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July 2, 2012
In pursuit of a "crossbar arithmetic processor" patent, Blaise Laurent Mouttet provided another lesson in the way of Obzilla: any possible combination of known features is not patentable, even when the prior art technologies are not compatible. Mouttet envisioned an arithmetic processor using a crossbar structure. He cited a prior art publication, Das, that disclosed a "nanoscale crossbar array with molecular switches." The examiner found Falk (5,249,144), which taught a "programmable optical arithmetic/logic device," and Terepin (4,633,386), an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. The examiner put them together to fabricate Mouttet's claimed invention, a rejection affirmed by the PTO appeals board and CAFC.
In re Mouttet (CAFC 2011-1451) precedential; Judges Prost, O'Malley and Ryna (author)
The examiner rejected the claims by transmuting Falk's optical crossbar into an electrical one via Das, which taught a molecular scale device, with an Terepin's A/D converter a necessary adjunct.
The examiner found that Falk taught all of Mouttet's recited limitations in representative claim 1 except for (1) a crossbar array implemented with electrical wires rather than optical light paths, (2) crosspoints with programmable states based on electrical conductivity rather than optical intensity, and (3) conversion of analog signal outputs to digital output bit patterns in the post-processing unit. Ex parte Mouttet, 2011 Pat. App. LEXIS 15036, at *3-4. The examiner relied on Das to teach the missing crossbar array using wires and crosspoints that are programmable to have electrical conductive states, and on Terepin to teach a component converting analog signals to digital bit patterns. The examiner thus rejected claims 1, 2, 6-12, and 16-20 of the '232 application under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Falk, in view of Das and Terepin.
The case law basis for finding obviousness:
Whether an invention would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art is a legal determination based on underlying findings of fact. KSR, 550 U.S. at 427; In re Gartside, 203 F.3d 1305, 1316, 319 (Fed. Cir. 2000) (citing Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 17-18 (1966)). The scope and content of the prior art, as well as whether the prior art teaches away from the claimed invention, are determinations of fact. See Para-Ordnance Mfg., Inc. v. SGS Importers Int'l, Inc., 73 F.3d 1085, 1088 (Fed. Cir. 1995). The PTO bears the initial burden of showing a prima facie case of obviousness. In re Mayne, 104 F.3d 1339, 1341 (Fed. Cir. 1997). If the PTO carries its burden, the applicant must rebut the PTO's showing. Id.
A claimed invention is unpatentable "if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains." 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). Where "a patent claims a structure already known in the prior art that is altered by the mere substitution of one element for another known in the field, the combination must do more than yield a predictable result." See KSR, 550 U.S. at 416. A reference may be read for all that it teaches, including uses beyond its primary purpose. See id. at 418-21; see also Beckman Instruments, Inc. v. LKB Pro-dukter AB, 892 F.2d 1547, 1551 (Fed. Cir. 1989).
Deference to the PTO appeals board, a fabrication by the court without basis in patent statute:
While this court reviews the Board's legal conclusion of obviousness without deference, it upholds the Board's factual findings if supported by substantial evidence. In re Gartside, 203 F.3d at 1313-16. Substantial evidence is something less than the weight of the evidence but more than a mere scintilla of evidence. Id. at 1312 (citing Consol. Edison Co. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd., 305 U.S. 197, 229-30 (1938)). It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion. Consol. Edison, 305 U.S. at 229-30. Thus, "where two different, inconsistent conclusions may reasonably be drawn from the evidence in record, an agency's decision to favor one conclusion over the other is the epitome of a decision that must be sustained upon review for substantial evidence." In re Jolley, 308 F.3d 1317, 1329 (Fed. Cir. 2002); see also Gartside, 203 F.3d at 1312 (noting that the possibility of drawing inconsistent conclusions from the evidence does not prevent the Board's findings from being supported by substantial evidence).
Mouttet had reasonable arguments that were waved off. Hindsight reasoning works, as long as it is imagined as "predictable," which most everything is in hindsight.
Mouttet makes two arguments on appeal: first, that substituting electronic hardware for optical hardware would destroy the Falk device's principle of operation and physical structure; and second, that Falk teaches away from the claimed invention.
As the examiner found, the type of circuitry used is the main difference between Mouttet's invention, which is based on electrical conductivity, and Falk's invention, which is based on optical paths. But this difference does not affect the operability of Mouttet's broadly claimed device - a programmable arithmetic processor.
Mouttet further objects that replacing Falk's optical crossbar circuitry with Das's electrical crossbar circuitry would destroy the physical structure of Falk. Mouttet argues that there is no evidence that electrical crossbar circuitry would have been recognized by ordinarily skilled artisans as equivalent to, or able to be substituted for, optical crossbar circuitry.
Any alleged nonequivalence in the type of circuit is irrelevant to the Board's determination since the examiner did not rely on art-recognized equivalence in substituting the crossbar arrays. It is well-established that a determination of obviousness based on teachings from multiple references does not require an actual, physical substitution of elements. In re Etter, 756 F.2d 852, 859 (Fed. Cir. 1985) (en banc) ("Etter's assertions that Azure cannot be incorporated in Ambrosio are basically irrelevant, the criterion being not whether the references could be physically combined but whether the claimed inventions are rendered obvious by the teachings of the prior art as a whole."); In re Sneed, 710 F.2d 1544, 1550 (Fed. Cir. 1983) ("[I]t is not necessary that the inventions of the references be physically combinable to render obvious the invention under review."); In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 425 (CCPA 1981) ("The test for obviousness is not whether the features of a secondary reference may be bodily incorporated into the structure of the primary reference . . . .").
Thus, it was not requisite to the Board's § 103(a) determination that Das's features be deemed equivalent for purposes of substitution into Falk's device. Rather, the test for obviousness is what the combined teachings of the references would have suggested to those having ordinary skill in the art. Id. The Board properly found that an electrical engineer with several years of related industry experience would indeed have recognized that Falk's arithmetic processor could have been combined with Das's wired crossbar array to predictably yield Mouttet's claimed computing device. See KSR, 550 U.S. at 416, 421.
Preferring an "alternative design" does not "teach away."
Mouttet argues that Falk "teaches away" from the claimed invention. A reference that properly teaches away can preclude a determination that the reference renders a claim obvious. See DePuy Spine, Inc. v. Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., 567 F.3d 1314, 1326-27 (Fed. Cir. 2009). Whether or not a reference teaches away from a claimed invention is a question of fact. See In re Napier, 55 F.3d 610, 613 (Fed. Cir. 1995).
In In re Gurley, 27 F.3d 551, 553 (Fed. Cir. 1994), we emphasized that "[a] reference may be said to teach away when a person of ordinary skill, upon reading the reference, would be discouraged from following the path set out in the reference, or would be led in a direction divergent from the path that was taken by the applicant."
Thus, the "mere disclosure of alternative designs does not teach away." In re Fulton, 391 F.3d 1195, 1201 (Fed. Cir. 2004). This court has further explained that just because better alternatives exist in the prior art does not mean that an inferior combination is inapt for obviousness purposes. Gurley, 27 F.3d at 553.
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This is a discussion on Rurso01's 13' SWP WRX build within the Builds forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; Originally Posted by WRXchet nice, i have the same set up on the tires / wheels. LOL i just posted ...
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A Blast Of Sonic Torment!
CRUCIAL BLAST Label Spotlight
To me, the integrity of a record label has always been important. You know a label is awesome when you see its name and it carries the same weight as a band. Crucial Blast is an underground music outlet that I can trust to push sound into another realm and fucking beyond anything I can describe. All you have to do is look at their roster of bands; THEOLOGIAN, TREES, IRON FOREST, RECLUSA – all of these groups bring something different to Crucial Blast. This label has a vast catalogue, so these four bands are the very tip of the mountain of ever-changing sounds put out by Crucial Blast. Check the streams for these groups below, and the description of what they are all about from the Crucial Blast point of view!
Here's something for you gorenoise/blackdoom fanatics – the latest full lengther from our favorite ambient sewer-doom outfit, Reclusa. You may know them from the Anticonscience album that came out on the Crucial Blaze series in '10, or from any of the uber-limited cassettes that have slithered out of the filthier corners of the gorenoise scene, and if you do, then you know that this is one of the heaviest and most grotesque bands that Crucial Blast has ever sullied its hands with. On previous releases, this Midwestern one-man band delivered a mixture of putrid low-fi industrial death metal crush, distorted and warped death industrial, and pitch-black hallucinatory ambience that was totally unique, leading me to describe the Anticonscience disc to "…a doomdeath album being played at half speed while someone splices in Throbbing Gristle and Wolf Eyes. Or what Dead World or early Pitchshifter might have sounded like if they had collaborated with one of the uglier denizens of the Cold Meat label". Can't really think of a higher recommendation than that.
Vacancy is the latest sonic abomination from this Midwestern skum-machine, a cassette-only release festering with eight tracks of ultra-heavy industrialized necro-doom, plumes of vomitous black noise, putrescent death industrial, and loads of hallucinatory graveyard ambience. The emphasis is more on the latter, with lots of long, droning sections of septic muck floating around the heavier grinding rhythms and absurdly guttural roars, with "Hallucinations In Pitch Black" burying a monstrous deathdoom riff beneath a mile of factory noise, morbid drones and vile toad like vocals, and some pulsating synth-horror appearing on "Dead In The Eyes" that suggests a meeting between the classic Italian death industrial sound of the 80s fused to a low-fi industrial metal mantra. Later in the album, the listener stumbles across strains of washed-out haunted house organ drifting through clanking death-factory sounds, and choirs sing miserable hymns through the bestial dubbed-out doom of "The Realm Beyond Suicide". There's some real punishers on here though, like the fucked industro-rock filth of "Seeds Of Psychosis", and the warped rotting sludge and backwards-masked bloodlust spew of closer "Ultimatum".
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Iron Forest's Body Horror is the second full-length release from this new project from Midwestern industrial/experimental artist Brandon Elkins. Some might know Elkins from his previous project A Crown Of Amaranth, who released an excellent album of dark, futuristic heaviness and black-hole ambience on our own Crucial Bliss series in 2005 as well as a short-lived collaboration called A Crown Of Light that had one album out on Italy's Eibon Records. It had been a while since I had heard anything from Elkins, but within the past year he re-emerged with a brand new outfit called Iron Forest that instantly hooked me with its super-heavy industrial rhythms, mutated drone/dub experiments, and doom metal influenced riffcrush. The band released another disc earlier in 2012 on Paradigms called Pantechnicon that was issued in an extremely limited run; this follow-up Body Horror comes via our Crucial Blaze series and features the new album of music accompanied by a set of collage prints depicting various biological hallucinations that were all created by Elkins for this release.
The eight songs on Body Horror are forged from gleaming metallic drones, glitchy electronica and vast clouds of interstellar synthesizer that wind around fractured doom-laden riffs, rife with the sort of apocalyptic atmosphere that Godflesh exuded from their more experimental albums. Justin Broadrick's pioneering industrial metal is one obvious influence on Iron Forest's sound, though here the crushing guitars and solemn ambience are cracked and broken into strange splatters of percussive noise and dissonant dronescapes that evoke an altogether more warped vision of industrialized doom-tronics. The music is varied, ranging from the bizarre but ultra fuckin' heavy robotic dub-sludge of "Rust And Decay", "Prognosis" and "Mountain Of Teeth" (where blackened doom metal meets a hellish variation of Scorn's dystopian beatcrush), to the orchestral majesty and skittering percussion of "The Divide" and the abstract, bitcrunched rhythms of "Dead Batteries". Elkins abuses a bunch of dubstep tropes (the blown out speaker rattling bass tones, the vicious synthesizers, the fragmented rhythms), but what comes out doesn't sound like dubstep at all. There's hardly anything here that a sane person would consider "danceable". It's more of a chaotic, noise-damaged, dub-infested version of Skin Chamber's industrial metal, if that band had been obsessed with the experimental glitchery of Autechre. Combine that with Body Horror's obsession with Cronenbergian themes (mutation, deformity, etc), and you get a pitch-black brand of mechanized dread that wallows in a similar cyborg plasma-pool as bands like Wreck And Reference, Cloaks, Necro Deathmort, The Blood Of Heroes, and Author & Punisher.
Released in a limited edition of four hundred hand-numbered copies, the Body Horror Cd comes in Crucial Blaze's signature clear dvd-style case with an insert card and a black folio (with black printing) that holds a set of gorgeously grotesque full color collage prints.
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On Theologian's debut album for Crucial Blast The Further I Get From Your Star…, Leech established a new trajectory for his unique brand of pitch-black, rhythm-heavy industrial music that he'd previously explored with Navicon Torture Technologies. Under this new name, the power electronics and death industrial influences were merged into even darker, more majestic sounds, crafting something that was significantly more atmospheric than his work with NTT, while also reaching into new extremes of experience. On Theologian's latest, The Chasms Of My Heart, this sound is perfected, incorporating more melody and percussion into the long, oppressive dead-world ambience and pummeling electronic doomscapes, and it's one of the best albums that Leech has brought us.
Chasms opens with what may be Theologian's most stirring and evocative piece of music to date, a monumental end-time dirge titled "Abandon All Hope" that starts off as a swirling ocean of blackened synthesizer roar before morphing into the sound of pounding metallic percussion and skull-rattling bass frequencies. At first, it's the sort of pitch-black apocalyptic death-synth heaviness that Theologian has long claimed as its own, but when the layered vocals begin to pour in, soaked in distortion and climbing skyward in a gloriously miserable multi-part harmony above an eerie minor-key hook, this heaviness is transformed into something new. Like some kind of hellish fusion of industrialized shoegaze and thunderous power electronics, "Abandon All Hope" reveals a new side to Theologian's black-hole sound that is explored further throughout these eight tracks.
There's no shortage of Theologian's trademark black ambience, though. The frantic clanking rhythms on "We Can't All Be Victims" becomes a backdrop to a maelstrom of monochrome drone and howling demonic noise, obscuring the nightmarish cacophony of choral voices and screaming feedback and epic strings buried deep below; and "Starvation Is A Legitimate Weapon Of War" appears as an ocean of abyssal low-end churn and rumble that spreads out into infinity, leading into the crushing orchestral power of "My Body Is Made Of Ash…I Live As Ash", where titanic distorted synth-pulses echo up from vast, lightless depths and achingly beautiful strings drift in on clouds of kosmiche shimmer, evoking images of monstrous crematoriums belching smoke and cinder into the skies, extinguishing the sun as raging vocals rise and war-drums begin pounding relentlessly in the blackness.
This album also has some of Theologian's most celestial music, like on the deep-space power electronics transmissions of "Bed Of Maggots" and the final track, both of which begin to resemble the sound of Tangerine Dream blasting out of the heart of a dead black star.
Crucial Blast
'Sickness In' is the third album from Portland's most wretched, Trees. Following their similarly abject slabs of feedback-doused horror and quasi-formless dirge 'Lights Bane' and 'Freed Of This Flesh' on Crucial Blast, the band again presents a two-song assault, each one roughly fifteen minutes in length, each a slowly rotting heap of droning slow-motion deathdoom riffs decomposing into clouds of black amplifier hum, high shrieking voices and tortured screams drifting against the glacial roar of smoking amp stacks and short-circuiting hardware. Where the previous album had Trees employing some interesting rhythmic chaos and longer stretches of ambient filth, this time around the band drops some of their most leaden, majestic riffs yet into their slow-mo filthstorm, massive saurian doom riffs slipping WAY out of the confines of 'groove' and deep into rumbling fields of charred ritualistic chanting and almost Abruptum-like states of psychotic noise.
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Natatorium facing debt, extensive repairs
A premier sports venue where hundreds of world-class athletes have trained and competed over the years is swimming in debt.
The Natatorium at IUPUI, where Michael Phelps earned an Olympic spot this past summer - and where everyday Hoosiers swim, is losing money and falling apart.
The most recent study on the "Nat" found it needs nearly $18 million in repairs. On top of that, it's running a $1 million deficit, with utilities and regular maintenance costing another million or so a year.
But who pays to fix it? Who pays to keep it running? That's the question several groups are trying to answer out as the venue hits its 31-year mark this summer.
When it was built in 1982, the Natatorium was state-of-the-art. It was and continues to be the only permanent swimming facility with two 50-meter pools (plus the diving well and practice pool). It also continues to have the largest seating venue.
And while the Nat still draws top swimmers and still has more than 100 event days a year, it's also drawing attention for the wear and tear it's taken.
During a recent Big East Swimming and Diving competition, Rodney McGhee of Philadelphia said of the concourse area, "I was actually surprised to see it considering the history...The first thing I noticed were all the towels lined along the doorways."
Jeff Shaeffer, who lives near Harrisburg, Penn., was also taken aback by the row of towels and buckets, the peeling paint and water damage at the bottom of several walls.
"Because it's such an impressive facility, you expect all of it to be equally impressive," he said.
The wet floors are actually from condensation. It's what you can't see that's worrisome.
Tom Morrison, Vice President of Facilities for Indiana University, said while the Nat is still "structurally fine in terms of safety," it needs everything from a new roof and fire pump to new lighting and an HVAC system. It also needs money to help pay for those fixes.
Morrison said, "It's a difficult challenge, difficult for the university and difficult for the community."
The Nat was built in 1982 for events like the National Sports Festival and the Pan Am games. It was then given to the university, but Morrison said there was never a fund set up for ongoing maintenance and depreciation (typical for new buildings) so there is no money to fix it.
And, to this day, the Nat is used much more by the community than the campus.
"Unless we come up with other partners to try to fund it, we cannot put that on the backs of our students," Morrison said.
Deputy Mayor Deron Kintner agreed IU needs help in funding the repairs.
"There's an urgency from all sides to find a solution...because it's a valuable asset to the city and community," Kintner said. "It's an asset we don't own but one we benefit from." (Especially from the big events which draw out-of-town visitors who stay at Indianapolis hotels and eat at Indianapolis restaurants.)
Kintner said the mayor's office, the Indiana Sports Corporation, Indiana Swimming, Visit Indy and the Capital Improvement Board have been meeting with IU for more than a year, but $18 million is a lot of money to come up with.
One possibility that's been raised?
Getting the CIB, which runs the city's sports venues, including Lucas Oil Stadium and Bankers Life Fieldhouse, to share some of the revenue it takes in from hospitality taxes.
Kintner said, "It's certainly worthy of discussion, especially if you're looking at the lost revenue that would occur if the Nat were to close."
While Morrison insists that Nat is not in jeopardy of closing, he stresses, "We really need to start now, because there's exponential harm in waiting."
Not only does the damage get worse, but the tougher it is to draw big events, which Indiana Swimming's Arlene McDonald works hard to do.
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"Because of its unique history, there's support for keeping the venue open and it's still very important, it's still a special place to come," McDonald said. "We're excited about the possibility of having a new renovated facility because we know that we could bring in a lot more events that benefit the city."
Morrison said it's his hope a funding plan can be worked out by year's end - not just to pay for the $18 million in repairs and eliminate the operating deficit, but to set up a depreciation fund for future needs.
He noted while the Nat cost $21 million to build, it would cost $75 million to replace.


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Pomilia will compete for playing time as an infielder this season.
As a freshman, played in three games and went 0-for-2 at the plate...made his collegiate debut on March 11 against No. 13 UC Irvine.
High School
He was a letterwinner at Redwood High in Larkspur, Calif...earned all-league honors in his sophomore, junior and senior seasons...named as an NCS scholastic student-athlete two years.
He has not declared a major...parents are Babs and Gino...has two sisters, Dria and Kathryn...biggest sports hero is Michael Jordan...favorite movies are 300, Gladiator, Rudy and Superbad...favorite television channels are ESPN, MTV and TLC...listens to Toby Keith, Rooney and Lil' Wayne...birthdate is Dec. 12, 1988.
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CHAPEL HILL - After studies spanning more than a decade, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have become the first to identify and purify hepatic stem cells, progenitor cells capable of regenerating liver and bile duct tissue.
The accomplishment marks a milestone for future liver regeneration through cellular therapy, a treatment that could drastically reduce the need for whole-organ transplant in people with a variety of liver diseases. The current list of patients awaiting liver transplantation is 15,700 nationally, but only 4000 liver transplants have been performed.
"Liver transplantation for end-stage liver disease is severely limited as a therapy for the vast majority of patients. Chronic end-stage liver disease accounts for approximately 50,000 deaths annually in the United States.
Since one donor organ helps only one or two recipients, there is an increasing gap between donors and transplant candidates over the past decade," said Lola Reid, PhD, professor of cell and molecular physiology at UNC-CH School of Medicine and the Program in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.
In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 24, Reid and research associate Hiroshi Kubota, PhD, describe another first: the colonization in lab dishes of a multitude of rat hepatic stem cells from a single cell.
"We are the first to develop culture conditions that permit one to put into culture these cells at densities of a single cell in the dish and then have it grow into a colony," Reid explained.
"People have been putting mature liver cells in culture for decades but they always had to put them in at very high densities or they didn't survive. This meant you could never ask whether a given cell was capable of extensive growth or capable of producing daughter cells of more than one fate. We now have conditions in which a single cell can be put in and it will survive and grow extensively."
Liver cells have long been renowned for their regenerative capacity in vivo, but in culture they were found to go through only one or two divisions. No one could explain the paradox. This was exacerbated by the dogma in the field that all liver cells are co-equal in their ability to grow and restore liver tissue. Reid and her associates have shown that only the cells early in the lineage are capable of repeatedly going through complete cell division.
"We have shown in this particular report that there's a maturational lineage of liver cells, and that the cells at different stages of the lineages have different capacities to grow," she said.
"The liver stem cells, other progenitors and young adult cells have two sets of chromosomes; that is, they are diploid and go through complete cell division. Mature liver cells go through DNA synthesis but do not complete cell division resulting in increased multiple sets of the chromosomes; that is, they are polyploid. Thus, the younger cells go through complete cell division while in the older cells division is incomplete.
"And the point is that if we want to restore a liver that's damaged, we have to get the young cells because they are going to mature into the older cells. The young cells are the only ones capable of going through the whole lineage," Reid explained. Thus, as we age, we shift more and more into those older cells, with the net effect being a decline in the regenerative capacity of the liver.
In addition, according to Reid, whole livers used for organ transplantation are exquisitely sensitive to a lack of oxygen, or ischemia, especially when at body temperature (warm ischemia). This means they must come from the 1% of donors who have undergone brain death but not heart arrest.
"By contrast, liver stem cells and the other diploid liver cell subpopulations are more tolerant than the polyploid liver cells to warm ischemia, such that they can be isolated from non-heart-beating donors, comprising the other 99% of donors."
These are the "tissue donors" (including donors of heart valves, corneas, skin). The majority are young people under 40 years of age and result from accidents and gunshot wounds.
Reid adds: "Unlike older, polyploid cells, the liver stem cells and other diploid cell subpopulations can be cryopreserved, frozen and stockpiled. This facilitates the ability to fully screen and characterize the cells before using them in patients and enables the cells to be shipped worldwide."
In liver cell therapy, suspensions of liver cells would be injected into the liver or spleen of patients with liver failure and should reconstitute the patient's liver functions.
"Thus, each donated liver can be used to treat many patients, and the surgical procedures will be much safer and easier on the patient and much more economical than whole-organ transplantation," Reid said.
"We believe that if transplanted liver stem cells and other diploid cell subpopulations can expand and differentiate in a patient with liver disease as well as they do in culture or in animal model systems, they might provide a life-saving alternative to transplants. We are hoping to test this possibility next year in the first clinical trials."
Support for Reid's research comes from the National Institutes of Health.
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One man was arrested and another cited after wildlife officers say the men shot a handgun Tuesday night while in Boot Key Harbor. The shooting spooked a dog aboard their boat that was subsequently run over and killed due to cuts from their vessel's propeller.
Kevin Kyle Sullivan, 35, of Marathon, the passenger aboard the 17-foot Mako center console, was charged with discharging a firearm under the influence of alcohol.
The driver of the boat, Kevin Macaulay, was cited for operating a vessel with no navigational lights.
The incident began while Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers were on patrol in the Looe Key about 8:20 p.m. when they noticed the Mako making it's way back to Boot Key Harbor, said FWC spokesman Bobby Dube. As the FWC officers were preparing to conduct a safety stop in the harbor, they heard a gunshot come from the boat, and then saw a large object go over the bow of the vessel, Dube said.
Thinking they may have witnessed a murder and body being dumped, the officers conducted a felony boat stop with weapons drawn.
Sullivan appeared confused, would not stand, and would not follow directions as officers secured both men and the 9mm handgun that was shot earlier, Dube said. Another FWC officer arrived on scene, and they searched the area before finding "Bailey" a mixed-breed dog, dead in a pool of blood in the water.
The dog didn't appear to have any gunshot wounds and looked more like it had been hit by a car, Dube said.
"It appears the dog got spooked by the gunshot, jumped in the water and they didn't realize it was missing, apparently," Dube said. "The dog most likely got hit by the boat props. We tried to retrieve the dog, but it sank."
Both men said they had not dumped anything overboard, and that's when they realized the dog was missing, according to FWC reports.
Macaulay passed field sobriety tests and told officers he and Sullivan had gone offshore to "shoot some rounds and on their way back, Sullivan fired off a final round. He also explained that the dog was afraid of loud noises and the gunshot scared him off the bow," reports state.
Macaulay was released at the scene. Sullivan was taken to Monroe County Detention Center in Marathon, where he remained Thursday under no bail.


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Holden Racing Team boss Mark Skaife had a nightmare 2004, but he got the monkey off his back yesterday with a win in the third V8 supercar race at Albert Park.
It was the former champion's first race win since Sandown in late 2003 and an overdue return to form for a man who believes he is in better shape to challenge for the title than at any time in the past few seasons.
"I feel really good about it," Skaife said. "I have probably had the best preparation I have had for a few years. I thought the monkey was off my back late last year, but its certainly off my back now.
"I don't feel going into Adelaide (the first round of the championship in two weeks) we have got to make up so much ground. This year going to Adelaide I feel we are about nine-and-a-half out of 10; last year we were about eight out of 10."
Skaife won yesterday from Ford pair Marcos Ambrose and Russell Ingall (Stone Brothers), with Craig Lowndes fourth and the Falcon duo of John Bowe and Brad Jones fifth and sixth.
In perhaps a changing of the guard, Fords filled eight of the top 10 places, with regular Holden front runners such as Greg Murphy and Garth Tander (who both started from pit lane) and Rick Kelly not sighted, with Kelly forced out after six laps.
Ambrose and Ingall echoed Skaife in saying that their team was well set up to mount another championship assault in Adelaide. Ambrose has won the title for the past two seasons.
"We are very competitive going into the first round," said Ingall. "There are all the right indicators for two weeks' time."
Ambrose, who said at the weekend that he was quitting the championship to try to forge a career in American NASCAR's in 2006, admitted that Skaife's experience and race craft had won him the prize yesterday.
"He just outfoxed me into turn one - I could not quite see him - I am a bit sheepish after that," Ambrose said.
It was a brilliant manoeuvre from Skaife on the fourth lap of the 10-lap race to stream past Ambrose, after the Falcon driver had tried to block his charge down the finishing straight. Skaife turned his rival inside out to zip past.
Ambrose and Ingall had both had storming starts to the race, with Ambrose charging past Skaife and Ingall muscling in to push Jones back from second to fifth in a matter of seconds.
Ambrose then hauled in Bowe before Ingall and Skaife also leapt past Saturday's race winner.
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Josh Matlow is a resident of Ward 22, St. Paul's and was elected to Toronto City Council on October 25th, 2010.
Councillor Matlow was a radio broadcaster and co-director of Earthroots, a Toronto-based environmental non-governmental organization where he championed efforts to achieve protection legislation for the Oak Ridges Moraine -- the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act.
As St. Paul's School Trustee (2003-2010), he initiated a "Green Grid" project for renewable energy generators (such as solar panels) on school rooftops, homework policy reform, campaigned to keep Toronto's school pools open, advocated for governance and accountability reform, demanded genuine consultation processes for his community, initiated a "Financial Literacy" curriculum to teach students about matters including credit cards, budgets and the stock market, worked with his community to rebuild North Toronto Collegiate Institute and championed initiatives to curb youth violence.
As a community advocate, Councillor Matlow has fought for the protection of local green space, tenants who need a strong voice, transit riders, support for local business areas, farmers markets and arts and cultural events, preservation of Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery, revitalization of neighbourhoods and parks, abolishment of the Ontario Municipal Board from Toronto, a strategic plan for Toronto's seniors to create an age-friendly city, campaigned for public transit and for solutions to gridlock and has advocated for governance reform at every level of government. Councillor Matlow holds regular town hall meetings with the residents of Ward 22. Please check his community website for meeting notices.
Josh Matlow has been a Toronto Star's "Newsmakers of the Year" and "People to Watch", The Village Post and North Toronto Post Magazines: Toronto's Best Public Official, Town Crier's "Pillar of the Community" and Now Magazine's "Top Activists of the Year". He has written articles, columns and opinion pieces for the Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and Town Crier Newspapers, Post City Magazines, and was a weekly co-host on Toronto talk-radio stations, AM 640 and CIUT. Josh wrote a weekly column, City Hall Diary, every Monday about City Hall in the Toronto Star and hosted the Newstalk 1010 radio show, The City with Josh Matlow.


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VOTERS went to the polls yesterday in a crucial by-election that could lead to a fundamental shift in the leadership of the coalition which runs Aberdeen City Council.
The vote for a new councillor to represent the Dyce, Bucksburn and Danestone ward follows the death in February of veteran Liberal Democrat member Ron Clark, who had been in public service for more than 30 years.
That left the SNP and Lib Dem groups in the ruling coalition each with 13 councillors.
John Stewart, the leader of the Lib Dems, is currently leader of the council, but an SNP by-election win will mean the SNP replacing his party as the largest group.
That could lead to a major change in the leadership and in councillors heading the main committees in the administration, which has ruled the cash-strapped authority since 2007.
Both group leaders, however, have declined to comment until after the result is declared this morning.
The SNP's victories in all three Aberdeen seats at the Scottish Parliament elections has made their candidate, Neil MacGregor, 58, a member of Dyce and Stoneywood Community Council, the favourite.
The other candidates are Kristian Chapman (Lib Dem), Angela Joss (independent), Graeme Lawrence (Labour), Rhonda Reekie (Green) and Ross Thomson (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party).
There could also be further changes in the council power struggle. A by-election will also be held on 23 June in the Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee ward to elect a replacement for the disgraced former councillor, Scott Cassie.


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Sleek, unique and so meticulously maintained!
THIS is the James Bond of catamarans. Designed by the Angelo Lavranos, who balances aesthetic design, engineering, and with offshore experience. Knysna may not be a well-known name in the field of cookie-cutter catamarans but it doesn't have to be. The quality and attention to detail speaks for itself. In addition, this yacht has only had one owner her entire life.
The hull is made of vacuum bagged, hand laid 25mm Airex PVC foam core with quadrixail non-crimp fabric and NPG gel coat isophtalic/vinly ester resin in a awlgrip pearl gray. The Yanmar SD50 clutchcone assembly have Flexofold propellers and hydraulic rudder drives. The tank monitoring sensors for fuel and water will eliminate guesswork.
This is a owner's edition with three cabins plus a spare cabin in the starboard hull to accommodate up to 10 people. Industrial strength teak and poly flooring with stippled painted finish and maple wood cupboards and vents - wow!
In the saloon, you will find a horse shoe shaped couch covered with "vitally" from Medici. An adjustibale cherry, maple wood table can be lowered for addition sleeping space or lounging around the t.v. The three dedicated showers make life easy along with the Techma electric heads.
The three hanging lockers will accommodate all your foulies and wet weather gear. The Spectra Catalina watermaker has a remote control. Meticulously maintained records with follow-up dates are available for inspection.
Take a look at all the other boats in this category, then sail-away on Jangles.
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LOA: 14.63 meters
LWL: 12.92 meters
BEAM: 7.96 meters
DRAFT: 1.45 meters max
DISPLACEMENT: 15500 Kg to DWL
BRIDGE DECK CLEARANCE: 1.21 meters. Dim, waterline to bridge deck.
Engine Model:
Engine Hours:
Port- 1150 hrs.
Starboard- 1151 Hrs
Engines HP:
54 BHP total 108 BHP.
Cruising Speed:
Sail drive brand and model number:
Yanmar SD50 (x2) (2x o-hauled Clutch cone assembly additional in boat spares)
Flexofold, 3 blade foldable propeller (x2)
Rudder drives:
Lecomble & Schmitt 64240 Rams (x2 one in each engine bay) Hydraulic. (VHM50DTP cylinders)
Helm pump:
Lecomble & Schmitt LS hydraulic pump.
614 Liters
614 Liters
Black Water:
2x 50 Liters
Grey Water:
2x 25 Liters
Tank monitoring:
Offshore Multi tank 3330 display.
3271 capacitive fuel sensor sender. NMEA 2000.
3281 Capacitive water level sender. NMEA 2000.
Fuel and main water tanks sensed only.
Owner version:
How many cabins:
3 Cabins
How many can she sleep:
10 People. 2x Double beds in owner's side.
Type of flooring:
Teak and holly Formica bonded onto 9mm marine ply panels. Industrial strength.
Interior finish:
Stippled painted finish with cherry and Maple wood cupboards and vents.
Salon couch and fabric:
Horse shoe couch covered with "vitally" from Medici.
Salon table:
Cherry and Maple Wood adjustable Table. Can be lowered to make sleeping space.
Head and showers:
3 Techma electric heads
3 dedicated showers.
Cherry insert and maple borders.
Hanging lockers:
Navigation station:
Interior lighting:
LED in saloon and cockpit, fluorescent in cabins and heads and showers.
Headboard led lights and switches in each cabin.
Water maker type and size:
Spectra Catalina C300 Mk11. With 3000 remote controller. Clark pump and
Diaphragm replaced April 2016. @1466 hrs. Total hours 2045 hrs.
Air conditioning type and total BTU size:
2x Climma Vego 16000 BTU air conditioners. With MD65 230/1/50 Cooling raw water pump.
Hot water heater brand and size:
Isotemp Basic 40Ltr. With mixing (heating) from Starboard engine water system.
Cabin fan type and number:
Caframo 807 Sirocco Fan. X5 with 1 in boat spares.
GPS type, model and size:
Garmin GX17 with spare GPS Receiver.
Multi function displays:
Garmin GMI-10 colour multi-function displays (x3)
Depth sounder model and size:
Forward Viewing sonar:
Garmin GSD-22 with Airmar B117 transducer.
Echopilot FLS Platinum.
Wind speed and direction model:
Garmin GSW10.
Autopilot size and brand:
Garmin GHP10, 2.1 liter pump (spare pump in boat spares)
Garmin GHC10 Controllers (x2 one at helm, one at Navigation table.)
Garmin GHP12 CCU Compass
Garmin GHP12 ECU Computer
Garmin Autopilot remote control.
VHF Radio brand and model:
Remote Microphone:
Remote speaker:
Garmin VHF200I
Garmin GHS10i
Portable VHF Transceivers:
Uniden Atlantis 250 Transceivers (x2)
Garmin AIS 600 Cat B.
Handheld GPS model:
Garmin GPS-60c
Satellite phone system:
Sailor 150
Single Side Bad Radio model:
Antenna Coupler:
Icom IC-M802. SP-24.
Icom AT-140 automatic tuner.
Built into Port inner shroud using Norseman isolators.
Radar brand and size and year:
Garmin GMR24HD 2011
Chart plotter brand and size:
Garmin 5015 (x2) 15 " colour touch screen. One at helm (2010) and one at Navigation Table (2016).
Garmin Mouse and handheld remote control.
Charts for Chartplotter:
Bluechart g2 Vision SD cards:
VUS031R South west Caribbean 08
VUS030R South east Caribbean 08
VAF002R South Africa 08
VPC020R Brisbane SW to Geraldtown 08
VPC022R East Coast Australia 08
VPC023R New Zealand 08
VPC018R New Caledonia-Fiji 08
VPC019R Polynesia 08
VSA008R Central America West 08
Network Hub:
Garmin GMS-10 NMEA 2000 (spare hub in boat spares)
Temp and log transducer:
Airmar DST-800
Depth Transducer:
Airmar B-117
TV Antenna:
Glomex V9125
Telefunken TLCD24FHD 12 volt
Compass brand and size?
Plastimo Offshore 105, BV0062
Gas Detector:
Controller; BEP Marine 600-GDL
Sensor; BEP Marine BL-SL-L
Valve; BEP Marine SA296COMP-12V
Blue tooth DVD and Radio:
HP Photosmart wireless B110 printer.
Solar panel type and size of total watts:
Solar Controller:
Solara SM225M x6 Solara Panels.
Max output 68 watts per panel.
Blue Sky Solar boost 3024!
Wind Generator type:
Electrodynamics D400
235w @22 Kts. 420w @ 28 Kts.
Aerogen 6TB12.
Generator type and size:
Onan Cummings MDKBL 7KVA
4100 hrs. Diesel 2.2 L per hour.
Shore power cord length and type:
Charger system type:
Victron 12/3000/120-50 Quattro 2010
Alternator size and type:
Electromaax 160 HP x2 (serpentine belts)
Balmar MC-614 regulators and Cyrix I225 battery combiner relay for House battery/ starter battery charging.
Electrical socket type and number:
Inverter model and size and year:
Victron 12/3000/120-50 Quattro 2010
Battery monitor system:
Victron BPP controller
Victron VCC convertor
DC Distribution:
Victron VBC Battery Controller
Remote panel:
Victron VE-NET Blue power Panel
AC Distribution panel:
BEP Marine 10 way custom
DC Distribution panel:
BEP Marine 48 way custom.
Zinc saver/ Galvanic isolator:
ZS-30A/N 30 Amp.
Washing Machine:
Samsung WD8704EJA Quiet Drive.
House battery bank:
Northstar NSB M12-210 AGM (x6) 2010
Engine starter batteries:
Lifeline GPL-27T AGM batteries. (x2) 2013 & 2014
SMX-NF110-5. (x1) 2016
Type and size of refrigerator:
Isotherm 85 Liter with freezer section
Type and size of refrigerator:
Isotherm 85 Liter without freezer section
Type and size of freezer:
Isotherm 85 liter
Sink size and type:
Dual sink
Saltwater pump:
N/A Fresh water sinks. Blaster 3901 pumps x2
Stove and number of burners:
Force 10, 3x burners
Oven size and type:
Force 10
Type of counter tops:
Uline 220V icemaker mounted in Port forward head. Cool area of boat.
Coffee Machine:
Nespresso with Milk frother.
Mainsail type, size and age:
Quantum Sails, 75.16 sq. meters 6 yrs
Jib type, size and age:
Quantum sails, 50.27 sq. meters 6 yrs
Asymmetrical spinnaker:
109 Sq. Meters
Genoa Furler type and size:
Profurl headsail reefing furling system.
Screecher furler type and size:
Mast type and height:
Aluminum anodized mast with forward cross beam and compression strut. Sparcraft.
Bowsprit type and length:
On Deck
List all winch sizes and brand:
Lewmar 48 electric. Self tailing Jib sheet winch (x1)
Lewmar 48 self tailing Main sheet (x1)
Lewmar 48 Electric self-tailing port screecher and spinnaker winch (x1)
Lewmar 48 self-tailing spinnaker winches aft deck (x2)
Lewmar 48 2 speed self-tailing either side of the Mast. (X2)
Lewmar 40 2 speed maintrack winch (x1)
Harkin 46 electric 2 speed self-tailing main Halyard winch (x1)
List all deck cleat sizes and brand:
Spinlock XTS 2x single and 3x double
Bow pulpit seats:
Dinghy type, age and size:
Infanta semi ridged 3.1 Meter 6 Years
Dinghy engine type and horsepower:
Yamaha 15 HP. 2 stroke.
Cockpit seating and table:
2x tables 3x bench style seats
Cockpit cushions:
Yes, with lounging cushion on port side of Cockpit
BBQ type:
Weber Gas BBQ, with manual shut-off valve
Deck shower type:
Deck shower with hot and cold water.
Bimini design and type:
Coach roof from salon to rear of cockpit.
Traveler brand and type:
Standing rigging size and type and age:
Sparcraft Mast is made from Aluminium Alloy Extrusion, has 2 sets of swept spreaders. Mast step is on the deck.
Forestay: complete with Shafner jib furling gear.
Inner Forestay; 10mm Dyform
Cap Shroud; 12mm Dyform
Lower Diamond; 10mm 1x19
Upper Diamond; 10mm 1x19
Running rigging type and size and age:
Stack pack with lazy jacks:
Standard sail cover:
Yes, UV protected
Batten car brand and type:
Harken Batcar system.
Primary anchor brand and size:
Roca 33 Kg
Primary anchor chain and rode:
100 meters chain, 50 meters Rode.
Secondary anchor brand and size:
Danforth 15 Kg
Secondary anchor chain and rode:
15 Meters Chain and 30 Meter Rode
Windlass brand and size:
Trampoline type and year:
Super Tramp, Ullman sails.
Bumpers – how many and what size:
3x Large 5x medium
Dock lines:
4 new Nylon lines, multiple older lines.
2x 50 meter black heavy duty mooring lines.
1 set integral with rear deck
Opening hatches brand and number:
Mosquito net screens:
4x main bed hatches have Oceanair roll up screen and net covers.
2x Emergency Hatches.
UV hatch covers:
All hatch covers have Sanbrello covers.
Winch covers:
Helm cover:
Yes with window insert.
Water toys:
3x Dive tanks steel with covers,
2x Mares large and medium BC (integrated weight system).
3x Regulators. Serviced May 2016
Bright weight bag and 16 weights.
2 sets of split fins.
2x paddle boards with extendible paddles.
Sea Kayaks:
Wilderness Kayak.
Swim platform:
Fishing gear:
2x Rods and real with various lures.
Life raft type and size and year of last service:
Viking 8 man
February 2016
3x red Orion hand-held exp. July 2019
3x Orion 12 gauge red aerial flares exp. July 2019
1x Orion Orange Smoke signal exp. 2019
1x comet Floating Orange smoke
3x 6 " glow sticks
ACR SM-2 Buoy strobe.
Life Vests:
8x Sub-Zero Class 1 type A. Oceanic for 32 Kg and above.
MOB Gear:
Danbuoy, x2 horshoe life rings on push pit bracket, one throw light.
Ditch bag:
Sea Anchor:
1x Lalizas Professional Drogue 10240.
Medical kit:
EPIRB type and year:
MT403FG class2 GMDSS Cat +GPS. Float free housing
Electric bilge pumps:
X4 (2x main and 2x Grey water)
Manual bilge pumps:
X2 Whale –Gusher –Titan bilge pumps.
Emergency tiller type:
Knysna yacht company built. Mechanically attaches to Starboard Rudder thru the engine lid.
Tools and spares:
Various tools in Sealed containers.
Fog Horn:
Jack Stays
2x braided type.
MOB sensing system:
Raymarine Life Tag system. (Not connected to Chartplotter) Stand alone siren system.
Fire extinguishers:
Aft cabins on Bulkheads, 5A/34B rating.
Fwd cabins on bulkheads, 5A/34B rating.
Galley portside stove, X2. 5A/34B rating.
Galley portside stove, Fire blanket.
Owner's hull fwd of sliding door, Fire Blanket.
Saloon stbd. sliding door. Fire stryker.
Saloon portside shelving, fire stryker.
Both Engines CO2 under aft cabin bunks manually operated.
All above certified February 2016.
1. 3 Dive tanks, (steel)2. 3 BC jackets, (1x Mares ICON male BC, female BC and standard BC) 2 have integrated Bright weights)3. 3x Regulators.4. Various 5 and 7.5 mm full dive suits.5. various snorkels and masks,6. 2x Split fins i standard.7. 3 diving hoodies,8. 8x storage containers for food etc bulk storage.9. Spare Garmin Network nmea 2000 hub, ( new not used)10. spare Garmin 2.1 Liter Autopilot hydraulic pump, ( new not used)11. spare wind direction and anemometer GWS 10. (used)12. various Yanmar hoses and seals and spares.13. Air compresor portable,14. Vacuum Cleaner,15, Various things like Sailing books, cruising books and cruising guides that cover the Caribbean,16, Various paper maps of SA waters, atlantic crossing, Pacific Crossing and Australia as well as Caribbean.
4100 Main St
Suite 404
Philadelphia, PA 19127
United States


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Stay 2 nights, the third is free
We've prepared a special offer for our clients...IN LOVE:
- 1 NIGHT STAY in our CLASSIC OR SUPERIOR DOUBLE ROOM with a romantic gift for the couple
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Perugia HotelsHotel Vega, immersed in the green Umbrian countryside, is located at about 7 km from the center of Perugia and 15 km from enchanting Assisi. It's a strategic position, ideal for anyone wanting to visit Umbria's major cities of cultural, artistic and historical interest as well as the fascinating smaller towns which make Umbria one of the most beautiful regions in Italy.
Hotel Vega has a large, safe parking lot reserved for clients of our hotel and restaurant, as well as a garage for bicycles and motorbikes. We also have a small repair shop in which we can take care of minor repairs.
Surrounding the entire structure is a large park nearly two hectares wide adorned with varied flora, at the center of which our pool is located. The pool is accessible to clients of the hotel from the beginning of June to the end of September.
Hotel Vega has 37 comfortable rooms of various types: single, twin and double rooms, as well as triple and quadruple rooms which are perfect for families. Each room is furnished with private bathroom, LCD TV with digital or satellite reception, phone, WiFi (in "comfort" rooms), air conditioning and wooden floors. All our rooms have underfloor heating.
Our restaurant-pizzeria
"Pegaso" offers both local and creative dishes.The menu changes periodically, offering our clients seasonal dishes and house specialties using only the best fresh ingredients available. It also offers a rich selection of items for those following a glutenfree diet.
Our restaurant has been authorized by the A.I.C. (Italian Celiac Association) for many years and offers glutenfree pizza and even homemade bread!
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gaim-2.0.0beta3 with RendezVous and Meanwhile support
Posted by chantra on June 12th, 2006
I've recompiled gaim-2.0.0beta3 in order to support rendezvous (aka bonjour) and meanwhile (aka sametime) protocols.
Gaim-meanwhile used to be an extension to gaim and is now part of gaim's core. Bonjour/RendezVous was developped during he summer of code and is now part of gaim since version 2.0.0.
Well, since debuntu now has its own debs repository, the best way to install gaim 2.0.0beta3 with bonjour and meanwhile supports is to simply add the repository to your sources.list. Refer to the debs repository in order to check how to achieve this and then apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
Well, hope you like it.


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$5000 golf challenge is May 20
By Haywood County Chamber of Commerce | May 16, 2014
Haywood Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Chairman's Cup Golf Tournament at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 20, at Balsam Mountain Preserve.
This year, Lenoir-Rhyne University-Asheville is offering a $5,000 Hole-In-One prize on the tenth hole.
Register Now to sign up.
The golf tournament is sponsored by Evergreen Packaging, Champion Credit Union, Clean Sweep: The Fireplace Store, and beverages provided by Frog Level Brewing.


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Ever wonder what Faith from Mirror's Edge dreams about? Tom Farrer, producer of Mirror's Edge, answered this question on the PlayStation.Blog: "She apparently dreams about enormous abstract sculptures floating above an endless sea!"
The upcoming time trial DLC pack for Mirror's Edge was originally scheduled for release tomorrow. However, Big Download reports that these additional races will come in February. The delay should give fans a bit more time to practice their skills — the DLC adds new Trophies that only the most hardcore players will be able to achieve.
While the premium maps won't be available until next month, PS3 owners will still be able to download a system-exclusive map on the PlayStation Store tomorrow. "Synethesia" will be free to all owners of the PS3 version of Mirror's Edge. A trailer can be seen after the break.
Gallery: Mirror's Edge Time Trial DLC
Continue reading Mirror's Edge Time Trial DLC delayed to February; PS3 exclusive map on 1/29
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Core Commitments for Children
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Guided by the principle that children in the midst of armed conflict and natural disasters have the same needs and rights as children in stable situations, the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) outline the key accountabilities in response to a humanitarian situation.
The CCCs include a series of immediate and longer-term interventions aimed at providing basic support and protecting children's rights.
In 2010, UNICEF updated its the CCCs based on extensive consultations with civil society and other partners and incorporating lessons learned over the past years.
Measles and acute respiratory infections as well as malaria, diarrhea and malnutrition are major killers of children during humanitarian crises.
As stated in the CCCs, emergency immunization is one of UNICEF's priority interventions, along with vitamin A supplementation, therapeutic feeding, and the provision of safe water and sanitation.
In addition, the CCCs cover programme and operational commitments in the areas of education, HIV and AIDS, and child protection. They distinguish between vital, life-saving interventions that need to be initiated immediately and over the first eight weeks of a crisis, and the broader spectrum of activities that should be added afterwards.
The Core Commitments for Children outlines immediate and long term actions in disasters.
Despite the ever changing humanitarian context throughout the years, the essence of UNICEF's commitment to children in emergency situations has remained the same, while strategies and approaches have been adjusted to new developments in policy and operational environments, as well as new emerging threats.
The updated version of the CCCs defines preparedness for instance as an explicit commitment rather than an implicit assumption as before. Early recovery is now also an explicit commitment aiming to strengthen the link between humanitarian action, recovery and development. The development of national capacities with regards to emergency preparedness and response is recognized as a key strategy and commitment, which is necessary to fulfil the CCCs and to provide a more sustainable post crisis-transition.
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