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Lenzelle Smith Jr. had 21 points and No. 11 Ohio State held off a late Nebraska surge for a 63-56 victory Saturday night.
Ohio State (17-4, 7-2 Big Ten) led 53-38 after a pair of free throws by Aaron Craft with 9:05 left. Nebraska (11-12, 2-8) then made its comeback, outscoring the Buckeyes 15-5 and cutting the lead to 58-53 on David Rivers' free throws with 2:40 remaining.
Following an Ohio State miss, Nebraska's Brandon Ubel and Andre Almeida each missed shots at the rim and Ubel missed a 3-point attempt. Craft hit a pair of free throws with 56 seconds left to put the Buckeyes up seven.
Ohio State won the game at the free throw line. The Buckeyes made 23 of 28, including all 10 of their first-half attempts. Nebraska was just 4 of 5 from the line.
Ohio State won its third straight game and seventh in a row against Nebraska, including all four since the Cornhuskers joined the Big Ten.
The Buckeyes travel to No. 1 Michigan on Tuesday.
Ohio State established a working margin late in the first half. Trailing 19-17, the Buckeyes went on a 13-0 run capped by LaQuinton Ross' long 3-pointer with 2:05 left. Ohio State led by nine at halftime.
Nebraska cut the lead to 38-32 on Dylan Talley's 3-pointer with 15:58 to go. Ohio State then went on a 15-6 run, going up 45-34 on Deshaun Thomas' short jumper with 13:42 remaining.


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Max Smith to run for Oneida mayor; common councilors all launch re-election campaigns
ONEIDA >> As a united collective, the members of the Oneida Common Council unanimously announced their intentions to seek reelection Tuesday.
Standing together in front of their usual perch, Acting Mayor Max Smith said "this assembly of notable and good people is standing for reelection."
Smith himself announced his intentions to seek the administration's top of post of mayor, a role he has been acting in since former mayor Don Hudson died in October.
Continuing a what he called spirit of nonpartisanship inaugurated by Hudson, Smith pledged that members of the council will approach the November election with the same attitude they have since the beginning of their term.
Straying from party lines to work cohesively has "gotten lip service in the past" but has been more of a practice than just a theory with the latest class of councilors, Smith said. Hailing his counterparts as those who "represent the very best of Oneida," he asked that residents "rally around" them in support.
Smith will seek a seventh term on the council, this time as mayor. Following the same nonpartisan attitude, he said he'll seek endorsement from "everyone that will have me."
Ward 4 Councilwoman Helen Acker, who ran on an independent line her first go-around after Mike Kaiser vacated the position, will likely seek support from both Republicans and Democrats. Ward 5 Councilman Jim Chamberlain will do the same, expanding from his previous Democratic and Working Family endorsements to potentially Republican as well.
Ward 1 Councilman Brahim Zogby said he intends to ask the Republican and Conservative parties for their nominations. Ward 2 Councilman Dave Cimpi will also stick with the Republican and Independence parties and potentially the conservatives while Ward 6 Councilman Tom Simchik will ask for the Republican and Conservative nods.
Zogby, Chamberlain and Simchik will be seeking their second term in office while Cimpi goes for his third. This will be Acker's first full-term election.

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The Queens Dance Workshop is readying for the Choreographers' Spotlight Showcase, a performance set for Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in their new space at the Genesis Society Studio Metro Plaza, at 102-02 Metropolitan Ave. in Forest Hills.
Dance companies like the Falcon Dance, Moira Dance Theatre, Thomas/Ortiz Dance and Sheennah Augustin Dance Company will each get 15 minutes to showcase their work.
Blair Hotchner, founder of The Rogue Dancers dance company, started the Queens Dance Workshop after joining the Genesis Society Studio Metro Plaza back in July 2012 to teach yoga.
"My goal with the Queens Dance Workshop was to create an organization that brings a focus to central Queens as a viable place to see up and coming artists, as well as a space that catered to Queens choreographers," Hitchner explained.
Hotchner has since brought together numerous local directors, dancers, musicians and filmmakers to one place to give Queens artists a space of their own.
While she explained that the center is more than welcoming to artists and performers of all five boroughs, there are specific programs built just for the residents of Queens to facilitate inter-borough connections.
"Inspiring change through meaningful work is a goal for both the dance company's choreography and the work we choose for the showcase," she explained.
Laurel Zaleski, co-artistic director for The Rogue Dancers, said she hopes the new collaboration with The Queens Dance Workshop will expand their group and provide more of an open dialogue with the artistic community.
"The Rogue Dancers have brought in new collaborators, always trying to keep work fresh and not defining ourselves in a particular style of movement," Zaleski said.
In addition to their studio showcases, the Queens Dance Workshop also presents numerous administrative workshops like classes in branding and marketing, grant writing and fundraising, as well as self-producing.
Stephanie Deere, artistic director with MachineHistrionica, previously worked with Hotchner and the Queens Dance Workshop with her dance company.
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The United States Senate confirmed Mary Jo White (left) Monday as the next chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, approving the former federal prosecutor in a unanimous-consent vote.
She will succeed Elisse Walter, who was named by President Barack Obama to succeed Mary Schapiro in December. White is expected to be sworn in as chairwoman within a few days.
White, 65, gained fame during her 10 years as a U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York for her prosecutions of organized crime figures and terrorist suspects.
Tim Johnson, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement after White's confirmation that "the SEC needs a strong leader in place as it works to implement Wall Street Reform, and that is exactly what the commission is getting with Mary Jo White." Said o: "After meeting her, listening to her testimony, and closely reviewing her qualifications, it came as no surprise that she received such overwhelming bipartisan support for her confirmation. I look forward to working with her as the SEC addresses a range of rules and policy issues that include the Volcker Rule, derivatives, credit rating agencies, hedge funds, standards for broker-dealers and investment advisers, corporate disclosures, market structure and money market funds to name just a few."
As for her priorities at the agency, White said during her March confirmation hearing that her top priority would be to finish rulemaking mandates under the Dodd-Frank and JOBS Act "in as timely and smart a way as possible."
In that hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, White told senators that if confirmed, one of her areas of "focus" as chairwoman would be regulating the conduct of broker-dealers and investment advisors when giving retail investment advice. She also told the ranking minority member on the panel, Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, that she would review comments that the SEC received on a March 1 request before releasing a rule imposing a fiduciary standard on all advice givers. That request for comments asked for information on the "potential regulatory costs" that such a rule would place on broker-dealers and RIAs.
The Banking Committee approved her nomination on March 19 by a vote of 21-1.
As for her other priorities, White's prepared testimony before the Senate panel meeting listed the following:
- Continue "rigorous economic analysis" to inform and guide commission rules.
- Strengthen the enforcement function of the SEC, so that it is "fair, but it also must be bold and unrelenting."
- Fully understand "all aspects of today's high-speed, high-tech and dispersed marketplace so that it can be wisely and optimally regulated, which means without undue cost and without undermining its vitality."
- Focus on money-market funds, private fund advisers, credit rating agencies and clearing agencies.
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[dormitory name] Residents,
Over the past several semesters we have noticed an increasing amount of blockages throughout the Residence Hall plumbing systems. While the majority of blockages have been due to hair, we are alarmed to find that a contributing factor is human semen. This is simply unacceptable. We are young men at an upstanding Christian university. This is not the way of Baylor University students, and more importantly, this is not the way of Jesus.
We ask you to stand strong in the face of these temptations of the flesh for not just your morality, but also for sanitary reasons.
The director—who asked not to be named, since he's already getting "a lot of heat" from university officials—sighed a lot when we talked to him, and he confirmed our suspicions that the letter was a prank. A humorous one, in our opinion, that we nonetheless felt compelled to bring to your attention. The little stop sign at the end really seals it. Kudos, you hairy-palmed Baylor students, you.
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We see the disclaimer way too often. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." It is massively over-used—plastered on countless investment reports, statements and research. It's not simply meaningless; it's as if it's not even there. And that creates a huge problem, because the message itself is really true: Past performance has no predictive value.
Since we are looking for something that does have predictive value—all the research, experience and hard facts say: Look elsewhere.
This is not a controversial finding. There are no fringe groups of investors or scholars penning op-ed pieces in the Wall Street Journal shooting holes in the logic of this reality. Each year there is more data, and each year that data reconfirms that past performance is completely unreliable as an investment tool. Given all that, you would think it would be next to impossible to find any serious investors still using past performance as a guideline. Indeed, that would be a logical conclusion.
But logical conclusions are often wrong when it comes to understanding human behavior. Not only does past performance remain an important issue in the minds of investors, for the vast majority it is the primary issue. In a study I referred to in my August column, 80% of the hiring decisions of large and sophisticated institutional pension plans were the direct result of outstanding past performance, especially recent performance.
The reason investors and the investment industry rely on performance is because it's simple, objective and easy to measure. But more importantly, performance goals, performance reviews and performance measurement are so common in business, in sports, in education, in investing—almost everywhere—that not using them feels uncomfortable.
The alternative, evaluating and observing the managers and their process, is far more subjective and the results are not nearly as straightforward. But process is a much better predictive tool in the search for future success—and the most successful people in their fields focus on it and only it.
For anyone who follows college football, Nick Saban is the man. His teams have won four of the last 10 BCS championships, and he boasts a lifetime record of 154-55-1. His extraordinary success has generated huge interest in his coaching style. In a recent Forbes interview Saban emphasized that he teaches his players not to think about winning or losing, but rather to focus only on the processes that will lead to success.
Not About Results
Studies of Olympic athletes show that, with rare exception, physical ability alone is not enough to differentiate between medal contenders. The difference between winning and losing is much more a function of mental focus and technique—which are finely honed during years and years of practice. When asked what they focused on during competition, all of the medalists said their attention was on executing their process, not on the end result.
In business, focusing on the end result (performance goals) may show results over the short term, but in the long run is actually damaging and counterproductive. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review is titled "Consider Not Setting Goals in 2013." The point of the article and others like it is that too much focus on performance goals is not a healthy business practice. But performance goals are easy to set, easy to measure, easy to reward— and hard to give up.
In health care, performance goals have gradually crept into an environment where we expect objective science to set the rules. For instance, total cholesterol has been known as an inaccurate predictor of heart disease for decades—as many people with low cholesterol develop coronary heart disease as those with high cholesterol. Yet drugs that lower total cholesterol are effective, easy to measure and the source of billions of dollars of profit for large pharmaceutical firms. The result creates an incentive structure more appropriate to short-term profits than producing the best science or health.
In education, performance measurement by the top two standardized tests (SAT & ACT) is still the primary tool for discriminating among potential college students. But a growing body of evidence demonstrates that non-cognitive traits such as determination, motivation, perseverance, good study habits and time-management skills are far more predictive of success in college than SAT scores. Children who work to internalize these traits end up with a process of learning that leads to success not just in college but in life itself.
We live in a world where we expect a number, a score—a simple yet definitive measure that tells us the difference between the winners and the losers. Testing for grit, determination or perseverance doesn't easily lend itself to quantification. The concreteness of a bottom line number has led us to favor convenience over comprehensiveness, quantity over quality and simplicity over usefulness.
The reason Nick Saban, our best athletes, leading scientists, creative educators, and successful investors focus on process is because it anchors them in reality and helps them make sensible choices—especially in challenging times. Without that anchor any investor observing the investment world today would be intimidated by its complexity, uncomfortable with its volatility and (after the meltdown in 2008) visibly fearful of its fragility. Of course we all want good returns—but those who use a healthy process realize that performance is not a goal; performance is a result. This is such an obvious truth—but the investment world doesn't care about obvious, it cares about performance.
Opportunity Pockets
In my August column I referred to David Tuckett's astonishing research, which detailed the extent that obsession over performance has infected and perverted the investment activity of a large portion of even the largest and most successful investment management firms. Yet there are still two notable pockets of opportunity where we can find funds and fund managers that focus exclusively on process—one relatively small and the other very large.
There is a small universe of talented and successful investor/managers who run funds that do not stray from their (human and evolving) investment process, irrelevant to market direction, investor sentiment or headlines. Most of these managers invest heavily in their own funds and could care less about benchmarks, sectors or asset classes. They are just buying businesses—one at a time—and holding them, sometimes for decades. They keep to their knitting, learn from their mistakes and don't sweat over the things they can't control.
It might surprise you to learn that the single most popular investment choice today are specialized funds driven purely by process; but I doubt investors are thinking in those terms when they decide to buy index funds. Even though the process of an index fund is mechanical and unvarying, index funds still outperform most managed funds. And thanks to Dr. Tuckett we know why: In an obsessive but fruitless drive for performance too many fund managers compromise the single most important weapon in their arsenal: their investment process.
Now we can see the flaw in the argument that an investor's basic choice is active or passive. An investor indeed has two choices: whether to be goal oriented or process oriented. In reframing the investment challenge that way, the answer is self-evident and the only decision is whether to favor a mechanical process or a human one.
We cast our time and money far and wide in search of any possible edge. How ironic it is that the biggest edge is right in front of our noses and our unseeing eyes—free for the taking: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."


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MVP Open Days Recap
This year, more than 850 MVPs representing 17 countries gathered together in cities across the globe to participate in 10 Open Days events. These events feature technical sessions designed to enhance the community's understanding of new Microsoft products, existing tools and new techniques. But MVPs don't come to learn just from Microsoft teams; many also present during Open Days, which allows MVPs to share their real-world knowledge of Microsoft technologies in "Ask an Expert" sessions, key note speeches and technical sessions. Below are the highlights from some of the recent worldwide Open Day events.
Approximately 107 MVPs from the China Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan gathered in Beijing for the 2012 GCR MVP Open Days. The event featured technical break out sessions which covered topics ranging from Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 to Windows Phone 8 and the new Office.
"The technical breakout sessions are very exciting with riche content," said one MVP.
In addition to the various technical discussions, 39 MVPs earned top honors and were recognized for their outstanding contributions in the past year. MVPs didn't waste any time while at the event, not even to eat. MVPs scheduled breakfast and lunch meetings to continue sharing and absorbing the quantity of information being shared.
"During this breakfast meeting, I learned more about Microsoft than I had before and better understand the direction Microsoft is heading," said ASP.NET/IIS MVP Shoubin yang.
Munich was host to 100 MVPs from around Europe as experts gathered to learn, network and share their expertise. The two day event featured 15 sessions covering a wide range of topics such as Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Office 365, Search Engine Optimization and Social Media. Check out a great video recap from the German MVP Open Day event including interviews with Microsoft team members and MVPs. To read more, click here
Spain and Portugal
This year's Spain/Portugal Open Days event was held in conjunction with TechDay 2012. The two-day event was lauded as a great success due in part to the high participation of MVPs. A total of 58 MVPs lent their knowledge and expertise to the community through a variety of presentations, breakout sessions and "Ask the Expert" panels. One MVP even spent the better part of a day performing a robotics demonstration at the "MVP Experts Booth." Organizers created achievement badges for attendees to show who deployed an Azure site, published an app, attended a lab and had their picture taken with an evangelist. One MVP was overheard saying that this year's event was, "THE best Open Day in history!"
The University of Seoul was home to 78 MVPs during a two-day event in which 12 MVPs received the 2012 Korean MVP Contribution Award. The Korean Open Days event started off with a knowledge donation seminar presented by 9 MVPs at which university students, IT professionals, NGO group members and others were able to learn more about a variety of Microsoft technologies, including the newly released Windows 8.
"The MVP sessions were so well prepared. We hope to have follow-up sessions," said University Computer Center CIO Seongjong Choi. To read more click here
Central Eastern Europe and Italy
Recently more than 85 MVPs from 18 countries came together for the second annual Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) & Italy MVP Open Days. It was hosted in the beautiful venue of Osijek, right in the middle of the region (close to Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Romania),where we had a great opportunity to network, strengthen relationships with MVPs in the region, and gather valuable MVP product and program feedback. To read more, click here
MVPs gathered in Paris this October to attend the French Open Days event. A wide variety of technical discussions were led by MVPs on a number of different topics including: Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, SQL Server and Windows Azure. When all was said and done, 56 MVPs participated in the event held in the Microsoft France Conference Center. After a long day of sessions, attendees had a chance to network, meet new colleagues and relax in Paris's City Center.


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i scored 20 at my first time :D
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How good is your football knowledge? What was your score?
i scored 20 at my first time :D
My scores are 11!! Hahahahahaha...
HAHA! MY score is10.
I want to cry!
My score is 7
super game...................................
I scored 9 at an easy level.. I've only missed one though:) I guess, I think too slowly ((
very good game, my score is 8 in the hard level
good game elegantt......!!!
My score 20
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its a beatiuful game but level (hard) is very difficult
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Nice game i scored 9
this game is very good . my score is 10 easy
this game very fine))))))) its medium, my score is 7
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12 11 8
Hmmm always 12 goals.
11 in easy
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7 in hard
Is that bad for start?
12 in easy mode
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it isnt so bad like i think this is my first try lol
Yap, this is the best!
my score at hard level is 12
yeah my score is 11
this game is very interesting. easy 9
ooohh its a very funny game ! my score is 8 !!
my score: nine 9 ;D
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I DON'T KNOW anything about FOOTBALL but this was easy!
i know, right? it's not that difficult even if you're a zero at football like me ;)
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UPDATE :: It was pointed out to me that the person impersonating "lut4rp" to leave the "die bitch" comment on my blog does not deserve his privacy as he tried to get an innocent person (lut4rp) into trouble. This is to clarify that Ajay Kumar (ajuonline), left the "die bitch" comment on my blog. [End UPDATE]
Its incredibly funny when some Indians suffering with illusions of "internet == anonymity" think that they can get away with online harassment. Trolling is an art so if a troll does a bad job of using the technology properly, its difficult to write this post with a straight face.
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IP address: 188.8.131.52
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Reverse DNS authenticity: [Unknown]
ASN Name: BSNL-NIB (National Internet Backbone)
IP range connectivity: 1
Registrar (per ASN): APNIC
Country (per IP registrar): IN [India]
Country Currency: INR [India Rupees]
Country IP Range: 184.108.40.206 to 220.127.116.11
Country fraud profile: Normal
City (per outside source): Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Country (per outside source): IN [India]
Private (internal) IP? No
IP address registrar: whois.apnic.net
Known Proxy? No
Ajuonline, impersonating another person while revealing your identity is hardly 'chatur' online.
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Use it or Lose it Challenge 7 – WeddingsPosted in Cards on 05/04/2012 12:00 am by Wendy
Challenge 7 for the Use It Or Lose It Challenge Blog is themed: Weddings, perfect for this time of year!
I made this card:
Supplies used are all Close to My Heart: Silhouette Paper Packet (retired), Black ink, The Best Things stamp set, and Originals (no longer available but check out these other great How-To Books).
I just love how easy it is to create a quick card using Close to My Heart products. I was short on time for this project so I made things simple by first choosing to do a card. I already had the Silhouette papers picked out in my head so I knew I had all the coordinating paper I needed. I found a stamp set that would work and grabbed my Originals book. It didn't take long for everything to come together. I may add some Bitty Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems for some added embellishing but I've used them so much lately that I'm out right now. I've learned that these and Sparkles are things I should always have on hand.


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In this 2009 photo, a pair of German merchant ships traverse the fabled Northeast Passage through the Arctic.
Most of the sea ice that forms each fall and winter in the Arctic now melts each spring and summer, a recent change that is impacting global patterns of weather and trade as well as the U.S. military's strategic planning, experts told reporters during a briefing Tuesday.
"There are tremendous two-way and multiple interactions between the Arctic and the rest of the world," retired Rear Adm. David Titley said during the teleconference organized by Climate Nexus, a group trying to raise awareness about climate change.
Experts tied the melting ice in the Arctic to the recent spate of stormy winter weather in parts of the U.S. and Europe. They also noted that the prospect of ice-free summers in the Arctic as soon as 2030 is already impacting international trade and U.S. Navy plans to protect Arctic resources.
Maximum extent reached
The briefing was held the day after the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced that the Arctic sea ice reached its maximum reach for the year on March 15, covering 5.84 million square miles. This is the sixth lowest maximum sea ice coverage in the 35-year satellite record.
"The last 10 years have been the lowest 10 years," said Walt Meier, a research scientist at the NSIDC. He added that while this year was low, "we actually have the largest growth of ice in our record from the minimum to the maximum" primarily because the ice was recovering from the record low in 2012.
In addition to the shrinking extent of sea ice, the remaining ice is thinning perhaps twice as fast as the observed ice extent, noted Wieslaw Maslowski, an oceanographer at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
Changing weather patterns
The changing sea ice dynamics are perhaps most felt outside of the Arctic via changes in weather patterns, noted Stephen Vavrus, a senior scientist with the National Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jim Vaiknoras / AP
A storm system stretching from the Dakotas to the Florida Panhandle is predicted to bring snow to the mid-Atlantic states.
The melting ice, he explained, allows heat stored in the ocean to escape to the atmosphere where it changes the pressure patterns, including "the jetstream level winds that affect our weather in the middle latitudes."
In particular, he and colleagues hypothesize that the warming Arctic causes the jetsteam to slow down and meander like a river flowing through the plains. This, in turn, transports less warm air over the lands from the oceans.
"That essentially helps to refrigerate the land during the wintertime and we get more cold and more snow and more extreme cold as well," Vavrus said. "And we've seen examples of that in this past winter with the slowed westerly wind."
The same meandering jetstream, he noted, could also explain the unusually warm spring in 2012. If a meandering jetstream is like a river, some bends are favorable to cold outbreaks, others are favorable to extreme warmth.
"Just depending on how those jetstream waves happen to set up in a particular week or month or season, that could help to explain why you could get weather extremes of both types," he said.
More commerce, new conflicts?
Less ice in the Arctic and the potential for ice-free summers is ratcheting up commercial interest in the region for oil and mineral extraction as well as use as a shipping route, developments that have the U.S. Navy studying how to establish an increased presence there.
"We see the potential for direct armed conflict in the Arctic to be very, very low," Titley said, but the military nevertheless is preparing its ships to be Arctic worthy, to establish infrastructure such as ports, and to strengthen communications and weather forecasting.
"The Arctic it is a very austere and harsh place," he said. "Even as it warms, it's a really hard place to operate."
John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News. To learn more about him, visit his website.


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Ishara TCG - 0.4
A simple trading card game I originally made back in middle school.
In my many searches on the internet, I've never found ANY free-and-open-source Trading Card Game-like programs. So that, along with a nostalgia frenzy, inspired me to remake my old one. The Ishara TCG is a very simple trading card game that I made back in middle school. There's a half-finished manual in the download, but it's probably simple enough that you could jump right in and play it. Requires Python >=2.5 and Pygame >=1.8
Meh... just one more. Lots of work on the mechanics have occured between 0.3 and 0.4. I've made a lobby system that allows players to meet up in lobbies of up to 10 people, and I've made the messaging system inside the lobbies much faster and less network intensive through some clever fixes. Unfortunately, the code is a horrendous mess at this point, and I have a lot of work to do cleaning it up. But for all intents and purposes, the skeleton of the game is done. My brother contributed some new card artwork so the game looks just a bit better, and I really like it. I still have to get the sound effects ingame, make some more cards, and balance out the ones I've already made. Maybe I'll work on these over the summer...
- Home Page
- http://isharacomix.com
- Source
- http://isharacomix.com/downloads/src_tcg.zip


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There are several types of nail disorders. A fungal infection is the most common, usually affecting the toenails. Following proper treatment, a fungal nail infection is cured by the growth of new, noninfected nails.
Signs and Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of a nail disorder include:
What Causes It?
Several nail disorders are present at birth or develop during infancy. Nail disorders are caused by:
Chronic renal failure, for example, is known to cause various nail pathologies. They also may be self induced.
Who is Most At Risk?
People with the following conditions or characteristics are at risk for developing a nail disorder:
What to Expect at Your Provider's Office
If you have symptoms of a nail disorder, you should see your health care provider. Your provider will make a diagnosis based on a:
Treatment Options
To prevent a nail disroder, you should:
Treatment Plan
Your health care provider may remove the infected nail and prescribe oral medication, as well as medication to apply to the nail.
Drug Therapies
Your provider may prescribe the following antifungal or antibacterial medications.
Surgical and Other Procedures
Your provider can:
Complementary and Alternative Therapies
A comprehensive treatment plan for nail disorders may include a range of complementary and alternative therapies.
Nutrition and Supplements
Virtually every nutritional deficiency can affect nail growth. These nutritional tips may help reduce symptoms:
You may address nutritional deficiencies with the following supplements:
Herbs are one way to strengthen and tone the body's systems. As with any therapy, you should work with your provider to diagnose your problem before starting any treatment. You may use herbs as dried extracts (capsules, powders, teas), glycerites (glycerine extracts), or tinctures (alcohol extracts). Unless otherwise indicated, make teas with 1 tsp. of herb per cup of hot water. Steep covered 5 to 10 minutes for leaf or flowers, and 10 to 20 minutes for roots. Drink 2 to 4 cups per day. You may use tinctures alone or in combination as noted.
Few studies have examined the effectiveness of specific homeopathic remedies. A professional homeopath, however, may recommend one or more of the following treatments for nail disorders based on his or her knowledge and clinical experience. Before prescribing a remedy, homeopaths take into account a person's constitutional type, includes your physical, emotional, and intellectual makeup. An experienced homeopath assesses all of these factors when determining the most appropriate remedy for a particular individual.
Acupuncture may help:
Massage can help stimulate circulation, which aids the transport of nutrients to the nail bed.
Alternating hot and cold foot baths can help shuttle blood and immune cells to infected nails. Fill one bucket with hot water (be sure the water temperature is not so hot as to burn, but similar to a Jacuzzi, about 100° F - 37.7° C) and one with cold water. Place feet in hot water for 3 minutes, then immediately into cold water for 1 minute. Repeat this series 3 times, then vigorously rub feet with a dry towel. You can add 7 drops of essential oil of lavender to the hot water to increase its stimulating effects. People with a vascular disease or any other type of compromised circulation or peripheral neuropathy should NOT do hydrotherapy without their doctor's supervision.
Prognosis/Possible Complications
The consequences of most nail disorders are purely cosmetic. Regenerating a toenail usually takes 8 to 12 months, while regrowing a fingernail takes half as long. Infection relapses or permanent damage sometimes occur. Complications may include cellulitis (tissue inflammation) and the embarrassment caused by unsightly nail appearance. Nail abnormalities are also associated with hair, teeth, or gland abnormalities.
Following Up
Follow up with your health care provider if you have any drug side effects or interactions.
Supporting Research
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"What are they smoking?"
Posted by Bookworm on May 28, 2003
In Reply to: Off your medication posted by ESC on May 28, 2003
: : : what is the derivation of the phrase "what are they smoking?"
: : It's a humorous slang expression of disbelief or amazement that refers to the practice of smoking drugs, and almost certainly marijuana or hashish, rather than anything stronger. So, if a friend of yours says or does something that to you seems surprisingly silly or bizarre, you might well say "What are you smoking?" (or over here in the UK, we'd more likely say "What have you been smoking?"), the humorous implication being that you think your friend must be stoned out of his head to act in such a way.
: Another (U.S.) way of saying a person is acting strange: He's off his medication. Or...The doctor needs to up his dosage. Etc.
After asking someone what they've been smoking I've often added "...and where can I get some?", implying that the drugs must be of a good quality and that they are truly stoned out of their minds. Just wondering...did I come up with something original here?
- "What are they smoking?"
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In order to be more attractive and accessible to a younger generation of mogul players, I've went ahead and created a discord for the mogul community to all get together and chat about mogul, sports, politics, and whatever else is on your mind. We're a good group of guys & gals and pretty much all of us are in leagues but you don't have to be in a league to come chat. The way I have the discord set up is there's a general discussion area then there's a sub-server for each individual league. Feel free to stop by and introduce yourself in the general discussion area, there's usually always someone online willing to chat.
For those that don't know, discord is basically a chat room that you can use pretty much anywhere, they even have an app for your phone/ipad. It's free to use, you don't even have to sign up for anything, you can just type in a screen name and you're in.
I'm Poldi or PoldiGBA, I hope to see you there.


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Jay Leno, with the confidence of a master comedian who knows his audience as well as he does himself, didn't trot out a lot of changes Monday as he launched his bid to revolutionize television.
The headline about the premiere of "The Jay Leno Show," which brings the basic "Tonight Show" formula to prime time – 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., five nights a week – could have been that he got some of his biggest laughs with his tried-and-true "Headlines" feature.
But the bigger news came in Kanye West's appearance, a day after he snatched the spotlight from Taylor Swift at the MTV Music Video Awards.
Leno started the show, of course, with his monologue – complete with the familiar studio-audience mosh-pit greeting, banter with bandleader Kevin Eubanks and the kind of topical jokes that only three months ago would have aired 90 minutes later.
There were some differences, including a new theme song and a spiffy new set that ditches the old desk and couch in favor of informal comfy chairs during interviews. More significantly, is that even with guests and music, "The Jay Leno Show" is packed with comedy.
Singing comedian Dan Finnerty of "The Hangover" fame offered an amusing video piece in which he serenaded a car wash patron. Leno appeared in taped "interview" with President Obama, interspersing his silly questions with the President's serious answers from his recent "60 Minutes" sitdown. Oprah Winfrey made a funny cameo, via video.
Leno's first guest was another familiar face -- Jerry Seinfeld, who lampooned the hoopla surrounding the time change by donning a tuxedo and teasing the host about his new gig.
"I'm trying to grasp what's going on here…. In the Nineties when we quit a show, we actually left," Seinfeld quipped.
Leno got an unexpected, ratings friendly welcome-to-prime-time gift from West, who handed the host a ready-made "Hugh Grant" moment -- a chance to reaffirm his image as the regular guy not afraid to ask, "What the hell were you thinking?"
Or, as Leno put it to West, in an understatement, "You have a tough day today?"
But Leno kept the jokes in check, giving West an opportunity to apologize again to Swift – and getting the tough-guy rapper to choke up when he asked West what his late mother would have said about his rude behavior.
Grant's appearance on "The Tonight Show" in 1995 after getting caught with a prostitute is credited with giving Leno a ratings lead he never relinquished until he was forced out of the 11:30 p.m. slot to make way for Conan O'Brien.
Preliminary ratings showed Leno got off to a strong start, pulling a 19 share, which likely translates to nearly 18 million viewers, according to the live feed. But how the ratings shake out in the long term is far from clear. Leno is dipping into unknown waters, wading into an ancient sea of scripted dramas and news shows, the standard 10 p.m. fare for decades. There's no one obvious rival, like David Letterman, whom Leno beat out for Johnny Carson's job and eventually bested in the bid for the bigger audience.
Among the questions surrounding the new show is whether the middle-of-the-road Leno will attract a significant portion of the 18-to-34-year-old viewers advertisers crave. He may have gone along way to grabbing a younger crowd with the appearance by West, who performed with Rihanna and Jay-Z.
If Leno is worried about the new program, which, perhaps more than his 17-year "Tonight Show" reign will determine his legacy as a TV star, he wasn't letting on Monday night.
Leno prides himself on being an old-fashioned guy, at least when it comes to his work ethic. And he sticks to the adage, "Never let 'em see you sweat."
Rather than ending with the musical guest as was "The Tonight Show" tradition, Leno capped the new program with "Headlines" -- saving his best for last and suggesting that he's also determined to leave 'em laughing.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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It was 2001 when Adam Avery of Colorado's Avery Brewing and Vinnie Cilurzo of California's Russian River Brewing discovered that they both had Belgian-style beers named Salvation. In many cases, knives might have been drawn—or, rather, lawyers called. In this case, though, a collaboration was born.
"We didn't know each other back then" says Cilurzo, "but when we met and talked about it, Adam said, 'I'm okay with both of us making a beer with that name.' " To Avery's relief, Cilurzo agreed. "Adam said, 'Good, I just printed 100,000 labels for it,' " recalls Cilurzo. That's where things stood until April 2004: each brewer making his Salvation, both strong ales, Avery's a golden color and Russian River's a darker beer. Then, on a trip to California, Avery visited the Russian River brewery, and he and Cilurzo decided to move beyond "live and let live" by blending their two beers together. Cilurzo's wife and partner, Natalie, christened the new beer Collaboration Not Litigation Ale.
Cilurzo and Avery weren't the first brewers to collaborate on a beer, though the beer's story and the word "Collaboration" in the name have brought it extra attention. In fact, the past decade or so has seen a variety of brands partnering up. Many are small-batch productions, only available at the brewery or in its immediate area, but some have brought together bigger breweries with wider distribution.
Colorado-based New Belgium Brewing, for example, has teamed up with Seattle's Elysian Brewing. In 2008, Elysian began producing some of its beers at New Belgium's facilities in Fort Collins, allowing them to expand production and distribution. At the same time, New Belgium found Elysian's small-batch brewing system a good place to work on low-production beers. Bryan Simpson of New Belgium says it's a model for expansion that bypasses traditional contract brewing; it has also resulted in the breweries' collaborative Trip series, which began with the Trippel IPA—a marriage of New Belgium's abbey-inspired brewing and the West Coast's signature beer style. It was followed by Trip II, a golden ale, Trip III, a sour brown ale and Trip IV, a rye ale.
And American brewers aren't the only ones teaming up: Belgian brewer De Proef has made several collaborative brews, inspired by Washington State's Long Shadows winery project, for which wine industry veteran Allan Shoup invited winemakers from around the world to make wine from Washington-grown grapes. De Proef brewmaster Dirk Naudts has partnered with the San Diego area's Lost Abbey and Port Brewing, Maine's Allagash and Michigan's Bell's Brewery.
Brewing Out of the Box
What actually happens when brewers collaborate? Blending two beers together, as Avery and Russian River do, is actually unusual. The story behind Moaten, a Flemish red ale created by Two Brothers Brewing in Warrenville, Illinois, and Belgium's Urthel Brewery, is more typical. "We collaborated on a recipe via email," says Two Brothers co-founder Jason Ebel, "Then Hildegard [van Ostaden, Urthel's brewmaster] came out and brewed with us. She came back again when it was finished, for the release." Ebel says the aim was for both to brew something different than they normally do. "We didn't want to just brew another tripel. Flemish reds are a style I tend to love—sour beers—so we cultured some lactic bacteria from barley kernels to add a certain level of sourness. We also wanted it to have a unique yeast character, so we fermented with a champagne yeast we got from California. It was a few years in the making."
Brewers often view collaborative beers as a chance to let loose and create a beer outside their typical style. When Jean-Marie Rock, the brewmaster at Belgium's Orval, a Trappist brewery, came to the U.S. to work with Steve Pauwels at Kansas City, Missouri's Boulevard Brewing, they made a beer far removed from Orval's dark, earthy brews, opting instead for an imperial pilsner based on a recipe Rock had first made about 30 years ago for the now-defunct Lamot brewery in Mechelen, Belgium. Different, too, from Pauwels recent brews. "We had been doing a lot of crazy stuff; this beer was back to basics: 100 percent pilsner malt, 100 percent Saaz hops, cold fermentation," says Pauwels. They bottled it last December and are waiting to see how the beer is received before they try collaborating with other brewers.
While it's a joint project, the straightforward-named Collaboration Series #1 is Boulevard's beer to distribute and sell. Even domestic collaborators tend to brew and distribute their beer through a single host brewery, since navigating state and federal beer-shipping regulations can be tricky. Collaboration Not Litigation Ale is sold through Avery's distribution network, not Russian River's, and both beers for the blend are brewed separately at Avery in Colorado and then blended together. Cilurzo says that federal Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau regulations make blending beers made at different breweries a complicated bureaucratic challenge. "We decided to brew it at Avery since at the time we were only distributed in California. Avery is more widely distributed, so it gives a lot of people a chance to taste something we're involved with."
San Diego's Stone Brewing has been making collaborative beers for the past couple of years, preferring to work as part of a trio; in 2009 they released the Juxtaposition Black Pilsner, which they made with Scotland's BrewDog and Massachusetts' Cambridge Brewing, as well as a Kona Coffee, Macadamia, Coconut Porter made together with Maui Brewing and San Diego homebrewer Ken Schmidt. The challenges of incorporating 1,000 pounds of coconut, 300 pounds of macadamia nuts and 200 pounds of Kona coffee into their brew taxed even Stone's considerable resources—they had to borrow equipment from another brewery.
A three-brewer collaboration is hardly the limit, though; after a visit to Belgium, the guys from Russian River, Lost Abbey, Allagash, Avery and Delaware's Dogfish Head all got together to make Isabelle Proximus, a sour ale inspired by beers they had tasted during their trip.
Several years ago, Stone began work on a holiday ale together with Michigan's Jolly Pumpkin and Norway's Nøgne-Ø. They made the same brew three different times, each at a different brewery; the recipe starts the same, but when it comes to aging and finishing the beer, the host brewery puts its own twist on the final product. Jolly Pumpkin, for example, barrel ferments their beers, which creates a funkier rendition. That version will be released in late 2010.
A New Family Tree
San Diego, Michigan and Norway: given that geographic spread, these breweries may not have been competing for market share anyway. But what about Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada? While located on opposite coasts, both are well-distributed across the country and appeal to much the same types of beer drinkers. Nevertheless, the two recently collaborated to release Life & Limb, a 10 percent ABV dark ale.
Sierra Nevada's founder Ken Grossman and Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione became friends after serving on the board of the Brewers Association. "I talked with Sam about our Celebration Ale, and he said it was the first beer that opened his eyes," says Grossman. Before long, they were brainstorming about a possible collaboration. "We went back and forth over hundreds of emails," recalls Calagione. "I came up with the idea of using maple and birch syrups, representing the two limbs of the craft brewing tree." The maple syrup comes from Calagione's family farm in Massachusetts and is used during the primary fermentation, while the birch syrup is used during bottle conditioning to provide the carbonation of the beer. The malt comes from Sierra Nevada's estate in California. Life & Limb was brewed at the Sierra Nevada brewery in Chico, and bottles were released nationwide through their distribution network last October. The beer was planned as a one-time release, but the response has been so enthusiastic that Sierra Nevada spokesperson Bill Manley says there's been talk of a second release in 2011.
As for the merits of cooperation versus competition, Calagione says, "I think it's very symbolic of the craft-brewing world, altruistic and mutually supportive." More practically, he says, "One brewer who might not have a following in a market will be reaching new people."
Many collaborative beers incorporate ingredients that represent each brewery's origins. In the Jolly Pumpkin/Nøgne-Ø/Stone Special Holiday Ale, juniper and rye provide the Scandinavian touch alongside Californian white sage and Michigan chestnuts. Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, has been making collaborative brews since 1998, working with breweries like Brakspear and J.W. Lees in England, Achouffe in Belgium and, most recently, Kiuchi in Japan, maker of Hitachino Nest. Oliver and Hans-Peter Drexler of Germany's Schneider- Weiss Brewery make two versions of their collaborative Hopfen-Weisse, one in Brooklyn and the other in Bavaria, each using the same malts and grains but with Schneider's house yeast strain, and hops from the host brewery's country—but chosen by the guest brewer. "We have one recipe, a straw pale weissbock, but I chose a Hallertau variety," a classic, earthy German hop, says Oliver.
When Drexler came to Brooklyn to brew the other version, "He had 15 different aroma hops in front of him and two hours to decide; he chose Palisade and Amarillo." Both varieties have a citrus and floral character typical to many West Coast pale ales. After the first year, when the U.S. version of Hopfen-Weisse was only available as a draft beer, its success led to limited release of a bottled version; the German version is offered on draught and in bottles in the U.S and across Europe.
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Prodding from an importer brought a bigger beer player into the game; Germany's Weihenstephan Brewery, Bavaria's state brewery and the oldest continuously operating brewery in the world, is working on a new beer with the Boston Beer Company of Sam Adams fame. "We have the same importer in Sweden," says Boston Beer Co. brewer and founder Jim Koch, 60. "He said to one of the Weihenstephan people, 'You should get together with Sam Adams.' They called [us] out of the blue. It was sort of like the Pope calling and saying he wants to say grace at your house."
The two breweries set out to create a new beer style made within the tradition and constraints of the Reinheitsgebot, Germany's beer purity law, eventually aiming for a high-alcohol beer—over 10 percent—but with a Champagne-like texture, despite the fact that usually achieving that level of alcohol means lots of unfermented dextrins and a rich, heavy texture. Koch says the still-unnamed beer should be ready later this spring, but the release could easily be pushed back as they work on perfecting the unusual brewing process.
Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver is taking a different tack these days, collaborating not only with other brewers, but with chefs and mixologists. In 2009 he developed Brooklyn's spiced wheat ale Cuvée de Cardoz with Floyd Cardoz, executive chef at Tabla, an Indian-inspired restaurant in New York City. And his Manhattan Project, developed with cocktail historian Dave Wondrich, replicates the flavor profile of a classic Manhattan in beer form, using rye and an infusion of many of the herbs and spices found in vermouth. Oliver says the creative process involved when working with others keeps him learning and thinking about new possibilities.
It reminds Vinnie Cilurzo of the freedom and creativity of home-brewing, where efficiency isn't as vital as trying new things. In 2008 he hosted Agostino Arioli of Italy's Birrificio Italiano after the two met at the Slow Food Salone del Gusto in Turin, and they made a version of Arioli's beer Fleurette. "It's made with honey, rose petals, black pepper and violets," says Cilurzo. "He had a whole suitcase of dried violets. It was a crazy brew cycle; there's a sour mash involved, and pepper in the kettle. There's no way you could do that on a regular basis—Agostino only makes it once a year—but it's a really good reminder not to get narrow-minded and to stay creative."


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I don't particularly have much of a definite veiw on what happened today, but I'm utterly baffled as to how people can think that "showing passion" is impossible without trying to indimidate the opposition. Two very different ideas.
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Nothing wrong with this, we all like a bit of it. But there's a big difference between chirping and glares, etc., to 4 guys boxing in a smaller guy who is already out and trying to leave the field. Especially as one of the "intimidators" ran all the way onto the field to help. That's not "a bit of passion". Looked more like hooliganism and was downright ugly to see.
The more I see this, the more I wish a few punches were thrown.
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Pretty poor stuff, not on.
But in saying that, it's nice to see our lot get in a scrap instead of being shall we say, too nice like we usually are.
Besides, now we can finally get that ****ing spirit of cricket award chucked to another team for a change. **** I hate us getting that award. Give it to Ponting for ironys sake.
That's what passes for a fight these days? I've seen more violent altercations between the members of my grandmother's knitting circle.
The only thing wrong I saw in that was Mills being a dick and mouthing off to du Plessis who takes exception and gives him a shove. Big whoop.
Mills wasn't even playing and had no right to be mouthing off at du Plessis. Fine him 50% of his match fee (which is 0 because he didn't play).
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LOL at people describing this as a fight.
Batsman I tolerate: V. Richards, S. Tendulkar, E. Morgan, N. Hussain. KEVIN O F******* BRIEN
Don't think it was a fight... I'm all up for sledging and all but 3 or 4 playersurrounding a guy like that is just not on for me.... Physical intimidation.
Credit to Faf he did look very determined after this incidence... If rest of the batsman hadn't decided to lose their heads... He might have been able to take SA to safety.. Did it against India as well...
This is the type of behavior you normally don't expect from NZ team.... Personally I would like it If India win the spirit of cricket award.... With dicks like Bhajji and Sreesanth.. We don't stand a chance.
Well I do like it when we win the spirit of cricket award. We play the game as gentlemen - usually - I reckon Kyle Mills is just a tit as has been said in this thread by a number of people.
Fine take the award away from us this year we don't deserve to win it - based on that evidence.
Mills is always causing some type of ruckus - like I said in another thread if it wasn't for him we would be perpetual winners of the award.
Next best team for sportsmanlike after us is SL - so give it to them.
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We already know Denmark is pretty Metrotastic. But it's not just 'gay' game shows that set it apart from other, slightly more dowdy countries. Now, the Danes are bringing metrosexual gender equality right into the heart of the beast, the hair salon. In a recent court ruling, Denmark authorities have decided that the higher price women pay for their cut 'n' blows is illegal. Whilst we could argue that this is taking anti-discrimination 'too far', and that there is an objective justification for women paying more at the hairdressers – the fact it takes longer to cut and style their hair – I am quite intrigued and amused by this news.
The main 'finding' I am taking away from this equal opportunity tartiness, is that men's beautification is now seen as if it is as normal, and as valuable as women's. When car insurance in the UK got the same 'euro' equality treatment, nobody was surprised that rather than making men's car insurance cheaper, women's tended to go up to match what men pay. The same I expect will happen with this hair directive. Salons, that were previously giving men cut price cuts, maybe as a way of playing down men's metro-narcissism, will probably now charge top price. I am not an expert in this field, but judging by some of the barnets I see on metro boys these days, I think it is possible they are in the salon as long as women anyway. And with more and more unisex hairdressers, why should one group of customers pay less for the same product/service?
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