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(When I wrote this story, I thought about you) I am twenty-two years old. My name is Luci. I’ll tell you right away. It isn’t a female name. It’s a short version from “Lucifer”. And my parents are very far from religion. My mom likes this name a lot. Now, more details about my mam. I love her very much and I’m a very exemplary son. I should say, me and my dad adore our mam. But, she has friends. And this is what my story about. My mom's age around forty. But, you’ll never think she is that old. Probably, a lot of sport, and good genes. And her friends are the same way. Everybody looks very hot. If I would have a chance, I would fuck them all, and I’m very picky. I don’t like “easy to get” girls. I like chasing and mystery. When a girl “fucks” my mind. One time my mam had a party. And there where I saw HER. It was one of the mam’s friends. She was chic. When I saw her, I wanted only one thing — to see her naked. Imagining her naked I got hard immediately. For now and forever she was the only one I wanted to fuck. I was thinking about her only. Few times I tried to talk to her, but she would sneak away. It drove me crazy. My fantasies were only about her. I couldn’t get rid of her in my mind. She was my ideal and unreachable woman. It was one of those days. My mam was going to some meeting. She gave me one job. To help her friend with heavy boxes, to move them from the garage to the living room. I changed my t-shirt and jeans and went to visit a friend. I called a few times in a doorbell — nobody answered. I pushed door’s handle. “Open.” Fuck, I don’t want to be involved in one of those cases with rubbery or murder. I went inside — silence. “Mrs. Gold, are you home?” Silence again. I decided to explore the house a little. Going upstairs I heard noises of running water. “Well, looks like somebody is in the shower.” To reveal myself right away, and miss a chance to watch? Nah…so I opened the door and started to watch. First time I didn’t see anything. It was too steamy. But then, the shower’s door is opened and I saw HER. I couldn’t believe how lucky I was. In front of my house lived my dreamed woman. She took a towel and started to dip water out of her body. Her body wasn’t “just beautiful”. It was “unbelievably sexy”. Long sexy legs, tight ass, cute waist, and perfect boobs. Oh my god, her boobs… I could tell they were not fake. Watching her was such a tease. Unzipped my pants, I started to jerk off. A Million fantasies went through my mind, and I was lost for a second. She started to put some oil on her body. Damn, I wanted to smell, to taste, to touch. Instead of that, I was here, shamefully jerking off. I closed my eyes for a second and heard a voice: “It’s very bad to spy like this.” I opened my eyes and saw her face. Panic got me. “I-I’m sorry madam, I’m here because my mam asked me to help you with boxes. I rang the bell, but nobody answered, so I decided to check if everything is OK. And I was totally shocked by your beauty. My mind is running very slow right now.” “So, you are not going to deny, you spied on me?” “Oh my god, spying? No! I just couldn’t figure out who was in the shower, and when I got it, it was too late.” I couldn’t look into her eyes. Her perfect breasts, view of her pussy, cute tummy — everything “screamed” “fuck me”. “Well, you wanted to watch — you’ll watch. Let’s go.” “No, wait. Can I move boxes first? Then, will watch?” She pressed me to the wall, and softly grabbed my dick, whispered into my ear: “Do you mind playing? I’m sure you’ll last long.” “I’ll last long? What are you talking about?” She didn’t say more, but took my hand and walked me downstairs. We passed by the big hall, kitchen and came into a big guest room. She sat me in the comfortable chair, and sat in front of me, spread her legs. Her elbows were touching the piano’s cover. The picture itself was very hot. I checked her out again and wanted her even more. “You’ll jerk off for me, and I will watch. I say “stop”, and you’ll stop. I say “continue”, and you keep going. You can’t cum until I say. If you cum before my permission, I’ll tell your mother how naughty you are. And I know, you don’t want to upset her.” I listened to her, and I thought it’s a dream. I couldn’t imagine jerking off under control, and I didn’t really have a choice. So, I decided to give it a try. She dropped a few drops of good smell oil between her breasts, looked at me, and said: “Start jerking off. Slowly, enjoying the process.” My hand covered my semi-hard dick. The idea that she watches me was a slight turn on. I saw how her fingers rubbed oil into her skin and wanted it to be my fingers. I wanted to touch her. The cock got in full size, and I got pleasant feelings. “Stop jerking off.” What? How? I just started, but a deal was a deal. She had a pillow under her back and spread her legs wider. Put away the bottle with oil, she took whipped cream. I swallowed. I adore whipped cream. Where will she put it? Hottie shook the can and little “rose” of whipped cream softly “touched” her clit. I just imagined how melting cream will flow down her folds, and my desire to suck in her pussy became unbearable. My cock got harder than usual. “Lick your palm and keep jerking off.” A skin touched the skin, and I breathed more relaxed. Oh my god, it was so good. I tried not to speed up, and just was enjoying the moves, watching her. One more “rose” fell on the cute hair triangle. Another load of blood reached the top of my dick. Thoughts about crazy orgasm started to build somewhere deep in my subconscious. “Stop jerking off.” She said, and drops of strawberry jam fell on her nipples. I barely took off the hand from my cock. The picture was extremely seductive. “If you’ll behave, I’ll let you do one move with your tongue and lick something.” My brain started to compare, what exactly I want to lick. The strawberry or a cream? The pussy or a nipple? Light pain in my shaft was annoying. “Put few drops on your dick and keep jerking off.” I almost moaned when my hand slid down on slippery skin. I knew if I’ll start moving faster, I’ll cum in a minute. Looked like she could read my mind. She watched me through her eyelashes down and said: “Faster.” Her finger slipped into wet openings. Oh my god, I could only imagine, how her juices mixed with whipped cream and almost reached orgasm. “Stop. Lick the pathway with your tongue from my breast hollow, down to my pussy, cover it with your mouth, lick all that, suck a little, and go back on your place.” Think about the bad stuff, just think about very bad and disgusting stuff. Don’t even think about her tasty, juicy body. Forget about those sweet, creamy pussy lips. Penetrating with my tongue into her openings, deeply licking off all that sweetness, I figured that I won’t last long. It was very sophisticated torture, and I had no idea how long she’ll gonna do it. When my tongue reached her clit, she moaned. I didn’t want to stop so bad, but her orders were the law. “What do you want the most? To have your cock covered by my mouth, or enter me all the way?” Jesus Christ, does it matter? Both ideas will lead me to the edge. I couldn’t allow myself to think about so pleasant things. My dick was begging about “release”. “Touch your balls, massage it softly. Think, how great it’ll feel to slide into my wet tight pussy with your hard and deep moves.” It was unreal. One more load of blood went to my hard as rock dick. I breathed slowly when she stood up and came to me. “So, what did you decide? My mouth or my pussy?” I wanted to scream “I don’t care, I’ll cum any minute”, but I tried not to think about jam on her nipples, said “mouth”. “If you’ll break eye contact with me for half a second, you’ll lose.” “I won’t.” While her warm mouth was covering my cock, I didn’t break our eye contact and keep thinking about one girl I had in school. She was so ugly, and I had sex with her. That sex was terrible. I played her face over and over, fighting with approaching orgasm. Her mouth wouldn’t stop, and I felt very tight muscles of her throat. For god’ sake “deep throat”? Why right now? My end touched back of her larynx, and she slowly started to move back. It was the only time in my life when I wished I had four inches dick and not eight ones. I squeezed my fist. My phalanges got white. Silently I grabbed the skin on my leg and started to hurt myself, fighting with rushing into “freedom” orgasm. She stood up from her knees and smiled. “Now, you can cum.” I got washed off. It seemed to me I had orgasm forever. I slightly touched my dick and got another one. It was so strong, I faint. In a few minutes, I looked at her. She liked whipped cream from her fingers. “It was impressive. Now, you can rest, and take care of boxes. It’s in a garage.”

France bans super-skinny models in anorexia clampdown PARIS (Reuters) - France will ban excessively thin fashion models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday. France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of euros, joins Italy, Spain and Israel which all adopted laws against too-thin models on catwalks or in advertising campaigns in early 2013.

YOU KNOW, I SPEND A LOT OF TIME OVER THERE EVERY NIGHT, CAREFULLY KNEADING AND STRETCHING THE NEWS INTO AN ARTISANAL, HAND-TOSSED MONOLOGUE. BUT SOMETIMES I LIKE TO GATHER UP ALL THE SCRAPS OF DOUGH AND LEFTOVER FLOUR LUMPS, CRUMBLE THEM UP AND THROW TH'EM ON TOP OF WHATEVER ALMOST EXPIRED FRUIT I HAVE LYING AROUND, THROW SOME EGG WASH ON THERE AND POP IT IN THE OVEN AT 350 FOR ABOUT 35 MINUTES, TO MAKE THE CRISPY COBBLER OF NEWS THAT IS MY SEGMENT: ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS. "MEANWHILE." MEANWHILE, KIM KARDASHIAN HAS DEBUTED A NEW LINE OF BODY MAKE-UP. AND SHE HYPED IT UP BY TWEETING THIS VIDEO OF GLOOP BEING LABORIOUSLY TROWELED INTO HER SKIN. PERFECT FOR ANYONE WITH A JOB WHERE YOU DON'T WEAR PANTS... OR TOUCH ANY FURNITURE. KIM'S BODY MAKEUP RAISES A LOT OF QUESTIONS. MAINLY, DOES IT COME WITH THIS MANSERVANT WHO DOES THE APPLICATION FOR YOU? "OH, JEFFRIES, DON'T FORGET THE BACK OF MY KNEES AND MY UNDER-BUTT!" BUT TELLING WOMEN THAT DOING THEIR FACE ISN'T ENOUGH, NOW THEY NEED TO SLATHER THEIR WHOLE BODIES, IS A LITTLE HARSH. THERE'S NO WAY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO FALL FOR-- AND IT'S ALREADY COMPLETELY SOLD OUT. WHICH IS WHY KIM KARDASHIAN HAS ALSO RELEASED BODY MAKEUP FOR YOUR INSIDES. THIS ORGAN-PERFECTING FOUNDATION GOES DOWN EASY. THE APPLICICATOR BRUSH, A LITTLE HARD TO SWALLOW. AND IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, THERE'S ANOTHER BROWN LIQUID I POUR INSIDE MY BODY TO FEEL MORE ATTRACTIVE. ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) I'LL TELL YOU, JUST TWO OR THREE APPLICATIONS, AND I'D TAKE ME HOME. ( LAUGHTER ) MEANWHILE, IN TV NEWS, "MORE THAN 20,000 CHRISTIANS HAVE SIGNED A PETITION CALLING FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE TV SHOW 'GOOD OMENS.'" THE PROBLEM IS THEY SENT IT TO NETFLIX, BUT THE SHOW IS ON AMAZON PRIME. THEY HAVE ALSO DEMANDED THAT ABC CANCEL, "THE CBS EVENING NEWS." "GOOD OMENS" IS ABOUT A DEVIL AND AN ANGEL TEAMING UP TO SAVE THE WORLD. PETITIONERS CLAIM THE SHOW "MAKES SATANISM APPEAR NORMAL, LIGHT AND ACCEPTABLE," "MOCKS GOD'S WISDOM," AND AREN'T HAPPY THAT GOD IS "VOICED BY A WOMAN," FRANCES McDORMAND. WELL, OKAY, THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE WRONG. GOD ISN'T VOICED BY FRANCES McDORMAND. GOD IS FRANCES McDORMAND. ( APPLAUSE ) AS IT SAYS IN THE FAMOUS POEM, "WHEN YOU SAW ONLY ONE SET OF FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND, IT WAS THEN THAT I WAS ON THE SET SHOOTING 'FARGO.'" MEANWHILE, IN BOOZE YOU CAN USE NEWS, "DAVE MATTHEWS, WHO'S HAD HIS OWN LINE OF WINES FOR YEARS NOW, RECENTLY UNVEILED THE NEW ADDITION OF A CALIFORNIA ROSEÉ." ACCORDING TO MATTHEWS, IT'S A "WAKING UP WINE," A ROSEÉ SO "DELICIOUS" THAT PEOPLE SHOULD "GET OUT OF BED AND DRINK" IT. ( APPLAUSE ) SHOULD THEY, THOUGH? BECAUSE DRINKING FIRST THING IN THE MORNING MEANS ONE OF TWO THINGS: YOU'RE A 26-YEAR-OLD AT BRUNCH, OR WE'RE A HALF AN HOUR INTO DAVE MATTHEWS' EPISODE OF "BEHIND THE MUSIC."

Wall Street: Not Guilty - petethomas http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_21/b4229060222515.htm ====== alexqgb Seems like a PR coup paid for by major banks who are majorly scared. It's all about sidestepping crime by saying "There may have been SOME crime, but it wasn't the ROOT cause of the crisis". Therefore what? No prosecutions whatsoever? Does the author really think that the law on Wall Street is this relative? That criminal acts only attract prosecutorial attention in those rare (read 'nonexistent') cases where they are the clear and singular causes of global economic meltdowns? The author goes on to "point out" that "prosecuting these crimes is HARD." Maybe that's what a hack being paid to lie might say, but actual prosecutors know better. Elliot Spitzer (who REALLY know this game, having seen it from both sides) noted in 'Inside Job' (a) how popular cocaine and hookers were (and still are) among Wall St. types (b) how simple it is to prosecute vice cases and (c) how easily they can ruin the careers, lives, and families of those who get busted. After all, the further up the status ladder you go, the harder these things are to live down. Sure, prosecuting white collar crime by auditing paperwork is tricky, and that's what makes the approach a rookie move. The real pros (like Spitzer) don't bother. Instead, they run a dragnet that catches a number of bank employees with their pants down (often literally). They threaten them with the end of their jobs, marriages, and dignity over a bunch of petty crap that they can make go away IF the poor bastards dig up the kind of dirt on their bosses that the prosecutors could never find on their own. Magically, dirt appears. Spitzer's big point, however, is that nobody works like this without their boss's approval. If there's strong pressure NOT to do their jobs, those jobs don't get done. And they're not going to get done if the White House is loudly signaling DO NOT investigate or prosecute. Bill Black had some interesting commentary on this point exactly, including remarks by Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story, who reported that "in 2008, the FBI, belatedly, realized that it had improperly targeted relatively trivial mortgage frauds while ignoring the massive lenders that specialized in making fraudulent mortgages. The FBI developed a plan to reorient its resources towards the “accounting control frauds” that always should have been its priority. We now know that the Department of Justice (DoJ) deliberately, and successfully, sabotaged this effort to investigate the major frauds. The second underlying scandal that their column disclosed is that two key members of what Tom Frank aptly termed Bush’s “Wrecking Crew” – Geithner and Bernanke – who President Obama chose to promote and reappoint and make his anti-regulatory leaders sought to discourage or limit federal and state prosecutions, enforcement actions, and suits. Geithner’s express rationale was that the financial system extreme fragility made vigorous investigations of the elite frauds too dangerous." [http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/04/fiat-justitia- ruat-c...](http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/04/fiat-justitia-ruat- caelum.html) In any case, we seem to be moving from "yes, there was crime, but don't prosecute" to "yes, there MAY have been crime, but we CAN'T prosecute" to "yes, the crisis was bad, but it wasn't CAUSED by crime, so we're not about to prosecute." Matt Taibai summed it up best in his February RS column "Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?" "Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. Just write that." I put down my notebook. "Just that?" "That's right," he said, signaling to the waitress for the check. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail. You can end the piece right there." Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era" [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall- stre...](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in- jail-20110216) ------ tghw This is not much more than a poorly titled straw man argument. The argument is not that fraud caused the collapse, but that fraud was discovered during and after the collapse, and that fraud should be prosecuted. Ultimately it doesn't matter if the cause of the collapse was legal or not, though it is hard to ignore the fact that it was (at least) exacerbated by fraud. A more accurate title might be: "Wall Street caused the crash (though not necessarily by illegal means) and was shown, in the process, to have committed numerous acts of fraud which should be prosecuted." ~~~ D_Alex Yep, or "Wall Street: Guilty" would also do the trick. But, this is Bloomberg. Just enjoy the irony. ------ theoj No conviction does not necessarily mean no guilt. And you may want to take a look at a counterpoint, because convictions may finally be on their way: Matt Taibi - The People vs Goldman Sachs [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs- gold...](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-goldman- sachs-20110511?page=1) ------ SkyMarshal _Taken from the top, these sentiments imply that the financial crisis was caused by fraud; that people who take big risks should be subject to a criminal investigation; that executives of large financial firms should be criminal suspects after a crash; that public revulsion indicates likely culpability; that it is inconceivable (to Madoff, anyway) that people could lose so much money absent a conspiracy; and that Wall Street bears collective guilt for which a large part of it should be incarcerated._ TLDR: set up a straw man unobvious only to people who haven't read or watched the referenced accuse's (Inside Job, Rolling Stone, etc) then spend 5 pages knocking it down. ------ wattsbaat The article makes a good point. There have been no trials (let alone convictions) of bank executives because they probably did not violate any actual laws. Reckless financial risk-taking on the part of private firms is not illegal. Sure, there were clear instances of fraud and predatory loaning by more minor players, but the guys at the top of the food chain are most likely not guilty of any specifiable crimes. But if the overwhelming majority of US citizens do in fact believe that the actions of the bank executives should be illegal, the logical thing to do would be to change the laws. (Of course, this solution is a bit unsatisfying, since no one can accurately predict these major market collapses and the next major crisis will likely be different enough that it could very well fall outside scope of any new laws.) Sidenote: Unfortunately, the recent conviction of Raj Rajaratnam will probably assuage public anger while not at all addressing this issue. From what I understand, he was found guilty of insider trading, which is more or less unrelated to the mortgage-bubble/financial-crisis. ~~~ tghw The article confuses two related but separate questions. The first is who caused the collapse. The second is whether or not they did something illegal. On the first point, the article claims the banks are "not guilty", which isn't really true. They're excessive risk-taking _did_ cause the collapse. That doesn't mean it was necessarily illegal, just that they are "guilty" of causing the collapse. But just because the causes weren't illegal doesn't mean that they didn't commit fraud along the way. The collapse revealed the fraud that had been going on, and while it didn't _cause_ the collapse, it made it worse. Ultimately, it doesn't even matter whether there was a collapse or not. The fundamental point of people like Ferguson is that we now know of a number of illegal acts which took place before and during the collapse, yet those have not been properly prosecuted, and that's a problem. ~~~ wattsbaat Thanks for highlighting that distinction. I guess we can chalk up the lack of prosecution for actual fraud to the incredible power the investment banks have over the political process (i.e. lobbyists, campaign funding, regulatory capture, etc). I watched Inside Job a while ago and details are starting to blur together. (I just remember everyone looking really bad.) Perhaps it's time for a second watch. ------ MaysonL Fraud, in the shape of "liars' loans", aka Alt-A, was the major driver of the housing bubble: see <http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04232010/profile.html> where William Black discusses the frauds. See Wikipedia on William K. Black for more. ------ afterburner Of course the finance industry will tend not to break the law. They lobby to have the laws changed instead to allow them to take the risks they want, at little actual risk to themselves personally. ~~~ alexqgb What's remarkable is that in spite of being able to rewrite laws in their favor, these bastards manage to break them anyway. I suppose it's simply because they can. ------ carsongross Business Week defending outright fraud by the banking sector? Shut UP!

Theodore L. Eliot Jr. Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. (January 24, 1928 – August 8, 2019) was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978. He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Boston's Eliot family. Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956. He also served as Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and as Secretary General for the United States of the Bilderberg Meetings from 1981 to October 1993. References External links Category:1928 births Category:2019 deaths Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan Category:Eliot family (America) Category:John F. Kennedy School of Government alumni Category:Members of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group Category:Harvard College alumni Category:United States Foreign Service personnel

Last August, Juicy J tweeted he would give a $50,000 scholarship to "the best chick that can twerk" and subsequently launched a real contest. Using his song "Scholarship" as a reference point, the Memphis rapper said, “I want to see a video [of] you telling me or showing me why you deserve this money." Nearly six months later, Juicy J has announced the winner of the $50,000 scholarship, Zaire Holmes. A 19-year-old student and single mother from Florida, Holmes is working toward a biology degree and plans on using the scholarship to pay for her lab expenses. In her video submission, which can viewed below, Holmes shares her story, as well as drops some a capella bars. Juicy says he picked Holmes as the winner not only because she's a motivated individual, but also because she actually read the rules for the contest. That's right: You didn't have to twerk your ass off to earn a Juicy J scholarship. Score one for society. [via WSHH] RELATED: Que and Juicy J Show Off Their Artillery On "Clip So Long" RELATED: Listen to Drake, Juicy J Remix Future's "Sh!t" RELATED: Watch Juicy J Throw Money Out of A Louis Vuitton Bag On "The Arsenio Hall Show"

-87*y. Let p be 14/35*(-20)/(-8)*7. Let x(h) = 14*h - 4*h + h - 7*h - p*h. What is x(d(v))? 261*v Let c(u) = 2*u**2. Let y(d) = -398217821*d. Calculate y(c(t)). -796435642*t**2 Let a(r) = 5. Let y(i) = -i - 1. Let w(c) = a(c) + 5*y(c). Let f(u) = u**3 + 24*u**2 + 23*u + 2. Let d be f(-23). Let t(j) = j + d*j - 2*j. Determine w(t(v)). -5*v Let k(o) = 133*o + 136*o + 133*o - 403*o. Let y(m) = 10*m**2 + 4*m**2 + 0*m - m + 10*m**2. Give y(k(j)). 24*j**2 + j Let t(p) = -88966882*p**2. Let b(z) = z. Calculate t(b(i)). -88966882*i**2 Let u(y) be the third derivative of -y**5/20 - 4580*y**2. Let a(q) = 7409*q**2. What is a(u(s))? 66681*s**4 Let m(f) = f**2. Let n(o) be the third derivative of 219*o**5/20 + 2*o**2 - 1341*o + 1. Determine n(m(q)). 657*q**4 Let v(m) = -236*m - m**2 - 253*m + 489*m. Let q(j) = 17*j. Calculate v(q(d)). -289*d**2 Let t(w) = 16*w**2. Let s(l) be the first derivative of -l**5/20 + l**2/2 - 42*l + 56. Let q(v) be the second derivative of s(v). Give q(t(b)). -768*b**4 Let d(n) = 580*n + 615*n - 1195*n - n**2. Let r(h) = 6810*h. What is d(r(w))? -46376100*w**2 Let y(p) = 158287780*p. Let f(a) = -5*a**2. Determine f(y(t)). -125275106486642000*t**2 Let z(f) be the first derivative of 3*f**2/2 + 50*f - 4206. Let w(d) = -2*d**2. Calculate w(z(j)). -18*j**2 - 600*j - 5000 Let t(k) = -5*k**2 - 3. Let o(a) = 6*a**2 + 2. Let h(r) = 3*o(r) + 2*t(r). Let d(i) be the third derivative of i**4/24 - 47240*i**2. Determine d(h(m)). 8*m**2 Let l(f) = 6*f. Let q(t) = -5*t - 5. Let b be q(-2). Let u = b - 2. Let p(r) = u*r**2 - 1741*r + 0*r**2 + 1741*r. Give l(p(x)). 18*x**2 Let c(o) = -6*o. Suppose -5*i = -0*i - 35. Let t(d) = i*d - 9*d + d. Give t(c(p)). 6*p Let i(n) = -1956*n + 116. Let s(f) = -8*f + 47. What is s(i(v))? 15648*v - 881 Let o(t) = -29*t. Let n(f) be the first derivative of -2*f**4/3 - 62*f + 99. Let b(r) be the first derivative of n(r). What is o(b(x))? 232*x**2 Suppose p + 8 = 5*p. Let z(j) = -p*j + 29 - 7*j - 29. Let t(w) = -2*w**2 + w + 3. Let l(s) = s + 3. Let y(i) = l(i) - t(i). Determine z(y(f)). -18*f**2 Let v(c) be the third derivative of -c**5/30 - c**4/12 - c**3/6 + 7758*c**2. Let w(n) = -n. Give v(w(u)). -2*u**2 + 2*u - 1 Let r(t) = 162559117*t. Let l(c) = c. Determine l(r(o)). 162559117*o Let i(g) = 3*g. Let u be 0/(21/(-147)*14). Let c(o) be the third derivative of u*o**3 + 0 + 0*o - 11/24*o**4 + 34*o**2. What is c(i(h))? -33*h Let f(u) = 9*u**2 - 96. Let a(i) = 11*i**2 - 112. Let c(d) = -6*a(d) + 7*f(d). Suppose k + 3 = 5. Let l(r) = r**k + 5*r**2 + 0*r**2. Calculate c(l(o)). -108*o**4 Let l(q) be the second derivative of 17*q**3/6 + 20*q. Let f(i) = 3*i + 2*i - 6*i + 7*i. Give l(f(r)). 102*r Let f(v) be the first derivative of -116*v**2 + 10815. Let s(z) = -46*z**2. Determine s(f(x)). -2475904*x**2 Let i(h) = -15 + 5*h - 55*h + 10 - 10 + 14. Let q(p) = p**2. Calculate i(q(t)). -50*t**2 - 1 Let b(a) = -3*a. Let r(l) = 349014*l + 15 - 349028*l + 11. Calculate b(r(m)). 42*m - 78 Let v(f) = 32387*f - 16196*f - 16194*f. Let y(r) = 78*r**2 + 2*r. Let n(l) = 545*l**2 + 15*l. Let x(a) = 2*n(a) - 15*y(a). What is x(v(g))? -720*g**2 Let m(f) = 1814*f - 37. Let q(n) = 305*n - 6. Let u(j) = 6*m(j) - 37*q(j). Let l(z) = 32*z. What is u(l(x))? -12832*x Let k(l) = 6*l - 18. Suppose -41 = -3*b - b - 5*p, -2*b - 17 = -5*p. Let j(w) = 4*w - 8. Let c(z) = b*k(z) - 9*j(z). Let u(v) = v**2. Determine u(c(a)). 144*a**2 Let j = -87 + 89. Let k(c) = j*c + c + 47 - 47. Let l(f) = -3*f. Determine l(k(p)). -9*p Let v(i) = 78123525*i**2. Let s(d) = 10*d**2. Give v(s(m)). 7812352500*m**4 Let t(g) = 17*g. Let o(v) = 2*v + 9136960. Determine t(o(q)). 34*q + 155328320 Suppose -5*d + 8*d = 9, 5*p + 4*d - 5892 = 0. Let b(v) = -p - 2*v + 1176. Let a(n) = -234*n. Let r(y) = a(y) - 130*b(y). Let q(k) = k**2. Give r(q(c)). 26*c**2 Let s(n) be the first derivative of 0*n + 0*n**2 + 2/3*n**3 - 2. Let z(y) = -282. Let p(j) = j + 376. Let d(m) = 3*p(m) + 4*z(m). What is d(s(r))? 6*r**2 Let a(k) = -16*k**2 + 17*k**2 - 85760 + 85760. Let t(h) = -13632*h. What is t(a(v))? -13632*v**2 Let v(z) = 884225*z. Let x(n) = -n. Determine x(v(g)). -884225*g Let q(o) = -2*o**2 - 157. Let i(x) = -556*x + 1158*x - 601*x. Calculate q(i(m)). -2*m**2 - 157 Let j(g) = -44*g**2 + 5*g + 16. Let w(y) = -87*y**2 + 11*y + 36. Let x(f) = -9*j(f) + 4*w(f). Let c(u) = 32*u. Give x(c(b)). 49152*b**2 - 32*b Let x(a) = -22985*a**2 + 9 + 2 + 22979*a**2. Let v(g) = 11*g**2. Give v(x(b)). 396*b**4 - 1452*b**2 + 1331 Let p(u) = 28*u**2 + 40*u**2 + 39*u**2 - 26*u**2 - 60*u**2. Let k = 6 + -4. Let v(m) = -k*m + m + 2*m. Determine p(v(x)). 21*x**2 Suppose 11*k - 82 - 17 = 0. Let q(z) = 1 + k + 94*z - 12 + 1. Let f(j) = 2*j**2. What is f(q(x))? 17672*x**2 - 376*x + 2 Let b(m) = -24278832*m + 18298. Let d(v) = -5308*v + 4. Let h(l) = 2*b(l) - 9149*d(l). Let i(u) = u**2. Calculate i(h(z)). 27331984*z**2 Let m(o) be the third derivative of o**4/4 + 2576*o**2. Let s(y) = 151*y**2. Calculate m(s(c)). 906*c**2 Let k(f) = -48*f**2. Let j(h) = -h**2 - 30*h - 137. Let w be j(-24). Let s(z) = -4 - 4*z**2 + w*z**2 - 3 + 7. Give k(s(n)). -432*n**4 Let t(g) = -5*g**2 + 4*g**2 - 3*g**2. Let f(x) = -5327*x + 10632*x - 5303*x. Determine f(t(j)). -8*j**2 Let r(q) = -2*q - 32. Let m(y) = -15*y**2 + 140*y + 5. Let n(o) = 31*o**2 - 245*o - 9. Let z(l) = 7*m(l) + 4*n(l). What is r(z(v))? -38*v**2 - 30 Let r(z) = 418*z - 5. Let p(w) = -w**2 - 820. Give r(p(a)). -418*a**2 - 342765 Let z(x) = 83164*x. Let k(u) = 3*u**2 + u. Calculate k(z(v)). 20748752688*v**2 + 83164*v Let u(r) be the second derivative of -2*r**4/3 - r. Let n(f) = 4628*f - 9247*f + 4619*f + 2*f**2 + 3*f**2. What is n(u(s))? 320*s**4 Let a(b) be the first derivative of 125*b**2/2 + 8966. Let m(v) = -2*v**2 + 3*v - 3. Let d(j) = 4*j**2 - 7*j + 7. Let q(p) = -3*d(p) - 7*m(p). What is q(a(r))? 31250*r**2 Let o(f) be the second derivative of 5*f**3/3 + 181*f - 4. Let y(q) = -11*q**2 + 0 + 0. Determine o(y(x)). -110*x**2 Suppose 0 = 2*g + n - 1 - 4, 5*g = 5*n + 35. Suppose 72*v - 74*v = -g. Let r(m) = 2*m**2 - 601*m - 3*m**v + 601*m. Let u(z) = 3*z. Calculate u(r(x)). -3*x**2 Let o(q) = q**2. Let l(h) = -h - 9. Let r be l(-18). Let k be 1/(-3) - ((-12)/r - 5). Let m(b) = -16 + b - 2 + k - 2*b. Calculate o(m(x)). x**2 + 24*x + 144 Let c(p) = -p**2. Let v(r) = r**3 - 2*r**2 + 4*r - 21. Let i be v(4). Let u(h) = 50*h**2 - 31*h + i*h + 10*h**2. Determine u(c(j)). 60*j**4 + 4*j**2 Let a(r) = -19*r - 5. Let s(v) = 6319859*v. Determine s(a(d)). -120077321*d - 31599295 Let d(t) = t**2. Let a(j) = 10167201*j. Give a(d(p)). 10167201*p**2 Let b(m) = -26498*m**2. Let q(h) = -905*h**2. What is q(b(a))? -635440323620*a**4 Let a(h) = 13*h + 6. Let o(y) = 13*y + 22. Let q = -914 - -925. Let t(b) = -7*b - 12. Let p(g) = q*t(g) + 6*o(g). Determine p(a(u)). 13*u + 6 Let r(c) = -1838*c. Let w(g) = 34*g + 33*g + 41*g + 38*g - 147*g. Determine r(w(s)). 1838*s Let q(h) = -52*h**2. Let l(v) be the third derivative of 0*v**3 + v**2 + 0*v**4 + 0 + 86*v + 1/60*v**5. Determine l(q(z)). 2704*z**4 Let p(x) = -5*x. Let d(t) = t. Let s(l) = -3*d(l) - p(l). Let u(i) = -24*i + 41. Let a be u(-5). Let h(q) = -161 - 7*q + a. What is h(s(b))? -14*b Let i(a) = -51*a. Let f(h) = 217*h. Let x(u) = 8*f(u) + 34*i(u). Let d(j) = -1300*j**2. Determine x(d(r)). -2600*r**2 Let d(f) = -6*f**2 + 3*f - 79. Let o(w) = -7994*w. What is d(o(r))? -383424216*r**2 - 23982*r - 79 Let i(a) = -532*a + 1. Let d(h) be the third derivative of h**4/24 + 2*h**2 - 265. Calculate d(i(r)). -532*r + 1 Let t(c) be the second derivative of 11*c**4/12 - 12*c. Let w(s) be the third derivative of 0*s + 0 + 0*s**4 + 4*s**2 + 1/60*s**5 + 0*s**3. Determine w(t(x)). 121*x**4 Let t(n) = -2*n. Let d(a) = -619 + 2906 - 719 + 2*a - 997. What is d(t(i))? -4*i + 571 Let h(l) = 9*l - 12. Let q(b) = -9*b + 10. Let f(p) = 3*h(p) + 4*q(p). Let j(o) = 19*o - 9. Let t(d) = 9*f(d) + 4*j(d). Let v(u) = -5*u**2. Calculate t(v(s)). 25*s**2 Let m = 20 + -13. Let n be 16 + 4/20*(20 + -5). Let r(g) = -g - 10*g + n*g - m*g. Let h(z) = 12*z**2. Calculate h(r(a)). 12*a**2 Suppose -5*h = 4*j - 34, -j + 27*h + 13 = 29*h. Let l(z) be the first derivative of 0*z - j - 5/2*z**2. Let a(m) = -2*m. Calculate a(l(x)). 10*x Let v(s) = -28080 - 17*s - 28086 -

Continuum (Prototype album) Continuum is the second studio album by American progressive metal band Prototype. The album was released on May 23, 2006 via Nightmare Records. The opening track on the album, "The Way It Ends", was featured as a bonus track in the music rhythm game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and as part of the Rock Band Network's downloadable content. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Prototype Vince Levalois – vocals, guitar, engineering Kragen Lum – guitar, backing vocals on "Probe", additional engineering Kirk Scherer – bass Additional musicians Damion Ramirez – drums on tracks 1–9, 11 Pat Magrath – drums on "Heart Machine" Production Prototype – producers Neil Citron – engineering Neil Kernon – mixing Eddy Schreyer – mastering Artwork Travis Smith – artwork, package design and layout (with band) Alex Solca – band photography References External links Category:2006 albums Category:Prototype (band) albums

Black saddlebags The black saddlebags (Tramea lacerata) is a species of skimmer dragonfly found throughout North America. It has distinctive wings with characteristic black blotches at their proximal ends, which make the dragonfly look as though it is wearing saddlebags. The black saddlebags is a relatively large dragonfly at about 5 centimeters in length. The body is thin and black, and the female may have lighter spotting or mottling dorsally. The head is much wider than the rest of the body and is dark brown in color. The insect can be found at bodies of stagnant water, such as ponds and ditches. The female mates once and stores all the sperm she needs for fertilization. If she should mate again, the second male will remove the sperm of the first male from her body with the brush-like apparatus on his specially-adapted penis. The larvae of the dragonflies hatch and eat anything they can catch, favoring a carnivorous diet of organisms smaller than themselves. Adults of the species, especially males, congregate in swarms. Some populations of this dragonfly undertake migrations. Both the larvae and adult forms are efficient predators of mosquitoes, so they are a helpful insect to have in wet areas where mosquito infestations occur. External links Category:Libellulidae Category:Insects described in 1861

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Arne Carlsson Arne Carlsson, Arne Carlson, Arne Karlson or Arne Karlsson may refer to Arne Carlson (born 1934), American politician Arne Carlsson (gymnast) (1924–2011), Swedish gymnast Arne Carlsson (ice hockey) (born 1943), Swedish ice hockey defenceman Arne Karlsson (sailor) (born 1927), Swedish sailor Arne Karlsson (sport shooter) (born 1946), Swedish sports shooter

"Lamb men make good slaves." "Khal Drogo will make a gift of them to the slavers, and the slavers will give us gold and silk, and steel." "She is a lamb girl, Khaleesi." "The riders do her honor." "If her wailing offends the Khaleesi," "I will bring you her tongue." "Do as I command or Khal Drogo will know the reason why." "Moon of my life," "Mago says you haven taken his spoils, a daughter of a lamb man who was his to mount." "Tell me the truth of this." "Mago speaks the truth, my sun and stars." "I have claimed many daughters this day so they cannot be mounted." "This is the way of war." "These women are slaves now to do with as we please." "It pleases me to keep them safe." "If your riders would mount them, let them take them for wives." "Does the horse mate with the lamb?" "The dragon feeds on horse and lamb alike." "You are a foreigner." "You do not command me." "I am Khaleesi." "I do command you." "See how fierce she grows?" "That is my son inside her, the stallion that will mount the world, filling her with his fire." "I will hear no more." "Mago, find somewhere else to stick your cock." "A Khal who takes orders from a foreign whore is no Khal." "I will not have your body burned." "I will not give you that honor." "The beetles will feed on your eyes." "The worms will crawl through your lungs." "The rain will fall on your rotting skin until nothing is left of you but bones." "First you have to kill me." "I already have." "My sun and stars is wounded." "A scratch moon of my life." "Where are the healers?" "This is the bite of a fly." "I can help the great rider with his cut." "The Khal needs no help from slaves who lie with sheep." "She is mine." "Let her speak." "Witch." "Too many words." "A witch's words poison the ears." "Let her clean your wound, my sun and stars it makes me hurt to see you bleed."

List of people from Lake Charles, Louisiana Among the notable people from Lake Charles, Louisiana are: Mark Abraham, state representative for Calcasieu Parish, effective 2016 Lynda Benglis, sculptor, born in Lake Charles Terry Burrows, Major League Baseball pitcher; played for the Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres James David Cain (b. 1938), former state senator; former state representative for Beauregard Parish whose district included a part of Calcasieu Parish Edward M. Carmouche (1921–1990), chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party, 1966–1968; ally of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson Christopher Catrambone (b. 1981), Businessman and Humanitarian, founder of Migrant Offshore Aid Station A. C. Clemons (1921–1992), trucking executive in Jefferson Davis Parish; first Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate since Reconstruction Casey Daigle, baseball pitcher in the Houston Astros organization; husband of softball star Jennie Finch; graduated from Sulphur High School Mike Danahay, Democratic state representative for Calcasieu Parish since 2008; sales representative in Lake Charles; graduate of McNeese State University Michael E. DeBakey, heart surgeon; first person to successfully implant an artificial heart (1963); member of the Health Care Hall of Fame; recipient of the United Nations Lifetime Achievement Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, and the National Medal of Science; originator of the M.A.S.H. unit concept; born in Lake Charles; graduate of Lake Charles High School William Dore, businessman Andre Dubus, author and essayist; born in Lake Charles; educated at McNeese State University Joe Dumars, former player and current general manager for the Detroit Pistons; played for McNeese State University before going on to have a successful NBA career; named MVP of the 1989 NBA finals; elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006 Stephen Dwight, incoming Republican member of the Louisiana House for District 35 David Filo, billionaire; born in Wisconsin but raised partly in Moss Bluff; co-creator of the Internet portal Yahoo! Sean Patrick Flanery, actor; starred in The Boondock Saints and The Dead Zone television series; born in Lake Charles Dan Flavin, former state representative from Lake Charles Ray Fontenot, Major League Baseball pitcher, 1983–1986, for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, and Minnesota Twins Matt Forte, starting running back and 2nd round-pick of the Chicago Bears; MVP of the 2008 Senior Bowl A. B. Franklin, state representative for Calcasieu Parish since 2008 Lether Frazar, president of McNeese State University; Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana under Earl Kemp Long, 1956–1960; namesake of the McNeese library Dominic Gorie, astronaut from Lake Charles Johnnie Gray, retired NFL safety, played for the Green Bay Packers Paul Groves, opera singer Ha*Ash, Mexican-American pop-country duo composed of sisters Hanna Nicole (b. 1985) and Ashley Grace (b. 1987) Nickie Hall, gridiron football player Allen "Puddler" Harris, musician with Ricky Nelson, Conway Twitty, and Jimmie Davis; former director of the Lake Charles Civic Center Trey Quinn, professional athlete with the Washington Redskins of the NFL T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education, 1908–1940; principal of Central High School in Lake Charles in the mid-1890s Tommy Mason, former professional football player, first overall pick of 1961 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings Mike Heinen, professional golfer; has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour; former winner of the PGA Shell Houston Open Bob Hilton, host of game shows including Truth or Consequences; briefly the announcer for The Price is Right; began his career at KPLC TV Harry Hollins, state representative for Calcasieu Parish, 1964–1980 Brian Johnson, champion track-and-field athlete; college coach Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones (b. 1905), president and baseball coach at Grambling State University, 1936–1977; born in Lake Charles Robert G. "Bob" Jones, stockbroker in Lake Charles; former member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Calcasieu Parish Sam Houston Jones (b. 1897), Assistant Parish Prosecutor in Lake Charles for nine years before defeating Earl Kemp Long; governor of Louisiana in 1940; born in Merryville, Louisiana; died in 1978 in Lake Charles, where he is interred at Prien Pines Cemetery Claude Kirkpatrick (1917–1997), state representative from Jefferson Davis Parish (1952–1960); director of the Louisiana Department of Public Works, through which capacity he worked to establish the Toledo Bend Reservoir; grew up in Lake Charles and graduated from Lake Charles High School Eddie Kennison, retired NFL player, active 1996–2008; graduated from Washington-Marion High School Chuck Kleckley, departing state representative and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives Jesse Knowles, businessman, civic leader, state legislator representing Calcasieu Parish; survivor of the World War II Bataan Death March Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Conway LeBleu, represented Calcasieu and Cameron parishes in the Louisiana House, 1964–1988; Lake Charles native Zachary Levi, actor, title character in the NBC series Chuck; born in Lake Charles Margaret Lowenthal, first woman to represent Calcasieu Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1980–1988 Nellie Lutcher, jazz singer, gained some national popularity in the late 1940s and 50s; recorded for Capitol Records Ted Lyons, baseball Hall of Famer who pitched for the Chicago White Sox; born in Lake Charles Willie Mount, mayor of Lake Charles (1993–1999) Jason Ray Nope, Professional wrestler in Japan as "Jason Ray" Chad Ogea (b. 1970), pitcher, Major League Baseball (1994–1999), for the Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Phillies, best known for his performance in the 1997 World Series Van Dyke Parks, Mississippi-born composer, singer, musician, and actor; grew up in Lake Charles James St. Raymond (born c. 1957), former state representative and businessman in Orleans Parish; formerly resided in Lake Charles Eddie Shuler, founder of Goldband Records; recorded swamp pop, Cajun, and other genres of southern music Guy Sockrider (1921–2011), industrialist; state senator, 1948–1964 Victor T. "Vic" Stelly (born 1941), former state representative; author of the Stelly Plan Dennis Stine, state representative, 1987–1988; state commissioner of administration, 1988–1992; lumber company official James Sudduth (1917–1995), mayor of Lake Charles, 1965–1973 and 1989–1993; director of the Port of Lake Charles; former city finance director Joe Gray Taylor, distinguished historian of Louisiana and the American South; professor and graduate school dean at McNeese State University Justin Vincent, plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers; graduate of Alfred M. Barbe High School in Lake Charles Donald Ellsworth Walter, U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana; U.S. attorney for the Western District 1969–1977, based in Shreveport; attorney formerly in private practice in Lake Charles George H. Wells (1833–1905), Northern-born Confederate States of America officer; practiced law in Lake Charles; served in the Louisiana State Senate, 1878–1880 Lucinda Williams, singer-songwriter born in Lake Charles; recorded the song "Lake Charles" about Clyde Woodward, a boyfriend of hers born in Nacogdoches, Texas, who nevertheless told everybody that he was from Lake Charles Ken Winey, player of gridiron football Kane Sillyman Lake Charles/Moss Bluff Native; Professional E-Sports Player, most notable Cajundome 5k Tournament References Category:Lake Charles, Louisiana Lake Charles Lake Charles, Louisiana

Gay Cup celebration planned in Regina for Grey Cup weekend Regina’s gay nightclub Q is ready to cheer the home team What do you do when the Grey Cup comes to Regina? You jump on the bandwagon and queer Canadian football’s biggest weekend of the year by creating the first annual Gay Cup celebration. Bryon Grothe, general manager and bartender at Q, Regina’s only gay nightclub, is spearheading the celebration. “I decided to switch the name from Grey to Gay,” Grothe says with a laugh. “I’m the only straight employee working here, and I was surprised to learn how knowledgeable many of the members were about football. I was talking defence strategy, and the members were just kicking my ass with their knowledge.” Grothe, who has worked at Q for nine months, says this is, after all, Regina, hometown of the Canadian Football League’s most fanatical team boosters, for the community-owned Saskatchewan Roughriders. So you can understand how ingrained football is here, he says. “There’s even a women’s football league, mostly comprised of lesbians, with teams in Regina and Saskatoon, and roller derby nights are huge here for lesbians. They get 1,200 fans out at the Tartan Curling Club,” he says. With Regina the host city for the 101st Grey Cup, on Nov 24, Grothe says he’s expecting many gay and lesbian football fans. “We have people coming in from across Canada and the States to enjoy Grey Cup Festival and the big game at Mosaic Stadium — including drag queens — who we also expect here for Gay Cup. It’s just a good old party.” Gay Cup, which will be celebrated Nov 20 to 24, mirrors the Grey Cup festival. Events include karaoke, a Saturday afternoon pool tournament, theme nights, prizes and drink specials, and a barbecue at 4pm on game day, when the Roughriders will confront the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats on screens throughout the bar. “If you’re coming down to Q this weekend, get ready to show both your Rider and gay pride,” Grothe says. “And if the Riders win, look out. I might have to apologize ahead of time for a lack of beer. The city is already running low on beer, clamato juice, watermelons, et cetera, et cetera from Agribition, which was held last weekend,” he says. “I have beer right up to the ceiling, in linen closets, everywhere.”

Main Navigation Eighteen (18) Black-And-White Press Photographs of Darrow. Darrow, Clarence Interesting Collection of Darrow Photographs [Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938)]. [Eighteen Black-and-White Press Photographs of Darrow]. Sizes ranging from 3-1/2" x 6-1/2" to 8" x 10." Light to moderate edgewear, annotations and tipped-in captions to versos, some photos have crop marks and creases. $1,500. * This interesting collection comprises seven formal and informal images of Darrow, seven images of Darrow with associates and three images with Darrow and his wife, Ruby and an image of her alone.

Thomas Francis Markham Thomas Francis Markham (March 22, 1891 – June 9, 1952) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Markham was ordained to the priesthood on June 2, 1917 for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Markham was appointed titular bishop of Acalissus and auxiliary bishop of the Boston Archdiocese on July 18, 1950, and was ordained on September 14, 1950. Notes Category:1891 births Category:1952 deaths Category:People from Lowell, Massachusetts Category:American Roman Catholic bishops Category:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Category:Religious leaders from Massachusetts Category:Catholics from Massachusetts Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops

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'Logan': Black and White Version Coming to Theaters in May "To make a great B&W version of a film, the whole thing's gotta be regraded & timed shot by shot," director James Mangold tweeted. Logan will be seen in a new light next month. Director James Mangold has revealed a black and white version of the film will be hitting theaters May 16. "Suggestion. Hard core B&W loving LOGAN fans should not make any plans on the evening of May 16th," Mangold tweeted. "Won't be on a TV. And the answer is no. To make a great B&W version of a film, the whole thing's gotta be regraded & timed shot by shot," he added. Mangold also revealed that a black and white version will be available on the home entertainment release, but confirmed it will also be in theaters: "Yes, but it will be on big screens on the 16th."

Taking a deep dive into the film of the Detroit Pistons first lose with Blake Griffin. The Detroit Pistons lost to the LA Clippers 95 to 108 in a rough game that marked their first loss since the Blake Griffin trade. Obviously, they were going to lose at some point, but what is it that was different in this game? What worked, what didn’t, and what was just random chance? Let’s have a second look. So Andre was really bad, right? I mean, he wasn’t good. After a second look, I actually came away not feeling quite so bad about his performance, but it still was bad. First off Andre just didn’t really bring it defensively until the 4th quarter, there was a lot of plays that ended up like this. Like, what is he even doing on that play? DeAndre Jordan disguises which way the pick is coming, but Drummond nonchalantly walks up to the side it looks like even though it is clearly not set yet, and when Tobias Harris goes the other way he doesn’t even pretend to make up for his original mishap. It was generally not as glaring as this one, but he had too many defensive possessions where he was out of position or a step slow on a rotation. I was also upset about the number of offensive rebounds he gave up, especially the ones against Montrelz Harrell, but after a second viewing, I don’t think as many of those were really his fault. The other bad thing was that he apparently decided he had no interest in attacking the hoop when he had the ball in his hands. He ended up taking five or six shots exactly like this: If he took one of those then whatever, you can’t drive every time (even if he should) but there were a bunch of them. He has a smaller guy on him in Harrell, and he totally lets him off the hook by taking that shot. Drummond doesn’t make Harrell play defense, fight him for position, or box him out, he just flips up some weak crap and it misses. I’m not as anti-hook shot as a lot of people are, but this was bad. The hook shots were especially frustrating because he was out there with the super-spacing lineup were he was flanked by Anthony Tolliver, Reggie Bullock, Luke Kennard, and Langston Galloway. He has all the space in the world to do what he wants, and he still chooses that dumb hook shot. It is even more frustrating because they got better results with this lineup at first by having Drummond do what he does best, run pick and rolls. It all started to devolve after the Clippers made a slight adjustment to make the pass to Andre a little bit tighter which resulted in this: The roll is there but the window is tighter and Kennard doesn’t have the guts to give Drummond a jump ball. The end result is Drummond getting the ball with deep position and taking, yet another hook shot. For what its worth this is a less frustrating post up and hook shot, it came fairly organically and Drummond had decent position at that point. Still would rather have him put it on the floor though. The good news, long-term at least, is that the Pistons have an easy fix to this problem he is just sitting on the bench in a suit right now. That pass that Kennard passed up is one that Reggie Jackson is hitting every single time until the Clippers have to overplay Drummond’s rolls to such an extent that Jackson is going to have all kinds of space to toss up runners which is death for opponents. For the time being though I think that with this lineup the Pistons should either really harp on their guards to be braver about tossing that lob, or try harder to make sure a proper ball handler is on the floor even if that sacrifices some of the spacing. Blake Griffin was pretty bad too right? Yeah. My first thoughts were not as harsh for Griffin but after a second viewing, he didn’t get a bump in the right direction like Drummond did. His final stat-line wasn’t awful, 19 points on 21 shot equivalents, 8 rebounds, and 6 assists against just 1 turnover. But the problem is that way too often when he touched the ball, it stuck, and he generally tried to do too much with it. That is partially his fault, partially the coaching staffs fault, and partially no ones fault. It is his fault because he does, in fact, have the ball so he is the one actually making decisions on the floor, like this play here: Griffin gets the ball after a Drummond offensive rebound, just kind of stands there for a bit, and then chucks a three. He obviously didn’t have a lot of time, but a contested three is never going to be an ideal ending point with Griffin. Or this play where he actually converts: He converts this one after getting a post up set up against Tobias Harris, but there is very little movement leading into it with Griffin going pretty slowly. Griffin also waits until there are only a few seconds left on the clock before making his move which sets him up so that if his first move doesn’t work he’s screwed which will give him trouble later in the game, like here: Coming out of half-time the Pistons set up a post up for Griffin against Tobias Harris and Griffin gets the ball with twelve seconds left on the clock which is plenty of time. He decides to take a few seconds to hold the ball high in the air and stare down Tobias Harris only to make a move into a coming double team and toss up a kind of desperate hook shot. Once again, it isn’t even so much that he is making terrible decisions on these plays, it’s just that the ball is sticking too much. Part of this problem is the coaching staff because they are not always running brilliant things to make Griffin’s life easier. Ish Smith just stands for a bit before the ball finds Griffin, at which point him and Drummond make a token run at what looks like it should be a pick and roll but is not actually even remotely a pick and roll. Griffin then dribbles a couple more times before taking a contested jumper again. Of course, this is also kind of no one’s fault because in both Griffin’s decision making and the lack of good play calls part of the problem is that Griffin has been with the team for a little over a week and the Pistons have played every other night. Blake doesn’t have great chemistry with guys yet to improvise all that effectively out of the post, and the coaching staff hasn’t had enough time to implement a lot of good plays. That said we did see some flashes of both in this game. The Pistons are starting to show some nice stuff to compliment Griffin’s post-ups, occasionally doing some stuff to help get him in good position: Here all it takes is a couple of off-ball screens, including a really nice one by Ish Smith that was surely a surprise for Danilo Gallinari, and Blake finds the ball just outside the restricted area and it is easy work to draw a foul. Getting more of these types of actions onto the court is beneficial for two reasons, first off is that it just works better of course, but the second is that it saves Griffin some major wear and tear. Repeatedly becoming a human battering ram and bulling your way all the way into the paint from far out is totally exhausting and guys can only take so much. Even when Griffin ends up posting up farther away, the Pistons have started to make some good trends towards making the most of the often limited spacing around him. That is the starting lineup that features exactly one good shooter. The Pistons make the most of him by having him and Blake play a two-man game with Bullock staying right next to Griffin. This is a nice wrinkle by the Pistons coaching staff that appeared very quickly after Griffin’s arrival. Setting up like this, Griffin has a very easy pass to the only guy who is really worth passing to and if the Clippers want to send help off one of the non-shooters it will have to come from all the way across the court which will give Griffin and other players more time to read and react. There was also a play that showed what could come with more comfort and chemistry: Kennard got his shot very blocked, but the Pistons have enough high-IQ players on the roster that once they get more comfortable with each other I would expect to see more of this kind of stuff where they just read and react very quickly. In the end, though, the biggest problem Griffin had offensively is that he just missed shots he usually hits. There are obvious problems with spacing and cohesion at times with the Pistons right now, but there were several possessions late where Griffin had space to work in a matchup you like and he just couldn’t convert. My guess is that Blake makes that nine out of ten times, he had space to work against a bad defender and he got right to the rim but just left it short. There were a few other shots that looked like that in the end, where Griffin ended up with a look you want and he just couldn’t get it to fall. Perhaps he was a bit tired due to trying to do too much all night, maybe it was just bad luck, maybe he thought too much against his old team, but those are shots he has to make. In good news, this was the fourth close game the Pistons have played since Griffin’s arrival and in the other three, he converted these same plays to close out wins so I’ll take three of four. The other thing worth mentioning is that Griffin struggled defensively as well in this game. He mostly struggled to get out to shooters effectively, often not closing out far or fast enough. On that play, he just gives up on the play which gives Harris a wide open three. Most other instances were not so obvious, but he didn’t quite manage to do good enough on his closeouts. So what was really the difference in the game? Drummond getting outplayed by Harrell when they were on the floor is a big part of it. An undersized backup center who is mostly an energy guy can’t do that to Drummond. But the biggest thing is that Griffin and Drummond missed some shots they should’ve hit, while the Clippers made the tough plays. Blake Griffin scored 19 points on 21 shot equivalents, while Lou Williams scored 26 points on 16 shot equivalents. If Blake hits a couple more shots and Williams misses a couple of his tough shots then the Pistons probably pull it out, the margin for error is generally pretty tiny in an NBA basketball game. Where there any bright spots? Yes, there were! First off is the obvious highlight moment that Griffin had. On one possession he did this: Which was objectively awesome but also showed exactly why Griffin is such an upgrade over Tobias Harris. Harris was doing the same thing, he had gotten a rebound and took it end to end, but Harris came into the paint and tried to flirt around Anthony Tolliver and finish a tough high arcing shot. Blake Griffin then did the same thing, but he bashed his way through Harrell to finish right at the rim with a foul. Then on the ensuing defensive possession, he did this: Tobias Harris sure isn’t doing that. Beyond Griffin, Stanley Johnson continues to be crazy impressive in the way he cannonballs his way to the rim in transition: And a lot of the (admittedly few) plays where the Pistons had some good movement in their offense it was often started with one of Johnson’s manic drives to the hoop. I don’t know if it will end up working as a starter, but the fact that I’m even wondering if he can be a good fit while not being able to shoot threes at all is a testament to the aggression and smarts Johnson has been playing with. He will be super interesting to monitor the rest of the season. Luke Kennard also made another move that will get noticed by opposing teams and continue to earn him respect with the ball in his hands by getting Lou Williams badly with a fake. Obviously, Reggie Bullock played a great offensive game, but I don’t think that needs a ton of explanation, dude can shoot and the Pistons desperately need it. Mostly the Pistons were bound to lose at some point, they have one shooter in their starting lineup, are integrating their number one option on the fly, and have been using an eight-man rotation. There was going to be a game where those obstacles tipped enough that they couldn’t overcome it no matter how many ferocious drives, rebounds, and defensive stops they managed. Also, Lou Williams is really good and so is Austin Rivers. Onto the Hawks.

New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 1 New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 1 is an album by jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, with Perico Sambeat (alto sax), Mario Rossy (bass) and Jorge Rossy (drums). Music and recording The album was recorded in concert at the Jamboree Club in Barcelona on May 10, 1993. The material is mostly jazz standards and pieces from the Great American Songbook. Release and reception It was released by Fresh Sound New Talent, after the Mehldau–Rossy album When I Fall in Love. The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that Mehldau's "introduction and improvisation on 'Old Folks' are quite breathtaking and it's clear that the pristine touch of the later discs was already in place." Track listing "Wonderful" (Ben Raleigh) – 13:55 "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 11:58 "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) – 10:01 "Sushi" (Mario Rossy) – 7:41 "Bodi" (Perico Sambeat) – 8:16 "Començar de Novo" (Ivan Lins) – 8:49 "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 9:32 "No Blues" (Miles Davis) – 1:57 Personnel Brad Mehldau – piano Perico Sambeat – alto sax Mario Rossy – bass Jorge Rossy – drums References Category:Brad Mehldau albums Category:1993 live albums

ZmMKK4, a novel group C mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase in maize (Zea mays), confers salt and cold tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are signalling modules that transduce extracellular signalling to a range of cellular responses. Plant MAPK cascades have been implicated in development and stress response. In this study, we isolated a novel group C MAPKK gene, ZmMKK4, from maize. Northern blotting analysis revealed that the ZmMKK4 transcript expression was up-regulated by cold, high salt and exogenous H(2)O(2,) but down-regulated by exogenous abscisic acid (ABA). Over-expression of ZmMKK4 in Arabidopsis conferred tolerance to cold and salt stresses by increased germination rate, lateral root numbers, plant survival rate, chlorophyll, proline and soluble sugar contents, and antioxidant enzyme [peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT)] activities compared with control plants. Furthermore, ZmMKK4 enhanced a 37 kDa kinase activity after cold and salt stresses. RT-PCR analysis revealed that the transcript levels of stress-responsive transcription factors and functional genes were higher in ZmMKK4-over-expressing plants than in control plants. In addition, ZmMKK4 protein is localized in the nucleus. Taken together, these results indicate that ZmMKK4 is a positive regulator of salt and cold tolerance in plants.

Lakeland High School (Michigan) Lakeland High School (LHS), commonly referred to as White Lake Lakeland or Lakeland, is a public high school located in White Lake, Michigan. , the current principal is Paul Gmelin. Lakeland opened in 1976, and is in the Huron Valley School District. Athletics Lakeland High School is a member of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) and is home to 14 boys and 14 girls varsity teams across 18 different sports. Lakeland has won five state titles since opening in 1976. These include four in boys' cross country (1991, 1996, 1997, 2016), and one in girls' bowling (2006). Notable alumni Steve Hamilton - author T.J. Lang - NFL player Notes References External links Huron Valley School District Category:Public high schools in Michigan Category:Educational institutions established in 1976 Category:High schools in Oakland County, Michigan Category:1976 establishments in Michigan

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5 Handy Lies: Bringing Your Lover Home for the Holidays It’s the holidays. Just as important as the question of what to get for your significant other is the question of when it’s time to bring him or her home for the family holiday, especially when it’s an overnight stay. My advisory board of SYWM (Smart Young Women and Men) says there’s no consensus for when the time is right. They range from having parents who figured they were sleeping together anyway (so why not at home?) to parents who still haven’t faced the fact that their adult children may not be virgins. In between are those who use the first trip to the family as a litmus test of whether the lover is a keeper or a klinker. With so much riding on that first introduction, I’m offering some help to make that first visit home go smoother. FIVE WHITE LIES FOR THAT FIRST TRIP HOME WITH YOUR LOVER 1. Don’t talk about religion or politics. This is not the time for your lover to indict your parents for working for the man. It may feel like a lie, but this is the time for the charm offensive. 2. If your lover is a vegetarian, a vegan, or anything but airway-swelling allergic to what’s on the holiday table, tell them to keep quiet about it. They don’t have to eat the meat, just don’t make some announcement. In fact, this is another time that the white lie comes in handy. Whomever the cook is, this is the best meal your lover has ever had. Even if it’s takeout, it’s the best ever. 3. The most important lie? You’re not having sex. Even if you’re having sex, you’re telling your family that you aren’t. You’re too tired, too freaked out being down the hall from your parents, whatever. Now is the time for the little white lie that allows your family to believe that all you’re doing in that bedroom with the posters of your childhood idols is…sleeping. 4. You’re going to be quiet. Even if you normally howl at the moon during relations with your partner, no parent wants to overhear their little darling being violated, so if you are going to have sex, it’s going to be stealth sex. 5. You’re going to be helpful by doing laundry before you leave. Just throw the sheets in the washing machine. Tell your parents it’s because you’re mature enough now to be a good guest. Don’t tell them you’re washing away any evidence of hot monkey sex. And try to remember that your parents are going through their own stuff. If you want to send them their own rules, go ahead!

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Jamie McKendrick Jamie ‘Jim’ McKendrick is a British poet and translator, born in Liverpool, 27 October 1955. Poetry McKendrick has published seven collections of poetry as well as two Selected Poems. He is the editor of The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004). Translations McKendrick has translated six books of fiction by the Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani, including The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, published as individual volumes by Penguin in the United Kingdom. McKendrick is the third translator to tackle Bassani. Awards McKendrick was named as one of the Poetry Society's 'New Generation' poets in the 1990s, with the Society selecting his 1997 collection Marble Fly as a Poetry Society Book Choice. Marble Fly also won the 'Best Poetry Collection of the Year' award at the Forward Poetry Prize ceremony. Other awards include: 2010 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Valerio Magrelli’s The Embrace 2003 Society of Authors Travel Award 1994 Southern Arts Literature Award 1991 Arts Council Writers' Award 1984 Eric Gregory Award His collections have been shortlisted for the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award. Published collections The Sirocco Room (Oxford University Press, 1991) The Kiosk on the Brink (Oxford University Press, 1993) The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press, 1997) Sky Nails: Poems 1979-1997 (Faber and Faber, 2000) Ink Stone (Faber and Faber, 2003) Crocodiles and Obelisks (Faber and Faber, 2007) The Embrace: Selected Poems by Valerio Magrelli (Faber and Faber, 2009) Out There (Faber and Faber, 2012) Selected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2016) Anomaly (Faber and Faber, 2018) References External links Jamie McKendrick Poems in Qualm Podcast Interview with Jamie McKendrick by André Naffis-Sahely "An Interview with Jamie McKendrick" in the Oxonian Review "Interview with Jamie McKendrick, Poet and Translator" in Thresholds Category:British poets Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Living people Category:British male poets

THE FIVE FUNNY FRIENDSThere are five friends named:Somebody,Nobody,Mad,silly &Fool.*Somebody and nobody were fighting,Somebody killed nobody**Mad quickly called the police*>Mad: Hello sir*>Police: can we help you*>Mad: yes somebody just killed nobody*>Police: are u silly!!*>Mad: no, silly is in the bathroombathing*>Police: are u mad!!!*>Mad: yes am Mad*>Police: you must be a fool!!!*>Mad: no, Fool am mad fool de house Realomaigala: THE FIVE FUNNY FRIENDSThere are five friends named:Somebody,Nobody,Mad,silly &Fool.*Somebody and nobody were fighting,Somebody killed nobody**Mad quickly called the police*>Mad: Hello sir*>Police: can we help you*>Mad: yes somebody just killed nobody*>Police: are u silly!!*>Mad: no, silly is in the bathroombathing*>Police: are u mad!!!*>Mad: yes am Mad*>Police: you must be a fool!!!*>Mad: no, Fool am mad fool de house

"Dad, back there." "We hit it." "No, we didn't hit it." "Come on." " Where is he?" " Listen." "Over there." " See it?" " Come on." "Come on." " Over there, look." " Yeah." "Go around behind." " Got it!" " Xan!" "Xan!" "Here!" "Here!" "Here!" "Slow down, you!" "All right, what's that?" "How the devil did you get out here, fella?" " He's shaking like a leaf." "See that?" " Yep." " You think he's lost, what?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" " See his mom?" "No." "Well..." "I think you're right, yeah." "Come here, you." "Here, take him." "Take him." "Hey, you." "How's he doing?" "He's hungry, huh?" "What on earth are you doing?" "Watch and learn, my friend." "Ice cream goes in here." "Flower goes on top." "Baby bottle." "Enjoy." "Cheers." " He's a feisty guy." " Yeah." "And voila." "He's drinking." " His face." "Black streaks." " Yeah." " You know what that means." " What?" "A cheetah." "A cheetah." "Yeah." "The world's fastest animal." "From zero to 60 in two seconds." "I bet it's faster than your Porsche." "Maybe." "You think we should hang on to him?" "Yeah." "Why not?" "Where else is he gonna go?" "Xan?" "We can't keep him forever." "Not any more than your mom and I can keep you." "He's gonna go back to the world he came from one day." "Mom!" "Mom!" " Get it off!" "Get it off!" " Mom, hurry!" "It's got Dad!" " It's a monster!" "Come on!" "Come on!" " Save yourselves!" " God, it's ripping me apart!" " Xan?" "Stop tearing at me, you terrible animal." "It's..." "Oh, hello." "Hello." " Look what we found." " And who's this?" "That was a close one." " Not nearly close enough." " I was almost torn asunder." " What is this?" " See what we found?" "I'm glad I'm not his mum." "I'd be heartbroken to lose him." "Hey, sexy mama." "Your place or mine?" "What?" " Dad?" " Xan." "Did I tell you about teaching that bird questionable phrases?" "What did I tell you, huh?" "Wait." "Wait!" "Wait." "Now go." "In Africa, they say that when you give someone a name they become your responsibility." "A proper name should capture the most important qualities and point them towards a certain kind of life." "I tried different names for the cub like Fuzzy, Spots or Speedy." "But nothing stuck." "As he became part of our daily lives he got to know everything around the farm." "And I think he started to feel like it was his place too." "Then Mom thought of Duma, the Swahili word for cheetah." "We all thought it sounded pretty good." "So then Duma became our responsibility." " How fast does it go?" " Don't worry about how fast now." "Don't worry about how fast." "Just worry about how to start, all right?" " Yeah." " A little petrol, just a little." " Press this down." " And what is that gear?" "One down..." "Yeah, one down, four up." "All right?" "Put your hand on it." "Let it go." "Let it go." "Go ahead." "That's it." "Feel that?" " Yep." " You like that, right?" "All right, hold on." "You want to go fast now?" "That's it." "Try one more time." "If you let it out too fast, look." "Here, you're popping it like that." "You don't want to do that." " Tight." " Pull it to that side." "Tight." "Tight." "Pull on it." "There you go." "Beauty." "One more." "There you are." "One more, one more." "Tight, tight." "All right." "Now, wait." "Watch it, watch it." "Don't ever underestimate what you can do with a bit of baling wire." "It's good, eh?" "Come on." "Hang on!" "You got it!" "There he goes!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "It seemed impossible that anything bad could have happened to my dad." "Before he got sick he never let anything stop him." "He was always looking at the bright side." "Mom and I took care of the farm while Dad was in hospital." "The doctor said he recovered really well and that everything was going to be okay." "Come on, Duma!" "Let's give it some stick!" "That's 50 K!" "Come on, Duma!" "Look!" "There it is!" "Look at that stride, now." " Come on, Duma!" " Come on, boy!" "Hey, we're at 60!" "Now he's overtaking us!" "Seventy, man!" "Hang on!" "I lost my hat!" "Eighty!" "Ninety!" " Beauty!" "You, beauty, you!" " Go, Duma!" " Beauty!" " A hundred, now!" "From too much love of living" "From hope and fear set free" "We thank with brief thanksgiving" "Whatever gods may be" "Pause after each line." "Read it like you're singing a song." "The sound of the words are the melody." "That no life lives forever" "That dead men rise up never" "That even the weariest river" "Winds somewhere safe to sea" "Mom?" "I'm sorry." " Yeah." " Got any room for me?" "Sure, Dad." "So..." "We gotta talk about our friend here." "He's almost grown." " But Duma's..." " Hang on." "He's nearly too old to survive out there." "Duma's got to live the life he was born to." "So we gotta take him back." "Now." "He doesn't want to go." "He doesn't want to be wild." "No, you can't decide that for him, Xan." "He's a wild animal." "Remember?" "His wildness is something he knows without even knowing it." "It's in his bones." "It's in his blood." "Like a memory, yeah?" "Like how I know I belong here on Grandpa's farm." "But there's hardly any cheetahs left." "Where else would he go besides our farm?" "We're here, yeah?" "And then all the way up there." "We found him here." "And just north and west mountains, yeah?" "Little valley." "The river." "Lots of springbok and gazelle." "Big-cat heaven." "Chase, trip, bite." "How hard could it be?" "Chase, trip, bite." "So you and I will take him up next week." "Okay?" "We'll camp out do a bit of fishing." "It'll be lekker, man, send him off." "What happened?" "Where's Dad?" " Hey, Xan." " What?" "Honey, we're making some changes." "Like what?" "I have to lease the farm." "We'll still live in the house, won't we?" "No, we're going to the city to live with Aunt Gwen for a while." "I need to get a job." "What about Duma?" "Duma will get a new home as well." "A big preserve where he'll have lots of room to run around." "Xan, I have to take care of us." " And the only way I can do that is if we..." " That's not what Dad wanted." "Xan!" "Xan, your father and I talked about this." "It's the only thing we can do." "It's the only thing that makes sense." "I know this is scary." "I know it won't be easy." "We can do this if we stick together, Xan." "Thanks for having us, Gwen." "No worries." "The man from the reserve will be here in a day or two." "Xan, wait." "All you have to do today is look around and get the lay of the land." "Those kids don't know anything you don't know." "You want to be a winner?" "You gotta have passion, passion, fire!" "Gentlemen, our day is made." "So, what have we got here?" "Have we got winners, or have we got losers?" " Winners!" " Let me hear it again." "Winners or losers?" "Winners!" "Right." "Bombardment." "One hit, and you're out." "Hello!" "I'm going to go pick up Xan." "No worries." "He's lovely." "Bye-bye." " "this incredible offer!"" ""Look how lovely and creamy"..." "I tought I taw a puttytat." "Oh, boy." "Hello, breakfast." "Doggy!" ""There are many theories about how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids." "Some people think they used slaves or unknown machines." "I think they used water." "They could have dug canals then loaded the huge, heavy stone blocks using ropes. "" "Excuse me, young man where are you going?" " Out there." "Nobody leaves my room without my permission." " "The Egyptians..."" " Fire drill!" "Exit by row!" "Orderly, please!" "Duma?" "Duma?" "You in here?" "Who's Duma?" "Is that your boyfriend?" "Give me that." "Hey, that's mine!" "That?" "That's very nice." "My father gave it to me." "And you are going to give it to me or pay me to let you keep it." "Run!" "Good job." "Come on, Duma." "Hey, kid!" "Get down!" "This is outrageous." "Xan!" "Come, boy." "Come." "Come on." "Let's get out of here." "Come on." "We have to go far." "Go home." "Like Dad said." "We started here and went up here." "That must be the Salt Pans." "So we've got a lot of map to go." "Should we keep going?" "Yeah, that's what I think too." "It had to happen sooner or later." "But I was hoping for later." "Do you even know what "wild" means?" "Yeah, I thought so." "Hey." "What do you think you're doing?" "What are you doing?" "Do you hear me?" "I am going south." "Do you have a problem with that?" "Yeah." "We're going west." ""We're"?" "You and who else?" "My buddy and I." "Do you have any water?" "Maybe." "What do you got?" "The motorcycle." "I could give you a ride." "You are thirsty, yeah?" "Hey, hey." "I did not say you could give some to your animal." "There is not enough." "Does this thing work?" "If you have gas." "Opuno Kjadi Ripkuna." "You?" "Xan." "Thanks for the water." "A bush baby." "How did it get here?" "Same as me." "Too many wrong turns." "Mashaka." "Troublemaker." "Do you know there's a big river?" "It's maybe five days' walk from here." "But to get there we must have food." "So which one?" "So which one what?" "Which one we eat first?" "You understand, for us to live we must eat them." "Don't worry." "We have a few days before we have to make our decision." "Explain to me this idea." "Get more wood." "You know, I don't like your cat looking at me like this." "Where did you learn this, boy?" "Where did you learn these ideas?" " My dad taught me." " Your dad?" "Wait for me, man." "Show me the plan..." "What you are going to make, man?" " Put it up." " I am." " Holy smoker." " Come on, hang on." "Quickly." " Let her go." " We are doing it, Xan." "We are doing it." "Hang on." "Holy smoke." "Xan, look." "Say goodbye, Xan." "Bye-bye, plane." " Hello, river." " To the right." "To the right." "Oh, Xan." "We are going to live." " We need water." " Don't worry." "We find it." "I told you so." "This is your big chance, boy." "Remember what Dad said?" "Chase, trip, bite." "You can do this." "Come." "Duma." "Duma." "Come, boy." "Come." "Go get him." "Yeah, yeah." "Your cheetah is a great hunter." "I'm very impressed." "He caught an egg." "You know, your cheetah he will not live long out there." "For what he would be worth, you know you could build a house." "You could build a lot of houses." "Maybe even buy a nice car." "With DVD." "You don't sell a friend." "You know, the rich they buy animal like him every day." "Pay big money, make business." "You know?" "Zoo, fun park." "And then they make more money." "Where are you going, boy?" "Do you know where you are going?" "My dad and I found him over here." "So you plan to cross the Okavango." "Yeah, so?" ""Yeah, so?"" "That is a place of many teeth, my friend." "It is a place to die." "I'm not afraid." "Be smart." "Be afraid." ""I am not afraid."" "Stupid boy." "Don't know nothing." "You know, you could end up in a lion's belly." "Fire." "Fire is the only thing that scares them." "You know, I know that place." "I could take you a little way that way." "But then I have to go back south, eh?" "You would like that?" "Okay." "I won't take you all the whole way." "Just some of the way." "Come on, boy." "Who are they?" "People." "People who never dreamed that they would die here." "This place is full of angry spirits, eh?" "There's a story in this." "I'm not sure I want to know it, eh?" "You know, in the right hands this will kill anything." "Hey." "Come here." "Come." " Hide now." " Why?" " Who is it?" " Bad people." "In here." "Come on, Duma." "We need to go farther." "There's nothing here but sand." "I can't see anything." "Come here." "Get down." "Do you know how he got those black lines on his face?" "They say it's to stop the glare from the sun during the day while they hunt." "There was a mother cheetah." "She loved her cub very much, and one day he got lost." "And she searched, and she searched." "And she called, and she called." "And she cried so long and so hard that her tears made black streaks down her face." "Her face was stained forever from her crying." "An honorable weapon if there is such a thing." "For a real warrior, you know." "For you to face your enemies and show your courage eye to eye." "A lot of diamonds came out of here." "I know they did not get them all." "Always I look." "One day, I'll get lucky." "Make rich." "You." "Stay." "I want to keep going." "Just one quick look." "I'm coming, man." "Oh, it's an old one." "Lots of smelly old ghosts in here." "Now's our chance." "Let's go." "Come, boy." "Rip." "Rip!" "Rip!" "I'm here." "Hang on." "I'm trying, Rip." "Xan." "Thank God for you, Xan." "Thank God for you." "Grace, we are lucky." "This little stuff." "No big stuff." "Dig, boy." "Dig." "Why you are stopping?" "Where have you been taking us?" " I'm taking you where you want to go." " No, you're not." "You're taking us north, not west." "I am taking you the way to the mountains." " It's the way to town." "To the police, and..." " What are you talking about?" "Collecting a reward for me and selling Duma." "How do you get such ideas?" "I am taking you north to go west." " Lf you go straight west, it is a way to..." " You're just trying to scare me." "You want me to go your way so you can turn us in." " Xan." " You go your way, and I'll go mine." "Xan, where you are going?" "Xan." "Come back." "You can't leave me like this, Xan." "Xan." "Come back, Xan." "Xan." "Xan!" "Xan, come back!" " I don't want him to follow us." " Xan, come back." "You can't leave me in here, Xan." "We're gonna have to cross the river tomorrow." "We're better off without him." "Come on, Duma." "You're not gonna get wet." "Quickly." "Fine, you stay there." "We're going." "Hang on." "Duma!" "Duma, Duma." "Quickly." "Come out." "Come on, Duma." "Two fast cats, eh?" "Mashaka." "Come here, boy." "High chance of thunderstorms due to a low-pressure system moving into the country from the coastal area." "Back." "Hey." "Come on, run." "Duma, no." "Duma, wait." "Oh, man." "Duma?" "Duma." "Duma?" "Well, Mashaka." "What happened?" "You found Duma." "Yes." "He was in a poacher's trap." "You were in a hog's house." "That is better than being in a lion's belly, no?" "I'm sorry for what I did." "It was a mistake." "But you were right." "I was thinking about how much money I could get for you both." "I had big plans, Xan." "I left my village, my wife, my children to be a big man." "Went to the big city to make big money." "But I did not find work, eh?" "And soon, I was a small man that did small things." "I ended up in the biggest jail you ever see." "That is a place I never want to go to again." "Do you understand?" "My mother probably hates me." "Because I left her." "Mothers never stop loving their children." "What do you know about mothers?" "I am a father." "This is dinner." "This way, this way." "Quickly, come." "He's got him." "We are not going to eat tonight." "Now, that food that will be an easy catch." "Maybe." "You have any ideas?" "Yeah." " Only blue one I've seen." " You look, and I'll focus." "A green-breasted fluffy tail." "No, I think it's fluffy-breasted, isn't it?" " You're wrong." "Quite wrong." " And now." "What do I do now?" "You're quite wrong." "I think it's an African red-eyed bulbul." "You are ready?" "Yeah." "No, no, you're quite wrong." "No, I'm talking about the..." "That's a water bird, darling." "Well, I don't see anything there at all." " Are your contacts in?" " They're in." "Help me." "It bit me." " It bit me." " What bit you?" " What bit you?" " This." "It's a black mamba!" "That's right, lad." "Eat." "You will go far, Xan." "As long as you stay out of jail, eh?" "I want you to have this." "What is that?" "It's for helping me." "No." "I can't." "I want you to have it." "I don't want it." "You don't understand, Xan." "People die for that stuff." "I can't take it." "Okay." "Then the water has it." "Five, four, three, two, one..." "Okay, okay, okay." "I am sure I'm going to help you at least one more time, eh?" "I will safe-keep it." "Come." "Look." "You see this?" "These pretty little stones I found when I had to dig myself out." "Do you remember?" "It's okay." "Take them." "I want you to remember your friend Ripkuna." "I'll remember you, Rip." "But I hope you remember me." "Because now I'm gonna say goodbye." "Xan?" "Xan." "What you are do...?" "Wake up, Xan." "Xan." "Don't do that." "That was not funny." "I'll kill you myself next time." "Stupid boy with no ass." "Get on." "You wish." "What is that noise you are making?" "When two cheetahs are lost, and they're looking for each other they make that sound." "Hey." "Lions." "Not so long ago." "Come on, Duma." "You're being selfish." "Leave him." "Remember, it's what you wanted." "That meat is in his bones from way back." "It's all right." "My grandfather would bring me to this place when I was younger than you." "The old ones they talk to me." "See how they lived, feared who they loved." "Their world is gone." "But we are not so different." "You know, nobody comes here anymore." "They are all forgotten." "I myself am no better." "My own father, I do not know whether he lives or not." "My father he died recently." "How can someone just disappear like that forever?" ""Yebo" I, too, would be angry." "You know, Xan people go when they are ready to go." "Not when you are." "We are all just travelers on the same river." "Grandparents, parents, their sons and daughters." "We all have our time on the river." "We just..." "We do what we can before we disappear." "This is your time, Xan." "Duma's." "And mine." "Very soon we will be where Duma is going." "After I am going to go and see my family." "See if they welcome me or not." "And you can go and see your mother." "Your father is dead for her too." "Everything's changed." "It's not the same." " It's different." " That's it, Xan." "Change, yeah." "That's what happens." "All the time." "The little boy that left home is not the little boy that is with me now, eh?" "See?" "Change." "Xan, can you see?" " Above that cliff, in the canyon." " Yeah." "A village." "My village." "Xan, stop." " What is it?" " Tsetse." "Do what I say, yeah?" "You have to run." "Hey." "Wait." "Wait!" "Now, breathe." "Keep breathing." "Rip, what is wrong?" "I'm sorry, Xan." "Long time ago, got very sick from tsetse." "Was bad." "Real bad." "We hurry now." "Fire." "We have to build a fire." "They see us." "They are coming down now." "Yeah, yeah." " It's going." "Up a bit." " Yes." "It's too wet." "Hold it up." "I can't hold it." "My hands don't work." "Look." "That is it." "See, they are still dry." "Easy come, easy go." "Take it." "Burn it." "Yes, yes." "Very good." "Duma, you have to stay here." "Rip." "Hang on." "I'm gonna get help." "Hello?" "Is anybody here?" "My friend is sick." "I need your help." "Duma." "Duma." "Rip." "Ripkuna." "Ripkuna." "Otorno." "Otorno." "Ainu." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Xan." "I want you to meet my family." "This is Ainu." "Otorno, my son." "Melika, my wife." "I said we have been on a long journey together." "That you are a mad-cat boy." "That we are family." "All of us together." "Duma." "Duma." "He's a wild animal." "Remember?" "His wildness is something he knows without even knowing it." "It's in his blood, his bones." "Like a memory, yeah?" "You and I will take him up next week." "Okay?" "Camp out, do a bit of fishing." "It'll be lekker, man, send him off." "Hey, you." "You got it, boy." "Found a buddy and everything." "You take care of yourself." "I'm gonna miss you." "There are things you know without knowing." "For Duma, it was his wildness." "For Rip, his family." "For me, it was my dad." "Everything he was, everything he believed in is now part of me." "I was taking Duma home, but he took me somewhere too." "Finding Duma's true home brought me back to mine and showed me that love doesn't stop when time passes or you live in different places, or somebody's gone." "That's how it was with me and Duma."

The Triflers The Triflers may refer to: The Triflers, 1920 silent American film directed by Christy Cabanne The Triflers, 1924 silent American film directed by Louis Gasnier

A novel chenodeoxycholic acid-verticinone ester induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in HepG2 cells. In this study, the in vitro antitumor activity of chenodeoxycholic acid-verticinone ester (CDCA-Ver), a novel compound and its underlying mechanisms were evaluated. Results showed that CDCA-Ver significantly inhibited HepG2 cell viability in a both dose- and time-dependent manner, moreover CDCA-Ver induced apoptotic cell death and G(0)/G(1) cell cycle arrest in HepG2 cells. ROS generation, loss of balance of Bax/Bcl-2 ratio, loss of mitochondrial transmembrane potential, activation of caspases and elevation of intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration were involved in the CDCA-Ver induced apoptosis pathway in HepG2 cells. We concluded that CDCA-Ver may be a potential candidate for the therapy of cancer.

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And some of my newer stuff, well, I personally think it's decent but I don't get a lot of reviews so I don't really know. I write whenever I think of something. I have dozens of stories not even posted here (because I think they're crap, or they contain Mary Sues, or whatever.) I write a lot of slash. M/M slash. I guess that makes me a bit (a lot) of a faghag, but judge me if you will. I'm on here an awful lot, but if I don't reply to your review, it might be because my computer died. It does that quite a lot. I think up a lot of original characters. I think up characters whenever I feel like a show, a movie, a book is missing something. I create characters to fill voids. A handful of my characters were suitable for writing a full-length original story about. It's not posted anywhere yet (if you've read its prototype, Bishonen, know that I've changed it a LOT and it's really not even close to the same except for the characters) but when it's ready for posting, I'll put a link to it. My favorite character of any fandom is Ceviche from Chowder. I just want to snuggle him up. I don't use chatspeak. I find it annoying. If I didn't reply to your review that you wrote purely in chatspeak, well, that's why. I'm a dork. There, I said it. I look like a dork, I talk like a dork, I act like a dork. Sorry if you find my dorkiness irritating, but news flash, I'm not going to change just because you don't like me. I'm one of those people who like both Hot Topic and Hollister and everything that goes with them. I don't believe that people should follow stereotypes. I like what I like. I'm a cartoon addict. I like the safe little world that cartoons create. It's a nice escape from this world where people are being tortured and murdered and whatnot. I'm deathly afraid of sea lamprey. If you ever want to freak me out (which I really hope you don't), show me a sea lamprey. Ohgodtheirhorribleteeth (shudder) (They're essentially vampire fish with a mouth made up of a ring of sharp teeth. They latch onto fish and suck their blood until they die. Look it up on Google if you dare.) It was a plastic paradise built on trash and nuclear waste. A beautiful, warm, false world that 2D couldn't touch. He didn't want to be there, but it was exactly what he always wanted. It made 2D want to sob. And for a long time, that was all he did. Norm/OLDER!Timmy. Jorgen accidentally drops Norm's lamp at Timmy's house when he takes Timmy's fairies on his 18th bday. Without Tim's fairies and memories, he doesn't recognize Norm but Norm still wants revenge. It's just that he has no clue how to getit Because everyone in this fandom has to do an account of the ram-raid at some point. Dark humour, mostly-onesided slashiness between Murdoc and 2D, gore because parts of it are about someone getting hit with a car. COMPLETE. Kendall pats the spot next to him. "Come here." James falters and his heart breaks into a million pieces on the hospital floor. "Please," he pleads and his voice breaks with raw need and desperation. /KendallxJames, one-sided LoganxKendall/ So, where did TOM go after he flew away from the jungle planet? Another Toonami fanfic, stuck here because there's no other place for it and I'm too nostalgic to let some things go. Implied SARA/TOM, light cursing, R&R, please. Before Gorillaz, Murdoc runs over 2D, then named StuPot, and is forced to spend the next year looking after his comatose victim. Warning: Murdoc 2D slash. Epilogue: Murdoc puts his master plan into action, but will 2D be a part of it? Based on my own experience. Duncan is admitted to a mental hospital after a gang-fight that nearly caused him to kill himself. There, he meets an old friend while mourning someone...someone who may still be alive. Duncan/Bridgette, Duncan/Harold Coach Z's cousins come to town, and Strong Sad falls in love with the eldest. He tells the story of his love through a medieval fantasy style roleplay. Switches between roleplay and real life, is really worth a read. Strong Sad & OC. A new girl shows up at Westley and enters the music department. She has an awful time making friends and an even worse family life. Sunny takes her under his wing, but can he help such a troubled girl? SunnyOC, slight onesided KamOC. Noodle has a bad dream. 2D comforts her. Could be seen as a romance fic, but I only meant it as a big brotherlittle sistertype thing. Rated because I think teenagers would want to read it more than little kids, not because there's anything bad in it. Turned into a girl named Sylvie, Naruto throws a girlsonly slumber party at his Wiccan friend's house. During Truth or Dare, Sylvie can't resist the urge to ask Sakura if she likes Naruto. What will her answer be? Will be two chapters long. NaruSaku

Magnesium dependence of the amplified conformational switch in the trans-acting hepatitis delta virus ribozyme. The ability of divalent metal ions to participate in both structure formation and catalytic chemistry of RNA enzymes (ribozymes) has made it difficult to separate their cause and effect in ribozyme function. For example, the recently solved crystal structures of precursor and product forms of the cis-cleaving genomic hepatitis delta virus (HDV) ribozyme show a divalent metal ion bound in the active site that is released upon catalysis due to an RNA conformational change. This conformational switch is associated with a repositioning of the catalytically involved base C75 in the active-site cleft, thus controlling catalysis. These findings confirm previous data from fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) on a trans-acting form of the HDV ribozyme that found a global conformational change to accompany catalysis. Here, we further test the conformational switch model by measuring the Mg(2+) dependence of the global conformational change of the trans-acting HDV ribozyme, using circular dichroism and time-resolved FRET as complementary probes of secondary and tertiary structure formation, respectively. We observe significant differences in both structure and Mg(2+) affinity of the precursor and product forms, in the presence and absence of 300 mM Na(+) background. The precursor shortens while the product extends with increasing Mg(2+) concentration, essentially amplifying the structural differences observed in the crystal structures. In addition, the precursor has an approximately 2-fold and approximately 13-fold lower Mg(2+) affinity than the product in secondary and tertiary structure formation, respectively. We also have compared the C75 wild-type with the catalytically inactive C75U mutant and find significant differences in global structure and Mg(2+) affinity for both their precursor and product forms. Significantly, the Mg(2+) affinity of the C75 wild-type is 1.7-2.1-fold lower than that of the C75U mutant, in accord with the notion that C75 is essential for a catalytic conformational change that leads to a decrease in the local divalent metal ion affinity and release of a catalytic metal. Thus, a consistent picture emerges in which divalent metal ions and RNA functional groups are intimately intertwined in affecting structural dynamics and catalysis in the HDV ribozyme.

Cytogenetic studies in preleukaemia using the G-banding staining technique. 15 patients with preleukaemia were cytogenetically studied during the preleukaemic state by using the G-banding staining technique. It was found that 9 patients had a completely normal karyotype, while the other 6 showed various chromosomal abnormalities, numerical (trisomies in 5 cases) and structural (deletion in 1 case and a marker chromosome in 1 case). The abnormalities concerned group C in all 6 cases, while group A was involved in 3 cases. G-banding technique revealed that trisomy C affected the chromosomes nos 8 (2 cases) and 9 (3 cases); also a deleted chromosome 11 (11q-) was identified in 1 case and a marker chromosome in 1, the origin of which was established as a translocation between chromosomes 3 and 6. The abnormalities of group A concerned chromosome no 3. The abnormalities found in our cases, using the G-banding technique, were similar to those described in acute leukaemia.

Never means NeverMature I was chasing a fox when I heard them. The sudden rush of hurried thoughts that stopped me in my tracks. Edge of the forest. I walked back slowly trying to avoid what I knew they wanted from me. What all full grown vampires wanted from me. I let out a deep sigh. I reached the edge of the forest not walking up to the group but watching them from high in the tree. Garret, Hazel and the headmistress. Without one step into any of there minds I knew what they wanted me to do. "No" I whispered calmly. They all turned to face me in a flurry of movements. Hazel eyes were confused and pleading which contrasted Garrets eyes full of fear and that cold inky darkness I could just taste on the edge of his mind. The headmistress slowly walked forward with Garret. "We really need you to do this Lilianna" she replied. "Garrets innocence and life depends on it" "Last time someone said that they executed a 10 year old girl in front of me. She was innocent" Hazel shivered and I let my eyes look at her. They were slightly more purple at this time and I felt the hypnotic pulse they gave off. The hypnotic pulse to the mind making you want to look up and.... I quickly looked away before Hazel's eyes met mine. "Please" she whispered. I felt scared, frightened, confused on what I should do. Finally with a sigh, I gave in. I jumped down lightly from the tree. "Rule One, don't look into my eyes. Rule Two, remove any walls in your mind. Rule Three, the first rule is to stop us from linking mind. This would make me able to speak into your mind and hear it where ever" I then put my fingers either side of his eyes and...Bang. I'm in. I'm soon though cold and feel ice creeping up on me. Oh god, all the bloodlust. All the pain of shattered memories. They feel so real like they're scratching at my skin. It hurts. I need to get out.... I- "NO!" I stumble away and Garret blinks slowly. "I..." he stutters. "I told you not to" I yell. "What did he do?" "Our minds are linked" I choke. "You idiot!" "What did you see in his mind, Lilianna?" "Horror's. Uncontrolable horror's. The bloodlust was the worst. It takes over him at the smell of blood. He'd kill" The headmistress nods. "How do you break a mind link?" Hazel asks. "You can't" I say with a shiver. "He's now my..... own personal bodyguard/slave. Sort of" "No! You can't be control of me" he says angry. I turn and glare at him. "Sit and shut up!" I snap. To everyones amazement he does just that and I begin crying. Hazel comes and holds me. "We'll work this out. You're both obviously in bad position to discuss this. We should all go to sleep. Lilianna can come stay with me" Hazel says. I feel anger. Something I haven't felt in a while. I'm rarely like this and I doubt I will be again. Oh god, what has he done? Exercise summary Centuries ago, there were 6 'original' Vampires. They were the first of their kind, but no one knows how they came to be. There were 4 girls and 2 guys each having a mark on their arm distinguishing them. Soon, 6 became thousands. Eventually, they began developing powers. Abilities to see things that the normal human eye cannot. Those Vampires were called Seekers. Others live to fight and help destroy these evil things the Seekers saw, Protectors. Eventually, 6 schools were created to help train Select a previous page... Note: Keep in mind that the From: field of the email message sent by this form will contain your email address, and will therefore be available to the recipient. If you're not comfortable with this, please close this window.

I have nothing against someone wanting to eat ass, but seriously that's just saying you want to digest shit out of someone's asshole, with a presumably metal eating utensil going into that person's asshole. Errr, to be precise, if the quote is "eat her ass with a spoon" it would describe the attempted procedure of trying to carve the meat out of another persons built-in sitting cushion for personal gustatoric pleasures, making an ass out of yourself attempting it as well by realising that the spoon wont even cut through the skin, let alone be able to carve the flesh out of it. I think you misinterpret "eating an ass with a spoon" as a figure of speech impliying you "dig" said ass, with "eating OUT OF an ass with a spoon", the (slightly disturbing) procedure you described

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Yellowspotted sawtail The yellowspotted sawtail, Prionurus maculatus, is a tang of the family Acanthuridae, found in the southwest Pacific Ocean. References Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) Category:Prionurus Category:Fish described in 1887

The invention provides novel expression vectors that allow stable, high-level expression of a polypeptide of interest in a host cell, particularly mammalian cells. The invention also includes a transfection system for mammalian cells using the constructs described herein. The invention described herein provides an efficient mechanism by which any desired polypeptide can be expressed at high levels using novel cell lines generated as described herein. Vectors based on lytic viruses such as polyoma have been used for short-term expression, but tend to be unstable, and replicate many times per cell cycle (Lebkowski, J. S., et al., MOL. CELL. BIOL. 4:1951-1960, 1984). Vectors based on bovine papilloma virus have also been developed but do not consistently replicate once per cell cycle (Gilbert, D. M., et al., CELL 50:59-68, 1987; Ravnan, J.-B., et al., J. VIROL. 66:6946-6952, 1992). Further bovine papilloma virus-based vectors show a high frequency of rearrangements (Ashman, C. R., et al., SOMATIC CELL MOL. GENET. 11:499-504, 1985; DuBridge, R. B., et al., MOL. CELL. BIOL. 7:379-387, 1987). In human and primate cells, vectors based on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) have been developed (Yates, J., et al., PROC. NATL. ACAD. Sci. USA. 81:3806-3810, 1984; Reisman, D., et al., MOL. CELL. BIOL. 5:1822-1832, 1985; Lupton, S., et al., MOL. CELL. BIOL. 5:2533-2542, 1985). These vectors typically replicate once per cell cycle (Adams, A., J. VIROL. 61:1743-1746, 1987; Yates, J. L., et al., J. VIROLOGY 65:483-488, 1991; Haase, S. B., et al., NUC. ACIDS RES. 19:5053-5058, 1991) and are stably maintained over the long-term with a low mutation frequency (DuBridge, R. B., et al., MOL. CELL. BIOL. 7:379-387, 1987; DuBridge, R. B., et al., MUTAGENESIS 3:1-9, 1988; Drinkwater, N. R., et al., PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. USA 83: 3402-3406, 1986). These vectors have been used for cloning and expression studies in human and simian cells (Margolskee, R. F., et al., MOL. CELL. BIOL. 8:2837-2847, 1988; Young, J. M., et al., GENE 62:171-185, 1988; Belt, P.B.G.M., et al., GENE 84:407-417, 1989; Peterson, C., et al., GENE 107:279-284, 1991). Stable transformation frequencies are high because integration into the genome is not required, and recovery of cloned sequences is achieved by plasmid extraction. However, rodent cells are not permissive for EBV replication, and no rodent counterpart of EBV has been described (Yates, J. L., et al., NATURE (LONDON) 313:812-815, 1985). U.S. Pat. No. 4,959,317 (Sauer, et al.) discloses the use of Cre-Lox site-specific recombination to achieve gene transfer in eukaryotic cells. However, the system described does not provide efficient or stable integration of transferred DNA into the host genome (see e.g., (Sauer, et al., (1993) Methods in Enzymology 225: page 898). This is largely due to the fact that excision of transferred DNA out of the genome, by way of intramolecular exchange, predominates over integration of DNA into the genome, by way of intermolecular site-specific recombination. U.S. Pat. No. 5,928,914 (Leboulch, et al.) describes methods and compositions for transforming cells, resulting in efficient and stable site-specific integration of transgenes. Transformation is achieved by introducing into a cell an acceptor vector, preferably a retroviral vector, which integrates into the genome of the cell. The acceptor vector comprises two incompatible lox sequences, L1 and L2. A donor vector is then introduced into the cell comprising a transgene flanked by the same L1 and L2 sequences. Stable gene transfer is initiated by contacting the lox L1 and L2 sequences with Cre recombinase. In one aspect, the invention provides an expression vector comprising (a) a first polynucleotide encoding a first, crippled, selectable marker (b) a second polynucleotide encoding a heterologous polypeptide of interest; and (c) a third polynucleotide encoding a second, amplifiable selectable marker. Suitable first selectable markers include sequences coding antibiotic (e.g., neomycin) resistance containing one or more crippling mutations. In one embodiment, the amplifiable selectable marker is dihydrofolate reducatase (dhfr). The invention also includes the following constructs: a plasmid designated pESN1dhfr; a plasmid designated pESN2dhfr; plasmid designated pESN3dhfr; a plasmid designated pneo*dhfr5xe2x80x2del (e.g., pneo1dhfr5xe2x80x2del, pneo2dhfr5xe2x80x2del, pneo3dhfr5xe2x80x2del); and a plasmid designated pdhfr3xe2x80x2del. In another aspect the invention includes a method for producing a polypeptide of interest in a host cell, comprising (a) introducing an expression vector or construct described herein into a host cell, (b) selecting host cells which express the first and second selectable markers under conditions that select for stably integrated expression vectors, (c) growing the stably-transfected host cells under conditions which favor expression of the polypeptide of interest, and (d) isolating the polypeptide of interest. In certain embodiments, the heterologous polypeptide is a viral protein (e.g., an HIV protein) or is CAB2 or CAB4 and the host cell is a mammalian or insect cell. Host cell lines that produces a polypeptide of interest using this method are also included in the present invention. In another aspect, the invention includes a transfection system comprising (a) a first construct comprising, in a suitable backbone, a sequence encoding a first selectable marker and a sequence encoding a second selectable marker, wherein the second selectable marker contains at least one disabling mutation in its coding sequence; and (b) a second construct comprising, in a suitable backbone, a polynucleotide sequence of interest and a sequence encoding a third selectable marker, wherein the third selectable marker is the same selectable marker as the second selectable marker except that the third selectable marker contains at least one disabling mutation that is in a different region of the coding sequence than the disabling mutation in said second selectable marker. In certain embodiments, the first selectable marker encodes for antibiotic resistance, for example, by encoding wild-type or functionally impaired neomycin phosphotransferase II, the second selectable marker encodes dhfr which disabled by at least one mutation in the 5xe2x80x2 coding region and the third selectable marker encodes dhfr which is disabled by at least one different mutation in the 3xe2x80x2 coding region. The disabling mutations may be, by way of example, point mutations or deletions. Where the constructs are plasmids, the transfection system may further comprise (c) first, second, and third promoters operably linked to said first and second selectable markers and said transgene, respectively; (d) sequences encoding polyadenylation sites operably linked to said first and second selectable markers and said transgene; and (e) sequence encoding origins of replication operably linked to said first, second selectable markers and said transgene. Promoters such as CMV promoter, an RSV promoter or an SV-40 early promoter may be used and each sequence may be operably linked to a different promoter. In another aspect, the invention includes a method for producing a mammalian cell line for expression of a selected polynucleotide sequence, comprising (a) introducing into a selected mammalian cell, having a genome, a first construct comprising a sequence encoding a first selectable marker and a sequence encoding a second selectable marker, wherein the second selectable marker contains at least one disabling mutation in its coding sequence, (b) selecting for a mammalian cell expressing the first selectable marker, wherein said first construct stably integrates into the genome; (c) introducing into the mammalian cell a second construct comprising a polynucleotide sequence of interest and a sequence encoding a third selectable marker, wherein the third selectable marker is the same selectable marker as the second selectable marker except that the third selectable marker contains at least one disabling mutation that is in a different region of the coding sequence than the disabling mutation in said second selectable marker; and (d) selecting for a mammalian cell expressing a functional product encoded by the second selectable marker, wherein the functional product is encoded by a sequence produced by a recombination event between said second and third selectable markers, and the resulting mammalian cell is capable of expressing the selected polynucleotide sequence. In certain embodiments, the selected polynucleotide sequence encodes a polypeptide and expressing the selected polynucleotide sequence results in expression of the polypeptide. Mammalian cells produced by this method are also provided. In another aspect, the invention includes a method for producing a polypeptide of interest in a host mammalian cell, said method comprising: (a) introducing into said cell, having a genome, a first construct comprising a sequence encoding a first selectable marker and a sequence encoding a second selectable marker, wherein the selectable marker contains at least one disabling mutation in its coding sequence; (b) selecting for a mammalian cell expressing the first selectable marker, wherein said first construct stably integrates into the genome; (c) introducing into the mammalian cell a second construct comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide of interest and a sequence encoding a third selectable marker, wherein the third selectable marker is the same selectable marker as the second selectable marker except that the third selectable marker contains at least one disabling mutation that is in a different region of the coding sequence than the disabling mutation in said second selectable marker; (d) selecting for a mammalian cell expressing a functional product encoded by the second selectable marker, wherein the functional product is encoded by a sequence produced by a recombination event between said second and third selectable markers, and the resulting mammalian cell is capable of expressing the polypeptide of interest; and culturing the mammalian cell under conditions to produce the polypeptide of interest. In one embodiment, the first selectable marker encodes for neomycin resistance and second and third selectable markers encode dhfr. In certain embodiments, the constructs can be introduced into said cells by electroporation or by calcium phosphate transfection. A mammalian cell line that produced according to these methods are also included. These and other embodiments will be readily apparent to one skilled in the art in light of the teachings of this specification.

We’ve entered into a kind of Clinton renaissance: Hillary is now officially Internet famous—LOLZ, bitches, etc—and Bill, universally beloved, is giving the keynote to a gathering of Nobel Peace Laureates next week in Chicago, still hot on the quest for his own big prize. (Carter has one. Gore has one. Obama has one.) Then there’s Chelsea Clinton, the former first daughter, and NBC’s latest high profile hire. With Chelsea, it’s complicated. To get the TV gig, Chelsea’s team played off rival networks, holding a series of meetings in New York last fall with all the major television news outlets, including ABC, CBS, and CNN. “Her agent calls, asks if you want to meet with Chelsea Clinton, you take the meeting,” one network executive tells BuzzFeed. "There was a sense in meetings that the news media were auditioning for her -not the other way around -which rubbed a few of those she met with the wrong way. 'They acted like we should be grateful' that she was offering herself, says the network exec." But she didn’t blow anyone away with her presence during the interview process, according to network executives who interviewed her. “Horrible,” says another high ranking TV executive who met with Chelsea. “There were ground rules, what she could and couldn’t report, only good news, no politics, ” says the executive, who felt Chelsea would be a dud and passed. There was a sense in the meetings that that the news channels were auditioning for her — not the other way around — which rubbed a few of those she met with the wrong way. “They acted like we should be grateful” that she was offering herself to the networks, says the exec. Even high ranking company officials within NBC, according to sources at 30 Rock, weren’t that impressed with her. One senior staffer told colleagues after multiple meetings that Chelsea was going to be simply “terrible” on television. Upon her arrival, Chelsea was given a welcome bag, filled with NBC swag, 30 Rockers tell me. NBC’s David Gregory responded by jokingly asking: “Where’s my welcome bag?” Gregory’s joke hints at the unprecedented level of special treatment Chelsea receives: she didn’t do live shots on her Rock Center debut; she gets chauffeured everywhere in a town car while others her age strap hang with the suckers in Gotham’s sewers; she has her own personal spokesperson; and she has her own chief-of-staff, Bari Lurie. (Lurie is to Chelsea what Huma Abedin is to Hillary: a fiercely loyal female aide and confidante, who logged over 7,000 miles with her during the 2008 campaign.) Other top talent at the network noticed that luxury: Lester Holt, Hoda Kotb, Natalie Morales, and Savannah Guthrie all share a single assistant. (An NBC spokesperson says, however, that Chelsea pays for her own chief of staff.) Not to mention how all the kids in NBC reacted. “The message was, ‘You didn’t waste your journalism degree,’” says one NBC news staffer. “There’s resentment.” The critical reception of her debut on Rock Center wasn’t great, either: the Washington Post described her as “one of the most boring people of her era.” And, NBC sources say, for her debut, they pre-taped her intro interview with Brian Williams at least twice (they ended up using the first taping,) an unusual move for what’s presented as a spontaneous interview. Chelsea just renewed her original three-month contract, but there isn’t much to show for it. “Almost nothing,” is how one well-placed industry observer describes her tenure at NBC. The industry observer, who has had dealings with Team Chelsea, continues: “Certainly she’s not operating as a reporter. You need a regular presence to become established and break through. Yes, she has world wide name recognition at a young age, but you still have to do the work and show up on screen.” So far, she’s only done three Making A Difference segments in five months, according to Lexis/Nexis, while juggling other roles as corporate board member and in the Clinton Global Initiative. To say that Chelsea’s hire hurts the credibility of television news is a debate for J-school deans. But there is a larger issue at stake here for our American psyche: Chelsea is a Clinton, ergo, she deserves a place in our heart, alongside her parents. So why can’t we connect? Almost everyone I spoke to for this story—from within NBC and at other networks as well—agree that that problem is that she won’t talk about the one thing that makes her undeniably compelling. How did it feel to be Chelsea Clinton during the Monica years? In the past, she’s responded angrily to that question. “It’s none of your business,” she told an audience after being questioned about it on the 2008 campaign trail. That line doesn’t play anymore, now that she’s entered the family business of living in public. “What’s she giving us?” one NBC executive, who sees Chelsea regularly, asks. “There’s that wall that needs to be torn down. She sounds like a smart and intelligent woman, but there are lots of smart and intelligent women.” Until she’s willing to answer the Monica question, or any real question—to finally open her soul to public view, paying the required tribute to the media gods, to have her Oprah moment —it’s unlikely she’ll be given a warm public embrace. “Is she just boring,” wonders the NBC exec. “Or can she come out of her shell?” The days of Chelsea having it both ways are over. It’s one thing to want your total privacy, and stay totally private; it’s another thing to want your total privacy while reaping all the rewards and privileges that contemporary celebrity has to offer. Moderating panels, honorary awards (she’ll receive the The History Makers Medal from the New York Historical Society at the annual Strawberry Luncheon next month ) lucrative speaking gigs, the most expensive fashion labels on the planet, all after a decade spent as a corporate mercenary for McKinsey and Avenue Capital. (Share Our Strength, Women of the World Summit, Celebration of Teaching, the World Economic Forum in Davos ) She’s dipping into politics, too, slamming Rush Limbaugh during the Sandra Fluke controversy, and hosting a discussion about Islamophobia. I did find one defender of Chelsea inside NBC. “Everyone needs to get a grip,” says this high level executive. “She’s hardworking, she’s taking it very seriously. She really wants to genuinely do these Making a Difference pieces. She knows she’s a lightening rod. When people write nasty things, she takes the lumps.” After all the bad press during the roll out, there were fears Chelsea was going to pack it in. Instead, she decided to tough it out. “I respect that,” says the NBC insider. Clinton’s personal spokesperson, Matt McKenna, had strong words for her detractors: "When Chelsea's critics are ready to step forward and use their names, she'll be more than happy to answer them. In the meantime, she's enjoying working for NBC and NBC is glad she's a part of their team." Chelsea has, within her, one of the final untold chapters of the Clinton era scandals, a piece of ‘90s history that we already look back on with a mix of bewilderment, denial, and shame. (Did the political media class really spend the 90’s investigating a blowjob? Yep.) There was plenty of trauma in her childhood: Mocked on Saturday Night Live; mocked by Rush; her parents subject to unprecedented, invasive, public scrutiny. A “private person,” as she calls herself, in an “inadvertently public life.” Now that her life is advertently public, it’s time to let us in. In fact, the Chelsea Clinton interview would be one of the all-time blockbuster gets—more memorable than any of her TV segments so far. And forget Oprah, have Brian Williams do it on Rock Center. The must ask questions: What was it like to live through that in the White House? What did you know, and when did you know it? How pissed were you at your father? How do you feel about marriage? Should your mother have stayed? Eventually, Chelsea will have to answer the questions listed above, and she’ll likely do so on NBC. (My hunch is that NBC’s chief Steve Capus’s gamble will prove brilliant in the long run.) But right now, we’re stuck in another awkward Chelsea Clinton phase, a kind perpetual sheltered adolescence, still getting to know you after all these years. And who wants to watch that? You’d think being on TV is the last place someone that ugly would want to be. The only explanation is that she’s been told by everyone she’s ever met how beautiful she is. And everyone who meets her is STILL required to fawn all over her. Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Brookfield Craft Center Brookfield Craft Center, located in Brookfield, Connecticut, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, founded in 1954 with the mission "to teach and preserve the skills of fine craftsmanship and enable creativity and personal growth through craft education." Subjects taught at the craft center include basketry, beadwork, blacksmithing, bladesmithing, ceramics, glass, jewelry making, metalsmithing, fiber and weaving, woodturning, woodworking, photography, paper and book arts, decorative arts, painting and drawing, and business / marketing for artists. Its campus is located north of Danbury, Connecticut, on the banks of the Still River, with an historic mill building as its centerpiece. Its six buildings house seven fully equipped studios, an exhibition gallery, a retail craft gallery and gift shop, and housing for visiting faculty. References External links Official Website Category:Art galleries in Connecticut Category:Arts centers in Connecticut Category:Art schools in Connecticut Category:Brookfield, Connecticut Category:Buildings and structures in Brookfield, Connecticut Category:Decorative arts Category:Charities based in Connecticut Category:Tourist attractions in Fairfield County, Connecticut Category:Arts organizations established in 1954

Archernis Archernis is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. Species Archernis albicostalis Hampson, 1913 Archernis argocephala Lower, 1903 Archernis callixantha Meyrick, 1886 Archernis capitalis (Fabricius, 1794) Archernis dolopsalis (Walker, 1859) Archernis eucosma Turner, 1908 Archernis flavidalis Hampson, 1908 Archernis fulvalis Hampson, 1913 Archernis fulvalis Hampson, 1899 Archernis humilis (Swinhoe, 1894) Archernis leucocosma Turner, 1908 Archernis lugens (Warren, 1896) Archernis mitis Turner, 1937 Archernis nictitans (Swinhoe, 1894) Archernis obliquialis Hampson, 1896 Archernis scopulalis (Walker, 1865) References Category:Spilomelinae Category:Crambidae genera Category:Taxa named by Edward Meyrick

The Fair Co-Ed The Fair Co-Ed, also known as The Varsity Girl, is a 1927 American silent film comedy starring Marion Davies and released through MGM. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst, through Cosmopolitan Productions and directed by Sam Wood. The film is based on a 1909 play/musical comedy The Fair Co-Ed by George Ade which starred a young Elsie Janis, and opened on Broadway on February 1, 1909. The film survives today, supposedly in the MGM/UA archives, now controlled by Warner Brothers. Plot Marion Bright enrolls in college to pursue a handsome young man, Bob, only to discover that he is coach of the women's basketball team there. Marion joins the team and becomes its star player, but becomes unpopular when she refuses to play a game after a disagreement with Bob. Happily for all, she has a change of heart and returns in time to help the team win the big game. Cast Marion Davies as Marion Bright Johnny Mack Brown as Bob Jane Winton as Betty Thelma Hill as Rose Lillian Leighton as Housekeeper Gene Stone as Herbert James Bradbury, Sr. as uncredited Lou Costello as Extra Joel McCrea as Student Jacques Tourneur as Extra Production In her 25th film, Marion Davies starred as a madcap college student with a yen for the basketball coach Johnny Mack Brown. William Randolph Hearst always disliked this film and disliked director Sam Wood. Hearst always referred to this film as "that cheap-looking comedy" that went for "yap laughs." But laughs there were as Davies joins the college basketball team to be near Brown and to spite her rival (Jane Winton). Davies races back and forth on basketball courts, zooms about in jalopies, and even climbs a tree in this one. One of the highlights in the shooting of this film was when Charles Lindbergh visited the set. Davies was his favorite movie star. This was another box-office hit for Davies. References External links Film poster Period newspaper advertising Lantern slide; coming attraction Category:1927 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Films directed by Sam Wood Category:American films based on plays Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Category:American basketball films Category:1920s comedy films Category:American films Category:American comedy films Category:American black-and-white films

List of Kellogg School of Management alumni This is a list of Kellogg School of Management alumni. Academia Sally Blount (PhD in Organizational Behavior 1992), Dean and Michael L. Nemmers Professor of Management and Organizations at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Venkatesh Shankar (PhD in Marketing 1995), Professor of Marketing and Coleman Chair in Marketing, Director of Research at the Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University George Stigler (MBA 1932), Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1982 Nobel Prize Glen L. Urban (PhD Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, 1966), Dean Emeritus of MIT Sloan School of Management. Professional services James L. Allen, Founder of Booz Allen Hamilton consultancy, and namesake of the Kellogg School's executive education center Arthur E. Andersen, Founder of Arthur Andersen Edwin G. Booz, Founder of Booz Allen Hamilton consultancy Financial services Joseph E. Hasten - President & CEO, ShoreBank; former Vice Chairman, U.S. Bancorp Scott J. Freidheim, president and CEO of CDI Corporation Suzanne Iroche, CEO of FinBank David Kabiller, billionaire co-founder of AQR Capital Martin Lau, billionaire president of Chinese multinational investment holding company Tencent Gary Parr, Deputy Chairman of Lazard William A. Osborn, Chairman and former CEO of Northern Trust Corporation Patrick Ryan, Founder and Executive Chairman of Aon Corporation Thomas J. Wilson, President and CEO of Allstate Insurance Company Jeffrey W. Ubben, Co-founder, CEO and CIO of ValueAct Capital Dean Chamberlain, CEO of Mischler Financial Group; former Joint Head of Fixed Income for Americas at Nomura Holdings, Inc Consumer goods Douglas R. Conant, President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company Robert A. Eckert, partner at Friedman Fleischer & Lowe Betsy Holden, former CEO of Kraft Foods S. Curtis Johnson, Former chairman of Diversey, Inc. Roshni Nadar, executive director and CEO of HCL Enterprise. Tony Vernon, former CEO of Kraft Foods Group Bob Gamgort, CEO of Keurig Dr Pepper, former CEO of Pinnacle Foods Peter Thum, founder, Ethos Water and entrepreneur Retail Brad Blum, CEO Emeritus of Burger King Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO of Office Depot Gregg Steinhafel, President, CEO, Chairman of the Board, Target Corporation Larry Levy, founder of Levy Restaurants Scott McKinney, Deputy CFO of Mattressfirm Media, sports, and entertainment Ted Phillips, president and CEO, Chicago Bears Jeff Luhnow, president and general manager, Houston Astros Mallika Chopra, author, President of Intent Cynthia Frelund, ESPN Analyst Eddie George, professional football player, Heisman Trophy winner Ben Thompson, writer of Stratechery Kei Ogura, singer, songwriter and composer Industry Kushagra Bajaj, Vice Chairman, Bajaj Hindusthan E.Scott Conti, CEO of Illinois Tool Works Andrew Fastow, former CFO, Enron Scott J. Freidheim, President and CEO of CDI Corporation Ravin Gandhi, Founder of GMM Nonstick Coatings Vinita D. Gupta, CEO of Lupin Limited Christopher G. Kennedy, Chairman, Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises David Kohler, President and CEO, Kohler Company Chris Kubasik, former President and COO Lockheed Martin Ellen J. Kullman, Chair and CEO, DuPont Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo Alex Molinaroli, CEO of Johnson Controls Roshni Nadar, Executive Director and CEO, HCL Corporation Steve Odland, president and CEO of the Committee for Economic Development Darren Woods, Chairman and CEO, ExxonMobil Wen Yunsong, CEO of Unihub Global Networks Government Ali Babacan, Minister of State for the Economy, 2002-2007, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2007-2009, Deputy Prime Minister for Financial and Economic Affairs, 2009–present Republic of Turkey Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts, 2015–present Esteban Bullrich, Argentine National Deputy for Frente PRO, 2005-2009. 2010 to present, Minister of Education, City of Buenos Aires John Cebrowski, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Alexander De Croo, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Finance and Development Cooperation Robert Dold, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, 2011-2013; 2015-2017 Jonathan Greenblatt, Special Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the Domestic Policy Council for the Obama Administration, 2011 to present. John Hoeven, Governor of North Dakota, 2000-2010; Senator, 2011 to present, United States Randy Hopper Wisconsin State Senator, 2009-2011 Somkid Jatusripitak (PhD Marketing, 1984), Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, 2015 to present; former Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce of Thailand, 2001-2006 Suvit Maesincee, Vice Minister for the Prime Minister and Adviser to the Minister of Finance of Thailand, 2015 to present Ada Osakwe, former Adviser to Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Susan Pamerleau, retired United States Air Force major general and the Republican sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, first woman elected to that office, 2012 Cesar Purisima, Secretary of Trade & Industry, Republic of the Philippines, 2004-2005; Secretary of Finance, Republic of the Philippines, 2010 to present. Uttama Savanayana, Minister of Information and Communication Technology of Thailand, 2015 to present Brad Schneider, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, 2013-2015; 2018–present Technology Christopher Galvin, Former Chairman and CEO of Motorola Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP Roy Daya, Industrial AI Expert and CEO of Applied Machine Learning Shane Wall, CTO and Global Head of Labs of HP Inc Eric Brickman, business executive, digital innovation strategist and futurist. Non-profit Roslyn M. Brock (MBA 1999), Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Roshni Nadar (MBA 2008), Founder and CEO of the Shiv Nadar Foundation John Wood (MBA 1989), Founder and CEO of Room to Read Susan Abrams (MM 1990), CEO of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center References Category:Northwestern University

Elliot Schewel Elliot Sidney Schewel (June 20, 1924 – December 15, 2019) was an American businessman and politician who served for two decades as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing his native Lynchburg. References External links Category:1924 births Category:2019 deaths Category:Jewish American politicians Category:Virginia state senators Category:Virginia Democrats Category:Washington and Lee University alumni Category:20th-century American politicians

San Diego police continue to face a number of criminal and civil cases alleging officer misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to illegal groping. Here’s a rundown of some of the most prominent ones: Civil Lawsuits Current officers and a sexual misconduct victim are suing the department. The officers argue they faced sexual harassment within the department in recent years. A victim of a former officer wants damages – and changes to how the department operates. Carl Hershman Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Hershman is an SDPD officer who worked in the sex-crimes unit in 2009. He had posters of barely clothed women with jokes about them getting drugged hung on his cubicle. The posters were among the key evidence in sexual harassment complaints from two female officers who worked in the unit. The city settled those lawsuits for $75,000. Hershman countersued, alleging he was harassed and retaliated against during the city’s internal investigation. His case is still active. Among his arguments: He and a colleague had the posters up for years without complaint, and they were a teaching tool. Hershman also hired a private investigator to show that one of the female officers was skipping out on the job. He said he presented his evidence to then-Chief William Lansdowne, who Hershman claims didn’t do anything. The city, meantime, says in a court filing that Hershman’s posters were grossly inappropriate: Hershman’s racy posters were taken down because other officers complained about them. Although Hershman claims they were used as training tools in the private, for-profit business he conducted off site during his vacation time, he never explains why he needed to hang them up in his cubicle. In fact he confirms that he was permitted to keep them up as long as no one complained. The Court will see the posters for what they are, insulting and demeaning to women: they condone child molestation, they made light of drugging women so they can be raped, they encourage victim blame by referring to women as “trailer trash” or mock females subjected to horrible sex crimes with comments addressed to the victims like “Your stupidity is our livelihood … SDPD Sex Crimes Unit.” A trial was scheduled to hear Hershman’s claims this week, but it has been moved to mid-August, according to the city attorney’s office. Jane Doe Sexual Assault Lawsuit This lawsuit could result in the biggest payout and massive changes to departmental operations. When Lorenzo was first arrested, Zimmerman stripped his police powers and suspended him without pay – a move that raised questions about whether she was violating Lorenzo’s rights. An SDPD spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on Lorenzo or any of the other officers facing legal issues. But after prosecutors declined to file charges against Lorenzo, the spokesman told NBC 7 Lorenzo’s status in the department was a private personnel issue. Donald Moncrief Criminal Investigation In late February, the department announced an officer was under investigation for allegedly touching a woman he was arresting and exposing himself to her. The officer, later identified as Donald Moncrief, was suspended with pay. A district attorney spokesman said SDPD’s investigation is continuing and hasn’t been turned over to prosecutors for review. Written by Liam Dillon Liam Dillon is senior reporter and assistant editor for Voice of San Diego. He leads VOSD’s investigations and writes about how regular people interact with local government. What should he write about next? Please contact him directly at liam.dillon@voiceofsandiego.org or 619.550.5663.

In just over 100 days, President Obama is on the verge of ensuring that militant Islam’s war on America will be waged for decades to come and its forces will never suffer manpower or money shortages. How did he accomplish so much in some little time? He simply behaved as all U.S. political leaders behave; that is, as an ignorant and arrogant interventionist.

After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, chef Tyler Johnson soldiers on at Bar Brigade In 2014, the former Army specialist had just gone through a divorce. He was sleeping on a friend’s couch when the phone rang: An old Army buddy, now a chef de cuisine in Los Angeles, wanted to invite Johnson to the City of Angels to try his hand at cooking. Four years and one prestigious Culinary Institute of America degree later, he’s a chef at Bar Brigade in St. Paul, where he crafts artsy entrées like rabbit with roasted pickled carrots and a ramp and prosciutto mash, or Parisian gnocchi with arugula and cream sauce. Still military-fit, with dark, curly hair and a full beard, the 29-year-old chef sees similarities between his Army duties and restaurant life. The kitchen milieu’s work-hard, play-hard attitude is similar to that of the military. (So is the harsh language, and the humor.) “I love the stress. There’s a constant deadline. You have to be quick,” he says through an endearing, gap-toothed grin. “Almost like the military, the guys are fighting for each other. Not to that extreme, but when you’re busting your ass for 10, 12 hours together, you create a bond. You better learn to like each other, or you’re going to be miserable.” When he enlisted in the Army at 18, Johnson says the adrenaline-drenched experience felt fun. In hindsight, however? It was “actually pretty terrifying.” During his seven-year military career, Johnson completed two deployments to Iraq and another to Afghanistan within five years. His did missions and base defense, shouldering tasks like running food, water, or gasoline between bases. As part of the Quick Reaction Force, he and his comrades were backup for fellow servicemen who got caught in firefights or whose vehicles broke down. At all hours of they day, they were called upon via walkie-talkies to drop everything and run to their trucks to help out. He didn’t know what was next when he left the military at 25. What he did know was that he needed to get out. “I just kind of wore myself out too fast, to the point where even my higher-ups in the military were like, ‘You should probably just go home. You’ve done enough already. You should just go ahead and call this a career.’” His knees and back were killing him, and there was a psychological toll, too. “You talk to any vet, they walk into a room and they assess who’s the most dangerous person, where all the exits are, things like that,” he says. “Sleep is very hard to come by. Anxiety. Lots of anxiety. I don’t care who you are, you’re going to take something back, especially mentally, from war. Because it’s not normal.” After moving to California, he threw himself into line cook work at Pasadena’s Vertical Wine Bistro and Animal in L.A., prepping salads and desserts for around $10 an hour. Thanks to the GI Bill, he enrolled in culinary school at the Art Institute of North Hollywood, where an instructor noticed the intensity of his passion and encouraged him to transfer to New York’s Culinary Institute of America instead. Johnson did. During a school break, Johnson journeyed to the Twin Cities to visit a friend who insisted they dine at the (now defunct, dearly missed) Strip Club. Johnson ate steak (of course), but it was the beet risotto with truffles that blew his mind. He tweeted as much to Strip Club co-owner J.D. Fratzke. The two corresponded, eventually leading to an invitation to do a two-day “stage” with Fratzke at Red River Kitchen in 2016. A year later, the freshly minted CIA graduate moved to Minnesota and completed a stint at Strip Club before stepping into the Bar Brigade kitchen, where he and Fratzke now bat ideas for dishes and specials back and forth. Johnson’s cooking is a mélange of influences. He grew up on the East Coast eating Pennsylvania Dutch fare: heavy, rich foods like lasagna, stew, and shoofly pie. “That’s how you stayed warm: You ate thick food and drank beer,” he says. He also savors Mexican flavors, a predilection developed in his adolescence in Arizona; Caribbean eats are another favorite, an ode to his mother’s home in the Virgin Islands. Factor in the technique and finesse he learned in fine dining, and you get the chef’s “rebellious classical” cooking style, which sometimes finds him butting heads with Fratzke. “J.D. will say, ‘Let’s do classic like this.’ I’m like, ‘No. Tell me the classical way so I can completely obliterate it,’” Johnson says. But Fratzke has a reputation for genuine caring and treating staff like family, and Johnson has benefited from that paternal influence. “I call him Dad,” he says. “I’m having the time of my life with a guy who is well-respected in the Twin Cities and has been sweet enough to take me on and be my mentor.” And Johnson needs the support, because he’s his own harshest critic. He’ll tell you he’s never good enough, that he’ll never make a great dish. Even when he crafts something universally beloved, he thinks: “It could be better.” But who wants mastery? That’s boring. Cooking is a never-ending battle, and this one, Johnson is all too eager to wage. To solidify his commitment to the kitchen, he had a knife tattooed on the right side of his neck. Beneath the blade are the letters MEP, for “mise en place,” the French phrase that refers to the strict organizational setup of the kitchen. When he’s not wielding knives and stirring sauces, Johnson takes in the bountiful flavors of his Cathedral Hill neighborhood, where he ricochets among watering hole the Happy Gnome, Southern food-inspired Revival, and Mississippi Market. But he devotes the lion’s share of his time to Bar Brigade, his culinary home. And a fitting home, indeed: Bar Brigade’s name is a nod to the “brigade de cuisine,” the kitchen hierarchy system inspired by the military. “This is as close to the military as I’m going to get,” Johnson says. “I couldn’t do anything else.”

List of elections in 1871 The following elections occurred in the year 1871. 1871 Chilean presidential election 1871 New Zealand general election Africa French legislative election in Algeria general election in Liberia French legislative election in Senegal Europe 1871 Dutch general election July 1871 French by-elections February 1871 French legislative election and July 1871 French by-elections 1871 German federal election 1871 Portuguese legislative election elections in Spain UK: 1871 Dover by-election January and April 1871 Durham City by-election 1871 East Surrey by-election 1871 Galway County by-election 1871 Halifax by-election 1871 Hereford by-election 1871 Limerick City by-election 1871 County Limerick by-election 1871 Meath by-election 1871 Monaghan by-election 1871 Monmouthshire by-election 1871 Newry by-election 1871 Norwich by-election 1871 Plymouth by-election 1871 Ripon by-election 1871 South Norfolk by-election 1871 Stalybridge by-election 1871 Tamworth by-election 1871 Truro by-election 1871 West Norfolk by-election 1871 West Staffordshire by-election 1871 Westmeath by-election 1871 Westmorland by-election 1871 York by-election North America Canada 1871 British Columbia general election 1871 Nova Scotia general election 1871 Ontario general election 1871 Quebec general election By-elections to the 1st Canadian Parliament United States California: 871 United States House of Representatives elections in California 1871 California gubernatorial election Georgia: US Senate special elections Illinois: 1871 Chicago mayoral election Illinois's at-large congressional district special election Kansas: US Senate election Kentucky: US Senate election Massachusetts: US Senate election Michigan: US Senate election Minnesota: US Senate election US Senate special election gubernatorial election New Hamshire: US House of Representatives elections New Jersey: gubernatorial election New York: state election Texas: US House of Representatives elections US Senate election Virginia: US Senate election West Virginia: US Senate election See also :Category:1871 elections Category:Lists of elections by year Elections

Structure of the mammalian oligosaccharyl-transferase complex in the native ER protein translocon. In mammalian cells, proteins are typically translocated across the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane in a co-translational mode by the ER protein translocon, comprising the protein-conducting channel Sec61 and additional complexes involved in nascent chain processing and translocation. As an integral component of the translocon, the oligosaccharyl-transferase complex (OST) catalyses co-translational N-glycosylation, one of the most common protein modifications in eukaryotic cells. Here we use cryoelectron tomography, cryoelectron microscopy single-particle analysis and small interfering RNA-mediated gene silencing to determine the overall structure, oligomeric state and position of OST in the native ER protein translocon of mammalian cells in unprecedented detail. The observed positioning of OST in close proximity to Sec61 provides a basis for understanding how protein translocation into the ER and glycosylation of nascent proteins are structurally coupled. The overall spatial organization of the native translocon, as determined here, serves as a reliable framework for further hypothesis-driven studies.

James Seaton James Seaton may refer to: James Seaton (professor) (1944–2017), professor of English at Michigan State University James Seaton (Newfoundland politician) (1804–1876), journalist and political figure in Newfoundland James Seaton (New Zealand politician) (1822–1882), Member of Parliament from Dunedin, New Zealand James Seaton (bishop) (1868–1938), Anglican bishop James Wilson Seaton (1824–1904), American lawyer and legislator See also James Seton (disambiguation)

Corticosterone secretion through long incubation shifts in Diomedea albatrosses. Blood samples were collected from free-living incubating Diomedea albatross during single incubation shifts, both daily (wandering albatross D. exulans and every 2 days (grey-headed albatross D. chrysostoma and black-browed albatross D. melanophris), and the concentration of corticosterone was determined. Within 48 hr a significant increase in the corticosterone concentration was observed in each species. The magnitude of the increase was greater in the grey-headed and black-browed albatrosses than in the wandering albatross. Corticosterone concentrations rose steadily through the incubation shift in grey-headed and black-browed albatrosses, but fluctuated erratically in wandering albatrosses. All three species of albatross fast during incubation and the increase in adrenocortical activity is probably related to the voluntary deprivation of food and water.

by THE ASS PRESS POSTED: 04/24/2012 6:00:47 PM PDT Virginia Beach, VA. — In a shocking move, 82 year old televangelist Pat Robertson announced to his followers that he is in fact gay. “I hesitated coming out for a while. I thought god would strike me down if I did. Then when I finally announced the news, nothing happened. God must still love me. I encourage all of the other confused souls out there to come out with me and be your true selves. God will still love you, I promise.” 52-year-old Paul Horner who is a member of the choir group for Robertson’s congregation said, “We always knew he was gay. He would take these long vacations and cruises with his ‘friend’ Manual. Also at work instead of the normal ‘casual Friday’, he would call it ‘fabulous Friday’. Plus no one can spew that much hate towards gay people without actually being gay themselves.” Robertson told reporters, “I know I’ve said a lot of hurtful, mean and evil things to the gay community in the past and for that I’m truly sorry. My hatred of gays was just me being mad at myself.” Robertson continued, “I didn’t know if I was actually gay for a long time. I was afraid to be who I really was. Then I started having feelings for the young Brazilian boy that I had been sleeping with and that’s when I knew.” “Growing up I always knew he was gay,” Robertson’s youngest daughter Laura Robertson said. “He always had his ‘friend’ Glenn over and they were always hanging out in the guest house. They would stay out there for days, we would never see them. My dad would tell me they were just writing new sermons or something, but I knew. We all knew.” “I always knew he was gay,” Pat Robertson’s wife of 48 years Sheila Robertson said. “During sex he would sometimes have me dress up as a construction worker and talk in a deep voice. It was really weird, but hey, the congregation made Pat and I a lot of money. It bought us a lot of nice things, so I just kind of went with it and didn’t ask any questions.” “My wife and I always knew he was gay,” Ben Jenkins who was a neighbor of Pat Robertson for twenty years said. “We would always see young men coming and going from his house at weird hours of the night. Also one time he asked me if I was into men and when I said no he grabbed my hand and tried putting it on his private area. He then pulled down his pants and showed me a tattoo on his left butt cheek with my name right below an image of Jesus. Plus I get a dozen roses from him every Valentine’s Day, so yeah.” During Robertson’s coming out sermon this weekend he laid out an action plan of new changes for his congregation: Gay toy drives More ‘fabulous’ decorations for the church Food drives for the gay homeless ‘Gay Marriage Wednesday’, as Pat calls it. He says he’ll be overseeing weddings for gay men and woman in the area free of charge Instead of the red wine that is typically used at his sermons, Pat says now they’ll be using Chardonnay Changing the word ‘congregation’ to ‘congregaytion’ Robertson was asked what he’s going to do now after coming out of the closet, “I’m excited for the future,” he said. “First of all I’m shutting down my gay-to-straight conversion summer camps. I’m closing them and re-opening them as places that encourage one’s true sexuality. I’m renaming one of my biggest camps from ‘Camp Old Testament’ and changing it to ‘Camp Come-Out’.” Robertson finished his sermon by saying, “I can’t wait to get with more dudes, Amen.”

Umbrella (disambiguation) An umbrella is a canopy device designed to protect from precipitation or sunlight. Umbrella or Umbrellas may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a 1964 film by Jaques Demy Umbrella (film), a 2007 documentary film directed by Du Haibin Literature Umbrella (children's book), a 1958 Caldecott Honor picture book by Taro Yashima Umbrella (novel), a 2012 novel by Will Self Umbrella: A Pacific Tale, by Ferdinand Mount Music Groups Umbrellas (band), an indie rock band The Umbrellas (jazz ensemble), an Australian jazz ensemble Albums Umbrellas (band), self-titled album by the Umbrellas Umbrella (The Innocence Mission album), 1991 Umbrella (Shota Shimizu album), 2008 Songs "Umbrella" (song), a 2007 song by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z "Umbrella", a song from Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso 2007 "Umbrella", a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees released as the second single for the 1986 album Tinderbox "Umbrella", a song by Dog's Eye View from the 1997 album Daisy "Umbrella", a song by Yui from the 2007 album Can't Buy My Love "Umbrella", a song by Nits 1979 "Umbrella", a song by Utopia 1980 "Umbrella", a song by The Baseballs 2009 "The Umbrella Man", recorded by many artists including Flanagan and Allen Other arts, entertainment, and media The Umbrella, a Canadian arts talk show television series The Umbrella (film) Umbrella (newsletter), an American newsletter on artist's books Umbrella Corporation, the fictional corporation in the Resident Evil series Umbrella Entertainment, a company in Australia whose DVDs were distributed by Madman Entertainment The Umbrellas (Renoir), 1880s Technology Umbrella (underwater nuclear test), conducted as part of Operation Hardtack I Cisco Umbrella, OpenDNS rebranded as a business service Other uses Umbrella (company), an American video game developer Umbrella brand, an overarching brand Umbrella company, a trading vehicle for UK freelancers/contractors Umbrella fund, an investment term Umbrella insurance, liability insurance that is in excess of specified other policies and potentially primary insurance for losses not covered by the other policies , an island in Georgian Bay, Ontario Umbrella Movement, the Hong Kong political movement involved in the 2014 Hong Kong protests Umbrella organization, an association of institutions Umbrella school, an alternative education school Umbrella term, a word that provides a superset or grouping of concepts that all fall under a single common category See also The Umbrellas (disambiguation)

Q: Regex to find incomplete round brackets I need a regex that can detect incomplete rounded brackets. I tried this. /^(?:(?!\(.*\)))/ My test string is this (sample, then this regex detects incomplete bracket i.e returns result true. However if my test string is this (sample) (another. Then it returns false. I have to find for a negated pattern, because if I try to look for simple /\(*\)/, then it will detect first complete bracket and return. Now even after trying a negative lookahead, it is failing. Please help me as to where am I going wrong. P.s. Ok that test string is just too stupid. Here's what I am actually trying to achieve. User will enter a natural query like ((A and B) or (C and D)) or E. This is something that will be used to group up set of rules. A: Two things: You bound your expression to the start of the string by the anchor ^, so it will only match a opening bracket at the start of the string (and will fail, when it finds another closing bracket.) If your brackets are nested, it is not possible with JavaScript regex. (if they are not nested it could be done)

Mankowski Mankowski may refer to: People Guy Mankowski (born 1983), British writer. Phil Mankowski (born 1953), American baseball player. Pierre Mankowski (born 1951), French football player.

Nubile women moisten so lightly. It doesn't take her a lot in any respect to moisten. Her honeypot is so raw, her thumbs slip out and in. Tyke is so nasty cub even nuzzles her well-worn underpants. Tyke has a fuck stick at the wall that's using her entirely furious. It seems like cub has some sensational plans for it.

We love the strong herb flavors of this chicken! If you don't like balsalmic vinegar I would suggest you don't even try it. I make it with dried herbs as I don't usually have fresh herbs on hand and it turns out fine. Just make sure to decrease the amounts as dry herbs are stronger than fresh. This chicken is best when cooked on the grill as the smoky flavor blends incredibly well with the herbs and balsalmic vinegar. I have made this chicken for a few guests and everyone has said they loved it. It's great served with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus. Reviewer: I definitely recommend doing this on the grill to get the best results. I had fresh rosemary on hand which was nice and used dried thyme and dried parsley. I put everything into a mini food processor to blend. I pounded the chicken down thin and let it marinate for close to 12 hours. If you're not a fan of balsamic - use white wine or white wine vinegar. This is a great marinade. I've tried so many from this site and this is one of the best. This chicken would be great over pasta! Reviewer: I used my immersion blender right in the bowl I was marinating the chicken (breasts and boneless thighs) and it made for less to wash. I, too, reduced the balsamic vinegar (to 1/4 cup) and increased the olive oil (to 1/3 cup) and found it was nicely balanced. Used dried thyme. Added 1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes as well (we like heat!). A keeper! Reviewer: This recipe was exactly what I was looking for, a way to make flavorful chicken breast without drying it out. I made a double batch of this for dinner and leftovers. Boyfriend loved it. Asked me to make it again. This is a perfect base. I changed the herbs and added some red pepper flakes for a little spiciness but this recipe is awesome. Reviewer: This is a wonderful recipe. I decrease the vinegar a little as was suggested by some reviewers and it was great!! I added a little extra of each herb as well!! I will definitely use this again on beef and pork as well. I think it would be great on salmon!! Reviewer: This was excellent - I used boneless chicken breast that I cut up into bite sized chunks (to cut down on cooking time) and I marinated it for only 1.5 hours. I made a foil packet and poured everything onto it - left it open on top and placed on the grill. I cooked for about 15-20 minuted. My 16 year old, 11 year old and 4 year old asked me to make more next time!

1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a storage battery electrode. 2. Description of the Related Art With the recent rapid spread of portable electronic devices such as mobile phones, smartphones, electronic books, and portable game machines, secondary batteries for drive power supply have been increasingly required to be smaller and to have higher capacity. Storage batteries typified by lithium secondary batteries, which have advantages such as high energy density and high capacity, have been widely used as secondary batteries used for portable electronic devices. A lithium secondary battery, which is one of storage batteries and widely used due to its high energy density, includes a positive electrode including an active material such as lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) or lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), a negative electrode formed of a carbon material such as graphite capable of reception and release of lithium ions, a nonaqueous electrolyte in which an electrolyte formed of a lithium salt such as LiBF4 or LiPF6 is dissolved in an organic solvent such as ethylene carbonate or diethyl carbonate, and the like. A lithium secondary battery is charged and discharged in such a way that lithium ions in the secondary battery are transferred between the positive electrode and the negative electrode through the nonaqueous electrolyte and intercalated into or deintercalated from the active materials of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A binder is mixed into the positive electrode or the negative electrode in order that active materials can be bound or an active material and a current collector can be bound. Since the binder is generally an organic high molecular compound such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) which has an insulating property, the electric conductivity of the binder is extremely low. Therefore, as the ratio of the mixed binder to the active material is increased, the amount of the active material in the electrode is relatively decreased, resulting in the lower discharge capacity of the secondary battery. Hence, by mixture of a conductive additive such as acetylene black (AB) or graphite particles, the electric conductivity between active materials or between an active material and a current collector can be improved. Thus, a positive electrode active material with high electric conductivity can be provided (see Patent Document 1).

Elout Elout, sometimes spelled with numerous alternative spellings, is a Dutch surname, and can refer to: François Elout (1519-1600), Belgian/Dutch painter. François Elout (1589-1635), Dutch painter. Cornelis Elout (1714 - 1779), collector and member of Teylers Tweede Genootschap. Cornelis Pieter Elout (1741 - 1796), manufacturer and council member of Haarlem. Son of Cornelis Elout. Cornelis Theodorus Elout (1767 - 1841), Dutch cabinet minister. Cornelis Pieter Jacob Elout (1795 - 1843), Dutch Major General and resident in the Dutch Indies. Son of Cornelis Theodorus Elout. Maurits Theodorus Elout (1808 - 1889), Dutch military during the Belgian independence struggle. Son of Cornelis Theodorus Elout. Cornelis Hendrik Elout, Dutch politician and mayor of Domburg. Cornelis Karel Elout (1870 - 1947), Dutch journalist and writer. Son of Cornelis Hendrik Elout. Mies Elout Soeterwoude-Drabbe (1875 - 1956), Dutch painter and drawer. Johanna Madeleine Selleger-Elout (1875 - 1957), Dutch writer.

Koumbia Koumbia may refer to: Koumbia, Tuy Province, Burkina Faso Koumbia, Balé Province, Burkina Faso Koumbia, Mali Koumbia, Guinea See also Kumbia (disambiguation)

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List of highways numbered 413 Route 413 or Highway 413 may refer to: Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Route 413 Japan Japan National Route 413 United Kingdom A413 road Gerrards Cross - Towcester United States Georgia State Route 413 (unsigned designation for Interstate 675) Louisiana Highway 413 Maryland Route 413 Missouri Route 413 New Jersey Route 413 New York: New York State Route 413 (former) County Route 413 (Erie County, New York) Oregon Route 413 Pennsylvania Route 413 South Carolina Highway 413 Virginia State Route 413 Wyoming Highway 413 Territories Puerto Rico Highway 413

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Not even close. Most of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapor, which is about 100 times as abundant in the atmosphere as CO2 and thus has a much larger effect. Oh, really? Suppose you have a planet with an atmosphere composed exactly like Earth’s, with water oceans and a yellow dwarf sun as well. Thus, its atmosphere would indeed have both CO2 and H2O, complete with clouds and typical weather patterns. Suddenly, all the CO2 is removed from the atmosphere. Without the greenhouse effect it provides, the temperature drops quickly. The relative humidity skyrockets. In some areas, it exceeds 100%, and when that happens, clouds form, increasing the planet’s cloud cover. The clouds block and reflect the sunlight, further cooling the air below them as well as the surface. Precipitation results and the atmosphere loses most of its H2O as well. So the atmosphere becomes colder and drier, until finally the planet is locked in an ice age, which it can never recover from unless CO2 is added. Even the oceans will be frozen up. Now, we add the CO2 back. With CO2 trapping heat once more, ice begins to melt. Then water begins to evaporate. As water evaporates, the H2O kicks in with its own greenhouse effect, resulting in more ice melting. Eventually, the oceans are restored, and the atmosphere returns to what it was. H2O alone on Earth cannot keep the planet warm enough to sustain life, because at certain temperatures and concentrations in the atmosphere it forms clouds which act as cooling agents, and on land below a certain temperature it forms ice, which also reflects light. CO2 must be the trigger for the greenhouse effect of both substances to operate properly on Earth. Quite simply, those ICECAP “experts” are either lying or just idiots!

Mutation of amino acid 475 of rat organic cation transporter 2 (rOCT2) impairs organic cation transport. Protein sequence alignments revealed one amino acid position, where organic cation transporters (OCTs, aspartate (D) at position 475 of rOCT2) and organic anion transporters (OATs, arginine (R) at position 466 of rOAT1) are charged oppositely. To address the impact of this amino acid for protein function we cloned rat organic cation transporter 2 (rOCT2), the renal electrogenic cation transporter of the basolateral side of proximal tubule cells. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to generate rOCT2-D475R (rOCT2-mut). Heterologous expression of rOCT2 wild-type (rOCT2-wt) in A6 cells resulted in a significant uptake of the fluorescent organic cation 4-(4-dimethylaminostyryl)-N-methylpyridinium (ASP(+)). Accordingly, rOCT2-wt-transfected COS 7 cells showed an almost fourfold uptake of 25 microM [(14)C]-TEA, whereas rOCT2-mut did not exhibit any uptake of [(14)C]-TEA. These data indicate that rOCT2 transports both ASP(+) and TEA and that aspartate at position 475 of rOCT2 plays a critical role in transport function.

Crunchyroll continues to expand the Spring 2020 Anime Lineup, this time with the addition of the Shadowverse anime. The card-battling action will be available to members in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS. Shadowverse Launch Time: April 7 at 3:00am PT Territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS Synopsis: The hottest battle is about to begin! While attending Tensei Academy, Hiiro Ryugasaki ends up acquiring a mysterious smartphone. It comes installed with the popular card game, Shadowverse! Meeting new rivals, facing major tournaments, forging bonds with friends... Shadowverse leads Hiiro to all sorts of new experiences, all that serve to "evolve" him... ------- Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

BALL, Edward, a Representative from Ohio; born in Fairfax County, near Falls Church, Va., November 6, 1811; attended the village school; moved to Ohio and located near Zanesville; engaged in agricultural pursuits; deputy sheriff of Muskingum County in 1837 and 1838 and sheriff 1839-1843; member of the State house of representatives 1845-1849; became editor of the Zanesville Courier in 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Zanesville; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860; Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-seventh Congress 1861-1863; resumed the practice of law; again a member of the State house of representatives 1868-1870; accidentally killed by a railroad train near Zanesville, Ohio, on November 22, 1872; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.

Chetopa Township, Kansas Chetopa Township, Kansas may refer to one of the two following places: Chetopa Township, Wilson County, Kansas Chetopa Township, Neosho County, Kansas See also List of Kansas townships Category:Kansas township disambiguation pages

"Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy(Hey, what up girl?" ")" "Put my glasses on, I'm out the door" "I'm gonna hit this city(Let's go)" "Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack" "Cause when I leave for the night, I ain't coming back" "I'm talking:" "Pedicure on our toes, toes" "Trying on all our clothes, clothes" "Boys blowing up our phones, phones" "Drop-toping, playing our favorite cds" "Pulling up to the parties" "Trying to get a little bit tipsy..." "Don't stop, make it pop DJ, blow my speakers up" "Tonight, Imma fight Til we see the sunlight" "Tick tock, on the clock But the party don't stop" "Woah-oh oh oh" "Woah-oh oh oh..." "Don't stop, make it pop DJ, blow my speakers up" "Tonight, Imma fight Til we see the sunlight" "Tick tock, on the clock But the party don't stop" "Woah-oh oh oh" "Woah-oh oh oh..." "Aint got a care in world, but got plenty of beer" "Aint got no money in my pocket, but I'm already here" "Now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger" "But we kick em to the curb" "Unless they look like Mick Jagger" "I'm talking about:" "Everybody getting crunk, crunk" "Boys trying to touch my junk, junk" "Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk" "Now, now: we goin' 'til they kick us out, out" "Or the police shut us down, down" "Police shut us down, down Po-po shut us..." "Don't stop, make it pop DJ, blow my speakers up" "Tonight, Imma fight Til we see the sunlight" "Tick tock, on the clock But the party don't stop" "Woah-oh oh oh" "Woah-oh oh oh..." "Don't stop, make it pop DJ, blow my speakers up" "Tonight, Imma fight Til we see the sunlight" "Tick tock, on the clock But the party don't stop" "Woah-oh oh oh" "Woah-oh oh oh..." "DJ, you build me up You break me down" "My heart, it pounds." "Yeah, you got me..." "With my hands up You got me now" "You gotta that sound Yea, you got me..." "DJ, you build me up You break me down" "My heart, it pounds Yeah, you got me..." "With my hands up Get your hands up" "Put your hands up!" "No, the party don't stop until I walk in..." "Don't stop, make it pop DJ, blow my speakers up" "Tonight, Imma fight Til we see the sunlight" "Tick tock, on the clock But the party don't stop" "Woah-oh oh oh" "Woah-oh oh oh..." "Don't stop, make it pop DJ, blow my speakers up" "Tonight, Imma fight Til we see the sunlight" "Tick tock, on the clock But the party don't stop" "Woah-oh oh oh" "Woah-oh oh oh..."

I host a GLAAD Award-winning radio show on Sirius XM Radio called "Derek and Romaine". I wrote a book (finally). I star in a video podcast called "The So Real Life" on iTunes. I watch a lot of TV. I drink with my friends. I travel all the time. This is my life. Saturday, February 2, 2008 Double Talk What a week. Generally, I lead a very quiet life (as my infrequently updated blog can attest). This week turned out to be something else. In a nutshell, seven days ago, I got a call from Chi Chi La Rue asking if Romaine and I wanted to co-host (along with Lady Bunny) the GayVN Awards (after Romaine had not so subtly asked John Rutherford about it on the show). Romaine spilled the beans on the air. I posted it in our weekly newsletter. JC Adams picked up the assumedly harmless item on GayPornTimes.com, and then the shit hit the fan. First, it was Jason Sechrest with his cutesy, bitchy patter about what a letdown we are compared to last year's host Kathy Griffin (agreed). Then came an anonymous posting on NakedSword.com's new blog TheSword.com where we were raked over the coals. I posted one of my usual dignified and restrained responses. And now that brings me to the latest curious twist in the whole matter. In a follow-up posting, the previously anonymous blogger identified himself as one Michael Stabile (pronounced like stuh-bile, not stable) and instantly the name looked so familiar but I couldn't quite place it. The follow-up posting was a snarky mea culpa that somehow lumped our filthy, deranged outrage of a show into the category of establishment gay media with only queer identity politics as a focus. It is clear that Mike has never heard our show because if he had, he would have noticed that second only to sloppiness and a certain lack of professionalism, the number one complaint about our show is that it isn't about anything (i.e. gay marriage, politics, gay issues, gender issues). We never met a dirty bathroom story we didn't like and last week an hourlong discussion by our listeners of disgusting things they experienced at work will likely be the highlight of the year. Oh but Mike was listening. At least on the day we were talking about his blog posting and gently ribbing Jason Sechrest about his video blog. He had even emailed me a personal email earlier in the day and then called the show. His email (titled "Contrition, Conflation and Contractions" and scheduled for publication in 2009 in a new book of essays called "SAT Words I Use Every Day") stood in stark contrast to his spicier blog postings: "I don't actually have a subscription, I've heard you a few times but I'm not a big talk radio fan... I actually feel badly that I hurt your feelings -- and more particular that I made an already stressful event even more stressful for you. You guys are charming, but it's just not my bag... I'd love to see you guys when you're in town and apologize in person. You'll do great -- don't worry -- and I'll clap heartily. " When I got the email, it struck me again how familiar his name was. A quick search through my mail brought up this classic gem he sent to our show producer dated April 24, 2006(the bold is my emphasis): "I'm the producer of the Tim & Roma Show (www.timandroma.com) adult-oriented (though not hardcore) webcast and the editor of the GayPornBlog (www.gaypornblog.com). We're huge fans of Derek and Romaine and my on-air talent has been prodding me to make contact with you for sometime. While we've worked with many of the same people (COLT Studio's John Rutherford and Kristofer Weston, Violet Blue, Dr. Carol Queen) and covered many of the same topics, I'm interested in seeing if we could work more closely together. " And he signed off with the following: "Please keep up the good work -- and please thank Derek and Romaine for keeping me going on a day-to-day basis." When I confronted him on my radio show about the apparent contradictions between his insistence that the show isn't his bag with his previous email, he replied that he was just doing his job as a producer. Which I assume since the tone of his blog is very different from the tone of his emails, by voicing opinions he doesn't actually believe, he is just doing his job as a blogger. The big problem I have here is that while he may claim to be a nice guy underneath it all, he just comes off to me like a chronic and habitual liar. The listeners have complained that when he was on the show and I had him in my crosshairs, I didn't fire with deadly force. But that just isn't my style. On a certain level, Mike is right: we are just all here trying to make a living. I just happen to think there are better ways to go about doing it. You know, ones that don't involve being willfully uninformed and then lying about it. Derek, After listening to you for a couple years, it's clear you could cut through this guy like a hot knife through blogger, but you choose to maintain decorum and dignity instead. You have an amazing sense of restraint that I admire. Your show rarely disappoints in the humor and shock value and I have few doubts that the GAYVN Award Night will any different. Good luck, All the best. Hey. i know from listening to the show in the past that you are a clothes whore but a cheap bastard since you like to keep your funds for booze. :PI thought of you when I saw that Old Navy (one of the stores you mentioned you frequent on the show) is having a $10 sale on their Classic Pique Polos for men. Time to update that wardrobe for cheap, just like you. http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/product.do?pid=419570142&tid=ONAF86&ap=2&siteID=1798476*kisses* and hurry back to Dallas with my t-shirt I never received.Donald - one of the 2 bears that said hi to you by Sue Ellen's Gay Ad Network Hello There Derek Hartley is the co-host of the GLAAD Award-winning talk show Derek and Romaine. Launched in April of 2003, Derek and Romaine is a popular evening radio show airing on the OutQ Channel on SiriusXM 108. Prior to the launch of Derek and Romaine, Derek was the author of a weekly column on PlanetOut.com called FantasyMan Island, starting in February 1997. He is the author of two books Colonnade: A Life In Columns and When Nightlife Falls. He lives in New York.

What:UFC 100When/Where: July 11th at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.Why: Because it’s one of the most stacked UFC cards ever. In the above trailer, Joe Rogan calls the event "fucking insane," then implies that Steve Mazzagatti screwed up Brock Lesnar‘s first fight against Frank Mir. For Brock, this fight is all about revenge. Mir thinks that if Big Nog couldn’t last two rounds with him, Brock’s chances aren’t very good. In the night’s other title fight, Georges St. Pierre battles for his legacy against the biggest, strongest, toughest test of his career — Thiago Alves, who wants to knock out GSP, take his belt, and become "the man." Also, Dan Henderson and Michael Bisping move out of the reality show set and into the Octagon. Hendo wants to beat Bisping up and shut his mouth a little bit; Bisping wants to be responsible for the first KO loss on Dan’s record. Only on pay-per-viewwww… You have to give Ivanov this much, for a guy with zero professional experience in MMA he’s certainly diving into deep waters right away. Fujita and Aleks Emelianenko may not be at the top of anyone’s heavyweight list, but they’re both experienced, dangerous opponents. It seems we’ll find out in a hurry whether winning a Sambo tournament makes you an instantly credible MMA fighter. Our guess is no, it probably doesn’t. (Guida turns taking a shot into an art form. Photo courtesy of UFC.com) After another fun, free MMA weekend we turn once again to the Potato Index to tell us where everyone stands. Those of you who are confused by what the numbers mean, just think of every fighter starting at his own particular zero coming into the event. Then we make up a number to reflect how far he’s climbed or fallen after his latest fight. Kind of like the stock market, but way more fun and only slightly more bullshit. Diego Sanchez +104Whatever you think the final scores should have been, Sanchez won that fight. He was a whirlwind on the feet and even managed to be the aggressor from the bottom when it hit the mat. But does a decision victory here equal a title shot? We wouldn’t mind seeing Sanchez vs. Gray Maynard to establish a clear contender. Bellator’s inaugural season came to a close on Friday night, with the finals of their middleweight and lightweight brackets. In the 185-pound title fight, Hector Lombard used his striking and ground-and-pound to open up some nasty cuts on the head of his opponent, Jared Hess; the fight was eventually stopped in the fourth round after Hess lost a few gallons of blood. Directly after, 155-pound favorite Eddie Alvarez completed his sweep of the lightweight tourney by knocking Toby Imada out of his jock with a big right hook early in the second round, then sinking in a rear-naked choke. Lombard and Alvarez collected $100,000 checks for their efforts. If you overcame the odds and racked up impressive scores for UFC 99 and the TUF 9 Finale, let us know your sum total in the comments section below. We’ll be verifying the top scores soon and announcing the first winner in a couple days. No worries if you crashed and burned this time; you’ll have another chance to win by predicting the outcome of UFC 100. Many thanks to everyone who played! Will his blood pressure be similarly jacked through the roof tonight? Will he find a way to incorporate the Tony Robbins firewalk into his entrance? Might Clay Guida surprise us all by fighting like the blur of hair of fists that he used to be? We’ll be waiting for those answers right along with you, so jump on board and remember to hit refresh often. This train is fixin to leave the station. (Villasenor puts on a brief left hook clinic. Photo courtesy of Strikeforce.) Despite getting his leg tenderized with kicks for much of the fight, “Smokin” Joey Villasenor took a split decision victory over Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos in the main event of last night’s Strikeforce Challengers event in Kent, Washington. Then he did what every Strikeforce middleweight is practically obliged to do: call out Cung Le. In what was somewhat surprisingly the most exciting fight on the televised card, Jorge Gurgel and Connor Heun slugged it out almost entirely on the feet for three rounds. Gurgel’s face may have looked like a poorly executed attempt at a jack-o-lantern after the fight, but he won the unanimous decision victory and afterward praised Heun’s toughness and impressive chin. Full results are after the jump.

Joshuya Brasserie Joshuya Brasserie was a modern sushi brasserie that served edo-style sushi, in addition to California style tapas with contemporary American influences. Joshuya Brasserie was the first restaurant created under Kwon Hospitality Group. The restaurant was located in Berkeley, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The owner and Executive Chef of Joshu-ya was Jason Kwon. The restaurant emphasized sustainable and seasonally driven food. Located in the Telegraph Avenue Shopping District, Joshuya Sushi was one of the oldest landmark restaurants in the Bay Area. Notable honors in 2014 include Best Sushi by the Daily Californian; Top Ten Sushi Restaurants in the Berkeley by Yelp; Diner’s Choice Award for Best Small Plates by OpenTable; Top 10 Best Burger in the Bay Area by Zagat Guide. History Founded in 1978 by Chef Kazuo Negishi as Joshuya Sushi Boat, it was one of the first sushi restaurants in the Berkeley area. In 2011, Rising Chef of the Year nominee Jason Kwon took ownership and launched Joshuya Brasserie. Located at 2411 Dwight Way on historic Telegraph Avenue, the restaurant was a longstanding establishment in the heart of Telegraph and the Southside UC Berkeley campus community. After four years under Jason Kwon, the restaurant closed in 2017. After being nominated as the Rising Chef of the Year by StarChefs in 2011-12, Jason Kwon approached Charles Pinot to publish “The Joshuya Cookbook” which was set to release December 2014. Cuisine The food was mainly Japanese and American with modern Californian influences. Joshuya served seasonal and weekend menus that reflected its local and sustainable food sources. Awards and accolades 2014, Top Japanese Restaurant in the East Bay 2014, Best Sushi in Berkeley 2014, Top Ten Sushi Restaurants in Berkeley 2014, Diner's Choice award for Best Small Plates 2014, Top 10 Best Burgers in the Bay Area See also List of sushi restaurants References External links Joshuya Official Site Category:Japanese-American culture in San Francisco Category:Restaurants in Berkeley, California Category:1978 establishments in California Category:Sushi restaurants in the United States

Hongchunping Temple Hongchunping Temple () is a Buddhist temple located on Mount Emei, in Emeishan City, Sichuan, China. Name The name of Hongchunping is derived from three 1,200-years-old Ailanthus altissima trees. History The temple was first built by master Chushan Xingyi () in the Song dynasty (960–1279) with the name of "Thousand Buddha Chan Temple" (), commonly known as "Thousand Buddha Temple" (). It was largely extended in 1631, in the reign of Chongzhen Emperor (1628–1644) of the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). In 1778, in the 43rd year of Qianlong period (1736–1795) in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), a catastrophic fire demolished most of its buildings. Twelve years later, the temple was restored and redecorated by master Eyun (). The name was changed into "Hongchunping Temple" (Hongchun means Ailanthus altissima) because it had three 1,200-years-old Ailanthus altissima trees. In 1936, Chiang Kai-shek visited the temple while he inspected the Officer Training Corps on Mount Emei. The temple has been designated as a National Key Buddhist Temple in Han Chinese Area by the State Council of China in 1983. Architecture Hongchunping Temple covers a building area of , the existing main buildings include the Shanmen, Hall of Four Heavenly Kings, Hall of Guanyin, Mahavira Hall, Meditation Hall, and monk's rooms. Mahavira Hall The Mahavira Hall enshrining a statue of Samantabhadra. The statues of Eighteen Arhats sitting on the seats before both sides of the gable walls. References Category:Buddhist temples in Sichuan Category:Buildings and structures in Leshan Category:Tourist attractions in Leshan Category:1790 establishments in China Category:18th-century Buddhist temples Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1790

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I only write facts. Saturday, August 14, 2010 Firstly, aku pernah menjadi seorang PR practioner for many years, although six to seven years of service tak buatkan aku sehebat PR-men yang ada di Malaysia ni. However, it does helped me to gain lots of knowledge and experience. And yes, aku mulut manis, so that is my advantage. Aku sebenarnya tak ada intention to prolong this so-called issue tapi I think when I received second sms, just like how a Vice President of Celcom sent me a childish sms when I complaint about Celcom and quoted Maxis, he went besserk. Funny. Amusing too. The thoughts of forwarding the sms to CEO Celcom sangat tinggi, but I decided not too sebab the sms is too childish and immature.Even if I post it here, you surely gonna have a good laugh. I bet, you will. Yeah, he went besserk sebab tak boleh terima bricks from a customer like me. I like to throw bricks at customer service people sebab in this world of you need customer badly to survive, you really really have to be very careful to what you say to your customer. And guess what, this little blog of mine could be read by anyone. Just google. Voila ! Presently, we have new media, even without the traditional media featuring our nags, ramblings and rantings, we still have blogs, facebooks to tell the whole world of our grouses. To me, if you can't handle customer's complaint, maka tak payahlah hold that position. There is nothing wrong to be sarcastic dan perli, memandangkan kita ni Melayu tapi if you are doing to a customer, that is too much. For the fact is, you can't handle customer, and live with it. Bila customer complaint dan tegur, take it, swallow it, as you know you are wrong and that is why you have a Public Relations Department. If you can't take bricks being thrown at you, well, clerical job would suits you well. Less hectic. Ok, lets cut the crap. I wrote in short of our experience in Sibu Island Resort at this link. Itu baru summary of what actually happened to us the crew during our stay there. Let me say this, in Malaysia, there is NO such thing as good customer service. I never believed in that. This is what a reader commented on the entry: Audra Sazreenasaid... Hazrey... err. aku tak setuju.. sebab kita bayarlah kita perlu defend our rights as consumers. The payment that you made was not worth the service. And the management should compensate you. I could not agree more. Audra has a point there. The money we are paying does not worth the service we are receiving but of course, Sibu Island Resort which is owned by Jcorp does not realise this. Perhaps, the GM himself does not know what is customer service? What is value and what is worth? Of course he does not. And this is what I replied to Audra: Hazreysaid... Audra: if we are in London or perhaps Paris, yes that may happen. Tapi kita di Malaysia. I have experienced many times dah, the only compensation they gave is - a stupid apology letter that has grammar mistake all over it. Example is Celcom. Today, I receive an invitation to attend a food tasting for media from the same group, when I jokingly asked, "is this an invitation to compensate for the bad service we received in Sibu," guess what was the answer:"..lagipun benda yang lepas takkan nak ungkit selalu, simpan n jadikan pengajaran untuk yang lebih baik for the future." And this is Malaysia. Best tak? The concept of lepas tangan is being practiced in Johor Corporation itself. Kudos Jcorp! Kudos. Yeah, that is how they handle customer complaint, let bygone be bygone. When a customer does not received the value they are paying for, should the customer be compensated? Not to Sibu Island Resort, and apology thru sms suffice. To me, sms tak dapat menggambarkan keikhlasan kita. Apatah lagi if we wanna to apologise to people for our mistake. They should have this on their customer service mission, for all Jcorps staff. Seriously I do not understand, a huge, company such as Jcorp do not have customer service values? Where is the value? For smiling at people? That is not enough. For sending apology via sms? That is never been enough. For saying let bygone be bygone? Screw that! He as a general manager should made known those complaints about service failures arevaluable. Organizations pay huge fees to researchers and survey companies to discover their weaknesses, whereas complaints effectively provide the same data for free. One general manager with 5-star hotel experience put it perfectly:"It is the small, simple, special moments that we create through personal engagement with each customer that they will recall when they return home. To accomplish this type of sustainability we carefully and methodically select our employees, and then continuously train. Personally, I've seen 3 star establishments with the 5-star mindset. To the top management: Better to fix the holes and stop the leaks before you try to fill the bucket....when all that many customers require is not to be upset. Aku suka komen Izad ni. Aku rasa he is in customer service industry or hospitality. Good for him. Hopefully this can be a good case study for his students. They, the top management people are supposed to possess the knowledge and skills in areas of board governance. But, how the policies and practices are consistent with their statement of purpose match their PLEDGES or PHILOSOPHY “To me, sms tak dapat menggambarkan keikhlasan kita. Apatah lagi if we wanna to apologise to people for our mistake. They should have this on their customer service mission, for all Jcorps staff” …..You are correct , Saudara Hazrey!! One should bear in mind that hi-touch skills are more important than hi-tech skills as hi-tech skills involves managing the greatest assets…people. Technologies like phones, instant messaging, emails and ultimately social media messaging are efficient and effective communication and interaction. However, nothing beats meeting someone face-to-face noticing how the trend in terms of their demand and problems they face. You fit technology around people and not people around technology. Yes, this is as good case study whereby the customer expectation is important in forming the basis for defining service standard to help increase the understandings of the broad range of skills required of those working in the hospitality industry where improvement of performance is critical in this competitive environment.

Lambchop: OH (ohio) [Merge] Eleven albums in, “Nashville’s most *%$#’d up country band” remains as indefinable as ever I’ve long since given up attempting to label Lambchop; the exercise in futility hurts my head, and given that my ears are attached to that extremity, I need them focused on the task at hand. Is Lambchop alt.country? If sonic elements like steel guitars, nods to prime Burrito Brothers (tell me that “Close Up”—a kissing cousin to “Hot Burrito No. 1”—doesn’t grab you by the lapels of your Nudie jacket) or the occasional Countrypolitan string flourish strike you as such, sure. Maybe blue-eyed soul? Considering that songs such as “A Hold of You” could be Barry White fronting the Muscle Shoals house band with Al Green standing by in the green room, why not? Maybe indie-—hey, they are on Merge. Whatever: just listen to the damn disc. Kurt Wagner has kept Lambchop’s lineup constantly rotating since he began in 1994—and its typical dozen-person formation instantly qualifies as the quietest ensemble ever heard—and he still comes on like the Bukowski of Music Row, but when he busts out a line like “You’re busting my chops” (as he punningly does on the title track) you just cherish the man, and his work, for the illogical, indescribable blips that they are. Listen to Lambchop's "Slipped Dissolved and Loosed" from OH (ohio):

The changes of hepatic metallothionein synthesis and the hepatic damage induced by starvation in mice. Metallothionein (MT) is induced in the liver not only by heavy metals, but also by stress such as starvation. However, the meaning of the induced MT during starvation has never been clear. In this study, we investigated the relationship between changes in hepatic MT synthesis and the hepatic damage that occurs during starvation. MT synthesis was assessed by measuring MT contents and the expression of the MT gene in the liver. The hepatic damage was assessed by measuring glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT) activities in the serum. MT synthesis in the liver increased over the normal level by starvation, but decreased under the normal level by refeeding after starvation. Both GPT and GOT activities of the refeeding group were higher than those of the control group. However, MT synthesis increased by a subcutaneous injection with CdCl(2) (1 mg Cd /kg) at the same time as refeeding after starvation. At this point, GOT activity decreased until it reached the normal level. MT synthesis decreased by refeeding after starvation, and from the results found in this study, we proposed the hypothesis that the liver damage caused by refeeding after starvation might be due to the decrease in the synthesis of a sufficient amount of MT induced by metals.

More Fun Than A Barrel Of… Parenthood is a messy enterprise. A really messy enterprise. The spit, the shit, the snot, the generally cruddiness of it all – I knew this going in. It was gonna get ugly. I knew this. I was ready. I was prepared for the meconium poo. I went to the prenatal classes, I gasped out loud with everyone else when showed the video and it flashed past that picture of a newborn’s diaper filled with a black, tar-like paste. I was ready for it when it came to a diaper near me. I was ready for the breastmilk shits that looked liked runny spoiled condiments of the seedy Grey Poupon variety (must. resist. pun.) I’d read about them. I’d seen pictures. I was ready. I was ready for the dribbly spit-up and the upchuck spit-up and the projectile spit-up and I laughed, laughed, whenever anyone commented on the spit-up with words to the effect of my, that was a big spit-up because ha ha ha they had never really seen serious spit-up, the kind that ends up down the front of your tattered nursing bra and the back of your stretched-out yoga pants, all in one go. I’d seen and felt the worst of the spit-up. I was ready for it. I was ready for the ever-running rivers of snot. I was ready for the transformation of the poo that occurred when solids were introduced. I was ready for the increase in volume, and for the substantial intensification of pungency of odour. I was even ready for the tub dump, even though I didn’t have to deal with that myself. (OK, so maybe that one doesn’t count. Still, I would have been ready, if it had been me attending to that particular bath. I might have gagged a little, but I knew that babies pooped in the tub sometimes. I would have been ready for it.) Hope is not the only thing that floats. The interesting thing about that new-parent condition of constant readiness is this: you experience each moment of readiness-met – each experience of having felt prepared for some discomfiting aspect of new parenthood – as an accomplishment that brings you one step closer to the moment when you will no longer need to be ready. You spend the first year of parenthood being ever at-the-ready, secure in the unspoken-but-ever-present-assumption that one day you will be able to relax your guard, that one day, the spit will stop and the shits will end up in a toilet and the snot will not be your responsibility. You forge ahead, believing that things will get easier and cleaner. The children will get bigger and more self-reliant and the days of spit and shit and snot and mess will fade into the background behind you, lost in the mists of recorded (what, you didn’t keep a record of the newborn shits?) and unrecorded family history. That’s how it’s supposed to work, right? RIGHT? Because this morning I got up and waded through the knee-deep lake of books and blocks and stuffies and DVD cases that has overtaken our living room and tripped over not one, not two, but three half-eaten mandarin oranges. After picking up the oranges, I tried to give WonderBaby some breakfast, and was rewarded for my efforts by being pelted in the head by a handful of corn puffs and half of a partially-masticated banana, which remained in my hair while I pleaded with my tiny monster to eat please eat some breakfast, a plea that might – might – have elicited a response were it not for the sudden arrival of the morning poo, heralded by a series of distinctly indelicate grunts. Which required, of course, that I interrupt the tossing of the corn puffs and mashing of the fruit to remove her from her chair, during which process I was smeared with the other half of the partially-masticated banana, which she had decided to store in the back of her pajama bottoms for later consumption. By the time I had removed the banana carnage from her pants and readied her for her diaper change, WonderBaby had had enough and decided to remove herself from her change pad mid-change, leaving me with a handful of shitty diaper, which had to be disposed of one-handed so that the other, clean hand could retain its grip on the shit-smeared Wonderbaby who was now determined to head into the cluttered living room and spread fecal matter across all manner of unwashable objects. At which point it hit me: this is my life. This is it: this messy, shit-smeared existence is not a grotty way-station en route to some more ordered destination, some permanent condition of tidy domestic balance. It is my life. I am going to remain smeared with shit and/or snot and/or vomit and/or food for a very, very long time to come. It is going to be years before I can relax my Yuck Preparedness System, before I can let my guard down and begin each day without the expectation that I will be confronted by something icky or yucky or messy or some combination of all three. No, oranges and lemons aren’t yucky. Until they’re chewed up and left in pieces for Mommy to step on. There’s at least one more year of shitty diapers, after which is the no-doubt messy process of encouraging the redirection of the poo toward receptacles involving plumbing. There will be snot and vomit for as many years as I bear primary responsibility for nursing her through illness. There will be clutter and mess indefinitely. And although I assume that WonderBaby will someday overcome the habit of throwing her food on the floor, I imagine that she will continue to derive enjoyment from dumping bowls full of oranges on the floor and frolicking in fruit for some years to come. There’s no end in sight. I’m right, aren’t I? I have, in choosing motherhood, embarked upon a project that is not entirely unlike the care and feeding of the Lopburi monkeys in Thailand. My life is just one big Monkey Festival and there is nothing that I can do about it. This is pretty much what it looks like underneath WonderBaby’s high chair. Citrus fruits, discarded pop cans, Macaque monkeys and all. If I haven’t been visiting very much, it’s not that I don’t still love you all. I’m just a little bit tired and overwhelmed by life these days, and needing to do a bit of cocooning. I’m trying to get caught up as we speak, but my energy is a bit slow to pick up. In the meantime, I’m lurking. I’ll be back up to speed soon. It does get better. My 6-year-old is close enough to self-cleaning that I’m willing to overlook the lapses, AND she empties the dishwasher and feeds the cat. My 2-year-old is still leaky and messy in all the wrong places, but I know we’re on the down-side of this particular roller-coaster. And when it gets ENOUGH better, then mommy-dementia will set in and I’ll start to think that it’s a good idea to have a third baby. Because I Just. Don’t. Learn. oh this was a good post. i was thinking about this exact same thing this morning after I tried for about 20min to change my daughter’s diaper but as usual she escaped me and ran around naked, and then peed on the floor to which my husband arrives home and says; hmm that never happens with me!i think it does get better though, or at least the hope of it gets me through each day! Yesterday Elby took her nap with a small container of black play-do. I don’t know how she snuck it into her crib but she did. The end result was sheets ruined with black gunk and play-do in her hair, under her nails etc. And she’s 2! It never ends. The Yuck Preparedness System of mine never prepared me well enough for the double-yuck produced by precocious twins. Now, adding an active toddler into it, you’d think I’d wisen up and wave the white flag. But I still try and beat back the chaos– because 10 minutes of clean is still worth it. I’d be lying if I said there were some days I don’t want to do something about it. Motherhood is what it is – a messy, turmultuous, get you in the gut kind of business. Not for the faint of heart.Thanks for writing. My kids (almost 9 and 6 year old twins) are not so messy anymore. My almost 3 year old isn’t so much work either. It gets easier quickly, but then you have dating, makeup, etc. to deal with. I think maybe the “yucky” stage is something I might wish for again soon. 64 comments, and how can I find something fresh to say? Except I can’t. But yeah, that’s our life. Forever. Because to paraphrase RD, today’s literal shit will be tomorrow’s metaphorical shit. We really effed up this time, huh? Nah. It’s a beautiful little mess. Now that November is over, I’ll have some time to catch up with you (and expand my vocabulary, you damned brainiac!). Oh god, I fgorgot about the vomit. We havent’ had any for quite a long time (she says clutching the wodden desk). I knew I was officially a big step further into this motherhood thing the day she started to yak in her high chair and I put out my hand and caught it. And then the other hand, while dumping the first handful in a bowl, and hand over hand for several handfuls until her wee tum was empty. And yeah, flossing – but here’s the thing about that. Use the little prestrung flosser tools, which come in kid size too, and then it’s a neato implement. Pumpkinpie resists brushing, but is fascinated by flossing! We do it as an incentive to get the brushing over with most days! Oh how happy am I that we are past the puking stage.well sort of..with the exception of a pretty gross incident a few weeks ago when lulu wasn’t feeling well.I’ll spare you the details.the up side is at least it wasn’t on the new white sofa.

Where is the counter argument? I’ve been an outspoken MRA for a few years now, and I’ve noticed that despite the overwhelming opposition to any argument for male rights, there are no substantive counter-arguments. No arguments whatsoever. Opponents of men’s rights have no trouble reciting false facts, debunked talking points, fabricated studies, and obvious lies in support of their religion of female victimhood and male villainy, but lies are not arguments. They’re just lies. [unordered_list style=”red-x”] 1 in 4 women is raped, sexually assaulted, battered or abused – is a lie [1] The wage gap – is a lie [2][3] Women’s historical oppression – is a lie Rape culture – is a lie[4][5] The inherent violence of masculinity – is a lie The inherent goodness of femininity – is a lie The idea that feminism is about equality – is a lie [/unordered_list] By contrast, whenever I or any other MRA fields an argument in defence of mens rights, or critical of feminism, it is never met with a counter argument. The arguments of MRAs are met with accusations, shaming language, insults, threats, blackmail, violence, censure, censorship, cooked up criminal charges, vandalism, imprisonment and other calumny. My article critical of the institution of marriage was answered by feminists accusing me of being gay, … …of being bitter, of having a small penis, or social ineptitude, of financial impotence, of living in my mother’s basement, of body odour, and of tenancies to hatred, violence, and pedophilia. Of those critical of my article, none actually addressed the substance of the argument made. None. My article deconstructing the feminist goal of reversing the burden of proof in accusation of sexual assault was met by feminists who called me a rapist, a bigot, a woman beater, a loser, a violent criminal, and a sociopath. Not even one criticism addressed the substance of my article, and Jessica Valenti likely still wants women to be killed. One of the first articles I wrote exploring the relationship between central banking and the funding stream of organized feminism was answered by a feminist on a different continent whose best rebuttal was to re-present each point of my argument – leaving out, and adding, key points to make them easy to refute in a straw-man attack–then to call me a stalker. A stalker on another continent. In response to my arguments, I have been variously subject to shaming attacks, censorship, straw-man arguments, false accusations of violent crimes by people thousands of miles away, accusations of pedophilia, of rape, denounced as a psychopath, a serial killer, as maladjusted, as a loser, as a racist, and all manner of villainy. Almost none of my philosophical opponents have fielded anything approaching a substantive argument, or have addressed me with anything except lies and abuse, and a few threats of death too. I wont make any pious declarations of my own lack of violent, criminal or deviant behavior. Why bother? I also will not shut up and go away. I will never shut up. I. Will. Never. Shut. Up. What I will do for my loudest and most amoral critics is to offer a few suggestions [unordered_list style=”arrow”] Admit that your position is unethical, and that you are purely self centered and devoid of anything like an ethical compass Admit that your continued insistence on women’s eternal victimhood is designed to take adult agency away from the members of the sexual demographic you supposedly care so much about Admit that you want to force women’s and men’s behavior into a mode of compliant service to your own greed and sadism Admit that your ethic is built on lies and violence Admit to yourself that even though you lack the muscle and the courage to commit violence yourself, your philosophy depends absolutely on violence done by others on your behalf Admit that those who do violence on your behalf, when they have scrubbed the field of anyone who dares to disagree – those enforcers will turn on you Recognize that when your political will has been imposed by force on everybody around you, you will discover that you are locked into a tiny cage as well [/unordered_list] You see, I recognize that in spite of my optimism and my repeated attempts to open dialog or discussion with the ideological opponents of the men’s rights movement – there will be no civilized discourse between us. The reason is that feminism’s active proponents have no interest in truth, nor in justice, nor in human rights, nor in protecting anyone from harm, least of all women. Despite a nearly omnipresent narrative of “protecting women” mainstream feminism is a sham which depends on escalating social carnage to maintain a control on public conscience and to secure streams of funding. I recognize that the opponents of the men’s rights movement are organized, … …violent, hateful bigots, and the only reason you cannot be correctly called criminals is that your ideology now controls the courts, and thus the definition of what it means to be a criminal. I also recognize that soon, individuals doing nothing more corrosive than simply speaking out, will soon be named criminal. A man I held in high esteem recently died, and I will repeat a statement of his now. “When your conscience says the law is immoral, don’t follow it.” Past and present efforts to silence, shame, marginalize, and subvert the efforts of men’s rights activists demonstrate that what we are saying about our opponents, the enemies of human rights, is not exaggeration, or conspiracy theory, instead it is understatement. I’ll restate what I said earlier. I. Will. Never. Shut. Up. The fact that shutting me up, and shutting up other MRAs is a major goal is illustrative of just what we oppose. The truth does not require state funded enforcers. Now, in addition to not shutting up, and in light of my, and other’s increased understanding of just who and what you are who oppose the men’s movement – namely that you are violent, lying hypocrites lacking interest in truth, and consumed with a self serving philosophy which relies on escalating harm to those you pretend to protect. I don’t mind telling you, I am no longer here to debate, or to reason, or to converse, or to hope you may be reached by logic or evidence. I am here to fuck your shit up. And in that, I am not alone. Now I don’t mean to stoop to the use of lies or violence. You are practiced at those tactics, and frankly, I don’t need them. You may also wonder, what can a few disgruntled MRAs do that you should be concerned about? And to that, I can only say – watch, and learn. [box type=””][1]: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/02/one-in-four-lie-demolished-once-and-for.html [2]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576250672504707048.html?mod=wsj_share_reddit [3]: http://consad.com/index.php?page=an-analysis-of-reasons-for-the-disparity-in-wages-between-men-and-women [4]: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv09.pdf [5]: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv10.pdf[/box]

OK, thanks guys. You probably already figured who my "friend" is. Anyway I'm a pretty simple person, no Dr. Phil nonsense goes on with me. It's pretty black and white to me, you do right or wrong and that's it. Now I don't know all the Dr. Freud type stuff that makes a person do something stupid and destructive, but I do know that it's friggin' hard to make money and even harder to make money that's going to be pissed away. So in my case she either stops or it's game over. I think she knows what kind of a brain dead thing she's pulled so I think there's hope. I do appreciate all the good advice, but I don't have the time nor the patience for understanding, counselling or psychoanalysis. So we'll see what happens and I'll try to keep you fools up to date. Announcements When Life Gives You Lemons We all have had hardships and made poor decisions. The important thing is how we respond and grow. Read the story of a Fool who started from nothing, and looks to gain everything. Work for Fools? Winner of the Washingtonian great places to work, and Glassdoor #1 Company to Work For 2015! Have access to all of TMF's online and email products for FREE, and be paid for your contributions to TMF! Click the link and start your Fool career.

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For a heat pump drier or washer-drier in the related art, due to obstruction of fins of an evaporator and a condenser, only drying air flowing through a center of a two-device mounting chamber in a transverse direction thereof rather than flowing adjacent to two longitudinal side walls thereof can enter the fan air inlet directly, so that drying air utilization rate is low and clothes drying performance is poor.

Mark Ashman/Disney/Getty and Facebook Disney World is the happiest place on Earth… unless you’re this mom Welcome to Disney World, the happiest place on Earth. That is, unless you’re an exhausted, enraged mom who, after chasing a three-year-old around a theme park all day, has had it with the folks who are truly ruining Disney parks: People without kids. A Twitter user with the handle @JenKatWrites found, screen-shotted, and shared a Facebook post from what might be the most irrationally pissed off Disney-loving mom of all time, who goes on a big ol’ ranty rant about how childless sluts and their pretzels are ruining Disney parks for the children. This is my new favorite wild mommy post. It’s me, the millennial slut who just goes to Disney World to make children cry pic.twitter.com/COokEiTdMm — Jen and the Holophantoms of the Opera (@JenKatWrites) July 19, 2019 So that’s a wild ride. @JenKatWrites shared this with the perfect caption: “It’s me, the millennial slut who just goes to Disney World to make children cry.” “IT PISSES ME OFF TO NO END!!!!! when I see CHILDLESS COUPLES WITHOUT [kids] AT DISNEY WORLD!!!!” the very upset mom writes. “DW is a FAMLY amusement park!!!! yet these IMMATURE MILLENNIALS THROW THEIR MONEY AWAY ON USELESS CRAP!!!” But don’t worry, she has a solution to the problem. “People without CHILDREN need to be BANNED!!!!” she exclaimed. Oh my. Even ignoring all of this woman’s misogynistic language, the entire post is completely bat shit. Who gets that upset about having to wait in line for a pretzel? Oh, wait, an exhausted mom who is clearly not having any fun and is incredibly resentful of people who are having fun. Yep, that person. The Twitter post kind of blew up, because whether it’s satire or not, it’s pretty hilarious. And all the other childless sluts who exist only to ruin Disney World have been responding with some pretty A+ tweets of their own. As a single person with no kids who goes to Disneyworld all the time, this is making me feel extremely powerful. — Mitchell Stankowicz (@mstankow) July 20, 2019 “I hate childless women” is “I hate my choices and regret them.” — Robert Bohl (@robertbohl) July 19, 2019 DISNEY is for FAMILIES, by which I mean MOMS who have been driven into the arms of DESPAIR by their hellspawn BABIES that have been named AIDAN, TUCKER, DYLAN, or SKYLAR. Gimme that pretzel, you slapper! Little Tanner needs his num-nums. — Jack Guignol (@ScholarOfDecay) July 19, 2019 Disney is for children, as evidenced by this "grown" child who doesn't want to share and blames other people for her decisions. — The Man in Black (@Writer_in_Black) July 21, 2019 She wants to ban childless visitors AND wants mothers with children to be able to skip line? I don't think she thought that through. — I Showed You Feral Hogs Pls Respond (@Jezzerat) July 21, 2019 Speaking as a parent with a 3yo, Ugh, why would you take a 3yo to Disney?? They won't remember or appreciate it. Also, how can you go to Disney and expect to not stand in line. Also if she has a 3yo, odds are she's a millennial herself. — Eric B Gator (He/Him) (@weregator) July 19, 2019 As a childless millennial who enjoys the crap out of Disney parks and will be spending my birthday at Disneyland in just a few short months, I have to say I am delighted by this post. Now BRB while I go buy some short shorts and make plans to hog all the pretzels. While Disney World is definitely a place designed with families in mind, there’s no age limit on manufactured fun, folks. If anything, there should be a lower limit, because infants (and three-year-olds, gasp) can have as much fun playing in their own living room as they can at a Disney park. You kind of have to be of a certain age to appreciate it, and three is probably not quite that age, sorry not sorry. And if Disney weren’t meant for child-free folks, methinks there would not be an onsite brewery in California Adventures, or the mojito and margarita hut in the Animal Kingdom. Sorry if this is news to anyone (cough, this crazy mom), but those treats um, aren’t for kids. Someone get this woman a spiked Dole Whip, stat—she clearly needs it. Just make sure she doesn’t have to wait in line with all the millennial hussies and their piles of pretzels to get it. If you’re a Disney-crazed, childless millennial like myself, you can now sign up to Disney+ to watch all your fave shows and movies for $6.99/month.

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Nann Williamson was the owner of the donkeys. She said she got them 20 years ago. Williamson got Guido, her first donkey, to protect her horse and later got a second donkey, Hody, to be a friend to Guido.

Jonestown: Aokigahara UK brawlers go direct to the heavy stuff The UK is swarming with killer debuts at the moment, with the likes of Black Peaks, The King Is Blind and Heck just some of the names to have emphatically delivered on early promises so far this year – and Brighton crushers Jonestown don’t only merit inclusion in such company, but quite possibly transcend it. Aokigahara is so stacked with colossally heavy riffs and grooves capable of giving you vertigo that it’ll have you wanting to flip your chair, your desk, your bed, your fucking nan – anything and everything that can be turned into an object to wave deliriously round your head while screaming for Satan and spitting in tongues. The likes of Deliverance, Borderline and album highlight Mass Extinction Six sound like Gojira and Meshuggah brawling in a dinosaur paddock, while the sinister, doomy chug running through Apres Moi and techier splatterings of 33rd Parallel suggest that this is a band as fit for extreme metal diehards as much as laptop-loving djent nerds. Metal at its core is a simple game to get right, and while Jonestown aren’t exactly bringing anything cutting-edge to the table, when you’re armed with an artillery like the songs on Aokigahara, you don’t need to. This is ballsy, catchy metal that’ll have fans of everyone from Tesseract to Slipknot grinning ear-to-ear and hurtling into the nearest pit. Put short: if you love heavy music (and why the hell are you here if you don’t?) you’ll struggle to find a better, box-ticking debut album this year. Metal Hammer Newsletter Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! No spam, we promise. You can unsubscribe at any time and we'll never share your details without your permission.

Is the customer always right? Sure. Well, not as often as you may think. I surely get screwed my fair share of the time. So, let's see if the customer is right or wrong. Track the number of times companies screw you here.

In an interview with professional concern troll Dr. Drew, the duo says that, though Courtney's buttock-baring "Daisy Duke" outfit was a hit with pumpkin-picking dads, nefarious "women" complained until pumpkin patch security forces escorted them from the premises. They were then driven away in a pumpkin police carriage and imprisoned in a pumpkin cell, where reality TV producers kept them very well. [Dr. Drew's Lifechangers]

Frequency specificity of amplitude envelope patterns in noise-vocoded speech. We examined the frequency specificity of amplitude envelope patterns in 4 frequency bands, which universally appeared through factor analyses applied to power fluctuations of critical-band filtered speech sounds in 8 different languages/dialects [Ueda and Nakajima (2017). Sci. Rep., 7 (42468)]. A series of 3 perceptual experiments with noise-vocoded speech of Japanese sentences was conducted. Nearly perfect (92-94%) mora recognition was achieved, without any extensive training, in a control condition in which 4-band noise-vocoded speech was employed (Experiments 1-3). Blending amplitude envelope patterns of the frequency bands, which resulted in reducing the number of amplitude envelope patterns while keeping the average spectral levels unchanged, revealed a clear deteriorating effect on intelligibility (Experiment 1). Exchanging amplitude envelope patterns brought generally detrimental effects on intelligibility, especially when involving the 2 lowest bands (≲1850 Hz; Experiment 2). Exchanging spectral levels averaged in time had a small but significant deteriorating effect on intelligibility in a few conditions (Experiment 3). Frequency specificity in low-frequency-band envelope patterns thus turned out to be conspicuous in speech perception.

Snuppy, not to be confused with a similar sounding famous beagle who appears worldwide in a comic strip with his master, Charlie Brown, is the world’s first cloned dog. Shows to go you what I know or don’t know as the case may be. I didn’t know that was the dog’s name, did you? I did know the first cloned sheep’s name was Dolly. Anyway … Snuppy has had pups. Snuppy is an Afghan hound. Snuppy is also the pop of 10 puppies through two dogs that were impregnated by artificial insemination. I reckon when Snuppy was cloned the gene for doing ‘it’ was left out, eh? So, what do you call the child of an animal that was conceived by artificial means through a parent that was produced artificially? How about Arty? Snuppy’s, um, creator (a dude in Seoul – Hwang Woo-suk) fell from grace when he falsified research saying he had also cloned human embryonic stem cells. After his downfall, you could hear his colleagues saying, “That sucks.” So, we have a creator who fell from grace for lying who made a dog who’s sperm was used to artificially inseminate a couple of bitches…. Does anybody else’s head hurt besides mine? And don’t we have enough dogs running around now, that we don’t need to make more?

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[Comparison of three pathologic classifications (Rappaport, LSG and Working Formulation) for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma]. Comparison of three pathologic classifications (Rappaport, LSG and Working Formulation) was made for 292 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who were treated at the Department of Radiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, from 1952 to 1984. The Working Formulation was found to be the most convenient classification for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Japan. There were two remarkable characteristics in the cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma classified by the Working Formulation. They were better case distribution having a strong relation to clinical prognosis and fewer high-grade cases in Waldeyer's ring lymphoma.