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In this lesson, students explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution through focused experiences with picture books. The class searches the text and illustrations for cues to the development of the book's plot and the resolution of the story's conflict. They then use a graphic organizer to complete a structured analysis of plot and conflict resolution in the picture book. Finally, students have the opportunity to build bridges from their own experiences as readers to those skills needed as writers by revising their stories to strengthen the plot.
Plot Diagram: Students can use this open-ended online tool to graph the plot of any story.
Story Map: Students use this online tool to map out the elements of their writing. The tool can also be used to analyze the characters, plot, and setting of a piece of literature.
When they are exposed to multiple texts that illustrate effective writing, students naturally begin to think about how the techniques can be applied to their own writing. By modeling the process of reading like writers, teachers demonstrate the kind of thinking that will help students improve their own literacy skills. As Katie Wood Ray states, "the inquiry structures in writing workshops do simply this-they slow down and make more deliberate the reading like writers that happens vicariously when any writer reads. Slowing down lets writers apprentice themselves very deliberately to other writers" (16). This lesson has students examine books that model effective plot development and conflict resolution, encouraging students to use these techniques as they write their own stories.
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Ray, Katie Wood. 1999. Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom. Urbana, IL: NCTE.

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Judging by Portland duo Wampire's cover art and music, they appear to live in an alternate Eighties universe. There are no grim realities: no Thatcherism or Reaganomics, no Chernobyl- just soft focus photography, MTV and big hair; a lifestyle perpetually based on and within a John Hughes film. In a similar way to fellow nostalgists Summer Camp, Wampire take the innocence and mischief of an idealised American suburb and imbibe it into their music; the cliches, the knowing lo-fi amateurism and the dual teenage experience of joy and heartbreak are very much present on Curiosity, but, as the album title suggests, Wampire also keep the listener guessing.
No longer favouring the drum machine of their early house party years, Curiosity sees Wampire with a full band, adding power and impact to the songs and emphasising their strength and complexity. The frequent comparisons to Ariel Pink are not unfounded, nor are they particularly relevant - the two acts share their self-conscious lo-fi sensibilities, certainly, but this manifests itself in different ways: Wampire's songs are bolstered by fuzz and feedback whereas Ariel Pink's are often dominated by them, making them ramshackle to the point of derelict. As such, Curiosity is a surprisingly solid, professional affair, the haziness of the production aiding and abetting some excellent songwriting.
'The Hearse' gets the ball rolling with spectacular style, starting with a 'Trans-Europe Express'-style synth motif before breaking into an insistent, carefree stomp-along of a track. There are many riffs played throughout this track- be they organ, guitar or other- and Wampire manage to fit them in seamlessly; their firm grasp of structure and songcraft coming to the forefront before the record has even passed its first four minutes. Similarly, 'Giants' combines many different components to create a track that, while varied, somehow remains concise and straightforward, making the transition from a sinister opening organ riff to a verse and chorus that are pure pop with ease.
But there is a certain hyperactivity here that becomes tiresome. Wampire's constant shifting of mood, although generally successful and interesting, become almost predictable in its unpredictability - there are occasions when consistency would be more appropriate. As such, some tracks can be frustrating; moving on before the song really needs to.
But there are only a few instances of this and generally Curiosity is excellent - albeit somewhat jittery and sporadic. Wherever there are moments of Structural Hyperactivity Disorder, there are many more instances of gratifying, astute songcraft. There is nothing here that is particularly new, but when it comes to the many, many contemporary bands who take their influence- either musically or aesthetically- from the eighties, Wampire are at the top of the pile.
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Melanoma-directed immunotherapies have improved quality of life and outcome for many patients with this malignancy. Unfortunately, treatment resistance develops in some individuals and other patients do not respond to therapy; therefore, there remains a need for additional intervention targets for this devastating disease. In this episode, Craig Ceol and Arvind Venkatesan discuss their recent study, which identifies GDF6-mediated BMP signaling as a driver of melanoma. Importantly, upregulation of this GDF6 in patients with melanoma associated with increased metastasis and decreased survival, supporting further development of strategies to target GDF6/BMP signaling.
Oncogenomic studies indicate that copy number variation (CNV) alters genes involved in tumor progression; however, identification of specific driver genes affected by CNV has been difficult, as these rearrangements are often contained in large chromosomal intervals among several bystander genes. Here, we addressed this problem and identified a CNV-targeted oncogene by performing comparative oncogenomics of human and zebrafish melanomas. We determined that the gene encoding growth differentiation factor 6 (GDF6), which is the ligand for the BMP family, is recurrently amplified and transcriptionally upregulated in melanoma. GDF6-induced BMP signaling maintained a trunk neural crest gene signature in melanomas. Additionally, GDF6 repressed the melanocyte differentiation gene MITF and the proapoptotic factor SOX9, thereby preventing differentiation, inhibiting cell death, and promoting tumor growth. GDF6 was specifically expressed in melanomas but not melanocytes. Moreover, GDF6 expression levels in melanomas were inversely correlated with patient survival. Our study has identified a fundamental role for GDF6 and BMP signaling in governing an embryonic cell gene signature to promote melanoma progression, thus providing potential opportunities for targeted therapy to treat GDF6-positive cancers.
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As the day of our final exhibit draws near, I thought a very brief overview of the exhibitions we've had here would be interesting. I'll really miss being surrounded by all this amazing work every day. But I do feel lucky to at least have been able to come into work each morning to be greeted by amazing talent. Thanks to everyone who ever participated in any of these shows and those who came out to appreciate them.
|Our first exhibition. We met a lot of new friends at this opening party! I remember people drinking wine out of cartons on the street. It was a good party, for sure.
|August, 2006 First solo exhibition at HQ by Winnipeg artist Paul Zacharias.
|September 2006 Sea creatures and aquatic goodness by Mark Unterberger
|October 2006 Eric Braun's creepy new sculptures.
|November 2006 Colab show with Tyson Bodnarchuk and Aya Kakeda
|December 2006 first edition of It's Probably Worth More Than That!
|January 2007 Colab show by Neil Doshi and James Kerr. This show held the record for the longest exhibit to be installed.
|February 2007. Jen Storey curates a group light exhibit. It was awesome!
|March 2007 Jessica McCourt and Jenn Porreca collab. There was a blizzard when Jenn arrived.
|April 2007 Group exhibit curated by Coco Khan and Oily Chi
|May 2007 This show held the record for being the quickest install ever. It was a big show and the guys had it hung in an hour the morning of the opening. I have to admit, I was a little worried.
|June 2007 Our 1st Anniversary show.
|July 2007 Parnell Collective did an amazing mural on the wall for this exhibit that can still be seen under many overcoats of paint.
|August 2007 Solo exhibit by Winnipeg's Garrett Van Winkle. He stayed with us while he was here. Our dog got sprayed by a skunk the night before the opening, so our place reeked. Sorry Garrett.
|September 2007 A great concept. Each piece consisting of and joined by one continuous line.
|October 2007 Scott Harbers solo exhibition.
|November 2007 Jen Storey curates the second Light Show. Awesome.
|December 2007 2nd edition of IPWMTT
|January 2008 Christopher Ross' solo show. There were a lot of drunk people at this show. It was a pretty fun time.
|February 2008 Chrissy Cheung and Natalie Reis collab show
|March 2008 James Kerr curates a sexy group exhibition
|April 2008 Aria Campbell curates a group exhibit of her jewelry/artist collaborations
|May 2008 Valerie Sury solo works inspired by SXSW
|June 2008 2nd Anniversary
|July 2008 Amber Albrecht, Emi Honda and Aaron McConomy colab show. Gorgeous.
|August 2008 1st photography exhibit at HQ by Toby Cayouette and a live performance by his band Chinatown.
|September 2008 Book launch / exhibit. Lots of amazing lamps at this show.
|October 2008 1st monster themed exhibit (but not the last)
|November 2008 solo show by Jen Storey
|December 2008 3rd edition of IPWMTT
|February 2009 Lifetime Collectives traveling group show
|March 2009 Print exhibition curated by Angie Johnson
|April 2009 Sexy ladies by Dale Hayward
|May 2009 1st show for new collective Birdwatchers of North America
|June 2009 3rd Anniversary
|July 2009 Collab show by Shabana Ali, Mel Garcia and Kevin Ledo
|August 2009 guest curated by James Kerr and Jason Botkin. This show looked amazing!
|October 2009 One of my favourite exhibits. We turned the gallery into a forest. I was sad to take it down.
|November 2009 Huge charcoal drawings by Kate Puxley.
|December 2009 4th edition of IPWMTT
|March 2010 colab show between designer Angie Johnsonn and artist Paule Trudel Bellmare
|April 2010 Group exhibition of modified toasters curated by Yanick Blanchet. He even made peanut butter toast for everyone. The place smelled great!
|May 2010 En Masse show. This piece was awesome! Several drawing nights were had to finish this large scale piece. I also remember there being D&D dice and pentagrams involved in the sessions.
|July 2010 Yanicj guest curates again with a old school video game themed show.
|August 2010 2nd photography show by Tristan Breuwer There were some beautiful pieces of forest that I still think about.
|September 2010 solo show by Sara Guindon. She moved to Denver shortly after this exhibition. So long!
|October 2010 Another monster themed group exhibit!
|November 2010 gorgeous silk screens by studio mates Benjamin and Mathieu
|December 2010 The final installment of IPWMTT at HQ... but not the last in Montreal, I promise.
|January 2011 our last exhibit here at HQ. A lot of amazing artists from all over. Hope to see you all here!


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Antiepileptic Drugs May Not Be Helpful For Patients With Brain Tumor and Without History of Seizures
Seizures can be a common symptom of a brain tumor . Antiseizure medications are often prescribed as a preventative measure to patients with a brain tumor before a seizure occurs. However, the medications used for prevention can also have some serious side effects. In fact, some seizure medications can interfere with other medical treatments such as chemotherapy .
Cochrane Database System performed a systematic review of several studies to review the effects of antiepileptic drug treatments for patients with a brain tumor. The antiepileptic drugs did not appear to have any added benefit but did demonstrate negative side effects such as nausea, blurred vision, tremor, and unsteady gait.
About the Study
Researchers reviewed results from five randomized trials. There were a total of 404 patients with brain tumor who had not had previous seizures. Patients were randomly assigned to a group treated with phenytoin (Dilantin, Phenytek), phenobarbital , and divalproex sodium ( Depakene, Depakote ), or to a placebo group (no medication).
When all the data from the studies was combined, there were no significant differences in number of seizures between patients who received medication compared to the placebo group. First seizures occurred in 18.6% of the medication group and 20.1% of the placebo group. When results from three trials with 237 patients were combined, researcher found more adverse events (side effects) in the treated group (15.3% vs. 0.9%).
Systematic review type studies can be very helpful when a disease is rare and it is difficult to study many patients. The review allows researchers to combine information from different studies to help make broader conclusions. In this case, the individual studies were somewhat different and of varied quality.
How Does This Affect You?
These results are not definitive but they are helpful for physicians who are debating whether to start medication or not. Symptoms from a brain tumor vary based on the size and location of the tumor. As a result, treatments are based on individual cases.
Talk to your doctor about the best ways to manage symptoms. All medications have side effects that need to be considered when forming a treatment plan. You and your doctor will evaluate the risks and benefits of medication as it relates to your case.
American Brain Tumor Association
National Brain Tumor Foundation (NBTF)
Tremont-Lukats I, Ratilal B, Armstrong T, Gilbert MR. Antiepileptic drugs for preventing seizures in people with brain tumors. Cochrane Database Syst Rev . 2008[2]:CD004424.
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Not only tasty, but easy to handle, this product format has become very popular in recent years. Since they can include a wide variety of different ingredients - wafers, cookies, chocolate chips, nuts and caramel as well as ice cream - sandwiches provide plenty of scope for creativity!
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is getting into the debate over regulating sugary drinks.
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Weiner is set to introduce a ballot measure that would levy a 2-cent-per-ounce tax on all sugar-sweetened beverages sold in the city, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A can of soda, for example, would cost 24 cents more.
The money would be used to fund health and nutrition programs for children.
Similar soda tax measures fueled by concerns the drinks are contributing to obesity and diabetes have failed in the neighboring city of Richmond and the Los Angeles County city of El Monte.
But Weiner told the Chronicle that research shows voters are willing to support the tax if the money is used to keep kids healthy.
"I try to cross my t's and dot my i's, and I wouldn't pursue this if I didn't think it had a chance," he said.
He plans to introduce the measure this week. It would require approval from a majority of supervisors to get on the November 2014 ballot. To pass, it would need the support of two-thirds of city voters.
Californians for Food and Beverage Choice, a group organized by the American Beverage Association, said in a statement that beverage taxes such as those proposed by Wiener are "unnecessary, wasteful distractions from serious policymaking."
"Providing people with education, opportunities for physical activity and diverse beverage choices to fit their lifestyles are proven strategies for maintaining health," the group said.
The San Francisco tax would raise an estimated $31 million a year, the Chronicle reported. It would apply to drinks with 25 or more calories that have added sugary sweeteners and are less than 50 percent fruit or vegetable juice.


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Good work Rob. He'll really need his comms if he sets off on his planned trip.
It looked like a very good prospect in the photos online. With his background and knowledge of boats I'm sure it's a corker of a boat. Wish him well from me when you catch up again.


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Nestled in a scenic valley just six miles from Downtown, Castle Shannon Borough was incorporated in 1919 from parts of Baldwin Township, Mt. Lebanon and Bethel Township. Castle Shannon's well-maintained neighborhoods, schools and businesses offer residents an affordable, convenient, and desirable place to live.
Castle Shannon offers easy access to major highways and swift transportation to Downtown by the light rail transit system. Housing vacancy rates remain low and elementary school enrollment in Castle Shannon have been on the rise for several years.
The Castle Shannon Revitalization Corporation was founded in 2009 to improve the Castle Shannon Business District through growth and development. It is operated by citizens, neighbors, business owners, parents, and other active participants in Castle Shannon. Its projects include a streetscape plan and watershed development.
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- The first families settled Castle Shannon in 1786 in pursuit of farmland and timber. The most prominent farm was owned by David Strawbridge, who named it Castle Shanahan. Over time, the farm would lend its name to the area, as "Shanahan" would evolve into "Shannon."
- Comedian Dennis Miller grew up in Castle Shannon and attended St. Anne School and Keystone Oaks High School.
- The First National Bank in Castle Shannon was the site of a much-publicized bank robbery in 1917. $18,500 was taken in the robbery, of which $10,500 was immediately recovered from one man who was shot during the escape. The full sum was never recovered.
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When Connection is the Innovation in Human Services
A journal launched by two Philadelphia social services entrepreneurs is going a long way toward spreading the word about what works and what doesn't.
Six years ago in a column here, I speculated that waves of incoming new public employees would reshape the public workplace and the delivery of services. These new tech-savvy workers come with an expectation of connectivity. They are impatient with the hierarchical lines of authority that characterize much of public-sector service delivery and with the isolation of service agencies by funding streams.
Unbeknownst to me, at that moment two social entrepreneurs, both with careers in Philadelphia but who had only met as Eisenhower Fellows, were wondering why so little of the innovation in the human-services field in their hometown was being shared with others and why the social innovators seemed not to know each other. They saw in the continuing connection of Eisenhower fellows worldwide a model that could benefit social innovation in Philadelphia and beyond.
Like many places, Philadelphia's public and nonprofit agencies were often resistant to change and skeptical that innovation could be brought to meaningful scale. Innovation and competition were often quietly smothered if they threatened the status quo -- "the usual suspects talking the innovation talk but being careful to not let much of it actually happen," as one long-time nonprofit veteran observed. In too many respects, Philadelphia was a city with a thousand rooms but few connecting doors.
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Nick Torres and Tine Hanson-Turton believed that one of the solutions to this malaise was to showcase innovations on the home turf, celebrate them among a larger audience and build partnerships that could begin to inject an appreciation and appetite for innovation "into the air." With work and time, they thought, it could energize and link a new generation of social entrepreneurs and support the efforts of like-minded innovators already working within the public sector.
Their strategy was the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal (PSIJ), launched in the fall of 2009 with an edition containing 22 feature articles, editorials and reports on what works and what doesn't. An open invitation to share, contribute and spread the word resonated immediately. Operating on a shoestring, each quarter PSIJ offers independent reviews and contributed articles showcasing innovation in the social-services sector.
Four years on, PSIJ has 15 investors and funders, including many of the region's foundations and the United Way, as well as related national entities including the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the nonprofit consultancy Bridgespan and the White House Office of Social Innovation. New editions of PSIJ attract growing numbers of participants, many of whom come to meet others in related but separate fields within social services.
This fall's edition broadens PSIJ's perspective by setting the Philadelphia region in a national context in collaboration with innovation researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Together the two partners see a strong opportunity to leverage private nonprofit innovation into widespread scaled application in public agencies.
Long-time social-services practitioners in Philadelphia have welcomed PSIJ's growing momentum. As one who has served in public, nonprofit and for-profit organizations remarked, the publication "has elevated the conversation in Philadelphia and fostered cross-sector collaboration as a convener. Meetings have become places where people feel they need to be if they want to understand cross-overs among government and independent agencies."
The connectivity that characterizes the participation in PSIJ appears to be having multiple payoffs. It has encouraged the social-services community to look beyond its own boundaries for promising approaches to common issues. And in a risk-averse, slow-to-change public sector, it has offered support to those who are trying to innovate and made more permeable the wall between the nonprofit world and government. In short, it's going a long way toward meeting the high expectations of that increasingly young and tech-savvy public workforce.


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Afghanistan: Negotiating While Withdrawing Is Poor Strategy
On 03.13.12 11:45 AM posted by Lisa Curtis
In the wake of a U.S. Army staff sergeants murdering 16 Afghan civilians (mostly women and children), U.S. officials are contemplating the pace and scope of the U.S. troop drawdown from the country. At the same time, they are seeking a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership. U.S. and NATO Commander in Afghanistan General John Allen said yesterday that he did not foresee an accelerated drawdown of U.S. troops because of the shooting incident, but it is almost inevitable that this terrible tragedy will lead Americans to question the viability of the U.S. mission there
The first goal of the U.S. Administration should be to demonstrate that it values Afghan lives and will pursue swift justice against the perpetrator of the heinous murders. This will help calm the situation and reassure Afghans the incident is an extreme aberration that will not reoccur.
The U.S. must not base its Afghan strategy around this one terrible incident. As tempting as it may be to view the current troubles in Afghanistan as an excuse to cut and run, U.S. leaders must recognize that such a decision would be irresponsible and lead to greater dangers for the U.S. and the Afghans. Instead, the U.S. and Afghan authorities must double down on their efforts to improve the partnership and show unity of purpose.
It is no secret that there are differences between the U.S. political and military leadership over the pace and scope of withdrawals. It is likely that President Obamas political advisers will use the recent shooting rampage and the Koran burnings to bolster their calls for speeding up the drawdown of U.S. troops. But U.S. military commanders on the ground reportedly would like to keep most of the 68,000 troops that will be in place as of September 2012 until military gains are consolidated. Racing for the exits before the mission is accomplished will only create more chaos in the country that will redound to the insurgents benefit.
While U.S. policymakers are reeling from events in Afghanistan over the last month, the Taliban probably cannot believe their stroke of luck. Making concessions to the Taliban at this juncture would only embolden them and give average Afghans the impression that the Talibans return to power is all but inevitable. There are alternatives to negotiating with the Taliban that the U.S. can pursue, which would better ensure that Afghanistan does not return to serving as an international terrorist safe haven.
At this stage of the conflict, the Administrations time and energy would be better spent on supporting anti-Taliban elements and concluding a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Karzai administration that ensures the U.S. will be able maintain a robust military presence post-2014 to conduct training and counterterrorism missions. This is a far more promising strategy than engaging in long-shot negotiations with the Taliban, which will likely succeed only in giving increased political legitimacy to them and their extremist ideology.
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I know it sounds nutty to talk gardens in the middle of winter, but my thoughts are definitely on this year's vegetable and flower gardens. It might be snowing and blowing outside, but in here things are warm, sunny and blooming—at least in my mind!
The Burpee seed order has arrived, and I am psyched to get this gardening show on the road. In another week or so I'll trek out to the greenhouse and retrieve a stack or two of black plastic six-pack planting cells as well as the trays and covers that go with them. I bought little rounds of growing material which, when dropped into the planting cells and watered, expand to fill each cell with planting medium. I'll start some seeds (peppers, eggplants and tomatoes) in the family room beside the wood stove, just so they get an extra boost from the heat. By March they'll be out in the greenhouse and by April I'll be planting seeds that don't take long from germination to seedling (annual flowers, cukes, winter squash, melons and a few others) right out in the greenhouse. The racks in my little house will be full, and every ray of sunshine will go to good use.
I love this time of year! We grow most of our own produce—and I mean for year-round use. I can and freeze what we don't use fresh during the summer months, and we eat homegrown fruits and veggies even during the cold winter months. What's not to love about that?
Last night we had salmon (not homegrown), roasted broccoli, garlic mashed potatoes and grilled zucchini. All the veggies came from last summer's gardens. For dessert we had gingerbread with berry sorbet. The gingerbread was not homegrown, obviously, although it was homemade. The berry sorbet used berries from our own backyard, and tasted so sweet it wasn't hard to remember the warm, sultry days of summer.
So, what about you? Any gardening plans? If you've got any gardening questions, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to lend a hand, if I can. I love the idea of growing our own food, and I'd love to see others get into the groove of gardening.
Just a thought…When I hold a potato grown in our backyard, I never wonder who handled it last or what kinds of pesticides and fertilizers were used in its production. That's something I don't know when I stroll through the grocery's produce aisle.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
February Garden News
I know it sounds nutty to talk gardens in the middle of winter, but my thoughts are definitely on this year's vegetable and flower gardens. It might be snowing and blowing outside, but in here things are warm, sunny and blooming—at least in my mind!
3 comments:
- Nicole McCaffrey said...
Sounds wonderful, Sarita. We live right up against a forest, so there's very little sunlight in our yard, otherwise, I'd love to have a garden and greenhouse. But you bring up some great points about where our produce comes from.
- Melissa McClone said...
It looks like we may have a garden this year. My hubby and oldest daughters are designing a couple garden beds to put in! I'm psyched!
- Marianne Arkins said...
I keep pulling out my seed packets and caressing them. *G*
I love fresh food. Aside from the handling and pesticides issues, NOTHING tastes as good as something as fresh as what you pick out of your own garden. Peppers are crunchier (I never knew how crunchy a bell pepper could be until I grew them), potatoes have more flavor, tomatoes are sweeter.
It's worth every bit of elbow grease.


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CARLSBAD, Calif., July 30 (UPI) -- Fifth-seeded Samantha Stosur used a strong second set Monday to advance out of the first round of the Southern California Open tennis tournament.
After needing three breaks to escape with the first set, Stosur fought off all six break points she saw in the second of a 7-5, 6-1 win over Varvara Lepchenko.
Stosur took about two-thirds of the points when serving and more than half off Lepchenko's serve. She won 65 percent of the points overall in the second set.
No. 6-seed Jelena Jankovic was pushed to three sets by another young American in Mallory Burdette, eventually winning 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Jankovic had nine aces but also eight double faults and she won a higher percentage (54-52) of points off Burdette's serve than when serving.
The U.S. crowd did see a local favorite advance, however, when Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Monica Puig 2-6, 6-1, 6-2. Mattek-Sands dropped her serve just once after the first set.
Also Monday, Francesca Schiavone survived a 3-hour marathon against Flavia Pennetta 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (6-8), 6-4 in a match in which there were 19 breaks in 34 games. And Virginie Razzano ousted Svetlana Kuznetsova, who won this tournament in 2010, 6-2, 6-4


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The WiMAX Forum has called for speedy disposal of the UK's allocated TDD spectrum, so it can take advantage of the standard's ever-decreasing technical lead.
Digital Britain calls for 50MHz of spectrum at 2.57GHz to be effectively earmarked for WiMAX, but that plan releases the spectrum as part of the Digital Dividend mega-auction which is unlikely to happen this year. This delay will erode the already marginal lead WiMAX has over competing technologies.
By 2011 this technical lead - WiMAX's greatest asset - will be entirely gone. LTE (Long Term Evolution - the 4GT standard emerging from the mobile industry) will be deployed around the world by then, making it very hard for a WiMAX operator to compete as equipment costs rise and its competitors enjoy international and national roaming agreements.
WiMAX can't match LTE, but it is slightly faster than 3G. More importantly WiMAX until recently had the distinct advantage of being commercially deployed in the USA and Russia, among other places. But that advantage vanished when the first commercial LTE network was switched on in December, and many more will follow during 2010.
The mobile industry is driven by economies of scale, so LTE kit will be cheaper than its WiMAX equivalents and that disparity will increase as LTE gains ground.
The UK is planning to auction off the 50MHz band as a single chunk to prevent existing operators chipping away at it and ensure that a new player has enough room to work. The band will be technology-neutral, but the government expects to see Time Division Duplexing* (TDD) deployed, which right now means WiMAX, though in theory a TDD variant of LTE could be deployed there.
So the WiMAX Forum is desperate to get that 50MHz chunk onto the auction block ahead of the Digital Dividend mega-auction, to give a UK WiMAX operator a first-mover advantage.
Such an operator will, however, have to build a network while the incumbent operators strap LTE antennas to their existing base stations. This risks pushing a UK WiMAX network into providing second-path connectivity to business and building-to-building LAN extensions, while existing operators continue to dominate the wide area wireless, with LTE the technology of choice. ®
*Users take turns speaking (switching very rapidly), as opposed to Frequency Division Duplexing where both speak at the same time but require twice as many radios.


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The NetTuts.com Code blog has posted the second part of their series showing how to use the New Relic monitoring service in various kinds of web applications. In the previous article they looked at using it in a Ruby application, but in this new post it's all about PHP.
Today, we will look at how to monitor a PHP application using New Relic. More specifically, we will set up a basic WordPress installation and get some performance data about it, in the New Relic dashboards. [...] With the PHP version of the agent, the environment is a lot more important, as the agent is installed and lives on the box where the application will be deployed, rather than being part of any particular app.
They use an EC2 instance for their example, but the steps can be applied on other systems. They help you get the needed software installed, validate they're correctly configured and do a basic setup of WordPress. Next up is the steps to install the New Relic "newrelic-php5" software and get it fully installed. They also include the updates you'll need to make to your Apache configuration to configure the New Relic instance and how to keep the agent up to date.


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That's the tagline of 15th Inacraft, the biggest handicraft exhibition, which is held on April 24-28, 2013 at JCC. Inacraft is my guilty pleasure. I regularly visit it every year until I am so familiar with the products sold there but still there are always things to buy. Perhaps the uniqueness and the good quality of the stuff, and also sometimes I still can bargain and get a very reasonable price that make my heart so weak against the urge to purchase several products there *excuse*.
I visited Inacraft on the first day in order to have a bit relaxed atmosphere in exploring those interesting handicraft booths. I end up buying several nice products such as: boxes from Cayenne (hey...they give 30% discount on all products), cute mini magnets to be put on the fridge in the form of famous products e.g Oreo, Silver Queen, Sari Roti, etc (unfortunately I forgot the name of that super creative seller), alphabet ceramic necklaces for Najla and Zea from Keramiku, a red painted hijab from Zania (isn't it beautiful?) and an elegance blouse from Unique (can't wait to wear it). I guess Inacraft will always be one of the best exhibition I heart of and moreover every time I am there and see lots of enthusiastic expatriates attend and purchase the products really make me so proud to be Indonesian.


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Profootballtalk.com is "reporting" that the Green Bay Packers website has posted a story that Brett Favre is retiring. The Packers have disabled the story on their site and have denied that Favre has decided to retire.
We don't know what to think. It's not uncommon for organizations and news agencies to write stories before news events actually take place. (The New York Times is famous in journalism circles for the team of reporters who pre-author obituaries). Was this one of these? Perhaps.
It's also possible that Favre really is going to retire and that the Packers are denying the story because it would be sad to send a legend off by mistakenly posting a notice about it on your website. We'll update the story as is warranted.
UPDATE: If the link was a mistake, the Packers need to get out in front of it with an announcement immediately. We've noted before that Favre appears to be overly sensitive to perceived slights from the Packers. This won't help.
UPDATE II: Also, no word in the Biloxi Sun Herald, where veteran writer Al Jone has broken several of these kinds of stories before.
UPDATE III: PFT is now calling it a "website snafu."
UPDATE IV: The Sporting News has more, including a look at the page as it was posted. Jeff Blumb from the Packer PR office told WTMJ that "there's nothing to it."
UPDATE V: Let's let this, a denial from Favre's agent James "Bus" Cook, end this matter.


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O's planning to add Urrutia, Valencia to roster
BALTIMORE -- The Orioles are preparing to add Cuban outfielder Henry Urrutia and infielder Danny Valencia to their roster as they begin the second half with a three-game series vs. the Rangers in Texas, moves that will give manager Buck Showalter options at designated hitter and off the bench.
Both Urrutia and Valencia will likely be added to the 25-man roster before the team's series opening game Friday night, a baseball source confirmed to MLB.com on Thursday. There's also a chance the club waits until Saturday with Urrutia, who was expected to be at the Orioles' workout in Arlington on Thursday.
Urrutia, who hit a combined .365 with a .958 OPS between Double-A Bowie and Triple-A Norfolk, will need to be added to the 40-man roster, and one option would be to transfer pitcher Steve Johnson to the 60-day disabled list. As for who goes on the 25-man roster, the club could go a few different ways.
Outfielder Chris Dickerson is a potential option -- although he is out of options and would have to be put on waivers first -- and the club is currently carrying three players who play second base, which could make Alexi Casilla or Ryan Flaherty expendable. Urrutia's addition to the outfield could also signify a potential roster move involving left fielder Nolan Reimold, who missed most of last year after having neck surgery and is coming off a right hamstring injury.
Signed by the Orioles last July, Urrutia didn't officially arrive until late February due to issues getting a work visa out of Haiti, but the plan since his initial news conference has been for the 26-year-old to end the year with Baltimore.
Urrutia played just 67 games in the Minors and will most likely be used as a left-handed DH, with some of the organization's initial concerns over his defense and baserunning, although he could occasionally be an outfield option. Urrutia, who spent only 15 games at Triple-A, was billed as a line-drive, gap-to-gap hitter and he hit 20 doubles and seven homers for a .531 slugging percentage at both levels combined.
Urrutia, who did not play in 2011 due to a suspension from an unsuccessful defection attempt, played for Las Tunas in the Cuban League from 2006-10 and batted .350 with 72 doubles, nine triples, 33 home runs and 219 RBIs. He also played for Cuba in the 2010 World Championship and started in right field for the World Team at Sunday's Sirius XM All-Star Futures Game. He went 0-for-3 with a walk in the World's 4-2 loss to Team USA.
"I'd love to be there this year," said Urrutia earlier this week at the possibility of joining the Orioles. "It will depend on whether they think I'm prepared or not. But I'm going to keep working and working to be the player Orioles fans want to see."
Valencia, meanwhile, has hit .230/.277/.508 in 21 games with the Orioles this season and posted a .314/.350/.607 batting line in 48 games with Norfolk. This will be his second stint with Baltimore, having been optioned the first time July 3 to clear a roster spot for pitcher Scott Feldman.


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HARTFORD � DeAndre Daniels scored a career-high 31 points and Shabazz Napier added 27 to lead UConn to a 90-66 win Tuesday over Temple in the first meeting between the two schools in 49 years.
Daniels, a junior forward, also grabbed 12 rebounds for his fourth career double-double. Napier had seven rebounds and dished out six assists for the Huskies (15-4, 3-3 American Athletic Conference), who hit 53 percent of their shots, and were 12 of 23 from 3-point range.
Temple guard Will Cummings, who had missed the last two games with concussion-like symptoms, started and had 20 points to lead the Owls (5-12, 0-6).
Temple has now lost seven straight and is alone in last place in the conference.
The game was played in front of fewer than 5,000 fans at the 16,000-seat XL Center in Hartford, as a snow storm kept many people at home.
Boatright out
UConn point guard Ryan Boatright also missed the game while traveling for the funeral of his 20-year-old cousin Arin Williams, who was shot and killed a week ago in Boatright�s hometown of Aurora, Ill. Williams� mother died in childbirth, and he and Boatright were raised as brothers in Boatright�s home.
Boatright had been averaging just over 12 points and just under four assists per game. He had played in 63 straight games before Tuesday and made 48 consecutive starts.
But the absence of UConn�s point guard and the return of Temple�s had little impact on the outcome.
Cummings, who was averaging 16 points and four assists, hit his first shot, a 3-pointer from the corner, and was the lone bright spot for the Owls.
Anthony Lee, the leading rebounder in the conference, added 14 points for Temple but did not have any rebounds against UConn.
Napier, who had a career-high 30 on Saturday against Louisville, had 12 points in the first 6 minutes of this one. He led UConn on a 12-3 run and an early 18-11 advantage. The lead only grew from there.
Huskies start hot
The Huskies hit 10 of their first 15 shots from the floor, and Napier his six of his eight first half shots.
A 14-0 run opened the lead to 32-16. Napier sat with his second foul with just under 8 minutes left in the half and the Huskies holding that lead.
UConn was outscored by two points the rest of the half and went into the break up, 48-34.
Napier, Daniels and Niels Giffey each hit 3-pointers coming out of the break to bring the lead over 20 points and they were not threatened after that.
A dunk by Daniels with just under 4 minutes remaining eclipsed his previous career high of 26 points, and put the Huskies up 86-63. They cruised from there.
Freshman Terrence Samuel played 15 minutes in Boatright�s absence. It was just the 11th game this season he has seen action. He had two points.
UConn was coming off a 12-point loss at home to No. 12 Louisville, which snapped a three-game winning streak.
Temple, which came in with four players averaging 14 or more points per game, was held 10 points under its season average.
The Owls losing streak is the longest since the 2001-02 season.
The game was the first between the storied programs since 1965, a 71-60 UConn win.


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Superjumbo on the streets of tiny French village
From Ayesha Durgahee, CNN • Updated 5th December 2012
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It's an unusual setting for one of the world's most modern aircraft -- a provincial French village with 19th-century charm, every two weeks Levignac hosts a nocturnal procession of huge A380 parts on their way to the Airbus assembly line.
Raising his hands as high and wide as he can, local resident Jerry Ridge explains what it's like to see the convoy of six individual parts that, when put together, form the largest passenger aircraft in the world. "When you see it in pieces, coming through a little village on the back of trucks, it looks bigger than the complete item," he says. "It's taller than the buildings."
Watch video: Tracking the A380 night convoy
Five years
since its first commercial flight the double-decker plane is now a regular sight at most hub airports around the world. Accommodating such a big bird wasn't easy -- runways and taxiways were widened and strengthened, along with specially designed aircraft stands and extra baggage belts to cope with the suitcases of more than 500 passengers on a single flight.
See also: 'Superjumbo' A380 marks five years in the sky
Different parts of the plane are made all over Europe -- the rear fuselage in Hamburg, Germany, the wings in Broughton, near Liverpool, England, the forward and middle fuselages in Saint Nazaire, France and the horizontal tailplane in Cadiz, Spain.
Everything apart from the tail fin and the nose cone is far too big to fly to the final assembly line at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, southern France. So Airbus created a whole new method to move them. These key components are loaded onto specially designed ships that sail 2,000km in total across the continent to the delivery point at a harbor in Paulliac, 600km south of Paris.
The aeronautical cargo is then transported on modified barges along the Garonne River to Langon, where they are transferred onto trucks. It's a journey that takes four days including the night convoy to the finish line.
The component parts sit in sequence at a holding area in L'Isle Jourdain 11km away, where a team briefing is held for the 53-man crew, 31 vehicles and 18 security-staff motorcade before the final leg of this mammoth journey squeezing through the little village of Levignac.
I could tell you that the A380 is 18 meters wider and 5 meters longer than a Boeing 747, that it has a wingspan of 79.8 meters and its tailfin alone is 24 meters high. But no matter what the numbers say or how often you see an A380 on the ground or in the air, the most impressive way to get some perspective on the size and scale of the Superjumbo is to see it out of context -- unpainted, just its green protective coating, in individual parts, moving down the main street of a small French village, towering over roof tops and tree tops alike.
It's a fortnightly ritual for the locals and a midnight treat for tourists -- and with the manufacturing serial number in full view it takes planespotting to a whole new level. The convoy I joined -- MSN 121 -- will become a British Airways A380. This was a paradise for aviation geeks, to be face to face with the Superjumbo.
First to appear were each of the wings. Laying on their sides, they looked like prehistoric creatures emerging from the darkness, stepping into the flood of light from the lamposts that lined the street. Next up, the horizontal tailplane, then the three sections of the fuselage. Slow and steady, in single file the parts crawl by.
CNN's Ayesha Durgahee follows the night convoy of the A380 as it travels across southern France.
It's over far too quickly. For first-timers like me, it was hard to stop watching one part of the plane and focus my attention on another. It was a natural reaction to want to walk along with the convoy, escorting the parts. Seeing the plane in its basic primary form, it felt like everyone gathered along Rue de la Republique was a part of the production process.
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At 2am, six pieces, all in a row, are safely delivered outside the Airbus hangar to wait their turn to be put together, just like a kit of parts.
CNN's Ayesha Durgahee looks at how French village Levignac becomes a gateway for the A380 assembly line at night.
The first stage is the structural assembly where the sections are fitted, including the landing gear. Each part requires precision and patience; it takes 13,000 rivets to join the three sections of the fuselage together and 4,000 rivets just to attach the wings to the body.
Ayesha Durgahee visits Airbus HQ in Toulouse, where aircrafts are assembled before being shipped off to their buyers.
Watch video: Inside the A380 assembly line
The easiest way to identify who the planes belong to is by looking at the tail fins -- the only part at this stage that's painted in the airline livery. Then there is the next stage of the production process where the onboard equipment is installed and the engines fitted. The planes then make it outside in one piece for pressure and fuel testing.
Each airline has its own "build manager" to inspect and support every stage of the assembly. "We're looking at the looming, all the ducting before the bulk heads go in," said James Lewis, who started as a maintenance engineer with British Airways 25 years ago. "It's very detailed in some places but it's also a general walk around using the eye, a torch if you need to."
He added: "To see an aircraft start in its composite building blocks and slowly turn into an aircraft, it's a fascinating experience and a learning experience."
After the fuel testing is complete, the plane was due to fly to Hamburg to be painted and fitted with the cabin interiors. This whole process takes eight months from final assembly until the keys are handed over and delivered. Once one plane is ticked off the list, they start the process all over again.
Walking through the hangar of the final assembly line and catching a glimpse of one of the 1,500 engineers that work there, it's almost as if the Airbus headquarters was in Lilliput, taking care of the plane that Gulliver could have traveled in.
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Some of you know I am planning my son's Lego Star Wars Birthday Party for the end of February. It is hard to find things without Googling endlessly for ideas so I figured I would share some of the ideas I have found here. Some ideas I will/am using and others are just too cute not to mention. Of course I will post my own photos from the party in another post whenever we get there. Even though the end of February seems so far away it is coming up really quick!
These adorable Lego Star Wars Birthday Party Invites can be found at Party Posh Printables.com. They are personalized with your own information and have the cutest characters! There are even Photo Props, yes the up coming trend of photo booths is huge and these adorable Lego Star Wars themed photo props are a can't miss addition to this party set. Complete with Birthday Cupcake Toppers and Water bottle labels. There is even a matching Birthday banner. Check it out Party Posh Printables on Etsy or on Facebook here.
Check out how Sarah Gunn from @SarahGunnStyle on Instagram used the same printables (Photo Props she used modge podge and a canvas) to create this fun party setup! Don't forget to pin things to Pinterest to reference them later!
Next I needed ideas for party favors. So let's start with Party Favors. I found these inexpensive Inflatable Light Sabers which range in price from around $2.50 a piece up to $4.00 and over. I included a link to parties4kids where they were on sale for $2.59. I can't take all the credit for this find. I was googling and came across this mom's blog My Little Jedi and found a post about her son, Aniken,(yes she named her son Aniken so you know this has to be a good Birthday Party Post) for her son's 1st Birthday Party. She had a picture with the light sabers and also the cutest Jedi Training Certificates. Definitely check out her blog post for more great Star Wars Birthday Party Ideas! She even had the cutest Setup for a Candy Buffet Table.
Now if you aren't super adventurous with fondant I don't suggest trying to make these next Lego Star Wars themed cupcake toppers. However if you are check this out, Marshmallow Fondant Recipe, which tastes exactly like Marshmallows!! It is super yummy. I made these adorable toppers and am including them in this post since they go with the theme. My son loved them and they were a big hit at the party. If this is too much work for you Party Posh Printables has some cut out and place on a stick kinda Lego Star Wars toppers here… easy peasy.
Aren't these easy ones super cute too! They also match the Invites so that's a huge plus, no matter what your party planning skill there is always something our there for you 🙂


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Hello all! The post I've written today, which you may think is not specifically linked to design in sense of a piece of furniture or design scheme, but what it does have in common with the art and design world is an idea and concept are the just or even more substantial than the product itself. Enjoy!
Within certain areas of our society; work, fashion and family life, women are expected to act, look and meet certain "standards" to fit the ideological female brief. This constant self examination can breed huge competition between women and create division.
Understanding the pressures modern women face, Rastarella Falade from Nottingham (shown below, third on right) has made it her mission to break these boundaries and unite women all over the city by holding various events from open-mic nights to belly dancing, encouraging women to get together and make friends.
Rastarella teamed up with friend Iona Tamberrino to hold a fashion exchange tea party at the Vine Community Centre in Nottingham at the weekend. The initial idea started off as a small get together but as the word spread vigorously across Facebook, the exchange ended up being a pretty large event housing racks and tables full of clothes, shoes, hats and everything in between.
Even the BBC wanted a piece of the action!
Women from across the city came to swap their unwanted and to enjoy a good giggle and natter. I had to force myself to slowly walk away from the racks of clothes as temptation was getting the better of me.
Iona (top left in a flowered dress) was amazed with how fast the word spread and the turn out, " I needed to have a clear out before I moved house and thought I'd invite a few friends round to get together and swap what we didn't want or use."
"The word spread on Facebook and what was supposed to be a small gathering turned into this big event. I've actually left with the same amount that I had brought, mostly maternity clothes which I need."
Rastarella believes pop-up events like this are extremely important in creating unity within a community, "Events like this bring women together and create a sense of sisterhood. Unity is easy when you look within and not at people's skin."
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Regis was killed in 2375 as the result of retaliatory attacks on the Equinox crew by a series of nucleogenic lifeforms, whom the crew had been murdering for the purpose of converting the remains into a source of fuel. After the surviving Equinox crewmembers were rescued by the crew of the USS Voyager, Regis' name was mentioned during a memorial service aboard that ship. (VOY: "Equinox")
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Bus driver seen on video shoving 12-year-old boy off school bus
Teddy Jones charged with felonious assault, child endangerment
Teddy Jones charged with felonious assault, child endangerment
Teddy Jones charged with felonious assault, child endangerment
A West Clermont Local Schools bus driver has been fired and charged with felonious assault and child endangerment after he allegedly shoved a student off the bus at Glen Este Middle School.
Union Township police have released video showing the incident.
Teddy Jones, formerly a bus driver for Petermann Transportation, was arrested by the Union Township Police Department Monday.
Jones is seen shoving the 12-year-old boy from the top landing of the school bus.
Police said the boy landed outside on the concrete on his face.
Heather Bourbeau said her 11-year-old son was standing behind the victim on the bus before classes at Glen Este Middle School started.
Her son told WLWT the victim tossed a water bottle out of the bus, so Jones reacted, by throwing the boy out of the bus.
"I mean, does he have a heart? I mean, who could do this to a child? I mean, whether he was doing something wrong or not," Bourbeau said. "I wanted to cry when I saw it, because what if that was my son? I would be so upset."
Bourbeau said her son and other students flagged down an adult and reported the assault.
Several Glen Este parents reacted to the video with concern.
"He shouldn't be around kids if he can't control his own anger or be able to deal with a little bit of frustration from kids," Glen Este parent Jamie Liming said. "He shouldn't be working with kids."
Jones is locked up in the Clermont County jail on a $150,000 cash bond.
He has been ordered to stay away from kids.


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