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Issue Autologon to Windows will not continue unless you press "Ctrl + Alt + Del" at credential provider level. Known to apply to the following Sophos product(s) and version(s) SafeGuard Device Encryption Operating systems Windows Vista, Windows 7 For a working autologon process, the following Microsoft Group Policy has to be set to Enabled: Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options: Interactive logon: Do not require CTRL+ALT+DEL” Every comment submitted here is read (by a human) but we do not reply to specific technical questions. If you need technical support please post a question to our community. Alternatively for licensed products open a support ticket.

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Solia Professional Ceramic Ion Mini Styler ½" - About the brand Only 6 inches long, the Solia Ceramic Tourmaline Ion Mini Styling Iron utilizes a unique concave/convex plate technology that offers you styling versatility from a sleek straight look to flips and curls for the ultimate frizz-free style. The Mini Styler has ½" plates, achieves a temperature of 400F and is dual voltage. The Mini styler also has a free heat glove. Whether your hair is super-straight, wavy, curly, or a little bit of everything, Solia® professional beauty products are designed for even the most complex and multi-textured hair.

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New - Pediatric Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition Co-published with the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) and the Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN) More... - Member Price: $27.95 - List Price: $32.95 Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Review and Resource Manual 3rd Edition List Price: $114 - plus S&H

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Liturgy has always aroused strong passions. In the 19th century, some London churches served by Anglican priests who wore lace were stoned. So it is not surprising that the introduction of a new translation of the Catholic Mass should be turbulent. It raises many interrelated questions about the process by which the translation has come to exist, about the quality of the new texts, and about how best to respond to it. It is helpful to treat these questions separately. The central question concerns what matters. For most Catholics what matters most about texts is to transcend self-consciousness in praying aloud with others. They want to be on the same page and to sing from the same hymn book. So it will be important for people happily to pray the same responses. Uncertainty about how to respond simply breeds a mumbling hesitation that proclaims neither faith nor freedom. To read more, click here.

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2016-07-29T23:34:13Z

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Criterion and EA aren’t too keen on showing off Most Wanted for PS VITA that’s for sure. We have got a couple of official screenshots and that’s it. Thankfully some guys from NeoGAF are kind enough to at least share a few blurry photos. Saw these earlier, It looks great as far as I can see. It would be nice to see some in-game HD gameplay though.. Sure we'll see some closer to release. Why didn't they use the Vita's screen grab feature to get photos of the game. It would have been proof since it comes up with Company Trademark/copyright logo. At least most of the screenshots do. It looks good and I can't wait. Its 2010 all over again, except its 4 (NFSMW X2 and both Assassin's Creeds) games and not just 2 (Need for speed:HP & Assassin's Creed Brotherhood). The build probably doesn't have that feature, to protect it from leaks and such. Resistance Burning Skies doesn't support screenshots either. Yeah but RBS blocked screenshots because the games look ugly and they knew it. Wow ea wasn't wrong when they said this was a near perfect port. Found some other pics online and they look great. O.O And i thought ports were bad. Seriously if they did an extremely good job with a port and bring the full experience to a handheld i really don't see anything wrong with that. There are some people who prefer to play a game like this on the go rather than on a PS3 or a 360. Whats sad is that this game doesn't have cross buy it would be killer if it did. But you have to blame EA for that because it's their decision to make this title with cross buy. Anyways the game is looking great and i can't wait to see more of it. BTW why did Criterion skimp out on the 3DS version? I mean the 3DS has sold over 20 million consoles so i find it strange that they aren't developing this game for that platform. Has it defo been confirmed EA won't be making it a crossbuy? Reason I ask is, this game was brought up at gamescom as one of the future crossbuy releases and there are several articles saying EA are considering cross buy. Simply stunning! I haven't bought a racing game in awhile. I might have to pick this game up for my PS Vita. I got a 'localslappers' pop-up; what on earth? This does look good though. Yeah, I clicked the link, looked away at the TV, looked back and was on a mobile porn site... :-\ Thank goodness I have Chrome's adblock installed. XD Hmm.. it looks okay.. but I am still a bit skeptical on the final work's texture quality and perceived jagged-ness.. very hard to judge on those mugged-shots. I read an earlier article that the FPS was fluctuating a bit. Hope they fix that too. Can't wait to see the final product! Does this game have cross buy? I hope so because if its as close to the ps3 version as they say then it's kinda pointless buying both. That was taken from psvitaforums.com, not NeoGAF. Really??? yeah psvitaforums.com has the original post of the person who took those images. thank me later wow it looks very, very good. Thank you! That looks good and I can't wait. The wait time when changing cars seem to take longer than it takes for the the home console version. This game looks really nice.. Vita is still a baby & its second wave of games will show more of what its capable of.. Launch titles looked good as they were but the power of it will get tapped into as time goes on.. The handheld is a great device & i really dont see why ppl are hesitant to buy it.. Sony should bundle every console w an 8 or 16GB card & drop the price by $50.. as well as permanently drop the price of memory cards by 50%.. That will no doubt make a huge difference in sales.. Them saying its coming nx year will make ppl wait longer I must say tho, if they redesign the vita & it looks more appealing, i will upgrade it.. just like i did with my 3ds to 3ds xl.. I simply can't pass this up. Even though the screenshots are blurry, it looks fantastic. The 30th is a pretty crowded day of game releases for me. I plan on getting three games that day. Can't wait! N4G is a community of gamers posting and discussing the latest game news. It’s part of NewsBoiler, a network of social news sites covering today’s pop culture.

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Both blunted osteocytic production of the Wnt inhibitor sclerostin (Scl) and increased T-cell production of the Wnt ligand Wnt10b contribute to the bone anabolic activity of intermittent parathyroid hormone (iPTH) treatment. However, the relative contribution of these mechanisms is unknown. In this study, we modeled the repressive effects of iPTH on Scl production in mice by treatment with a neutralizing anti-Scl antibody (Scl-Ab) to determine the contribution of T-cell–produced Wnt10b to the Scl-independent modalities of action of iPTH. We report that combined treatment with Scl-Ab and iPTH was more potent than either iPTH or Scl-Ab alone in increasing stromal cell production of OPG, osteoblastogenesis, osteoblast life span, bone turnover, bone mineral density, and trabecular bone volume and structure in mice with T cells capable of producing Wnt10b. In T-cell–null mice and mice lacking T-cell production of Wnt10b, combined treatment increased bone turnover significantly more than iPTH or Scl-Ab alone. However, in these mice, combined treatment with Scl-Ab and iPTH was equally effective as Scl-Ab alone in increasing the osteoblastic pool, bone volume, density, and structure. These findings demonstrate that the Scl-independent activity of iPTH on osteoblasts and bone mass is mediated by T-cell–produced Wnt10b. The data provide a proof of concept of a more potent therapeutic effect of combined treatment with iPTH and Scl-Ab than either alone. © 2014 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. PTH; BONE; SCL; ANTIBODY; T CELLS; WNT10B Multifrequency atomic force microscopy imaging has been recently demonstrated as a powerful technique for quickly obtaining information about the mechanical properties of a sample. Combining this development with recent gains in imaging speed through small cantilevers holds the promise of a convenient, high-speed method for obtaining nanoscale topography as well as mechanical properties. Nevertheless, instrument bandwidth limitations on cantilever excitation and readout have restricted the ability of multifrequency techniques to fully benefit from small cantilevers. We present an approach for cantilever excitation and deflection readout with a bandwidth of 20 MHz, enabling multifrequency techniques extended beyond 2 MHz for obtaining materials contrast in liquid and air, as well as soft imaging of delicate biological samples. atomic force microscopy; multifrequency imaging; nanomechanical characterization; photothermal excitation; small cantilevers Tropical forests are being rapidly altered by logging, and cleared for agriculture. Understanding the effects of these land use changes on soil fungi, which play vital roles in the soil ecosystem functioning and services, is a major conservation frontier. Using 454-pyrosequencing of the ITS1 region of extracted soil DNA, we compared communities of soil fungi between unlogged, once-logged, and twice-logged rainforest, and areas cleared for oil palm, in Sabah, Malaysia. Overall fungal community composition differed significantly between forest and oil palm plantation. The OTU richness and Chao 1 were higher in forest, compared to oil palm plantation. As a proportion of total reads, Basidiomycota were more abundant in forest soil, compared to oil palm plantation soil. The turnover of fungal OTUs across space, true β-diversity, was also higher in forest than oil palm plantation. Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal abundance was significantly different between land uses, with highest relative abundance (out of total fungal reads) observed in unlogged forest soil, lower abundance in logged forest, and lowest in oil palm. In their entirety, these results indicate a pervasive effect of conversion to oil palm on fungal community structure. Such wholesale changes in fungal communities might impact the long-term sustainability of oil palm agriculture. Logging also has more subtle long term effects, on relative abundance of EcM fungi, which might affect tree recruitment and nutrient cycling. However, in general the logged forest retains most of the diversity and community composition of unlogged forest. Tropical forests are being rapidly altered by logging and cleared for agriculture. Understanding the effects of these land use changes on soil bacteria, which constitute a large proportion of total biodiversity and perform important ecosystem functions, is a major conservation frontier. Here we studied the effects of logging history and forest conversion to oil palm plantations in Sabah, Borneo, on the soil bacterial community. We used paired-end Illumina sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, V3 region, to compare the bacterial communities in primary, once-logged, and twice-logged forest and land converted to oil palm plantations. Bacteria were grouped into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at the 97% similarity level, and OTU richness and local-scale α-diversity showed no difference between the various forest types and oil palm plantations. Focusing on the turnover of bacteria across space, true β-diversity was higher in oil palm plantation soil than in forest soil, whereas community dissimilarity-based metrics of β-diversity were only marginally different between habitats, suggesting that at large scales, oil palm plantation soil could have higher overall γ-diversity than forest soil, driven by a slightly more heterogeneous community across space. Clearance of primary and logged forest for oil palm plantations did, however, significantly impact the composition of soil bacterial communities, reflecting in part the loss of some forest bacteria, whereas primary and logged forests did not differ in composition. Overall, our results suggest that the soil bacteria of tropical forest are to some extent resilient or resistant to logging but that the impacts of forest conversion to oil palm plantations are more severe. Since the invention of hybridoma technology, methods for generating affinity reagents that bind specific target molecules have revolutionized biology and medicine. In the postgenomic era, there is a pressing need to accelerate the pace of ligand discovery to elucidate the functions of a rapidly growing number of newly characterized molecules and their modified states. Nonimmunoglobulin-based proteins such as DARPins, affibodies, and monobodies represent attractive alternatives to traditional antibodies as these are small, soluble, disulfide-free, single-domain scaffolds that can be selected from combinatorial libraries and expressed in bacteria. For example, monobodies—highly stable scaffolds based on the immunoglobulin VH-like 10th fibronectin type III (10Fn3) domain of human fibronectin—have yielded antibody mimetics that bind to numerous targets for applications including intracellular inhibition,[5,6] therapeutics, and biosensors.[6,8] These 10Fn3-based ligands can be derived from highly diverse libraries using techniques such as phage, ribosome, mRNA, bacterial, and yeast displays. antibodies; directed evolution; mRNA; ligand design; selection methods Modern high-speed atomic force microscopes generate significant quantities of data in a short amount of time. Each image in the sequence has to be processed quickly and accurately in order to obtain a true representation of the sample and its changes over time. This paper presents an automated, adaptive algorithm for the required processing of AFM images. The algorithm adaptively corrects for both common one-dimensional distortions as well as the most common two-dimensional distortions. This method uses an iterative thresholded processing algorithm for rapid and accurate separation of background and surface topography. This separation prevents artificial bias from topographic features and ensures the best possible coherence between the different images in a sequence. This method is equally applicable to all channels of AFM data, and can process images in seconds. adaptive algorithm; artifact correction; atomic force microscopy; high-speed atomic force microscope; image processing Little is known of how archaeal diversity and community ecology behaves along elevational gradients. We chose to study Mount Fuji of Japan as a geologically and topographically uniform mountain system, with a wide range of elevational zones. PCR-amplified soil DNA for the archaeal 16 S rRNA gene was pyrosequenced and taxonomically classified against EzTaxon-e archaeal database. At a bootstrap cut-off of 80%, most of the archaeal sequences were classified into phylum Thaumarchaeota (96%) and Euryarchaeota (3.9%), with no sequences classified into other phyla. Archaeal OTU richness and diversity on Fuji showed a pronounced ‘peak’ in the mid-elevations, around 1500 masl, within the boreal forest zone, compared to the temperate forest zone below and the alpine fell-field and desert zones above. Diversity decreased towards higher elevations followed by a subtle increase at the summit, mainly due to an increase in the relative abundance of the group I.1b of Thaumarchaeota. Archaeal diversity showed a strong positive correlation with soil NH4+, K and NO3−. Archaeal diversity does not parallel plant diversity, although it does roughly parallel bacterial diversity. Ecological hypotheses to explain the mid diversity bulge on Fuji include intermediate disturbance effects, and the result of mid elevations combining a mosaic of upper and lower slope environments. Our findings show clearly that archaeal soil communities are highly responsive to soil environmental gradients, in terms of both their diversity and community composition. Distinct communities of archaea specific to each elevational zone suggest that many archaea may be quite finely niche-adapted within the range of soil environments. A further interesting finding is the presence of a mesophilic component of archaea at high altitudes on a mountain that is not volcanically active. This emphasizes the importance of microclimate – in this case solar heating of the black volcanic ash surface – for the ecology of soil archaea. The development of new antiviral compounds active against hepatitis C virus (HCV) has surged in recent years. In order for these new compounds to be efficacious in humans, optimal dosage regimens for each compound must be elucidated. We have developed a novel in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic system, the BelloCell system, to identify optimal dosage regimens for anti-HCV compounds. In these experiments, genotype 1b HCV replicon-bearing cells (2209-23 cells) were inoculated onto carrier flakes in BelloCell bottles and treated with MK-4519, a serine protease inhibitor. Our dose-ranging studies illustrated that MK-4519 inhibited replicon replication in a dose-dependent manner, yielding a 50% effective concentration (EC50) of 1.8 nM. Dose-fractionation studies showed that shorter dosing intervals resulted in greater replicon suppression, indicating that the time that the concentration is greater than the EC50 is the pharmacodynamic parameter for MK-4519 linked with inhibition of replicon replication. Mutations associated with resistance to serine protease inhibitors were detected in replicons harvested from all treatment arms. These data suggest that MK-4519 is highly active against genotype 1b HCV, but monotherapy is not sufficient to prevent the amplification of resistant replicons. In summary, our findings show that the BelloCell system is a useful and clinically relevant tool for predicting optimal dosage regimens for anti-HCV compounds. Background: Focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) is a direct-writing technique with nanometer resolution, which has received strongly increasing attention within the last decade. In FEBID a precursor previously adsorbed on a substrate surface is dissociated in the focus of an electron beam. After 20 years of continuous development FEBID has reached a stage at which this technique is now particularly attractive for several areas in both, basic and applied research. The present topical review addresses selected examples that highlight this development in the areas of charge-transport regimes in nanogranular metals close to an insulator-to-metal transition, the use of these materials for strain- and magnetic-field sensing, and the prospect of extending FEBID to multicomponent systems, such as binary alloys and intermetallic compounds with cooperative ground states. Results: After a brief introduction to the technique, recent work concerning FEBID of Pt–Si alloys and (hard-magnetic) Co–Pt intermetallic compounds on the nanometer scale is reviewed. The growth process in the presence of two precursors, whose flux is independently controlled, is analyzed within a continuum model of FEBID that employs rate equations. Predictions are made for the tunability of the composition of the Co–Pt system by simply changing the dwell time of the electron beam during the writing process. The charge-transport regimes of nanogranular metals are reviewed next with a focus on recent theoretical advancements in the field. As a case study the transport properties of Pt–C nanogranular FEBID structures are discussed. It is shown that by means of a post-growth electron-irradiation treatment the electronic intergrain-coupling strength can be continuously tuned over a wide range. This provides unique access to the transport properties of this material close to the insulator-to-metal transition. In the last part of the review, recent developments in mechanical strain-sensing and the detection of small, inhomogeneous magnetic fields by employing nanogranular FEBID structures are highlighted. Conclusion: FEBID has now reached a state of maturity that allows a shift of the focus towards the development of new application fields, be it in basic research or applied. This is shown for selected examples in the present review. At the same time, when seen from a broader perspective, FEBID still has to live up to the original idea of providing a tool for electron-controlled chemistry on the nanometer scale. This has to be understood in the sense that, by providing a suitable environment during the FEBID process, the outcome of the electron-induced reactions can be steered in a controlled way towards yielding the desired composition of the products. The development of a FEBID-specialized surface chemistry is mostly still in its infancy. Next to application development, it is this aspect that will likely be a guiding light for the future development of the field of focused electron beam induced deposition. atomic force microscopy; binary systems; electron beam induced deposition; granular metals; micro Hall magnetometry; radiation-induced nanostructures; strain sensing Intravenous zanamivir is recommended for the treatment of hospitalized patients with complicated oseltamivir-resistant influenza virus infections. In a companion paper, we show that the time above the 50% effective concentration (time>EC50) is the pharmacodynamic (PD) index predicting the inhibition of viral replication by intravenous zanamivir. However, for other neuraminidase inhibitors, the ratio of the area under the concentration-time curve to the EC50 (AUC/EC50) is the most predictive index. Our objectives are (i) to explain the dynamically linked variable of intravenous zanamivir by using different half-lives and (ii) to develop a new, mechanism-based population pharmacokinetic (PK)/PD model for the time course of viral load. We conducted dose fractionation studies in the hollow-fiber infection model (HFIM) system with zanamivir against an oseltamivir-resistant influenza virus. A clinical 2.5-h half-life and an artificially prolonged 8-h half-life were simulated for zanamivir. The values for the AUC from 0 to 24 h (AUC0-24) of zanamivir were equivalent for the two half-lives. Viral loads and zanamivir pharmacokinetics were comodeled using data from the present study and a previous dose range experiment via population PK/PD modeling in S-ADAPT. Dosing every 8 h (Q8h) suppressed the viral load better than dosing Q12h or Q24h at the 2.5-h half-life, whereas all regimens suppressed viral growth similarly at the 8-h half-life. The model provided unbiased and precise individual (Bayesian) (r2, >0.96) and population (pre-Bayesian) (r2, >0.87) fits for log10 viral load. Zanamivir inhibited viral release (50% inhibitory concentration [IC50], 0.0168 mg/liter; maximum extent of inhibition, 0.990). We identified AUC/EC50 as the pharmacodynamic index for zanamivir at the 8-h half-life, whereas time>EC50 best predicted viral suppression at the 2.5-h half-life, since the trough concentrations approached the IC50 for the 2.5-h but not for the 8-h half-life. The model explained data at both half-lives and holds promise for optimizing clinical zanamivir dosage regimens. In 2009, a novel H1N1 influenza A virus emerged and spread worldwide, initiating a pandemic. Various isolates obtained from disparate parts of the world were shown to be uniformly resistant to the adamantanes but sensitive to the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir and zanamivir. Over time, resistance to oseltamivir became more prevalent among pandemic H1N1 virus isolates, while most remained susceptible to zanamivir. The government has proposed the use of intravenous (i.v.) zanamivir to treat serious influenza virus infections among hospitalized patients. To use zanamivir effectively for patients with severe influenza, it is necessary to know the optimal dose and schedule of administration of zanamivir that will inhibit the replication of oseltamivir-sensitive and -resistant influenza viruses. Therefore, we performed studies using the in vitro hollow-fiber infection model system to predict optimal dosing regimens for zanamivir against an oseltamivir-sensitive and an oseltamivir-resistant virus. Our results demonstrated that zanamivir, at a dose of 600 mg given twice a day (Q12h), inhibited the replication of oseltamivir-sensitive and oseltamivir-resistant influenza viruses throughout the course of the experiment. Thus, our findings suggest that intravenous zanamivir, at a dose of 600 mg Q12h, could be used to treat hospitalized patients suffering from serious infections with oseltamivir-sensitive or -resistant influenza viruses. In this study, we pilot tested an in vitro assay of cancer killing activity (CKA) in circulating leukocytes of 22 cancer cases and 25 healthy controls. Using a human cervical cancer cell line, HeLa, as target cells, we compared the CKA in circulating leukocytes, as effector cells, of cancer cases and controls. The CKA was normalized as percentages of total target cells during selected periods of incubation time and at selected effector/target cell ratios in comparison to no-effector-cell controls. Our results showed that CKA similar to that of our previous study of SR/CR mice was present in human circulating leukocytes but at profoundly different levels in individuals. Overall, males have a significantly higher CKA than females. The CKA levels in cancer cases were lower than that in healthy controls (mean ± SD: 36.97 ± 21.39 vs. 46.28 ± 27.22). Below-median CKA was significantly associated with case status (odds ratio = 4.36; 95% Confidence Interval = 1.06, 17.88) after adjustment of gender and race. In freshly isolated human leukocytes, we were able to detect an apparent CKA in a similar manner to that of cancer-resistant SR/CR mice. The finding of CKA at lower levels in cancer patients suggests the possibility that it may be of a consequence of genetic, physiological, or pathological conditions, pending future studies with larger sample size. It has been proposed that elements of the renin angiotensin system expressed in the arterial wall are critical for the development of atherosclerosis. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is highly expressed by the endothelium and is responsible for a critical enzymatic step in the generation of angiotensin II. However, the functional contribution of ACE expression in the vascular wall in atherogenesis is unknown. Therefore, we made use of unique genetic models in which mice without expression of ACE in the vascular wall were crossed with apoE-/- mice in order to determine the contribution of tissue ACE expression to atherosclerotic lesion formation. Methods and Results Mice expressing either a soluble form of ACE (ACE 2/2) or mice with somatic ACE expression restricted to the liver and kidney (ACE 3/3) on an ApoE-/- background were placed on a standard chow or Western diet for 6 months. Atherosclerotic lesion area in the ACE 2/2 mice was significantly lower than that seen in the ACE 3/3 mice. However, these animals also had significantly lower blood pressure and reduced plasma ACE activity which precluded establishing a specific causal relationship between absent tissue ACE activity and decreased atherosclerotic lesion extent. Therefore, we studied the ACE 3/3 mice which are normotensive and lack vascular ACE expression. In the ACE 3/3 animals, atherosclerotic lesion area was no different from wild type controls despite reduced plasma ACE activity. We concluded that under these experimental conditions, expression of ACE in the arterial wall is not required for atherosclerotic lesion formation. angiotensin; atherosclerosis; endothelium We report the first use of ultrasonic standing waves to achieve cell cycle phase synchronization in mammalian cells in a high-throughput and reagent-free manner. The acoustophoretic cell synchronization (ACS) device utilizes volume-dependent acoustic radiation force within a microchannel to selectively purify target cells of desired phase from an asynchronous mixture based on cell cycle-dependent fluctuations in size. We show that ultrasonic separation allows for gentle, scalable and label-free synchronization with high G1 phase synchrony (~84%) and throughput (3×106 cells/hour/microchannel). Sample preparation is often the most tedious and demanding step in an assay, but it also plays an essential role in determining the quality of results. As biological questions and analytical methods become increasingly sophisticated, there is a rapidly growing need for systems that can reliably and reproducibly separate cells and particles with high purity, throughput and recovery. Microfluidics technology represents a compelling approach in this regard, allowing precise control of separation forces for high performance separation in inexpensive, or even disposable, devices. In addition, microfluidics technology enables the fabrication of arrayed and integrated systems that operate either in parallel or in tandem, in a capacity that would be difficult to achieve in macro-scale systems. In this report, we use recent examples from our work to illustrate the potential of microfluidic cell- and particle-sorting devices. We demonstrate the potential of chip-based high-gradient magnetophoresis that enable high-purity separation through reversible trapping of target particles paired with high-stringency washing with minimal loss. We also describe our work in the development of devices that perform simultaneous multi-target sorting, either through precise control of magnetic and fluidic forces or through the integration of multiple actuation forces into a single monolithic device. We believe that such devices may serve as a powerful “front-end” module of highly integrated analytical platforms capable of providing actionable diagnostic information directly from crude, unprocessed samples - the success of such systems may hold the key to advancing point-of-care diagnostics and personalized medicine. Sample preparation; Cell sorting; Magnetophoresis; Microfluidics Hyperparathyroidism in humans and continuous parathyroid hormone (cPTH) treatment in mice cause bone loss by regulating the production of RANKL and OPG by stromal cells (SCs) and osteoblasts (OBs). Recently, it has been reported that T cells are required for cPTH to induce bone loss as the binding of the T cell costimulatory molecule CD40L to SC receptor CD40 augments SC sensitivity to cPTH. However it is unknown whether direct PTH stimulation of T cells is required for cPTH to induce bone loss, and whether T cells contribute to the bone catabolic activity of PTH with mechanisms other than induction of CD40 signaling in SCs. Here we show that silencing of PTH receptor 1 (PPR) in T cells blocks the bone loss and the osteoclastic expansion induced by cPTH, thus demonstrating that PPR signaling in T cells is central for PTH-induced reduction of bone mass. Mechanistic studies revealed that PTH activation of the T cell PPR stimulates T cell production of the osteoclastogenic cytokine tumor necrosis factor α (TNF). Attesting to the relevance of this effect, disruption of T cell TNF production prevents PTH-induced bone loss. We also show that a novel mechanism by which TNF mediates PTH induced osteoclast formation is upregulation of CD40 expression in SCs, which increases their RANKL/OPG production ratio. These findings demonstrate that PPR signaling in T cells plays an essential role in PTH induced bone loss by promoting T cell production of TNF. A previously unknown effect of TNF is to increase SC expression of CD40, which in turn increases SC osteoclastogenic activity by upregulating their RANKL/OPG production ratio. PPR-dependent stimulation of TNF production by T cells and the resulting TNF regulation of CD40 signaling in SCs are potential new therapeutic targets for the bone loss of hyperparathyroidism. Spontaneous regression/complete resistance (SR/CR) mice are a unique colony of mice that possess an inheritable, natural cancer resistance mediated primarily by innate cellular immunity. This resistance is effective against sarcoma 180 (S180) at exceptionally high doses and these mice remain healthy. In this study, we challenged SR/CR mice with additional lethal transplantable mouse cancer cell lines to determine their resistance spectrum. The ability of these transplantable cancer cell lines to induce leukocyte infiltration was quantified and the percentage of different populations of responding immune cells was determined using flow cytometry. In comparison to wild type (WT) mice, SR/CR mice showed significantly higher resistance to all cancer cell lines tested. However, SR/CR mice were more sensitive to MethA sarcoma (MethA), B16 melanoma (B16), LL/2 lung carcinoma (LL/2) and J774 lymphoma (J774) than to sarcoma 180 (S180) and EL-4 lymphoma (EL-4). Further mechanistic studies revealed that this lower resistance to MethA and LL/2 was due to the inability of these cancer cells to attract SR/CR leukocytes, leading to tumor cell escape from resistance mechanism. This escape mechanism was overcome by co-injection with S180, which could attract SR/CR leukocytes allowing the mice to resist higher doses of MethA and LL/2. S180-induced cell-free ascites fluid (CFAF) co-injection recapitulated the results obtained with live S180 cells, suggesting that this chemoattraction by cancer cells is mediated by diffusible molecules. We also tested for the first time whether SR/CR mice were able to resist additional cancer cell lines prior to S180 exposure. We found that SR/CR mice had an innate resistance against EL-4 and J774. Our results suggest that the cancer resistance in SR/CR mice is based on at least two separate processes: leukocyte migration/infiltration to the site of cancer cells and recognition of common surface properties on cancer cells. The infiltration of SR/CR leukocytes was based on both the innate ability of leukocytes to respond to chemotactic signals produced by cancer cells and on whether cancer cells produced these chemotactic signals. We found that some cancer cells could escape from SR/CR resistance because they did not induce infiltration of SR/CR leukocytes. However, if infiltration of leukocytes was induced by co-injection with chemotactic factors, these same cancer cells could be effectively recognized and killed by SR/CR leukocytes. Spontaneous Regression/Complete Resistant (SR/CR) mice are a colony of cancer-resistant mice that can detect and rapidly destroy malignant cells with innate cellular immunity, predominately mediated by granulocytes. Our previous studies suggest that several effector mechanisms, such as perforin, granzymes, or complements, may be involved in the killing of cancer cells. However, none of these effector mechanisms is known as critical for granulocytes. Additionally, it is unclear which effector mechanisms are required for the cancer killing activity of specific leukocyte populations and the survival of SR/CR mice against the challenges of lethal cancer cells. We hypothesized that if any of these effector mechanisms was required for the resistance to cancer cells, its functional knockout in SR/CR mice should render them sensitive to cancer challenges. This was tested by cross breeding SR/CR mice into the individual genetic knockout backgrounds of perforin (Prf-/-), superoxide (Cybb-/), or inducible nitric oxide (Nos2-/). SR/CR mice were bred into individual Prf-/-, Cybb-/-, or Nos2-/- genetic backgrounds and then challenged with sarcoma 180 (S180). Their overall survival was compared to controls. The cancer killing efficiency of purified populations of macrophages and neutrophils from these immunodeficient mice was also examined. When these genetically engineered mice were challenged with cancer cells, the knockout backgrounds of Prf-/-, Cybb-/-, or Nos2-/- did not completely abolish the SR/CR cancer resistant phenotype. However, the Nos2-/- background did appear to weaken the resistance. Incidentally, it was also observed that the male mice in these immunocompromised backgrounds tended to be less cancer-resistant than SR/CR controls. Despite the previously known roles of perforin, superoxide or nitric oxide in the effector mechanisms of innate immune responses, these effector mechanisms were not required for cancer-resistance in SR/CR mice. The resistance was functional when any one of these effector mechanisms was completely absent, except some noticeably reduced penetrance, but not abolishment, of the phenotype in the male background in comparison to female background. These results also indicate that some other effector mechanism(s) of granulocytes may be involved in the killing of cancer cells in SR/CR mice. Both phenotypic plasticity and genetic determination can be important for understanding how plants respond to environmental change. However, little is known about the plastic response of leaf teeth and leaf dissection to temperature. This gap is critical because these leaf traits are commonly used to reconstruct paleoclimate from fossils, and such studies tacitly assume that traits measured from fossils reflect the environment at the time of their deposition, even during periods of rapid climate change. We measured leaf size and shape in Acer rubrum derived from four seed sources with a broad temperature range and grown for two years in two gardens with contrasting climates (Rhode Island and Florida). Leaves in the Rhode Island garden have more teeth and are more highly dissected than leaves in Florida from the same seed source. Plasticity in these variables accounts for at least 6–19 % of the total variance, while genetic differences among ecotypes probably account for at most 69–87 %. This study highlights the role of phenotypic plasticity in leaf-climate relationships. We suggest that variables related to tooth count and leaf dissection in A. rubrum can respond quickly to climate change, which increases confidence in paleoclimate methods that use these variables. Spontaneous Regression/Complete Resistant (SR/CR) mice are resistant to cancer through a mechanism that is mediated entirely by leukocytes of innate immunity. Transfer of leukocytes from SR/CR mice can confer cancer resistance in wild-type (WT) recipients in both preventative and therapeutic settings. In the current studies, we investigated factors that may impact the efficacy and functionality of SR/CR donor leukocytes in recipients. In sex-mismatched transfers, functionality of female donor leukocytes was not affected in male recipients. In contrast, male donor leukocytes were greatly affected in the female recipients. In MHC-mismatches, recipients of different MHC backgrounds, or mice of different strains, showed a greater negative impact on donor leukocytes than sex-mismatches. The negative effects of sex-mismatch and MHC-mismatch on donor leukocytes were additive. Old donor leukocytes performed worse than young donor leukocytes in all settings including in young recipients. Young recipients were not able to revive the declining function of old donor leukocytes. However, the function of young donor leukocytes declined gradually in old recipients, suggesting that an aged environment may contain factors that are deleterious to cellular functions. The irradiation of donor leukocytes prior to transfers had a profound suppressive effect on donor leukocyte functions, possibly as a result of impaired transcription. The cryopreserving of donor leukocytes in liquid nitrogen had no apparent effect on donor leukocyte functions, except for a small loss of cell number after revival from freezing. Despite the functional suppression of donor leukocytes in sex- and MHC-mismatched recipients, as well as old recipients, there was a therapeutic time period during the initial few weeks during which donor leukocytes were functional before their eventual rejection or functional decline. The eventual rejection of donor leukocytes will likely prevent donor leukocyte engraftment which would help minimize the risk of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease. Therefore, using leukocytes from healthy donors with high anti-cancer activity may be a feasible therapeutic concept for treating malignant diseases. A national survey of medical school admissions administrators was used to assess the acceptability of applicants' qualifications that included degrees earned partly online, partly in a community college, or in a traditional program. A questionnaire was sent from The Florida State University in 2007 to admissions administrators in the 125 accredited allopathic medical schools in the United States. In each of three situations, the respondents were asked to select one of two hypothetical applicants to invite for an interview. The applicants with their coursework taken in a traditional-residential setting were overwhelmingly preferred over the applicant holding the degree earned partly online. Further analysis indicated that online courses were perceived as not presenting sufficient opportunity for students to develop important social skills through interaction with other students and mentors. Graduate school admissions; online degrees; acceptability

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HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut’s Mohegan tribe, reaching back into its history and a game of stickball North American Indians began centuries ago, announced Wednesday it will be part owner of a professional lacrosse team. Mohegan Sun and Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, which also operates a casino in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, said they bought half the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League. The team will move to Uncasville, Connecticut, and play its first game in December at Mohegan Sun Arena. The new franchise name will be announced at a later date. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “The Mohegan Tribe is thrilled to be associated with a game with centuries-old roots with the Eastern Woodland Indians,” said tribal chairman Kevin Brown. The Mohegans are the second Indian affiliation to own a team in the National Lacrosse League; Curt Styres, a Mohawk of Canada’s Six Nations, is owner of the Rochester Knighthawks in upstate New York. The league said it’s committed to honouring the culture and history of lacrosse, which was started by Indians more than 700 years ago. The Philadelphia Wings, which is owned and operated by Philadelphia Wings LP, announced on July 11 the team would move for the 2015 season. “The financial model in a market with so many sport and entertainment alternatives has proven to be unsustainable,” Michael French, Wings owner and team president, said at the time. “Finding a new venue with new strategic partners was the only way to ensure financial stability.” He said Wednesday that the New England market for men’s and women’s lacrosse has been expanding at a “phenomenal pace.” It’s the second professional sports team acquired by the Mohegans, who have owned the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA since 2003. National Lacrosse League Commissioner George Daniel said the purchase by the Mohegans is a “great model” because of the tribe’s ownership of the Mohegan Sun, its control of the arena and ancillary revenue such as parking, food and beverages. Lacrosse draws an average of 9,500 fans for each game and outstrips WNBA and European basketball leagues, he said. Follow Stephen Singer on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SteveSinger10

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A car was pinned under an 18 wheeler early Saturday morning and police say a drunk driver was to blame for causing the crash. It was just before 1 a.m. when the woman behind the wheel of a silver SUV slammed into the back of a black BMW. That BMW then crashed into the back of a 18-wheeler. The BMW and the big rig were stopped at a red light at SPID and Everhart when the crash happened. The suspected drunk was given a field sobriety test, then was placed in handcuffs, and put in the back of a police unit. As far as injuries, Police say the passenger in the SUV probably broke her foot. The people in the BMW had only bumps and bruises, the driver of the truck wasn't hurt. The woman arrested is now in jail on a dwi and an intoxication assault charge.

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Final THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Trailer Gives Closer Look at Rhino, Goblin CREDIT: Sony Pictures After a bevy of trailers, teasers, clips, and TV spots, here's what Sony is calling the "Final Trailer" for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. There are better looks at The Rhino, Green Goblin, the Goblin Glider, and more. The movie hits theaters May 2, 2015. Look for more on Spidey later today...

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An Iconic Fantasy Baseball Community Moderator: Baseball Moderators Rkiivs wrote:I give RB the nod here for his early output, but he's gonna have trouble accounting for himself in later rounds now that he plays that sappy Celtic medieval music. Fireball Express wrote:I slept in a Deep Purple t-shirt last night. Saw them this past March at he Beacon. I wish Blackmore was still in the band. Steve Morse proved to be an excellent replacement. I like RB's stuff from Rainbow too. Rising is an awesome album. Not sure who that other guy is on this poll. Can't give him my vote because I plead ignorance. Phil Keagy, hmmm. Maybe I should check him out if he made this poll. Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests

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Subject: Re: Inconsistent dependency handling To: None <email@example.com> From: None <firstname.lastname@example.org> Date: 05/24/2006 21:51:58 On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:12:24PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote: > The difference also applies between two cases of binary installation: > 1. via the bin-install target (directly), and 2. by pkg_add as a > prerequisite of something it is installing. The major difference in that case is that bin-install does exact matching and pkg_add looks for the latest version of a package. > Also still missing is the "slicker way, possible future work" in > [http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/03/20/0023.html ~halfway] > --the idea that there shouldn't be two independent > ways of deciding what binary package to install, one implemented in > bsd.pkg.mk and one implemented in pkg_add for the automatic installation > of prerequisite packages, but the makefile should pass some information > to pkg_add to guide its decisions, and what pkg_add isn't able to figure > out on its own it should hand back off to the make system again. This description of the situation is IMO incorrect. pkgsrc normally requires exact matches for bin-install as dependency and therefore pkg_add wouldn't pick the best match. The only situation were this makes a difference is when a newer version is available as binary package than available in the tree. Often this is a broken dependency though. > - I want some exceptions to "bin-install where possible", for instance I > don't want the ftp.n.o binary of kdelibs because I want a kdelibs built > with option cups. I added code (not committed yet) that sets > BINPKG_SITES= for any package whose PKG_OPTIONS.foo differs from its > PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS. (I am typing this from memory so don't shoot me > if I get some of the variable names wrong.) This should have the effect > I consider ideal: because the local packages/All directory is > unconditionally prepended, if I already have a binary package stored > locally (presumably built with my options), that is installed, but if > not, no searching of ftp sites is done and that package is built from > source with my options. I'd prefer to see options encoded in the binary package name instead, which would fix this problem as well. It would need some extensions to Dewey to match options, but that's a separate question. > But of course it doesn't work because if package bar, with unmodified > options, is being installed from the ftp site, and depends on kdelibs, > not yet installed, pkg_add just grabs kdelibs at the same time. Argh. > So somehow pkg_add needs a way to consult the make infrastructure for > each prerequisite it is about to automatically install, to decide if > a binary install for that package is ok. Note that my original proposal > in the e-mail needs to be extended somehow to cover this case. pkg_add should *never* consult the make system. The relationship if any is "source build use pkg_add", but never the other way around. This might be solvable by requesting pkg_add to be non-recursive, but in general is a difficult problem. I'm not sure whether this can be solved elegantly though. A combination of pkg-summary and a "reject" list (aka don't install binary packages matching this pattern) might do this, but frankly I'm not sure if it worth the trouble. > - I set SUSE_PREFER=9.1 because the binary firefox I want to install > won't run against 10.0. But that doesn't stop pkg_add looking > for suse_foo>=9.1 and deciding that 10.0 satisfies the Dewey match. This is similiar to the PHP problem. For that it is solved by the additional API requirement (php-4.4.*), but this is one of the situation where we might want to extend the current Dewey patterns. The other situation is being able to specify alternative matches (e.g. foo|bar as pattern matches everything foo and bar matches, when in doubt, it prefers packages matching foo). I think those are the only non-Dewey pattern which can not be easily converted. > Since it looks like you /did/ get funded to rewrite pkg_install > (congrats :) I suppose this is the right time. :) You are the second person which knows more than I do :-)

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Inbee Park pulled within seven shots of the leader Na-Yeon Choi before high winds suspended yesterday’s third round of the Women’s British Open. Play on the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland, was halted at 12:33 p.m. local time (7:33 a.m. New York) by gusts of up to 38 miles per hour (61 kilometers per hour). After a 5 1/2-hour wait, tournament officials announced that golf would resume today at 6:15 a.m. Park was 1-under par through four holes before the stoppage and is 3 under for the tournament. The South Korean is seeking to become the first golfer to win four major professional championships in a calendar year. Choi leads at 10 under, one shot better than Japan’s Miki Saiki and two ahead of Morgan Pressel of the U.S. American Nicole Castrale, South Korea’s Jee-Young Lee and Denmark’s Suzann Pettersen are all 7 under. None of the leaders started the third round. Park, who is tied for 20th place, is bidding for her fourth major title of 2013 after winning her second U.S. Women’s Open last month. She captured the LPGA Championship in June and the Kraft Nabisco Championship in April. The LPGA is adding the Evian Masters in September as a fifth major this year. Babe Zaharias was the last woman to win the first three majors in a season, in 1950, five years before a fourth Grand Slam tournament was added. Pat Bradley, in 1986, was the last woman to win three major titles in a year. Tiger Woods held all four men’s major titles at the same time by winning the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship in 2000 and adding the Masters Tournament the following year. Bobby Jones is the only golfer to win four majors in one calendar year, taking the U.S. and British opens and U.S. and British amateur championships in 1930.

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Mt. Hood Cycling Classic - When: Sunday, June 23, 2013, time TBA - Where: Columbia Gorge - Cost: $125 - $200 - Age limit: Not available - Categories: Outdoor, Sports One of the top professional/amateur cycling events in North American for both men and women, Mt. Hood Cycling Classic is well-known and respected in the cycling world for its scenic beauty, epic courses, and superb organization. As a result of this reputation, it is one of the premier races in the country. Big mountain climbs, flat desert roads, and dense forests greet riders and showcase the diverse nature of the regions landscape. For more info visit www.mthoodcyclingclassic.com.

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Charlie's Big Betposted by Scott Engler Eleven of the nation's elite senior prospects who are still shopping will be on hand Saturday. So will 11 of Notre Dame's 15 committed recruits. And there will be 19 of the nation's top juniors in attendance.Irish Sports Daily reports that some of the top recruits in the country including Seantrel Henderson, Josh Shaw, Louis Nix, Chris Martin and surprise visitor all-world wide receiver and USC commit Kyle Prater will be on campus this weekend. If Charlie can pull it off, he'll likely pull off a top 5 class as well. Go big or go home. Wherever the chips fall, you can't fault Weis for shying away from a big game, he's embracing it. And it's just possible his team may make the jump from being able to win to expecting to win. Weis believes that the mindset is changing as he noted in his press conference. Once again, I'm going reiterate it, I mean, they understand the talent level who they're going against, but I'd say, you know, this is probably the first time since I've been here where the players really believe they're going to win. You know, they might be in the minority but they certainly believe that.While not an absolute must win game for Weis, it's become very important for him to prove he can get more out of his players than the sum of the parts and in the minds of many, this is the game to prove that. A blowout loss to SC might be the end of Charlie's run in South Bend. Weis has to prove he has that leadership intangible or at least that he can nurture it in his team. The problem for Notre Dame is that while the Irish have looked very good on offense to this point, they haven't played one top defense in five games and USC is a top five defense that HAS owned the Irish. Notre Dame hasn't scored a touchdown against USC since 2006. On the other side of the ball, USC has been gashing teams with the run and, unfortunately, teams have have been gashing ND with the run. Before the year started it was easy to see that USC's offensive line against our defensive line would be a mismatch and negate ND's clearest advantage, at quarterback. If SC is running the ball for 5 and 6 yards a carry, Matt Barkley won't be forced into tough decisions. This game will likely be decided, as most games are, up front and on turnovers. If ND's line can protect Clausen, ND can be successful through the air which could open up the ground game. USC's linebackers are so fast, that slow developing plays will be eaten alive, so I hope Charlie's tabled trickery that could go backward. Oregon State beat USC by hitting them up the gut. Defense wins big games and right now Notre Dame's defense is woeful. To win this game, ND's defensive line will have to play at a completely different level than it has the first five games. The offense doesn't have to make a ton of big plays, more than it has to not make big mistakes and be efficient. Turnovers against the Irish will end this early. It's been said about other games, but this is Charlie's biggest game. I haven't written very much this season, because I haven't been able to tell very much about this Irish team the first five games. Everyone's willing to give Charlie a shot, but in year five with a talented team, it's time to either become great or step aside and Weis has made a very big, possibly career making/ending bet on this game. Here's how I see it: - Win and the Irish have a very good shot at the BCS and another top five recruiting class. - Lose a close one and we're back in purgatory. - Lose big and the Gruden, Saban, Meyer, Kelly talk heats up again, recruits drop off and Weis could end up in a death spiral. And after more than a few notes from Irish supports, the cover of my book has changed from Trojan colors to a more palatable gold and green. Amazon is still updating this.

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(Kansas City, Mo.) - Matt Brown, who has led the University of Missouri-Kansas City men's basketball program for the last six seasons, has been dismissed as head coach, Director of Athletics Tim Hall announced Tuesday. "Matt ran our men's basketball program with dignity," Hall said. "He put student-athlete welfare and academics in the forefront. The coaches and student-athletes have represented UMKC and Kansas City in a first class manner under his watch, and I personally wish him nothing but the best." Brown posted a 64-122 overall record in his career with the 'Roos, and finished the 2012-13 season with an 8-24 mark. The squad tied for seventh in the Summit League with a 5-11 record. Brown's best year came in 2010-11, when the squad posted a 16-14 overall record, finishing sixth in the league with a 9-9 clip. "I would like to thank Tim Hall, former Chancellor Guy Bailey, and current Chancellor Leo Morton for the opportunity to coach at UMKC the last six years," Brown said. "I am extremely excited to see what God has in store next for me and my family." There is one year remaining on Brown's contract.

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Guide Your Sheep to Safety with Finger Shepherd Just a coupe of days ago, we brought you news about a game called Agent Sheep. In that article, we said that sheep were effectively “one of the most under-utilized farm animals in the world of gaming.” It seems that this was not entirely accurate because as it turns out, while we were writing about this, yet another game featuring the fluffy quadrupeds emerged from the depths of XDA-Developers, and XDA Forum Member ShibbyUK is the one responsible for making this happen. Finger Shepherd is an interesting puzzle type of game where you, a shepherd dog, need to pick up your sheep from across the land, flock them together, and make sure that they make it in one piece back in their pen, all in the least possible amount of time. You start off with your sheep scattered throughout different parts of the screen. Each time you touch on the screen will represent you barking at the sheep to try to get it to go where you want it to go. Sheep will try to run away from the bark, so you will need to use this to guide them all the way into the pen. As you go further along in the game, things will start getting more complex, as there will be obstacles that will either distract your sheep or put them in peril such as water, harvesters, and more. The game also features full 3D graphics and a score board where you can see your best times compared to other players around the world. The dev is looking for feedback and suggestions on how to improve the game. If you happen to download it, please let the dev know what you would like to see in future versions of it. Finger Shepherd: The game where You are the Sheepdog! Use your finger to herd your sheep to the safety of their pen. You can find more information in the original thread. Want something published in the Portal? Contact any News Writer.

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Is your Champagne flute ready for Valentine’s Day? If, like many others, you plan to celebrate with this bubbly celebratory drink, you should know that it may not be vegan. Bon Appetit explains that the base for Champagne is typically a dry wine made from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, or a blend. Many wines, including Champagnes, go through a process that uses fining agents to clarify their product. These fining agents can include: - isinglass (swim bladders of fish) - gelatin (animal protein from the skin and connective tissue of pigs and cows) - carmine (the bodies of dried cochineal beetles) - casein (a protein derived from milk) - chitosan (made from crustaceans) - egg albumen (egg whites) Some champagnes also use sugar in their recipes, and many times this is refined using bone char. Finding out whether or not Champagne is vegan simply by looking at the bottle is usually not reliable. Typically the bottle will not be labeled vegan, nor will it state clearly which fining agents are used. The good news is there are vegan Champagnes out there! Some popular Champagnes, including Chandon and Dom Perignon are said to be vegan. The website Barnivore is an excellent source to help look up specific champagnes like these, though you should be sure to read the comments from the company (and other commenters) about each product to verify the claim. (Keep in mind that Barnivore does not discriminate between vegan and non-vegan sugar.) UPDATE: After looking more closely into this issue, we have since decided that we cannot confirm the vegan status of any particular champagnes. Champagnes that might be vegan: Domaine Ste. Michelle (Blanc de Blancs, Blanc de Noirs, Brut, Extra Dry and Luxe) Champagnes that are NOT vegan: Korbel Natural Champagne (made with sugar refined using bone char, and possibly gelatin) Freixenet Sparkling Wines Gloria Ferrer Sparkling Wine Harmony Wynelands Wedding Champagne Korbel Brut and Extra Dry Louis Roederer Champagne Yellowglen Pink Champagne If you have a favorite Champagne, the best way to find out if it is vegan or not is to contact the company directly and ask them: “Is your Champagne vegan? Do you use fining agents? What about refined sugar?” If you opt for a different type of drink on Valentine’s Day, there are a number that are vegan, including Grey Goose, Absolut, and Don Julio Tequila. You can also toast with the classic non-alcoholic and vegan Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider. Or, better yet, you can check your local health food store or market for local drink varieties.

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Haslet, TX Plumbers Jim England Plumbing For all your plumbing needs, contact Jim England Plumbing of Haslet, TX. We provide a variety of services which come in affordable prices. We guarantee you with the quality work that you truly deserve. Learn More About Jim England Plumbing: - Water heaters - Tankless water heaters - Garbage disposals Our license # is M12268. Contact Jim England Plumbing today at 817-431-8500 and let us be of service to you.

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Large collection of radios and news from Ethiopia. Ethiopian radios brings a large collection of your favorite radios and FM stations from Ethiopia streaming live to your iOS devices. Radios from Ethiopia include: Radio Top Ethiopia Ethiopian News Radio Radio XOriyo- Ethiopia Radio Addis Ababa- Ethiopia Radio Eriterian Ethipian of Ethiopia Addis Ababa Music radios PS: All Ethiopian News and radios streams are live streams and therefore will only be available 24 hours if the radio stations broadcast 24 hours. Those stations that broadcast limited hours will be available only when it is broadcasting live in local time. - March 20, 2011 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE! - March 04, 2011 Price increase: FREE! -> $0.99 - February 24, 2011 New version 1.0 - September 02, 2015 New version 1.1 - October 21, 2015 New version 1.2

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Cece the baby platy journal I wanted to start this journal, to keep track of my first baby fry platy, looks like it will be a mickey mouse platy just like his/her momma. Cece is 11 days old, when I first saw it, it had a little black on the tail and light orange. As it getting older the colors are becoming brighter and the black on the tail is starting to show the mickey mouse trait. I also have 3 red wag platys (2 female and 1 male) and one female gold twin-bar platy. So far they are leaving Cece alone, once in a while they will see it and chase it but Cece is a fast little bugger. Getting away and hiding in the plants I have in the tank.

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Fiserv Rebrands ACCEL/Exchange to Accel The widely used ACCEL/Exchange debits payments network is now Accel, said its owner, Fiserv Inc. Fiserv said the name change reflects the network’s growth in size and functionality across retail, biller and social person-to-person channels that provide access to demand deposit account funds at ATMs and the point of sale. "Fiserv updated the network's name to reflect the 24x7-always-connected world we're living in," said David Keenan, general manager, Network Solutions, for Fiserv in Brookfield, Wis. Accel now claims 55 million debit cardholders using 3,100 financial institutions, 340,000 ATMs and more than 3 million merchant locations. "Our real-time payments platform, developed over the last 40 years, has expanded from ATM and retail payments to enabling social payments, as we demonstrated last year with the integration of Accel with our person-to-person payments service, Popmoney,” Keenan said Tuesday in a statement. Fiserv landed Popmoney with its 2011 purchase of CashEdge and combined it last year with the Zashpay P2P service the company had launched in 2009.

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North American Governments Agree to Protect Wilderness The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed this week to work together to protect wilderness areas across North America. The cooperation agreement establishes an intergovernmental committee to exchange research and approaches that address challenges such as climate change, fire control, and invasive species in land, marine, and coastal protected areas throughout the continent. "This agreement will allow for the exchange of successful experiences, monitoring, and training of human resources, as well as the financing of projects that will protect and recover wild areas," said Mexican President Felipe Calderón at the opening ceremony of the Ninth World Wilderness Congress in Mérida, Mexico. The three nations have long cooperated on wilderness management - programs have straddle the U.S.-Canadian border since 1910 and the U.S.-Mexican border since the 1930s. Yet the memorandum of understanding is the first multinational agreement on wilderness protection, according to Vance Martin, president of the Wild Foundation. Article continues: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6316

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HARRISBURG — Forty-four years after his body was discovered on the side of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the state police have identified and are looking for information in the apparent murder of a U.S. Marine who’d twice received the Purple Heart in Vietnam. Corporal Robert Daniel Corriveau was just 20 but had already been wounded three separate times in Vietnam before a state trooper on turnpike patrol found him stabbed through the heart Nov. 18, 1968. Corriveau was originally classified and buried as a John Doe because he had no identification on him. The state trooper discovered the man in a seated position roughly a mile east of the Downingtown interchange, according to a release from the state police Thursday. The case was classified as a homicide. Looking to “further the investigation” in July 2009, the state police Criminal Investigation Assessment/Missing Persons Unit with the Chester County District Attorney’s Office and the Chester County Coroner’s Office exhumed the unidentified body and took bone samples. The samples were sent to the University of Northern Texas Center for Human Identification. A DNA sample was taken from the bone sample and put into the nationwide missing persons DNA database. In addition to the DNA sample, police said there were indications that the murdered man was in the military because of his physical description and two tattoos: one with “a bird in flight with a heart in the background and the other being a bulldog wearing a World War I helmet with (the) letters ‘USMC’ printed below it.” As such, a plea for help in the case was put out to the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service Cold Case Unit the U.S. Marine Corps Absentee Collection Unit, the police said. In May, the DNA was “positively identified” as Corriveau’s. Police said when Corriveau disappeared, he was a patient at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital being treated “for a combat related condition,” possibly the same condition that he also received treatment for at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Mass. He was discovered missing from the Philadelphia Naval Hospital 7:50 a.m. the day he was discovered dead on the turnpike, Nov. 18. Corriveau, originally from Lawrence, Mass., enlisted in the Marines in March 1965 and served several tours in Vietnam. The state police are looking for information from anyone who may have served with Corriveau, as well as anyone who may have been staff or patients at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in October and November in 1968. Those with information are asked to contact the state police at 610-268-5158 or email RA-1968MarineDeath@pa.gov. Anyone with a tip in the Corriveau case or any other “serious crime or wanted person” can call the Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers at 1-800-4PA-TIPS or visit the website at www.PACrimeStoppers.org A reward may be available for tips made.

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I'm going to attempt something that will probably seem unethical to some -- that is, review a book that I do not own (or as I see it, review a book that I wasn't suckered into buying). This is a book however that I've spent some time looking through and admittedly have been tempted to buy (mostly due to the hype surrounding it) but every time I move the pages from cover to cover I have the realization that I'm looking at crap and therefore -- when my brain starts working again -- I put it back on the shelf and step away. This has happened a few times and each time I feel the pull of hype and I am able to repel it thankfully even with the sticker on the new edition touting its greatness. The book I'm speaking of is called Empty Bottles by Wassink Lundgren and it won the Contemporary Book Award for 2007 at the Rencontres d'Arles photo festival in France. Let me proceed by asking a question. How many photographers does it take to make mediocre photographs of Chinese people picking up empty plastic bottles? In this case it would be two. The photographic duo of Wassink and Lundgren have worked on many books together and Empty Bottles is the latest. Yes, that is right, this is a collaborative effort between two people. Stunning collaboration gentlemen. My question is are there two brains at work here? The first printing of 750 copies sold out quickly after the hype at Arles with a copy now fetching over $400 on the Photoeye auction website. Hundreds of copies were available at the first annual New York photo festival which featured an exhibition of his work curated by none other than Martin Parr. Now if you've noticed in the past here at 5B4 Photography and Books I do not particularly enjoy negatively reviewing books. Who would? I don't have axes to grind and I want to share work that excites me in a finely crafted book. In this case, what kept me picking up the book was the design and presentation and had absolutely nothing to do with what I realized was incredibly boring photography. Has photography turned down such a blind alley to where this is an example of something that we are holding up for higher consideration? Arles or no Arles...don't believe the hype. I hope there is a day when we come to our senses and realize that there is much more to be offered and much more to get excited about. I can only hope that that day arrives soon as I do not think I can stomach picking up more of these empty vessels.

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Yankees prove they have learned lesson by letting Robinson Cano walk The average New York Yankees fan is not going to be pleased that Robinson Cano is not in pinstripes when the 2014 MLB season begins. Those who understand the game of baseball can rest assured that some of the best deals a team makes are the ones it doesn’t make. Cano reportedly agreed to a 10-year, $240 million deal with the Seattle Mariners on Friday. The Mariners will likely make up most of that money in merchandise and ticket sales, but they are going to regret the contract from a baseball standpoint. No team was going to land Cano without paying an absurd amount of money, but massive contracts like the one Cano signed have gotten the Yankees into trouble recently. Look no further than Alex Rodriguez, who signed a 10-year, $275 million deal with New York back in 2007. A-Rod was 32 at the time. Cano is 31. The deals are fairly similar, and now the Yankees are left praying Rodriguez is suspended for a significant amount of time so they can be relieved of some of the financial burden. To give you some perspective, the Boston Red Sox signed 30-year-old Dustin Pedroia to an eight-year, $110 million extension back in July. Is Pedroia the same type of power hitter as Cano? Hardly, but he is the heart and soul of the Red Sox and a former American League MVP. He’s also better than Cano defensively. Somehow, a team felt that Cano is worth $130 million more than Pedroia. How about Albert Pujols? He signed an identical contract to Cano’s with the Los Angeles Angels just before his 32nd birthday. While there is plenty of time for Pujols to revert to his old form, he has already battled significant injuries and is undoubtedly making the organization panic about his contract. I’m sure he has several quality seasons left, but there is no way Pujols will hold up over the length of his 10-year deal. The thing that really seems to be irritating Yankees fans is the fact that their team just signed Jacoby Ellsbury to a seven-year, $153 million deal before letting Cano walk. New York probably overpaid for Ellsbury, but you can’t sign top free agents without overpaying in this era. Signing Ellsbury to a seven-year deal has nothing to do with passing on Cano. Fans may not realize it now, but the Yankees made the right decision. There is always going to be a desperate team out there, and the Mariners proved to be that team. New York did the right thing. Those who don’t realize that now will likely see it in four or five years.

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RICHARD AMBROSE (PTC): If you wanted to travel into space you need the backing of a government and a rich government at that. But it's all starting to change. The 21st century is heralding the arrival of the rocketeer privateer VO: On the 21st of June 2004 SpaceShipOne went rocketing into the history books when it became the first privately funded manned vehicle to make it into space. It was carried to an altitude of nearly 14 kilometers by its launcher White Knight before it broke free and fired its own rocket engine. Although it only burned for 80 seconds the rocket produced enough thrust to send the tiny craft hurtling one hundred kilometers above the Earth, to come down the wings were tilted and SpaceShipOne flew effortlessly to Earth. JONNY PHILLIPS (PTC): Unfortunately our pockets aren't quite as deep as Richard Branston's. RICHARD AMBROSE (SYNC - TO JONNY): Branson -Branson, mate. JONNY (SYNC - TO RICHARD): Oh right - I thought he was the guy the made the pickle. Anyway how much have we got? RICHARD: 30 quid. 30 quid. But with some creative thinking I think we can come up with something. JONNY: Yeah - yeah - cool. RICHARD AMBROSE (PTC): So Jonny and I have come up with a pressurized water rocket. You can make these at home. What you need is an air pump that supplies the pressure. You need a bicycle valve, from an inner tube. A section of wine cork, screwed in there like that. That's the clever bit. A bit of water. A stand. And obviously the rocket which is my mini V2. VO: Getting the ratio of water to air right is crucial. Richard reckons a two liter bottle, filled with a third of water, should launch it to a good height. When the cork can't withstand the air pressure any more, you have lift off. RICHARD (SYNC): Four - five - Cor - yes. Way. That's 50 feet. It's a good one. Jonny - next one. JONNY (SYNC): Not bad Rich, but I think I can do better. I've got a bigger pump and a bigger rocket. VO: Richard's rocket took about 80 pounds per square inch before it went off. That's around three times the pressure of a car tire. JONNY (SYNC): Come on. You could sell this as an exercise. It's absolutely knackering. VO: With this bigger pump, Jonny is hoping for one hundred psi. but there's no quick way of getting it in there. RICHARD: Oh my God. JONNY: I didn't see how high it went because I was facing the other way. But it sounded pretty good. How was it? RICHARD: It was excellent. It went rocketing off it that direction. You probably cleared 50 feet but it went a long - JONNY: 50 feet at an angle? RICHARD: Yeah - that was excellent. But I've got something bigger than that mate. Stand clear. RICHARD (SYNC): I've got a fat one and I've got a bad boy to fire it up. Now stand back. VO: The compressor is providing one hundred and twenty times more pressure than Jonny's foot pump. RICHARD: Whoa hoo hoo. RICHARD: That was superb. RICHARD: We're not going into outer space with this one

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GE Industrial Systems (GEIS) is implementing a major product life-cycle management project that it hopes will reduce product development time, improve supply chain efficiency and cut costs. By submitting your email address, you agree to receive emails regarding relevant topic offers from TechTarget and its partners. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Contact TechTarget at 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA. The General Electric subsidiary said it is using product life-cycle management technology from MatrixOne to develop a collaborative environment for planning, development, sourcing and programme management. When the project is fully implemented in about two years, more than 10,000 GEIS employees worldwide will be able to log onto a central portal site to collaborate on a variety of activities. "There are several business issues that we are trying to address," said Eric Reed, manager of the My Workplace portal site at GEIS. Centralising the millions of documents associated with the products GEIS builds, and making the repository accessible from anywhere via the portal, will give the company greater flexibility in where it designs and builds systems, Reed said. Eventually, the environment will also be linked with suppliers, he added. Return on investment will come through faster product development times and greater efficiency, Reed said. He declined to say what the savings would be. The product life-cycle management system will allow GEIS to work closer with its suppliers, which can then be more directly involved in the product development process. The project has involved migrating nearly 15 million product-related documents from legacy systems into the MatrixOne environment. Meeting the specialised document management requirements of the engineering community was especially challenging, as was getting user buy-in during the early stages when there was little immediate benefit to demonstrate, Reed said. GEIS declined to disclose the cost of this project.

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Saddle Covers & Bags Protecting your saddle is easy with our large selection of English saddle covers and saddle bags. Materials including Lycra®, cotton and fleece provide a soft surface to avoid scratches while protecting your saddle from dust and moisture. Available in sizes for all-purpose, close contact and dressage saddles, you'll be able to find saddle covers and saddle bags that have a perfect fit. Choose from a variety of styles, colors and custom options and monograms to protect your saddle with a style that is your own.

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On TV, you have to boil down answers into the shortest, most concise sound bites. Right now, my favorite sound bite is "Invest in Yellow: Corn, Wheat and Gold". Some people might be scratching their heads and questioning why this is sound money advice. First of all, gold has outperformed other investments year over year. People that were invested in gold did not get creamed during the stock market dip. No, they profited. Gold continues its upward trend, and I'm still buying. Gold is a historical safe-haven during times of crisis. People who have gold and gold investments can hang onto their savings when their currency falls flat - something that I am predicting will happen to the U.S. Dollar and U.S. Government Bond market. While dollars go down in value, gold goes up. As for corn and wheat... people need to eat. They don't need plasma TV's or that little kitchen gadget that helps you stir peanut butter without making a mess. The population in India and especially China are growing faster than their food supply can handle. What does this mean? American farmers will thrive because the demand of agriculture products will continue to escalate. Prices on corn and wheat will rise, and investments in those areas will flourish. Agriculture commodities are dirt cheap right now, so get them while they are still on sale. I also like white by the way... specifically silver and sugar. I really love silver right now. It's still cheap and I wouldn't be surprised if it went up to $20/ounce this year. Please enjoy the following video I shot DIY-style to explain the basics about inflation.

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“The Wizard of Oz” runs June 6-22 at the Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. Advance tickets are $20 for Thursday shows, $22 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at www.stagecrafters.org (online handling fees apply) or by phone at 248-541-6430. Remaining tickets may be at the box office one hour before performance ($2 more per ticket). Student, military and senior discounts available for specific performances. The Good Witch, Bad Witch Ladies Night Out Fundraiser is 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, at Baldwin Theatre. Advance tickets are $30, available at Stagecrafters.org or at 248-541-6430. Patrons attending opening night Friday, June 6, may attend 7 p.m. pre-glow for hors d’oeuvres and beverages hosted by Blackfinn Ameripub of Royal Oak. If you though the movie was spectacular, just imagine staging “The Wizard of Oz” live on stage. “Technically, it’s one of the harder shows ever, with the set pieces and the flying, but it’s exciting,” says Randall Wrisinger of Royal Oak, who directing the musical for Stagecrafters at Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. He has been directing theater for more than 25 years — the last seven in Michigan — and previously directed “The Sound of Music,” a youth theater production of “Cinderella” and Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” for Stagecrafters He auditioned 100 youths for this show, casting 15 children ages 8-18 and and 35 adults, plus a dog. “I was very lucky — a member of our cast had a neighbor with a rescued Cairn terrier that looked just like Toto,” Wrisinger said. “His real name is Jo-Jo — they work with him, and he and Dorothy have quite a relationship becaase she’s with him all the time.” Wrisinger’s Dorothy is 15-year-old Gabrielle Phillips of Lake Orion, who acted and sang in Stagecrafters’ “The Sound of Music” last year. It’s based on the 1939 MGM movie starring Judy Garland. It’s so iconic, some of its lines were voted into “The 100 Greatest Movie Lines” by Premier magazine in 2007. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” is No. 24. “This is the 75th anniversary of ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and we’re doing the Royal Shakespeare version, but it’s exactly like the movie,” Wrisinger says. “The music is from the movie, the characters are from the movie, and of course the story.” Stagecrafters is a nonprofit community theater now in its 57th year. Musicians are paid, Wrisinger says, although the cast and technical crew work on a volunteer basis. But everyone strives for a professional level. The show opens on Friday, June 6. “We’ll be ready, but that’s a challenge with the professional effects,” he says. “The amount of work on the set and the sewing of costumes ... the costume changes are fast, and the makeup people have their work cut out for them. The casrt works so well together, but the technical crew is extraordinatry.” A special event connected to this production is the Good Witch, Bad Witch Ladies Night Out Fundraiser on Wednesday, June 4, at the Baldwin Theatre. This is a themed evening in which patrons dress as their favorite “good witch” or “bad witch,” for a pre-glow of hors d’oeuvres prepared by Café Muse of Royal Oak, drinks including a Flying Monkey Brew, shopping, a raffle, costume contest and preview performance of “The Wizard of Oz.” The event begins at 6 p.m., and costume prizes will be awarded in each category. The fundraiser is sponsored by Credit Union Advantage. “The Wizard of Oz” is sponsored by Miner’s Den Jewelers of Royal Oak. “I think that when people think about the movie, they have it in their minds what it’s supposed to look like,” Wrisinger says. “We’re gonna get that, but with a flair. It’s a little bit of ‘Wizard of Oz,’ a little bit of (the Broadway smash) ‘Wicked,’ so it’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ with a twist, and I’m very, very excited to share that.” One of the mysteries of the story is that many characters have dual roles — one in Oz and one at home in Kansas. And so do the actors. In case you’ve forgotten the story, Dorothy is growing up on a Kansas farm with Auntie Em (played by Helen Frizzo of Royal Oak) and Uncle Henry (Bill Glace of Ferndale). A mean neightbor, Miss Gulch (played by Elizabeth Schultz of Royal Oak) claims Dorothy’s dog bit her, and she takes him away. But Toto escapes, and Dorothy decides to run away with him. She meets Professor Marvel (Ron Otulakowski of Eastpointe) who convinces her to return home. When she arrives home, a tornado hits the area and causes her to fall and hit her head. When she awakes, she finds herself in the colorful Land of Oz, where she meets the people of Munchkinland and good witch Glinda (Randi Hamilton of Ferndale). Dorothy also meets the Wicked Witch of the West (Schultz) who wants the magical ruby slippers that Glinda places on Dorothy’s feet. Then Dorothy sets off on a journey to seek help from the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. Along the yellow brick road, she meets a scarecrow (Matthew Miga of Ferndale, who also plays farmhand Hickory), a tin man (Bradley Ellison of Southfield, also playing farmhand Hunk) and a cowardly lion (Jerry Haines of Berkley, also playing farmhand Zeke). Together, they travel to Emerald City and the powerful wizard. But first, they must battle talking (and in this show, singing!) trees, and the scariest thing of all — evil flying monkeys. Stagecrafters’ flying effects are courtesy of ZFX Inc. The book is by L. Frank Baum with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, background music by Herbert Stothart, dance and vocal arrangements by Peter Howard, orchestration by Larry Wilcox and adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company. “I wanted to do another show that involved youth and adults. I love working with the young people and seeing them grow up in the theater as well as the excitement that it creates in their eyes,” Wrisinger says.

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Roger Simon: Republicans reach for the stars, but fall flat on their faces A new GOP study designed to theatrically rebrand the party and boldly redirect its future turns out to be 97-page blend of the obvious, the unlikely and the impossible. The study, which contains no fewer than 219 recommendations, was supposed to pull a party that has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections out of its death spiral. In previewing it on "Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer" on Sunday, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said of the last election: "Our message was weak; our ground game was insufficient; we weren't inclusive; we were behind in both data and digital; our primary and debate process needed improvement." Wasn't something else weak, insufficient, behind and needing improvement? Oh, yeah, Mitt Romney. Priebus didn't mention his name, perhaps because he has already forgotten it. The bold and new rebranding of the Republican Party is, in fact, a mélange of old Democratic successes (organize hard with paid staff and new technology across the entire country), old Democratic failures (limit the number of primary debates) and thinking that is so pie-in-the-sky that the GOP might as well stand for Grand Old Pastry. Take minorities. The Republicans are now going to study them like they were some kind of new microbe. Priebus is pledging to spend $10 million on the effort. I know $10 million sounds like a lot, but in political terms it is a pittance. The two presidential campaigns spent more than $2 billion in the last election, and one Republican billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, gave Romney $33 million in the closing weeks, bringing the total he and his wife gave to the GOP to $95 million. In other words, $10 million is what Republican fat cats find in their couch cushions. No matter. The Republicans need to seek out and woo minorities because so few minorities are already members of the party. Republicans have to study minorities from afar, like astronomers studying distant galaxies. The Republicans are going to establish "Senior Level Advisory Councils" for Hispanics, African-Americans and Asian-Americans. They will reach out to women and start doing "voter engagement at a granular level starting now," Priebus said at a news conference Monday. Priebus did not explain what "granular level" means, but next time you open your sugar bowl, watch out. Minority outreach for Republicans is easier said than done, however, and the new report envisions a lot of saying without promising much doing. The GOP doesn't really expect to gain many new black voters in 2014 or 2016, but it is drooling over Hispanic voters. After the 2000 election, Matthew Dowd, then a senior strategist for George W. Bush, produced a now-historic memo stating that if Republicans continued to underperform among Hispanics, the party would be in serious trouble nationally as Hispanic voting strength grew. And Hispanics were fertile soil for Republicans. As Dowd told me: "Hispanics are more like European immigrants of the early 1900s or late 1800s. They are like the Irish: They start out Democratic, but as they become part of the economic mainstream, they become much more valuable to Republicans." On the surface, the new GOP report looks good for Hispanics. "We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform," it says. "If we do not, our Party's appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only." (Which is what Dowd told them a dozen years ago.) But that is as far as the report goes. It does not address what most Hispanics really care about: immigration reform that guarantees a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million in America illegally. Some Republicans don't want to reward lawbreaking, and some say: "Hey, why create millions of new voters who are going to give Democrats 70 percent of their votes?" This is where outreach becomes tough. When Priebus was asked why gay voters would vote Republican, he replied: "Sen. Portman made some inroads last week." And, indeed, Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, recently endorsed gay marriage after finding out (two years ago) that his son is gay. And if Portman ever has a black child, maybe Portman will champion civil rights. But don't worry. The GOP is leaving no minority group unturned. The report calls for a "Celebrity Task Force of personalities in the entertainment industry to host events . and allow donors to participate in entertainment events as a way to attract younger voters." So maybe Sheldon Adelson and Taylor Swift could do a happenin' duet. Roger Simon is Politico's chief political columnist.

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Pettit 120 Brushing Thinner Pettit 120 Brushing Thinner is a general purpose thinner for thinning brushing enamels for easier application. Many paints when stored for some time before use will increase in viscosity and should be thinned with a good thinner for normal brush application. Brushing Thinner evaporates at a moderate rate and is completely out of the paint film in several hours. Up to 10% is the normal recommended usage, some very hot and windy days may require more thinner. - Size - Quart. **Can Be Shipped Ground Only in the 48 Contiguous States**

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Editorial: Getting the Price Right Click here to read more articles about Editorials This article originally appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of Home Energy Magazine. July 01, 2007 Some people claim that most of our inefficient use of energy will disappear once we “get the price right”— that is, that the price reflects the true costs of supplying that energy. I agree that the price is important, but even when the price is right, the system may still be broken. Here are a few examples. More than one-fourth of all refrigerators are purchased by people who will not pay for the refrigerator’s electricity bills. That’s the fraction purchased by landlords, and by contractors for new homes. These people have little or no interest in paying a premium for energy efficiency, because their tenants or the home buyers reap all the benefits. That’s about 2% of residential energy use, the efficiency of which is out of control. If it were not for minimum standards, tenants would almost certainly end up with guzzlers. And when the price of electricity rises, don’t expect landlords and contractors to suddenly buy more efficient models. Sitting next to many of our televisions are set-top boxes. The set-top box connects the television to a cable or satellite provider. You don’... To read complete online articles, you need to sign up for an Online Subscription. Once an order has been placed there is an automatic $10 processing fee that will be deducted with any cancellation. The Home Energy Online articles are for personal use only and may not be printed for distribution. For permission to reprint, please send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Whether a public cloud or private cloud, everyone agrees that cloud computing key benefits include scalability, instant provisioning, virtualized resources and ability to expand the server base quickly. However, “cloud computing” is still used to mean a lot of things to a lot of people. When it comes to slicing up the cloud taxonomy a little further, there’s still quite a bit of confusion between the public cloud and private cloud computing. The public cloud is defined as a multi-tenant environment, where you buy a “server slice” in a cloud computing environment that is shared with a number of other clients or tenants. Public clouds such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud have a number of trade-offs: - Utility Model – Public Clouds typically deliver a pay-as-you-go model, where you pay by the hour for the compute resources you use. This is an economical way to go if you’re spinning up & tearing down development servers on a regular basis. - No Contracts – Along with the utility model, you’re only paying by the hour – if you want to shut down your server after only 2 hours of use, there is no contract requiring your ongoing use of the server. - Shared Hardware – Because the public cloud is by definition a multi-tenant environment, your server shares the same hardware, storage and network devices as the other tenants in the cloud. Meeting compliance requirements, such as PCI or SOX, is not possible in the public cloud. - No Control of Hardware Performance – In the public cloud, you can’t select the hardware, cache or storage performance (SATA or SAS). Your virtual server is placed on whatever hardware and network, the public cloud provider designates for you. - Self Managed – with the high volume, utility model, self managed systems are required for this business model to make sense. Advantage here for the technical buyers that like to setup and manage the details of their servers. Disadvantage for those that want a fully managed solution. The majority of public cloud deployments are generally used for web servers or development systems where security and compliance requirements of larger organizations and their customers is not an issue. Private Cloud Computing, on the other hand, by definition is a single-tenant environment where the hardware, storage and network are dedicated to a single client or company. Private cloud computing also has a number of trade-offs: - Security – Because private clouds are dedicated to a single organization, the hardware, data storage and network can be designed to assure high levels of security that cannot be accessed by other clients in the same data center. - Compliance – Sarbanes Oxley, PCI and HIPAA compliance can not be delivered through a public cloud deployment. Because the hardware, storage and network configuration is dedicated to a single client, compliance is much easier to achieve. - Customizable – Hardware performance, network performance and storage performance can be specified and customized in the private cloud. - Hybrid Deployments – If a dedicated server is required to run a high speed database application, that hardware can be integrated into a private cloud, in effect, hybridizing the solution between virtual servers and dedicated servers. This can’t be achieved in a public cloud. As opposed to public clouds, private clouds are not delivered through a utility model or pay-as-you-go basis because the hardware is dedicated. Private clouds are generally preferred by mid and large size enterprises because they meet the security and compliance requirements of these larger organizations and their customers.

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|Typ av kungörelse||Beviljande| |Publiceringsdatum||10 jun 1941| |Registreringsdatum||25 jul 1939| |Prioritetsdatum||25 jul 1939| |Även publicerat som||US2266169, US2304984, US2341364, US2388893| |Publikationsnummer||US 2245257 A, US 2245257A, US-A-2245257, US2245257 A, US2245257A| |Uppfinnare||Chester W Crumrine| |Ursprunglig innehavare||Eastman Kodak Co| |Exportera citat||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan| |Hänvisningar finns i följande patent (14), Klassificeringar (7)| |Externa länkar: USPTO, Överlåtelse av äganderätt till patent som har registrerats av USPTO, Espacenet| June 1-0, 1941- c. w. CRUMRINE LENS MOUNZ Filed July 25, 1939 CHESTER MCQUMP/NE ATIORNE Y Patented June 10, 1941 LENS MOUNT Chester W. Crumrine, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New Jersey Application July 25, 1939, Serial No. 286,385 This invention relates to optical systems and particularly to lens mounts. It is an object of the invention to provide a method of mounting lenses and particularly single lenses or elements, alone or as part of a more complex system. It is a particular object of the invention to provide an extremely inexpensive but highly accurate lens mount which can be safely assembled by simply inserting the mount into a tube provided therefor. The tube may be cylindrical (or conical) with circular, rectangular or any desired cross section. By way of example, the simple cylindrical case which cylinder has a circular cross section, will be considered in detail. If a lens element such as a meniscus glass element is fitted snugly into a mount there is pressure exerted on the element from all sides toward the optic axis thereof. Such pressure is liable to cause occasional break-, age of the lenses during manufacture and to introduce strain into the lens which, from an optical viewpoint, is, of course, quite unsatisfactory and which also makes the lenses susceptible to breakage during later use. According to the present invention, this pressure on the lens is descreased and the troubles caused thereby eliminated by molding a plastic rim onto the periphery of the lens which rim extends axially from both sides of the lens and has an outer surface which is substantially concave toric. In this connection, the word toric is used to include any surface in which the diameter near the center is less than the diameter near the end of the cylinder. of course, in the case of a cone the actual diameter of the rim adjacent to the lens may be slightly greater than the diameter at one end of the rim, but since the chamber into which the lens is to be mounted in a camera would also be conical in this case, the efiective diameter of the rim near the lens is less than the efiective diameter of the rim at either end. When this arrangement of the rim is used, the rim may be inserted fitting snugly into a cylinder and the pressure of the cylinder on the rim will be exerted mainly on the ends of the rim and not on that portion adjacent to the lens. The lens itself will exert a counterpressure outward on the central part of the rim and the rim will be distorted slightly under these pressures. That is, the rim itself will change in shape so that no excessive pressures will be exerted on the lens element itself. The present invention-is particularly useful with those described in copending applications, Serial Numbers 286,386 and 286,384 filed concurrently herewith by Donald L. Wood and by myself respectively. Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawing in which- Fig. 1 shows a simple meniscus lens in cross section. Fig. 2 shows the cross section of the pertinent parts of a molding machine for mounting a lens according to the invention. Fig. 3 shows one embodiment of the invention. Fig. 4 shows the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 as mounted in a portion of a camera wall. In Fig. 1 a meniscus lens element Hl having an optic axis H is shown in cross section. The surfaces of this lens have radii of curvature RI 20 and R2 respectively and the axial thickness thereof is T. Since the element as shown is in that stage of manufacture in which it has not yet been centered, the diameter thereof taken from the optic axis is different in difierent directions as indicated by HI and H2. In Fig. 2 the lens element I0 is held by a zonal clamp consisting of members I4 and IS in a molding machine comprising molds l6 and IT. The zonal clamp members l4 and I5 are carried by plungers l2 and I3 respectively, the plunger 12 being held in place by a spring I9- and a plate 20 and the plunger 13 being held in place by a screw 2| in a plate 22 having an adjusting knob 23 with scale 24 and index 25. According to the invention a rim is molded onto the element In by injecting a plastic through an injection nozzle 21 into the chamber 26 around the periphery of the lens. The zonal clamp members l4 and I5 prevent any-of the plastic entering chamber 28 adjacent to the central portions of the lens surfaces. According to the invention, the molding machine is so ar ranged that the outer surface of the rim is slightly concave. This is best seen in Fig. 3 wherein the rim of the lens 10 is indicated as 30. The outer surface 29 of this rim is seen to be concave toric. Incidentally, since the lens [0 is held by a zonal clamp in the mold, the outer periphery of this rim 3'0 is optically centered on the axis H as indicated by the arrows H. Furthermore, I have made the surprising discovery, that a rim molded as shown in the drawing, which rim has an axial length greater than its radial thickness and which rim extends axially from both sides of the lens, will have the required concave surface 29 .if it is made by injecting the molding into a mold whose walls are straight and cylindrical. That is, although the mold itself has straight walls the rim when finished and removed from the mold will assume a shape in which the outer surface is concave toric. As shown in Fig. 4, this lens ill in its rim 30 may be inserted snugly into a chamber, for example, in the wall of a camera. The rim 3B is pushed into this chamber until the end surface of the rim comes in contact with an abutment 33 in such a camera wall 32, which is also provided with an aperture 35 which acts as the aperture for the lens I 0. The Fig. 4 illustrates the advantage of this type of rim. As is shown, the rim 30 fits snugly into a cylinder in the housing 32 so that pressure indicated by arrows 36 is exerted on the ends of this rim 30. The fit is snuggest at the ends of the rim. Due to the curvature of the surface 29, there is no direct pressure on the rim 30 adjacent to the lens element I0. On the other hand, the element Ill exerts a counterpressure 31 outward on the rim 30 and together with the pressure exerted at the point 36, this pressure distorts the rim 3!] bending it to or towards a shape in which the Outer surface 29 thereof is perfectly cylindrical and not concave. Actually of course, the surface 29 remains slightly concave even when inserted in 'thech-am-ber' provided therefor. Although the curvature 29 is very slight and the amount of distortion of the rim 30 which is permissible is also very small, this invention succeeds in reducng the pressure on the lens l suf- I ficiently to eliminate breakage during manufacture and strain in the lens after it is mounted in a camera. Obviously by having the injection nozzle and the line of separation of the mold shown in Fig. 2 at a point opposite to the lens l0 instead of at one end of the rim chamber 26, the mold could be arranged so that the concavity of the surface 29 could beany desired amount. However, I have found that sufficient concavity and in fact an almost ideal arrangement is produced when the surface of the mold H is perfectly flat, or more correctly is perfectly cylindrical. If the radial thickness of the rim 30 is too great, compared with its axial thickness, 1. e., its length, the resiliency of the rim is reduced to a point where little advantage is gained by the invention. However, it is difilcult to state exactly when this advantage becomes negligible, but in general the radial thickness of the rim should not be greater than its length. and of course thelength should be sufllcient to extend axially from both sides of the rim of the lens Ill. Having thus described in detail one embodiment of my invention, 1' wish to point out that it is not limited to the specific structure shown but is of the scope of the appended claims. What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is: 1. A camera lens mount comprising a camera wall having a tubular aperture therein, an abutment on the inner wall of the tubular aperture, a, plastic rim holding said lens in axial alignment in the aperture and fitting snugly in the tubular aperture against said abutment, the outer surface of the rim being concave toric whereby the fit is snuggest near the from and rear edges of the rim. 2. An optical system comprising a tubular lens mount, abutment meanson the inner wall of the tubular mount, a lens axially aligned in the mount and a plastic rim for the lens fitting snugly in the mount and against the abutment means, the outer surface of the rim being concave in section and the fit between the rim and the mount being tightest at the front amid ear edges of the rim. CHESTER W. 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An X-ray of the animal indicates it was shot several times, including through the head at close range, he says. Mann identified the wolf as R-28, the alpha male of the Nez Perce wolf pack. The wolf had not been traveling with the pack for several months, but had been monitored in both Idaho and in Yellowstone National Park. "This one has been everywhere," Mann told the Billings Gazette. The federal agency is offering up to $1,000 for information leading to the person or persons responsible for the wolf's death. Anyone with a lead should call the Fish and Wildlife Service at 406/449-5225. - Kent Matowitz on Sometimes, the West must be protected from itself - Katherine Fiveash on Ranch Diaries: How to have a clear head and rested heart - Kent Matowitz on Let’s be clear: TSA’s new tactics are bribery - Blair French on How Shelton Johnson became the Buffalo Soldiers’ champion - Ruby Ram on Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s criticism of Trump wins him national prominence

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DoJ to Brush Cobwebs Off Music Licensing Agreements The U.S. Department of Justice this week said it would review long-held agreements with two major performing-rights organizations with an eye to updating them to reflect the climate of the music industry more accurately. The DoJ's agreements with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) have been in place for more than 70 years. The consent decrees were last updated in 2001 and 1994 respectively, long before the rise of streaming music services that can pay less than a cent to an artist each time one of their songs is played. "We don't think [the old rules] fit well with the new business environment," Stuart Rosen, SVP and general counsel at BMI, told the E-Commerce Times. "The fact that they're taking a fresh look at things and seeing if there's a way to modernize the decrees is nothing but good news from our perspective," he added. "We are gratified by the Department of Justice's decision to open a formal review of the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees," said Paul Williams, ASCAP president and chairman. "Since the ASCAP decree was last reviewed in 2001 -- before even the iPod was introduced -- new technologies have dramatically transformed the way people listen to music." ASCAP and BMI, both of which are nonprofit entities, have pushed for the move. Between them, they license about 90 percent of music played in movies and restaurants, and on television and online services. Songwriters use publishers to promote their works, as well as to license, sell and distribute recordings. Publishers and songwriters often turn to ASCAP and BMI to collectively license songs for public performance to music services like Pandora, Spotify and Rdio. When there's a dispute over the cost of a license, it's arbitrated by so-called rate courts, which were set up in 1941 through consent decrees between the DoJ, ASCAP and BMI. The decrees did not have an expiration date at the time, though they usually expire after five or seven years. Publishers need to have an all-or-nothing relationship with BMI or ASCAP. If they wish to work with BMI or ASCAP, they don't have the option to license their works to a radio station but not Spotify, for instance. "What we would like to do, ultimately, is move the rate process to a point where it's a free market -- where, through open negotiations that aren't regulated, we can set what is an appropriate market rate," BMI's Rosen said. "We don't think the current model works that way. We think that the results of rate courts are intended to replicate open market negotiations, but we don't think the results back that up. Anything that we can do to create a more free market environment is really what we're trying to get to." 'Current Model Slow' "We think the current model is slow," Rosen added. "The current model is expensive. We don't think it allows for an easy way of paying the writers and publishers while the parties are in the middle of a dispute. We think that the results really have not reflected fair market value," he explained. "What if we moved the rate-setting model from a court to an arbitration panel? We think an arbitration panel could move more quickly -- it could move more cheaply. We think a panel might have a cross-section of industry experts, business people and lawyers that would achieve a result that would better reflect fair market value," Rosen argued. "ASCAP remains committed to working with the Department of Justice and all industry stakeholders to modernize the music licensing system so that it better serves songwriters, the businesses who depend on our music, and the people who listen to it -- not just today, but for generations to come," ASCAP's Williams said. "Updating music licensing regulations to reflect the realities of today's music landscape will preserve the benefits of collective licensing to businesses that license music, give consumers greater access to the music they love, and allow the more than 500,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers we represent to be compensated for the true value their music brings to the marketplace," Williams concluded. End to Rate Courts ASCAP also would like an end to the rate courts in favor of an arbitration process, according to Reuters. Both ASCAP and BMI would like an end to the all-or-nothing model as well. The DoJ will be receiving public comment on the arbitration issue and whether the all-or-nothing model should stay in place. The tussle between the performing rights organizations and music services has on occasion become litigious. BMI, for instance, brought legal action against Pandora last year in search of "reasonable, market-driven fees" for the service after negotiations broke down. "In short, a review of the licensing system in the U.S. is long overdue, and my guess is all the players involved on all sides will welcome it," Simon Dyson, editor of the Music & Copyright newsletter at Informa, told the E-Commerce Times. "The likes of ASCAP and BMI will benefit from knowing in the longer term what they are able to offer licenses for, given that the music publishers have made it clear that they want to license direct-to-digital services. The worry is that if publishers cannot withdraw their digital licensing rights, then one of the big publishers might pull out of ASCAP or BMI altogether," he said. "Digital services might not like having to pay higher rates, if that is what the review eventually suggests," Dyson added, "but the difference between what a publisher/author earns from a digital music service and what record companies earn is way too big, and the review will need to close the gap."

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Our Three Stooges In honor of the new Three Stooges movie coming out on DVD today, we decided to examine this season through the eyes of the the ‘Riders version of Moe, Larry, and Curly also known as Mike Olt, Leury Garcia, and Jake Brigham. Mike Olt’s initials are MO making him Moe. When asked about the season is going, he said he thinks it’s going well. “I’m happy I was able to make improvements in the off-season and build on those improvements,” Olt said. “I put them into practice and keep working hard.” Olt is currently hitting .289 with 22 home runs and 63 RBIs. On July 5, Baseball America listed Olt as the third in the top 30 prospects in the Rangers organization and 11th in all of minor league baseball. Leury Garcia’s first name is pronounced like Larry making him Larry. Garcia said he thinks everything is going good so far this season and he wouldn’t change anything that he’s been doing. Garcia is currently hitting .273 with 8 triples and 18 stolen bases. Baseball America listed Garcia as the 11th in the top 30 prospects in the Rangers organization. Jake Brigham started out the season with thick, curly black hair but shaved it off making him our Curly. Like Olt, Brigham said he thinks the season is going well for him and that he’s learning a lot. “I’m staying healthy and getting to pitch a lot of innings,” Brigham said. “I try to learn something every time I go out there.” Brigham currently has a record of four wins and five losses with a 4.67 ERA. He has also struck out 99 batters so far this season. Story by Jarah Wright

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(Mayor Cahill and Lord Mayor Ó Muilleoir in front of the Skainos Square building in east Belfast. Skainos Square, part of the East Belfast Mission, gives organizations a place to meet, congregate and hold professional conferences with quality, professional space and equipment. Skainos represents transformation and renewal for the community and its functions.) Last year, at the invitation of Mayor Jim Cahill, the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, visited New Brunswick. The two mayors recognized that both Cities have undergone major transformations in becoming modern, thriving 21st century urban centers resulting from major redevelopment in the areas of education, business, housing, the arts, hospitality and healthcare. Francis Schott, part-owner of the restaurants Stage Left and Catherine Lombardi here in New Brunswick, points out what is especially unique about these two Cities is that these major redevelopments “are not about buildings, but about people, culture and opportunity.” Francis Schott and Lord Mayor Ó Muilleoir originally met when Mr. Schott received the “Serving America” award from Irish American Entrepreneurs and Mr. Ó Muilleoir was at this same awards dinner as the publisher of the Irish Echo. The Irish Echo is the most read Irish-American newspaper in the United States. From their discussions, Mr. Schott recognized the common pulse of life and energy between the Cities of Belfast and New Brunswick. At the invitation of Lord Mayor Ó Muilleoir, Mayor Cahill recently led a delegation from New Brunswick, comprised of representatives from Rutgers, DEVCO, George Street Playhouse, the New Brunswick Jazz Project, local businesses, and City government, to Belfast. The ambitious agenda of the three day visit was designed for the New Brunswick delegates to meet their counterparts in Belfast to explore the potential of developing mutually beneficial partnerships within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Belfast is also a university city. Belfast has two universities: Queen’s University Belfast has approximately 30,000 students and the University of Ulster will soon have 15,000 students on its Belfast campus. Of course, New Brunswick is home to Rutgers University and its now nearly 60,000 students with the merger of RU with UMDNJ and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Particular initial areas of interest between the higher education communities of both Cities include medicine, cancer and gene research involving diverse populations and specialties in the biomedical fields as well as engineering. Richard Edwards, Rutgers University’s Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, described the trip as fantastic. He noted, “The psychology of movement for the elderly and applications for athletic endeavors is currently being researched among a faculty member from Queen’s University and a faculty member from Rutgers University.” Mr. Edwards also toured facilities, specifically Belfast’s Cancer Institute and said, “They are doing cutting edge research and this would be the kind of research that Rutgers would be interested in.” The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, calling New Brunswick home, makes the educational exchange between Belfast and New Brunswick even more mutually beneficial for educational research and healthcare developments. Chris Paladino, President of New Brunswick Development Corporation (DEVCO), got to work with both the business and University communities in Belfast. Strong parallels could be drawn from the Titanic Quarter, a massive redevelopment project underway, taking advantage of Belfast’s history as one of the world’s great shipbuilding centers and site where perhaps the world’s most famous ship, the Titanic, was built. And like DEVCO’s current $300 million College Avenue Redevelopment Initiative, Belfast is soon to experience a several hundred-million dollar project in the development of a new, expanded Ulster University campus. Approximately 20,000 faculty and students, and all activities from the University of Ulster that are currently based out of the nearby suburb of Jordanstown, will be relocated to Belfast by 2018. This is similar to the projects here where biotechnology and engineering companies are encouraged to invest and move to New Brunswick where regeneration is thriving and students are learning and growing. According to Mr. Paladino, “We have already benefitted from the exchanges of professional ideas and see long lasted possibilities for the future.” DEVCO’s Belfast counterparts were most interested in the comprehensiveness and diversity of New Brunswick’s revitalization and the key role DEVCO has played in projects like Gateway Transit Village, The Vue, The Heldrich, the renovation of the Post Office and the Middlesex County Courthouse, Civic Square, New Brunswick High School, Lord Stirling School, and many more. “Throughout the City of Belfast, its citizens are investing in the community,” said City Council Vice President Kevin Egan. “Run-down buildings are being transformed into activity centers for young people to take part in like skateboarding and areas for the community to come together.” The synergies between Belfast and New Brunswick are so simply stated and emerge through examples like Mr. Egan’s Belfast experience. Redevelopments like the Hub City Teen Center which continues to evolve for youth recreation like the current indoor soccer complex being built to be used for both indoor soccer and baseball, New Brunswick Public Schools working as recreational activity centers after school, and the Promise House sheltering victims of domestic violence and providing services for their success are examples of how “Belfast and New Brunswick remember their past to recreate their future,” said Mayor Cahill or like Lord Mayor Ó Muilleoir states, ‘Building the future Belfast – together.’ Both Belfast and New Brunswick understand that the arts are not only good for the heart and soul of a community, but are also good drivers for business as well. Theater, visual and performing artists, historical landmarks, and a vibrant hospitality and entertainment industry bring outsiders in and keep locals coming back for more in both locales. “Mayor Cahill and Lord Mayor Ó Muilleoir are two visionary men that have so much in common,” says Mr. Schott. “I am eager to see this relationship continue and being among the first incoming trade missions to Belfast in 20 years is something New Brunswick can take pride in, pushing our City to keep making the community as a whole and each of its working parts of education, business, housing, the arts, hospitality and healthcare working together.” Mayor Cahill said the participants in the Belfast exchange from New Brunswick will meet again to share a debriefing on each of their respective experiences while in Belfast and to determine and develop areas of future programming that will be of interest and beneficial to New Brunswick, its residents, businesses and organizations. But no one is letting any grass grow under their feet. Already, New Brunswick’s Jazz Project is looking to host and arrange for a concert venue for the 64 member Belfast Community Gospel Choir later this year in May. The New Brunswick Jazz Project is looking at collaboration opportunities with our City’s gospel choirs and other local musicians. No City taxpayer funds were used for the trip to Belfast. Among those in the City delegation were Mayor Cahill, Tom Loughlin (City Administrator), Michael Tublin (Director of International Programs and Co-founder of New Brunswick Jazz Project), James Lenihan and Virgina DeBerry (also of the New Brunswick Jazz Project), Mitchell Karon (New Brunswick Parking Authority Executive Director), David Saint (Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse), Greg Ritter (Chairman of New Brunswick City Market and owner of George Street Camera), Francis Schott, Richard Edwards, Chris Paladino, and Kevin Egan. (Picture of Belfast Choir Performing for New Brunswick Delegation) (From Left to Right: The Consul General, Gregory S. Burton, at the U.S. Consulate in Belfast with Francis Schott, Lord Mayor and Mayor Cahill)

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Helen Wan, "The Partner Track" Helen Wan is Associate General Counsel at the Time Inc. division of Time Warner. Before that, she practiced corporate and media law in firms in New York. Born in California and raised near Washington, D.C., Wan is a graduate of Amherst College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Helen will be discussing her new book The Partner Track and its major themes including: - Cultural & gender diversity in the work place - Glass ceilings for minority women and women in high powered jobs - Best practices for top firms and companies to attack and retain minority and female talent - Empowering women and members of traditionally underrepresented groups to succeed - Balancing a demanding career as a lawyer with a writing life This talk was recorded on November 6, 2013 and was sponsored by Law Womens' Caucus and APALSA. - Title: Helen Wan, "The Partner Track" - Length: 62:42 minutes (57.41 MB) - Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

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Well, this weekend ought to be good. Today we’re just going to be relaxing all day, but tomorrow Brian has to work at his part-time job in the evening and I’m going to be going to a free Christian concert with one of my girlfriends from work. I hate to go without my husband, but he said it would be just fine if I went with my friends. Last night we went to Bessie’s house for Friday night movie night and served BBQ spare ribs, bread, chips, cheese, and sushi. It was a great night. Loving on the homeless, prostitutes and gang bangers that we serve. I enjoy my time with my guys and gals, especially when they call me Mama. There’s one young man named Neil, he’s a senior in high school, that I just love to death, he’s like a son to me. Every time he sees me he runs up to me first and just hugs me hard and tells me how much he loves me and misses me, then gives me a kiss on my cheek. Puts a tear in my eye every time. I think he just misses me telling him to pull his pants up. Cause every time I tell him that he pulls them up and laughs. Anyway, we talked to an interesting man last night. His name is Sony and he’s been homeless since he’s been 13 and he’s now 36 years old. He got put in the pen when he was 19 and was in for 10 years, didn’t ask him why it’s not my business. 2 years ago on Independence Avenue at a gas station, he was shot in the face and robbed basically for change. But the coolest part about his story was that he knows Jesus and he finds the joy with his life everyday. He said even though the right side of his face is paralyzed, his right eye is blind, and when he speaks, he drools he can still find joy in the life the God gave him, the second chance that the Lord blessed him with. He speaks with such a passion, it brought goose bumps to my skin listening to him speak about his life and how much he loves Jesus. People like Neil and Sony are who we serve in our Ministry. There are more stories, but those are just 2 from last night that I wanted to share. I love what we do and I wish I could be there full time doing this, but I do work a full-time job. So I help out when I can. Our web page is a little outdated, but you can check it out if you’d like: http://www.hope-outreach.org. Well, I think that’s all for today, I have to go pick up my van and we have to go drop off some food. God bless and take care. How kind the LORD is! How good he is! So merciful, this God of ours! ~ Psalm 116:5, NLT Yep, I have not been around in quite a while. Between work and the ministry, life has been just crazy busy. But last night I did go get my grand-daughter and spend a few hours with her and enjoyed that time. She just makes my heart soar!!! Well, since I’ve been working I’ve been trying to watch what I’ve been eating and not following any diet plan. I feel that if I follow a diet plan and fall off of it, I will fail. So if I just do my own thing, I’ll do just fine and so far it’s working. Brian has jumped on in the last 7 weeks also. So we’ve cut out red meat, pork, and basically anything white. We eat a lot of chicken, turkey, fish, and the nothing white is now whole grain/wheat. I quite drinking milk, mainly because it made too much, not to sound gross, phlegm in my throat. Now I drink Almond Breeze. I’m going to also try Coconut milk. Since I’ve been doing this I’m now down 63 lbs. and in the 7 weeks Brian’s been doing it, he’s down 27 lbs. I still have a lot more to go, but I went to my Drs. about 3 weeks ago, and he said he’s very proud of the way I’ve been doing things. I told him what I’ve been doing and what I’ve been eating and drinking, and he’s just ecstatic about it. Especially since how heavy I was, he’s very proud. I go back in June and I’m hoping to have quite a bit more off and also hoping to have him tell me that I can get off my high blood pressure medication. That would be nice. Today has been a pretty good day so far. I’ve been in my little cubical working on my payables and receivables and while doing that I have all my music I like, mostly worship music, in my computer. So I’ve been listening to it. I enjoy doing that and just praising my Jesus for the glorious day and life that he’s given me. Is my life perfect? Not by a long shot, but I can find the positive in the negatives. Here at work, I’ve had so many people tell me, ” you always have a smile on your face, what’s up with that?” I tell them, “It’s because the Lord let me wake up another day.” Then I just usually get a blank stare and I just smile and tell them to have a great and beautiful day too. Take care everyone and have a great and beautiful day yourselves!! I will be filled with joy because of you. I will sing praises to your name, O Most High. ~ Psalm 9:2, NLT Brian and I have spent quite a bit of time together this weekend and it’s been awesome. I have so much enjoyed going out and being able to serve our brothers and sisters in need on the streets. What a joy that is for me. Actually I think it’s more that the Lord has been letting me know that Brian needs to learn to let go of me a little more each time we go out and let me learn on my own. Brian is very protective of me and I know why. I’m his wife, of course he’s going to be protective of me, I have medical issues, MS with left side weakness, high blood pressure, my eyes go blurry, but when I’m serving and doing the Lords will, I’m strong and HE leads me to where he wants me to go and say what HE wants me to say. So I guess if we’re going to be living in the Northeast area, Brian’s going to have to learn that he can’t be with me 24/7. We’re going to be living in a place where the homeless and prostitutes are going to be able to come in, take a shower, wash their clothes, eat, take a nap, watch TV, etc. and I’ll be there too. He can’t keep me guarded all the time. Now our living quarters will be apart from where they will be able to hang out, but still. I just feel that the Lord is telling me that I need to talk to Brian to let him know that he needs to let go a little more than he normally does. That’s only part of what I have. My son told me last weekend that of course for the Labor Day weekend he’d have a 3 day weekend and come see me. Well, I never heard a word from him. I wound up calling him around 5 in the evening on Monday. He never even thought anything about it. Here’s the thing that bugs me the most. He’s living at his best friends dad’s house in the basement cause Lenny lets him. Fine. Well, he seems to care for Lenny and Melissa more than his own parents. I don’t get phone calls, or text messages. I finally told him last night that if I didn’t get even a text message letting me know that he’s OK, I’m going to go sideways on his ass. He kind of laughed and said, “mom you’re so cute.” I wasn’t trying to be funny or cute, I was letting him know how worried I get when I don’t hear from him for days and days. It breaks my heart and it hurts me terribly. So needless to say while I was trying to eat, I was crying. Well that pissed my husband off so he called Lil’ Brian, our son, and said, “I just want you t0 know that your mother is very hurt that you don’t call or come by and while she’s trying to eat her dinner she’s crying.” LB said, “she was fine while I was talking to her.” BB said, “She doesn’t want you to hear her cry or hear her pain that you put her through, you know how strong of a woman your mother is, but she’s hurt and I just wanted you to know so you have a great night Brian, OK? Good night.” Then he hung up. I haven’t heard from him since. It’ll take him a few days to process. That’s how his brain works. He gets told something, and he doesn’t react right away, he has to process. It drives me nuts. Well, that’s all I have to say for now. Have a great day and God bless everyone!!! I finally told my son that he is selfish and only thinks of himself. He really pissed me off this weekend. Not only was I pissed, but I was just down right hurt. I really wanted to spend time with both my kids this holiday weekend and I asked him a couple of times, are we going to see you at all this holiday weekend? His reply each time was “well, I don’t know.” All I said was, “It’d be nice to spend some time with you since it seems we never get to see you any more.” He said nothing. So last night after he got home, I went to my room and folded the laundry. He followed me and asked me what’s wrong. Well, I let him have it. Everytime he has a new girlfriend, which he’s been dating Kara for about 3 months now, he’s in his own world and has nothing, and I mean nothing to do with any of us, let alone even bring any of his girlfriends around us. Personally I think he’s ashamed of us. That just kills me inside. I told him that when I don’t hear from him it scares me cause he’s so irresponsible. I’m afraid I’m going to get a call or a cop show up at my door and tell me that my son’s dead. I asked him if understood my feelings, he said yes, but I said do you really? All I got was him staring at me. I’m hoping what I said will sink into that thick skull of his. Then he goes and stays with his old best friends parents. I’m glad he likes them, but sorry Bud, I’m not going to allow you to have your girlfriend spend the night in the same bed under my roof and I won’t buy your alcohol. They will. That pisses me off. I’ve asked them not to but why would they listen to me. My son is a 20-year-old man. If they let him drive drunk and get in a wreck, I’ll kill them. Apparently, my son is the only one left of their son’s friends that actually talk to them. Last night before I went to bed, I saw my son laying in the dining room area, in the dark, with his arm over his eyes, sniffing, so I hope what I said got to him. He needs to realize how immature and selfish he’s been. His dad and I have bent over backwards to help him out with letting him live with us in our one bedroom apartment, his dad helping him out with his finances to get him on his feet, helping him look for a new job, which a friend of our told us about a really good company that was hiring and he got a job there, so we’re letting him stay with us till his 60 days is up at his new job and he finds a place of his own. He just doesn’t appreciate what he asked us to help him with and we’ve done. Sorry to rant, but I had to get it off my chest. I know expressing it to him helped out a lot, but I needed to share it with others. I guess my public announcement of how angry I am. Although yesterday evening I did spend with my daughter. We went to go see Eclipse. I really enjoyed it a lot. But then again, I love the Twilight series. I’ve read all the books and now I can’t wait for Breaking Dawn to come out. I wouldn’t mind reading the Short Life of Bree Tanner. But I really wish that Stephenie Meyer would come up with more in the series. She is a good writer and I really like her writing style. Anyway, I better get back to the non-ringing lines here at work. We have about 42 people here at work and there are probably about 15 people here. Have a blessed day. Well, first off of course I had a great day on Saturday with Miss Isabelle. How could I not. She’s the light of my life. I love spending time with her. She’s growing like a weed, and pulling herself up on everything. Now she’s trying to get the whole walking around things down. It’s fun watching her figure it out, but it makes me sad when she bonks her head, or smacks her mouth on the table, but I guess she has to learn some how. Then on Sunday, wow what a day that was. Brian and I headed out to Bessie’s House around 8:30 to be there by 9:00 am. It was so great for me to be there for the first time. Bessie’s is a place for homeless and prostitutes to come in and take a shower, wash clothes, get some food, etc. Anyway, on Sundays they have their own Sunday service outside praising Jesus, they get fed, then Bessie’s House closes down for the day. But I totally enjoyed the day serving and listening to the service and just being welcomed with open arms by everyone that knows Brian and finally got to meet me for the first time they showed me love the way Christ loved the church. It was Amazing. I’m going to go with Brian every Sunday to help serve. I really enjoyed myself and felt at home there. Just seeing a difference from there to where we worship is crazy. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with where we worship, but the difference is in the people and how they see Jesus. People on the streets depend on Him more than people who have safety in their lives of living in homes and always having food in their bellies. They just seem to know Jesus more. So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you. Deuteronomy 31:6 Here recently I’ve been wondering about my weight with my MS. I know that my weight is a big issue, I mean BIG!!! Ge’ez, I’m BIG, B-I-G!!! So anyway, I’m looking into Lap Band Surgery. I’m going to go to a seminar on it in July to see what it’s all about. There’s a possibility that my insurance could cover up to 100%. I mean when you go through the list, I’m pre-diabetic, I have high blood pressure, my BMI is over 35, I’ve been over weight (or should I say obese) for at least 5 years, you have to be at least 18 (well I’m 40 so I think I qualify for that), your series of weight loss attempts have been short-term (yep, I qualify for that too). I have to do something so I’m going to talk to my Dr. about it on Tuesday when I go in. We’ve been talking about my weight anyway so it maybe something he might approve of. Maybe he’d even write a letter of recommendation to the insurance company stating that it’s a necessity for my health with my MS and all. Anyway, that’s the crap going on in my head these last couple days. But my poor husband has had a stupid summer cold. Now my daughter is getting it and if I get it again, I’m really going to be pissed at someone. I can’t afford to be sick again. I don’t take time off work. The only time I do is to leave early for my Dr. appointments. I accrue 2.3 hours each pay period and after next Tuesday I’ll only have 8.7 hours available. I’m not wasting those. So anyway, I have to keep myself healthy. But an update on my MS meds. I did get the authorization from my insurance company to go with the Copaxone, but I haven’t heard from my Neurologists office yet on when I’ll be starting it or what. But I’m feeling fine since I haven’t been taking anything. That Avonex was some Bad A$$ stuff!!! YUCK!!! Well, I better go and sit here at my desk and answer the phones. Take care & God bless. Well, I got a call back from my Neurologists office yesterday about my Avonex. I guess hearing me cry about it and hearing the pain in my voice got them to decide to change my treatment. So anyway they’re getting authorization from my insurance company and then I’ll be starting Copaxone. It’s an everyday shot, but it apparently doesn’t have the side effects that Avonex has. Do I want to do a shot everyday? No, but I will if it will make me feel better. Believe it or not, I think my body knows it’s Friday cause it’s tensing up dreading what normally happens tonight. Well, I’m not going to take my last shot, it’s going in the garbage. BYE, BYE AVONEX!!! Good riddance!!! I went to my regular Dr the other day and my blood pressure was really high for me. I have always ran normal. Always in the 120/80 range. Not Wednesday. It was 168/102. So needless to say they put me on a HCTZ which is also a diuretic. Yea me, I’ll be peeing a lot!!! LOL Anyway, I let him know that I was going to stop my Avonex and he thought it was a smart idea. I just gave him a look and said ‘really’? He said yea. He said he felt that I should know my body and if it made me feel bad and I hurt with it, then it wasn’t the right “treatment” for me. So this weekend will be fun. I have Isabelle tomorrow and she’s going to the dentist with me. The girls there will be enjoying that. They always loved it when the kids were little and they got to play with them at that time, now they get to play with the grand baby. They still can’t believe that Amanda has a baby. Jeez, I can’t believe Amanda has a baby. LOL. But anyway, it’s never too early to take them to the dentist and show them what it’s like. Get them socially involved with them. So, after the dentist, I’m meeting up with a girlfriend and her kids and going to take pictures of the kids for her. I guess it’ll be one way for me to get my name out there and hopefully get some business for photography and make a little cash on the side. :) Well, better get back to work. Take care and God bless y’all!!! Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself ~Ephesians 2:20

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Obeo Releases Obeo Designer 5.0 Last week, Obeo, released a major update of their Obeo Designer product. One of the key goals of the tool is to give the ability to create domain specific modeling tools, based on Eclipse GMF (Graphical Modeling Framework) without the knowledge of GMF (or EMF, Eclipse Modeling Framework). The tool is based on the concept of "View Points": The notion of viewpoints is an abstraction that provides a specification of a system, limited to a particular set of problems. It was introduced in the specification IEEE 1471. In our context, we use to provide our users a set of visual representations focused on a particular concern. For each viewpoint, it is possible to define what to display and their graphic features, tool palettes, and their associated behaviors. The graphical aspects are dissociated of behavioral aspects.Obeo Designers supports the integration between viewpoints, as well as with UML. The UML modeler will be released in the coming months. InfoQ spoke with Jerome Benois and Freddy Allilaire from Obeo about this new release. InfoQ: why do you think the enterprise needs to ramp up its modeling capabilities? Obeo: The big idea of modeling is to abstract from the technologies to reach a “human understandable” level. Tools can focus on business problems and not just on technical constraints. With Obeo Designer, business managers and software architects have the ability to define and share a common language. Modeling formalizes and hence facilitates the consistency of their communication. Each role in the company shows a common model and according to its own vocabulary and concerns. Obeo’s modeling approach is based on DSLs and Viewpoints to raise this abstraction level. We facilitate the development of models that represent systems based on the analysis of requirements and constraints that the system must fulfill. The first modeling tools where “dogmatic” with standards such as MDA and UML. They were not tailored to help align business needs with information technology. In each case, one had to adapt its own semantics to fit in these tools, inevitably with compromises. Tool providers were faced with the difficulty of defining an ever-comprehensive language. DSLs offer a dedicated formalism for each domain with as few semantics and concepts as needed. The result is a greater alignment with the business and simplified modeling. But a full DSL approach could be difficult to develop in a large group with several business units that are distinct from each other. It would lead to the emergence of many formalisms for each business units. We believe it is better to define a common language shared by all stakeholders, an ubiquitous language. To be effective and usable by all stakeholders it is necessary to have a projectional approach.The standard IIEEE 1471/D4.1 structures this approach with the concept of viewpoint on a system. Every viewpoint focuses on a given issue. This structure leads to a simplification of the analysis process which is then divided into several concerns clearly defined. Each viewpoint makes it possible to meet a set of questions for a profile given analyst using "views" that will validate the compliance of a given architecture to different rules of perspective. This approach is based on the principles of separation of concerns, refining iterative information but mainly on the exploitation of multiple specialized representations of the same model. The model engineering and MDA approaches are most consistent with this kind of approach because they help define the concepts handled accurately and unambiguously and operate a unified models corresponding to these concepts. InfoQ: could you share with us some of the problems your customers are tackling with Obeo Designer? Obeo: Typically, customers use Obeo Designer to collaborate on the design of complex projects subject to many constraints. It allows them to develop a number of tools thanks to a separation with different points of view (logical, physical, safety, etc.) This approach is very generic, recently, we were surprised to see people applying our approach to robotics. In the Business Modeling context, our product is used to for instance to support the production of Insurance Services and Product Catalog . In Finance, we have customers used by financial analysts to define pricing and business rules in a comprehensive language. In the context of Enterprise Architecture, Obeo Designer is used to support Enterprise Transformation. It supports TOGAF with key viewpoints : Strategic, Business, Data, Application and Technology viewpoints. This module supports the core diagrams and matrices define by the Open Group specification. In the System Engineering context, customers use our product to support the system validation and verification based on Hardware / Software Consistency and Functional Analysis. In Non-Functional Requirement Analysis, Obeo Designer is used to support the production of Timing Constraint Analysis and Risk Analysis. We will be adding some new case studies to our web site shortly. InfoQ: When would you recommend users to create a graphical designer vs a textual editor? Obeo: Some people, usually, more technical, have more affinities with textual notations. Computing languages are more natural and efficient to most of us based on a textual syntax. On the other hand, graphical notations support higher levels of abstraction. The business generally prefers using graphical representations. Some graphical representations are natural to human being like a containment represented as a tree or also a sequence represented as several boxes linked each other by an arrow. Drawing is more natural for representing a workflow or to design a plane. Obeo Designer helps you a lot with graphical representations and it is an important asset of the product. However it provides also other kinds of representations like table and matrix. Also you can mix graphical and textual modeling in a same editor in order to take the best of both approaches. We are fully compatible with Xtext (a tool that provides you a textual syntax for your domain model) and EEF (a tool that provides you a form representation for your domain model). InfoQ: Code generation has had some difficulties in the past to enter the software construction process, what has changed? Obeo: The first generations of code generators were mostly based on the black box approach. These solutions were not adaptable to the specific user needs. These kinds of solutions were only practical to generate code skeletons. Of course, the synchronization between your entry point and the corresponding generated code was quickly lost. This yielded little gain from the code generation perspective. One can note that, code generation has always existed ! what is a code compiler? Fortunately now most of the peoples don’t have to write assembly code and this generation is transparent for us. Code generation tools (especially those based on modeling) have really progressed and offer a simple syntax, efficient code generation, advanced features on par with modern IDEs like JDT. In Obeo Designer, the solution for code generation is Acceleo. Acceleo is an Open-Source code generation environment based on a pragmatic vision of MDA, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. It implements the OMG standard: MOF Model to Text Language. It allows the automatic generation of application (or parts thereof) and fit into the agile development movement. A change in the structure of the application can be built much faster than by hand. Acceleo is an adaptive solution with some ready-to-use solutions that fit to specific needs. 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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Two suicide bombers penetrated a government compound in the country's south Sunday, killing three people, Afghan officials said. The district chief of Spin Boldak said the two militants were targeting a meeting of local officials at a compound in a district of Kandahar province near the Pakistani border. There were no reports of foreign troops or civilians at the site. Mohammad Hashim said the two attackers arrived in a car, killed a guard and entered the facility firing weapons before blowing themselves up along with their vehicle. The compound houses offices of the district chief and district council as well as other government buildings. The spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province, Javeed Saisal, gave the casualties as three dead and at least 15 wounded. Kandahar is one of Afghanistan's most violent provinces. Spin Boldak district is a major infiltration corridor for Taliban fighters from Pakistan as well as a smuggling route for weapons and narcotics.

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Riverhead (3-2) vs. Newfield (3-2) Coach Mike McKillop Memorial Field It’s homecoming in Riverhead and the Blue Waves find themselves facing the team that ended their season a year ago in Newfield. The Blue Waves come into the game off a tough loss on the road at East Islip, which dropped their Division II record to 3-2. It leaves the Blue Waves little room for error down the stretch if they hope to secure a top-four seed in the playoffs and host a playoff game. Newfield was known for its toughness last year en route to winning the Class II Long Island Championship. The good news for the Blue Waves is they won’t have to contend with runners Julian Santiago and Mike Silva, who torched Riverhead on the ground last year in the playoffs. Both players graduated, but the Wolverines still feature a strong running game behind Terrel Perryman and Joe Feliciano. The Wolverines come into the game off a 14-7 loss at home against Smithtown East. Newfield gave up all 14 points in the second half after taking a 7-0 lead into halftime. To follow all of today’s action, click on the live blog below as former Riverhead Blue Wave Mike Hejmej provides all the updates:

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From the monthly archives: May 2007 Commencement takes place on Sunday. It’s actually a full weekend of activities for graduating students and their families: a clambake on Friday, Class Day address by Nobel Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi on Saturday, Tufts University and Fletcher ceremonies on Sunday. Not to mention this week’s “Dis-Orientation” activities (a week of student-led events, parallel to, and yet very different from, the administration-led Orientation that new students attend before starting classes). For those of us who never get to graduate, it’s a bittersweet time. We need to say farewell to our favorite students. This year’s version, anyway. I have a few favorites in every graduating class, and while I celebrate their success with them, I’m sorry to see them move on. All of us in Admissions count the students who hang out here among our favorites. Bernie, Katy, Alexis, and Jason have been admissions office stalwarts, conducting interviews, holding down student jobs, running information sessions, and serving as student members of the admissions committee. Among other favorites are some I met through the admissions process. My first interaction with Abdul took place at a reception for admitted students in New York. His enthusiasm for the start of his graduate studies was extraordinary and contagious. As it happens, I haven’t had all that much contact with him during his two years at Fletcher, but it has been very gratifying to see how his enthusiasm has played out – especially in his role as an active member of the Student Council. Then there’s our dynamic Sri Lankan duo: Sudila and Nirmalan. In fact, Nirmalan graduated last May, but we were spared from saying good-bye thanks to his admission to the PhD program. This spring he’ll complete his comprehensive exams and return to his legal work in Sri Lanka. Sudila does graduate this May, though he’ll be working in the Boston area and we hope he’ll visit now and then. I “met” both Sudila and Nirmalan before they arrived, but not through the admissions process itself. Instead, I handled some of their many post-admission questions. Nirmalan sent so many emails, in the summer before he enrolled, that his application file barely made it back into its alphabetic place before I needed to take it out again. Besides the details of preparing for graduate study, he was attending to less academic issues, such as his wedding. Sudila was admitted after submitting an Early Notification application. He and I were first in email contact when he asked if the school had expertise that might be helpful in his work following the tsunami in December 2004. I made some inquiries and was able to put him in touch with someone at the Feinstein International Center. Together they have made Sri Lanka a very visible island on our mental maps of the world. Jason and Abdul will give the student commencement addresses. I plan to be there to see what they have to say, and to watch the joyful celebration of achievement that commencement represents. I’ll miss my favorite students, those named above and others in the class of 2007, but I still have favorites among the returning students, and there will be new favorites who start their studies in September. I’ll count on them to make their mark at Fletcher next year, to hang out in the Admissions Office, to learn a lot, and then move on. Last week we sat down to review our application. Are we getting the information we want? How can we make our questions clearer? Are we causing our applicants to waste time filling in answers we don’t really use? We gave special attention to the essay questions. At any level, the essays are the most challenging part of an application. When our new application is posted, you’ll see that the first essay – the personal statement – hasn’t changed much. We still want to know what our applicants plan to do after Fletcher, and how their graduate study will help them get there. We played a bit more with the second question. We wanted something new. Our applicants generally write these essays only once, but we read responses to “Describe a challenge you have faced” dozens of times each year, and we have used the same question for several years. What to ask instead? We went back to our goals for the second essay. While answers to the personal statement should be essentially forward looking, the second essay gives applicants a chance to talk about the future, the present, or the past. Our hope is that the second essay will “flesh out” the applicant – will tell us something that helps us see him or her in the context of the Fletcher community. There’s no right answer to any essay question. 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Rotora Brake System Performance on BMW M3 Racer Car SUBJECT: Rotora Brake System Performance on BMW M3 Racer Car. I thought it would be a good time to share some race and testing notes with you regarding the Rotora brakes I put on my race car. This is a pretty long post but if you are considering spending the money on a brake upgrade or if you want some insight into brake testing and race car preparation it's worth the read. I installed the Rotora BBK Front and Rear brakes on my modified E36 M3 race car. The kit consists of 355mm rotors and 6-pot calipers up front with 330mm rotors and 4-pot calipers in the rear. The E46 M3 kit is the same but comes with 355mm rotors front and rear. The kit comes with all the brackets, hardware, brake lines and pads. I chose the H6 (race) pads rather than the (H2) street pads. Initial fit and finish are excellent and the red calipers look awesome through the race wheels. A little background… Half-way through this season I finally had my car well sorted and started to win races (overall). The aero package, springs, remote reservoir dampers and the slicks all really started to work well together. The slicks are amazing and offer so much more grip then the other R-compound tires I was using that my old AP Racing brakes no longer seemed powerful enough for the application. I was also getting a bit of fade nearing the end of sessions. I had AP Racing Brakes on the car an was a bit hesitant at first to take them off and replace them with a different brand. I didn't want to have to get larger (Tilton dual) master cylinders to accommodate a huge brake upgrade. The front and rear Rotora BBK brake packages were the perfect solution because they do not require a master cylinder upgrade. Also, the huge AP Racing or Brembo Brakes would have literally cost thousands of dollars more in addition to the cost of the new master cylinders. Below are race and testing notes from the first few times the brakes were used the track. These notes were taken from e-mails I sent to my Rotora contact. I've been working with Richie Ho who seems to be 1 part marketing, 1 part R&D and 1 part engineer. He has come through for me every time I needed something and is a very sharp guy. There is a group buy going on now for the E46 M3. Details on that can be found here… http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=32691 If you have further questions for me about my experiences with Rotora brakes, please feel free to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org I have beat the hell out of them and they had stood up well in extreme racing environments. Event #1 - BMW Oktoberfest Event July 2004 The car finished 3rd overall out of 40 cars at BMW’s Oktoberfest event at Fontana despite being 50hp to 100hp down on power to many of the front runners. The brakes performed very well. Proportioning to my old brakes (AP Racing) was similar. Only minor changes to the proportioning and application needed to be made depending on fuel load and rear wing angle. The pads broke in fine with little to no gassing out and no sensation of uneven pad transfer during break in. Initial bite seemed a bit soft. I like harder pads in general for racing but the softer pads did make it easier to trail brake and the braking "feel" was excellent which gave me confidence. The pads did firm up nicely after the first session. After the event was over and many sessions on the track, the rotors show no sign of wear - amazing. I will measure the pads for you and report back but I can tell just from looking at them that they have worn down a bit. The way they feel and the wear of the pads make me consider them a soft pad – which isn’t always a bad thing. They were quiet and consistent through the temp range. The front rotors did have very slight normal and acceptable stress cracks – the rear rotors had no stress cracks at all. This is probably due to the fact that the front not only got hotter but that they were cooled with brake ducts which creates stress as the rotors go from very hot to cold so quickly and often. Rotor temps were very low – like “really” low. I did not get a reading over 500 degrees all weekend with the laser pyrometer. I used tempilaq thermo-graphic paint at it indicates a max of 900 degrees – which is nothing (especially for California Speedway). I did have the brake ducts installed up front but will probably pull them for all other tracks other than Buttonwillow and Laguna (the harder braking tracks). When I took my E46 M3 street car to California Speedway last year I got brake rotor readings of 1200F with the stock brakes on the car - yikes! I will install a set of Thermax stickers and report back actual caliper temps after the next weekend of racing if you’d like. The Rotora 6-pot front brakes are a bit heavier then the AP Racing 4-pot I was running. They are of course much bigger (something has to give). I’m wondering if the fronts are actually too big for my application. My car only has 280hp and weighs just 2400lbs. The E46 M3 cars have much more power and much more weight so they would benefit greatly from this huge brake kit. If I remove the brake ducting to get the temps up I wonder what the pad wear will be like? I think the brakes over all did pretty good in a very tough environment. Fontana is very tough on brakes not only because of the 4 hard brake zones per lap but because you are off the brakes all the way through the oval and by the time you need them most going into turn 3 they have cooled significantly. Event #2 - Testing at Willow Springs with Beverly Hills Motor Car Club I instructed at the Beverly Hills Motor Car Club Event last weekend and took the car to test - and to toy with the exotics with (it's so fun to beat up on Ferraris). It took a few laps in the morning to reset brake bias as I have recently switched to even bigger rear slicks and wanted to make them work for me by pushing some of the brake bias to the rear of the car. I also took off some rear wing as well to help with straight line speed. The front rotors never got above 425F as the brake temp paint did not change color from the prior event. I ran the car with no front brake cooling ducts as WSIR is easy on brakes. Again pedal feel was excellent and is important there as the braking for turn 3 is bumpy and the braking for turn 9 is, well… “check your balls time”. I was easily under 1:30 there but didn’t have a drafting buddy and didn't want to push it too much at a school. I did have fun playing with the Evosport E46 M3 race car driven by the company co-owner Brad Otoupalik. We always have fun together on the track when there is open passing - I trust his driving. He was on lesser rubber and stock brakes (testing for Grand-AM later this year) and I was able to pass him under braking anywhere I wanted. "Go Rotora" but the slicks and my lesser weight gave me the advantage as well. As far as pad and rotor wear is concerned there was very little at that event. There was less dusting this time as well - almost none. I was only on track for about 2 hours total. Total pad thickness in front was .653 with a starting thickness of aprox .663 – so again, very little wear occurred. Event #3 - California Speedway - Touring Car Club I was back at California Speedway this weekend for a Touring Car Club race against Ferrari's, Porsches and Vipers. I did have the front brake ducts hooked up as it was a hot day. I was going to take them off as a test but didn't want to take any chances as there was little time to test at this packed event and didn't want to potentially waste a session. I had to start last as I skipped the qualifying race to do a family thing. I worked my way through the pack and finished 12th out of 40 cars. A mid-race yellow helped me catch up to the leaders who got quite a lead as I was tending with slow traffic on the opening laps. I totally snaked a Viper and Porsche on the restart - good thing I did because the more I moved up the more difficult it was to pass the faster cars. I'd love to get a chance against those guys at Buttonwillow - they'd fall like a house of cards. Brake rotor temps approached 1000F – which is about right for that track and is a bit higher than the event done there about a month ago. Rotor wear continues to be negligible - which still blows me away. At the rate I'm going I'll never have to replace the rotors! I ran the car aprox 125 miles total for the event at full-tilt-bogy. I was doing 1:48s which is my best effort by a second. The starting thickness of the pads was .653” this is the thickness taken after the first event with those pads from Willow Springs. The ending pad thickness measured out to an average of .610” so the car used .043” of pads. The rear pad wear is as expected much less. Overall pad wear is not bad all considering it's the toughest track I know of on brakes short of Sebring. I hope the information I’ve been providing you has been helpful. Very cool, Ralph, thanks. :thumbup: Great write up - thanks :thumbup: I just talked to a shop that sponsor me so I am passing along the saving to you guy. E46 M3- 6 Pistons BBK - $2095 E36 M3- 4 Pistons BBK - $1600 E36 M3- 6 Pistons BBK - $2090 No group buy..anytime as long as Rotora makes them. yes..those prices are for front only I went to the link for ROTORA BBK discount for E-46 and could not find how to purchase, also I can not find the # for ROTORA do you know?? |All times are GMT -7. The time now is 07:41 AM.| Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7 Copyright ©2000 - 2016, vBulletin Solutions, Inc. © 2001-2015 performanceIX, Inc. 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Grace M. GeorgeFebruary 06,2013 Grace M. George Rites SOUTH BARRE — The service of remembrance and life celebration for Grace Mae “Gracie” George, of Cedar Place Apartments on Route 14, was held Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at 10 a.m. in the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home, 7 Academy St., Barre. She died Jan. 29, 2013, at her home. The Rev. Leopold Bilodeau, pastor of St. Monica Catholic Church, led the service. Words of remembrance were offered by her daughters, Sharon Burke and Rebecca Lamay, and son Stephen Elmer. Several members of the congregation also spoke. Cheyenne Deltoro read a letter of farewell written by longtime and best friend Denise Roberts. Son Stephen Elmer read the Scripture lesson, and Father Bilodeau led the congregation in the hymns, “How Great Thou Art” and “Amazing Grace.” The honorary bearers were her sons, Stephen, Brian and Bernard Elmer Jr., nephew James Massie and grandnephew Lonnie Hutchins. Later interment will be made in the Village Cemetery in Williamstown. Fellowship and luncheon followed at the Hilltop Restaurant in Barre Town. - Most Popular - Most Emailed

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Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation introduces the Voltage Detector with Work Light as a part of its new line of test and measurement products. With industry leading non-contact voltage detection technology, the 2201-20 runs off an easy-to replace AAA battery platform and doubles as a mini-flashlight. “We know there are many non-contact voltage detectors on the market today,” says Jonathan Morrow, Director Marketing Product Management-Test & Measurement for Milwaukee Electric Tool Company. “What makes this tool different is that we focused on creating a non-contact voltage detector that doubles as a flashlight. Our extra bright LED Work Light is built into the unit and is 3 times brighter than the closest competitor. At 3.5 inches long and with an easy to use rear button, this is the perfect tool for every electrician." The new Milwaukee® Voltage Detector with Work Light provides a wide range of 90-600 VAC for detecting voltage in wire, outlets, and cable. In addition, the unit will slide onto and attach to the mainframe of the Milwaukee® Laser Temp-Gun™ and Digital Multimeter to increase their performance and usability. With the introduction of the new Voltage Detector and the entire Test & Measurement line, Milwaukee® continues its growth as an industry leader in disruptive innovation. With a commitment to developing trade specific tools, Milwaukee® will continue to build this platform to offer industry leading performance, safety and ergonomics. - Voltage Range - 90-600 VAC - Length - 3.5" - Battery Type - AAA - Safety Rating - CAT III 600V About Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, a Brookfield, Wisconsin-based subsidiary of Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. (TTI) (HKEx stock code: 669, ADR symbol: TTNDY) is an industry leading manufacturer and marketer of professional, heavy duty power tools and accessories. Products include the legendary SAWZALL® reciprocating saws, M12, M18 & V28™ LITHIUM-ION cordless tools, HOLE-HAWG® drills, portable band saws, circular saws, driver drills, hammer drills, rotary hammers, grinders, sanders. Accessories include SAWZALL® blades, SWITCHBLADE® self-feed bits, BIG HAWG® hole cutters, THUNDERBOLT® drill bits plus many more. For more information on the full line of Milwaukee® power tools and accessories, please call 1-800-SAWDUST or visit www.milwaukeetool.com.

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The media appears more agitated at legal oversight through an open judicial process than about unaccountable interference by owners, as in the effective sacking of the Times editor by Rupert Murdoch (Report, 13 December). I suggest an alternative scheme to enhance press freedom. Take the power to appoint editors away from the press barons and devolve it to journalists to elect their editor. Not perfect, but it does place greater responsibility directly on to the journalists. Newcastle upon Tyne • There is an easy solution to statutory regulation. The government only has to use its "highly successful" police and crime commissioner election model. The public is deemed fit to decide who polices the police. Why don't we vote for who guards the guardians. Newhaven, East Sussex

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Over the weekend I finally finished a second Star Wars: The Old Republic class story line. This time I played a Jedi Knight with the Sentinel advanced class. The sentinel is a melee class that wields two lightsabers. The story was quite good, but a lot more "straightforward" than the Imperial Agent. It's often said that the Jedi Knight story is the equivalent of Knights of the Old Republic 3, and that's very true. But on the other hand, it plays out almost exactly like you would expect it to play out. I did play Light Side again. I guess I'm just not one for the Dark Side. I can't really talk about about the story line much without spoilers. However, I do like that Bioware did not shy away from making significant changes to the game world in the various story lines. The Jedi Knight (and Agent to a lesser degree) had "world-shaking" events happen in them, and the other story lines in the game reflect those changes. My next class in TOR is the Sith Inquistor. This time I'm going with a healer character, to see how leveling with a healer is. I don't know if I'll end up Light or Dark. I started out Light Side, mostly rebelling against the Sith, but then other characters started annoying me, and the Shock conversation options became too tempting. So now my Inquistor is pretty neutral.

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OK, normally you don’t think of government when you think of Valentine’s Day. But let’s try something a little different here. Better trash pickup from your city? Different classes for your kids at school? More patrols by sheriff’s deputies for your rural property? A crackdown by the DPS on speeders on a highway you use all the time? Go ahead, fire away. If you have a comment on this or any other editorial topic, post it below now!

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Sherwood running back Keegan Lawrence took his time, but finally has signed a football letter of intent to play at Southern Oregon University. Lawrence, the 2013 Oregon Gatorade player of the year, made it official this week. The 6-foot, 195-pound Lawrence rushed for 2,032 yards, averaging 17.1 yards per carry, and 31 touchdowns to help lead the Bowmen to the Class 5A final. Lawrence, the son of Sherwood coach Greg Lawrence, was voted the Northwest Oregon Conference offensive player of the year and was selected to the Class 5A first team as a running back and defensive back. “We're so excited for Keegan come play for us on top of all the other kids we have coming already," Southern Oregon coach Craig Howard said in a release. "He had an outstanding high school career and we think he'll keep getting better and better. It's just a tremendous addition all the way around.” -- Jerry Ulmer

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The Harmon Kardon system, is not bad, but it's FAR from great. I'm putting together a system for my 2002 M3 that should be great. The best part about it, is that I will still have my trunk space when I'm done, but it will be a 1000 watt RMS system. Total cost of the system will be just over $8,000, it should be done in about a month. When it is, I'd be glad to show it to you.

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I love the buttery taste and the crunchiness of the coarse sugar and cornmeal in this tart. - 1/2 cup butter, softened - 1/2 cup brown sugar - 1 large egg - 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract..use whatever flavor you like with the jam you are using - 1 1/4 cups flour - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 2 teaspoons baking powder - 1/2 cup cornmeal - 1 cup jam - coarse sugar for topping the tart - Mix butter and sugar till combined. Stir in the egg and coconut extract. - In another bowl whisk together the dry ingredients, except for the coarse sugar. - Add dry ingredients to the butter mixture just until it comes together, don't over mix. - Separate dough, form about 2/3 of it into a disk, wrap up and chill. Do the same with the remaining 1/3. - Once chilled, allow to warm slightly to room temperature. Then take the 2/3 disk and press the dough into a slightly greased 9" pan, patting it evenly onto the bottom and sides. - Spread jam over the dough. Roll out the remaining 1/3 of the dough using as little flour as possible and place on top of jam. I cut star shaped pieces but as you can see it kind of rises together and you can't really see the shapes. - Sprinkle top generously with coarse sugar. - Bake at 375º for 25 minutes. - Cool and serve..although I must add it was just as delicious served warm.

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Synopses & Reviews Just weeks after inheriting Rosebank, a once-magnificent plantation on the banks of Bayou Teche, David Patin was killed in a mysterious fire, leaving his daughter, Vivian, almost bankrupt. With few options remaining, Vivian Patin decides to restore the family fortunes by turning Rosebank into a resort hotel. Murder changes everything. Vivian's dream becomes a nightmare when she finds the family's lawyer dead on the sprawling grounds of the estate--with a rose in his chest and a brilliant lipstick mark on his cheek. Suddenly Vivian begins to wonder if her father's death was really an accident. . .and if the entire Patin family is marked for murder. Can the killing be stopped? Sheriff Spike Devol is smart, honest, tough--and sexy. Rosebank is not in his jurisdiction, but Vivian, fed up with the corrupt local police, asks him for unofficial help. The instant attraction between them leaves Spike reluctant to get involved--until another shocking murder occurs and it seems that Vivian will be the next victim. - Stella Cameron is a New York Times, USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author of over 50 novels. - The hardcover of Kiss Them Goodbye (Mira Books, 11/03) received wide critical acclaim, including a nomination to the Book Sense 76 bestseller list. - The Orphan (Mira Books, 3/02) reached #21 on the New York Times extended bestseller list, was a USA Today bestseller and achieved a 57% NSR. - Snow Angels (Mira Books, 10/01 reissue) reached #35 on the New York Times extended bestseller list and achieved a 54% NSR. - 7B (Mira Books, 3/01) reached #31 on the New York Times extended list and achieved a 55% NSR. - Her many awards include a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for romantic suspense. - Her single-title releases consistently appear on chain bestseller lists.

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Sandraa told me about using Elmer' school glue on the binding to hold it down until you get it sewn. Works great. I would like to know if you are supposed to wash the quilt before giving it away. It is a quilt that my sisters and I made for an aunt. I used the glue so thought I should wash it, but it looks so pretty, I'm a little afraid it will not look as good after it is washed. We don't know which way to go??

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P-65 Heavy Metal - 25mm Heroic Scale Multi-Genre Miniatures - Integral bases - Unpainted lead-alloy metal models that may require assembly - Wide variety of characters and monsters for roleplayers, miniatures painters, and wargamers - For more information, please refer to our P-65 FAQ. P-65. The metal formula that made Reaper Miniatures famous. P-65 is our special formula P-65 is a lead based alloy similar to 60% lead - 40% tin solder and is the perfect mix to cast miniatures in. It is a blend of white metals designed to capture every subtle detail as well as allow for maximum metal flexibility for straightening and posing. The P-65 miniature line is designed specifically for the adult modeler and is here to give them a choice in how they spend their hobby dollars. Engineered for Painting Master Series Paints are designed for painting our unique line of miniatures. Unlock the possibilities and custom create your character! The enhanced flow properties of our Master Series Paints make illuminating small details easier, enabling you to create the highest quality characters on the market. Check out our selection by clicking on the paint below! Perfect for Hobbyists and Gamers Whether you're a Game Master who needs more enemies to stock your battlefield, a player who is looking for just the right miniature to represent your character, a wargamer looking to beef up your army, or a hobbyist who is looking for the best in creative and detailed miniatures, P-65 is for you! Miniatures > P-65 Heavy Metal |Sorry, no currently released figures could be found.||

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Dates: July 19, 2016 - October 31, 2016 11 championship links courses set amongst spectacular scenery and off the beaten track, makes this area of Ireland a golfer's paradise. Who doesn't like to play top notch courses which are very rarely busy and priced at a fraction of the big names? That's VALUE! Price range: $1280

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Design Strategies for Cloud Hosted Services The title phrase was made popular by Adam Savage of MythBusters fame (pictured to the right… the bunny is made of C4). However it is also motto to live by when designing and deploying services to run on a Cloud platform. We of course do not accept failure of our service but instead must insure our service stays despite failure of the Cloud it is hosted on. For the Cloud platform, failure is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’ But what about SLAs? SLA (Service Level Agreement) is a legal agreement where the Cloud provider agrees to reimburse you a percentage of what you paid them if the Cloud fails to meet performance and availability criteria. So what? Will this compensate you for the loss of business you incur from an outage in your service? Let’s instead embrace failure, and design to overcome it. Be Redundant. If you have a single point of failure, then you are not redundant. For example on April 21, 2011 AWS (Amazon Web Services) had a major outage of their EC2 (cloud servers) and RDS (cloud database) systems. But look! While Virginia and other regions were down, not everywhere was down. If you took Amazon’s advice to deploy your service to two or more AZs (Availability Zones) you could still be running. I say could, because while Amazon’s guarantee is that failure will be limited to a single AZ, but in this case the failure actually spanned two. So the rewards go the cautious, like SmugMug, who deploy their service to three AZs and was “…minimally impacted, and all major services remained online during the AWS outage” This of course works best when your services are stateless, but then what about your (necessarily stateful) data stores in the cloud? You have essentially two choices: - Do not use a relational database. For example NoSQL is a class of databases that are very adept at horizontal partitioning (that is having your data distributed across multiple servers). If you can tolerate eventual consistency across these partitions, which means that in the case of failure of one partition, there is a possibility of loss of data, then this is your solution. - Use a relational database if you need immediate consistency. If so, you’ll want to use one such as SQL Azure which supports sharding, which takes care of the horizontal partitioning data across multiple servers for you. Of course you can also attempt to roll your own hot-backup system, since most cloud platforms allow you to spin up servers and copy data easily. But this seems more appropriate for a disaster recover scenario, than a business continuity one. Design your services to tolerate variance in responsiveness at any level of the stack. Cotenancy means you cannot control what others are doing with your underlying shared resources in the cloud. Therefore VoIP provider Twilio puts is succinctlym to succeed you need to: - Make a request, if that request returns a transient error or doesn’t return within a short period of time (the meaning of short depends on your application). - Retry the request to another instance of the service - Keep retrying within the tolerance of the upstream service. The consequences of not doing this are slow latencies and lock-ups exposed to your end users. One of the advantages of the cloud is that it is easy to spin up and deploy new instances of your service. SmugMug proudly exclaims: Any of our instances, or any group of instances in an AZ, can be “shot in the head” and our system will recover By which they mean services are stateless and individual server instances are disposable and replaceable. When one dies, simply re-spawn! Even when all else fails, and your system is unable to respond to a request despite all of your design for failure, you must still respond. Netflix embraces this philosophy. Each system has to be able to succeed, no matter what, even all on its own.[…] If our recommendations system is down, we degrade the quality of our responses to our customers, but we still respond. We’ll show popular titles instead of personalized picks. If our search system is intolerably slow, streaming should still work perfectly fine. Oh yeah, this is a testing blog, right? 🙂 Continuing with our friends from Netflix, they employee two excellent test strategies for Cloud services: - Netflix Tests in Production (yay!) by employing a set of scripts called Chaos Monkey, to randomly disable service instances in their production AWS deployment. This is Destructive Testing. This is Fault Injection on steroids. This is smart since you know there will be failures, better to understand what your system will do on your terms than on the upcoming catastrophe’s. - Netflix also tests with full (or near full) scale AWS deployments of their services. The elasticity of the cloud means you can easily spin this up and then divert a copy of customer traffic to it, shadowing your production systems while you learn and investigate on the test system. And while the Cloud Provider has an obligation to keep you updated on the status of the underlying Cloud. You too have a responsibility to the users of your service. SmugMug considers part of their success at surviving the AWS outage was customer communication and incident management: We updated our own status board, and then I tried to work around the problem…. 5 minutes [later] we were back in business The Cloud offers powerful capabilities and cost savings to service providers. 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KANEOHE, HI, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, Kaneohe Bay - Mokapu Mall came alive with all things green, at the base’s annual Earth Day Expo, Saturday. There was no shortage of activity at the expo, emceed by Capt. Derek George, the director of the Environmental Compliance and Protection Department. Some attendees chose to sit back and enjoy the entertainment on a gigantic stage going on throughout the day. Dance Movement Academy and K-Bay Gymnastics students began the morning performing dances to various jazz, tap and hip-hop numbers. Magician Mark Allen Mauricio from the Hale Koa Hotel dazzled the audience with humorous magic tricks, and the Polynesian Cultural Center and Akala Dance Studio performed Hawaiian, Samoan and Tahitian dances. Other attendees visited the many vendors and services from the base and the community, picking up resources and information. In the Keiki Activities Tent, children decorated turtle banks made out of paper bowls, and attendees could also sign up for a chance to win one of several prizes featured at the expo. Expo attendees venturing into the Marine Corps Exchange received a reusable green bag, and were given discounts on whatever merchandise they could fit in the bag. Actor Taylor Wily, made a special appearance at the exchange during the expo, posing for photos and signing autographs. Wily, a native of Honolulu, was in the movie, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and is a cast member of the TV series, "Hawaii Five-0." “It’s been wonderful,” said Steffanie Beissel, who brought her daughters to the expo, and met Wily at the exchange. “They’ve had a wonderful time. My husband is a huge 'Hawaii Five-0' fan. He’s going to be jealous we got to see him, and he wasn’t there.” Cpl. Antonio Garcia, a wireman with Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment and his wife visited the expo. Garcia’s wife said it was nice to have an event like the expo, which offered the opportunity to see what people on the base and the island have to offer. She also enjoyed watching the dance academy on the expo stage and looked forward to watching the Polynesian Cultural Center dancers. Garcia said the expo was good for new Marines and sailors reporting to Marine Corps Base Hawaii. It was something to do other than staying in the barracks. “It’s been great so far,” said Lt. Col. Sean Riordan, who is currently assigned to the Operations and Training Directorate. “Nice to see the base making the effort to educate the kids.” Riordan and his children visited the Facilities Department’s booth at the expo, where they spun a wheel filled with energy conservation trivia questions. During the expo, nine units from the base competed in the Unit Recycling Contest. Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay and Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 24 each received a check for $250 as the large and small unit with the most recyclables. Overall, 25,891 recyclable containers were collected. Additionally, students from various grades at Mokapu Elementary School entered a coloring contest in the spirit of Earth Day. Winners received prizes and were recognized on stage. The afternoon finished with a performance by the Arthur Murray Dance Center of Hawaii, and more prize drawings. Earth Day started in 1970, and has been celebrated ever since, worldwide. Organizations and individuals everywhere have taken initiatives in keeping the Earth clean. For more information about Earth Day, visit http://www.earthday.org. ||KANEOHE, HI, US This work, Going green at the Earth Day Expo, by Kristen Wong, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.

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Many, if not most, security professionals spend a comparatively small amount of time profiling their targets in comparison to the attack phase, and rarely step outside O/S and application enumeration. This is unfortunate, since proper enumeration can expose critical information and vulnerabilities, increasing the chances of success while reducing the noise of the attack. In this intensive, hands-on course, two-time Defcon social engineering CTF winner Shane MacDougall will run through a gamut of tools, websites, and procedures that every penetration tester/attacker should have in their toolkit, and collect data points that at might not seem relevant, but can in fact yield huge lift to the attacker, all without sending a single packet to the target network. Basic computer skills, understanding of basic security concepts USB stick with all required software Shane MacDougall is a two-time winner of the Defcon Social Engineering Capture The Flag, and has placed in the top three of the attack portion in every year of the contest's existence. He is principal partner at Tactical Intelligence, and a security analyst for JL Bond Consulting. Mr. MacDougall started in the computer security field in 1989 as a penetration tester with KPMG, and worked on the attack side of the field until 2002, when he joined ID Analytics, the world's largest anti-identity theft detection company as the head of information security. In 2011, he left the firm to start his own company. Mr. MacDougall has presented at several security conferences, including Black Hat Abu Dhabi, Black Hat EU, BSides Las Vegas, DerbyCon, LASCON, and ToorCon. He is currently doing research in the areas of integrating near-realtime OSINT into IDS/SIEM, as well as the generation of a realtime pre-text generator.

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Visa Inc. is a payments technology company. The Company and its subsidiaries, including Visa U.S.A. Inc. (Visa U.S.A.), Visa International Service Association (Visa International), Visa Worldwide Pte. Limited, Visa Canada Corporation, Inovant LLC and CyberSource Corporation (CyberSource), operate a processing network, VisaNet, which facilitates authorization, clearing and settlement of payment transactions around the world. The Company also offers fraud protection for account holders and rapid payment for merchants. The Company provides its services to consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in over 200 countries and territories for electronic payments. It provides a range of payment solutions that support payment products that issuers can offer to their account holders, including pay now with debit, pay ahead with prepaid or pay later with credit products. It also offers a suite of digital, e-commerce, person-to-person payments, and mobile products and services.

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Posted by champ83 on 1/27/2012 11:23:00 AM (view original): I like the concept of being a passing team and switch to run if pass isn't working (i.e. defense is playing Pass defense), and vice versa. I would like to see consideration of additional changes as follows: 1. set defense coverage in Man-to-man (either aggressive press coverage, or conservative off line of scrimmae; CBs are key defenders), or zone coverage (CBs, S, LBs all factor in coverage) 2. set defense blitz level/type (basic blitz = 1 blitzer, multiple blitz = 2 blitzers, max blitz = 3 blitzers, also have a zone blitz) 2a. set offensive blitz protection to either basic (no extra protection), moderate (TE/RB chip blocks, they go out for pass if not a heavy blitz), or max protection (TE/RB stay in to block and don't go out for pass) 3. set defense line style to 1-gap (Defense needs better DL than LBs... DTs try to make plays, LBs have to fend of blocks) or 2-gap (Defense needs better LBs than DL... DTs occupy OL and don't make plays but LBs have free run and make the plays), you can recruit DL/LB to fit your style 4. set O-line blocking to Zone blocking (OL requires BLK, GI, and Tech) or Man-to-man blocking (OL require BLK and Str), you can recruit OL to fit your style 5. Offense can call individual plays, by setting a percentage of times they can each be used. Maybe have an inventory of 10 to 15 basic offensive plays. (For example, if there were 10 plays, a SIM team might set all of them to 10% each and run them equally). Called pass plays would determine the primary receiver, if he is covered and QB decides not to throw, it's as if current system is in place and QB makes another pass or scramble. Play-by-play results would need to identify play that was called (ex: "QB incomplete pass to WR on skinny post", "RB rushes for 4 yards on draw"), so defense could scout as if watching the plays on film. Example of play inventory would be: RB screen (more effective if defense is rushing the passer), Bubble screen to WR (more effective when the defense playing off line of scrimmage or CB is poor tackler), Crossing pattern (more effective when DB/LB doesn't have GI to pick up in zone or DB doesn't have Speed to follow WR in man-to-man), Deep vertical "go" routes (more effective when WR has speed and/or DB doesn't), Stop-and-go, Sluggos/slant-and-go, Out-and-up (WR needs Tech and Speed), Out/sideline patterns,can be deep or short (WR needs Tech to get feet in bounds, these also stop clock in hurry-up mode), Post/skinny post patterns (up to Safety to make play on WR), Curl routes/come-back/slant routes for possession receivers with little Speed/Elus but good hands, Draw to RB (more effective if defense is rushing the passer), Zone read runs (either QB/RB carries, depending if Aggr run defense and DE charges then QB keeps, if Consv defense and thus DE slow plays then the QB hands off to RB), Basic RB inside runs (DTs and MLB defend) and outside runs (DE and OLB defend). QB draw (effective with running QB and/or blitzing defense) QB roll-outs (pass or run depending on GI and play available) I think this is my favorite ideas post - great stuff champ83. As for #3) isn't the 4-3 supposed to be a 1-gap and the 3-4 supposed to be a 2-gap??? And if that is the case, it would sure be nice if the game engine took into account the different abilities required of the D-line and linebackers in both cases. Tailoring your O-line to either zone-blockers or man-blockers would also give an alternative to everyone gunning for just BLK-STR O-linemen. Athletic linemen with GI and TQ who had lower strength would then be sought after as well. A big problem with right now is that basically everyone is forced to recruit for the same strong cores in all the positions. It would make it a lot more interesting if the Cores at each position was more dependent on your style of offense and defense rather than just being generic as they are now. For example, a WR out of WB or ND-Box sets (think Georgia Tech) wouldn't need great GI or TQ or even Elusiveness to a great degree but would certainly need Speed, Hands, Strength and blocking ability. A shotgun system would require WR's with a lot more GI and TQ and ELU, but maybe wouldn't ALL need as much speed or strength or any blocking to speak of. THis would make recruiting way more interesting without you having to change the recruiting programming at all.

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I had the pleasure of meeting fellow San Francisco artist Amy Franceschini yesterday. Amy is from the design studio Futurefamers, a group of people who create “platforms for sociability within new media spaces; internet, wireless devices and public space”. I remember being aware of — and influenced by — their work when I was starting out in design but this recent meeting prompted me to take a look at what they’re been up to in the years since. As you can see, their output doesn’t exactly fall within the scope of your average design studio — although they did design the Twitter logo. This excerpt from Amy’s bio sums up the themes I find most interesting in the work “[she] creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround her. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature.” Aesthetically pleasing and challenging at the same time, really great to see people doing work like this.

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IHAGGAN, "the sea turtle" in the local Chamorro language, posts articles of relevance to sea turtle conservation in the Mariana Islands (CNMI and Guam) in particular and to Micronesia and the Western Pacific in general. Friday, March 4, 2011 Sea turtle status and conservation efforts in the NMI (CNMI Sea Turtle Conservation Program) — There has been a recent flurry of activity in the news lately regarding sea turtles and associated court cases. This is a brief update regarding sea turtle status in the CNMI and a summary of current activities of the Department of Land and Natural Resources Sea Turtle Research and Conservation Program. Sea turtles are a long-lived species with a complex life history. They undertake wide-ranging, international migrations and reach maturity (age at first reproduction) at about 30 years of age. This life cycle leaves turtles vulnerable to multiple sources of mortality or impacts (harm) ranging from natural environmental causes to human- caused impacts from development, disease, fisheries, or direct harvest. The status of green turtles in the Mariana Archipelago is not well known due to the lack of long-term data on nesting and foraging populations. “Long-term” data in this case means population information ranging over the species lifespan, or about read more.... Volunteer with the Sea Turtle Program: CNMI Sea Turtle Conservation Program: Report harassment or capture of turtles: DLNR Enforcement 664-6030/898-3570 Rota DLNR 532-9494/5 Tinian DFW 433-1404/1 On the web: http://www.pacmares.com/stp/Welcome.html www.ihaggan.com

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As a neuroscientist, one typically becomes accustomed to thinking outside of the “box.” After all, the brain is incredibly complex and cryptic, and some creative thought is required to develop methods to uncover its secrets. Francis Crick advised that the greatest hurdle standing in the way of neuroscience is the inability to specifically stimulate a single neuron without altering any of its surrounding cells. This daunting task appears to be a thing of fantasy when considering the innumerable intricate connections the brain is composed of. However, Harvard University’s Samuel Lab has made a reality out of a dream with their groundbreaking research involving transgenic C. elegans. Recently published in Nature, the research of Dr. Andrew M Leifer and his team utilizes a manipulatory optogentics technique called ColBeRT to control the nervous system of a worm with the light from a laser. Optogenetics is the methodology of employing genetics and visible light to manipulate the activity of living cells. In order for optogenetics to be applicable in the laboratory, the insertion of opsin genes, which encode for light sensitive proteins, into an organism’s genome is necessary. The activity of the resulting opsin-containing cells can be regulated by exposure to visible light. Relative to the work of Leifer et al., optogenetics provides a platform by which the genetically altered motor and sensory neurons of C. elegans can be controlled with the use of a precise laser. Why use C. elegans? According to Leifer et al., “the nematode C. elegans is particularly amenable to optogenetics owing to its optical transparency, compact nervous system and ease of genetic manipulation.” The ColBeRT (Controlling Locomotion and Behavior in Real-Time) technique, which was designed for the optogenetics research being done at The Samuel Lab, provides a way to specifically track a worm’s movement. A video camera with real-time feedback follows an illuminated and moving C. elegans under a dark field. The worm is placed on a motorized stage, which keeps the image of the organism centered in the camera’s view. Once the worm’s movement is recognized and registered by a specialized graphical user interface (GUI) software called MindControl, the image of the C. elegans is processed and the worm’s image is divided into 100 evenly spaced segments. From these segmented portions, specific target cells can be chosen, the locations of which are transferred to a DMD (digital micromirror device). This pattern is then projected onto the worm by the DMD, allowing for the illumination of the targeted points with a laser. This laser can precisely pinpoint the location of a specific target cell by a simple algorithm specifically designed for the movement analysis of C. elegans. The impressive spatial and temporal resolution (~50 frames per second) of the ColBeRT technique makes the system scientifically applicable and valid. The ColBeRT’s spatial resolution of ~30ms allowed Leifer et al. to utilize the technique for a number of manipulatory actions on their transgenic nematodes. When cholinergic motor neurons of transgenic C. elegans were exposed to laser light, forward motor movement was suppressed and either paralysis or backward movement of the worm was propagated. Similarily, single touch receptors of the worms were also genetically modified to be sensitive to light. In a normal worm, a gentle touch will stimulate these receptors, causing the worm to repel in the opposite direction of movement. In transgenic C. elegans, illuminating these specific receptors with the light from a laser was able to affect the direction of the worm’s movement, just as a physical stimulus would have. Even more astounding, HSNs (hermaphrodite specific neurons), which innervate the vulval region of C. elegans, were also able to be genetically modified and stimulated with light exposure. When a thin laser strip was shone on the HSN region of the worms, involuntary egg-laying was evoked. Although still in its beginning stages, the ColBeRT technique seems to be a promising solution to overcoming one of the primary difficulties standing in the way of neuroscience. ColBeRT not only highlights cell-to-cell interactions, but also identifies the precise actions of specific neurons, something that had never been thought possible in the past. As technology develops further, perhaps we will soon be able to manipulate the cells of more complex organisms and eventually, even mammals. Optogenetics and techniques like ColBeRT may be the key to discovering the subtleties of different neurons and could even potentially help map out the human brain. Single Worm Neurons Remotely Controlled with Lasers – Scientific American The Samuel Lab videos – Vimeo

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At the touch of a button, this standalone duplicator makes an exact replica of a DVD or CD in just over six minutes without the need for a PC. It can also create custom playlist discs from multiple audio CDs, producing a compilation CD that includes all selected tracks. At 24X DVD and 48X CD drive speeds, this device can copy an entire library of home movies. An ample internal 64 MB buffer (with 2 MB drive buffer) ensures that large files are copied seamlessly and without error. Supports all DVD technology platforms. The device will not duplicate copyrighted or encrypted material. Plugs into AC. 7" H x 7" W x 10" D. (10 lbs.) The One Step DVD/CD Duplicator comes with The Hammacher Schlemmer Lifetime Guarantee at no additional charge. If this product ever disappoints you, for any reason, you may return your Hammacher Schlemmer purchase for exchange, credit, or refund. Should you have any questions, we are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Please call 1-800-321-1484 to speak with a product specialist or email us at email@example.com to receive a response within one hour.

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Friday, August 15, 2014 Theresa Kendall is keenly aware of the challenges presented to parents of special-needs children. Kendall is the mother of R.J., who has autism and cognitive impairments. He gets around with the help of walking devices and a wheelchair. Simple tasks — most take for granted — become huge undertakings. Her experiences while grocery shopping with R.J., who turns 8 later this month, were difficult, to say the least. She would push R.J. in his wheelchair while pulling a cart behind her, all the time making sure he didn’t grab items off shelves or reach for other people’s buggies as they passed by. “I was in desperate need to see if there was anything available to be able to grocery shop with my son,” she said. Her desperation prompted her to do some research on the Internet. That’s where she discovered a site called Caroline’s Cart, created by another special-needs mother, Drew Ann Long, who helped develop and market a specially designed cart that allows caregivers to secure a child or adult while shopping. “I started in January of last year on this mission,” Kendall said. “I got in touch with Mrs. Long and she helped me get the process going.” With the help of Jim Bongalis, manager of the Goose Creek Publix store on St. James Boulevard, and Publix corporate official Jonathan Stiles, Kendall was able to get one of Caroline’s Carts at the store. “I approached them about the need for this type of cart,” Kendall said. “They told me I’d have to show a need for it, so I started a campaign. I asked other families to share their own experiences or what they had observed while shopping at Publix.” Those testimonials convinced Publix officials, and the new cart was delivered in July. “This cart means so much to me and other special-needs caregivers,” Kendall said. “Grocery shopping might seem like a simple trip for most people, but to others it’s not. “I really want to thank Publix for going above and beyond for their customers’ needs.”

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The Devils had their four-game winning streak halted with a 2-1 loss against the Monarchs Wednesday at Times Union Center. Scott Clemmensen turned aside 27 shots and Matt Lorito netted his second goal of the season. Infograph of the Devils 2-1 loss to the Manchester Monarchs on Wednesday, Apr. 1. The Devils climb into the top eight in the Eastern Conference continues Wednesday with a 7 pm outing against the Monarchs at Times Union Center. The Devils return home for a pair of games this week, and hit the road Friday for their last matchup with Springfield. Wednesday | 7 pm Times Union Center Manchester vs. Albany Dollar Dawg Night Friday | 7 pm MassMutual Center Albany vs. Springfield Saturday | 5 pm Times Union Center Binghamton vs. Albany Military Appreciation

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The kitchen was once the heart of the home. Families and friends would gather, gossip and laugh while creating meals and many wonderful memories. Bring back this experience with an event familiar to many Hispanic homes--a tamalada. Making your own tamales is simple, satisfying and a great way to spend time together with loved ones. Sandra Vásquez, inventor of the Más Tamales Masa Spreader, will give a hands-on tamale lesson at select San Antonio Public Library locations. Make some, take some, try it at home. And on November 19, join us at Central Library for a free performance of "Las Nuevas Tamaleras." (Separate tickets required.) Sponsored by Bolner's Fiesta Products, Mex-Sales Company, The San Antonio Public Library Foundation, City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department, and Burras Finas Productions. SAPL Cortez Branch Library (View) San Antonio, TX 78224 |Kid Friendly: Yes!| |Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!|

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From chicagoblackhawks.com: (link) In a season where rookies excelled, culling the field for the Calder Trophy to three finalists was tough business. But when the votes from the Professional Hockey Writers' Association were counted Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Steve Mason, Anaheim Ducks forward Bobby Ryan and Chicago Blackhawks forward Kris Versteeg The 2009 NHL Awards will be broadcast live from the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Hotel Las Vegas on June 18 on VERSUS in the United States and CBC in Canada. In addition to being Calder finalists, another common bound among the trio is they want to make a difference for their clubs. Based on their play during the regular season, they did just that. All three played important roles in helping their teams make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It's doubtful that the Ducks or Blue Jackets would have made the playoffs without their rookie stars, while Versteeg was the key to the Blackhawks' sharp start this season. Versteeg and Ryan have another thing in common, they both believe their team is better off with the puck on their stick. Both are excellent skaters and puckhandlers who like to carry the puck into shooting situations and fire away. Both have had to learn to rely more on their teammates and that has been part of their growth this season. Mason, Ryan and Versteeg each overcame earlier disappointments to prove their merits in the NHL. Ryan and Mason started the season in the minors. Mason was buried four years ago by a Junior B coach, but switched teams and continued his progression. An impatient Ryan returned two more seasons to juniors after being drafted second overall in 2005, while Versteeg was traded from his drafting club for -- the ultimate putdown -- a career minor leaguer. Steve Mason, Columbus Blue Jackets -- To put it in historical context, Mason's rookie season rivaled or exceeded those of Calder winners Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Tony Esposito, Roger Crozier, Glenn Hall, Terry Sawchuk and Frankie Brimsek. His 10 shutouts led the NHL, the first rookie leader since Esposito had 15 in 1970. Mason ranked second with a 2.29 save percentage, eighth with 3,664 minutes, ninth with 33 wins, 10th with 61 games and 11th with a .916 save percentage. He led all rookie goalies in every category except save percentage, finishing second to the .917 posted by Nashville's Pekka Rinne, whose fine season included seven shutouts. Mason started the season with the AHL Syracuse Crunch after knee surgery last April. He was called up after six games and won his first three starts. Mason was 9-5-1 after stopping 48 shots, his season high, in a Dec. 17 win over the San Jose Sharks. His season best four-game winning streak from Dec. 27-Jan. 2 included three shutouts. Mason got better as the season went along. He had a 2.72 GAA after five games, but had it down to a season-low 1.66 on Jan. 2. While it rose to 2.29 at season's end, his save percentage remained the same since Feb. 21, suggesting he was consistent and playing a little better than his teammates. Mason won three games against the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings after the NHL All-Star Game, including a 46-save effort March 7 in an 8-2 victory at Joe Louis Arena that his coach considers the most important in franchise history. Bobby Ryan, Anaheim Ducks -- For three years, the Ducks and Ryan endured the tease: Who was drafted second behind Sidney Crosby in the 2005 Entry Draft and where is he now? Ryan followed the normal progression of two more junior seasons and a year in the AHL. Now, he's the first West Coast player to lead the NHL rookie scoring race since Luc Robitaille in 1986-87. Ryan led all NHL rookies with 31 goals and 57 points, and he spotted the field 18 games. Ryan had to start the season in the AHL because the Ducks couldn't fit him into their salary cap. After producing 5 goals and 10 points in 23 games with the Ducks a year ago, Ryan underwent an intensive summer conditioning program, dropping his body fat from 19 to 7 percent and shedding 20 pounds to 207. He also eliminated the high-risk elements of his game to become a reliable two-way player. Ryan is a powerful 6-foot-2 winger and he plays a skilled game. He had an impressive 17.8 shooting percentage from 174 shots. Ryan led the Ducks with a plus-13 rating and 12 power-play goals, 17th in the NHL. He was 27th in goals and second on the Ducks behind Corey Perry's 32 goals. Coach Randy Carlyle moved Ryan around the lineup, mostly second- and third-line shifts in the beginning, as well as left and right wing, before giving him increased responsibilities. Ryan wound up playing left wing on the first line with Perry and Ryan Getzlaf. The Ducks were 12th in the Western Conference with 10 games to go but got strong performances from the top line down the stretch. Getzlaf had 14 points, Perry 13, and Ryan had 11, including seven goals. Kris Versteeg, Chicago Blackhawks -- For a rising team trying to market a new identity, Versteeg was a Godsend. Of course, his 22 goals and 31 assists, fourth in team scoring was Important, but Versteeg brought an alternately witty and off-the-wall sense of humor into the dressing room. Check the Web for some of his teammate-teasing videos, the teammates' responses, and his dressing-room rap session. There's no question there was tension in Chicago at the start of the season – the Hawks fired coach Denis Savard after only four games -- but Versteeg's early timely scoring and wit helped alleviate the pressure. He had 7 goals and 20 points in the first 20 games. His scoring slowed during the second half, but he finished with three points in the final four games. Versteeg is on the smallish side at 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds. He's had success playing the wing with center Dave Bolland and Patrick Sharp Versteeg uses short, choppy strides and unpredictable changes of direction to make room for his outstanding puckhandling ability. He can carry the puck through traffic and resembles a basketball point guard in his ability to penetrate from the perimeter to the net. He learned to use his teammates to greater benefit during the course of the season. Versteeg led NHL rookies with 31 assists and was eighth on the Blackhawks. His 22 goals and plus-15 rating ranked fourth among NHL rookies. Versteeg led the Blackhawks and tied for fourth in the NHL with four shorthanded goals. Ryan and Versteeg tied for second among NHL rookies with three game-winning goals.

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Join Johnny Campbell and Cameron Steele’s efforts to raise $20,000.00 for the Rancho Santa Marta Orphanage at the legendary Baja Beach Bash 5 and roost Baja with the legends. What started as a Baja sharing ride with a festive atmosphere and a stop at the Orphanage to give back has become an annual institution that has hosted 100’s of people over the past 4 years. 2013 marks the 5th annual Baja Beach Bash roost fest. “We do this because we love Baja and equally love to share her with others and at the same time we can raise awareness and support for a great cause.” — Johnny Campbell “We help to shine a light on Rancho Santa Marta Orphanage in San Vicente through our trips and for the Baja Beach Bash 2013 we are hoping to raise $20,000.00.” Cameron Steele www.Race-Dezert.com is onboard to create some epic video content and feature the ride. Bullet Proof Diesel from Phoenix, AZ is pledging to match funds up to $10,000.00! Funds can come in from sponsors or straight donations and Bullet Proof Diesel will match them until the goal is reached. To jump start the fund raising effort SCORE Trophy Truck racer and champion Jesse Jones started donations with a $5,000.00 contribution. Your help is needed please be part of this opportunity to give back to some amazing kids. Join us, sponsor the trip, or donate to a great cause. Baja Beach Bash would like to thank the following sponsors who have committed to the 2013 ride: JCR, DA, Bullet Proof Diesel and Jesse Jones.

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Watt Sees Reservations As Failure of Socialism Published: January 19, 1983 WASHINGTON, Jan. 18— Interior Secretary James G. Watt Tuesday called Indian reservations ''an example of the failure of socialism.'' Mr. Watt's department includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which supervises the reservations. In an interview to be broadcast Wednesday on the Satellite Program Network based in Tulsa, Okla., Mr. Watt said that reservations aggravated social problems. ''If you want an example of the failure of socialism,'' he said, ''don't go to Russia, come to America and go to the Indian reservations.'' He said the Indians who lived on reservations maintained by the Federal Government experienced drug abuse, alcoholism, unemployment, divorce and venereal disease. ''Every social problem is exaggerated because of socialistic government policies,'' he said.

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Don't get on here much anymore. I see the old thread closed, the new thread is closing in on 3K posts, and I dropped out of the top 20 posters from the old thread. I miss checking things out but I got tired of seeing people post crap and asking what's it worth??? Anyways I hope all my old trading partners are doing good.

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Ten years after parting ways, actor Michael Douglas and ex-wife Diandra Douglas are back in court to battle it out over his latest earnings. The 65-year-old star was said to have paid his former spouse a hefty $45 million, per the terms of their 2000 settlement, but according to a report in the New York Post, his current good fortune could add even more money to the old divorce deal. It all comes down to actor’s decision to bring Gordon “Greed is good” Gekko back to the big screen in the upcoming “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” Diandra Douglas’ legal eagles claim the original settlement not only awarded their client a financial share from the films her ex-husband made while they were together, but also any future spin-offs. Now the question is whether or not the new take on “Wall Street” really is a spin-off. It should come as no surprise to learn Michael Douglas doesn’t think so. Arguing before a judge last week, his attorney insisted the movie is sequel, not a spin-off. "They're not the same thing," lawyer Marilyn Chinitz said in a quote published in the Post. Gosselin’s kids think his huge tattoo is ‘cool’ A giant dragon now occupying roughly half of Jon Gosselin’s back is a hit with the kids, or so says the former reality-TV dad. In an interview with Radar Online, the former Ed Hardy enthusiast revealed the meaning behind his new tattoo, as well as the “Plus 8’s” reaction. “I have planned this tattoo for years now,” Gosselin explained. “I wanted something that resembled a rebirth or a change in me.” Well, no one can deny the man has changed a lot over the years. At least the ink marks one change the kids enjoy. “They love it and think it’s cool!” Gosselin boasted. Jason Bateman denies getting booed Despite reports that claimed Jason Bateman received a round of boos after being escorted to the front of an iPhone frenzy line last week, the “Couples Retreat” star has denied it. More Entertainment stories Autistic ballerina dances her way into hearts In a popular YouTube video, the beaming little ballerina dances an entire four-minute routine seemingly perfectly, matchin... - Every on-screen drink in 'Mad Men' in 5 minutes - See the 'Dancing' stars' most memorable moves - Emmy's biggest snubs? Cranston, Hamm, more - 'Toy Story' toys burn up in prank on mom - Autistic ballerina dances her way into hearts “There wasn't one boo,” Bateman announced to his Twitter followers. “Not one hiss. The Apple guy brought me in away from the paparazzi. Period. I was content in line. I wish I'd stayed.” Maybe the actor just couldn’t hear the commotion coming from the end of the reported 2,000-person line. After all, one source told Us Weekly, "Everyone literally started booing and hissing!" Dish on the fly If gay heartthrobs want to keep their teen-idol status, they should stay in the closet, according to comedian Joan Rivers. "It’s part of the game. If you're going to be a romantic idol and try to get every teenage girl to love you, then you'd be an a-- to come out and say you're gay," Rivers told The Advocate. “Ricky Martin was so smart. He did what he did, made his millions and then he said, ‘Guess what, everybody? I'm gay.’ ... It didn't matter anymore because he didn't have to bring in 16-year-old girls.” … Did Katy Perry and Russell Brand get married before their official big day? In separate slips, the pair hinted that they’re already man and wife. First Brand referred to Perry as his wife during an interview with OK! magazine, and then Perry followed it up with an even bigger flub. When asked about her future (or possibly current) hubby by U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, she replied, “Life's never dull with him — that's why I married him!” before catching herself. Tabloid Tidbits is compiled by Ree Hines. Follow @ReeHines on Twitter to gab about the latest gossip. © 2013 NBCNews.com Reprints

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Asylum applications in industrialized countries rise in first six months in 2011 By continent, Europe registered the highest number of claims with 73 per cent of all asylum applications in industrialized countries. GENEVA, October 18 (UNHCR) - Industrialized countries saw a 17 per cent increase in asylum applications in the first half of this year, with most claimants coming from countries with long-standing displacement situations. UNHCR's "Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, First Half 2011" report, released today, also shows that 198,300 asylum applications were lodged in the period between January 1 and June 30, compared to 169,300 in the same period in 2010. As application rates normally peak during the second half of the year, UNHCR projects that 2011 may see 420,000 applications by year's end - the highest total in eight years. So far this year there have been major forced displacement crises in West, North and East Africa. The report finds related increases in asylum claims among Tunisians, Ivorians and Libyans (4,600, 3,300 and 2,000 claims respectively), but overall the impact of these events on application rates in industrialized countries has been limited. Taking the 44 countries surveyed in the report as a whole, the main countries of origin of asylum-seekers remained largely unchanged from previous surveys: Afghanistan (15,300 claims), China (11,700 claims), Serbia [and Kosovo: Security Council Resolution 1244] (10,300 claims), Iraq (10,100 claims) and Iran (7,600 claims). "2011 has been a year of displacement crises unlike any other I have seen in my time as High Commissioner," said UNHCR chief António Guterres. "Their impact on asylum claims in industrialized countries seems to have been lower so far than might have been expected, as most of those who fled went to neighbouring countries. Nonetheless we are grateful that the industrialized states have continued to respect the right of people to have their claims to asylum heard." By continent, Europe registered the highest number of claims with 73 per cent of all asylum applications in industrialized countries. Only Australasia saw a significant decline in applicants: 5,100 claims compared with 6,300 a year earlier. By country, the United States had more claims (36,400) than any other industrialized nation, followed by France with (26,100), Germany (20,100), Sweden (12,600) and the United Kingdom (12,200). The Nordic region was the only part of Europe to see a fall in asylum applications. Meanwhile, in north-east Asia applications more than doubled - 1,300 claims were lodged in Japan and South Korea compared to 600 in the first half of 2010. The "Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, First Half 2011" report complements UNHCR's annual Global Trends Report, issued in June each year, and which this year found that 80 per cent of refugees are being hosted in developing countries.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 July 12, 2011 STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY H.R. 2018 – Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act (Rep. Mica, R-FL, and 39 cosponsors) The Administration strongly opposes H.R 2018 because it would significantly undermine the Clean Water Act (CWA) and could adversely affect public health, the economy, and the environment. Under the CWA, one of the Nation’s most successful and effective environmental laws, the Federal Government acts to ensure safe levels of water quality across the country through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since the enactment of the CWA in 1972, the Federal Government has protected the waterways our citizens depend on by using its checks and balances authority to review and adjust key State water pollution control decisions, where necessary, to assure that they reflect up to date science, comply with the law, and protect downstream water users in other States. H.R. 2018 would roll back the key provisions of the CWA that have been the underpinning of 40 years of progress in making the Nation’s waters fishable, swimmable, and drinkable. H.R. 2018 could limit efforts to safeguard communities by removing the Federal Government’s authority to take action when State water quality standards are not protective of public health. In addition, it would restrict EPA’s authority to take action when it finds that a State’s CWA permit or permit program is inadequate and would shorten EPA’s review and collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers on permits for dredged or fill material. All of these changes could result in adverse impacts to human health, the economy, and the environment through increased pollution and degradation of water bodies that serve as venues for recreation and tourism, and that provide drinking water sources and habitat for fish and wildlife. H.R. 2018 would disrupt the carefully constructed complementary CWA roles for EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers, and States in protecting water quality. It also could eliminate EPA’s ability to protect water quality and public health in downstream States from actions in upstream States, and could increase the number of lawsuits challenging State permits. In sum, H.R. 2018 would upset the CWA’s balanced approach to improve water quality across the Nation, risking the public health and economic benefits of cleaner waters. If the President is presented with this legislation, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill. * * * * * * * Associate Director for Policy Outreach White House Council on Environmental Quality

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I've never pretended to be anything on Enclave but what Molly Ivins called an "opinion monger," so why is Nashville Scene editor Liz Garrigan so ambivalent about the likes of me? Sweeping generalizations about bloggers in pajamas is a bit like me saying that all Nashville Scene writers are rather pale Michael Musto impersonators (as if the authentic Musto were not pallid enough to begin with) or that local alt-journalism seems to come down to getting a buzz on and playin' the dozens. Just like there are some really bad apples in journalism there are some (admittedly more) funky fruits in the blogosphere. But the risk of democratized writing is benality in our midst and foolishness at the edges. So, lighten up, Liz. The "fourth estate" should not have a lock on having influence. And some of us down here at your feet who actually care about writing even still read between the covers and believe that authorship is only at an end in the Aristotelian sense that it is a virtue at which we aim rather than a status which we proclaim.

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Student Green Energy Fund Proposals Due The Student Green Energy Fund (SGEF) was established to help USF become an environmentally sustainable campus but we can’t accomplish this without YOU! Submit your proposal for projects that will use renewable energy technologies or improve energy efficiencies that directly lower the university’s energy costs. Current students and/or employees can submit a proposal and we encourage collaboration among departments. The SGEF is administered through the Patel School of Global Sustainability at USF. For more information visit www.usf.edu/GreenEnergy

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Well ive missed you guys! Been busy with work. But I got off early today at lunch to check this out. A friend of mine has a friend who just bought this. A 2011 12C. Thing is absolutely amazing. No idea how he paid for it. But I've never been so jealous in my life. He's my age by the way. 21 or so. Well, where to start. I figured out how he got the car. Credit card fraud. I found out today that the kid who had the car stole it. Pretty amusing. Not so jealous anymore. He's was pulled over today and has bail set at 100k. OUCH. Here's the link if your interested

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How did it all begin? We hear that often and the truth be told, there was no great business plan or any plan at all, really, just a comment, a thought, an item on a bucket list. In October of 2011 at a home brewers’ gathering held at the farm of Jane and Craig Deitz, Craig planted the seed with a comment to his friend, Brad Paulson, about a desire to have a micro-brewery on Green Bluff. Brad’s response, “I’m in”. And so it began. With collectively over 50 years of home brewing experience between them, Craig’s background in chemistry and Brad’s expertise in construction, a friendship became a partnership. Over a beer on a snowy winter’s day, Craig drew a schematic of the lay out of the brewery system. With the help of family and friends, construction of the big barn took place in the summer of 2012. As fate would have it, the building of the barn itself inspired daughter-in-law, Camille Dietz, to suggest the name – “Big Barn Brewing Company”. A soft opening took place for Oktoberfest 2012 and the response to a brewery on Green Bluff was overwhelmingly positive. The summer of 2013 brought home brew enthusiasts to the bluff in droves, arriving in cars, motorcycles, bicycles and limousines. Continuing to brew on two nano systems the two home brewers struggled to keep up with the demand, sometimes brewing five batches a week. With the installation of a seven barrel system in early 2014, Big Barn was able to move into full production that summer. Our goal is to be self-sustaining, using farm produce from the Deitzes’ own farm as well as the surrounding farms, and has resulted in the production of such brews as our Blackberry Porter, Pumpkin Ale andour newest addition, a cherry kolsch. With Craig’s original drawing on display in our rustic tap house, Craig and Brad continue to do all of the brewing with their original mission statement always close at heart – to brew the best beer in the world. Black Dog Stout - Pets, especially great dogs, are wonderful gifts in our lives. At our farm we have Nandi, a black lab and Chesapeake Bay mix. This laid back dog loves life, her family and visitors to the farm. Our Black Dog Stout is meant to deliver that same relaxed attitude to those who fill a mug with this deep, rich chocolate, caramel blend. Add a hint of fine brewed coffee and you can’t help but smile. Thanks, Nandi! ABV: 7.8% IBU: 28 Fallow IPA - Amarillo and Styrian Golding hops harmonize in this IPA to give a brew with a flavor as crisp as the fresh air on Greenbluff. This well-balanced IPA will warm your pallet with a spectacularly fresh floral hop character. ABV: 7.2% IBU: 130 Bodacious Blonde - This unique brew is a full-bodied, malt forward summer ale that really satisfies the thirsty pallet. People that are looking for a break from the hoppy beers and are craving something flavorful and malty need look no further than this startling satisfying brew. ABV: 5.9% IBU: 20 Mead Honey Lager - Farm fresh local honey lingers on your tongue in this refreshing well-balanced lager. Our honey lager is a clean, crisp brew which sparkles and effervesces so as to belie the fact that this, too, is a naturally unfiltered Big Barn brew. Washington 2-row barley blends nicely with cascade hops to make this a unique and exceptional lager. ABV: 5.3% IBU: 22 Bluff Top Belgian - Belgian is a style based on its site of origin. This Belgian is a bluff top original. Our local farm Belgian captures the same country charm which made Belgians unique. Big Barn incorporates our own homemade golden Belgian candy, both Munich and Belgian malts, and a nice combination of orange zest, coriander, and juniper to spice this wonderful brew. ABV: 5.2% IBU: 36 Dunn Day IPA – Debuted in the fall of 2012, this single hop IPA is brewed with Centennial hops grown right here on the farm. Crisp and light, it’s a fresh and satisfying way to reward yourself for a day well spent and will make you want to return to the little tap house found at the intersection of Dunn and Day Roads. ABV: 7.2% IBU: 100+ Strong Oat Stout - If you’re interested in a substantial beer, this is it. Oatmeal and roasted barley harmonize to produce a dry stout that is more drinkable than most. Styrian Golding Hops balance with coffee and caramel notes to produce an experience you won’t want to limit to one pint. ABV: 6.6% IBU: 28 Strawberry Blonde - In keeping with our motto “we don’t make fruity beer, we make beer with fruit”, our strawberry blonde is a malty, lightly-hopped blonde ale, with a tart, refreshing flavor, made with strawberries grown right here on the farm. ABV: 5.9% IBU: 20 Rusty Red Ale – In general, the prominent flavor of a red ale is the roasted barley which also gives this beer its reddish hue. Very lighted hopped, this ale is our lowest in alcohol content but is still big on flavor. For someone looking for the middle ground between the lights and the darks, this might be the beer for you. ABV: 4.3% IBU: 40 Mountain Smoke Porter- A dark, malty porter with apple-smoked grain, this brew is full-bodied and satisfying. It has quickly become a customer favorite. ABV: 7.2 IBU: 39 Golden Pumpkin Ale –The golden color and character of this beer proclaims fall on the bluff. Balanced with a perfect blend of two row barley, caramelized farm fresh pumpkins, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and real vanilla. ABV: 5.78 IBU: 20 Raspberry Wit – “Speak to the earth and it will teach thee”. As we strive to find the perfect melding of fruit and beer, it is the sweet delight of Jane’s canning in the kitchen that delivers our answer. Cane-ripened raspberries from our farm are blended to create the best preserves and syrups, and it is that syrup that goes directly into the boil to give the hint of raspberry color and flavor to this wheat ale. ABV: 5.25% IBU: 13.3 (Some beers are seasonal and are not available all year round. We add new beers all the time, the best way to find out what's on tap is to come up for a pint.) Joining the Big Barn Brewing Company Mug Club has its benefits! ** mug with brass medallion bearing your favorite number ** $3.00 pints anytime ** $8.00 growler fills (64 oz) ** BBB T-shirt ** 10% discount on all merchandise ** invitation to all of the Mug Club events ** the joy of being part of the club! Price: The Mug Club runs January - December for $100.00

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Graham Reid | | 1 min read This unfocused and largely haphazard film -- part travel footage, part film of reggae artists, some political subtext hinted at -- dates from 1980 when French filmmaker Bonn took a camera to Jamaica and the streets of black Britain. There is considerable footage where the camera is looking out the window of a vehicle which travels though the Third World streets of somewhere in Jamaica (presumably Kingston) -- but the real jewels here are Toots and the Maytals captured in a recording studio where Toots is incendiary, and later the magnificent Congos singing Row Fisherman Row on a beach accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. These extended sequences (there is also solo Toots singing deeply soulful blues, interview with Cedric Myton of the Congos and more footage of them singing material from their classic Heart of the Congos album) are the ones to fast-forward to, they are utterly gripping. The interviews on the streets of black Britain seem designed to confirm that the second generation over from Jamaica were having it tough, which was hardly news even then. Linton Kwesi Johnson, Steel Pulse and others had been saying so. The film quality isn't the best and filming people with black skin in dark rooms is never the smartest idea, but the soundtrack and the often impenetrable talk of Jah keeps the attention. So this is uneven and certainly not the lost classic that some may have it. But it does have important period footage of Jamaica -- and those thrilling sequences with Toots and the Congos. For those reasons alone it should be in any serious reggae collection.

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Welcome to ishottoto.com, a site designed by dog lovers for people who want to share their pictures of their furry companions. Your dog is special, and you have every right to be proud. Showcase your canine by uploading your pawfect photo today - it's 100% free. If you have any questions, or suggestions, please use our contact form. Approximately one million dogs in the United States are named as the primary beneficiary in their owner’s will.

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Call in to speak with the host Every year I do a Winter Solstice special episode to celebrate the time of the "return of the sun." This is also the darkest time of year as it is always darkest before the dawn. In this episode I will talk about this powerful time of "going within" and how you can use it for greater self awareness and expansion. Last year at this time we were all preparing for the Solstice 2012 which was a huge talked about event. How has our world changed as a result? How are we changing? Has there been any changes at all? Join us and find out. Sorry we couldn't complete your registration. Please try again. Please enter your email to finish creating your account. Receive a personalized list of podcasts based on your preferences.

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By Ginna Parsons/NEMS Daily Journal I picked up a special edition of Taste of Home magazine featuring Italian dishes one day last week and immediately marked a half dozen recipes I wanted to try. In this magazine there are no fewer than 17 lasagna recipes, plus all kinds of ideas for stuffed shells, pizza, manicotti, soups and pasta bakes. One recipe that looked really easy I tried last Wednesday night. I made one substitution – I cut some of the pork called for and used ground chuck – and I added minced garlic because we like that flavor. I’ve found mostaccioli pasta before at Walmart, but Kroger doesn’t carry it by that name, although they do carry a Private Selection pasta called penne lisce that’s very similar. You could always substitute regular penne or penne rigate for the mostaccioli. I thought there was going to be too much pasta for the amount of meat and sauce in this, but the recipe was spot on. Not only was this dish delicious, but it was pretty, too. Son Patrick said it was one of the best things I’ve cooked all year – high praise from the hamburger king. This recipe made lots of leftovers, which my husband and I enjoyed for several days. 1 pound uncooked mostaccioli 1 pound ground sweet Italian sausage 1⁄2 pound ground chuck 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 (24-ounce) jar meatless pasta sauce 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 carton (15 ounces) Ricotta cheese 2 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese 1⁄2 cup grated Romano cheese Cook pasta according to package directions and drain. Crumble sausage and beef into a Dutch oven. Cook over medium heat until no longer pink and drain. Add garlic and cook 1 minute more. Stir in pasta sauce and cooked pasta. In a large bowl, combine egg, Ricotta and Mozzarella. Spoon half the pasta mixture in a greased shallow 3-quart baking dish. Top with cheese mixture and then spread remaining pasta mixture on top. Cover and bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes. Uncover, top with Romano cheese and bake 5 minutes longer, until heated through. Makes 8 to 10 servings. Ginna Parsons is the Daily Journal’s food/home/garden editor.

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The present study examined the changes of depressive symptoms and salivary cortisol responses in 36 outpatients with major depression. These patients were randomly assigned to receive combination therapy (CT), consisting of antidepressants and body-mind-spirit group psychotherapy, or monotherapy (MT), consisting of antidepressants only. The results indicated that CT and MT had similar effects on reducing depressive symptoms. Nevertheless, the results revealed that cortisol levels at night appeared to have a greater reduction in CT than in MT, indicating a downward trend in CT but an upward trend in MT. Moreover, a steeper diurnal pattern of cortisol—a larger deviation in cortisol levels between 30 and 45 minutes postwaking and evening—was more likely associated with CT than MT. The findings suggest that CT produced a protective effect on outpatients with major depression, preventing the increased night salivary cortisol levels and the flatter diurnal cortisol pattern that tended to occur in MT.

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Federal Reserve Delays Enforcement of Volker Rule STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news. The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators have granted banks a two-year grace period to come into compliance with the Volcker Rule. That's one of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill passed a couple of years ago. It restricts American banks from making trades that put the bank and depositor funds at risk. But as NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports, regulators are struggling to iron out the details. YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: The principle of the Volcker Rule - named after former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker - is to restrict a bank from taking too many risks with its own proprietary trading. But as a practical matter, defining what is risky is fraught with more questions. How risky, exactly is too risky? Would, for example, investments in government bonds - once considered very safe, now be considered risky? Nancy Bush is contributing editor to trade publication SNL Financial. NANCY BUSH: It's a nightmare. To me, it just illustrates the degree of complexity and the degree to which quote, "safe" activities and quote, "non-safe" activities in the banking industry are so difficult to differentiate. NOGUCHI: The Volcker Rule and other provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act were to go into effect this July. But, of course, you can't enforce rules unless you have them. The Fed and other regulators therefore said it would delay enforcement of its to-be-announced rules until July 21st, 2014. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.

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The activity at Sicily's Mount Etna, as we've said, can be seen from space. But it's video from a much closer perspective that's getting attention today. Check how the night sky glowed Tuesday and Wednesday as the volcano spewed. Copyright 2013 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

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|Photo by Keely Yount| Hi, girls! I wanted to take today to share a very special guest post, which I had the opportunity to write for Dahlia Lynn. Dahlia Lynn is the blog written by the amazing Jessica, and it's also the name of the super-coveted jewelry line that she also designs. Jessica is doing an incredible guest post series on her blog called "Love You", a segment in which bloggers tell what they love most about themselves. I think that as women, we have a much easier time giving out compliments to each other, but have a really hard time acknowledging our own attributes. I adore Jessica's brilliant concept for this series, centered around self-love and acceptance. Check out my post for Dahlia Lynn and be sure to follow her spectacular blog and jewelry creations! Be blessed, lovelies-

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Published on December 30th, 2008 | by Jules Yap15 Post Christmas hacks Now that all the feasting is done, I have a couple of post Christmas hacks. Tara says, “I made a Rattvik white wine glass into the Ye Olde Pimp Chalice! I used a Rattvik white wine glass, faux gold leaf, decoupaged images I made using digital collage of copyright-free clip art, resin and faux rhinestones to make this pimp chalice for my man for Christmas. I was my first attempt at doing any of these things on glass and my first use of resin at all and for the most part I’m really pleased with how it turned out! The inside of the bowl really does glow like movie special effects gold in the light! If I had to do it again, I’d use higher-quality rhinestones, though.” See more of the chalice on craftster. Digital Ribba photo frame John from Australia shares with us his Ikea hack, put together as Christmas presents this year. He says, “I decided to purchase two cheap 7″ digital photo frames on sale from K-Mart for $30.00 AUD and mount them in Ribba frames. The larger frame is the 30 cm x 40 cm Ribba ($20.00 AUD). Since the window cut out of the mat board that comes with the frame is larger than the LCD, I had to get a mat board cut to size with a window that matched the size of the frame, this cost me another $20.00 AUD. I simply removed the clear plastic frame from the digital photo frame before mounting the LCD inside the mat board. Total cost was $70.00 AUD. The smaller frame is the 18 cm x 24 cm Ribba ($9.00 AUD). The window on the mat board was smaller than the LCD, so it was simply a matter of cutting out a larger window before mounting the LCD. Total cost was $39.00 AUD. I apologise for the poor lighting in the photos. I don’t have access to a digital camera at the moment so my iPhone had to suffice.”

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Since the season ended, I’ve been asked several times whether the Orioles are going to get an ace this offseason. My answer is no. I don’t even hesitate. The reasoning is simple. There are no true aces on the market (Matt Garza? Japan’s Masahiro Tanaka? Hiroki Kuroda?), the Orioles likely wouldn’t offer a five-year-plus deal even if there were an ace available, and they don’t have the farm system to deal for a No. 1. It’s part philosophy and part supply and demand. The Orioles have never given a free-agent pitcher a contract longer than three years. And I don’t see them doing it now. Not with the current ownership and not with the current front office. And not with so many examples of big-money pitchers being worth the money for about half of their contracts and being a financial albatross for the rest of it. The reality is that most teams, including the Orioles, can’t pay for five years to get two or three good years and two or three lost ones from a starting pitcher. Teams like the New York Yankees can bury those mistakes, but most can’t. The majority of teams need to grow their own aces or trade for someone with potential and hope to get lucky. Think I’m talking the party line? Consider the list of the 27 pitchers who have started a division series playoff game this October (Clayton Kershaw started two): Detroit (Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, Anibal Sanchez); Oakland (Bartolo Colon, Sonny Gray, Jarrod Parker); Boston (Jon Lester, John Lackey, Clay Buchholz); Tampa Bay (Matt Moore, David Price, Alex Cobb); Pittsburgh (A.J. Burnett, Gerrit Cole, Francisco Liriano, Charlie Morton); St. Louis (Adam Wainwright, Lance Lynn, Joe Kelly, Michael Wacha); Los Angeles Dodgers (Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, Hyun-Jin Ryu); and Atlanta (Kris Medlen, Mike Minor, Julio Teheran and Freddy Garcia). Of that group, 15 of the 27 are homegrown and have not been with any other organization. Nine of those 15 were drafted in the first round or supplemental first round by their current clubs. Only one of the 15 was an international amateur (Teheran). It would be 16 of 27 if we threw Ryu into that group, but he was an international professional purchased from Korea (for six years and $36 million), so he’s in a category by himself. Also in a category of his own is Garcia, whom the Orioles sold to the Braves in August because he was in the minor leagues and wasn’t going to pitch in the major leagues for the Orioles again. Six others who started games in the division series originally were obtained by their current clubs via trades, including Burnett, who signed one of those disastrous free-agent contracts with the Yankees before they dumped him, and Sanchez, who has since signed a big deal with the Tigers but first went to Detroit in a trade from Miami. That leaves four of the 27 who were obtained via free agency: Colon, Lackey, Liriano and Greinke. Lackey’s free-agent deal was considered a bust before this season; Colon and Liriano were under-the-radar free agents; Greinke’s six-year, $147 million deal was a headline-grabber. My point: It’s rare when those huge free-agent pitching contracts pan out. The teams that get to the postseason consistently are the ones that know how to draft and develop pitching. That, of course, is the subject for another day when it comes to the Orioles.

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Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in English Not all English majors become teachers. Some do, and we think our program prepares them to be very good ones. If you want to teach at the college level, our program will prepare you to pass the GRE and do graduate work with flying colors. But professions for English majors are much more numerous than most people think. Because of their highly developed skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, and understanding of the human condition, English majors have a great advantage in professions as diverse as law, poetry-writing and medicine. The major in English is a traditional course of study in literature and composition for the student who plans to attend graduate school (in English or another field) or to take a job not requiring certification to teach. The program prepares the student for successful performance along a great variety of professional paths having to do with precise verbal expression and with philosophical knowledge of the human condition. The program requires coursework in writing, literary study, and critical theory, but it also asks the student to choose several elective courses to suit his or her personal interests. Students study literature from various world cultures, especially British and American. Our English major alumni are prepared to compete for good graduate school positions, and they are well-equipped to enter many positions in the world of business that require high-level reading, critical thinking and writing skills. Their literary studies make them particularly suitable candidates for positions requiring a balanced understanding of human beings and their potential. Program Plan (pdf) |Want to see exactly what classes you will take? The Program Plan (sometimes called a degree sheet) includes all specific requirements - including University proficiencies, Frameworks courses and degree requirements.| Each of Evangel's academic programs is made up of a set of core curriculum, program requirements and electives. The courses listed below are just a small sample of courses that might be taken as a part of this specific program. |Composition and Literary Analysis||Introduction to at least four major literary-critical theories of the twentieth century and discussion of each theory's continuing potential for use in the current critical climate. Study and application of fundamental techniques for producing scholarly papers in literary analysis and interpretation.| |American Literature before the Civil War||Study of American writing with emphasis on social and intellectual backgrounds from the Puritans through Transcendentalism.| |English Literature Survey I, II, III||Surveys English Literature from the Medieval Era to the present, emphasizing major writers in each period.| |History and Structure of the English Language||Introduction to modern linguistic analysis and a brief history of the English language.| |Senior Seminar||Critical reading and writing as well as development of research skills with an emphasis on literary criticism. Addresses job opportunities, preparation of a resumé, and available professional organizations for English majors.| Evangel University's world-class faculty is made up of caring, Christian professionals who are distinguished in their fields and dedicated to the development of tomorrow's Christian leaders. Dr. Luke Gibbs taught English courses at Central Bible College for eight years prior to the consolidation. He now is a full-time member of Evangel’s Humanities Department, teaching a variety of courses including American literature, world literature and composition. Gibbs grew up in Brazil, Portugal and Belgium as an Assemblies of God missionary kid. He […] read more Dr. Diane Awbrey has been teaching English courses at Evangel since 2005. Prior to joining the Humanities faculty, Dr. Awbrey developed curriculum for the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City. She has also taught at Central Bible College, Friends University and St. Michael’s College in Vermont. For a time she also owned her own magazine publishing business. […] read more Evangel's academic programs are designed specifically to prepare you for a career in the real world. But it's more than just job preparation; it's preparing you to make a full impact in your profession through the unique combination of faith and learning. 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For more information visit Undergraduate Admissions Requirements. |Faith||As a boldly Christian university, all of our students have made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.| |Diploma||Graduation from high school, or having the equivalent of a high school diploma such as the General Education Development (GED) examination.| |Core Subjects||A minimum of a 2.0 GPA in core college prep classes (English, math, social sciences and science with a lab)| |Grade Average||A "C" average. However, in some cases, a student with a weak academic record may be considered. To remain at Evangel, however, the student must meet scholastic requirements.| |Standardized Tests||>Entering freshmen should take the ACT or SAT test. The codes for Evangel are as follows: SAT: 6198. ACT: 2296.| When it comes to life at Evangel, there's always something happening on campus and there are always new lessons to learn, even outside of the classroom...Learn More

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June 10, 1:15 PM @ Meadowlark Senior Center Regular meetings take place on the second Tuesday of the month at 1:15 p.m. at the Meadowlark Senior Center. June 10, 2:00 PM @ Loma Colorado Main Library Summer Reading Program for teens to create their own Doctor Who and Tardis art June 10, 6:00 PM @ Rio Rancho City Hall, Governing Body Chambers Regular meetings take place on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at Rio Rancho City Hall. Meetings are streamed on the city's Web site and broadcast on Rio Vision, the city's government cable channel available to Rio Rancho Cable One subscribers.

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Aww Cole, you're a real hoot & glad to see ya! Renny & puddin are sisters? LOL! Yeah Cole, RFF prankster! Anyway, wanted to drop in to say hi to everyone and say I really like BB10 so far! Rooting for Jerrrry of course! The others? Not sure yet, but overall, it appears to be a good group. Also, wanted to post a here for all you newbies. We're really happy to have you join in the fun and appreciate your presence here! Sorry I've not been here lately, but I'm here now...and think I'm caught up with the Newbie Hangout Welcome thread. Newbies, please feel free to drop by the Hangout. It's for anyone to say Hi and welcome new members and to introduce yourselves as well. Check it out! http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,12507.0.html Many Thanks to all who are welcoming folks here in this thread and elsewhere. Keep up it up! Love ya all to pieces!

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Cat PDA Vs. Human PDA, And Other Animal Behavior Explained From feisty kittens to pacing cheetahs, Vint Virga knows animal behavior. A veterinarian who specializes in behavioral medicine, Virga has treated many household pets in his clinic. But for the past five years he has been working mostly with leopards, wolves, bears, zebras and other animals living in zoos and wildlife parks. He deals with such issues as appetites, anxiety and obsessive behavior. "I'm always trying to provide every single animal I come into contact with ... with the opportunity to invent and think and discover on their own," Virga tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Virga's book, The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human, was recently published in paperback. It explains how animals demonstrate mindfulness, forgiveness and adaptability — and what we can learn from them. Virga talks about how house cats, like lions, are more fulfilled when they forage for food — and how animals express affection differently than we might think. On making cats forage for food Probably the most important thing I stress to all my clients is to think about what the cat would do if they were living in nature. They would have to actually hunt for food. While we can't put out lizards and mice to run around in our house, we can portion out the food and make it more challenging and interesting for the cat to actually find. I take my clients through a program of actually teaching their cats to forage for their food. Yeah, it isn't live, but they've got to go on the hunt or the prowl throughout the house, and the locations in which they're going to find the meal scattered about in the house ... are going to be different every day. And cats find that very stimulating and very interesting — it adds a lot of richness to their lives. On how cats show affection differently from humans We need to step out of what we consider are the appropriate behaviors as humans and try to put ourselves in an animal's footsteps. ... Affection is shown by being cuddly and lovey for a lot of us — not necessarily all of us — [so we often think] that our cats would want to be cuddled and loved. Instead, a lot of cats, if you actually watch their natural behavior when they're in groups, the most affectionate cats might be sitting near each other. They might sit with their tails intertwined, rear to rear, but they're not usually face to face, nose to nose, or snuggled up next to each other. ... That says that cats feel comfort and they express their emotions in ways differently than we do. If that's true, then what behooves us [as] ... their caretakers and human family members, is to learn about what it is that cats think and feel rather than [imposing] what we think and feel upon them. On reading animal behavior at the zoo Usually I like to spend a fair amount of time sitting outside an animal's habitat and watching them, without trying to interact with them in any way, so I can understand as much about their behavior as possible — how they relate to other animals in their habitat, what they do in their time. It's one thing to see a wolf, for example, pacing alongside the edge of their habitat at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon when they're starting to anticipate that their afternoon meal might be coming. It's a very different thing if I see a wolf pacing around after their morning meal, before the zoo visitors have started to enter, because they reflect very different behaviors. One, we're talking about a wolf that's anticipating something and starting to get a little bit anxious or excited; and the other, we're talking about a wolf that even after his appetite and hunger needs have been met, he's still choosing to pace. 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Visitors complain to the zoo if they can't see the leopard, the bear or the lion. But on the other hand, if the lion doesn't have any choice of getting away from the public at times, particularly if there [are] crowds or noisy visitors, then we're taking away their sense of control over their environment. On captive-born zoo animals It is important to realize ... that most animals in zoos nowadays are captive-born. They are not, by and large, taken from the wild. Usually it's a number of generations that we would have to trace back to any type of direct wild animal. ... It becomes a constant effort by zoos, that is, supervised in a very strict fashion in terms of making sure that these animals are not inbred, to maintain diversity in the population, and yet what we are dealing with [are] ... animals that are to some degree different than their wild cousins. They lose some of those instincts by ... not having predators and the pressures of the world that they're being exposed to — from habitat loss and pollution and so on. They also are gaining other traits in that they're constantly getting this affiliation or connection to humans. I'm touched by the relationships that I witness every day between keepers and the animals in their care. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. When Dr. Vint Virga makes his rounds, it's at a zoo. He's a veterinarian who specializes in behavioral medicine. He's treated many pet dogs and cats, but for the past five years he's mostly been working with leopards, wolves, bears, zebras, and other animals living in zoos and wildlife parks. Typical problems he deals with involve food issues, anxiety, and obsessive behavior. Earlier in his career, he practiced veterinary general medicine in emergency rooms and his own clinic. He's the author of the book "The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human," which was recently published in paperback. Dr. Vint Virga, welcome to FRESH AIR. So can I start by telling you something about the new cat that my husband and I adopted? Because I think... VINT VIRGA: Please do. GROSS: I think, like, a lot of people with cats will have this kind of issue. So, you know, we took him home, and it was so exciting to get him out of the shelter. And, he just seemed to be hungry all the time - and we realized that he probably didn't get fed that much, you know at the shelter. It was a great shelter; but nevertheless. But he would just like, meow constantly, wanting food, and you'd feed him and then - he'd meow - he'd want more food. So we've been trying to figure out what's the best way of starting to, like, regulate his diet. Is it, like, a couple of big meals a day, and then you get no more? Or there's also - a lot of people do the - I think it's called, like, free - free feeding - is that what it's called? Where there's, like, a bowl of dry food out all the time and the cat just eats when he or she wants to, and there's a finite amount of food per day, and that's you get. VIRGA: Yes. Well, and you can imagine free feeding is probably the furthest from natural. A feral cat living on a dairy farm, or out in nature would not have a free choice of eating food whenever he or she wanted to. So what I really encourage clients to do, is to at the very least, divide their meals into a number of portions, and spread those throughout different times a day. If we have a kitty that we're dealing with that likes to get up in the middle of the night and wake the family members up early in the morning, that's particularly important to give them a meal as close to bedtime as possible, because you're giving them an option to eat during the night, and they'll probably be a tiny bit less motivated in the morning. But probably the most important things I stress to all my clients is to think about what the cat would do if they were living in nature. They would have to actually hunt for food, and while we can't put out lizards and mice to run around our house, we can portion out the food and make it more challenging, and interesting for the cat to actually find. So I take my clients through a program of actually teaching their cats to forage for their food. Yeah, it isn't live, but they've got to go out on the hunt or the prowl throughout the house, and the locations in which they're going to find the meals scattered about in the house or portioned out in the house. They're going to be different every day, and that - that - cats find that very stimulating, and very, very interesting. It adds a lot of richness to their lives. GROSS: So like, where do you suggest hiding the food? VIRGA: Oh, my goodness, everywhere from closets, to allowing certain shelves on a bookshelf, behind cabinets, behind the television, or entertainment center. Underneath dressers if there's enough crawlspace, inside boxes that they would actually have to either open, or inside balls that they would roll around and the food would actually drop out. Food can be put in something as simple as a - the cardboard tube inside a roll of toilet paper, and then taped up, punched with a few holes, and the cat would actually have to roll the tube around in order to get the food out. GROSS: I guess if you're not vigilant about cleaning up all those places where you put the food, the cat might soon have real vermin to chase (laughing)? VIRGA: (Laughing) I guess so. But if you put it in small portions, in five or six different places of the house, most people are - find that the cat is very, very thorough in terms of cleaning up everything. And the food doesn't have to be on a rug, or on the floor. It can be in a saucer, it can be in a cup, it can be in a little bowl, or; as I said before - a ball or a box. GROSS: Do you recommend this for all cats, or just cats who are having some kind of eating problem? VIRGA: I really recommended it for all cats. And what it is, is it's really just carrying over what I do with zoo animals over to the family situation. Within the zoo, the keepers are constantly looking for new ways to encourage the animals to invent, and explore, and interact with their environment. And consistently, and reliably, what we find is that those are the animals that live the most fulfilled lives, and seem to be the most emotionally healthy. GROSS: So how do you make sure you're not reinforcing bad behavior? Like if your dog barks, or whines, and it wants something? Or, your cat meows and it wants something? Part of you wants to give it to them because you love your animal, and you want to make them happy. But then, you don't want to encourage them to be nagging - you know - to be nagging all the time that they want something, and meowing or barking all the time. VIRGA: Right. So it really becomes a matter of timing. If we reinforce them, if we give them what they want - even if we don't give them what they want, and we give them just our attention - at a time right after they've done a behavior that they're hoping to get something out of, then what we're doing is reinforcing the behavior. And what instead I recommend is that we actually do our best to hold off on our instinct to respond to them, until they stop. If that behavior's really ingrained, it may take a while for them to stop. It may be just for a moment that they finally stop whining, or barking, or meowing. But at that moment, if we take the opportunity then to reinforce them with affection, or attention, or praise, or food, then what we end up doing is giving them a pretty clear message, and they figure it out pretty quickly, that - ah, so now if I'm quiet, or if I'm not demanding, whatever it is I want, that's when I'm actually going to get it. GROSS: Do you think it's a good idea to, like, feed your animal before they're asking for it so that you're not reinforcing the meowing or the barking? VIRGA: Yeah. Yeah, that falls in the category of preventing. And prevention is wonderful because what it does is it helps to solve the problem before it's actually happened. VIRGA: So that's the same thing as, for example, the cat that's active at three in the morning. One of the things you can do is put out food in several different, hidden spots in the house before you go to bed. And that gives them something to do when they wake up in the middle of the night. GROSS: I want to ask you about children. A lot of people have pets and children. And sometimes the pets and the children get along famously; other times, they don't. And sometimes the children can actually scare the pets. And you write about an example like that where a married couple got two kittens, two sisters. And after that, they had a baby, a daughter. And eventually, one of the cats became a hermit, hid all the time. And you figured out that that had to do with the way the daughter was playing with the cats. Tell us what the problem was. VIRGA: Well, their daughter was about two years old. And at that age, she was rather rambunctious and energetic. And she had a particular fondness for her kitties. In fact, her kitties were her favorite thing in the whole world. And if she had the - if she had her druthers, she would rather spend time playing with the cats than doing anything else. And the way in which she played was a little bit loud and boisterous and rough. And she hadn't really learned the subtleties and nuances of the signals that her kitties were saying to her - or conveying to her. So one of the cats was very tolerant and accepting of that, but the other cat became very reclusive and hid from her. What was going on was that she was just literally running in every time she saw them and screaming, kitty, kitty, kitty and chasing them throughout the house. VIRGA: If you or I were a little cat and we had someone chasing after us that way, we might want to hide too. GROSS: So what did you do to solve the problem? VIRGA: Well, two things. I helped them to appreciate the nature of the problem. And they didn't quite appreciate how their daughter's love and enthusiasm for the kitties really was bringing about this behavior. So part of it was education. But really, the main two things we did is we gave the cat an opportunity to be with the family without hiding - but be with the family in a safe way. So what we actually gave her was safe, elevated perches that were out of their daughter's reach in the most common places in the household that the family would gather -in the eating area, in the living room and then in the daughter's bedroom. And then, the other thing we did was that we taught the daughter a game that I called Whisper Kitty. And what I actually taught her to do was instead of - taking that incredible enthusiasm she had for her kitties and instead play game of, every time she was excited to see the kitties, she would tiptoe and walk softly and slowly and then whisper to the kitties. And she caught on to this. This, to her, was a marvelous, new game. And the kitties responded dramatically in a very short timeframe. GROSS: You know, you write in your book, impassioned cuddles and kisses are human, not traits we see in the feline world. So what does that tell us about how to express our love for our cats and what not to do? VIRGA: I think what it tells us, with respect to our cats as well as every species, is that we need to step out of what we consider are the appropriate behaviors as humans and try to put ourselves in an animal's footsteps or an animal's shoes, so to speak. Instead of thinking that for us, affection is shown by being cuddly and lovey for a lot of us - not necessary all of us - that our cats would want to be cuddled and loved. And instead, a lot of cats, if you actually watch their natural behavior when they're in groups, the most affectionate cats might be sitting near each other. They might sit with their tails intertwined, rear-to-rear. But they're not usually face-to-face, nose-to-nose, or snuggled up next to each other a lot. That says that cats feel comfort and they express emotion, their emotions, in ways differently than we do. And if that's true, then what behooves us as being their caretakers and human family members is to learn about what it is that cats think and feel rather than superimposing what we think and feel upon them. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Dr. Vint Virga. He's a veterinarian who specializes in behavioral medicine. He works with pets as well as zoo animals. And he's the author of the book "The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human." Let's take a short break here, and then we'll talk some more. This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. If you're just joining us, my guest is Dr. Vint Virga, a veterinarian who specializes in behavioral medicine. In addition to treating cats and dogs, he consults with zoos and wildlife parks on the care and feeding of animals. So you knew when you were young that you wanted to work with animals. You always loved animals, you had cats and dogs as a child - but you're working with zoo animals now and you - you didn't have lions, and tigers, and giraffes, and elephants as a child. How do you learn about the behavior of so many different kinds of animals that there's no - no way you could have been really exposed to outside of visiting them in zoos when you were - you know, before you became a veterinarian? VIRGA: Yes well, that's a really good question. When I - when I started in my behavioral medicine residencies at Cornell - part of behavioral medicine residency requires that you spent time with zoo animals. But I came out of that residency program thinking, oh boy how am I going to be able to work with zoo animals. I - I'll stick to what I feel is most comfortable and what I know best. However, when I got an opportunity to see a polar bear at a zoo fairly early on in my behavioral part of my crew, all I could do was take what I knew about behavior of animals in general and - and take it to the polar bear's side to try to figure what was going on with that particular bear. And as I got invited to start visiting more and more animals at zoos, I started to see some rather distinctive patterns and - and that is that they're definitely differences between giraffe behavior and - and leopard behavior - and between wolf behavior and tortoise behavior - but at the same time there're a lot more commonalities than - than we would actually think exists. I can't even to this day tell you that I - I can know what - what I'm going to see when I'm dealing with species that I haven't dealt with. But it's a matter of taking what I do know and then taking the time to - to really observe and listen and - and then put the two together to try to understand what's going on for that animal. GROSS: When you're making the rounds at a zoo what do you do? What are you looking for? VIRGA: Well, what I love to do if I had my druthers is - is come before anybody else at the zoo. Because I can usually see the animal's behavior a whole lot better than before - than when visitors are starting to come into the zoo. But usually I like to spend a fair amount of time sitting outside an animal's habitat and watching them, without trying to interact with them in any way, so I can understand as much about the behavior as possible - how they relate to other animals in their habitat, how - what they do in their time. It's one thing to see a wolf for example pacing outside - pacing alongside the edge their habitat at about three o'clock in the afternoon when they're starting to anticipate that their afternoon meal might be coming. And it's a very different thing if I see a - a wolf pace around after their morning meal before the zoo visitors have started to enter because they - they reflect very different behaviors. One we're talking about a wolf that's - that's anticipating something and starting to get a little bit anxious or excited. And the other were talking about a wolf that even after his appetite and hunger needs have been met, he still is choosing to pace. That reflects something very different in behavior. GROSS: So you've listened to a lot of wolves howl and try to understand what they're saying to each other. What can you tell us about what you've learned about how wolves communicate through howling? VIRGA: Well, I think that we think of wolves communicating - if you think of a how, if you try to translate it into words - we can't take animals, including wolves' signals, and try to translate them into sentences. But what we can see for example with wolf howls, is that they vary in pitch, and frequency, and tenor and duration, and they're used between wolf groups to communicate when - when individuals of a pack will - will separate to go on their nighttime hunt - they use it as a way to communicate with each other where they're located, and also where to check in with each other, and to also to reunite at the end of the day. GROSS: Something you wrote in your book leads me to believe that you are good at mimicking some kinds of meows, and understanding some of the variations in meaning that accompany it. VIRGA: Well - well, yes. So there's been all sorts of scientific studies that have looked at cat vocalizations and tried to categorize them. And I think in general though, what I tell people is you know better frankly than anyone. When your cat does certain vocalizations what they're - what they're saying to you - if there chirping or meowing in a certain way, it's probably because they want your attention. You notice a very different purring type of sound oftentimes when they're content and they are laying on your lap. But to dissect it and break it down into individual vocalizations, while it can be useful, I also don't know how practical it is in the real world. GROSS: Does this mean I'm not going to get you to meow. VIRGA: (Laughing) If you really want me to, I'll meow. GROSS: I really want you to. VIRGA: (Laughing) OK. Well, let's see for example I could give an example of our two Norwegian Forest Cats. They're very, very different terms of their vocalization. Our - our male is very quiet - he's a Norwegian Forest cat so is rather big, he's around 16 pounds, which is - which is a big but not heavy size - not overweight size for a Norwegian Forest cat. And when he wants attention he'll go (imitating cat) budururrr, and do little tiny chirps. If he is distressed about something - if I were for example come over and go Fritz, I haven't seen you in forever, I've been on a trip for a week, and I come up to him and instead of stroking him, which I know he likes, I just have to give that little human hug and - and he doesn't like it he most likely is going to go [imitation of cat noise] orrrerrrrow, and you know, run away. Our little girl on the other hand, Clara, when she wants attention she almost sounds a little bit like a yowling Siamese and she will sometimes be up in the - especially if I have been writing for hours and ignoring them, and I'm at my desk, she will go just out of reach in the hallway to where I can't see here and then start going (imitating cat) rowwww, rowwww, rowwww - and she knows very effectively that I'm not going to sit at my desk and - and ignore her. And she does it on purpose that she's just out of sight because she knows if she were in sight, that it wouldn't be nearly as effective at getting my attention. And sure enough I'll put - I'll put down my pen and step away from my desk and go and find her and - which is exactly of course, what I'm not supposed to be doing. Because what am I doing? Reinforcing the attention. GROSS: I was going to point that out. VIRGA: Yeah, so what I tend to do, Terry, is instead what I - what I like to do if I'm smart and really want to get work done, is I will prevent it as you'd said earlier and give them - give her a totally different part of the house to - to explore, to investigate - give her things to do, give her puzzle boxes and - and hide food and give her a little cat bed that I put maybe on the second or third bookshelf along with some sprinkled catnip. And - and that'll keep her busy until she's exhausted and - and she'll - she'll happily rest and sleep while I work on my - my writing. GROSS: What's a puzzle box? VIRGA: And puzzle box is like what I was talking about earlier - where you take just a simple cardboard box and you can fill it with shredded paper, or you can fill it with nothing other than food itself. But usually you're putting - what I put in there is either a scent or two like - like cinnamon and clove can be really interesting to cats - or catnip. Or I can put some - some freshly cut catnip branches. Matatabi's another plant that our kitty cats like - that's Japanese Silverthorne I think it's called. Or we can put just - I can just put food - the regular cat food Kibble, or Kibble mixed with a few pieces of freeze-dried fish or chicken. And then the box is - is not completely sealed, but sealed enough that it her a little while to get inside of it - which is just what I would do with a leopard or a lion GROSS: Dr. Vint Virgo will be back in the second half of the show. He's the author of "The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human." I'm Terry Gross and this is FRESH AIR. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross, back with Vint Virga, a veterinarian who specializes in behavioral medicine. Although he still treats cats and dogs, for the past five years he's worked mostly with animals in zoos and wildlife parks. Virga is the author of the book "The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human." I would imagine that the behavioral disorders that you've seen in a lot of zoo animals have to do with the fact that they're in captivity. What are some of the things that zoos have successfully done to make the zoo environment a little closer to the animal's natural environment that you think - things that you think have helped in terms of the behavior of the animals? VIRGA: I think the most important things that zoos have done in the past 10, 20 years, is that they've focus primarily on the animal's well-being and depending upon their feedback and responses, looked at their behavior, looked at their overall happiness and contentment and used that as the gauge for what's going - what to do for the animal. And then, they've also applied as much as science knows about the animals in nature. So what that looks like is providing them with a space that's a lot more rich and full than just a place that is an exhibit. So it's really shifting from - not a cage because most zoos don't even have those anymore - but shifting from an exhibit to a habitat where the environment is much richer and more complex, rather than flat and uniform so that we can see them - providing them opportunities to escape from view of the public. And that can be difficult for a zoo in that visitors complain to the zoo if they can't see the leopard or the bear or the lion. But on the other hand, if the lion doesn't have any choice of getting away from the public at times, particularly if there's crowds or noisy visitors, then we're taking away their sense of control of the environment. So a key part of what zoos do nowadays is give the animal control and choice in their environment by making it a lot richer and fuller and more complex. And then the third thing is environmental enrichment, like we were talking about with cats earlier, is applied to every single animal I work with. GROSS: So that there's things for them to do - puzzles...They have to hunt for their food. VIRGA: Right. The key that I'm always trying to provide every single animal I come into contact with is the opportunity to invent and think and discover on their own and to provide them with a richness of opportunities to explore their world and interact with it in a entirely new way. GROSS: Do you feel more positively disposed towards zoos than you used to when you started in veterinary medicine? VIRGA: Absolutely. I used to avoid zoos with a passion. And even when I made the decision that I wanted to try to do a little bit of work in zoos, it was very painful and difficult for me. But I also felt like if I didn't do what I could within the structure of zoos as they existed, they weren't going to go away. So the best thing I could do was do what I could within the organization, within the structure of what existed, to try to make things better for the individual animal. GROSS: And you point out that zoos actually have a very important place, now, in the lives of endangered species 'cause a lot of endangered species basically have no natural habitat anymore. And the zoos, at least, can try to reproduce some of that habitat. VIRGA: Yeah. And that applies to every - to almost every species out there. If we look at elephants - I don't know what the latest numbers are. But they're devastating, the number of elephants that are in Africa compared to what there were 10 years ago. Those numbers, if we look at them, for a wide number of species out there, reflect a changing world where the habitats are being compromised. Pollution is taking away the quality of life of these animals, encroachment of humans on their environments and poaching, hunting, are all taking away the world of these animals. And zoos can actually be looked at, in my mind, as havens, where at least we're doing the best we can for at least some of the individuals to try to turn around and then bring awareness to those species out there that most desperately need it. GROSS: Do you think the animals are changing in the sense that they're getting acclimated to humans? You know, like lions and tigers and giraffes and elephants that wouldn't necessarily be around humans are around people all the time in zoos - the zookeepers as well as the crowds who come to see them. So do you think that that changes the animal, or that the animal becomes more comprehending of humans and maybe more friendly? VIRGA: Yes, I think so. It's important to realize, too, that most animals in zoos nowadays are captive-born. They're not, by far and large, taken from the wild. And usually it's a number of generations that we would have to trace back to any type of direct wild animal that was originally captured many generations ago. And so it becomes a constant effort by zoos that is supervised in a very strict fashion in terms of making sure that these animals are not inbred, to maintain diversity in the population. And yet, what we are dealing with, very honestly, are animals that are, to some degree, than their wild cousins. And they lose some of those instincts by constantly not having predators and the pressures of the world that they're being exposed to from habitat loss and pollution and so on. But they also are gaining other traits in that they're constantly getting this affiliation or connection to humans. And I'm touched by the relationships that I witness every day between keepers and the animals and their care, even in some of the most - what would be thought to be solitary, unsocial animals. VIRGA: Like something like a takin, that in nature, I think, would keep away from humans as much as possible - or a leopard or lion or tiger. Bears - the bears that I work with are very, very oriented towards the keepers and definitely look forward to seeing them every day. They add a richness, and they add social interaction. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Dr. Vint Virga. He's a doctor of veterinary medicine who specializes in behavior medicine. And he's the author of the new book "The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human." Let's take a short break. Then we'll talk some more. This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR and if you're just joining us, my guest is Vint Virga. He's a veterinarian who specializes in behavioral medicine and he's the author of the new book "The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human" and he now works mostly with animals in zoos although he continues to have the cat and dog patients that he had before he spent more time in zoos. So give us an example of a pet or a zoo animal in which you seen repetitive behavior and you had to diagnose what the problem was and tried to treat it? VIRGA: An example would be a Doberman retriever I saw a number of years ago and he would get up early in the morning and he would sit in his living room of this house and start to watch for reflections or lights on the wall even though there weren't any lights on the wall and as time progressed over the day he would continue to chase after what appeared to be imaginary objects. We couldn't see any reflections or any images or any insects or bugs that he was changing after. What it all started out with was, actually, a laser pen that one of the children in the house was playing with and he became so intent and focused on the laser pen that he would spend a good part of his day chasing after the laser. Then when the laser was not provided he started finding other things that didn't exist to chase after. GROSS: Oh, you're scaring me. I use one of those laser toys with my cat. GROSS: Am I going to drive her crazy? VIRGA: (Laughing) No. GROSS: Make her obsessive? VIRGA: In fact, it's very interesting because cats don't seem to show the pre-disposition that dogs do towards developing a compulsive response to the laser pen. They seem to be fully entertained by it. So that's a big difference between canids and felids with respect to that particular behavior. GROSS: OK, so you realize that playing with this laser pen caused, you know, repetitive compulsive behavior on the part of this Doberman. What did you do? VIRGA: Well, the first thing was to try to prevent any further images, laser pens, reflections from them feeding on the behavior, contributing to the behavior. When we're dealing with compulsive behaviors with animals, as is the case with many people, we end up relying upon medication. Usually training, learning, behavioral conditioning is not sufficient when a behavior reaches the degree of becoming compulsive. So what I did with this particular dog is I put her on an anti-anxiety medication and we were able then by reducing her anxiety level to start giving her other activities that she could spend other time enjoying rather than chasing after imaginary objects and it worked very effectively. GROSS: Were you able to eventually take a dog off the medication? VIRGA: Yes, we were. There are a couple of times that the behavior started to pop up again and by putting her on a low dose and then weaning her off again we were able to manage the behavior really effectively. GROSS: You've had your share of cats and dogs in your life. What's the worst behavioral disorder you've had with one of your own pets and that you've tried to treat? VIRGA: Oh my goodness. Well, Katie, our Labrador retriever, developed separation anxiety at a very young age. She, like a lot of dogs with separation anxiety, was at risk - I think greater risk of separation anxiety because of her background of having had previous owner and then been through really dramatic experience. The way in which Katie's separation anxiety manifested is she would destroy the house while she was left alone by three four years of age she was causing massive damage which as a young veterinarian out of vet school that was a lot to deal with especially when I didn't even own in my own home. We'd come home and we'd find carpets torn and shredded. We'd find poop and pee - poop smeared around the house, puddles of pee in all sorts of places. But aside from all that, those manifestations that we saw, think of what Katie must've been going through to cause that type of damage? She was a typical Labrador in terms of orientation towards people, very people oriented and also fairly energetic. But she never caused destruction if she wasn't left alone and before the separation anxiety really started happening she never caused any type of destruction. GROSS: How did you deal with it? VIRGA: Medication was really the primary answer for her. Alleviating her anxiety to the point that then we could give her other things focus other than when we were leaving her and then it was a process. Once I was able to alleviate her anxiety of helping her to give other things to do. Katie's favorite activities were then left for when we would leave at the beginning of the day to go to work in our respective practices - my wife and I. GROSS: And did it get to the point where you could take her off the medication? VIRGA: We tried twice with Katie and both times she had relapses so she was one of those dogs that I was never able to get medication completely. GROSS: But you're OK with that? VIRGA: Well, look at the quality of her life. GROSS: Exactly right. VIRGA: Yeah, so she ended up being on medication all the way pretty much until she was an old, old dog and wasn't able to get around very well. GROSS: So my understanding is most vet behaviors now think that positive reinforcement is much more effective and humane than negative reinforcement when you're trying to shape behavior or, you know, prevent an animal from doing something bad. VIRGA: Universally there's 60 some odd behaviorists in North America and every single one of us would say wholeheartedly that that is true. That isn't just in the veterinary behavior community. Most of the members of the zoo community have come to realize, a number of years ago, that the best way we can shape and change an animal's behavior is by encouraging and reinforcing behaviors that we want and not reinforcing behaviors that we don't want to encourage. GROSS: So one of our producers has two new kittens, very adorable very lively, but they're from the same litter and they just wrestle with each other and bite each other all the time and now they're starting to do that to the family too - to the family of humans - and they're scratching them and, you know, chewing on them. So what's a good way of getting them to like calm down and stop doing that? VIRGA: And how old are the kittens? GROSS: Ten months. VIRGA: Ten months. OK, so they're still really young. So what I would do with when they're starting to direct any type of attention's to people that's when I would just get up and walk away. I think you can count on the cats at that age not being injured if you were to literally just get up off the sofa and stand if they're on top of your lap. If you're standing and coming into house if you're at a meal and wherever you are the best thing I would say to her is that you should if you're standing and coming to the house if you had a meal and wherever you are the best thing I would say to her is that you should literally just get up and walk away from them so that you're not reinforcing the behavior. And you're also signaling them because they're orienting towards you they're wanting a response from you. You're signaling to them that that is not a behavior that you really want to participate in. On the other hand, whenever they're calm and quiet and acting appropriately, that's the time to lavish attention and praise but not so much that gets them all excited. Some of this they're most likely, very most likely going to outgrow 'cause they're just - they're teenagers at this point, preteens really. So they're full of energy and rambunctious. I would encourage her not to get involved with any conflicts between them unless they become serious and if so, give me a call because chances are they're going to work it out themselves and they will scratch or a little bite here and there is going to be better for them to understand their own limits or the other's limits rather than us trying to inter of the fear and say don't do this. Also if we interfere, all we're doing is getting involved in a behavior that then they're just going to turn around and direct towards us. GROSS: So a water gun can be pretty effective in the short term of getting away from you? VIRGA: Well, I don't know I see a lot of kitties that habituate to water guns so if you really need to do something aversive I think a compressed air canister, you know, the type you would use to a camera or a computer - not directed at them just sprayed in a cupped hand. The hissing sound will usually send most cats running. And at least what I like about that its not directional. A squirt gun will be perceived by most cats as being from you. What we'd rather have is that God or the universe anytime something like that anytime I do the behavior suddenly lets out this hissing sound that I don't like. GROSS: So here's a question for you. I was looking at your picture, you know, the author photo on the back of the book and you're wearing what looks like a leather jacket with a fur collar and I was wondering how you feel about leather and fur or is it faux leather and faux fur. VIRGA: It's actually faux. GROSS: What they now call vegan leather? VIRGA: Yeah. Yeah, which of course raises its own issues 'cause I'm sure it's made from petro-chemicals and everything else but, you know, it's like yeah, there's trade-offs. Yeah, I'm a vegetarian. Yeah, I was raised as a meat eater in undergraduate years I was actually an animal science major where I took other people to the slaughterhouse as a lab assistant so I'm very familiar with the animal production industry. You know, there's choices we make day-to-day and I don't think there's right or wrong personally about it I think the thing I would wish for is that everybody brought up mindfulness to what they're doing instead of just if you love steak and you want to continue eating steak at least recognize that there was a cow whose life was given up, basically, so you could eat the steak and the same thing is true for leather. GROSS: What did you do at the slaughterhouse? VIRGA: Well, I used to accompany the labs and help the teaching assistant with moving students through the labs and what we taught was what's actually involved with the slaughter of animals from moving them to the stockyard to actually being killed to them - how the body is then processed into what we would identify them as steaks and ribs and the bacon and so forth. And that type of reality is not something that's easy to shake or let go of. That type of familiarity with what's going on. So all I encourage people to do is just be aware and then from that, you know, make choices that feel right to them. GROSS: Well, Vint Verga, thank you so much for talking with us it's really been interesting. I really appreciate it. VIRGA: Oh, thank you very much for having me. GROSS: Dr. Vint Virga is the author of the new book "The Soul Of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human." You can read an excerpt on our website, freshair.npr.org. Coming up, John Powers reviews the new 50th anniversary restoration of the Beetles film, "A Hard Day's Night." This is FRESH AIR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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