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07:49 AM ET 10.28 | On what is statistically shaping up to be among the most porous defenses in NFL history, the Bills still can't find a spot for Aaron Maybin. It's quite possible that Maybin is the worst player in the NFL (though a case could be made for John McCargo, another former Bills' first-rounder who has been inactive all six games). There's a good chance Maybin will be inactive again this week against Kansas City, the NFL's top rushing team. After a year and a half, he hasn't gotten better. If anything, he's regressed. Maybin has 21 tackles in 21 games. He has no sacks. This season, he's been on the field for 66 plays, with few tangible results.
Sounds like the young man has been a bit of a disappointment.
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Every city's newspaper will come up with the "local player" as the worst.
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He should give his money back. Talk about horrible.
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Oakland or the Cowboys will pick him up.
Cowboys need MORE underachievers.
Every city's newspaper will come up with the "local player" as the worst.
"<fill in the blank> is worse than this guy!!!
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is he regressing because he's getting worse at football or because the Bills took a college DE and are trying to make him into a 3-4 OLB?
Rather than blaming Maybin, I think Buffalo's inability of using him for what he was drafted for is the main problem--- Buffalo has many, many issues--- least of which is this guy!!
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First round money to underachieve...Priceless
But Mel Kiper said he was good...
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Held out and got a $15M signing bonus. Tough to side with the players on compensation issues with anecdotes like this one. But asserting that he's the worst player in the NFL is just plain mean.
Maybe his fortunes will change if he starts to drink Dos Equis. LOL!
is he regressing because he's getting worse at football or because the Bills took a college DE and are trying to make him into a 3-4 OLB?
Guess they figure if San Diego and Dallas can do it, it couldn't be that hard...
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But Mel Kiper said he was good...
I believe he said the same about Ryan Leaf, too...LOL
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The Bills could really use the services of a Perry Fewell type coordinater...Opps...
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I wonder if his Mom is going to put THIS in her boy's scrapbook?
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Even Sean Hannity mentioned it. I wonder what's on those tapes?
Even Sean Hannity mentioned it. I wonder what's on those tapes?
I have heard a lot of Interent rumbling about a Michelle Obama "hate whitey" tape but it seemed to originate with the notorious Larry Johnson, a strong Hillary supporter. That was about the time Obama issued the "leave my wife alone" edict. Coincidence?
You can never tell with the Clintons. Still, if there were such a video, I can't imagine that it wouldn't have surfaced by now. Hillary needs some sort of major incident that puts Obama out of the running, and given the delegate counts, the only thing that can work is a major gaffe (more so than simply trying to claim that his uncle liberated Auschwitz). A video of Michelle Obama spewing hate speech would fit the bill nicely, and it would certainly scare off enough delegates to open up the race again.
I've heard some rumors. No doubt that evil woman has said such things. Le'ts hope there is a tape.
Obviously the Clintons don't have it or they would have used it by now, but I hope that the RNC does.
Once that tape comes out, McCain will carry 48+ states.
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It would bring cell phone service to the dead zone on Dellwood Road (U.S. 19) when driving between Lake Junaluska and Maggie Valley. Cellco Partnership would construct the tower on behalf of Verizon Wireless.
The tower would be 130 feet tall, falling within the maximum height allowed by the county's cell tower ordinance. However, the tower does not meet setback requirements under the ordinance. The county requires a fall zone to be half of the tower's height with a 25-foot setback from the property line.
Kris Boyd, planning director for Haywood County, said Cellco is now negotiating with an adjoining property owner to get an easement and would then come to the county for a variance.
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According to Young, the proposed cell phone tower would be camouflaged as a tree. County documents indicate likewise, describing the tower as a "Monopine" design that would look like a pine tree. However, a spokeswoman from Verizon Wireless said it would not look like a pine tree but would only be a regular cell tower. Young said the property contract with Cellco states that the tower will be a "Monopine."
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In the introduction of his new book Decoding The New Taliban, Dr Antonio Giustozzi argues the public debate surrounding Afghanistan has been "dominated by superficial or plainly wrong assumptions."
In an attempt to gain a better understanding of those violently resisting British and NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, I spoke with Giustozzi at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he works as a research fellow in the crisis states research centre.
Since 2003 the 43-year-old Italian academic has visited Afghanistan about three times a year every year, including 12 months working for the United Nations assistance mission in Afghanistan.
Giustozzi uses the term "neo-Taliban" or "new Taliban" to refer to the Taliban which has been operating in Afghanistan since the US-NATO invasion and occupation in October 2001.
In southern Afghanistan, an area dominated by ethnic Pashtuns, the Taliban and the insurgency are essentially synonymous, Giustozzi says.
"By and large there was a certain correspondence between clerical influence and the spread of the Taliban, for the obvious reason that during the Taliban government they were in power," he says.
In areas such as the south where state education has been traditionally weak, Giustozzi notes: "The Taliban and clergy have been proportionally stronger."
From this core base, the Taliban was able to gain additional support from marginalised people who were dissatisfied with or opposed to the government presence in their community through a gradual process of Talibanisation.
However, Giustozzi sees the large-scale NATO deployment to the south in 2006 – the British to Helmand, the Canadians to Kandahar and the Dutch and Australians to Oruzgan – as "a turning point" in the conflict.
"Up to 2006 Helmand was not a stronghold of the Taliban," he says.
This resistance "was crushed" by the British forces, with thousands of Taliban fighters dying. However, Giustozzi says if you look at the fighting from the Taliban's perspective, "it gave an impression, not only in Helmand but throughout the country, of popular mobilisation – a people's war against the British. Whole communities rising up."
In addition the large number of Taliban casualties meant whole "communities got disrupted and destroyed. And people, particularly young men, were on the loose. These people became recruitable by the Taliban as core fighters."
Similarly Giustozzi believes what has become known as the battle of Pashmul was another example of what he calls the "Tet offensive effect" – when a superior military force is successful on the battlefield, but loses the propaganda war.
Engaging a large Taliban force in the vineyards just outside Kandahar in summer 2006, the newly arrived Canadian troops inflicted a heavy defeat on the Taliban.
Just like the British experience in Helmand, this propaganda success "started to have a big effect in terms of recruitment and opened new constituencies to Taliban influence," he says.
Although speaking to Giustozzi for more than an hour is certainly informative, it is difficult to tell what he personally thinks about the war in Afghanistan.
Throughout the interview he continually highlights the contradictory nature of Afghanistan and the current war and rarely provides blanket answers.
Regarding President Barack Obama ordering of an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan, Giustozzi argues that the "numbers don't mean much.
"It depends how they use the troops," he says. "If the troops stay in the barracks it won't have any effect."
However, if the US soldiers engage the Taliban and the fighting is "indecisive, protracted and creates destruction" he contends this is likely to have "a destabilising impact, certainly at the beginning. Also it produces extremists."
Giustozzi's description of growing support for the Taliban and his belief that between 60,000 and 70,000 Afghans are now actively involved in the insurgency jars uneasily with the dominant narrative in the West of the Taliban being very unpopular.
In particular I ask him about the 2009 BBC/ABC News opinion poll conducted in Afghanistan which put support for the Taliban at around 9 per cent and support for the government at 65 per cent.
"The 9 per cent is an underestimate," he replies.
"The sampling is very, very biased … there are very few unemployed people, whereas even the government says unemployment is 40 per cent.
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At an age when many people their age slow down, Cedric and Janet Miller, recently married and just retired, spent $300,000 on a 42-ft. yacht and set sail for their Sea of Dreams.
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zoomAt an age when many people their age slow down, Cedric and Janet Miller, recently married and just retired, spent $300,000 on a 42-ft. yacht and set sail for their Sea of Dreams.
When many people their age were slowing down and dusting off an easy chair, Cedric and Janet Miller, recently married and just retired, spent $300,000 on a 42-ft. ocean-going yacht and set sail for their Sea of Dreams.
That was 10 years ago and, since then, the Oakville couple have made their way from Sweden, where they picked up their custom-built sailboat, to the Caribbean island of Curacao, where Trillium Wind awaits them for another winter of adventure.
They've spent three-to-five months a year at sea, and Cedric, 74 and Janet, 66, believe they have another two or three years of cruising left. Then they plan to trade in their wandering life for winters in Myrtle Beach.
"We are very lucky to have been able to do this," says Cedric. "The places we've seen and the people we've met have been amazing."
If luxury living is a state of mind, the richness of their experience would put them in the top tier.
The two have feasted on the simple pleasures of life at sea, from the ancient and pleasingly elegant rituals that make boats move, to the joy of waking up in a deserted cove.
They have lived contentedly in a space the size of two big pickup trucks and endured the fear of violent storms and difficult ocean passages.
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The adventure began in 2000, when the two, each divorced with grown children, got married.
Janet had sold her share of a heavy equipment business and Cedric started easing into semi-retirement from his marine insurance brokerage.
Both had sailed on Lake Ontario for years. Cedric had been a member of several yacht clubs, including the Oakville Yacht Squadron, where he was Commodore in 2002. After exploring both sides of the lake, it was time to look further afield. "We both felt that we wanted more," Cedric says.
They broadened their experience, helping friends move boats down the Intracoastal waterway to Florida and chartering boats in the Caribbean.
In 1997, Cedric joined the flotilla of boats that travelled to Newfoundland to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's landing.
They took an offshore sailing course to learn about tides, heavy weather sailing and ocean navigation.
Their adventures built up their confidence and were a test of whether they could live at close quarters for long periods.
In the end, they found the perfect boat while cruising in the Maritimes one summer with friends who had a 31-ft. boat built in Sweden by Comfort Yachts.
The Millers were impressed by the boat's ability to handle rough weather and its comforts. They ordered a 42-ft. version in 2000, the year they married. They took delivery in July, 2002.
A 42-foot boat doesn't offer the luxury of a super yacht — it's more like camping at sea, Cedric says. But what you do get is luxurious in its simplicity and meticulous in craftsmanship. The interior is warmed by teak. There is heating, but no air-conditioning and three double berths. The master berth has an en suite toilet and walk-in shower. The couple spent $3,000 on a water-maker that makes eight gallons of fresh water an hour from seawater.
The galley has a gimballed stove and oven, so it swings and stays upright even when the boat is sailing on an angle. There is a fridge, hot and cold water and a double stainless steel sink all within easy reach of the folding teak dining table. This year, they added a TV, but not a microwave.
The navigation centre has a full size chart table and a complete complement of electronics, including a satellite phone, Global Positioning System (GPS) chart-plotter and radar. A powerful 55-horsepower engine drives the boat when there's no wind, and, for ease of handling, the main sail rolls up inside the mast.
The plan was to bring Trillium Wind back to North America within two years, but after taking delivery of the boat and spending the first summer poking around the coasts of Sweden and Norway and some of the 500 islands in the Danish archipelago, the plan changed.
The Millers felt comfortable with their skill and quickly became members of the cruising fraternity, what Janet calls "a gypsy caravan afloat." This network gave them access to the cruising community's collective wisdom — the best anchorages, must-see sites, where to shop, and restaurants not to miss. Many doubts were laid to rest.
"We absolutely loved it," Janet says. "It showed us, how much you really need to enjoy life, which is not that much. You realize that, at the end of the day, you don't need millions."
Friends joined them for parts of the journey, they tagged along with cruising groups for other parts, and, on others, went it alone. There have been bad times — a wretched 220-mile crossing of the North Sea from Norway to the Shetland Islands, when they almost turned around. Janet was knocked unconscious during a storm in the Bay of Biscay and probably needed stitches. But they couldn't make port easily and so had to do with first aid. The cut healed on its own.
They visited The Shetland and Orkney islands, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Wales, the Channel Islands, Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, Majorca, Malta, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Israel, The Canaries, and they joined a flotilla across the Atlantic to St. Lucia.
"We thought we'd buy a boat and do the Caribbean," says Cedric. "The sailing is secondary. It's really about who you are with, sharing the experience."
Adam Mayers is The Toronto Star's Personal Finance Editor.
Luxury living is a state of mind. Janet Miller sums up the experience of 10 years of cruising in Europe and now the Caribbean aboard Trillium Wind:
We sailed in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany, then crossed the North Sea. All those wonderful places from stories and nursery rhymes: John O' Groats in Scotland. We kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland. We saw Penzance in Cornwall. The pier in Portsmouth where I'd danced the night away as a teenager. Rally Portugal with 24 boats racing from Plymouth across the Bay of Biscay . . . how nuts was that?
Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel, North Africa. So many places to see. Some bizarre, lots beautiful, all wonderful and interesting. Malta where not one clock agrees with the other. Through the Corinth Canal in Greece — who would have thought we would ever do that — to the Greek Islands. Delos was one of the most amazing, enchanting places you could ever hope to be. Rhodes. The Marble Lions of Naxos. Magical!
Memories, not always that big: Cobble stone roads, flower baskets, narrow streets, street vendors. Hundreds of goats on a tiny island with a tiny bay. One family lives there; they had laid moorings for sailors to tie up.
In Turkey, a parsley salad made by a man with a knife in a shed. It can't be duplicated, no matter how hard we try. Sarcophagi, castles, fortresses and battlements. Sunsets, sunrises. Memories for our old age.
If you can do it, do it, you won't regret it!
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This works in CS4:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
tell active document
repeat with thisGraphic in all graphics of every page
set (properties of thisGraphic) to {clipping path:{clipping type:detect edges, inset frame:-0.5, restrict to frame:true, threshold:1, tolerance:0, use high resolution image:true}}
end try
end repeat
end tell
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For Photoshop path substitute in this line:
set (properties of thisGraphic) to {clipping type:photoshop path, clipping path:{applied path name:"Path 1"}}
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Maybe something like this? I haven't tested thoroughly, but it should turn off every clipping in the document I think...
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
tell active document
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Brilliant, thank you for posting that Eric.
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Huntington, Ind.—Huntington University will host a high school art exhibit from March 7-28 in the Robert E. Wilson Gallery of the Merillat Centre for the Arts.
"We wanted to provide an opportunity for regional high school students to have a professional quality exhibit to showcase their work," said Rebecca Coffman, professor of art. "It's also a great opportunity to introduce them to Huntington University. Most importantly, we want to celebrate the visual arts being created by high school students in this area."
The competition is open to high school students within a 150-mile radius of the university. The deadline for entries is 5 p.m. on March 1. Works of art must be original and created within the last year.
High school seniors may compete for the Huntington University Department of Visual Arts 2008-2009 Performance Grants. The grade point average minimum is 2.5 overall and 3.0 in art classes. Performance grants are available to students intending to come to Huntington as full-time art majors. Along with GPA, portfolios are considered. In exchange for the award, students work in some type of service role for the Department of Visual Arts such as a student assistant or gallery assistant.
The exhibition awards will be juried by Huntington University Department of Visual Arts faculty including Rebecca Coffman, professor of art, Ken Hopper, associate professor of art, and Barb Michel, visiting instructor in art. Best of show, first place, second place and third place awards along with cash prizes will be given.
The awards reception will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on March 8.
The high school art exhibit is open to the public. The Robert E. Wilson Gallery is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., before and after all Merillat Centre performances, and by appointment. For further information, contact Barb Michel, interim gallery director, at (260) 359-4172.
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This time last week Dieter was holding the line in Rhode Island, Chad was laying the video smack down in Ohio, Brian was too busy getting him some apps to even say where he was, and Casey was waiting for the lines to die down (good luck with that!)
Now it's one week later and what's going on? Well, thanks to Cherryhead25 (via Engadget) we know that the up-again/down-again FREE iPhone 3G AT&T WiFI access is currently up again.
That is, if you can find an iPhone 3G to buy! Seems Apple Insider has found yet another leaked AT&T memo that hints at major supply shortages in the US (welcome to the rest of the world!), leading to back-orders of 10 to 14 days.
Frequent Apple analyst Gene Munster, told Computerworld (via Ars Technica) the shortages might last a month!
"I bet we'll see these problems for another two to four weeks. Early demand has been more than they expected [because] they knocked it out of the park on the first weekend. "There were outages last year, but not to this extent. This is a more sustained outage [than last year's], and the demand seems to be sustained."
So the continued line ups would have us believe. And the hardest to find model? Nope, not the white one sported by Dieter or Chad! The 16GB iPhone Black... Wonder who got me one of those? :)
It has been a long, dramatic week. The fun of standing in line with a good group of folks, the immediate sell out in just over an hour and the hope with a Direct Fulfillment order. Now add to it with the pain of not knowing where in queue I am for my direct fulfillment order and if the 7-10 day wait they told me about is going to be more like 10-20.
The link and phone numbers that AT&T gave out are nice but I hope they are more forthcoming with information to level set expectations. As a good utility I doubt that the will unless people start to rock the boat in the media and on the web.
I'm trying to be optimistic and looking at the benefit of waiting. When my Black 16G arrives I know that the activation issue will have been long past, that free apps I downloaded from the App store are more stable (there have already been a few that have upgraded - so the App Store is as advertised) and maybe any bugs in the 2.0 firmware will be worked out with the release of a 2.0.1 release. And by the time my phone gets activated I'll be up to speed on the apps that cost money with reviews right here. So while I'm still using an inferior phone on Sprint I'm not totally frustrated - at least not yet.
lol. This is already down again. ATT cites an employee error in prematurely announcing it. However, I do believe that its slowly being rolled out at some locations (I guess as a sort of beta testing).
@ Reptile
I just got a call from my ATT store (Palm Bay, FL) and they have my 16gb black in. I placed my direct fulfillment order back on the 11th. I was 26th in line and they only sent my store 18. WHAT CRAP, eh?
Anyways, there is still hope! Good luck!
i just got back from the apple store on west 14st, nyc, the line was very very long andwas told it would take 3- 4 hrs , plus all they had was the white 16gb , all of asudden my 1st generation i- phone is starting to look good again, btw its 97 degrees here in nyc
What a bunch of Keystone cops!!! Why can't we order online, pay for it, and go into a store to activate it? Makes too much sense I guess.
It sucks that there are supply issues. But what is ten times worse is when you wait in line for an hour, get to the front door, and then have the Apple guy announce that they have been out of all black iPhones for hours. Someone asked the guy why he didn't bother to tell us when we first got in line and the Apple guy looked up to the sky, got pissed, and walked back into the store. I feel for the guy, but all the dude had to do was tell us what the fu_k was going on. The people who made the iPhone are geniuses. The people in charge of the distribution and sale of iPhones are morons. A great and sad time in Apple's history.
Somebody walked on my Nokia N95, so I decided to go for a 3G 16GB. At the store, I also decided to make a surprise to my wife and ordered 2 3G 16GB, one blk, one wht. That was Friday 18th of July. On Tuesday 22nd, AT&T was calling me to tell the the white one was in. So I got the white one and I have now to wait 20+ days to get the black one in replacment of the Nokia... Actually, when you have the phone in your hand, you bearly see the color, and finally, the white is not bad at all. So I am going to change my order and try to get a white one as well. Anyway, one day we will find chromed or other nice colored covers.. right
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Blu-ray Disc to MKV Converter-Convert CUDA Blu-ray movie to HD MKV format with 5.1 channel
This tutorial is written for those who wanna rip Blu-ray movie off the disc for enjoying on PC and home theatre system. Although It is not an easy job, Pavtube Blu-ray to MKV Converter makes your Blu-ray discs an open resource for your home server.
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All Technology Resource Center restrooms are wheelchair accessible.
The restrooms closest to the library are located next to the elevators
outside the library doors.
RTC Library offers the following assistive resources to its students.
Computers with assistive software. Please see the list below.
Magnifying Glass. Available at the circulation desk.
Closed caption televisions.
Off-campus reference help through QuestionPoint.
If a patron needs special assistance they should go to the Front Desk
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If a patron has a disability that requires special assistance that cannot
be met by the staff or collections, he/she will be referred to the RTC
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Software on Library Computers
The library offers the following software on all of its public access
Read & Write 10 - reads text from documents, offers a dictionary and assistance in choosing words.
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This site offers information about the Talking Book & Braille Library,
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Another vote for super glue, I use Loctite super control gel, it dries a little slower than regular super glue so you can get your jig set and it's "impact resistant". Works great for me!
Another vote for super glue, I use Loctite super control gel, it dries a little slower than regular super glue so you can get your jig set and it's "impact resistant". Works great for me!
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i would use some very fine grit emory cloth (sand paper) rather than an sos pad. I would put a little more time into it and ensure all surfaces are smooth. Ive used thinner and rubbing alchohol to clean the surface prior to glueing and they both work great. i would give it a little more dry time to, maybe 10 minutes a piece. nothing wrong with the the platinum adhesive you are using. its the best out there. also how long are you waiting prior to shooting your arrows.
i know people that use super glue, i have as well before. all i can gurantee about it is that it is more runny. it is an instant bond rather than a timed bond. the last blazers that i superglued came off, but it was because the fletchings were making contact with my limbdriver rest. the fletch tite platinum though is great, its not instant but it still dries quick. i just fletched my first feather last week from tru flight, and they havent come off yet. i even was a little sloppy with a few of them and it turned out great. good luck to you though
Any of you guys ever use the shrink type fletching and wrap? Just wondering if it was junk or actually worked?
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I've thought about it, but they are pricey. I know some people that use them that have no problems.
I clean mine shaft and vane with alcohol and let that dry. I use a super glue but let them sit in the jib for about minute or so and then I let them sit for at least 24 hours prior to shooting. I don't know if my glue is thinning out a little, towards the end of the bottle or what, but I was not expecting to see vanes fly off like this. Could be my process, could be contact with the rest. Using a limbdriver so I would think I'm getting the clearance I need.Originally Posted by dzsmith
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Helping other alcoholics in Alcoholics Anonymous and drinking outcomes: findings from project MATCH.
Although Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the largest mutual-help organization for alcoholics in the world, its specific mechanisms that mobilize and sustain behavior change are poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between helping other alcoholics and relapse in the year following treatment for alcohol use disorders.
Data was collected from Project MATCH, an investigation of the capability of three treatments for alcohol abuse and alcoholism. The probabilities of time to alcohol relapse were calculated. To identify the unique value of helping other alcoholics when controlling for the number of AA meetings attended, calculations were conducted to determine whether the likelihood of relapse was lower for those who were helping other alcoholics.
There were no demographic differences that distinguished participants in regard to involvement in helping other alcoholics, with the exception of age; those who were helping other alcoholics were, on average, 3 years older than those who were not helping alcoholics.
- Those who were helping were significantly less likely to relapse in the year following treatment, independent of the number of AA meetings attended.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide compelling evidence that recovering alcoholics who help other alcoholics maintain long-term sobriety following formal treatment are themselves better able to maintain their own sobriety.
Clinicians who treat persons with substance abuse disorders should encourage their clients to help other recovering alcoholics to stay sober.
Research; Pagano ME, Friend KB, Tonigan JS, Stout RL. Helping other alcoholics in alcoholics anonymous and drinking outcomes: findings from project MATCH. J Stud Alcohol. 2004 Nov;65(6):766-73.


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Analysts and economists are fortune tellers. They say **** with about 10% fact hoping someone will believe them and their guessing game.
Agree. If they were any good at their job they would have made millions and be sat on a beach in the med by now!
Wish i had the money to invest when it was like in the 300 range last year and let the div role over to buy new stock :P
I'm investing my life savings!
well today it just shot up another almost $21 sooo ya
What retard would guess that APPL would go DOWN???!!! They just released the new iPad for pre-orders, what do you think is gonna happen?
well historically right before and on launch day the stock drops quite a bit. this year was the same with prices dropping $25 about. Then they shot up again like they have done the last 4 launchs. I only dropped 10k into and i'm kicking myself for not pulling more into it.
But obviously the pre-orders sold out so that's a bad sign, and then people are already starting to camp out so you know only homeless people are interested in it. Just doesn't look good for Apple here on out... That or these as$holes bought up as much stock as they could when it dropped because of their predictions.


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"It looks like they blew yet another hole in their defense," Walt Auvil, attorney representing Perry and Taylor, said Friday of Fucillo's decision to fire Perry.
"If they did something that was so horrible as to be terminated, why did they keep her on the payroll for almost a year?" Auvil asked.
Perry's firing could be seen as Fucillo's last hurrah, since Friday was his final day on the job as acting secretary.
Perry and Taylor's suit is set to go to trial in Kanawha Circuit Court next spring, but I still suspect that BRIM will be cutting some settlement checks between now and then.
Meanwhile, changes continue at DHHR: Marsha Dadisman, the department's communications director best known for frequently being incommunicado during times when Fucillo was in hot water, retired from state government on Friday.
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RNF111-Dependent Neddylation Activates DNA Damage-Induced Ubiquitination
RNF111-Dependent Neddylation Activates DNA Damage-Induced Ubiquitination
Molecular Cell, Volume 49, Issue 5,
Pages 897-907,
Publication Date 07 February 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.01.006
Teng Ma
Yibin Chen
Feng Zhang
Chao-Yie Yang
Shaomeng Wang
Xiaochun Yu
Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 1150 W. Medical Center Drive, 5560 MSRBII, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Departments of Internal Medicine, Pharmacology, and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0934, USA
Corresponding author
► Histone neddylation is a DNA damage-induced epigenetic modification ► Neddylation regulates DNA damage-induced ubiquitination cascade ► Polyneddylation occurs in response to DNA damage in vivo ► Polyneddylation can be recognized by a ubiquitin-binding motif
Ubiquitin-like proteins have been shown to be covalently conjugated to targets. However, the functions of these ubiquitin-like proteins are largely unknown. Here, we have screened most known ubiquitin-like proteins after DNA damage and found that NEDD8 is involved in the DNA damage response. Following various DNA damage stimuli, NEDD8 accumulated at DNA damage sites; this accumulation was dependent on an E2 enzyme (UBE2M) and an E3 ubiquitin ligase (RNF111). We further found that histone H4 was polyneddylated in response to DNA damage, and NEDD8 was conjugated to the N-terminal lysine residues of H4. Interestingly, the DNA damage-induced polyneddylation chain could be recognized by the MIU (motif interacting with ubiquitin) domain of RNF168. Loss of DNA damage-induced neddylation negatively regulated DNA damage-induced foci formation of RNF168 and its downstream functional partners, such as 53BP1 and BRCA1, thus affecting the normal DNA damage repair process.


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Many moons ago as a novice collector of porcelain, I thought that the phrase "Chinese Export Porcelain" meant to include all items imported from China and primarily copies or imitations of European and American pottery. After reading several articles and books on the subject, and having visited numerous decorative-arts museums and private collections, I came to realize that this term is reserved for a much older line of porcelain wares, made in China, that actually were once the envy and basis of European porcelain makers to imitate, not the other way around.
19th-20th century blue-and-white Canton
Chinese Export Porcelain has attracted the interest of a growing number of collectors on a worldwide basis. Nowadays, auction houses in major cities regularly schedule sales devoted exclusively to Chinese Export Porcelain. Prices vary, depending on age and decorative appeal, provenance and of course, condition, and seem to keep escalating. A notable example: In 1786, George Washington purchased a 302-piece set of Chinese Export Porcelain for $150. In the early-20th century, Chinese export pieces of good quality could still be easily purchased at very reasonable prices.
While Chinese porcelain exporting dates back to the early part of the 16th century, interest went down drastically between the 1850s and the 1900s, a period when imports to various Western countries virtually came to a halt. So much so that a major English authority on porcelain marks, William Chaffers, in his first edition of "Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain" (1863), erroneously identified this porcelain as having been made at a small factory in Lowestoft, UK. This attribution was made despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of pieces, still existing at the time, had been imported into England for many years prior to 1756 when the little Lowestoft works were established. The factory ceased to exist in 1802.
Chaffers' erroneous attribution had one unfortunate effect: It was accepted as the gospel truth. Consequently, this pure Chinese porcelain was called Oriental Lowestoft or Chinese Lowestoft for almost 100 years, causing considerable confusion to antiques dealers and collectors alike. Today the term Chinese Export Porcelain is considered an accurate one since the porcelain was made in China, it was made for export, and it is true hard paste. This term has now been adopted by practically all leading international auction houses and galleries.
We have also taken extra steps in our attributions of related marks and items on our Marks4Antiques.com databases. It is important to note that at no time did this porcelain have a generic name in the manner of Bow, Chelsea, Spode or Meissen, which took the name of the factory or town where made. Before Chaffers, Chinese export china was referred to as India Company china in England.
The manufacture of Chinese porcelain goes back a number of centuries, some experts say as early as 100 B.C. According to most historians, porcelain was made at different locations in China. But it was Emperor Woeng Wu (Ming Dynasty, circa 1368–1398) who selected the town of Ching-te Chen, on the P'oyang River in the province of Kiangsi, to build kilns for the organized manufacture of porcelain, initially destined for the royal palace. Soon afterward, other private factories were established near or around the area, and the town was to become known as "The Porcelain City."
Ching-te Chen was surrounded with all the necessary elements for making fine porcelain. In the riverbed was an excellent quality of white clay (kaolin); in the hills a good quality of feldspar (petuntse) for the glaze, abundant ferns, the ashes of which were mixed with the petuntse to harden the glaze, and pigments for the porcelain. Also in the hills were coal and wood to fire the kilns. In addition, the location on the P'oyang river gave the town access through a series of waterways and overland trails to major seaports, including Canton, about 400 miles to the southeast.
18th-century vases with famille-rose decoration
Over the years the importance of Ching-te Chen grew substantially. In the 18th century, it is said to have had around 3,000 kilns and a population of a million people. In some ways, the city can be compared with the modern-day auto-manufacturing center of Detroit, Mich. Practically everyone was engaged in some aspect of the porcelain industry. A type of production line was developed in which each individual had one specific task to perform in the manufacture of a single piece, a method first used in the U.S. much later, in the late-19th century.
Export of Chinese porcelain made at Ching-te Chen began fairly early. A steady flow of exports, however, did not begin until the arrival of Portuguese merchants at Canton in 1517. When barred from the ports of Ningho and Chuan, the Portuguese established a trade post at Macao. Since 1557, this coastal city has been their private possession. In 1596 the Dutch reached Bantam, and in 1598 a Dutch fleet of eight ships sailed to trade with the Far East. The British East India Co. was set up in 1599 and established at Bantam in 1620. In 1698 the first French ship traded with the Far East.
In 1699, the Emperor Kang Hsi finally opened the port of Canton to foreign trade, and the English established the first hong, or factory, on the banks of Pearl River. The largest number of hongs at any one time was 13. They were two or three stories high with the first floor reserved for business and the storing of merchandise while the second and third floors were used for living quarters for the staff. No women were allowed at the hongs, and this restriction lasted until after the Opium Wars in 1841.
At first, with the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch merchants, all porcelain exported was of the blue-and-white variety, and the forms were largely of Chinese origin. It wasn't long, however, before the trading nations began to order forms and shapes that were more appealing to the European taste. The merchants supplied the Chinese potters with wooden models as well as actual European items in silver, pewter, faience, etc., to be copied in porcelain. As early as 1639, records of the Dutch East India Co. show an order for 25,000 items was to be made from wood models supplied by the Dutch.
18th-cenury Fitzhugh tureen
Much Chinese export porcelain survives today in near-perfect condition largely because of the extraordinary number of pieces shipped to the major European countries and, after 1784, directly to America. These literally run into the millions. In America, imports increased sharply after the Revolutionary War and again after the War of 1812. In Europe, however, the volume of trade steadily declined during the 19th century, and virtually came to an end when the town of Ching-te Chen was destroyed and most of the inhabitants slaughtered during the T'aip'ing rebellion in 1853. The town and the kilns were later rebuilt, but it never again attained its prominent position in the manufacture of porcelain.
However, the principal cause of the decline in trade is due to the gradual takeover of the porcelain business by English and continental factories. The secrets of Chinese production were mastered, primarily by German and Dutch craftsmen. They were in a good position to satisfy the European and North American customers for two reasons: that of taste and promptness of delivery. Orders taken by the East India companies would generally be two years or longer to fill. English and continental manufacturers either carried the items in stock or could supply them on short notice at competitive prices.
At first, it was not easy for the Europeans to copy the glazes and the colors so expertly developed by the Chinese. Until late-17th century, almost all export porcelain was of the blue-and-white variety. After the kilns at Ching-te Chen were burned down by warring factions in 1675, they were rebuilt by the Emperor K'ang-his, and new colors were developed for decoration, most notably famille verte (green), and porcelain making reached a very high quality. Soon after, other colors such as rouge-de-fer and gold were developed, and the quality of the porcelain reached an even higher level. Later, between the 1730s and the 1750s, the beautiful famille rose colors and decoration were perfected.
19th-century Mandarin export porcelain bowls
At the same time, however, during the height of the trade, ship captains and managers (or super cargoes) were instructed to purchase pieces of heavier quality to reduce breakage in shipping. Concurrent with this change to heavier (and poorer) porcelain, the quality of decoration began its decline. The coarse, heavy porcelain, often with crudely decorated designs, bore little resemblance to that of fine eggshell quality and detailed decoration.
New designs were introduced at the end of this period and during the early part of the 19th century. Among them was the so-called Fitzhugh design in blue, green, orange, brown, mulberry, gold, black, yellow and combinations of colors, and the Rose Medallion design in which a piece is largely covered with large floral medallions in rose, greens and blues.
Mid-19th century, Rose Medallion detail
Other designs introduced at this time include the Mandarin, in which the floral medallions enclose Chinoiserie designs in colors similar to those of Rose Medallion, and a design of overall flowers, birds, and butterflies in shades of orange and brown which today is referred to as the Sacred Bird and Butterfly.
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It is pleasure reading your articles about China export porcelain. I am interested in studying this subjects, would like to talk to you in this regard.
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