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Study Shows Consumption of Chemical May Be Linked to Renal Cancer
Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
May 9, 2008 — The chemical acrylamide — found in French fries, potato chips, and even bread and coffee — is known to cause cancer in animal studies. Now new research from the Netherlands suggests that it may do the same in humans.
Acrylamide is used in the manufacture of cosmetics, plastics, and food packaging. Until just a few years ago, cigarette smoke and occupational exposures were considered the main sources of exposure to the compound.
But in 2002, researchers in Sweden reported that the chemical is also present in certain foods, especially starchy foods that are fried or baked.
Even black olives and breakfast cereals have some acrylamide, University of Southern California professor and nutrition expert Roger Clemens, DrPH, tells WebMD.
"It is clear that our foods have contained this compound since man started cooking with fire," he says.
Acrylamide and Cancer
What is less clear is whether dietary exposure to acrylamide poses a health risk.
In an effort to address this question, researchers from Maastricht University in the Netherlands examined data from a large Dutch study on diet and cancer begun in 1986.
Almost 121,000 participants between the ages of 55 and 70 completed a detailed food-frequency questionnaire designed to determine their eating habits. The answers, combined with a separate database, were used to estimate acrylamide intake.
For this study, the researchers focused on acrylamide intake and cancers of the kidney, bladder, and prostate. After a follow-up of 13 years, there were 339 cases of kidney cancer, 1,210 cases of bladder cancer, and 2,246 cases of prostate cancer.
On average, people in the study ate about 22 micrograms of acrylamide a day. To put this amount in perspective, a 2.5-ounce serving of French fries contains about 25 micrograms of the chemical.
The participants were divided into five categories of acrylamide consumption. People who ate the highest amounts of the chemical were found to have a 59% greater risk for kidney cancer than those who ate the least, researcher Janneke G. Hogervorst tells WebMD.
The risk appeared to be especially strong for smokers.
Acrylamide consumption did not appear to be associated with an increased risk for cancers of the bladder or prostate.
In findings reported last year using the same database and study design, Hogervorst and colleagues reported that postmenopausal, nonsmoking women whose diets included the most acrylamide had significantly increased risk for ovarian and endometrial cancer than women whose diets contained the least.
That study was published last December in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers andPrevention. The latest findings appear in the May issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
"In the future we hope to look at many more cancer types," Hogervorst says. "We also hope that other researchers will do similar studies to expand on our research."
Acrylamide in U.S. Diet
But a critic of that research tells WebMD that the Dutch studies and those of similar design do little more than confuse the public.
"They went looking for an association in this study and they found one," says Jeff Stier. "But people should not confuse association with causation."
Stier is associate director of the American Council on Science and Health, a consumer education group that receives funding from the food industry.
The FDA has reported that 100% of Americans consume acrylamide, but exposure levels do not appear to be increasing.
Clemens, who is a spokesman for the American Society for Nutrition, points out that estimates by the FDA and the World Health Organization suggest that typical dietary exposures do not come close to the exposures that were shown to cause tumors in lab animals.
"The exposures in the animal studies were [the equivalent] of about 300 times the amount that a typical person would consume," he says.
He adds that there are still plenty of good reasons for limiting French fries and potato chips, noting that "balance, moderation and variety are the keys to a healthful lifestyle."
SOURCES: Hogervorst, J.G. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, May 2008; vol 87: pp 1428-1438. Janneke G. Hogervorst, doctoral candidate, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands. Roger Clemens, DrPH, professor, University of Southern California; spokesman, American Society of Nutrition. Jeff Stier, associate director, American Council on Science and Health. Hogervorst, J.G. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, November 2007; vol 16: pp 2304-2313. FDA/CFSAN: "2006 Exposure Assessment for Acrylamide."
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An Israeli soldier died of a heat stroke Friday after completing a half-marathon in Tel Aviv, prompting Israel's minister of public security to criticize organizers for allowing the race to take place during a heat wave.
The soldier collapsed and was rushed to a hospital, but medics were unable to resuscitate him, said rescue services spokesman Zaki Heller. The race was run in temperatures around 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit).
The military identified the dead soldier as Sgt. Michael Michalevitch, 29, who served in the military's canine special forces.
Four other runners who collapsed from the heat were put in medically induced comas and are on respirators at a Tel Aviv hospital, Heller said. In total, medics treated more than 50 runners at the race, he said.
Yitzhak Aharonovich, Israel's public security minister, said on Israel Radio that the incident was "very serious" and suggested that race organizers could be held responsible for not cancelling the race after heat was predicted.
The Tel Aviv municipality expressed regret over the death of the runner but defended its actions, saying it had followed the instructions of health officials. It postponed the full marathon of 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles) initially scheduled for Friday in anticipation of the heat wave, and started the half-marathon of 21.1 kilometers (13.1 miles) earlier in the morning to avoid the hottest temperatures.
The municipality said in a statement that when the runner died, Israel's national weather service had reported only a light heat wave.


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Oh, hi there! It's been a while. Thank you guys for continuing to visit the site (we are at almost a million views!!!!). So where have I been? I've been cooking, a lot, over on my Instagram feed. But with Thanksgiving approaching, which is my very favorite day of the entire year, I had a little more to say! This year we're celebrating with a few of our favorite friends and combining two family traditions, and I can't wait. I started planning the menu a few weeks before Halloween (like around Labor Day) but wasn't allowed to talk about it out loud until November rolled around.
I've ordered our BN Ranch Heritage Turkey from Gwen Butcher Shop, which comes with Curtis Stone's homemade cranberry sauce. And I'm buying the pies. There I said it. I ordered one of these Winter Luxury Pumpkin Pies from Valerie Confections, which uses roasted 'Winter Luxury' pumpkins and is topped with whipped cream.
I had planned to make a pecan pie for my husband, because it is the only thing he wants at Thanksgiving really, but then I got to talking to my barista the other day and learned that Go Get 'Em Tiger is making Brown Butter Pecan Pies with toasted California pecans, brown butter sauce and a whole wheat crust. Whoa!
So what else will be on the table? This incredible Mushroom Thyme Gravy, for sure. It's vegetarian and make-ahead. I put it together in the morning and keep it warm in a thermos all day.
Both families are making a stuffing, and I'm going back and forth between three options for ours. Stay tuned! Mashed potatoes, check. Green beans, roasted carrots, check. My husband is grilling Brussels sprouts which he tosses in parm, and our friend Justin is mixing up Whiskey Sours and Shrimp Cocktail while we all cook. Would love to hear your must-haves for Thanksgiving, particularly if you have any favorite stuffing recipes.


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Interview KPDF Icon Contest
Some time ago KDE-Look.org launched an icon contest where artists could submit an icon to be used for KPDF in the next KDE version. It seems the contest has now been prolonged. Curious about this icon contest I contacted the initiator Albert Astals Cid and some jury members to ask them some questions.
First of all because you guys are the jury, could you introduce yourself?
Enrico Ros: I'm Enrico Ros, hacking on KDE on spare time which is a fun and creative thing to do.
Albert Astals Cid: I am a computer science student in Barcelona (Spain). I began translating KDE
Kenneth Wimer: My name is Kenneth Wimer. I have worked in R&D at SUSE LINUX for more than 5 years taking care of screen graphics and usability, as well as the coordination and technical
Frank Karlitschek: My name ist Frank Karlitschek. Â I'm the guy behind KDE-Look.org, KDE-Apps.org
Why are you trying to collect icons through an icon contest?
Enrico Ros: It's for sure a good way to collect bright ideas from the artists community at
Albert Astals Cid: The current KPDF icon is not good. So I thought a contest was the only way to get a new icon given I don't have any artistic abilities.
Kenneth Wimer: This contest should spur interest in KDE as well as making it easier for
Frank Karlitschek: KDE is a community project. It is important for KDE to motivate users to
Does the contest only apply to icons? Because we've seen a couple of submissions with a splashscreen as well.
Enrico Ros: It was meant to be an icon only contest but since we have seen such a good
Albert Astals Cid: Currently KPDF starts so quickly I don't think a splash screen would be any
Kenneth Wimer: This specific contest is really only for an icon although
Frank Karlitschek: The contest is about icons. But help is needed in a lot of areas. Don't
There are rules for submissions. One of them is that the source files are required to be in SVG or SVGZ. Why is that?
Enrico Ros: If the icon was generated from an SVG or other formats it's important to
Albert Astals Cid: SVG is a vectorial graphics format, it means the image can be scaled to any
Kenneth Wimer: Yes, there are definite rules. SVG (or SVGZ) must be included. Although
Frank Karlitschek: SVG is the icon format of the future. The plan is to switch all icon from png
Why are you concerned about the Adobe trademark issue as KDE mime for PDF uses the Adobe logo as well?
Albert Astals Cid: Quick answer: Just because Adobe did not sue Everaldo yet it does not mean
Longer answer: We think It is clearly different using the logo in a mimetype
Enrico Ros: Apart from the legal issue, I'd like to highlight the fact that by forbidding to
What do you think of the submissions so far?
Enrico Ros: The quality is high and it even has some peaks :-). I'm sure that when
Albert Astals Cid: I did not think we would get so many (29 at the moment) of them and I am happy
Kenneth Wimer: The submissions are great! We are happily pleased to see such a
Frank Karlitschek: We have a lot of great submissions so far. But there is still a chance for new
Can you mention some particular submissions what you like or dislike about them?
Enrico Ros: Well, I won't name sets because the constest is still running, but I think
Albert Astals Cid: I reserve my comments for now :D
Kenneth Wimer: The two icons that caught my eye are KPDF Pack and
So when does the contest close now?
Albert Astals Cid: 15th of October at 12:00 CEST (mid day in Central European Standard Time). Also check the announcement at KDE-Look.org.
In which KDE release can we expect this new icon to be used?
Albert Astals Cid: We missed KDE 3.3.1 so it will not be in it :-D
Enrico Ros: I'll import the icon in the "kpdf_experiments" branch (where the new and
Great new maintainer
Some great things have been happening with KPdf since Albert Astals Cid has taken over kpdf. The support for pdf table of comments is a particularly great addition. Thanks for the hard work.
By Greg Gilbert at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
what's up on branch
Albert and me are working on the already mentioned kpdf_experiments branch. If someone want to take a look at what's going on here are some links:
Look at screenies name for description.
Next here is the TODO list of the branch:
Feel free to add anything you miss.
By Enrico Ros at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: what's up on branch
Cool ! :-))
By aleXXX at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: what's up on branch
I love it, great work!
By Mark Hannessen at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: what's up on branch
Just tried it and fell in love with it already. It has replaced acrobat reader for me, despite its experimental state. Very promising!
By Melchior FRANZ at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Does this pdf file works?
Can anybody please test kpdf with this file http://db1.wdc-jp.com/isij/pdf/198906/is290503.pdf
Only acroread renders it fine, kpdf/kghostview screw up the display atleast on kde 3.3. I guess it is something to do with the Type 1 font. Hopefully, if it works fine, i would immediately sync to kpdf cvs :)
Waiting for your reports.........
By trucker at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: Does this pdf file works?
Yes, it works on kpdf that will come with KDE 3.3.1 (to be released shortly) and later releases.
BUT if you have a pdf that does not work with kpdf, please, the next time use http://bugs.kde.org to report it.
By Albert Astals Cid at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Does it allow zoom using an outline?
In Acrobat the 'zoom text' (to zoom in such a way that all text is still visible) does not work if you have continues pages; for that they use the zoom on outline.
Something I also don't see in the screenshots is the 'hand' tool. I read pdfs a lot on my laptop. Its actually an e-book reader with KDE on it :) Its keyboard is detatchable and the whole screen is a touch-screen.
KGhostview recently changed their keybindings for page-navigation to follow the styleguide; I'm compiling the KPDF now, so I'm not sure if you already did this; but I'd like to point out that it would be a good idea to follow this:
Last point; please consider allowing a vertical tab idea for the panel you currently have on the left (contents/thumnails/...), this panel is really bad from a usability point of view and the Konqueror implementation of that got lots of people wanting a better alternative. We now have a simpler and better one in the 'navigation panel [F9]' of konqueror. It may not be the best for KPDF; but the outlook-bar you have now is not something I'd like to use.
By Thomas Zander at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: TODO -- wrong zoom buttons order
If you want to reverse the +/- of zooming in many kde apps I'm all for it, please send an email to kde-usability with that request if you find any opposition from the relevant developers. I'm sure to back you up on that from a usability perspective.
By Thomas Zander at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: TODO -- wrong zoom buttons order
There is also a bug (whishlist) report for that same purpose at:
By Jorge Adriano at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Usability fixlet.
You have the edit and the view menus reversed (according to your screenshots) see;
By Thomas Zander at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: Usability fixlet.
The KDE framework should just handle that sort of thing automatically. Then developers don't have to bother about trivial things like ordering and the KDE desktop will be consistent nonetheless.
By ac at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: what's up on branch
Another possible feature is to support videos inside PDF files.
LaTeX beamer allows to create such files:
That's really neat for slides... and sometimes useful.
By Kévin Ottens at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
One feture I would love.
I would love a "magic marker" tool, give me the ability to mark important parts of an pdf like I would do on paper in a book or document. This is a tool, at least for me, witch would increase the usefulness of pdf's and on screen reading of them tremendously. One of the reasons I prefere dead tree whenever I have to read important stuff. Like the day before exams I usually just flipped through the books scanning the yellow parts:-)
By Morty at Wed, 2004/10/13 - 5:00am
More about exporting
In a previous post I suggested export to another formats keeping the format, and surprisingly is in the TODO list! (well, it appears like an imposible, but it's better than nothing).
I've been thinking on it, and I don't know if it is feasible, but here it's my suggestion. If the text and the images can be exported, they could be allocated in the right position using an OCR (http://www.linux-ocr.ekitap.gen.tr/). The process could be:
Well, maybe still it's a dream, but it's worth a try.
[Catalan mode ON]
By David Cuenca at Thu, 2004/10/14 - 5:00am
KPDF & search
I think that what's really missing is the ability to search
By me at Tue, 2004/10/26 - 5:00am
Why is it an Ebook Reader?
Is is it more of an Ebook Reader than a PDF file viewer? There's no documentation on the web, but it's k*pdf*. Does it handle PostScript? Does it handle real ebooks, like the ones that PG creates? It's not a bad thing to be a PDF file viewer, but let's call a spoon a spoon.
By David Starner at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
but chaos is good..
because supporting the discord is important.
By thatguiser at Thu, 2004/10/14 - 5:00am
OT: Novell, take N+1
Great - on KDE desktop we have Gnome applications. Evolution, Gaim, Firefox,
By anonymous coward at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
What say SUSE on this? Ximian control SUSE? :(
By ac at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
There is only Novell now. The words "Ximian" and "Suse" are not longer used.
By Sven Langkamp at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
> The words "Ximian" and "Suse" are not longer used.
Strange that there is an upcoming "SUSE 9.2 Professional" product then.
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
Ok, the product is still called SuSe. Even though the Suse - "a Novell business" shows the direction. In the Novell Desktop documentation SuSe is only mentioned once in the introduction and they even replaced the chameleon by the red N.
By Sven Langkamp at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
SUSE 9.2's KDE has the chameleon while the GNOME desktop has the Novell logo. Now let's talk about whose identity is disappearing, SUSE or Ximian (same for the websites).
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
In the logo case I was referring to the Novell Desktop. For the website: Did you have a look at ximian.com? It's redirected to Ximian site novell.com,
By Sven Langkamp at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
SUSE says that NLD will have both KDE and GNOME desktops, both integrated with OOo and Novell products, without a default desktop.
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
But what about Totem, Gaim and Firefox? Each of these has a superior KDE replacement. Totem, come on that's a complete joke. Kopete is more than competitive. If Firefox is Firefox KDE then that's okay but it should be Konqueror.
By ac at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
Yes. Looks like a severely crippled KDE. (Are they even using Konqueror as the file manager?)
By Martin at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
The GNOME user guide says Nautilus.
In the KDE guide does it only call "File Manager"
By Sven Langkamp at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
> The GNOME user guide says Nautilus.
GNOME uses Nautilus as file manager? What a shock.
> In the KDE guide does it only call "File Manager"
I bet KDE uses Konqueror. :-)
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
of course it uses konqueror...the big "evil" that everyone is discussing is the arrangement of the menu items and the web browser in the first enterprise desktop that is not even released yet...wait it out. See what happens. Work hard.
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
> In the KDE guide does it only call "File Manager"
If i had to bet - this is nautilus in KDE. At least looks hell of a lot
So by 'combining' these two desktops they mean that only kde application
Well so much for supporting two desktops. They don't, really.
By anonymous coward at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
Huh, they clearly say it's Konqueror in the text.
By ac at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
Well well. Seems like the "my baby" syndrome is all over the place. Too bad for Novell.
By KDE User at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
First of all, most of those are NOT gnome applications and that choice of applications, in general, is hardly surprising.
By John KDE Freak at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
it seems they are not taking away any functionality. Rather they are defining added valued enterprise features, which very well might change with time, considering the fast pace of development. Don't forget that the desktop they have to beat until now is BlueCurve from RedHat. The biggest question is whether they will try to simply copy that, or move on an make something better.
By Iam Nuts at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
> Great - on KDE desktop we have Gnome applications.
Or vice versa? :-) Calling help in GNOME applications on SUSE 9.2 and current NLD starts khelpcenter.
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
and the default burn program seems to be K3B (Good choice!)
By interestedParty at Mon, 2004/10/11 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
My bet: they exist as is until they can be replaced :(.
By anonymous coward at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
AFAIK it was the Ximian team who suggested using K3B, so you are wrong.
By kwwii at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
That sucks.
I want an *integrated* desktop... and kdepim can give it to me *today*! Thanks, developers..!
By Jonas at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
They only try to use the best application. Regardless which desktop is used.
* Evolution: Well - it's clearly more mature than Kontact. But SuSE seems also actively supporting Kontact (http://www.suse.de/de/company/suse/jobs/suse_pbu/developer_kde.html) let's hope for the future...
Everything is pointing to one direction. SuSE is going for multiple Desktops (KDE , GNOME) but single applications. They pick the best of both worlds and use it regardless which desktop is running. But using kopete in GNOME makes no sense, just like using totem in KDE, as there are better "integrated" solutions for each desktop available.
But let's see it from another point of view. KDE as desktop seems to be the favorite for SuSE. But GNOME seems to have the better applications. Maybe KDE's development should shift it's focus from the infrastructure to the applications. And maybe it should be more open for 3rd partys (is there any important KDE application not hosted in cvs.kde.org?)
All in all it's a little bit scaring to see that many unnecessary GNOME/GTK application in their KDE Desktop. Their good KDE support is my only reason to use SuSE (so far...).
By birdy at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
Good to know that SUSE still runs KDE as defualt. Buy a SUSE to support this.
The NLD seems to be more for enterprise clients...so we need to change what people think of KDE by improving applications to "enterprise quality" which will complete the functionality aspect of KDE and close the circle making KDE the clear winner.
Re: OT: Novell, take N+1
> Firefox:
just recently KDE-ified, the commits having been made to Mozilla's CVS in recent days
> OpenOffice
KDE-ified quite nicely these days, and getting more so with each release.
> Gaim: It is not really that better, if it is, than kopete. But it is not
it was probably picked because it currently supports Novel Groupware (the upcoming Kopete does as well, but it's not out in a release yet) and it integrates with Evolution (though I think they way they accomplished that is rather inferior compared to KDE's generic IMProxy stuff).
> is there any important KDE application not hosted in cvs.kde.org?
hrm. depends on the definition of "important", really. is Apollon important? is Scribus important? (and yes, Scribus is a Qt app, but Gaim is a Gtk+ app ;). K3B is part of kde-extragear, but is definitely a "third party" app, complete with its own devel team and independent releases. or how about the new Taskjugler frontend? that's new, obviously, but also definitely "third-party" and not in KDE's cvs. as it fills the "project management" niche which is largely unfilled on the Free/Open Source Software desktop, i expect it to become more important.
and if watch the app release digests on linuxtoday.com it's easy to see who consistently has the most third-party desktop application releases.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
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The truth is that Kmail and Kopete have groupwise support in the NLD. If the Evolution client does indeed support the protocol properly I do not know. I must admit that I have never tested anything other than the KDE stuff and I know that it does work and that is all I need to be happy. Once again KDE developers have out-shined themselves.
I think that the decision to use one high-quality web browser on both desktops is somewhat clear, although I have heard much discussion from both sides. I think that supporting something like Kfirefox is the right idea, but that is my personal opinion and we will have to see what the enterprise market wants in comparison to what we can offer them.
Most important in this market is the quality of the "enterprise applications" in KDE, and the over integration. I think that in the end this will be the deciding factor, but once again that is my personal opinion.
By kwwii at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
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> I think that the decision to use one high-quality web
Firefox even works on Windows and maybe (no idea) on Mac. I'm thinking that that is what Aaron was referring to.
> I think that supporting something like Kfirefox is the right idea
Note that the user interface of firefox is contradicting many usability standards of KDE (KDEs standards are clearly harder to reach).
By Thomas Zander at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
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>Firefox even works on Windows and maybe (no idea) on Mac.
Yes, and I was trying to agree :-)
>As an easy example; the keyboard shortcut 'ctrl-w' is delete
Funny, in my Firefox in OSX it is apple-w to close tab/window too...the apple=ctrl thing on mac - the the ctrl-w has no function.
So this leads us to think that the window manager should decide on all of the keyboard shortcuts, not the programs. The freedesktop spec should help clarify this.
By kwwii at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
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Ctrl-W does nothing special for form fields - it is globally "close tab or window" in firefox, just to clarify things. It might have been delete last word (very clearly a unix commandline relic) but it is currently not so.
By Tuomas Kuosmanen at Wed, 2004/10/13 - 5:00am
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Mozilla and OpenOffice are both "desktop independent". I'm happy to see more "KDE-ification" of these, and that SuSE uses the "KDE-ification" instead of "GNOME-ification".
Scribus is one of the rare KDE/Qt applications I'd count as a important/major KDE independent one. K3B is still bound near to KDE. Having more projects doing their own release cicle etc. just like K3B or KOffice would propalby bring some movement to the KDE application development.
By birdy at Tue, 2004/10/12 - 5:00am
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> Mozilla and OpenOffice are both "desktop independent". I'm happy to see more "KDE-ification" of these, and that SuSE uses the "KDE-ification" instead of "GNOME-ification".
Sorry, to disappoint you: SUSE uses both. If you start their OpenOffice.org under GNOME you will get GNOME icon, style and file dialog. If you start it under KDE you will get KDE icon, style and file dialog.


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In Week 32 of Mom's diary - 75 years ago - she mentioned the fact that the Carrrollton school had caught fire and burned to the ground - about 15 miles north of where they lived.
Following are two stories from the Coon Rapids Enterprise, that appeared in the 11 and 18 Aug 2011 editions, respectively:
75 Years Ago
August 14, 1936
The consolidated school building at Carrollton was completely destroyed by fire last Saturday evening. Although the origin of the fire is not known, it is believed to have started from spontaneous combustion in the coal bin which was stored about five tons of coal. Eldin Annear and family and the Possehn family, retuning home from Coon Rapids at 11:30 first discovered the blaze through the window on the northwest corner of the building.
Fire departments from Coon Rapids and Glidden were called immediately and made quick response but the blaze had gained too much headway for anything to be saved. The frame building was a mass of flames and the fire fighters had to turn their attention to extinguish the flames in the dry grass of the school yard.
Ralph and Oscar Lloyd brought Thomas Hessler's tractor and plow to the stubble field west of the schoolhouse and plowed a wide strip to stop the spread of the flames. Verne Carter and others made attempts to enter the building but the dense smoke made it impossible. Several men remained at the school yard the remainder of the night to watch that no spark would spread the fire. The chimney remained standing until after the fire had died down, but it collapsed about 4 a.m.
The building consisted of two basement rooms, four school rooms and four halls and housed ten grades which required four teachers every year. Harvey Toft is superintendent. Miss Ellen Fouts, who taught there last year will be back, and two new instructors have been employed.
Verne Carter is president of the school board, Donald Anderson is secretary and Frank Squires treasurer. Other board members are Charles Bowman, Thomas Hessler, Ed Davis and Abe Conner.
75 Years Ago
August 21, 1936
Members of the Carrollton school board met here Tuesday evening with the Coon Rapids
school board and accepted the offer of the later to take Carrollton students here without charge until suitable school arrangements can be made at the former county seat where the school building was destroyed by fire on the night of August 8. Carrollton has a school of ten grades and it was decided to send the five higher grades here by bus while quarter for the five lower grades will be provided space at the United Brethren church at Carrollton.
The Carrollton school board plans to hold an election in the four school districts comprising the consolidated district to vote on the question of erecting a new building at Carrollton. With the insurance money from the destroyed building and an additional fund of several thousand dollars on hand the Carrollton board has sufficient funds to erect an excellent building. A government grant is also being discussed. The loss in the recent fire was total including all school records which causes an embarrassing situation in regard to school credit of pupils. The school faculty is not to blame in this matter as the school had no fireproof vault.
The Coon Rapids school is also without a vault for valuable records, a situation which is now having serious consideration.
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Tim Grierson and Will Leitch will be writing regularly on Gawker and Deadspin about movies, starting today. We begin with defending the indefensible: praising the Oscar-nominated movie everyone seems to hate. Today, why you're wrong for hating The Help. Follow Grierson & Leitch on Twitter for more business.
The reason I think The Help is so divisive—and it's a film some friends of mine believe is actually worse about race relations than Crash, an outrageous accusation; my eyes had more fun being maced than watching Crash—is that is probably would have never occurred to the makers of The Help that it could possibly be divisive. This is a movie that desperately wants to please, to develop some sort of consensus, to appeal to some idealistic, impossible notion of humanity's inherent goodness. Those are always the types of movies people hate. It's so, so easy to mock a movie that doesn't understand why anyone would mock it. We used to call this bullying.
The Help is painfully earnest, to be sure, made by a director (Tate Taylor, a struggling actor who happened to grab the rights to the book before it became a bestseller simply because he was friends with the author) who lacks basic directorial chops but clearly cares so much about his story that he can't help but hit all the right emotional beats; he directs like a guy who has never seen another movie before and just wanted to tell this story, badly. Taylor grew up in Jackson and lives in Mississippi, and I bet he never makes a good movie again. He might have been put here just to make this movie.
The Help has drawn considerable criticism—most of its criticism, really—for its supposed rhetorical whitewashing of the civil rights era, for taking a tumultuous, hideous time in our nation's history and giving it a happy ending and transforming it into sassy entertainment. And for sure, the movie's light tone doesn't have enough of a backbone to handle an almost flippant "oh, yeah, Medgar Evers was murdered just across town" plot point. (The universe of this film is so self-contained and lovingly rendered that clumsily bringing in the real-world struggles feels like faux-historical hindsight.) But if you have a problem with a movie that gives you barrels full of sugar to help tell a story that's inherently depressing and ugly, well, you know, that's sort of how movies are made. You take out the sugar, and not only does no one see the film, it probably doesn't even exist. That the film isn't able to dramatize or resolve every angle of the cruelty of the time is less an indictment of the film itself as it is an indictment of the fact that so few films have ever even tried.
And besides, for all your smirking about Emma Stone's ringlets, you'd have a hard time gathering evidence from Viola Davis's performance that anything in The Help is somehow weak-kneed or overly forgiving for the sake of white audiences. Davis's Aibileen is the unquestioned center of the film, and it's a relief when, halfway through, the film finally admits that nobody cares about Skeeter's writing career and hands itself over to Davis. While you're wringing your hands about "the lack of quality roles for African-Americans in this business," Davis is busy digging deep into this character, making her pain—the pain of losing her son, the pain of having "raised 18 babies," white babies, who then turn right around straight into their parents—palpable and blinding. The movie is about her, and tens of thousands of women like her. Sure, there are white characters in The Help, but the movie never falls into the Rob Reiner message movie trap memorably chronicled by Variety's Godfrey Cheshire, who noted that "when future generations turn to this era's movies for an account of the struggles for racial justice in America, they'll learn the surprising lesson that such battles were fought and won by square-jawed white guys." The victory of the film is Davis's, not Stone's. If casting Stone and giving her a dull, pointless story about finding love gets more people into the theater to see Davis's story—and, to a smaller but not lesser extent, Octavia Spencer's and Cicely Tyson's —well, what's the problem with that? It might seem like an overly commercial, crowd-pleasing story to you, but it never is for them. And this is the movie that tells their story. Show me another film that even considered trying.
And the sugar is effective too. Stone has more success playing a silly character than poor Bryce Dallas Howard does in the requisite Most Racist Of Them All role—and note that the thinnest-drawn characters are all white—but Jessica Chastain brings legitimate daffiness and heart to a part that looks cartoonish but sneaks up on you. And all told, the "terrible awful" that Spencer's character pulls off has a cathartic kick. This is a film that paints in big, broad strokes and wants to move you, to make you laugh and make you cry in the most basic, old-fashioned tradition of the message movie. But it transcends that by caring about the people involved, by feeling obligated, in a fundamental sense, just to tell their story. Sure, you can stand aside from it and mock its earnestness, congratulate yourself for being "above" its tricks. You have that right. Just note that everyone around you in the theater is bawling.
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Oh 100% hes only been here two mins like.The worry is that we started from quite a low starting point with oumar and dom, nothing against either of them but most of the prem have a striker that would walk in over that and be able to either offer better hold up than Niasse or more of a threat than Dom, due to where they are in their own careers atm... unfortunately tosun has played in games where weve been crap, so hasnt had much of a chance to show us what hes got yet, and weve seen recent purchases get binned off for less!
I wish we could just fuck off the acclimatisation shite . The furthest point in Europe is about 4 hours these days . For me I would say we need to start creating more before we see Tosun contribute . Maybe the fact that Niasse chases down defenders and create space for Walcott is a short term tactic against certain teams . Certainly you need to press Leicester to stop them wafting it to Vardy and their defence never really got the ball down on the right . Long term we need a creative midfielder . Tosun just has a game we can't cater to at the minute .
I think Niasse has more impact off the bench where his energy and running will do more damage as defenders tire. Tosun needs to play to adapt but also given time.
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Replay used to check count in Yankees-Astros
HOUSTON -- The umpiring crew initiated a video review challenge in the ninth inning of Thursday's 4-2 Yankees victory over the Astros at Minute Maid Park, checking the count of an at-bat.
With assistance from the Replay Operations Center at Major League Baseball Advanced Media's headquarters in New York, the umpires confirmed that the count was three balls and one strike to Yankees third baseman Yangervis Solarte, as the scoreboard had indicated.
The challenge was initiated after Astros catcher Carlos Corporan asked home-plate umpire Brian Knight about the count.
"I asked the umpire, 'What's the count?'" Corporan said. "And he said, 'I don't know, I've got 2-1.' I said, 'I've got 2-1 as well.' I kind of forgot about the pitchout that we made. [Solarte] was like, 'No, it's 3-1,' and [the umpire] said, 'Of course you're going to think it's 3-1.' They wanted to make sure, so they took a little time."
The challenge, the first for both the Yankees and Astros, took two minutes and 20 seconds. Crew chief Gerry Davis and veteran umpire Phil Cuzzi both used the headsets near the third-base dugout for the replay.
"I give the crew credit," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "They came together, and because there was some indecision, I guess they decided to go ahead and make the count right. We had 3-1 the entire time."
"They did they right thing. They checked," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "If you happen to be wrong and you don't check, you're going to look foolish."
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Onion chopped lengthwise one
Tomato chopped lengthwise one
Rub Kashmiri masala on the chicken drumsticks and keep aside.
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Once done drain on kitchen towel and keep aside
In the same oil add chopped green chili, onion and tomato and stir fry for few minutes.
Before removing from flame add the chicken drumsticks again to the wok, chicken shouldn't be mixed with the onion and tomatoes.
Spread onion tomato mix ,place the chicken drumsticks on it and serve with fresh homemade curd.
This was my dinner two days back,…and ya I did sprinkled chat masala before serving…I know sometimes I over do myself ,and ya I again missed hubby and my sisters,..:-(
Its October already but delhi is the same weatherwise,today morning I read in newspaper that's its gonna rain continuously for 3 to four days,I was quiet skepticalas since past few days itw as quiet hot,but I was wrong because it did rain today and this is what I prepared to celebrate Rain..Hari mirch BHAJI
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A total of five members of the Hope College faculty are retiring at the end of the school year.
Retiring are Dr. James Boelkins, provost and professor of biology; Dr. Donald Cronkite, professor of biology; Dr. Robin Klay, professor of economics and management; Dr. Glenn Van Wieren, professor of kinesiology; and Karla Wolters, professor of kinesiology. Their combined service to Hope totals 138 years.
James Boelkins has served at Hope since 2002. A 1966 Hope graduate, he has worked in higher education administration for 39 years, including 25 years as the chief academic officer at Hope and other institutions.
He has valued the opportunity to play a role in strengthening the mission of the college: "to educate students for lives of leadership and service in a global society through academic and co-curricular programs of recognized excellence in the liberal arts and in the context of the historic Christian faith."
Boelkins identifies his most important contributions as the recruitment of more than 80 outstanding faculty, supporting the excellent teaching and scholarship by faculty, supporting the mission of Hope, participating in the design of new and renovated academic facilities, and the restoration of the Skinner organ in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. He has also emphasized building even closer ties between the academic, campus ministries and student life programs to create a more holistic experience for students.
The college's students presented him with a special award in recognition of his service to Hope during Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 10.
He has been active in professional associations and local organizations. Among other activities, he chairs the Great Lakes Colleges Association Deans' Council, the Advisory Committee of the Van Andel Institute Graduate School, chairs the Board of Directors of Wedgwood Christian Services, and is active in his church.
He and his wife, Barbara, have three grown children, Matthew, Jonathan and Melissa.
Donald Cronkite has received multiple awards in honor of his excellence as a teacher since joining the Hope faculty in 1978.
In 2008, he received the "Honorary Membership Award" from the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), the association's highest honor, for his distinguished teaching and service in the biological sciences. The NABT had previously awarded him its 2006 "Evolution Education Award" and its 1995 "Four-Year College Biology Teaching Award."
In March of 2005, he was named the "College Teacher of the Year" by the Michigan Science Teachers Association. In 1991, he was one of only 700 faculty members recognized nationally with a 1990-91 Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award.
He has also received recognition from the campus community. In 1988, he was named a co-recipient of the Hope Outstanding Professor Educator (H.O.P.E.) Award by the senior class and served as Commencement speaker.
Cronkite is a specialist in genetics. His teaching interests include introductory biology, embryology, cell biology, genetics, the history of biology, evolutionary biology, and science and human values.
He also directed pre-college outreach programs at Hope which were funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, including a sixth/seventh-grade science recreation program, a seventh/eighth-grade science demonstrators program and a ninth/10th-grade research club.
His numerous contributions to teaching excellence beyond campus have included serving as academic director for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation National Leadership Institute for High School Biology Teachers from 1991 to 1997 and a science curriculum consultant to 21 different colleges. His publications include the books "A Problem-Based Guide to Basic Genetics," "Genetics and Cell Biology," and "A Guide to 'Asking About Life, 2nd edition' for Teachers and T.A.s."
He and his wife, Jane, have three children: Ethan, Joel and Emily.
Robin Klay has taught at Hope since 1979. Her primary research emphasis is on the connections between Christian faith and practice and economic theory and policy. It's an emphasis that has also been reflected in her commitment to service.
Her doctoral dissertation was inspired by a summer spent working closely with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union in California. After graduate school, she spent three years teaching and doing research in Cameroon.
During her time at Hope, she has taught International Economics, Economic Growth and Development, History of Economic Thought, Labor Economics, and Principles of Macroeconomics. Her publications include the books "Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices," "Counting the Cost: The Economics of Christian Stewardship" and "Inflation, Poortalk and the Gospel."
In 2008, she received a "Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award" from Michigan Campus Compact in recognition of her role in establishing the college's "Hope Blooms" off-campus study program in Mexico, an internship experience that emphasized service and cultural immersion. Among other activities through the years, she helped start an "English as a Second Language" program at Fourth Reformed Church, working with Hope students and others. In 1991, she received the "Washington State Governor's Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service" for introducing and integrating an "Each Can Helps" donation program to help meet the needs of food banks in Yakima County, a response to a need that she observed while visiting her parents in the community. She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees for the charter-based Black RiverPublic School which, in 2006, was selected by "Newsweek" as one of the nation's 100 best high schools.
Her son, Nathan, is currently enrolled at Hope.
Glenn Van Wieren, who graduated from Hope in 1964, joined the faculty in 1966.
Coach of the Flying Dutchmen men's basketball team for 33 seasons, he ends an association with HopeCollege basketball that spans 50 years, dating back to his playing days in the early 1960s.
He nurtured a basketball program that is highly regarded across all of NCAA Division III. Averaging exactly 20 victories a season over 33 years (660-219), he had just one losing season. The 2009-10 Flying Dutchmen posted a 21-8 record to mark a school-record 31st consecutive winning season. Van Wieren entered the 2009-10 season ranked the fifth-winningest coach in NCAA Division III history, both in victories (now 660) and winning percentage (now .751).
He guided the Flying Dutchmen to a record 17 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) championships and appearances in 21 NCAA Division III post-season tournaments, including this past season. His teams advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen six times, to the Elite Eight four times and the final four three times, most recently in 2008. Hope finished second in the nation twice (1996 and 1998) and was third in 2008.
Van Wieren recorded his 600th victory faster than any Division III coach in history. He coached two teams (1983-84 and 1994-95) through unbeaten regular seasons. He coached in 87 "Rivalry" games against CalvinCollege, posting a 46-41 record.
In 2006 he was honored by the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame with the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan in 2003.
While at Hope, he also coached baseball, cross country and soccer. He is among the winningest coaches in MIAA history with a total of 19 league championships in basketball, baseball and soccer.
His wife Jacquelyn (Jackie Nyboer) is a 1967 Hope graduate. The Van Wierens have four daughters, Gretel, Heidi, Kuria and Rebekah.
Karla Wolters, a 1973 Hope graduate who joined the faculty in 1987, has both taught and coached throughout her time at the college.
During the past school year, her classes included the upper-level Introduction to Physical Education course as well as activity classes in sports ranging from korfball to cross-country skiing.
She has a passion for the history of sports and a special interest in the history of the Olympics and women in sports. She enjoys sharing this historical information and her collection of antique sports equipment with her students and community members.
Wolters has been softball coach since the spring of 1988, and has brought a new level of success to the program, leading the Flying Dutch to five NCAA Division III tournament appearances. She was named the Region softball coach of the year in 1991, 1992 and 1995, and the Hope staff was honored by the MIAA in 2006. She is ranked the fifth-winningest NCAA Division III coach all-time.
In addition to softball, Wolters has coached volleyball, field hockey and women's tennis during her time at Hope. A member of the faculty and coach at CalvinCollege - where she was named national Division III coach of the year in volleyball--before coming to Hope, she is among the most successful coaches in the history of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association with 20 conference championships in softball, volleyball and women's basketball.
She also introduced the sport of korfball to Hope and western Michigan through a class she taught. In the fall of 2005 Hope entertained a Korfball team from Europe and the next summer a team comprised of Hope students and recent alumni traveled to Europe for a series of games. Wolters served on the governing board of USA Korfball and in 2007 was an assistant coach on the USA team that competed in the World Championships in The Czech Republic.
In 2008, Hope honored Wolters and her husband, Tom, who is also a 1973 Hope graduate, by naming the new softball stadium in their honor.


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Hey, it's Giovanni. Now that's a good sign. I always view him as the four-leaf clover of gayzzoli. He's bound to bring luck in the subtext department. I mean, how could he not? One look at this goofy, clueless, face-licking specimen of the male species and our ladies are bound to be drawn closer to each other.
This time he's at an illegal street race where even more ridiculous male posturing is happening. A lot of talk of horsepower and speed and eating one's dust is thrown around. Just get the tape measure out, boys, it'd be so much easier and better for our air quality. Those amped-up muscle cars can't be good for the environment. How about a Prius race instead? Bet Maura would win.
Of course, no one ever listens to me and so the race starts and then things go boom. Like, literally, boom. One of the racer's cars blows up. But we're totally fine with that (aside for the imaginary loss of life) because we finally get to see Jane and Maura. They are, of course, bickering. Maura is on Jane (see what I did there?) to get her cholesterol checked. And Jane is on Maura (see, see–I did it again!) to leave her alone about her health.
The Adorable Bickersons are at it and we couldn't be happier. Maura gets to the heart (because they heart each other–I can't stop myself!) of the matter saying Jane's crankiness is due to her coffee addiction. Jane says she is cranky because she has a girlfriend who nags her about her health. Danger, Jane Rizzoli, danger. Keep going in that direction with your excuses and you'll be sleeping on the couch for a week.
Just then Frankie comes in with a perp he collared for handing out free meth. Bet he goes around giving it out by saying, "Tweaks really are for kids!" Jane goes over to offer some big sisterly help (i.e. egging on the suspect) before actually helping to move him. But then Lt. Det. Rafael "Suave" Martinez comes up all suspicious and tells Jane to stop helping. You know, as much as I joke about hating all the beards–and believe you me, I hate all the beards – I really hate Suave. Not only is he another unnecessary possible romantic foil for Jane, he's a – to quote Jane herself – complete "douche." To quote Det. Jane Rizzoli again, "REALLY? Do we really need this macho bullshit in our show about two capable and competent female lead characters, really?"
Maura, being endlessly adorable, tells Jane the etymological origin of the word "douche." Sensing Jane's frustration with all the unwanted testosterone in the room, Maura jokingly checks Jane's body temperature to see if it signals a rise in her sexual arousal. She then checks Jane's hand for tremors as a response to being in the presence of a sexy "bad boy." I half expected her to next bring out a fainting couch and ask if Jane had the vapors. Because we all know Jane is only ever turned on by good girl genius medical examiners.
Jane and Maura get called to the scene of the barbecued drag racer. Whoa, production department, go a little less realistic on the crispy critter, please. I was trying to eat dinner while watching. On the scene we also get our first glimpse of Frost again. And, again, it hurt. It hurts a lot.
To break up the sadness, everyone's favorite dim bulb Giovanni is there, too. He hollers over to Jane and asks what she's doing there. Her response was pure Det. Jane Clementine Rizzoli: "Oh, well they make us show up when there's a dead guy." Snort. See, now this is why I watch this show.
Giovanni tells Jane he's been recording his whole life in video selfies. Wow, please tell me his Instagram account immediately so I never, ever, even if on accident see any of his posts. After some weak denials and even weaker attempt to keep his phone, Jane wrangles both it and the fact that he recorded the whole race on it from him. Oh, Giovanni, you fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Rizzoli when your phone is on the line."
Just then, Bomb Tech BT strides onto the scene and helps confirm the car's supposed nitrous oxide tank was filled with propane instead and was rigged to explode on purpose. Maura gives Bomb Tech BT an extra long look because how silly is it when your initials match your profession's acronym? That's like being MD MD or LT LT.


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It's fitting that A.J. Burnett was starting this pre-Halloween Game 2 for the Yankees. All season long he's been either a trick or a treat for the Bombers with the answer remaining hidden until you rang the doorbell. On Thursday night, it was all treat as Burnett struck out nine over seven innings of one-run ball to carry the Yankees to a 3-1 victory.
Burnett avoided the sudden meltdowns that have marked so many of his starts as he carved up the Phillies lineup. Time and again, his curveballs plopped into Jose Molina's glove like miniature candies into a child's bag of candy while hitters watched helplessly. The Yankees needed nothing less than what they got from Burnett because their vaunted lineup struggled to find its way against Pedro Martinez.
The wily veteran used every single thing in his arsenal to shut down the Yankees for most of the evening but lost two crucial battles along the way. He left a changeup in the middle of the strike zone to Mark Teixeira in the fourth, and the first baseman connected for his first career World Series homer. Martinez then made a good pitch to Hideki Matsui, a breaking ball inches off the ground, but Matsui golfed it into the right field seats all the same. Martinez doesn't have much more than guile, but it served him awfully well upon his return to the Bronx.
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We'll miss that guile when he finally hangs up his curls, and his reaction to the cascade of boos that greeted his departure was a reminder of something else we'll miss when he's off the stage. Pedro vs. the Yankees has been one of the most enjoyable rivalries in the last decade of baseball. Watching Martinez grin at the 50,000-plus taunting him made it very hard not to like him, regardless of whether or not you were throwing in a few boos of your own.
Either way, the real pitching story of the night was Burnett. The enigmatic, erratic righty was on the top of his game when his team needed him to be nothing less. The offensive struggles subsided a bit as the game went on, but the Yankees spent most of the night stuck in the same rut that sent them hurtling to the ground against Cliff Lee in Game 1.
The struggling slugger who will catch the most notice is, as always, Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod is now 0 for 8 with six strikeouts over the first two games, and you're likely to see or hear someone wondering if he's up to his old tricks during the long wait for Game 3.
Of course, there may have been an offensive breakout looming in the bottom of the seventh but two of the running subplots of the playoffs conspired to nip it in the bud. Jerry Hairston and Melky Cabrera hit singles to start the frame and then Jorge Posada pinch hit and singled home the third run of the game. Derek Jeter, with runners on first and second, tried to bunt but failed on all three attempts and struck out. It's long been said that Jeter makes such decisions on his own, but allowing your players to make insanely stupid decisions in moments of great consequence is hardly a vote in favor of Joe Girardi's much-maligned managerial style.
The Yankees should have been trying to break the game open since being up 4-1 isn't much better than 3-1. Jeter may be obsessed with pretending he's a light hitting shortstop, but it is up to Girardi to let him know that he's actually quite a good offensive player who could have put the game out of reach if he just played it.
The other running thread of these playoffs has been miserable umpiring. After Jeter's butchered bunt, Johnny Damon hit a line drive that short-hopped Ryan Howard at first base. Howard threw wildly to second in an attempt to start a double play, but first base umpire Brian Gorman, somehow making the call while standing behind the hulking first baseman, said he caught it on the fly and gave the Phillies their double play anyway. Gorman blew a call in the top of the eighth as well, calling Chase Utley out on the tail end of a double play, so things evened out -- but it's really getting a bit ridiculous to keep watching games altered because umps can't do their jobs.
All of that is window dressing for the big stories of the night, though. The first would be Burnett, who defied every bad prediction about him with the kind of sharp, efficient start that few thought he was capable of making.
And the second is that the World Series is tied at one and headed to Philadelphia for what should be a very interesting three days of baseball.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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(By Delegates C. Miller, Reynolds, Morgan and Craig)
[Introduced February 20, 2012; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §9-5-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to funeral expenses for indigent persons; and restricting payments for burial services of indigents to only those services provided by a funeral director licensed by West Virginia.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §9-5-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§9-5-18. Funeral expenses for indigent persons; filing of affidavit to certify indigency; penalties for false swearing; payment by division.
(a) The Department of Health and Human Resources shall pay for reasonable funeral service expenses for indigent persons, in an amount not to exceed $1,250.
(b) For purposes of this section, the indigency of a deceased person is determined by the filing of an affidavit with the department, in a form provided by and determined in accordance with the income guidelines as set forth by the department: (1) Signed by the heir or heirs-at-law which states that the estate of the deceased person is pecuniarily unable to pay the costs associated with a funeral; or (2) signed by the county coroner or the county health officer, the attending physician or other person signing the death certificate or the state medical examiner stating that the deceased person has no heirs or that heirs have not been located after a reasonable search and that the deceased person had no estate or the estate is pecuniarily unable to pay the costs associated with a funeral.
(c) Payment shall be made by the department to the person or persons who have furnished the services and supplies for the indigent person's funeral expenses or to the persons who have advanced payment for same, as the department may determine, pursuant to appropriations for expenditures made by the Legislature for such that purpose.
(d) For purposes of this section, "reasonable funeral service expenses" means expenses for services provided by a West Virginia licensed funeral director for the disposition of human remains.
(e) Any person who knowingly swears falsely in an affidavit required by this section shall be is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or confined in the county or regional jail for a period of not more than six months, or both.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to restrict payments for burial services of indigents to only those services provided by a funeral director licensed by West Virginia.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.


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How can we make sure that violence always feels real — truly real — to us?
This is the question that underlies so many of the questions we are asking about violence today in the aftermath of the horror of Newtown. When we ask, "Are violent video games hurting our kids?" we are really asking, "Do they hurt our kids' ability to understand the reality of violence?"
When we debate the ethics of drones, we are more precisely exploring whether their physical and symbolic remoteness allows us protection from the reality of the violence we commit with them. Even our debates about concussions in football, as much as they are about the science behind head injuries, rest on the extent to which we empathize with the bodies and minds of the players affected.
We've all been horrified by obvious examples of the denial of the reality of violence: violent video game ads in the aftermath of Newtown caused outrage; a fantasy football columnist's reaction to an NFL murder-suicide by focusing on its ramifications for his fantasy league was widely condemned; the documented deaths of innocents in Pakistan from our drones ... no, this in fact has not caused widespread outrage or protest.
It was this that particularly struck me post-Newtown. Our country's arguably most egregious use of repeated violence has seemed almost as invisible to its citizens as the drones themselves. And yet as they were talked about in the presidential debates, obviously people are aware of them — so why no robust cultural debate about them?
What if one answer to the questions we are asking about how to ensure that violence is real to us is this: Our unconscious refuses to recognize certain kinds of violence as real, as existing, at all?
Consider recent debates about two serious American movies in which violence is central, "Django Unchained" and "Zero Dark Thirty." In the former, debates have centered around Quentin Tarantino's unabashed love of film violence and its relationship to the slave-era story he is telling. In the latter, questions have arisen about what director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal intend by scenes that seem to suggest torture played a role in the eventual killing of Osama bin Laden.
Fine questions, but what strikes me most about these two movies is that the primary objects of violence in both movies — slave owners and terrorists — are deserving of the violence that they receive. They are indisputably guilty of gross inhumanity and evil.
In reality, almost all objects of violence are innocent. The children of Newtown — or children killed in the crossfire in Chicago; adolescents struck down by a vicious tackle on a football field; the non-terrorists in the wrong place at the wrong time in Pakistan, Yemen, anywhere our drones stalk the skies and fire "precision weapons"; civilians in war zones the world over.
It's no great achievement to explore violence committed against those who deserve it, no matter how artfully created. The truly difficult achievement is to be able to think of our violence as unjust — as something we do to innocents.
When we see clear-cut examples of violence against innocents, as in Newtown, we are quick to condemn it. But just as our serious movies mostly avoid exploring violence committed against innocents, our leaders avoid discussing the moral complexities of military decisions that kill innocent civilians. It appears we don't want to know. No wonder we busy ourselves with tangential debates about video games and movie violence.
Why is it that we don't want to know?
To answer that, first we'll have to become conscious of our denial and ignorance — something that will take a long time and a lot of work. But if we undertake this work, perhaps we'll discover that these blind spots aren't just due to desensitization or a lack of empathy, but to an unexamined love of power and violence inside of us.
Starting to think about the bloodshed we overlook or minimize, the innocent victims we see as guilty or don't think about at all, is the very first step in beginning to change a culture that may be in love with violence without even knowing it.
Christopher Shinn is a Connecticut native who grew up in Wethersfield. His play "Dying City" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and his play "Teddy Ferrara," about bullying and suicide among LGBTQ youths, just opened in Chicago.


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Royals, Twins play two in Kansas City
First-year lefty Will Smith will try to reverse the result of his initial meeting with the Minnesota Twins on Saturday when the Kansas City Royals host them in the opener of a doubleheader to kick off a weather- impacted three-game set at Kauffman Stadium.
The teams were scheduled to begin the set on Friday night, but were postponed by rain
A 23-year-old product of Florida Gulf Coast University, Smith faced Minnesota in his third big-league start on June 4 in Kansas City and took a 10-7 loss.
He allowed seven runs on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings of work, which stood as his second-shortest outing before he was chased in 3 2/3 innings in a 5-1 loss at Tampa Bay two starts ago on Aug. 20.
The 6-foot-5, 240-pounder won three times in five decisions between those two subpar outings, defeating the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Baltimore and Oakland while pitching seven innings in each game.
Smith is 1-3 with a 6.46 earned run average in four road starts this season.
He'll be opposed by fellow rookie Cole De Vries, a right-hander who's trying for a second straight win after failing to record a victory for nearly two months.
The 27-year-old Minnesota native was 2-1 after 10-7 and 5-1 defeats of the Royals on June 4 and June 30, respectively, but then went 0-4 across 10 outings before defeating Texas, 6-5, on Aug. 26.
In the two wins against the Royals, De Vries combined to allow 11 hits and six runs in 11 innings with a walk and 10 strikeouts.
Against Texas, he gave up an earned run on three hits in five innings while striking out five.
De Vries is 2-2 with a 3.16 ERA in eight road appearances.
In Saturday's second game, former No. 1 overall draft pick Luke Hochevar aims both for his first win since July 31 and to get his career record against the Twins above .500.
A University of Tennessee alum and first pick in the 2006 draft, Hochevar is 4-4 in 14 career meetings with the Twins with a 4.81 ERA in 82 1/3 innings.
He took a no-decision against them on July 20 after allowing a run on five hits in seven innings of a game the Royals lost, 2-1.
Hochevar's 0-3 in five starts since defeating Cleveland in late July.
For the Twins, righty Liam Hendriks makes his 15th attempt at a first career win.
The 23-year-old Australian was 0-2 in four starts in a brief stint with Minnesota last season and is winless in seven decisions across 10 starts this season.
He went the nine-inning distance in a strong effort on Aug. 27 against Seattle but was nonetheless beaten, 1-0, after allowing three hits, walking three and striking out six.
Hendriks lost a 7-3 decision to the Royals in their lone meeting on Sept. 14, 2011, after being touched for five runs on eight hits in five innings.
The Royals swept the Detroit Tigers in a three-game set before this series, while the Twins have lost 17 of their last 21 games.
The Twins won eight of 12 games against the Royals to start the 2012 series, including winning two of three when the teams last met in a three-game set from July 20-22 in Kansas City. The Twins won the series last season, 10 games to eight.


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IFAW Necropsy Coordinator
Misty Niemeyer joined the IFAW Marine Mammal Rescue & Research (IFAW MMRR) team as a staff member in 2008. However, she is not new to the stranding team, as she had been a volunteer with IFAW (known previously as the Cape Cod Stranding Network, CCSN) since 2004, assisting mainly with necropsies and the Education Team.
While Misty is part of the team that provides response for all stranded marine mammals on Cape Cod and the south coast, Misty's primary role is as the Necropsy Coordinator.
Her primary responsibilities are to coordinate and conduct necropsies on dead marine mammals that strand within the IFAW MMRR region, to try to determine how the animals died as well as manage the large amount samples and data collected from each necropsy. Additionally, Misty gets to fulfill her interest in teaching by coordinating our Outreach Program and being an active part of our training team which has included local and international trainings.
Prior to working with IFAW, Misty worked for NOAA Fisheries Service in Woods Hole for five years studying right whales as an aerial survey and ship board observer. She also worked as a right whale observer in Georgia and Florida, as well as a field biologist in Hawaiian working with Hawaiian Monk Seals.
Misty is originally from southern California and received her degree in Biology with a marine emphasis in 2002 from Humboldt State University where she first began studying marine mammals including gray whales and harbor seals off the coast of Northern California.


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Lady Gaga Goes Clubbing in Gothic, Dominatrix-Inspired Outfit [PHOTOS + VIDEOS]by Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
When Lady Gaga goes clubbing, she dons her very best chains, chokers and leather!
The pop star stepped out in Tokyo, Japan yesterday for her artRAVE Tour after party — but that didn't mean she was about to step out of character, of course! As always, she donned an outrageous outfit in line with her usual eccentric ensembles.
She arrived in chain-link shorts and leather shoulder pads attached to a collar, with long silver chains ending in large crosses hanging from the perimeter. Luckily the outfit wasn't constricting, because she had some dancing to do.
Even more wild than her chains? Her silver-embellished nose and the swirling black design painted beneath her eyes! She posted an up-close photo of her getup, captioning her pic — and her night — as "Playtime."
To complete the look she chose ripped fishnet stockings and super high-heeled stiletto boots. She was an image of black and silver, save for her dark berry lip.
Not that Gaga was ever into anything plain, but it seems Japan has brought out Mother Monster's truly wild side. The day before her clubbing extravaganza, she was strolling around Harajuku in her underwear. She posted a cheeky (literally) pic as proof and wrote: "I left with amazing clothes and a portrait of me as a gift. Such a beautiful place. My people. Just me and my canvas midnight in Harajuku."
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Next-generation flagship golf footwear delivers "all-terrain versatility" designed to adapt to any surface, lie or angle
(CARLSBAD, Calif.) - Elevating the highly successful TOUR360 franchise, adidas Golf has introduced the TOUR360 ATV (All-Terrain Versatility), the company's most technologically-advanced shoe to date.
Engineered with a revolutionary, patent pending construction to give golfers the ability to attack every shot, no matter how challenging their position, TOUR360 ATV utilizes innovative forefoot flexibility and zonal traction elements to deliver maximum grip, comfort and stability throughout the swing. The ATV's multiple flex points in the forefoot allow the foot to move and flex in the way it was inherently meant to, and adapt to any surface.
"This shoe takes all of the advancements of the TOUR360 line and pushes it one step further," said Kevin Ross, VP adidas Golf. "We've taken feedback from our Tour players and combined it with our experience from the previous four versions to make ATV even better - the best performing TOUR360 yet."
The TOUR360 ATV features a dual-density outsole with 10-spike configuration to help golfers maintain stability and sure-footedness in wet or uneven conditions. Its revolutionary construction connects a 5-pod decoupled heel for adaptability, a strengthened TPU midfoot for support and aggressive TRAXION secondary lugs in the ultra-flexible forefoot for enhanced grip and feel. The result is dependable, All-Terrain Versatility in any number of challenging conditions including long or short rough, in soft or hard sand and even taking on steep uphill or downhill lies.
A premium, full-grain leather upper with 360WRAP promotes maximum stability and support around the midfoot while inside, a FitFOAMTM molded polyurethane insole provides everlasting cushioning and comfort heel-to-toe. The footwear's platform utilizes THINTECH low-profile technology with PINS (Performance Insert System), an advanced cleat system and thinner outsole to bring the foot closer to the ground for improved stability, power transfer and balance. Overall, the TOUR360 ATV weighs 2.0 ounces less than the previous TOUR360 and is 1.14mm lower to the ground.
The original TOUR360 revolutionized golf footwear style and performance expectations when it was introduced in 2005, completely altering the performance footwear landscape with the 360WRAP. Today, the TOUR360 franchise continues to lead the industry with new technologies and innovations engineered to give serious golfers who seek every competitive advantage and the ability to perform at their highest level.
Set to debut at The Barclays during the 2011 FedExCup Playoffs on August 25th the TOUR360 ATV will be on the feet of several adidas Golf Tour Staff professionals including Sergio Garcia, who recently tested the new shoe. "I love the TOUR360 ATV's new look and bold colors," said Garcia. "It is a very stable shoe that allows me to swing harder and stay grounded throughout my swing."
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A group of Account Managers headed out to a local pizza joint for lunch recently. Thursdays are their 2 "signature" slices and a drink special, so it's a good deal we can't pass up. But, that's not the point of this post.
The point is to highlight some great and not so great offline email address collection. If your business is a retail establishment or a restaurant, take a look at the picture. This was a 4-foot sign next to the door as you were headed out of the restaurant. These folks are doing a great job advertising their email marketing. What exactly works here?
- V.I.P. Club - People love to feel important and we've found that exclusivity complements email marketing perfectly. With some personalization, you can make folks feel like an email was sent only to them, and at the core, it actually is being sent just to them.
- Value - Their entire message relays value and explains why you want to be on their list. Whether it's a free meal (more info below) or members only awards (more exclusivity), they make a compelling case that you really need to sign up.
- Free Meal on Your Birthday - This is a great way to get someone (and their co-workers in the case of our little group) to come into your establishment. The goal isn't to give away the free meal but to build up the customer's loyalty and have them spend more money at your restaurant.
- Monthly Coupons - Who doesn't love coupons? Why pay full price when there's a coupon available? In these troubled economic times, digital coupon usage has soared. Customers clearly use them. Wouldn't you prefer they spend their money with you instead of a competitor?
- Expectation Setting - Not only do they have all of these great reasons to sign up, but they also set an expectation that they won't send you too many e-mails. You know they mean it because they used 4 exclamation points. Joking aside, it's a great way to tell your customers that you're going to be responsible if you're granted the permission and privilege to send to them. Having that age restriction further demonstrates that responsibility.
- Visibility - This was a huge sign right next to the door. We just had a satisfying meal and we got hit with a huge visual. You can't miss it. They positioned it perfectly.
So, all this is good stuff, but there's one terrible failure and it negates everything I mentioned above. Look closely at the table and you'll see an empty box that had their sign-up forms right next to the empty cup that presumably holds pens. Five of us that are in the email marketing business (and are on hundreds and hundreds of email lists) walked out without signing up because this place couldn't keep their form and pens stocked. It's a shame because we all love their pizza, with the notable exception of our co-worker that got a plain turkey sub with lettuce.


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- Material: Polyester
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