Catholic church’s official interpreter of the word of God, the Vatican is charged with – among other things – fostering the development of respect, brotherhood and love of humanity. The philosophy of Jesus Christ was one of love and compassion – not one of hate and political oppression.

Of course, there have been periods in the history of the church when the Vatican strayed from Christian ideals. Pope John XII was killed by the husband of his lover in 964. Pope Alexander VI was said to have enjoyed an illicit relationship with his own daughter, Lucrezia. In more recent years, the Vatican elected Eugenio Pacelli as pontiff. As Pope Pius XII, Pacelli would remain mum during Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, even refusing calls for help from the Jewishthere was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that, (in) the world as it has been, it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama."

Okay, so what’s wrong with that? It all sounds good… but is it?

Obama told his audience that, because some folks had the courage to “march across a bridge” in Selma, Alabama, his mother,


emeriti at the University of Iowa. "Pre-Castro Cuba was defintely not a Third World nation in the commonly accepted sense," he wrote in an article in Encounter magazine 24 years ago. "By whatevermeasure used, whether it is the number of students in higher and secondary education, the number of physicians per capita, the infant-mortality rate, the gross national product in relation to population, or number of telephones, television sets, or cars, the Cuba of the late 1950's was far ahead of any other nation in the Caribbean and the Third World."

According to Luxenburg's investigation:
• In 1958, Cuba's 6.6 million inhabitants had more than twice as many physicians as the 19 million residents of teh other Caribbean nations combined.

• The number of medical doctors in Cuba had grown fromthe degraded state of the Western left that what they once hailed as a socialist paradise has now been recast as a sort of nostalgic ‘paradise lost’ theme park in the Carribean [sic]. The Cuban people might be justfied [sic] in thinking they can do without such solidarity in the future.

The only problem is that he needs to look in the mirror and see that by repeating easily proven falsehoods and underestimating castro's capacity to manipulate people inside and outside of Cuba that he's doing Cubans just as much of a disservice. Not only that, it smacks of the bigoted paternalism that many of these lefties suffer from. Usually it's "well they don't have liberty but they have health care" as if Cubans aren't entitled to same kinds


Oh that raúl! She also describes him as a

"highly organized manager with a pragmatic business sense that could lead him to allow openings in Cuba's economy,"

and he

"dotes almost as much on his troops as he does on his family."

To be fair, though, she did say he was "extremely tough." Tough? Like murdering tough? Like stripping of human rights tough?

That Darned Country Again

Some light reading for a Monday evening. Time remarks on the new/old hierarchy under the rather arch headline of "Still a Country for Old Men." Of course the author, Tim Padgett, who is fond of playing "guess what machinations are going on behind the scenes" suspects it might be Raul playing for time (pardon the pun) to defang the fidelistas. Read it here. Reminds me of ain Cuba is a pitiful $17 a month. The monthly ration which includes 283g of fish, 226g of chicken, ten eggs and 1.8kg of potatoes is barely enough for a fortnight, meaning most Cubans need to work the black market to stay alive. Things that we in Britain take totally for granted — such as toilet paper, toothpaste and pens — are luxury goods in Cuba. I’ll never forget the look of joy from an old lady when I handed her a couple of old marker pens and a coloured pencil.

For Fidel’s chums, life is somewhat easier. Despite its calls for further belt-tightening, the Cuban government last year ordered Series 1, 3 and 5 BMWs for all its ambassadors and a Series 5 model for Raúl Castro, who


had taken charge of the country after his brother’s hospitalisation.

The heartbreaking consequences of Cuba’s currency apartheid were bought home to my wife and I on a Saturday afternoon visit to Havana’s Coppelia ‘Ice Cream’ park. To the right of the park gates was a long queue of Cubans who had only Cuban pesos. They have to wait on average two hours every weekend to get their weekly scoop of ice cream. On the left, there was walk-in access to tourists and the lucky locals who had convertible pesos. Fifty years on, the Cuban revolution has turned full circle in a truly Orwellian fashion. Once again the locals find themselves excluded from the best beaches in their country, as they were under Batista. And prostitution, so rife in pre-revolutionarya night (at least) in a Cuban jail, we reluctantly paid up. ‘It’s nothing more than theft,’ I said to the ‘doctor’ as I handed over the money. ‘It doesn’t go to me,’ was his response. ‘It goes to the state.’

If the money from such scams really did go to the state — and towards improving the lot of the Cuban people — I wouldn’t have been so upset. But I strongly suspect that a share of my £25 will go towards the next fleet of BMWs for Castro’s cronies.

After the stress of our final day in Cuba, my wife and I were hugely relieved to leave the country. And when we were safely airborne, we both reflected that if any country was in need of a revolution,


to a Cuban school."

A Bleak Forecast

Today's Miami Herald Tribune offers a small report on the response of some UM professors to yesterday's events in Cuba. The consensus? Dismal. Best quote:

''There is no reform. We are not looking at a Chinese model. We are not even looking at a Vietnamese model. This presents a very bleak outlook for Cuba,'' said Jaime Suchlicki, director of the university's Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, during a panel discussion at the school.

Now let's see if their learned views have any effect on the Pollyannas running around rejoicing in the "transition" to a "pragmatic" Raul.

Addressing the peanut gallery.

A commenter left the following comment on Monica's post earlier about whether the U.S. is to blame for Cuba's crummy economy and now Venezuela's.

Lets see, accordingAnniversary!

Claudia has done an incredible job in helping spread the word about the reality of Cuba and educating those who simply did not know or care. Thank you for tireless advocacy, Claudia; I am proud to call you friend.

A Spoiler

Today the 31-member council of ministers of Cuba’s dictatorial oligarchy will vote on who will be the island’s new president. The method of selection and the presidential title bestowed on the winner is a euphemism at best. Nevertheless, the mainstream media is more interested in the anticipated political changes this highly touted process will bring to the island nation than they are in questioning the perverse and grotesque misrepresentations coming out of Havana. Will the new president loosen the state’s grip on the economy? Will the new president allow


the people to speak openly and without fear of retaliation for the first time since the regime took power? Will the new president free the thousands of political prisoners that are languishing in horrid jail cells?

While a huge segment of the world population waits with bated breath to learn what changes will come from this historic vote in Havana, I can offer them the answer as early as right now and save them a few days, weeks, or months of anxious anticipation.

Today is the 17,952nd day of the dictatorial oligarchy’s rule in Cuba.

Tomorrow, the day after the vote, will be the 17,953rd day of the dictatorial oligarchy’s rule in Cuba.

There you have it, my inquisitive and concerned friends; the BIG change you are all anticipating. I know itmay seem anticlimactic, but this is about a big of a change as you are going to get.

While the regime remains in place, bequeathing power amongst its own, there will be no other radical change in Cuba. There will still be no freedom to speak, no freedom to write, no freedom to sing, no freedom to read, no freedom to associate, no freedom to travel, no freedom to work, no freedom to assemble, no freedom to do anything you and I take for granted. The only rights imparted on the Cuban people by the regime are the right to be oppressed.

I apologize if this was a spoiler to some of you, but I did not want you to stay waiting so long for something that was never going


year ago last week at 82.

Martinez watched his father readjust his life.

''My father came to Miami in April of 1960 thinking by that December he'd be back home to roast his Nochebuena pork,'' Martinez said. ``He like many older exiles didn't get to go back and see the old country again.''

For some Cubans, even death provides no escape from the circle of unresolved mourning.

Fernando Caballero, owner of Ferdinand Funeral Home on Calle Ocho in Little Havana, says he hears the same request from Cubans preparing a loved one's burial.

''A family member will usually ask at some point if the body can be taken back to Cuba -- once Fidel falls,'' Caballero said. ``With the proper paperwork, the answer from us has always been yes. We'll help take themCNN soft peddled Saddam's Iraq prior to the war in an effort to keep its Baghdad bureau from being shut down by the Hussein regime. A CNN executive made a refreshingly candid mea culpa on the matter.

So let's take a look at the issue of covering dictatorships and see what we can learn. Let's start with the premise that most Americans would probably say that dictatorships are bad. I mean the ideal of democracy is that every citizen has a voice in how the country is governed because how the country is governed affects them. But all dictatorships are not alike. Over the course of history, we've observed many types of dictatorships. Right wing, left wing, fascist, communist, religious, secular, etc. etc.

So if dictatorships are bad because they


the CNN memo.

Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba – namely free education and universal health care, and racial integration. in addition to being criticized for oppressing human rights and freedom of speech.

This quote looks very similar to the previous one from the Herald article about Pinochet but is really almost the exact inverse. It begins with the premise of the "good" that castro has done and seems to only begrudgingly acknowledge that "some people" criticize the regime for oppression.

Why can't a journalist look at these two dictatorships and come to an objective conclusion that they were very different and that one was certainly worse than the other?

Let's take a look. Pinochet came to power in 1974 and left power in 1990. fidel took power inBureau Chief Lucia Newman. You need to scroll down a bit in the transcript.

The e-mail concedes that “the bulk of Cuba’s economic problems are due to Cuba’s failed economic polices” and not America’s embargo. Still, as a smoking-gun style piece of evidence of leftist media bias, it’s pretty good. He brought social reforms — but was only “criticized” for oppression and stifling free speech?

Now that’s calling a spade a digging tool!

The e-mail was written by Allison Flexner, who was a producer in CNN’s Havana Bureau in 2000, and whose current position appears to be unknown. Head Defender of Dictators, I think. Something like that.

A great reason to vote for Lincoln, Mario or Ileana...

is because this man doesn't want you to:

Francisco Aruca whose ugly mug you see in that


(646) 652-4506. Or you can send an email to me or that other guy.

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Cuban Response: Nothing New Under the Stun

Word of Cuban response to the announcement of castro's resignation is starting to filter in from the island via independent journalists and communiqués from various organizations posted on Misceláneas de Cuba.

In his free flowing dispatch, allusively titled "Nothing New Under the Sun," independent journalist, Oswaldo Yáñez who lately prefaces his reports by dating them "in the year of the imminent freedom of all Cubans" remarks that the hullabaloo surrounding the announcement in the world media was in marked contrast to the silence of Cubans themselves. He points out that the evictions in Holguin did not cease,prosecute Castro in the 1996 downing of a humanitarian flight off the Cuban coast might not have been successful because of his role as head of state.

With Castro’s announced plan to resign, Ros-Lehtinen said, “There should no longer be any diplomatic impediments to bringing Fidel Castro to justice” for a Cuban fighter jet attack on the private aircraft on a mission for Brothers to the Rescue.

The congresswoman’s suggestions were outlined in a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said the letter was being reviewed and declined to comment further.

Pride

On the heels of Michelle Obama's statement that for "the first time in [her] adult lifetime, [she was] really proud of [her] country," I thought I'd share some things that have made me proud to be


this representative of the United States just how you feel about his comments HERE.

DUmmie FUnnies does fidel

Our buddy P.J. always has the lowdown on what's going on in the leftard message boards like Democratic Underground (DU). He copies and pastes the best stuff and then adds his own running commentary in brackets. Well here's some of what the DUmmies had to say:

I hope this doesn't cause to much trouble. Bushie will try to claim credit.

[If Bushie and Fidel were both on the same ballot, we know who would receive the majority of the DUmmie votes.]

Already, in some dank little basement office at the Heritage Foundation, some little unsung author of the conservative ascendancy is squinting at his monitor as he types, "George W. Bush's greatest achievement came ininvestment and blunt the effect of a 46-year U.S.-led economic embargo. Since Raul Castro replaced his ailing brother Fidel in July 2006, Cuba has restructured $166 million in defaulted loans with Russia and stretched out payments with Venezuela for billions of dollars in annual oil purchases.

Fidel Castro, who had ruled Cuba since ousting U.S.-backed President Fulgencio Batista in 1959, suspended payments on about $11 billion of debt during the late 1980s as financial aid from the Soviet Union began to phase out.

In May 2006, Bancomext recovered $35 million of defaulted Cuban debt after an Italian court ordered payments should be made to Mexico from a Cuban escrow account in Italy. Banco Nacional de Cuba had stopped debt payments to Mexico on behalf of Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba


the satisfaction in their lives and enjoying a wealth of freedom because it is the only way human talent reaches its maximum splendor."

When the newspaper columns begin to appear suggesting that the U.S. MUST change it's policy toward Cuba, remember to ask the authors: What about Biscet?

Below is a video of Biscet's wife, Elsa Morejon, demonstrating what her husband's cell looks like. This replica was assembled on the grounds of the U.S. Interest Section (our de facto embassy) in Cuba. The video was also shot there.

Just Another Snip

The news trucks have already lined up and raised their satellite thingies in front of Versailles. Local reporters are already shoving their microphones in front of mouths in search of opinions. The experts have been called and their take has beentightened sanctions and prohibited foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with Cuba, travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens and family remittances to Cuba.

This former 2008 Presidential candidate barred castro from attending the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and special events related to it.

Under this president, 6 year old refugee Elian Gonzalez was forcibly removed from his relatives' home in Miami on Easter Sunday to be returned to his father in Cuba.

The Helms-Burton act was passed during this president's administration.

Addressing members of the Cuban Invasion Brigade from the Bay of Pigs invasion and thousands of Cuban exiles at the Orange Bowl, this president, upon receiving the brigade's flag, told the exiles: "I can assure you that this flag will be returned to this brigade in a free


you'd like to further,
Many a thing to tax across the land;
But how do you take away
The picture of her and Che?
How can you let her ruin what you planned?

Oh, how do you free Obama from Maria?
How do you make a moonbat understand?

When she's answering the phone,
Chanting, "Revolución!"
This is maybe not the image that we need.
I'm afraid our "Si, se puede!"
Could be changed and even made a
Slogan saying, "Yes, the struggle will succeed!"

She is campaign suicide,
Driving voters from our side;
She could throw our poor Barack beneath the bus.
She's an early spring surprise
From the Workers' Paradise.
She's rebelling! She's revolting! She's with us!

How do you free Obama from Maria?
How do you stop the news from being spread?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A Commie campaigner! A Bolshevik babe! Aof the 10,000 men and women whose lives were taken away by the Castro regime and whose memories are given tribute in the Cuban Memorial in Miami with a cross for each name. Ten thousand people's families should just "get over it," and some those of some 90,000 more people who died at the hands of the regime. And a million more who escaped the regime should, too, is that it?

Once I started writing this I recalled some of the sites I have been to where I got angry reading about people stating that Cubans have had years and years to "get over it." Here's a sampling in case you think this attitude does not exist among Americans and others.

To end on an more upbeat note, at the


an kernel of truth to it but Ron Paul is a physician not an economist. His rhetoric sounds intriguing, like those guys that say that there's no actual law that says you have to pay income taxes, that it's a voluntary system. In the end they just don't know what they are talking about.

If you've ever wanted to know more about the economy, but didn't know where to learn about it then I suggest the following 5 part (about 25 minutes total) "Uncommon Knowledge" video series from National Review. It's a good primer about some of the economic issues in this presidential election. Topics covered include, what is a recession, monetary policy, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, inflation, trade deficits, national debt, taxes and government spending. The host iswhich reflect their experiences of their homeland.

The show was inspired by the curator Kristen Accola’s trip to Cuba in 2006. So who knows. It’s my experience that the art speaks for itself. Details here.

Also heard about a book by Denver Deputy Mayor Bill Vidal, titled Boxing for Cuba. You can read about him here. Vidal was one of the Pedro Pan children, and the book seems to continue where most of our memoirs end- the arrival in the United States. I’d love to read our experience growing up in the country made real. I am a bit hesitant, because one review mentioned the word “forgiveness,” and I’m wondering if that’s code for something else. If anyone’s read it, I’d love info.

February 15, 2008

We're not in a recession

Go get


that we appreciate," he told a news conference in the southern city of Cordoba.

"We will continue to encourage the Cuban authorities to make progress in this area which is very close to us, and I think to the Cubans," he said.

The announcement comes after Spain and Cuba held talks on human rights in Madrid this week.

In all, reports are that seven political prisoners will be released. However, the names of the three other prisoners were not disclosed.

Moratinos and the Spanish government, must be watched closely, but this is welcome news, especially for the affected prisoners and their families.

But more than meriting Cuba any acclaim, it should remind the world of the hundreds of journalists, human rights activists, librarians and other opponents of the regime, who remain locked inhas pictures of herself with both Obama and his wife on her Flickr page. She is obviously very active in both the campaign and the Democratic party. Just because she's not a paid employ does not exonerate her or the campaign. Almost everyone except the very top people on a campaign are volunteers.

4. Maria Isabel is Cuban. She says so in the follow-up piece the TV news did on her after the controversy sprung up. She does not have the excuse of not knowing who the real Che was. Additionally, bloggers from Houston who know of her say she flies the Guevara/Cuban flag from the balcony of her apartment.

5. Maria Isabel is no stranger to the TV News in Houston. A couple of years ago she bought a


in 2006. Dean's speech is posted on the official Democratic Party website, although the European socialist parties are referred to as "progressive." Democrats, Dean said, want to be "good citizens of the world community." He spoke at a session on "Global Challenges for Progressive Politics."

Following up, in April 2007, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen reported that European socialists held a meeting "in the Democrats HQ in Washington," met with officials of the party and Democratic members of Congress, and agreed that "PES activist groups" in various U.S. cities would start working together. The photos of the trip show Rasmussen meeting with such figures as Senator Ben Cardin, Senator Bernie Sanders, officials of the Brookings Institution, Howard Dean, and AFL-CIO President John W. Sweeney, a member of the DSA.one principle: freedom for the Cuban people." -- Obama Campaign

I'm sure you all have opinions on this. Fire away, in the comments.

UPDATE: Commenter Melek rightly points out that in this THIRD statement released by the campaign there is still no mention of Guevara. Just the "inappropriate flag".

UN Watch criticizes UN's praise of Cuba

UN Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter. The UN's human rights chief should reconsider her praise of Cuba's record and of the recent mission there by a UN official compromised by ties to the Castro regime, said UN Watch today.

What better gift on Valentine's Day than to have an outside organization recognize the UN's hypocritical stance


me to wish me a Happy Valentine’s Day and to remind me that it has been forty-seven years since we left our homeland. I’m wearing my CAMBIO bracelet as I’m making an impossibly rich chocolate mousse for my family. Not just for my big, fat, Cuban family, but for my big, fat, Cuban cyberspace family here at Babalú.

Call me crazy, but I will forever equate the taste of chocolate with the taste of freedom.
I am unapologetically a lover of both. ;-)

1) Melt the butter and chocolate chips together. This can be done on top of the stove in a double boiler, or in a microwave oven for about 1 1/2 minutes.
2) Stir the melted chocolate and melted butter together until smooth.
3) Whip the egg whites into a fluffymeringue.

4) When the meringue starts to peak, add the sugar, bit by bit.
5) Fold in the egg yolks.
6) Add the (warm) chocolate mixture and the vanilla to the meringue.

7) Gently blend together until it is completely mixed.
8) Pour into a serving bowl or individual cups.
9) Chill for at least an hour before serving.
10) Decorate with chocolate chips.

To All

Epiphanies and Flip-Flops

So reads the headline from that bastion of ethical journalism, Reuters. This epiphanic proclamation and its accompanying article is sure to catch the world by surprise. Reuters, however, still wonders if the Cubans on the island, as this article seems to imply, are forgetting just how good they have it:

Apathy and resignation reign in the communist island nation where waiting for slow public transport or finding deals on the


because the regime does not exact payment from its subjects for these benefits in the form of money; instead, Cubans pay with their blood, their sweat, their integrity, and their souls. The oligarchic dictatorship is not preparing them to earn a livelihood—they are preparing them to be the most productive slaves they can make of them.

In spite of this, the apathetic mood in Cuba is still puzzling to Reuters, and its journalists (and I use that term loosely) are still scratching their heads in bewilderment. But the article makes sure to remind us that there is still hope; raul, who is next in line to the throne, is encouraging open debate among his slaves. Maybe, they hope, he will make a deal with the Chinese to import someCleaning it up -- that's my thing. The historical movement, it's not my bag."

Now come on Ms. Isabel, that's no way to talk about the homeless. What kind of a Democrat are you?

You can watch her talking about her property rights, the ones that commies like her idol Che Guevara would take away in heartbeat by clicking here.

Here's the house she built on the lot where she tore the historic home down: an old winnebago.

IBD weighs in on the Obamunista flag

Investors Business Daily, which can always be counted on to provide clear incisive opinion features a great column today about the Che Guevara image in an Obama volunteer office in Houston that has been all the talk of the blogosphere. Just an excerpt:

But rather than repudiate the image,


Obama would only call it "inappropriate," apparently without insisting it be taken down. That contrasts with his dismissal of his Senate colleagues who wear lapel flags as "hypocrites." Some hypocrites.

The display of the Castroite flag with Che's picture on it sends a particularly disturbing message about his campaign. Apparently, Obama tends to attract the kind of people who think of mass murderers like Che and Fidel as romantic revolutionaries. Those same people see Obama as a man with a messianic message. These are the voters he'll be indebted to should he win higher office.

castro's campaign promises and their importance in this election year

fidel castro wasn't elected anything in Cuba but he did campaign there. During several years of his guerrilla insurgency he used propaganda and the media tothat since it IS next to OBAMA'S poster, it IS behind OBAMA's supporters, and it IS in OBAMA's campaign office.

[Not much room for deniability there. Hee! Hee!]

go che. Power to the People.

[Which Obama office do you work at?]

Surely you realize that this can be used against him?

[And you DUmmies will call it "swiftboating."]

The Republicans are going to tell everyone who Che Guevara is!!!

[Damn them for that history lesson!]

These people need to think and be more careful. I guarantee you that there are Repubs collecting any kind of material like this to use against him if he is the nominee.

[Li'l Beaver is also collecting this material. Hee! Hee!]

I'll be going down there for the volunteer meeting at seven Tuesday. I'll letcha know if it's still up. I expect that


told us "yes we can" way before Barack Obama did and who meant us as in us, not us as in the federal government.

The hoodlum from Managua chimes in

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega slashed out at US oil firm Exxon Mobil for launching "a clear offensive of the empire in order to push (Venezuelan state-run oil firm) Pdvsa into bankruptcy," Efe reported.

The Sandinist leader claimed it was not by chance that the US National Security Director Michael McConnell told the US Congress that "the things that are happening in Latin America involve a threat."

According to Ortega, the US intelligence community in a report McConnell presented last February 5 was referring to Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Ecuador, and their Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).

He added that such remarksdefinitely the place," says Xiao Qiang, the founder of the California-based China Digital Times.

Beijing is thought to have the planet's most sophisticated blocking equipment, which is used to guard virtual walls against external threats. Internally, it relies on a system of official monitoring and corporate self-censorship. Most of the routers and other parts come from US companies, such as Cisco. Campaigners suspect China is passing its censorship know-how to Cuba, Vietnam and several African countries.

"China is exporting a model where the internet is a tool for economical development, social networking, marketing business and propaganda, but not for free expression. China is very proud of this. They spent dozens of millions of euros to build firewalls, cyber-police and cyber-censors," says Vincent Brossel of Reporters Without Borders.

Anyone seen Liberación?

Just read


an alternative to the divorce courts as we understand them.

In some cultural and religious settings, they would seem more appropriate.

CNN report on discontent in Cuba

Beyond the obvious takeaway that one gets from the video I'm pissed at this report. First of all Morgan Neil the correspondent says that Cubans are now saying publicly what they have been saying privately. Well buddy the world doesn't know what Cubans say privately because so-called journalists like you have become way too comfortable in using the same "man on the street" approach to journalism that is used in the United States. It doesn't take a freaking genius to figure out that you can't just get people to say what's on their mind in a totalitarian dictatorship. Our media often obscures the identityliberal.

-- He excoriated Samuel Alito as too "conservative."

-- He promoted amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants.

-- He abridged citizens' free speech (in favor of the media) with McCain-Feingold.

-- He hysterically opposes waterboarding terrorists and wants to shut down Guantanamo.

Can I take a breath now?

-- He denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

-- He opposes ANWR and supports the global warming cult, even posturing with fellow mountebank Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of solar panels.

And this:

If Hillary is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster, with Republicans ferociously opposing her, followed by Republicans zooming back into power, as we did in 1980 and 1994, and 2000. (I also predict more Oval Office incidents with female interns.)

If McCain is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster, with the Republicans in Congress


aid of a friendly state. castro's long-term relationships with the Colombians and Middle Eastern terrorist groups of diverse ideological tendencies as well as his unremitting hostility toward the United States and its allies would serve as a natural catalyst for these links.

Why isn’t Cuba’s support for FARC included in the reporting? Isn’t that akin to a report on organized crime that omits mention of the Mafia?

Journalistic Ethics

Get on With It Already

There's a new round of stories indicating that the great mystery of whether fifo will remain the nominal head of the Cuban misgovernment may be solved soon. This passes for news? I am reminded of a Who song. Although not quite a parallel, the last two lines seemed apropos. Care to guess which one? Find out below thebook, the Fernandez Family and the writing process, among other things - as we chow down on our Cuban cuisine, but if you have any comments or questions you'd like to ask Kay, now's the time. Either drop a comment below or email me your thoughts and queries.

And adding insult to injury...

History has recorded a legacy for which we still fight. On Ronald Reagan’s birthdate, let us remind ourselves, through his own words, just what this fight is all about.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what


disappointed me on some issues. But I trusted him. I knew that he was a man that, even when I disagreed with him, held lofty goals and high principles.

You sir, are no Ronald Reagan.

For many years now I have seen you take sides against core conservative principles. You voted against tax cuts; you favored (another) immigration amnesty program; you favored increasing taxes on gasoline consumption; you limited the right of Americans to freely exercise their political speech. Your opposition became a disease. At every turn you went against the best interest of the country to oppose the core values that I deeply believe in and that Ronald Reagan espoused. You voted out of political expediency and opportunism. You became buddies with Russ Feingold, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Joeevade Cuban security forces, chances are the Americans — representatives of "the land of the free" — would have tossed them back, for only having "muddy feet."

Steyn on McCain

The Clintons are nothing if not lucky, and Hillary must occasionally be enjoying a luxury-length cackle at the thought of being pitted against a 71-year old “maverick” whose record seems designed to antagonize just enough of the base into staying home on election day. In the 2000 campaign season, running in a desultory fashion for the New York Senate seat, Rudy Giuliani waged a brief half-hearted campaign just long enough to leave the Republican Party with no one to run against Hillary except a candidate who wasn’t up to the job. Has he managed to do the same this time


than anything this primary season was Barack Obama's statement that "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that . . . Bill Clinton did not."

Reagan changed history. At home, he radically altered both the shape and perception of government. Abroad, he changed the entire structure of the international system by bringing down the Soviet empire, giving birth to a unipolar world of unprecedented American dominance.

By comparison, Clinton was a historical parenthesis. He can console himself -- with considerable justification -- that he simply drew the short straw in the chronological lottery: His time just happened to be the 1990s, which, through no fault of his own, was the most inconsequential decade of the 20th century. His was the interval between the collapse of the SovietLimitInorganic Hg CompoundsFederal OSHAa8-Hour TWA 0.1 mg/meter3 (100,000 ng/meter3)NIOSHb8-Hour TWA 0.05 mg/meter3 (50,000 ng/meter3)ACGIHc8-Hour TWA0.025 mg/meter3 (25,000 ng/meter3)
An amalgam is any mixture of mercury with another metal or an alloy, such as silver, tin, copper, and zinc (Webster's New College Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2001). Cadmium, indium, palladium, and lead were historically used in some amalgam products. However, modern low-copper amalgams typically have a powder component composed of 69.4% silver, 3.6% copper, 26.2% tin, and 0.8% Zinc, they have a liquid component of 42% to 45% mercury by weight. Mercury amalgams are commonly used in dentistry because they are cheap, easy to use, durable, and regarded as safe. Although, for modern dentists who are exposed to mercury amalgam and vapor on a daily basis, no evidence of mercury poisoning have


in a gas stream because the large surface area per particle due to porosity.
Modified active carbon, nano-materials and polymers have also been studied as mercury sorbent. US patent application by Olson et al. (US Pub. No. 2006/0048646) describes a sorbent made of active carbon modified by reaction with a halogen and/or halide promoter, which binds mercury. Others have experimented with nanocomposites that combines high-surface silica with photocatalytic properties of Titania for effective capture of elemental mercury vapor [4]. Another example of a mercury-binding sorbent is Vinylpyridine copolymer which showed a greater than 90% removal efficiency [5].a column with the words Number Fields and the options Global and Local. By clicking on the Global option you'll be taken to a page that allows you to search for number fields, i.e., finite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$, and in particular it allows you to do a refined search according to different parameters that you might be interested in.
In this case, you can restrict the degree of your number fields to be 9 and you can choose the Galois group to be $\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{Z}/3 \mathbb{Z}$ by typing the option C3xC3.
For instance, a simple search with those options easily shows that if $\alpha$ is a root of the polynomial $f(x):= x^9 - 15x^7 - 4x^6 + 54x^5 + 12x^4 - 38x^3 - 9x^2 + 6x + 1$, then


Find the common denominator of f and j.
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Let f(p) = p - 2. Let z be f(8). Let g(j) = 3*j + 4. Suppose 9 = -3*c + 3*t, 4*t - 3*t - 5 = 0. What is the lowest common multiple of g(z) and c?
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Let a = -2169/26 + 169/2. Calculate the common denominator of 1/3 and a.
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Suppose 4*k + y + y = -8, y = 0. Find the common denominator of ((-10)/160)/(1 - 287/292) and ((-25)/k - 0)/(-1).
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Let s = 7/212 + -6875/2756. What is the common denominator of s and 64/9?
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Calculate the least common multiple of 9 and (-106)/(-14) - (-3)/7.
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Suppose -3*v + 2*l + 2*l = -66, -3*l - 9 = 0. Let c = -10 + v. Calculate the lowest common multipleof 2 and c.
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Let w(a) = -a + 2. Suppose 0 = f - 2*f + 1. What is the least common multiple of w(-8) and f?
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Let b(f) = 4*f**2 - 3*f. Let z be b(2). Calculate the common denominator of 15/4 and 158/4*(-2)/z.
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Let v = -1221 - -3715/3. Find the common denominator of 20/7 and v.
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Let h(z) = z**3 + 7*z**2 - 9*z - 6. Let v be h(-8). Let a be -2*(v - 14/4). Find the common denominator of 5 and (-865)/30 + (-2)/a.
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Let v = 1/8154 - -5303/1084482. Let p = 2813/3990 - v. Calculate the common denominator of p and 2/(-5) - 882/220.
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Let w = 22/3 - 241/21. What is the common denominator of w and (3 - 1) + 86/(-6)?
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Suppose -6*s + 5*g


Metabolic and hormonal changes after exercise in relation to muscle glycogen concentrations.
To test whether, in horses, the concentration of muscle glycogen can be influenced by increasing the uptake of glucose into the muscle cells or by providing a gluconeogenic precursor, 9 trained half-bred riding horses performed on a treadmill a 1.5 h competition exercise test (CET). Each horse performed CET 3 times and 30 min after CET, each was given one of the following solutions: isotonic glucose-electrolyte (GE) solution, GE supplemented with 50 g leucine (GEL) to increase insulin secretion, or GE supplemented with 200 ml propionic acid (GEP), a gluconeogenic precursor. Administration of GE solutions caused no increase in plasma glucose concentration. The highest concentration of insulin was measured after GEL, but also in the GE groupthe year. Thick leaves, good colour, slow grower.

And the other plant that we don't have enough of - Echinacea - but if Veronique says it's good - I believe her, and it has the sweetest name 'Butterfly Kisses'. Smaller, it is good in containers and if you deadhead, will continue to bloom throughout the summer.

Mindful that more gardeners are gardening in smaller areas, there are several 'mini' perennials like this 'Burgundy Bunny' Pennisetum.

This is Brad Smith, Asheville NC who represents Sakata. He joined us at our lunch table. With the problems we've been having with Impatiens we're all looking for something to plant instead. These SunPatiens handle sun and shade equally well and are a really excellent low maintenance plant. Aside from SunPatients he also had some Mecardonia


'Magic CarpetTM Yellow' to show us. While I've seen Mecardonia planted in a few gardens, it still is relatively new to us.

This is what it looks like in the pot - not so special......

But, if you take a leap of faith - this is what you'll get (and apologies all around - this photo was taken last year at the trial garden at Landscape Ontario in a semi-shaded location - and you'll note that these are not SunPatients, nor are the Mecardonia the right variety - but...... look at how wonderful they look together and see how bright and sunny the Mecardonia are in the garden):

This is Sean Valk from Sygentia. He has brought to Loblaw this year two new Verbena - Lanai Twister Purple and Red.

Such aand Kwanzaa to Spike Lee and his filming of Malcolm X. He commented on Black Nationalism, capitalism, Pan Africanism, Hollywood, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, poverty, and American politics.

The time will come and we will bring it when despite his jarring language and his passionate opinions the world will recognize his exceptional genius. Long live Baraka's spirit of rebellion!


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I have two classes. I want to hide frontpage_message class when content_message class appears. Problem is that I load stuff with Ajax where content_message class is located.
Below is my code. Works fine without Ajax.
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Content Message

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(4 + (-364)/90)*(1 + 2)
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What is the value of (-6)/(-4) - 845/390?
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Calculate (-2)/(2 - -2) - (-10)/(-20).
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What is the value of 2/15 - (-1435)/1050?
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Calculate (3 + (-38)/12)/(6/(-24)).
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1/2
Evaluate -3 + 3 - ((-8 - -9) + -7).
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What is 2*3/(-36) + (-3)/(-12)?
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What is the value of (-2)/(-8)*((-28)/18 + 2)?
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What is the value of 0/(((-4)/5)/(4/10))?
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What is the value of ((-1)/3)/(88/36 + -3)?
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(-92)/78 + 52/39
2/13
What is (-9)/6 - (7 + 153/(-18))?
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Evaluate (-11)/5 + -8 + 184/20.
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What is the value of 3/12*-2*(-3)/12?
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What is (-6*2/(-15))/(46/230)?
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What is (46/(-10))/(-1) + 18/45?
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Evaluate 2 - (6 + (-96)/36).
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What is 4/4 + (-3 - -5)*-2?
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waste time going through arbitration with Posey, who turns 26 years old just before Opening Day 2013. While he’s not a free agent until after 2016, he’s approaching his prime years and the Giants would be better served paying Posey the big bucks for his late 20’s than his mid-30’s.

The longer the Giants wait, the more years they will be paying for on the back end.

Olney writes about the possibility the Giants might give Posey a rare 10-year deal. If they do that between now and Opening Day, they’ll be locking up Posey through the age of 35. Posey is a great player, but I think we can all agree that he won’t be the same player in 2022.

@Buster_ESPN Ten-year deal for Posey would surprise me. #sfgiants gungiven to Bumgarner, Matt Cain and Pablo Sandoval in the last few years. Needless to say, Posey is next to get a deal.

If the Giants are smart, they’ll lock up Posey soon — before he wins another MVP and jacks up his price even higher.


bathrooms as they could. Zurn’s challenge to Mr. Flosi’s qualifications, therefore, fails.”

The district court also disagreed with Zurn’s remaining challenges to the methodology that was employed and found that those were more suited to cross-examination. “Zurn’s remaining contentions regarding Mr. Flosi’s methodology are more appropriately addressed on cross-examination. Zurn argues that the following facts render Mr. Flosi’s investigation unreliable: (1) the list of sites that Sloan provided to Mr. Flosi was not randomly generated but rather compiled by Sloan’s sales representatives; (2) the sites that Mr. Flosi’s investigators visited were not randomly selected; (3) the sites that Mr. Flosi’s investigators visited were overwhelmingly publicly accessible buildings like schools and universities; and (4) Mr. Flosi’s investigators did not inspect every bathroom at each site and did not ensure thatestablished which requires a defined amount of time for a reaction followed by processing of one sample within a defined cycle period which is significantly shorter than the reaction time for complex reactions. The major drawbacks to continuous flow analysis include the lack of ability to program tests per sample and excessive reagent usage as they are pumped continuously during the analytical process.
Beyond the analytical difficulties with current methods, continuous flow instruments are negatively impacted by the use of peristaltic pumps to provide motive force for samples and reagents. These pumps limit the performance of continuous flow systems through the peristaltic action that is an intrinsic characteristic of peristaltic pumps. This action causes pulsations in the fluid path that may adversely affect the accurate quantification of analytes passing


It is easy to blend in with humanity in Washington Square Park in
the spring, even for the two greatest leaders of mutantkind. They
sit, two men dressed well but out of fashion, between two hustlers
clearly playing for drugs and a pair of students more intent on
their pizza than on the game, and no one gives them a second
glance. Though the game-table they're playing on is stone, it's
chipped and scarred, testament to its decades of survival of the
stresses incident to urban life. Erik sits up very straight across
from him, but Charles suspects that the cold from the stone bench is
leaking into his bones. He recognizes the symptoms of arthritis
when he sees them.

"You're playing more quickly than usual."

"I have somewhere to be," Erik says, pushing a pawn.

"Where?"

Erik says nothing.

"All right," Charlesto the pepperoni and extra
cheese. "The life you lead."

"I lost my chance at a normal life in 1939, Charles. I don't
believe I've missed it."

"That was a long time ago. You could have...settled down." Charles
castles and glances across the open space. Teenagers are standing
close together by the benches, laughing loudly. Some of them are
couples, arms around each other's waist or shoulders. A tiny,
heavily beribboned poodle leads a woman by. An old man hobbles
slowly along on a cane, stopping every few feet to look at the
flowers that bloom along the edges of the sidewalks. Charles looks
back at Erik; he's watching the man, too, with expressionless pale
blue eyes, and it will always be strange to think that this is how
they appear to the world now.

"Social security payments and a fixed income.


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of the revenue earned by paid VR apps, and when users engage with video ads on their VR headsets.

A recent App Annie report forecasts that Google Play revenue will jump from about $16 billion in 2016 to $42 billion in 2021. It's unclear right now how much of that app revenue will derive from VR ads, but Google's early forays into VR advertising should be seen as signs of things to come. The company has built out its search business with ads, gives its Android software away for free by using in-app purchases and advertising to pay for it. Expect to see it use all that experience to become a dominant force in virtual reality ads in the coming years.

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An original oil painting of a Robin bird, painted with a palette knife for a richly textured artwork. The European Robin is native to Ireland, Britain and much of western Europe.

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                                    2                )            where I corresponds to the magnitude of the current of the charge pump, C corresponds to the magnitude of the loop filter capacitor, and K corresponds to the gain of the gain block 104. A graph of the frequency response of this closed loop transfer function G(s) is shown in FIG. 2 by curve 130. As shown in this graph, the magnitude of thealleged influence-for-sex scheme -- was shot by Shabaneh when he was still a senior Palestinian intelligence agent. Shabaneh said he informed Abbas of the video at the time, but was dismissed instead of action being taken against Husseini.

Shabaneh is the first Palestinian Authority insider to air dirty laundry with a steady stream of allegations that have kept public debate focused on corruption. In the past, scandals would fizzle as politicians closed ranks to protect their own.

"People are thirsty for such information," said Bassam Ahmed, 60, a car repair shop owner from the West Bank city of Nablus and a frequent visitor to Shabaneh's Web site. "It is possible that Shabaneh's stories are moving things."

Shabaneh's claims seem to have hurt Abbas politically, said Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki, who measured


Methods for the preparation of protein-oligonucleotide-lipid constructs.
A mixture of ionizable cationic lipids, steric barrier lipids, and colipids is used to encapsulate oligonucleotide DNA in lipidic particles called SALP. This material is under development as an adjuvant for vaccines. Previously we have shown that coupling the antigen directly to the surface of SALP can lead to enhanced immunological responses in vivo. Two different methods for preparing ovalbumin-SALP were assessed in this work. Originally the conjugates were prepared by treating SALP containing a maleimide-derivatized lipid with thiolated ovalbumin, a method we refer to as active coupling. This reaction was found to be difficult to control and generally resulted in low coupling efficiencies. The issues relating to this approach were characterized. We have recently developed alternative techniques based on first couplingThe European commission has warned that the likelihood of a Deepwater Horizon-type accident in the North Sea remains "unacceptably high" as it outlined new laws to counter the danger.

The moves have angered the UK government and offshore oil industry while threatening to put a brake on some of the huge profits declared by big North Sea operators Shell and ExxonMobil.

Brussels officials defended their plans to in effect seize overall control of North Sea regulation from the British authorities.

"We need to prevent accidents like Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico from happening," said energy commissioner Günther Oettinger. "Securing best industry practices in all our offshore operations is an undisputable must. Today's proposal is a crucial step forward towards safer offshore activities to the benefit of our citizens and


an inverted single photon/multiphoton Olympus FV1000. The reasons for this application are to: 1: Provide access to multiphoton microscopy using an upright configuration for systems which cannot be studied using the inverted system currently within the CBI 2: Provide access to high speed confocal imaging for a variety projects ranging from imaging blood flow in developing model systems such as fish and mice, cillary beat in human airway cultures and calcium measurements in brain slices Since the CBI commenced operations 17 years ago, it has become an integral part of the medical research community currently participating in research projects with more than 200 PHS funded groups within the medical area, as well as in PHS supported projects with investigators in other departments at neighboring institutions, and with collaboratorsaround the country. The device requested here is an important and fundamental addition to the armamentarium of microscopies available to users of the CBI and it will have fundamental and significant impact on PHS funded research at the University of Pittsburgh and beyond.


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Ex parte Massey Chevrolet, Inc., 23 So.3d at 36 (quoting Overnite Transportation, 933 So.2d at 1096 (emphasis added)). The Court of Civil Appeals also noted the holding in Ex parte Alabama Power Co., 863 So.2d 1099, 1102 (Ala.Civ.App.2003), that "`"the [authorized treating] physician is empowered under the [Workers' Compensation] Act to treat the employee for so long as is reasonably necessary and to refer the employee to other medical providers for reasonably necessary treatment."'" 23 So.3d at 37.
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similarity-based or discriminative approach. Furthermore, in similarity-model methods, spectral clustering [@shi2000normalized; @ng2002spectral] has prevailed in the last several years for its performance, efficiency and robustness. On the other hand, multi-view clustering is an effective tool for complex social networks. The earliest work of multi-view clustering was proposed by Blum and Mitchell in their co-training algorithm [@blum1998combining]. Their idea was based on the assumption that learning can progress with enough labeled data in each view otherwise each view mutually benefits from the labeled data to each other. Steffen Bickel and Tobias Scheffer [@bickel2004multi] proposed to alternately cluster each view and exchange information during the learning process.

Multi-view idea met spectral clustering in Virginia’s work [@de2005spectral], in which the disagreement between two views was minimized. It outperformed the result from eachamplifiers; 9 (9') and 10 (10') video heads; 11 and 12 reproducing amplifiers; 13 and 14 frequency demodulators; 15 a time-axis expander; 16 a Y signal output terminal; 17 an R-Y signal output terminal; and 18 a B-Y signal output terminal.
In FIG. 5, reference numerals 1, 2 and 3 denote waveforms of the input Y signal, R-Y signal and B-Y signal, respectively, (horizontal sync signals are added also to the R-Y and B-Y signals for the purpose of convenience). Numeral 19 denotes a waveform of an output signal of the time-axis compressor 4 and is a waveform at the position indicated by the numeral in FIG. 4. The Y signal applied to the Y signal input terminal 1 is modulated by the frequency modulator 5 and is amplified


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Proving a sharp maximum identity for some relatively prime odd integers

Let $p, q$ and $r$ be relatively prime odd positive integers satisfying $$pq + pr - qr = 1$$ and $$1<p<q<r.$$
Define $$f(a,n)= -(q + r)a^2 + 4aqn - 4(q - p)n^2 - 4n$$ where $-p \leq a \leq p+2$ and $1 \leq n \leq r-1$.
Under these conditions, can we prove that
$$\mathrm max \{ f(a,n) \} =f(1,1)$$
Or can one produce a counterexample?
For example, I proved the above idendity for triplets $$(p,q,r)=(2k+1,4k+1,4k+3)$$ and $$(p,q,r)=(4k+3,6k+5,12k+7)$$ by showing $$-f(a,n) + f(1,1) \geq 0$$ with the help of basic number theoretic arguments.
Any contribution (proof suggestion or a counterexample) will make me extremely happy...
EDIT
The above numbers have meaning in topology. For example, consider Pretzel knots $K(-p,q,r)$ where $p, q$ and $r$ are relatively


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The bioconjugation of quantum dots (QDs) is a key process in their application for bioanalysis as well as imaging. The coupling of QDs with biologically active molecules such as peptides, nucleic acids, and/or antibodies enables their fluorescent labeling, and therefore, selective and sensitive tracking during the bioanalytical process, however, the efficiency of the labeling and preservation of the biological activity of the bioconjugate have to be considered. In this study, a new approach of the bioconjugation of CdTe-QDs and human immunoglobulin employing a small peptide is described. The heptapeptide (HWRGWVC) was synthesized and characterized by mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis. Moreover, the peptide was used as a capping agent for QDs synthesis. The CdTe-QDs were synthesized by microwave synthesis


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And Megan Marshall’s “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” claimed the prize for Biography, “a richly researched book that tells the remarkable story of a 19th century author, journalist, critic and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died in a shipwreck.”

Among the most prestigious prizes in the field, the Pulitzer awards prizes in journalism, books, drama, and music are announced each year by Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Pulitzer Prize winners receive a $10,000 award and a coveted distinction.today.

"Without that answer there can be no surety that this will not occur again," Senator Xenophon told reporters in Canberra.

He says the "largely unanswered" question is why the group was arrested in Indonesia and not Australia.

He has queried an Australian Federal Police explanation of its role in the investigation that led to the executions of ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran last week.

Federal police faced an agonising decision but they should have arrested the Bali Nine drug smugglers in Australia, independent senator Nick Xenophon has argued.


$\mu>0$ such that $$\begin{aligned}
 {\langle z-z',v-v'\rangle}\geq \mu{\|{z-z'}\|}^2\quad \forall v\in A(z), v'\in A(z').\end{aligned}$$ The proximal point (PP) method is an iterative scheme for finding approximate solutions of (under the assumption of maximal monotonicity of $A$). The method traces back to the work of Martinet and was popularized by Rockafellar, who formulated and studied some of its inexact variants along with important applications in convex programming [@MR0418919; @roc-mon.sjco76].

Among the many inexact variants of the PP method, the hybrid proximal extragradient (HPE) method of Solodov and Svaiter [@sol.sva-hyb.svva99] has been the object of intense study by many authors (see, e.g., [@alv.mon.sva-reg.siam16; @bot.cse-hyb.nfao15; @cen.mor.yao-hyb.jota10; @eck.sil-pra.mp13; @he.mon-acc.siam16; @ius.sos-pro.opt10; @lol.par.sol-cla.jca09; @mon.ort.sva-imp.coap14; @mon.ort.sva-ada.coap16; @MonSva10-2; @sol.sva-hyb.svva99; @sol.sva-ine.mor00; @Sol-Sv:hy.unif]). One of its distinctive features is that it allows for inexact solution of the corresponding subproblems within relative errors tolerances. Contrarywhich, in turn, combined with the assumption A2) and after some direct calculations yields $$\begin{aligned}
 \nonumber
 {\langle z-z',v-v'\rangle}&={\langle P_V(z-z')+P_{V^\perp}(z-z'),P_V(v-v')+P_{V^\perp}(v-v')\rangle}\\
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                 &={\langle P_V(z-z')+P_{V^\perp}(v-v'),P_V(v-v')+P_{V^\perp}(z-z')\rangle}\\
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                 &\geq \eta{\|{P_V(z-z')+P_{V^\perp}(v-v')}\|}^2\\
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                 &=\eta\left({\|{P_V(z-z')}\|}^2+{\|{P_{V^\perp}(v-v')}\|}^2\right)\\
\label{eq:tvv22}
                                 &\geq \eta {\|{P_V(z-z')}\|}^2.\end{aligned}$$ On the other hand, assumption A3) and imply $${\|{[P_V(v)+P_{V^\perp}(z)]-[P_V(v')+P_{V^\perp}(z')]}\|}\leq
 L{\|{[P_V(z)+P_{V^\perp}(v)]-[P_V(z')+P_{V^\perp}(v')]}\|},$$ which, in particular, gives $$\begin{aligned}
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the output terminal 201 are connected between the output terminal 201 and the grounding terminal 202.
The connection point between the voltage-dividing resistor 301 and the voltage-dividing resistor 302 is connected to the base of a control transistor 304 by the intermediary of a zener diode 303. The output voltage of the AC generator 1 is detected by the voltage-detection voltage-dividing resistors 301 and 302 and the zener diode 303; the control transistor 304 is turned on or off as the zener diode 303 becomes conductive or nonconductive, respectively. The emitter of the control transistor 304 is earthed; the collector of the transistor 304 is connected to a battery 4 by the intermediary of a resistor 306 and a key switch 5 and to the base of a powerexists no signal input from the external control unit 6, whereby the electric potential of the external-control-signal input terminal C is held to be “Hi” (in the case where the transistor 601 is in the nonconductive state), a base current is supplied to the transistor 330 by way of the resistor 329, whereby the resistor 328 is short-circuited as the transistor 330 turns on, and the connection point between the resistor 328 and the resistor 302 is earthed.
In this situation, when the voltage of the output terminal 201 of the rectifier 2 exceeds a predetermined value set with the voltage-detection voltage-dividing resistors 301 and 302 and the zener diode 303, the zener diode 303 turns on, and then the control transistor 304 turns on. Accordingly, the potential of


as you need, without any significant additional costs.

The non-zero marginal cost quality of all the things we digitize, which – in the society we are now building – is everything we value, because we digitize everything we can value, right down to how we fit in our jeans, right? In the world where we digitize everything of value and everything of value has been digitized, a moral question of significance arises: When you can provide to everybody everything that you value, at the cost of providing it to any one body, what is the morality of excluding people who cannot afford to pay?

If you could make as much bread, or have as many fishes, as you needed to feed everyone, at the cost of the first loaf andownership of the software that made it.

All of these networks of information sharing are composed – at the bottom level, where the technicians think – of two propertied entities: pipes and switches. Pipes are things that move a signal from one end to the other without modifying it or changing its direction. They can be electromagnetic spectrum, they can be copper wire in the ground, they can be optical fibers thinner than a human hair carrying hundreds of millions of signals simultaneously, but whatever they are, their job is transport – they move a thing from A to B, and they don’t change it, and they don’t determine where either A and B are.

The other thing of which the network is constituted is switches. Switches are what determine


other people have no right to copy, modify, understand, change, or share, then the person who makes the software that goes in the switches controls the network.

Everything which has happened in the last 20 years concerning Microsoft – the good things, the bad things, the up things, the down things, the places where they succeeded, the places where they failed, the places where their bribery was accepted and endorsed, and the places where their bribery was rejected and punished – are all about the question about who was willing to permit the switches to be monopolized. Almost everybody was willing to permit the switches to be monopolized to some extent, provided, usually, that they got a piece of the action.

We were unwilling to have the switches monopolized. Weof them does perceive, that there will be a problem of dealing with overappropriation. Things will be taken from the commons, and they won’t be refreshed, and eventually there is at least the risk that the commons will die.

Now, “open” digital commons – unlike natural resource commonses that are built around openness – digital commons that are “open” can, for a substantial period of time, resist tragic outcomes. The reason is the non-zero marginal cost nature of the goods they contain; appropriation is a form of free-riding, but in non-zero marginal cost digital commons, free-riding isn’t necessarily a fatal problem. Most of the people who use free software never return any patches to the system, or write any documentation, or support any programmers, and it doesn’t matter, because


we all know it is best to do for ourselves and therefore what we ought to know it is best to do for other people as well – that requires more than simply the success at preventing the monopolization of software.

Without success in preventing the monopolization of software, we can be sure that the larger entity will never come into existence the way that we intended, and what will happen instead is something that it is at least worth spending a moment thinking about. My friends – and they are friends, allies, thoughtful people with highly positive views of about a lot of the very questions I am now discussing with you – my friends at Google yesterday announced that they will be happy to reduce the costunfreedom has moved from the person who monopolized software, to the person who was merely the dominant provider of services. That’s not exactly the correct outcome, either. Whether it is a moral outcome depends upon whether the data miner can figure out any reason why it does not want every Einstein to learn physics. And this is a very tricky question, because the data miner wants to have good relations with governments, and the data miner wants to be in charge of the advertising business, and all sorts of other things.

Most of you have browsers, and most of those browsers show you advertisements, and I’m very puzzled about why. The advertisements are annoying most of the time, they slow you down, they injure the concentration that you bring


to whatever task it is that you’re doing, and there’s no reason why they show you advertisements; my browser doesn’t show me any advertisements. I don’t see any ads when I read The New York Times, or go to wherever it is that you are happy going to, because my browser has Adblock in it, and that pretty much ends the story. Even in this town, many of you, indeed, I would guess, most of you are probably using the Firefox browser. That means you’re two clicks away from not having any advertising on the net anymore. All you need to do is google “Adblock Plus”, and say “I’m feeling lucky”, [Laughter] thank you very much. Now you know why my friends – and they are my friendsis some deep, warm, fuzzy humanness behind it. It’s not merely that it comes to us with the idea of some kind of constitutional propriety – there’s a House of Commons. Behind the use of the phrase “The House of Commons” as a constitutional propriety, is the appeal of the unwritten British constitution to being the document, or the imaginary document, that secures the freedom of the English people; Peter Linebaugh will be talking about that.

The very idea of commons, in that sense, brings us back to a question which was considered to be an urgent moral question in the middle of the 14th century. Just to remind you of the context: half the world has died within the space of 36 months, everybody’s gone, the thing’s a


when making the Peace Corps. The Great Society depended upon the idea that, in the end, head start could be made that way. Even the alternative position in the United States – the thousand points of light and the heavy dependence upon the religiously motivated volunteer sector – assumed the very same thing: positive social change could be constructed by trying experiments and freely sharing their consequences in a scientifically informed way. So the free software movement lays no claim to having devised the process for the production of productive politics for social change, we merely recognize that it can be implemented now, across the world – through a variety of techniques also characteristic of the best that 20th century political science could produce – on much morechoice between “the public domain” and “the private ownership of ideas”. The arguments that were being offered against the public domain, this morning, are real arguments – it is why the free software movement doesn’t suggest just putting software in the public domain. The public domain is the most open of all open commonses, and it can be appropriated from in freedom-disrespecting ways. Margaret said that, and she’s quite right. But that’s the whole purpose of the copyleft commons.

The Wikipedia is not subject to appropriative destruction, because the Wikipedia is a copyleft entity. The GNU Free Document License – another Stallman-created license, or in this case I suppose I can legitimately say Stallman & Moglen-created license, because we made it together in the kitchen of his mother’s apartment


aristocracy which wishes us to attend that funeral with a sense of despondency that the Sulzbergers and the Chandlers are passing from the scene. We needn’t worry about that. If it takes a loan sharking thug like Carlos Slim to keep The New York Times in business, then something is wrong at The New York Times; it’s not our problem. A great deal of worry is presently being cast on the question of “How are we going to save newspapers?” with no real question being raised on the question of why we should. [Laughter] It isn’t, in fact, that the owners of newspapers, whether you call them Murdoch, or you call them McCormick, or you call them Chandler, or even if you call them Pulitzer and Sulzberger, thoseto be told that we had to labor in somebody else’s demesne six days a month. We wanted not to be told we couldn’t go to gymnasium because we were Jews. We wanted not to be sent to the school for colored children. We wanted not to go to confession – to have a responsibility to report to somebody corrupt about what it was we had done wrong. We wanted not to be told that we couldn’t be saved unless we agreed. We struggled, that is, for a thousand years, for some simple things: For the freedom of thought, for the freedom of self-development, to be allowed to become. It was an impossible task. Tens of thousands of people died. Lots of people starved. Lots of people never


genera (19.38% of the total) (listed in [*SI Appendix*, Table S2](#d35e569){ref-type="supplementary-material"}) and 247 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) (16.89% of the total) (listed in [*SI Appendix*, Table S3](#d35e569){ref-type="supplementary-material"}) ([Fig. 2 *A* and *B*](#fig02){ref-type="fig"}).

We then selected individual significantly different taxa for functional studies to assess their potential contribution to autoimmune inflammation in MS. The specific taxa were selected based on the following criteria: (*i*) identifiable to species level or genus level with high overlap between species; (*ii*) culturable, to be able to study their functions in vitro and in vivo; (*iii*) type strains available from the ATCC to ensure reproducibility; and (*iv*) previously associated with immunoregulatory effects.

Among the genera significantly increased in MS samples were *Acinetobacter* and *Akkermansia*, while one of the most significantly reduced genera in MS patients wasmouse monocolonization as a valid experimental model to study microbial functions in vivo. However, we also recognize this approach has caveats, as monocolonization may not represent bacterial functions within the entire microbial community of the gut, and it requires using a mouse host for bacteria that presumably have a function in human disease. Therefore, it is not surprising to find that in vivo studies using monocolonized mice do not completely replicate in vitro results from human cells. We interpret our in vitro and in vivo findings as the first step toward future studies to identify pathways and metabolites that modulate Th1 and IL-10^+^ regulatory T lymphocytes. Such studies will likely open new avenues for the development of novel, microbiome-based therapeutic approaches for autoimmunity.

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Animal work was


to write his prize-winning first novel, Wobble to Death. While researching the life of a Native American athlete, he found a description of the Victorian "wobble," a walking endurance contest. Later, while "perusing the personals columns of the [London] Times as Sherlock Holmes used to do," he stated, he discovered an advertisement for a crime novel contest. Wobble to Death was the result.

Wobble to Death is the first of a series of novels featuring Detective Sergeant Cribb and his assistant, Constable Thackeray. Critics have praised these books for their authentic evocation of Victorian atmosphere and restrained characterization. All eight novels featuring Cribb and Thackeray proved popular with the reading public. They were adapted for a television series called "Cribb" and broadcast in America on PBS's Mystery! program. Loveseyobserved a Publishers Weekly contributor. New York Times Book Review contributor Rubins commented that The Last Detective provided "a bravura performance from a veteran showman: slyly paced, marbled with surprise and, in the end, strangely affecting."

Subsequent Diamond novels have adhered to the formula of The Last Detective. Lovesey has not forgotten his interest in the past, as some Diamond plots include allusions to Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, while others involve suspicious antiques dealers, history professors, or bibliophiles. In The Vault, for instance, Diamond investigates the discovery of a partial skeleton, unearthed from a vault underneath the house in which Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A Publishers Weekly contributor maintained that the plot of The Vault "crackles with wit and urbanity, snappy dialogue and deeper, fouler doings whispering from the


was about a gifted American woman athlete's exploitation by various individuals as she tries to win a unique triple at the Olympics. It was filmed by Avco Embassy, starring Susan Anton and James Coburn, directed by Joseph Sargent.

"I was encouraged to venture out of the Victorian period in my mystery writing, and wrote several one-off novels set in more recent times. In recent years I have tended to alternate between Victorian and contemporary settings. The Victorian series features Bertie, the Prince of Wales, writing his detective memoirs and revealing to perceptive readers more than he intends. The modern novels are about a police sleuth, Peter Diamond, embattled against forensic scientists and computer operators, and, amazingly, coming out the winner."

Booklist, September 1, 1991, Peter Robertson, review of The Last       ArrayList<Date> markedDates = new ArrayList<>();
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to say “press 1″was really awkward after years of playing the old way.

Even though I am a big Nintendo fan, I still prefer the PS controller over every other controller. It is just perfect and, even though it has a lot of buttons, it is easy to access. If there is something Nintendo missed here, it’s the consistency. Each generation was an interesting new experiment, but after the standard SNES controller, they swerved too much out of a comfort zone, trying always to be different from the competitors. I don’t think it was necessary, but still they did, and at the end it was a slew of nice childhood memories.

Welcome to a blog of gaming, movies, books and some history. In here I explore the stories that haveprefixes would otherwise choose. “Hot-potato” routing is a form of routing in which the nodes of a network have no buffers to store packets in before they are moved on to their final predetermined destination, such that each packet that is routed is constantly transferred until it reaches its final destination. Thus, the packet is bounced around like a “hot potato,” sometimes moving further away from its destination because it has to keep moving through the network. Another example is the change in BGP when a Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED) is employed. An MED, also referred to as the “external metric” of a route, is a suggestion to external neighbors about the preferred path into an autonomous system that has multiple entry points. While local routing changes are under


tolerate him or maybe be ambivalent about him but after his video clips, there’s no way that I could support Milo in any way."

Yiannopoulos, who has stirred up controversy in recent weeks with his appearances on college campuses, resigned from Breitbart and lost a major book deal after tapes emerged on which he advocated sexual relationships between "younger boys and older men."

In his resignation statement, Yiannopoulos said he believed the tapes were selectively edited.

"To repeat: I do not support child abuse," Yiannopoulos said at a news conference. "I am sorry to other abuse victims who may have interpreted my statements as flippant."

Spencer, who purchased his own tickets to CPAC, was ejected after a CPAC staffer spotted him and revoked his credentials. Defiant, Spencer flashed his empty lanyard tothe signal strength of the telephone in the adjacent cell is stronger and communications with the mobile cellular telephone are “handed off” to the adjacent cell.
While the technology for Internet access via wireline or landline telephone systems is well established, the technology for Internet access for wireless users is now emerging. There are several standards for wireless service including, but not limited to, Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS), Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service (DAMPS), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA, early versions being described in standards document IS-95 and U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,901,307 and 5,103,459 to Gilhousen et al., each being incorporated herein by reference), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA, described in standards document IS-136, incorporated herein by


reference), 80211.a and 80211.b, and Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD, described in CDPD Specification, Version 1.1 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,805,997 to Farris, each being incorporated herein by reference). In accordance with these wireless technologies, a wireless user transmits data to a mobile switching center (MSC). The MSC provides connectivity to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), certain multiplexing and control functions, and switching functions for wireless users. Multiplexed digital data from a plurality of remote wireless users is then capable of being transmitted via communication elements in the PSTN. In future technologies, the wireless data will be directed to the General Data Service Node, such as the Packet Data Service Node in CDMA, as opposed to routing to the MSC.
The high cost of computers and Internet access(which is really a HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) client) and the Internet's main program, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). STBs are manufactured by Philips, Daewoo, Netgem, Neon Technology, Paradise Innovations, and many other companies well known to those skilled in the art. STBs generally include numerous jacks and ports for audio, video, power, telephone, TV antenna, cable, and many other connections. STBs typically also come with remote wireless keyboards, and they do not necessarily have to be cable or satellite boxes.
However, one problem with Internet access using existing STBs is the unreliability of landline telephone service in many areas. Landline telephone service may not even be available in many rural areas in poorer parts of the world. However, there are existing wireless telecommunication networks in many of these


by following the mentioned protocol.

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For histological examination, data were expressed as the median and interquartile range (IQR) and were analyzed via the nonparametric Mann-Whitney *U* test. Correlations between the various parameters were assessed by the Spearman rank correlation analysis. For *in vitro* experiments, data were expressed as the means and the standard error of the mean (SEM) and were analyzed with one-way ANOVA and the paired Student\'s *t* test. A *P* value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

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Because IL-17A has been proposed to be significantly upregulated in nasal polyps, we firstly examined the expression of IL-17A and MUC5AC, as well as goblet cell hyperplasia, in polyp tissues and normal controls. As shown in [Fig. 1](#pone-0098915-g001){ref-type="fig"}, the mean number of IL-17A^+^ cells per HPFto subsequent nasal congestion and rhinorrhea. There are numerous publications concerning MUC5AC expression in NP patients [@pone.0098915-Ali1], [@pone.0098915-Kim2]. In agreement with the previous studies, we found that MUC5AC expression was significantly increased in NP patients. The molecular mechanisms underlying excessive MUC5AC production in chronic airway diseases are not fully understood; thus, the optimal therapeutic intervention for mucin remains controversial [@pone.0098915-MartnezAntn1]--[@pone.0098915-Tanabe1]. Previously, it was proposed that airway goblet cell hyperplasia and profound mucus hypersecretion are largely driven by the Th2 cytokine IL-13 [@pone.0098915-Kanoh1], [@pone.0098915-Alevy1]. For example, IL-13 has been demonstrated to induce goblet cell hyperplasia in human airway epithelial cells in vitro [@pone.0098915-Kanoh1], and blocking IL-13 significantly inhibits mucus overproduction in a murine model of asthma [@pone.0098915-Alevy1]. However, when we attempted to evaluate the importance of IL-13 in MUC5AC


This process is followed by the recruitment of TNF receptor-associated factor-6 and transforming growth factor β-activated kinase 1 kinase, which mediates the downstream activation of NF-κB [@pone.0098915-Shi2]. Importantly, a recent study has indicated that act1 is a confirmed E3 ubiquitin ligase through its U-box-like region. Activity of E3 ubiquitin ligase is essential for IL-17-mediated signaling pathways and inflammatory gene expression [@pone.0098915-Liu1]. However, whether act1 participates in IL-17A-induced MUC5AC production in airway epithelial cells remains unclear. To address this issue, we examined IL-17A-induced changes of gene expression *in vitro*. By using DNA microarray analysis, we identified 46 upregulated related genes, including MUC5AC (6.25 fold) and act1 (4 fold), in nasal epithelial cells, confirming the association of IL-17A, MUC5AC and act1 in polyp tissues. Other inflammation-related genes such as MMP2"My do//ll says an Hour/
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Photo: LoL eSports

Our on-site reporters Aluca and ISB bring you another video interview from Worlds 2014, this time with Alliance's Nyph.

The duo catches up with Alliance's support player on the first day of the Singapore group stages and chat him up on his time in Singapore, the loss to Cloud 9, the strength of the Taiwan and Singapore teams, and his predictions for the tournament.

So, Nyph, is this your first time in Singapore?

Yes.

How’s the country treating you?

It’s pretty good, I’ve been enjoying it a lot.

Did you watch the group stages in Taiwan?

Yeah I watched most games. Obviously, some games were not that interesting due to the level difference between the teams but I watched the games of all the strongerPharmacological properties of AC-3933, a novel benzodiazepine receptor partial inverse agonist.
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doesn’t get expelled for it.

Hampshire student starts GoFundMe and raised $11K to build tiny house for Syrian refugees, then sneakily tries selling the house on Craig’s List for $10K because he never researched anything about how the refugee process works.

Hampshire College administrator won’t let black woman speak on campus because she supports the second amendment.

https://twitter.com/antonia_okafor/status/938537593771380744

Hampshire student threatens to kill professors and students, then whines in viral video and raises money after she gets expelled.

Here’s an idea – maybe if you didn’t employ a lawyer who spent her workday threatening to sue Turtleboy for blogging about the public behavior of students, then you’d have money to stay financially solvent.

How will the world ever survive without this school acting as a SJW factory? Who will our tax dollars go to0px, 0px);
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Traditional Palm Wine music has been losing popularity in Ghana in recent years, but an ambitious four-piece band are working hard to bring back the love.

Kwan Pa ('the right path') perform indigenous Ghanaian music and are entertaining crowds of young and old alike.

Between them the members play a wide range of traditional instruments, including the seprewa (harp-lute), frikyiwa (castanet), shekere (big rattle), gome (square bass drum), ppanlogo drums and the acoustic guitar.

The quartet, who released their first album in March 2019, told BBC Africa they have their sights firmly set on bringing Palm Wine music to the international stage.

Video Journalist: Sulley Lansah.


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Cargo containers that can be positioned in an aircraft cargo hold are also known and can be seen in U.S. Pat. No. 3,672,529 to Feddersen et al., titled Cargo Holder and U.S. Pat. No. 4,747,504 to Wiseman et al., titled Aircraft Cargo Container. These cargo containers can be loaded with various types of cargo, including luggage, and positioned in a cargo hold of an aircraft. The cargo containersclear underestimation of malaria infection when diagnosed by microscopy. The PET-PCR method detected a large number of submicroscopic infections. This is in agreement with previous studies that reported the detection of a greater number of submicroscopic infections by molecular methods \[[@B18]-[@B21]\]. Indeed, the PET-PCR assay compared favourably to the molecular reference standard, nested 18S rRNA PCR, with 100% agreement between both methods. However, PET-PCR offers important advantages over standard nested PCR, such as affordability, faster turnaround time, less chance for DNA cross contamination due to lack of post PCR manipulations, and is overall better suited for large scale screening. In addition, the assay was shown to be comparable to the TaqMan-based real-time PCR method described by Rougemont et al. \[[@B22]\] in which both the PET-PCR and Rougemont assays


showed a detection limit as low as 3.2 parasites/·L \[[@B15]\]. This detection limit is also comparable to the reference standard nested 18S rRNA PCR where the detection limit ranged between 0.64-3.2 parasites/·L \[[@B15]\]. Due to the self-quenching nature of the PET primers this assay does not require expensive probes, making it a relatively less expensive method. The estimated average PET-PCR reagent cost for this study was around US \$2 per reaction. In addition, the reconstituted PET primers and master mix can be stored together at 4°C for up to a month or if the primers are kept lyophilized can be stored until the end-user is ready to use them. These practical advantages, along with the relatively low cost, make PET-PCR a sustainable new method for malaria detection forWelcome to my blog. I work full time and creating is my sanity. I like to use many different mediums and was a finalist in the Fire Mountain Beading Contest in 2008. I am a passionate blogger, and a promoter of handmade goodness.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Friday Friends - Australian Etsy Artists - Little Black Crow

Welcome to Friday once again lovely readers. What a week it has been, with Far North Queensland subjected to Cyclone Yasi while others are still cleaning up from the floods further South. My thoughts and very best wishes go out to those affected or who have family & friends affected by this tirade Mother Nature seems to be unleashing at present. Stay safe and remember, possessions can be replaced, lives can't x

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