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Black Murex Shell, Muricanthus nigritus: The Black Murex is a beautiful medium-large solid shell that is white with a black coloration on its body and spinous varices.
The young shells are pure white and progressively become more clouded with black as they increase in size. They have a high spire and a long canal.
They are found on shallow water reefs and the intertidal zone up to 75 feet in the water column and reach a maximum of 16.5 cm (6.5 inches).
They prey on clams, chipping at the edges of the valves in order to insert the proboscis and suck out all of the rich juices.
The range of this species is believed to be limited to the Sea of Cortez with larger populations found in the northern gulf. However, this collection was made along the west coast of Baja California, 50 miles north of Cabo San Lucas. The shells are sold commercially by shell collectors commanding high prices due to their beauty and rarity.
The Black Murex is a member of the Muricidae Family, a very large family, found worldwide, with approximately 100 genera and more than 700 species. The shells vary in size from one-fourth inch to ten inches high. The shell may be elongated and broadly ovate to almost round. Some have long spines, others strong axial ribs, and some species are smooth. All have a stout, horny, oval operculum.
Murexes live on rocks or reefs and are carnivores, feeding on other gastropods as well as bivalves, barnacles, worms, coral, and other invertebrates. They attack their prey by boring holes utilizing the radula and a gland in the foot that secretes various fluids to help in the boring action. The sexes are separate. The female lays the fertilized eggs in horny capsules, fastening them to rocks or hard objects singly or in clusters.
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USA Pro Cycling Challenge Stage 6 Finish Announcement
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Stage 6 Finish will be at Flagstaff Amphitheater
Stage 6 Route
Route Start in Golden
- From Golden it goes to Boulder (assumption is Hwy 93)
- Race will travel through Boulder and there will be sprint points in downtown Boulder
- Up Boulder Canyon to Nederland
- North on Peak to Peak Hwy
- Drop down the South St Vrain into Lyons
- South on Hwy 36
- Up Lefthand road
- Up Lee hill road
- Back into Boulder
- Sprint points in uni hill
- Up Flagstaff and finish at the Amphitheater
Learn more about Flagstaff climb
Other Media
- Daily Camera
- VeloNews
Tom Danielson on Boulder's selection and his thoughts on Flagstaff finish
Flagstaff times?
- What do you think times will be from the stone bridge to the finish? A good cyclists with fresh legs can do it under 15 minutes. Under 14 minutes?
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Huge day, and I don't want to get greedy...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
But wouldn't it be excellent if they went all the way to the mailboxes? I would think for a 'final climb of the day' that would be highly selective, and have the possibility of 60 seconds + of gain/loss for a GC contender.
Just my $.02
Points: -2
Sissy Flag
Submitted by Jeff Wu (not verified) on
My buddy calls finishing at the Flagpole "Sissy Flag". Logistically, I understand a finish at the top would be tough. But wouldn't it be nice to see those guys suffer on the Wall like the rest of us?
Here's more about it: http://blog.teamalchemist.com/. There is a vid of the descent of Super Flag. Beware, it's to the tunes of Justin Timberlake. Yes, I'm easily as sissy as the turnoff to the amphitheater.
Points: 3
More like 11 min or less.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
More like 11 min or less.
Points: -5
Designated Viewing Areas???
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
"Spectators who want to be on Flagstaff Mountain to watch the racers will be required to walk or bike to designated viewing areas."
Raises eyebrow. Sounds a touch lame, no?
Points: 11
Where would you have all
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Where would you have all those people park cars?
It's not like the finish last year in Denver where there was parking to be had for blocks around.
Points: 0
Submitted by David on
This is a good question. Think about when there is a home CU football game. The capacity of the stadium is around 50K. I would imagine there would be more people watching the race than a CU football game.
Thanks goodness the race is spread throughout the city but it is going to be a ZOO.
It's not the walking/biking...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I'm curious how much they plan on limiting where on Flagstaff spectators will be allowed to go
Points: 2
This is a joke right? They
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
This is a joke right? They MUST do the complete climb up Flagstaff!!!!!
They are Pro rider's they can handle it! What's the thought of not finishing the complete climb? Who's idea is that?
You are forgetting logistics
Submitted by Mike (not verified) on
Of course they can do the whole climb, but where do you put all the finish line stands and space for cars and the entire caravan? This is a professional event, and the logistics have to be professional as well.
Points: 9
This is no joke and USAPC guys are seriously smart
Submitted by annonymous (not verified) on
Of course they can handle the climb. The intent is to have the gaps at the Flagstaff finish between the top contenders be close enough that Sunday's TT will be down to the wire and must see live TV in 200 countries


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The Albuquerque Isotopes nearly played the longest nine-inning game in team history Thursday night. They avoided that by pushing the game into a 10th inning, but in the end a loss is a loss.
Sacramento ground out a 10-9 victory over Albuquerque in 10 innings. The game featured a combined 31 hits, 31 strikeouts, 13 walks and 12 pitchers used, lasting 4 hours and 29 minutes.
The initial nine innings took 4:07, just two minutes shy of the Isotopes' team record set July 15, 2013, against Memphis. Albuquerque entered the ninth down 9-8, only to see Tim Federowicz tie it up with a leadoff home run to left field.
That lead disappeared quickly in the 10th as Yimi Garcia gave up a leadoff triple to Daric Barton, followed by Jose Martinez's RBI single up the middle. In their half of the frame, the Isotopes (44-55) got a one-out single from Roger Bernadina, only to see Clint Robinson fly out to left field and Trayvon Robinson strike out swinging to end it.
"It was kind of one of those days for both staffs, both sides had a tough time making quality pitches," manager Damon Berryhill said. "It's one of those kind of Albuquerque games where it's back and forth."
Albuquerque jumped out to an early 5-1 lead, only to see it evaporate in the fifth inning. Starter Jeff Bennett gave up a double, two-run homer, single and a walk before being lifted for reliever Josh Ravin, who was making his Isotopes debut.
The right-hander walked Luis Exposito to load the bases, then gave up an RBI groundout, RBI single, another RBI groundout and an RBI double by former Isotope Nick Buss that suddenly put Sacramento (57-41) ahead 7-5. The River Cats managed to hold on until the ninth.
Shane Peterson was the biggest Isotopes tormentor, blasting a solo home run in the third, the two-run homer in the fifth and a leadoff home run in the sixth. He also walked in the first inning, reached on a fielder's choice and later scored in the seventh and finally struck out in the ninth.
"He just capitalized, he didn't miss those mistake pitches," Berryhill said. "It ended up costing us a bit."
Federowicz was the Isotopes' best player, going 2-for-5 with a three-run homer back in the third inning. He also threw out all four River Cats who attempted to steal second base.
"Great job by him," Berryhill said. "On three of those the guys had great jumps. He did a nice job behind the plate tonight."
Albuquerque kept fighting until the bitter end. Walter Ibarra and Casio Grider hit RBI doubles in the sixth to pull their team within 8-7, only to see Sacramento get an insurance in the seventh.
Joc Pederson's night started well but ended poorly. The Isotopes' lone All-Star singled and walked in his first two plate appearances, scoring a run and stealing three bases.
In the seventh with Grider on second and two outs, Pederson struck out looking. In the eighth with runners on second and third with two outs, Pederson struck out looking again.
"I know both of them, it looked like those were quality pitches made on him," Berryhill said. "You've also got to give their pitchers credit. They looked like quality pitches."
Among the rehabbing Dodgers, Chone Figgins started at third base and 1-for-2 with an RBI single, a walk, strikeout and run scored. Reliever Scott Elbert gave up one run on two hits and two walks in one-third of an inning.
"Scott just didn't have his good stuff tonight, just a little erratic in the zone," Berryhill said. "He's on a pitch count and we didn't want to push him too far past it. He'll probably get an appearance (Friday) and we'll go from there."
Albuquerque and Sacramento will meet again Friday at 7:05 p.m. Right-hander Stephen Fife (2-2, 6.08 ERA) will start for the Isotopes against River Cats right-hander Matt Buschmann (6-4, 4.46).


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While doing the parallel line method by using the cadtools its asking the distance in meters but i need the parallel in feet values(I need to enter the distance in feet values). currently we are using the project file with the coordinate system as WGS84 EPSG:4326. I have changed the layer projection for feet values but its not working properly. can you please suggest on this that how can i change the units from meters to feet without changing the projection of project file.
I haven't used the cadtools plugin, but your problem sounds identical to a limitation in the "Improved Polygon Capturing" plugin, that we use to enter lines in with a known length (in feet).
Unfortunately, I have not found a way without changing the project file projection. But here's what we do: Our core data is in database layers, with EPSG:4326. We have "entry layers" in a feet-based projection (I made my own, but the reasons for that are complicated - just find an existing CRS in feet that covers the area you're working in). The QGIS file is set to the feet-based projection, and coordinate transformation is set to 'on'.
With this setup, we can draw lines on our "EntryLines" layer using known length. Then we transfer the results to our lat/lon tables. (We use a plugin that does the transforms in the database while it does lots of other stuff at the same time; but before that, we had great success with copy & paste within QGIS - copying from a layer in one CRS and pasting to one in a different CRS seems to do the transform for you!).


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Turns out, it's normal! I'm normal! This was another first. I was able to let go of the ongoing tape in my head that was so quick to label me a failure.
Next question to my respondents was, how do you maintain?
Over and over I got a variation on this answer: "When my pants feel tight, I cut back until they fit properly again."
No drama, no fuss. It's that easy.
So now, almost three years after I started the diet, I've found a happy gray area. No longer is my life about dieting or cheating on a diet. It's about eating. I have vegetarian days, and animal protein days, and sometimes, like yesterday, I have ribs-biscuits-butter-and-ice-cream days. And that just might be breakfast.
All I know is that it works. My body is thin, which is fabulous, but equally fabulous is that I really see myself that way. Because of my new image of myself, I have peace and quiet in my brain, which is the most fabulous of all. To quote my accountant, trust me on this.
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If you're going to be a June bride and are looking forward to a tropical dream honeymoon, you're going to want to look fabulous when you hit the beach in your bikini. (You'll want to look great out of it, too, but that's another story!) Even if you're feeling pale, pudgy and out of shape after a long, cold winter of hiding your body under layers of sweaters, you can still get into bikini-ready shape in time to be a beach beauty on that honeymoon. Here are a few ways to get into shape, get a (fake) tan and pick the perfect bikini.
Your figure
Start now and you should be able to drop at least ten pounds safely without starving, so look around for a weight loss program that you can stick to. Weight Watchers has been around more than 50 years and has a variety of plans, so you should be able to find one that suits your needs. Hey, this program worked wonders for Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Simpson!
Even if you don't need to lose any weight, you probably could use a bit more firm muscle and less flab. Take a look at the gyms and fitness cubs in your area and find one that you'll enjoy going to. Find a regime that suits your own level of fitness but allows you to work harder as you progress. Combine cardio work with weights or machines for body sculpting. Pay special attention to those abs and glutes. If you can afford it, hire a trainer who can design workouts especially aimed at giving you a super bikini body!
Your skin
If your skin is a whiter shade of pale after having most of it covered up all winter, you don't want to expose your complexion to the tropical sunshine yet. Invest in some good sunscreens for face and body with an SPF of at least 15, preferably more, and try to get a bit of color before the wedding. Don't even think of going to a tanning parlor! Lying in those beds is just asking for wrinkles, and even worse, skin cancer. Get a little color gradually and fake the rest.
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Another issue that you may have been able to ignore, or at least put on the back burner all winter, is waxing. If you want to look your best in a bikini, you'll need to get a full body wax, because you can't have bits of fuzz peeking out. In addition to the usual legs and nether regions, have your brows done, too. Urban Retreat in London charges £280 for a full body wax, but the results are worth it!
The mani-pedi
A muted nude color manicure is perfect for both the wedding and the honeymoon, since it doesn't show chips so easily, but for hitting the beach, a wild coral or other bright shade will make your toes smashing in sandals. Or to really stand out on the sand, try a cool turquoise!
The bikini
Not all bodies were created equal, and neither were all bikinis. The minimal string bikini with tiny bottom and triangle top looks great if you have perky breasts and the booty to match, not so great if you don't. Most women look forward to trying on swimsuits about as much as they do a root canal, but if your want to find the most flattering suit for your body, you'll need to try on a few possibilities.
Long term fixes
If your wedding is several months away and you have time for some more extensive beauty fixes, consider cosmetic surgery. If you would like for your breasts to be larger, smaller or just more youthful, consult a certified plastic surgeon in your area. If you've been reluctant to do a bikini due to unsightly varicose veins on your legs or in the crotch area. Eddie Chaloner - a vascular surgeon at Radiance Vein Clinic, is the first surgeon in London to use the endovenous laser for vein treatment.
He says: "Fortunately, we now have much better techniques to treat varicose veins with minimal post operative discomfort and no scarring. The vast majority of patients get a great result which allows them to wear knee length skirts and shorts with confidence."
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If you and your new hubby are going to be spending most of your honeymoon on the beach, be sure to pack a few beauty and style essentials. You must have a pair of cool flip flops, like this metallic pair from Havaianas.
Just because you're wearing a teeny bikini doesn't mean that you don't need to protect your face from the sun! Pack a stylish sunhat and a great pair of shades. Plus, be sure to bring along those bottles of sunscreen you bought back home, because a gorgeous sunless tan doesn't offer any protection from the sun. Reapply frequently, because nothing can ruin a wonderful tropical honeymoon like a bad case of sunburn!


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We're two issues into "Secret Service," and if anyone but Mark Millar had been at the helm of this book, I'd have assumed that it was a light parody of Garth Ennis' comics. With "Secret Service," though, I have the sneaking suspicion that this is about as low-key and sincere as Millar can get.
The story is about as by-the-numbers as possible; after a first issue in which we meet bad-part-of-town Gary and his super spy uncle Jack. This issue has Gary being recruited to join the agency, and learning that it's tougher than he thought. There's nothing here that's a surprise; we get the obligatory "Jack shows Gary that he's a badass" scene, a reminder that Gary's family is generally worthless and the start of a training montage. In many ways it's the flip side of Millar's comic "Wanted" where the main character is recruited into the world of super-villains; here, he's recruited into the world of real-world heroes.
The art from Dave Gibbons and Andy Lanning is fairly nice. The faces are expressive, and the bits of action we get are nicely choreographed. The best piece of art is probably the final page; not just because it's a fun image, but because Gibbons gives the character such an aura of utter confidence that it practically oozes off of the page onto the reader's fingertips. Gibbons, even when dealing with some slightly substandard material, still brings a level of professionalism to the page.
If I had to describe the general feeling of reading "Secret Service," it's that you're watching an incredibly predictable movie. With movie director Matthew Vaughn (whose credits include adapting Millar's "Kick-Ass" to the big screen) serving as a co-plotter, I can't help but think that it's not a surprise. "Secret Service" all but has the words "film property" stamped all over it, but in this case it's just not a terribly inventive film property. Still, this is a comic without a lot of Millar's normally overused tics, so for now I'll give him a begrudging nod of approval. I appreciate that he's trying something a little different than his regular fare, but it feels like he no longer knows how to get there save by stereotype -- a not-bad stereotype, but this book needs to bring in something a little more unexpected and fun, and soon.


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The enigmatic Yeah Yeah Yeah's singer Karen O will release her solo album "Crush Songs" this fall. The LP, which marks the start of her solo career, is expected for a September 9 release date. The record will be released via Cult Records, which is owned by The Stroke's frontman Julian Casablancas. It will be available pre-release as a limited edition vinyl, featuring Karen's personal drawings and handwritten lyrics. The songs on the album were written between 2006 and 2007.
In a note posted on her website, Karen says "When I was 27 I crushed a lot. I wasn't sure I'd ever fall in love again. These songs were written and recorded in private around this time. They are the soundtrack to what was an ever continuing love crusade. I hope they keep you company on yours."
Karen O has been the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's since their 2003 debut "Fever to Tell." The release of their albums, 2006's "Show Your Bones" and 2009's "It's Blitz!," saw the band getting critical acclaim and a mass fan following. Their latest album "Mosquito" was released last year and featured hit singles "Sacrilege" and "Despair."
This isn't the first time the singer has broken out on her own. She has lent her voice to several songs including Santigold's "GO!," "Song for a Warrior" by Swans, "Pinky's Dream" by David Lynch, and "I Can Be a Frog" by Flaming Lips. In 2012, she collaborated with James Iha, former guitarist of the Smashing Pumpkins, on his second solo LP "Look to the Sky." Earlier this year, Karen O's song ,"The Moon Song" from the film "Her," was nominated for an Academy Award. She also composed the soundtrack for the Spike Jonze film "Where the Wild Things Are."
"Crush Songs" is available for pre-order now. To get a copy and for more on Karen O, visit her website.


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Hollywood stars Seth Rogen, Orlando Bloom, Selena Gomez rolled out the red carpet for 16k youth at the first We Day California on Wednesday at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. This special #WeDay event was hosted by Free The Children, and everyone earned their ticket by doing one local and one global community service project. To take you there, enjoy our 4 videos and inspirational quotes from the stars.
It was also exciting to see Magic Johnson, Martin Sheen, Big Sean, Reggie Watts (so funny!), Laila Ali (Muhammed Ali's daughter), Spencer West, Oakland Raiders, Jeff Skoll (Skoll Foundation) and GRAMMY nominated hip hop artist J Cole thank the audience for their global contributions. To feel the excitement, watch our videos of the stars at We Day on stage and backstage:
Orlando Bloom backstage at We Day California
Seth Rogen backstage at We Day California
Selena Gomez gives shout out to mom at We Day California
Martin Sheen backstage at We Day California
Along with songs, glow lights, dancing and cheers, there were many inspirational speeches and quotes from the stars:
Make sure you love yourself, because if you love yourself, then you can love somebody else, that's very important. ~ Magic Johnson
When I was your age and I was in school, I used to get in trouble because I could fight, but I used to fight for people who got bullied and couldn't fight for themselves. I was the first person to take off my earrings and get down in the dirt if I had too. Some people thought that was a mistake....I feel like that's exactly what I had to go thru to get where I am today ~ Laila Ali (TV Host and Muhammed Ali's daughter)
There are moments in your life that can make you or break you or change you, forcing you to reevaluate. These moments often come in different shapes and sizes. ~ Orlando Bloom
One heart with courage is a majority. ~ Martin Sheen
There were also YouthSpark Reporters and speakers in the press room with us covering the event, including Jaagriti Sharma from San Diego, CA. They're part of Microsoft's companywide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million youth around the world by 2015. Through partnerships with governments, nonprofits, and businesses, the program aims to "empower youth to imagine and realize their full potential by connecting them with greater opportunities for education, employment and entrepreneurship."
As the founder of the Goody Awards, we were even more inspired by our second We Day. We encourage you to support Free The Children's "Year of Education" goal to build 200 schools in India and Kenya. We Day is not only a celebration of youth making a difference in the US, but a global movement for good. Youth can partner with students abroad to help bridge the global education and economic gaps, and even take Free The Children trips to build schools.
And lastly, BIG thanks to the sponsors, including Microsoft, Allstate Foundation and Unilever project sunlight, who made it possible for Free The Children's first We Day California to be free for all attendees. To join this movement, follow all the news on Twitter @WeDay #WeDay. It's all good!
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The ITF is a joint initiative of, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and UNCTAD. At its first meeting in February 2002 in Nuremberg, the Task Force agreed upon its Terms of Reference and a workplan for the next 18 months. The present meeting will focus on a review of the existing organic standards, regulations and conformity assessment systems including
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Discussions will address each of these topics with a view to assessing the current situation and drawing conclusions as well as recommendations for action, including issues for further work by the Task Force.


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Pat Sajak Should Stick to Telling People Which Letters Are in Certain Words and Phrases
Because his ideas on electoral reform are TERRIBLE.
We like Pat Sajak, one of the few open conservatives in Hollywood. Remember that time he cried over the death of Wheel of Fortune's gay stylist? That was very nice. He's also very good at light banter and sounding sad when contestants can't solve the bonus-round puzzle. But when it comes to ideas about how to improve democracy in America, Sajak is just terrible. Here is what he wrote at the National Review yesterday:
None of my family and friends is allowed to appear on Wheel of Fortune. Same goes for my kids' teachers or the guys who rotate my tires. If there's not a real conflict of interest, there is, at least, the appearance of one .... In nearly all private and public endeavors, there are occasions in which it's only fair and correct that a person or group be barred from participating because that party could directly and unevenly benefit from decisions made and policies adopted. So should state workers be able to vote in state elections on matters that would benefit them directly? The same question goes for federal workers in federal elections.
Yes ... what?
I'm not suggesting that public employees should be denied the right to vote, but that there are certain cases in which their stake in the matter may be too great. Of course we all have a stake in one way or another in most elections, and many of us tend to vote in favor of our own interests. However, if, for example, a ballot initiative appears that might cap the benefits of a certain group of state workers, should those workers be able to vote on the matter? ....
As Sajak says, "many of us tend to vote in our own interests." Since that is, in fact, pretty much the entire reason people vote, there would be nobody left to vote if you implemented this "conflict of interest" test. But even if Sajak is talking only about very direct benefits not sure who would determine when that applies, but never mind that why limit it to state or federal workers? Should gay people be allowed to vote on gay-marriage initiatives? Should people with glaucoma or cancer be permitted to vote on medical-marijuana laws? Should we let taxpayers vote on raising and lowering taxes?
We'd like to buy a vowel: "O." For "Oh God, what an outrageously bad idea."
Public Employees and Elections: A Conflict of Interest? [Corner/National Review]


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|Guilty plea in Benton Embezzlement
The Finger Lakes Daily news reported this morning that Patricia Spears of Savona has pleaded quilty to embezzling more than $50 thousand dollars from a Benton business in Yates County Court.
Spears admitted that while working as a bookkeeper at DeWick Equipment Sales and Service, she embezzled the money between March of 2010 and Sept. of last year and forged her employer's signature.
Part of the plea deal will see that Spears gets offered a reduced sentence of 3 to 9 years in prison instead of a possible 15 years. She must also re-pay more than $77 thousand dollars in restitution to DeWick.
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OLYMPIC hopeful Jonnie Schofield got off to a winning start at the first national regatta of the year.
The former Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil teamed up with Liam Heath to win the K2 200m sprint in Nottingham.
Schofield, from Sawley, is part of the Olympic Canoe/Kayak squad for the London 2012 Olympics. In the K1 200m, which will be included in the London Olympics, Schofield finished second and third over the two day event.
He will be competing in the Canoe Sprint World Cup series next month and also the World and European sprint championships.


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*Update: Nov. 20, 2013, 11 a.m.
Congressman Trey Radel (R-FL) was charged today in the D.C. Superior Court for possession of cocaine stemming from an arrest on Oct. 29. The Tea Party backed Congressman is facing a misdemeanor possession charge of cocaine, and is scheduled to be arraigned in court tomorrow, Wednesday Nov. 20.
If found guilty, the charge for this misdemeanor carries a maximum of 180 days in prison and/or a fine of $1,000, according to the U.S. attorney's office, who declined to comment on the case.
The Congressman released a statement saying he was sorry for letting his "family" down, and "the people of Southwest Florida".
"I'm profoundly sorry to let down my family, particularly my wife and son, and the people of Southwest Florida," Radel said in a statement released Tuesday. "I struggle with the disease of alcoholism, and this led to an extremely irresponsible choice. As the father of a young son and a husband to a loving wife, I need to get help so I can be a better man for both of them."
"Believe me, I am disappointed in myself, and I stand ready to face the consequences of my actions. However, this unfortunate event does have a positive side. It offers me an opportunity to seek treatment and counseling. I know I have a problem and will do whatever is necessary to overcome it, hopefully setting an example for others struggling with this disease."
Rep. Trey Radel appears to suffer from the same problems of Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford who is also a drug addict, and has been in the headlines recently for admitting to "drunken stupors and smoking crack".
A spokesman for Speaker John Boehner released a statement saying "the alleged crime will be handled by the courts".
"Members of Congress should be held to the highest standards, and the alleged crime will be handled by the courts. Beyond that, this is between Rep. Radel, his family, and his constituents."
Florida's Governor Rick Scott recently signed a Bill into Law that says all those receiving food stamps will have to first pass a drug test. Rick Scott owns the drug testing company Solantic Corp that will be conducting the tests and is set to make millions from this new law which will end up costing the Florida tax payers millions of dollars, Scott should consider expanding that test to his political candidates from his State of Florida.
*Update: Nov. 20, 2013, 11 a.m.
NBC News has reported that Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL), pleaded guilty to misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance on Wednesday. He was sentenced to a year of probation.
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In this condensed excerpt, Mrazek provides the account of Lieutenant Commander John Waldron's efforts to secure fighter protection for his obsolete Douglas Devastators before the mission on 4 June 1942, in which Torpedo Eight helped buy the precious battle time that allowed American Dauntless dive bombers to win the "Miracle at Midway."
Wednesday, 3 June 1942
USS Hornet Torpedo Squadron Eight
Lieutenant Commander John Waldron removed a page of stationery from his desk and began writing a letter to his wife, Adelaide. Most of the pilots hadn't taken his advice about writing home. Few thought they were marked for death.
At the age of forty-two, Waldron knew mortality was all too real. Death could come at any moment in the air, and he had narrowly escaped it six times since winning his wings back in 1927.
Adelaide understood.
She was the ideal Navy wife, uncomplaining about his long absences, and always ready to help the wives of his officers by employing humor and sympathy to help them through the tough times. Waldron knew she would understand everything he was about to write.
Dear Adelaide,
I believe that we will be in battle very soon. . . . You may rest assured that I will go in with the expectation of coming back in good shape. If I do not come back, well, you and the little girls can know that this squadron struck for the highest objective in Naval warfare—to sink the enemy . . .
I love you and the children very dearly and I long to be with you. But, I could not be happy ashore at this time. My place is here with the fight . . .
You know, Adelaide, in this business of the torpedo attack, I acknowledge we must have a break. I believe that I have the experience and enough Sioux in me to profit by and recognize the break when it comes, and it will come.
God bless you, dear. You are a wonderful wife and mother. Kiss and love the little girls for me . . .
I acknowledge we must have a break . He had been fighting for one most of that week. It was fighter protection. That would be the biggest break his men could possibly have.
Earlier that day, the four squadron commanders had met with the Hornet Air Group Commander, Stanhope Cotton Ring. Waldron had urged Ring to follow the same air tactics used at the Battle of the Coral Sea a month earlier, when half the fighters went in low to protect the torpedo planes, and half stayed up high with the dive bombers. Pat Mitchell, who commanded the Hornet 's fighter squadron, backed Waldron all the way.
Captain Pete Mitscher made the final decision. All ten of the Hornet 's Wildcat fighter planes would stay up to protect Ring and the dive bombers. Waldron's squadron would stay in formation, about eighteen thousand feet below the others. The entire air group would attack together.
At the Coral Sea battle, the Zeroes had proved faster and more maneuverable than the Wildcats. Mitscher was convinced that the Wildcats would have more maneuvering room at higher altitude.
Waldron couldn't believe it. If the Wildcats couldn't duel with the Zeroes at low altitude, then what chance would his Devastators have at less than half the Wildcats' speed?
Thursday, 4 June 1942
USS Hornet Torpedo Squadron Eight
Tex Gay awoke to the stabbing beam of a flashlight aimed into his eyes.
"Reveille, sir," came a disembodied voice from the darkness.
Through the open doorway, he could hear the other pilots being wakened all along the passageway. Sitting up, he realized he hadn't taken off his uniform before climbing into the bunk. Most of them were still groggy from interrupted sleep when they began trudging down to the ready room.
The big square reflector screen over the teletype machine at the front of the room remained dark. They knew the teletype keys would start chattering as soon as anything important happened. In the meantime, all they could do was wait.
Tex felt calm, almost relaxed. Like the others, he knew their PBY patrol planes were spread out for hundreds of miles to the northwest of Midway Atoll searching for the Japanese striking force. When it was sighted, the teletype keys at the front of the ready room would start clacking like mad. Having had less than three hours sleep, he dropped into his cushioned chair and dozed off.
"General Quarters!" came an earsplitting voice over the ship's loudspeakers. "Flight quarters! All pilots report to your ready rooms!"
The reflector screen over the teletype in Ready Room Four flashed the message, " Many enemy planes headed for Midway bearing 320 degrees ."
Inside Ready Room Four, the pilots rushed to gather the plotting boards, helmets, goggles, and survival gear stored in the compartments under their cushioned seats. Standing before them, Waldron said he thought the Japanese carrier task forces would "swing together" and retire just far enough so that they could retrieve their planes from the first strike. He told them not to worry about navigating, just to follow him.
"If we find ourselves alone and outnumbered by the enemy planes on the way into attack, we'll keep boring in toward the carrier," he said. "If there is only one man left I want that man to take his pickle in and get a hit."
A few moments later, the order came that they had been waiting for all morning.
" Pilots, man all planes ," read the reflector screen.
As they crowded toward the door, an order came down for the four squadron commanders to report to the bridge. Pete Mitscher was waiting for them. The first one there was Pat Mitchell, the skipper of the fighter squadron.
Mitchell was no smooth talker, but he knew Mitscher respected him. Like Mitscher, Pat was all Navy. He had graduated from Annapolis in 1927. His brother Bill was Annapolis '24.
Mitchell again requested that his squadron be assigned to fly cover for Waldron's Devastators. Without a pause, Mitscher shook his head.
"You'll protect Commander Ring and the dive bombers," Mitscher told him as the other squadron skippers arrived.
With Mitscher looking on, Commander Ring said that he was planning to fly a course of 265 degrees, more than 30 degrees to the north of the Japanese fleet's last reported position, 234 degrees southwest.
John Waldron spoke up in disagreement. He proposed a course of 240 degrees, which took into account the last fleet sighting, as well as the possibility that the Japanese had swung back to the north after launching their first strike.
Mitscher told Waldron and the others to follow the course Ring had given them.
On the flight deck, the takeoffs proceeded with almost agonizing slowness. The first launch had begun with the carrier's Wildcat fighters, followed by thirty-four dive bombers. When Tex Gay's Devastator finally reached the head of the line, the Takeoff Control Officer gave him the cut signal.
"Twelve minute delay," the TCO yelled up at him.
Waldron was slated to take off last out of the fifty-nine planes. As each minute passed, his frustration and anger mounted. Far above him, dive bomber pilot Troy Guillory also wondered what was going on. He had burned a lot of gas reaching nearly twenty thousand feet, and they were now just flying around in circles.
The Takeoff Control Officer finally motioned at Tex with his black and white checkered flag. When the flag swept forward, his Devastator rumbled down the deck and lifted off into space.
Once they were all in the air, Waldron led them away from the Hornet . Ensign Lawrence French, who was flying air cover above the carrier, watched Waldron head off on a bearing of west northwest. The rest of the air group stopped circling and headed west, too.
Aboard the Hornet , Lieutenant Commander John Foster, the air operations officer, tracked the group on radar. At sixty miles out, they were still on Ring's original course of 265 degrees when the last blips disappeared.
At 0816, Troy Guillory was startled to hear a voice coming through his earphones. It was the voice of Lieutenant Commander John Waldron, although he hadn't used his call sign.
They were heading in the wrong direction, Guillory heard him say.
Flying on the wing of Commander Ring, dive bomber pilot Ben Tappan heard Waldron too. When no one responded to his call, Tappan began to wonder if he might have imagined it. Every pilot knew the order about radio silence. Then he heard Waldron again.
"I know where they are," he said. "I'll take us to them."
The next voice Troy Guillory heard was the Hornet 's air group commander, Stanhope Ring. He sounded angry. "You will stay on us," he said without giving his call sign. "I'm leading this formation."
Then Ben Tappan heard Waldron's voice for the last time.
"The hell with you," he said.
It was 0825.
Richard Woodson, the gunner in Ensign Don Kirkpatrick's dive bomber, glanced down and saw the lead torpedo plane slowly move off to the left. As Woodson watched, the rest of the Devastator pilots turned to follow their leader.
Waldron's fifteen plane squadron flew southwest, the second division close in behind the first. Tex Gay was trying to estimate the rate of their fuel consumption when Waldron's voice came through his earphones.
"There's a fighter on our tail," he said.
The Japanese plane was well out to the right of them and moving fast in the same direction they were. To Tex, it looked more like a float plane, the kind that could be catapulted off a Japanese battleship. It quickly overtook them and moved past.
The Japanese pilot was almost certainly radioing their position back to his fleet.
Flying high cover with the rest of Pat Mitchell's fighter squadron, Ensign John "Mac" McInerny decided it was time to take matters into his own hands, even if that meant his own court martial.
The son of a blacksmith and muscled like a steer, the big Irishman had a reputation as a hard-partying woman chaser. The other men in his squadron knew him as one hell of a fighter pilot.
McInerny knew that the fighters were at the point of no return, if they hadn't already passed it. Gunning his engine, McInerny pulled up alongside Pat Mitchell. Getting the squadron commander's attention, he pointed to his gas gauge. Mitchell shook his head at him.
McInerny cut the throttle and dropped back into his position as wingman to Johnny Magda. After another five minutes of droning westward into the empty sky, McInerny had had enough. Flying up alongside Mitchell again, he pointed to his gas gauge. Mitchell angrily waved him away.
The big Irishman dropped back just long enough to signal Johnny Magda that it was time to go. Banking his plane to the left, he began his turn. When Magda peeled off to go after him, the rest of the fighter pilots followed.
I'm going to be court-martialed for this, McInerny thought.
Staring into the distance, Waldron suddenly saw wispy smoke columns dead ahead of them. Enemy ships began to take shape as dark silhouettes on the crystalline sea.
To Tex Gay, it looked like they covered the ocean. He could see three carriers in the first group, and a fourth following behind. Maybe all that guff about the Skipper's Sioux intuition had been right after all. He had gone straight to the enemy fleet like they had been on the end of a plumb line.
Waldron was on the radio again, attempting to contact Commander Ring to let him know that they had located the Japanese carriers.
"Stanhope from Johnny One . . . enemy sighted."
There was no response.
"Stanhope from Johnny One . . . answer," he called again. "Enemy sighted."
Flying with the rest of the Hornet air group, Leroy Quillen, the radioman/gunner in the dive bomber piloted by Ensign K. B. White, heard Waldron loud and clear.
"Stanhope from Johnny One," he repeated once more.
With no acknowledgment to his signal, Waldron focused on his squadron.
"We will go in," he said, sounding calm. "We won't turn back. We will attack. Good luck."
The Skipper put his nose down and leveled off at about five hundred feet. He had told them that they might have to go in alone, and now the worst had come. A moment later, the sky was filled with Zeroes. The enemy fighters swung around in half loops and wingovers to gain better firing positions.
"Johnny One under attack," Waldron radioed.
From the bridge of the carrier Akagi , Commander Minoru Genda, Admiral Nagumo's operations officer, watched with almost detached fascination as the fifteen torpedo planes came on. The slow-moving Devastators reminded him of a flock of waterfowl crossing a lake. To Genda, it was sheer idiocy for them to attack without fighter protection, and a total violation of the first rule of war, which was to concentrate one's forces.
Up ahead, Tex Gay saw one of the Devastators drop like a hurtling stone into the sea, its two man crew gone in almost an instant. It happened so fast that he had no idea whose plane it was. A few seconds later, another Devastator went down on his left.
"Is that a Zero or one of our planes?" came Waldron's voice on the radio.
Tex radioed back that it was a Devastator.
Two Zeroes moved in to attack him, one from behind and the other from the port side. He could feel machine gun bullets thudding into the armor plate behind his bucket seat. A second pattern raked his instrument panel and blasted several holes in the windshield.
He heard his gunner Bob Huntington cry out on the intercom. Turning his head, Tex saw him slumped down in his seat, motionless. Waldron's voice was still coming through his earphones.
"There's two fighters in the water," the Skipper had radioed at one point. "See that splash . . . I'd give a million to know who done that."
In the tail of his dive bomber, Leroy Quillen listened to Waldron's excited words as they came through the radio.
"My two wingmen are going in," came Waldron's voice for the last time.
Then it was his turn.
As Tex watched, Waldron's plane suddenly burst into flame. Fire quickly enveloped the fuselage, and the aircraft began gliding down toward the sea, trailing a thick cloud of smoke and fire.
The Skipper suddenly stood up in the blazing cockpit as if he was riding a fiery chariot. In the plane's final moments, he thrust his leg out onto the right wing. Then the plane hit the water and he was gone.
Northwest of Japanese Striking Force
Hornet Dive Bombing Squadron (Johnson)
Leroy Quillen wasn't the only one listening to Waldron's urgent radio calls. Lieutenant Commander Ruff Johnson, leading the Hornet dive bomber squadron on the left wing of Ring's formation, had received the transmissions too.
Using his plotting board, he quickly drew a southeasterly interception course based on a rough calculation of where he thought the Japanese fleet had to be, and then led his seventeen plane squadron in a turn to the southeast.
Inside the Japanese Striking Force
Tex Gay
Tex Gay was the last one left.
The words of the Skipper kept replaying in his mind. If there is only one man left, I want him to go in and get a hit.
Up ahead, the Japanese cruisers and destroyers screening the carriers opened fire with their anti-aircraft batteries. As soon as the barrage began, the swarming Zeroes darted out of the line of fire.
Black bursts began mushrooming on both sides of his wings as the exploding shells sought him out. The plane was bucking like a wild horse as he passed over the screening ships and bored in toward the nearest carrier.
Tex pulled back on the throttle, slowing the plane to eighty knots, which Waldron had always said was the ideal launching speed. Since this was the first torpedo he had ever launched, he wanted to make sure he got it right.
As he closed to within a thousand yards, the carrier began swinging to the right to avoid his torpedo. Remembering his plotting exercises, Tex swung to the ship's port side for a higher percentage shot. When he punched the torpedo release button, nothing happened.
The electronic controls had been shot out. With his left hand numb from a machine gun bullet, he jammed his knees together to hold the control stick in place, and reached over to pull out the emergency cable release lever with his right hand, ripping it out by the roots.
The carrier was now dead ahead of him, filling the screen of his windshield. He saw Japanese sailors running in all directions as the Devastator came screaming in toward the port side, just clearing the flight deck with a few feet to spare. Glancing up toward the bridge, he saw a Japanese officer wildly waving his arms in the air.
He knew that the anti-aircraft batteries on the starboard side of the ship were waiting to knock him out of the air. If he went that way, the Devastator would be an easy target.
Banking to the right, he flew down the carrier flight deck toward the stern of the ship. The flight deck was dotted with planes, gas hoses and bomb trolleys. For a split second, he thought about crashing into them and setting the whole carrier ablaze. A moment later he was past the fantail and banking left to make his escape.
The plane was staggering along when a twenty millimeter cannon shell blew apart his left rudder pedal and passed through into the engine compartment, setting it on fire. He felt a jolt of searing pain in his left leg as flames came surging back through the torn firewall.
He was going in. Using the elevators, he kept the nose up as the Devastator dropped toward the sea. Using his right hand, he reached over to the left to cut the power switches.
The tip of the right wing hit water first, and the plane cart-wheeled forward, slamming the cockpit hood shut above him. Black water was already flushing around his waist as he unbuckled his shoulder straps.
As the nose dropped beneath the surface, Tex fought to release the jammed cockpit hood. Sitting on the bullet-shattered instrument panel, he tried to shove the hood along its track with his one good hand, but it wouldn't come free. He was trapped.
Northwest of Japanese Striking Force
Hornet Dive Bombing Squadron (Rodee)
Lieutenant Commander Walt Rodee, who commanded the Hornet 's second dive bomber squadron, had seen enough. With his planes running short of fuel, he signaled the pilots in his squadron to follow him as he turned around to begin leading them back on a reciprocal course to the Hornet .
Stanhope Ring continued flying west, alone.
Tex Gay
The sea water was up to his chin. In panic, he stood on the instrument panel and drove his upper body up against the jammed cockpit hood. It moved back far enough for him to slip through the opening and reach the ocean's surface as the plane started to disappear.
He reached into the rear compartment and began trying to unbuckle the dead or unconscious Bob Huntington's flight harness. Still strapped to his seat, the young gunner slipped from his grasp and went down with the plane.
As he floated in the sea, two things surfaced alongside him. One was the aircraft's deflated life raft. The other object was a black rubber seat cushion. His burned leg was beginning to hurt when he heard a plane diving and looked up to see a Zero heading straight toward him with its machine guns blazing. The surface of the sea began erupting in tiny geysers of water.
Pulling off his goggles in case they reflected the glare of the sun, he grabbed the black seat cushion and held it over his head. Treading water, he waited for the Zero to finish its run.
Inside the Japanese Striking Force
Flagship Carrier Akagi
With the American torpedo squadron annihilated, an exultant Admiral Chuichi Nagumo was free to release his counterstrike against the American carrier force. Since the first air attack from the defenders of Midway Atoll at 0700, his fighters and anti-aircraft batteries had destroyed or driven off every enemy plane. Not one torpedo or bomb had hit his ships.
A few minutes later, one of his screening vessels reported that a new formation of enemy aircraft was approaching from the south. It appeared to be another squadron of the same slow-moving torpedo planes.
The news came as a minor irritant to Nagumo, who knew that each American carrier had only one torpedo squadron. That meant a second American carrier was probably out there somewhere. All the better. Now, they would be destroyed sooner rather than later.
While his Zeroes raced to intercept the new intruders, he suspended the process of bringing up his own attack aircraft to the flight decks until the latest American threat was repulsed.
The Zeroes dropped down to intercept the Americans as they came skimming in just above the surface of the sea. In less than twenty minutes, most of the Devastators had been destroyed. The surviving aircraft retreated without scoring a hit.
"Launch aircraft when ready," Nagumo ordered his four carrier commanders.
The Japanese carriers were turning into the wind for their launch when lookouts on another screening ship reported sighting a third flight of torpedo bombers coming toward them. The Zeroes flying cover above the carriers went down low again to converge on this latest threat. One by one, the Devastators began to fall.
Was it possible that there were three American carriers lying in wait for him, wondered Nagumo? In his exultant mood, it was still of little consequence. He had driven off every previous attack without the loss of a single ship. At the same time, it was wise to be prudent.
It was 1020.
"Hurry up preparations for the second wave," he ordered Commander Genda.
Tex Gay
After being strafed in the water, Tex decided not to inflate his life raft. There was no point in drawing attention, not with the Japanese fleet cruising by like it was the Easter parade.
Three of their carriers, including the one he had just attacked, were turning into the wind to launch their air strike when Tex heard a distinctly familiar whine. It reminded him of the wail that a dive bomber made right after pushing off on a bomb run. Could it be a Dauntless? Hell, there had been more than thirty of them flying with the Hornet air group alone. As the low moaning wail turned into a full-throttle screaming roar, he knew what it was.
Then he saw one.
The Dauntless was plummeting down from two miles high, completely unopposed by the Japanese Zeroes. A few moments later, it was joined by a second and then a third.
The first Dauntless was already pulling up from its dive. A few moments later, Tex heard a terrific thunderclap, and a curtain of fire rocketed up from the deck of one of the carriers like a giant Roman candle. The same ship took another direct hit, followed by a third, each new detonation sending up a thick cloud of smoke and flame.
Still more Dauntlesses were diving now. Free of hindrance from the vaunted Zeroes, they plunged down toward the carriers. As he watched, another colossal blast resounded across the water, and a second Japanese carrier erupted into a blazing firestorm.
Kicking his feet, he began yelling a hoarse cheer of soggy defiance, but it was quickly squelched by a surging wave. As he treaded water, a third rumbling blast thundered across the sea, and a billowing spire of smoke belched up from the third Japanese carrier. Submerged up to his chest, Tex could feel the pressure of the detonations.
He wondered if any of the victorious dive bombers had come from the Hornet .


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Although I'm trying to stay positive, I'm getting really frustrated. I spoke with her team of doctors yesterday and they told me that the possibility of her having to be here for another month MAYBE TWO is not out of the question!! Her getting discharged all depends on how her body adjusts to the feeds.
They started feeding her this Monday and are increasing the amount VERY slowly. Right now they are only feeding her via a nasogastric tube (also called an ng tube)- which is a tube inserted into her nose and goes down to her stomach. She is being fed this way so they can give her a continuous feed of a very small amount of breast milk to just coat her intestines and see how her body processes the food. They started with 1ml going through the tube every hour for the first two days, yesterday they increased it to 2ml, and today they increased it to 3ml. They even talked about letting her get a bottle tomorrow along with the ng tube feedings. Thankfully so far her body seems to be handling the feedings well, but we will see what happens as they increase the amount.
This picture is the day before they rushed her in for emergency exploratory surgery to find out what was going on with her belly. Not only is her belly completely distended, but the look of agony on her face is heartbreaking…I can't even imagine how much pain she was in!
This is a picture of her ileostomy, The red circle on her belly is her actual intestine connected to the outside of her stomach. The other half is under the gauze.
This is what her belly now looks like-8 days after her reconnection surgery. They said the scar will get much thinner as it heals. The tube on her upper chest is her broviac. This is currently how all the nutrients she needs is getting into her body.
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The AMC hit show "The Walking Dead" is going strong this season and all signs lead to Terminus. They are all following the railroad tracks and trying to get there. On March 15, Wet Paint shared about if this place even exists and what season four is focusing on.
During the second half of the season, these train tracks are really important. They are such a big deal that they are part of almost every scene and the way that everyone is trying to find each other. Signs are up everywhere about Terminus and they are all hoping to find it.
A new previews shows the characters walking down the train tracks. They talk about Terminus which is supposed to be a sanctuary for them. They are not sure if they should believe in it or not, but they won't stop trying to find it. At this time, it is still unknown if it is going to be real or not.
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Aura Biosciences reported raising $4.5 million from private investors to support development of its targeted cancer diagnostic and therapeutic technology towards clinical trials. The firm also announced signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with NIH to progress the Nanosmart® platform.
The Nanosmart technology is based on NanoSphere Particles (NSP) that selectively target epithelial-derived tumor cells, the firm explains. For applications in cancer diagnostics, the particles are generated to encapsulate fluorescent tags, enabling visualization of targeted diseased cells in real time. For cancer therapy the same NSP vehicles are loaded with chemotherapy agents or siRNAs, and administered to directly attack cancer tissues.
The basic NSP structure comprises a 20-30nm hollow protein nanoparticles that can be designed to reproducibly display targeting agents on their surface. On binding to targeted cells the NSPs are then internalized by through receptor mediated endocytosis, where their cargo is released.
The firm claims proof-of-principle studies have demonstrated that using the Nanosmart technology for the topical delivery of an siRNA against HPV-related cancers resulted in 90% silencing of the target gene in vivo. It says these results support the potential for initial applications of the technology in the treatment of early-stage HPV-related tumors, including anal and cervical dysplasia, head and neck cancers, and non-melanoma skin cancer.
"The development of a real-time detection system that is sensitive and specific for epithelial tumors, and that can further enable a targeted treatment to distant metastases, could lead to major improvements in efficacy and survival rates," comments Elisabet de los Pinos, Ph.D., founder and CEO at Aura.
In December 2010 Aura was awarded a $244,000 grant under the IRS Qualified Therapeutic Discovery Project Initiative to support development of the Nanosmart platform.
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Canada: Samsung Gravity Touch makes its way to Videotron
After having made its way to both Bell and Mobilicity, the Samsung Gravity Touch is now also available from Videotron in Canada. What exactly is the Samsung Gravity Touch?
It's a rather interesting featurephone. Yes, that's true, this isn't a smartphone, but rather, as carriers usually love to call these devices, a 'messaging phone'. And it has both a touchscreen and a full physical QWERTY keyboard. Interested?
Then you'll be glad to find out that the Gravity Touch has a 2.8-inch QVGA (240×320) resistive touchscreen, a 2 MP camera, 3G, Bluetooth, a full HTML browser, microSD card support, and homescreen widgets.
After reading the above specs, you'd expect this handset to be cheap, right? Well, Videotron will sell it to you for $49.95 on its 'reduced price', or $199.99 – full price, with no contracts involved.
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If James O'Keefe were a liberal, he would be a national hero today. If his targets were conservatives, the liberal media establishment would be falling all over themselves to see what they could offer him.
Instead, he is a conservative, targeting liberals. The establishment is trying to ignore him, praying his latest episode of candid camera will pass quickly.
O'Keefe secretly video taped a meeting between two executives of National Public Radio and two men who claimed to be with a Muslim group, supporting Sharia law and the Muslim Brotherhood. They claimed they wanted to make a $5 million donation to NPR. One of the executives, Ron Schiller blasted the Tea Party movement as racist and conservatives as, well almost anything he could think of. Schiller also admitted NPR did not need public dollars to survive.
Schiller resigned, stating that his statements were "not reflective of my own beliefs." Okay, he was lying to the camera or he is lying now. Either way, he is a liar. My money is on his resignation statement being a lie.
Vivian Schiller, who is no relation to Ron Schiller, resigned today as the CEO of NPR. She was the same one, you may remember, that fired Juan Williams last year after Williams made the comment that he was not comfortable on airplanes when he saw men in Muslim garb.
NPR has often been called National Liberal Radio in conservative circles. To say they were to the left in their coverage would be an understatement. Conservatives have tried to defund NPR in the past, based on their bias. Today there are other reasons.
NPR and PBS may have had a reason to exist when they were first created, but today they are little more than proof of the Ronald Reagan maxim that closest thing to eternal life on this planet is a government program. When NPR and PBS got their start, there were limited offerings. Almost no radio stations offered classical music or news the way they did. When PBS launched, there were usually four TV stations in a market. ABC, CBS, NBC and then PBS.
That was then.
Today we have AM radio, FM radio, HD radio and satellite radio. We have cable TV with 500 channels. There are commercial channels that now offer almost the exact same programming that NPR and PBS offer.
This year, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is slated to get $430 million and to thank them for carrying the water for liberal causes, Obama wants to raise that to $451 million. Even if these latest disclosures did not happen, we cannot afford public radio and TV any longer. Our debt is now at 100% of our gross domestic product. How high can that go before our economy collapses? No one, except Obama, Pelosi and Reid, want to find that out.
In the Senate, Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint have introduced legislation to defund NPR and in the House Eric Cantor is leading that charge. With a $1.7 trillion deficit this year, $430 million is a small drop in the bucket.
But, it is a good start.
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While the $430 M is a drop in the bucket, it remains central to the Leftist media.
Defunding NPR and PBS will not kill them off. But even one dollar, one public dollar, to finance this tripe must end!
A conservative network to offset the many leftist sources is needed, really! FOX is far from the Right, really, and has grown by leaps and bounds! Fox "fair and balanced" makes them merely "leftist lite"
We need a voice, really, other than the Internet. Which might be taken over, at any time.....
Yo Vern,
Really, we do NOT need to fund any radio or TV. That is the function of the market. What right do you have to take my money for a right wing public information outlet? What right do you have to take my money for a left wing public information outlet. Really.
For the Tea Party to become involved in a discussion of whether the government funds a right or left leaning public outlet is exactly what the collectivists want. If we argue about the content we are off message and off principle. The underlying principle then is - that we favor spending public money to sway opinion. That is the function of the market. Failure to recognize this fundamental market principle is the reason we have debt equal to our GNP.
I pray this is a not a popular thought in the Tea Party. Love, hank
Excellent point Hank. If the gov. got OUT of funding liberal ideology in the public arena I firmly believe it wouldn't take very long for the vast bulk of liberal broadcasting (political AND secular) to simply DRY UP.
America has lost her way in many areas but probably the death of Christian morality has been lost in the worst way. When you have a fickle public being 'fed' garbage from the liberal-progressives almost 24/7 with a REAL AGENDA of corrupting those weak morals further something has GOT to give. If liberals alone had to fund liberal programming of any ilk I sincerely believe that MUCH of it would simply go away. And if it disappeared so would a great deal of the corrupting influence it has over the public. Yes, there are those filthy, no ... OBSCENELY rich like Soros who will fund such tripe to their last dollar. So funding would never completely go away. But it WOULD make a difference, given how much tax monies go to fund liberal institutions IMO.
Hopefully this is the time during this small window of opportunity that some (many I pray) of the programs & institutions that our taxes help stay alive will FINALLY get their funding SEVERELY hampered if not completely cut!
Has anyone questioned the administration and the democratic Senate as to why they are ignoring Obama's own debt crisis commission and the GAO's report showing all the duplications where large amounts of money could be saved?
Those seem to me to be excellent clubs to beat the socialists with. If you pursued that angle the press and the democrats and the communist administration would have to find new lies to tell us. There is so much stuff going on but I haven't heard of anybody going after them with that club in their hands.
Thank God for Jim DeMint. I wish he would run for president.Laura, I COMPLETELY agree. I feel that he would make a WONDERFUL president!
we need more people like him out there esposing these liberals for what they really are. He needs to get into a meeting
with some union bosses
TAD... I have to take it all back. I just watched Shiller again. He DID NOT call us fat ... or phat, as someone suggested. He called us 'UNEDUCATED.' Now that's much better than calling us fat, don't you agree? Best always, John
I'M SO SORRY ... I just watched Shiller again ... he did NOT call us FAT. He was nice. He just said we were uneducated. I heard fat. My mistake. His mistake was in calling Tea Party people, uneducated. I think some of us are a little on the slow side but we're certainly not uneducated.
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Tuning for Maximum Sequential I/O Bandwidth
By rmc on Nov 11, 2005
John asks the question "what does maxphys do, and how should I tune it?"
The maxphys parameter use to be the authoritive limit to the maximum I/O transfer size in Solaris. A large transfer size, if the device and I/O layer supports it, generally provides better large I/O throughput. This is generally supported by the fact that disks like larger transfers if you are trying to get absolute maximum throughput. For a single disk, 64k is generally the point at which maximum transfer rate occurs, and for disk arrays, typically 1MB.
Historically, there was a maxphys of 56k set, due to some older (VME?) bus max xfer limitations. The maxphys limit was increased to 128k on SPARC around the Solaris 2.6 timeframe. Since Solaris 7, the sd/ssd drivers (SCSI and Fibre Channel) override maxphys if the device supports tag queuing, up to a default of 1MB.
On x86/x64, the default is still 56k (we need to look at this!).
In summary, the defaults for SPARC with SCSI or Fibre channel are optimal defaults. You can always check by doing a large I/O test and observing the average I/O size:
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 of=/dev/null bs=8192k # iostat -xnc 3 cpu us sy wt id 10 4 0 86 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 22.4 0.0 22910.7 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.1 44.6 0 100 c0t0d0
Here we can see that we are doing 22 reads per second, and 22MB/s; thus the disks are performing optimal 1MB I/O's. Also, a simple set of test with varying block sizes will help identify the best I/O size for your device.
One more comment about max transfer size; these parameters (the driver's max transfer size) is read by UFS's newfs command, and used to set the cluster size of the file system; i.e. the number of contiguous blocks to read ahead or write behind. If you put a file system on a device and want to see large I/O's, you'll need to ensure that the maxcontig parameter also reflects the devices's max transfer size. It can be tweaked after with tunefs.
# mkfs -m /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 mkfs -F ufs -o nsect=248,ntrack=19,bsize=8192,fragsize=1024,cgsize=22,free=1,rps=120,nbpi=8155,opt= t,apc=0,gap=0,nrpos=8,maxcontig=128,mtb=n /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 18588840
Here you can see that maxcontig=128 8k blocks, which is 1MB. If you tune maxphys, then reset the file system's max cluster size with tunefs after, too.
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