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Hot on the heels of the opening of his incredible new show in LA (here), last weekend saw the master of Japanese Pop, Takashi Murakami, premiering his first feature film, "Jellyfish Eyes"—which has been in the making for over a decade now—in his native Japan. Opening in posh Rippongi Hills, the premiere was accompanied by an exhibition of the props, character models, and production art used in the making of the film, which was originally intended to be an all-animated feature, but instead combines live action with CG animation. According to Murakami, "'Jellyfish Eyes' is a series of fantasy films for young adults set in the aftermath ofJapan's recent natural disasters. Read More
Opening tonight at the esteemed Blum & Poe Gallery in LA is an amazing show of breathtaking new artwork—including monumental-scale paintings and sculptures—by Japanese Pop master Takashi Murakami. Titled "Ahrat," the cycle of paintings on view continues Murakami's newest mode of painting, developed for his exhibition "Ego," mounted in Doha, Qatar in early 2012. The Arhat paintings conflate historical, contemporary, and futuristic Japanese references with a myriad of styles, methodologies, and forms into single picture planes. The artist's long-standing interest in Japanese nihonga painting and the contemporary practices of manga and animation are highlighted in this important body of work. Read More
Legendary Japanese psychedelic artist Keiichi Tanaami's current fashion collaboration with iconic streetwear label Stüssy was celebrated Thursday night with the opening of his art show, "Burlesque," at the brand's pop-up gallery in Harajuku, Tokyo. Read More
In support of their current product collaboration with legendary 77-year-old Japanese psychedelic pop artist Keiichi Tanaami, streetwear kings Stüssy visited Tanaami in his home for an enlightening discussion of his life, artwork, and childhood experiences that forever influenced his beautiful, trippy visions. Read More
Supertouch buddy José Parla just opened a beautiful show of new work titled "Prose" in Tokyo at the esteemed Yuka Tsuruno Gallery where the major focus is an incredible 15-meter long mural painting that was created onsite in the gallery in the days leading up to the exhibition. Read More
Streetwear has more or less run its course of late, but venerable label Stüssy has put together the most exciting T-shirt collection in recent memory with their forthcoming collab with Japanese psychedelic pop art godfather Keiichi Tanaami. Nice work, boys. Get em now, while they last at the Stüssy web store Read More
Supertouch buddy JR's first solo museum exhibition opened on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan, at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art. A massive-scale photographic pasting was installed on the outside facade, representing inhabitants from North East Japan, where the tsunami hit in March 2011 in an effort to pay tribute to the country's greatest national loss in decades. Read More
A 59-foot-tall "life-size" statue of the legendary GUNDAM robot is scheduled be built at Shiokaze Park on Tokyo's artificial Odaiba island this July as part of BANDAI's "Mobile Suit Gundam 30th Anniversary Project." The statue will be a perfectly accurate rendition of the original RX-78-2 Gundam model from the 1979 anime series constructed of fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame. In an effort to awe children and induce heart attacks in the elderly, the robot will feature an automated moving head unit, and a body that emits light at 50 individual points and shoots mist from 14 different orifices. Following last week's missile launch over the island nation by North Korea, Japanese officials are reportedly in talks with Bandi's top brass to dispatch the fighting robot to the hermit kingdom to grapple with Kim Jong Il on his home turf. Not to be outdone, US officials are said to be considering outfitting the statue of Lincoln in DC with his own battle suit and steaming light show…
The forthcoming life sized Gundam in "light show" mode…
The slightly less imposing bronze Gundam statue outside Shinjuku's Kamiigusa Station in Tokyo proves Japan's distaste for presidential statuary…
As Japanese Pop Art master TAKASHI MURAKAMI's retrospective "© Murakami" show continues on its epic world tour, the grandiose GUGGENHEIM BILBAO museum plays host to its latest and most daunting stop to date. Settling into the swooping Frank Gehry-skinned art palace, the show—fresh off its recent stop in Frankfurt, Germany—replicates its general outlay previously established at the initial MoCA LA, and Brooklyn Museum stops, but this time the artist's epic painted and sculptural works are finally housed in a venue as aesthetically compelling as the whole of Murakami's oeuvre. HAVE A LOOK: Read More
In town for the opening of his eponymous solo show at MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY, Japan's YOSHITOMO NARA just couldn't help himself in the Subway at Union Station when the graffiti urge overtook him. Unfortunately, New York's "Finest" don't exactly see drawings as "art" when they're on walls instead of paper and the delicate art star spent two days in the slammer. Ouch:
March 10, Japan Today
Yoshitomo Nara, a contemporary Japanese pop artist known for sculptures and paintings of doe-eyed figures, was arrested in late February for tagging graffiti in the Union Square subway station, a New York Police Department official said Monday.
Nara was arrested at 3:10 a.m. on Feb 27 and charged with criminal mischief, possession of graffiti instruments, making graffiti and resisting arrest, detective Martin Speechley told Kyodo News in a phone interview. An official at a New York art gallery where Nara's exhibits are currently on display said the artist has already been released.
Nara, 49, who lives and works in Tochigi Prefecture, was in New York for a solo exhibition of his work at the Marianne Boesky Gallery that runs Feb 28 through March 28. The online edition of Art in America magazine said Nara was caught tagging a graffiti portrait of two Japanese friends in the subway station and he was optimistic about his two days in lockup.
It was ''a nice experience in my life,'' the artist was quoted as saying. He said the environment in which he found himself was like something in the movies. Nara emerged on the art scene during Japan's pop art movement in the 1990s and has held solo exhibitions worldwide. His works are on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Click HERE to read more…

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Sic Bo is a Chinese word for ôdice pairö. The game itself originates in ancient China. In spite of the name, three dice are used in the game. The idea of the game is simple û you make a bet on a certain kind of a dice roll result. Then the dice are rolled. If the result you bet on does appear, you win; if it does not, you lose your bet.
À Click on a chip of desired value to select it. Then click on any bet area on the table to place your bet there (a list of available bets is shown in the Sic Bo Bets section). Every click on the area adds one chip to the bet. Select another chip if you wish to increase the bet by some other amount. Right clicking on the area removes one chip. You can place several chips into several areas at the same time.
À Click the Roll button.
Dice are now rolled and you will see the game result. Click New Game if you wish to play again. Place your bets as described above and click Roll. You can also click Rebet to place the same bet as in the previous round.
Roll Roll the dice.
Clear Bets Clear your bets on the table.
New Game Start a new game round.
Rebet Place the same bets as in the previous round.
Skip Turn Skip your turn when playing in multiplayer mode.
History See the game history - dates, bets and results of your previous game rounds.
Help Open the help file (which you are reading right now).
Lobby Press this to exit the game and go back to the lobby. You canÆt exit in the middle of a game round.
Shortcut keys
If you wish, you can press the following keys on your keyboard instead of clicking on the buttons on the screen.
Press this key To do this
TAB Tab between the buttons on the screen.
ENTER Click the button that is currently highlighted.
SPACEBAR Start a new game round, press again to rebet as well.
Number keys Select a chip. Different number keys select different chips. The number of functioning keys depends on the chips allowed for the current player and can be subject to change.
ESC Exit the game and go back to the lobby.


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Hal (AG106)
Hal (Japanese: ヘイハチロー Heihachirō) is a character of the day who appeared in the Pokémon anime.
Hal's only appearance was in Beg, Burrow and Steal. In that episode, he was looking for a hidden Pokémon paradise that he found when he was younger. He claimed that in the hidden paradise, he witnessed hundreds of Trapinch evolve into Vibrava. His colleague Elisa disagreed with him, and said the paradise could not possibly exist.
To prove his point, he attached a tracking device to a Trapinch and followed it around. Somehow, he, Elisa, along with Ash and his friends ended up underground. After finding their way through a series of tunnels, they stumbled across the very same paradise that Hal was talking about.
Not long after they stumbled across the paradise, everybody witnessed what Hal had witnessed many years before: hundreds of Trapinch evolving into Vibrava. Team Rocket appeared and tried to steal the newly-evolved Pokémon, but Brock, using his Ludicolo, along with Pikachu, freed the Pokémon and sent Team Rocket blasting off.
Elisa apologized to Hal for doubting him, and the Vibrava flew everybody out of the paradise.
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BREW Nitro Shox - Sea Otter 2016
@theman554: Oh, I definitely recognize that. I'm also a pilot, and the suspension definitely makes a difference. Look up a "Just SuperStol" for reference. No suspension will save a botched landing, but it's a lot easier to fake it with oleos as compared to a spring gear.
Apr 14, 2016 at 16:13Apr 14, 2016
BREW Nitro Shox - Sea Otter 2016
@parallaxid: Yes, that's for sure, but oleos have a reputation for being very strong, and rebound is just as important in a plane as it is in biking because you don't want to bounce a landing. And taxiing in a backcountry environment is tough on suspension. Granted, it's at lower speed in this case, but the main goals are very similar: keep it lightweight, soak up bumps in a controlled manner, and don't bounce all over the place.
Apr 14, 2016 at 14:21Apr 14, 2016
BREW Nitro Shox - Sea Otter 2016
The oleo method has been used reliably for over 75 years in aircraft. It is reliable, light, and I've seen people flying on an oleo strut that was built back in the 40's with no issue. I'm excited that these guys are offering something that is innovative and I hope it's as good as I want it to be!
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MTB Mania TV: Nevada State Champs - Video
Bootleg gets a lot of criticism because of how gnarly the terrain here is, but people forget how much FUN it is. If you aren't racing at supersonic speeds, you can have a safe, enjoyable weekend and your bike skills will improve dramatically.
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Video: Trackside Carnage From Red Bull Hardline
I put a 4bt out of a wrecked excavator (17 hours on the engine and practically free) in a Jeep CJ 7 and it was awesome. Nobody needs more torque than that.
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Rheeder - All or Something
Credit for the flip-double whip has to go to Gregg Watts... Just saying. But I agree, it's not "his trick," it's just awesome!
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Wait, they got back to you within 3 hours of posting this? They must understand the power Pinkbike has over their lives...
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I find it cool that he did it on Specialized's new Demo which is supposed to be downhill-specific. I guess the Demo still's got some of it's freeride heritage left in it!
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Re imagine the way you think about coffee.
Introducing Starbucks Refreshers -
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Enjoy a free Tall (12 fl. oz.) handcrafted Starbucks Refreshers™ beverage at participating stores. No purchase necessary. Limit 1 per person."
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For their Refreshers beverages Starbucks has started a fresh "green" process that pulls the naturally occurring caffeine and other good stuff from 100% green arabica coffee beans before they are roasted. Resulting in Green Coffee Extract – the natural energy from coffee, with none of the coffee flavor. Which means it can be added to a bunch of things that "coffee" wouldn't have mixed well with…
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Guerilla Gardener: New Zealand: Garden Show, Ferns, Concrete Containers and Planting Bulbs (1995)
After an introduction to Guerilla Gardening, Grahame visits a garden show where he admires sculptor Peter Brierley-Millman's carved couch, experiences electronic muscle stimulation, learns about Trees Please from Adrienne Ewen, finds that produce and culture can coexist and gets kissed by a lovely spider.
Next, Grahame learns about the sex life of ferns from horticulturist Tom Thomson of Humber Nurseries.
Then, David Barham shows Grahame a lightweight concrete container built with thin cement around a wire frame. See also: Alpine Box (1) and Alpine Box (2)
Finally, Grahame plants bulbs in winter, in layers.
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you haven't a clue do you..........you are a basher.............why.......what's to gain.........does someone pay you to be an AH
Louis, Did you get out before the avalanche?? You were warned!!! Tuesday & Wednesday are the reason I have no problem taking DSCO's Money!!!
Methinks the little yum-yum bought in at the crest and has been surfing down the wave.
I find that most people who post one disjointed line of text that is all derogatory are generally the ones who don't have a clue.
Take his money Pinski, take his money.
It would serve him right.
ok , Cooper--LOL
I'm thinking it's going to be awhile unit DSCO see's any of my money. I have no problem with that!!
you guys be nice now - seems not many shares trading - if the sky is falling
won't new BOD turn this around ?


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Kids can create pretend snacks at the beach with the Sun Bistro line of sand toys. Sun Bistro Fancy Cake Bakery comes with a plastic cake server, cake base, and cream mold. First, fill the cake base with sand and remove the cake base. Then, fill the cream mold with sand and place on top of the cake. Kids can create individual cake slices or an entire cake. Use the cake server to scoop up a slice of sand cake. This can be used at the beach or in a sandbox.
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Name: Jose Valdespina
Position: Starting Pitcher
DOB: March 22, 1992 (20)
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 220
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Acquired: 2011 International Free Agent, Dominican Republic
Between his 6-foot-6 frame and overpowering velocity, right-hander Jose Valdespina is one of the more intriguing young arms in the Texas Rangers' system. Aside from his pure velocity, however, Valdespina is quite raw––particularly with his command and secondary stuff.
Despite his big fastball, the Dominican Republic native signed to little fanfare––just a reported $27,500 bonus, per Baseball America––about a month before his 19th birthday in February 2011. But it didn't take long for Valdespina to get on the prospect radar, as he ran his fastball up to 96 mph while posting strong results in the Dominican Summer League later that year.
With the DSL Rangers in 2011, Valdespina posted a 2.82 earned-run average in 15 appearances (10 starts). Over 51 innings pitched, he yielded 40 hits, walked 22, and struck out 40.
Valdespina showed enough in his debut campaign to earn a trip to Arizona for spring training last March. While his lack of secondary stuff was evident, he pitched well in game action––until he was featured in Surprise Stadium at the late-camp 'prospect game,' a closed scrimmage played in front of the organization's front office and scouts.
"Coming out of spring training, in the prospect game, (Valdespina) got under the lights for the first time, and he was all over the place," said Rangers minor league pitching coordinator Danny Clark.
The prospect game marked the first time he'd played under the bright lights of a big league stadium, albeit of the spring training variety. Assigned to the Rangers' extended spring training squad out of camp, the hurler put on a dominant performance and showed impressive work ethic, building off the rocky spring training finish.
"He took from that (prospect game performance)," Clark said. "I know from talking to the pitching coaches there that they were really happy with his work ethic. He was really wanting to learn more about pitching. I think he started to see the curve kind of turn."
Rangers extended spring training manager Corey Ragsdale agrees with Clark, believing Valdespina's biggest progress early last season came mentally––not mechanically.
"When he first came in, it was just a little erratic and a little timid," Ragsdale said last May. "It was a lot of feel and uncertainty about it. Now, he goes out there and he's throwing three pitches with conviction. . .He has come a long way."
Valdespina's fantastic extended spring performance earned him a spot in the short-season Spokane starting rotation. History repeated itself quickly, though, as the 6-foot-6, 220-pound righty had something of a flashback to his prospect game performance in his Northwest League debut; Valdespina failed to retire any of the six hitters he faced, walking four and allowing two hits.
The next time out, he righted the ship by tossing five innings of three-hit, shutout ball.
"Obviously he goes to Spokane, and in his first outing, he doesn't get an out," Clark said. "Then he follows it up with his next outing. He goes five innings, and he seems to be able to get back in order.
"I think it's a long-term process for him, but also it's some kind of ability to project. I think his work ethic will allow him to be on a quicker pace than what a lot of people think."
Often erratic in Spokane, Valdespina had a small handful of poor starts, but he also showed his big talent in glimpses. During his penultimate start last summer, the prospect punched out 10 batters over six innings of one-hit ball, walking only one.
Overall, he finished the summer with a 5.58 ERA in 15 starts. He gave up 67 hits in 59.2 innings, walking 34, plunking 11, and striking out 54. The numbers reflect both the raw nature of his game and fantastic stuff. Despite the iffy stat-line, Valdespina missed some bats, and his heavy, electric fastball helped him induce more than 2.4 groundouts per airout.
Most scouts believe Valdespina and his potentially dominant fastball will ultimately find a home in the bullpen, where he could develop into a powerful late-inning reliever. For now, though, the Rangers will develop him as a starting pitcher to maximize his chances for development––especially when it comes to the secondary stuff.
In fact, Valdespina entered professional ball without a breaking pitch. He didn't even really know how to throw one, Clark says.
"He didn't really even know how to grip a curveball even leaving instructs last year and coming back into spring training," the pitching coordinator said. "It was more of a guided pitch for him."
That was somewhat evident during Valdespina's work on the mound last spring. His lack of feel for a breaking ball was so extreme that it stood out––even on a field of raw lower-level prospects. His curve clocked at around 64 mph on the radar gun, lacking really any spin or shape.
As with the mental side of his game, Valdespina worked hard to improve his curveball during extended spring. By May, he was showing a 71-75 mph pitch that, while still below-average, had much better shape with a little depth.
Clark believes the breaking ball improvement also ties into the mental side of Valdespina's game.
"I think it's confidence," he said. "He started feeling it more in his flat ground. The pitching coaches there did a really good job of getting him to throw it in his long-toss program from 90 to 100 feet. He started gaining confidence, and then you started seeing the arm action balance out with the rotation. And I think that was a correlation with both things, and he became comfortable with it."
As Valdespina began learning how to spin a curveball, the Rangers threw a curve of their own at him late last summer by giving him a slider––a pitch that should better benefit his arsenal long-term. A slider should play better off Valdespina's mid-90s fastball, as it attacks the hitter on a more similar plane and with more velocity than a mid-70s curveball would.
Valdespina's slider is now a definite work in progress. Speaking personally, I did not see him throw it in Spokane, and I did not speak to any scouts who did. But the Rangers were pleased with it down the stretch last summer, and Valdespina finished strong after introducing the slider into his repertoire.
Also See: Rangers Spring Training Notes (March 21, 2012)
Lone Star Dugout Q&A: Corey Ragsdale (May 10, 2012)
Lone Star Dugout Q&A: Danny Clark (June 26, 2012)
Prospect Video:
Jose Valdespina warms up at extended spring training: 5/8/2012 (best viewed in full screen and HD).
Repertoire: Fastball, Slider, Changeup.
Fastball: Valdespina's fastball is a potential 70-grade offering, but his present well below-average command keeps the pitch from playing at that level right now. Big and strong at 6-foot-6, 220 pounds, Valdespina features easy plus velocity and shows an ability to maintain it through starts. He'll often work anywhere between 91-96 mph, sitting at 93-95 and reaching up to 97. Thrown with good angle from his tall frame and featuring heavy late life, Valdespina's fastball has the potential to be a seriously dominant offering––especially in short bursts and if the command becomes even fringe-average. There isn't much room for growth remaining on his already big frame, but he may add just a slight tick more velocity down the line.
Other Pitches: The 20-year-old's secondary stuff isn't nearly as developed as his heater; both his breaking ball and changeup are very raw. As mentioned above, Valdespina featured a mid-60s curveball that floated out of his hand in spring training. He made gradual strides with the pitch during extended spring and began working with a slider in Spokane. One scout who saw Valdespina's slider at instructs commented that he "flashed one or two good ones" but that the offering was still "very raw" and "not very good at present." Still, a slider should play better off his mid-90s heat than a curveball would, and the Rangers were satisfied with the overall progress last season.
Valdespina shows some feel for an 81-86 mph changeup, but the pitch lacks life and, like his breaking ball, it's a well below-average offering at present. Purely a one-pitch hurler at the time he signed with the Rangers, Valdespina will long be a work-in-progress with his secondary stuff. Neither offering has plus projection; the hope is that they're eventually enough to be workable.
Projection: The good news is that Valdespina has ideal makeup and work ethic for a talented young hurler; the bad news is that his command and secondary stuff don't project as above-average assets. With his big 6-foot-6 frame and bigger fastball, Valdespina will continue getting a chance to start at the lower levels. But the most likely scenario is that the Dominican eventually finds a home in the bullpen, where he can ride his plus-plus velocity with good life. It's not a stretch to think he could ultimately work in the mid-to-upper 90s in short bursts.
If Valdespina throws enough strikes, his elite velocity and fastball weight alone could get him to the major leagues a la Wilmer Font. The development of his command and secondary stuff will determine his ceiling. He's a decent athlete but struggled to repeat his delivery (particularly out of the windup) last summer, hindering his command. While the righty has a changeup now, it wouldn't be a shock to see him eventually pick up a splitter if he moves to the bullpen. Like the slider he began throwing late last season, the splitter is more of a 'grip-and-rip' pitch that high-octane hurlers like Valdespina can find success with out of the bullpen.
2013 Outlook: Valdespina will likely progress forward to Single-A Hickory out of camp this spring. Even though his 2012 summer in Spokane was filled with peaks and valleys, he kept his head above water, and his strong makeup should encourage the organization to push him just a bit. Still raw with his command and secondaries, the right-hander probably won't produce dominant results from the outset in full-season ball; it's more important that he shows gradual progress. While Valdespina likely profiles as a reliever long-term, the Rangers will continue starting him at the lower levels to maximize the development of his slider and changeup. Expect him to work in a full-time starter or piggyback role this coming season.
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I have seen many airline ads from the 1970s, and have seen many of those leather-type or cloth bags emblazoned with airline logos and names.
What were they used for? Were they the early "carry-on" bags? Did both men and women use them, or were they mainly for women? Did all airlines have them, and how did passengers get them? I don't see them anymore now, except in retro-clothes stores or antique shops.
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Buying Smartphones for Longevity: Are Manufacturers (and Consumers) Ready?
Upgrading smartphones every two years has become the norm, but this is far from sustainable. Are mobile manufacturers (and consumers) ready to accept a new model?
Upgrading smartphones every two years has become the norm, but this is far from sustainable. Are mobile manufacturers (and consumers) ready to accept a new model?
A new Gallup survey looking at the degree Americans worry about different issues found that only 24 percent of Americans worry a great deal about climate change. Fifty-one percent of them worry about it very little or not at all.
A growing number of policymakers and law enforcements officers believe that a "kill switch," which would make smartphones useless when stolen, is the best solution to the "epidemic of violent smartphone thefts." But U.S. wireless carriers don't seem to think it's such a great idea.
FoodPornIndex.com is a new website showing hashtags and mentions of 24 different food items on social media, where half are vegetables and fruits and half are mostly junk foods. Visitors can see the number of mentions for each item, as well as a tally for each group. As of last weekend, the unhealthy foods counted for 72.2 percent of the mentions online while the healthy foods counted for only 27.8 percent. Will this website be able to change this balance of power?
On Jan. 1, 2013, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, became the first European capital to extend free public transport to all of its 430,000 residents. One of the main drivers was mobility for all, but does it really work? Is making public transportation free actually increasing mobility? While it might take some time to evaluate the economic impact of this change, a new study of three researchers from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology provides an initial outlook into the changes in ridership following the introduction of free rides.
Subway recently announced that it will remove Azodicarbonamide, a chemical used in yoga mats, shoe rubber and synthetic leather, from its bread. While the shift came after a blogger's petition for the removal of the chemical went viral, the sandwich chain chose to ignore the petition in its statement.
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British baron's daughter dies in Philippine drug war
Manila: A daughter of the late British baron Lord Moynihan has been killed in the Philippines where the government is waging a deadly war on drugs, police said Monday.
Maria Aurora Moynihan, 45, was shot by unknown attackers who left her by the side of a Manila street on September 10, authorities said.
Her killers left a cardboard sign accusing Moynihan of being a "drug pusher for celebrities", Chief Inspector Tito Jay Cuden said.
The victim was on bail while facing charges of possession of illegal drugs following a February 2013 suburban Manila police raid.
"Witnesses told us they heard a series of gunshots, then saw a vehicle leaving the area. They did not see its licence plates," Cuden said.
CCTV footage aired on local television network ABS-CBN showed a vehicle stop and open its door on the deserted part of the street where the body was later found.
"She's considered a drug personality," Cuden said. No arrests have been made and an investigation is continuing, he added.
Cuden said the victim, who held dual British and Filipino nationality, is a daughter of the third Baron Moynihan of Leeds, who died in 1991 in Manila where he ran a string of brothels.
Anthony Patrick Andrew Cairnes Berkeley Moynihan fled to the Philippines in the late 1960s while facing a string of fraud allegations in Britain.
The British embassy in Manila told AFP it would issue a comment on the daughter's case later.
A sister, film actress Maritoni Fernandez, issued a brief statement on ABS-CBN last week expressing the family's "deep shock" over the killing and pleading for privacy to mourn the death.


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By Mayank Bhardwaj and Ratnajyoti Dutta
A 7.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal and parts of northern India on Saturday, killing more than 4,300 people and injuring thousands more. It is the most destructive earthquake that Nepal has suffered since 1934. Several countries have offered relief, most notably China and India. The rival nations, which together surround Nepal, have made an effort to woo the stricken nation even as they eye each other from their own borders.
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Chaitanya Tamhane's "Court" is a chronicle of the mundane - a housewife cooks dinner, a lawyer reads something in a monotone, another character shops for groceries. Yet, it is through the mundane that Tamhane weaves magic. "Court" is a rare film that creates drama out of the humdrum lives of ordinary people, whose limited world view and biases affect the lives of others in more ways than they can imagine.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to build 100 "smart cities" by 2022 to decongest existing urban centres probably will take longer to achieve. Reuters visited the foundations of one of these cities in Gujarat, a finance centre called Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT).
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India has ordered 36 "ready-to-fly" French-made Rafale fighter jets to modernise the country's ageing warplane fleet. But Bharat Karnad, a research professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi, said the deal with French manufacturer Dassault Aviation is a disaster that will not meet the immediate needs of India's air force.


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Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels
Anyone who knows the Eugene O'Neill play about those people waiting around a saloon for the salesman to come will find this movie to be a shaggy iceman story.
Give director Jim (Big Business) Abrahams and debuting writer-producer Karen Leigh Hopkins credit for having an idea: addressing the power of self-delusion. But they and their two stars execute that idea in such a loose-geared way that all the pipe dreams seem less poignant than dopey.
The Roxy of the title is a minor celebrity—her boyfriend wrote a hit tune about her—who is coming back to her little Ohio hometown to open the Roxy Carmichael School of Cosmetology and Drama. Roxy herself remains a mystery throughout the film, and don't be surprised if about midway through audience members start calling out, ""On second thought, Roxy, you're better off where you are."
Ryder (Great Balls of Fire!) plays an eccentric high school girl who is intended to be lovably unconventional but seems just bratty. She shuns her adoptive parents, paints her room black and spends most of her time on a riverbank talking to her menagerie; at school, the other kids throw rocks at her, and you've got to like them for it. The way Ryder keeps rolling her eyes—the better to display her superiority, it looks like—you'll want to throw rocks at her too.
Daniels plays Roxy's old boyfriend. He's now married and has children but is re-smitten with Roxy, who must have been one hot number (she even has a former lesbian lover stoking the fires again). Daniels, who'll wimp himself to death one of these days if he isn't careful, keeps making you think of limp noodles.
Ryder, meanwhile, decides Roxy is her mother, and the whole town is planning for Roxy's return. Hoo boy, are they obsessed.
The talented young Thomas Wilson (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) Brown is likable as a boy who falls for Ryder. Laila (An Innocent Man) Robins makes for a nicely sympathetic guidance counselor.
All of this might be meaningful with a more eloquent script. This one even gets down to having Brown earnestly tell Ryder. "There are real people right here in your life who care about you." Now, if some of them could move out into the audience. (PG-13)
Picks and Pans Review: Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
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Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a naturally occurring polyanionic polypeptide that consists of repeating units of D- and L-glutamic acid via amide linkages between α-amino and γ-carboxyl groups (Ashiuchi and Misono, 2002). The molecular weight of microbial γ-PGA varies from 10k to 10 000k and the stereochemical structure includes three types: a homopolymer of d-glutamic acid, a homopolymer of L-glutamic acid, and copolymer of random combinations of D-/L-glutamic acid (γ-DL-PGA) (Ashiuchi and Misono, 2003). With the chiral centre existing in glutamate unit and the abundant active sites of carboxylic groups present in the main chain, γ-PGA and its derivatives were endowed with outstanding water solubility, biocompatibility and degradability, and have been successfully utilized in hydrogels, humectants, flocculants, thickeners, dispersants, cryoprotectants, drug carriers, and cosmetic and biological food additives (Shih and Van, 2001; Sung et al., 2005).
The microorganisms, capable of producing γ-PGA and drawing the molecules as capsule protective components and extracellular nutritious secretion, mainly belong to Gram-positive bacteria, such as Bacillus genus, Staphylococcus epidermidis (Kocianova et al., 2005), Archaeobacteria species Natronococcus occultus (Niemetz et al., 1997) and Natrialba aegyptiaca (Hezayen et al., 2000). However, Candela and colleagues (2009) classified the first Gram-negative bacterium, Fusobacterium nucleatum, which demonstrated to produce γ-PGA as interaction factor for dental plaque formation. γ-PGA-producing strains are divided into two types: one produces γ-PGA in the presence of L-glutamate in medium, and the other does not (Ito et al., 1996). Most of the known γ-PGA producers, such as B. subtilis (natto) IFO 3335 (Goto and Kunioka, 1992), B. subtilis chungkookjang (Ashiuchi et al., 2001), B. licheniformis ATCC9945a (Gardner and Troy, 1979) and B. licheniformis NK-03 (Cao et al., 2010), belong to the former group, whereas for the latter group, just a few strains have been characterized, including B. subtilis TAM-4 (Ito et al., 1996), B. licheniformis A35 (Cheng et al., 1989) and B. amyloliquefaciens LL3 (Cao et al., 2011). Although γ-PGA producers with high productivity and industrial applications are mostly L-glutamic acid-dependent strains, it is of great interest to choose L-glutamic acid-independent producers for the studies on γ-PGA biosynthesis mechanism and its development potential because of the lower cost and simplified downstream processing.
To date, heterologous expression of γ-PGA synthetase genes (pgsBCA) from L-glutamic acid-dependent strains have been achieved in various organisms (Ashiuchi et al., 1999; 2001; Jiang et al., 2006). It was previously reported that tobacco leaf cells (Tarui et al., 2005) and the glutamate-producing Corynebacterium glutamicum strains harbouring pgsBCA expression vectors could display γ-PGA synthetase and accumulate extracellular γ-PGA without L-glutamate (Sung et al., 2003; Cao et al., 2010). Cao et al. (2011) reported the successful expression of pgsBCA genes from B. amyloliquefaciens LL3 in Escherichia coli JM109, resulting in the production of γ-PGA without L-glutamate. However, it would be more significant if the differential expression of pgsBCA genes from these two strains was demonstrated. Furthermore, glutamate racemase (racE) can be overexpressed to control the stereochemical composition of D-/L-glutamate leading to an increase in the production of γ-PGA, as well as the proportion of d-glutamate present in the polymer. It was revealed that overexpression of glr (racE) gene not only increased the production of γ-PGA but also increased the proportion of d-glutamate in γ-PGA (Ashiuchi et al., 1999; Jiang et al., 2011).
In this study, the pgsBCA genes and glutamate racemase gene (racE) from L-glutamic acid-dependent strain B. licheniformis NK-03 and L-glutamic acid-independent strain B. amyloliquefaciens LL3 were cloned and expressed in E. coli JM109. The differential expression was carried out in the medium containing either L-glutamate or glucose as carbon source. The extraction products were characterized by the weighing yields and fraction ratios of D-/L-isomer of γ-PGA monomer using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (reversed-phase HPLC). The results herein can supply the clue to the comparable functional structure of synthetase and be used to elucidate the molecular catalytic mechanism and the stereochemical modulation in γ-PGA biosynthesis.


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