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After a week away, here's my advice: in news terms, you can afford to take a vacation. When I came back last Sunday, New Orleans was bracing for tough times (again). BP, a drill-baby-drill oil company that made $6.1 billion in the first quarter of this year and lobbied against "new, stricter safety rules" for offshore drilling, had experienced an offshore disaster for which ordinary Americans are going to pay through the nose (again). News photographers were gearing up for the usual shots of oil-covered wildlife (again). A White House -- admittedly Democratic, not Republican -- had deferred to an energy company's needs, accepted its PR and lies, and then moved too slowly when disaster struck (again).
Okay, it may not be an exact repeat. Think of it instead as history on cocaine. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, already the size of the state of Delaware, may end up larger than the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, and could prove more devastating than Hurricane Katrina. Anyway, take my word for it, returning to our world from a few days offline and cell phone-less, I experienced an unsettling déjà-vu-all-over-again feeling. What had happened was startling and horrifying -- but also eerily expectable, if not predictable.
And, of course, when it came to our frontier wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- you remember them, don't you? -- repetition has long been the name of the game, though few here seem to notice. With an immigration crisis, Tea Partying, that massive oil spill, and a crude, ineptly made car bomb in Times Square, there's already enough to worry about. Isn't there?
All-Volunteer Wars
Still, there was this headline awaiting my return: "Afghan lawmaker says relative killed after U.S. soldiers raided her home." Sigh.
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And here was the nice touch for those U.S. Special Operations guys, who seem to have learning abilities somewhat lower than those of a hungry mouse in a maze when it comes to hearts-and-minds-style counterinsurgency warfare. True, in this case they didn't shoot two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl, dig the bullets out of the bodies, and claim they had stumbled across "honor killings," as Special Operations troops did in a village near Gardez in eastern Afghanistan in March; nor did they handcuff seven schoolboys and a shepherd and execute them, as evidently happened in Kunar Province in late December 2009; nor had they shot a popular imam in his car with his seven-year-old son in the backseat, as a passing NATO convoy did in Kabul, the Afghan capital, back in January; nor had they shadowed a three-vehicle convoy by helicopter on a road near the city of Kandahar and killed 21 while wounding 13 via rocket fire, as U.S. Special Forces troops did in February. They didn't wipe out a wedding party -- a common enough occurrence in our Afghan War -- or a funeral, or a baby-naming ceremony (as they did in Paktia Province, also in February), or shoot up any one of a number of cars, trucks, and buses loaded with innocent civilians at a checkpoint.
In this case, they killed only one man, who was unfortunately -- from their point of view -- reasonably well connected. Then, having shot him, they reportedly forced the 15 inhabitants in his family compound out, handcuffed and blindfolded them (including the women and children), and here was that nice touch: they sent in the dogs, animals considered unclean in Islamic society, undoubtedly to sniff out explosives. Brilliant! "They disgraced our pride and our religion by letting their dogs sniff the holy Koran, our food, and the kitchen," Ms. Siddiqi said angrily. And then, the American military began to lie about what had happened, which is par for the course. After the angry legislator let them have it ("...no one in Afghanistan is safe -- not even parliamentarians and the president himself") and the locals began to protest, blocking the main road out of Jalalabad and chanting "Death to America!," they finally launched an investigation. Yawn.
If I had a few bucks for every "investigation" the U.S. military launched in Iraq and Afghanistan over the years after some civilian or set of civilians died under questionable circumstances, I might be on vacation year around.
The U.S. military can, however, count on one crucial factor in its repetitive war-making: kill some pregnant mothers, kill some schoolboys, gun down a good Samaritan with two children in his car trying to transport Iraqis wounded in an Apache helicopter attack to a hospital, loose a whirlwind that results in hundreds of thousands of deaths -- and still Americans at home largely don't care. After all, for all intents and purposes, it's as if some other country were doing this on another planet entirely, and "for our safety" at that.
In that sense, the American public licenses its soldiers to kill civilians repetitively in distant frontier wars. As a people -- with the exception of relatively small numbers of Americans directly connected to the hundreds of thousands of American troops abroad -- we couldn't be more detached from "our" wars. Repetition, schmepetition. The real news is that Conan O'Brien "got very depressed at times" after ceding "The Tonight Show" to Jay Leno (again) and that the interview drove CBS's "60 Minutes" to a ratings success.
The creation of the All-Volunteer Army in the 1970s was a direct response to the way the draft and a citizen's army undermined an imperial war in Vietnam. When it came to paying attention to or caring about such wars, it also turned out to mean an all-volunteer situation domestically (and that, too, carries a price, though it's been a hard one for Americans to see).
"You'll Never See It Coming"
I came back from vacation to several other headlines that I could have sworn I'd read before I left. Take, for instance, the Washington Post headline: "Amid outrage over civilian deaths in Pakistan, CIA turns to smaller missiles." So here's the "good" news, according to thePost piece: now we have a new missile weighing only 35 pounds, with the diameter of "a coffee cup," and "no bigger than a violin" -- who thinks up these comparisons? -- charmingly named the Scorpion. It has been developed to arm our drone aircraft and so aid the CIA's air war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. According to the advocates of our drone wars, the new missile has the enormous benefit of being so much more precise than the 100-pound Hellfire missile that preceded it. It will, that is, kill so much more precisely those we want killed, and so (theoretically) not spark the sort of anti-American anger that often makes our weaponry a rallying point for resistance.
Talk about repetitious. The idea that ever more efficient and "precise" wonder weapons will solve human problems, and perhaps even decisively bring our wars to an end, is older than... well, than I am anyway, and I'm almost 66. After six-and-a-half decades on this planet and a week on vacation, I know one thing, which I knew before I left town: there's no learning curve here at all.
Oh, and however crucial our night raids, and nifty our new weaponry, and despite the fact that we're now filling the skies with new aircraft on new missions in our undeclared war in Pakistan, I returned to this headline in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes: "Report: Still not enough troops for Afghanistan operations." The Pentagon had just released its latest predictable assessment of the Afghan War, which included the information that, of the 121 districts in the country that the U.S. military identifies as critical to the war effort, NATO only has enough forces to operate in 48. (U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan has nonetheless risen by 56,000 since President Obama took office.) The news was grim: the Taliban remains on the rise, controlling ever larger swaths of the countryside, and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is increasingly unpopular. What you can already feel here is the rise of something else hideously predictable -- the "need" for, and lobbying for, more American troops -- even though the latest polling data indicate that Afghan anger and opposition may be rising in areas U.S. troops are moving into.
Or what about this headline in the British Guardian that a friend emailed me as I returned? "Afghanistan forces face four more years of combat, warns NATO official." Four more years! Doesn't that sound repetitiously familiar -- and not as a line for Obama's reelection campaign either. Think of all this as a kind of predictable equation: more disastrous raids and offensives plus more precise weapons for more attacks = the need for more troops plus more time to bring the Afghan War to a "satisfactory" conclusion.
Oh, and let me mention one last repetitive moment. You may remember that, in March 2004, just a year after he launched the invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush appeared at the annual black-tie dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association and narrated a jokey slide show. It showed him looking under White House furniture and around corners for those weapons of mass destruction that his administration had assured Americans would be found in Iraq in profusion, and which, of course, were nowhere to be seen. "Those weapons of mass destruction," the president joked, "have got to be here somewhere."
Hard to imagine such a second such moment, certainly not from the joke writers of Barack Obama, who appeared at a White House Correspondents' Association dinner while I was gone, and garnered this positive headline at the wonk Washington political website Politico.com for his sharp one-liners: "Obama Tops Leno at WHCD." The accompanying piece hailed the president for showing off "his comedic chops" and cited several of his quips to make the point. Here was one of them, quoted but not commented on (nor even considered worth a mention in the main Washington Post piece on his appearance, though it was noted in a Post blog): "The Jonas Brothers are here!... Sasha and Malia are huge fans but boys don't get any ideas. I have two words for you: Predator Drones. You'll never see it coming."
The audience at the correspondents' dinner reportedly "laughed approvingly." And why not? Assassinate the Jonas brothers by remote control if they touch his daughters? What father with access to drone killers wouldn't be tempted to make such a joke? We're talking, of course, about the weaponry now associated with what media pieces still laughably call the CIA's "covert war" or "covert missions" in Pakistan. So covert that a quip about them openly slays the elite in Washington. Of course, you might (or might not) wonder just how funny such a one-liner might seem at a Pakistani media roast.
And I wonder as well just what possessed another American president to do it again? Okay, it's not an oil spill off the coast of planet Earth or an actual air strike in some distant land, just a joke in a nation that loves stand-up, even from its presidents. Still, I think you'll have to admit that the repetition factor is eerie.
By the way, don't mistake repetition for sameness. If you repeat without learning, assessing, and changing, then things don't stay the same. They tend to get worse. The thought, for instance, that either a giant oil company or the Pentagon will solve our problems is certainly a repetitive one. So is the belief that, when they make a mess, they should be in charge of "investigating" themselves and then responding. While predictable, the results, however, do not simply leave us in the same situation.
And don't say you didn't read it here: If American wars continue to exist as if in a galaxy far, far away, and the repeats of the repeats pile up, things will get worse (and, in the most practical terms, life will be less safe). Once we're all finally distracted from the possibility of the Gulf of Mexico being turned into a dead sea by the next 24/7 crisis, if nothing much changes, expect repeats. After all, what happens when, in the "tough oil" era, the BPs of this world hit the melting Arctic with their deep water rigs in really bad climates?
In such circumstances, repetition doesn't mean sameness; it means a wrecked world. And here's the worst of it: predictable as so much of this may be, the odds are you'll never see it coming.
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. He is the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of the Cold War and beyond, as well as of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing. His latest book, The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's (Haymarket Books), will be published in May.
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Oakes Ames (1804-1873) was a U.S. congressman, an early investor in the Central Pacific, and a key player in the Union Pacific and Crédit Mobilier stories. Between his political power and the fortune he had made with his brother selling shovels during the Gold Rush, Oakes Ames, the "King of Spades," was in the position to do a lot for the transcontinental railroad. He even had the endorsement of President Lincoln.
Ames involved himself intimately in the Union Pacific and became an investor and promoter for Crédit Mobilier. After his brother Oliver became the UP president over Thomas Durant and construction began to take off, Oakes Ames and the early Crédit Mobilier investors made a fortune. More and more people in Washington wanted part of the deal, and Ames sold a large amount of Crédit Mobilier stock.
Ames's dealings brought a lot of money into the railroad and certainly helped the project reach completion, but his involvement ended in ruin. When the huge profits of Crédit Mobilier were made public and compared to the nearly bankrupt books of the railroad, Ames found himself at the center of the nineteenth century's biggest financial scandal. Although a federal investigation ultimately handed down only congressional censures, Ames's career was over. The King of Spades had become "Hoax" Ames to the public, never to recover.

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You can also contact Dr. Steve Fakharzadeh (Basic Science Research Advisor) or Dr. Joel Gelfand (Clinical Research Advisor) to ask for research advice.
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This webpage from the Department of Dermatology webpage highlights basic science research interests studied by faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
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by McCormick, F. | Category: For Young Believers | Jun 1957
It is quite evident that the smoking, picture-going, football-fan type of preacher, while he may receive popular applause, lowers the standard of holy living and does not commend the message of the Bible.
Writing to the Thessalonians, (and incidentally to us), Paul says :"Ye know what manner of men we shewed ourselves toward you for your sake" (1 Thessalonians 1.5), and the kind of men they were is revealed in 1 Thessalonians 2.
"We waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict." They were hold, men of courage, prepared to suffer hardship. They spoke "not as pleasing men, but God" in not " using words of flattery."
They were men with singleness of eye and heart, uninfluenced by persons or opinions, being faithful to their trust. What a temptation it is to preachers to attempt to please the audience
Nor seeking glory of men "-this is ever a snare to preachers who may be more concerned with what others think of them and their preaching than with the delivery of the faithful word.
"We were gentle in the midst of you." The preacher then must be a true gentle man, able to approach others and also easily to be approached by others. Christ was a true gentle Man, and the gospels reveal how easy it was for men, women and children to approach Him with their troubles and needs. The preacher must in no way stand aloof.
"Being affectionately desirous of you." This characteristic should be a reality with all preachers, it will tone and control the words and attitude with Christ-like yearning to rescue the perishing.
"We were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls." What self-sacrificing love is this ! This is more than giving one's time, talents or wealth. It is the yielding of oneself in sacrifice for the well-being and blessing of others. Many have done this on the Mission Field. It is the Christ-like attitude seen in Philippians 2: "Have this mind in you," and the preacher should possess it.
One of the qualities seen in the preachers is their undiminished tenacity in the work. This is no slipshod go-easy task they have undertaken ; it breathes the spirit of the words, " I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls." The task of those early preachers at Thessalonica may seem to have been an exacting one, and so it was, but,
"How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things! " (Romans 10.15).
The word "beautiful" means comely, opportune, ripe, fit. The lovely Man Christ Jesus possessed those lovely feet; true, they were often tired and weary, but how beautiful when they took Him to the needy with words of eternal life! So the preacher must go forth with feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Those with such beautiful feet, so comely, so opportune in the hour of soul distress, must,
"Go with the name of Jesus to the dying,
And speak that name in all its living power."
Young men, are your feet beautiful in carrying this life-giving message to the perishing? Does your heart burn and yearn for those for whom Christ died? Have you known the joy of bringing a soul to Christ? Or is this meat that ye know not of? One could say
"Oh, if one soul from Anworth
Meet me at God's right hand,
My heaven shall be two heavens,
In Emmanuel's land."
If this is to be the preacher's experience, then he must be a prepared man, a man of the Scriptures, meditating therein day and night, for he must receive his message from the Book in the power of the Spirit of God. Someone has said, "The pump creaks badly when there is no water in the well." Thirsty souls want water, not noise, and we need preachers whose hearts are indeed wells of water springing up with the waters of life in freshness and living power, men who know and understand the Book, and are able to cause others to understand what they read in the Scriptures (Acts 8.30).
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom " is a word to all preachers, and the preacher must always be the first to taste the sweetness, or feel the burden of his message.
"The preacher sought to find out acceptable words ... even words of truth," and with this we link the words,
"Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2.15).
Like his Master, he must also be a man of prayer, dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, for that is the place of power and revelation, a man gifted and taught by God, in knowing how to speak a word in season to him that is weary. A man of discernment and wisdom, for "he that is wise winneth souls" (Proverbs 11. 30).
"And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever" (Daniel 12.3).
The preacher should speak clearly, and cause his voice to be heard; able to use words aptly and correctly, clear-headed, but pre-eminently a man of the heart, like his Master, a preacher and weeper for souls, "Serving the Lord ... with tears" and in sympathy for the lost.
We live in an intellectual age, and we need to guard against the tendency so evident all around us, of becoming intellectual exponents of the letter of the word. We need to remember the objective of the preacher is to reach souls, not tickle ears, but to convey a message from the heart of God to the hearts of men which will give eternal life. This objective cannot be reached by mere human cleverness, or the most eloquent intellectual presentation of gospel truths apart from the power of' the Spirit of God. Paul said "For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.... And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive wards of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God" (1 Corinthians 2.2-5).
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Frank Gore coined an appropriate term Thursday to describe Anthony Davis' inner persona as the 49ers' right tackle.
"He always had the 'dogness' in him," Gore said. "I knew he was going to be all right his rookie year because of how mean and nasty he was."
Davis is emerging as more than a feisty, junkyard dog in his third NFL season, and Gore isn't the only one praising Davis' efforts during the 49ers' 2-1 start.
Another emphatic endorser is New York Jets coach Rex Ryan, whose club hosts the 49ers on Sunday.
"In my opinion he's one of the premier right tackles in the game," Ryan said this week. "You've got a guy who's got all the athleticism you look for: a power player, he finishes, he's good in pass protection and a tremendous athlete."
That should be enough to make Davis blush. But it didn't. Speaking softly with one of his countless caps tugged down to his eyebrows, Davis dismissed Ryan's compliments as perhaps a sneaky ploy.
"I've got a long way to go. I'm 22 now," Davis said. "I don't take praise well, because I feel they're trying to make you complacent. Because I'm not near where I want to be."
This weekend, Davis will be playing near home. He grew up in Piscataway, N.J., some 40 minutes south of the Meadowlands, and stayed to play his college ball at Rutgers.
When the 49ers traded up to draft him 11th overall in 2010, they selected a player who would go on to start Day 1 and not look back.
General manager Trent Baalke is understandably one of Davis' greatest admirers. Though he declined to comment on Ryan's analysis, Baalke surely wouldn't argue if some went so far as to call Davis the NFL's best right tackle.
Nor would the man who has observed -- and relied upon -- Davis' growth from his spot in the backfield.
"Watching from his rookie year, he's a totally different player now," Gore said. "These first three games, he's been balling. He came a long way."
Center Jonathan Goodwin said the past two years of experience helped Davis improve greatly, specifically with his techniques.
Davis acknowledges his growth, especially after getting to participate in a full slate of offseason workouts after last season's lockout. His striving to improve, however, trumps any current compliments.
"One day I want (Ryan) to say I was the best he's ever seen," Davis said.
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood, who served as the Scarlet Knights' offensive line coach in Davis' three seasons there, sensed a change in Davis when he visited campus this summer.
"There was an ease about him," Flood said in a phone interview. "He's finally settled in to being a professional football player."
Rutgers began recruiting Davis when he was a freshman in high school, and his passion for the game shined through from the day he suited up for Rutgers as a true freshman.
"The thing that was always neat about Anthony was: The bigger the game and the better the competition, the better he played," Flood added. "It's a great example of how Anthony raises his game to the next level.
"We always thought Anthony played offense the way others played defense. He played with aggression."
One area of noticeable improvement: penalties. Davis hasn't been flagged this season, after drawing a team-high nine penalties last season and 11 as a rookie.
Davis currently ranks sixth among tackles in Pro Football Focus' pass-rushing-productivity stats. He's yielded no sacks, no hits and three hurries in 110 pass-blocking snaps. He ranked 51st last season, 69th as a rookie.
In terms of run blocking, he's graded 17th among tackles, also up significantly from last year's mark of 44th and a rookie ranking of 58th, according to Pro Football Focus.
"Really from March on we've seen nothing but improvement -- fundamentally, mentally, recognition wise," 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman said. "Are there things that he needs to improve on? Yes, but everybody does."
Davis admitted that Ryan's compliments were "cool to hear" because it reaffirmed his personal belief that he's improving.
"But then it's kind of backhanded," Davis added. "I think everything is backhanded, because I have expectations for myself that are higher than anybody else can have of me."
That must be the "dogness" talking.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:46 pm
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My Placenta has moved
Havent dtd cos OH is a right C$%t!!! Thats another story
Baby is growing small tho shes about 4lb 6 now so Im having weekly scans an if she doesnt grow as they like Ill be induced between 36-37 weeks. Its prob just a case of better out than in maybe? My other los wasnt massive tbf so Im not worried. Just wanted to let use know lol xx
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I was pretty sure it had moved cos I could feel baby quite head down. I made the lady give me an internal scan tho cos she was telling me it was still low even tho I had a feeling it wasnt
It was a growth scan as well as checking my placenta Erin, but Im sure if you ask they measure your lo. Im gonna ask next week to check cos I wanna know if shes put anything on. Ive changed me diet (Ive stopped eating crisps and chocolate in bulk lmao) an Im drinking more fruit juices an yougarts. I cant eat fruit as my mouth swells up so me an Lex have been baking banana cake so I can get more fruit intake that way. Im also gonna resist the urge to clean an try and chill on the couch more xx
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I know!! Hes moaning hes always fecking tired ffs!! Honestly after 14wks you would think he'd be well up for it
Natural Zee but possibly induced. I was speaking to a girl I know whos just had baby an they told her that Lola had stopped growing (but let her carry on with the pg) an she was 6lb4, but she was born 4lb4 How can they get it so wrong??? Makes me reluctant if they did wanna get baby out at 37 weeks just incase... xx
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Ive never understood why they tell you the estimated weight...cos i've not met one yet thats been that weight (or anywhere near that weight)
They really aren't accurate at all. My friend was told her baby boy was heading on for 9lb+ at approx 37wks so they induced and he was 5lb 5
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Omg thats a hell of a difference! I dont get it either how can they guestimate how big ir small a baby is just by looking at pic. I was looking at measurements on the screen an they only seem a few weeks behind so god knows.
Im having a "blood flow" scan on tuesday, never even heard of these before lol xx


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Cleveland, Ohio, June 5, 1883.
The Judicial Council met in the private office of Dr. X. C. Scott at 10 o'clock A.M. in accordance with the adjournment of last year.
Present—Doctors J. S. Billings, J. M. Brown, Wm. Brodie, N. S. Davis, N. C. Husted, Wm. Lee, D. A. Linthicum, J. C. Reeves, M. Sexton, A. B. Sloan, X. C. Scott, J. M. Toner, J. H. Warren, J. K. Bartlett.
The first business in order, election of officers for the year, resulted in the choice of N. S. Davis, President; J. K. Bartlett, Secretary.
No papers having been referred, and there being no unfinished business from last year, the Council then adjourned, to meet the next morning at nine o'clock.
Wednesday, June 6.—Council convened at 9 A.M. Papers from several State and local Medical Societies which had been referred, and which reaffirmed adherence to the Code of Ethics, were read,
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11.06.2013 - Pioneer of the Skies
Swiss watch manufacturer Oris pays tribute to Oskar Bider, a genuine aviation pioneer. In July 1913, aged just 22, Bider became the first flyer to cross the Alps. At the same time, he set a new altitude record, piloting his Bleriot XI monoplane up to 3,600 metres in the thin mountain air to conquer the Jungfraujoch ridge.
Born in Langenbruck, close to Oris' headquarters, Oskar's life was an extraordinary adventure. He worked in Argentina as a gaucho before returning to Europe to train with Bleriot, who called him "an outstanding talent." Bider went on to establish a series of remarkable aviation milestones. The first flyer to cross the Pyrenees from Pau to Madrid and then the Alps from Bern to Milan, his other achievements included the first non-stop flight from Paris to Berne and, in 1919, becoming the first pilot to circle Switzerland, achieved in 7.5 hours.
Now, in 2013, the Oris Oskar Bider Limited Edition celebrates the Centenary of his courageous Alpine crossing. The watch features Oris' distinctive Big Crown casing, with signature details including a coin edge top ring and Big Crown numerals. Vintage styling shines through in the domed plexi glass, the guilloche finished dial, the hands with Super-LumiNova® and the dark brown leather strap with a brush-finished pin buckle. The case back features a beautifully engraved tribute to Oskar Bider and limited edition numbering.
Limited to just 300 pieces and presented in a wooden box, the Oris Oskar Bider Limited Edition epitomises this extraordinary moment in Aviation history.
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Merchandise on Spotify, Marketing a Boring Business, Super Bowl Prep: Jan. 21
Ryan Holiday describes how to market a boring business. [Med01ium]
Artists who stream their music on Spotify can sell their merchandise through the service without giving it a commission, reports Natasha Lomas. [TechCrunch]
J.D. Harrison chronicles tech startup Social Tables' difficulty finding "open, collaborative" office space in Washington. [Washington Post]
Local companies are preparing to get their share of the $600 million in revenue expected to be generated in the region by Super Bowl XLVIII, reports Phyllis Furman. [New York Daily News]
Reports of strong sales at small shops in Britain have been met with skepticism by retailing groups, writes Sarah Butler. [The Guardian]
Ashlee Vance sits down with the director of sales of one of the largest commercial aircraft seat refurbishers in the world. (video) [Businessweek.com]


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Mirage City Cinema
A film programme curated by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul will feature programming by leading figures in the film industry, including Steve Anker, Dean of the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles; Tilda Swinton, Scotland; Mehelli Modi, Founder of Second Run DVD, London; Alcino Leite Neto, editor, Sao Paulo; Khavn De La Cruz, poet, pianist, filmmaker, Mondomanila, the Philippines; Jean-Pierre Rehm, theorist, Festival Director, FIDMarseille, Paris; Ali Jaafar, Executive Director, Independent Film Division, Quinta Communications, London; and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, film director/ producer, Chiang Mai, Thailand. The programme will include evening screenings in an outdoor courtyard cinema in the new SAF spaces.
The film programme panel discussions and evening outdoor screenings will take place in the Mirage City Cinema--a cinema-architecture space by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Ole Scheeren, commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation as part of the Sharjah Biennial 11 Film Programme.


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|The First North American Conference on the Kurdish Language was held on November 5 at James Collins Conference Hall (please see the post conference report), organized by the Kurdish American Education Society, and co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies. On behalf of the Kurdish American Education Society, I would like to thank all the sponsors, presenters, participants, and the media for their contribution to the success of this remarkable event. The conference gave the participants a unique opportunity to have access to some of the top experts in Kurdish studies and linguistics. You made it possible for us to have dynamic panels with experts covering a wide spectrum of topics such as language policy and planning, language and literature, language, music and identity, language and education, and language standardization. Thanks to your support , the first North American Conference on the Kurdish Language has become not only a powerful resource to envision a brighter future for Kurdish studies, in general, and Kurdish linguistics, in particular, but also to ensure that scholars in different fields would help us achieve this important vision.
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Definition of dimerize in English:
verb[no object] Chemistry
Combine with a similar molecule to form a dimer: ClO dimerizes to form Cl2O2
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- Most of the free probe had dimerized via disulfide bond cross-linking, yielding a spectrum with five lines and alternating linewidths.
- On the other hand, the viologen radical cation has a tendency to dimerize in a polar solution because of the poor hydrophilicity.
- Sulfonated phthalocyanines are well known to dimerize in aqueous solution.
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- Indeed these two polar amino acids can interact with orthosilicic acid present in marine aqueous solutions and favor silica dimerization.
- A key step in the calculation of the free energy of dimerization concerns the entropy loss upon bringing two monomer chains together to form the dimer.
- Another domain is usually responsible for dimerization or oligomerization of the transcription factor monomers.
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Infiniti Starts Building JX Luxury SUVs In Tennessee
Nissan Motor Co.'s Infiniti luxury-car unit began turning out the 2013 JX, a seven-passenger crossover utility vehicle it plans to begin selling nationwide next month. The can maker held a celebration when the first JX rolled off the assembly line at the company's Smyrna assembly plant in Tennessee.
The JX is part of Infiniti's strategy to compete in a wider range of segments in which consumer interest is growing, including luxury crossover vehicles. The company is also trying to set itself apart from its parent company so potential customers won't think its vehicles are simply dressed-up version s of what Nisan sells.
"The luxury crossover market is the fastest growing luxury segment in America, representing a huge opportunity for Infiniti," said Infiniti Americas vice president Ben Poore. "In fact, we expect JX to quickly become our second highest volume model, right behind the popular Infiniti G-line."
For power, the JX has a 265-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 engine that is built nearby in Decherd, Tenn. Infiniti says the engine helps the all-wheel-drive JX log 20 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving. Fuel economy for the front-drive version is 21 miles per gallon.
The JX is also pioneers a system called backup collision intervention, which uses sensors to detect obstacles when the vehicle is backing up. The car sounds a warning if something is in the way, and applies the brakes if the driver fails to do so.
Sticker prices start at $40,450 for the JX35 front-wheel-drive and $41,550 for the all-wheel-drive model.


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by Craig Weatherby
This week brought news that underlines the dangers of Americas sugary, starchy diets but led us to evidence that colorful plant foods can blunt some effects of junky foods.
First, lets hear the bad news.
|Key Points
The antioxidant capacity of blood is a measure of its ability to control the potentially damaging pro-oxidant compounds called free radicals.
Why does this seemingly arcane blood measurement matter?
As the Childrens Hospital researchers wrote, Oxidative stress, caused by an imbalance between antioxidant capacity and reactive oxygen species [free radicals], may be an early event in a metabolic cascade elicited by a high glycemic index (GI) diet, ultimately increasing the risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes (Botero D et al. 2009).
By high-glycemic, they mean a diet high in sugars and starches that produce rapid, steep rises in blood sugar levels an effect that, over time, can lead to diabetes.
In other words, sugary, starchy, high-GI diets yield lots of free radicals, which damage cells and promote inflammation. As a result, an excess of free radicals increases your risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
The Boston-based doctors enrolled 12 overweight or obese men aged 18-35, and assigned them either to a diet with a low glycemic index (GI) rating or a high-GI rating.
A week later, they measured the total antioxidant capacity (AOC) of the mens blood, and on day 10 they measured cardiovascular disease risk factors in their blood.
As they reported, total antioxidant capacity was significantly higher during the low-GI vs. high-GI diet... (Botero D et al. 2009).
In other words, diets low in sugars and refined starches left the mens bodies better able to prevent the ravages of uncontrolled free radicals.
This outcome prompted us to look for anti-sugar measures and we found encouragement in clinical results published jointly by scientists from the USDA, UC Davis and the University of Maine.
This team set out to tackle a key question: Does it matter when you eat colorful, antioxidant-rich plant foods?
The answer, as it turns out, is yes.
Before we review that studys outcomes with regard to timing of antioxidant intake, lets review the reasons why dietary antioxidants matter.
Free radicals, antioxidants, and aging
When unstable oxygen molecules called free radicals grab electrons from the chemical compounds that form our cells membranes, energy centers (mitochondria), and genetic material (RNA and DNA) that common chemical reaction is called oxidation.
Oxidation is the same chemical process that rusts iron, and it is an important driver of aging and disease.
Free radicals are a normal byproduct of food metabolism but these pro-oxidants get created in excess when we consume refined carbohydrates (sugars and white starches), and that excess can overwhelm the bodys internal antioxidant network.
Our bodies own network of antioxidants usually controls free radicals pretty well, but the excess generated by eating starchy, sugary foods can overwhelm that system.
Uncontrolled free radicals can damage the linings of our arteries and promote the inflammation that underlies and drives major degenerative diseases from Alzheimers, cancer, cataracts, and macular degeneration to diabetes.
Meals high in sugars and starches generate swarms of free radicals and downstream inflammatory effects in the body. And browned bread crusts and meats contain sugar-protein compounds that generate free radicals and inflammation.
Thankfully, the available lab and clinical research suggests that the antioxidants in whole grains and colorful plant foods such as berries and greens can help control meal-generated free radicals (Natella F et al. 2002; Kay CD et al. 2002; Mazza G et al. 2002; Ko SH et al. 2005).
In addition, plant-borne antioxidants exert generally anti-inflammatory influences over cellular genetic switches called transcription factors (see Food-Borne Antioxidants May Act Indirectly).
But the USDA-UC-Maine teams findings point to timing as a factor in the ability of antioxidant-rich foods to control the free radicals generated when we eat meats, dairy, sugars, and refined fats and starches which lack the antioxidants abundant in whole plant foods (i.e., vitamins C and E and various phytochemicals).
Clinical tests find timing critical to a key benefit of food-borne antioxidants
Researchers from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) measured the blood antioxidant capacity (AOC) of subjects in a series of five clinical trials.
They found that antioxidant-rich foods blunted the oxidative stress generated by eating meals high in protein and refined carbohydrates and fats (Prior RL et al. 2007).
When the participants ate antioxidant-rich fruitssuch as blueberries, grapes, and kiwifruitthe antioxidant capacity of their blood rose during the critical few hours following a meal.
But those antioxidant-rich foods reduced oxidation the most when they were eaten as part of a meal or soon thereafter.
Conversely, participants who consumed protein, carbohydrates, and fats without substantial antioxidants showed a decline in the bloods antioxidant capacity (AOC).
In other words, the results indicated two things:
- Consuming antioxidant-rich foods during meals reduces the oxidative stress associated with eating.
- Timing is important, because the antioxidants in colorful plant foods dont linger very long in the blood.
To get this data, the researchers conducted five clinical trials with six to 10 subjects per experiment. Blood samples were taken from the subjects before and after they ate a prescribed meal, to measure their bloods AOC.
Eating blueberries or grapes with a meal yielded an increase in water-soluble AOC, while blueberries also increased the fat-soluble AOC of participants blood.
Cherries eaten with the meal increased the fat-soluble, but not the water-soluble AOC of participants blood.
Surprisingly, neither prunes (dried plums) nor prune juice altered either measure of antioxidant activity, despite plums high ranking on the standard ORAC scale.
The ORAC scale is based on test tube measurements, so scientists at Cornell University propose a new measure of antioxidant activity called the cellular antioxidant activity (CAA) assay, which tests antioxidant compounds activity inside cells (See Wild Blueberries Reclaim Antioxidant Crown).
As expected, eating a meal low in antioxidantsanimal protein plus refined carbs and fatscut participants blood AOC and produced an increase in oxidative stress.
Lead author Ronald Prior said its not just what you eat but when you eat it that matters: Phytochemicals in foods have varying degrees of bioavailability and generally are cleared from the blood 2-4 hours after they're eaten. Ensuring that your body has a steady supply of antioxidant-rich foods can help combat oxidative stress throughout the day (WBA 2007).
And he went on to add this important note on the quantity of antioxidant-rich foods needed to yield measureable effects on someones blood AOC:
The more calories you take in the more dietary antioxidants you need. It takes about 2.5 servings of antioxidant containing fruits and/or vegetables in a meal to prevent oxidative stress following the meal. (WBA 2007)
The USDA-UC-Maine team appended an important caveat: Without further long term clinical studies, one cannot necessarily translate increased plasma [blood] AOC into a potential decreased risk of chronic degenerative disease (Prior RL et al. 2007).
The research was funded by the Wild Blueberry Association of Maine, but it seems unlikely the highly experienced, credible USDA team was influenced by this link.
- Botero D, Ebbeling CB, Blumberg JB, Ribaya-Mercado JD, Creager MA, Swain JF, Feldman HA, Ludwig DS. Acute effects of dietary glycemic index on antioxidant capacity in a nutrient-controlled feeding study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Sep;17(9):1664-70. Epub 2009 Jun 18.
- Kay CD, Holub BJ. The effect of wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) consumption on postprandial serum antioxidant status in human subjects. Br J Nutr. 2002 Oct;88(4):389-98.
- Ko SH, Choi SW, Ye SK, Cho BL, Kim HS, Chung MH. Comparison of the antioxidant activities of nine different fruits in human plasma. J Med Food. 2005 Spring;8(1):41-6.
- Mazza G, Kay CD, Cottrell T, Holub BJ. Absorption of anthocyanins from blueberries and serum antioxidant status in human subjects. J Agric Food Chem. 2002 Dec 18;50(26):7731-7.
- Natella F, Belelli F, Gentili V, Ursini F, Scaccini C. Grape seed proanthocyanidins prevent plasma postprandial oxidative stress in humans. J Agric Food Chem. 2002 Dec 18;50(26):7720-5.
- Prior RL, Gu L, Wu X, Jacob RA, Sotoudeh G, Kader AA, Cook RA. Plasma antioxidant capacity changes following a meal as a measure of the ability of a food to alter in vivo antioxidant status. J Am Coll Nutr. 2007 Apr;26(2):170-81.
- Wild Blueberry Association of North America (WBA). USDA Study Examines Antioxidant Status Changes After Meals. Nov. 30, 2007. Accessed at http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Wild-Blueberries-Shown-to-Fight-Oxidative-Stress-7299-1/


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It was a split decision at the polls as StaceyAnnMcCue and Jaguar13 finish tied for the Lincoln College of Technology High School Photo Challenge for Jan. 18.
Voting ended at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, with u local users StaceyAnnMcCue and Jagua13 each tallying 50 percent of the vote.
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Definition of gingerly in English:
In a careful or cautious manner: Jackson sat down very gingerly
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- He jumped as flames licked his tail and sprinted gingerly away, careful to avoid more pain.
- When he returns I'm sitting gingerly in the corner of the very small dance floor.
- Nicky returned from washing his hands and sat gingerly on the edge of the sofa.
cautiously, carefully, with care, warily, charily, circumspectly, delicately;
heedfully, watchfully, vigilantly, attentively;
hesitantly, timidly
gingerliness noun
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- After some cautious prodding I put some weight on it, checked that the muscles worked both ways and limped downstairs, exploring the outer limits of gingerliness.
- But nonetheless you couldn't escape the general gingerliness of the show, the forced politeness of the proceedings.
- For the past 10 years he has lived with his family in New York, and a reader senses in his rather elaborate approach a gingerliness about going back.
Early 16th century (in the sense 'daintily, mincingly'): perhaps from Old French gensor 'delicate', comparative of gent 'graceful', from Latin genitus 'well-born'.
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DOHA: For Al Shamal, winning promotion to Qatar Stars League (QSL) last season was a massive achievement and the second division side is keen to stay put in the top tier of football in Qatar.
According to Dutch coach Silvio Diliberto, Al Shamal wants to be competitive in the new season that kicks-off today.
"We talked in the beginning. Our first goal is to stay in the QSL. We cant say which ranking we should be on the QSL points table at the end of the season but I think the goal is to stay in QSL," Diliberto said yesterday.
"Like my captain said a few minuets ago, we have to see this week-by-week," the 50-year-old added.
"We are still not there. We still have to be stronger, I know. But we know the other teams have the same problem. There are small injury concerns but then there are players who make the team more competitive. For us, the goal is to stay in the league," the former Sparta Rotterdam player said.
Diliberto said his side was keen to emulate Al Ahli - a second division side that finished sixth in the last season.
"Last year I spoke about Al Ahli - they also came from the second division and they had a great season in QSL last year," Diliberto said.
"OK, it will be nice to accomplish the same thing but I think it is decent thing for us to stay in QSL. That's our main goal," he added.
Diliberto said the presence of Mamouni Dagano and Saif Boutahar would boost the performances of the second division in the new QSL season starting a month earlier than usual.
"Al Shamal didn't sit still in the off-season. We got players like Dagano and Boutahar so that we remain competitive," Diliberto said.
"Of course the season is new and every team has to prove that they are starting afresh. But we are very confident," he added.
About his team's first game against Al Kharaitiyat today, Diliberto said: "For us, it is a challenge to start well and to start well against Al Kharitiyat who also didn't sit still. They also prepared really well. We heard that they changed some players - three professional players. "
He added: "So, of course, they will also be stronger than last year. For us the big challenge is to be competitive. Our players are looking forward to the game tomorrow."
Diliberto pledged total commitment ahead of the first game today.
"As you know we come from the second division. The first questions are always that 'if you come from the second division, will you be able to survive the relegation battle?' History shows us that the second division sides usually go down to the second division after one year in the top tier," Diliberto said.
"We will try to avoid this of course. We will try to build our team to be competitive in QSL. We had a pre-season in Spain. I am sure there will be no easy games in the league," he added.
"We have to fight. We have to work hard every game. We cannot take everything lightly," the Dutchman said.
"We know that there is a lot of quality in the QSL. We know that there are good professionals and good local players, good Qatari players. But we are very confident of doing well," he said.


text: Washington, DC, June 13, 2014 -- U.S. wholesale prices declined 0.2% in May after two straight large monthly gains, according to the Labor Department.Excluding the volatile food, energy and trade categories, core wholesale prices were flat.The decline was unexpected. Economists predicted a 0.1% increase after a 0.6% gain in April and a 0.5% rise in March.The May decline was led by a drop in the cost of energy. Personal consumption fell 0.2% in May.


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Love the classic cap toe look but with a fun twist, glitter, stripes, bows and metallics. Love it all!
The classic ballet flat with girly details always gets me. I've yet to own a pair of the classic Ferragamo flats but I'm loving the quilted and perforated versions over the classic patent ones that I had previously been eyeing. How cute are the scallop and bow details of the bottom two? They would go with everything I own!
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