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Uncovering America's Heritage... Coin by Coin
1795 Half Eagle
You know how I love gold, so I'm always looking for gold coins to present as Coin of the Month. Well, the half eagle (5-dollar gold coin) of 1795 is a true first with a touch of mystery. What makes it a first is that it's the very first gold coin of any denomination that the United States Mint ever struck. Its mystery is in its varieties.
Many of the varieties among the early dates came from simple design changes such as stamping one date over another, using different-sized numbers within the dates, and adding a star. Half eagles struck in 1797 can have either 15 or 16 stars on the front. The 16th star was added after Tennessee became the 16th state.
But some varieties are mysterious, unless you know some history. The back of this coin was redesigned in 1798 with a stronger-looking eagle. Since the eagle was changed in 1798, coins made before that year should show the older eagle, right? Yet some of these coins dated 1795 through 1797 use the eagle that hadn't been designed yet! How can that be?
It appears that the key to this confusion has to do with the yearly epidemics of yellow fever that struck Philadelphia, the city where the United States Mint was located. Every fall, Philadelphians died of yellow fever, though the city was one of the world's largest at the time. During the 1797 epidemic, the Mint was closed completely.
When the Mint reopened in 1798, new dies for the coin's reverse had already been created, but some older-dated front dies were still usable. The young United States Mint, needing to save money and catch up with the demand for half eagles, paired those older obverse dies with the new eagle reverses. The coins simply were not made in the years stamped on them.
And here's a fact that makes this coin not just a "first" but an "only." Did you know that the United States Mint still makes 5-dollar gold coins? Yes, there are still commemorative and bullion versions of the 5-dollar coin made at the United States Mint at West Point. Even though these coins don't circulate, they're the same 5-dollar denomination made in 1795. That makes this denomination the only one that has been struck at every one of the eight branches of the United States Mint—the four that have closed and the four that are at work today.


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Child poverty
London's local authorities fear that the government's welfare reforms are fuelling a housing crisis, a new report has revealed.
Based on interviews with councils, advice services and parents, as well as a review of existing evidence, the Child Poverty Action Group's 'Families on the Brink: Welfare Reform in London' report highlights that these key groups all share the same fear: a housing crisis uprooting families from their homes and communities, with children's education facing huge disruption.
Almost half of all the households in the country hit by the benefit cap are in London.
High housing costs mean that households in London on average have lost 22% more than the rest of the country, losing almost £7 more per week than households outside of the capital.
And the report reveals that councils and families fear that the situation is set to get worse.
Councils are already reporting a shortage of properties that are affordable to rent on housing benefit.
CPAG is concerned about the impact the cuts will have on child poverty in London - the area with the highest rates of child poverty in the country.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies projects a significant rise in child poverty by 2020, and this is likely to hit London hard.
Issues highlighted in the report are:
• Councils are struggling to find local housing for local families already and believe it is only going to get harder. Sixteen London boroughs already have more households claiming housing benefit than there are affordable properties. Many said that they were seeing a large number of families taking on tenancies above housing benefit caps and were making up the shortfall.
• High childcare costs in London make it harder for work to pay. New analysis in the report shows that a parent with four children working part time and paying average childcare costs in London will be £65 worse off per week than the same families outside of London.
• Financial work incentives alone have not been enough to enable parents to start work. Only 13% of households hit by the benefit cap have entered work.
• Low income families feel that they are no longer welcome in London and fear being forced to move somewhere far away and unknown.
• Families are relying on short term, discretionary payments from councils in stay in their homes.
• There has been 1000% increase in homeless families moved outside London between 2011/12 and 2013/14. Councils are struggling to house homeless families in-borough or even in London and believe that this figure will continue to rise.
• Council run benefits schemes for council tax reduction, discretionary housing payments and the localised social fund create a possible postcode lottery.
• Welfare reform is hitting working and workless families, and families who have previously not been expected to work. This includes lone parents with very young children.
• This research is based on interviews with eight local authorities, five organisations providing advice to families, and focus groups and interviews with 47 parents.
CPAG are calling on central government, the mayor and the Greater London Authority, and councils in London to renew efforts to mitigate negative impacts from the reforms. They are asking for:
• Housing benefit allowances to match rent levels in the capital.
• Funding for childcare to recognise and match London's costs to make it easier for parents to work.
• Parents who are not expected to work to be made exempt from the benefit cap – currently even breast-feeding mothers are subject to the cap.
• Reinstate funding to protect poorest residents from paying council tax and maintain access to Local Welfare Assistance funding.
• Ongoing monitoring of the effects of welfare reform in London to enable action to be taken to mitigate any negative effects.
Alison Garnham, CPAG chief executive, said: "Councils and families are telling us that a crisis is just around the corner in London. It will cause tremendous disruption to children's lives for families to have to leave their city, their extended families, schools and support networks. It also risks destroying the mix and diversity London prides itself on.
"Londoners need a housing benefit system where allowances match local rents and we need better quality services for helping parents find work, stay in work and progress onto higher pay. This must include improving the supply of high quality childcare and ensuring families can afford to pay for it."
Responding to CPAG's report, Barnardo's director for London, Lynn Gradwell, said: "The shocking finding that benefits cuts have left Londoners struggling to keep a roof over their child's head, should be a warning to Government to review welfare reform.
"Desperate families, struggling to juggle soaring living costs with the Government's recent decision not to increase their benefits with inflation, tell us they are being driven to food banks to provide for their children.
"Political parties need to wake up to the looming poverty crisis in London, and take action to tackle in and out-of-work poverty. They can start by restoring the link between benefits and inflation."
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Behind senior Whitney Stotler's 15 points, the Prague Lady Red Devils dispatched Seminole 43-36 on senior night Tuesday.
Prague head coach Jay Depanion started all five seniors on the roster — Stotler, Lindsey Fridrich, Andi Smith, Kristyn McLaughlin and Corbin Coker — and four found their way into the scoring column.
The Lady Devils (16-5) jumped out to an 11-4 lead after one quarter and held the Lady Chieftains to just 17 points in the first three quarters.
Landrea Hixson scored eight points for the home team and teammate Ellie Schultz added seven. Coker and Fridrich chipped in six apiece.
Seminole's Baylee Lucas led all scorers with 16 points and Whitney Sinor notched a dozen.
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Because of NIST's role as the National Metrology Institute (NMI) in the U.S., the Chemical Sciences Division's measurement capabilities must be benchmarked against the capabilities of NMIs worldwide as required by a Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) established in 1999. The MRA provides a framework for obtaining reliable quantitative information on the comparability of measurement services provided by all NMIs, thereby providing governments and other parties with a technical foundation for wider agreements related to international trade, commerce, and regulatory affairs. The Chemical Sciences Division actively participates in the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance – Metrology in Chemistry (CCQM) comparisons, which address chemical measurement-related issues important for international trade, environmental, health, and safety-related decision making. We have also established a limited number of strategic bilateral collaborations and/or intercomparisons with NMIs around the world to demonstrate comparability of measurements and/or to cooperate in the development of reference materials.
International agreements and decisions concerning trade and our social well-being increasingly require mutual recognition of measurements and tests among nations. The absence of such mutual recognition is considered a technical barrier to trade and an impediment to environmental and health-related decision-making. In recent years, mutual recognition agreements have been established related to testing and calibration services with the bodies accrediting such activities. All of these agreements rest upon the assumption of equivalence of national measurement standards and the reliability of the link between national measurement standards and the relevant testing services in each country. In October 1999, the directors of NMIs for the 38 member states of the Meter Convention and 2 international organizations signed the mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) on national measurement standards and calibration and measurement certificates issued by NMIs; 34 additional countries and associates have since signed the MRA. The MRA provides an open, transparent, and comprehensive framework for obtaining reliable quantitative information on the comparability of measurement services provided by the signatory NMIs. Signatories to this MRA have the following responsibilities: (1) declaring and documenting their calibration and measurement capabilities (CMCs) in Appendix C of the MRA, (2) participating in relevant international comparisons to benchmark the claims made in the CMCs (MRA Appendix B), and (3) documenting the existence of a system for assuring the quality of the measurement services provided. NIST has taken a leadership role in the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance – Metrology in Chemistry (CCQM) and the Chemical Metrology Working Group of the Interamerican System for Metrology (SIM) to assure the effective, fair, and metrologically sound implementation of this MRA.
The CCQM has seven working groups: (1) Gas Analysis, (2) Organic Analysis, (3) Inorganic Analysis, (4) Electrochemistry (5) Bioanalysis, (6) Surface Analysis, and (7) Key Comparisons. These working groups are responsible for selecting and overseeing the operation of Key Comparisons, in which participating laboratories demonstrate their measurement or material preparation capabilities. Members of the Chemical Sciences Division are involved in the various activities within all but one of the seven working groups. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) database includes 4287 CMCs for chemical measurements. About 975 are from NIST. Since 1993 108 key comparison studies and a similar number of pilot studies have been conducted under the auspices of the CCQM to underpin CMC claims. The Analytical Chemistry Division has participated in 70 Key Comparisons, serving as the Coordinating Laboratory in approximately 30 key and pilot studies. The recent CCQM activities for the organic, inorganic, electroanalytical, and gas CCQM working groups are provided in project descriptions.
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Participation in CCQM Key Comparisons is generally limited to NMIs with well-established chemical metrology programs. Within the Americas, only the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have well-established programs. To effectively address the unique needs of all 32 countries within SIM, whose capabilities in chemical metrology span a very broad range, the SIM program has focused on training and capability assessment rather than participation in MRA-driven Key and Supplemental Comparisons. Since 2002, 13 intercomparison exercises have been carried out to assess the proficiency of SIM NMIs and/or their designated laboratories, and the Chemical Sciences Division has served as the coordinating laboratory for many of these studies.
In addition to these global and regional activities, we have also establishing a limited number of strategic bilateral collaborations and intercomparisons with NMIs around the world. For example, since 1992 we have collaborated with the Netherlands Measurement Institute (NMi) to determine the equivalence of primary gas standards resulting in a formal "Declaration of Equivalence" that is recognized by the U.S. EPA and European environmental regulatory bodies as documenting the equivalence between 12 NIST and NMi primary gas mixture suites. In December 2007 an agreement was signed between NIST/CSTL and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) in Geel, Belgium to collaborate and coordinate with their research and development programs in metrology. This agreement includes cooperative research on modern measurements and their quality assurance, and technical cooperation in the preparation and characterization of certified reference materials. The JRC and NIST/MML will also share resources and work to harmonize views within international metrology bodies where both organizations carry responsibilities in relation to chemical metrology, biometrology, and international measurement standards. Technical representatives from MML and IRMM will meet regularly to coordinate activities of mutual interest. In 2007 we started a collaborative effort with the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO), the National Metrology Institute of Brazil, to develop biodiesel and bioethanol CRMs. In addition to the formal agreements described above, we have several informal collaborations with other NMIs including extended visits of scientists from these other NMIs to work at NIST for periods of several months to a year.
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Gilmore Cabin
From Slavery to Freedom
The Gilmore Cabin stands as the first preserved and interpreted freedman's home in the United States. The history of this one family tells the story of the transition from slavery to citizenship for an entire generation of African Americans after the Civil War. It tells, as well, the evolution of the U.S. Constitution as a living document for all time.
Constitutional Breakthroughs and Individual Determination
After the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution abolished slavery, gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States, and extended voting rights to freed slaves. James Madison's constitutional framework—allowing for amendments—paved the way for this expansion of civil rights. But the transition from slavery also required relentless hard work and determination on the part of freed families seeking security and stability. The Gilmore Cabin stands today as a witness to the experience of Montpelier's former slaves, the transition of African Americans across the South, and the remarkable design of the U.S. Constitution.
The Restoration
In November 1984, the deteriorated Gilmore Cabin came to the National Trust for Historic Preservation after the death of Montpelier owner, Marion duPont Scott. Thanks to a query made by a Gilmore descendent, Montpelier staff began to investigate the history of this modest, but important, log cabin. As a result, several architectural and archaeological studies were undertaken, oral histories were conducted, and this freeedman's home and farm began the long process of restoration. Working closely with the Gilmore family, Montpelier restoration crews and archaeologists carefully researched, stabilized, and restored the cabin.
The Gilmore Cabin is open to visitors every Saturday and Sunday, April through October, from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Located on Rt. 20 across from the main entrance to James Madison's Montpelier. Admission is free.
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Definition of burnet in English:
1A herbaceous plant of the rose family, with globular pinkish flower heads and leaves composed of many small leaflets.
- Genus Sanguisorba, family Rosaceae: several species, including the edible salad burnet (S. minor), and the spiny shrub-like thorny burnet (S. spinosum) of the eastern Mediterranean.
Example sentences
- I use thyme, sage, rosemary, chives, basil, dill, sorrel, salad burnet, chervil, oregano and mint as well as parsley.
- Some of our favorites are the long, skinny French radishes, French purslane, arugula, mache, salad burnet, lemon verbena, leeks and, of course, all kinds of tomatoes.
- There is always room to include Italian and curly parsley, sorrel, salad burnet, mustard, chard, and kale greens.
2A day-flying moth that typically has greenish-black wings with crimson markings.
- Zygaena and other genera, family Zygaenidae.
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- A handful of the first Burnet Moths of the year were seen on Lancing Ring meadows and around the dewpond.
- The six-spot burnet moth is brightly coloured and is active by day.
- In June the Burnet moths begin to emerge.
Middle English (denoting a kind of dark brown woollen cloth): from Old French brunete, burnete (denoting brown cloth or a plant with brown flowers), diminutives of brun 'brown'.
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Dear Pharmacist: I want to get healthy this year. I have all sorts of problems that plague me and I'm curious to know, if you were my "doctor," what labs would you have me do to uncover the root cause? — A. C., Newark, N.J.
Some of you spend money on tests that don't matter, like the standard thyroid test called "TSH" or thyroid stimulating hormone. The TSH test does not indicate cellular (tissue) levels of thyroid hormone, meaning what's all over your body. TSH is a hormone produced in your brain, but your brain and body don't match up.
It shocks me the TSH is drawn thousands of times a day on all of you, and it offers no clue about your tissue levels. In fact, it's normal many times, while you feel sick, tired, depressed and miserable.
I've listed some labs here for my newspaper column, but I know of more that can help you with all sorts of diseases, where to buy them affordably, and how to interpret them. If you'd like to read the longer version of this article, come to my website, www.suzycohen.com.
In the meantime, here are some labs that offer better clues:
Ratio of Free T3 to Reverse T3
This is a ratio of two measurements that speak to how your thyroid is doing. The ratio should be more than two in order for you to feel good. This is a way to really see how your thyroid hormone levels are doing, and much better than TSH.
If this ratio is under two, you could have symptoms such as weight gain, fatigue, depression, hair thinning, cold hands and feet, brain fog and memory loss.
Serum insulin
Most practitioners are focused on your "FBS," or fasting blood sugar, but that is not as useful as your insulin (which reduces blood sugar).
Your FBS will be normal for many years while your insulin is sky high, because it's frantically being squirted from your pancreas in an effort to quell the high blood sugar. So your blood sugar is normal for years. You'll be told your FBS is normal, and not to worry about diabetes. Shame.
I'm saying the insulin is a better clue to your health because if it's high, that says you're in trouble. How long do you think your insulin will help you? One day your pancreas will give up, stop making insulin and then your blood sugar goes up! Your "diabetes" didn't happen overnight. Your serum insulin level would have told you!
You can read more in my "Diabetes Without Drugs" book, and learn why statins cause high blood sugar, too.
This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. For more information about Suzy Cohen, visit her website at www.suzycohen.com.


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Arab Movement for Renewal began as a single-member parliamentary group that was formed by MK Ahmad Tibi in the course of the Fifteenth Knesset after he left the National Democratic Assembly (Balad). In the elections for the Sixteenth Knesset, the Arab Movement for Renewal ran in a joint list with Hadash, but toward the end of the Sixteenth Knesset, it split and became once again a single-member parliamentary group. In the elections for the Seventeenth Knesset, it ran in a joint list together with the United Arab List.
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This is aort of a repeat of my first sighting in 2010. I wish to express my viewpoint on Jacques Vallee's conslusion that the UFO's are part of the phenomenon Known as the 'Secret Commonwealth' of beings that can become pure energy, defeat space time and do a number of other things. At first I agreed with him but now I do not. the UFO's are crafts like our jets and shuttlecraft. they have bodies likke us. these other 'anomolous' beings do not. you might note that in most abductions a landing takes place where in the 'secret commonwealth' people can just vanish like air. We must draw that clear line between these two worlds.
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Theory of Musicianship I
Course Number:MUSC 070 920
Schedule:Tuesday 9:45am-12:55pm
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Secondary Program:Pre-College Program
Secondary Program:Young Scholars Program
Course Note:Required of music majors and minors. This is a Formal Reasoning course.
Course Description:
An introduction to the basic notational and theoretical materials of music, complemented by work in ear-training and sight-singing. Topics covered include the notation of time and pitch, scales, intervals, chords, progressions, melodic and formal construction, and key change. Open to all students.
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Chapter 2
Chapter 2 of my game development career begins. Perhaps it's more like Chapter 3 or 4… no matter. I can now accurately claim that I am "between jobs." I am very excited to begin my journey with the best game development company out there! Learn more ambiguous information in Chapter 2 of my not-really-ongoing series of text adventures. If you can't figure out where I'm headed after playing the game, I would advise you not to admit it if you don't like being criticized.


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Wimbledon Raises the Stakes
Following the lead of the other three Grand Slam tennis tournaments, Wimbledon's All England Club announced Tuesday that it would make the prize money it hands out the largest in the game. The purse for 2013 will come to £22.6 million ($34.4 million), around a 40% increase of £6.5 million to the prize money available in 2012.
Naturally, a large chunk of that will be allocated to the men's and women's singles champions, who will each pick up an extra £450,000, bringing their prize money to £1.6 million each. But the increase will also trickle down to singles players who are eliminated in the first three rounds—the All-England Club said that 88% of those players would see an increase.
All four Grand Slam tournaments have now boosted their purses in the last six months in response to players' demands for more prize money and friendlier schedules.
"For the players, it is a deep appreciation of the demanding nature of professional tennis and the top-quality entertainment they bring," Philip Brook, chairman of the All England Club, said in a statement.
In the longer term, Wimbledon also announced that it would build a retractable roof on No. 1 Court in time for the 2019 tournament. Four years ago, the club broke with tradition and unveiled a roof over its famous Centre Court.


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Pascagoula City Council to consider no-smoking ordinance
Pascagoula's City Council is considering a no-smoking ordinance.
Two public hearings have been scheduled this month to gather information and opinions on such an ordinance, which could affect workplaces, restaurants and bars.
The hearings will be held April 16 at the beginning of the regular City Council meeting and April 18 at the Pascagoula Senior Center.
Pascagoula's Community and Economic Development Director Jen Dearman said her office will receive comments on the topic until April 26, and then the department will review them before the council votes on an ordinance.
Mississippi Tobacco Data, a group that provides services for the Mississippi Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program, says the state is one of seven that does not have a statewide restriction on smoking in private workplaces, restaurants or bars.
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The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. (1)
The very first line of the story emphasizes just how poor Jim and Della are. It's agonizingly difficult to even save up such a small sum of money. Della's poverty also means she has to humiliate herself in front of others by being a penny pincher.
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A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. (3)
Jim and Della live in a very humble apartment indeed. The narrator uses both the word "beggar" and "mendicancy" (a mendicant is a beggar). You might think that Jim and Della would benefit from the generosity of others, not from giving their own things away.
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The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. (5)
Here we get the meager figures of Jim's salary. The remark about the name on the mailbox also shows that Jim and Della are self-conscious about their poverty, and that they're humble. They care about how they appear to others, and they're currently so poor that they're even embarrassed to have a name that might sound pretentious.


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One of the most important bills for working families in years - the Employee Free Choice Act would enable workers to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions by restoring their rights to form unions. For too long, workers have had to deal with employers who routinely fire, threaten and coerce employees in efforts to keep workers unorganized.
Get involved and join the fight to improve the lives of middle class families through the Employee Free Choice Act.
Latest Updates:
- Trumka: Higher Wages Key to Economic Recovery
September 1, 2009 - In a recent speech at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka said there have been two economies operating in the United States for years: the real economy and the financial economy.
- The Union Difference: More Family-Friendly Workplaces
July, 2009 - A new study has found unions help make workplaces more family-friendly, providing one more reason to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Sen. Arlen Specter Stumbles on Bill Press Show
July, 2009 - Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa) continues to waffle and perpetuate knowing falsehoods about legislation aimed at giving working families freedom to bargain for better wages, benefits and a secure means for saving for retirement.
Some further information:
- The Employee Free Choice Act - (H.R. 800)
- George Miller's Statement on the Employee Free Choice Act (Miller (D-CA) is the Chairman of the Education and Labor Committee)
- Why We Need The EFCA: Talking Points
- Why Retirees Should Care About the Employee Free Choice Act


text: Your passion for sports extends all the way to college and the pros. There's no team like your team, and Eastbay has all the clothing and accessories you need to cheer them on. Our fan gear selection is made up of licensed products that you'll see on the sidelines, dugouts, and courts. We're right there with you to celebrate the seasons, the playoffs, and the championships. Right here, you'll find all the top brands for fans, including adidas, Majestic, New Era, Nike, Mitchell & Ness, and more. You're in the perfect place to get t-shirts, hats, hoodies, jerseys, fleece, shorts, and more - all for your favorite MLB, NBA, NFL, world soccer, or college teams.


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Definition of destitute in English:
- How does Dr. Singh give 400 million of the poor and the destitute a stake in Indian democracy?
- Old age homes are necessary, but essentially for the destitute and the poor.
- He lived the high life as a London yuppie and threw it all away to work with the poor and destitute in Liverpool slums.
- The transition from any value system to a new one must pass through that zero point of atomic dissolution, must take its way through a generation, destitute of any connection, with either the old or the new system.
- How parliaments make swine and vermin of men, who are destitute of morals and devoid of human attributes, is no more in the realm of magic, neither in that of magic realism.
- He thought their clothes ugly, 'destitute of taste, destitute of grace, repulsive as a shroud' and preferred aloud the simple, colorful and more natural native garb.
Late Middle English (in the sense 'deserted, abandoned, empty'): from Latin destitutus, past participle of destituere 'forsake', from de- 'away from' + statuere 'to place'.
constitution from Middle English:
A constitution once referred to a law, as well as to a body of laws or customs. It comes from Latin constituere 'establish, appoint' from con- 'together' and statuere 'set up, place'. The latter is a rich source of English words including destitute (Late Middle English) literally 'placed away' so forsaken; institute (Middle English) something set up or established; restitution (Middle English) a re-establishing; statue (Middle English) something set up; and substitute (Late Middle English) someone set up instead of another. Prostitute (mid 16th century) comes from Latin prostituere 'expose publicly, offer for sale', from pro- 'before' and statuere 'set up, place'.
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Hasbro Hopes Girls Want Toy Guns Too
The toy business isn't what it used to be, with kids in need of entertainment looking more to their smartphones and social networks and less to their figurines and board games. Toy maker Hasbro had a tough time of it in 2012 — longer term problems in the toy industry combined with a patchy economies in the U.S. and Europe — and sales slid in the all-important holiday season.
Its toys targeting boys get much of their momentum from big movie releases, analysts at KeyBank wrote in a note this week, and in 2012 that came from the likes of The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man. This year will be relatively quiet in comparison, although there will be a new G.I. Joe film coming out, based on the toy and media franchise owned by Hasbro. 2014 could be more lively, with expectations for a new Transformers movie (also based on a Hasbro brand) as well as more installments from the Spider Man and X-Men franchises.
So 2013 looks like a relatively quiet one for the boys side of the business. But on the other side, there is a bright spot: Nerf Rebelle, a new line of Nerf guns especially for the girls. Apparently realising girls want to shoot things as much as anyone, the Nerf Rebelle Heartbreaker Bow captures a little bit of the Jennifer Lawrence / Hunger Games vibe, bringing lady-crossbow chic into the Nerf world:
The crossbow comes as Hasbro's unit making toys for girls is outperforming the boys unit: sales of girls products were up 17% in the last quarter, while boys products were down 23%.
Hasbro is in cost-cutting mode, the WSJ's John Kell wrote back in February, and will trim about 550 jobs this year. Its stock is up about 17% in 2013, and the KeyBanc analysts say that is about as good as it's going to get. They expect little more upward movement this year, with the benefits of cost cutting and products in the pipeline to be a bigger deal in 2014.
Those looking for a hot pink Nerf crossbow need not wait so long though: the Rebelle Heartbreaker Bow is due out this fall.
See also:
Hasbro 4th-Quarter Profit Down 6.3% on Lower Sales, Charge – WSJ
Toys and Apps Are Yet to Play Nice Together – WSJ


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Love Happens Automatically
Love Happens Automatically.
Manual Working Of It
Is Called Flirting
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Love Happens Automatically.
Manual Working Of It
Is Called Flirting
Girl : I'm warning you
My Mummy is coming back in half an hour..
Boy : But I'm not doing anything..
Girl : That's why I'm warning you..
Hurry up !
If I was an artist.
you would be my picture!.
If I was a poet.
you would be my inspiration!.
If I was an author you would be my story!
But I'm only a cartoonist
Love has its ups and downs,
its twists and turns.
Love leaves you pain,
teaches u until you learn
even if love takes so long,
it always takes you to where you belong.
I have the job
An engineering student to his sweeper brother: I have got degree, I have got knowledge, I can sit in society. What do you have?
Sweeper: I have the job.
Great Calculation: Only 20% boys have brains.
Rest have
An Englishman
An Englishman, bihari & punjabi were standing on roof. They decided to throw down whatever was available in excess with them.
Englishman threw pounds, Bihari threw rice & Punjabi threw the Bihari down
"Father in law".
Commerce professor asks the student: what is the most important source of finance for starting business?
Student: "Father in law".
Come, lets go!
In a train, ticket checker to a saint: Ticket please!
Saint: I don't have.
TT: Where do you want to go?
Saint: Lord Ram's birth place, Ayodhya!
TT: Come, lets go!
Saint: Where?
TT: Lord Krishna'a birth place, Jail.
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The Waldzell Research Institute is dedicated to promoting scientific activity in the fields of spirituality, art, economy and ethics. The aim of the institute is to support people in their quest for a balanced and meaningful life. For this purpose the institute seeks to integrate knowledge from all fields of human existence and find ways to make this knowledge effective in daily life. The Waldzell Research Institute is a charitable and tax exempted organization pursueing solely scientific purposes.


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ALAMEDA -- Filipino-Americans from Alameda, friends, family members and dignitaries came together for the second-annual Philippine Independence Day Celebration at City Hall on Saturday.
The morning event drew several dozen guests, while an equal number attended an evening of cultural performances at Rhythmix Cultural Works.
"We have made great strides and have come to embrace diversity in Alameda. You can go through the rainbow in our city and see the truly admirable contributions of Afro-Americans, Filipino-Americans, Chinese-Americans and others," said Mayor Marie Gilmore, whose parents came to the United States from the Caribbean nation of Dominica.
"We are glad you have come here to forge new roots and to hang onto your own traditions, while contributing to the community in which you now live," Gilmore explained. "I'm so pleased we can be together today to celebrate what makes our community so much stronger."
Filipinos are the fastest-growing and largest group of Asian-Americans in California, according to Assemblyman Rob Bonta, an Alameda resident who came to the United States from the Philippines when he was just a few months old.
"It's critical that we remember our history and the values that got us where we are today," said Bonta, a former Alameda City Council member. "I am the first person of Filipino descent in the Assembly and will not be the last. We have work to do."
Bonta's mother Cynthia, who helped organize the event, told guests that there is much for the community to look forward to and to remember.
"We are here to celebrate our history and freedom, something unheard of back in the 1920s and 1930s," when there was discrimination against the Filipino community, she said.
According to City Councilman Steward Chen, Cynthia Bonta approached him a few years ago about establishing a day to celebrate Filipino heritage and culture and to find an official sister city in the Philippines for Alameda.
"The first (goal) is now a reality and hopefully will be for many years to come," Chen said. "The second, which we have been working long and hard on, is a relationship with Dumaguete, and that is full of potential."
Consul Reginald Bernabe of the Consulate General of the Philippines in San Francisco reminded the audience of the robust economic growth that the island nation has been able to maintain in recent years.
"We have outpaced most neighbors in the region, even as we sustained massive damage from natural disasters such as Typhoon Haiyan," Ascalon said.
Alameda City Councilman Tony Daysog ended the event by thanking organizers and guests.
"I encourage all of you to take some words of wisdom with you ... and see what you change you can make for our community," he said.


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On this appropriately bleak winter day, I sat down to view Ingmar Bergman's stark masterpiece Winter Light.
From my forthcoming book Black & White Cinema: A Short History: "by 1962 with Winter Light, photographed by Sven Nykvist, Bergman had refined his vision into an austere, almost sculptural sensibility of blacks, whites, and varying shades of gray, striving for a complete simplicity in all his work. As Nykvist recalled of working with Bergman,
'The whole crew meets two months before shooting to read the whole script, then we start to make tests. We build sets, and when everyone—the costume designer, the production designer, the makeup artist—is there, we make tests for the whole picture so we will never be surprised when we start shooting. We are already halfway through a picture when we start to shoot it, and that is psychologically very important for all the people because everyone, including the grips and electricians, feels that he or she is as important as all the others. . . . When you are operating the camera, you forget all about the other people around you. You just see this little scene and you live in that and you feel it. For me, operating the camera is a sport and it helps me do better lighting sometimes.
When Ingmar and I made Winter Light . . . which takes place in a church on a winter day in Sweden, we decided we should not see any shadow in it at all because there would be no logical shadow in that setting. I said, 'Oh, that will be an easy picture for me because the light doesn't change in three hours.' Ingmar said, 'That's what you think. Let's go to the churches in the north of Sweden.' And there we sat for weeks, looking at the light during the three hours between eleven and two o'clock. We saw that it changed a lot, and it helped him in writing the script because he always writes the moods. . .
It has taken me 30 years to come to simplicity. Earlier, I made a lot of what I thought were beautiful shots with much backlighting and many effects, absolutely none of which were motivated by anything in the film at all. As soon as we had a painting on the wall, we thought it should have a glow around it. It was terrible and I can hardly stand to see my own films on television anymore. . . . I prefer to shoot on location because in the studio you have too many possibilities—too many lights to destroy your whole picture.'"
And as Roger Ebert observed of Winter Light in 2007, "on the day Ingmar Bergman died, the first film of his that came into my mind was Winter Light. Odd, because I had not seen it since teaching a film class in the 1970s. In the weeks that passed, I found it lingering there, asking to be seen again. What did I remember about it? That it was part of Bergman's 'Silence of God' trilogy. That it was about a pastor who was unable to comfort a man in dread of nuclear holocaust. That the pastor rejected a woman who sought to comfort him. That Bergman and his cinematographer, Sven Nykvist, sat in a rural church for a winter day to note how the sunlight moved through the space. In short, I hardly remembered the film at all, because those sparse memories were not enough to ignite a need to see it again. Yet I felt one. Finally I took Winter Light down from the shelf, watched it again, and was awestruck by its bleak, courageous power.
It is, first of all, much more complex than the broad outlines I held in memory. It is about more than God, silent or not. It is about the silence of a man, Pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Bjornstrand), who speaks enough in the film but is unable to say anything of use to himself or anyone else. About another man, the fisherman Jonas (Max Von Sydow), obsessed by evil in the world, who calls God's bluff, so to speak, by killing himself. About Marta, a schoolteacher (Ingrid Thulin) who cares for the pastor, loves him, worries about him, and is thanked by coldness and hostility. And it is about two monologues in which the pastor and the teacher describe their real feelings, and deeply wound each other . . .
The film's visual style is one of rigorous simplicity. Nykvist does not use a single camera movement for effect. He only wants to regard, to show. His compositions, while sometimes dramatic, are mostly static. He uses slow push-ins and pull-outs to underline dialogue of intensity. His gaze is so unblinking that sequences with the potential to be boring, like the opening scenes of the consecration and distribution of hosts and wine, become fascinating: More is going on here than ritual, and there are buried currents between the communicants. Nykvist focuses above all on faces, in closeup and medium shot, and they are even the real subject of longer shots, recalling Bergman's belief that the human face is the most fascinating study for the cinema."
Fortunately, there is also a feature on the making of Winter Light, available on the Criterion DVD set of the Bergman "Silence of God" trilogy, of which Criterion's program notes add that "the year is 1961, and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director. In August, Sjöman and the television crew begin to capture what would become a comprehensive five-part documentary on the making of Winter Light, offering views of script development, set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. Footage from the film's Swedish premiere delivers immediate audience reactions and the critics' reviews the following day. Originally recorded on 16mm film, Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie is presented here in its entirety for the first time outside of Sweden."
A brilliant film, available on Criterion DVD; get a copy now, before it goes out of print.


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Definition of interfere in English:
verb[no object]
1 (interfere with) Prevent (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried out properly: a holiday job would interfere with his studies
More example sentences
- Many universities report that they instituted the zones to protect free speech rights and prevent demonstrations from interfering with other campus activities.
- This means the members' hockey activities do not interfere with their jobs or education.
- This will prevent other processes from interfering with our server while it is actually in the process of delivering a page.
impede, obstruct, get in the way of, stand in the way of, hinder, be a hindrance to, inhibit, restrict, restrain, constrain, hamper, handicap, cramp, check, block, frustrate, thwart, baulk, hold back, hold up;
disturb, disrupt, influence, affect, confuse
British informal throw a spanner in the works of
North American informal throw a monkey wrench in the works of
rare trammel, cumber
1.1(Of a thing) strike against or impede (something) when working: the rotors are widely separated and do not interfere with one another
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- Something I found curious was the fact that to fit in some audio headers where the PCI slots were to be placed, and to stop the cards from interfering with the header, the pins were bent at a 90 degree angle.
- Differential pairs have to be used, and that means having to add shielding around the pins and often using extra pins to provide round planes to stop the signals interfering with each other through crosstalk at these speeds.
- The developers must also determine how to control magnetic fields in each memory cell, to stop the fields from interfering with their neighbors and creating errors.
1.2Handle or adjust (something) without permission, especially so as to cause damage: he admitted interfering with a van
More example sentences
- This year alone he has been charged with arson, criminal damage, interfering with a car and two counts of common assault.
- The teenager must not interfere with, damage or take without consent any vehicle or any other property.
- She was arrested and charged with criminal damage, assault, interfering with motor vehicles, aggravated trespass and harassment, and causing alarm and distress.
2Intervene in a situation without invitation or necessity: she tried not to interfere in her children's lives
More example sentences
- But she'd promised herself she'd never interfere in a situation like that - and she didn't.
- We've interfered in their lives, their economies and everything, and now because it suits, we say that we cannot interfere in their internal affairs.
- The relevant people should not make a fuss and should not interfere in business deals for political reasons.
butt into, barge into, pry into, nose into, be nosy about, intrude into, intervene in, get involved in, intercede in, encroach on, impinge on, impose oneself on;
meddle in, tamper with;
tread on someone's toes, step on someone's toes
informal poke one's nose into, mess with, horn in on, muscle in on, stick one's oar in, gatecrash
North American informal kibitz on
archaic entrench on
meddlesome, meddling, intrusive, intruding, prying, probing, nosy, inquisitive, over-curious, over-interested, busybody
informal nosy-parker, snoopy, snooping
Scottish & Northern English nebby
archaic intermeddling
rare obtrusive, busy
3 (interfere with) British , euphemistic Sexually molest (someone, especially a child).
Example sentences
- The evidence also indicated the deceased, a single woman, was sexually interfered with by her attacker.
- Both women were naked and Diane had been sexually interfered with.
- The guards told her that they had caught, or almost caught, detainees sexually interfering with the child.
sexually abuse, abuse, sexually assault, indecently assault, assault, molest, grope;
harm, damage
informal feel up, touch up, paw, maul
4 (interfere with) Law Attempt to bribe or intimidate (a witness): they face charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and interfering with witnesses
More example sentences
- The attorney general can take proceedings for contempt of court against anyone who attempts to interfere with a witness.
- The teenager was given bail on the condition he does not approach or interfere with prosecution witnesses.
- Dr Brewer, who is now retired, is also accused of seeking to interfere with potential witnesses to the Professional Conduct Committee.
5 Physics (Of light or other electromagnetic waveforms) interact to produce interference: light pulses interfere constructively in a fibre to emit a pulse
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- The reason for the formation of the shockwave is that the sound waves emitted by the airplane interfere constructively on the surface of this cone.
- If sound waves couldn't interfere constructively, you wouldn't be able to hear anyone else talk while you speak.
- This phase shift alters the way the electron trajectories interfere, and therefore affects the electronic properties of the material.
5.1Cause interference to a broadcast radio signal.
Example sentences
- Paper items are considered easier to tag because the products don't interfere as much with radio waves.
- I used to listen to John Peel in the late seventies and early eighties when radio one was still on AM only and you had to tune it exactly or you got Radio Moscow interfering.
- Satellite engineers also designed antennas that did not interfere with systems orbiting nearby and recommended adequate separation between satellites to prevent signals from interfering.
6(Of a horse) knock one foot against the fetlock of another leg.
Example sentences
- When she was leading her horse from the corral the other horse interfered, causing the lead rope to tighten around Keely's hand, resulting in a serious injury.
- If you have any concerns about how your equine friend will behave, or if he has shown a penchant for interfering or stepping on himself while moving, you may want to put protective boots or wraps on his legs.
- Example sentences
- I felt like an interferer, and as the parent did in fact turn up fairly punctually, I may have actually managed to freak out the child even more than he accomplished on his own.
- The resulting small and integrated system addressing simultaneous interferers is ideally suited for space-limited vehicles, aircraft, and ships.
- Joey and Faith looked at their interferer, 'Johnathan?'
Late Middle English: from Old French s'entreferir 'strike each other', from entre- 'between' + ferir (from Latin ferire 'to strike').
Words that rhyme with interfereadhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
Saturday, February 7
All panels take place in Winch/Capehart.
10:15–11:30 a.m.
What STEM Majors Do
Keith Allen '83, research fellow
Kevan Shokat '86, professor & chair
Christopher Cahill '12, R&D technician
Ann Horowitz '74, senior director, retired
Zeb Horowitz '74, VP, head of early clinical development, retired
Ian McNulty '82, physicist
RSVP for Highschool/SA Visitors
12:30–1:45 p.m.
Medicine: Not Just for Docs
Susan Otter '04, policy analyst
Nils Lonberg '79, SVP, biologics discovery
Morgan O'Toole-Smith '94, executive director, medical clinic
Janet Gunzner-Toste '93, global program manager, drug discovery
Molly O'Quinn '04, supervisor, medical center
Tess Coody-Anders, Reed parent, hospital administrator
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RSVP for Highschool/SA Visitors
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Get dirty, have fun and grow more food with great gardening tips from real-life gardeners.
By Jennifer Kongs
Growing Power, city farms, youth education
Will Allen is no longer a secret, his gardens are no longer small, and his ideas are no longer dreams. Chief Executive Officer of Growing Power, Allen designed a program to put youth in need of jobs to work as city farmers. His work in Community Food Systems, and his focus on providing nutritious, affordable foods for all residents in a community, led Allen to be named on of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
The organization's credo — "Grow. Bloom. Thrive." — mimics phases of the plant growth in the gardens to define how the people and communities involved with Growing Power, Inc. can hope to evolve, too. The group helps urban farms grow by demonstrating easily replicable growing methods with workshops and demonstrations; bloom through further outreach on local, national and international levels; and thrive through their demonstration food production greenhouses and distribution of produce, grass-based meats and value-added products from various family-farm-based cooperatives. Some of Growing Power's farms are located in rural areas in Wisconsin and Illinois, although much of the organization's farming and training focuses on their city farms. The group has also worked to developed regional outreach training centers, to provide a local training support to communities across the country.
Maintaining its core in youth education, Growing Power's Youth Corps apprenticeship program provides both academic and professional experience to low-income youth. The apprenticeship includes training in organic agriculture, as well as entrepreneurship. In Chicago, the youth program connects young people to food production and cultivation by literally getting their hands in the ground. Not only do the apprentices plant, weed and harvest produce in the allotment gardens, they also have an opportunity to work at South Chore Cultural Centers' weekly farmers market. Specifically, the training focuses on city farming techniques, including aquaponics, vermiculture and making compost.
Projects like Allen's have great potential for changing the way citydwellers relate to their food. By giving special attention to youth development, the future food system has even greater potential to become the sustainable, localized system that lower income neighborhoods need. Sharing the skills of how to grow food organically with communities who cannot afford the high ticket price of organic fruits and veggies on the supermarket shelves lays the foundation for a real food system revolution.
Jennifer Kongs is the Managing Editor at MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine. When she's not working at the magazine, she's likely working in her garden, on the local running trails or in her kitchen instead. You can find Jennifer on Twitter or Google+.
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New Mexico is shaping up as a Memorial Day rally hot spot with plans for an estimated 20,000 bikers rolling into Red River for the 28th annual Memorial Day Motorcycle Rally May 28-31.
About 40 vendors from across the country are expected to set up for the even, which also features live music and food.
"We expect at least 20,000 people, but it can be anywhere between 20,000 and 30,000," Rebecca Sanchez, of the Red River Chamber of Commerce, told the Sangre de Christo Chronicle. "Some people are making some long hauls. We get bikers coming from all over."
As of May 17, much of the lodging in Red River was already booked solid and campgrounds around town were expected to swell with rally participants, the newspaper reported.
"People really love the area," Sanchez says. "It's nice, crisp, clean, and we try to be the friendly Red River we always are. I think that's what brings them back."
For 2010, organizers have put together a new fun run. "We were trying to get some kind of run back into rally because we haven't been able to do it for a couple of years," Sanchez says. The run is scheduled to leave Red River at 11 a.m. Saturday for a loop tour of the Enchanted Circle. A $5 registration fee buys riders a pin, patch, entry in a 50/50 cash drawing and some fast cash to be used at Taos Mountain Casino.
Monday, a caravan will climb over the hill to Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park. A flag march will take place at 9 a.m. as the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 318 from Albuquerque and other participants carry a giant American flag up the hill to the memorial.
The chamber is urging visitors to be prepared for unpredictable mountain weather.
"We normally have fairly good weather, but there is nothing we can do about it," Sanchez says. Snow chilled festivities last year, but riders persevered, she says. "They still came out."
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exquisite_code interrogates notions of read/run in a radical experiment hothousing a collaborative novel.
From February 15th 2010 at E:vent Gallery in London's East End 8/9 writers will work eight hours a day for five days.
Text chunks will be produced, written over scaleable sessions in response to a set of prompts generated by participants throughout each day.
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1] Leif Elggren [SWE], writer/mystic/artist http://www.leifelggren.org
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8] Colm Lally Gallery Manager E:vent Gallery 96 Teesdale Street London E2 6PU firstname.lastname@example.com
9] POD collaboration with Simon Worthington at Mute
The event will culminate in a final night launch on Saturday 20th February at E:vent, with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements by participants made from the weeks accumulated materials and including invited performers:
Hannah Wen-Shan Shieh [TW/UK] http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/profile194930.html
Martin Howse [UK/DE] http://www.1010.co.uk/org
Preslav Literary School [UK/DE] http://www.preslavliteraryschool.co.uk
Ryan Jordan [UK] http://ryanjordan.org/
Code, prompts and text chunks will be displayed throughout the five days via
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Sam Alfieri grew up just five minutes from the Buffalo State Ice Arena, down the road in fact from Canisius College.
Needless to say, the Niagara junior was fairly excited as he scored a pair of goals to help the Purple Eagles earn a critical Atlantic Hockey victory over the Golden Griffins. Alfieri helped Niagara mount a third-period comeback for a 4-2 win over the Griffs in front of 1,536 at the Buffalo State Ice Arena on Saturday night.
"Every time we play Canisius, especially for me, it doesn't get any better than that," said Alfieri, who finished with three points.
Alfieri opened the scoring, giving Niagara a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal 6:33 into the game. He then scored the game-tying goal, also on the power play, 5:14 into the third period.
"He's been great," Niagara coach Dave Burkholder said of Alfieri's play. "Anything you ask of him he does. For him to get two tonight is just great. He's a junior that's been around and he cares. He's passionate and when he's able to have a night like tonight especially in his hometown, that's special."
Alfieri gave Niagara the early lead, but Canisius tied the game later in the first period when Braeden Rigney put home a fat rebound off a shot from Mitch McCrank.
The Griffs then took a 2-1 lead in the second period on a power-play goal by Ralph Cuddemi with assists from Shane Conacher and Kyle Gibbons.
But the third period was when Niagara was able to take advantage of its opportunities. Canisius sophomore Chris Rumble was called for a five-minute boarding penalty. With some good play in the corner, Chris Lochner dug the puck out for Niagara and passed it to an open Alfieri to tie the game.
"I have to credit Chris Lochner because he made a great pass," Alfieri said. "The goalie was following Lochner. I had to get it off quick, but he was on the other side of the net."
Matt Chiarantano scored the game-winner on a pass from Patrick Divjak, burying an open look in front of Canisius goaltender Tony Capobianco (31 saves).
"It was a gut check," Burkholder said. "It's playoff hockey. We said, 'guys this is desperation. We need to have a good third period' and we did. I thought we played really well."
The Griffs had chances to tie the game in the third with a late power play, but freshman goalie Adrian Ignangi was solid. He made 23 saves. Divjak added an empty net goal for Niagara.
"I think that game could have gone either way," Canisius coach Dave Smith said. "It could have gone either way all night. I think tendencies are to look and ask what was wrong. We did a lot of things right. We just didn't win the game. We had to battle some things that were a little bit out of our control.
"Hockey's a game of mistakes. We can look and find a lot of them. There was a lot right. If we could change the script, we capitalize on a few more chances and probably come out to a better start in the first period. But the story's been written about the game. We just have to find a way to capitalize on those earlier in the game before we get down one."
Niagara (9-15-4, 9-8-4) took the season series with Canisius 2-0-1 and moved a point ahead of the Griffs (10-15-3, 9-9-3) in the standings.
Niagara junior defensman Kevin Albers missed the game serving an extra suspension issued by Atlantic Hockey for a contact to the head penalty he received last Saturday against Sacred Heart. Albers was given a game disqualification which came with an automatic suspension. Hew served that on Thursday, but Atlantic Hockey gave him an additional game.
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Our governor, Rick Scott, has repeatedly talked about privatizing prisons. I just read an article about a company called the GEO Group, which runs privatized prisons. It just spent $6 million for the naming rights of the stadium at Florida Atlantic University, which is creating a big controversy.
If privatizing the prison systems is suppose to save the taxpayers' money, then how can a company like the GEO Group afford to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money just to get the naming rights to a college stadium?
Scott should think twice before he jumps in there and turns the taxpayers' money over to a private company that squanders its income on such a stupid, useless adventure.
As a taxpayer, I sure don't support this kind of waste of my money.
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The Gags May Be Horrifying, but Scary Movie 2's Repeat Offender Anna Faris Has What It Takes to Survive Them
So was the movie, a surprise hit that made more than $270 million worldwide and earned Faris, 24, an encore role in this summer's sequel, Scary Movie 2. Fans hoping for more of the same shouldn't be disappointed: This time around Faris lampoons Michelle Pfeiffer's role from 1999's What Lies Beneath, is attacked by a possessed cat and endures a sex scene so repulsive she ought to have been issued humiliation insurance. "There are only a few people who could pull it off," says director Keenen Ivory Wayans of Faris's innocent take on such raunch. "Drew Barrymore is one, and Cameron Diaz is another. Anna, in her own time, will be in that league."
High praise for a self-described drama club "dork" who used to wear a Christmas-tree skirt in high school and didn't date until senior year. ("I liked guys, but no one really liked me," she explains.) But that turned out to be just the sort of resume that helped Faris—who had only two independent movie roles to her credit at the time—beat out hundreds of other actresses when she auditioned for Scary Movie in July 1999, just a month after she arrived in Los Angeles. "There was a great freshness about her, because Anna had nothing to lose," says Wayans, whose brothers Shawn and Marlon star in both films. "She didn't think in a million years she was going to get the part."
But doing just that has been Faris's knack since age 6, when her parents, Karen, now 54, a retired special-education instructor, and Jack, 54, a vice president of internal communications for the University of Washington, enrolled her in a community drama class for kids. By age 9, Faris—who says she was raised with her brother Robert, 28, a graduate student, in a "very conservative atmosphere"—was performing onstage with a Seattle repertory company, in nationally broadcast radio plays—and in her own bedroom. "I had a retainer," she says, "and I used to imagine that it would talk to me. It wasn't even that I'd talk to it or it would talk to me. It was more that I'd go on talk shows to talk about my talking retainer!"
Tin grin behind her, Faris headed to the University of Washington and majored in English literature. "I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star," says Faris, who hopes one day to publish a novel. "I always thought it would be cool, but I never thought it would be easy." But she continued to act "just to make some extra money," and it was while at a rehearsal in Seattle in April 1999 for an independent film, Lovers Lane, that she met boyfriend Ben Indra, 22. "She was really cool, and I just didn't want to miss the chance to get to know her as much as possible," says Indra, an actor who lives near Faris in L.A. "I was just completely hypnotized."
Can Faris cast that spell beyond the grossness of the Scary series? "She's a rare commodity—a beautiful, funny girl," says Scary producer Lisa Blum. "You can't be dumb and play dumb." But Faris, who lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment near the beach and recently splurged on a new BMW, doesn't feel a need to stay in the fast lane. "The important thing for me is to be happy where I am and with what I'm doing," she says. As for the future? "I guess I see myself on a huge sailboat in the Mediterranean or maybe growing tomatoes in Northern California. Right now I'm just on an adventure."
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Skype Hires in Europe, Bashes Twitter
Microsoft-owned Internet audio and video-calling business Skype is expanding in Europe. It is taking on staff. And, in a slightly cheeky advertising campaign, it is taking a swipe at Twitter and Facebook. The BBC reports that Skype would first be hiring in London and Stockholm before creating posts in Tallinn, Estonia; Prague, Czech Republic; and Palo Alto, Calif.
Once all the new positions are filled, the business expects to have 1,600 employees worldwide. As part of the expansion it is launching a new technology centre in central London. It says the move would increase its headcount in the city by 40% to 330 posts… Skype's vice president of product and design told the BBC the new jobs would cover software engineering, product management and design. "We have one project about 'big data', which is about making use of data that our users generate when using the product to improve the quality of the products we offer," said Rick Osterloh.
At the same time, the Internet communications business revealed which companies it sees as its competition and, as AdWeek explains, how it intends to differentiate itself from them.
Skype is looking to leverage consumer anxiety about alienation with a $12 million campaign that frames its service as the more human of modern ways to stay in touch. Launched… at U.K. transportation hubs like Heathrow Airport… a series of ads from Pereira & O'Dell takes shots at the superficiality of text-based tech—Facebook, Twitter, SMS—while playing up the value of the face-time video chats provide travelers looking to stay connected.
The not-so-subtle slogans include: "When did it become okay to text mum Happy Birthday?" and "140 characters doesn't equal staying in touch." And on Skype's Facebook page fans are encouraged to create a "Humiticon" – a picture of them expressing a human emotion. It does not say whether this emotion could include slight nausea at the cheesy nature of the "Humiticon" concept. BBC: Yahoo lays off 2,000 employees as Skype hires 400 staff AdWeek: Skype Rips Into Twitter and Facebook in New Ads


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Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
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The potential use of stem cells in transplantation for the purpose of tissue regeneration is an exciting area of research currently undergoing rapid development. Implantation of human embryonic or autologous, ex vivo-expanded adult stem cells, particularly in older individuals, could circumvent the limited availability of organs/tissues as well as prevent complications related to immune rejection and disease transmission. Musculoskeletal tissue degeneration is closely associated with aging. Strategies employing autologous adult MSCs from older individuals for transplantation in order to regenerate their own ailing organ or tissues require that we vigorously define MSCs capacity to maintain growth potential and differentiation potential into the desirable cell lineages. We are currently restricted by the limited knowledge about physical parameters, such as biomechanical forces, that influence MSC growth and differentiation capacities. This is particularly important for MSCs isolated from older individuals, for whom little information is available. This special volume aims to serve as an impetus in generating more interest among stem cell researchers and biotechnologists to improve and develop the cell-based therapies of damaged tissue using stem cells.
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1 Justice and Vulnerability in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research 1
Isaac H. Ritter, Robin N. Fiore and Kenneth W. Goodman
2 Stem Cells and their Contribution to Tissue Repair 9
Carmen Rios, Elisa Garbayo, Lourdes A. Gomez, Kevin Curtis, Gianluca D'Ippolito and Paul C. Schiller
3 The Role of Microenvironments Stromal Cells in Regenerative Medicine 23
Ian McNiece and Josh M. Hare
4 The Role of Mechanical Forces on Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation 29
Daniel Pelaez, Jason R. Fritz, and Herman S. Cheung
5 Functional Cartilage Tissue Engineering with Adult Stem Cells: Current Status and Future Directions 40
Alice H. Huang, Clark T. Hung, and Robert L. Mauck
6 Therapeutic Angiogenesis for Coronary Artery Disease: Clinical Trials of Proteins, Plasmids, Adenovirus and Stem Cells 65
Keith A. Webster
7 Use of Progenitor Cells in Pain Management 75
M.J. Eaton, Stacey Quintero Wolfe and Eva Widerström-Noga
8 Neural Stem Cells: New Hope for Successful Therapy 100
Denis English, Akshay Anand, Rama S. Verma and Stephan Gluck
9 Diabetes and Stem Cells 120
Juan Domínguez-Bendala and Camillo Ricordi
10 Stem Cells in Dentistry 140
Li Wu Zheng and Lim Kwong Cheung
11 Corneal Progenitor Cells and Regenerative Potential 149
Gary H-F Yam, Sharon K Lee and CP Pang
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