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On July 23, 2007, Jeffery Willett, 41, was charged by the Washington County, Wisconsin District Attorney's office with sexually abusing his daughter more than 12 years earlier when the girl was three years old.
It was the second time he had been accused of a sex crime with a child. In 2001, he was convicted in Michigan of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and received probation.
The Washington County complaint alleged that between May 1994 and May 1995, Willett and his daughter engaged in mutual oral sex.
In 2007, Willett's daughter went to the Menominee Falls, Wisconsin police department after her physician diagnosed her with genital herpes. She said that Willett had performed oral sex on her and she performed oral sex on him on multiple occasions when she was three years old.
In November 2009, Willett went on trial. His daughter, by then 15, testified that her father had to be source of the herpes because he was the only person with whom she ever had been in sexual contact. She admitted she was taking birth control pills, but said that was only to regulate her menstrual cycle, not because she was sexually active.
The prosecution presented evidence that Willett's wife went to a social worker when the girl was six and alleged the girl had been sexually abused by Willett. At the time, Willett and his wife were going through an acrimonious divorce. But the girl refused to talk to police about whether any abuse had occurred.
The doctor who diagnosed the girl with herpes testified that the type of herpes she had, herpes type 1, does not occur spontaneously and had to have been transmitted through oral-genital sex. The doctor also testified that the herpes virus can be dormant for as long as 20 to 40 years.
Willett took the stand in his own defense and denied that he ever had sex with his daughter. He said he did not have herpes and that because his daughter began taking birth control pills as a teenager, she could have been sexually active. Willett said he had never been treated for a sexually transmitted disease and never saw any cold sores or other symptoms of a sexually transmitted disease.
His current wife, Toni, whom he had married in 2005, testified she had never had a sexually transmitted disease and never saw any cold sores or other symptoms.
In closing argument, the prosecution focused on Willett's credibility and the medical testimony that "the only way" the girl could have gotten herpes was through "mouth to vagina contact."
On November 29, 2007, a jury found Willett guilty of one count of repeated sexual assault of a child. On February 12, 2008, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
A motion for a new trial was filed after Willett took two separate tests for herpes and both were negative.
At the post-conviction hearing, Willett's trial attorney testified that she reviewed websites about herpes and testing and learned that the blood test for herpes was not terribly accurate and to get a truly accurate test there need to be an open sore to swab, which Willett did not have. She also attempted to contact various doctors, experts, professionals, all of the attorneys in the state public defender's office, but those contacted either responded that they could not answer her questions, or worse, did not respond at all.
She said she did not have Willett tested because the results probably would have been given little weight by a jury and because she feared a false positive test result, which would have damaged Willett's case significantly.
However, Willett presented an expert who said that the lawyer's research had yielded incorrect information. The expert said that better tests had been approved in the last couple of years that were more "sensitive" and "specific."
Further, the tests were available at the time of trial, the expert said. The expert informed the court that the herpes tests Jeffery took after trial produced a 99.8% accurate negative result. Further, contrary to trial counsel's conclusion, the expert noted that the herpes test has only a 0.2% chance of a false positive, and the more prevalent error was a false negative.
The motion was denied after the prosecution argued that herpes tests can be inaccurate and can't always detect the disease.
Willett appealed, arguing that his trial attorney had provided inadequate legal assistance in failing to have Willett tested before trial and for failing to obtain a medical expert to testify on his behalf.
On January 13, 2010, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial.
"(T)the issue here is not whether the attorney failed to fully try the case, the court said. "She did the best she could with what she had. Rather, there was a test out there that was available at the time of trial which could have had great impact on the credibility battle between the prosecutor and the defendant, had it been presented. But, through no one's fault, the jury did not hear this evidence."
The court said, "We simply do not have confidence that justice has prevailed especially since the State—as part of its strategy—assailed (Willett's) credibility by pointing out the lack of a test corroborating his assertion of being herpes-free."
On June 25, 2010, the Washington County District Attorney's Office dismissed the case.
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Refractometric sensing with fluorescent-core microcapillaries |
Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 22, pp. 21540-21551 (2011)
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Capillaries present a promising structure for microfluidic refractive index sensors. We demonstrate a capillary-type fluorescent core microcavity sensor based on whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonances. The device consists of a microcapillary having a layer of fluorescent silicon quantum dots (QDs) coated on the channel surface. The high effective index of the QD layer confines the electric field near the capillary channel and causes the development of WGM resonances in the fluorescence spectrum. Solutions consisting of sucrose dissolved in water were pumped through the capillary while the fluorescence WGMs were measured with a spectrometer. The device showed a refractometric sensitivity of 9.8 nm/RIU (up to 13.8 nm/RIU for higher solution refractive index) and a maximum detection limit of ~7.2 x 10−3 RIU. Modeling the field inside the capillary structure, which is analogous to a layered hollow ring resonator, shows that sensitivities as high as 100 nm/RIU and detection limits as low as ~10−5 RIU may be achievable by optimizing the QD film thickness.
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(230.1150) Optical devices : All-optical devices
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
(250.5230) Optoelectronics : Photoluminescence
(140.3948) Lasers and laser optics : Microcavity devices
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Original Manuscript: July 11, 2011
Revised Manuscript: September 6, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: September 30, 2011
Published: October 18, 2011
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88th Grey Cup
Date | November 26, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | McMahon Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Calgary | ||||||||||||||||||
Most Valuable Player | Robert Drummond | ||||||||||||||||||
Most Valuable Canadian | Sean Millington | ||||||||||||||||||
Halftime show | The Guess Who | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 43,822 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | CBC, RDS | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | (CBC) Steve Armitage, Chris Cuthbert, Mark Lee, Chris Walby, Brian Williams, Glen Suitor, Brenda Irving | ||||||||||||||||||
The 88th Grey Cup (Canadian Football League championship) was held in 2000 in Calgary. The BC Lions won the game 28-26 over the Montreal Alouettes. The Lions, who finished 8-10 with an overtime loss during the regular season, became the first team ever to finish with a regular season record below .500 and win the Grey Cup.
Game summary[edit]
BC Lions (28) - TD's, Damon Allen (2), Robert Drummond; FG's, Lui Passaglia (2); cons., Passaglia (2); singles, Passaglia (2).
Montreal Alouettes (26) - TD's, Jock Climie, Mike Pringle, Ben Cahoon; FG's, Terry Baker (2); cons., Baker (2).
First Quarter
BC—Single Passaglia missed 47-yard field goal attempt, one-point granted 4:10
BC—TD Allen 1-yard run (Passaglia convert) 6:39
MTL—FG Baker 19-yard field-goal 11:38
Second Quarter
BC—Single Passaglia missed 33-yard field goal attempt, one-point granted 0:17
BC—FG Passaglia 23-yard field-goal 11:10
Third Quarter
MTL—TD Climie pass from Calvillo on one-yard line (Baker convert) 6:49
Fourth Quarter
BC—TD Drummond 44-yard run (Passaglia convert) 0:55
MTL—FG Baker 51-yard field-goal 4:30
BC—TD Allen 1-yard run 8:38
MTL—TD Pringle 5-yard run (Baker convert) 11:18
BC—FG Passaglia 29-yard field-goal 13:35
MTL—TD Cahoon 59-yard pass from Calvillo 14:16
The game started off slowly. There was no score until Lui Passaglia's missed field goal produced a single for the Lions that got them off to a 1-0 lead. A little more than three minutes later, Damon Allen scored a touchdown on a one-yard run that made the score 8-0. Montreal finally got on the scoreboard at 11:38 when Terry Baker hit a nineteen-yard field goal to cut the score to 8-3. There was only one score in the second quarter, as Passaglia missed another field goal that produced another single for the Lions. The Lions led 9-3 going into the half.
In the third quarter, the Alouettes cut the score to 12-10 after slotback Jock Climie caught a one-yard pass from Anthony Calvillo.
Only 55 seconds into the fourth period, Robert Drummond broke through the Als defense for a forty-four yard score to increase the Lions' lead to 19-10. Terry Baker had his second field goal of the day to bring the Als nearer, 19-13. Lions' quarterback Damon Allen ran for his second touchdown of the day. The two-point conversion failed, but the lead was now twelve with 11:01 on the clock.
Alouettes running back Mike Pringle, who ran for 115 yards on the day, ran in a five-yard score to shrink the score once again to 25-20 with 3:42 left in the game. Lui Passaglia's 29-yard field goal with 1:25 left gave the Lions' an eight-point lead. Anthony Calvillo and the Als only had a small amount of time to work with to possibly tie up the game and send it into overtime. Calvillo hit receiver Ben Cahoon across the middle and Cahoon raced fifty-nine yards to pull the Alouettes to within two with 44 seconds left in the game. The Alouettes went for a two-point convert to tie the game and send it into overtime, but Calvillo's pass sailed over the head of a falling Thomas Haskins, who fell to the turf before the pass arrived. The play was not without controversy, with the Alouettes seeking a pass interference call, but none was called.
Montreal attempted an onside kick, but Lions' receiver Alfred Jackson leapt over several Alouette players to recover the football, enabling the Lions to run out the clock.
- The Lions ran for 264 yards, 122 on 10 carries by Robert Drummond and 99 by Sean Millington. Drummond was awarded the game's most valuable player and Millington received the game's most valuable Canadian.
- This was the final game for Lions kicker Lui Passaglia who retired after the 2000 CFL season.
2000 CFL Playoffs[edit]
West Division[edit]
Semi-final (November 12 @ Edmonton, Alberta) BC Lions 34-32 Edmonton Eskimos
Final (November 19 @ Calgary, Alberta) BC Lions 37-23 Calgary Stampeders
East Division[edit]
Semi-final (November 12 @ Hamilton, Ontario) Winnipeg Blue Bombers 22-20 Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Final (November 19 @ Montreal, Quebec) Montreal Alouettes 35-24 Winnipeg Blue Bombers
External links[edit]
- "Grey Cup: 2000". Canadian Football League.


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When I went to visit Neil Kay last year, we talked a bit about novelty. He said that the way that we frame PhD research is all wrong – that it is a mistake when we tell people that they need to make a novel contribution to knowledge. Instead, we agreed that people should be looking to advance knowledge, which is a bit different than making a novel contribution.
For example, you could write an economics PhD connecting the theories of Alfred Marshall with those of Justin Bieber. That would certainly be novel (at least, I hope there aren't too many people trying that), but would it materially advance knowledge? Probably not.
Here's another example – what do you think this is? I'll give you a hint – it's a symbol.
It was on a door at the conference venue that I was in at the end of last week. Throughout the two days that we were there, we had a stream of people walk up, look at the symbol, pause, continue walking down the hall and then compare the symbol with those on two more doors. The women then shrugged and walked into the last door, while the men returned to this one.
Somehow, that's the symbol for "Men."
This is an example of bad innovation.
It's a novel way to indicate which room the men should use, but it's not a good way to do so.
There are a few innovation lessons contained in the cryptic symbol:
- Novel ideas are not automatically innovative. Just because an idea is completely new, it doesn't mean that it's good. Like the Marshall plus Bieber PhD, novelty doesn't tell us anything about the quality of the idea. You need more than novelty – in addition:
- Innovations need to create value. The weird door sign creates negative value – it confuses people, it may lead to potentially embarrassing mixups, and it wastes time. All of these are bad outcomes. To innovate, we need to execute new ideas to create value. To create value, we must remember that:
- Our innovations have to fit within the existing economic network. As Jeffrey Phillips pointed out in our discussion of flying cars, that is a technology that will only work when there are a large number of related technical and social innovations in place that are required to support flying cars.
The problem with the "Men" symbol is that it doesn't connect to any normally accepted method for communicating that this is the room into which men should go. This lack of specificity might be find in the signage for a trendy new nightclub, where part of the mystique comes from being difficult to find. I don't know about you, but I prefer toilets without that mystique…
When you're thinking up ideas, it is critical to think about how executing these ideas might create value. If they don't create clear value for people, then it might be smart to spend your limited resources executing a different idea that does.


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Now, now, children, play nicely.
Dogs do use up a lot of the earth's resources - and so do children. Someone very into sustainability (with children) told me that having kids is about the least green thing you can do, and having pets was nearly as bad.
Personally, I don't care for (or have) either.
That's an excellent rant, Carter - I salute you.
But it's not really the kind of stuff I would want to hear from a police officer, if truth be told ...
2 words, ironic, and naive.
The first line is splendid irony, when he's posting such a rant at 1am.
And as for naivety, cripes. Posting abusive comments on the net in his position? I doubt he'd be too hard to track down, bearing in mind a 2min check on past posts reveals age, races run, races entered for, and where he's from!!
Well this has got a bit silly hasn't it? Why would anyone want someone to lose his job (not that I'd imagine he would) over a bit of a rant on a messageboard?
I think everyone just needs to lighten up a bit. Remember this is a thread about dogshit, not genocide.
Oh, but marshallini is obviously totally nutso.
No one's saying that Matt!
A few of us are just pointing it out that it's a little worrying to read such a rant from a chap who is meant to keep the order!
Who said about him losing his job ... and Matt says we're getting a bit silly
It's just that we are more identifiable on tinternet that we might think and it is probably good to exercise a little caution if we're in a position of authority. Just saying.
We are being silly, typing under the influence of a bottle of red and sleep deprivation.
I didn't find his rant too bad...............seen a hell of a lot worse..........even under the influence..........
but a agree that the majority of people here are easily tracible in the real world...........stalkers must love this sort of place.............people telling you when they are going on holiday and giving links to the cottage sometimes...............people stating when they are leaving their young children alone in the house on a regular basis..................people telling you where and when they run ....................
i imagine stalkers having a field day on here
not me i am a total secret..........just off to the loo before going up the road
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All dog owners are selfish pricks and all dogs should be killed!
Stevie G . wrote (see)
agree with that Matt. I dislike dogs, and dislike dog owners,
lardarse wrote (see)
marshallini wrote (see) All dog owners are selfish pricks and all dogs should be killed! Hear hear! Though your attitude is a bit wussy, i'd have the owners butchered too.
Hear hear! Though your attitude is a bit wussy, i'd have the owners butchered too.
Are you blind, a shepard, in the military/police/customs? if not then the only reason for that dog's existence is for your pleasure and enjoyment - selfish.Dogs uses up the earth's finite resource and gives nothing back. selfish.The £1000s you pay for it's food, grooming, medical/vetinary care each year would be better spent on more humanitarian causes.Dogs are just dirty, savage, noisy, wastes of space and resources.
Ladies, ladies, ladies, I'm suitably impressed.
However Marshallini (do I know you?, thought I did and you seemed so normal in real life but maybe I am mistaken) .. you may want to re-read through a bit of ancient history and the formation of mankind as it currently is, and whilst doing so pay particular attention to the part played in the odessey of our being by the wolf becoming the domesticated dog and the path that took us down.
As for Stevie G. and Lardarse, jealousy is a horrible thing isn't it ... holding such extreme hatred for something just because its a better runner than you .. tsk ... poor show chaps poor show !
i don't think my comments on dogs were quite as strong as the other chaps somehow.
and it depends what dog on whether they'd outrun you. Greyhounds and the like..fair dos...it'd be embarrasing.Those little mutts that loook like rugs, i think i'd be safe!
Well that was fun, as easy as throwing a squeaky ball to a pack of bouncing dopey dogs! lol
Runner's world, the home of SERIOUS posting.
So, to the anthropomorphism of dogs.
One of my clients has a child substitute in the form of a dog. Understandable since she hates her own kids, presumably because they're fully grown adults that don't bark, piss up trees or eat their shit.
Its the sort of shit machine I'd describe as a Scrabster. You know, the sort of creature that tries shagging your foot while you're trying to eat dinner.
"Don't say dog! Cloie will be offended", f f's sake, its a f.. ing DOG!
So a guy (electrician) one day left the door open and the dog ran out. And ran back.
Shit hits the fan. Cloie might have run into the road, Cloie might have been run over, might have been killed.
Up to speed this case goes on about 'eye for an eye' , no-one can imagine how upset I'd have got?
Want a bet?
However when she gets to the stage when she said she would kill the guys wife to even things up. You know what nutters some dog people are.
Like the guy who threatened anyone with 'great vengeance and furious anger if he dared kick his dog'. I asked if instead he just kicked the shit out of someone first, would it be ok if then they kicked his dog.
Just a thought.
Yes YP, he looks at you and thinks you're a dog.
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......and Millwall fans are a lot like Rottweilers.....
I have been known to chase balls, and I've also had a shit in the woods. Well off the path, mind.
I'd make a top dog...... Just imagine a world where it's perfectly normal behaviour for you to: 1) shit wherever and whenever you wanted 2) try and hump any attractive female you bumped into, without the need for any social pleasantries 3) chase after people just for fun 4) to be able to command other creatures to tickle your tummy, or throw you a ball, just by looking at them with your head to one side 5) etc, etc, etc......
You have a point there.
If we start shagging in the street we get arrested, if you're an Alsatian you get away with it.
Outrageous, how much tax does that dog pay?


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Lucas Duda is playing shallow, getting comfortable in RF
In the New York Post, Mike Puma explains how Lucas Duda is getting more comfortable playing right field, thanks in part to outfield coach Tom Goodwin.
Goodwin has Duda playing more shallow, contrary to what he was used to, so less balls drop in front of him.
"I was taught when I was growing up, never get beat over your head," Duda told Puma. "Playing [shallow], that's kind of a switch, but it's an adjustment, and I have to make it sooner rather than later."
Brian Erni: It's an interesting approach. I'm sure Duda's specific positioning fluctuates based on scouting reports and spray charts, but I think, based on the Duda's skill set, setting up shallow makes sense. Duda is neutralizing the lack of closing speed he has coming in, cutting down the amount of singles that bloop in. As a result, he's taking away that hard-luck inning, where pitchers are making good pitches, but having parachutes fall in. Such a frame can be demoralizing for pitchers, especially for young ones. Duda lacks a tradition right fielder's arm as well, so the shallower he plays, the better chance he is giving himself to cut a runner down with a strong throw to third or home.Since the adjustments to Citi have taken away that long triple-creating gap, when a ball is tanked, it's usually going to be a home run or double. And with Kirk Nieuwenhuis or Andres Torres patrolling centerfield, there's a good chance they can run something down should it be hit in right centerfield gap. Having Duda play shallow is a numbers game: take away the hits that shouldn't fall in, but give up the one or two balls in the gap that would probably require an extraordinary play anyway.
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Those looking for products from cottage industries are in for a treat as Khadi Utsava starts on Friday. The month-long exhibition at Freedom Park will feature khadi and cottage industry products from across the country.
The event is being organised by Karnataka State Khadi and Gramodyoga Board (KSKGB). The entry fee is Rs. 10 per person. On display would be products made out of cotton, wool and polyester on which a special rebate of 35 per cent has been announced while silk khadi will carry a rebate of 20 per cent.
For the youth, designer khadi products will be available. Cottage industry products, such as wood carvings, furniture, coir products, pottery, hand bags, handmade paper, natural honey, ghee and other herbal products would also be available.
The last time such a national–level Khadi Utsava was held in Bangalore was in 2008.
KSKGB Chief Executive Officer L. Radhakrishna told presspersons on Wednesday that 15 States have confirmed participation and the event would have about 340 stalls. Participants include about 240 organisations from Karnataka. "We are expecting about four lakh visitors and a turnover of about Rs. 14 crore during the event," he said.


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Tucked away in the heart of the Berkshire countryside within easy access of London and Heathrow, The Pavilion Spa offers a unique historic experience in breath-taking rural surroundings like nowhere else.
Situated in National Trust grounds inside the famous Walled Garden, made famous by its association with the Profumo affair in the 1960s, The Pavilion Spa provides an oasis of calm and relaxation.
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As the past home of Dukes, a Prince of Wales and the Astor family, Cliveden has long enjoyed a prestigious and prominent social standing - one which continues to this day. The Cliveden Club is a social and country club whose members are restricted to no more than 300 and who enjoy many exclusive and extremely attractive privileges of this luxurious home away from home.
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Microsoft pours $300 million in Barnes&Noble for its own e-book and educational ecosystem
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7. snowgator (Posts: 3346; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Great for me!!! I am a Barnes & Nobel supporter already, so an App to WP brings my good reads over to my Phone real easy!! They just guaranteed my fun money stays in their corner and not a Kindle!!!
2. tedkord (Posts: 6589; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Does this mean a WP powered Nook tablet? And if so, will MS let them customize the UI?
3. Pdubb (Posts: 239; Member since: 08 Aug 2011)
MS is really dipping their toes in a lot of ponds. They are really gathering partners for this new battle.
5. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
PhoneArena forgot to mention that once there was an ongoing lawsuit between Microsoft and Barnes&Noble. Barnes&Noble refused to pay those Android patents Microsoft claim and decided to go to court.
I'm surprised that this time Microsoft took a more creative approach. Instead of suing each other they went for partnership. Win-Win situation.
6. Roomaku (Posts: 278; Member since: 06 Feb 2012)
Maybe now they can push there Xbox game for wp7 dept. to get some really good title in. Till they do Im still leaning towards iPhone :(


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Bagley Hotel
Now over 100 years old (it was built in 1913), the Bagley Hotel steps you back in time before the advent of hotel franchises - with a restaurant/bar combination downstairs and cozy rooms for rent upstairs, you can enjoy a more communal travel experience from days gone by. The bar & restaurant have been given a recent facelift, with new flooring, a homey rustic paint job and decorating, and an updated kitchen. Harley bikers comfortably sit alongside local families with children, hunters and fisherman - all are welcome and enjoy many of the excellent specials throughout the week, with the Sunday brunch continuing on as a popular tradition from past owners. (See our Facebook page for details on weekly specials!) The rooms upstairs provide a more rustic hotel experience from a bygone era, with newly floored and redecorated rooms sharing a hallway and two bathrooms - much like a bed & breakfast experience. Come check us out and enjoy the beauty of rural Mississippi!
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Released: Dec 01st, 2004
Running Time: 132
Director: Robert Hill
Company: Robert Hill Releasing
Leticia, Fernanda (I), Kianna, Marcello (I), Ricardo (I), Kleber, Junior (I), Alex (I), Isabella (I)
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
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Five condomless fuck-filled scenes of trannies demanding dick from more than willing male partners.
In an odd opening scene, black bombshell Kianna plays pony by riding around on the back of her partner. He finger fucks her ass, before thrusting his dong in her doggie-style. Leticia and partner have an energetic all-you-can eat assfest. And petite Isabella plays the coy cutie quite nicely.


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Hello Cuba
A Snap Shot of Life
What is Cuba really like? What would it be like to actually live as they live, eat as they eat, survive as they do, day in and day out? Photographer, Kat Silverglate, brings us to the island through pictures and stories and challenges us to think outside the political box and to focus on the people. The book is a tribute to many who continue to love across borders despite seemingly impossible odds, endless obstacles and an utter lack of freedom. The book challenges us all to do something which no political system can stop -- to pray for our brothers and sisters in Cuba.
To learn more about the author, her work and upcoming events, visit her "News and Events" page at www.photosbykat.net.
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Identification of a novel cryptosporidium genotype in pigs
Ryan, U.M., Samarasinghe, B., Read, C., Buddle, J.R., Robertson, I.D. and Thompson, R.C.A. (2003) Identification of a novel cryptosporidium genotype in pigs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69 (7). pp. 3970-3974.
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Over a 3-year period, a total of 646 fecal samples from pigs in 22 indoor and outdoor herds from Western Australia were screened for Cryptosporidium spp. by microscopy. Results revealed that 39 of 646 samples (6.03%) were positive for Cryptosporidium. Cryptosporidium was much more common in outdoor herds (17.2%) than in indoor herds (0.5%) and was more common in animals between the ages of 5 and 8 weeks (69.2%) than in younger animals (P < 0.0001). Molecular characterization of the positive samples at the 18S ribosomal DNA focus identified two distinct genotypes of Cryptosporidium: the previously identified pig genotype I and a novel pig genotype (pig genotype II), both of which warrant species status.
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June 6, 2012
DeFranco Landscaping recently replanted the allee of trees between Fort Ticonderoga and the King's Garden. The staff at DeFrancos removed the sod and renovated the planting bed prior to planting the 50 Karpick Red Maples. The King's Garden opens for the season on June 1. Above, Dave DeFranco of DeFranco Landscaping waters a maple with Heidi Karkoski, Fort Ticonderoga curator of landscape, looking on. DeFranco Landscaping, based in Hague, was the recipient of the 2010 Frank Leonbruno Memorial Lake Stewardship Award from the Lake George Watershed Coalition for use of native plants in their landscape design.
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The lake offers a host of recreational and sporting opportunities to the people who visit each year. Although these lakes were built to provide navigation and hydroelectric power, the emphasis is on family fun. Boating, fishing, skiing and camping are available.
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I did the same thing.... I scrolled down so fast and thought I missed it. So I scrolled back UP and still didn''t see any. Hey... what''s up w/ THAT??!!?? |
I just came from Mark''s office and completely agree about how much of a pleasure it is to work with him. I have been to alot of vendors on 47th street and across the city but nobody knows cushions the way he does. Not only did he show me some beautiful stones (both Cushion Brilliant and Cushion Modified Brilliant) but he educated me on various things regarding cushions that I''ve overlooked. I spent about 90 minutes with him that was easily the most enjoyable 90 minutes of my ering quest to date.
That being said, it just so happens that I''m looking for the same type of ring and setting that Mark just made for you. My girlfriend wants the Harry Winston micro-pave look, and I''ve been trying to find somebody that can make what I want. Mark claims he can, and to be honest I completely believe him! He mentioned that he just made the same ring for you..he pointed me to this post but alas there are no pictures yet!!! If you really want to help Mark out, post some pictures so I can give him my business also!! ;) |
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Fatguy- if you are in nyc- i will gladly show you the ring in person- it is exact... how big do you want the stone to be b/c if the stone is a honker, at least to me, it will be overwhelming....minie is a 1.71 and it looks like a 2.5 ct or so with the halo... will try pix again tonight- and NO i don''t have this macro thing on the camera- that is where the problem stems from! |
But I''m trustworthy!! ;) If you''re close to Mark we could meet in his office (if it''s ok with him ;) if it makes everyone more comforatble... If not, I live in midtown (25th st) and work downtown. I pm''d you my work email and contact info...I could even bring a camera so everyone else gets to see ;) |
LOL...please don''t take my admonishment personally, fatguy...I was speaking in general terms about meeting strangers to show them diamonds..
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On one hand, legislators want to reap the economic benefits; on the other hand, they want to ban research that is a core component of development.
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The political vision of Missouri politicians is to establish the I-70 Life Sciences Corridor, anchored in St. Louis by Washington University and the Danforth Center, at MU in mid-Missouri, and at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City.
State leaders want to generate more health-related jobs in life sciences, which pay an estimated 24 percent more than the average Missouri salary.
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Travis Brown, a biotechnology industry lobbyist, said he is worried about a possible legislative ban on therapeutic cloning. Scientists fled neighboring Iowa after the state passed its cloning ban in early 2004, he said.
"If you were the big biotech company (looking to relocate or expand), you could choose to go to Missouri, where your research may or may not become illegal, or you could go to California, where they throw money at your feet," he said. "Would you go to Missouri?"
Mike Chippendale, senior associate director of the MU Life Sciences Center, opposes legislative intervention in the stem-cell debate. Any such regulations should come from the federal level, he said, so states can have uniform rules and avoid the uncertainty created when an action is legal in one state and illegal in another.
"Restrictive state rules will have a chilling effect on the research," Chippendale said. "I don't want to see that happen."
Kevin Buckley, a patent lawyer with Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal in St. Louis, said some Fortune 1000 companies such as Sigma-Aldrich plan to move their chemical manufacturing interests overseas if a cloning ban is passed.
Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City recently voted to oppose all efforts to ban stem-cell research and cloning in the state after the Stowers Institute said it would stop the planned expansion of a research center. The institute has a $1.7 billion endowment for medical research and has attracted top researchers from all over the world.
State Sen. Matt Bartle of Lee's Summit last year introduced a bill to prohibit reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Thrice defeated, he is planning a similar effort in the next legislative session.
Bartle said he isn't convinced that his bill, if passed, would have halted the state's life sciences initiative because most of Missouri's life sciences are agriculture-based.
"Stem-cell research is a very small part of the initiative," he said.
Bartle said that five other states, as well as several European countries, have banned human cloning.
In 1998, state lawmakers approved a measure that prohibits any state funding for stem-cell research. Three years later, Gov. Bob Holden signed an executive order that can be interpreted as prohibiting state money for any research that involves embryos as well as any kind of germ cells.
Supporters of stem-cell research in California are seeking their own legislative changes. On Tuesday, Golden State voters will consider Proposition 71, which authorizes California to sell $3 billion in bonds to fund stem-cell research.
Steven Teitelbaum, a pathology professor at Washington University, does not use stem cells in his research. Nor does he plan to do so.
But Teitelbaum said he wants the opportunity to use the technology to treat his patients should the need arise, which is why he is involved in building public opinion and lobbying the state legislature.
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Washington University is one of the country's top five recipients of federal research money from the National Institutes of Health. Its research on using stem cells to regenerate neurons in rats with severed spinal cords has gained international attention.
Teitelbaum said he is frustrated with what he calls the frequency of misinformation in the debate concerning the ban and would like all sides to stop misrepresenting the facts.
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"To Secure The Blessings of Liberty"
Since the end of the Cold War, administrations of both political parties have underfunded the military, first harvesting a "peace dividend" by reducing the size of the force and then repeatedly postponing investments needed to replace worn out equipment and preserve the technological advantages that have been a traditional source of American strength. Now, just as this strain on the military—engaged in today's persistent irregular wars, yet unable to prepare fully for the wars of the future—reaches a point of crisis, come new calls to cut the Defense Department's budget, amplified by the fears of a faltering economy, the federal government's desire to boost spending elsewhere, and its inability to rein in other spending. Yet the arguments frequently made for Pentagon spending cuts are concocted from a mix of faulty analysis and out-of-context "facts."
Additional defense spending is unnecessary as the United States already spends more on defense than half the world combined.
No other country in the world has the enduring vital national interests of the United States, and therefore the U.S. military has global reach and responsibilities. Comparing the unique needs of U.S. security and the resources required against those of other countries is misleading. Further, it is not surprising that the richest nation on earth and history's "sole superpower" should have a first-rate military; the overall dollar cost is mostly a measure of the size of our economy. What is surprising is that we get so much from such a small proportion of our wealth. As Mackenzie Eaglen of the Heritage Foundation writes,
Defense spending is near historic lows… Between 2010 and 2015, total defense spending is set to fall from 4.9 percent to 3.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), even though the nation has assigned more missions to the military over the past two decades.[1]
A narrow focus on strictly dollar figures is also misleading. Consider China's military budget, which Beijing claims is $78 billion for this year. The Pentagon estimates that the relative "purchasing power" of the Chinese military is actually closer to $150 billion, in good part because China does not have to pay their soldiers, sailors, and airmen anything comparable to what the United States pays its servicemen and women.[2] By this yardstick, China moves from fifth place in overall military spending among the nations of the world to second.[3] And more to the point, China's defense expenditures are focused primarily on gaining military leverage in a distinct region of the world—Asia—while the U.S. military has responsibilities everywhere. The resources the U.S. military can actually deploy "in theater" are not vastly superior to those of the Chinese. Simple comparisons of defense expenditures are deceptive measures of the unique needs of America's armed forces.
Pentagon budgets were a "gusher" of new money in the Bush Administration.
In his recent drive to cut overhead, Defense Secretary Robert Gates indeed described the emergency supplemental appropriations for the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan as a "gusher."[4] But as AEI's Gary Schmitt and Tom Donnelly have written,
The budget increases that have occurred…are largely tied to fighting the wars. When Bill Clinton left the White House and Dick Cheney told the military that "help [was] on the way," the defense burden stood at 3 percent of GDP—a post-World War II low. When George W. Bush headed out the door, the figure for the core defense budget was about 3.5 percent. This is an increase, to be sure, but not one to make the military flush after a decade of declining budgets and deferred procurement.[5]
One of the consistent and correct purposes of the wartime supplementals was to "reset" the force—to return the military to at least pre-war readiness levels. This goal is still a long way off. The backlogs at service repair depots will take years to work through.
More profoundly, very little wartime funding went to increase the number of U.S. ground forces. The strains on soldiers and Marines—reflected in rising suicide rates, for example—have yet to be fully calculated. And despite the withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq and President Obama's deadline for drawdown in Afghanistan, the Army and Marine Corps will continue to deploy overseas for years, an effort that can only be sustained by a reduced pace of operations, sharing the constant burden across a larger force.
There is a moral obligation not only to bind the wounds and tend to the families of those who have fought so well and so long, but also to give them what they need to continue to answer the call to service. Further, the government's Constitutional obligation is to "provide for the common defense," and to "secure the blessings of liberty" now and for future generations. This is the government's fundamental obligation to its citizens and its cardinal contribution to our liberties.
Cutting waste and excess from the Pentagon budget will provide sufficient funds to make up for shortfalls.
Defense Secretary Gates' recent initiatives to reform defense acquisition and reduce overhead costs are laudable and necessary. However, even if such efficiencies can be realized, they won't cover the gap between requirements and resources. As the report of the bipartisan Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel concluded,
[T]hose savings will be insufficient for comprehensive [military] modernization. We cannot reverse the decline of shipbuilding, buy enough naval aircraft, recapitalize Army equipment, modernize tactical aircraft, purchase a new aerial tanker, increase our deep-strike capability and recapitalize the bomber fleet just by saving the $10 billion-$15 billion the Department hopes to achieve through acquisition reform….Meeting the crucial requirements of modernization will require a substantial additional investment that is sustained through the long term…. Although there is a cost to recapitalizing the military, there is also a potential price associated with not recapitalizing – and in the long run, that cost is much greater.[6]
In other words, while eliminating "waste" in defense spending and perfecting the Pentagon's weapons-buying practices are estimable goals, they will not solve the problems created by almost two decades of underfunding the military. The United States has postponed critical investments necessary to prepare for the future; projected defense budgets cannot close the gap.
Current levels of defense spending are unaffordable.
The defense budget is a relatively small slice of the $14-plus-trillion American pie. And it's a shrinking slice: as a percentage of our economy and as a percentage of the federal budget, the burden of defense is declining. President Obama's long-term budget projections also reduce Pentagon spending in real dollars.
Moreover, the idea that defense cuts will restore fiscal health simply does not add up: suppose Pentagon spending for 2011—$720 billion—were eliminated entirely.[7] This would only halve this year's federal deficit of $1.5 trillion. And defense spending is a drop in the ocean of today's $13.3 trillion of government debt. From the Korean War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, total U.S. defense spending was about $4.7 trillion.[8] So had there been no military spending at all during the Cold War, the savings would not equal even half our current national debt.
Talking about defense spending in isolation while discussing the overall federal budget is also misleading. Defense is not the source of the federal government's fiscal woes. As Mackenzie Eaglen notes,
The substantial decline in the defense share of the budget largely reflects the dramatic growth of entitlement spending. Entitlements now account for around 65 percent of all federal spending and a record 18 percent of GDP. The three largest entitlements— Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—eclipsed defense spending in 1976 and have been growing ever since. If future taxes are held at the historical average, these three entitlements will consume all tax revenues by 2052, leaving no money for the government's primary constitutional obligation: providing for the common defense.[9]
Over the past decade, necessary defense spending increases are responsible for less than 20 percent of all new spending from 2001 to 2009. This does not even include 2009 stimulus spending totaling $787 billion, with almost no money for defense.
The United States should not be "the world's policeman."
At a cost of less than one nickel of the American taxpayers' dollar—and only 4.9 percent of U.S. GDP—the United States has fought two wars and provided the essential backbone for a system of global security; by any measurement, it's an amazing bargain.[10]
The investments made during the Cold War—including the Reagan build-up— continue to pay global dividends. Europe, for the first time in centuries, enjoys a durable peace. East Asia, for millennia a theater of violent competition, is emerging as an economic dynamo, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.
Yet this peace and the prosperity it helps to create are not self-generating or selfsustaining. No other nation, or group of nations, is ready, willing or able to take on America's role. As the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel observed, the future is
…likely to place an increased demand on American "hard power" to preserve regional balances. While diplomacy and development have important roles to play, the world's first-order problems will continue to be our security concerns….As the last 20 years have shown, America does not have the option of abandoning a leadership role in support of its national interests….Failure to anticipate and manage the conflicts that threaten those interests…will not make those conflicts go away….It will simply lead to an increasingly unstable and unfriendly global climate and, eventually, to conflicts America cannot ignore.[11]
In short, the cost of preserving America's role in the world is far less than would be the cost of having to fight to recover it or, still greater, the cost of losing it altogether. While many Americans would prefer to see our allies and partners play a larger part in securing the blessings of our common liberty, no president of either political party has backed away from America's global leadership role —a bipartisan consensus that remains strong evidence that American leadership is still necessary to protect the nation's vital interests.
Defense spending should focus primarily on "winning the wars we're in."
America's military must be able to fulfill a wide range of disparate missions: defending the homeland; assuring access to the seas, in the air, in space and now in "cyberspace;" preserving the peace in Europe, working to build a peace across the greater Middle East and preparing for the rise of new great powers in the Asia-Pacific. The United States has always seen an interest in advancing a global "common good" through disaster relief and other forms of humanitarian assistance. In a dynamic but dangerous globalized world, the presence of U.S. military forces provides an essential stability. No one has been more insistent about winning today's wars than Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Yet he also says,
As I look around the world and see a more unstable world, more failed and failing states, countries that are investing heavily in their militaries—as I look at places like Iran and North Korea and elsewhere around the world—as I look at the new kinds of threats emerging from cyber to precision ballistic and cruise missiles and so on—my greatest worry is that we will do to the defense budget what we have done four times before. And that is, slash it in an effort to find some kind of a dividend to put the money someplace else. I think that would be disastrous in the world environment we see today and what we're likely to see in the years to come.[12]
The primary purpose of the U.S. military is to defend the homeland and, when required, fight and win wars to protect our security interests. American military strength also deters enemies, shapes and influences would-be aggressors, and serves as a comforting signal of security and support to friends and allies around the world. The benefits America enjoys as the world's sole superpower flow from preserving that strength.
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[1] Mackenzie Eaglen, "U.S. Defense Spending: The Mismatch Between Plans and Resources." Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2418, June 7, 2010.
[2] U.S. Department of Defense, Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2010, p. 41, 43.
[3] Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Yearbook 2010, Appendix 5A: Military expenditure data, 2000–2009, "The 15 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2009." Available at: http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/milex/resultoutput/milex_15 (accessed September 30, 2010).
[4] Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Remarks at the Eisenhower Library, Abilene, KS, May 8, 2010.
[5] Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly, "The Big Squeeze," The Weekly Standard, June 7, 2010.
[6] The QDR in Perspective: Meeting America's National Security Needs in the 21st Century.
[7] The 2010 baseline defense budget (budget account 050) is $553 billion. War costs were appropriated in two separate supplemental bills, one for $130 billion and the other for about $34 billion (See Fy2010 Supplemental Appropriations Bill, available here: http://appropriations.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=623&Itemid=28 ). Thus total 2010 defense spending is about $717 billion.
[8] Calculations based on figures in Office of Management and Budget Historical Tables, Table 3.1—Outlays by Superfunction and Function: 1940-2015, available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/hist03z1.xls (accessed September 27, 2010).
[9] Eaglen, "U.S. Defense Spending: The Mismatch Between Plans and Resources."
[10] Office of Management and Budget Historical Tables, Table 3.1—Outlays by Superfunction and Function: 1940-2015, available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/hist03z1.xls (accessed September 27, 2010).
[11] The QDR in Perspective: Meeting America's National Security Needs in the 21st Century, the final report of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel, chaired by Stephen J. Hadley and William J. Perry (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2010), available at: http://www.usip.org/files/qdr/qdrreport.pdf (accessed September 27, 2010).
[12] DOD News Briefing with Secretary Gates from the Pentagon, August 9, 2010. Available at: http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60359 (accessed September 27, 2010).
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AA Waste handles the collection and disposal of thousands of chemical, hazardous, non-hazardous and special waste every year for companies and authorities across England, Scotland and Wales.We are based in Woking, Surrey, Swindon, Wiltshire and Southampton, Hampshire. From these bases we can supply a UK nationwide service for the provision of steel barrels and drums listed below to our customers. Our steel barrel and drum supply service can be used to supply replacements for any full items taken away or we can simply supply them as and when needed. AA Waste can supply a variety of different sizes of steel barrels and drums which are ideal for many uses, i.e. water storage, bio-fuel, liquid feed, chemicals, spent batteries and many other items.
205 Litre Tight Head Steel Drums
205 Litre Steel Drums, approximately 205 litre capacity. These drums are reconditioned, washed out and ready for use. These drums are a tight head drum and are ideal for use with numerous types of liquid, whether it be hazardous or non-hazardous. Delivery is available, up to 4 per pallet and delivery is quoted at a per pallet rate.
Price: £28.50
Code: AA205LTR-STTH
205 Litre Open Top Steel Drum with clamp lid
205 litre capacity. These drums are reconditioned, washed out and ready for use. These drums are an open top drum. They come to you with lid and the clamp to seal the lid to the drum. These drums are suitable for use with numerous types of liquid whether it be hazardous or non-hazardous. Delivery is available, up to 4 drums per pallet and delivery is quoted at a per pallet rate.
Price: £30.50
Code: AA205LTR-STOT
Areas Covered
Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cleveland, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Yorkshire, Essex, Flintshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Merseyside, Mid Wales, Norfolk, North Middlesex, North Wales, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Scotland, Shropshire, Somerset, South Middlesex, South Wales, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire.


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Indigo (3pk)
Word. Notebooks
Long associated with just denim, indigo has recently popped up in so many pieces of clothing and decor. Japanese fabrics in these shades of blue have been used to craft everything from sharp-looking scarves to sneakers and button-downs. Often with simple white lines, dots, and other small details, these fabrics are the inspiration for the latest series of Word. Notebooks.
Each set includes three notebooks in different indigo patterns. All feature our unique organizational system to keep everything you jot down in order.
Every Word. Notebook is designed and made in the USA.- Each 3-pack contains 1 of each Indigo pattern
- 48 pages, lined
- 3.5" x 5.5"
- Made in the USA
- Sold in packs of 3


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