to: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Publication Acceptance Date: 5/12/2010 Publication Date: 7/1/2010 Citation: Sassenrath, G.F., Halloran, J.M., Raper, R.L., Vadas, P.A., Hendrickson, J.R., Archer, D.W., Hanson, J.D. 2010. Drivers Impacting the Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices and Production Systems of the Northeast and Southeast U.S. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. 34:680-702. Interpretive Summary: Agriculture is the primary mechanism for synthesis of products necessary to support life and society. As such, the health of a country's and the world's agricultural systems is critical for the continued success and support of society. However, recent economic and environmental conditions have exposed weaknesses in current agricultural systems. Changes in the global economy have led to rapid increases in input costs of fuel and fertilizers. The initial gains in commodity prices and net farm income following the expansion of bio-fuel production quickly evaporated due to escalating input costs. Other resource constraints facing US agriculture are increased competition for water and land, and depletion of soil. Food production will always be paramount, but in an era of diminishing or degraded resources, the importance of transitioning agricultural production towards sustainability is of increasing importance. In this paper, we present the drivers and characteristics of the Northeastern production systems. We discuss the social/political, economic, environmental and technological factors that influence the production systems, and then explore interactions between the drivers and the unique characteristics of the production systems. We compare these to Southeastern agricultural systems, examine variances between the two regions, and potential causes of that variation. While the two regions have the same drivers impacting agriculture, the interactions between drivers and how they influence decision-makers do vary substantially to create unique regional characteristics of the production systems. Through an examination of the production systems, drivers and unique characteristics of the systems, we gain insight into the basis for producers' decision making and the underlying principles of production. By identifying the responsiveness of current production systems to forces that are shaping agricultural production, we can determine successful strategies that can be used to address the future challenges to agriculture. This information can be used by producers, scientists and policy makers to direct agricultural production and agricultural research. Technical Abstract: Agricultural production responds to economic, social, environmental, and technological drivers operating both internal and external to the production system. These drivers influence producers' decision making processes, and act to shape the individual production systems through modification of production practices, crop and livestock mix, and marketing strategy. We examine typical Northeastern production systems, and explore key drivers impacting their unique characteristics and development. We contrast these Northeastern systems to Southeastern systems. Irrespective of location, farming is first and foremost a lifestyle choice. The internal social driver that values the farming lifestyle is the principle factor that leads people to choose farming. The type of farming is partly a lifestyle choice (organic versus conventional), and partly influenced by other external factors, including economic and environmental. The second most important driver is economic, arising from a need to make a living. This factor tempers the internal social driver. While new crops may begin with open market sales, over time many production systems shift towards contract sales as a method of managing risk and ensuring market access. The role of the farmer in developing the marketing contracts impacts the ultimate success of the marketing strategy. Farmers in the Northeast were able to take a more active role in determining contract terms than those in the Southeast, and were also more aggressive in developing new markets. Development of local markets and local community support strengthened the link between farming and the local community, and reinforced the sustainability of Northeastern production systems. With decreased reliance on commodity support programs, Northeastern producers faced greater risk, but also had greater flexibility in altering the crop and livestock mix and were better able to respond to consumer demand. |


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New discoveries, such as B-1 from Mlambalasi, may renew discussion on the presence of small-bodied people in East Africa. Based on the few comparable skeletal samples, this individual does not conform to the typical tall, robust, and linear body proportions of previously reported East African LSA populations. Instead, itssmall body size has more in common with southern African peoples. This does not necessarily imply a biological link between these LSA populations. Hypotheses for why small size develops include the need for thermoregulation, limited food supply, enhanced mobility, and high mortality influencing early reproduction (Perry and Dominy, 2009; Pfeiffer and Harrington, 2011). In southern Africa, small body size may be linked to energetics and accident avoidance. The rate of injury among the South African LSA populations is lower than other mobile hunter-gatherer groups, which Pfeiffer (2007) interprets as possibly related to reduced body mass. Ethnographic studies of modern Khoesan emphasize the centrality of the bow and arrow and persistence hunting, in which small, energetically efficient bodies prove advantageous (Tobias, 1978). Small body size may have emerged multiple times, perhaps amidst the low population densities and climatic instability of the LSA. Given that early modern humans may have endured a population crisis (Harpending et al., 1993; Ambrose, 1998a; Lahr and Foley, 1998; Reich and Goldstein, 1998), and that there is some evidence for increased diversity among earlier populations (Crevecoeur et al., 2009), one characteristic of some terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene groups may have been a small body size. Exploring the incidence of scope of this pattern in East African and other early modern humans may shed light on the importance of body size in human evolution.
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology DOI: 10.1002/oa.2323
Terminal Pleistocene Later Stone Age Human Remains from the Mlambalasi Rock Shelter, Iringa Region, Southern Tanzania†
E. A. Sawchuk1, P. R. Willoughby
This paper introduces research at the Mlambalasi rock shelter in the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania. The deposits are composed of a historic and Iron Age occupation, a microlithic Holocene Later Stone Age (LSA), and then a macrolithic Late Pleistocene LSA. Middle Stone Age deposits are also present on the slope in front of the rock shelter. Excavations in A.D. 2002, 2006, and 2010 yielded fragmentary human remains as well as pottery, iron, stone tools, faunal bone, and glass and ostrich eggshell beads. Among the human remains, four individuals are present: two adults and a juvenile were found in the same LSA context, and another adult associated with the Iron Age/historic period. The most complete skeleton is an adult of indeterminate sex that was found in situ in an LSA deposit. Charcoal in proximity to the bone was AMS radiocarbon dated to 12,925 cal BC (OxA-24620), which is consistent with radiocarbon dates on giant land snail shells from above and below the remains. The skeleton exhibits a series of pathological changes such as extensive dental wear and carious lesions, as well as damage most likely caused by termites, post-mortem. The most striking aspect of this individual is its small size; stature and body mass estimations place it in the range of historic Khoesan from southern Africa. Consequently, this research adds to the discourse regarding the existence of small-bodied people in the East African LSA. Findings from this new skeletal sample will contribute to studies of human biology and variation in Africa during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


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"Wynton's situation … is worth noting as a startling example of the strange irrelevance of merit to fame in Jazz."
- Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Writer
"Nothing about his playing seems calculated .. there was just pure joy shining through his conception."
Bill Evans, Jazz Pianist
Amazingly, given his background, Wynton Kelly is an often overlooked figure in modern Jazz circles.
One would think that a pianist who had worked with Lester Young, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie's 1950s big band, Dinah Washington, Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery, let alone with his own trio made-up of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums, would be more widely known and respected.
But such is not the case for Kelly who is sometimes more acknowledged because he has a first name in common with the phenomenal trumpet player and leader of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Wynton Marsalis – whose father, Jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, named him after Kelly.
The editorial staff thought it might be fun to spend some time developing a JazzProfiles feature about Wynton, Kelly that is, as a way of paying tribute to his memory.
In the liner notes that he wrote for Kelly at Midnight, one of the earliest album's that Wynton made under his own name [VeeJay VJ-03], Nat Hentoff commented:
"Miles Davis was being asked one afternoon for a verbal analysis of Wynton Kelly's musical worth. Miles characteristically scoffed at using such imprecise tools as words to describe what happens in jazz; but finally he said: 'Wynton's the light for a cigarette. He lights the fire and he keeps it going. Without him there's no smoking.'
Another judicious tribute came from Cannonball Adderley who had worked with Wynton in the Miles Davis band. 'He's a fine soloist, who does both the subdued things and the swingers very well. Wynton is also the world's greatest accompanist for a soloist. He plays with the soloist all the time, with the chords you choose. He even anticipates your direction.'
Somewhat earlier, I'd been talking to King Curtis, a Texan now in New York and a specialist in rhythm and blues. 'Wynton worked with me for a while, and naturally I've heard him with Dinah and with Miles. What struck me was that wherever Wynton worked, he fitted in. He's not limited to one kind of playing. With Dinah, he had the taste and supportive power of a superior accompanist. With me, he had the fire and the straightaway swinging my bands have to have. And with Miles, he can be as subtle as Miles requires.'
As is usually the case, Wynton was being discussed enthusiastically by musicians before there was much attention paid him in the public prints. …"
And in another of Wynton's VeeJay LP's, Kelly Great [VeeJay VJ-06], Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, the great alto saxophonist and, as noted previously, Wynton's bandmate in the Davis group, said this about Kelly:
"When Sid McCoy of VeeJay Records asked Frank Strozier (phenomenal young alto saxophonist) who did he wish to play piano on his VeeJay record date, Frank immediately said Wynton Kelly. So answered Bill Henderson and Paul Chambers. It is next to impossible to evaluate the role played by Wynton Kelly in a band, for he has a 'take charge' quality in a rhythm section such as a Phil Rizzuto or Eddie Stanky had on a baseball team.
Many jazz listeners are unaware that such intangible qualities as fire and spirit make the margin between greatness and 'just good'. Leading jazz musicians, such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis (Wynton's current employer), are cognizant of this fact. A short time ago Miles Davis made an album using another pianist, who at that time was a member of his band, but added Wynton for one selection, explaining, 'Wynton Kelly is the only pianist who could make that tune get off the ground.'
What does Wynton have that is so different?"
Perhaps the difference lies in what Richard Cook and Brian Morton have described in The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Ed. as "… his lyrical simplicity or uncomplicated touch… [or] the dynamic bounce to his chording …," or because, as Cannonball Adderley, asserted: "Wynton combined the strength of pianists Red Garland and Bill Evans, his predecessors with Miles Davis."
Or maybe this difference lies in the following description of Wynton's playing by fellow pianist Bill Evans as quoted in Jack Chambers, Milestones:
"When I first him in Dizzy's big band [in the mid-1950s], his whole thing was so joyful and exuberant, nothing about it seemed calculated. And yet with the clarity of the way he played, you knew that he had put this together in a carefully planned way – but the result was completely without calculation, there was just pure spirit shining through the conception."
Like Bill, Brian Priestley may have also identified the essence of what made Wynton Kelly so unique as a pianist in the following description of his style in Jazz, The Rough Guide: An Essential Companion to Artists and Albums:
"An important stylist, but largely unrecognized except by fellow pianists, Kelly's mature style was hinted at in his earliest recordings. He combined boppish lines and blues interpolations with a taut sense of timing quite unlike anyone else except his imitators. The same quality made his equally individual block chording into a particularly dynamic and driving accompanying style that was savored by the many soloists that he backed."
More about Kelly's special qualities as a pianist can be found in the following paraphrase from Peter Pettinger's biography of pianist Bill Evans – How My Heart Sings:
"Evans held Kelly's bright and sparkling style in high regard since hearing him in Dizzy Gillespie's big band, responding to Wynton's particular blend of clarity and exuberance. This reaction was typical of Evans's appreciation of the work of his fellow pianists; from Oscar Peterson to Cecil Taylor, he was full of admiration for their diverse talents and generous in his praise."
As detailed in Groovin' High, Alyn Shipton's life of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, the unique character of Kelly's piano style may have been the result of combining years of experience in playing in rhythm and blues bands with a fine Jazz sensibility.
Of his work with his own trio, John A. Tynan had this to say in a Down Beat review:
"It is one of the most cohesive and inventive rhythmic groups in small-band Jazz today."
Musicians commenting about Wynton's work on their recordings state: "The presence of Kelly may account for the difference …," "… the album would not have been excellent without Wynton Kelly's sterling support," and "… he is disarmingly pleasant to work with, the very model of a mainstream pianist."
The Jazz writer and critic, Barbara J. Gardiner closed her insert notes to the 1961 VeeJay 2-CD compilation Wynton Kelly! [VeeJazz-011] with the declaration that "You would expect Wynton Kelly to be comprehensive as well as creative. Hasn't he always been?"
Although she was referring to the material on these CDs "… tried and proven, mixed in with a bit of the fresh …," this could also serve as an apt way of describing Wynton's approach to Jazz piano: wide-ranging and inventive.
One is never far away from the Jazz tradition when listening to Wynton Kelly, but what he plays is himself; he has incorporated his influences into his own musical "personality" and recognizably so. Four [4] bars and you know its him.
Wynton is not a pianist who overwhelms the listener with startling technique or originality of conception.
But what he does offer is playing that is full of joy, funk and a feeling for time that fills the heart with happiness, sets the feet tapping and get the fingers popping the beat.
Wynton Kelly is the pianistic personification of swing, or if you prefer: "smokin'," "cookin'" or "boppin'."
When Wynton plays Jazz piano, you feel it.
Nothing cerebral here in any deep or complicated sense, just – "Clap hands, here comes, Wynton."
Hear it for yourself in the following tribute to Wynton that features him along with Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones. The tune is Winston's original Temperance from Kelly at Midnight [VeeJay-03] .


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Under the overpass at King and Sheppard streets downtown, something is blooming out from a seemingly derelict warehouse in the same enclave as the Center for Photography. It's a diminutive garden, complete with plants aplenty, rain-catching barrels, and an outdoor table—a modest but beguiling spread that juts up to the back door of Tivoli Art Studios and Gardens. "For me, gardening and art have a very symbiotic relationship," says the co-op's founder, 28-year-old Nic Roberts. "Both offer a platform for collective community progress."
The studio took root here in March 2010, and Roberts and 16 fellow resident artists soon gave the 10,000-square-foot building and its environs some TLC. Part of their mission was to find a studio space that they could improve inside and out with sustainable, green practices. Thus interior walls are made of salvaged housing materials and planned plantings are meant to shade and insulate.
The infant garden is growing in appropriate fashion: it's laden with a home-rigged hot tub; a nearby shipping container-slash-studio; bits of trashed equipment (artist treasure?); and irrigated by rain runoff. Surveying sights that seem more Austin, Texas, then Charleston, Roberts says, "Art is any creative act that is motivated by love."


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Yachts have always been the playthings of the ultra-rich, and some of them are so lavish as to border on ridiculous. However, just because yachts are perpetually inaccessible to most of the population doesn't meant that we do not appreciate their unique and graceful designs. So just for a while, pretend you are one of the world's super-wealthy and take a tour of one company's incredible yacht offerings.
(all images via: Schopfer Yachts)
The Oculus, meant to look like a giant fish or marine mammal, is Schopfer Yachts' first design launch. The 250 foot long-distance cruising yacht is meant to accommodate up to 14 people in crazy luxurious style. The company recently announced that they have chosen a naval architect to begin building this monument to sea-faring elegance.
With three levels, 12-foot-high ceilings and a dedicated Owner's Suite, the Oculus is bigger than most homes. Which could come in handy when the tough life of a billionaire gets to be too much and the future owner of this beautiful beast just has to get away from it all.
Putting aside for a moment the fact that yachts are luxury items that very few can afford, it is easy to see that they are often the result of fantastic design by skilled craftspeople. The Infinitas was inspired by the infinity symbol and it is easily one of the most inventive looking yachts ever designed.
On of the stand-out features of the Infinitas is the huge pool deck between the lounge and dining room. The pool is bisected by a footbridge which guests can walk across to access either side of the deck; swimmers can glide through the underwater openings in the bridge's support. Alternately, guests can walk across the glass-floored, glass-roofed sky bridge directly above the pool on their way to the dining room or the helipad.
The sleek Audax is a sport fishing vessel whose name translates to "adventure." The team at Schopfer went out of their way to create a fantastically redesigned version of the typical sport fishing yacht.
The redesign allows for much more cabin space, all arranged around a central staircase. The yacht tender and two jet skis have their very own storage areas with their own individual hoists, making it easy to get them into and out of the water.
Audax 130
The second yacht in the Audax series continues the trend of sleek, polished, luxury fishing yachts. The second Audax has a wealth of interior space along with cushioned sun lounges and mid-ship access to the flybridge.
The shape of the Audax 130 was inspired by the energetic ocean-going flying fish. It features a dedicated "garage" just for the on-board water toys and plenty of space for either fishing or just hanging out and enjoying the sights.


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In Believing the axioms (I and II), Penelope Maddy proposes five "rules of thumb" that she then uses to justify large cardinal axioms in set theory. These extrinsic rules are modeled after the development of set theory and the techniques of natural science. As such, applications of these rules should be found in all branches of mathematics. The most natural context for these to manifest themselves is through conjectures that are obtained by applying one of these rules of thumb in some context. I would like to hear about such conjectures (open or closed, big or small, true or false) in your area.
Maddy's five rules of thumb are:
Maximize: This is the opposite of Occam's Razor. The idea is that the universe should be as large as possible, anything that is likely to occur should actually occur.
Inexhaustibility: This is the idea that the universe is too rich to be generated by a handful of basic building blocks: there should be transcendental objects.
Whimsical identity: An object is unlikely to be the unique object satisfying a property that does not directly pertain to the object in question.
Uniformity: The richness of the universe should not localize in one particular part, similar richness should be found in all suitably large parts.
Reflection: If there is one object with a given property then there must also be a small (or otherwise simple) object with that property.
The above brief descriptions are mine. These were formulated by Maddy in the set-theoretic context, I attempted to phrase them in a way that would make sense in a lot of other contexts. Interpret them loosely: object, property, universe can be anything you want.
Note that these rules of thumb are not always good ideas and their negatives are sometimes plausible too. Although I am mainly looking for conjectures formulated in the positive sense, I think negative conjectures are also acceptable if the main reason to disbelieve the conjecture is one of the five rules above. For example, I think the Poincaré Conjecture can be understood as a negative example of the whimsical identity rule.
Standard Big List rules apply... One example per answer please! Try to include some brief context for the benefit of people outside your area.


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Who are you?
My name is Peter.
If you went to Nicaragua, you'd be called Pedro. Are Pedro and Peter one person or two?
One, because I am only who I am.
Are you a name?
No, of course not.
Then who are you?
I am a man.
You mean you are not a woman?
No. I mean that I am a man.
But you are only a man because you are not a woman. Who are you?
I am an Englishman.
If you went to Japan, would you be a Japanese man?
Because I was born in England and I speak English.
If you had been born in England but raised in China, would you be Chinese or English?
I would be English.
Oh, then you are not a person, rather you are a country. Who are you?
I am the grandson of a famous Arctic explorer. He returned from the North Pole with a frozen polar bear in the hull of his ship.
And which do you chink you are defined more by, your grandfather or the polar bear?
How could I be defined by my family? I'm just me.
Then you are more like a single polar bear?
No. I am an intelligent, accomplished man. That's what everyone says.
Now, let me see: you are Peter who is intelligent and accomplished and special because your grandfather was a famous Arctic explorer. What else sets you apart?
My youngest daughter is a world-class gymnast and my mother died when I was a child.
Ah, you are Peter the tragic, Peter the successful. Which would you say is the real you: a motherless son or the father of a successful daughter?
Both are within me.
Where do you mean?
I mean, is this within you closer to your head or your toes?
Perhaps in between. Closer to my heart.
It's a feeling?
How big is it?
I'm not sure.
What color is it?
It doesn't have a color.
A form?
But it's inside you?
If we cut open your heart, could we see it?
I don't suppose so.
Then where is it?
I don't know.
Are you sure it is inside you?
Where else could it be?
Look again. Come here. Look in the mirror. Do you see intelligence? grandfather? accomplishment? gymnast?
Do you see English?
Do you see Peter?
I don't know.
Good. Now we can begin. Who are you?
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New Ohio Hunting Regulations Start For Season
< < Back toState officials say changes to Ohio's white-tailed deer hunting regulations taking effect this month as the first deer season begins will provide more prime hunting time.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources' regulations for 2013-2014 begin Sept. 28 with the start of white-tailed deer archery season. They include extended hunting hours during gun and muzzleloader seasons and county bag-time limits. They also include changes to deer permit use and an antlerless-only muzzleloader season.
Director James Zehringer says 30 minutes of prime hunting time after sunset was added to every day of the deer gun and muzzleloader hunting seasons this year.
Deer hunting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes past sunset for all deer seasons.
All deer hunters must have a valid Ohio hunting license and deer permit.


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Living large in a small space
Light dances on the river, bamboo rustles, and dragonflies buzz. On a warm summer afternoon, there is no better place than Julie Higgs and Dave Stricker's floating home on Hayden Island, Oregon.
"I've always wanted to live by the water. But once you're in the water, it gets really hard to leave," Julie says.
This love of the aquatic must be in the genes: Moored right next door is the houseboat belonging to Julie's sister, Diane Hall, which she rebuilt with partner Rick Dallman. "Around here we're known as the Cabana Sisters," Diane says.
Years of living and traveling in Southeast Asia have given Julie and Diane an eye for the exotic, and their small-scale homes nearly burst with treasures―Asian antiques, tropical touches, and bamboo accents.
Their lushly planted decks frequently serve as settings for outdoor feasts replete with pitchers of Tahitian rum cocktails and platters of prawns.
It all has the feel of a permanent vacation, a setup that satisfies even a wanderer's soul. "I love it here. This is the longest I've lived anywhere since I was a child," Julie says. "I've never been attached to a place before, but the minute we moved here, I knew I was going to stay."
DIANE'S HOUSEBOAT: A 700-square-foot former fishing shanty built in the 1920s; the layout is similar to that of a studio apartment.
JULIE AND DAVE'S HOUSEBOAT: A 1,000-square-foot model, known as a roundtop (fishermen would hang nets over the curved roof).
What land dwellers don't know about life on the water
Construction "The main challenge is getting tools and materials down here," Dave says. Dropping items into the watery abyss is another hazard. "A friend of mine lost a chain saw."
Flotation It's a balance. "If you move your furniture around too much, or if you're having a bunch of people over, you have to adjust your flotation," says Dave, adding that the underwater blocks may need adjusting by a diver every year or two.
Geothermal unit Julie and Dave swear by this system for efficient temperature control and lower bills. About 1,200 feet of pipe is coiled underneath their home.
Wildlife "A family of ducks with 11 babies lives on a floating plank off our deck," Julie says. "We see a ton of exotic birds on their migration path, and the occasional bald eagle." Dave even uncovered a nesting beaver under the floor.
Privacy "The houses are so close together, I was worried it might feel like a trailer park―but the water is a great barrier," Julie says. "It's not how close you are, but what's in between you."
- Create pockets of greenery: Landscaping improves even a tiny area. On Diane's deck, in-ground planters with their own drainage system sprout strips of vibrant Scotch moss that add color and "feel cozy underfoot."
- Go vertical An antique Chinese wedding cabinet in Julie and Dave's living room hides the TV and CDs, and makes the most of limited floor space. Dave built additional drawers underneath, which Julie painted for a faux-antique look.
- Maximize storage Japanese-inspired built-in bins under Diane's bed are faced with bamboo. A paper parasol over the light fixture adds to the lush but tranquil mood.
- Plant vignettes Bamboo, coleus, potato vine, and Scotch moss create their own little ecosystem in a corner of Julie and Dave's deck. The urn is home to a pet frog.


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Trend Micro programming contest champions – MSU IIT!
| -UncategorizedGot the news from a text message posted to the Kagay-anon Linux Users
Group. =) Congratulations to MSU-IIT, Grand Champions for the 2005
Trend Micro programming contest!
- BERSANO, Joel Michael – BS EC V
- BONITA, Nino – BS ECE IV
- CABRERA, Rez – BS EE V
- HAIM, Stephen – BS EC V
- MEDIO, Abner Lyle – BS CS IV
1st | MSU-IIT |
2nd | DLSU |
3rd | UP |
I think it's _totally_ awesome that a non-Manila team won the contest.
=D Take that, everyone who thinks only of the big three schools! I
think it's absolutely fantastic! Looking at
http://www.msuiit.edu.ph/scs/ , I'm also very much impressed by the
fact that two of their students are among the 20 grand prize winners
of the 2004 IBM Linux Scholars Challenge. Neaaaato.
(And I'm surprised not to find any teams from Ateneo in the finals.
Either we didn't try, or we didn't do well. Weird!)
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