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Expectations are funny, aren't they?
I was at a swanky dinner event at a prestigious private North Shore club a few weeks back with a friend. People were treating me like her date-and technically I was, in the platonic sense, but when a man and a woman are at an event like this people default to the way you would treat a couple, the familiar conversational patterns, the smirks and nods. It's the way we're hardwired. I'm actually convinced it's harder for people to accept when a man and a woman are out together alone platonically than it is for them to believe two people of the same gender are out together romantically.
Anyway, I'm making conversation-it's what I do, I never shut up-and I threw out a phrase that caused at least one jaw to drop.
"Oh, I was the backup plan," I said.
Well, I was. I was there because another guy wasn't. I was also fairly annoyed at this other guy. Not because I didn't want to go. Even halfway through dinner I was still reeling at the dude's excuse. He claimed he hadn't had his new suit tailored and thus had nothing to wear.
This is not a man's excuse to get out of a date.
Every guy has a suit. We have to have a suit. We need a suit for weddings, funerals, and the occasional court date. ("How do you plead?") You should also have one in the event a pretty girl asks you to take her somewhere nice. Have a few ties handy. Keep a shirt dry-cleaned. You don't need to be Daniel Craig in "Casino Royale" here. You just need a suit. I'm a confirmed mess, too-if I could wear a cat-hair repellent black tee shirt, jeans and Doc Martens every day of my life, I'd be pretty content. And even <b>I</b> have a suit.
So, unless the guy had recently lost or gained twenty pounds or accidentally destroyed his last suit-guys know what I mean: we don't throw out the old suit until you can see through it when it's held up to the light-there had to be a sports coat somewhere in his life.
Apparently, the suit excuse was covering up the fact that the guy was going to karaoke instead, but that is neither here nor there. The important part is that I got a text message at four in the afternoon saying, "You're it, what time can you pick me up?"
Up until then, I thought my pretty friend was going to bring a date to said event, and I hadn't quite fully prepared for it, mentally. I mean "fully prepared for it" by "getting ready to be surrounded by rich people." Rich people scare me. I don't know why. They make me nervous. I think it's all that money they have. I need time to prepare. And by prepare, I mean, start drinking or find some sort of prescription to abuse.
I pick her up, she gets in the car, and I say, "You and me, we gotta talk."
I don't handle fear particularly well. My friend does not handle chaos particularly well. This means that by the time we have arrived at the event, we are in a full-blown argument. She's telling me to drop her off and leave. (There's a theme here in my life.) We're extremely animated people. I imagine this is what would happen if Kermit the Frog and Grover from Sesame Street were married and got into a massive argument because they were lost and Kermit would not stop for directions. Arms were flailing. Voices were raised. It was raining Fraggles and Doozers. It was the Muppetocalypse.
I'm not an arguer. I hate arguing. Most of my relationships have been argument free. This isn't to say that I am good at diffusing arguments or that I'm an exceedingly passive "yes ma'am" guy. Quite the opposite. There's a reason a guy ends up thirty-two and living alone with two cats-things don't usually last long enough for an actual argument to happen. I am, shall we say, unequipped for this situation.
We parked the car and went inside.
Inside, things normalize. In part, it's the booze, that her coworkers are really genuinely nice, friendly people, and I never shut up, so it's nice to have new people to talk to. The event is a trip-I'm sworn to secrecy about the actual event, but there were traditions that I swear I will never see repeated again. I have never been surrounded by more perfectly groomed investment bankers with silver-dusted sideburns or more forty-plus year old women with better triceps than me in my entire life. It was a hoot. I was dramatically out of place-a stubble-headed mutt among greyhounds and poodles. It was hilarious.
We're walking out afterwards-it's been a surreal evening, but we survived unscathed and we're still friends, so that's a good thing. As we're walking back to the car, I tell her, when I said "you and me, we gotta talk," I didn't mean we had to talk about us. I just wanted to tell her she can do better than a guy with no suit coat, or a guy who uses a lack of suit-coatedness and karaoke to skip out on a swanky dinner with a pretty girl.
I have a lot of female friends. They're important to me. I watch out for them when I can, stand up for them when they let me, and, in the end, want nothing but the best for them. In return, they tolerate my various quirks and, in general, keep me sane and alive. The fact that they're in my life has caused plenty of problems with the more insecure of my former girlfriends; the ones who have been able to understand why these are my friends have been the best of my relationships, like a barometer for love.
"I wasn't mad at you," I said. "I just want to make sure you find a guy who is better than me."
I mean, that's not too much to ask, is it?
So I'm driving up to New Hampshire a few weeks back with an ex-girlfriend, on our way to get tattoos. This happens with strange regularity, getting tattoos with exes. It's not a romantic thing so much as a logistics thing-nobody likes to go to the tattoo parlor alone. I get along very well with most of my exes. And hey, gas is expensive.
"Remember that shoulder injury?" she says, adroitly breaking the tension barrier. This is the first time we've hung out face to face since breaking up. There is the occasional awkward pause, but it's actually a very pleasant conversation-it's good to see her again.
"Of course I remember the shoulder injury," I say. Because the shoulder injury is, to be blunt, an SRI: a sex-related injury. You generally don't forget those, especially when they send one of you to the emergency room.
"My shoulder was never the same," she says, with a smirk.
It was, perhaps, a defining moment in our relationship. On a humid night in August, we were fooling around, for an extended period of time, basically until we wore ourselves out. Eventually, she gets up and walks across the room. I watch, because she's the sort of girl you should watch walk across a room any chance you might get, and she walks up to a full-length mirror on her bedroom door. She proceeds to stare at her shoulders, noticing that one is no longer as high as the other. I'd later learn that she was silently crying with pain-and this was a woman with a legendary threshold for injury pain.
"I think I dislocated my shoulder," she says.
Oh no, I think.
"Do you need to go to the hospital?" I say instead. There is a long pause. She can be at times a very still person, and when she does this, the entire world stands still with her. I wait.
"Yes," she said. And suddenly we're in my car headed for a local hospital.
Here's the thing. I'm an old pro at taking girlfriends to the hospital in the middle of the night. One of my college girlfriends had a mysterious and unpredictable condition that would leave her in crippling pain almost without warning. I spent entire nights sitting in hospital waiting rooms across all of Massachusetts and Rhode Island with her. I'm pretty good at that part. I've had a lot of practice.
I'm also, for what it's worth, terrified of hospitals. It's part germophobia, it's part bad memories from my own experiences there, but it all adds up to me having a personality transplant when I have to go to an emergency room.
Suffice it to say I was a little… dick-y on the ride over there. She's smart, she picks up on this. I'm being a dick without saying a word. It's remarkably easy.
"You can just drop me off," she says. "I'll take a cab home."
"No," I say. "And if I, or any future man in your life for that matter, ever drops you off and leaves you at the ER by yourself, he should never, ever come back, because he doesn't [expletive] deserve you. Myself included."
Now I feel twice as dick-y. We'll talk about this the next day, when she's not in as much pain and realizes what I wasn't saying-I was being dick-y because I was scared, not mad. For now, though, it's an awkward, quiet car ride to the emergency room. Which is deserted when we arrive. I mean, utterly deserted. It's just us. And let me tell you, the only thing worse than a crowded emergency room is an empty one when one of you is there with an SRI. Trust me.
She checks in and immediately disappears. I'm left with Seinfeld reruns and old magazines.
I hate Seinfeld. I used to love it. At some point in my life, however, I lost my ability to tolerate sitcoms about people who have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It's not actually a show about nothing, it's a show about selfish bastards. And it starts to drive me a little crazy as I'm waiting. Awkwardly. Alone. Looking, let's face it, like someone who was just rolled out of bed to drive to the hospital. I'm in a mild version of my own personal hell, actually. An emergency waiting area with nothing to do but watch Seinfeld reruns.
A nurse comes out.
"Are you waiting for [X]?" she asks. I nod. "Would you like to wait with her?" Of course I would! Because I've been sitting here feeling guilty about a) being dick-y on the car ride over and b) her injury being partially my fault and c) I need to get away from Jerry Seinfeld!
The nurse leads me back into the triage area. A few passing nurses and other staffers smile at me when I pass. As I said, I'm an old pro at the middle of the night hospital visits. I can also identify the sympathetic, knowing smile a nurse will give the boyfriend/girlfriend/family member who is stuck waiting for the injured loved one in the other room.
They are not giving me that sympathetic smile. They're giving me some other smile. I'm vaguely self-conscious. I don't know this smile. It feels somewhere between approving and also the exact opposite of approving.
I arrive at her bedside, and she's in a sling. I am ordered not to make her laugh, because it hurts her shoulder. I immediately make a joke, not on purpose. She laughs. It hurts her shoulder.
"So, you may not want to be here when the doctor gets back," she says.
"Why not," I say.
"Because they asked what I was doing at the time of the injury."
Oh boy.
And, she told me, she had answered, I wasn't sure exactly when it occurred. So they asked her to list and to demonstrate what sort of motions she might have made with arm that night that could have lead to the injury.
"So you…"
Demonstrated the motions, yes.
No wonder they were looking at me funny, I said. They know everything.
Well, she says, it could've been worse, they could have assumed I was beating her. I make another joke-yes, of course, I beat you up but in order to avoid leaving marks I just pull on your arm! And she laughs, and I get yelled at again, because laughing hurts her arm. We're better, then, suddenly. This was at the healthiest peak of our relationship, and I adored her just then. Things would end abruptly and harshly a month or two later, but for that moment, all was right in the world. Except her shoulder, but they were going to give her painkillers for that.
And then, a thought.
"Wait, isn't your mom coming to town this weekend?" I ask.
She is. And her daughter will be wearing a sling. Because of an SRI.
"You're going to tell your mom how this happened, aren't you," I say.
And she did.
I'm striking a popular phrase permanently from my lexicon. That phrase is: "I'll do it if nobody else will." Because this is how you end up doing a nude scene in a film based on one of your own short stories, based on your own dating life.
But, let me start at the beginning.
For the past four years or so, I've been abusing free blogging software in order to run a series of flash fiction/micro-fiction/insert-trendy-literary-terminology-here short stories. I started the blog because I had stopped writing for pleasure—I was a newspaper editor at the time, which, as any newspaper editor will tell you, doesn't leave you with much time to do much else.
So I cranked up and began writing timed stories, a half hour, an hour, fifteen minutes, and if I finished a story in that time frame, good. Done. Published. If I didn't, scrap it and start over. It was forced creativity. It remains one of the smartest things I have ever done with my time.
This went on, as I said, for four years and some of these will appear in this very publication, actually.
A theme developed, of course: love and dating in one's twenties, from the guy perspective, for lack of a better way of putting it. Yes, there were some deviations from the theme—there are large chunks of two separate novellas in there, one of which is mythology-based horror and has no place among the rest of the shorts—but for the most part, the stories are about men and women interacting, the way we communicate and the way we don't. It was a clearinghouse for half-baked thoughts on the stupid things we do to try to find happiness.
So there it sits, on the Internet, for people to see. And sometimes they do. In this case, the person who saw them was the co-director of a Web adventure series I've been involved in, playing a supporting character. I adore the creative team on the series, and consider them friends. One day, the co-director emails me that she's been reading some of the short stories, and thinks several would make for great short films. I'm thrilled. Of course I'll rewrite one into a screenplay! Just tell me which one! I say.
She picks one with a fairly pivotal R-rated nude scene. I actually agree that it's one of the most cinematic of the shorts, and I know I can convert it into a script in a few hours at most.
Now, she says, we just need an actor brave enough to do that scene! And I, being an actor and also having nothing even remotely resembling self-preservation instincts or common sense, say the offending phrase, "I'll do it if no one else will."
Great! She says. And suddenly, I'm playing a character based on what I can only refer to as a really awful version of myself. Also, my rear-end will appear on screen in a way that, for several reasons, can't fully be written out of the script.
I will never be able to run for political office now. I'm doomed.
Let me run down the absolutely nightmarish points of self-consciousness and self-doubt which follow this. You'd think, as the writer and now lead actor, I'd be worried about the script or my performance. Nope! I've used the narrator before, a dumping ground for dark observations and cynicism, and I'm comfortable portraying him. I write the stories to be read out loud, actually, so I'm comfortable with how the dialogue will sound on screen. And I trust the directors completely, so I know they'll do a wonderful job building the short. No, no, performance and script are not the problem.
Full disclosure: I'm an ex fat kid. Seriously. Prior to unrelated life-changing minor surgery and a growth spurt at age 15, I was built like Chunk from The Goonies. As most ex fat kids will tell you, this is a thing that will haunt you the rest of your natural life. I run three to five miles a day and have tried every single weight loss product on the market not out of vanity or a desire to be healthy but because I live in terror that I will some day get fat again. The top of my refrigerator is littered with bottles of polysyllabic "supplements" meant to keep me lean. I've taken years off my life with this stuff. I'm convinced of this.
So, in preparation for this film—which is, mind you, a twelve-page script, not some opus—I have hacked my diet apart, amped up my workouts, and bought an electronic device which shocks your abdominal muscles into shape—which is a topic in and of itself. I don't know if any of this is working. And believe me, I've tried to figure it out. By standing with my back turned to a full-length mirror and trying to see how I'll look in the scene. Frequently, my cat Harley will be looking at me through the mirror, with an expression that smacks of "what in the hell are you doing?"
So yeah, my self-loathing has been kicked into overdrive. Also of concern is that I, like most writers, mine real events in my life for dialogue and themes. And when these things become public, people know. The lead female in the story is not actually based on anyone specific, fortunately. She does, however, make two key statements I've yanked wholesale from women I've dated. I'm still friends with both of them and they are, to be honest, much kinder people than the character in the script. And as much as you can tell someone "that is not based on you," if they hear the character say something they did, in fact, say…
You see where the anxiety comes from. What will really sting is if they both think the character is meant to represent them and I have two angry friends/ex-girlfriends to worry about.
And we haven't even cast the actress who will be playing that role yet. I've flat-out abdicated any responsibility for casting that part. Casting a woman to play someone who might be mistaken for a representation of one (or two) of your ex-girlfriends in a scene that takes place in a bedroom which you wrote and you will be the lead actor in… Were I to be the one to make the casting decision there, I can say without hesitation there is no way it will end well.
Fortunately the directors are smarter than I am. They'll find the right actress. Of course then I need to fret that actresses will turn the part down because I'm in the scene. "Oh. Him? Nah, I changed my mind. Get me out of here." I have backed away from the casting process not only out of propriety, but also out of fear of rejection, obviously.
The real comedy in the end, though, is that I'm proud of the story. It's about two people who connect to each other only through their mutual disconnect to the rest of the world, and it's about someone who wakes up one morning haunted by someone who will never come back again and sets off to dull the pain, for just a little while. I'm looking forward to filming it. I want to film it.
But I'll be living off of black coffee and lettuce until we're done.
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question i have is defending onesself against a great bodily harm threat.back in 2005 i had two back surgeries andone more this
dec.17,07.(spinal fusion) i suppose some form of spray would
be first line of defence. now theres only three times i like to draw
my weapon 1)at the range 2)hunting and 3)cleaning and storage.
now if bg is armed hopefully end the threat but lets say bg is unarm,
guestion i have would be considering my condtion, instead of being
beat to a plulp.would drawing and firing at bg be justifiable or trouble.
(maybe better to ask attorney) also any fellow members that would
be in the same boat with any suggestions/input???
thanks in advance for any ideas/comments.

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'Divergent' author working on new series
The books currently are untitled, with the first one expected in 2017.
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Hardware Guide: Rs. 25,000 Budget Ivy Bridge System
March 19th, 2013Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs are fast and efficient. But are they affordable? Let's look at building a budget Ivy Bridge system with just Rs. 25,000.
If you are on a budget you can't buy an Ivy Bridge quad core CPU. That is a Core i5 or Core i7 3rd generation CPU is clearly not a budget CPU. A Core i3 is also too expensive at over Rs. 12,000. The only option is a Pentium G2010 or G2020.
The Pentium G2020 is a dual core CPU running at 2.9GHz. It has 3MB of smart cache and, unlike the Core i3 CPUs, it does not have support for hyper threading. The built in graphics processor has a base frequency of 650MHz that can ramp up to 1.1GHz when in demand. It is faster than the G2010 by 100MHz and costs a tad extra. I think the G2020 is perfect for our low budget system.
Motherboards with chipsets designed specifically for 3rd gen CPUs cost a lot. The cheapest one is GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3H at Rs. 8,300.
The cheaper option is to buy an H61 chipset motherboard that comes with support for 3rd Gen Ivy Bridge CPUs out of the box. The only one available in the local market is the GIGABYTE GA-H61M-DS2 revision 2.0 or later. This board costs Rs. 5400. Older revisions of this board don't support Ivy Bridge CPUs without a BIOS update so you have to be careful that you buy the right revision.
The GIGABYTE GA-H61M-DS2 has support for 2 DIMMs for a maximum of 16GB RAM. It has a PCI-E x16 slot for a discrete graphics card and 2 PCI-E x1 slots for other expansion cards. There are 4 SATA 2 3Gbps ports for storage devices. Back panel I/O ports include a VGA connector for the Integrated Graphics Processor in Intel CPUs, 4 USB 2.0 ports and an Ethernet port for the integrated gigabit LAN. Of course the mobo also comes with an audio chip built in.
RAM prices are pretty low these days so we can go with a 4GB stick of DDR3. Value RAM modules from Kingston are good enough for a budget build. It doesn't pay to go with anything faster than DDR3 1333MHz with Ivy Bridge CPUs. These CPUs already aggressively cache RAM so faster memory doesn't improve real life performance.
Hard disk drive
Hard disk drive prices haven't come down to pre-Thailand flood levels yet. So we can only afford the cheapest drive available on the market and that is a 7200RPM 500GB drive. A Seagate Barracude 500GB drive or a Western Digital Blue Caviar 500GB is a good choice. The green series of drives are to be avoided at all costs.
Optical Drive
An optical drive is no longer absolutely necessary. Most software can be downloaded and installed from the Internet these days. However it is useful to have an optical drive for backups and for the initial operating system installation so it is included in this guide. Any branded drive will do since they are all more or less the same these days.
Casing and PSU
We'll go with a generic casing and Power Supply Unit for our budget system. If you are thinking of adding a discrete graphics card you would do well to buy a branded power supply unit.
Final System
The final system is given below:
Recommendation | Price | |
CPU | Intel Pentium G2020 | Rs. 6,400 |
Motherboard | GIGABYTE GA-H61M-DS2 (rev >= 2.0) | Rs. 5,400 |
RAM | Kingston Value RAM DDR3 1333MHz 1x4GB | Rs. 2,900 |
Hard Disk Drive | Seagate Barracuda 500GB | Rs. 6,000 |
Optical Drive (optional) | Any branded DVD Writer | Rs. 2,000 |
Casing and PSU | Generic | Rs. 2,700 |
Total | Rs. 25,400 |
This combination of parts is ideal for a fast office PC or a light gaming system. It can be further improved at a later date by upgrading the CPU to a Core i3 or Core i5 and adding a discrete graphics card.
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how about for 4th gen. and is it worth to get 3rd gen i5 system or 4th gen i3 system


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Wilson, Douglas L., ed.; Davis, Rodney O., ed.; McHenry, Henry. '9. Henry McHenry to William H. Herndon (interview)' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: interview]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
Petersburg Ills, My 29 1865 Mr. Lincoln came into Sangamon County now Menard Co in the fall of 1830 : he came down the Sangamon River in a flat boat with Offut in the summer of 1830 [2] went down the Sangamon to Beardstown on the Illinois and from this last he Came to the little town of New Salem: Offut brought some goods wares & merchandise up from Beardstown and Lincoln put them up unboxed them & put them up on shelves , he being then 21 ys of age & some few months He attended clerked for Offut, attending store and a mill at the foot of the Hill on the Sangamon River. He stayed with Offut from the fall of 1830 to about August 1831 this was during the winter of the deep snow: He was a good obliging clerk & an honest one: he increased Offuts business much by his simplicity open Candid obliging & honest Evry body loved him . Soon after this and during the same year 1831 he was deputy P. M under Saml Hill in New Salem At this time he borrowed law books of Jno. T. Stuart: he read He read law sometimes always during good weather in the open air: he sat on a goods box under a large white oak tree in Salem, barefooted as he came into the world : Lincoln would come out & stay with me a week or two at a time, reading law hunting squirrels with a gun. In the Spring or Summer of 1832 I had a horse race with Geo Warburton. I got Lincoln, who was at the race to be a judge of the race much against his will and after hard persuasion. Lincoln decided correctly and the other judge said "Lincoln is the fairest man I ever had to deal with If Lincoln is in this County when I die I want him to be my admr., for he is the only man I ever met with that was wholy & purely and unselshly honest". Soon after this and during the latter part of the year 1832 or first part of 1833 he studied surveying and went at surveying practically during the same year. He studied surveying under Mentor Graham who now lives not more than two hundred yars from my residence in Petersburg Menard Co: he is a good, truthful & honest: he did not learn surveying of Calhoun, but became Calhoun's deputy surveyor. He still Continued reading law at the same time: he read so much was so studious took so little physical exercise was so laborious in his studies that he became Emaciated & his best friends were afraid that he would craze himself make himself derange from his habits of study which were incessant. I then moved to Cass and did see him only occasionally till 1836. We the neighbors had a disputed Corner in Town 18 N. of 8 R west. [3] We agreed to send for Lincoln & to abide by his decision as surveyor & judge: he came down with Compass flag staff Chain &c and stopped with me 3 or 4 days and surveyed the whole section. When the disputed corner arrived at by actual survey, Lincoln then stuck down his staff and said "Gentlemen here is the Corner." We then went to work and dug down in the ground & found about 6 or 8 inches of the original stake, sharpened & cut with an axe and at the bottom a piece of charcoal, put there by Rector who surveyed the whole County . [4] When the supposed Corner was struck and when Lincoln's survey was demonstrated by figures & well as Material Evidences namely the original stake & charcoal, all parties without a jar were Completely satisfied & that corner stands there this day a monument of all mens titles in the whole section of the County round about. The Black Hawk war was in 1831 & 2. [5] Lincoln went into army Volunteers as a private and was Elected by the Company Captain of that Company: All the men in the Company as well as the Regiment to which he & they belonged loved him well almost worshipped him. I heard him making his first speech after returning from the Black Hawk war. He brushed up his hair from his tall dark forhead and said: "Gentlemen I have just returned from the Campaign My personal appearance is rather shabby & dark. I am almost as red as those men I have been chasing through the prairies & forests on the Rivers of Illinois " Lincoln in Politics was a whig: he became a candidate for the Legislature in 1832: he was defeated: he was a candidate in 1834, & was Elected. In 1836 he was Elected again & Elected and about the years 1835 or 6 he went from New Salem to the City of Springfield. During all this time during all these years I never knew Mr Lincoln to run a horse race it then being Common, if not universal over the whole County. I never knew him to drink a drop of liquor or get drunk or gamble or play Cards nor fool nor seduce Women. I wish to say that he never sold liquor nor dealt in it, he being opposed in his New Salem nor other places whilst in Menard County or Sangamon. When he was a candidate for small or large offices I always voted for him his Presidential terms both included and his virtues & honesty &c were the main reasons for so doing. In 1859 I again renewed an intimate acquaintance in Sangamon. I there Employed him together with W H Herndon to attend to a suit for me involving many serious & knotty questions of law in relation to land I had put up a house on the disputed land and I was then in possession of the land and living in the house . Under false impressions wrong views of my lines of my land; he told me to move out and give my opponent the possession of the land. I remarked somewhat angrily I will be d d if I do: Mr. Lincoln then in the same spirit of momentary anger said "I will be d d if I attend to your suit, if you don't I then remarked to him "I will employ & other man then You are not all the Lawyers in Springeld". Mr Lincoln "Well Henry, let us have a fair understanding of these things we never differed before". I then sketched to him on what precise part of the land this house stood on, by a drawing on a piece of paper, he drawing it in sections. When he found out the precise facts of the Case, he then said: "Henry you are right," and then took a good hearty laugh over the mistake. He further remarked to me in the End "Henry hold the possession of the land you will beat the Enemy in the End " After 3 years struggle Lincoln's prophecy was fulfilled. [6] soon as the Suit was finally decided Mr Lincoln hitched up old bob and brought out with him his son Robert; they remained with me all day Mr Lincoln said to me there: "Henry I want to see that old line of peach trees talked about so much in the Suit " which I showed him, and which he looked over. From this time I saw Mr Lincoln as a friend frequently. During the whole of my acquaintance he always acted toward me as a brother a christian and a gentleman & in my humble judgment no man living or dead was a better man. God bless him. Henry McHenry Library of Congress: Herndon-Weik Collection. Manuscript Division. Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. 2128 34; Huntington Library: LN2408, 1:345 50
Wilson, Douglas L., ed.; Davis, Rodney O., ed.; McHenry, Henry. '9. Henry McHenry to William H. Herndon (interview)' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: interview]. Permission: University of Illinois Press Persistent link to this document: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/file.php?file=herndon014.html |


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Bill Gates to visit Canberra to lobby for more aid
PUBLISHED: 07 May 2013 18:17:00 | UPDATED: 08 May 2013 07:37:09PUBLISHED: 08 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 08 May 2013Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will visit Australia in the last week of May. Photo: Reuters
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Software tycoon and philanthropist Bill Gates will visit Canberra on May 28 to press both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to increase Australia's $5.2 billion aid budget, particularly to fight malaria and polio in developing countries.
As a non-parliamentarian, the Microsoft founder will not be permitted to speak on the floor of Parliament like heads of state such as US President Barack Obama but it is expected Mr Gates could use the security-tight area of Parliament House's Great Hall to make his case.
Australia's health aid budget is under pressure since Foreign Minister Bob Carr diverted as much as $500 million to pay for the costs of increased numbers of asylum seekers.
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For the second time in two years, Louisville businessman Ed Martin is running as a Libertarian candidate for the 3rd District congressional seat. The small business owner joins Republican candidate Todd Lally, Independent Michael Hansen and U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat, who is seeking his third term in office.
In 2008, Martin's candidacy was challenged in court by the GOP because he was officially registered as a Republican voter at the time. The Kentucky Court of Appeals agreed and ruled that Martin couldn't run.
In interviews with the press, Martin has said he's socially liberal and fiscally conservative, but political observers are already speculating that his entry into the race will hurt Lally, who is solidly conservative on a number of issues.
However, unlike before, Republicans have embraced Martin's entry into the race — for now.
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"At this critical junction in our country's history, we need people with great ideas and we want to welcome Mr. Martin to the race," said Jay Hill, Lally's campaign manager. "Because in the long run this race is about Americas future and we need all the idea we can get."


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Microsoft got Motorola's entire range of Android device banned in Germany over age old FAT patent. The banned devices include the Atrix, Razr, and Razr Maxx.
Microsoft's Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, David Howard said, "Today's decision, which follows similar rulings in the U.S. and Germany, is further proof that Motorola Mobility is broadly infringing Microsoft's intellectual property. We will continue to enforce injunctions against Motorola Mobility products in those countries and hope they will join other Android device makers by taking a license to Microsoft's patented inventions."
A report published in the Verge quotes Florian Mueller, an independent blogger who gets paid by Microsoft and Oracle to spin anti-Android stories. Microsoft's paid blogger writes that "In order to enforce the injunction, Microsoft will need to pay a €10 million bond."
It's funny that Microsoft pressured US' ITC to not inforce a ban on Xbox which infringes upon Motorola's patents. When a US judge banned Microsoft's Xbox ITC sent a memo saying that an Xbox ban could create considerable harm to consumers.
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April 12, 2009, 11:11 pm
Hi guys again!
On my Mk2 mondy, the fan only works on speed 4. Is there a resistor pack or summat that fails on them?
April 13, 2009, 1:37 am
[quote name='TurboZed' post='19701' date='Apr 12 2009, 11:21 PM']Hi guys again!
On my Mk2 mondy, the fan only works on speed 4. Is there a resistor pack or summat that fails on them?[/quote]
hi there yes the resistor pack burns out, its located pasenger side on the heater box (high) normally white plastic about 3 inches by 2 inches held in with small torx bit screw with wiring plug on the front,somtime this plug melts aswell,check it out first before you go to the scrappy incase you need the plug aswell......
April 13, 2009, 1:18 pm
The resistor is only about £10 from Ford
April 13, 2009, 5:23 pm
yep it will be the resistor, also check the wiring on the switch this can burn out to ....all this is usually down to a very dirty pollen filter putting extra load onto the fan motor...pollen filter is located under the n/s scuttle panel under the front windscreen.
Purdy fpv
April 13, 2009, 5:51 pm
There is a resistor in the back of the passenger foot well. That will be burnt out. It need a new resister pack and wiring loom.
Purdy fpv
April 13, 2009, 5:56 pm
Its held in by 2 screws. The new plug is not color coded. So you have to cut the plug off with an inch of wire left on it. Keep the plug for reference for when you wire the new the new plug in. It should come with a wiring kit. It is best to re solder rather than using the kit that they send.
April 13, 2009, 10:16 pm
Thanks for that guys, I'll get that sorted right away.
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West Orange High School to Receive a Driving Simulator in October Thanks to the Efforts of the Nikhil Badlani Foundation
Sunday, June 30, 2013 • 12:51am
WEST ORANGE, NJ - The Nikhil Badlani Foundation partnered this year with the U Got Brains Organization to help promote traffic safety awareness and support the efforts of West Orange High School in this year's Champions Challenge to win a driving simulator for their school. WOHS students designed vehicle stickers and bracelets to raise awareness of distracted driving and traffic safety.Because West Orange High School was one of the last schools to apply for the contest, the sponsorship of the Nikhil Badlani Foundation enabled the high school to participate.Although the top winners this year were Columbia and Lenape High Schools, the highlight of the awards evening was the announcement by New Jersey Manurfacturer's President and Chief Executive Officer Bernie Flynn, that not only would the grand prize winners receive driving simulators, but all 53 participating schools would also receive driving simulators in honor of the Company's 100th anniversary. Each simulator is valued at $10,000.
This week the Nikhil Badlani Foundation and James O'Neill, interim superintendent of the West Orange School District, received notice of the simulator, and more.In recognition of NBF's sponsorship and support of the U Got Brains organization, the full cab simulator, which will be delivered in October, will be dedicated in memory of Nikhil Badlani, who passed away in 2011 after a distracted driver ran a stop sign. Making the dedication especially poignant is the fact that Nikhil would have been entering West Orange High School in September.The Nikhil Badlani Foundation provides music scholarships and programs for West Orange students, and has partnered with Essex County Community Traffic Safety Program to provide Driver's Education to high school students in Essex County communities, including West Orange.The foundation's largest fund raiser, the Stop: Run/Walk for Nikhil, will be held on Sept. 22 at West Orange High School. Visit their website to find out more.
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TYLER, Texas – A 52-year-old Overton, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
Francie Irene Jernigan-Haynes pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2012, to possession of equipment used to manufacture heroin and was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis.
According to information presented in court, on Jan. 25, 2011, Haynes' co-defendant sold capsules containing heroin to a confidential informant at Haynes' residence in Overton. Hayne and her husband were present and observed the transaction. On Jan. 27, 2011, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Haynes' residence, which led to the discovery of an electric grinder containing a powdery residue which tested positive for heroin. Haynes was named in a federal indictment returned by the grand jury on Sep. 15, 2011.
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Edward Snowden's father to visit him in Russia 'soon'
Lon Snowden, father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, has a Russian visa and will visit his son "very soon", his lawyer says.
Mr Snowden told the US ABC network he wanted his son to return home provided the justice system is applied "correctly" in his case.
He added that his son had "spoken the truth" and made great sacrifices.
Edward Snowden has been granted asylum by Russia despite requests from the US that he be returned.
Lon Snowden appeared alongside his lawyer Bruce Fein on ABC television.
"We have visas, we have a date, which we won't disclose right now because of the frenzy," Mr Fein said, referring to the planned visit to Moscow.
Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow on 23 June from Hong Kong, after making revelations about a secret US data-gathering programme.
He then spent more than five weeks in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport's transit zone. He left the airport last week after having been granted the necessary documents.
'Poisoned the well'Mr Fein said he had spoken to Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, who had told him he was safe.
"He obviously is exhausted. But he's now needing a period of time where he can recoup his energy level and reflect on what he wishes to do," Mr Fein added.
Snowden leaks timeline
- 5 June: First leak published in the Guardian saying the NSA is collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans
- 6 June: Details of the Prism programme published by Guardian and Washington Post
- 9 June: Guardian identifies Edward Snowden as source of the leaks, at his own request
- 14 June: US files criminal charges against Mr Snowden
- 23 June: Mr Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow, applies for asylum in Ecuador
- 6 July: Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua say they would offer Mr Snowden asylum
- 12 July: Mr Snowden gives news conference saying he is seeking asylum in Russia
- 1 August: Mr Snowden leaves airport after being awarded Russian asylum
Lon Snowden said that "as a father", he wanted his son to return home, but had concerns over whether he would face a fair trial.
"At this point, when you consider many of the statements made by our leaders... they are absolutely irresponsible," Mr Snowden said.
"They have poisoned the well, so to speak, in terms of a potential jury pool," he added.
The row has had diplomatic consequences, with the US cancelling a bilateral summit scheduled for September.
Russia's decision to grant Mr Snowden asylum is seen as having worsened already tense relations between the two countries.
However, diplomats from the two countries did go ahead with talks in Washington on Friday to discuss other issues.
Mr Snowden is a former technical contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA), who also once worked for the CIA.
In June he leaked to the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers documents and details relating to NSA programmes that gather data on telephone calls and emails.
Mr Snowden, 30, fled his home in Hawaii, where he worked at a small NSA installation, to Hong Kong, and subsequently to Russia. He faces espionage charges in the US.


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DFER Announces Winners of 2012 'Brian Bennett Education Warrior Awards'
Democrats for Education Reform Announces Winners of 2012 'Brian Bennett Education Warrior Awards'
This year's winners of the 2012 Brian Bennett Education Warrior Awards include three leaders from state legislatures and one inspirational state education chief, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) announced today.
The awards, which honor courageous champions of education reform, include: Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist, New Jersey State Senator Teresa Ruiz, former Minnesota State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge, and Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston.
"The leaders we are honoring today have worked tirelessly to better the lives of children through countless efforts to improve our nation's education system," said Joe Williams, DFER's Executive Director. "Their leadership has produced the kind of exponential impact that will continue to benefit children for years to come."
Over the past few months, the public submitted hundreds of worthy nominations for Education Warriors through DFER's website. Award recipients were chosen by a committee based on their dedication to reforming our education system and their outstanding courage to shatter the status quo and change the political rhetoric.
"With the election around the corner, education has taken a front seat in political debates throughout our country both inside and outside of the home," said Charles Barone, DFER's Director of Federal Policy. Education wasn't even on many people's top-ten list just a few years ago. The leaders we are honoring today have injected big ideas into the conversation and brought them into the national spotlight.
More information on the 2012 honorees follows:
As the acting Commissioner of the Rhode Island Department of Education where she has served since 2009, Deborah Gist has led the charge to reform the Rhode Island education system. During her tenure thus far, she has fought to end last-in, first-out (LIFO) policies in her state, launched a new teacher evaluation system, and raised requirements for entering into RI's teacher training programs. Gist previously served as the first State Superintendent of Education in the District of Columbia where she was responsible for enacting alternative certification policies that allowed school districts and nonprofit organizations to apply to certify educators, and instituted new standards to improve the quality of teacher prep programs. Before her work as Superintendent in the District of Columbia, Gist taught elementary school for more than 10 years and was recognized as "Teacher of the Year" several times throughout her career. She also served as a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Education and as the executive director of the office on volunteerism and service programs for the Office of the Mayor in the District of Columbia.
New Jersey State Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex) played a key role in changing the status quo in New Jersey by introducing a bill reforming tenure laws in her state. Ruiz, who is the Assistant Majority Leader and Chair of the State's Education Committee, was the chief architect behind this bill, which also instituted a new teacher rating system based on yearly evaluations as well as mentorship and professional development opportunities for teachers and principals. The bill, which won unanimous approval and was signed into law by Governor Christie, brought about the first major change to New Jersey's tenure system in a century. Prior to her role as State Senator, Ruiz served as Vice Chair of the Essex County Democratic Party, the Deputy Chief of Staff and former Director of Public Information for Essex Country Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., and co-chair of the Hispanic Scholarship Program for the North Ward Center. The Essex Country Hispanic Chamber of Commerce honored her for her public service. She also worked as a Pre-K teacher and served as a Trustee of the Robert Treat Academy and the Essex Country Technical-Vocational School Board.
Ember Reichgott Junge revolutionized the way we view public education in our country. As a Minnesota State Senator (1983-2001), she sponsored the first bill that allowed students to attend their public school of choice and authored the first charter school legislation in the nation, which was enacted in 1991. She now serves as Vice Chairperson of the Charter School Development Corporation, which promotes competition, excellence in education, and school choice by financing and building great public charter schools across the country.
Having dedicated his life to repairing our broken education system, Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston (D-Denver), has become a well-known education reform advocate. He has been recognized as one of Time Magazine's "40 under 40" and as Forbes Magazine's 7 Most Influential Educators. Johnston developed the "Great Teachers and Leaders Law" in Colorado, which transformed the way his state holds teachers and principals accountable. He also helped pass the READ Act, which gives school districts and parents tools to aid struggling K-3 students develop their reading skills. Prior to taking office, Johnston co-founded and acted as principal for Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts (MESA). MESA made Colorado history by becoming the first public high school in which 100% of its seniors were admitted to four-year colleges. In addition, Johnston co-founded New Leaders for New Schools, a national non-profit that recruits and trains urban principals. Johnston also served as a top education advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
More information on the Brian Bennett Education Warrior Award:
The Brian Bennett Education Warrior Award is named after Brian Bennett, a community activist and lifelong champion of education reform. Bennett was a former teacher that helped launch some of California's first charter schools. Under his leadership as Director of the Office of School Choice at the San Diego Unified School District, the number of charter schools in the district increased by more than 50%.
Following his career at the School District, Brian devoted his life's work to leading San Diego and the nation in providing parents with meaningful, equitable, and affordable education options for their children. Although he sadly passed away in 2009 after a battle with Lou Gehrig's disease, he nonetheless remains an inspiration to leaders in education across the country.
Thanks to all of you that submitted nominations for the 2012 Brian Bennett Education Warrior Award! Our selection committee is currently reviewing nominees, and winner(s) will be announced in September!
Who is Brian Bennett?
Brian Bennett was a community activist and a champion of education reform for over four decades. After teaching at Catholic schools throughout Southern California he became the principal of Blessed Sacrament School in San Diego. With Bennett at the helm from 1979 to 1997, Blessed Sacrament School grew and academic achievement flourished.
A leading charter school advocate, Bennett was involved in launching some of the earliest charter schools in California after the Legislature authorized them in 1992. During his tenure as the Director of the Office of School Choice at the San Diego Unified School District, the number of charter schools in the district increased from 15 to 34.
Following his career at the School District, Bennett provided assistance in charter school leadership and policy development in over ten states, including the District of Columbia. He devoted his life's work to leading San Diego and the nation in providing parents with meaningful, equitable, and affordable choices in education for their children.
Brian Bennett was a trailblazer in the struggle for quality education for all children. When Bennett passed away in January 2009, after a courageous battle with ALS, we lost a true warrior in the fight for quality public education. We decided to name our Education Warrior Award the "Brian Bennett Education Warrior Award" to honor his life and legacy.
Previous Education Warrior Award Recipients
2011 Winners
Yolie Flores - As a board member of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Yolie Flores authored the controversial Public Choice Resolution, which created an annual process to identify and address the lowest performing schools in LAUSD, as well as the Teacher Effectiveness resolution to ensure that all students have access to an excellent teacher. These bold policy initiatives drew significant heat from opponents, but Flores never wavered. Ms. Flores also served as the CEO of the Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council, where she led an ambitious change agenda to strengthen families and improve outcomes for children through large-scale systems reform, community engagement, data-driven planning, and policy development.
Dr. Howard Fuller - Dr. Fuller has been a tireless advocate for equality in the education system. As one of the nation's first "non-traditional" school superintendents in 1991, Fuller made the leap from advocate and activist to running the Milwaukee Public Schools during tumultuous political times. He was one of the first school leaders to publicly link poor-performing schools with reform-stifling provisions of the teacher's contract. He is a distinguished professor of education and director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University, which supports excellent education options for all children, particularly those from low-income families. A mentor to many of today's education reformers working across the nation, Fuller co-founded the Black Alliance for Educational Options. He currently serves on numerous boards.
Representative George Miller - As the senior Democrat on the Education and Workforce Committee, Rep. Miller has been an inspirational and effective champion of many efforts to close the achievement gap. He was one of the original authors of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and he helped pass the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act and establish the Early Learning Challenge Fund, among many other reform bills. He also authored the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which cut interest rates for Stafford Loans in half, increased Pell Grants, and provided loan forgiveness to qualified public service employees with student loan debt. Miller was ahead of his time: in 1994, he drafted an amendment which would have required states to certify that their teachers had been qualified for the subject areas they were teaching and to have plans in place to pay exceptional teachers more. The vote in the House, after dramatic pushback from special interests, was 434-1 against. Today, Miller is far from the lone vote on those types of issues.
Eva Moskowitz - As founder and CEO of the Success Charter Network, Moskowitz has been at the forefront of reshaping educational opportunity in New York City. Her work to expand quality school choice for every family was featured in the documentary The Lottery, which follows four children who enter the public lottery for admission to Harlem Success Academy. Eva also fought tirelessly for New York City's children as a member of the City Council, where she was chair of the Education Committee and earned a reputation for saying what needed to be said, even if nobody else in city government had the guts to say it.
Theresa Peña - In her role as Denver Public Schools Board Member and former President of the Board, Theresa Peña has fought to pass critical education reform measures to improve the quality of Denver schools for every child. Among her many achievements, she was instrumental in passing a comprehensive plan for Far Northeast Denver that aims to improve student achievement, ensure the effectiveness of teachers and principals, support rigorous curriculum standards and assessments, and provide comprehensive support systems for children. It is no accident that Denver, Colorado is at the forefront of today's education reform battles. Peña's unapologetic focus and leadership has made progress possible in the Mile High City.
2010 Winners
Alan Bersin - Appointed in 1998 as Superintendent of Public Education of the San Diego Unified School District, Bersin led the eighth largest urban school district in the country. In 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed him as California's Education Secretary. Bersin led the way as one of the nation's first 'non-traditional' big city school leaders, promoting ambitious reform to raise the quality of education and bolster student achievement. Bersin currently serves as the Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection. Bersin was a founding board member of DFER.
Peter Groff - During his years in the Colorado State Senate (2003-2009), and as Senate President ('07-'09), Groff helped pass landmark legislation to create visionary education reform measures, prohibit racial profiling and require booster seats for young children. Under the Obama administration, Groff led the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the U. S. Department of Education, an effort to empower faith-based and community groups by enlisting them in support of the department's mission to ensure educational excellence for all Americans. Groff, currently head of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, was a founding member of DFER-Colorado.
Dianne Piche - As Executive Director of the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, which monitors the civil rights policies and practices of the federal government, Piche was a tireless advocate for school choice, education equality, and policy that raises the bar for academic achievement. Under the Obama administration, Piche held a post in the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights and she currently heads the education policy team of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Piche was a founding board member of DFER.
Caprice Young - Between 1999 and 2003, Young served as President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, where she built on the longtime work of her predecessors in the charter school movement in order to create a state association whose mission is based on positively impacting the broader public school system for all kids. Young went on to preside over the the California Charter Schools Association for five years, during which she shepherded the creation of more than 300 charter schools in California. Young is now Vice President of Business Development and Alliances with Knowledge Universe, a leading education company serving a wide range of students nationally and around the world. Young was a founding board member of DFER.


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Rebecca Ferguson admitted that even though she is receiving rave reviews for her debut album Heaven, her family will stop her from becoming a diva.
The lass from Liverpool admitted that it would be easy to start making demands if her family were not keeping her feet on the ground.
She told the Daily Star Sunday: "Everything is done for you and it's easy to start being a diva
"You want everything to be perfect so I understand why people get carried away.
"But my family would never let me. I'd been filming my video all day, I was exhausted and I expected my mum to have done my tea. But I got a text saying, `Get a loaf and some milk'.
She added: "The only thing I have on my rider is ginger tea and I only added that last week because I didn't have anything."
Meanwhile, Rebecca recently criticised Rihanna for being a bad role model for young girls.
Ferguson told Yahoo: "I wouldn't let my daughter watch her. As a woman, I want to teach my daughter that a man should love you for who you are.
"They should love you for you as a person, not for how you dress - and you don't have to be a sexual thing to a man."
She added: "[Rihanna] can say 'I've got no kids', but if you want that lifestyle and you want that money, ultimately you are influencing generations and you have to remember that. They will copy you. Popstars should think of their audience."
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Preference for high concentrations of plant pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the specialist arctiid moth Utetheisa ornatrix depends on previous experience
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Secondary metabolites are one the most pervasive defensive mechanisms in plants. Many specialist herbivores have evolved adaptations to overcome these defensive compounds. Some herbivores can even take advantage of these compounds by sequestering them for protection and/or mate attraction. One of the most studied specialist insects that sequesters secondary metabolites is the arctiid moth Utetheisa ornatrix. This species sequesters pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) from its host plant, the legume Crotalaria spp. The sequestered PAs are used as a predator repellent and as a mating pheromone. We used this species to test larval preference for different concentrations of PAs. We purified PAs from plant material and added them at different concentrations to an artificial diet. Larvae of U. ornatrix previously feeding on low and high PA concentration artificial diets were allowed to choose between two new artificial diets with different PA concentrations. The amount of PAs sequestered and larval preference were dependent on their previous exposure to low or high PA content in the diet. Larvae that were pretreated with a low PA diet significantly consumed more diet with the high PA concentration, while larvae that were pretreated with a high PA diet showed no discrimination between future feeding of different PA concentration diets. We discuss our results using mechanistic and evolutionary approaches. Finally, we discuss how these results have important implications on the evolution of plant herbivore interactions and how specialist herbivores may decrease the levels of chemical defenses on plant populations.
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- Title
- Preference for high concentrations of plant pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the specialist arctiid moth Utetheisa ornatrix depends on previous experience
- Journal
Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Volume 7, Issue 2 , pp 169-175
- Cover Date
- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s11829-012-9232-1
- Print ISSN
- 1872-8855
- Online ISSN
- 1872-8847
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Coevolution
- Crotalaria
- Chemical defense
- Diet choice
- Mating choice
- Taste receptors
- Authors
- Adam Hoina (1)
- Carlos Henrique Zanini Martins (2)
- José Roberto Trigo (2)
- Rodrigo Cogni (1) (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, 650 Life Sciences Building, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-5245, USA
- 2. Laboratório de Ecologia Química, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Unicamp, Caixa Postal 6109, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-970, Brazil
- 3. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK


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Check out Champion, the latest from 2Eleven which features a guest appearance from Mac Lucci on the. The track was released on Monday, June 21st, 2010.
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Remember those Mitsubishi Eclipse commercials with those people getting their groove on in the car? Don't worry if you don't have a picture of it in your mind. You're probably better off.
However, if you don't remember those commercials, they'll come right back to mind in "TIE TV Spot". Here, we've got a TIE Fighter with Darth Vader piloting and Boba Fett moving and shaking it to the music. The only other time I can remember the Eclipse commercial being parodied was on "Chappelle's Show" on Comedy Central where a chick was doing her thing in Dave's car and he wasn't very happy at having to deal with her shit, so he chucked her out and picked up a woman who could move to the music in a style that he liked. Darth doesn't chuck Boba out in this one, but the sight of Boba movin' and groovin' is amusing. The music on the other hand, is completely bothersome. A new soundtrack wouldn't hurt this one, but could help it. Hell, you could take any number of tracks that play on Party 93.1, a dance music station here in South Florida, and it would greatly improve this commercial spot.
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Physio-Control, Inc., a global leader in emergency medical solutions and wholly‐owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc., (NYSE: MDT) and BeneChill, Inc., a pioneer in portable therapeutic cooling systems, today announced a strategic partnership to launch the RhinoChill® IntraNasal Cooling System in Europe. RhinoChill is a non-invasive, portable system for transnasally cooling the head and lowering the body's core temperature immediately following cardiac arrest, stroke or traumatic brain injury.
Initially, the partnership will focus on bringing the RhinoChill System to market in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg during the first quarter of 2011, utilizing Physio-Control's extensive European distribution network. Additionally, as part of this strategic alliance, the two companies will work jointly to develop additional applications for BeneChill and work towards making the RhinoChill System available in the U.S.
"Therapeutic hypothermia can be a vital tool in improving survival from sudden cardiac arrest and is therefore essential to our company's mission," said Brian Webster, President of Physio-Control. "We wanted to partner with a cooling solution company that was innovative and focused on the science. The RhinoChill system fits well with Physio-Control because it is portable and non-invasive which allows for use in the pre-hospital environment, where deployment has the potential to cool patients much earlier and faster than before."
"BeneChill is proud to announce our partnership with Physio-Control – the world's leading provider of external defibrillation and monitoring technology", added Alan Raffensperger, CEO of BeneChill, Inc. "BeneChill´s mission is to protect the hearts and brains of patients during cardiac arrest and to improve survival. The strategic partnership with Physio-Control will ensure that our breakthrough RhinoChill cooling technology will be available for emergency and critical care health care professionals in the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Austria and Switzerland."
Clinical Benefits of Therapeutic Hypothermia
Therapeutic hypothermia is gaining increasing acceptance following cardiac arrest in both the pre-hospital and hospital environments. Landmark clinical studies demonstrating that mild hypothermia lowers mortality and improves neurological outcome after successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest were published in 2002. The European Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest (HACA) trial group1 demonstrated an improvement in survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurological status in cooled patients compared with normothermic patients surviving cardiac arrest (53 percent versus 36 percent respectively), with no significant adverse events from cooling.
The updated 2010 American Heart Association (AHA) and European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines for resuscitation and CPR2,3 both confirm the importance of therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest. The guidelines advise that the earlier cooling is started during cardiac arrest, the better the outcomes. The AHA guidelines classify therapeutic hypothermia as a Class I recommendation, advising the treatment/procedure should be performed by clinicians. Both sets of guidelines recommend that cardiac arrest patients are only taken to centers which provide therapeutic cooling. The ERC guidelines specifically refer to transnasal evaporative cooling as a method to induce cooling in the pre-hospital setting.
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The RhinoChill System uses a non-invasive nasal catheter that sprays a rapidly evaporating, inert coolant liquid into the nasal cavity, a large area situated beneath the brain that acts as a heat exchanger. As the liquid evaporates, heat is directly removed from the base of the skull and surrounding tissues via conduction and indirectly through the blood via convection.
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A recently-published European clinical study4 has shown that when administered by Emergency Medical System (EMS) personnel as soon as they reach a cardiac arrest victim and continued during transport to hospital, the RhinoChill System effectively reduces body temperature by the time the victim reaches the hospital. Survival without loss of brain function was significantly improved in patients where resuscitation procedures and subsequent RhinoChill cooling were initiated within ten minutes of cardiac arrest, compared with patients who were not cooled in the pre-hospital setting.
"The sooner in the resuscitation process you can start to cool the body following a cardiac arrest, the better the long-term outcomes are likely to be", commented lead investigator of the RhinoChill System European study, Professor Maaret Castren, Department of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska Institutet / Sodersjukhuset Hospital, Sweden. "Use of the RhinoChill IntraNasal Cooling System, which enables cooling to be initiated along with CPR even before the return of spontaneous circulation, is great news for patients."
The RhinoChill System received the CE Mark for marketing in the European Union countries in December 2007. It is initially being launched in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Austria and Switzerland. The RhinoChill System is not currently for sale in the U.S.
About BeneChill, Inc.
BeneChill is a medical device company based in San Diego, California. The company is developing products in the therapeutic hypothermia arena with a focus on rapid, non-invasive cooling for use in the field. The RhinoChill System is limited by U.S. law to investigational use only. To find out more about BeneChill, go to www.benechill.com.
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Physio-Control, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc., is located in Redmond, Wash. Physio-Control pioneered defibrillation technology more than 55 years ago. The company is the world's leading provider of external defibrillation and monitoring technology for the treatment of sudden cardiac arrest and other cardiorespiratory emergencies. To find out more about Physio-Control, go to www.physio-control.com or call 1-800-442-1142.
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