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Immune and satellite cells : important role players in muscle recovery after injury
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Immune and satellite cells : important role players in muscle recovery after injury
Kruger, Maria Jacoba
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Muscle injuries are associated with changes in skeletal muscle as well as the immune system. All studies investigating possible treatment modalities have found both positive and negative effects on muscle recovery. Since no universally accepted treatment modality exists, this thesis aims to determine whether a plant-derived antioxidant, proanthocyanidolic oligomer (PCO), might prove beneficial as treatment for sports injuries in order for athletes to return to the sports field quicker. The difference in recovery of muscle following both chronic (supplementation started 14 days prior to injury and continued thereafter) and acute supplementation (supplementation started two hours after injury) were also investigated. Both chronic and acute PCO supplementation in a rat hindlimb contusion injury model resulted in earlier muscle recovery, verified by an earlier satellite cell response compared to the placebo group. This effect was most prominent already at the four hour time point following injury, compared to day seven and three after chronic and acute placebo treatment respectively. PCO supplementation also resulted in quicker foetal myosin heavy chain (MHCf) expression compared to placebo treatment. Chronic supplementation specifically resulted in a blunted circulatory pro-inflammatory cytokine response, whilst allowing for a significant increase in IL-10, an anti-inflammatory cytokine, on day three (in the PCO group only). At tissue level, the response of the muscle pro-inflammatory cytokines, TNF- and IL- 6, coincided with the satellite cell response. Macrophage infiltration into the injured muscle also followed a similar pattern to that seen for the pro-inflammatory cytokines. Macrophages invaded the injured area quicker when supplemented with PCO chronically, however, macrophage infiltration could not explain the cytokine response seen with acute supplementation. Both chronic and acute supplementation with PCO was responsible for a severely blunted neutrophil response, a novel finding of this particular antioxidant. The main findings of the in vivo rodent study were that PCO was able to blunt the neutrophil response, whilst allowing for earlier macrophage infiltration. To establish possible mechanisms by which PCO might exert these beneficial effects, further analysis included determining macrophage phenotypes and neutrophil numbers in circulation. An in vitro neutrophil migration assay was also employed to further elucidate PCO's ability to blunt neutrophil infiltration into the injured area. For this study, conditioned plasma were harvested from experimental animals and added together with neutrophils from control rats and granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) to the insert of the migration chamber. A chemotactic factor, N-formyl methionine-leucine-phenylalanine (fMLP), was added to the bottom well and neutrophils were allowed to migrate for two hours. Results from this study indicated that neutrophil migration was attenuated in vitro in the presence of conditioned plasma from PCO supplemented rats only. The studies in this thesis on the effect of PCO on parameters of muscle and the immune system led to the following main conclusions: a) PCO supplementation resulted in earlier muscle recovery as a result of earlier satellite cell activation and MHCf synthesis; b) PCO favours an anti-inflammatory cytokine reaction, whilst blunting the pro-inflammatory cytokine response; and c) PCO blunted the neutrophil response whilst facilitating earlier macrophage infiltration into the injured area. The specific mechanism of action of PCO to blunt the neutrophil response specifically, possibly includes the ability to suppress adhesion molecule expression on the neutrophils themselves. However, this warrants further investigation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Spier beserings word geassosiëer met veranderinge in skeletspier sowel as die immuunstelsel. Meeste studies wat moontlike behandelingsopsies ondersoek, het beide positiewe en negatiewe spierherstel gerapporteer. Omrede daar geen universele behandelingsmoontlikheid bestaan nie, is die doel van hierdie tesis om die effek van 'n plantgebaseerde anti-oksidant, pro-antosianiedoliese oligomeer (PSO), as 'n voordelige behandelingstrategie vir sportbeserings te toets. Die verskil in spierherstel na beide kroniese (supplementering wat 14 dae voor besering begin is, en volgehou is daarna) en akute supplementering (supplementering het twee uur na besering begin), is ook ondersoek. Beide kroniese en akute PSO supplementering, in 'n rot agterbeen-kneusbeseringmodel, het gelei tot vroeë spierherstel. Die bevindinge is geverifiëer deur 'n vroeë satelietselrespons in vergelyking met die plasebo groep. Hierdie effek was reeds opvallend vier uur na besering, in vergelyking met die dag sewe en dag drie tydpunt tydens kroniese en acute plasebo behandeling onderskeidelik. In vergelyking met die kontrole groep, het PSO supplementering ook gelei to vininger uitdrukking van miosienswaarketting (MHCf). Kroniese supplementering het spesifiek gelei to 'n onderdrukte sirkulatoriese pro-inflammatoriese sitokien response, terwyl 'n betekenisvolle toename in IL-10 op dag drie (in die PSO groep alleenlik) waargeneem is. Op weefselvlak, het die pro-inflammatoriese sitokiene, IL-6 en TNF- , dieselfde patron gevolg as die van satelietselle. Makrofaaginfiltrasie binne die beseerde spier het ook 'n soorgelyke patroon gevolg. Makrofage het die beseerde area vinniger geïnfiltreer in die kronies PSO-gesupplementeerde groep, maar kon nie die sitokienrespons, wat waargeneem is met akute supplementasie, verklaar nie. Beide kroniese en akute PSO supplementering was verantwoordelik vir 'n onderdrukte neutrofiel respons, wat 'n nuwe bevinding is vir hierdie spesifieke anti-oksidant. Die hoof bevindinge in die in vivo rotstudies, is dat PSO instaat is om die neutrofielrespons te onderdruk, en sodoende vroeë makrofaaginfiltrasie teweeg te bring. Om meganismes waarby PSO hierdie voordelige effekte veroorsaak te ondersoek, is verdere analises gedoen om makrofaagfenotipe en neutrofielgetalle in die sirkulasie te bepaal. 'n In vitro neutrofielmigrasie studie is ook aangewend om PSO se vermoë om neutrofielinfiltrasie in die beseerde area te onderdruk, te ondersoek. Neutrofiele van kontrole rotte, tesame met gekondisioneerde plasma van eksperimentele diere en granulosiet-kolonie stimulerende faktor (G-KSF), is toegelaat om vir twee ure in die teenwoordigheid van 'n chemotaktiese faktor, N-formiel metionien-leusien-fenielalanien (fMLP) te migreer. Resultate van hierdie studie het aangetoon dat neutrofielmigrasie, in vitro, alleenlik onderdruk word in die teenwoordigheid van gekondisioneerde plasma van PSO-gesupplementeerde rotte. Die studies in hierdie tesis oor die effek van PSO op parameters van spier en die immuunsisteem, het tot die volgende hoofgevolgtrekkings gelei: a) PSO supplementering het vroeë spierherstel, as gevolge van vroeë satelietselaktivering en MHCf sintese, teweeg gebring; b) PSO verkies 'n anti-inflammatoriese sitokien reaksie, terwyl dit die proinflammatoriese sitokienrespons onderdruk; en c) PSO onderdruk die neutrofielrespons, terwyl vroeë makrofaaginfiltrasie in die beseerde area gefasiliteer word. Die spesifieke meganisme van aksie van PSO, om die neutrofielrespons te onderdruk, kan moontlik die vermoë van neutrofiele om adhesie molekule uit te druk, insluit. Hierdie aanname moet egter verder ondersoek word.
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The Federal Reserve implemented an emergency monetary policy after the 2008 Lehman bankruptcy to salvage the world financial system. In his testimony yesterday before the Senate Banking Committee, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said, "We must be prepared to withdraw the extraordinary policy support in a smooth and timely way as markets and the economy recover."
This leaves all-out emergency monetary stimulus in place, but with a different, much weaker justification. With the system stabilized, the Fed hopes that artificially low interest rates and its purchases of mortgage-backed securities will spur growth. Instead they are pushing dollars abroad and wasting precious growth capital in asset and commodity bubbles.
Since the show of global cooperation at the Nov. 6 G-20 meeting, the rest of the world has challenged the Fed's emergency policy. Asia warned President Barack Obama on his recent trip that the zero-percent fed-funds rate was flooding Asia with excess dollars, causing asset bubbles there and undercutting global growth.
Europe quickly joined Asia's criticism. On Nov. 20, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said that the U.S. policy threatened "enormous turbulence." European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet has repeatedly tried to bolster the U.S. commitment to a strong dollar, most recently with yesterday's comment that "I trust the sincerity of the U.S. authorities."
Nevertheless, more than a year after the heart of the panic, the Fed is still promising near-zero interest rates for an extended period and buying over $3 billion per day of expensive mortgage securities as part of a $1.25 trillion purchase plan. Capital is being rationed not on price but on availability and connections. The government gets the most, foreigners second, Wall Street and big companies third, with not much left over.
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The irony of the zero-rate policy, coupled with Washington's preference for a weak dollar, is a glut of American capital in Asia (as corporations and investors shun the weakening U.S. currency) and a shortage at home. For gold and oil, the low-rate policy works, weakening the dollar so commodity prices go up and providing traders with ample funds to buy into the expanding bubble. Those markets are almost daring the Fed to try to break out of its zero-rate box.
But for small businesses and new workers, capital rationing is devastating, spelling business failures and painful layoffs. Thousands of start-ups won't launch due to credit shortages, in part because the government and corporations took more credit than they needed (because it was so cheap).
Already countries with higher interest rates, Australia for one, are viewed as less risky because they have room to cut rates if there's another emergency. This wins them capital and jobs that might otherwise be ours.
According to International Monetary Fund data, U.S. GDP has fallen to 24% of world GDP from 32% in 2001. And as U.S. capital escapes the weak dollar and high tax rates, the U.S. share of world equity market capitalization has fallen to 30% from 45%. This leaves the U.S. alone with Japan at the bottom of the monetary heap, with rate expectations so low they repel investment.
Yet the Fed's not nearly as trapped as it seems. Much of its current stimulus is being diverted to commodities and foreign economies—hence Asia's complaint about bubbles. Under emergency stimulus, corporations are borrowing dollars hand-over-fist, pleasing Wall Street while using the proceeds to expand their foreign businesses. If that stimulus could be retained here, the Fed could stand down gradually from the emergency yet still assure appropriate policy accommodation.
The simple goal is to convince the capital now funding gold mines and foreign asset bubbles to instead fund small businesses and the guaranteed mortgages the Fed's been buying. This means stopping the dollar's collapse, since it is fueling the outflow.
Since U.S. inflation is relatively low, even a Fed nod toward normalcy on monetary policy (not evident in Mr. Bernanke's testimony yesterday) should cause a dramatic improvement in the dollar and the magnitude of capital flows.
The fed-funds rate can stay near zero for a while longer, but the Fed can't keep promising "exceptionally low rates for an extended period," as it did last month. The sooner the Fed moves off its policy extreme, the sooner markets can resume their job of allocating capital and assessing relative value. In a more market-oriented allocation of global capital, the U.S. will be a big winner, especially for jobs and small businesses.
If the Fed wants to speed the capital reflow, it could mention the importance of the dollar in its Dec. 16 committee statement on interest-rate policy and inflation risks. In his Nov. 16 address to the Economic Club of New York, Mr. Bernanke said policies should "help ensure that the dollar is strong and a source of global financial stability." Putting that in the Fed's policy statement—with none of the normal winks to those who favor devaluation—would cause capital to flood back into the U.S., loosening small-business credit and adding jobs even when the Fed eventually contemplates rate hikes.
If the Fed announces that an end is in sight to its all-out emergency policies, two other benefits may accrue. China should be more willing to allow yuan appreciation if it thinks there's a net under the dollar. With no net, China fears that yuan appreciation would accelerate dollar flight, driving commodities even higher. And the Fed should be able to maintain its independence, which is at risk from congressional audits as long as the deeply unsettling emergency policies persist.
Wall Street will threaten a tantrum if the Fed even thinks about damping the air-raid sirens. The Street utterly loves the Fed's largess, earning massive profits from trading unstable currencies, the carry trade (borrow short-term dollars near zero, buy longer-term assets abroad), and the high-margin process of transferring America's capital abroad.
The hitch is that there isn't much trickle-down to normal jobs and small businesses from the sophisticated, zero-rate arbitrage that is propelling asset prices ever higher. It would be better to stand down from emergency stimulus and instead help markets direct the capital that is now going into bubbles into the economy and jobs.
Mr. Malpass is president of Encima Global LLC.

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So a solid majority — 62% — of the "unjustly restricted" aren't even black, which hardly makes this the civil rights issue Holder makes it out to be.
Why focus on blacks? Simple: They overwhelmingly vote Democratic. That's more than 2 million more votes for the president's party.
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Letters: Baylor & Sunday football
- September 8, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Presidents W.R. White and Abner McCall must be really turning over in their graves now as they watch their beloved Baylor become more and more secular.
Letters: Work for justice at every level of society
- August 29, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Thank you for your comments regarding the challenge we continue to face in America related to racism and injustice. You were on the mark, and you spoke a difficult truth clearly.
Letters: Celibacy a personal decision
- August 13, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
I am one of thousands of Exodus casualties. I, too, was a "success" story of ex-gay ministries in the early 1990s.
Letters: All the world's children at our doorstep?
- August 8, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
This entire situation does not pass the "smell test." How did so many children travel so far, all in such a short period of time?
Letters: 'Good starting point' for child-immigrant crisis
- July 22, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Thank you for a calm, reasoned, Christian response to the human tragedy of immigrant children.
Letters: Gracious words; outdated sentiment?
- July 16, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Updated: Whatever happened to "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?"
Letters: Glorieta's sad ending
- July 7, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
I thank you for shedding some light on the development at Glorieta and bringing to light the sad situation of its ending.
Letters: Death-row inmates 'A blessing to me'
- June 30, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
I totally agree with Pastor Jeff Hood's view of the death penalty as a Christian.
Letters: Glorieta homeowners should get fair market value
- June 22, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
UPDATED: As a current homeowner at the former Glorieta Conference Center, I differ with many of Tom Rainer's comments to the Southern Baptist Convention about the sale of Glorieta.
Letters: Patterson opens the door
- June 16, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Having read "Muslim seminarian shows ideology trumps theology," I'm wondering if a Mormon man or Jehovah's witness man will receive the same benefit?
Letters: Learn about mental illness
- June 9, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Church leaders need to become more competent in understanding mental illness.
Letters: Another contradiction in seminary decision
- June 1, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
You can't be both a denominational seminary and a diverse theological school at the same time!
Texas Baptist Forum: Muslim student at Southwestern
- May 26, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Patterson was right to distance from moderates
You wrote, "But here's the real irony: (Paige) Patterson extended the kind of grace to a Muslim he has spent his lifetime denying to fellow Baptists."
There is actually no irony here. I oppose Patterson's decision to admit the Muslim student, for multiple reasons, any one of which would sufficient on its own. However, the New Testament calls us to treat brothers and nonbelievers differently. A "double standard" is not a bad thing when you're talking about two genuinely different things.
In the words of the Apostle Paul: "I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?" (1 Corinthians 5:9-12)
Patterson's history of drawing lines and taking stands among believers has been an effort to practice these, and related, principles. His history in this area has nothing at all to do with how we interact with those who make no claim to know Christ.
Aaron Blumer
Baldwin, Wis.
Drop petty disputes and name-calling
As a young pastor who was not around for all the fighting I am pretty disappointed in the childish ways we as Texas Baptists can't seem to move forward, and continue to create a deeper divide during a time when we should really be focusing upon lessening the divide.
Your editorial about Paige Patterson's admission of a Muslim student to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary came across as childish.
Is Patterson a hypocrite in his actions with Baptists he disagrees with, yes. Is his admission of Muslims in light of this laughable, yes. Anyone who reads your website already knows that. To write an editorial making fun of his hypocrisy only creates more tension on both sides of the situation and is definitely not modeling the kind of character we are called to have as believers.
We need leadership amongst Texas Baptists that is going to help us keep our eyes focused upon Christ and the work he has called us to do and not continue to keep our eyes looking back at hurts from over 15 years ago.
I know this is easier said than done for people who lived through this conflict. I have several in my church who recognize this about themselves. They also recognize if we are ever going to move forward we have to forgive. Mr. Knox you are a man of great influence, and I pray you would use that influence for the glory of God, and not for petty disputes and name-calling.
Mike Meadows
'Sad day' for Southwestern Seminary
It is amazing Paige Patterson would allow a Muslim student to attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
When I attended Southwestern, Patterson and his buddies criticized then-President Russell Dilday for being too "liberal," but Dilday never would have even considered allowing a Muslim to attend classes. That violates everything Southwestern has ever stood for.
It also is disturbing that Patterson would threaten students with expulsion and faculty members with firing if they dared to question his authority. The only authority that should matter is the authority of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Scriptures. Patterson's actions violate all of those.
It is truly a sad day for my alma mater.
Dave Parker
Oklahoma City
Beyond betrayed to ashamed
I went to a Baptist school, Hardin-Simmons University. To have people of other faiths enrolled there was not only non-extraordinary, it was to be expected and welcomed.
But a Muslim student at a seminary? Our seminary?
I earned my master of divinity and doctor of ministry degrees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I always have been proud to be a Southwesterner, regardless of the twists and turns through the decades. But this?
A seminary is to be a training ground for ministry, not a solely academic pursuit. It is a place to feed the mind and stir the spirit of those who are called by the Lord Jesus Christ to serve him in vocational ministry.
This? I am ill at learning this. "Betrayed" doesn't begin to describe my feelings. "Ashamed" probably gets more at it.
If not rectified quickly, I intend to return my diplomas post haste.
Earl Powell
Muslim student helps seminary program
Sir, perhaps you might do your homework concerning the student and the archaeology program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
The truth is that while the growing biblical archaeology program at the seminary admittedly ought to adhere fully to seminary policy, it is also attempting to compete on a worldwide scale with institutions in the field that are located at the field. For us to have this student as part of our program has allowed SWBTS a foothold into relationships that will help those of us in the program develop pertinent relationships overseas. Not to mention that his experience from the field has served as a helpful resource for us younger students.
Please remember that in spite of your extremely biased opinion, there always exists at least two sides to every story.
Dawn Soeder
Fort Worth
'We do have a care' for Baylor
The just failure of the vote to dissolve the Baylor Alumni Association needs further explanation.
Under BAA bylaws, only members who could appear in person could vote, and a two-thirds majority was required to dissolve. Of 17,000-plus members, fewer than 2,000 live in or near Waco. Baylor President Ken Starr, who supported dissolution, headed a Waco media campaign including press releases, interviews and billboards apparently directed to those likely to be present. Two months earlier, in July, he directed the demolition of our $2 million Hughes-Dillard alumni building on campus
The vote failed as it should have.
How did it get that far? The BAA membership never was polled and was not kept informed on the private discussions, negotiations and threats from Baylor. BAA President Elizabeth Coker started the discussions with Baylor representatives in the fall of 2012. In 2013, she was succeeded as president by Colin Cox, who also supported dissolution and who presided over the voting Sept. 7, 2013. After the vote, Coker, Cox and a number of officers and members resigned from the BAA board. The board has been reconstituted with new officers and directors and continues to be independent and continues to serve Baylor.
As beloved President S.P. Brooks said in his 1931 Baylor commencement speech, read to that graduating class just days after he died: "Because of what Baylor has meant to you in the past, because of what she will mean to you in the future, oh, my students, have a care for her."
We do have a care for her.
Max Bennett
Petty differences
This is a wonderful time in the history of Baylor University. I am praying that petty differences will not keep our light from shining bright.
Control of money and power are the primary issues between the Baylor Alumni Association and Baylor University. Personalities should be put aside for the sake of the greater good.
It may be time to let it go! What is more important: To be right or to damage a beautiful institution?
Kaye Patterson
Fond memories of Glorieta
So sad to read of the decline of Glorieta, and the change of hands.
I have so many memories of spiritual mountaintop experiences:
• My first trip to a "Training Union" week when I was a teenager (1961).
• A very special trip in about 1963 when my mom went with our group as one of the adult sponsors—the only time we made a trip like that together—which let me see her in a whole different light as she interacted with the other youth in our group.
• Attending with my college Baptist Student Union group while I was a college student
• Going with my family as a young adult.
• And finally, getting to go for three weeks as a teacher in the "Lab School" during a series of Sunday School weeks. By that time, I was a writer of curriculum for LifeWay, and we were using one of the units I wrote in the "Lab School" that summer. What a thrill!
Every single trip to Glorieta has a special spiritual memory attached to it for me, because there was just something about that place that draws one closer to God.
Marsha Barrett
LifeWay materials 'problematical'
In general, we are quite unhappy with Lifeway Bible study materials. They over-emphasize the Old Testament. They emphasize uniformity for everyone. A recent lesson focused on Peter denying Jesus. We decided in our 3-year-olds' class to ignore that part and emphasize the mutual love between the two after the Resurrection.
An upcoming summer lesson about Daniel and his decision to obey God rather than Nebuchadnezzar is even more problematical. Discussing peer pressure and Christian standards and values, the author says, "The secularization of public schools has made many Christian parents feel that they are swimming upstream against a raging tide."
Public taxpayer-supported schools are by definition "secular." The U.S. Constitution and subsequent Supreme Court rulings are sufficiently clear about separation of church and state. We are supposed to take our children to the churches of our choice and mirror those teachings at home. It also is our responsibility to help our young people understand and support the Constitution, and it is the responsibility of our various governmental levels to provide and support public schools.
The SBC has become so tightly intertwined with the political far right wing that it has forgotten the Constitution. And having forgotten that, it's possible to take out pieces of the document they don't like, such as the religion clauses of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. …"
Wayne Webb
Letters: 'We are not God'
- May 19, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Capital punishment: 'We are not God'
Regarding the death penalty: Could you be the one who injects the poison that will kill the one accused of a crime? You are the one! The state may get the credit, but we are the state.
Even if the accused is guilty and does not deserve to live, we are not God. We arer taking a life, maybe an unworthy life, but Jesus loves even the most unworthy.
We all are unworthy.
Geraldine Boyd
Letters: Capital punishment 'inhuman and stupid'
- May 11, 2014
- By Staff / Baptist Standard
Your editorial about the death penalty expresses many of my thoughts on the subject. However, there are additional things we should consider.
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Jiff, a Pomeranian from Los Angeles, has earned his place in the 60th anniversary edition of the Guinness World Records book. Guinness World Records announced that Jiff has set world records for the fastest running on two back legs and on two front legs. Jiff can run 10 meters on his hind legs in 6.56 seconds, and 5 meters on his front paws in 7.76 seconds. (Photo by Kevin Scott Ramos/AP Photo/SIPA Press)
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A protester raises his umbrellas in front of tear gas which was fired by riot police to disperse protesters blocking the main street to the financial Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong, September 28, 2014. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
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Young women celebrate the opening of the 181th Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Saturday, September 20, 2014. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)
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This photo taken on September 3, 2014 shows Qin Riyang (L) and Leng Yuting, both 26 years old, posing underwater for their wedding pictures at a photo studio in Shanghai, ahead of their wedding next year. Fiance Riyang said they had their wedding photographs taken underwater because "its romantic and beautiful". Mr Wedding studio owner, Tina Lui, started providing underwater pictures four years ago. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP Photo)
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"Almost six months have passed since the Malaysian Airlines MH370 disappeared. Although authorities concluded that the plane crashed in the remote Indian Ocean and lost all the passengers, many family members refuse to accept that conclusion. They hope that they are still alive. However, public interest towards this incident has faded, so I decided to record what these family members are still going through and shed light on this mysterious incident once again. I thought that portrait-style pictures showing family members together with the missing passengers' mementos would tell a story. Before I started the project, I assumed I would find a couple of families at most, but the victims' relatives really wanted to speak out about the incident and how much they are suffering now.
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Cheng Liping, whose husband Ju was onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8, 2014, shows a picture of she and her husband together and an old card with a message given by her husband, at a park near her house where she and her husband used to visit during an interview with Reuters in Beijing July 24, 2014. Cheng said her life has been totally changed since the incident. Their two little sons, who don't know about this incident, keep asking her when their dad is coming back. Six months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with 239 mostly Chinese people on board, disappeared about an hour into a routine journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing March 8, loved ones of missing passengers derive what comfort they can from what's left behind after the world's greatest aviation mystery. More than two dozen countries have been involved in the air, sea and underwater search for the Boeing 777 but months of sorties failed to turn up any trace – even after narrowing the search area to the southern Indian Ocean – long after batteries on the black box voice and data recorders had gone flat. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
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In this September 2, 2013, file photo, dressed in costume, Kelva Joseph makes her way along Eastern Parkway in the Brooklyn borough of New York during the West Indian Day Parade. The annual parade is set for Monday, September 1, 2014, in Brooklyn. It echoes traditional pre-Lenten Carnival festivities and features dancers wearing elaborate, often feathered costumes. (Photo by Tina Fineberg/AP Photo)
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The Santa Marta favela, one of Rio's oldest slums, is seen on December 3, 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Santa Marta is one of a number of favelas where police are attempting a softer touch by participating in community policing after they clear the area of drug gangs. In figures released by the IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) statistics agency it was found that an average of 68 young Brazilian men died violently each day between 1998 and 2008. These numbers included murder, traffic accidents and gang violence involving the police. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images via The Palm Beach Post)
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Young people take part in the traditional tomato fight "Tomatina" during the week of fiestas in Bunol, Spain, 27 August 2014. Around 22,000 people attended the 69th edition of the traditional tomato throwing festival. (Photo by Gustavo Grillo/EPA)
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Custom silicone technician Corin Watts, portraying a Lance Corporal in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, part of the Rifles Living History Society, participates in a rifle drill whilst recreating life as a First World War soldier at the Colchester Military Tournament in Colchester, eastern England July 6, 2014. Corin became interested in World War One when, as a child, he would pass the statue of "The Driver" on the Royal Artillery Monument by Charles Sargeant Jagger. Because of its size and imposing nature it scared him, but also provoked him to ask questions about the Great War. Of his fellow re-enactors he says "I like the people, its an odd community re-enactment, they are the most bizarre but at the same time most grounded and down to earth people you'd ever meet". United by a fascination with military history and a fondness for dressing up, groups such as the Rifles Living History Society and the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Living History Group get together to recreate aspects of life during the First World War. Reuters photographer Luke MacGregor photographed members of the groups, both as they took part in living history events and at their day jobs. (Photo by Luke MacGregor/Reuters)
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Riot police walk in the street as a couple kiss on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver broke out in riots after their hockey team the Vancouver Canucks lost in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. (Photo by Rich Lam/Getty Images)
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Being Elmo on Times Square
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Jorge, an immigrant from Mexico, carries the head of the Sesame Street character Elmo while he walks through Times Square, New York July 30, 2014. Elmo and Cookie Monster have long delighted young viewers on TV's "Sesame Street", but the recent antics of New York street performers dressed as the beloved characters have drawn the ire of city officials and now the show's producers. Sesame Workshop, which owns the rights to Big Bird, Ernie and the assorted puppet monsters on the 45-year-old program, said on July 29, 2014 it was drafting plans to stop performers who dress up as the characters from appearing in Times Square, where they pose for photos with tourists and then demand tips. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)


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The term elementary school is used for schools where children from the age of about five receive primary education in some countries.
- Elementary school (United States), where there are currently some 92,858 elementary schools (68,173 public, 24,685 private)
- Elementary school (England and Wales) First established in 1870, most of these schools were converted into Primary schools during the late 1940s.
- Elementary schools in Japan
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- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (United States)
- Elementary Schools with Education and Crime Statistics (United States)