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Scientists seek out cancer cells hiding from treatment
18 January 2013
Scientists hope to improve leukaemia treatment by investigating how cancer cells use 'hiding places' in the body to avoid chemotherapy drugs.
The majority of patients respond well to current therapies, but the disease returns in a quarter of patients. The long term outlook for adults is much worse, with initial treatments being effective in fewer than half of all patients.
Now, researchers from Imperial College London will begin a three-year project to explore how some cancer cells evade treatment, thanks to new funding from blood cancer charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.
Lead researcher, Dr Cristina Lo Celso, lecturer in immunology in Imperial's department of life sciences, said, "We believe that some evasive cancer cells hide in protective compartments inside the body while patients receive treatment. If we understand where the cancer cells hide, we will be able to develop better ways to treat patients by eliminating all cancer cells and avoiding disease relapse."
Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, where they grow and take on a variety of forms within compartments called niches inside bones. Dr Lo Celso's team believe that in the bones of Leukaemia patients, some of these compartments have been 'hijacked' by leukaemia cells, where they serve as effective hiding places during treatment.
"Once we can see how this happens drugs can be developed that target the hiding places. This will have a dramatic impact on the design of new drugs for blood cancers like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia," she said.
Dr Lo Celso and colleague Dr Edwin Hawkins will use high powered microscopes in Imperial's Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy (FILM) to observe cancer cells using fluorescent light. They will use this technique to track the movement of the evasive leukaemia cells in laboratory mice and hope to learn where these cells go during cancer treatment.
Professor Chris Bunce, research director at Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, says, "Leukaemia occurs when the machinery that controls how blood cells grow and die breaks down. We now know that both normal blood cells and leukaemia cells are produced by a small number of stem cells that live inside compartments in our bone marrow. Understanding how these leukaemia cells hide from powerful anti-cancer drugs is vital to creating treatments for patients that will work faster and prevent the disease from returning."


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Bioniche Founder and CEO Announces his New Role with the Company Français
Sep 11, 2013, 12:03 ET
BELLEVILLE, ON, Sept. 11, 2013 /CNW/ - Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC) (ASX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today issued an open letter to all shareholders from Founder, President & CEO, Graeme McRae, regarding his going forward role with the Company:
Dear Fellow Shareholders,
I am writing to advise you of my changing role with Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., the Company I founded with the support of 100 Ontario veterinarians more than 34 years ago.
Given the Company's intention to divest its Animal Health business and One Health/VMC business, the focus of the business going forward will be on the Human Health side. The expected influx of cash associated with the sale of these assets will enable the Company to repay debt, provide the financial resources to commercialize Urocidin™ for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, and return some capital to shareholders.
As announced in an open letter to shareholders in June, 2013, I will be stepping down as President & CEO of the Company upon the hiring of a new CEO for Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. The selection of a new CEO is in process and is expected to be announced in the near future.
The Board of Directors (Board) is appointing me Chairman Emeritus. This is a non-voting position that allows me to continue to contribute my years of experience and vast network of industry contacts in an advisory capacity.
At the same time, the Board has offered to engage me in a consulting contract, whereby I will provide business development support to the Company related to several defined projects, including the divestment of the Animal Health and One Health/VMC businesses.
My new role in the Company is an exciting one for me. It allows me to focus on key projects without being involved in day-to-day operational management, which has become increasingly demanding over the past few years.
The Company has had numerous successes over the years, including registering several new technologies in Animal Health, developing and registering the world's first E. coli O157 cattle vaccine, developing one of the few new bladder cancer technologies in decades (and progressing it to Phase III), and building a team of skilled, professional employees.
I have no doubt that the Company's streamlined focused and enhanced financial position going forward will make it viable and successful in the future. I am proud to have contributed to building the foundation for this success and I look forward to celebrating future corporate achievements with all of my fellow shareholders.
Graeme McRae
About Bioniche Life Sciences Inc.
Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. is a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing of proprietary and innovative products for human and animal health markets worldwide. The fully-integrated company employs more than 200 skilled personnel and has three operating divisions: Human Health, Animal Health, and Food Safety. The Company's primary goal is to develop and commercialize products that advance human or animal health and increase shareholder value.
For more information, please visit www.Bioniche.com.
Except for historical information, this news release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. These forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, which may cause, but are not limited to, changing market conditions, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies, the establishment of corporate alliances, the impact of competitive products and pricing, new product development, uncertainties related to the regulatory approval process, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's ongoing quarterly and annual reporting.
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Macros for low carb diet
A huge study concludes that a reduced intake of carbohydrates raises the threat of premature mortality, in addition to mortality from numerous persistent illnesses. Therefore, scientists prompt dieters to stay clear of macros for low carb diet.
Recent estimates have recommended that as numerous as people in the USA go on a diet regimen every year.
Also, U.S. individuals supposedly spend around $33 billion on weight-loss items yearly.
The two thirds of the populace that are either overweight or overweight have a plethora of diets to pick from. From low-fat to high-fat, keto diets and recurring fasting, the trends are numerous– but what are their effects for our health?
A brand-new study focuses on macros for low carb diet and checks out the wellness dangers that are associated with them. Carbs are a significant source of energy for most living organisms, so exactly how does a diet plan reduced in these particles impact wellness?
The new study does not supply a causal response to this inquiry, yet it does analyze the links between macros for low carb diet and the risk of early mortality, along with mortality from details persistent conditions.
The new study was presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, held in Munich, Germany, by Prof. Maciej Banach, of the Medical College of Lodz in Poland.
Examining macros for low carb diet and also death danger
Prof. Lodz and also his colleagues examined the web links in between macros for low carb diet and the threat of fatality from any kind of cause amongst 24,825 people who had joined the National Wellness and also Nutrition Assessment Survey in 1999 – 2010.
Additionally, the scientists took a look at the associations between a reduced carbohydrate consumption and also the risk of death from coronary heart problem, cerebrovascular disease– which includes stroke– and also cancer. Usually, the research study individuals were 47.6 years old, and also their carbohydrate intake was determined as a percent. Then, based on these portions, the participants were separated right into fourths. Prof. Banach and associates complied with the individuals for an average period of 6.4 years.
The participants were additionally classified as obese and non-obese, according to their body mass index (BMI).
In the second component of the research, the group checked out the same associations in a big meta-analysis of possible studies that summed up almost 450,000 individuals that were complied with for an ordinary period of 15.6 years.
Why macros for low carb diet should be stayed clear of?
Generally, the analysis using data from the study located that those who consumed the least amount of carbs were 32 percent more likely to pass away too soon from any type of cause. This was in comparison with individuals that consumed one of the most carbs.
Also, reduced carb customers were 51 percent more probable to pass away from coronary cardiovascular disease, 50 percent more probable to die from cerebrovascular illness, and also 35 percent more likely to die of cancer cells. The organizations were strongest amongst older, non-obese individuals.
These results were replicated in the meta-analysis, which found that the total danger of fatality from any cause was 15 percent higher in individuals that consumed the least quantity of carbohydrates, the danger of cardiovascular fatality was 13 percent higher, which of passing away of cancer was 8 percent greater.
The macros for low carb diet ought to be avoided, concludes Prof. Banach, who additionally endeavors some feasible causal explanations for the web links located.
He states, The lowered consumption of fiber and also fruits and raised intake of animal healthy protein, cholesterol, and hydrogenated fat with these diets may contribute. Differences in minerals, vitamins, and also phytochemicals may likewise be included.
The macros for low carb diet may be valuable in the temporary to drop weight, reduced high blood pressure, as well as enhance blood sugar control, yet our research suggests that in the lasting they are linked with a raised danger of death from any reason, as well as fatalities due to heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, as well as cancer cells.
The macros for low carb diet as well as heart problem
Study shows that a reasonably macros for low carb diet plan can aid the heart, as long as healthy protein and fat selections come from healthy and balanced sources.
A 20-year prospective research of 82,802 women checked out the partnership in between reduced carb diets and cardiovascular disease; a subsequent study took a look at reduced carb diets and threat of diabetes mellitus. Females that consumed low-carbohydrate diets that were high in veggie resources of fat or protein had a 30 percent reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and also regarding a 20 percent lower risk of kind 2 diabetes, compared to women that consumed high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. But females who consumed low-carbohydrate diets that were high in animal fats or proteins did not see any such advantages.
More evidence of the heart take advantage of a macros for low carb diet strategy comes from a randomized trial called the Optimum Macronutrient Intake Trial for Heart Health And Wellness (OmniHeart). A healthy diet regimen that replaced some carb with protein or fat did a much better task of lowering blood pressure as well as bad LDL cholesterol than a healthy, higher-carbohydrate diet plan.
In a similar way, the small EcoAtkins weight loss trial contrasted a low-fat, high-carbohydrate vegetarian diet regimen to a low-carbohydrate vegan diet plan that was high in vegetable protein as well as fat. While weight-loss was comparable on the two diets, study subjects that complied with the low-carbohydrate EcoAtkins diet plan saw improvements in blood lipids and also blood pressure.


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"Good career move."
So said Eugene Louis Vidal on learning of the passing of Truman Streckfus Persons in 1984, thus beating Mary McCarthy's 1980 put-down of Lillian Hellman ("Every word she writes is a lie including 'and' and 'the' ") in the International Freestyle Literary Dis' Competition.
"Mean" Eugene was quite right in his assessment of the Persons person. Why else would Vanity Fair feature in its December issue yet another account of Truman's downfall "Capote's Swan Dive" by Sam Kashner the better to introduce a recently discovered short story "Yachts and Things" that was part of his "legendary" unfinished (in point of fact barely started ) Answered Prayers. An account of a series of hashish-fueled jaunts taken by Capote and a woman clearly
modeled after Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham it barely rises to the level of "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." Answered Prayers was supposed to be something more.
Much more.
For Capote had longed to do for New York society in the 60s' and 70's what Proust did to the belle epoque in A la recherché du temps perdu. The thing was Proust waited until everyone he wanted to write about was safely dead before putting pen to parchment. Capote was far too impatient for that.
As every schoolchild from La Jolla to the emerging nation of Chad well knows Answered Prayers was designed as a follow-up to In Cold Blood – his so-called "non-fiction novel" that longed for Dostoyevskian complexity but at heart is simply a long literate True Crime magazine article. Prayers would supposedly do for the "private lives" of postwar swells what its predecessor did for mass murder in the midwest. When "La Cote Basque 1965,"
supposedly the book's fifth chapter, was published in Esquire magazine in 1975, all heck broke loose – and the only body to be autopsied (albeit metaphorically) was Capote's own.
An account of lunch at one of NewYork's then most fashionable restaurants it mixes fictional characters (a male hustler and the female customer taking him to lunch) with real people including Capote pals Gloria Vanderbilt and Carol Matthau. Gossip is naturally the specialite de la maison with chorus-girl-turned-socialite Ann Woodward's murder of her husband William (she successfully claimed to the authorities that she mistook him for a burglar) a prime conversational topic. Woodward (whose story was retold in full several years later by Dominick Dunne in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles) had killed herself just prior to the appearance of "La Cote Basque 1965″ in Esquire.
Did she know of Capote's plans? Clutch those pearls!
But Ann Woodward was a side dish. What really caused a commotion was a not-too-well-disguised account of Capote "close personal friend" William Paley's infidelity – including the salacious detail of bedroom sheets soaked with the menstrual blood of his paramour du jour. Paley's wife Barbara – known to one and all as "Babe" – never spoke to Capote again – and the upper-crusters who once valued him as court jester to their otherwise tedious revels now dropped him like the proverbial bad habit. Two more Answered Prayers chapters followed "La Cote Basque 1965" into Esquire: "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud." They created no societal ruckus nor were they of any literary interest – obviously having been cobbled together in haste the better to strike while the success de scandale was hot.
"Truman had recorded in his journals the outline for the entire book, which would comprise seven chapters," Kashner claims. "The remaining four were titled "Yachts and Things," "And Audrey Wilder Sang," "A Severe Insult to the Brain" (which according to urban legend was the cause of death on Dylan Thomas's death certificate), and "Father Flanagan's All-Night Nigger Queen Kosher Café," the provocative title for the teeth-rattling concluding chapter. Truman claimed in his journals he had actually written it first."
But then he claimed a lot of things.
"Truman's decline was unstoppable. In addition to his alcohol abuse, he was partaking heavily of cocaine" and Studio 54."Banished from café society, he embraced this louche, hedonistic world and was taken up by Andy Warhol and the Factory, where drugs flowed as freely as gossip had at La Côte Basque and Quo Vadis. The revelers at Studio 54 didn't care that Truman had spilled the beans—they didn't know or care who Babe Paley was."
But Andy cared who Truman was. He was entranced by the famous photo Harold Halma took for the dust jacket of Other Voice Other Rooms.
Never in his life had he seen anyone so blatant about being a "sissy." When he got to New York, establishing a reputation as an illustrator and window decorator he more or less stalked Capote – who resolutely ignored him. But Andy wasn't one to hold grudges, and so decades late he encouraged the now burnt-out shell of a "famous author"
to write for his Interview magazine. Several of the stories made their way into Music For Chameleons – the last volume of Capote published while he was still alive. One of the stories, "Hand-Carved Coffins" – a "real life" murder tale composed by tape recording a la Warhol – was even optioned for the movies. It never reached he screen. But that mattered little. It was all over for Truman anyway.
"In July 1978, Truman appeared in an inebriated state on The Stanley Siegel Show, a local morning talk show in New York. Taking note of Truman's incoherence during the interview, Siegel, the host, asked, "What's going to happen unless you lick this problem of drugs and alcohol?" Truman, through the fog of his own misery, replied, "The obvious answer is that eventually I'll kill myself." The appearance was such a disaster it made headlines: DRUNK & DOPED, CAPOTE VISITS TV TALK SHOW, the New York Post jeered later that day."
At last Truman was getting the "come-uppance" Eugene had so long desired, complaining of the "mainstream" in a 1978 Gay Sunshine interview "The only thing that they respect, that they put up with, is a freak like Capote, who has the mind of a Kansas housewife and gets all shuddery when she thinks about boys murdering people." Eugene had done the hard work of writing novels and essays about matters of import both historical (Burr, Lincoln, Julian, 1876) and personal (The City and the Pillar, Myra Brekinridge, Myron, The Smithsonian Institution) plus plays (The Best Man, Visit To A Small Planet) screenplays (Ben-Hur, Suddenly Last Summer) and a memoir, Palimpsest more candid than anything Capote had ever dreamed of
much less attempted.
Other Voices Other Rooms was a passably interesting "coming out" story – but it was no Member of of the Wedding. Likewise "Holly Golightly" of Breakfast at Tiffany's paled alongside "Sally Bowles" of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories. House of Flowers the musical he crafted from one of his less cloying short stories with the great Harold Arlen is exquisite. The Grass Harp wasn't a patch on the bucolic fantasies James Purdy created. But Kenward Elmslie and Claibe Richardson made a nice musical out of it. Still there was Beat the Devil. His adaptation of James Helvik's novel made for a sensational screenplay for John Huston
and a stellar cast.
Had he the inclination and kept away from the air-conditioning repairmen Eugene insisted he kept falling "tragically in love with" Capote might well have had a Hollywood career. The career he really wanted, however, was as a party-thrower, as "Yachts and Things" reminds us. For on November 26, 1966 he threw a masked ball for Katherine Graham at New York's
Plaza Hotel.
That he was cultivating Graham at this juncture suggests he'd set his sites on the way journalism and "fame" intersected. According to the "reports" Truman spoon-fed to a credulous-as-ever media the guest list would be a literal "Who's Who." And it was.
As Katherine Graham told Amy Fine Collins for a Vanity Fair piece about the soiree
" 'There was a slight note of insanity about the party. . .There is just no rational reason why the whole situation escalated.' No rational reason, perhaps, but certainly some irrational ones. Former Condé Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman suggests, 'When you think of all the people in New York, there were a tremendous number of exclusions. It titillated a lot of people.'In other words it was a guest list designed to be printed up by press agents. Nothing of interest has ever been reported to have been said or done at Capote's Masked Ball. Had that been the case it would have gotten in the way, for "As the aristocratic Parisian host Étienne de Beaumont purportedly remarked, 'A party is never given for someone. It is given against someone.' "
And who was Truman against? As it turns out, himself .
(Kashner one last time:)
"After Capote's death, on August 25, 1984, just a month shy of his 60th birthday, Alan Schwartz (his lawyer and literary executor), Gerald Clarke (his friend and biographer), and Joe Fox (his Random House editor) searched for the manuscript of the unfinished novel. . . "We found nothing," Schwartz told Vanity Fair. Joanne Carson claims that Truman had confided to her that the manuscript was tucked away in a safe-deposit box in a bank in California—maybe Wells Fargo—and that he had handed her a key to it the morning before his death. But he declined to tell her which bank held the box. "The novel will be found when it wants to be found," he told her cryptically."
And from "Yachts and Things" it's quite clear it doesn't.
Mr. Persons regrets he's unable to lunch today – at La Cote Basque, or anywhere else.
The "Masked Ball" is over.
Audra McDonald will sing us out.


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2. Queue thresholds: SMTP Server\Categorizer Queue Length, Epoxy(IMAP)\Queue length, EPOXY(POP3)\Queue length, LDAP times, MSExchangeIS Public\Replication Receive Queue Size, SMTP Server\Remote Queue Length, SMTP Server\Remote Retry Queue Length, SMTP Server\Local Queue Length, Virus scan queue length
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This little woman is constantly seeking attention by being in the news, either by doing, drugs, prostitution, shop lifting or......if nothing else to do, then, converting to Islam.
It appears Lindsay Lohan is at peace with herself again.
The 30-year-old troubled star has removed all posts from her Instagram account and replaced them with the Islamic saying "Alaikum salam," meaning "peace be unto you," in her bio line.
It's unclear if Lohan has officially converted to the religion, although it''s known she has been practicing the faith for the last couple of years.
Her rep did not return an email from the Daily News for comment.
Back in 2015, Lohan volunteered with Syrian refugees in Turkey and recently made the decision to uproot her life to Dubai following an interview with Haber Lurk where she admitted to feeling "unsafe" in the United States.
The actress discussed feeling like "an outsider" and relating to Muslim women based on her notion of being "different."
Lohan said she was allegedly attacked by paparazzi in 2015 when she was seen holding a Quran given to her by close friends from London and Saudi Arabia.
"They crucified me for [practicing] it in America. They made me seem like Satan; I was a bad person for holding the Quran. I'm so happy to have left and gone back to London after that because I felt so unsafe in my own country," she said in the interview.
"This is my belief ... if this is something I want to learn then this is my personal will, it's not for you to express," she added.


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The Lasting Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Is Everywhere
Wed, Mar 18, 2009
Palos Verdes Estates and Miraleste residents these days may take their parks and green spaces for granted, because they do not know that each green sward was carefully laid out long ago by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in a map he prepared in 1924. That map now hangs prominently in the Local History Room at Peninsula Center Library.
It is a visual testament to Olmsted's commitment to open space as a vital rest and renewal destination for human beings. Carefully illustrated in shades of light green that define parks, open space, golf courses and school grounds, the map pays special attention to clusters of housing, school buildings and even a nursery, which Olmsted had located in Lunada Bay. (Pity it never materialized.)
Today, this landscaping philosophy that celebrates open space is unanimously invoked by environmentalists and planners throughout the country. And-if one pauses to observe and express gratitude–this philosophy is still visibly apparent throughout the Peninsula's first city, because its virtue has been preserved by the Art Jury and the Homes Association.
In a much-belated tribute to this green-thumb genius, a small park at the corner of Palos Verdes Drive West and Via Corta in Malaga Cove was dedicated and named Olmsted Place on Feb. 8, 2000. (He had already identified and landscaped this spot of land next to the Gardner Building as a little postage-stamp park in 1925-but he hadn't named it for himself. In fact, it had been nameless.)
About 100 people attended the 2000 dedication of the $16,000 project. The City pitched in $5,000 to get the dollar bills rolling. Palos Verdes Beautiful and private donations managed to complete the funding. Rancho de los Palos Verdes Historical Society had donated a plaque in 1991.
Members of the special committee that finally brought the mini-park plans to the City Council and won its glowing approval in late 1999 were these long-time residents: the now-deceased Jack Bauman; Ruth Gralow; Carolyn Schaeffer; Dorothy Flood, and the recently deceased Jeane Burke. The panel even endorsed the plan and tree selections Olmsted had made, some of which had existed since their original planting. Boulder benches were also recommended as "social spaces for people to come together," according to Olmsted, who was a great fan of creating spaces where people can socialize.
As for Olmsted, he had completed his landscaping assignment for the Palos Verdes Project in 1931 and returned with his family to the firm's headquarters and his East Coast home (one and the same) in Brookline, Mass.
After an active career in the East, Olmsted retired in 1950 and moved to Palo Alto with his wife to be near their daughter, who was their only child. He died on Christmas Day in 1957 while visiting friends in Malibu. He was 87.


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School safety a concern as students head back to school after break
Students in our area are heading back to school after the holiday break.
Some schools started classes earlier this week, while students in neighboring districts head back to the classrooms on Monday.
And school safety remains a question on the minds of many parents and students across the nation after the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month.
The Fort Smith Police Department says they are working to build an even stronger working relationship with the Fort Smith Public School Department.
"We have a great relationship, but we need to be closer," says Sgt. Daniel Grubbs of the Fort Smith Police Department. "We need to know who the teachers and administration are, what the floor plans are. The more you know, the more you can be prepared if something does happen."
Grubbs says police officers, like most parents, have many of the same safety concerns.
"A lot of us have children, too," says Grubbs. "I've been in that school. And most of us have taken this upon ourselves to be prepared and carry a firearm on us when we go. We don't want to be put in a position where we can't help."
While most schools in our area did not implement additional safety regulations over the holiday break, instead those regulations were set in place immediately following the Sandy Hook shootings.


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In Maharashtra, the last important festival of the year is Diwali! Diwali comes sometime in October- November and usually lasts for 5 days. These 5 days bring lots of joy and happiness and are a perfect time to visit near and dear ones! Diwali is the festival of lights and the festival of yummy foods n snacks. :D It is celebrated with a lot of crackers and lots of sweets!
Talking more about the 5 days of Diwali.. The first day is Vasubaras, where cows and calves are worshipped. The second day is Dhantrayodashi, where people worship their important business/work related documents. Also books are worshipped as part of Saraswati Puja- for the goddess of wisdom. The third day is LaxmiPujan, the day when goddess Lakshmi is worshipped. Since money is considered equivalent to goddess Lakshmi, people worship money and gold and other precious things! The fourth day is Bali Pratipada or Diwali Padwa, the day of victory of god over evils.. This is the day when married women butter their husbands, pray for them and then get expensive gifts and jewellery! The last day is Bhaubeej (Bhaiduuj) which is celebrated to respect the brother sister relationship.. The sisters get gifts from their bros on this day.. My bro calls this day as "Sister's Day 2", "Sister's Day 1" being "Raksha Bandhan" and always questions me why it's always me who gets the gifts n not vice versa. :D
On the morning of Lakshmi Pujan, people wake up early and have a bath with scented utana (special powder made from chandan and other herbs) before sunset. Women draw beautiful rangolis infront of their house and light diyas. Children wear new clothes and burst crackers. Around breakfast time, all family members gather together and feast on all delicacies prepared for Diwali :)
Talking of foods, other than readymade mithais, the ladies prepare an array of sweets and snacks at home. The most common Maharashtrian Diwali snacks include the chamchamit Chiwda, crispy Chaklis, spicy Shev and Kadbole and namkeen Shankarpale. The sweets include various Laadu- Rawa Laadu, Besan Laadu, Dry fruits Ladoos Chirote, Anarse(fried stuff prepared from Rice Flour), Karanji(fried stuff with coconut filling) and sweet Shankarpale! In continuity to my last three posts for festive foods, the sequence of some of the festive foods for RCI Maharashtrian Cuisine comes to an end with the Besan Laadu for Diwali, a sweet/laddus prepared from Gram Flour! Happy Diwali in advance ;)
2 cups Besan (Gram Flour)
1 cup Ghee
1 cup Sugar, powdered
2 tsp Cardamom Powder
Dry fruits- Golden Raisins, Almonds, Cashews (if desired)
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3) Continue roasting till it starts becoming reddish and then leave aside to cool for some time
4) When it cools, the besan is in form of lumps. Break these lumps using your hands. If this becomes too hard, heat it for some time
5) Now add sugar and mix well.
6) Add dry fruits and cardamom powder
7) Taking some mixture in your hands, roll into ladoos. If its too hard to roll (if ladoos easily break off), add some more ghee.
8) Store in an air tight container and enjoy for next few days ;)


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Not everyone can be as graceful on ice as professional hockey players.
Following the Stanley Cup victory at the Staples Center, NBC4's Mario Solis was reporting live when one woman was caught on camera attempting to cross the ice in heels, a feat that proved just as difficult as it sounds as she slipped and fell during a live television broadcast.
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Hunsinger, a member of the Kings ice crew, caught up with Solis following her spill.
"Yes, I am OK," Hunsinger said. "You'd think that after skating on the ice, I'd be OK with walking on it but that wasn't the case."
Though a little embarrassed, Hunsinger tweeted reporters in good spirits after the video quickly went viral.
"Thank you @Deadspin and @NBCLA for capturing such a fantastic fall," she tweeted. "At least I got a good ending pic out of it."
The Kings beat the Rangers 3-2 in double overtime Friday night.
Thank you @Deadspin and @NBCLA for capturing such a fantastic fall. At least I got a good ending pic out of it! #fail pic.twitter.com/0WWcdLhE9g — Hannah Hunsinger (@HannahHunsinger) June 14, 2014


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by Matt Slick
Some critics of Christianity teach that the Christian religion was not based on divine revelation but that it borrowed from pagan sources, Mithra being one of them. They assert that the figure of Mithra has many commonalities with Jesus, too common to be a coincidence.
Mithraism was one of the major religions of the Roman Empire which was derived from the ancient Persian god of light and wisdom. The cult of Mithraism was quite prominent in ancient Rome, especially among the military. Mithra was the god of war, battle, justice, faith, and contract. According to Mithraism, Mithra was called the son of God, was born of a virgin, had disciples, was crucified, rose from the dead on the third day, atoned for the sins of mankind, and returned to heaven. Therefore, the critics maintain that Christianity borrowed its concepts from the Mithra cult. But is this the case? Can it be demonstrated that Christianity borrowed from the cult of Mithra as it developed its theology?
First of all, Christianity does not need any outside influence to derive any of its doctrines. All the doctrines of Christianity exists in the Old Testament where we can see the prophetic teachings of Jesus as the son of God (Zech. 12:10), born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14), was crucified (Psalm 22), the blood atonement (Lev. 17:11), rose from the dead (Psalm 16:10), and salvation by faith (Hab. 2:4). Also, the writers of the gospels were eyewitnesses (or directed by eyewitnesses as were Mark and Luke) who accurately represented the life of Christ. So, what they did was write what Jesus taught as well as record the events of His life, death, and resurrection. In other words, they recorded history, actual events and had no need of fabrication or borrowing.
There will undoubtedly be similarities in religious themes given the agrarian culture. Remember, an agriculturally based society, as was the people of the ancient Mediterranean area, will undoubtedly develop theological themes based upon observable events, i.e., the life, death, and seeming resurrection of life found in crops, in cattle, and in human life. It would only be natural for similar themes to unfold since they are observed in nature and since people created gods related to nature. But, any reading of the Old Testament results in observing the intrusion of God into Jewish history as is recorded in miracles and prophetic utterances. Add to that the incredible archaeological evidence verifying Old Testament cities and events and you have a document based on historical fact instead of mythical fabrication. Furthermore, it is from these Old Testament writings that the New Testament themes were developed.
Following is a chart demonstrating some of the New Testament themes found in the Old Testament.
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|New Testament
fulfilled in Jesus
|Ascension of Jesus to the right hand of God
|Ps. 110:1
|Matt 26:64; Acts 7:55-60; Eph. 1:20
|Atonement by blood
|Lev. 17:11
|Heb. 9:22
|Begotten Son, Jesus is
|Psalm 2:7
|Acts 13:33; Heb. 1:5
|Psalm 22:11-18; Zech. 12:10
|Luke 23:33-38
|Eternal Son
|Micah 5:1-2; Psalm 2:7
|Heb. 1:5; 5:5
|God among His people
|Isaiah 9:6; 40:3
|John 1:1,14; 20:28; Col. 2:9; Matt. 3:3
|Incarnation of God
|1)Ex 3:14; 2)Ps. 45:6 Isaiah 9:6; Zech. 12:10
|1)John 8:58; 1:1,14; 2)Heb. 1:8; Col. 2:9; Heb. 1:1-3
|Only Begotten Son
|Gen. 22:2. See Typology
|John 3:16; Heb. 11:7
|Resurrection of Christ
|Psalm 16:9-10; 49:15; Is. 26:19
|John 2:19-21
|Return of Christ
|Zech. 14:1-5; Mic. 1:3-4
|Matt. 16:27-28; Acts 1:11; 3:20
|Sin offering
|Ex. 30:10; Lev. 4:3
|Rom. 8:3; Heb. 10:18; 13:11
|Son of God
|Psalm 2:7
|John 5:18
|Substitutionary Atonement
|Isaiah 53:6-12; Lev. 6:4-10,21
|Matt. 20:28; 1 Pet. 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 3:18;
|Virgin Birth
|Isaiah 7:14
|Matt. 1:25
(For a more complete list please go to Are the New Testament themes found in the Old Testament?)
As you can see, there is no need for any of the Christian writers to borrow from anything other than the Old Testament source in order to establish any Christian doctrine concerning Jesus. If the argument that pagan mythologies predated Christian teachings and therefore Christianity borrowed from them is true, then it must also be true that the pagan religions borrowed from the Jewish religion because it is older than they are! Given that all of the Christian themes are found in the Old Testament and the Old Testament was begun around 2000 B.C. and completed around 400 B.C., we can then conclude that these pagan religions actually borrowed from Jewish ideas found in the Old Testament. Think about it, the idea of a blood sacrifice and a covering for sin is found in the first three chapters of Genesis when God covered Adam and Eve with animals skins and prophesied the coming of the Messiah.
Furthermore, those who wrote about Jesus in the New Testament were Jews (or under the instruction of Jews) who were devoted to the legitimacy and inspiration of the Old Testament scriptures and possessed a strong disdain for pagan religions. It would have been blasphemous for them to incorporate pagan sources into what they saw as the fulfillment of the sacred Old Testament scriptures concerning the Messiah. Also, since they were writing about Jesus, they were writing based upon what He taught: truth, love, honesty, integrity, etc. Why then would they lie and make up stories and suffer great persecution, hardships, ridicule, arrest, beatings, and death all for known lies and fabrications from paganism? It doesn't make sense.
At best, Mithraism only had some common themes with Christianity (and Judaism) which were recorded in both the Old and New Testaments. What is far more probable is that as Mithraism developed, it started to adopt Christian concepts.
"Allegations of an early Christian dependence on Mithraism have been rejected on many grounds. Mithraism had no concept of the death and resurrection of its god and no place for any concept of rebirth -- at least during its early stages...During the early stages of the cult, the notion of rebirth would have been foreign to its basic outlook...Moreover, Mithraism was basically a military cult. Therefore, one must be skeptical about suggestions that it appealed to nonmilitary people like the early Christians."1
What is more probable is that with the explosive nature of the Christian church in the 1st and 2nd century, other cult groups started to adapt themselves to take advantage of some of the teachings found in Christianity.
"While there are several sources that suggest that Mithraism included a notion of rebirth, they are all post-Christian. The earliest...dates from the end of the second century A.D."2
Therefore, even though there are similarities between Christianity and Mithraism, it is up to the critics to prove that one borrowed from the other. But, considering that the writers of the New Testament were Jews who shunned pagan philosophies and that the Old Testament has all of the themes found in Christianity, it is far more probable that if any borrowing was done, it was done by the pagan religions that wanted to emulate the success of Christianity.


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Social Media: Practicing What we Preach
By Bill Brower (posted on his behalf by Marc):
As I travel around Southeast Asia for GlobalGiving, I've been holding workshops on online fundraising, a large portion of which I devote to talking about social media. I think to a lot of people working at NGOs here, many of whom are only hazily familiar with the likes of Facebook and Twitter, it can all sound like a lot of fluff. I can sense people thinking, "You really expect me to believe that my organization can make money through the website college kids use to post photos of their drunken escapades?" At first I was backing up my assertion with vague assurances that GlobalGiving sees donations coming in each week from various social media sites. "In one week in December we managed to raise $15,000 off Twitter alone!"
I now provide a textbook example of using a coordinated and dedicated social media effort to drive not only wider recognition but significant donations online courtesy of my wonderful colleagues back in D.C.
In the workshops, I tell people that the first step is just to get in the relevant conversations online: Alison, our social media guru, has done a great job of that; we have over 13,000 followers on Twitter.
Then I tell them to create interesting content: Alison recently riffed off the jokes going around online following Apple's unveiling of the iPad:
"#iPad and #iTampon jokes are funny. But in #Uganda girls leave school for lack of sanitary pads: http://bit.ly/clXetd"
Our CEO, Dennis Whittle, also posted a blog, which drew off the buzz surrounding the iPad.
I tell participants in the workshops that interesting information is easily passed around online: The number of people who had this Tweet pass through their Twitter feeds, either directly or when mentioned by someone else, was on the order of hundreds of thousands. Dennis's blog was mentioned on another blog on NEWCONNEXTIONS.
And I tell people that most givers are motivated by family and friends: GlobalGiving staff posted the iPad message to their personal Facebook pages. It caught their friends' eyes, they donated and told others that they did on their Facebook page. All told, about 40 people gave over $1,600 to provide sanitary pads to girls in Uganda from our iPad social media messages.
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SIGGRAPH Tech Papers Preview
The organizers of the SIGGRAPH 2013 Technical Papers program have revealed details of what those looking for the latest in scholarly work related to computer graphics and interactive techniques can look forward to at the 40th conference and exhibit, taking place July 21-25 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
"Computer Graphics is a dynamic and ever-changing field in many ways," says Marc Alexa, SIGGRAPH 2013 Technical Papers Chair from Technische Universität Berlin. "The range of ground-breaking papers presented at SIGGRAPH is getting broader every year, now also encompassing 3D printing, and fabricating realistic materials as well as generating ever more realistic images of complex phenomena."
115 technical papers out of 480 submissions were accepted this year, representing an acceptance rate of 24 percent (one percent higher than 2012). The selected papers were chosen by a distinguished committee of academia and industry experts. This year's Technical Papers program also includes conference presentations for 37 papers published this year in the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
Here are some highlights of the program:
OpenFab: A Programmable Pipeline for Multi-Material Fabrication
Authors: Kiril Vidimce, Szu-Po Wang, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley and Wojciech Matusik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL
OpenFab is a programmable pipeline for synthesis of multi-material 3D printed objects that is inspired by RenderMan and modern GPU pipelines. It supports procedural evaluation of geometric detail and material composition, using shader-like fablets. It is implemented in a streaming fashion within a fixed memory usage target.
Opacity Optimization for 3D Line Fields
Authors: Tobias Günther, Christian Roessl, and Holger Theisel, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
For visualizing dense line fields, this method selects lines by view-dependent opacity optimizations and applies them to real-time free navigation in flow data, medical imaging, physics, and computer graphics.
AIREAL: Interactive Tactile Experiences in Free Air
Authors: Rajinder Sodhi, University of Illinois; Ivan Poupyrev, Matthew Glisson, Ali Israr, Disney Research, The Walt Disney Company
AIREAL is a tactile feedback device that delivers effective and expressive tactile sensations in free air, without requiring the user to wear a physical device. Combined with interactive graphics and applications, AIREAL enables users to feel virtual objects, experience free-air textures and receive haptic feedback with free-space gestures.
Bi-Scale Appearance Fabrication
Authors: Yanxiang Lan, Tsinghua University; Yue Dong, Microsoft Research Asia; Fabio Pellacini, Sapienza Universita' Di Roma, Dartmouth College; Xin Tong, Microsoft Research Asia
A system for fabricating surfaces with desired spatially varying reflectance, including anisotropic ones, and local shading frames.
Map-Based Exploration of Intrinsic Shape Differences and Variability
Authors: Raif Rustamov, Stanford University; Maks Ovsjanikov, École Polytechnique; Omri Azencot, Mirela Ben-Chen, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Frederic Chazal, INRIA Saclay – Île-de-France; and Leonidas Guibas, Stanford University
A novel formulation of shape differences, aimed at providing detailed information about the location and nature of the differences or distortions between the shapes being compared. This difference operator is much more informative than a scalar similarity score, so it is useful in applications requiring more refined shape comparisons.
Highly Adaptive Liquid Simulations on Tetrahedral Meshes
Authors: Ryoichi Ando, Kyushu University; Nils Thuerey, ScanlineVFX GmbH; and Chris Wojtan, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
This new method for efficiently simulating fluid simulations with extreme amounts of spatial adaptivity combines several key components to produce a simulation algorithm that is capable of creating animations at high effective resolutions while avoiding common pitfalls like inaccurate boundary conditions and inefficient computation.
Visit s2013.siggraph.org for more information on this year's event.


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SAP is "actively discussing" ways to make its software licensing easier to understand, the software giant has told The Reg.
A spokesperson for SAP, the world's largest maker of business software, said it plans to announce specifics "shortly."
SAP didn't provide any more details, but the statement follows a damning condemnation of the current state of SAP licensing in a user group survey.
An annual survey of 336 SAP users in 150 user organisations found near-universal dissatisfaction with confusing and expensive pricing.
SAP is expected to unveil the changes at next month's UK and Ireland User Group conference in Manchester.
Users in the group's survey called on SAP to introduce a licensing holiday, to let them park unused licences they've paid for, and for SAP to publish a clear price list.
Overall, users believe SAP's pricing has become complex and confusing thanks to acquisitions and the move into new technologies.
The UK and Ireland SAP Users' Group – which conducted the survey – confessed surprise at the level of unhappiness among respondents in its poll.
Philip Adams, User Group vice chairman, told The Reg: "Some of the numbers were higher than we anticipated.
"We want to see SAP take some action on this and we surveyed the members to make sure the message is getting through to them [SAP]."
The survey saw 95 per cent of respondents agree that SAP's licensing has become too complicated. "That was higher than we anticipated," Adams told us.
"I felt some organisations would be more on top of it because they have a strong commercial or procurement team working with SAP. I thought [the amount of respondents in agreement would be more like] maybe 70 to 80 per cent. It shows that even organisations with dedicated people to call SAP struggle with the terms and conditions of licensing."
Another surprise was that 97 per cent of users surveyed want to "park" their licence, to stop paying for software they've purchased but are no longer using thanks to factors like redundancies or restructuring.
"I was surprised that it wasn't 100 per cent, but it's a high figure none the less," Adams said.
He reckoned this is an issue SAP could take a leadership position on as, given the state of the economy, the problem is probably not restricted to just SAP.
"It has gotten worse as SAP has bought a lot of products – Business Objects, Sybase, SuccessFactors – and as they expanded, now deploy on mobile and cloud. That's adding to the stack and companies want to use a hybrid rather than just one. Once you start dealing with all this stuff on different metrics like CPU - that makes the burden worse."
It's not clear whether SAP will introduce changes allowing users to take a break from paying for unused licences. An SAP spokesperson told us existing contracts "need to be respected" and said SAP "discusses these issues individually" with customers. ®


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The Corner Cigar Factory
You're torching up a dark robusto at your local bar on a Thursday, the scent of a dozen other cigars perfuming the air. The bartender puts a rocks glass holding two fingers of whiskey in front of you and eyes your choice of unbanded smoke. "Hey buddy," he asks with a squint. "What's that, a Cuban?" You say no, which gets him guessing, starting with the standards. Dominican? No. Honduran? Nope. Nicaraguan? Nah. Next come the more obscure choices. Mexican? Brazilian?
Canary Islands? Bahamian? Could it be Jamaican, from the Philippines or made in Miami?
Nope, nope, and nope, you say with a smile, puffing a perfect ring of smoke. This baby was made in Manhattan.
You know New York City for great bagels, pastrami and baseball, but you probably didn't know about its cigar factories. If you've always wanted to see a cigar made by hand right in front of your eyes, to smoke a cigar fresh from the roller's table, and to bask in the sweet, earthy smell of fermented tobacco that's ready to roll, visiting one of these tiny factories is a must.
The emphasis is on the word tiny. Some factories might have three or four benches where a cigarmaker works, not in teams as in the Dominican Republic or Central America, but by doing the whole thing himself. One person crafts the bunch of the cigar, taking several leaves of filler—most often Dominican—wrapping them with a rough binder (that's probably Dominican, too) and finishing the cigar with a wrapper leaf, probably Connecticut shade.
Some call the little factories chinchales, a somewhat derogatory Cuban term for a small factory. Others call them buckeyes, an American term given to tiny, old-time producers for their liberal use of tobacco from Ohio, the Buckeye State. Others simply call them the neighborhood cigar factories.
Before the days of national cigar brands, cigars were strictly a local product, and these tiny factories were major suppliers for a cigar-hungry America. And they were everywhere. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the United States had some 40,000 cigar factories, most of them small. Cigars would be rolled on one corner and sold a few blocks away—you could even buy them in grocery stores. Americans consumed some nine billion cigars a year in those days, or around 250 for every male over the age of 18.
Several of today's large cigar companies began as buckeyes or chinchales. Arturo Fuente, a brand that is among the most famous in the United States and is now sold in the tens of millions, started as a rolling table behind the Ybor City, Florida, home of company founder Arturo Fuente in 1912. Puros Indios began in 1972 with a three-roller cigar factory in Union City, New Jersey, run by Rolando Reyes Sr., who used his gifted hands to knit at night to pay the bills.
The J.C. Newman Cigar Co., owner of the Cuesta-Rey and Diamond Crown brands, began in 1895 with a few leaves, a cigar table made from old boards and the cigar-making skills of a young Julius Caesar Newman, who had apprenticed in a Cleveland cigar factory for three years. Armed with his knowledge, Newman converted the family barn to his one-man cigar factory. His was one of 300 in Cleveland at the time.
La Gloria Cubana was born as a local brand in Miami, in the Little Havana neighborhood of Calle Ocho, or Eighth Street. The shop was called El Credito Cigars, and long before La Glorias found their way into every major cigar store and every catalog of note, only a local who knew about the small shop could get them. After the brand's discovery in 1992, it became a legend.
It's hard to know where the next La Gloria will surface, but a cigar smoker in New York City with a little time on his hands and a MetroCard can easily visit four cigar factories and leave with several quality cigars—and most importantly, can watch them being rolled by hand. You may have walked right by one of them already, for if you only see the signs of some of these places, you'd think you were in front of a typical cigar store.
The place to start is the grand old dame of New York's mini cigar factories, La Rosa Cubana, at 862 Avenue of the Americas, aka Sixth Avenue between 30th and 31st streets.
The second-floor store and factory is about the size of a typical Manhattan studio apartment. There's a creaky table and chair in front, which serves as the smoking lounge. To the left of the door is a glass countertop with boxes of cigars bearing the La Rosa brand name, each finished with a copper, orange and white band with a checkerboard pattern vaguely reminiscent of the Cohiba band. The display is stocked with inexpensive lighters, a few humidors, cans of butane and a few copies of a certain cigar magazine.
Behind the counter is the factory proper, which takes up about two-thirds of the entire space. It's a no-nonsense workspace. There's a tightly packed group of wooden tables, two of which are usually occupied by cigarmakers. The walls are plastered with posters and photographs of women wearing little, inspiration for the arduous work of making coronas, robustos and pyramids.
La Rosa is owned and operated by Frank Almanzar, an affable and quiet 40-year-old with a trim build who could easily pass for a decade younger. The shop employs two cigar rollers, and Almanzar also rolls cigars.
Almanzar learned how to make cigars starting at the age of 10, at the side of his father, Antonio, who founded the company in 1958. (Although the weathered operation looks as if it has been open for nearly 50 years, the shop and factory started around the corner. Almanzar has been on Sixth Avenue only 15 years.) Antonio Almanzar was born in the heart of cigar country, Santiago, Dominican Republic, and worked for 17 years at La Aurora, the nation's oldest cigarmaker. He emigrated to the United States and opened La Rosa on 30th Street.
"We had a very small space down there," says Frank Almanzar, "and the rent was very high." In 1989, the Almanzars moved to Sixth Avenue.
La Rosas are inexpensive smokes. A robusto will set you back about $2.50, a Churchill about $3.50. They're not bad. A maduro torpedo, made with a dark leaf of Dominican wrapper, had a rich, earthy smell before lighting, with a hint of licorice in the aroma. The cigar was fairly well made, with a head that was a bit softer than it should have been. The draw was perfect and the flavor was gutsy, woody and chewy, with solid flavor. (To see how smokes from a few New York factories stacked up in a Cigar Aficionado taste test, see the sidebar on the next page.)
The cigarmakers work from a limited selection of tobaccos, using all-Dominican tobacco for the fillers and binders, and either Connecticut shade or Dominican for the wrappers.
At La Rosa, as with other chinchales, a customer can walk in and watch his cigars being made, can ask for special shapes, and can buy them right from the rolling table, giving the smoker a chance to try a factory-fresh smoke. (It won't burn as well, and the flavor will be stronger and less balanced than a cigar that has rested, but it's something a cigar lover should experience at least once in his life.)
Business isn't booming. Frank's father died in 1997 at the height of cigar sales, when New Yorkers were free to light up in any bar and several restaurants. Frank now speaks wistfully of the days of the cigar boom.
"In 1997, '98—those years were very good," he says. "The laws against smoking in bars and restaurants have hurt most of the cigar industry." Almanzar operates a side business in which he sends rollers to weddings and other events.
Business has been better at Reserva Dominicana, a one-roller shop at 37A Seventh Avenue, between 12th and 13th streets. Owner Israel Capellan started the business there three years ago by importing cigars that his family made in the Dominican Republic. Sales increased when he added a cigar roller, who came in on Fridays.
"I find that the American market loves cigars right off the table," says Capellan. "On Fridays [the roller] makes 200 cigars, and all 200 will be gone by the end of the day." The roller now comes in three times a week. Capellan also has a larger operation in the Bronx, with five rollers, to make cigars for the Manhattan shop.
P.B. Cuban Cigars, at 137 West 22nd Street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, is trying to profit from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's smoking ban in bars by providing a comfortable legal smoking lounge in the front of the cigar factory/shop. The walls are freshly painted orange. "It was yellow-white, from the smoke," says a man behind the counter. (These operations often stress the word "Cuban" to lure customers, a nod to the seed variety used in the tobacco filling that fills the cigars, as in Dominican Cuban-seed filler tobacco.)
All the cigars for sale at P.B. are rolled by four cigarmakers, using Dominican filler and binder, and a choice of Connecticut shade, Dominican or Sumatra wrappers. The company does a few box-pressed smokes and some with the trendy double wrappers resembling barber poles. The cigars sell for between $2 and $6.
A bit west and north of P.B., at 506 Ninth Avenue between 38th and 29th streets, is Taino Cigars, one of the local chinchale success stories. Owner Julio Suris opened Taino in the heart of Hell's Kitchen in 2000. He had learned how to roll cigars in Cuba, so in the true American spirit he set up a small table in his storefront, rolled a bunch of cigars and called them Tainos.
Business has been good. "We opened, five months ago, a store downtown," Suris says, talking about his new shop at 93-99 Nassau Street, at the corner of Fulton Street. The Hell's Kitchen store no longer has a rolling table—he's moved that downtown—and he couldn't keep up with demand, so most of his cigars are now made by his brother in Miami, who has 10 rollers. "We didn't have the space for 10 rollers here," says Suris. He uses a variety of tobaccos for his Tainos, working with Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers and Sumatra-seed wrappers grown in Ecuador.
Thanks to a few intrepid entrepreneurs, a New Yorker with a pair of comfortable shoes and a lighter can tour the town's miniature cigar factories and get a taste for the old, old days of the cigar business.
The little factories can't compete with national brands for tobacco. They don't have the money or the space to accumulate vast quantities of tobacco and let them sit and age for years. The cigars don't offer the same complexity as the big manufacturers' smokes, and the taste you get one day might be very different from the next.
But the corner factory does afford the cigar lover an opportunity to get up close and personal with an important part of America's cigar-making heritage. It's a dying breed, however, and something that the cigar aficionado should strive to support. For while you might not have the time to take the tour of Havana's Partagas factory or sip a beer and smoke a Preferido at La Aurora in the Dominican Republic, you will probably find your way to New York City, Miami or Union City, New Jersey. And there you will find a handful of cigar rollers—perhaps only one—doing something that's rare in twenty-first-century America: rolling cigars entirely by hand.


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Project Lead Sled, Part 4: Gaylord's Truck Bed Cover
Adding Looks and Security with a Fiberglass Tonneau from Gaylord's
One of the most obvious benefits to owning a truck is the large open area in the bed to carry and transport items too large to fit comfortably inside the cab. Unfortunately, those items are left exposed to the sun and weather, and are easily removable by unscrupulous individuals if left unattended for too long. A remedy for all those ills is a lockable tonneau to fit your truck. With the added benefit of sleek looks, it's an easy answer for those who don't consistently haul anything in their truck's bed higher than the bedrail.
To create a more secure hauling environment for Project Lead Sled, we turned to the pros at Gaylord's for a truck bed covering we could be proud of. Being a daily driven vehicle, we usually have a random assortment of Truckin swag, project parts, and camera gear for photo shoots being carted from one destination to another. With nearly 50 years of history manufacturing both hard and soft tonneau covers for trucks, Gaylord's has amassed a large catalog with coverage for nearly any truck model and year. For our '09 Ram, we chose the OG Series BedCover for its clean fit, no drill installation, and low profile design. Customers can order their lid in a factory-matched color, but with our custom House of Kolor Blood Red from Coast Airbrush, we had Buckwild Designs paint it prior to installation. You and a buddy can handle this install yourself with basic hand tools, so check out how easy the OG Series BedCover goes in place.
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Apple Removes Default Java Support In Browsers
Some Java security headache relief for Mac users
Apple has made another bold move in its efforts to double-down on security by removing its Java plug-in from Safari and other Web browsers.
In Apple's Java for OS X 2012-006 1.0 release, which came on the heels of an Oracle patch for Java this week, the Java applet plug-in gets automatically uninstalled from Web browsers. If users want Java applets to run via their browser, they have to download an applet directly from Oracle. Apple also upgraded its own Java version to the latest Oracle release, Java SE 6 1.6.0_37.
"This release updates the Apple-provided system Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_37 and is for OS X versions 10.7 or later. This update uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers," Apple's Java for OS X 2012-006 advisory says. Read full story on Dark Reading
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Snapshots from My Cross-Country Road Trip
Hi-ho, Kenji here, reporting from my temporary digs in the West Coast where, thanks to my wife and her penchant for getting offered internships in exotic seaside locations, I'll be reporting from until October. With a large country to traverse and two dogs to do it with, it only made sense to give my best friend a call, rent a car, and do things the old fashioned American way with a road trip.
Thanks in large part to your helpful suggestions in a Talk thread, not to mention on Twitter, we managed to pack
every single nearly every leg of our five-night, six-day trek with good food, fun drinks, and great people. I even learned to like breakfast tacos along the way.
You can expect a series of more in-depth reports over the next couple of weeks about some of the finer bites along the way, but for now, take a quick peep through the slideshow for a look at everything we ate!
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Piano Tuning
Safeguards Your Investment
Keeping your piano tuned is the most important...and the most misunderstood piano maintenance issue that you will face.
Imagine if somebody purchased a new or used automobile, then wondered if the oil and filters ever need to be changed. Or if they asked their barber or hairdresser how often they should get their hair cut or styled.
Having your piano tuned on a regular schedule by a good piano tuner will protect your investment, as well as provide you with a well-voiced and well-tuned instrument for your greater enjoyment. Many piano tuners will notify you on a regular schedule (like your dentist) when your piano is due for another tuning.
Here are three good questions about tuning:
1. How often should I have my piano tuned?
2. Why do pianos go out of tune?
3. Is it true that pianos should never be placed on an outside wall?
1. How often should I have my piano tuned?
It is wise to have your piano tuned twice a year: once before the holidays, around Thanksgiving; and then again in June or July, as the weather warms. Ideally, a piano tuned four times a year, according to the seasons, sounds at its best. But twice a year is acceptable; once a year is a must!
2. Why do pianos go out of tune?
Larry Fine, author of The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano, gives the best answer to this question:
"By far, the most important factor causing pianos to go out of tune is the change in humidity from season to season that occurs in most temperate climates, affecting all pianos, good and bad, new and old, played and unplayed. The soundboard, glued down around its perimeter and bellied like a diaphragm in the center, swells up with moisture in the humid season and pushes up on the strings via the bridges on which the strings rest. This causes the strings to be stretched at a higher tension, raising their pitch. In the dry season, the opposite happens. The soundboard releases its moisture to the air and subsides, releasing the pressure on the strings, which then fall in pitch. Unfortunately, the strings don't rise and fall in pitch by exactly the same amount at the same time. The process is more random than that, with the result that the strings no longer sound in harmony with one another and need tuning." (Fine, Larry. The Piano Book: Buying & Owning A New Or Used Piano. Boston: Brookside Press, 4th ed., 2002)
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As a practical tuning hint, notice how your piano sounds at different hours of the day. How can it sound so badly out of tune and squirrelly in the morning, and so beautifully in tune in the afternoon? Keep a written or mental "log," and you'll notice that your piano comes into "tune" as your room warms to its average temperature. For the best tuning job, set your thermostat and have your room at its average temperature in time for your piano technician to begin tuning ― never on a cold morning before the furnace has done its job, or on an unusually-hot afternoon if you don't have air conditioning.
3. Is it true that pianos should never be placed on an outside wall?
In historic homes with single wall construction and drafty, single-pane, windows, keeping the piano away from an outside wall was good advice. Seventy-five years ago "Music Parlors" had massive wooden sliding doors that were kept closed because there was no central heat ― just a fireplace in each room. Today's homes are built with central heating/air conditioning, adequate insulation, and double-pane-insulated windows that are rated to prevent Ultra Violet rays from bleaching furniture and ruining drapes. The outside wall factor is no longer important in most cases. However, never place your piano near a fireplace, insert, or stove ― or position it over or near a heat register.


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Obese patients maintained about 50% excess weight loss for as long as 15 years after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, (LAGB), Australian investigators reported.
Experience at a single center showed an average of 47% excess weight loss in 714 patients followed for more than 10 years after LAGB, including 47% among patients followed for 15 years and 62% in a small group followed for 16 years, according to Paul O'Brien, MD, and colleagues, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
A systematic review of published studies revealed a mean excess weight loss of 54% at 10 years and beyond for patients treated with LAGB or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), they reported in the January issue of Annals of Surgery.
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- Gastric banding was associated with sustained long-term weight loss in this large, single-center, prospective, cohort study.
- Though there was no within-center comparison group, a systematic review of the literature revealed similar sustained weight loss among patients undergoing Roux-en-y gastric bypass.
The results also showed a marked reduction in late-occurring adverse events after LAGB, the authors added.
"Gastric banding is a safe and effective treatment option for obesity in the long term," they said. "The systematic review shows that all current procedures achieve substantial long-term weight loss. It supports the existing data that LAGB is safer than RYGB and finds that the long-term weight loss outcomes and needs for revisional surgery for these two procedures are not different."
Despite a history dating back more than 50 years, bariatric surgery has a paucity of long-term data to demonstrate durable weight loss. Most published studies have follow-up of less than 3 years. Systematic reviews have added relatively little in terms of long-term follow-up data, according to the authors.
O'Brien and colleagues introduced LAGB at their center in 1994, and have followed all patients by means of a dedicated bariatric surgery database. As of December 2011, O'Brien and co-author Wendy Brown, MBBS, PhD, also of Monash University, had treated 3,227 patients with LAGB.
The authors performed a prospective longitudinal cohort study of the patients. For comparison, they performed a systematic review of published literature on bariatric surgery. The focus was on long-term follow-up, 15 years for the cohort and 10 years for the systematic review.
The cohort had mean age of 47 and a mean presurgical body mass index of 43.8 kg/m2. The authors identified 714 patients followed for at least 10 years, including 54 patients followed for 15 years and 14 followed for 16 years.
The 10-year excess weight loss was 47%. The authors reported that 26% of patients required revisions for proximal enlargement, 21% for port and tubing problems, and 3.4% for erosion. Band removal was performed in 5.6% of patients.
During the first 10 years of clinical experience, the revision rate for proximal enlargement was 40%, declining to 6.4% during the last 5 years of the study period. Patients with and without revisions had similar excess weight loss.
The systematic review consisted of 19 published articles, 24 data sets, and approximately 14,000 patients. The data included six sets involving patients with LAGB, nine sets for RYGB, five sets for gastroplasty, three for biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal switch (BPD/DS), and one involving fixed open gastric banding.
According to the authors, every study had deficiencies related to data reporting. None of the studies was a randomized controlled trial. One investigation was a prospective, nonrandomized, matched interventional study, and the rest were observational studies.
With respect to safety, one perioperative death occurred in 6,177 LAGB procedures, compared with 21 in 2,684 RYGB procedures (P<0.001).
Excess weight loss at 10 years averaged 54% with LAGB and RYGB, 53% with gastroplasty, and 73.3% with BPD/DS. The mean revision rate was 26% with LAGB and 22% with RYGB. Revision rates from individual data sets ranged as high as 60% with LAGB and 38% with RYGB.
"The longitudinal cohort study of the LAGB patients shows that they have achieved and maintained a loss of nearly half of their excess weight to 15 years," the authors wrote. "The validity of the 15-year figure of 47% of excess weight loss is reinforced by the pooling of all long-term data (≥10 years) and finding the same weight loss of 47% excess weight loss for the much larger group."
"The systematic review serves to emphasize the clinical value of all current bariatric procedures," they added. "With a weighted mean of more than 50% excess weight loss at 10 years or more, bariatric surgery far exceeds the effectiveness of nonsurgical weight loss programs in terms of long-term effectiveness, a key requirement for treating a chronic disease such as obesity."
They do not believe their results are unique to Australia, as the systematic review was derived from European groups and their center's data fell in the mid-range of the literature review.
From the American Heart Association:
- Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Risk Factors
- New and Emerging Weight Management Strategies for Busy Ambulatory Settings
The study was supported by the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Monash University. The center receives grant support from Allergan.
O'Brien disclosed that he receives royalties for a patient handbook that he wrote. A co-author disclosed a relationship with Allergan.
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Annals of Surgery
Source Reference: O'Brien PE, et al. "Long-term outcomes after bariatric surgery: Fifteen-year follow-up of adjustable gastric banding and a systematic review of the bariatric surgical literature" Ann Surg 2013;257:87-94.


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NVIDIA SHIELD is an amazing 4K Ultra HD (as well as Full HD) home entertainment system. Vivid 10-bit color and rich Dolby 7.1 surround sound make this a true home theater experience. It has a built in Chromecast, which allows you to stream media to your TV using your iphone. In this way, it is convenient for you to cast your favorite content to TV via Chromecast from iPhone.
While, how to put DVD on iPhone if you want to store DVD to iPhone for watching on TV via NVIDIA SHIELD through Chromecast. Due to lack of DVD driver, iPhone can not play DVD directly. In order to play DVD on TV via Chromecast from iPhone, you can rip DVD to MP4 format, which is compatible for NVIDIA SHIELD, Chromecast and iPhone. Then you can freely cast DVD video to NVIDIA SHIELD via Chromecast from iPhone for watching on TV.
To finish the job easily, a professional DVD Ripper is necessary for you. It ranks top on the list of DVD Rippers for its versatile features. It can import most of protected Blu-ray Disc and unprotected Blu-ray discs. With it, you can convert your DVD to more than 200 video/audio formats, which can support all your devices. There are more humane setting, waiting for your visit!
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Step 1. Load DVD disc. Click "File" to load the DVD movies to the app.
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Here, you not only need to consider the supported format of iPhone but you also should take the Chromecast and NVIDIA SHIELD and your final TV accepted format into consideration. Pavtube has optimized preset forSony/LG/Panasonic/Samsung TV, they normal are MP4 format with the most compatible video/audio spec with the TV, NVIDIA SHIELD, Chromecast and iPhone. If your TV is one of the brands, you can select it as the target format.
On the other hand, if you can not find optimized format for your TV, you can simply choose HD MP4 in "Common Video" or "HD Video".
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It's not the most stylish accessory to wrap around your waist, but Col. Littleton's No. 11 Survival Belt could be a valuable addition to your emergency preparedness kit. Not only is it going to keep your pants up, it's also made with 27 feet of military-tough paracord perfect for rescues or tethering yourself to a tree to brace against the winds.
With 650 pounds of strength per inch the cord should be more than adequate to battle Sandy's ferocity. And with a strap made from leather and brass hardware, it should also stand up to any waistline. Should the need arise to use the $149 No. 11 Survival Belt for an emergency or harrowing rescue, the company will even restring it for free as long as you send them a photo and are willing to share the story. In other words, if you end up using it to rescue a bag of Oreos from the top shelf of your cupboard, you're probably on your own when it comes to putting it back together.
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Muscle deterioration in patients with lung disease seen connected to CO2
(23 Apr 2008: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- Muscle deterioration in patients with lung diseases might be a direct consequence of high carbon dioxide levels in their blood, an international team of researchers headed by Prof. Yosef Gruenbaum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has found.
The incidence of lung diseases continues to increase in the world's populations. For example, one in seven persons in the UK is affected by some form of chronic lung disease, most commonly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.
Many of these diseases also cause, in the worst cases, muscle deterioration as well as elevated levels of carbon dioxide (hypercapnia) in the bloodstream. In a normal situation, the lungs allow for a proper balance of oxygen from the atmosphere reaching the bloodstream and carbon dioxide from the bloodstream being transferred to the atmosphere.
It is still a matter of some controversy whether the high carbon dioxide levels in patients with chronic lung disease actually cause damage to those patients and specifically whether the loss of muscle is a consequence of those heightened levels.
Prof. Gruenbaum and his Ph.D. student Kfir Sharabi from the Department of Genetics at The Hebrew University, in collaboration with the groups of Dr. Amos J. Simon and Dr. Gideon Rechavi from the Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, and Dr. Jacob I. Sznajder, Dr. Richard I. Morimoto and Dr. Greg J. Beitel from Northwestern University in the U.S., teamed together to answer these questions. The results of their research appeared in a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the US.
They used the worm C. elegans, in which many basic processes are discovered, to study its response to induced elevated carbon dioxide levels. They found that levels exceeding 9% (normal level in living beings is around 5%) reduced the worm's spontaneous movement capability, which was accompanied by deterioration of body muscle.
(These results suggest re-evaluating the consequences of the procedure of permissive hypercapnia, also known as therapeutic hypercapnia, in which patients with acute lung injury are treated with increased levels of carbon dioxide.)
In addition, there were signs that the experimental animals showed slower development, were less fertile, but, surprisingly, had an increased lifespan. Another unexpected result was the large number of genes that showed specific and dynamic changes after only one hour of exposure to the heightened carbon dioxide levels.
The researchers noted also that physiological and molecular response to hypercapnia appeared to be different from responses to heat shock or to low oxygen levels.
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