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The most romantic hero of 2010 couldn't be played by Robert Pattinson – with or without a tan. In fact, Hollywood wouldn't have a clue what to do with Major Ernest Pettigrew. For one thing, he's a stuffy sexagenarian who first appears wearing a bright-pink floral robe. (It belonged to his late wife.) And for another, he'd find the whole business of appearing on screen to be in appallingly bad taste.
But Helen Simonson's dryly delightful debut novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is, nonetheless, one of the most endearing love stories I've read in a long time. (My copy is already on its way to my mom, and I have a growing list of people who are getting the book as a present.)
After the death of his brother, Bertie, the major finds himself unexpectedly unmoored. He strikes up a friendship with Mrs. Ali, the widowed local shopkeeper, and they bond over Kipling and the loss of their spouses. It doesn't hurt that Mrs. Ali is a lady of quiet thoughtfulness and innate dignity – whose tweedy neighbors don't even see her because she is Pakistani and runs a shop. Mrs. Ali might not be running the shop for much longer: Her relatives are pressuring her to give it to a nephew, who will, in return for her generosity, let her continue to live in what used to be her home.
Neither the major nor Mrs. Ali were expecting much more from life, and both are startled at the potential widening of their future. (But both are careful to call it just a friendship.) "It's funny," Mrs. Ali tells him, "to be suddenly presented with the possibility of making new friends. One begins to accept, at a certain age, that one has already made all the friends to which one is entitled. One becomes used to them as a static set – with some attrition, of course."
As their friendship grows, Major Pettigrew finds himself thrust from his comfortable routine and having to face the fact that Edgecombe St. Mary might not be the staunch remnant of right thinking that he's loved all these years.
In the much-scrutinized world of the village, your neighbors judge you even by the cookies you eat. Shortbread is decorous; iced varieties are apparently embarrassing. (What they would make of an Oreo, I shudder to think.) When the village ladies (led by Daisy, the vicar's wife) pay a condolence call on the major, they bring tea (dusty stuff in tea bags) and biscuits. "The tin was printed with views of thatched cottages of England and the biscuits were appropriately tumescent; stuffed with fudge, dribbled with pastel icing, or wrapped in assorted foils. He suspected that Alma had picked it out.
"Unlike her husband, Alec, who was proud of his history as an East End boy, Alma tried hard to forget her origins in London; but she sometimes betrayed herself with a taste for showy luxuries and the sweet tooth of someone who grew up without quite enough to eat. The other ladies, he suspected, were hiding their mortification."
When all this gentility and good breeding turns its attention to race relations, the result is ripe for satire.
Complicating matters further are Bertie's widow, currently in possession of a Churchill rifle (one of a matched pair) that was always supposed to come to the major; Pettigrew's grasping son, Roger; and an angry single mother named Amina and her son, George. Simonson is as sure-handed at social satire as she is at romance, and the combination makes for an entirely satisfying read.
Lots of books try to evoke Jane Austen, as if naming a character Darcy were all it took. But Simonson nails the genteel British comedy of manners with elegant aplomb. There are occasional touches that recall Austen. For example, Simonson conjures up Capt. Frederick Wentworth with one sentence: "If there was one trait the Major despised in men, it was inconstancy." And the annual golf club dance devolves into a debacle that simultaneously calls to mind the Netherfield Ball and makes Lydia Bennet look like a pattern-card of model behavior.
With her dry wit and incisive detailing, Simonson skewers village life as surely as Austen satirized the 19th century. (However, the impoverished Lord Dagenham, who rents out most of his home to a boys' school, and the terrifying vicar's wife could have come straight from central casting.) Then there is Roger's American fiancée, Sandy, who arrives "perfectly dressed for a literary version of the countryside or perhaps an afternoon in Tunbridge Wells," but is perhaps less of a total loss than Roger, who finds his dad an outdated old fuddy-duddy. When Roger and Sandy buy a cottage from a racist old lady, Roger pooh-poohs his father's objections. "It's called the real world. If we refused to do business with the morally questionable, the deal volume would drop in half and the good guys like us would end up poor. Then where would we all be?"
" 'On a nice dry spit of land known as the moral high ground?' suggested the Major."
Fans of Austen and Alexander McCall Smith should adore "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." My only real concern now is: How long will it take Simonson to write her next novel?
Yvonne Zipp regularly reviews fiction for the Monitor.


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Risks can come from uncertainty in financial markets, project failures, legal liabilities, credit risk, accidents, natural causes and disasters as well as deliberate attacks from an adversary. Several risk management standards have been developed including the Project Management Institute, the National Institute of Science and Technology, actuarial societies, and ISO standards.[2][3] Methods, definitions and goals vary widely according to whether the risk management method is in the context of project management, security, engineering, industrial processes, financial portfolios, actuarial assessments, or public health and safety.
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Certain aspects of many of the risk management standards have come under criticism for having no measurable improvement on risk even though the confidence in estimates and decisions increase.

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Anyone living near Tallahassee would be well advised to check out a current exhibit at Florida State University featuring artwork by Lois Lenski, winner of the 1946 Newbery Medal for Strawberry Girl. The physical exhibit runs through September 30th. There is also a supplementary digital collection, available to all.
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"The members of Dr. Teri Abstein's spring 2013 Museum Object class have been working with Florida State University Special Collections to design the exhibit entitled Farms, Fields, and Florida: Lois Lenski Illustrating the South. Through materials that have not been on display since Lenski presented them herself, the exhibition highlights the children's author's connection with the rural south, focusing on the state of Florida. Showcasing tales such as Bayou Suzette (recounting the life of a young Cajun girl in Louisiana), Strawberry Girl (the Newbery Award winning novel depicting the life of a young Cracker girl in Florida), and Judy's Journey (tracking a young migrant girl's travels through the south and eastern coast), the exhibition displays the rustic yet realistic tapestry of Southern life woven by Lenski. In addition, with featured photo albums, handwritten manuscripts, fan letters, original illustrations, and her published books, visitors receive a glimpse into Lenski's own life and process."


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t=(Sum(IIf( C>Ref(C,-1), (V*(C-Ref(C,-1))),IIf(C<Ref(C,-1),(V*(C-Ref(C,-1))),0)),13));
m=MA(t ,7 );
Plot(t, "Time Segmented Volume 13", colorRed);
Plot(m, " Simple Moving Average 7" , colorYellow);
Key: t is calculated TSV; read IIF as IF (happily, IIF has been defenestrated); C is the close on the current bar; (C,-1) is the close on the just-previous bar. @chrisaycock points out below that the usual trading day in the US has 13 half-hour periods, represented perhaps by the constant 13.
Can you comment on the correctness of the calculation? Or suggest a better one?


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Every 2nd, 4th and 5th Saturdays will be a half-working day, 1st and 3rd Saturday will be a holiday.
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Parent Teacher Meeting
Parent Teacher Meeting has been scheduled five times in the year. On this day, teachers will meet parents from 9 A.M to 12 Noon only. These days are devoted entirely for parents. Students should come with their parents in proper school uniform. Parents of boarders and day scholars should make a special effort to keep these days free. School would prefer both father and mother to visit us together. In case it is not possible, at least one should do so. These meetings are scheduled in such a way that parents may collect their ward's report card and also meet the class teacher and subject teachers to know their child's performance in the school. Please make use of this opportunity without fail.
Parents are assured that the entire school staff will be easily accessible to them and to their wards during the school working hours, for anything, however trivial. We would deem it a real pleasure if they establish a close and personal rapport with us for all their needs. It is expected that parents should be judicious in their demands/suggestions.
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- Fortnightly Health Check-up by Resident Doctor
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The Resident Doctor will organize awareness programmes for all the staff members, students and catering staff to address health problems and hygiene, including problems of adolescence.
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Humble Indie Bundle Keeps Getting Better, Exceeding Expectations
from the how-business-should-be-done deptLast week, we wrote about Wolfire Game's Humble Indie Bundle offering (though, amusingly, since then, it's been submitted over and over again -- with some people saying they're amazed we hadn't written about it yet), where five
Think about the basic conceptual differences in approach here. You can spend all your time trying to punish negative behavior, or you can focus on rewarding positive behavior. Which strategy is likely to win more loyal fans in the long run?
Along those lines, a bunch of folks have also sent over Wolfire's blog post revealing some back-of-the-envelope states on "piracy" of the game, suggesting that some folks were clearly sharing the download links and downloading more than single copies of the games. The discussion is pretty matter of fact, and basically recognizes there are a whole bunch of reasons why people might do this. But the really important part of the post is the fact that Wolfire doesn't seem particularly bothered by this, and knows that the focus should be providing more value for those who want to pay and want to support the games:
What are we going to do about it?And that, right there, is an encapsulation of the different mindsets in the market today: do you spend all your time setting up reasons for people to buy, encouraging positive incentives... or do you focus just on punishing those doing things you don't like (even if they would never buy?). Oddly, some are focusing on the fact that the games were still pirated as some sort of condemnation of "pirates," but that doesn't make sense. If anything it shows that there are reasons other than money that people download unauthorized copies (i.e., contrary to certain claims, it's not just about "free stuff.") Sure, anything you put out digitally is going to get pirated. Who cares? The focus should be on key metrics: how much money did you actually make (and as of this posting the numbers are already pushing $750,000) and how many more loyal fans did you bring into the fold? Who cares that some people are still sharing the games for free? Those people are not the ones who matter.
Not much.
Shouldn't we use a percentage of the proceeds to send our indie-lawyers after them? Perhaps trace their IP addresses?
No -- we will just focus on making cool games, having great customer service, and hope for the best. It sure seems to be working right now!
Making the download experience worse for generous contributors in the name of punishing pirates doesn't really fit with the spirit of the bundle. When considering any kind of DRM, we have to ask ourselves, "How many legitimate users is it ok to inconvenience in order to reduce piracy?" The answer should be none.
Filed Under: business models, piracy, positive experience, video games
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By loserone
It seems to be a fairly common question on here as to how to run a roffle, so I thought a quick how to with some tips and tricks would be useful.
Numbers 1 to 59 - this allows the use of the lotto bonus ball. This avoids any chance of accusations of a fix.
Tip: put this in the first post in the roffle thread. You don't want to have to be going back to the 6th post on page three of a sale thread just to add in a random.
Participants can pick numbers, or just ask for a random selection. Tip: once chosen, tag each user against their number using the @ symbol. Don't use Tapatalk mentions, they don't work. In fact, why are you still using Tapatalk?
You don't have to give someone a ticket just because they ask - feel free to ignore requests from fascists, socialists, time wasters, new users or people who use waxoyl.
Tip: put roffle as a tag and an item prefix.
Ticket price should be roughly 1/59th of what you want for the car. Tip: ensnare gambling addicts by offering a multibuy offer.
Make sure location and ticket price are in the thread title.
Make it clear if the car is drivable, MOTd, and for how long it can stay where it is should a winner not be able to collect immediately.
Once all tickets are allocated, send a message to all victims with payment details.
Tip: use a modern bank like Monzo or Starling so you know immediately when payments come in. Sending bank details is relatively low risk, especially with modern banks where a newly set up direct debit would be easy to spot and deal with.
If you choose to allow PayPal, BEWARE!
Many intelligent and sensible people are unable to send payments by Friends and Family (which will cost you) or will include "here's your raffle ticket money" in the message (which could lead to your PayPal account being shut down, losing all funds). Some people then pull the "I didn't receive my item" trick to get their money back, or even claim that their credit card payment was not approved. In short, taking PayPal payments leaves you liable to lose the money even after you think it's yours.
As the money starts coming in, check off the users in the number list. When most have paid it's tempting to announce that the next draw will decide the winner - but observe caution here too. Some people don't pay even after promising to; you don't need to gamble on them. Wait until you have all the money, then announce that the next lotto draw will be the decider.
Tip: don't worry about following the draw, someone will want it enough to watch it live.
By loserone
Not actually a roffle, sorry. What have been our best roffles? I quite liked winning a Lexus LS400..
By Six-cylinder
Six-Cylinder Entertains – Virtual Roffle of my Maserati BiTurbo
As I can't sing or dance I had to think up an alternative entertainment. I have noticed how much people enjoy a Roffle and obviously collection is difficult at the moment so I am holding a Roffle for one of my cars, the difference is it is virtual and no collection needed!
You can dream for a short while of having a Maserati BiTurbo. I value the car at £5,000 so tickets are £84.00, usual format after all numbers are "sold" the bonus number of the next National Lottery draw is the winner
To make it clear you will not get my Maserati at the end of it, neither will you have to pay £84 for a ticket.
I do have a little treat for the winner as I have a 1:43 scale model of a Biturbo saloon to send them as a gift. If you are the winner and want to be taken out in the real one or maybe even have a short drive after lockdown I will be pleased to accommodate you.
Up for Virtual Roffle is my :
1987 Maserati 425 biturbo saloon, 2.5 carburettor twin turbo V6 190 bhp and feels more because of a great wedge of torque in the mid range. 5 speed gearbox with dogleg 1st.
Owned for 7 years.
MOT 13th November 2020, but I believe it will benefit from having 6 months added to mean it will not need a fresh MOT until May 2021.
Excellent running condition. Just 60, 000 miles, original leather book pack with service history to 48,000 miles then lots of invoices. Cambelt 2 years ago, brake callipers, recent pair of new tyres. Several rubber fuel lines replaced including the dangerous one that lives in the turbo pressure box.
The Bodywork is always a bugbear with these and we have chased rust a couple of time, windscreen surround, front wings and boot floor. Now a very sound and tidy car if not prize winning.
Of course there are some negatives:
Radio/cassette is not working
Wheels need refurbishing
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Idle a little high
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If you saw the News 24 in the early hours you'll have seen my next car is due since it's back up north, so now the collection!
So all I know of this car is the make and model, colour and year. And that it had an MOT. What have I gotten myself into?
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This roffle DOES NOT include two new genuine wings. They would be available to purchase by the winner, or I'll sell them separately.
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- The three researchers were working on MRI technology at a U.S. university
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Three university researchers working on medical technology are facing federal charges -- and up to 20 years in prison if convicted -- for allegedly taking Chinese money for their U.S.-funded research, according to federal authorities.
Their research was partially funded by a multimillion dollar National Institutes of Health grant, according to a criminal complaint.
The three -- Yudong Zhu, 44 of Scarsdale, and Xing Yang and Ye Li, both 31 of Hartsdale -- are each charged with one count of commercial bribery, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan. Zhu is also charged with one count lying about conflicts of interests in a federal research grant.
The three are Chinese nationals, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office. It was not clear from the statement what their status was while working in the United States.
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The U.S. attorney's statement described the three as "researchers who worked on improving MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) technology at a university in New York, New York." Although the statement did not name the university, the website of the New York University School of Medicine identifies Zhu as an associate professor conducting research focused on improving MRI technology.
The criminal complaint said Zhu recruited the other two scientists to aid him in the MRI research.
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The researchers allegedly accepted thousands of dollars for travel, tuition and rent.
Zhu and Yang were arrested at their residences in New York Sunday, according to the U.S. attorney's office. Li is believed to have traveled to China before charges were brought.
Zhu and Yang appeared in court Monday and were both released on bond, according to Zhu's lawyer, Robert Baum.
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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
Our sea otters are all rescued animals that could not be returned to the wild after being nursed back to health. The Sea Otter Habitat is located in the Northern Pacific Gallery.
Geographic Distribution
Distribution is dependent on the geographic location of the subspecies. Southern sea otter: along the coast of northern California just south of San Francisco to Santa Barbara County in central California; Northern sea otter:: along Alaska's Aleutian Island chain (native) to Prince William Sound and south to Oregon; Asian sea otter: Kuril Islands and along the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
These coastal animals spend almost their entire life at sea and most of the time on the water's surface. They typically stay within 1-2 km (0.6-1.2 mi) from shore in primarily shallow waters that are protected from coastal winds, have rocky bottoms, and are 15 to 23 m (50 to 75 ft) deep. They usually have a coastal home range of 8 to 16 km (5 to 10 mi).
Reproductive females and territorial males are mostly found in kelp-dominated regions while juveniles and non-territorial males occupy sandy habitats. They occasionally haul out onto land to rest. In kelp they are camouflaged; find food; can wrap themselves in the kelp to remain stationary; and find protection from strong winds and waves.
Recent research using tracking with GIS supplemented by historic data sets has indicated that the foraging and migratory ranges for southern sea otters are about 603 km (375 mi) from the Gaviota coast in Santa Barbara County to Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County. Males mostly occupy and forage in the waters of the southern and northern boundaries and females and their offspring in the central coastal range.
Physical Characteristics
Sea otters have a narrow skull with a wide rostrum and long nasal bones. They have pronounced canine teeth. Their facial vibrissae (whiskers) may reach 10.2 cm (4 in) in length but are usually worn down to about 5 cm (2 in). Their dexterous front paws have retractile claws while the claws on their flat, webbed hind feet that act as flippers do not retract. They have a flat, blunt tail that can be about one-fourth their total body length.
An otter's dense fur can be brown, black, blonde, and even silver in coloration and facial hair may turn white with age.
They are sexually dimorphic. The smaller adult females weigh 16 to 29.5 kg (35 to 65 lb) and males, 27 to 40.9 kg (60 to 90 lb). Body length (not including the tail) is typically from 91 to 122 cm (3-4 ft).
Sea otters have a high metabolism and need to eat large amounts of food in order to keep warm in their cold water habitat. In the ocean, sea otters eat 25 to 30 percent of their body weight each day.
The diet preferences of otters varies but most sea otters eat only two or three types of food. Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as sea urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, mussels, abalone and other mollusks usually in waters less than 25 m (82.5 ft) deep. Sometimes they eat birds. Female otters frequently pass on their preference for certain food items to their offspring.
Females become sexually mature at three to four years of age and males at four to five. They breed in the water throughout the year. Mating may appear violent when the male will grab the female from behind, clamp his jaws on her head, neck, or nose and upper jaw. The pair thrashes and rolls with the females head under water most of the time. Mating can last up to 20 minutes.
Females give birth about every other year. Gestation is approximately six to nine months, depending on the time of implantation of the egg in the uterus. Pups are born in the water and weigh 1.4 to 2.3 kg (3 to 5 lb) at birth. They are covered with shaggy yellowish to light brownish colored fur, called lanugo. Their eyes are open. They have the ability to float but cannot dive because of their buoyancy. A pup is very dependent on its mother. She nurses and grooms the pup while she swims on her back and supports the pup on her chest. The pup is nursed for two to three months on milk containing 20 to 25 percent fat and starts to eat bits of solid food at about six to eight weeks. While the female hunts for food she may often place the pup on top of kelp, wrapped in strands to keep it from drifting.
At six months of age, sea otters are able to care for themselves. Young males leave to find a bachelor group while females will remain in the area in which they were raised.
Extensive observations made by researchers at USGS's Western Ecological Research Center have shown that, depending on population status and food availability, southern sea otters usually spend 40 to 50 percent of the time resting, about 10 percent grooming, 2 to 20 percent interacting, 1-5 percent traveling, and 20 to 40 percent feeding.
Southern sea otters are well adapted for life in the water but they walk slowly and are quite awkward on land. They often lie on their backs and move by paddling their hind legs, traveling only about 1.6 km (1 mile) an hour. While swimming underwater, they close their ears and tuck their front limbs tight to their bodies and move using their hind limbs and tail in an up-and-down motion. They dive to 36.6 m (120 ft) below the surface, usually in search of food. Dives usually last under a minute, but can last up to four minutes. They feed and groom for most of the day, taking a 2-4 hour rest in the middle of the day. They usually sleep or rest through the night on their backs in the water. When resting, sea otters sometimes tie themselves with kelp fronds to keep from drifting.
Sea otters are social animals that live in groups of 12 to 100+ called rafts. These rafts are made up of either males or females and their young. Otters may play with one another, rarely fight, and usually ignore other marine mammal species.
Lacking blubber, sea otters rely on dense, fine, short insulating underfur and coarse outer guard hairs to aid in heat conservation and to keep warm. Because their fur is crucial to their health and survival, a sea otter has to spend a portion of its day grooming. Using its sharp claws as a comb, the otter scratches and brushes its fur to untangle and clean it. Its loosely jointed skeleton allows it to twist, roll, and squirm to reach every part of its fur, even on its back. It also has the advantage of a coat that is so loose, it can be pulled around to clean areas that are hard to reach. In this grooming process a layer of insulating air bubbles is trapped between the otter's warm skin and the cold water. This shield of trapped air is the otter's primary defense against heat loss. The otter rubs hard with its paws to trap the air next to its skin. It may also blow air into its coat.
Having a constant need to stay warm in water temperatures that can range between 1.7o and 15.6o C (35o and 60o F), sea otters do not shed their hairs seasonally. They lose a few old hairs at a time and grow replacements throughout the year.
Otters eat at the surface of the water. As food items are found, usually on the ocean bottom, otters maximize their dive time by stashing their catch in loose folds of skin under their forelimbs that form hidden "pouches". The more food that can be gathered per dive, the less energy is wasted. Sea otters are one of the few animals known to use tools. Rocks, broken shells, and other objects are used for breaking, prying loose and smashing open a food item.
The outer fur hairs cling together when wet, maintaining a thin outer layer that keeps the underfur and the skin dry. The outer fur has an oil coating which also repels water. The fur of the sea otter is believed to be the most fine and dense fur of any animal. There may be up to one million hairs in one square inch of sea otter fur.
The life span of females in the wild is about 12 to 18 years. Males have a shorter life span, 10 to 14 years.
Since the 1980s U.S. Geological Survey scientists have calculated a population index each year for the threatened southern sea otter. The spring 2014 count of 2,944 was not much increased from the 2013 count of 2,939, indicating the population is holding steady. For southern sea otters to be considered for removal from the "Threatened" species list, the population index would have to exceed 3,090 for three consecutive years.
Humans are the primary source of the rising nonpoint pollution levels in California's coastal waters. Pollution from agricultural and urban runoff and industrial and municipal discharges are believed to be causative factors in the very slow to stagnant population growth of southern otters. Runoff from the land that enters the marine environment contains chemicals, sediments, excess nutrients, and other contaminants harmful to these marine animals. In addition animal waste from land animals such as raccoons, possums, and domestic and feral cats can contain bacteria, parasites, and viruses that cause disease.
Major non-human predators of sea otters include sharks, killer whales, coyotes, brown bears and even eagles. Southern sea otters have been killed illegally because of the belief that they compete with commercial fishers and divers collecting sea urchins commercially.
Predators of sea otters include sharks and killer whales. Sea otters dive or play dead when they sense danger, or may signal alarm by raising a forepaw. The Alaskan subspecies have predators on land such as coyotes or brown bears. Bald eagles have been observed swooping down and grabbing sea otter pups.
Special Notes
"Cautiously optimistic" says Tim Tinker, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center about the recovery of the southern sea otter. His statement is based on the results of the 2013 survey of the sea otter population. The count of 2,882 otters just off the California mainland is an increase of 90 compared to the prior year, up more than 3 percent. However, scientists also are now including a population of previously uncounted otters at San Nicolas Island, bringing the total to 2,941. The survey is conducted annually and uses a three-year average to smooth out variations in counting methods. Once near extinction, the otters' population must exceed 3,090 for three consecutive years to be considered for removal from a federal threatened species list. .
Sea otters are unique among other animals in the weasel family Mustelidae in that they are able to live their entire life in water, have no functional scent glands, and do not make dens or burrows. At one time researchers suggested that they belonged in the family of earless seals such as the harbor seal.


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Snoop Dogg Ft. Mia X - I Can't Take the Heat
[hook x2]
slow down i can't take the heat
slow down, it's wicked in these streets
[verse 1: snoop dogg]
life ain't nothing but a big old twist
a lot of times when i'm smoking, i'm doing that just to reminisce
it's funny, on how shit be
a lot of money, make y'all wanna come get me
but look here, i work hard for all the things i got
and to hang with a niggas just an intricate plot
you smoke my weed, you try to bang my hoes
and talk bad about a nigga, behind closed doors
but look here, dog, a ho once told me loc
bite the hand that feeds you, and you'll wind up broke
bitch niggas don't deserve to kick it
with rich niggas, nigga we seven figure niggas
and we bigger than the biggest hip hop, niggas of rap
and when we get to spittin', make sure y'all step back
you with that? cause if you ain't clown
we from the d-o double g, we groupie true and slow down
[hook x2]
[verse 2: mia x]
ayyo snoop, i used to kick up dope, ride with niggas
know about the hits, hang with killas
take the broads down for jailhouse visits
keep my bed warm with a cutthroat nigga
have the card parties where the stakes was high
go shopping, hit the club, and then start come by
i never had a day without no drama
half the og's age but they call me mama
had the ganja overstuffed in the hefty bag
orange peels to kill the smell slanging with my dad
i never thought about my life i swear y'all for real
until my best friend jill got killed
and then i, dropped to my knees and called on the lord
please change my ways cause i'm living too hard
and too foul, how i'm gon' raise a child
when i'm out here buck wild?
damn i had to slow down
[hook x2]
[verse 3: mia x]
yeah, i slow my roll down to a pimp strut
and started putting all this game on records
for my come up from sun up to sun down
i'm trying to get my money
haters ain't gon' stop me cause haters can't run me
it's funny when a bitch was livin' foul
everybody seemed glad but now they mad
cause i'm flossing, boss ballin' guilt free
and feds can't take shit from me, so slow down
[verse 4: snoop dogg]
i got niggas, shot niggas, drop niggas for fun
i swap from these shoulders, i don't need no gun
but it's the 90's and niggas don't bump by the end of the round
the clown bound to dump, young chump
you don't wanna get caught up in the mix
cause i'm a soldier, blasting at the rollers, bitch
we don't, never ever, talk no shit
unless we back that shit up, nigga you get lit
[hook x2]
slow down i can't take the heat
slow your roll, tuck your heat and watch the haters
slow down i can't take the heat
slow your roll, tuck your heat and watch the haters
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Snoop Dogg Ft. Mia X - I Can't Take the Heat Lyrics
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Financial Aid Director Gives Advice on KELO TV
Cost Of College
There may be some good news for college bound students next fall. Experts say because of the economy, a lot of students may qualify for more financial aid than in past years.
As we all know the cost of college is on the rise. Many families wonder how they're going to afford to pay for it, especially during a recession.
"There's a lot of doom and gloom out there in higher education, as well as everywhere else, but I guess I wouldn't paint that bad of a picture for higher education," Brenda Murtha financial aid director at Augustana College said.
Brenda Murtha is the financial aid director at Augustana College. She says despite what you might here, all federal loan programs and grants are still available to college students.
Plus the stimulus package could help those students who qualify for federal Pell Grants.
"They're talking about adding $400 to $500 hundred dollars to this maximum pell grant as a possibility, so that could help some of those lower income families, but on the other hand you're going to have more families that are needier I believe," Murtha said.
That's because many parents have lost their jobs this past year and won't have the same income, so they might qualify for a pell grant this year.
Murtha says if you did lose your job, you should document that on your FAFSA or Free Application for federal student aid application and estimate what you think you'll make in '09.
She says financial aid directors will take that into consideration when awarding financial aid packages for your student.
"I expect we're going to be seeing a fair number of those as all schools will," Murtha said.
There are also private loans available to college students too. But sometimes they aren't always the best deals.
"They can be variable rates and because there's no guarantee from the government they actually are something the bank is loaning on their own so they can have their own credit criteria," Murtha said.
Private loans usually require a co-signer and if mom and dad's credit is a little shaky, you might not get the loan.
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And although getting a college degree can be expensive and put a student in thousands of dollars in debt and sometimes drain bank accounts, Murtha believes it's all worth it.
"Education is still the best investment you can make so I would not be screaming panic as far as I can't go to school or continue in school. Definitely check out higher education because that's the key to the child's future."
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Certain members of Congress are trying to push a new piece of legislation, S. 2049, which would permanently replace the dollar bill with another dollar coin. Quite frankly, I'm against this proposal because I want the dollar bill to stay right where it is. I own greenhouses and a flower shop, and the last thing my employees or I need to be dealing with is more coins. I'm sure many other business owners feel the same way.
For so many practical reasons, a dollar coin is a pain for any small business. After time has worn them down, dollar coins have about the same size and look of quarters, making them more confusing for consumers and businesses alike. When you are busy and working quickly, you don't have the luxury of examining coins closely to make sure you have the right one. I would much rather not have to accept dollar coins at all.
This proposal is yet another in a series of frustrating ideas to come out of Washington. Any time you hear a piece of legislation being touted as "money saving," you should want to run in the other direction because guaranteed, it will do anything but save taxpayers money.
Given that Congress has so much on its plate, it's a bit ridiculous to be worried about coins vs. paper dollars right now. Instead of wasting their time debating a change from a popular, user friendly currency to one that nobody wants to use, our legislators should get back to the real work that needs to be done.
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WChris teaches a lick that temporarily modulations into Dorian. The lick is descending and is played with alternate picking.
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Learn an entire guitar solo inspired by such greats as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.
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Chris teaches a lick that temporarily modulations into Dorian. The lick is descending and is played with alternate picking.Length: 7:07 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich pressed on with a legal move on Friday that could rule his biggest political challenger, world heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko out of elections in 2015.
Yanukovich, under pressure politically from falling popular ratings, signed into law legislation passed by parliament last month to ban anyone who pays taxes abroad from claiming residency in Ukraine at the same time.
Candidates for the presidency must have been resident in Ukraine for the 10 years preceding the ballot and the law is widely seen as having been aimed at ruling Klitschko - who has often trained and fought in Germany - out of the race.
Klitschko responded to the law's passing last month by formally announcing his run for president and his UDAR party responded defiantly on Friday, raising the prospect of a confrontation over the issue by saying the law could not keep him off the ballot.
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Yanukovich's main political rival, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, is serving a seven-year jail sentence for abuse of office. Western powers are seeking her release.
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Each day, 1,600 infants are infected with HIV. While perinatal transmission has been reduced to only a few hundred cases a year in the US through the use of a lengthy course of AZT, the regimen, which costs $800, is far out of the reach of all but a lucky few who live in the developing world. Now, however, researchers from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have identified a simple and inexpensive method of preventing HIV transmission from mother to infant.
The study, HIVNET 012, released last summer, compared the efficacy of two different antiretroviral regimens at preventing the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children. Half the participants received a very short course of AZT, given to the mother at the onset of labor (600 mg) and throughout delivery (300 mg every three hours), and then post-partum to the infant for the first week of life (4 mg/kg twice daily). The remaining women received a single 200 mg dose of the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) nevirapine (Viramune) at the onset of labor, and their infants also received a single dose (2 mg/kg) within the first 72 hours of life. The two pills cost a total of $4 at current prices in the US.
The rationale for trying nevirapine was more than purely its affordability. Compared with AZT (or 3TC, another drug sometimes used to prevent perinatal transmission), nevirapine is considerably more potent, able suppress HIV replication much more effectively and quickly. It is rapidly absorbed when taken orally, entering the bloodstream and beginning to work almost immediately. It has a long half-life (61 to 66 hours in pregnant women and 45 to 54 hours in babies), meaning that significant amounts of the drug persist and continue to work many hours after the drug is taken. This is particularly important for perinatal transmission because keeping the maternal viral load low for the first days of life may well reduce the risk of transmission from breastfeeding, most of which seems to occur soon after birth. It has also been well established that nevirapine can cross the placental barrier.
The published data analyzes the first 496 babies (of a total of 616) to reach 14 to 16 weeks, by which time 25.1% of the infants whose mothers took AZT were HIV-positive, versus only 13.1% in the nevirapine arm. Thus, nevirapine reduced the risk of infection by 47%. The p-value was 0.0006, meaning that the correlation is highly statistically significant. The difference between the arms could not be attributed to other factors known to influence perinatal transmission, such as maternal health (baseline characteristics were very similar for the two groups, with mothers having an averages of 426 and 461 CD4 cells, and viral loads of 27,902 and 25,198, for the AZT and nevirapine arms, respectively), duration of labor (8.0 and 9.3 hours, respectively), frequency of Cesarean section (slightly above 10% in each group), and breastfeeding (more than 95% in each group breastfed). Likewise, including in the analysis those babies who had died before they could receive the entire treatment regimen or before they could be tested did not significantly alter the difference between the two treatment groups. Happily, few mothers or infants in either group had serious adverse events deemed attributable to the therapies, although it is still too early to know much about the long-term impact of giving children antiretroviral drugs within the first few days of life.
The news that such an easy and cheap treatment is efficacious is obviously exciting. There are, however, a few notes of concern. First and foremost, this is only one trial, and more data are needed to prove conclusively that nevirapine should replace a short-course of AZT as the regimen of choice in the developing world. Indeed, an earlier, much smaller trial (HIVNET 006) by the same group of researchers did not find as promising results, although the sample size was so small as to make comparisons pointless (see Musoke, et al., AIDS, 13:4:479-86). The comparatively short (14 to 16 weeks) follow-up in HIVNET 012 gives one pause when comparing these results to other recent trials in the developing world, which generally followed babies for longer periods to ensure that the benefits of the antiretroviral therapies were not completely offset by continued exposure to HIV via breastfeeding. A much larger study, the SAINT study (South African Intra-Partum Trial), is currently in the process of enrolling mothers and will compare the efficacy of nevirapine and AZT. Preliminary data should be available at this summer's World AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.
Some commentators have worried that this was not a placebo-controlled trial, meaning that it is only possible to judge how effective nevirapine was in comparison to a short course of AZT, rather than the local standard of care, which is currently nothing for much of the world. The ethics of placebo-controlled studies of perinatal transmission has been a subject of fierce debate in the medical community (see, for example, the opposing arguments laid out by Drs. Troyen Brennan and Robert Levine, New England Journal of Medicine, 341:527-34, and a set of summary recommendations published in The Lancet, 353:832-5); however, for understanding the import of this study, the absence of a placebo arm is not so crucial. Given that it is highly unlikely that transmission rates in the AZT arm would be higher than those among untreated individuals, it seems fairly safe to conclude that nevirapine would be at least as effective when compared to no therapy. Rates of transmission among women not taking antiretroviral therapies are generally estimated to be between 25-35%. The fact that there was a 25% transmission rate in the AZT arm of HIVNET 012 suggests that such a short course of AZT is not very effective.
One of the main benefits of the short-course nevirapine regimen is that it is administered at the onset of labor. Since prenatal care is often unavailable in much of the undeveloped world, a short-course nevirapine regimen might be implemented more easily than an AZT regimen that requires prenatal monitoring. Also, the short course may help minimize the risk that resistance to nevirapine, which arises rapidly when it is given as a monotherapy, would compromise the success of future course. Still, the regimen may not be simple enough for widespread use in many developing countries, as many women only venture to hospitals or clinics in the event of a complication. Since the maternal dose must be taken promptly at the onset of labor, delaying a visit until after labor has begun may abrogate some of the beneficial effects of treatment with nevirapine.
Another interesting scenario that requires further study is mass use of nevirapine for all pregnancies, regardless of the mother's HIV status, in certain targeted countries, which the researchers suggest may be analogous to providing iron supplementation. Since the cost and safety of the regimen is so preferable, and since HIV infection is so common in some countries, it may make sense to administer the regimen to all pregnant women. This gets around the formidable problem posed by the fact that in most developing countries widespread screening is rarely available (or necessarily advisable, given the persecution people with HIV are still subjected to in many places), meaning that most HIV-positive women are unaware of their serostatus. Mass treatment may also help with the widespread stigma still associated with HIV in many countries. If everyone takes the pills, no one is stigmatized.
A cost-effectiveness study by a group of health economists working with the Makerere/Johns Hopkins team suggests that the universal treatment approach is the most efficient way of preventing perinatal transmission. Since nevirapine itself is inexpensive but counseling and testing programs require considerably greater outlays for infrastructure and staffing, giving the antiretroviral to all pregnant women in countries with relatively high seroprevalence (their model, using conservative estimates of the efficacy of the therapy, suggested that it was cost-effective for countries with seroprevalence rates above 10%) would be highly cost effective. Indeed, in their model, providing the drug would be more cost effective than well-known public health strategies such as vaccination against polio.
Still, the decision to give antiretrovirals to all pregnant women is not one that should be taken lightly, so it was good news that the same group found that counseling and testing along with the targeted provision of nevirapine was also quite cost effective. Even before the HIVNET 012 data was released, another recent cost-effectiveness study (published in BMJ, 381:1650-6) had found that even two other, more expensive regimens used to prevent perinatal transmission (the so-called PETRA and CDC-Thai regimens; see Treatment Issues, February 1999) provide very good bang for the buck. Dr. Neil Söderlund and colleagues examined the cost-effectiveness of providing different regimens of antiretroviral therapies in a clinic setting in South Africa and found that were the South African government to offer free AZT in accord with the CDC-Thai regimen, it would actually save money over the long run, because of the impact of decreased costs associated with hospitalizations and lost productivity. Unfortunately, at a meeting of the AIDS Economics Network in Washington, D.C. on July 27, Dr. Söderlund said that the South African government has heretofore been less than enthusiastic about these findings. Still, these two models provide real hope that forward-looking policy planners in the developing world will now have the ammunition needed to convince national governments to fund programs aimed at providing antiretroviral therapy to prevent perinatal transmission.
The cause of ensuring that the developing world will have affordable access to antiretrovirals to prevent perinatal transmission received a major boost when, at the second conference on "Global Strategies for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants," the not-for-profit organization Global Strategies for HIV Prevention launched a "Call to Action" aimed at providing both information and free drugs to countries that would otherwise be unable to afford them. Happily, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation immediately signed onto the Call, ponied up $1 million to get the project off the ground and took out a full page ad in The New York Times on September 8 to promote the campaign. Further, according to a representative of Boehringer-Ingelheim, the pharmaceutical company that holds the international patent rights to nevirapine, various multinational organizations, including UNAIDS and the WHO, and numerous smaller non-governmental organizations have already expressed interest in nevirapine-based prevention programs. However, the process of getting the drug to the countries where it could make the largest impact has been slowed by the fact that nevirapine was not registered in many countries prior to the HIVNET 012 breakthrough, meaning that there is a lot of red-tape to be cut through before the drug can be legally sold. If these first steps are representative of a growing political commitment to end perinatal transmission, then there truly is hope that the advances seen in preventing the infection of infants in the US can be replicated worldwide.
More Good News
Last February, we described a French study that had found rare and fatal neurological complications in two infants enrolled in a trial examining the efficacy of using AZT and 3TC to prevent mother-to-child transmission (Treatment Issues, February 1999). Concerns about the possibility of a lethal side effect related to the use of antiretrovirals sent a shock wave through the community of researchers working on this issue and prompted a review of data from the numerous National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In reports presented at various summer conferences, including the 27th AIDS Clinical Trials Groups Meeting in July in Washington, D.C., "Global Strategies for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants" in Montreal and at last year's ICAAC in San Francisco, it was announced that of the more than 15,000 infants known to have been exposed in utero to antiretroviral therapies in US studies of perinatal transmission, none seem to have died as a result of drug toxicity.
However, it is clear that the last chapter of this story has not yet been written. The French group is particularly concerned that the antiretrovirals are damaging the body's mitochondrial DNA, resulting in the neurological symptoms seen in the two fatalities, as well as problems with muscle, colon, liver, pancreatic and other organ function. They have found six additional infants who have evidence of such mitochondrial toxicity, although all are still alive. The US cohort data will now be examined for signs of similar non-fatal mitochondrial defects.
Another report presented in both Montreal and San Francisco discussed the pros and cons of Cesarean sections. While it appears clear that elective C-sections -- those done in a planned, rather than emergency, manner -- can reduce the risk of transmission, especially in women who have not taken antiretroviral therapy, the benefits for those women who have taken antiretrovirals may not outweigh the risks the surgery carries, which include fevers and infection. It is clear that antiretroviral therapy is the safest and most effective way to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission, but Cesarean sections are a reasonable option for women who are aware of the risks but who want to further reduce the chance of transmission.
Taken together, the recent findings sketch a very hopeful picture of the future of perinatal transmission: cheap and safe treatment made available to all in need because governments have realized that it is cost-effective to do so. With a little luck and some political backbone, most of the 12 million HIV-positive women of childbearing age will also live to see such a day.
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