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AURORA, Ill. (December 28, 2004) – Clear Channel Entertainment – Motor Sports and American Suzuki Motor Corporation (ASMC) announced today that the eighth-annual Suzuki Crossover Challenge will take place at San Francisco's SBC Park Saturday, January 29 during the night program of THQ World Supercross GP/THQ AMA Supercross Series. This year's participants will compete on the widely popular DRZ 110 mini bike.
The Crossover Challenge is comprised of 24 action sport athletes and celebrities who are given the once-in-a-lifetime chance to race on a professional THQ World Supercross GP/THQ AMA Supercross Series track, under the lights and inside one of the most prestigious stadiums in the world.
Last year's Suzuki Crossover Challenge – for the first time ever – ran during the night program of THQ World Supercross GP/THQ AMA Supercross Series at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium. This year athletes and celebrities will race on the smaller, more adaptable DRZ 110 Suzuki motorcycle, which will make for better racing.
The 24-rider line-up is a three-lap, go-for-broke race that allows the winner to present $1,000 to a charity of his choice.
Action sports athletes and celebrities that would like to register for a place in the Suzuki Crossover Challenge, must submit – via email – a small bio on themselves as well as two letters from editors, stating that they will guarantee – at least – two pages of coverage on the Suzuki Crossover Challenge.
The Suzuki Crossover Challenge moved from southern California to the bay area to pay tribute to the inaugural Dew Action Sports Tour stop in San Jose, September 8-11, 2005, at HP Pavilion. The Dew Action Sports Tour is the first-ever season-long professional multi-sport tour in action sports.
Supercross LIVE!, the only place on the planet to catch THQ World Supercross GP/THQ AMA Supercross Series live at home, is available for fans at every race, starting at 7:00 p.m. local time at supercross.cc.com. Listen as Supercross LIVE! hosts Jim Holley and Jason Weigandt capture the live race call, a pre-race show, a post-race show, post-race press conference, on-air industry guests and celebrities, in-depth interviews, promotions, call-ins and more. In 2003-2004, more than a half-million listeners logged on to Supercross LIVE!
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Unanswered: Problem running dbase windows under XP
I'm trying to get dbase windows 5.0 to run under XPpro but I get an error message like
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visual dbase 5.7 winspool error
i have recently had the same problem. I have visual dbase 5.7 running under windows xp home and it loads find. i tried to put 5.7 on my laptop also running windows xp home and when dbase tries to load, it gives the same winspool error as is described by the previous post. any suggestions from anybody?
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Visual dBase 7 Won't Run Under XP Pro
I also had this problem when running XP Pro with 512M RAM. XP reported vdb.exe error.
After an hour or two searching the net, I read one posting that Visual dB 7.0 or 7.01 is limited to 256M. The poster reported that version 7.5 solved this bug.
I can't reduce my memory to less than 256M to confirm this fix because I only have a 512M chip.
My Visual dB 7.0 works fine on my W98SE machine with 128M RAM.
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Debate: Should the Walker Cup be opened up to Europe?September 10, 2013 Courses and Travel
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Joe Whitley (JW): After the thumping GB&I took at the weekend, isn't it about time we open up the Walker Cup to continental Europeans? We did it in the Ryder Cup and look at us now.
Dan Murphy (DM): I think we must remember that when taking on the Americans in matches like this we are always going to lose more than we win. It's just a question of numbers – the US have a way bigger talent pool than GB&I
JW: Exactly, that's why we should strengthen our resources by drafting in the might of Europe. It's the only way to make the competition fair.
DM: Fair? Have you noticed that since 1989 GB&I have won six matches to the USA's seven? That would hardly seem to represent American dominance.
The only reason we've done so well recently is the conditions of our home courses suiting us so well. We've barely had a sniff in the States. We're like Stoke FC – we can put up a decent fight at home but are useless away. JW: Pre-1989 we won twice. The USA have won 35 times in total. That isn't fair. The only reason we've done so well recently is the conditions of our home courses suiting us so well. We've barely had a sniff in the States. We're like Stoke FC – we can put up a decent fight at home but are useless away.
DM: That's funny because the last time I looked we'd won twice away in recent times – at Peachtree in 1989 and Sea Island in 2001.
Obviously, home advantage plays a significant part, as it does in all sports.
I mean, the other way of looking at it is that in only one of the last six matches has not been won by the home team, and the exception, in 2007 at County Down, was a very close match in the end.
JW: The two matches you refer to are the only times we've ever won away. So twice in 91 years. Not great really, is it? The Americans have won 16 times on British soil.
Aside from this, another big positive I see in bringing in the Europeans is building relationships with future Ryder Cup teammates. I know the Walker Cup pre-dates the Ryder Cup but let's face it, the professional competition is the one everyone cares about.
DM: I don't think there's any doubt the Walker Cup has changed in the last 25 years or so – the teams used to comprise career amateurs whereas now it's teens and 20-somethings on their way to the pro game. I'm sure the general standards have improved, especially on our team. I'm not sure the Ryder Cup is anything to do with it. After all, only a couple of members from each game typically go on to make it in the professional game, let alone play in Ryder Cups.
JW: I disagree. Look back to the 2007 match at Royal County Down, for example. On the home side you had Rory McIlroy, Dave Horsey, Rhys Davies, John Parry and Danny Willett, while the Americans had Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Webb Simpson, Kyle Stanley, Colt Knost, and Billy Horschel. Most of these players are household names and push for Ryder Cup spots on a regular basis.
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The Abbotsford Convent is an extraordinary place and is fast becoming an important arts, educational and cultural precinct in Melbourne. Just 4 kilometres from Melbourne's CBD, its 11 historic buildings and gardens are spread over 6.8 hectares on a sweeping bend in the Yarra River and are surrounded by the Collingwood Children's Farm and Yarra Bend Park. The centre is an invaluable resource for the arts community, for training and education, employment, an incubator for creativity and the sharing of ideas, a place for community participation and enjoyment. There are artist studios and creative spaces for writers and designers, spaces for arts organisations, spaces for rehearsal and development, indoor and outdoor function spaces, cafes, restaurants, bars and there's more to come. Please note that the Abbotsford Convent does not offer accommodation.
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Camperdown – Anglican Benedictine Abbey of St Mark
Set in spacious gardens and with views over Lake Bullen Merri, St Joseph's Guest House is an attractive and comfortable destination for those wishing to make a retreat and share in the silence and prayer of this monastic house. Guests may join the community in the Daily Office and Daily Eucharist. Meals are taken in the abbey refectory while breakfast is on a help yourself basis. All food and linen are provided. There is no set charge but a suggested donation is $75.00 per person per night.
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In May 1992 the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia established the Panagia Gorgoepikoos Monastery for women in Geelong. This is a small institution with only a few nuns and a couple of novices. However, the sisters run a popular guesthouse and invite women of all faiths to spend some time in a monastic environment and join with them in their spiritual acitivities. Pilgrims and day visitors can visit the monastery at any time except Monday, Wednesday and Friday and may attend the religious services chanted by the sisters. The sisters operate a monastery shop and sell books, religious items and a large selection of unusual bonbonnieres for weddings, Christenings and First Communion.
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We tested the hypothesis that weight gain would increase arterial stiffness in healthy nonobese adults. To address this, we overfed 14 nonobese men (age= 23 ±1 yrs) ~1000 kcal/day for 6-8 weeks until a 5-kg weight gain was achieved. Carotid diameters (high resolution ultrasound) and pressures (applanation tonometry), body composition (dual energy x-ray absorptiometry) and abdominal fat distribution (computed tomography) were measured at baseline and following four weeks of weight stability at each individual's elevated body weight. Overfeeding increased body weight 5.1 ± 0.1 kg and body fat 3.4±0.4 kg (both P<0.001) in 45±7 days. Total abdominal fat increased 46±7 cm2 with weight gain, due to increases in both subcutaneous (30±6 cm2) and visceral fat (15±4 cm2) (all P<0.01). As hypothesized, weight gain increased arterial stiffness 13±6% and decreased arterial compliance 21±4% (both P<0.05). Furthermore, those individuals above the median increase in abdominal visceral fat demonstrated a significantly greater increase in arterial stiffness (0.97±0.29 vs. 0.06±0.36 units, P<0.05) compared with those below the median. Consistent with these observations, the only correlates of the changes in arterial stiffness with weight gain were the increases in total abdominal fat (r=0.794), abdominal visceral fat (r=0.651), and waist circumference (r=0.470) (all P<0.05). Taken together, these findings suggest that modest weight gain is associated with increases arterial stiffness in nonobese males. The degree of large artery stiffening with weight gain appears to be determined, in part, by the amount of abdominal visceral fat gain. Importantly, this relation is independent of the amount of total body fat gained.
Approximately 65% of the U.S. population 1 and more than 1 billion people worldwide 2 are overweight or obese and, thus, at increased risk for cardiovascular diseases 3. There is considerable heterogeneity in the risks associated with excess adiposity; the accumulation of abdominal, particularly visceral, fat appears to be particularly deleterious 4, 5. Importantly, elevated abdominal visceral fat, independent of total body adiposity, is associated with the development of cardiovascular diseases 4, 5.
One mechanism by which the cardiovascular complications associated with obesity may be advanced is through remodeling of the vasculature. The results of numerous studies suggest that obesity is associated with the stiffening of arteries in the cardiothoracic region 6-12. Importantly, large artery stiffness is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes 13-16 which occur more frequently in obese individuals 4, 3. The relation between adiposity and arterial stiffness is evident even in young children 17, 18, suggesting that long duration obesity is not a prerequisite for arterial stiffening. Unfortunately, the available data, from observational studies of weight gain, are inconsistent 19, 20. In addition, measurements of body composition were not included in these previous studies. Furthermore, it is currently unknown whether increases in abdominal visceral fat with weight gain are associated with larger artery stiffening, independent of increases in total body fat. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that modest weight gain would increase arterial stiffness in healthy nonobese adults. We further sought to determine whether those individuals that demonstrate the largest increases in abdominal visceral fat, independent of total body fat gain, would also demonstrate the largest increases in arterial stiffness.
Fourteen young (age = 23 ± 1 years), nonobese (BMI < 30 kg/m2) males included in previous publications 21, 22 were studied. Subjects were normotensive, free from overt chronic disease, nonsmokers, and not taking any medications. All subjects were weight stable (± 2 kg) for at least 6 months prior to entry into the study. The Virginia Tech Human Subjects Committee approved all experimental protocols. The nature, purpose, risks, and benefits of the study were explained to all subjects before obtaining informed consent.
Following baseline measurements, subjects were overfed ~1000 kcal/day for 6-8 weeks until a 5-kg weight gain was achieved. Subjects were provided with a liquid meal replacement supplement (Boost Plus; Novartis Nutrition Corp.; 35% fat, 50% CHO, 15% protein) to meet their excess energy requirements. To avoid the potential effects of acute energy imbalance on the primary outcome variables, baseline measurements were repeated on each subject following a 4 week period of weight stability at their elevated body weight. Subjects underwent weekly assessment by a research dietician (B.M.D) throughout weight gain and weight stability phases to ensure adequate progress and compliance. Subjects reported to the Virginia Tech Human Integrative Physiology Laboratory between 7 and 11 am following a 12-hour fast, and having refrained from caffeine and exercise for 24-hours prior to each testing session. Following post testing, subjects were provided with dietary counseling, physical activity recommendations and, if desired, meal replacement products to facilitate return to their baseline body weight.
Body mass and height were measured with a digital scale and stadiometer (Scale-Tronix model 5002), respectively. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (GE Lunar Prodigy Advance; software version 8.10e) was used to determine body composition. Computed tomography scans (HiSpeed CT/i, GE Medical) were taken between the L3-L4 vertebra, and abdominal fat distribution was quantified using commercially available analysis software (Slice-O-Matic 4.3 Rev-4, Tomovsion Inc.). Maximal oxygen consumption was measured during graded treadmill exercise to volitional exhaustion using open circuit spirometry (TrueMax 2400, ParvoMedics). Standard criteria for achievement of valid maximal oxygen consumption were met 23. Casual blood pressure was measured over a brachial artery via mercury spygmomanometry following 15 minutes of seated rest in a quiet room. Measurements were repeated until within-session stability was achieved (± 6 mmHg on three sequential measurements), and on at least three separate occasions over a 2-wk period until between-session stability was reached. Resting heart rate was determined from lead II of an electrocardiogram. Plasma lipid and lipoprotein concentrations were measured via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy (LipoScience, Inc, Raleigh, NC), as previously described 24.
β-stiffness index 25 and arterial compliance were assessed by combining simultaneous measurements of carotid artery diameter and blood pressure over three consecutive cardiac cycles via B-mode ultrasonography and applanation tonometery, respectively. Following 10-min of quiet rest in a supine position, arterial blood pressure was measured over a brachial artery via automated sphygmomanometry (Pilot 9200, Colin Medical Instruments) until stability was achieved (3 consecutive readings ± 6 mmHg). Subsequently, common carotid artery diameters were obtained with an ultrasound unit (Sonos 7500, Philips Medical Systems) equipped with a high-resolution linear array transducer (3-11 MHz). Longitudinal B-mode images of the cephalic portion of the common carotid artery were obtained 1-2 cm proximal to the carotid bulb. The transducer was placed 90° to the vessel so that near and far walls were clearly visible. The images were stored to optical disk for quantification of carotid artery diameters offline using commercially available analysis software (Vascular Research Tools 5, Medical Imaging Applications, LLC). The distance between the near and far wall vessel boundaries were measured at time points that corresponded with the maximal systolic and minimal diastolic diameters. Throughout the imaging process, pressure waveforms were obtained from the contralateral carotid artery using a high fidelity non-invasive pulse tonometer (SPT-301, Millar Instruments), and digitized at 500 Hz for subsequent analysis using signal processing software (Windaq, Dataq Instruments). Carotid pressure waveforms were corrected for hold down pressure by calibration to brachial diastolic and mean arterial pressures 26. The reproducibility of measurements of β-stiffness index in our laboratory is excellent (r=0.90, P<0.05).
Differences in subject characteristics and dependent variables before and after weight gain were assessed with paired Student's t-tests. In order to gain better insight into the relation between abdominal fat distribution and arterial compliance and stiffness, subjects were subsequently divided into two groups (SVF = smaller increase in abdominal visceral fat; LVF = larger increase in abdominal visceral fat) based on the median split of abdominal visceral fat change with weight gain. Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to assess changes in subject characteristics and dependent variables in the SVF and LVF groups with weight gain. Differences in the magnitude of change in subject characteristics and dependent variables with weight gain between the two groups were assessed with independent-samples t-tests. Comparisons performed using Wilcoxon signed rank tests yielded similar outcomes. Relations among variables of interest were assessed using simple correlation analyses. All data are expressed as means ±SE. The significance level was set a priori at P < 0.05.
Subject characteristics at baseline and following weight gain are shown in Table 1. Overfeeding resulted in 5.1±0.1 kg (range = 4.2-5.8 kg) of body weight gain in 45±7 days. Body fat (3.4±0.4 kg), percent body fat (3.2±0.6%), lean body mass (1.5±0.4 kg), and waist circumference (5.6±0.6 cm) increased with weight gain (all P<0.001). Total abdominal fat (46±7 cm2) increased due to increases in both visceral (15±4 cm2) and subcutaneous fat (30±6 cm2) depots (all P<0.01). There was a small, but significant, reduction in VO2max expressed relative to body weight with weight gain. However, VO2max expressed in absolute terms and relative to fat-free mass did not change. Systolic blood pressure (5±1 mmHg, P<0.01) but not diastolic blood pressure increased with weight gain, whereas resting heart rate tended to increase (3±2 beats/min, P=0.056). Regarding traditional cardiovascular risk factors, only total cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations increased significantly following weight gain (15±5 and 43±16 mg/dL, respectively). As hypothesized, arterial stiffness increased (0.51±0.26 units, P<0.05; Figure 1,top panel) and arterial compliance decreased (0.43±0.09 mm2/mmHg × 10-1, P<0.001; Figure 1, bottom panel) with weight gain. Relative to baseline values, this represents a change in arterial stiffness and arterial compliance of +13±6 and -21±4%, respectively (both P<0.05).
To gain further insight into the relation between abdominal fat distribution and arterial stiffness (and arterial compliance), we divided the subjects into two groups (SVF = smaller increase in abdominal visceral fat; LVF = larger increase in abdominal visceral fat) based on the median change in abdominal visceral fat with weight gain. Subject characteristics and arterial stiffness (and arterial compliance) of the SVF and LVF groups at baseline and following weight gain are shown in Table 2. At baseline, the two groups did not differ with respect to age, body weight, body composition, abdominal fat distribution, maximal oxygen consumption, heart rate, blood pressure, arterial stiffness or arterial compliance (all P>0.05). In contrast, LVF had higher concentrations of total cholesterol, LDL-C, and triglycerides concentrations compared with SVF (all P<0.05 for group effect). Despite gaining a slightly lesser amount of body weight (4.8±0.2 vs. 5.3±0.2 kg, P=0.04), the LVF group experienced a significantly greater increase in total abdominal fat (58±10 vs. 33±7 cm2) due to greater visceral fat (28±5 vs. 3±2 cm2) accumulation with weight gain (both P<0.05). The increase in abdominal subcutaneous fat (30±5 vs. 30±11 cm2, P>0.05) with weight gain was not different in the two groups. Consistent with our hypothesized association between abdominal visceral fat and arterial stiffness, the LVF group experienced a significantly greater increase in arterial stiffness (0.97±0.29 vs. 0.06±0.36 units, P<0.05; Figure 2, top panel) and decrease in arterial compliance (-0.589±0.119 vs. -0.280±0.120 mm2/mmHg × 10-1, P<0.05; Figure 2, bottom panel) compared with SVF. The magnitudes of change in body fat, fat-free mass, maximal oxygen consumption, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and plasma lipid and lipoprotein concentrations did not differ between the two groups (all P>0.05).
In the pooled sample, the magnitude of change in abdominal visceral fat with weight gain was correlated with the magnitude of change in arterial stiffness (r=0.651, P<0.05) and arterial compliance (r=-0.589, P<0.05) (Figure 3). The magnitude of increase in total abdominal fat and waist circumference with weight gain were also correlated with the increases in arterial stiffness (r=0.794 and 0.470, respectively; both P<0.05) and the decreases in arterial compliance (r=-0.765 and -0.496, respectively; all P<0.05). Furthermore, baseline values of arterial stiffness and compliance correlated with the magnitude of their respective changes with weight gain (r=0.683 and r=-0.711, respectively, both P<0.05). There were no other significant correlations.
The major new finding of the present study is that modest diet-induced weight gain results in increases in large artery stiffness in healthy young adult males. Those individuals with relatively larger increases in abdominal visceral fat demonstrated correspondingly larger increases in arterial stiffness and greater reductions in arterial compliance. Importantly, the adverse effect of abdominal visceral fat accumulation on arterial stiffness and compliance occurred independent of the amount of total body fat gained.
The results of previous prospective studies regarding the determinants of arterial stiffening are inconsistent with respect to the role of weight gain. Wildman et al. found weight gain over a two-year period to be associated with an increase in pulse-wave velocity among healthy young adults whereas Benetos et al. 19, 20 failed to support such an association. The reasons for these disparate findings remain unclear, but may be explained, in part, by the inclusion of older subjects (>50 years) by Benetos et al. 19. Nonetheless, our current findings confirm and extend the findings of Wildman et al. 20 by demonstrating that experimental weight and fat gain, particularly in the abdominal visceral region, is associated with an increase in arterial stiffness in healthy young males.
Numerous cross-sectional studies report associations between surrogate (i.e., waist circumference) and direct measures of visceral adiposity and large artery stiffness across a variety of subject populations 6-12. Most notably, abdominal visceral fat (measured via computed tomography) appears to be the strongest predictor of aortic stiffness 10, 11. Taken together with these previous cross-sectional studies, our findings implicate abdominal fat partitioning as an important mediator of the arterial stiffening that occurs with weight gain.
The mechanisms linking abdominal visceral fat and arterial stiffening are unclear, although numerous possibilities have been advanced 27. Seals and Gates 28 hypothesized that the pro-inflammatory state and oxidative stress accompanying weight gain (and aging) alters vascular structure and function by disrupting the balance of key extracellular matrix proteins (i.e., elastin and collagen), vasoconstrictive and vasodilatory molecules (e.g., nitric oxide, prostacyclins, endothelin-1, and angiotensin-II), and promoting vascular smooth muscle cell hypertrophy. Together these pathophysiological mechanisms lead to arterial stiffening. Given the short duration of the present study, it seems unlikely that structural modifications to the vasculature, as observed in age-associated arterial stiffening, can account for the increase in stiffness observed following weight gain. A more plausible explanation is that a multitude of interrelated factors sensitive to acute changes in body weight including reductions in insulin sensitivity, dyslipidemia, activation of the sympathetic nervous and renin-angiotensin systems and perhaps other factors conspire to impair endothelial function (i.e., increase vascular smooth muscle tone) and, in turn, results in arterial stiffening 27. However, we found no association between the changes in carotid stiffness or compliance and changes in estimates of insulin sensitivity (i.e., fasting insulin and HOMA score), plasma renin activity, or muscle sympathetic nerve activity (22; data not shown). We should emphasize that our study was not designed to address potential mechanisms. As such, future studies will be necessary to address this important issue.
There are some limitations of the present study that should be discussed. First, we did not include a control group and our sample size was relatively small. Thus, inclusion of a control group and/or a larger sample size may have yielded different results. However, that 11 out of the 14 subjects demonstrated an increase in carotid artery stiffness following weight gain and, as hypothesized, the subjects with the largest increase in abdominal visceral fat (manipulated variable) also demonstrated the largest increase in arterial stiffness (the outcome variable), suggests that our results are unlikely to have been the results of random deviations over time.
Second, the subjects in the present study were limited to young, nonobese males. Females tend to accumulate fat in the gluteal-femoral regional and older adults are more susceptible to visceral fat accumulation. As such, the vascular responses to weight gain may be attenuated or amplified, respectively. For these reasons, caution should be taken in extrapolating our findings to females or beyond the age-range studied.
Third, the experimental weight gain produced in the present study may not be representative of the more gradual changes that occur over time in the general population. As such, our findings should be considered with this in mind.
Finally, we should emphasize that our findings do not preclude the possibility that the expansion of other fat depots, such as perivascular adipose tissue, may play an important role in mediating the effects of weight gain on arterial stiffness 29.
In conclusion, the results of the present study indicate that modest diet-induced weight gain results in large artery stiffening in young, nonobese males. Those individuals who demonstrated the largest increases in abdominal visceral fat also demonstrated the largest increases in arterial stiffness. Importantly, the increase in arterial stiffness associated with abdominal visceral fat accumulation occurred independent of the amount of total body fat gained.
Arterial stiffening has long been regarded as an indicator of disease 30 and is independently associated with an increased risk for developing hypertension 31. Arterial stiffening reduces the cushioning function of the aorta. As a consequence, systolic blood pressure rises, diastolic blood pressure falls and the ability to convert pulsatile cardiac ejection to continuous flow at the level of the microcirculation is impaired 30. As such, arterial stiffening may lead to left ventricular hypertrophy, cardiac dysfunction and a reduction in myocardial perfusion in the face of increased demand. In addition, microvascular damage can occur in key target organs such as the kidney and brain as a result of the reduced cushioning function 32. Our current findings suggest that individuals who gain even modest amounts of weight may experience arterial stiffening even if they do not become obese. The accumulation of abdominal visceral fat appears to be particularly important in this regard. Taken together with the recent findings of an increasing prevalence of abdominal obesity 33, our data highlight the importance of abdominal visceral fat as an important therapeutic target. Importantly, overfeeding-induced weight gain in humans may provide an insightful model to discern the mechanism(s) responsible for weight-gain induced arterial stiffening.
We would like to thank the participants for their time, effort and commitment to the study.
Sources of Funding
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health awards HL62283 and HL67227 (KPD).
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Stacey Vanek-Smith: AIG executives are slated for more big bonuses in March. Earlier this year, news of bonuses at the failed insurance giant had the public seething, and AIG executives promised to pay some of the money back. But that hasn't happened, as Jill Barshay reports.
Jill Barshay: Some AIG executives resigned and took the bonus money with them. But some still work at the insurance giant.
Kenneth Feinberg is the U.S. special master for executive compensation. He sets the pay for the top 25 executives at AIG, now that it's majority owned by the government.
Kenneth Feinberg: One way or another I am confident that the pledged amounts will be repaid to the Treasury.
Feinberg's bigger headache may be how to slash AIG's next round of retention payments: $198 million.
Feinberg: The law permits me to try to renegotiate those contracts. And if I can't do that, the law states that I can take those retention payments into account in establishing and determining 2010 compensation. So I am not without some leverage, limited as it may be.
In New York, I'm Jill Barshay for Marketplace


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THE Commonwealth Bank has revealed it may slash lending rates even without the Reserve Bank moving, as it gallops towards the biggest bank profit in Australian history.
CBA boss Ian Narev yesterday said there was no reason for Australians to hate the bank, but he understood that many homeowners struggling with rising bills would regard as "excessive" the business' half-year cash profit of $3.78 billion.
This represents a profit of $20.7 million a day, $865,384 an hour or more than $14,000 a minute.
He admitted yesterday for the first time that the competitive nature of the Australian mortgage market, combined with falling funding costs, meant it was "conceivable' the big banks may cut lending rates even if the RBA keeps official rates on hold.
But banking analysts said that while out-of-cycle moves on standard variable mortgage rates were a "real possibility" it wouldn't happen for six to nine months at the earliest as the banks' cost of funds remain too high at the moment - even after the recent fall in pricing on global wholesale markets.
After announcing the super-charged interim result boosted by strong deposit growth and an improving economic backdrop, Mr Narev said it was legitimate for home owners and depositors to question the debate around mortgage rates and that it wasn't likely to go away anytime soon.
"Our job, unfortunately, is we've got to keep focused on the right balance between mortgage customers needs, deposit holders needs and the needs of 800,000 Australians who own the shares directly and millions more through funds and realise at any given time one or more of those group of stakeholders are going to hate us," he said.
"But it is impossible to please all those people at one-time and achieving the right balance is very hard."
The improving global outlook has seen most of the major banks lower their fixed rates in recent weeks a bid to attract borrowers.
ANZ yesterday lowered their 1-year fixed rate to 5.19 per cent and 2-year rate to 4.99 per cent.
And National Australia Bank quickly followed suit dropping their 1-year fixed rate to 5.09 per cent - the lowest level among the Big Four in the market place - and the 2-year rate to 4.99 per cent.
Morningstar banking analyst David Ellis said it was a "cracker result" that put CBA easily on track to record a full-year monster profit of $7.55 billion.
But he warned that any potential out of cycle SVR moves wouldn't occur in the near term.
"There was a tick against almost all parts of the business," Mr Ellis said.
"But before we get an out-of-cycle lending rate cut we will need to see a fall in deposit rates and a drop in funding costs which is unlikely to occur until at least the second-half of this year or the start of 2014."
Investors buoyed by the strong bank result and increase in the dividend payments pushed CBA share price to an all-time high helping the benchmark ASX 200 index above the key 5000 point threshold.
The stock market yesterday reached 5013 points - its highest level since September 2008 - having risen 25 per cent since June last year.
The outlook was also boosted by growing signs consumer sentiment is turning with the most recent survey showing the biggest jump in household sentiment since September 2011.
Mr Narev was upbeat the recent run of RBA rate cuts was starting to work and that confidence in the economy was on the rise.
"If the current stability continues, we believe it will translate into a slow but steady rebuilding of consumer and business confidence in Australia," he said.
"But of course risks remain in the economy, and as a major financial institution we must remain cautious."


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**Update** October 11th, 2015
I've switched SaSA over to Twine 2.0 and have just released Alpha Ver.002. Please check out the new one and tell me what you think on the forums or by checking out icarusdragon.blogspot.com. Thank you and enjoy! P.S. The version did not regress, I released the first one as Ver.001 and now there is Ver.002.
It's based around the idea of you reliving the same day over and over again and your sexual adventures. It's themes include but are not limited to fantasy, time travel, consensual sex, incest, rape, prostitution, domination, submission, extreme forms of sex, role playing, anal sex and whatever else I can think of.
Some options that are not going to be in the game for the foreseeable future are: dick-girls/fem-boys, intense gay/lesbian-ism, heavy gore/vore, anyone underage or heavy scat. There is nothing wrong with (most of) these fetishes, they just don't interest me and I will not be focusing on them.
You die at the ripe old age of 80 and somehow return to your 18 year old body. You're stuck reliving the same day over and over.
James Jones - 44 year old husband/attorney. Your father.
Judy Jones - 42 year old wife/stay at home mom. Your mother.
Abby Jones - 22 year old college student. Your older sister.
Fred Jones - 24 year old body-building college dropout. Your older brother.
Kelly Jones - 18 year old high school graduate and potential player character. Twin to Kevin.
Kevin Jones - 18 year old high school graduate and potential player character. Twin to Kelly.
A BUNCH of neighbors, friends, strangers, teachers, school mates and whoever else to have sex witih.
Hello and thank you for your feedback! There is no walkthrough but, I would like to use this space to point out my blogspot if you'd like to discuss the game with me. You can follow me at icarusdragon.blogspot.com
Under "The Game" page, there are links to Fenoxo, hongfire, and tfgamessite forums. Join me there to discuss your woes.
If you're still unsure, then let me say that the game is currently being remade on Twine. I believe it will fix most if not all of your issues with the interface. Someone made a comment to me that there are transformations in my game and suggested that I upload it here. I will come out and say that whatever transformations there are, are minor (in the beginning). The transformations less grounded in reality will be later on. I am sorry if I misled anyone, but this IS an early alpha version. Lastly, I can also assure you that I am not going to stop writing SaSA any time soon.
I like the game so far. There's a couple dead ends, and I couldn't continue on with Abby to get her, and it looks like the only path in that way leads her to be with that other guy, which kind of bugged me. Overall, it's still pretty cool.
I really love this game. My only disappointment is how the only real way to get repeated days is by starting the game over, as there is only one real day.
But that may change in the future. Also hoping for more of the older sister... Maybe a little more hardcore interaction on Kevin's part.
So far I enjoy the writting and story concept alot. I just hope you "don't go ham" with the branching paths and never finish it.. Do what the review said below it makes the most sence utitlzied the mechinacs that you have in place ultilizing the time loops, and unlocking scenes behind tranformations.... that will keep you from creating too big of a story.. but all in all for where I think you are heading I really do like what I have read so far.
This is one of those games that would be great if it was ever completed but never are. It's a good theme and good writing. But soon as you start there is a split choice that will likely gate 50% of the content and then the next one is a 6 way choice. As a player you will run into instant ends because the path you choose isn't the one creator is following most.
For the creator: make use of the day looping mechanic to give all the current dead ends a way of starting over, no matter how abrupt, without having to re-load the game. do this as soon as possible to keep your audience.
If its not already your intention. re-use as much of the writing over and over, don't try to make each day different, instead lock new scenes behind transformation requirements that will slowly expand the options for the day until you can reach an end game victory condition.
Already love this game! Can't wait for updates


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I was born on January 18,1976, on a full moon night on the banks of Misty Creek, so they called me Mystic Bliss. I am told I greeted the world with a song by wailing in a pitch perfect E. My father cried, my mother orgasmed and laughed, and the tribe cheered and ululated and held my womb-juice covered body high.
I was handed to an Aboriginal elder called Auntie Pearl who said 'dis one special' as she cleansed me with smoke and washed me with a special lotion made from rainforest plants.
When the cord was cut people swear they saw a shooting star and said it was a blessing, then they buried the placenta under the tree with their bare hands and celebrated with drumming, dancing and fucking whilst I suckled contentedly on my mother's breast.
My mother was called Free and my father was called Roar and I became a precocious hippie kid, a pagan brat who grew up in the rainforests of the Rainbow region of New South Wales.
My home is a community that lies nestled in Misty Valley: so-named because the unique microclimate causes mists to creep down the Nightcap ranges in the dead of night, embrace our little valley in the early morning and then, when the sun rises over the eastern escarpment, dissolve quietly back into the dense, moist rainforest.
The only way in is to take a long winding road through rich farmland that gives way to ancient rainforest hills and gullies. You cross over four flood-prone creeks with narrow concrete bridges to where the potholed bitumen eventually turns to dirt, just past the wild bamboo forest. There you take the dead-end Misty Valley Road, turn right and follow a disused logging track that takes you across an old wooden bridge that spans a dark rainforest gully filled with moss covered booyongs, rosewoods, stranglers, ferns and bangalow palms. You turn left after the bridge, come up a rise and there our little valley spreads out before you: lush, rolling dairy pastures that end at Misty Creek, and beyond that the dense rainforest that fights its way up the imposing face of the escarpment to become the Nightcap Ranges National Park.
There an old farmhouse with a wide veranda sits on a hill surrounded by three magnificent jacaranda trees, two flame trees and the wild remains of an English rose garden. To its right sits the old wooden milking shed and to the left the water tank, windmill pump and the old barn covered in bougainvillea. Beyond that pasture gives way to the gradual rise of the land and the steady encroachment of the rainforest. It's on the sloping edge of the rainforest that people constructed a jumbled collection of wood and mud brick huts, yurts and geodesic domes of eccentric construction that looked out across our verdant, hidden valley.
The locals said the place was jinxed. They said that any man who tried to farm the valley had either died young or went broke. The only person to stay for any length of time was old Mabel Roberts who lived to a hundred and one. A district nurse found her body decaying peacefully in her old rocking chair on the porch, her body covered in the purple petals of her beloved jacarandas.
Her husband had been one of the unlucky ones, killed when a sharp branch pierced his chest after he had slipped on a wet rock. He had lain dead in the rainforest for three days until Mabel found him and dragged his corpse out on a makeshift sled. She kept the farm going by surviving off a few dairy cows and the pension. The only help she had was Molly, one of the last full-blood Widjabal women.
There was a rumour that Molly practiced the old magic.
Others tried to work the land after Mabel, but the land needed major redevelopment and when the regional economy went into decline it was deemed unviable and too remote, so it sat fallow for six years.
It held a secret.
When the word had got around that hippies had settled in the valley an old Widjabal woman called Auntie Pearl appeared. No one saw her arrive and she didn't announce her arrival. Instead she waited patiently and quietly in the yard until she was seen. She said she was the guardian of the valley and that the Nightcap ranges were her ancestral home.
She told a story.


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Understanding how shoppers use mobile technology is step one in determining how to leverage it to drive store traffic and sales. Take a close look at what more than 3,000 active app users have to say about much-hyped mobile shopping technologies like Visit Tracking, iBeacon, In-Store Push Notifications, Near Field Communications, Wallet and Passbook.
Visit tracking has huge potential for companies trying to use smartphones to connect consumers' online behavior to offline activities. Using smartphone location data to track consumers into stores holds the promise of allowing companies to determine if online ad exposure leads to store visits.
For now the problem is more than 70% of the mobile users say they don't like the idea of being followed. Only 29% overall are not concerned with being monitored.
Some retailers track your store visits using your smartphone.
28.94%: Ok, I don't mind.
71.06%: No, I don't want to be tracked.
What do you think about iBeacon?
4.35%: I like the possibilities it provides.
15.97%: I don't like the idea, it's too offensive.
79.68%: What is iBeacon?
What do you think about iBeacon?
9.91%: I like the possibilities it provides.
20.69%: I don't like the idea, it's too offensive.
69.40%: What is iBeacon?
Push notification technology has been around for a while now, but Apple's iBeacon entrance into the space has made the conversation much more popular. However, there is one segment pushing back: consumers.
In fact, despite the potential consumer advantages, 56% say they are not interested in receiving push notifications in a store, while only 44% of mobile users surveyed want retailers to send them notifications while they are shopping.
There is a difference however between iOS and Android users on their willingness to receive in-store push notifications: iOS users are nearly split in favor for and against notifications. The majority of Android users say they don't want notifications sent to their mobile devices while shopping.
Retailers plan to push notifications
on your smartphone
when you're in the store.
38.42%: Yes, why not?
61.58%: No, I don't need them.
Retailers plan to push notifications
on your smartphone
when you're in the store.
50.24%: Yes, why not?
49.76%: No, I don't need them.
Do you use NFC for payments?
5.62%: Yes, I do.
37.91%: No, I don't.
56.47%: What is NFC?
Retailers know that near field communications (NFC) is a contactless payment system used for mobile payments, but 56% of mobile shoppers don't know that. And the 38% who are familiar with the technology choose not to use it. Only 5% to 6% say they regularly use NFC to pay retailers.
The majority of mobile users don't want to be tracked into a store with visit tracking (71%), and over half have never heard of NFC (56%). However, the vast majority (81%) are aware of mobile payment options such as Google Wallet. And 84% of iOS users are familiar with Apple's virtual wallet, dubbed Passbook, designed to hold coupons, vouchers, travel and event tickets, and different types of loyalty and gift cards.
Despite widespread awareness of each, the vast majority have not used them.
Only 11% of Android users claim to use Google Wallet and 23% of iOS users have tried out Passbook for coupon shopping offers.
Do you use Google Wallet for payments?
11.43%: Yes, I do.
69.86%: No, I don't.
18.72%: What is Google Wallet?
Do you use Passbook for coupons
and shopping offers?
23.44%: Yes, I do.
60.29%: No, I don't.
16.27%: What is Passbook?
For retailers looking to maximize traffic and sales, understanding consumer motives and desires is the best way to improve the shopping experience. And that could mean helping consumers better understand the benefits of these technologies in order to break down the barriers to widespread adoption. Just like any new technology, however, it often takes time for consumers to catch up.
*All information is based on a study of more than 3,000 Retale app users in April 2014. See our press release for more information and visit our blog to read more about the study results.


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Employers in US eliminated 96,000 IT or information-technology jobs in May, according to an analysis by industry trade body CompTIA.
This brought down overall IT employment to an estimated 4.5 million workers as of May 31, the trade group said.
The disappointing reading in IT jobs follows grim overall employment number reported by the US for the month of May. Overall, non-farm payrolls increased by only 38,000 jobs last month - the fewest number of jobs added in more than five years.


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When you purchase a new light modifying device there are usually a few items you need to round out the functionality of the unit. With that in mind, B&H Photo has put together this Accessory Kit to make your picture taking experience more productive.
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Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP today welcomes Ronald A. Sarachan as a partner joining its White Collar Criminal Defense and Corporate Investigations Team. A skilled trial lawyer with more than 25 years experience, 12 as a federal prosecutor, Sarachan was most recently a partner and chair of the corporate investigations and white collar defense practice of Ballard Spahr LLP.
"Ron is a very talented litigator, and we are excited that he is joining our white collar practice," said Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Chairman of Drinker Biddle. "We have a team filled with former federal and state prosecutors who can offer clients the insight, knowledge and experience they need when conducting an investigation or facing criminal charges."
In matters involving criminal prosecution and investigation, Sarachan has a long and successful track record of defending clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to closely held businesses, as well as individual owners, directors, managers and other employees. In addition to white collar defense, Sarachan focuses his practice on regulatory enforcement and complex civil litigation. His experience spans a variety of industries, including defense contractors, financial services, health care, technology and energy, as well as petroleum, chemical and general manufacturing, especially in the environmental arena.
Prior to 1997, Sarachan spent a dozen years with the U.S. Department of Justice in several capacities. In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, he was an assistant U.S. attorney and served as Senior Litigation Counsel and as Chief of the Major Crimes Section, supervising all local federal prosecutions in more than 25 different criminal areas. Sarachan later served in Washington, D.C., as the Chief of the Justice Department's Environmental Crimes Section supervising more than 30 federal prosecutors and the investigation and prosecution of environmental crimes throughout the country.
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Letter(s) from Nina Lomakina to Ken (USA)
Letter 1
My love Ken!
My heart was drove more strongly, when I have seen your letter. I am very glad, that our feelings and desires coincide. We should trust and aspire together to general dream, and then all barrier will be not terrible to our feelings. My day today was heavy, but the ideas on you and about your words gave me forces. I feel, that if you will not write to me the letter, my heart will be broken, believe me. My walk on park after work was completely engaged in dreams of you. Weather In Russia stand cold, it is cold with each day, but the ideas on you warm soul, as a cup of hot tea. Most important, that the soul has not frozen. Sometimes, becomes especial last days to me alone. I look, as the people hurry up somewhere, but I have hurries up. And so it would be desirable! I so want hurries up home to prepare to you supper, that you could me embrace! I want, that we together created our family jack. I think, that at us all would turn out in the future. I have learned how many will cost to me to put the telephone. It will be approximately 310 $ and will borrow approximately 1 month. It for me while is expensive, I can not allow so much money and I very much was upset! I so would like to talk to you! But I shall dream of it, and all dreams sometime come true. You with me agree? Tell to me about that how you are our family holidays? Usually I celebrate New Year in a family circle, with the mum and close relatives, and Christmas (January 7) I note with the girlfriends. My girlfriends almost frequently tell all behind the husband and they about family life. Recently I have told about you, but they do not trust that the foreigner really can grow fond of the Russian girl. And I believe to you, and sometime, when you will come to me on a holiday and we shall be one family, you will be believed also with my girlfriends. And what your friends speak about me? Tell me please, it is possible to transfer love by words? I would like to express my feelings to you, but it all the same is impossible in a complete measure. I can not it explain, it probably should be felt. If you were a number, my love would be expressed in gestures, kisses, in embraces. Probably, I would take your hand and did not release her for one second. Know I am afraid of you to lose, I am afraid to lose your trust, your letters and words. From time to time I want to nestle on you and to overlook about all problems, and to see only your happy eyes and to feel yours gentle, and at the same time strong hands. If we were together, I would make utmost to make you happy. And I you already have made me happy, having entered in my heart. Probably, I again for you am a little sentimental, therefore I finish to write to you, in hope tomorrow to receive from you the letter love.Nina
Letter 2
Hi my pleasant love Ken!
My love, I hope, your businesses it is good? I am happy from love! Today in us The snow falls, it so is beautiful! Beautifully as well as our love, pure and Innocent. As though I wanted now to be with you. Know I is ready to do all, That I can, that you were happy! I know, that our love is strong also To this any obstacles are not awful. You agree with me? I am very pleased to read your words of love. I feel too most! Present, today in dream I Arrived to you by the plane! And you met me at the airport. It is such it was pleasant and gently! When I have woken up, my heart Was strongly beaten with happiness. As ? I would want, that it was by the validity! Today at work I all day thought of my dream. Willows to my head the idea was born, I do not know, whether it is pleasant to you really. Probably you will Consider me silly. Probably you know, that I should receive the visa to arrive to you. For this purpose I should go in Moscow and money is necessary for me to make the visa. It is inconvenient to me to ask you concerning the help, therefore forgive Me, if something not so. I have counted up, that to me to arrive in Moscow and to do the visa, it is necessary 420 $. But I really have no such money. Therefore it is a shame to me to ask you to me to help with money. I understand, that for you it is the too large Money, but if you will help me, I could arrive to you in one month. What you think of it? It - very much of shame to me to ask you Money, but I need in meeting with you. Understand me, it is necessary for me to hear your vote, your words concerning love. Only, so I can trust, that our attitudes are real, instead of fairy tale. I know, that you also it is required. Please, to help me and to give me chance to show you, That I really love you. I ask, that you thought above than my offer, for us it - Very important - step in our attitudes. Forgive me, if you do not divide with me of my feelings and desires. The people sometimes can not all Write each other, sometimes words and - not necessary..., close man Necessary simply about... Especially When it is bad, especially, when about anyone - not a gift... And it is more so, When I need in you, as never.... As now... My work has stopped to bring pleasure, because between us cost of obstacles. I want to clean them, please to help me! I with hope shall wait yours The answer, that it was, simply, the closest man knows, that you for me,
And I very much love you!Nina
Letter 3
hello my sweet love Ken!
I give you my address, on which you can send me the documents. In one week these documents will come to me. Please, if can send to me money this week, that I could order the tickets in Moscow. You are not as I is glad to learn, that you will help me with money to the visa, At last all our dreams come true! Soon we can meet each other and we shall tell each other words of love. The large thank to you for the help, you see you understand, how much it means for our love. Soon, very soon I shall see you, to embrace you, to feel you by each crate of my body. I already never shall release your hand, I shall speak you about my love indefinitely. Already now I think, what words of love I shall speak and that we shall do when we shall stay together alone!
I so am glad that soon you and I shall reach together my dream! Today I went in bank to learn as you can send me money. I was told by the employees of bank, that the most reliable and fast way to send and to receive money, is system of remittances Western Union. Has appeared, that it is very simple system. To me have explained, that for this purpose you should find in the city bank, where there is a system Western Union. You will send money to my complete name and address, then you will give control number from 10 figures, which you should inform me. Then I with this number, your complete name and address to go to receive money.
But to send money, you should know my information.
My complete name Nina Lomakina.
My address
Hadi-Taktasha, 45-78
Naberezhnie Chelni city
Russia, 463190
As well I should know about you the information yours a complete name and address. I think, that it is simple also you without effort can send me money. And then, as soon as you will send me money I shall go at once in Moscow. I am very happy, that you help us to learn about the friend the friend, I again and am again convinced that you the very kind, noble and careful man. You - my love and dream, this for ever! Love Nina
Letter 4
My love Ken,
I write you the letter, but my heart is broken off from a pain. I am very much afflicted, that we not together this evening! I know, that for you it is very complex to help me to pay all my trip, but you see I ask you to help now only with money to the visa 420 $ USD( american dollars) , that I already began to prepare it for my departure to you. You know to make the visa some time is required, therefore I want to make it as soon as possible. That then I at once could arrive to you. You understand me? I ask you to help me as soon as possible, because I can not without you of any day any more, and my things half are already assembled. Please, tell when you can to me help? I can not sit on a place, when I think, that for our meeting it is necessary much to make, and I sit without movement. Tell you too, as well as I, think of our meeting constantly? I want faster to meet you. I each time, when I am at the mum, beforehand am forgiven, in hope, that soon I shall set off towards to you. I understand, that I can I ask you too much, but we already should do first steps towards each other. But most important we already have made, we like each other!About, my owner, you the sky is necessary by me, you pure, deep … You - light.. To rush in your love - from my depth … You light for my fire. In you the soul related by mine … lives There is no at me other desire as soon as to be with you, I would not hesitate also minute, if could arrive to you. Each section of my body and is torn outside to touch you … I want to be near to you. I want to feel your lips under the palm. I want to hear your vote. I dream to feel you. But the monitors do not transfer In total … they only letters and symbols. I hate them for it. I hate monitors. I want to be near to you, I want be in your embraces I can embrace the monitor, I can kiss the monitor. I am angry on the letters. I do not love the letter. But I love you. Paradoxical difference. And I wait you not at door, not on window sill, … and at The monitor! At without the sensual monitor! I danced today. Danced for you. But you it did not see. The monitors are not able to see …. I sang today. Sang for You. But you did not hear. The monitor to you has not sung my song. Sometime I shall see
You … Nina
Letter 5
Hello my love Ken,
Lovely mine, favourite, unique how long to last minutes of expectation of meeting. It is an infernal flour - whether to wait and to think you will want me to see Or this day will pass again in painful expectation. Sometimes I catch on The ideas that can is time for tearing off this dangerous communication, but the pain passes heart And the tears dim to me eyes - there is no I can not make it, I can not To tear off the life. Yes life mine it you. I do not know your feelings and ideas, I can not even guess, but as to me It would be desirable that you simply have approached, has pressed me to itself and has told that all will be Well.Yes, I have passed on edge of your destiny. I so wanted. So asked. Only instant we There were together well, and then years. I shall wait for meeting, having concealed breath, and you can not work, therefore, That will think of me. I do not want to play in family, all this was. I want With impatience to wait for call from call, at an idea, that it you. I want the first kisses! Those from which do not hold a leg. But your strong hands will not give me to fall. I want to be drunk from love, passion and desires. And you, at first will be To resist to the gushed wave of feelings, but then will understand, that in it there is no sense. You as the boy will wait for meeting. You will tell, the Kid, I so want to be seen. And we shall so love each other. On light anybody and never so did not love, though...
P.S.My love, I ask to help me with money this week, that the next week I have arrived in Moscow and beginnings to do the visa.
Therefore I want to make the visa as soon as possible.
Letter 6
Hello my love Ken,
My love, I is glad that today you can to send me money to my travel to you. I do not know, why the system of Western Union requires my Insurance number, me about it nothing spoke in bank. I send you number of my Individual document 8800 573372. I do not know, can it it is useful. Only please, use Western union, that I could receive faster money and arrive to you as soon as possible. I hope. That now you have all necessary information.
I think of much to you, it is too much to feel unfortunate … Now I understand as far as fate more strongly than destiny, and fear before destiny … is especial if by destiny you could love … to fall in love, to break hearts, to force the people to wait, and to not go by it towards.
We too late begin to give back perfect, and the payment for delay happens at times is unfair and is ruthless, equally so to make the man by the slave of the feeling … and me it seems, what exactly under this payment I again have got And here you have appeared … as vision, as the genius of pure beauty … I am inclined to spontaneity, but not in the attitudes. You … you completely have turned mine life, the truth, now, me again to have to achieve … to achieve last, present, and, probably, future - present …
I with you present, I hope, that I to you am not indifferent, though is silly so to think and to reason … Nina
Letter 7
hello my love Ken!!!
My ideas only about you, my feelings to you to not transfer by words, any Word be unable to describe my love to you, any canvas will not sustain those feelings which I test to you. I am overflowed by desire to see you, to touch you, to love you.
My heart is broken off on a part, my soul is pulled out from a breast, when I do not see you. You life mine, you sense mine, you a pain mine and you pleasure mine. I can not is, I can not sleep, I am not able to think of someone except for you. I am not able to live without you, and it is not fated to me in this life to learn. There is no paradise on ground without you, and any, most remarkable place on ground, will be a hell for me, if you will not be near to me. And the eyes mine will admire you, both heart mine, and soul mine, both hand mine, and lip mine will love passionately you. I constantly think about yours gentle lips, which with languor I shall kiss, I dream of your perfect kind eyes, in which never will die away fire of pleasure and passion. You a picture, which not be written by any artist, you the novel which are impossible to repeat, you was authority to create a beam of light in twilight of gloomy life, only to god such work of art, as you! I as the withered bouquet, at your occurrence again am filled by life. I want to be with you and only with you, only near to you my ridiculous life is meaningful.
I can not without you!
My love, I send you the information, in which you need. Mine birthday of December 21, 1977.
My complete name and address on a registration
My complete name Nina Lomakina
My address
Mayakovskogo street, 45-78
Naberezhnie Chelni city
Russia, 463190


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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada has revoked the residency status of the brother-in-law of former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, according to a broadcast report on Thursday.
Federal officials took the action against Belhassen Trabelsi, a wealthy businessman who flew to Montreal with his family after Ben Ali was ousted from power, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's office refused to comment on the CBC report, citing privacy law restrictions.
Residency status grants non-Canadians the right to live in the country without having citizenship, although it also restricts how much time they can spend outside the country without losing that status.
It is not known how long Trabelsi had residency status, which requires a sometimes lengthy application process.
Ben Ali was forced from power this month by a wave of protests against poverty, repression and corruption during his 23 years in power. The former president fled to Saudi Arabia with his wife Leila Trabelsi.
Tunisia has issued an arrest warrant for Ben Ali and several of his relatives, who amassed vast riches during his two decades in power and controlled many of the country's biggest companies.
Belhassen Trabelsi owned a stake in Ciments de Carthage, a cement manufacturer; Cactus, a television production house; and the five-star Karthago Le Palace hotel, which overlooks the Mediterranean near Tunis.
Reporting by Allan Dowd; Editing by Frank McGurty


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The Great Britain pound fell against the US dollar and pared its gains versus the Japanese yen after the UK Office for National Statistics reported that the nation's GDP shrank in the last quarter, adding to signs than Britain is entering recession.
Britain's gross domestic product contracted 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, following the expansion by 0.6 percent in the preceding quarter. Other economic indicators were actually good, but the slowdown of the economy overshadowed the positive data. Mervyn King, Bank of England Governor, spoke yesterday about a possibility of additional stimulus:
And, with inflation falling back and wage growth subdued, there is scope for interest rates to remain low, and, if necessary, for further asset purchases, to prevent inflation falling below the 2% target.
GBP/USD fell from 1.5622 to 1.5558 as of 13:00 GMT today. GBP/JPY was at about 121.49 after opening at 121.35 and reaching 122.02 — the highest price since December 27.
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