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Or is it fiancé now? All these engagements and bit players, who can keep track?
Rachel Bilson also wore LV. I like it ok... but do I like it for night? Do you like it for night? Did you like it for last night? I liked him better last night. Hayden Christensen is great in a tux, and so much better than the rumply suit he wore last time. It's not that I don't think he's beautiful though, because he is, it's just that I'm not sure about the quiver. He's that same Efron/Pattinson androgen quality about him, and I guess it's no accident that he was 8 years ago what they are now.
Time always mutes intensity but for those of who are too young or who can't remember, for a while there he was the biggest deal ever. Handpicked by George Lucas. The young embodiment of one of the most iconic characters in film history. It never seemed like he was comfortable with all the It. And it still doesn't seem like he's comfortable with it even now that it's so much less pronounced. Must we why he stays on the farm all the time. Which makes their hook up all the more incongruous. After all, on some days her greatest achievement is to get photographed in a new pair of boots.
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Torrington merchants ready for Small Business Saturday
Torrington>> For centuries, small businesses have played an important role in the success of America's economy, now struggling to stay afloat as big box stores grow in popularity.
After the economic crash in 2008, small businesses took an even greater hit, and in November 2010, American Express took the initiative to help small businesses and boost their sales during the biggest shopping weekend of the holiday season -- creating on Small Business Saturday.
Small Business Saturday takes place the weekend after Thanksgiving, during the time where many people start their holiday shopping. The day after Black Friday, Small Business Saturday is a day shoppers are encouraged to support local economies.
According to the American Express website, "Small Business Saturday is a day for everyone, from the business owners who create jobs to the customers who buy locally and to support small businesses that invigorate the economy and keep communities thriving." The American Express website also states that last year, more than 100 million people came out to shop at independently-owned small businesses on that day. Now in its third year, Small Business Saturday will be even bigger.
For the local businesses in downtown Torrington, Small Business Saturday is an important day for them to increase sales as well as offer personalized customer service, something that's hard to come by as shopper in the big retail stores.
For local stores like ToyJam toy store on Main Street, Small Business Saturday is a great way continue boosting their holiday sales.
ToyJam owners Cheryl Rossi and her mother, Tina Rossi, are ready.
"It should be busy, It's always busy. This time of year, sales are steady," said Cheryl Rossi.
The toy store already held its own one-day sale last Saturday, offering shoppers 20 percent off anything in the store.
"We just like to get a big jump start on the season, to get our sales before the big stores," said Cheryl Rossi.
On Small Business Saturday ToyJam will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., offering free party favors with a purchase and free gift wrapping. The store also offers an e-mail club that provides coupons for the store. They plan to stay open daily until Christmas.
"Our sales are 'so far so good,'" said Cheryl Rossi. "We try to keep the (luck) coming at us. We have some really loyal and great customers," she said.
ToyJam carries playthings for everyeone -- newborns to adults -- from toys and games to gag gifts for grownups. There's something for everyone, Rossi said, and a large shipment of new toys is on the way.
Across the street from ToyJam, a new business called The Art's Desire sells fun and unique items related to the seasons as well as decorative gifts. The store's owners, sisters Lisa Stepler and Jessica Washington, opened in October right before Halloween. The siblings say that on Saturday, they'll offer 20 percent off everything and will provide free hot chocolate. Their hours will be 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Just up the street from Art's Desire is a well-known retailer, Remember When and the Ritz Crystal room. Owner Karen O'Donnell said her store will offer a discount of 20 percent and shoppers can enjoy mulled cider and cranberry martinis. The Ritz Crystal Room, an eatery located above the unique gift store, will have plenty of appetizers, soup and salad, sandwiches, a full dinner menu and a live band on Saturday, and the business will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. O'Donnell is looking forward to the weekend.
"So far it's been a brisk season," she said. "There are a lot of people celebrating and supporting downtown merchants."
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The economic crisis and the tepid pace of the recovery have left millions of Americans deep in debt. And amid this slow recovery, many are struggling to make minimum payments to keep ahead of creditors.
The amount of debt the average American holds is staggering, compared with the average American salary. In its latest findings in 2010, the Social Security Administration calculated the average American wage index to be $41,673.83.
[See 12 Money Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes.]
According to Creditcards.com, a website that tracks the credit card industry, the average American household holds $15,956 in credit card debt. The Census Bureau has determined than 60 percent of Americans own their homes; many of these people still owe money to a bank for mortgage payments. Estimates on the size of these payments vary, but most organizations say the majority of monthly payments fall between $700 and $1,700 per month.
On top of that, most Americans have to borrow money to buy a car. According to the auto website Edmunds.com, monthly car payments should average between 8 and 11 percent of monthly income, although many people pay more. College students are also forced to take out loans to pay for education. The Project on Student Debt has found that the average graduate of a four-year nonprofit university carries more than $25,000 in loans.
Based on these numbers, it seems almost impossible for the average American to be debt-free. But there are steep variations among these loans. Paying off some loans should be a priority. Others, while burdensome, can wait.
Better debt vs. worse debt. Prior to the Great Recession, many financial experts differentiated between "good" debt and "bad" debt. The former included loans with low interest rates, such as a home loan. Because the value of a home presumably appreciated over time, the debt helped the borrower work toward building wealth. "Bad" debt included credit card loans, or loans taken out to pay for things that current cash reserves couldn't cover. The value of the product purchased with the credit card immediately depreciates upon purchase, while the money placed on the credit card immediately begins to accrue interest.
But according to David Bach, author of the Finish Rich book series and founder of www.FinishRich.com, the financial downturn changed these perceptions. "Good debt and bad debt is almost a myth that we were sold for 20 years," Bach says. "There's just debt. For the most part, debt is basically bad and difficult. It comes down to the interest rate."
[See Debunking 7 Common Credit Card Myths.]
Debt now seems to fall into two new categories: better debt and worse debt. Better debt is a loan with a low interest rate used to purchase something that adds value. Worse debt is used to buy a depreciating asset or debt used as a substitute for cash. A home loan, according to Bach, is an example of better debt.
"For the most part, most people have to borrow money to buy a home. The key is if you borrow money to buy a home, the faster you pay that loan off, the faster you're free," Bach says.
The Catch-22 of debt is that one needs to go into debt to be considered a credit-worthy borrower with the ability to pay off large loans. Rod Ebrahimi, founder and CEO of ReadyforZero, a website that helps people plan to get out of debt, says establishing a good credit score is imperative for transitioning out of college. "A good debt you could have had through college is a credit card you had going into college and never carried a large balance," he says. "It may actually make sense to have some history."
However, Bach warns that this kind of debt can quickly become burdensome if the cardholder doesn't manage it responsibly. "If you're going to borrow money on your credit card, the goal should to be pay it off in full at the end of the month," Bach says. "Don't get stuck in the trap of paying minimum payments. Pay off these cards as fast as possible."
[See Are You In Over Your Head? Calculate Your Debt-to-Income Ratio.]
Making sound education decisions. Ebrahimi says the growing student loan burden and the poor state of the economy, especially for young people, means students must approach student loans differently. They are often necessary, but one needs to be strategic in how they are used. He warns against using loans at for-profit universities, which promise much but often fail to deliver jobs that allow students to pay off their loans.
"At for-profit schools, you can get all kinds of degrees and you end up with six-figure debt, then can't find a job that allows you to pay them," he says.
He adds that loans should also be used strategically at nonprofit universities. "There can be good and bad students loans" at nonprofit universities, Ebrahimi says. "Many people believe they can pay at any university," but often, payments at state school are easier to manage.


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- We express our solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico and their great leader, Pedro Albizu Campos, who, in another act of hypocrisy, has been set free at the age of seventy-two, almost unable to speak, paralyzed, after spending a lifetime in jail. Albizu Campos is a symbol of the as yet unfree but indomitable Latin America. Years and years of prison, almost unbearable pressures in jail, mental torture, solitude, total isolation from his people and his family, the insolence of the conqueror and its lackeys in the land of his birth--nothing broke his will. The delegation of Cuba, on behalf of its people, pays a tribute of admiration and gratitude to a patriot who confers honor upon our America.
- Che Guevara, in a speech given to the 19th General Assembly of the United Nations on December 11, 1964.[1][2][3]


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Jailed Bohemia Interactive devs return home
Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar, the Bohemia Interactive employees arrested on a Greek Island for 'spying', have returned home to emotional celebrations.
ArmA II headlines
DayZ creator discusses how companion dogs will work in the next update
DayZ creator Dean Hall has shown IGN how companion dogs will work in the ArmA 2 mod with the next big update to the game.
DayZ standalone version: No mod support at launch, console version considered
DayZ creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall has revealed that the standalone version of his ArmA II mod will not support mods at launch, as well as a new batch of features and the possibility of a console version.
DayZ lead would like to see the mod on consoles
DayZ project lead Dean Hall would like the ArmA 2 mod to release on consoles, but admits it will only be possible if the stand-alone PC experience sells well on the platform.
DayZ to release as standalone experience
Day Z will release as a standalone title, according to ArmA II developer Bohemia Interactive. It's creator, Dean Hall, will lead development on the PC-exclusive title.
Day Z now has 1 million registered players
The milestones just keep coming for ArmA 2 mod Day Z. The zombie survival experience has topped 1 million unique users, according to stats on the home page. Over 180,000 players have logged in over the last 24 hours, and of the 22.6 million characters which have ventured into the world, only 797,742 are alive, […]
DayZ could be standalone "before Christmas," base-building and more on cards
DayZ creator Dean Hall has told VG247 that significant improvements should be made to the mod before it goes standalone, but that work on a new version could be complete this year.
Once upon a wasteland – the never ending story of DayZ
As DayZ creeps closer to 1 million unique players, VG247 spends some harrowing time in Chernarus and speaks to Dean "Rocket" Hall about why so many people are playing a game that cannot be won.
ArmA II mod Day Z hits 500,000 players
Bodies continue to swarm to Day Z like the unstoppable undead horde, pushing the number of players of the ArmA II mod to 503,000 players and counting.
The day after DayZ: Dean 'Rocket' Hall talks survival
Zombie Survival mod, DayZ, has been a worldwide hit for fans of the undead. Dean Hall, creator of the ArmA II mod tells VG247 what's next.
DayZ servers hit by malicious security breach, botnet threat
The popular zombie-inspired Arma II mod DayZ has been hit by a malicious security breach, allegedly threatening to turn the game's servers into a potential botnet.
Day Z patch adds hatchets, heat packs, and women
A new build of Day Z has been released. The new version includes a number of fixes as well as some new features, like the opportunity to play as a female survivor. Get the full patch notes here. The phenomenally successful zombie survival mod for Arma 2 kept the military sim high on the Steam […]
Thursday Shorts evening edition: Deus Ex music, Crytek SDK, Donations, Sims Royal Wedding fun, more
Some things in life are hard to explain. This post isn't one of them. It's just more shorts. .
Free DLC on the way for ArmA II via patch 1.05
Bohemia has announced free DLC for ArmA II that includes a new campaign where you pilot a attack helicopter, after the events in the game.Details:The "Eagle Wing" mini-campaign expands upon one of the seven unique endings of the original ARMA 2 over two extensive new levels; It's the year 2012, the war in Chernarus has […]
ArmA 2 patch fixes issue with server window manipulation
Bohemia Interactive has released a patch for ArmA 2, which will bring your game to v1.04.59323.Here is what it fixes: Fixed: support the highest Matrox TrippleHead2Go resolutions Fixed: FPS on Dedicated server is not affected by server window manipulation (such as move or scroll). You can get it from The Patches Scrolls.Via Examiner.
ArmA II v1.04 Patch now available, does not work with Steam
ArmA II has a new patch available, bringing the version of the game from 1.00 to 1.04.If you use Steam, however, use the service to download the newest update instead of this manual patch.Fixes include: Improved mouse handling and responsivness Stability fix where the CTD caused by Voice Over Net had many players speaking simultaneously […]
ArmA II Mod Tools released
Bohemia Interactive has released its set of Mod Tools for ArmA IIArmA II version 1.03 is required to use the tools, which consist of: Oxygen 2 Personal Edition for ARMA II – model editing and animation package Visitor 3 Personal Edition for ARMA II – terrain and map editing TexView 2 – texture convertor and […]
Arma II Operation Arrowhead expansion heads to Cologne
Bohemia's announced an Arma II expansion in the shape of Operation Arrowhead. The add-on's going to be aired at GamesCom next week.It's set three years after the conflict in Arma II, in a new region. It's Allied forces against the rest, again.Full details below.
ArmA II patch 1.03 fixes and balances loads of stuff
505 Games and Bohemia Interactive released a new patch for ArmA II today.Patch v1.03 is available to download from the official website and GamersHell.The patch has added and fixed loads of stuff with the engine, data and mission improvements have been added as well.AI Infantry aural detection had the sensitivity lowered significantly, the co-op and […]
ArmA II demo now live
The ArmA II demo's up – get it here or here.Don't just download with gay abandon – it's a belting 2.9Gb in size.Get full info on what it contains at the second link.Thanks, El_MUERkO.
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I've been reading and enjoying "Ghosts of War" over the past few nights. however, there is one photo that is giving me problems. It's supposed to be the spirit of a little girl looking out a window but I just don't see her! I've looked at the picture in different lighting conditions but I just can't make the image out. However, in a picture of the USS Arizona, I see the image of a face looking up through the square window! I'm sure it's just the pattern on the water causing an illusion but that jumped right out at me as soom as I saw it but the little girl in the window still eludes me. Is anyone else having trouble with that particular picture or is it just me?
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Released in three different color combinations, the Limited Edition of HUE was hotly anticipated by diehard Kelly Wearstler fans and is a welcome addition to the library of any interior design and decoration connoisseur.
Wearstler's highly anticipated HUE celebrates the undeniable power of color. This elegantly photographed and carefully designed book showcases her most recent projects while serving as inspiring eye-candy for interior design and decorating fans. Focusing not only on the author's high-wattage public persona, HUE also explores the design dynamo's process with an exclusive look inside her new studio. The book features Wearstler's newest designs for international hotels and resorts, restaurants and lounges, and exclusive boutiques—with elements of her new product collections introduced in images of her urbane residential designs.
Kelly opens the neoclassical gates into an epic realm, offering an intimate look into a landmark 1926 estate—including an opulent Georgian-style main mansion, expansive guesthouse, gardens, and grounds. This Paul Williams Bel Air masterpiece is reimagined as a textural metropolitan oasis with strong design details and an unexpected palette that reignites the mansion's classic bones.
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In addition to her residential projects and studio, Wearstler shares public spaces such as BG (the destination restaurant and bar in Manhattan's famed fashion temple Bergdorf Goodman), her eponymous boutique at the same legendary store, the Viceroy resort in Miami, and The Tides in South Beach
The actual book and the slipcase are covered in two complementary fabrics with the title of the book debossed in gold, and the edges of the book gilded in gold as well. Each of these collector's items is hand signed and numbered by Kelly Wearstler. The interior design of the book is aptly organized by color and features the same sumptuous photographic pages that appear in the popular edition.
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March 10, 2012
Invisible Children's(IC) goals initially may have been to publicize the plight of children caught in Uganda's decades-long conflicts; lately, IC has been acting as apologists for General Yoweri K. Museveni's dictatorship and the U.S. goal to impose AFRICOM (the U.S. Africa Military Command) on Africa.
IC has produced a brilliant film that's making the global rounds on Facebook.
It's a classic as propaganda pieces come. The short but overwhelmingly powerful film uses all the best tear-jerk techniques. In the end, the film denounces Joseph Kony, the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army, while giving the impression that Museveni's dictatorship and his brutal military, which was found liable for war crimes in Democratic Republic of Congo by the International Court of Justice, has nothing to do with the atrocities committed against children in Uganda. It also doesn't inform viewers that Museveni abducted thousands of child soldiers to win his insurgency in Uganda in 1986, launching the pattern of child soldier recruitment all over Africa.
In fact, Kony's insurgency against Museveni was launched later, meaning he too learned child soldier-abductions from Museveni.
Look at the way Invisible Children exploits American children in the beginning of their documentary; they then transplant the audience to Uganda, where again they take advantage of Ugandan children, who are the victims of both the LRA and the Ugandan government's army.
The imagery are powerful. Dr. Joseph Goebbels' and Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud of this cinematic coup by Invisible Children.
If Invisible Children was in fact a serious organization that has not been co-opted by the Museveni regime and the U.S. foreign policy agenda, the organization would inform the world that General Museveni, who has now stolen three elections in a row in Uganda is the first person who deserves to be arrested.
This Ugandan and East African nightmare gets a blank check from Washington simply because he has deployed Ugandan soldiers to Somalia at the behest of the United States. So democracy, human rights abuses, and genocide, become minor nuisances as far as U.S. foreign policy goes and as far as Invisible Children cares. This is beyond hypocrisy. Those members of Invisible Children who may have supported this misguided project to send more U.S. troops to Africa because they were unwittingly deceived, should do some serious soul searching.
Museveni does not care for the plight of children in Uganda's Acholi region. How else would he have herded 2 million Acholis in concentration camps for 20 years where, according to the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,000 children, women and men died of planned neglect–lack of medical facilities; lack of adequate food; dehydration, and; lack of sanitation and toilet facilities. Does this sound like a person who cares about children?
His colleagues have denounced Acholis as "backwards" and as "biological substances." General Museveni himself revealed an interesting pathology, as a first class racist African when he told Atlantic Monthly Magazine, in September 1994: "I have never blamed the whites for colonizing Africa: I have never blamed these whites for taking slaves. If you are stupid, you should be taken a slave." Ironically –or perhaps not– the general was even more embraced by Washington after those remarks. Gen. Museveni has been a U.S. ally since the days of Ronald Reagan.
So why does Invisible Children only go after Kony while leaving Museveni alone when in fact they are two sides of the same coin?
These young folks who run Invisible Children are extremely dangerous to the welfare of Ugandans and other Africans should they succeed in broadening U.S. military presence in Africa. If the United States were truly interested purely in eliminating Kony why deploy now when Kony abandoned Uganda in 2006 when he was negotiating a peace deal that ultimately collapsed, with Museveni.
While Kony and his fighters were camped at Garamba in Congo, as agreed upon during peace negotiations, who was it that launched a military attack with planes and helicopters in December 2008? It was Gen. Museveni, with U.S. assistance. The peace negotiations, which had been embraced by traditional and religious leaders in Acholi region, collapsed. According to Jan Egeland, the former U.N Under-Secretary General for humanitarian affairs, Museveni also wanted to pursue a military approach and even ridiculed his own attempts to negotiate peace.
Immediately more killings ensued –this time in Congo; and since Museveni and Kony are two sides of the same coin, it's unclear who committed the atrocities in Garamba after the abortive attack.
After the attacks the LRA scattered into the Central African Republic. One would imagine that if the U.S. and Invisible Children were really interested in Kony, the deployment would have been to Central African Republic.
The young folks behind Invisible Children don't understand the conflict in Uganda; yet they have made themselves the spokespersons. They have campaigned and convinced some celebrities, including Rihana and P. Diddy, to tweet their half-truth propaganda film. This is a way to have one-sided or impartial information become the "dominant truth" globally, and drown out critical analyses.
It's like a group of impressionable White youngsters coming to Harlem and saying: we see you have major crises, let us tell you what's the solution. Who would accept such misguided and destructive arrogance? If it's unacceptable in Harlem, it must also be rejected in Uganda's Acholi region.
Acholi traditional leaders, religious leaders, and members of Parliament in Uganda, have all opposed further militarization. But they are not in a position to express their views on CNN or in The New York Times, or to make a slick documentary, such as Invisible Children's. What's more, they're not accorded the presumptive credibility that are often bestowed to White analysts when compared to native Ugandans.
Yet, rather than listen to the cries of Uganda's traditional and religious leaders who live in the war-devastated regions, Invisible Children has decided to produce a beautiful documentary with an ugly agenda that only escalates conflict and endorses Gen. Museveni. Who really believes it's a good thing for the United States to be sending troops to Uganda or anywhere in Africa? Why would these troops act any differently than those sent to Iraq and Afghanistan?
The U.S. government and Invisible Children are using the brutal Joseph Kony as a bogeyman to justify the U.S. long-term plan, which is to impose AFRICOM on Africa. Since everyone knows about Kony's atrocities, who would object if the U.S. sends 100 U.S. "advisers" to help Uganda, after all? Brilliantly devious. Of course it never stops at 100 "advisers." That was the announced deployment; there are probably more U.S. troops in the region. Even before the deployment some had already been training Museveni's soldiers. And more will come; unannounced.
AFRICOM, the ultimate objective, would allow the U.S. to be able to counter resource-hungry China by having boots on the ground near the oil-rich northern part of Uganda, South Sudan, Congo's region bordering Lake Albert, and the Central African Republic. The troops would also be near by in case a decision is made to support regime-change in Khartoum, Sudan. After all, the U.S. foreign policy reasoning is that since Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his defense minister have both been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), few would shed tears for them.
The U.S. is aware that African countries oppose AFRICOM. So what does the U.S. do? Go after a "devil" and in this case it's Kony. Tell the world –with the help of Invisible Children–that our mission is to help rid Uganda of this "devil"; who by the way is hiding somewhere in Central African Republic, while the dictator who most recently stole elections last February, sits in Kampala and meets with U.S. officials and leaders of Invisible Children.
If the real target was simply Joseph Kony, the U.S. would have used an armed predator drone; this is how the U.S. has eliminated several suspected leaders of Al-qaeda and the Taleban, after all.
It doesn't seem that Invisible Children is an independent do-good save-the-children outfit. They are paving the way –with Kony, brutal as he is, as the bogeyman– for AFRICOM.
Kony is a nightmare, but Museveni has caused the deaths of millions of people in Rwanda, Uganda and Congo. In 2005 the International Court of Justice found Uganda liable for what amounts to war crimes in Congo: mass rapes of both women and men; disemboweling pregnant women; burning people inside their homes alive; massacres and; plunder of resources. Congo lost six million people after Uganda's occupation of parts of Congo. The Court awarded Congo $10 billion in reparations; not a dime has been paid.
Congo then referred the same crimes to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague for war crimes charges. On June 8, 2006, The Wall Street Journal reported that Gen. Museveni personally contacted Kofi Annan, then UN Secretary General and asked him to block the criminal investigation.
It seems that the U.S. and ICC Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo might have indeed obliged. Gen. Museveni and senior Ugandan military commanders remain un-indicted for the alleged crimes that the ICJ already found Uganda liable; only one side of the same coin, Kony was indicted. Prosecutor Ocampo is also totally discredited; readers should Google "Ocampo and South African journalist case."
There is another documentary that tries to explain the Ugandan tragedy, in a more sober manner, unlike Invisible Children's slick propaganda piece.
Hopefully this commentary will motivate people to do their research and demand that the international community deal with both Kony and Museveni.
Hopefully more people will also do their own research and not be vulnerable to slick propaganda such as Invisible Children's.
For example, readers can Google terms such as "Yoweri Museveni and Congo genocide," "Museveni and Kony," "Museveni and and Rwanda genocide," "Museveni and Acholi genocide," and "U.S. support for dictator Museveni."
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Getting in on the Gay: Sports Marketing to LGBTs
Two of the biggest media sensations on the sports circuit right now, 22 year-old Brittney Griner and 34 year-old Jason Collins, have become household names and LGBT heroes. Their popularity has extended beyond the court and both are looking at the sweet benefits of being marketable.
Griner made history last month becoming the first openly gay athlete to be signed for an endorsement deal with Nike. The six-foot-eight 2013 first overall draft pick for the Women's National Basketball Association was making waves for her game long before coming out as lesbian. The athleticism and star potential that seem innate in Griner made her an obvious choice for major endorsement deals. But it's what is in her contract with Nike that is undeniably groundbreaking. Griner will be wearing and modeling clothing branded for men in ads.
Traditionally, women signed to major endorsement deals have worn, well, women's clothing. But donning a sports bra and spandex hotpants doesn't suit Griner -- it's just not her style. And that's fine with Nike. Griner will be modeling men's sportswear and the skateboarding line, Nike SB, and she'll be as cool and comfortable as Maria Sharpova in a tennis skirt.
It's this break from the norm that has tongues wagging and LGBTs and their allies thrilled.
"It signals a shift in attitudes in general," said Brian Kitts, co-founder of the You Can Play Project (an LGBT group that aims to end homophobia in sports) and adjunct professor of Sports Marketing for the University of Denver. "Sports marketing and retail marketing are aware that inclusivity and diversity have value. Things that make fans feel good about a product is something they want."
Apparently a great many fans feel good about the coupling of individuality and inexplicable talent found in Griner.
"Any visibility is great," said Avery Stone, a student leader for the inclusivity-fostering organizations GO! Athletes and the You Can Play Project. "I think this sponsorship deal is amazing. It normalizes the fact that you can present however you want."
Griner, cool-as-a-cucumber in her own skin and her own style, presents who she is on the inside with an unwavering confidence that makes her magnetic.
"LGBTQ phobia exists everywhere all around the world," said Kye Allums, GO! Athletes Director and first openly transgender Division One basketball player. "Having confidence shuts that down."
"She can change the way people think," Lindsey Kawaga Colas, Griner's agent at Wasserman Media Group told ESPN, "And her success will mean society is working a little better for everyone."
Collins, already sponsored by Nike, is thought to be in line for some new sponsorship deals as well, after his groundbreaking coming out story. Although that will probably depend on what happens with his free agency, says Kitts. Even without big companies throwing endorsements at him, however, Collins will surely be in high demand on the speaking circuit from here on out, and he still has that Nike contract.
Collins sported a tee from the conglomerate's new #BeTrue collection at the Boston Pride Parade last month, giving Nike exactly the type of buzz that a sponsored athlete should provide. The line was created to raise awareness and support for LGBT issues and the proceeds will benefit The LGBT Sports Coalition.
"Nike for the first time with their Be True campaign made it cool to support this message and movement," said Stone.
"It's only going to create more visibility," said Allums. "I would not be surprised if more companies started jumping on board."
Kitts agrees that more companies will get on board, but says in terms of outreach to LGBT fans, the sports marketing world is fairly far behind. Gay couples and individuals are now a staple of mainstream media and marketers for various products and retailers have taken notice. From Amazon Kindle to J.C. Penny to Covergirl, gay spokespeople and gay lifestyles are being presented in a light that is so accepted that it seems completely ordinary. Yet, here we are crying hoorah for the first major sports company to sign their first gay athlete.
"Anyone over the next couple years who has the courage to come out and a great personality are going to be marketable," said Kitts. "But, athleticism is the most important thing in sponsorship. The novelty of being gay and the novelty of sponsoring gay athletes will wear off and eventually we'll see sexual orientation fall by the wayside and recognize people for their great athleticism."
The question now, with the emergence of trans athletes like Allums and Mixed Martial Arts fighter Fallon Fox, is when the T segment of the LGBT community will start to be represented in athletics and in marketing and media.
GO! Athletes created the #Fight4Fallon campaign to support Fox, who Aagenes calls "a heroic female athlete."
"It will be the same process we've had to go through with black athletes and gay athletes and all other minorities," said Kitts. "Education is the thing that is going to put these athletes on an equal playing field."
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Weather Blog: Flood watch and watching for snow
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 blog! Several rounds of potentially heavy rain will take aim at southeastern Wisconsin to close the weekend. In today's blog we discuss the locations under a Flood Watch, how much rain to expect, and when rain changes to snow.
Let's start with a Flood Watch that covers all of southeast Wisconsin. Once the watch begins it will continue through Monday morning. With 0.50" to 2.50" of rain across the area on Saturday and early Sunday, the ground is saturated in some locations. Any additional heavy rain will lead to rapid runoff and the quick rise of rivers and streams. Something to keep a close eye on, especially if you live in a flood prone area.
Rainfall totals from Sunday through early Monday will total 1"-2" in many spots. The highest totals looks to occur over parts of Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington and Sheboygan counties. The map below is forecast rain totals, almost all areas between 1"-2".
Rain will gradually transition to wet snow as colder temperatures move from west to east across southern Wisconsin. Around daybreak a change to wet snow is possible in Milwaukee. Futurecast below is valid at 5am Monday. The blue colors represent snow, with the green being rain.
The window for snow is narrow, and temperatures will be marginal. This will combine to keep snow totals less than 1" in Milwaukee. Below is a snowfall forecast. Most of the snow in and around Milwaukee should be on grassy surfaces. Farther north there is a chance of 1"-2" of snow.
If you are tired of snow/winter hang in there. Snow this time of year rarely lasts more than a day.
Looking ahead, another chance of rain or snow enters the forecast by Friday of this week. Temperatures will remain below average for a majority of the week, so don't put away coats and long sleeves yet.
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather
Have a great day!
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Makes 4 servings
Each serving equals two 5 A Day servings
2 medium sweet potatoes peeled and sliced thin
1 medium onion cut in half and sliced thin
2 medium cloves garlic, sliced
½ cup + 1 Tbsp chicken or vegetable broth
½ tsp curry powder
¼ tsp turmeric
2 cups chopped and rinsed mustard greens
1 15 oz can sodium free diced tomatoes
1 15 oz can garbanzo beans, drained
2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
salt and white pepper to taste
Steam peeled and sliced sweet potatoes for approximately 5–8 minutes.
While steaming potatoes, slice onion and garlic. Heat 1 Tbsp broth in 12 inch skillet. Sauté onion in broth over medium heat for about 4–5 minutes stirring frequently, until translucent. Add garlic, curry powder, turmeric, and mustard greens. Cook, stirring occasionally until mustard greens are wilted, about 5 minutes. Add garbanzo beans, diced tomatoes, salt and pepper. Cook for another 5 minutes.
Mash sweet potatoes with olive oil, salt and pepper. If you need to thin potatoes, add a little more broth. Serve mustard greens with mashed sweet potatoes.
Nutritional analysis per serving: Calories 244, Protein 9g, Fat 8g, Calories From Fat 30%, Cholesterol 0mg, Carbohydrates 35g, Fiber 9g, Sodium 351mg.
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AP source: Talks fail to resolve contempt issue
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Obama administration officials and House Republican staff members Tuesday failed to resolve a document dispute that could lead to a precedent-setting contempt of Congress vote Thursday against Attorney General Eric Holder.
A House Republican official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, said White House and Justice Department representatives met and showed the GOP staff less than 30 pages of documents related to the aftermath of the botched gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious.
The GOP official said the administration also promised to provide hundreds of pages of documents, but only if House Republicans would stop the contempt effort and end their investigation. A House committee currently is looking into administration actions taken after the Justice Department provided inaccurate information to Congress on the gun-tracking operation.
The Justice Department has said the offer of more documents – originally made last week – was not an effort to shut down the investigation but rather an offer to resolve the outstanding subpoena issues and thereby avoid contempt.
The GOP official said the latest document offer was rejected and no further meetings were scheduled.
"The documents that were shown today did not shed any meaningful new light on the questions and interactions that took place at the Justice Department" after whistle-blowers told Congress that Fast and Furious allowed guns bought in Arizona to "walk" into Mexico, the GOP official said.
Those attending the meeting included White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, legislative director Rob Nabors, Justice Department official Steven Reich and representatives of House Speaker John Boehner and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
President Barack Obama has asserted a broad version of executive privilege to keep Justice Department documents secret. The GOP official said the House staff members asked for a log of documents that would be withheld, but the administration officials refused.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz said, "This was a good faith effort to resolve this while still protecting the institutional prerogatives of the executive branch, often championed by these same Republicans criticizing us right now. Unfortunately, Republicans have opted for political theater rather than conduct legitimate congressional oversight."
A senior administration official who was not authorized to be quoted on details of the meeting said the administration showed the Republicans a representative sample of the documents so they could see firsthand the types of communications in dispute. The official said the administration offered unprecedented access to documents showing how the Justice Department responded to the GOP inquiry.
Now that the politically potent National Rifle Association is keeping score, some Democrats are expected to join House Republicans in supporting the contempt of Congress vote against Holder.
One of those Democrats, Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah, said, "Sadly, it seems that it will take holding the attorney general in contempt to communicate that evasiveness is unacceptable. It is a vote I will support."
The gun owners association injected itself last week into the stalemate over Justice Department documents demanded by the House Oversight Committee. The NRA said it supports the contempt resolution and will keep a record of how members vote.
An NRA letter to House members contended that the Obama administration "actively sought information" from Operation Fast and Furious to support its program to require dealers to report multiple rifle sales.
The program, which began last August, imposed the requirement for sales of specifically identified long guns in four border states: Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico. A federal judge upheld the requirement.
Republicans want Holder to become the first attorney general to be cited by the House for contempt because he has refused to give the Oversight Committee all the documents it wants related to Operation Fast and Furious.
Unless a last-minute deal is worked out, always a possibility in Congress, the contempt vote Thursday would be the same day the Supreme Court is to announce its ruling on the legality of the nation's health care law.
A vote to hold Holder in contempt of Congress wouldn't send any documents to the Oversight Committee.
Obama invoked what is known as "deliberative process privilege," a claim designed to broadly cover executive branch documents. However Issa, in a letter to the president, said Obama was misusing the narrower "presidential communications privilege," which is reserved for documents to and from the president and his most senior advisers.
White House Spokesman Eric Schultz said Tuesday that Issa's analysis "has as much merit as his absurd contention that Operation Fast and Furious was created in order to promote gun control. Our position is consistent with executive branch legal precedent for the past three decades spanning administrations of both parties."
The documents at the heart of the current argument are not directly related to the workings of Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed guns to "walk" from Arizona to Mexico in hopes they could be tracked. The department has given Issa 7,600 documents on the operation.
Rather, Issa wants internal communications from February 2011, when the administration denied knowledge of gun-walking, to the end of that year, when officials acknowledged the denial was erroneous. Those documents covered a period after Fast and Furious had been shut down.
In Fast and Furious, agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Arizona abandoned the agency's usual practice of intercepting all weapons they believed to be illicitly purchased. Instead, the goal of gun-walking was to track such weapons to high-level arms traffickers who long had eluded prosecution and to dismantle their networks.
Gun-walking long has been barred by Justice Department policy, but federal agents in Arizona experimented with it in at least two investigations during the George W. Bush administration before Fast and Furious.
The agents in Arizona lost track of several hundred weapons in Operation Fast and Furious. The low point of the operation came in Arizona in 2010, when U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in a firefight with a group of armed Mexican bandits and two guns traced to the operation were found at the scene.
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New Community Project resources 01 April 2016
Posted 1st April 2016
Short Numerical Reasoning Revision Leaflets
Eleanor Lingham, Sheffield Hallam University
I would like to thank the sigma Network for a 2014 Resource Development Fund grant that enabled me to develop a bank of 24 leaflets to help undergraduates refresh their numerical skills. In my previous role at De Montfort University (DMU), I started a numerical reasoning workshop (with Ann Baughan, Careers) to help students prepare for graduate numerical reasoning tests. While running these workshops, and in my role at the DMU Maths Learning Centre, I noticed that many students had forgotten the key numerical skills needed to do well on these tests.
As a result, I began to write materials to help them quickly and effectively refresh their knowledge. When I received the sigma grant, I was able to develop a bank of 24 leaflets on the range of topics that often arise in numerical reasoning tests, such as bar charts, shares and dividends, foreign exchange. For ease of use, each leaflet is two pages long, and contains brief information and some worked examples. Where more space is needed, these bite-sized leaflets are aimed at particular skills (e.g. How to get X% of Y). While these leaflets may not contain enough detail and help for every student, I think they can be a useful revision step for the average undergraduate.
The leaflets are:
- Percentages, fractions and decimals
- What is X% of Y
- What percentage of Y is X
- X is Y% of what
- Percentage increase and decrease
- What is the change in percentage
- Bar charts
- Composite bar charts
- Pie charts
- Line graphs
- Histograms
- Double charts
- Tables
- Split tables
- Ratios
- Pricing or Cost Analysis
- Turnover or Revenue or Sales
- Shares and Dividends
- Currency and Foreign Exchange
- Profit
- Yield or Production
- Speed and Distance
- Timetables and Timings
- Averages
I would also like to thank Dr Julie Crowley (Cork Institute of Technology) for moderating the leaflets. They can be found on www.mathcentre.ac.uk (Search by topic or 'Lingham'). Please send any comments to me at email@example.com
If you would like to contribute any mathematics or statistics resources that you have developed to either mathcentre or statstutor, please contact email@example.com. There is further information on the Communities page of both websites.
New Community Project resources for pharmacy students 18 November 2014
Posted 18th November 2014
Two new resources for pharmacy and health science students have been contributed to the mathcentre Community Project by Abigail Francis from Liverpool John Moores University. Abi was a sigma funded intern at LJMU this summer.
The Quick reference leaflet resources are:
- Pharmacy calculation 1: Solid trituration
- Pharmacy calculations II: Isotonicity
They may be accessed here :
As with all mathcentre Community Project resources, the source files have been made available under a Creative Commons licence so that others may adapt and develop resources further. See here.
If you would like to contribute any mathematics or statistics resources that you have developed to either mathcentre or statstutor, please contact email@example.com. There is further information on the Communities page of both websites.
New Welsh language Fact & Formulae leaflet 24 October 2014
Posted 24th October 2014
A fourth Welsh language Fact & Formulae leaflet, Mwy o Ffeithiau a Fformwlâu (More Facts & Formulae) has been made available in mathcentre in both print and onscreen versions.
The Welsh language versions of mathcentre Facts & Formulae leaflets were translated by Dr Tudur Davies, a Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Lecturer of Mathematics, at the Institute of Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science, Aberystwyth University. Funding from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol is gratefully acknowledged.
new mathcentre Community Project resources 18 September 2014
Posted 18th September 2014
New resources have been contributed to the mathcentre Community Project:
- Equations of motion - by Josh Simpson and reviewed by Leslie Fletcher, Liverpool John Moores University.
- Numerical Quadrature - by Josh Simpson and reviewed by Leslie Fletcher, Liverpool John Moores University.
- Mathematical Tools for Physical Sciences and Systems Biology - a Facts & Formulae leaflet by Dr Morgiane Richard, University of Aberdeen and reviewed by Mamen Romano and Ian Stansfield, University of Aberdeen.
DEWIS formative assessment questions available in mathcentre 23 October 2013
Posted 23rd October 2013
DEWIS is a free-to-use open-source e-assessment web-based system developed at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). It uses an algorithmic approach to the generation (with random parameters), automated marking and feedback of the questions, all within a server based system. It is used both for formative and summative assessment in a wide range of fields, such as Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Business, Economics, Computing and Nursing. A Public Question Bank of over 200 questions, designed and coded by a number of different authors, is available. Several formative tests have been constructed for mathcentre by Karen Henderson and Rhys Gwynllyw. Click here for access.
If you are interested in using DEWIS in your teaching or want more information about the system, please contact email@example.com
Welsh language Fact & Formulae leaflets 03 October 2013
Posted 3rd October 2013
Three Welsh language Fact & Formulae leaflets have been made available in mathcentre in both print and onscreen versions. They are:
- Ffeithiau a Fformwlâu - Facts & Formulae
- Ffeithiau a Fformiwlâu Mecaneg - Mechanics Facts & Formulae
- Ffeithiau Tebygoleg ac Ystadegaeth, Fformiwlâu a Gwybodaeth - Probability and Statistics Facts, Formulae and Information
The mathcentre leaflets were translated by Dr Tudur Davies, a Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Lecturer of Mathematics, at the Institute of Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science, Aberystwyth University. Funding from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol is gratefully acknowledged.
The rest of the leaflets in this series (More Facts & Formulae, Mathematics for Chemistry and Economics) will also be available in Welsh in the near future.
Welsh language versions of the Algebra and Calculus Practice and Revision booklets are also available from mathcentre.
To access the Welsh language leaflets click here.
New mathcentre and statstutor leaflets 28 May 2013
Posted 28th May 2013
New leaflets are available for mathcentre and statstutor showing the range of resources that are available for staff to support students in their learning of mathematics and statistics in a range of disciplines. If you are based in a UK Higher Education institution and would like to receive printed copies for display in your mathematics and statistics support centre, please contact email@example.com. Click here to access the mathcentre leaflet or the statstutor leaflet online.
Nursing Medication Calculation Formulae 10 April 2013
Posted 10th April 2013
A new Fact & Formula sheet for nursing students including dosage, drop and infusion rates, unit conversion and BMI calculations has been contributed to the mathcentre Community Project by Shazia Ahmed, University of Glasgow. It has been designed to be printed double-sided on an A4 sheet folded lengthwise. To access the leaflet click here.
Numbas 06 November 2012
Posted 6th November 2012
Numbas(1) is a new, free, open-source e-assessment web-based system developed and used extensively at Newcastle University (http://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/). Numbas consists of a set of tools which produce SCORM-compliant exam packages particularly suitable for creating formative assessment and learning materials in mathematics, statistics and numeracy.
Numbas at mathcentre
A publicly-accessible installation of the Numbas editor, with a growing bank of over 300 questions free for you to use or modify or add to by creating your own questions/tests/exams is now also available at mathcentre.
Numbas revision and diagnostic exercises for students on basic topics in mathematics are accessible from mathcentre. Click here.
Numbas has the following features:
- Numbas produces entirely self-contained assessment packages, which run in the browser with no extra software requirements. Numbas assessments can be uploaded to any SCORM 2004-compliant VLE, such as Blackboard or Moodle, to enable session and grade tracking.
- Numbas follows web standards and runs on all modern browsers -Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, as well as mobile devices such as the iPad, iPhone and Android.
- All question content can be randomised, and multimedia content such as videos can easily be incorporated.
- Because Numbas is used primarily for assessing undergraduate mathematics, there is extensive support for mathematical questions, including a comprehensive library of functions for generating randomised questions, and an easy-to-use algebraic input question type.
- The look and feel of exams can be tailored to suit each use case through the themes system.
- Extra functionality can be added with extensions, which are easily incorporated with the main system.
Numbas is released under the Apache 2.0 License. You can obtain the source code for the Numbas runtime and the question editor at github. Click here.
If you have any comments or questions about Numbas, please send an e-mail to email@example.com.
- Foster, B., Perfect, C. and Youd, A. A completely client-side approach to e-assessment and e-learning of Mathematics and Statistics
biomathtutor available in mathcentre 11 October 2012
Posted 11th October 2012
biomathtutor presents students with a filmed bioscience-based scenario and guides them through some of the mathematics they need to understand and grow confident and competent in using routinely. The case-study scenario, covering practical aspects of haematology and microbiology, is presented via a narrated film, 24 min in length, but divided up into short sections. The film tracks the diagnosis and treatment of a student with anaemia and a throat infection and links the clinical findings and diagnoses to 33 interactive questions and relevant maths tutorials. An additional 24 interactive questions cover the same range of basic mathematical concepts presented in similar biological contexts, with a view to reinforcing students' learning. biomathtutor is available for Windows and Internet Explorer.
biomathtutor was developed in 2006 by Vicki Tariq (University of Central Lancashire), John Heritage and Tom Roper (University of Leeds), Andrew Bond (University of Westminster), Mike Tribe (University of Sussex) and the EBS Trust. It was funded by HEFCE through its National Teaching Fellowship Scheme.
How to set up a mathematics and support provision 23 August 2012
Posted 23rd August 2012
A new sigma guide how to set up a mathematics and statistics support provision has been produced for those interested in setting up or enhancing mathematics and statistics support. Authored and edited by Ciarán Mac an Bhaird and Duncan Lawson, the guide covers the nature of mathematics and statistics support, funding, staffing, training, resources, supporting neurodiversity and evaluation. To access the guide, click here.
Launch of statstutor 08 May 2012
Posted 8th May 2012
We are pleased to announce that statstutor is now live and can be found at: www.statstutor.ac.uk
This is a new online resource aimed at providing post-16 Statistics help free of charge. The main aim of statstutor is to complement the existing mathematics support provided by mathcentre and indeed both sites are organised in a very similar way.
statstutor has been developed as a pilot project by staff from Loughborough and Coventry Universities with support from the sigma network, along with contributions from the Royal Statistical Society's Centre for Statistical Education and a number of other colleagues from other HE institutions in the UK.
If you would like to be kept informed of the latest developments with statstutor, or would like to make comments about the site or the resources listed there, do please go to the "Contact us" section on the site or simply go to http://www.statstutor.ac.uk/contact/
Maths EG Teacher's interface 30 April 2012
Posted 30th April 2012
The Maths EG teacher's interface is available at: https://www.mathcentre.ac.uk:8443/mathsegteacher/
This resource is for teachers and lecturers, not for students. Teachers need to sign up and login to the system, after which they may use it to compose their own tests by selecting (specifically or randomly) questions from the entire database of questions. We hope that this is as easy as shopping on Amazon, but we have included a set of instructions linked from the title page. Please make frequent use of this - it will give your students access to about 2000 questions that have (mostly) been tested over several years. Our experience has been that students learn a great deal and we have hard evidence to back that up!
Further developments will take place over the next few months, so please email your feedback using the link on the Maths EG title page.
A Guide for gathering student feedback on mathematics and statistics support centres 07 February 2012
Posted 7th February 2012
A new sigma guide Gathering student feedback on mathematics and statistics support provision - a guide for those running mathematics support centres - has been written for those who are responsible for managing mathematics support centres. It is the culmination of a project involving staff from many support centres around the UK. Authored by Dr David Green, Mathematics Education Centre, Loughborough University, it contains a wealth of advice and information for those who want to gather student feedback, and contains examples of forms which are currently being used. Access the guide here
Tutoring in a Mathematics Support Centre - A Guide for Postgraduate Tutors 03 November 2011
Posted 3rd November 2011
A new Sigma guide Tutoring in a Mathematics Support Centre - A Guide for Postgraduate Tutors has been written for postgraduate students who are working in, or who want to work in, mathematics support centres. It distils the wisdom of seven people, who have many years of experience in mathematics education and in the work of support centres, into a practical resource for postgraduate students. In addition, it contains activities which can be used during training sessions to simulate working in a mathematics support centre. Access the guide here
Maths EG available in mathcentre! 02 November 2011
Posted 2nd November 2011
Maths EG is a free-to-use collection of over 3000 mathematics questions spanning topics from GCSE to undergraduate level 2. There are thousands of realisations of each question allowing for virtually unlimited practice. Random parameters are incorporated into all aspects of the questions, including equations and diagrams, and in the very complete feedback screens. Statistics questions will follow shortly. Maths EG has been made available to mathcentre by Martin Greenhow and Abdulrahman Kamavi from Brunel University.
The questions have been extensively trialled at Brunel University with students from departments as diverse as economics, sports sciences and health studies, as well as engineering, mathematics and computing. The experience at Brunel has been that students use the Maths EG feedback as a learning resource in its own right. It was therefore decided to offer this formative assessment resource more widely and via a new and fully-searchable interface that will work on all browsers. It is hoped that mobile devices will be accommodated later. The free Maths EG Teachers' interface has also been implemented to enable teachers/lecturers to set up their own tests by the selecting the questions they want.
To access Maths EG, click here
To access Maths EG Teachers' interface, click here
mathscard released as a free mobile phone app 15 March 2011
Posted 15th March 2011
The award winning mathscard® containing really useful formulae for A-level maths and revision has been released as a free mobile phone app working on over 150 devices. Find out more....
mathscard® covers both A2 and A-level topics. Find out more....
How do you use mathcentre? 25 January 2011
Posted 25th January 2011
We are carrying out some research into mathcentre. We are interested in who uses mathcentre and whether there are any resources that you need that are missing or you cannot find. We would be very grateful if you would complete a very short survey. It contains only 7 questions and should take no more than two minutes.
Facts & Formulae leaftlets - onscreen versions 24 January 2011
Posted 24th January 2011
All seven Facts & Formulae leaflets have been reformatted so that they are in the correct orientation for use onscreen.
The leaflets, which contain useful subject related facts and mathematics formulae, are produced by mathcentre in conjunction with the Higher Education Academy Maths, Stats & OR Network, the UK Physical Sciences Centre, and sigma.
Practising mathematics in mathcentre 16 December 2010
Posted 16th December 2010
mathcentre contains a vast amount of material to enable understanding to be checked through doing examples. This could be particularly useful during preparation for examinations. The following resources contain questions with solutions:
- Practise and Revision booklets contain a huge number of questions to practise algebra, differentiation, calculus and numeracy skills. Answers are provided. There is also an interactive version of the Algebra booklet with dynamic links to other mathcentre resources for revision.
- Teach Yourself booklets cover topics in depth and are interspersed with short exercises with answers.
- 12 Teach Yourself booklets for differentiation and integration have been linked to the STACK[1] system which enables students to practice on-line appropriate randomly generated questions with worked solutions. Repeated attempts are allowed.
- On-line Test Yourself Exercises for a variety of topics allow students to practice examples and obtain solutions. On-line Test Yourself Diagnostics on the same topics do not provide answers but allow you to determine your competency in a topic through short tests.
- Quick Reference leaflets are easily accessible double-sided leaflets on specific topics and contain short exercises with solutions.
[1] STACK - System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer Algebra Kernel system developed by Dr Chris Sangwin at the University of Birmingham
Chemistry Facts & Formulae 11 November 2010
Posted 11th November 2010
A new Facts & Formulae leaflet is available - Mathematics for Chemistry Facts & Formulae. UK University academic and support staff can obtain copies by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. An electronic version may be downloaded here. There are now seven leaflets in the very popular series which is produced by mathcentre in conjunction with the Higher Education Academy Maths, Stats & OR Network, the UK Physical Sciences Centre, and sigma. Useful subject related facts and mathematics formulae are printed on both sides of a sheet which folds for ease of use.
sigma Resource Development Workshop 11 November 2010
Posted 11th November 2010
sigma is planning a workshop on 28 - 30 June 2011 for the development of mathematics support resources. Delegates will be able to create resources in a number of formats and technical support will be available. The intention is that resources will be made available to the mathematics community through the mathcentre Community Project. More
mathcentre Mirror site 21 October 2010
Posted 21st October 2010
mathcentre (www.mathcentre.ac.uk) is hosted by Loughborough University. A mirror site has now been installed at Coventry University. If you experience technical problems and are unable to access www.mathcentre.ac.uk, you may access the mirror site directly http://sigma.coventry.ac.uk.
Motivating Mathematics ! 28 September 2010
Posted 28th September 2010
The popular mathtutor extension videos are now available on mathcentre. These show examples of mathematics being applied in everyday life and how mathematical modelling may be used to predict events.
A separate resource category called Motivating Mathematics has been created. Select Motivating Mathematics - Topics to see the topics that are covered.
STACK on mathcentre 23 April 2010
Posted 23rd April 2010
A feature of the upgraded mathcentre site is the availability of on-line computer generated exercises covering topics in differentiation and integration.
These make use of the STACK (System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer Algebra Kernel) system developed by Dr Chris Sangwin at the University of Birmingham. With funding from the FETLAR project we have added links to many of the Teach Yourself booklets so that students can find many additional practice questions. These are generated randomly. Students then work out and input their answers. Student answers are then validated to ensure that the computer system understands correctly the student's intention, before the attempt is marked. Full worked solutions are available. Repeated attempts are possible. Similar questions can be attempted for further practice.
To find STACK exercises look for those Teach Yourself booklets on Differentiation and Integration entitled "with STACK", or use the search facility, and search for "STACK".
Welcome to mathcentre 06 April 2010
Posted 6th April 2010
The popular site for mathematics resources, mathcentre (www.mathcentre.ac.uk) has been upgraded with funding from JISC.
Search facilities have been enhanced to make it easier for you to find the resources you need. Video tutorials, diagnostics and exercises have been reversioned addressing the technical problems that some users were encountering. New resources have been added.
We hope you enjoy using the new mathcentre. Let us know what you think.
mathcentre Community Project 05 April 2010
Posted 5th April 2010
We are delighted to announce the mathcentre Community Project which has been developed to enable users to contribute resources they have developed to mathcentre as 2-page teach-yourself Quick Reference leaflets.
Resources may be submitted on Microsoft Word or LaTeX templates and must be reviewed to ensure correctness. To download blank templates and for more information on this exciting development, see Communities.
mathtutor - upgraded site goes live! 22 March 2010
Posted 22nd March 2010
mathtutor has been upgraded with support from JISC.
Bridging the gap from school to university study, mathtutor uses video tutorials and accompanying summary texts to cover more than eighty mathematics topics arranged in seven subject areas. Work through the materials at your own pace. Practice using the excercises and test your knowledge with the diagnostics.


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ALONSO M, Catalina; BRAVO O, Erasmo; ROJAS S, Sergio y PARRY R, Santiago. Histerectomía extrafascial en cáncer de cuello uterino IB2 posterior a radio-quimioterapia. Rev. chil. obstet. ginecol. [online]. 2012, vol.77, n.2, pp.93-97. ISSN 0717-7526. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-75262012000200003.
Aim: To evaluate overall and disease free survival in cervical cáncer IB2 patients with concomitant chemo-radiotherapy and posterior extrafascial hysterectomy treatment. Methods: Between July 2005 to December 2009, a total of 31 eligible patients with IB2 cervical cancer were treated with chemoradiotherapy and posterior hysterectomy in the Carlos Van Buren Hospital Oncology Unit. Radiotherapy consisted in external pelvic radiation and a utero-vaginal brachitherapy with low rate doses to get preoperatory doses between 70 and 75 Gy to the A point and a concomitant Cisplatin based chemotherapy. After this treatment, the patients received extrafascial hysterectomy 4 to 6 weeks completed chemoradiotherapy. Results: The mean age was 41 ± 8 years. 81% of the patients had an spinocelular carcinoma. The extrafascial hysterectomy was made between 4 to 6 weeks post-radiation in 85% of the patients. 79% and 13% of the patients received 5 and 4 chemotherapy cycles respectively. The median follow up was 38 months. The 5 years overall survival and disease free survival estimates were 86% and 79% respectively. There was a significant difference between subgroups of patients with and without macroscopic residual disease in the operatory specimen (p<0.001). Conclusion: Our survival is similar to published results with the same treatment. The presence of macroscopic residual disease in the hysterectomy specimen could be a factor of prognostic value.
Palabras clave : Cervical carcinoma IB2; chemoradiotherapy; extrafascial hysterectomy.


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It is obvious that Mary had children after Jesus was born. As long as Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, why was it necessary that Mary have no previous children? I am not asking why it was necessary that Jesus be conceived by the Holy Spirit—I understand that. I guess my question is, Why would it matter that Mary had other children first, as long as Jesus was conceived by the Spirit?
I agree with you that from what is said in Scripture, it appears to be "obvious that Mary had children after Jesus was born. " Take, for example, this passage:
2When the Sabbath came, he [Jesus] began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. "Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! 3Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?".... (Mark 6:2-3, New International Version)
It has been argued (particularly by those who believe in the "perpetual virginity" of Mary) that the word translated "brother" (Greek "adelphos," as in "Philadelphia," "the city of brotherly love") might be taken as "cousin," but the context surely indicates that we are not talking about several households here, but one.
Incidentally, perhaps it should be noted in passing that although Jesus, James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon were all of the same household and all had Mary as their mother, Mary's husband Joseph was the physical father of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, but not of Jesus, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit (see Matthew 1:20; Luke 1:35). Thus, technically speaking, Jesus and his "brothers" were "half-brothers," since they only shared the same mother, but it would certainly be understandable for those in Nazareth who personally knew of the family to regard the five sons as "brothers."
Consider, also, how this passage speaks of the birth of Jesus:
22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him 'Immanuel' which means, 'God with us'." 24When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus. (Matt. 1:22-25, NIV)
The words "But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son" certainly seem to suggest that after Mary gave birth to Jesus, Joseph did have union with her and that, having given birth to one Child, she gave birth to other children as well.
But let's get to the heart of your question: "Why was it necessary that Mary have no previous children?.... Why would it matter that Mary had other children first, as long as Jesus was conceived by the Spirit?
Here's the simple answer: It was necessary for Jesus to be born of a virgin to fulfill Isaiah's prophecy:
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. (Is. 7:14, NIV)
Speaking of the birth of Christ of a virgin, Matthew (as we have already seen) says this:
22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel." (Matt. 1:22-23, NIV)
Although the exact meaning of the Hebrew word "'almah" in Isaiah 7:14 has been disputed (some—ignoring the context—take it as simply "young woman of marriageable age"), there is absolutely no dispute over the meaning of the Greek word "parthenos" in Matthew 1:23, which can have no other meaning than "virgin" (and Matthew 1:23 supplies us with an inspired interpretation of Isaiah 7:14).
Thus Scriptural prophecy found its fulfillment when our Savior was, in the familiar words of the Apostles' Creed, "conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary."
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Following what has already been said about GBPUSD, this pair inherently has the same type and behavior, but has something extra, which is the depreciation of the JPY. That's why I've been launching trades with 2 distinct targets, 1st at 143,450 and 2nd at 146,360. 2nd tp is right in a zone of resistance. For this pair I believe it will rise above the indicated resistance, so much so that 2 trades for tp were launched today at 180.165 and 180.871, but we will talk about this later. At this moment the focus is on these first 2 targets that will give a good number of pips.
NAS 100 scaling in opportunity to the 1 month 8ema
Scaling in opportunity to close the monthly gap. Breaks and closes 200ema means price will be heading south. Fundamentals onside. Any positive or negative feedback welcomed 😎
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Break close and retest below the 200EMA on 1 Hour. Confirmed on 4 Hour and on a downtrend on the daily. Looks to me like price is retracing the upswing we had a couple of days back on the news that Brexit might just happen with a deal in November. Im looking at the TP target of 1.16860, which is the same entry we had a couple days ago on the Naked Trade strategy indication. What do you think?
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AJ McCarron's standard reply about handling big-game pressure is a shrug and a look that says, What's the big deal? It's an attitude that has served No. 2 Alabama's quarterback pretty well so far. McCarron and Aaron Murray, his counterpart for No. 3 Georgia, have played on plenty of huge stages with varying results and a couple of performances they wouldn't mind forgetting.
The nation's two top-rated passers will square off in Saturday's Southeastern Conference championship game with the winner moving on to face No. 1 Notre Dame for the national title.
Crimson Tide center Barrett Jones said succeeding in such games is about controlling emotions and focusing on execution not the hype. Then he's asked about McCarron.
"I think he exemplifies everything I've been talking about," Jones said. "He doesn't get caught up in the hype. He stays calm. A lot of people — it's a weird phenomenon — when they get in big games like this, in big moments, they go, as coach (Nick) Saban says, 'rat trap.' They forget everything they've learned, they forget their reads, they try to do things they didn't do at practice. AJ's not one of those guys."
McCarron has been MVP of the BCS championship game, shaken out of a second-half slump to lead the winning touchdown drive against LSU and also thrown his only two interceptions of the season in a loss to No. 9 Texas A&M. His only other career defeat came against LSU in 2011 before his superb showing in the national title rematch.
Like Murray, he's no stranger to the spotlight of big games.
"I don't think there's a big key in anything," said McCarron, who's 23-2 as a starter. "It's another game. I think that's what hurt us back last year in the LSU game, we tried to make the game bigger than it was. It's just another game, just another Saturday. Go out and play, do our job, execute plays and let the chips fall where they fall."
This game is a chance for Murray to shine against the nation's top defense and maybe cancel out some bad memories from an otherwise sparkling career.
Murray is the nation's highest rated quarterback — McCarron is second — and the SEC's active leader in a number of categories, including passing yards (9,399) and touchdowns (89). He's already passed for 3,201 yards and 30 touchdowns against seven interceptions this season and boosted his win total as a starter to 27.
A title or two would polish off the resume nicely.
Avoiding costly mistakes will be key in a game featuring the SEC's two top pass defenses.
"I think all QBs want to make a big play in a big game," Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "All players want to make a big play in a big game. There's a time and place for everything. You have to understand when a play presents itself, then you make the big play. If it doesn't present itself, burn the ball, get rid of it. " A win might also wipe out some forgettable performances in key games for Murray. He was 16-of-40 passing with two interceptions in a loss to LSU in last season's SEC championship game and was picked off twice again in a bowl defeat to Michigan State.
This season, he completed just over a third of his passes for career-low 109 yards in a blowout loss to South Carolina and threw three first-half interceptions before righting himself in a 17-9 win over Florida.
That's the one that ultimately got the Bulldogs to the brink of an SEC and national title.
The normally media-friendly Murray opted out of talking to reporters this week.
His teammates spoke for him, and talked about the comfort of having a star quarterback in games like this.
"It's very valuable," tight end Jay Rome said. "You have to have a quarterback who's not only a good athlete and can throw the ball, but a quarterback who knows where to go with the ball. Whether he needs to hand it off or check to a pass or recognize blitzes, you have to have a smart guy back there. I feel like Murray is definitely that."
Wide receiver Tavarres King noted that the number of records his quarterback holds is "crazy."
"He's probably about to break Usain Bolt's record or something," King joked. "No, he's too slow for that. But he's playing extremely well. It's just a tribute to the guy he is, the leader he is. He just goes about his business."
Perhaps that means treating this like just another game.
SEC title game: What's the big deal?
AJ McCarron's standard reply about handling big-game pressure is a shrug and a look that says, What's the big deal? It's an attitude that has served No. 2 Alabama's quarterback pretty well so far. McCarron and Aaron Murray, his counterpart for No. 3 Georgia, have played on plenty of huge stages with varying results and a couple of performances they wouldn't mind forgetting.


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Leslie Nielsen, Star of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, Dies Aged 84
Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen has died in hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where he was being treated for pneumonia the past two weeks, according to reports.
The star of popular comedies as "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" series passed away Sunday, according to reports attributed to his nephew Doug Nielsen.
Yesterday at 5:30 with his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell asleep and passed away, Doug Nielsen told Manitoba radio station CJOB.
Born on Feb. 11, 1926, in Regina, Sask., Leslie William Nielson has appeared in more than 100 movies and 1,500 television programs.
His older brother, Eric Nielson, who died in 2008, was deputy prime minister of Canada in the 1980s.
We've made a video slideshow about Leslie Nielsen titled "Forever Leslie Nielsen", let's look back his career life through some photos:
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Leslie Nielsen, R.I.P.