Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Pediatrics for November 2017. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as the FDA approvals and regulatory changes that are the most likely to affect clinical practice.
THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- While both improve gastrointestinal symptoms, the low Fermentable Oligo-Di-Mono-saccharides and polyols (FODMAP) diet shows greater benefit for patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) than general dietary advice (GDA), according to a study published online Nov. 20 in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Prenatal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy may have some benefits, although the evidence is low quality, according to research published online Nov. 29 in The BMJ.
THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of today's children are expected to be obese at the age of 35 years, with about half of the prevalence occurring during childhood, according to a study published in the Nov. 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Disparities in exposure to diabetes-associated environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may contribute to disparities in diabetes, according to a review published online Nov. 15 in Diabetes Care.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Infusion of autologous umbilical cord blood improves whole brain connectivity and motor function in young children with cerebral palsy (CP), according to a study published online Oct. 28 in Stem Cells Translational Medicine.
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Clinician denial of some types of tests requested by patients is associated with worse patient satisfaction with the clinician, according to a study published online Nov. 27 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For infants with bronchiolitis, the use of evidence-based supportive therapies (EBSTs) varies by hospital site, according to a study published online Nov. 28 in Pediatrics.
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Single measles cases trigger coordinated public health action that is associated with considerable costs, according to research published in the Nov. 24 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- New solutions are needed to address burnout among health care team members, yet, in a catch-22 situation for health industry leaders, change fatigue contributes to burnout, according to a Vocera Communications report entitled In Pursuit of Resilience, Well-Being, and Joy in Healthcare.
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Seemingly benign, recurring patterns of joking around a single theme (joke cycles) can contribute to humorizing and legitimizing sexual misconduct, according to an essay published online Nov. 12 in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- In a policy statement published online Nov. 27 in Pediatrics, recommendations are presented for health care professionals to help prevent child trafficking, recognize victims, and intervene appropriately.
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Coffee consumption seems safe and is associated with reduced risk for various health outcomes, according to a review published online Nov. 22 in The BMJ.
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Higher early childhood intake of alpha-tocopherol is associated with lower odds of elevated mid-childhood alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, according to a study published online Nov. 9 in Hepatology.
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Clinician suspicion has minimal accuracy for the diagnosis of Lyme disease, according to a study published online Nov. 24 in Pediatrics.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Spouses of female physicians are on average more educated and work more hours outside the home than spouses of male physicians, according to a research letter published online Nov. 21 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Negative behavior among children undergoing elective ear, nose, and throat surgery is associated with higher mean and maximum sevoflurane concentrations in the anesthesiologist's breathing zone, according to a study published online Oct. 25 in Pediatric Anesthesia.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Functional genes in the upper airway microbiome may be tied to childhood asthma, according to a study published Nov. 20 in Allergy.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Implementation of a guideline can reduce nonindicated use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) among newborns, according to a study published online Nov. 21 in Pediatrics.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Cerebral morphometric alterations can discriminate between children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and controls, according to a study published online Nov. 22 in Radiology.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Individuals who may have consumed contaminated raw milk and milk products from the Udder Milk company are urged to seek medical care, according to a report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
TUESDAY, Nov. 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Oral insulin does not delay onset of type 1 diabetes in autoantibody-positive relatives of patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in the Nov. 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
TUESDAY, Nov. 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians who are experiencing burnout are more than twice as likely to leave their organization within two years, and this is associated with significant economic costs, according to a report from the American Medical Association.
TUESDAY, Nov. 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Use of oxybenzone (Benzophenone-3) in sunscreen and personal care products should be minimized due to its dermatological and environmental toxicity, according to a review published online Oct. 31 in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology.
TUESDAY, Nov. 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Across all 50 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.), few adults consume the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, according to research published in the Nov. 17 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
MONDAY, Nov. 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For children with concussion, salivary microRNAs (miRNAs) can accurately identify the duration of symptoms, according to a study published online Nov. 20 in JAMA Pediatrics.
MONDAY, Nov. 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For youths with depression, there are distinct treatment trajectories, which have varying health outcomes, according to a study published online Nov. 20 in JAMA Pediatrics.
MONDAY, Nov. 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in girls and central adiposity in boys play a role in the acquisition of bone strength during adolescence, according to a study published online Oct. 30 in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
MONDAY, Nov. 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For male and female high school students, nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) is associated with experiences of dating violence victimization (DVV), according to a study published online Nov. 20 in Pediatrics.
MONDAY, Nov. 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Six statistically significant attributes of high-value primary care have been identified, and they include decision support for evidence-based medicine, risk-stratified care management, and coordination of care, according to a study published in the November/December issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
MONDAY, Nov. 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Short message service (SMS) reminders are a moderately effective way to increase the rate of influenza vaccination among high-risk patients, according to a study published in the November/December issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
FRIDAY, Nov. 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- More than 40 percent of health care personnel (HCP) with influenza-like illness (ILI) work while ill, according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.
FRIDAY, Nov. 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A simple, easy-to-use checklist, the Guideline Trustworthiness, Relevance, and Utility Scoring Tool (G-TRUST), can identify useful clinical practice guidelines, according to a study published in the September/October issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
FRIDAY, Nov. 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Probiotic and peanut oral immunotherapy (PPOIT) has a sustained beneficial effect on psychosocial impact of food allergy after end-of-treatment, according to a study published online Oct. 20 in Allergy.
FRIDAY, Nov. 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating antidiabetes drugs (ADDs), first-line use of metformin has increased since 2005, while sulfonylureas have remained the most popular second-line agent, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in Diabetes Care.
FRIDAY, Nov. 17, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Primary care providers who feel prepared are more likely to recommend physical activity to patients with disabilities, according to a study published online Nov. 16 in Preventing Chronic Disease.
THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation into the safety of codeine use by children, which culminated in a black box warning in February 2013, led to substantially decreased codeine prescribing to children after tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy, according to a study published online Nov. 16 in Pediatrics.
THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For children aged 2 and older, disappearance of a heart murmur on standing is a reliable tool for excluding pathologic murmur, according to a study published in the November/December issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For young children, implementation of a peer review prior authorization (PA) policy can reduce the use of atypical antipsychotic (AAP) medications, according to a research letter published online Nov. 15 in JAMA Psychiatry.
THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Smartphone photographs of pediatric skin conditions taken by parents are of sufficient quality to allow accurate diagnosis, according to a study published online Nov. 15 in JAMA Dermatology.
THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (JORRP) in Australia decreased from 2012 to 2016 after implementation of a quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program for females aged 12 to 26 years in 2007-2009, according to a study published online Nov. 9 in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A 250-μg peanut patch produces a significant treatment response in peanut-allergic patients treated for a year, according to a study published online Nov. 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Psychostimulant use during pregnancy is associated with a small increased relative risk of preeclampsia and preterm birth, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Sport sampling in childhood may be associated with higher physical activity (PA) levels during adolescence, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in Pediatrics.
TUESDAY, Nov. 14, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Promotion of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding may reduce the risk of flexural dermatitis in adolescence but does not affect lung function or questionnaire-derived measures of asthma or atopic eczema, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in JAMA Pediatrics.
TUESDAY, Nov. 14, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Inhaled corticosteroids are not associated with increased odds of fracture in the pediatric asthma population, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in JAMA Pediatrics.
MONDAY, Nov. 13, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of neonatal morbidity, according to a study published online Nov. 10 in Pediatrics.
THURSDAY, Nov. 9, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- There is considerable global variation in the average primary care physician consultation length, from 48 seconds to 22.5 minutes, according to a review published online Nov. 8 in BMJ Open.
THURSDAY, Nov. 9, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with depression and anxiety, online computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) provided via a collaborative care program is beneficial, but combining an internet support group (ISG) with CCBT offers no additional benefit, according to a study published online Nov. 8 in JAMA Psychiatry.
THURSDAY, Nov. 9, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Delayed cord clamping is associated with reduced hospital mortality in preterm infants, according to a review published online Oct. 30 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
THURSDAY, Nov. 9, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccination coverage has remained above 90 percent for many vaccinations among young children, and progress is being made toward immunization information systems (IISs) program goals, according to two studies published online Nov. 2 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Hearing loss among U.S. adolescents seems not to be increasing, according to a study published online Nov. 8 in Pediatrics.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians have two extra weeks to preview their 2016 performance information as a result of a mistake related to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Physician Compare online resource, according to a report published by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For patients presenting to the emergency department with acute extremity pain, the combination of ibuprofen and acetaminophen does not differ in terms of pain reduction from three different opioid and acetaminophen combination analgesics, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- There has been little change in the treatment recommendations for cough due to the common cold since publication of guidelines in 2006, according to a review published online Nov. 7 in Chest.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Factors including increases in health care service price and intensity are associated with increases in U.S. health care spending from 1996 to 2013, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
TUESDAY, Nov. 7, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Preventive care rates have increased moderately to modestly for adolescents since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but are still low overall, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in JAMA Pediatrics.
TUESDAY, Nov. 7, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Providing women with web-based vaccine information with social media applications during pregnancy is associated with a greater proportion of infants up-to-date on their vaccines, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in Pediatrics.
TUESDAY, Nov. 7, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Influenza vaccination in the pediatric emergency department (PED) setting appears to be a cost-effective strategy, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in JAMA Pediatrics.
FRIDAY, Nov. 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- From 2005 to 2015 there was a decrease in the proportion of infants aged ≤60 days with a urinary tract infection (UTI) who received four or more days of intravenous (IV) antibiotics, according to a study published online Nov. 2 in Pediatrics.
FRIDAY, Nov. 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Pricing interventions seem to improve access to healthy food and beverage options with increases in stocking and sales of these items, according to a review published online Nov. 2 in Preventing Chronic Disease.
FRIDAY, Nov. 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Brighter Bites, a school-based food cooperative program, is effective in improving children's diets, according to a study published online Nov. 2 in Preventing Chronic Disease.
THURSDAY, Nov. 2, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- For adolescents with type 1 diabetes and high levels of albumin excretion, neither angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors nor statins change the albumin-to-creatinine ratio over time, according to a study published online Nov. 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
THURSDAY, Nov. 2, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Gene replacement therapy is beneficial in spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA1), and nusinersen is beneficial for infants with spinal muscular atrophy, according to two studies published online Nov. 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
THURSDAY, Nov. 2, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Not all prescription drug users report receiving warnings about driving impairment, according to a study published online Nov. 1 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched an initiative to examine which provider regulations should be discarded or revamped amid concerns that the regulations are reducing the amount of time that physicians spend with patients, according to an article published in Modern Healthcare.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A pneumonia vaccine under development provides the "most comprehensive coverage" to date and alleviates antimicrobial concerns, according to a study published online Oct. 18 in Science Advances.


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With a plethora of accommodation and leisure options, this property in Juffair is a smart choice for families as well as corporate and leisure travellers.
Being Bahrain's first ISO-certified hotel, Al Safir Hotel and Tower takes pride in its motto, 'hospitality is our heritage'.
With 126 deluxe rooms and top-of-the-line services, guests are guaranteed a truly regal treatment at budget-friendly prices.
"We are adding more entertainment facilities to cater for the requirements of those who enjoy music and different types of food," says general manager Naveen Narayanan.
On level 13 is a grand health club equipped with a gym, temperature-controlled indoor swimming pool, sauna, steam and Jacuzzi.
The adjoining tower offers both lodging and leisure, providing the 68 residences with hotel facilities. Out of those, 24 are executive rooms, 39 are suites with the option of merging two to form three-bedroom accommodation, there are four VIP suites and an imperial suite that comes with its own private pool.
Indulge your taste buds at one of the many gastronomic outlets at the property, such as the all-day diner Yalla Yalla, Cucina Italiana and Bennigan's.
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Sultan calls for equal access to COVID-19 vaccine at ASEAN meeting HM tells Southeast Asian counterparts to keep economies open as part of pandemic recovery
Shareen Han
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN — His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah has underscored the need to ensure countries have equal access to the COVID-19 vaccine once it is available.
During his virtual meetings with leaders of ASEAN and its dialogue partners on Saturday, the monarch called on countries to work closely in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine and treatments.
The development of a COVID-19 vaccine received a boost when American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech this week said early results of their vaccine showed a 90 percent effectiveness against the coronavirus.
While dozens of COVID-19 vaccines are in development, its distribution raises questions on who will get the vaccine first and at what cost.
Brunei joined Gavi, a global vaccine alliance earlier this year to provide about 20 percent of the population with the coronavirus vaccine.
A total of 184 countries have signed up to the COVID-19 global vaccine alliance.
'Keep trade open during pandemic'
Delivering his titah at the ASEAN Plus Three Summit, the monarch said it is important to maintain economic continuity to enable a swift recovery from the pandemic.
He said countries need to ensure that goods and services are readily available, supply chains are open and connected, and businesses are able to continue operating.
In addition, His Majesty said ASEAN Plus Three countries – which includes China, Japan and South Korea – can consider establishing travel arrangements that allow the necessary and safe movement of people.
Later at the 15th East Asia Summit, the sultan said pan-Asian countries can achieve a wide-scale recovery from the pandemic given the region's vast population size and strong economy.
Encouraging greater cooperation to tackle cybersecurity challenges, His Majesty added that the pandemic has increased people's dependence on technology for essential services, leading to a rise in cyber crime and the use of social media to promote violent extremism and disinformation.
His Majesty the Sultan during the virtual ASEAN-US Summit. Photo: Infofoto
ASEAN agrees to improve free trade pact with Australia, New Zealand
Meanwhile, ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand have agreed to launch negotiations to upgrade their free trade agreement in early 2021.
In a joint statement, the leaders of the 12 countries said an improved free trade deal will deliver "tangible benefits" to businesses, consumers and people.
The ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area agreement first entered into force in 2010, where 90 percent of tariffs were gradually reduced.
The 10 ASEAN member states, Australia and New Zealand have a combined population of 663 million people and a gross domestic product of US$4 trillion in 2016.
His Majesty welcomed the move to upgrade the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand free trade accord, saying that it would bring better benefits to businesses and people.
Joining the ASEAN-US Summit, the monarch said the US's strategic engagement with the regional bloc remains crucial to ensuring peace, security and prosperity in the region.
His Majesty said ASEAN appreciated US's commitment in improving medical and health capacities in the region and called for close cooperation with the US to provide affordable and effective COVID-19 vaccines for all ASEAN member states.
US national security adviser Robert O'Brien attended the meeting on behalf of president Donald Trump, who skipped the meeting for the third straight year.
Vietnam hosted the ASEAN meetings this year, which took place online amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2019 Academy of Country Music Awards nominees for Duo of the Year are Brothers Osborne, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line, LOCASH, and Maddie & Tae. Here's a look at each of the contenders. The winner will be announced at the ACM Awards live from Las Vegas on April 7, 2019.
T.J. and John Osborne are more than just brothers; they're one of our favorite country duos right now! The two grew up in Maryland, and eventually moved to Nashville in their adult lives to chase the dream. They've worked with artists like David Nail, Lee Ann Womack, and Dierks Bentley— they've even been touring with Dierks! Their musical style is unlike most country nowadays, mixing neotraditional country, southern rock, and outlaw country, and we love the refreshing spin they're putting on the charts right now!
One of our favorite bromances, Dan + Shay met just 7 years ago and wasted no time on working together. What do we mean by that? Well, they met December 7th of 2012, and starting writing songs together on December 8th. Before becoming the power duo that we all know and love, Shay grew up in Arkansas while Dan is a Pennsylvania native. Though the two have very different backgrounds, one thing they have common is their passion for country music, and it shines through in every song!
FGL started off strong with their breakout hit, "Cruise". I know, it will always be THE summer anthem. Along with Cruise, they've released dozens of songs that have stolen our hearts and topped charts all across the world, quickly earning themselves a very prominent name in the business. The boys helped to pioneer a sub-genre called "Bro Country", which means they frequently work with artists from other genres and incorporate both stylings into one song. It's no wonder why they've taken over country music the way that they have, and we personally wouldn't be surprised one bit if they took home the award for this category!
LoCash— formerly known as LoCash Cowboys— have their roots set in Indiana and Maryland, but they now reside in Nashville. Along with their own hit singles like "I Know Somebody" and "I Love This Life", the pair has also taken part in co-writing with Keith Urban for "You Gonna Fly" and Tim McGraw with "Truck Yeah". We're big fans of their music and their energy, and we're excited to see where they take this industry!
These country girls have only been making music since 2015, but the hits never stop coming with these two! Most recently, I've been absolutely obsessed with "Die From A Broken Heart", and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Maddie and Tae met while they were being trained by the same vocal coach and soon became inseparable, and eventually started spending every weekend traveling from Texas and Oklahoma to Nashville. After high school graduation, the two officially made the move from the homelands to the country capital and immediately started spitting out records, and it's been all up-hill from there. They're the only female duo nominated for this award, and we're absolutely here for the girl power!
Check out the full list of 2019 ACM Awards nominees. The ACM Awards will be broadcast live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7 at 8:00 PM ET/PT on CBS. Who's your pick to win Duo of the Year?


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N.Y. Irish immigrant's death sends message to undocumented
In the wake of the death of Irish immigrant Darren O'Donnell, Irish immigration centers in New York are calling for
IrishCentral Staff Writers
Darren O'Donnell
In the wake of the death of Irish immigrant Darren O'Donnell, Irish immigration centers in New York are calling for all the undocumented not to hesitate to seek medical help if they are injured.
O'Donnell, 32, an Athlone, County Westmeath native and an undocumented construction worker in N.Y., suffered fatal injuries after being attacked in a Staten Island park, the Irish Echo reported last week.
He did not, however, seek out medical attention and did not report the incident to the police, which ultimately resulted in his untimely death.
In response to the tragedy, the Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers, N.Y. is reiterating advice they've previously given to undocumented immigrants "not to be afraid to come forward when a crime has been committed against them."
"The police are here to serve and protect us," Orla Kelleher, executive director of the Aisling Center, told IrishCentral. "Just as if you have a medical concern, the hospitals and doctors have a duty of care to look after somebody regardless of their immigration status."
The Emerald Isle Immigration Center of Queens, N.Y. similarly said in a published report that they are working to get the message out to every undocumented Irish immigrant in New York City that they "should not be afraid of seeking help from the police or emergency medical services," said Siobhan Dennehy, executive director of the Center.
Kelleher says the Aisling Center has only ever had positive experiences with both the police and hospitals, both of which have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy in cases regarding undocumented immigrants.
"This proves that people should not be afraid to come forward," she said. "The police have done everything within their power to serve and protect us without any fear of a person's status coming against them. They have always abided by their 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."
O'Donnell was eventually treated for his injuries in the Richmond University Hospital in Staten Island, and was transferred to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, where he died from his injuries on May 16.
When asked why an undocumented immigrant might not immediately seek medical attention for injuries or report an incident to the police, Kelleher said: "I think some people prefer to ignore it in the hope that the problem will go away, rather than dealing with an issue, which can become as serious as fatal, in this case."
Kelleher's hypothesis corresponds to the Athlone community's description of O'Donnell. One Athlone Woman told the Echo that the Irish immigrant was quiet, and "not the kind of person to make a big deal of things."
O'Donnell's remains were sent to Westmeath, where he was interred after a funeral in St. Mary's Church in Athlone.
More details of the Irish immigrant's death will soon be released by the Medical Examiner for the City of New York.
Meanwhile, the Richmond County District Attorney's office, which covers Staten Island, has stated its intentions to further investigate O'Donnell's death.


CHICAGO – The University of Chicago women's divers dominated the three-meter board, shattering three separate records to pace the Maroon efforts at day two of the 2019 University Athletic Association (UAA) Swimming & Diving Championships on Thursday.
Hosted at UChicago's Myers-McLoraine Pool, the evening session's biggest highlights occurred in the women's three-meter dive. UChicago had two athletes surpass 500 points in the prelims earlier in the afternoon, but the Maroons raised their game even higher in the finals by sweeping the top three podium spots.
Junior Agnes Lo submitted a historic performance over the course of her 11 dives, scoring 551.45 points to win the three-meter board. That mark smashes the old UAA record set last season (511.05), along with the school (510.55) and pool (524.05) records. First-year Elizabeth Cron took runner-up with 524.30 points, which also bettered those three previous marks. Fellow first-year Alice Saparov rounded out the All-UAA awardees by placing third with 467.85 points.
UChicago submitted a pair of All-UAA performances in the men's 50-yard freestyle. Sophomore Jonathan Mendley took runner-up with a time of 20.57 that was a mere 0.01 seconds behind the winner. Senior Alexander Farrell was third in 20.76.
The 200-yard freestyle relays produced dividends for UChicago as well – both the men and women submitted times that would have qualified for last year's NCAA national meet. The men placed second in 1:21.69 with the quartet of sophomore Jonathan Mendley, junior Byrne Litschgi, senior Winston Wang and senior Alexander Farrell. The women were third (1:34.76) with sophomore Nicole Lin, first-year Tyler Mandrell, senior Hannah Eastman and senior Daria Wick.
Both 400-yard medley relay teams posted final times that met last year's national qualifying standard. The men's relay (Litschgi, Reona Yamaguchi, Michael Todd, Farrell) touched second in 3:18.28, while the women's relay (Gillian Gagnard, Lin, Hadley Ackerman, Eastman) was fourth in 3:49.34. Eastman added a qualifying time in the 200-yard IM as well (2:06.05).


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Gregory Tony wins brutally fought race for Broward sheriff
By Eileen Kelley
Gregory Tony has won the race for Broward County Sheriff and will keep his post.
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony won his first election Tuesday to keep serving as the county's top cop, prevailing in a hard-fought race that was rocked by a bitter union battle and the revelation of a secret decades-old killing.
Tony last year was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis into the high-profile post of sheriff, tapped to lead an agency with a nearly $1 billion budget and more than 5,400 employees. And with a commanding lead, Tony kept the post by besting Republican H. Wayne Clark and independent candidate Charles Whatley.
"I am honored that voters in our community have chosen me to continue to lead the Broward Sheriff's Office. While I'm thrilled with the progress we've made in the last two years — whether in providing better training for our staff, creating a better culture of accountability and transparency, or making our schools safer — there is still much to be done.
"Tomorrow, the work continues, and I will never stop working to keep this community safe, and to making BSO the best public safety organization in the nation," said Tony in a statement Tuesday night.
In his nearly two-year oversight of Broward's largest law enforcement agency, Tony has struck a position of zero tolerance for wrongdoing: He has fired 14 deputies, including two over excessive force cases, and three detention deputies, he said. And most recently, he fired two jail administrators after learning of an inmate's alleged treatment as she gave birth in jail.
He favors having a citizen's review board to look at allegations of wrongdoing by law enforcement and says he understands why many around the country are calling for defunding police departments.
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Tony, Broward's first Black sheriff, said the killing of George Floyd and many other Black men by police affected him greatly. "In order to move forward as a community and country, true reform is necessary and it begins with policy changes and the leadership within our law enforcement agencies," Tony wrote in a written response to questions posed by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Tony won over voters despite the controversy surrounding his past that came into the spotlight this year. In May, it was unearthed that Tony shot and killed a neighbor when Tony was 14, in Philadelphia. In the 1990s, Tony was arrested before the case was sent down to juvenile court, records show. He was acquitted in a case that Tony called an instance of self-defense.
Tony didn't disclose on job applications that he killed an 18-year-old, and also didn't acknowledge on paperwork that he had tried LSD as a teenager.
This year, he came under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which was doing a review of what Tony had said in his official job paperwork. Tony dismissed such revelations of his past as desperate attempts by his foes and primary challengers to stop his momentum on police reform.
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Tony, whose previously highest held rank was sergeant for the Coral Springs Police Department, was appointed sheriff in early 2019 after a then-newly elected DeSantis had ousted former Sheriff Scott Israel, citing "incompetence" and "neglect of duty" over his leadership, including over the agency's handling of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting.
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Israel didn't give up and tried to win back his seat in this year's primary, losing to Tony by some 4,000 votes in a crowded field of Democratic contenders. After the August election, three of his Democratic opponents broke rank and put their support behind Clark.
In April, union deputies sent Tony a stern message when they overwhelmingly voted that they had lost confidence in him.
Leading up to the vote, the union had a long list of grievances against the sheriff, chiefly at the time was what they maintained was a lack of protective measures in place at the Sheriff's Office as the coronavirus pandemic was taking shape.
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As of Tuesday, 595 of the agency's 5,688 employees have tested positive for COVID-19. Five employees have died and 43 are still positive.
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As disabling swap and/or compressing memory is not recommended and also not a stable option after 10.9 Mavericks (despite the vm setting exists), I'm doomed after few days of running my Mac with my memory writing to the far-from-optimal pages of memory. As everything gets to swap or compressed memory so easily, I need to reboot my system relatively often (despite my 16GB RAM).
I'm searching for a solution which saves me from these slowdowns.
Which is even "cronnable". So this flushes file cache, but unlikely to be optimal. It flushes too many things. Also if something is already in swap and/or compressed memory, despite the purge it stays there, so those softwares using them stay slow (and I feel that slowness, trust me).
Is there any solution to make macOS less likely to use file cache, compressed memory or swap (but still keep the first for performance and the latter two for emergency)?
First and best line of defence would be to kill processes or services not needed.
Mode 0x1, VM_PAGER_DEFAULT, turns off memory compressor and swapping, which is proved to be harmful to the system stability. Modes 0x8, 0x10 and 0x20 are the so-called "freezer" modes, which "freeze" the OS instantly when memory is under pressure. You don't want to try them.
When using mode 0x2, memory pressure must be monitored closely to avoid kernel panic. Once the compressed memory grows close to 50% of total memory capacity, you would either like to close some of the running applications, or simply reboot the system.
I say this with kindness, but no, no, no.
Don't change the fundamental design and process of virtual memory management of macOS because you have a system or workload that leaks so badly that you have accumulating swap piling up and the algorithm breaks down. Any change you make to the algorithm will still break if you have software that's not allocating memory correctly, so this problem probably needs to return to isolate and identify what is causing the memory pressure so that compression and swap become a symptom of the underlying issue.
Now - you might have a super good reason why you're asking to alter the virtual memory, but macOS micro kernel isn't designed for the level of tweaking that Linux is and if you truly need to manage VM that tightly, I would encourage you to either locate that code on a separate server via putting it in the cloud, on a second local device or even virtualizing Linux guest OS on top of macOS.
Then you'll have the best memory turning for the actual OS and the virtual software (VMWare Fusion is my general first recommendation, but check out Parallels or even some free options if you have time and inclination) so you can put the code that needs an iron fist governing virtual memory on Linux and let the mac apps be mac apps.
And just to go out on a limb, in the seventeen years since OS X shipped, I've worked with dozens of people that went down the path you propose - find a case where virtual memory signals a problem and then change VM to overcome those software needs, in every case, we ended up fixing the applications or fixing where we run things instead of finding a magic setting or mortification that didn't cause more harm than good.
I do encourage everyone to try these things - especially if you have desire to know the internals of an operating system, but the premise here that VM needs to change doesn't seem to ring true based on the details provided or the long experience of attempting this in the past. Please let us know if you find a setting that works for you and don't down vote other people if they suggest things - this is how we all learn by hashing out engineering and software challenges - even against odds of it not working in the end.
I have the same issue and completely sympathise. Unnecessary swapping in the face of other options (e.g. shrinking the cached files area) has been a problem for years. It's made even worse under Mojave, where free memory - not even disk cache, but completely free - is present, but the system decides to use swap anyway. On an SSD, every write causes wear & tear to the hardware, so this is actually (albeit in a small way) physically damaging behaviour. Since the SSDs in modern Macs are soldered onto the main board, the situation is dire.
I've been told many times by very confident posters on sites such as this that free memory is a bad idea, because it's sitting there consuming power and being of no other use. Disc cache (at least) should consume it. I agree with this; Mojave does not, compressing data and swapping it to disc even when gigabytes of free memory are present. On my home laptop, sleep cycles make it even worse. Right now, after a wake-up the machine has 11GB free, 5GB in use and 6GB swapped. The gibberish "memory pressure" colour is green, whatever that means. It's utterly absurd and indefensibly broken.
I used to think there must be something I was installing or doing wrong, but on brand new Macs at work with nothing extra installed, consuming RAM via opening lots of tabs in Safari will soon enough show use of swap space despite lots of free RAM.
And yes, it lags - badly at times. This definitely has a performance impact.
I know of no solution. Apple Engineering claim it 'works as designed'.
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The Writer Strike is Finally Over
That's right. The strike that sent all of your favourite shows into re-runs is now over, well that is at lest if the writers vote for the deal today. Which they most likely will. But this does bring up a few questions. By now, many of us have gone for a few months without our favourite shows, so when they finally come back (in a few months) will we be watching?
All of us have had to find other activities to occupy the time that we normally devoted to our favourite shows, and so will we decide to give these new activities up? In truth some people that I have talked to are just aching for there favourite shows to come back. One women whom I work with, is a diehard Desperate Housewives fan and plans on watching it when it returns, even after I told her that she would have to wait for another couple of months. But I could imagine people giving up on TV entirely.
I most admit that I'm waiting to start watching Heroes again. I want to see what Sylar does now that he has his powers back and if Adam will escape from his grave. But some shows, that have managed to stick around through the strike have just went down hill and maybe will end up off my list of shows to watch. Like Prison Break. Was it just me or did the last 2 episodes have scenes that were just unclear or didn't make sense. Like after the first commercial, I found it weird that Michael and the escapes where being chased in the jungle during the day, when before the commercial it was night time. Also, how did the first group that went out of the tunnel all get caught and shot at, but the others where just able to get out unseen by the guards (that should have been suspicious of more prisoners escaping). Also, why did Brad go all the way around into the prison to show tunnel to the prison guards when they were pretty much standing by the hole they came out of. Finally, why where they going to let Sucre go when he had a warrant out for his arrest. It just did make sense. Although it did add to the suspense. But anyway, enough of my complaining.
So will we be watching when our show comeback? I guess we will have to wait and see. For the most part I believe we will, but I think we will see some drop offs. Then again, I could be wrong.
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Because when I have something in my life that needs a "quick fix" and that "quick fix" (whatever it might be) is unavailable to me, it drives me INSANE. I spend all of this heart and soul energy on how I can get "it" faster. When really...some things are a slow process. Some things are not meant to be a quick fix at all. Yet I am so desperate because I've been trained this way and it's hard for me to understand that most things are better with delayed gratification. Here are some of the things in life that are hard for me with instant satisfaction vs. delayed gratification.
a. When I wake up one morning and decide I'd like to have Kate Beckinsale's body instead of mine...I get super motivated, go to the gym EVERY day for a week and am absolutely PISSED that by day 7 my abs resemble the same abs that I started with on day number 1.
b. When I meet a guy. I have had the tendency in the past (which I have TOTALLY now outgrown) to want to rush things. Why, oh, why would you want to do that? It's because I see people in these wonderful relationships and am envious. So being a quick fixer, suddenly after bumping into strange, cute boy at the grocery store I see us walking down the aisle hand in hand...and I don't mean the frozen food aisle. Get it?
c. My guitar playing skills. I am a decent guitar player. But I could certainly be better. I want to be better. I watch Jill play the guitar and I'm like wow...she can just play so well. So I compare...I have been playing guitar for 5 years....Jill has been playing the guitar for 15 years. That's a whole extra 10 years of practicing, playing, learning...yet I still somehow think that after practicing really hard for two days that my skills are going to magically re-invent themselves.
It's obvious why these are some of the things that I combat in my need for quick fixes. Every 5 seconds on TV, I'm bombarded with commercials promising the loss of 50 million pounds with only the swallow of a tiny pill, or Eharmony & Match.com reaching out to us lonely unattached folk--selling that there is that special someone that is waiting for you and is just ONE click away.
So--that's my deal folks. I feel like I've been doing some soul searching and that's what I've come up with. I think some of best things in life are things that you have to work long and hard for...not everything, but most things. That's what I'm going to be working on. Trying to gain perspective. Change, even very small change, is still change and is part of a greater process. Growth, even when it's very small, is still growth. I'm trying to slow down, take it all in and see life in real-life-even-though-it's-hard-cause-I-want-it-all-RIGHT-NOW-motion. I know we've heard it all before but it's the journey not the destination.


Advice That Will Help You With Regards To FurnitureGetting discounted prices on something you want is a thing that a lot of people appreciate. If the deal is on furniture, you realize that you've got to jump on that straight away! So this information is here that will help you discover how to get furniture that will enjoy without an excessive amount of money or time wasted. Below are a few sound advice.Ask relatives and friends for recommendations. People have bought furniture at the same time or any other, so it's essential that you seek advice from people you understand, who can provide you with a place to start. Like that, it is possible to hit the floor running to make your search go better, obtaining your furniture faster.If you want to save money when replacing furniture, you ought to explore purchasing previously owned furniture. With a little bit of elbow grease it is possible to transform an older looking piece that is overall in good shape. You will find pieces like dressers, coffee tables, kitchen tables plus more which simply need a little bit of paint to check good.Consider your pet situation when searching for furniture. A property without free-roaming pets that is going to stay doing this is safer for much more furniture. If you have uncaged pets or think you might down the road, be considerably more picky in what furniture pieces you acquire.Be cautious about furniture that is poorly made. To actually are investing in a sofa that can withstand the punishment your household is capable of doing in your sofa turn the sofa upside down and look at the dwelling of your sofa. Poorly made furniture will be made using 1x1's as opposed to 2x2.When selecting a television stand, make certain that this is basically the correct size for your personal television. Many television stands are manufactured for certain kinds of televisions. By knowing your televisions dimensions, you can make certain that it is going to fit into the television stand. You will also want to ensure that they have space for storing for the components.In choosing a whole new couch, ensure that the cushions are firm. Soft cushions will never last for very long. Replacing cushions can be expensive, particularly if these cushions are no longer manufactured. It is advisable to pick a standard measurements of cushions in order to easily find some replacements just in case they wear off.According to what types of pets you possess, consider leather furniture. Often, fur, pet hair and dander just all goes down on the floor. There, you can actually sweep or vacuum it. Furniture cleaning is then a piece of cake, when you often have to gently wipe down your furniture.Never go cheap on the bed. You may think your sofa is the furniture that will get the most time, but for most of us it's the bed. Pay for the extra price to acquire one that's totally comfortable for you. It's worth it, and it may really affect your feelings every day.The suggestions on this page are likely to ensure it is much easier to just go get furniture. Furniture is something we require within our lives, as well as something that really makes our house our home. Be sure to use the tips and you'll save money and time on things you need and enjoy.
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On February 21 and 22 the Honey Fair of Crespià is back!
La Fira de la Mel (The Honey Festival) is the most important annual event of Crespià and one of the oldest fairs of the Pla de l'Estany region.
Honey is the main subject of the festival, but it also attracts traders from many different places of the region, Catalonia and French Catalonia, who offer all kind of craft food products, fabrics and other hand made products.
In the Festival only local Crespià honey is sold, and can be purchased at the Town council's booth, located in the Church Square. There you may find walnuts from the walnut tree plantations of Crespià, the biggest in Catalonia. So, if you like honey and / or walnuts and handicrafts, you can not miss this Festival.


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Victoria wicketkeeper Emma Inglis received her first Twenty20 international call-up, after being included in the Australia Women's squad for the upcoming T20I series against Pakistan
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Victoria wicketkeeper Emma Inglis has received her first Twenty20 international call-up, after being included in the Australia Women's squad for the upcoming T20I series against Pakistan. Inglis, 26, will replace Jess Cameron, who was ruled out of the series after suffering a fracture on her left hand during the third ODI in Brisbane.
Inglis had been named in Australia's ODI squad for the 2007-08 season as a back-up wicketkeeper following two impressive seasons in the Women's National Cricket League, but she did not play a single game.
As a result of Inglis' inclusion, left-hand batsman Nicole Bolton, who was named the player of the series in the ODIs after collecting 152 runs from four matches, has been released from the squad and she will return to Victoria to continue her pre-season training.
The four-match T20 series between the two sides, which will be played at the Kerrydale Oval in the Gold Coast, wil begin from August 30 with the final match on September 5.


Konami has announced they've brought forward the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PC to be in-line with the consoles September 1st 2015 launch.
The PC version will support 4K resolution and will be 'enhanced' for NVIDIA GeForce graphics card owners. Previously announced, anyone who picks up a qualifying GeForce product will get the game for free.


And you thought playground games were just a fun way to pass the time during meal breaks. . .
According to one devotee of ancient games, hopscotch, skipping, London Bridge and hide-and-seek are actually a means of suppressing dominant characteristics among pupils.
Alison Dike has won a grant to promote traditional playground games in primary schools in Somerset in the hope it will curb bullying and promote greater co-operation among children.
Mrs Dike says many playgrounds today are dominated by one game of football, leaving those who do not want to play "pushed to the edges".
"But if you give dominant children something new to learn they have to relate to other children and learn to share and co-operate," she told the Daily Telegraph.
She has spent six months teaching pupils in four schools to play games such as jacks, skittles, cat's cradle, whipping tops, oranges and lemons, skipping and trap ball.
A grid is chalked out on the ground with numbered boxes in a one-two-one formation. Players take it in turns to throw a stone into the grid and then make their way to pick it up by alternately hopping and standing astride in the squares.
Having picked up the stone they must mark off the square and make their way back to the start in the same way. The game is over when all the boxes have been marked.
A fun way to develop rhythm, although the slightest mistake is punished by a grazed knee on the asphalt, swiftly followed by a dab of yellow antiseptic cream from the school nurse.
A minimum of three players are required - two to wave the ropes and mouth repetitive chants while the other dances between them. Traditionally skipping is for girls only, but don't tell that to Prince Naseem Hamed or any other boxer.
Notorious for being banned because of the heavy emphasis on violence and therefore unlikely to be one of Mrs Dike's chosen games.
The game begins as a kind of David and Goliath challenge, with one child standing alone as a mass of pupils charge directly at him. His job is to "bring down" as many as possible. Those caught then also assume the role of "catcher" against those that slipped through.
As if that were not violent enough, one variation has the catcher holding his victim, shaking him, spinning him round and dropping him.
A perennial favourite, mainly because of its simplicity. You are "it", so you run around the playground until you "tag" someone making them "it". And so on_ Kiss chase is one popular variation, where the act of tagging involves kissing your victim.
Its quality for curbing dominant characteristics is undocumented but it certainly keeps children fit.
Low on physical exertion, but good for hand-eye co-ordination. Marbles are small, hard balls made out of glass, steel, baked clay or even onyx. The object is to roll, throw or drop your marbles against those of your opponent, to knock them out of a prescribed area and so win them.
Mostly associated with children, marbles has in fact transcended the playground and national tournaments are held in many countries.
There are five colours: red, amber, green, purple and pink. A shouter calls out a colour and everyone else must perform the required action. Red is stop, amber is sit down, green is run, purple means jump and pink is hop furiously.
This is not played for competitive reasons so Mrs Dike, for one, will be pleased that it's the taking part that counts.


Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland makes perfect fodder for a video game setting – a strange, alternate world full of wonder and iconic characters. Namco's Märchen Maze isn't the first game to be based on the story – that award goes to Windham Classics' 1985 computer adventure game – but it is the first Japanese-developed one to take the concept and place it in an action-arcade setting. ("Märchen" is German for "fairy tale", basically.) This precluded other efforts, like Face's 1990 PC Engine side-scroller Fushigi no Yume no Alice and Konami's 1996 shooter TwinBee Yahho!.
Märchen Maze was developed by N.H. System, a short-lived branch of Namco. The characters were designed by Katsuhiko Nishijima, director of numerous famous anime like Vampire Hunter D and Outlanders, and who later made a name for himself with assorted fan service shows like Agent Aika. At the time, he also worked on the art for other arcade titles like Sega's mahjong game Sukeban Janshi Ryuko and Jaleco's Ginga Ninkyouden.
The premise is familiar – young Alice is called through the looking glass by a talking rabbit, who requests her help. The game is played as an isometric hybrid run-and-gun/platformer, an unusual combination for a Japanese developed game from the late 80s. It follows up Namco's Wonder Momo for being an early "moe" video game – that is, starring a cute female character.
Alice wields a small bubble blower, which seems fairly weak, but can be charged up to create sphere that resemble large bowling balls, blowing over everything in its way. Additional power-ups will grant Alice a three-way bubble shot or let her fire fully powered bubbles without the need to charge them, as well as a shield that surrounds with her rabbits, for temporary invincibility. You have three minutes to complete each level, with the white rabbit popping up at regular intervals to let you know how much time you have left.
The levels consist of narrow platforms floating in the sky, often with small blocks that float back and forth, per usual platforming game convention. There is no life meter in Märchen Maze, making it a bit unusual. Instead, all enemies attack with tiny beach balls, which knock Alice back a few squares. The only way to actually die to be knocked off the edge, unless you dodge or jump over them. If you happened to have a balloon power-up, it'll be consumed and you'll float up to safety – otherwise, you'll get sent back to a checkpoint, or need to restart the level if you run out of lives.
Although isometric games have an often well-deserved reputation for frustrating platforming controls, Märchen Maze controls relatively well. You're not restricted to diagonal movement – in other words, you can walk in all eight directions – and the game only scrolls in one direction, upwards at a 45 degree angle, so there's rarely any time where the viewpoint makes it difficult to see where you're going. Alice's jumps are a little on the short side though, and some of the later levels require precision platforming, not only in timing the platform movements correctly, but also in dodging enemy fire. The later levels are absolutely packed with enemies, which causes the game to slow to a crawl.
The level themes and enemies are based loosely on Alice in Wonderland. There are card soldiers and Tweedle Dees; the final boss is a robotic-looking evil Queen of Hearts. Others are original but keep in the drug-addled style of the original story, like glasses-wearing, chain-smoking mushrooms. Each the games' ten levels have weird bosses, the most amusing being a mustachioed fedora-wearing turtle. The levels take place over backgrounds that include desserts and landscapes filled with Salvador Dali-style melting clocks and backgammon boards.
Märchen Maze was ported to the X68000 in 1991 by SPS, which is essentially a perfect port. Predating this by a few months, Namco themselves released a port on the PC Engine. "Port" is a really generous word here because it's really more of a gigantic revamp based on the same basic themes. The most unique facet – the isometric perspective – has been removed and replaced with a more standard overhead view. The rationale is that the PC Engine pad was bad at diagonals so it would be a pain to play. As a result, the levels have also been entirely redesigned. It's also missing the parallax scrolling, so the towering sense of depth is lost.
The number of enemies has been drastically toned down, but many enemies aim their shots directly at Alice rather than just firing straight forward like in the arcade game. Alice is also flung back much farther when getting hit. Altogether, it's less overwhelming but also less forgiving. The balloons are now Alice's lives, which will resurrect her on the spot, but lose all of them and you have to continue back at the beginning of the level.
Most of the levels have been rearranged. The "robot" level was originally the fourth level in the arcade game but is now the second one in the PCE version. Many levels in the arcade game also repeated some of the themes – in the PCE version, many levels are brand new, like an arctic stage filled with ice or a "mirror" level filled with Alice clones. There are also other new enemies, like Cheshire Cats, which were strangely absent from the arcade game. Despite the change in themes, the bosses remain the same. There's also a new, somewhat longer ending. The art this time was provided by Kouichi Tokita, who also did the cover art for many other Namco PC Engine titles, as well as numerous Gundam manga.
Märchen Maze is cute, but it does run out of steam midway through. Its platforming challenges are difficult but enjoyable, but beyond that the game's solution to make itself more challenging is just to litter the screen with enemies. The boss battles are also not much fun, considering they always seem to hover just out of view. These issues are mitigated in the PCE release, though at the same time the changes make it seem less special.
Finally, Alice makes a cameo as a hidden player in Family Tennis Advance for the GBA.


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Dem Gov Slaps Christians In The Face, Signs Heinous Abortion Bill On Good Friday
Most have heard that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) signed into law universal background checks and gun rationing into law. What most didn't know is that on Good Friday he signed into law a bill pushed by Democrats that repealed most of the restrictions the state place on abortion.
Northam claimed that the Reproductive Health Protection Act, removing the restrictions on abortion ceased "anti-women's health laws."
"No more will legislators in Richmond—most of whom are men—be telling women what they should and should not be doing with their bodies," Northam said in an accompanying statement. "The Reproductive Health Protection Act will make women and families safer, and I'm proud to sign it into law."
Today, @GovernorVA signed the Virginia Reproductive Health Protection Act to remove onerous restrictions on a woman's ability to access abortion care. Proud to have led the charge with @C_Herring on this historic measure.https://t.co/3SDcmJH6ng
— Jennifer McClellan (@JennMcClellanVA) April 10, 2020
Democrats hold the majority in the State Legislator thanks to the millions of dollars given by former New York City Mayor and failed Democrat presidential candidate Micheal Bloomberg. The liberal lawmakers rescinded the 24-hour waiting period, ultrasound, and counseling prior to wanting an abortion.
What is even more concerning is that the new law allows non-physicians to perform the abortion rolling back safety standards that required abortion clinics to be designated as an outpatient facility.
Catherine Glenn Foster, president, and CEO of American United for Life responded and said:
This bill lowers the basic, common sense health and safety standards that abortion facilities must meet, degrades women's care, and will result in unsafe abortionists operating with even more impunity.
The bill eliminates reflection periods for women seeking an abortion while denying vulnerable women the full truth on what abortion means, what abortion is, and what abortion does.
The most heartbreaking part of this travesty to me personally is its repeal of the lifesaving ultrasound requirement in Virginia. When I went in for my abortion, scared and only 19 years old, I was denied the option to see the ultrasound of my baby. I asked, but the abortion worker said no. Now women all over the commonwealth of Virginia will be denied that basic right as well. It would have changed the course of my life. Women deserve better.
Think about this, to get your contact lens or glasses subscription renewed you have to see someone that is more qualified than the people that will be allowed to perform abortions in the State of Virginia.


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Main site News Wage Agreement at Audi Hungaria
Wage Agreement at Audi Hungaria
• an average wage increase of 36% during the 3 years of the wage agreement
• Dr. Elisabeth Knáb Erzsébet, Member of the Board of Management of AUDI HUNGARIA Zrt. responsible for Human Resources and Organisation: "Our wage agreement with attractive benefits package means predictability for our employees and future competitiveness for our company"
• Sándor Németh, Chairman of the Audi Hungaria Independent Trade Union: "The agreement provides our employees with a long term financial, social and employment security."
Győr, March 18, 2020– Today the negotiating delegations of AUDI HUNGARIA Zrt. and the Audi Hungaria Independent Trade Union has successfully completed the wage negotiation process. The wage agreement was signed by Dr. Elisabeth Knab, Member of Board of Management of AUDI HUNGARIA Zrt. respomsible for Human Resources and Organisation and Sándor Németh, Chairman of the Audi Hungaria Independent Trade Union. The agreement has a term of 3 years, during which employees receive an average wage increase of 36%. The offer represents an average 12.5% wage increase for employees in the first year, i.e. from April this year.
The wage agreement also includes further elements, such as inflation tracking and a one-off optional payment of HUF 130,000 per year. The wage agreement also includes a package of measures to support employment security.
"I welcome the agreement, as we have managed to agree on an attractive benefits package for all the employees of Audi Hungaria, which is attractive in the Hungarian labour market. I consider it particularly important that, in agreement with the employee delegation, for the first time in the company's history, we conclude a three-year wage agreement, which means predictability for our employees, and is also an important element for the future competitiveness of our company. I appreciate the fact, that in addition to the wage agreement, we have aso jointly developed an agreement on a package of measures to support employment security. The last two months of wage negotiations have been conducted in the spirit of constructiveness, collective thinking and shared sense of responsibility for the future of our company. This is exemplary for me and thank you for this work", said Dr Elisabeth Knab, Member of Board of Management of AUDI HUNGARIA Zrt. responsible for Human Resources and Organisation.
"I am proud that both negotiation parties have worked with utmost thoroughness and preparedness to reach an agreement by 31 March 2020 that will provide long-term financial, social and employment security for the employees of Audi Hungaria. I would like to thank the negotiating delegations and supporting working groups on both sides, as well as their external experts for their work. A special thanks goes to our colleagues and members for their support, constructive suggestions and, last but not least, their patience during the negotiations," emphasised Sándor Németh, Chairman of the Audi Hungaria Independent Trade Union.
The wage agreement enters into force from April 2020.
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Nearly 1,400 psychologists, therapists and social workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California are expected to strike on Nov. 16 over inadequate staffing levels. The National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents the workers, has called for the strike amid contract negotiations that have spanned four years.
"Union Calls on 1,400 Kaiser Permanente Workers To Strike" (Rauber, "Bay Area BizTalk," San Francisco Times, 11/5).
"Kaiser Mental Health Workers Set To Strike Nov. 16" (Schultz, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/5).


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var game = {
  width: 10,
  height: 10,
  mine_count: 10,
  open_count: 0,
  field: [],
  fill_field: function () {
    for (var x = 0; x < game.width; x++) {
      for (var y = 0; y < game.height; y++) {
        game.field.push(new cell_state());
       }
    }

    for (var i = 0; i < game.mine_count; i++) {
      var xx = Math.floor(Math.random * game.width);
      var yy = Math.floor(Math.random * game.height);
      if (!game.field[xx][yy].is_mine) {
        game.field[xx][yy].is_mine = true;
      } else {
        i--;
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    }
  },
  draw_field: function() {
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  for (var x = 0; x < game.width; x++) {
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   for (var y = 0; y < game.height; y++) {
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function cell_state() {
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  this.is_open = false;
  this.mine_around = 0;
}
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  width: 10,
  height: 10,
  mine_count: 10,
  open_count: 0,
  field: [],
  fill_field() {
    for (var x = 0; x < game.width; x++) {
      // 1: У вас дальше в коде идёт обращение таким образом: game.field[xx][yy]
      // А field вы делаете одномерным массивом. Тут надо создавать массив-столбец:
      var row = [];
      game.field.push(row);
      for (var y = 0; y < game.height; y++) {
        // И клетки класть в него, а не прямо в field
        row.push(new cell_state());
      }
    }

    for (var i = 0; i < game.mine_count; i++) {
     // 2: Math.random это функция (скобки забыли)
      var xx = Math.floor(Math.random() * game.width);
      var yy = Math.floor(Math.random() * game.height);
      if (!game.field[xx][yy].is_mine) {
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    for (var x = 0; x < game.width; x++) {
     $("table").append("<tr>");
     for (var y = 0; y < game.height; y++) {
        // 3: Какую именно строку таблицы вы тут получаете?
        // $("tr").append("<td>");
        // Вам нужна последняя:
        $("tr:last-child").append(`<td class="${game.field[x][y].is_mine?'ismine':''}">`);
      }
    }
  }
};
game.fill_field();
game.draw_field();
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Protection of Children
MISSION STATEMENT"Our mission is to form Disciples rooted in the teachings of the Catholic Faith through curriculum of academic excellence within a safe, caring environment"
Thank you for your interest in our school. St. Peter Catholic School does not discriminate against applicants and students on the basis of race, color, and nationality or ethnic origin.
We will contact each family (in writing) on whether their child has been accepted or not. If you have any questions, please call the school office between from 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Please note that St. Peter Catholic School registration is on a space-available basis only. All documentation listed below must be completed at the time of registration. Additionally, vacant slots will be assigned when documentation is complete and St. Peter Catholic School completes their in-house registration. Students cannot enter school without proper immunization.
Registration for K - 8th Grade
In grade 1, students must have successfully completed a kindergarten program. For grades kindergarten through 8th grade, students must show a current report card and/or progress report and standardized testing scores. The following documentation is required for all students to register:
Certified State Birth Certificate (We Cannot Accept Hospital Certificates)
School Physical on Florida's Standardized School Entry Exam, DH Form 3040
Proof of Immunization on a Current Florida Certification of Immunization, DH Form 680
Baptismal Certificate, If Applicable
Registration Fee: VPK 4yr Old (Full Day Only) = $145, Kindergarten - 8th Grade (per Student) = $295 (Registration Fee Includes $125 Book Fee plus a $10.00 FACTS Submission Fee.)
Copy of Most Current Report Card and Standardized Test Scores (I.E., CTBS, Terra Nova, & FSA)
For the Safety of the Student, Copies of All Custodial Papers from Divorce Decrees Must Be Kept on File in the School Office
Kindergarten - 8th Grade Families Also Will Have an $100 Activity Fee (per Student) and a Technology Fee $150.00 (per student).
Requirements for Pre-K 3 Registration:
Must Be 3 Years Old on or Before September 1
Certified Birth Certificate (We Cannot Accept Hospital Certificates)
Registration Fee: $295 Non-Refundable (May Be Subject to Change)
Uniforms Are Mandatory for Preschool - 3rd Grade
For the Safety of the Students, Copies of All Custodial Papers from Divorce Decrees Must Be Kept on File in the School Office
Pre-K 3 Students Does Pay Activity/Technology Fees $100.
Requirements for VPK Pre-School Registration:
Proof of Immunization Current for Child's Age (Original Blue Form)
Registration Fee: Call for Details
Uniforms Are Not Mandatory for VPK, but You Are Welcome to Purchase Them
Returning Students Re-Enrollment
Tuition & Fees K-8th
Tuition & Fees Pre-K Full Day
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Address421 W New York AveDeland, FL 32720
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We use OPS to manage our workflow with jobs.
It brings up the jobs. We can schedule them into different groups, so we can bring up the base system first and then the applications just run on top of the that; then the jobs that aren't quite as important after that.
We can enter special commands. It can go out and see messages as the job comes up, and you can reply commands to the messages.
What I like about it personally is that I can go out and interrupt what's going on and bring a job down if I need to, and bring it back up. It works out really well.
Some of the commands are long. For example, to start a job, instead of just doing "s" plus space, to start a task, you have to type in "ssm", space, "sj", space, "job equals." That's how I do it. I use the commands. I know that you can go into a panel and kick things off in a different way. Maybe that would be easier.
As far as I know it's stable. I think we did have one crash. I'm a user of it, I don't support it. But there was a crash.
I have used technical support and it works great.
I can and interrupt what's going on, bring a job down if I need to, and bring it back up.
Some of the command sequences are too long.


ICANN Whois Accuracy Program – Important for all domain owners to know this!
The ICANN Whois Accuracy Program is coming into effect for all registrars. This means that it is imperative that the contact information, especially email address, on your domain name is accurate and up-to-date NOW. They have the ability and right to shut down your domain and make it VERY difficult to re-activate if your contact information is incorrect.
This also means that if the registrar emails you about renewals, etc, and your email bounces back because it isn't up to date, it could throw up a flag, and result in your domain being suspended or canceled. Seltice Systems LLC plans to setup a Whois service for our clients to verify their domain contact info is up to date.


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Rocket fire kills dozens in Ukraine
01/24/2015 January 24, 2015
About 30 people have been killed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol as fighting escalated to the worst level in months. Pro-Russia separatists had announced they were launching an offensive on the strategic city.
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The death toll from rocket fire attacks in eastern Ukraine climbed on Saturday, with an estimated 30 people killed and dozens more wounded in a residential area of the city of Mariupol.
"The walls were shaking, the window frames were shaking, paint started to crumble off the house. I hid in the basement. What can you do? I took the dog and the cat. In the basement you can hear the earth tremble," 76-year-old pensioner Leonid Vasilenko told Reuters news agency by telephone from the eastern suburbs of Mariupol.
While authorities in Mariupol have blamed the separatists for the attack, the separatist leaders denied responsibility. They had, however, announced they would move towards taking over the strategically important city, which is controlled by the Kyiv-based Ukrainian government.
"Today an offensive was launched on Mariupol. This will be the best possible monument to all our dead," separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency at a memorial ceremony being held in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk.
Zakharchenko had earlier rejected continued talks on a ceasefire agreement which had been signed in Minsk last September and repeatedly violated. That rejection came despite foreign ministers of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine agreeing earlier in the week to measures aimed at easing the fighting.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko issued a statement in response to the latest assault.
"We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland," Poroshenko said.
International condemnation
The European Union on Saturday denounced the attacks, saying the escalation in fighting would harm the relationship between the EU and Russia.
"I call ... openly upon Russia to use its considerable influence over separatist leaders and to stop any form of military, political or financial support," EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement on Saturday, adding "this would prevent disastrous consequences for all."
Kyiv and Western leaders have repeatedly accused Russia of supporting the separatists with weapons and fighters, something Moscow denies. The EU has targeted Russia with sanctions.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) watchdog group's special monitoring mission (SMM) for Ukraine also expressed concern on Saturday about the growing number of casualties among civilians.
"The SMM strongly condemns the continuation of the fighting in residential areas. Using residential areas as firing positions attracts counter-firing to these areas, further endangering the lives of civilians," they said in a statement, calling for restraint from all sides.
Strategic port city
Mariupol lies on the Azov Sea and is the major city between mainland Russia and the Russia-annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. It is an important port city and among its key exports are coal and steel from the Donetsk region, much of which is held by pro-Moscow separatists.
A separatist assault in the region in August raised fears they were attempting to create a land link between Crimea and Russia. The violence which ensued was one of the factors which led to the September 5 truce being agreed in Minsk.
The United Nations on Friday raised its estimate of the conflict's death toll to 5,100 since April, 2014.
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Kyiv says rebels are launching a new Ukraine offensive
Kyiv has accused pro-Russian separatists of launching a massive new offensive in eastern Ukraine. This comes as the rebels cement their hold on a long-disputed airport ceded by Ukrainian troops after a long defense. (23.01.2015)
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The 2022–23 Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team represents Louisiana Tech University during the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The team was led by seventh-year head coach Brooke Stoehr, and played their home games at the Thomas Assembly Center in Ruston, Louisiana as a member of Conference USA.

Previous season
The Lady Techsters finished the 2021–22 season 21–12, 11–7 in C-USA play and won the C-USA West Division Regular Season Title. They defeated UAB and Middle Tennessee to advance to the championship game of the C-USA tournament where they lost to Charlotte. They were invited to the WNIT, where they lost at home to Houston.

Roster

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See also
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References

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Is Monsoon A Dampener In Your Exercise Schedule?
The weather outside may be rainy, dull and gloomy with the monsoon, but exercising indoors can be delightful. Don't let the rain deter you from a great workout or physical activity, even if you don't have exercise equipment. At your home or other locations, you can create many fun activities for kids and adults.
TV Workouts: A number of television networks offer fitness programs. You can choose from traditional or step aerobic workout, belly dancing, yoga, and other formats. These programs usually have a host who explains the exercises, shows how to do them at beginner and advance levels, and with or without equipment.
Station Training: Create a station of resistance workouts using dumbbells, or soda or milk bottles filled with water. Do curls, squats, lunges, rows and kickbacks. Add a cardio station, performing five or more minutes of jumping jacks, jump rope, and high knee skipping or jogging in place. Run hills using your stairs. Create a bodyweight station, with push-ups, sit-ups, chin-ups, pull-ups and chair dips.
Goofing: Turn up the music and dance around the house. Movement is exercise.
Tension Bands: These provide a versatile means for strength and endurance work, creating an excellent means of home exercise. You can work every muscle in your body with a single band. Bands come in a variety of strengths, making it easy to progress as your strength improves.
Ball Exercise: Exercise balls are another useful tool for home exercise programs. They may be used for balance and proprioceptive training, core strengthening, and as a bench to perform your bench press on. Balls come in different sizes and will often include an entire workout program for you to follow.
During rainy season get the most from your workouts by organizing and arranging an exercise space and a schedule that caters to your exercise tastes and needs. Get started!


A huge season—their senior season—was planned by Jenna Rogers and Jackie McDonnell. Both young ladies play field hockey for a Rockland County high school, and they were tapped as the new leaders following the graduation of 10 seniors.
Then, everything changed. Jackie, a goalie, hurt her knee last season but resumed play. She re-injured her knee, tearing the ACL and PCL along with a meniscus. Jenna also suffered a knee injury. She thought it was a bone bruise, but she soon learned that she tore her ACL and meniscus.
Injuries that are this serious depress the best professional athletes as they go through months of rehabilitation. Imagine how these two young ladies felt so early in their athletics careers. Jenna and Jackie had been in the field hockey program since seventh grade and they now knew that their respective senior seasons would determine if they could play in college.
Their coach realized that the players were carrying heavy burdens on their shoulders. The players felt that they had let him down along with their teammates. The coach's solution was to have them attend practices while they continued physical therapy. Perhaps they could find a way to help the team.
Then, the coach came up with another idea. He asked the players to attend the practices of the middle school team whose first-year coach actually is a lacrosse coach. Now, unless there is a varsity game, Jenna and Jackie spend about 30 minutes supporting the high school varsity and junior varsity practices and then they support the middle school team practice.
The coaches and the players see the seniors as assistant coaches. The players also consider them as big sisters. With the coaches' support, Jenna and Jackie have turned a season of lemons into one of lemonade. They are helping the teams but they also are helping themselves as they recover from their injuries.
Jenna and Jackie are adapting to the unfortunate athletic setbacks that have placed them on the sidelines. That's a good lesson for their future field hockey careers. It also is a good life lesson.
She wears kickers to cover her shoes. They are clunky. So are the leg pads. Then there are the padded pants, chest protector and helmet.
Soccer, cross country and volleyball attract the majority of the lady athletes at local high schools. But Cassie Halpin chose field hockey and all the equipment that comes with the position of goalie. Besides all that equipment, Cassie plays a position that is very noticeable, especially when a mistake by her net changes the numbers on the scoreboard.
Cassie plays for Lakeland High School in Westchester County. The team has won the state championship the last seven consecutive years. Her sister once was a Lakeland goalie and now she plays for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Surely, big pads to fill for Cassie.
But, Cassie enjoys it. She gets a rush when an opposing player comes right at her. She equates it to riding a roller coaster as it takes that initial drop.
Another lady goalie in the area is Alyssa Sanchez of Suffern High School in Rockland County. She also plays lacrosse and next year she is committed to SUNY-Binghamton to play defense. She was a street hockey goalie before playing field hockey. Both positions can be mentally taxing, but Alyssa has her priorities in order. She has short-term memory after a goal is scored on her.
Both these girls have the "stuff' that coaches seek in goalies. The Lakeland coach values players who have the athletic ability along with intelligence, competitiveness, dedication and mental toughness. The coach believes that goalies must know that they are one of the best athletes on the team and that they possess leadership qualities to influence a positive outcome for any single game.
The Suffern coach, for her goalies, sites courage, desire, poise, thick-skinned leadership, the ability to communicate with teammates and the ability to shake off mistakes.
A goalie in any sport is a unique individual. We often have heard that a catcher in baseball, similar to a goalie in other sports, wears the tools of ignorance. But, we have come to learn that the catcher often is the most knowledgeable player on the field. The entire game is in front of the catcher, who must concentrate simultaneously on so many elements of the game.
The same can be said of goalies. The same can be said of Cassie and Alyssa.
Karen and Ellie Seid always are busy. The twin sisters are high school A-students already set to attend Ivy League schools. They also are high-level musicians. Ellie is a violinist and Karen plays the flute.
They also happen to be two of the best field hockey players in New York. They help each other all the time on the field and support each other with such off-the-field matters as homework, music, boys and every day teenage life.
Ellie had 34 goals and 31 assist as a center-forward this season. Karen scored 29 goals and had 20 assists playing left-forward and center midfield. They ended their high school sports careers first and second, respectively, in total points for the program. Ellie had 141 and Karen totaled 109.
This past season, the twins had a number of highlight games. Possibly the most memorable, aside from capturing the state title, was Karen's six-goal game that set a team record and tied the state record. In the same game, Ellie had a goal and five assists.
Also in that game, Karen won a scholar-athlete of the week award for excellence on the field and in the classroom. Ellie had won the same award a year earlier.
Originally soccer players, the girls tried field hockey during seventh grade. They then took a risk, leaving a familiar sport for another game that required a steep learning curve. It was a decision they made together. Since then, they repeatedly have said it was the best decision.
By the end of sophomore year, the sisters started to hear from college programs. Ivy League schools (Karen committed to the University of Pennsylvania and Ellie committed to Brown University) seem to be a natural fit for both of them. Ivy League schools are the dream schools, according to the girls, who set the bar high and made sure that they achieved their scholastic and athletic goals.
As the transition began for their next chapter in life, Ellie and Karen also had to agree on another important matter—their parents' loyalty when the girls play against each other in college later this year. Karen and Ellie revealed that mom will wear a Brown hat and a Penn sweatshirt and dad will wear a Penn hat and a Brown sweatshirt. No doubt the twins are convinced that this was the best decision.


We kick off with some supermarket clothes. Once upon a time, buying your threads from supermarkets was a sign that you'd pretty much given up on life, but these days, the likes of Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's all have some fashionable and highly desirable items in their sartorial arsenal.
Oh hang on, perhaps it means that WE'VE given up on life. Seems plausible. Anyhoo, it's the latter of the supermarkets that we named, Sainsbury's, that we're focussing on – from tomorrow there's 25% off across their Tu range of clothes. Time to treat yourself to a T-shirt with a picture of a ship on it.
We move swiftly on to one of the highest-ranked substances in the Sunday Times Substance List, as published every year since 1889, when the top substance was mashed bananas. FYI, this year's top substance is pulped yams.
But we're not here for idle banter about pulped yams, because we're focussing on Nutella. You can get yourself one of the big 400g jars of the stuff for only £1.00 each, down from the normal price of £1.90. You can also get smuggle a kid into Legoland for free with the help of a voucher on the side of the jar apparently.
Finally, in what is as seamless a link as we've ever been able to pull off here at Deals Of The Day, here's something that you can transport the aforementioned child to the aforementioned Legoland in – it's a child's car seat of course! Admit it, you thought it was a big suitcase didn't you?
It's the Graco Junior Maxi car seat and is a stage 2/3 size object. It's got cup holders in and is capable of handling all manner of juice and confectionary stains without it disintegrating. Yours for only £20.


Educational Video Games: Impact on Students' Performance in Mathematics.
Mario Toussaint received his bachelor's in computer science and master's degree in mathematics teaching (MST) from Florida Atlantic University. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Curriculum Culture and Educational Inquiry (CCEI) department and a Graduate Research Assistant in the eLearning department at Florida Atlantic University. He is also serving as an adjunct professor of mathematics at both Broward College and Miami Dade College teaching developmental and college level undergraduate mathematics courses for over twelve years. His research interests include Academic Service Learning and using technology to improve students' performance, especially in mathematics.