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Why do some heavy drinkers get liver cirrhosis and some don't?
Newcastle University researchers are to determine the role of genetics in alcoholic liver disease which should lead to better diagnosis and treatment of the condition.
"We still don't understand why only a proportion of moderate to heavy drinkers get liver cirrhosis," said Professor Chris Day, liver expert at Newcastle University and within Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
"Nothing so far has been able to explain the unpredictability of why some people get cirrhosis and others who drink equal amounts don't," he said.
In 2008, there were 6000 deaths from alcoholic liver disease in the UK and in 2007 188,000 hospital admissions. While the disease has been predominantly seen among men over 50 years of age, it is becoming more frequent worldwide among younger adults and young women.
It is the leading cause of alcohol-related death and contributes to 50% of the total burden of liver disease and to 15% of liver transplants.
The Newcastle research team will soon be collecting samples from 300 North East patients being treated at the Newcastle Hospitals Trust and Plummer Court Drug and Alcohol Addiction Unit and analysing their findings alongside international colleagues in Australia, USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland and France. Half the recruits will have cirrhosis and the other half, the control group, will have been heavy drinkers for 10 years but be free of liver disease. The £1.7 million international study has received funding from the US government.
"Apart from alcohol consumption, several contributory factors, including diet, lifestyle, mental health, viral infection and gender, influence the risk of developing cirrhosis. There is also evidence that genes influence the development and progression of this disease," Professor Day said.
"We hope that by analysing the genes in a large international group comprising thousands of drinkers we can detect the genetic risks that predispose some drinkers to get alcoholic liver cirrhosis."
Like other multi-factorial diseases, alcoholic liver cirrhosis is controlled by a number of genes, each of which makes a small overall contribution. Previous genetic searches have been inconclusive because the studies performed to date have generally been too small to yield definitive results.
"The lack of specific markers for diagnosis and effective treatment compound the burden of the disease. That is why this research is so important," says Professor Day. "The results will help us identify and treat the people most at risk from drinking."
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Disney casting directors are searching for two young actors to play lead roles in the Walt Disney Pictures/Lucasfilm "Star Wars: Episode VII". Six casting director meet-and-greet sessions have been scheduled across the United States and United Kingdom to scout talent for two lead roles, one young female and on young male. In addition to the in-person casting director meet-and-greet sessions, audition video submissions are being accepted at the only official casting webpage that has been set up by Disney Casting director Maryellen Aviano.
Brand new Disney XD comedy series 'Neckpee Island' casting calls underway for child and adult roles
Disney XD has given the green light to begin production on a brand new half-hour comedy series pilot titled "Neckpee Island". The casting directors have now sent out casting calls for series regulars and guest starring roles, for both child roles between 12-14 years old, and for adults of various ages. The extras will be cast throughout production, which will begin in mid-October, 2013. There will be a fairly large amount of kids cast as extras to play middle school students. Shooting will take place in Los Angeles.
Warner Bros. Pictures feature film 'Man of Steel 2' auditions and casting calls
Syncopy and Atlas Entertainment in association with DC Entertainment and Batfilm Productions are now in pre-production on the Warner Bros. Pictures action adventure sci-fi feature film "Man of Steel 2". This is the current working title of the film. Two tentative titles for the new film were suggested by the writer – "Batman vs. Superman" or "Superman vs. Batman". Studio-level casting is underway for the lead roles in the film. Additional casting will take place at a later date with an independent contracted casting director. The stand-ins for the lead actors, as well as general extras and featured background actors will be cast throughout production in the locations where filming will take place.
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WASHINGTON -- Andy Rooney's typewriter, bookshelves and handmade walnut desk where he delivered commentaries for "60 Minutes" on CBS are being donated to the Newseum in Washington.
The museum about journalism and the First Amendment announced Thursday that Rooney's family had donated the items from his 7th floor Manhattan office.
He had moved into the space in 1985 and delivered his closing thoughts there for Sunday night television for decades.
Rooney died last year at the age of 92. He had spent 60 years at CBS, including more than 30 years talking about the oddities of life for the popular TV newsmagazine.
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When an Anne Arundel County councilman vowed recently to subpoena the county's new police chief to discuss an investigation within the department, Larry W. Tolliver said the legal demand wasn't necessary. Just call me, the chief said.
That low-key approach represents a marked shift from Tolliver's beleaguered predecessor, who appeared before the council after he was subpoenaed and its chairman said its members would consider seeking his arrest if he didn't respond; he came with his attorney and revealed little, citing a continuing grand jury investigation.
Those who know Tolliver say the 67-year-old's disarming approach may be just what the department needs to rebuild morale and public trust. But others wonder whether the new chief can surmount the tumult in the agency after being hired by County Executive John R. Leopold, who is awaiting a criminal trial over alleged misuse of his police detail.
The previous chief, James Teare Sr., retired, which ended a related investigation by the state prosecutor's office. And a recent internal investigation, under Tolliver, into whether a police captain lied in a civil suit against Leopold reached no conclusion.
That captain, Eric Hodge, is now a target of a probe by the state prosecutor as well, and had his police powers suspended last week. Tolliver said that investigation is unrelated to the internal inquiry.
"He is taking over at the most difficult time in the Police Department's history," said Councilman Jamie Benoit, the Crownsville Democrat who threatened to subpoena Tolliver over the recent internal probe. Benoit said he is still considering whether to call Tolliver before the council, though Tolliver has said he can't reveal personnel or investigation details.
State Sen. James E. DeGrange, an Anne Arundel Democrat who has known Tolliver for two decades, called his new job "a near-impossible task."
The new chief is known for his people skills. Supporters say Tolliver, who has held several politically appointed jobs, is loyal — he took time off in 1977 from his work as a bodyguard to then-Gov. Marvin Mandel to help him move from the governor's mansion after Mandel was convicted of federal crimes. They say he relies on trust — he has moved into key roles a few officers he knew well from his stint as county police chief in the late 1990s. And he aims to get along with others to see a task done.
Tolliver says his role is to raise the low morale of officers and refocus on the department's law enforcement duties.
At a recent roll call, he told officers, a bit of the drawl of his native Kentucky evident in his speech: "We used to have fun. Let's have fun again."
Still, some wonder whether Tolliver can steer clear of controversy because he reports to the same boss and hears from the same advisers that Teare did.
While Leopold's criminal and civil cases continue, questions about the agency can fester, said Dan Nataf, who heads the Center for the Study of Local Issues at Anne Arundel Community College.
"He is appointed by the person who is accused. It creates an intrinsic conflict of interest," Nataf said.
Tolliver says none of the officials he worked for ever asked him to do anything illegal — and he wouldn't have anyway. And he said he wants to stay away from Leopold's legal problems, securing a promise that the county executive wouldn't be a "quasi-chief" and meddle in departmental affairs.
He said of his decision to emerge from a comfortable retirement at his home along the Wye River, "I really love police work. To say that ego didn't place it into it, I'd be lying. To think they called an old warhorse back."
A John Wayne fan, Tolliver is known for relying on common sense and fostering bonds with officers. He calls even some of the graying ones "son," seeks their opinions and accompanies them on the job.
While some officers said they'd never met Teare, Tolliver worked a late-night drunken-driving checkpoint with them, rides along with an officer at least every other week, and told the rest of the brass to do the same so they don't lose perspective. That sits well with officers.
"He's going to take the 'dys' out of dysfunctional," predicted Jerome Klasmeier, who has known Tolliver for decades. "He leads from the front. He doesn't ask his officers to do anything he wouldn't do himself."
Klasmeier, the county's former central services chief, recalls that Tolliver, in his first stint as police chief, took a methodical approach to officers' complaints that their guns were jamming. Both he and Tolliver fired along with officers at a range to assess the problem firsthand, and the department bought new weapons from a different manufacturer. Officers still talk about that.
"He listens to what people are saying, and he is not afraid to make command decisions," said O'Brien Atkinson, president of the county's largest police union.
Said Tolliver, "You have to be involved with people and work with everyone. You have to know what's going on in the trenches."
Tolliver sat down with police unions before meeting with the brass after taking office Aug. 1. "I told them, 'I can't offer you money, but I sure could use some advice here,' " he said.
He got an earful.
That Tolliver has made decisions quickly has boosted morale — though he hasn't necessarily agreed with the union, Atkinson said.
In his first weeks on the job, Tolliver gave out more than a dozen more take-home cars and got Leopold to promise that replacing the dilapidated police academy facilities would be a priority. He also began talking to county officials about scrapping a much-despised rule that requires first-responders to submit to alcohol and drug testing if they are involved in even a minor accident in a county vehicle. And he gave commanders of the four police districts more autonomy while streamlining the bureaucracy at headquarters.
"I got my tail chewed off the other day. But it's like your father telling you something," said Tim Altomare, commander of the Northern District. Altomare had his hands in his pockets on one occasion and then his radio shoved into a pocket instead of clipped to his belt.
Among the lingering issues are those in the criminal and civil cases involving Leopold. Prosecutors charge that the county executive used his police protection detail for personal and political gain; Leopold denies any wrongdoing. A civil suit claims that Leopold used the Police Department to get rid of a female employee who complained about his behavior. He rejects that allegation, too.
Tolliver said he's learned a lot from his experiences over the years — including that he didn't like mortuary science, which he'd studied briefly for a possible second job during his early years as a trooper with the Maryland State Police.
"Your mistakes, you learn a lot from them," he said.
He rose — some say largely due to loyalty — to become chief of the executive protection unit under former Gov. William Donald Schaefer, and then superintendent of the Maryland State Police from 1992 to 1995.
But there were controversies during his years as superintendent.
From the botched state police raid on The Block in Baltimore, he learned about the need for hands-on management and tight controls, he said. A review that he ordered revealed that officers spent $98,000 on liquor and "amusements." Some cases had to be dropped, and some officers lost their jobs.
He left the state police amid a highly publicized sexual harassment scandal and lawsuits in which female troopers said complaints went unaddressed. Before he was out — Gov. Parris N. Glendening brought in a new superintendent — Tolliver said all sexual harassment complaints would come to him, and he set up a panel to address the problem.
Later, as Anne Arundel's police chief, he was criticized for letting then-County Executive John G. Gary use police officers in his 1998 re-election campaign materials. Gary lost, and his successor — who had teachers in her campaign material — ousted Tolliver. The county ethics commission faulted Gary, but not Tolliver.
Soon after, he began working for Schaefer in the state comptroller's office, running field enforcement. And when Schaefer retired, so did he.
Derek Fink, Arundel's council chairman and a Pasadena Republican, described Tolliver as "the right man for these times."
"He likes being a policeman. That's his life," said Mike Golden, who knows Tolliver from their time working for Schaefer in the comptroller's office.
If things become intolerable, Tolliver could return to retirement with his wife of 43 years — Sheila Tolliver has been his sweetheart since they attended Annapolis High School — and their fuzzy bichon frise, Luke.
Ultimately, though, Tolliver said he wants to see the department thrive, its "kids" at the top of their game and loving it.
"These young people are going to run the department," he said.
Larry W. Tolliver
Position: Anne Arundel County police chief
Age: 67
Born: Harlan County, Ky.
High school: Annapolis High School, Class of 1964
Current residence: Queen Anne's County
Marital status: Married 43 years to Sheila Tolliver. Two grown children.
Previous work: Maryland State Police, 1967-1995, including commander, executive protection unit for Gov. William Donald Schaefer, and last three years as superintendent; police chief, Anne Arundel County, 1997-1998; director of enforcement, comptroller of Maryland, 1999-2007.


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8 cups cubed seeded watermelon, divided
1 cup water, divided
1/3 cup granulated sugar, divided
1/4 cup fresh squeezed lime juice
1 liter seltzer water, pre-chilled
Puree half of the cubed watermelon, half the water and half the sugar in a blender. Pour through a coarse strainer into a large container. Repeat with the remaining watermelon, water and sugar. Stir in lime juice. Refrigerate until very cold - at least 4 hours.
Before serving, stir in seltzer and garnish with fresh lime slices if desired.
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Travel prices are flying up as the global economy improves and more people are spending to quench their wanderlust. But you can still find good deals to get away — if you know where to go online first. Here are the best travel sites we've found to help you bag the best bargains on airfares, lodging, car rentals and all your other travel needs. And best of all, almost all of the travel websites are free to use. Bon voyage!
Kayak.com scours hundreds of online sources for the cheapest fare available. The more flexible you are on time and destination, the better your chances of finding a great deal. Search for dates up to three days before and after your ideal travel dates or on any weekends in the next year. And with the site's Explore tool, you can scan a world map for all the places you can reach within a specified per-ticket price range. It also lets you specify your preferred flight time, vacation activities (beach, gamble, golf or ski?) and weather (based on temperatures).
Kayak can also help you bite the bullet and buy your ticket, or not, with its "price predictor," which forecasts whether fares will go up or down. Enter your desired itinerary and the site will return a list of flight options, along with a recommendation to either buy now or wait for a fare drop. But the tool is not omniscient. Predictions appear with confidence rates and are limited to certain cities, round-trip, coach flights and specific time frames depending on your departure and arrival cities.
AirfareWatchdog works best for travelers ready to take off at the drop of a deal. The site has actual people lurking on airline Web sites in anticipation of fare sales. They sign up for rewards programs to snag promotional codes and discount offers that can be passed on to AirfareWatchdog users. Plus, the site includes fares from Southwest, Allegiant and other small airlines that may not appear on bigger search sites such as Kayak. (Also check out HotelWatchdog, which fetches hotel listings that offer great values, meaning they have prices lower than similar nearby hotels, good locations and favorable TripAdvisor reviews.)
The Flight Deal works similarly to Airfarewatchdog. Follow for a curated roundup of cheap fares out of major U.S. cities. You can find commentary about the deals (including tip-offs if the fares drop or disappear) and step-by-step instructions on how to find dates with the lowest prices.
Google Flights is great for comparing multiple airfares. It spotlights itineraries with the best combination of price, duration, stops and more, while map, calendar and bar-graph tools help you explore cheaper destinations and dates.
WhichBudget.com will help you build an inexpensive, overseas flight plan by using local, budget airlines — a great way to save on international travel. Select your overseas starting point, end point or both, and the site will list airlines you've probably never heard of that service each route. For example, if you search for flights from Bangkok to Beijing, you'll get options from China Eastern and Hainan Airlines.
Several major airlines, such as American, AirTran and JetBlue, will refund you the difference, usually in the form of travel credits or vouchers, if the fare falls below what you paid for your ticket. Enter your flight information at Yapta.com, and the site tracks the fares for you. If the price dips below the threshold your specify, Yapta will shoot you an e-mail or Tweet and walk you through how to collect your refund.
Hotels.com lets you search just one site for accommodations at hundreds of thousands of properties. You can find particularly good last-minute deals, which are updated daily. But even advance-travel planners can score big bargains with the site's seasonal sales, destination-specific deals and other special offers. Frequent travelers will appreciate the simplicity of the site's rewards program — for every ten nights you spend at any combination of the program's 100,000 member properties, you'll earn a free night's stay worth up to the average daily rate of your ten nights.
Similarly, HotelTonight is an app that also lets users book hotels at low last-minute rates, while SnapTravel allows reduced-rate, last-minute bookings via text message and Facebook Messenger.
Priceline offers standard online travel agent services. But its Negotiator is uniquely suited to help you haggle for the best bargains on hotels. Select a minimum star class, your dates of stay and preferred neighborhood, and then name your price. You can save up to 60% off published rates, and bids less than $100 a night on luxury lodgings often win — particularly for last-minute bookings.
But here's the catch: Priceline doesn't tell you which hotel you're booking until after you pay, so you won't be sure exactly where you'll end up. Blind booking like this can be particularly risky when you're visiting an unfamiliar area, especially overseas. Note: The site also allows you to Name Your Own Price for flights and car rentals.
If you find yourself faced with a pricey fee after cancelling a hotel room, you may be able to recoup some of your losses by posting your reservation for sale on a site such as Roomer or Cancelon. You'll set your own price, at least 20% below what you originally paid, and the sites will take a 10% to 15% cut of your sale price. Roomer will take care of transferring the reservations from your name to the buyer's, but Cancelon requires you to make the switch.
TripAdvisor is the most popular hotel-review site, offering millions of professional and amateur reviews of hotels in the U.S. and overseas. Search for your destination, and the site will return a detailed list of hotels, bed and breakfasts, vacation rentals and other lodging options. You can filter the results to find which hotels are best for value, families, business, romance or luxury.
Watch out for possibly fake reviews from cronies trying to push up their own hotel's ratings or flame their competitors (the site flags some suspicious postings). Ignore reviews on either extreme and focus on those with midrange ratings — they're more likely to be the most helpful. TripAdvisor doesn't sell rooms or offer any actual deals, but it links you to partner sites, such as Expedia, Travelocity and Hotels.com. Click on the "check rates" button and select the site or sites you'd like to try — a new window with results will open for each partner.
To focus on smaller inns or B&Bs, try searching BedandBreakfast.com. It lists extensive details on even the tiniest inns and, after you provide your e-mail address, sends you promotional codes and "hot deals" in your desired location. You can also search for specific amenities, such as a hot tub and fireplace, or find out whether a place is pet-friendly.
Vacation rentals are an especially good value for groups because they generally offer more space and amenities for prices similar to or less than hotel rates. HomeAway offers more than two million rental lodgings in 190 countries, with more than a million worldwide listings across its family of sites (including VRBO and VacationRentals.com). There's also Airbnb with more than three million vacation rental listings in 191 countries.
If you're traveling alone, or with a buddy or two, you can score a great deal staying at a hostel — without necessarily having to join the backpacker and bunk-bed lifestyle you might associate with this budget-lodging option. Many hostels offer more private, hotel-like accommodations these days. Hostelz.com offers nearly 50,000 listings in about 9,000 cities, and includes reviews from professional and real travelers.
For a really great deal, try trading places with other travelers. HomeExchange.com provides the largest network of home swappers, with more than 55,000 listings — about 26% in the U.S. and most of the rest spread throughout the major tourist areas of Australia, Britain, Canada, France and Italy. An annual membership costs $119 and gets you as many swaps as you can manage in a year.
JetSetter is our favorite private-sale site for luxury-hotel deals. In general, these kinds of sites offer invited members exclusive access to deep discounts for a limited time, and they work best if you're flexible about where you want to travel. JetSetter can have 15 to 30 of these "flash sales" available at once – more than similar sites, which usually offer just a handful at a time — and can save you up to 50% off published rates. The sales typically last seven to ten days, or until they sell out.
More adventurous types can arrange to sleep on a local's couch (or guest bed) for free through Couchsurfing.com. Just create an online profile, and look for available crash pads in your destination.
At CruiseCompete.com, more than 300 travel agencies vie to give you the lowest prices for dates, ports and ships you specify, whether you're booking well in advance or at the eleventh hour. You set up a CruiseCompete account, and they send you their best offers without ever seeing your personal information. Plus, the site has live agents available to guide you through the process through a live chat or by phone.
Hotwire often offers the best published deals on cars by collecting rates from its eight rental car company partners, including Alamo, Enterprise and Hertz.
The site also offers "hot rates" from rental companies that won't be identified until after you've paid. With rental cars, the risk in taking the blind-booking approach is minimal: A minivan is a minivan, no matter which company provides it. (You can also head back to Priceline.com to try bidding for a better bargain on your rental car.)
Hotwire does offer some good prepaid rental car deals in certain international cities, but such bargains are AutoEurope's specialty. Auto Europe offers rentals at more than 20,000 locations worldwide. And if you have any problems with the rental-car provider you're hooked up with, Auto Europe will help you resolve them.
What Yapta does for airlines, Autoslash does for rental cars. It will apply the best coupons and discount codes to your rental, and it will re-book your reservation if the system finds a better deal.
Check XE.com for reliable, mid-market exchange rates. Along with an easy-to-read grid of conversion rates on the homepage and a host of other tools, this site offers calculators for travel expenses, credit-card charges and, obviously, currency conversions.
Trains are often the fastest and cheapest way to travel within and between European countries. Our favorite American Web site for checking timetables and booking tickets on European train lines is RailEurope. But you might be able to catch better deals directly from European railways' sites, if you don't get lost in translation.
FlightStats.com can help you plan a smooth trip by advising you on the best time of day to fly from a specific airport and which terminals to avoid for connecting flights. You can also view live updates of flight delays, and sign up for free e-mail and phone alerts.
If you're delayed by weather or some unforeseen event, it pays to act quickly. The TripIt Pro smartphone app ($49/year) will send you alerts about cancellations, delays or gate changes on the fly, sometimes even ahead of an airline announcement. Use it to locate alternate flights, find out when better seats are available, get fare refund notifications, track your rewards program points, and more.
At WebFlyer.com, you can see how your miles convert between programs, learn about changes to your frequent-flier program and discover how to maximize the value of your mileage awards when you redeem them for merchandise or services.
To get a professional passport photo you'll pay about $15, which can add up for a family. Instead, take your photo with your own digital camera, then upload it to ePassportPhoto.com, which will help you size it properly before printing on your home printer. The best part: You can redo your picture as many times as you like.
You never know when an emergency situation will spoil your travel plans. Buying travel insurance from agencies and travel providers, such as cruise lines, is usually a crummy deal because of price markups and restrictions on filing claims. At InsureMyTrip.com, you can compare plans and prices from multiple insurance providers with just one search and narrow your search results by specifying the kind of coverage you need.


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Dr. Jan van Aardt, Associate Professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, is one of the two recipients of the RIT 2014-15 Trustees Scholarship Award.
The Trustees Scholarship Awards were established to recognize RIT faculty who have demonstrated outstanding track record of academic scholarship that is integral to all aspects of a student's educational experience at RIT. The selection process involves extensive review by a COS Trustees Scholarship Awards Committee, the COS Administrative Council, and the Deans Council. The final selection is made by the Education Committee of the RIT Board of Trustees. For more information on the award and current and past winners, click here.
Dr. van Aardt is in good company - past Trustees Scholarship recipients from CIS include Dr. Joel Kastner (2012), Dr. Joseph Hornak (2010), Dr. John Schott (2009), and extended faculty Dr. Eli Saber, Dr. Bruce Smith (also CIS alumni), and Dr. Ryne P. Raffaelle.


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As history continues repeating itself, the Goodguys Pomona Nitro Nationals was no exception. In fact, the Goodguys VRA may be the prime example. With 15 nostalgia-bodied fuel Funny Cars and 17 front-engine Top Fuel dragsters entered in competition, one could have mistaken the 2006 Goodguys Nitro Nationals for the 1966 NHRA Winternationals. Ideally you couldn't ask for better drag racing battleground than the historic Pomona Raceway. This strip has seen drag racing grow from its infancy in the late 1950s and mature into today's 300-mph speed spectacle.
As the Goodguys goes through some changes of their own, the 3-year-old Funny Car category has become the fastest growing--in numbers of competitors--of the pro-racing classes. The popularity of this recently added category has quickly become the headline act of the Goodguys drag racing series. Does this mean Top Fuel is dead? On the contrary, take Adam Sorokin and Sean Bellemure for example--two second-generation Top Fuel drivers who took it upon themselves to use their qualifying laps as a best-of-three match race. No news on how much money exchanged hands between the two, but Sorokin may owe Bellemure dinner, as Sean's quicker 5.96 e.t. was the better of the third and final qualifying run since Sorokin made nice with the left-lane guard wall at about the 1,000ft mark, slowing his dragster to a 6.26 e.t.
In keeping with the spirit of the original Funny Car classes of the '60s and '70s, the Goodguys rules state "bodies are limited to 1967 to 1979 American made bodies" and "bodies must resemble the original mass-produced make and model."
For those who are old enough to remember Funny Cars the first time around, these fuel-burners brought back fond memories of drag racing's glorious past. And for those who were seeing it for the first time, well, let's just say it was an awesome display of pure "old-school" drag racing at its finest. What more could the nostalgia drag racing junkie ask for than to see a 1971 Dodge Challenger Funny Car launch into a wheelstand from the 60ft mark only to touch ground a few hundred feet later? Probably not much. This was just the case when wheelman Mike Adams stomped on the loud pedal of Jeff Gaynor's Funny Car, sending the front end skyward during the first round of eliminations on Sunday.
This wasn't the only excitement in the Funny Car category, as the weekend christened two new members of the 5-second Funny Ccar club. Dennis La Charite happily joined in with a 5.97 e.t. in his 1968 Corvette Funny Car, and rookie driver Chris Krabill went 5.97 in Gary Turner's 1977 Plymouth Arrow-bodied Funny Car, tuned by veteran wrench Donnie Couch.
At this pace it's likely we'll see a few new members join the 5-second club before season's end. And with speeds up around 250 mph, the Funny Car category may be the most exciting class in all of nostalgia drag racing.
Although the Pomona event is primarily geared toward drag racing, the car show area was plenty full of roadsters, customs, street rods, and street machines, leaving little doubt the West Coast is still a hotbed for hot rodders. With magazine feature cars present in any given aisle, the quality of rides was top notch.
As the Goodguys VRA does what it takes to keep the spirit of nostalgia drag racing alive, only time will tell if history will again repeat itself. In the meantime, we'll just sit back and enjoy the ride. And if that particular ride happens to be a 1971 Dodge Challenger Funny Car powered by a 500ci Hemi hopped up on 98-percent nitro, then let history keep right on repeating itself ... over and over again.


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Simple code to ask you your wages, get the tax rate, and give you the value of the tax owed first the dollars, as an int type, and then display the cents owed as a double or long.
What I can not work out how to do is set the significant number to two digits after the ".".
I have looked at the AIP and found "round.(a,2)" but I do not seem to get this to work.
The error I get is "can not find symbol".
symbol : method round(java.lang.Double,int);
location: class TaxBill
long ttaxDue = round(calcTaxDue, 2);
The code is as follows.
import java.util.Scanner; import static java.lang.Math.*; import java.lang.Math.*; import java.lang.Double; import java.lang.Enum.*; public class TaxBill { //public static void final RoundingMode HALF_UP; //This has errors but not what I want to concentrate on. public static void main(String[] args) { //Initalize the variable "ssalary" and get the input from the user. float ssalary = 00.00f; System.out.print("What is your current salary (in USD)?: $"); Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); ssalary = keyboard.nextFloat(); double ttaxRate = 0.00; System.out.print("What is your current tax rate?: %"); ttaxRate = keyboard.nextDouble(); Double calcTaxDue = (ssalary / 100) * ttaxRate; long ttaxDue = round(calcTaxDue, 2); //ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND int ttaxDollars = (int) Math.floor(calcTaxDue); int ttaxCents = (int) ttaxDue - ttaxDollars; // so I need the ttaxDue value rounded so this calculation gives me the cents left, and I want to know how to round stuff. System.out.println("You made $" + ssalary); System.out.println("You paid in tax: $" + ttaxDollars); System.out.println("You paid in tax: c" + ttaxCents);
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Nepotism: The principle of anti-nepotism shall not be used as a criterion against appointment or employment at the University of Colorado.
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"How to teach the so-called soft skills demanded of tomorrow's workforce - creativity, problem solving and the ability to work in teams - is a conundrum preoccupying educators. Once upon a time, schools prepared the workers of the future for the industrial age, according to leading British education expert Professor Stephen Heppell. Children sat in rows with the teacher at the front of the classroom. The teachers had all the answers; they were the sole purveyors of knowledge. Students absorbed what they were taught and regurgitated it in tests. After graduation, they worked in factories that mass-produced hubcaps or they joined the typing pool. Ingenuity was not particularly important. But while such schools may have worked in the 1950s, Heppell says the third millennium poses new challenges. The internet means children have access to more information than ever before. Teachers are no longer the font of all wisdom."
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Just read this interesting article on a primary school in Australia which Microsoft have declared a 'mentor school' because of their use of technology. On one level, it sounds fantastic. All those kids engaged in their learning. Brilliant.
As soon as someone points to the iPad / [insert name of other hot shiny technology] to enable learners to become 21st Century citizens, I think how we would have laughed in the 1990s if someone from 1912 was declaring that they had found the key to being a 20th Century learner.
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… As you can see, Sale doesn't rely on his four seamer nearly as much (he cut its usage nearly in half), and become much more efficient at commanding it as well as his slider. Changes to pitch frequency and release point helped him regain feel for all of his pitches, and perhaps most importantly, helped his changeup become much more effective (doubling his swing and miss rate on the pitch to 40% against RHB).
To add fuel to the fire, and likely cementing the White Sox' decision to add Sale to the rotation sooner rather than later, the kid's average velocity and movement on almost all of his pitches increased as the year wore on. Sale's slider now averaged over three inches of vertical drop (-3.03) compared to earlier in the year and has the chance to become the most dominant pitch in the American League next year and, if I may be so bold, could rival Randy Johnson's famed "Mr. Snappy" in terms of the sheer terror it elicits from opposing hitters. …
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Eight new members of the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame will be inducted in October, adding to a long and distinguished list of individuals honored at the school known as the Home of Champions.
The inductees will be Nicole Barnhart '04 (women's soccer), Notah Begay, III '95 (men's golf), Toi Cook '86 (baseball and football), Laura Granville '02 (women's tennis), A.J. Hinch '96 (baseball), Skip Kenney (men's swimming and diving coach), Anika Leerssen '00 (sailing) and Heather Olson '99 (synchronized swimming).
All of the inductees will be honored at a private reception and dinner at the Bing Concert Hall on Saturday, Oct. 11 beginning at 6 p.m. The class will also be introduced at halftime of Stanford's football game against Washington State on Oct. 10.
Here is additional information on the Stanford Hall of Fame class of 2014:
Nicole Barnhart: Currently a volunteer assistant coach on the women's soccer team, Barnhart is an Olympic gold medalist, U.S. national team veteran and current professional goalkeeper.
A regular in the U.S. national team lineup, Barnhart has won two Olympic gold medals, in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. She also played for the 2011 U.S. World Cup team that reached the championship final. Barnhart is a veteran of two Olympic and two World Cup teams (including in 2007), has played in two U.S. pro leagues, including the 2013 season with FC Kansas City of the National Women's Soccer League.
She was the Goalkeeper of the Year while leading FC Gold Pride to the 2010 Women's Professional Soccer championship, and also played for the league's Philadelphia Freedom. She began coaching at Stanford as a volunteer assistant in 2005, shortly after completing her collegiate career. She held the post from 2005-07 and then returned after the 2008 Olympics for Stanford's 2009 season.
A two-time first-team All-American, Barnhart holds Stanford career records for goals-against average (0.45) and shutouts (35), as well as single-season marks in both categories (0.19 and 18, respectively).
Barnhart, a native of Gilbertsville, Pa., graduated from Stanford with a double degree in studio art and psychology in 2004.
Notah Begay, III: Leading his Stanford team to the 1994 national championship as a first team All-American, Begay finished his career with a stroke average of 72.6. A three-time All-American, in 1992, '94 and '95, Begay's career low score of 62 came during the 1994 NCAA championships, finishing one stroke shy of the school record, held by teammate Tiger Woods.
A full-blooded Native American, Begay turned pro and collected six victories including four on the PGA Tour while earning a top-20 world ranking. In 1998, he became one of only a handful of golfers to shoot 59 in the second round of the Nike Tour Dominion Open. He was also a member of a U.S. Walker Cup team as well as a U.S. Presidents Cup team that included former Stanford standout Tiger Woods.
Currently an analyst with NBC Sports and The Golf Channel, Begay became the first player in a pro tour to putt both right and left-handed. Begay was named one of Golf Magazine's Innovators of the Year in 2009 and has also been named one of the Top 100 Sports Educators in the world by the Institute for International Sport. Begay graduated with a degree in economics.
Toi Cook: A two-sport standout at Stanford, Cook was equally impressive in both football and baseball. On the diamond, he played outfield and helped the Cardinal win the 1987 College World Series. On a team with eight future major leaguers, Cook went 3-for-5 with three runs scored in the title game against Oklahoma State, capping a career that saw him start 192 games out of 215 that he appeared in.
A .317 career hitter (248-782), Cook batted under .300 just once in his career a .284 mark as a sophomore. While he collected 51 career extra-base hits with 157 runs batted in, speed was his game and he demonstrated plenty to the tune of 85 career swipes, including 37 during an All-Pac-10 junior season.
As a cornerback for the football team, Cook led the Cardinal in interceptions as a sophomore and junior, and was among the nation's leaders as a senior when he fractured his left wrist against San Diego State in early October. He returned just three weeks later, finishing the season with a career-high and team-leading eight interceptions while helping lead Stanford to the Gator Bowl.
Cook had a three-interception day against San Jose State in 1986 and finished with 17 career interceptions.
Drafted in the eighth round of the 1987 NFL Draft on concerns that he would choose baseball over football, Cook was also drafted in baseball, going in the 38th round to Minnesota. He wound up playing 11 seasons in the NFL from 1987-97, winning Super Bowl XXIX with the San Francisco 49ers.
Cook is currently President of Empire Sports, a division of Empire Film Group. Empire Sports is a sports, entertainment, and consulting company.
Laura Granville: A two-time NCAA singles champion, Granville left Stanford in 2001 after her sophomore year to play professional tennis.
During her two years at Stanford, Granville won a NCAA record 58 consecutive singles matches, two NCAA singles titles, one NCAA team title and two ITA Collegiate Indoor singles titles, while compiling a singles win-loss record of 93-3. Both seasons, the Chicago native was honored as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Player of the Year.
Granville achieved WTA Tour career high rankings of #28 in singles and #47 in doubles. She twice reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon, as well as the third round of the US Open, French Open and Australian Open. She recorded wins over Grand Slam champions Marion Bartoli, Martina Hingis, Mary Pierce and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario. After nine years on the Tour, Granville returned to Stanford to earn her diploma in history in June, 2012.
Granville just finished her second year as head women's tennis coach at Princeton University.
A.J. Hinch: Hinch was a player that rarely makes it to college, an early round draftee out of high school. But Stanford has a long history of landing those players and one glance at Stanford's record books shows that Hinch stayed for a while.
A three-time All-American, Hinch still ranks among the top 10 in seven statistical categories, including games (229, ninth), batting average (.351, seventh), hits (305, fourth), doubles (58, sixth), triples (15, fifth) and runs batted in (191, sixth). In addition to three All-Pac-10 honors and two Player of the Year awards, Hinch was a finalist for the 1996 Golden Spikes Award, given to the national player of the year.
One of the greatest catchers at Stanford, Hinch never gave up his Stanford dream. He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the second round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft but did not sign, opting to attend Stanford. After a junior season that saw him earn the first of two Pac-10 Player of the Year honors, Hinch was drafted again, this time by Minnesota in the third round in 1995. He opted to remain at Stanford for his senior season, earning another Pac-10 Player of the Year honor, graduating with a degree in psychology and, again, being drafted in the third round, this time by Oakland.
Just two summers after being drafted and helping Team USA to a bronze medal at the Atlanta Summer Olympics, Hinch debuted with the Athletics in 1998 and remained with the team through the 2000 season. He played for Kansas City from 2000-02, Detroit in 2003 and Philadelphia in 2004 before retiring following the 2005 season.
Currently the vice president and assistant general manager for the San Diego Padres, Hinch is a former manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he skippered the team from May 2009 to July 2010.
Skip Kenney: One of the most respected coaches in the world of swimming, Kenney led the Cardinal for 33 years before his retirement in 2012. To understand Kenney's impact on the sport, it goes beyond the seven NCAA titles or 31-straight conference titles, the 1086 All-America certificates, 134 All-America athletes or 72 NCAA champions. The three-time Olympic coach also produced 23 of his own Olympians, which won a combined 18 medals from 1984 through 2008.
His teams made NCAA history. No other team has finished fourth or better at every NCAA Championship from 1982 to 2012. And conference history, too. The 31 straight crowns crushed John Wooden's UCLA team record of 14 straight titles in 1995. Wooden was on deck that day to honor that accomplishment.
Individually, he was a six-time NCAA coach of the year and 20-time Pac-10 coach of the year. In 2004 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and in 2005 the American Swim Coaches Hall of Fame.
Equally impressive is the fact that 100 percent of his athletes have graduated, including 10 which were Academic All-Americans, notably Olympians Pablo Morales, Ray Carey, Kurt Grote and Ben Wildman-Tobriner.
Under Kenney, the Cardinal was third or better in the national standings 27 times. From 1916 to his arrival in 1979, Stanford had won conference 31 titles. In his 33 years, he won 31. He won the first of three straight NCAA titles in 1985, winning another three straight NCAA titles from 1992-94. He won his last NCAA title in 1998. His teams finished as NCAA runners-up another seven times.
An Olympic coach as well, he was an assistant for Team USA in 1984 and 1988 and was the head men's coach in Atlanta in 1996. He was also a U.S. National coach at the Pan-American, Pan-Pacific and other world championship events.
Anika Leerssen: Sailing in her hometown of Newport, R.I., in 1999, Leerssen became the first Stanford athlete to win the Janet Lutz Trophy as the individual national champion in sailing. She won 15 of 16 races to capture the ICYRA Women's Single-handed sailing championships, becoming the first athlete to win that many races at a national event. In a sport where low totals win, Leerssen's 23 points (15 points for each win and eight points for an eighth-place finish) cruised past runner-up from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy by an astounding 38 points. Her fast start stunned the field as she won the first 11 races before recovering from her eighth place finish to win the final four. Her commanding victory was only potentially eclipsed by the Sportsmanship Trophy bestowed upon her by the competitors following the event.
Leerssen was not a one-race wonder, however. The senior captain helped Stanford to two team national titles (1997 and 1999) and placed sixth individually in 1998.
Leerssen, who graduated from Oregon with a law degree, is currently an Assistant Attorney General for the Oregon Department of Justice in the Natural Resources Section. Leerssen advises various state agencies including the departments of Forestry, Fish and Wildlife and Environmental Quality.
Heather Olson: As both a student-athlete and coach, Olson has played a role in five of the seven Stanford collegiate national championships, as a student-athlete in 1998 and as a coach for four straight seasons from 2005-08. In 2008, under the guidance of Olson, Stanford became the first collegiate team to capture a U.S. National title.
Olson graduated from Stanford in 1999 and took over the head coaching role in 2001, coaching the team from 2001-2012.
A former synchronized swimmer for the Cardinal, Olson graduated from Stanford in 1999 with a B.A. in English.
In 2008, Olson led Stanford to its fourth consecutive Collegiate National Championship after winning gold medals in Solo, Duet, Trio and finishing with the silver in team. Olson was also honored as Collegiate Coach of the Year for the fourth straight season. The 2008 campaign marked a breakthrough in synchronized swimming as Olson led the Cardinal to the U.S. National Championships, making Stanford the first collegiate team to accomplish that feat, an achievement usually reserved for club teams.
Overall, Olson led the Cardinal team to four first-place finishes and five second place finishes at the Collegiate Nationals in just 11 seasons at Stanford. She also led the team to two first-place finishes, four second-place finishes and a fourth-place finish at U.S. Nationals.
During her collegiate athletic career, Olson captained the Stanford squad in 1998 and led the Cardinal to its first-ever NCAA Championship. She was a four-time U.S. Synchronized Swimming All-American (1994, 1995, 1996, 2000) and Collegiate All-American (1997, 1998). She also received the Stanford "Block S" Outstanding Athlete Award her junior year (1998).
Outside of her Stanford career, Olson was a five-year member of the First National Team, and a two-time U.S. Olympic Team member (1996, 2000), winning a gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Games. She was honored as the U.S. Synchronized Swimming Athlete of the Year in both 1996 and 2000 and as Olympic Team Captain in 2000.
During the 2008 Olympic Games, Olson served as a broadcaster for synchronized swimming for NBC. She was also a four-year AAC Athlete Representative for the USOC. In 2005, she won the Ninetta Davis Athlete Representative Award for service as an Athlete's Representative.


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Designed in 2015 by Alejandro Landes, this modernist three-story residence is located in Miami, Florida.
Casa Bahía- a handmade home- is a modernist structure that seamlessly cohabits with the tropical wonderland of Coconut Grove. It appears to float above water and lush greenery, seeming to blur the boundaries between indoor and outdoor living. Upon entering this peninsular escape, you are struck by the harmony of the space where man and nature become one. This is a dwelling that effortlessly merges the experience of urban living with a philosophy of simplicity, timelessness and light. The beauty of the architecture rests in its functionality and grace, framing life. Every element introduced succeeds through its purity and precision. One becomes enveloped by a home that fully absorbs your every sense. Your vision takes in the whiteness of ash-infused concrete cantilevered before pastel skies and turquoise waters. Your view extends infinitely into the horizon, giving you the feeling of vastness from anywhere you ground your feet. Your skin is caressed by breeze from the azure bay as you take in the scent of salt and ocean, and the sound of a two-story water wall that cascades with rhythmic force against jagged, slate monoliths below.
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The rise of open source software in application development puts developers with a specialization in those technologies in a position to ask for a 30 or 40 percent pay increase, Kirven says. "We've gotten more requests from our permanent placement division for open source developers in the last six months than in the last five or six years combined," he says. "It's not as easy as getting free software, someone has to get it up and running. LAMP is everywhere now — these types of technologies no one heard of 18 months ago are all the sudden becoming a hot commodity."


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Federal agents and NYPD detectives have arrested dozens of suspects on federal charges of participating in a $279 million insurance fraud scheme.
The 36 people charged include 10 doctors and three attorneys who are alleged to have participated in the scheme, officials said. They face maximum jail sentences ranging from 30 to 70 years, if convicted.
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Suspects were charged with racketeering and money laundering, among other counts. Officials said the Brooklyn-based operation was the largest single no-fault auto insurance fraud scheme ever charged.
The scheme took advantage of a state law requiring every vehicle in New York state to have no-fault auto insurance, enabling the driver and passengers to get benefits of up to $50,000 per person for injuries suffered in an accident, regardless of fault.
Under the law, payments for medical treatments had to be made quickly, meaning those in the car would not have to file time-consuming personal injury lawsuits.
Some medical clinics have been created in New York entirely for the purpose of defrauding insurance companies under the no-fault law.
In some cases, clinic operators would also arrange for other allegedly fraudulent businesses to give unnecessary treatments, and would provide referrals from doctors. Those treatments were also billed to the auto insurance companies and included acupuncture, physical therapy, X-rays, and orthopedics.
In return, the clinic heads received cash kickbacks for the referrals.
The scheme also used recruiters to bring in patients, and paid them thousands per referral.
The operation had ties to Russian organized crime, officials said.
"The criminal enterprise, while it lasted, was obscenely profitable," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk said in a statement.
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Dierdorf will retire after the 2013-14 season, his 30th as a broadcaster — which followed a 13-year Hall of Fame playing career as a tackle.
After 43 consecutive years in the National Football League — first as a Hall of Fame player and then as a Hall of Fame broadcaster — Dan Dierdorf has announced his retirement following this season.
Dierdorf, who is the longest-tenured NFL analyst on television and teams with Greg Gumbel on CBS' coverage, has spent the past 30 years as an NFL broadcaster. That followed the Glenwood High School graduate's 13-year playing career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
"I have been blessed to spend my entire life in the game I love," Dierdorf said in a statement released by CBS. "I had an opportunity to go from the field directly to the broadcast booth ,where I have had the privilege of working with the giants of our business, including Ray Scott, Lindsey Nelson, Jack Buck, Dick Stockton, Al Michaels, Frank Gifford, Verne Lundquist, Dick Enberg and lastly, my partner, Greg Gumbel.
"It has become a challenge for me to travel to a different NFL city every week, so it's time to step aside. This has been a wonderful ride, as I really have lived the dream."
Dierdorf was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was the 2008 recipient of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. The Rozelle Award is annually given by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football."
Dierdorf joins Frank Gifford, John Madden and Len Dawson as the only members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to also have won the Rozelle Award.
"For 43 NFL seasons Dan Dierdorf has been a consummate professional both on the field and in the broadcast booth," said CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus in a statement released by the network. "Very few people in any profession can boast a Hall of Fame playing career and Hall of Fame broadcasting career."
Dierdorf first starred in football at Glenwood in the 1960s, helping the Eagles win the Federal League title as a senior in 1966. He also was a standout thrower on the track and field team. He held the county shot put record from 1967-2000. Dierdorf entered the Stark County High School Football Hall of Fame in its inaugural class in 2002.
Dierdorf went on to become a two-time All-Big Ten tackle at Michigan, where he was named to seven All-American teams as a senior and inducted into the school's hall of fame. Dierdorf was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000.
During a 13-year career with the St. Louis Cardinals (1971-83), Dierdorf was named All-Pro six times, selected as the NFL's top offensive lineman three times and voted to the NFL Team of the Decade for the 1970s.
He began his NFL broadcasting career in 1984 as a color analyst for KMOX's radio coverage of the St. Louis Cardinals and NFL games for CBS Radio Network. He was a play-by-play announcer for CBS in 1985 before switching to color analysis in 1986. In 1987 Dierdorf joined ABC's Monday Night Football for 12 years, before returning to CBS in 1999.
Gumbel said in statement Dierdorf has "a unique combination of knowledge and experience that few others can match."
"There has never been a day I've worked with Dan when I didn't learn something about the game of football. For that, and for so much more, I'm forever grateful. His departure is the fans' loss. Our loss. My loss. We will all miss Dan Dierdorf."


text: Monday, August 26, 2013 September 23 HIPAA Deadline Approaches Practitioners have until September 23 to comply with provisions of the final rule that earlier this year extensively modified the privacy, security, and enforcement regulations established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA. The final rule expanded many of the requirements to business associates of covered entities that receive protected health information, such as contractors and subcontractors. If a covered entity did not have a business associate agreement in place by January 25 this year that was compliant with the previous HIPAA regulations, it must enter into one by September 23. However, entities that did have HIPAA-compliant business agreements place as of January 25 may get a 1-year extension to revise their agreements, as long as they did not or do not renew those agreements between March 26 (the date the new rule took effect) and September 23. Any agreement that is renewed after September 23 must comply with the new rule, which also increases the penalties for noncompliance to a maximum of $1.5 million per violation. The changes also strengthen the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Breach Notification requirements by clarifying when breaches of unsecured health information must be reported to HHS. The new rule also expands individual rights under HIPAA, and by September 23 these rights must be added to the Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) that providers give to new patients. For example, patients can ask for a copy of their electronic medical record in an electronic form, and they can instruct their provider to restrict disclosures to a health plan concerning treatment for which the individual has paid out of pocket in full. The rule also sets new limits on how information is used and disclosed for marketing and fundraising purposes and prohibits the sale of individuals' health information without their permission. Association members can access the document on the Health Information Technology webpage under "APTA Summaries" and APTA's HIPAA webpage.


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|Two bombs defused in Peshawar
|[Dawn] Police foiled on Friday possible sabotage attempts by defusing two bombs at Frontier Road near Aziz Market area in suburbs of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
. While a bomb went off on the same road targeting police, however, no one was hurt.
An official of rural police said three bombs had been planted at different places along the Frontier Road and the actual target seemed to be police. He said two of the bombs were successfully defused, while one of the improvised bombs exploded by the suspected cut-throats with remote control. However,
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I need to use InputMismatchException and FileNotFoundExeption with a try catch. I got the file not found exception to work but my input mismatch exception wont work and I don't know why.
i have two test files for this. the code essentially is supposed to add up all the numbers in a file and report the answer. my test file 1 is simple the numbers are 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 and 5.0, it works and adds up to 15 and gives me back 15 like its supposed top. If i put in a bad file name my first exception works and it says file does not exist.
my second test file says 1.0 2.0 3f 4.0 and 5.0. when i use my second file its supposed to say only numbers are accepted, instead it just gives me back a 3, i guess it just stops at 3 once it sees the f and quits the program. i want it to say only numbers accepted.
can someone help here is my code:
import java.util.*; import java.io.*; public class Program2 { public static void main(String []args) { try { Scanner i = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter The File Name: "); String file = i.nextLine(); File input = new File(file); Scanner out = new Scanner(input); double total = 0; while(out.hasNextDouble()) { total += out.nextDouble(); } System.out.println(total); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { System.out.println("File does not exist."); } catch (InputMismatchException e) { System.out.println("Only Numbers are accepted."); } } }