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The helmet-to-helmet hit by Whitner that sent Saints running back Pierre Thomas to the locker room early in Saturday's NFC playoff game was legal.||||||| Whitner was not penalized because the tackle was not against a defenseless player. Helmet-to-helmet hits are outlawed against eight categories considered defenseless players, and a runner is not one of those categories.
Whitney is questionable for Sunday against the Eagles with a hip injury.||||||| Whitner had 11 tackles in three starts.
The Buffalo Bills have tendered a contract to Whitner.||||||| Whitner completed a five-year contract last season, and questioned whether he'd return to Buffalo after negotiations broke down in December.
Whitner is unhappy with the Buffalo Bills' latest offer in contract talks, and says there's a distinct possibility he'll become a free agent. Talks first opened last month. Whitner's status as a free agent will depend on the NFL negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement.||||||| Referring to himself as surprised and hurt, Whitner says he and the Bills are far apart after the two sides held talks this week. He didn't sound optimistic a deal can be reached, while noting the Bills are scheduled to contact his agent on Thursday. He's in the final year of a five-year contract, and has been a starter since the Bills selected him out of Ohio State with the eighth overall pick in 2006.
Having opened the season with two dreadful losses, Whitner is tired of his team being a punchline.||||||| Of course, Whitner adds, the only way to make the laughter stop is for the Bills to start winning. That stinging feeling - as much as a 13-game losing streak against New England - is enough to motivate Whitner as Buffalo prepares to travel to face the Patriots on Sunday.


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Converting Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Dopamine Neurons for Parkinson's Disease
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Public Abstract:
Parkinson's disease is caused by the death of a small number of brain cells that produce an important chemical called dopamine. Without dopamine, patients literally cannot move. Most people with Parkinson's disease take drugs such as L-dopa to help replace the chemical deficiency and make it possible to walk and all the other aspects of normal life. The problem with the drug L-dopa is that it must be taken every few hours. Before drugs, patients cannot move. Within an hour, movement is possible but those may have become exaggerated and abnormal. That cycle of "off" and "on" characterizes the daily life of people with Parkinson's. To replace the dead cells, fetal dopamine cells have been transplanted into the brains of humans with Parkinson's disease since 1988. The transplanted cells survive in the brain without immunosuppression and can supply the brain with dopamine. In some patients, the transplants can replace the need for L-dopa. Because recovery of dopamine cells from aborted fetal tissue fragments is difficult, only 300 patients in the world have had transplants. To improve cell transplantation and make it available to the tens of thousands of patients who could benefit, a new source of cells must be developed. Human embryonic stem cells are likely to be that source. My laboratory has been doing research on Parkinson's disease for many years. I have developed and evaluated new treatments for the disease including brain transplantation of dopamine cells. With colleagues who share experience in neurotransplantation for Parkinson's disease and in stem cell research, we will produce dopamine neurons from human embryonic stem cells and transplant those cells into animals which have a condition similar to Parkinson's disease. If these human cells successfully treat animals, these same cells could be used to treat people with the disease. Under current regulations, federal government funds can be used only for research on a few embryonic cell lines developed before August 2001. All of those cell lines are contaminated by contact with mouse cells and are unsuitable for human therapy. Funding by the California stem cell initiative will make it possible to work with new cell lines that could ultimately be used for treating people. CIRM funding is essential to accomplish our goals.
Statement of Benefit to California:
Parkinson's disease cripples about one million people in the United States and at least 100,000 in California. The cost of the medication and doctor visits averages about $12,000 per patient per year. Even with effective drugs, patients have daily fluctuations in condition, sometimes they cannot walk at all and sometimes their arms and legs are flailing out of control. Human embryonic stem cells can be converted into the dopamine neurons that Parkinson patients need. If our research can show that transplants of these cells can improve Parkinson's disease in animals, then the same cells could be used to treat patients in California and around the world. The need for drugs could be eliminated. The improved quality of life and the savings in drug costs could be substantial. The biotechnology involved in generating these cells may provide additional economic benefit since cells will be manufactured in sophisticated laboratories.
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SYNOPSIS: This proposal will generate new rodent and primate dopamine (DA) neuronal precursors from both mouse and human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The Principal Investigator (PI) plans to label them and use the dopaminizing morphogenetic genes to make new transgenic animals and models. Gene-profiling studies will compare ES-derived versus the indigenous midbrain DA neurons, and transplant studies in both rodents and primates will be assessed for their best response in DA-depleted animals. IMPACT & SIGNIFICANCE: Parkinson's disease (PD)is a devastating neurologic disease; there are existing medical treatments to managing the disease symptoms but certainly no cure. There is a great hope that cell-based therapies could replace the dying and dead dopamine neurons as a treatment modality. This approach has been used previously with fetal neurons with limited success. Therefore the generation of potentially suitable human dopamine neurons is an important goal. The ability to conduct human dopamine neuron transplants to treat PD has been limited by, amongst other things, limited sources of DA neuronal precursors and lack of optimization of cell transplant methodologies. hESCs are a logical source of such cells, and numerous labs around the world have tried to optimize cell culture conditions to favor the selective expansion and differentiation of midbrain-like ES-derived DA neuronal precursor cells. Since PD treatments seem to focus on replacement of the DA axis and tone in the basal ganglia, the present study that proposes to focus on development and exploitation of primate and other models of cell replacement for PD is needed for this field. The methodologies used in this proposal are largely established - transplantation and differentiation methodologies. Unfortunately this field and the proposal has suffered a setback with recent studies published by the Goldman lab (Nature Med) demonstrating one the important methodologies for generating hESC-derived dopamine neurons. Importantly, this study showed that these cells have a clear tendency to form tumors, thus limiting their potential use in humans. Overall this is an ambitious proposal; to define conditions necessary to differentiate mouse ESCs into dopamine neurons and the hope of using the same methodology for hESCs. Once the differentiation is accomplished, the authors plan to generate transgenic animals based on mouse cell-derived dopamine cells that express fluorescent reporters for later analysis. They plan to phenotype these cells after selection and finally to transplant these cells into rats. The hope is that these steps which are largely mouse-based will provide clues for the use of human stem cells. QUALITY OF RESEARCH PLAN: This is a very ambitious proposal. Four specific aims are proposed. Aim 1 will facilitate the generation of hESC-derived DA neurons for fluorescent labeling to select pure populations of dopamine neurons and their precursors using homologous recombination in mouse and human ESCs, to be inserted downstream from genes marking midbrain dopamine neurons (i.e. en1,lmx1a, nurr1, ptx3, and DAT). Specific Aim 2 will optimize each stage of differentiation of mouse and human ESC differentiation to dopamine neurons. Using the human and mouse ESCs developed in the previous aim, ESCs will be differentiated to labeled progenitors, midbrain neurons,and mesencephalic dopamine neurons using selected differentiation factors such as SHH, FGF8, wnt1 and noggin. Aim 3 will generate transgenic mice with fluorescent labeling of dopamine neurons. The animals created in this aim will establish whether dopamine neurons derived in vitro are the same as mesencephalic DA neurons derived in vivo, using gene microarray phenotyping approaches. Finally, Aim 4 will study transplanted hESC-derived DA neurons in rats. Putative pure populations of human dopamine neurons from Aim 2 will be transplanted into immunosuppressed 6OHDA-lesioned-rats, and both tissue and behavioral analyses will follow. The PI claims that all of these studies can be conducted in the 4 year funding period, but the PI also points out, "…It is possible that by year 4, pilot studies of transplants of purified, hESC-derived dopamine neurons could be transplanted into the rhesus monkey model of Parkinson's disease. Because the proposed budget is not adequate to pay for such studies, additional grant funds would have to be sought…." It is possible that both additional time, effort, and funds would have to be available to be able to create new transgenic animals in addition to generating the new hES-derived precursors, as well as phenotype all of the new lines both in vitro and in vivo (i.e. following grafting). There are concerns about feasibility for Aim 1; it is overambitious with regard to the generation of human lines, while the availability/use for mouse lines is much less critical for the field. Aim 2 is vague and does not provide any details on the actual conditions to be used for optimizing DA neuron differentiation. Aim 3 does not address the ultimate goal of hESC DA neuronal differentiation and rather serves more as a confirmatory study for the mouse ES lines generated in Aim 1. Aim 4 is rather limited in scope and does not properly address the main limitations in DA neuron grafting which is poor survival/maintenance of DA neuron progeny. It is unlikely that the trophic factor pretreatments proposed will resolve the current limitations in this area. In summary, this approach has been used previously with fetal neurons with limited success. Therefore the generation of potentially suitable human DA neurons, is an important goal. The methodologies used in this proposal are largely established (transplantation differentiation methodologies). This field and the grant has suffered a setback with recent studies by the Goldman lab as mentioned above. Overall this is an ambitious proposal. STRENGTHS: Both Drs. Bankiewicz and Freed are clear experts in the PD grafting field. Dr Freed has already significant experience in the hESC DA neuron field. They make a good team for grafting the best candidate DA neuron precursors from either rodent or human ESCs. The generation of new transgenic mice reporter lines, and developing more intensive fluorophores (e.g. TDT) to label transcription factors that might have a low level of expression could be quite useful. There is preliminary data on the generation of DA neurons, and some limited data on in vivo survival. However, the knock-in data are limited to mouse cells and to a single gene not very relevant for DA neuron purification/grafting strategies. The PI mentions that microarray experiments could lead to the identification of novel surface markers on indigenous A9 DA neuron precursors (both mouse and human) that could facilitate separation and enrichment protocols for all of the ESC studies proposed here. This would be an important contribution to the field, but in itself a very all-encompassing project. This grant is heavily depended upon, the intense participation of Dr. Hoffer. Dr. Hoffer includes a letter indicating that he plans to spend 50% of his time in the laboratory in San Francisco over 4 years, by combining both the sabbatical and leave of absence from his position as Professor and Head of the Division of his Department. This is an extremely unusual statement and probably needs to be verified since without Dr. Hoffer's participation this grant should not be provided or furthermore, should it be funded, this reviewer would expect mandatory confirmation that Dr. Hoffer is spending 50% of his time, in this state, rather then just taking advantage of the large amount of California State money dedicated to stem cell research. WEAKNESSES: Purification of DA neuronal progeny is one of the limiting factors and the knock-in lines proposed here could be very valuable to the field. However, there is little acknowledgment of the difficulties in generating human knock-in lines, lack of preliminary data for human cells, and lack of novel strategies that could make homologous recombination more efficient in hESCs. Aim 2& 4 are too limited in scope to make a major contribution to the field. Unfortunately, this proposal is largely based on use of mouse cells with an essentially little data that this can be carried out in hESCs. The investigators have provided some preliminary work in mice, but it is not at all clear that this can be translated to humans. This approach is completely offset by recent studies by Goldman who has already differentiated hESCs into DA neurons. It would be far more favorable to utilize the information garnished from the Goldman studies to revise this grant proposal taking to account the new studies available rather to initiate new steps that are likely to fail. Another weakness is the fact that this grant is almost entirely mouse-based with only a loose link and hope that what the investigators learn in mice will be easily translatable to humans. One reviewer noted that there is a need to not just focus on DA neuron cell replacement; both rodent and primate models should be established that favor optimization of cell/drug protection and replacement protocols for all of the neuronal groups (e.g. vagal, brainstem reticular, raphe, and cortex) at risk in PD. Aim 1 is too ambitious with regard to hESC gene knock-in. Preliminary data with hESCs would be required to make such a plan viable. World-wide there are very few karyotypically normal hESC knock-in lines, and it is not clear what technological improvement should increase the efficiency to the levels proposed here. Aim 2 does not propose truly innovative approaches to enhance DA neuron differentiation. The studies proposed in Aim 3 will generate tg mice with fluorescent labeling of DA neurons with the aim to establish whether DA neurons expanded and differentiated in vitro are phenotypically similar to midbrain DA neurons generated in vivo, using microarray profiling experiments. Though virtuous in intent, this is not as easy to do as it sounds, and could occupy the bulk of work on this proposal. There is no reason to assume that outlier genes will provide obvious insights into the generation of a midbrain DA neuron fingerprint that will facilitate in vivo repair approaches. Like Aim 2, Aim 4 does not propose truly innovative approaches to enhance DA neuron survival in vivo. It seems that the data presented in Figures 4 and 5 represent some of the most crucial of this proposal. However, it also seems that this work is already underway in Colorado, and also in need of additional information on what striatal diffusible factors might be involved in this preliminary observation that could so much influence the course of the studies proposed here. One reviewer felt that preliminary data on human homologous recombination would be required for the current proposal. Alteratively, Aim 1 should be scaled back with a stronger focus on Aims 2& 4. This reviewer also recommended making aim 1 less open-ended. Aims 2 & 4 will require more innovative approaches than those proposed to properly address the current limitations in the field. The contribution of Dr. Bankiewicz to the project is unclear. Most of the work seems to be the expertise and area of interest of Dr. Freed, who proposes to move for 50% of his time from Colorado to California for a sabbatical during the grant period. Dr. Hoffer includes a letter indicating that he plans to spend 50% of his time in the laboratory in San Francisco over 4 years, by combining both the sabbatical and leave of absence from his position as Professor and Head of the Division of his Department. This is an extremely unusual statement and probably needs to be verified since without Dr. Hoffer's participation this grant should not be provided or furthermore, should it be funded, this reviewer would expect mandatory confirmation that Dr. Hoffer is spending 50% of his time, in this state, rather then just taking advantage of California State money. DISCUSSION: This is an important issue and both investigators are experts in therapeutic application of cells in a primate model and in humans, and so could certainly make a contribution. The proposal, however is very open-ended. The team is good, but there is a huge amount of work to be done by the collaborator in Colorado who says he'll be in California 50% of the time. The reviewers thought this is unlikely. There are many concerns with the science. The PI will be using homologous recombination (HR) to insert many genes upstream and downstream of all trendy dopaminergic pathway genes. A lot of cell lines are already being generated by others. This is an open ended generation of lines for producing new transgenics which is a huge amount of work similar to that being done in many other labs. It would be hard to justify unless it is a much better approach. Generating the GFP knock-ins by HR is the main approach here. This is very challenging in a single line let alone in 5 or 6 lines; this is one of the main weaknesses and there is no preliminary data presented. Moreover the PI is not an expert in HR and may not be able to overcome technical challenges. The PI has expertise in the applications of the cells, and since hESC-derived DA neuronal populations may make teratomas, the purification steps proposed for these cells could be interesting. However, here they are using published protocols for differentiation, and one reviewer was concerned about the studies in Aim 3 to maintain the DA neuronal phenotype using growth factors. Also, in the end this proposal looks more like the PI will be creating DA neurons in the mouse, and will perhaps do the work in humans later. There are better protocols for the dervation of DA neurons from hESC, and the proposed plan is not a better approach. Enthusiasm was not high.

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Winfield pushed across two runs in the bottom of the first inning, but Cordova battled back.
The Blue Devils got on the scoreboard with a Hunter Gilmore home run over the left field fence in the second inning.
Cordova (27-11) took the lead in the third.
Zac Guerra reached on an infield single with one out to start the rally. Cam Honeycutt followed with a bloop single to centerfield.
After Stephen Kilpatrick loaded the bases with a walk, Andrew Minor smacked a single to left field to drive in Guerra with the tying run.
Jeffre Wingo drove in Honeycutt with a sacrifice fly for a 3-2 Cordova lead.
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I am suprised that you allow adds such as the one I saw while reading the forum. Did you know these are shown on your forum??
Dosent look like porn to me! It looks like some good looking women who are looking for a man. Hardly pornographic.
I have seen photos of some of our forumn subscribers that are more offensive and not as good looking.
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A few years back I too mentioned that the ads were getting a bit risqué. I was told that the webmaster does allow ads in order to finance the website, but that he does not control what is shown.
Now here is the interesting part. The ad company is somehow able to show ads from websites that you have visited, so one member does not always get the same ads as another member. Recently I have been looking at websites that have lamps and cooktops. Now I am seeing ads for those two items in the ad banners on this website. Also when I do get the ladies (sometimes men) pictures they usually say something like, Meet singles in the (my city) area. So they can even get my location when I am online.
The good news is I have also been told that this involves cookies that are set on your computer whenever you visit websites and that if you delete your cookies frequently and if you set your security settings higher, you will not get these ads. But Im not sure about thatjust something Ive been told. Perhaps someone with more technology savvy can give you better advice.
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I use Firefox and installed Adblocker so I never see any ads at all on here. I didn't even know we had any here.
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I'm getting the "women," too. What makes them think I'm interested in meeting women?
Wonder what website I went to that caused that....
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I have never been to any of this type of site and never plan to. What I am also concerned is there can be young children using this site as well to read and would see and maybe go to this website. I would think you could stress that these type of adds are not acceptable.
Today it is ok to do and say things that are improper and then have to get something to remove them. On TV you can see that they are using foul language but they just blank it out. That is just the next step to allowing it in the future.
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Clown fishes live in close association with large sea anemones. Each species has a preferred anemone host, although, most occasionally occur in a number of other anemone species, and individual anemones occasionally host more than one species of anemone fish.
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4.03/5 rDev +1.5%
thanks to Josh for this
pours a light golden yellow, very little head if any. some faint retention.
juicy fruit, mainly mango, pineapple, and tangerine on the nose.
light but flavorful. taste has some tropical fruit with a mix of pine and rye bitterness. the rye really stands out. some light grapefruit.
very light. with the lack of head, hiss from the growler when opened, i expected this to be pretty flat but it has some nice bite to it actually.
for 3.5%, i could chug this all day long. very good.
10-08-2012 01:32:52 | More by hooliganlife
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10-14-2012 12:44:43 | More by PaBeerLover
4/5 rDev +0.8%
10-27-2012 15:37:50 | More by mdillon86
4/5 rDev +0.8%
10-07-2012 22:48:27 | More by rumorsofsurf
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
09-29-2012 06:27:14 | More by BeerForHokie
3.88/5 rDev -2.3%
First had: on tap at the brewpub
A pale ale using "lots of rye" and Cascade hops.
Nice looking beer, pale, golden-yellow, clearish, with a small white head; moderate retention and lacing. Very slow pouring out of the tap for some reason. Aroma was definitely the high point of this beer, with a big whiff of fresh Cascade hops flooding the nasal cavities; citrusy mostly, with some sweet cereal grain coming through. After that aroma, the taste was just a bit of a let-down, but you also have to remember, this is a 3.5%ABV beer, and relatively speaking, this was a nice flavor for a "session" beer. Citrus hops, bready rye malts with a touch of peppery spice, toasted grain, and something a little out of place, like a little butteriness perhaps, which kept this from being a primo-tasting pale ale to me. Smooth mouthfeel, light-medium body, crisp and drinkable. Pushing the boundaries of what you can do with lower-alcohol beers.
09-19-2012 03:05:29 | More by Rifugium
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07-10-2013 15:16:17 | More by Greenplastic615
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01-15-2013 23:43:51 | More by ForkAndSpoonOp
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09-30-2012 23:03:30 | More by DaveHack
4/5 rDev +0.8%
On tap at Tired Hands.
Pours bright gold, nearly clear, with a big white head that settles down slowly. Nicely clinging lace on the glass. Hop forward aroma with subtle rye spiciness; citrusy, tropical fruits, lemons and grapefruit, mangoes, a hint of crackery malt.
Nicely dry, with a gentle crackery, slightly toasted bready malt flavor and the peppery, spicy rye character emerging a bit on the back end. Otherwise a clean and bitter hoppy taste with lots of lemony citrus, pine, and tropical fruit notes and a lingering bitter aftertaste.
Medium light bodied, medium carbonation, a bit crisper and bubblier than is customary for this brewery but still quite smooth. Easy drinking and flavorful, nice job with such a low ABV brew.
10-26-2012 13:02:02 | More by tobelerone
4.13/5 rDev +4%
On Tap at the brew cafe in Ardmore.
The everyday complications has a nice bright golden shine to it with some faded yellow and light bronze hints peeking out. I am graced with a sturdy inch of white stuff that clings to the glass, rings around the glass with nice patterns. A nice amount of bubbles keeping the cap intact. The smell on this is large and for a small 3.5% beer like this, it's quite the smeller. A big amount of hops, west coast style, a biscuit bite, citrus, smells like some port DIPA's. A nice malt backing with some rye popping out with warming. While this smells like a DIPA, it tastes more like a single IPA, and feels like a pale ale. A nice amount of hop presence in taste, citrus from some hop choices, grapefruit, mango, small pine, rye malt, no alcohol. Nice taste on this. Feel is light bodied and has some bitter capabilities. Carb is there and keeps things alive on the tounge. While it smells like a hop bomb, it's not, yet it's there, if that makes sense. At 3.5% I will be ordering more big pints of this again.
09-24-2012 20:15:41 | More by BARFLYB
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10-19-2012 18:28:20 | More by GeoffreyM
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09-24-2012 23:55:42 | More by jwat
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01-31-2013 23:04:48 | More by callmemickey
3.65/5 rDev -8.1%
on tap at the brewery
Pours a slightly hazed copper with a crop of white head. A bubbled collar and spotty lacing dot the glass.
Bitter hoppiness with some notable rye spice in the nose alongside some bread crust and grain. There's a light sweetness that lies underneath.
Starts off with a nice dosage of spicy rye with soft hops and a light citric kick. Dry and bitter with some softer malt backbone flavor. Hints of bread crust and grain with a light, almost buttery sweetness. Finishes dry with another kick of rye.
Lighter body, well carbonated, sticky on the tongue but pretty thin overall. Quite impressive flavor for the low ABV.
10-06-2012 21:42:42 | More by xnicknj
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01-29-2013 16:49:01 | More by Retail1LO
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11-10-2012 03:10:24 | More by stephenjmoore
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09-19-2012 11:34:39 | More by dnb128
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10-12-2012 15:23:05 | More by comfortablynirm
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I am relatively new to Scandinavian-style blades, and wanted to post some pictures of my first two blades - I call them "brothers" because they share the same scale materials.
The first is a Poul Strande 85 Damascus blade. He makes such nice blades - absolutely beautiful steel. The scales are stabilized Karelian birch, white fiber spacers, a damasteel bolster, and something a bit non-traditional - a piece of antique maroon linen Micarta. The Micarta is an original recipe from Westinghouse and is over 50 years old. It is nothing like the commercial phenolic laminates available today - it is much denser, harder, and takes a lustrous finish. The knife is finished with only a bit of Renaissance Wax and buffing.
The "brother" knife is an Enzo Nordic 95 in O1 steel. I made this knife to be a user for woodcarving and camping. The O1 steel will take a fantastically-sharp edge. I'm looking forward to putting it through its paces. The scale is stabilized Karelian birch and antique maroon Westinghouse Micarta - both from the same blocks as its brother. The spacers are blue fiber and the bolster is brass.
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Oregon State University scientists say they've discovered an eruption of an undersea volcano about 250 miles off the Oregon Coast.
The April 6 eruption produced a lava flow at least 1.2 miles wide, scientists say, and there were hundreds of tiny earthquakes during the eruption.
The volcano, named Axial Seamount, last erupted in 1998, and the team of OSU scientists forecasted it would erupt again before 2014. Oregon State scientists say this marks the first-ever successful forecast of an undersea volcano.
The new eruption was discovered July 28 when scientists used a robot to find a new lava flow on the seafloor that was not present a year ago. Because only a handful of the earthquakes were detected from land, scientists did not initially believe there was an eruption.
Bill Chadwick, an OSU geologist, says the team of scientists thought they were in the wrong place because the seafloor looked so different.
"We couldn't find our markers or monitoring instruments or other distinctive features on the bottom," he says. "Once we figured out that an eruption had happened, we were pretty excited."
When they recovered seafloor instruments and recorders, the scientists learned the volcanic eruption took place April 6.
"So far, it is hard to tell the full scope of the eruption because we discovered it near the end of the expedition," Chadwick says. "But it looks like it might be at least three times bigger than the 1998 eruption."
"It's the only volcano on the ocean seafloor that had its surface monitored through an entire eruption cycle," says Scott Nooner, of Columbia University.
The scientists now plan to examine samples taken from the seafloor. They'll also try to predict what will happen next to the volcano.
Chadwick hopes the scientists can build on what they learned in forecasting the latest eruption and apply it to predicting other undersea volcanoes, "and perhaps even volcanoes on land."
"The acid test in science - whether or not you understand a process in nature - is to try to predict what will happen based on your observations," he says.
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Iceland has lowered its aviation alert on its largest volcano after a fresh eruption on a nearby lava field prompted authorities to enforce a flight ban for several hours.
Students ranging from 10 to 17 years of age learn the basics of shooting a gun at a gun gallery in Plano, Ill. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Pakistani anti-government protesters stormed the state TV building on Monday, forcing the channel briefly off air as they clashed with police.
Malaysia Airlines will shed 6,000 workers as part of an overhaul to revive its damaged brand after being hit by double passenger jet disasters. (Aug. 29)
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Lord James of Blackheath (Con): My Lords, I have indicated previously the impact that forced migration has had upon my family. We had in the Queen's Speech a Bill for dealing with the abuse of children and the intention to bring forward better controls over trafficking. Those are closely connected. This country has a terrible record in its handling of the migration of its own subjects. It has combined the most appalling suffering of children with the most appalling lack of management of the migration process to get the worst of every world. There should be no smugness around these two initiatives going forward. It is a very small penance to pay for a very big crime.
It started in 1682. The first migration in this country happened when one of the early colonies in North America was raided by the Indians, who took all 84 of its children and would not give them back. No one knows what happened to them. The colony sent a communication back to England by the first available boat saying, "Look, we have no children and therefore no future. Send us some children". The Mayor of London was asked to deal with it and he did. He sent his beadles out on to the streets of London and took the first 84 vagrant kids he could find. He sent them down to a boat at Rotherhithe and sent them to America. He told the captain that he could pay for the trip by taking the kids out and bringing it back with a load of tobacco on board and that would pay for it, and it did. Unfortunately, it created the precedent of making it seem that trafficking these children was profitable, which it was. More


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Raspberry Sorbet for Two Recipe
You won't believe that you made this refreshing, fruity sorbet yourself! Our Test Kitchen came up with this healthy freezer fare that will satisfy even your sweetest tooth.
- 4-1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1-1/4 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- In a food processor, combine all ingredients; cover and process until smooth. Pour into two dessert dishes. Cover and freeze for 1 hour or until edges begin to firm. Stir and return to freezer. Freeze 1-1/2 hours longer or until firm. Remove from the freezer 15 minutes before serving. Yield: 2 servings.
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This is very easy to make with just 3 ingredients and my Champ HP3 blender. The hard part was waiting for it to freeze before eating. It might be sweeter than it needs to be. I might try it with less sugar or more raspberries next time. I also wonder how it would be with honey instead of powdered sugar. Raspberries are my favorite fruit, I think.
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Heart conditions affecting sex life
12:29am Tuesday 24th June 2014 in National News © Press Association 2014
More than one million people in the UK could have stopped having sex lives altogether as a result of a heart condition, a leading charity has said.
Heart patients and their GPs should talk openly about sex issues, the British Heart Foundation said, after its survey found nearly a fifth of people with heart conditions, or 19%, found sex impossible and nearly a third, or 32%, have had sex less often as a result of their condition.
One in five respondents said they were worried about having a heart attack or cardiac arrest during sex.
The survey of 1,511 patients for the BHF magazine Heart Matters found 14% had lost interest in sex because of the emotional impact of their condition. Nearly half the men surveyed, 46%, said medication for their condition had caused erectile dysfunction.
The charity said more than seven million people in the UK suffer from heart and circulatory conditions including stroke and the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation.
Based on the survey results, it estimated that more than one million people could have stopped having sex because of their heart condition.
In spite of the widespread problem, the charity said 30% had not discussed the issue with anyone including their doctor and 8% said they would have liked to get professional help but could not.
Doireann Maddock, senior cardiac nurse at the BHF, said: " Sex is a hugely important part of life, but isn't getting the attention it deserves in the consultation room.
"We're hearing loud and clear from Heart Matters readers that they need better support and information on how to deal with issues affecting their sex lives.
"Problems like erectile dysfunction can often be tackled and rectified, but the first hurdle is identifying people who need that help.
"We'd like patients to feel comfortable and empowered to raise these issues, and for the NHS to proactively offer support in this area to everyone who needs it."


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By Mary Hoff
Vultures and fungi, maggots and bacteria. When you think of the wonders of nature, creatures like these might not be at the top of your list. But they really are wonder-full. They are nature's recyclers. They turn detritus -- dead bodies, waste products, and other things that once were part of living plants or animals -- into air, water, and nutrients. Without this demolition crew, living things would quickly run out of the building blocks everyone needs to survive and thrive.
This cycle of life frees nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, hydrogen, and other elements that make up plants, animals, and other living organisms. Then those atoms can become part of other living things. Many of the atoms inside your cells and tissues were once inside something else. You might contain carbon that used to be part of a peacock, or hydrogen that was once trapped in an oak tree. Thanks to nature's recyclers, a peacock's carbon and an oak tree's hydrogen can be recycled and made available to become part of you too.
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Nature's recyclers come in two main kinds: detritivores and decomposers. This story tells about some of them and how they work.
Detritivores are animals that eat detritus. They tear, chew, and grind once-living things into tiny pieces. With the help of bacteria inside them, these animals use some of the bits to build their own bodies. Then they send the rest of the bits through their digestive tracts and back out into the world. Snails, crows, foxes, and dung beetles are all detritivores.
It's a steamy summer day. Waves of heat rise from the road pavement into the air above. With them rises the odor emanating from a very flat raccoon -- roadkill.
Flying above the highway, a turkey vulture catches the scent of ethyl mercaptan, a gas given off when dead things start to rot. Searching the land below, the big bird spies the dead raccoon and swoops in.
Stepping on the raccoon to hold it in place, the vulture tears at the skin and muscle with its hooked beak. It sticks its almost bald head into the dead animal. It grabs and gobbles up bits of flesh. Special strong acids in its stomach kill the bacteria that are giving the raccoon its funny smell, so the vulture won't get food poisoning. When the vulture finishes its meal, it sits in the sun. The sun bakes the dried blood from the vulture's bald head, helping prevent disease-causing bacteria from growing on it.
Brown bullheads (Ameiurus nebulosus)
These fish live at the bottom of lakes and rivers. A brown bullhead eats mainly at night, feeding mostly on aquatic insects and small fish. But a bullhead will eat pretty much anything it can find and fit into its mouth. "Anything" includes dead fish, dead insects, and other detritus.
If you look a bullhead in the face, you will see that it has eight wormlike attachments sprouting out from around its mouth. These attachments, called barbels, have taste buds. The bullhead can wiggle two of these barbels as it swims along the lake or river bottom. When it tastes something that could be food, the bullhead eats it.
American toad tadpoles (Bufo americanus)
In early spring, as the snow melts, puddles form in low places. American toads lay their eggs in the standing water. When tadpoles hatch from the eggs, they begin eating and growing.
What do you think they find to eat in the temporary puddles or ponds? If you are thinking dead leaves, you are right! When a tadpole sucks water into its mouth, bits of dead leaves follow along. The leaf bits get trapped in mucus inside its mouth. The tadpole uses the energy and nutrients from the dead leaves to grow.
House fly larvae (Musca domestica)
What better place to lay eggs than where lots of food will be available for the little ones to eat when they hatch? House flies have that plan figured out. They lay their eggs in manure, dog droppings, garbage, and bodies of dead things. When their wormlike larvae, called maggots, hatch out from the eggs, they start to eat the tasty treat. After about five days of feeding, a maggot turns into a pupa. After another one to two weeks, a fly emerges, ready to fly off and lay eggs of its own.
Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus)
Deer mice eat lots of living things, such as plant seeds and insects. But they also will nibble on a dead animal if they find one.
After white-tailed deer shed their antlers in late winter, deer mice gnaw at them. The antlers provide calcium, phosphorus, and protein that the deer mice need to stay healthy. Gnawing on antlers also helps keep the deer mouse's teeth from growing too long.
When a turkey vulture feels threatened, it throws up.
A bullhead has taste buds covering its entire body.
In one Minnesota study, detritus made up almost three-quarters of the food of American toad tadpoles.
Some kinds of fly maggots are used in medicine to help severe wounds heal by eating the dead tissue around the edges.
A deer mouse sometimes eats its own droppings. This behavior, called coprophagy, allows it to get more nutrients out of its food the second time around.
Decomposers are not animals. They are other living things, such as bacteria and fungi. For example, bread mold and mushrooms are decomposers. Decomposers make chemicals that turn proteins, fats, and other big molecules into small molecules. Other living things, such as fish, frogs, and you, can use these small molecules to build new proteins, fats, and other big molecules for themselves.
Turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor)
If you've ever seen a rotting log, you probably have seen this mushroom. But you may not have known its name. Turkey tail grows on dead branches and stumps everywhere. The part you see -- the fruiting body -- grows in fanned layers out from the wood. It has bands of color, like the tail feathers of a turkey. The edge is often whitish. The underside is whitish too.
Turkey tail breaks down lignin, one of the compounds that makes wood strong. It does this by sending hyphae, microscopic threads, in between the cells of the dead wood. The hyphae give off enzymes that break lignin down into hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. Then they take up the bits and use them to make more turkey tail mushrooms. Eventually the turkey tail dies, and its molecules become available for other living things.
Soil bacteria (Streptomyces species)
The fresh fragrance of moist soil is due to a bacterium known as Streptomyces. The earthy smell comes from a compound called geosmin. Streptomyces bacteria are too small to see without a microscope. They live in the soil. They find big molecules in dead leaf bits and animal droppings and break them down into little molecules, which other animals can use to build their bodies.
Turkey tail mushrooms make compounds that make people's immune systems stronger. Scientists are studying whether these compounds could be used to help fight cancer.
Streptomyces is a major source of antibiotic medicines, which fight infections caused by other bacteria.
For some summer fun, have a rot-a-thon with some friends. Ask your grownups for overripe or bruised fruit to set outdoors where you think lots of recyclers will be able to reach it. (Find a place pets can't reach, or they may recycle it all at once for you.) Check your fruit regularly for nibble marks from mice, ants, flies, or wasps, and for growth of different kinds of mold or bacteria. Race with your rot-a-thoner friends to see who finds the biggest variety of nature's recyclers. Something to think about: For best results, should your fruit be in the sun, the shade, or both? Why?
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'Holliston': A horror of a different color
The former producer of your local cable commercials on the South Shore has graduated to national scripted television.
Adam Green, the director of indie slasher comedy "Hatchet" and Sundance-premiered drama "Frozen," retreated to his local roots for his TV series debut, "Holliston," which premieres tomorrow night on FEARnet.
Set locally in the town of Holliston, the "Big Bang Theory" meets "Evil Dead 2″ sitcom tells the tale of two college grads, Adam (Green) and Joe (Joe Lynch), who aspire to be successful horror filmmakers. Yet, the best friends are poor twentysomethings who host late-night horror movie marathons at the local cable station. Green, who grew up in Holliston, says the show is autobiographical.
"This show embraces struggle," he says. And he's not just talking about the struggle to get from Holliston to Hollywood, but also the struggle to figure out which roommate finished the peanut butter.
"That's how broke we are," says Green, who is also the show's creator and producer. "It's funny to laugh now at that — but it's all real, even the relationship stuff: At the core of the show, my character is trying to get over the breakup with his childhood sweetheart."
But one big difference between Green's career in filmmaking and the show is that his previous life had no laugh track.
"In some ways, TV is a lot more fun because it moves so much faster and it's a lot more like live theater," he says, referring to the audience.
Green says his main motive for making "Holliston" is his passion for horror.
"I think that horror fans are misunderstood," he muses. "People think if you're a horror person, you're only into seeing people getting dismembered. Horror people are normal people. … They just happen to be into this stuff."
With "Holliston," Green may have found the perfect way to combine his interest in media production with horror — and he has certainly found his way out of being a poor twentysomething.
"In no other career do you find yourself standing in a swamp in the middle of the night, throwing fake blood on naked women," he says.


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Investors know what's working and what's not. Jim Cramer says these stocks could power higher through the end of the year.
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Any twists in these dramas could impact the market. Keep your eye on them.
- Tesla hits record after analyst sets $400 target
Analyst says investors' enthusiasm for the stock is like a 'freight train.'
The six-month ordeal has been painful medicine for the company and its investors. But executives are looking ahead.
Are better times coming for General Motors (GM)?
There's a palpable feeling around Detroit headquarters that it has put the worst of the ignition switch recall crisis behind it -- and the company will emerge stronger for it.
Sure, there is a lot of work still to be done cleaning up the damage: getting the affected cars brought in for repairs, making sure that spare parts and qualified service people are available, and paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in damage claims.
But the cascade of notices that have brought about 29 million recalls of GM vehicles since February -- and dominated the news coverage -- seems to be running its course, notwithstanding reports of a federal probe into the behavior of the company's legal division.
Barry Bannister raises his year-end target for the S&P 500 to 2,300 but says getting there won't be easy.
One of Wall Street's biggest bears just did an about-face with his outlook for stocks.
Barry Bannister, chief macro and portfolio strategist at Stifel Nicolaus, raised his year-end target for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) by 20 percent, from 1,800 to 2,300.
"Well, it's definitely a bull market when a flat view is the most bearish view out there," he said Friday on CNBC's "Halftime Report."
Bannister noted that the 7 percent gain for stocks year-to-date is "exactly in the middle in August-to-date changes for the S&P in the last 100 years. It's a pretty ordinary market."
When a company like Roche buys InterMune for $8 billion and calls it a mere bolt-on, you know you're seeing signs of a much bigger trend.
You want to know what's the biggest change that has come over mergers and acquisitions in the past few years? No, it is not inversions. It's the definition of "bolt-on." This morning I sat and listened in amazement to how Roche described the $8.38 billion purchase of InterMune (ITMN) as a bolt-on acquisition that fits right into the company's emphasis on pulmonary care drugs.
Since when is $8.3 billion a bolt-on? That's like saying that a Cartier ring is a bolt-on to your jewelry collection.
In truth, all of the major drug companies are challenged for new products and are scrambling to make acquisitions just like this one, even as it is a 38 percent premium to where the stock went out on Friday and the stock was already up 265 percent for the year. They are scrambling because their own labs simply seem incapable of the kind of greenfield breakthroughs that biotechs are developing.
These companies won't soar like other plays in the sector, but they make for great income sources.
By Jeff Reeves
Finding the best tech stocks to buy can be hard in any market, considering the fast-moving nature of the technology sector.
But it's especially hard for income-oriented investors, given that many of the best tech stocks out there are high-growth companies plowing money into expansion instead of dividends.
If you're looking for good dividend stocks in the technology sector, then it's important to acknowledge that these names are naturally not the same as the sexiest small-cap tech stocks out there. Most of these players are older and more mature technology companies, with the largest part of their growth behind them. That maturity isn't a bad thing, though -- just like the dividend stocks among consumer staples stocks or utility stocks, a mature and stable company is frequently the best source of dividends.
Just don't expect 100 percent earnings growth each quarter.
Investors need to rethink that often-repeated belief, because times have definitely changed.
Do you believe in magic?
Fifty years after the Lovin' Spoonful first posed the question, we have to ask it yet again. And it seems that for a lot of people on Wall Street the answer is emphatically . . . Yes!
They believed in magic in the late 1990s. Maybe it was the influence of Harry Potter. They believed in magic in 2006. Maybe it was due to "Twilight" and all those vampires. And apparently they believe in magic today. Can we credit "The Walking Dead" and the appearance of zombies on our TV screens? Who knows?
Stock market investors still believe in the supernatural, to judge by their enthusiasm for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) at current prices.
Magic? Supernatural? What am I talking about?
A new survey asks employees around the country to rank their company's culture and values. Many in the top 10 were, not surprisingly, in tech.
Employees at companies with self-proclaimed great cultures get a lot of perks -- among them freebies like organic meals, dry cleaning, haircuts and child care; unlimited vacation and stipends for personal trips; complimentary massages and yoga classes; dedicated rooms for napping.
But do these things make them happier workers?
Job search site GlassDoor.com revealed the results of its "top companies for culture and values" survey on Friday, in which it asked employees at companies around the country to rank their company's culture and values.
The athletic-wear underdog could be offering a huge contract to the basketball star.
The Baltimore-based company has been scoring a number of key endorsements lately, including golfer Jordan Spieth.
Now, it's going after one of the biggest stars in basketball -- Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (pictured).
Under Armour is reportedly offering Durant -- who has long been loyal to Nike (NKE) -- a package worth as much as $285 million over 10 years.
It would be Under Armour's biggest endorsement deal, representing about 10 percent of its annual marketing budget, according to ESPN.
So far, the chain is only testing the offering in a few locations. It's ramping up its breakfast menu nationwide, however.
Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A is inarguably a Southern chicken chain. Chicken and waffles is (arguably) a popular Southern dish. Chick-fil-A serves chicken, and it's tested waffles before.
Now, at long last, the chain brings the two together in a chicken-and-waffles test that is going on in central Georgia (Macon, Dublin, and Warner Robins); Memphis, Tenn.; Philadelphia; and Inland Empire, Calif.
It's not a sandwich. The chain describes the new item as "a breakfast portion" of boneless, seasoned chicken breast served alongside a maple syrup-flavored waffle, with a side of honey.
Chick-fil-A, which recently launched a new specialty coffee program to draw in more morning customers, is testing other breakfast items, too, including an egg-white chicken grill sandwich, a Greek yogurt parfait, oatmeal, and cinnamon swirl pastries.
Short sellers, expecting a weak fall shopping season, are counting on poor reports from retailers.
While many retailers spin humdrum quarters with shining previews of the back-to-school shopping season, short sellers are placing big bets that parents' wallets will not be so open.
Although short positions have grown slightly throughout the entire retail sector, those companies with "more skin in the back to school game" have seen the brunt of these bets, Markit analyst Simon Colvin wrote in a note identifying the trend.
These companies include teen clothing retailers such as American Eagle (AEO) and Aeropostale (ARO), but also include department stores like Kohl's (KSS) and Macy's (M) that have pegged their near-term outlooks to back-to-school success.
A new paper argues that automation is polarizing the labor market, creating more jobs at both ends of the skills spectrum.
In an essay in The Wall Street Journal last month, Harvard University economist Lawrence Summers envisioned a world in which computers and machines displace a vast new array of human work, creating an economy that produced few opportunities and sources of income for actual people.
Taxis wouldn't need drivers, nor retailers cashiers or banks financial analysts.
"The challenge for economic policy will increasingly be generating enough work for all who need work for income, purchasing power and dignity," he argued.
David Autor, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor, argues in a paper to be presented Friday to central bankers at the Kansas City Fed's Jackson Hole symposium that automation is creating a different kind of problem for the economy.
A tighter tack on monetary policy does not have to be bad for the economy, the president of the St. Louis Fed says.
Don't fear the hawk. That's what St. Louis Fed President James Bullard told CNBC on Friday -- saying a tighter tack on Fed monetary policy does not have to be bad for the economy.
"It means the committee could be more confident that the economy is going to improve in the future and handle the higher [interest] rates which will eventually come," he said on "Squawk Box," ahead of Fed Chair Janet Yellen's Friday morning address at the central bank's monetary symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Bullard said he's sticking with his prediction for rate hikes to start late in the first quarter of 2015. He won't be a voting member of the Fed's policy committee again until 2016.
The financial markets have been trading more dovishly than the Fed policy committee's median estimates, he warned -- adding that investors are expecting rates over the long haul to remain lower than the central bank's forecasts.
Putin, not Yellen, will determine what the market does next.
It's too bad that the Jackson Hole conference is today and that Fed chief Janet Yellen is speaking, because that will allow people to be deluded into thinking that it isn't Russia-Ukraine that's driving things but the Fed's machinations about rates.
It's Russia, stupid. It has been from the beginning, because while Europe has only 6 percent of the world's population, it accounts for about 30 percent of the GDP.
The banks, the employment, the sales -- they are all at risk with Russian trucks moving into Ukraine, which then sends down the European markets, which, even after all of these years, still ding us.
I know the rush into the domestic retailers is, in part, because they are way behind and, in part, because they have nothing to do with overseas. They aren't hurt by the ubiquitous strong dollar.
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DineEquity is trying to entice people back into the traditional restaurant setting and sales at its IHOP and Applebee's chains have been improving.
By Brian Sozzi, TheStreet
It's as if the entire "on-the-go" nation has grown obsessed with grabbing extra-large burritos from Chipotle (CMG) and oversized iced coffees from Starbucks (SBUX), while sidestepping the experience of sitting in a traditional restaurant for a meal.
DineEquity (DIN), which operates 3,600 IHOP and Applebee's locations in some 19 countries, is doing all it can, however, to entice people back into the traditional restaurant setting. By the looks of the company's financial results, especially compared to those from peers Darden (DRI), which owns Olive Garden, and Brinker International (EAT), the operator of Chili's,, efforts by DineEquity management appear to be paying tasty dividends.
IHOP's system-side same-restaurant sales have increased for five consecutive quarters, rising 3.2 percent in the second quarter, while Applebee's rose a more modest 0.6 percent but halted three quarters of declines. Darden's Olive Garden has posted four quarters straight of same-restaurant sales declines, capped by a 3.5 percent fall in the most recent quarter. Chili's had a 2.5 percent same-restaurant sales increase in the second quarter.
Applebee's has outperformed the same-restaurant sales industry average by 150 basis points in the past five quarters, according to Bloomberg.
New legislation is allowing foreign companies to finally invest in the country's vast oil reserves.
By Swarup Gupta
Last week, Mexican President Pena Nieto signed legislation which ended state control over the nation's oil sector, giving private players access to the nation's oil reserves for the first time since 1938.
During that year, the Mexican government expropriated the resources and facilities of private players. These actions led to the creation of state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.
Since then, the company has emerged as the world's seventh largest oil producer and dominated the Mexican energy space. The new legislation, which received legislative approval in December, goes a long way in diminishing Pemex's dominance.
On the other hand, it provides an opening to foreign companies which can now invest in Mexico's vast oil reserves. This includes behemoths like ConocoPhillips (COP) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A).
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