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The Stunt Factory was born out of the desire not to let hard earned skills die and started out with doing street shows and public demonstrations just for fun. It has now developed into a demonstration which is a "show-stopper" everywhere it's seen.
Providing acrobatic entertainment since 1995 the performers are former gymnasts and competitive cheerleaders. Demonstrating elements of agility and strength the girls are held aloft, thrown and flipped through the air in a stunning display of athletic prowess.
A typical group is 8 performers (4 males, 4 females), this provides a good variety of skills to show the audience. It can be done with a group of 4 performers (2 males, 2 females) but this is not nearly as impressive as pyramid elements and high flying tosses can not be included. Larger groups may also be available given enough advance notice.
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North Dakota Woman's Halloween Plan Angers Many
By now you've heard about 'Cheryl.' She's the woman from North Dakota who has taken it upon herself to be her neighborhood's dietician.
She recently called a radio station in her town and told the hosts that instead of candy, she would be sending letters home to the parents of kids she feels are overweight.
"It's irresponsible of parents to send them out looking for free candy," Cheryl said.
Well, the story has gone national. And many of you here in Houston aren't happy with this woman.
Shannon Rich is a Houston mother whose son is bigger than other kids his age. She's not happy with the Grinch that stole Halloween.
"It doesn't mean we're going to let them sit down and eat the whole bag of candy," Rich told our television partner, Local 2.
Dietician Deborah Woehler told KTRH thinks the woman is just a bit off base.
"I'm not sure how she determines who is overweight in a costume. It's random selection," Woehler said.
Woehler said Cheryl didn't have to take this drastic step.
"There are alternatives she could offer the children if she wants to participate," Woehler stated.
Child therapist Ed Reitman told KTRH she could do more harm than good.
"They already feel badly about themselves, and this woman is going to make them feel worse," Reitman said.
Reitman said Cheryl should worry about herself.
"The woman is taking something into her hands that she has no business dealing with," Reitman explained.
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Assistant Professor and Interior Architecture faculty Kevin Wyllie recently led a team of ten Marywood University students on a trip to Cape Charles, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay to participate in a Habitat for Humanity week-long service trip. Together the group met with the clients then worked on completing the siding, rafter trimming, railing systems, electrical systems, and two stairs for the project.
The project was run out of the Exmore, Virginia Habitat for Humanity chapter. Participating students were studying Education, Nutrition, Sports, and Business. Beyond working on the home project Professor Wyllie and students designed a bath house for a local campground they hope to build next summer after raising funds.


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SAN BRUNO, Calif. -- The University of San Diego will head north to face Cal State Northridge on Thursday, November 15 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The match will be played at 7 p.m. PST at Matador Soccer Field.
The Toreros finished the conference season with a 9-3-0 record. USD clinched the West Coast Conference championship with a 2-0 win over Saint Mary's on Friday night, its first WCC title since 2009.
CSUN, winners of the Big West Conference, finished the regular season with a 15-6-0 mark and a 7-3-0 record in the Big West. The Matadors defeated the Toreros back in September at Torero Stadium.
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Sunset Cafe serves up Italian fare for 80 years in Greensburg
Bob and Anna Jo Noviello knew the time had come to change the look of their Greensburg landmark on South Urania Avenue.
The establishment is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year.
Over an approximately three-year period, the owners of the Sunset Cafe revamped the interior of the restaurant, then tackled the outside of the building.
"We thought it was time to do a major face-lift to the front of our business and create a nicer atmosphere for our customers," Bob Noviello said.
The third-generation owners of the business plan to hold an outdoor block party from 1 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 14 to celebrate the anniversary and remodeling.
"Fair" foods such as sausage hoagies and pizza will be on the menu that day and sold outside the business, Anna Jo Noviello said.
The owners completed the exterior work earlier this summer. Workers added new stone to the lower half of the building, new siding, new windows and new signs.
Anna Jo Noviello said she was glad to get rid of street-level opaque block windows that once kept potential customers from looking inside. The block windows might have given passersby the impression that the business was only a bar, she said.
Inside, workers revamped the first-floor dining rooms, including the replacement of wooden paneling with plastered walls. They added new lighting, bench seating, a new foyer, a new waiting area and stacked stones for ambiance.
When workers replaced the bar, the work unearthed some bygone surprises, Anna Jo Noviello recalled.
They uncovered old menus, aspirin packets, bills and other items that since have been added to two display boxes in the cafe.
"It was just really unique stuff," Anna Jo Noviello said. "It's kind of like a time capsule."
The business' history started back in 1933, during the challenges brought by the Great Depression.
Bob Noviello's grandparents, Peter and Elvira Pantalone, operated a neighborhood mom-and-pop grocery on the current site, where they also lived and raised seven children. Peter Pantalone operated a shoe-repair business in the building.
The couple decided to take a chance and branch out into selling spaghetti and pizza.
They transformed their living space into a cozy dining area, and Elvira Pantalone began cooking up her recipes.
For one week, she served spaghetti to neighbors and guests free of charge, hoping for good feedback about her pasta, according to family lore.
Soon after, the Sunset Café was officially opened and began selling Italian cuisine in Greensburg.
Bob Noviello said his grandmother, in particular, inspired the notion of getting into the food business.
Over time, the family put a half-dozen tables outside for customers. A later addition was used by dancers during the Big Band craze in the 1940s, he said.
"They packed the place," Bob Noviello said.
Elvira Pantalone continued to operate the business into her 80s before she died in 1976.
Bob Noviello's brother, Jerry, bought the business from the estate, and he operated the restaurant until he sold it to Bob Noviello and his mother, Emily, in the 1980s.
Emily Noviello got out of the business later that decade, and her son and his wife began operating it by themselves, expanding the menu, Bob Noviello said.
One Google review praised its extensive gluten-free diet. One of Sunset's 1,432 Facebook fans said she has been going there 44 years, while another praised its crabcakes.
Alongside traditional fare like homemade plates of spaghetti with or without meatballs ($12-$14) and stuffed beef braciole ($20), the menu features delicacies such as spice-encrusted scallops ($28) with citrus buerre blanc, lemon risotto and a vegetable. Discounts are offered on pasta and pizzas on designated nights throughout the week, and wine specials are offered Tuesdays.
Noviello said he and his wife had no choice but to remodel the business at an undisclosed cost.
"We wanted to make it more enticing and inviting," he explained. "It was a lot of expense for us but it was something we needed to do."
Bob Stiles is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-836-6622 or email@example.com.


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It is said that true relationships are short-lived in the Bollywood industry. But, there are a few such bondings, which have managed to defy this norm. Superstar Shahrukh Khan and his best friend Karan Johar have been friends for the longest time and have been known to share a bond like no other.
SRK and KJo have remained the best of pals, ever since the very beginning of their career. Karan Johar had entered the film industry as an actor, playing Raj's (Shahrukh Khan) close friend in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Johar also made his directorial debut with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, in which Shahrukh played the male lead. Later, Karan directed films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, My Name Is Khan - All of these movies had SRK as the common lead.
It is said that SRK and Johar's friendship goes beyond all Bollywood business. Karan also share a great rapport with Khan's wife Gauri and children Aryan and Suhana. The filmmaker had once said that he considers Shahrukh Khan as his big brother.
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The navy said the damage to the sunken submarine was so great that the capsule, while making contact with the escape hatch, was unable to dock despite several attempts and then had to make an emergency ascent after running out of battery power, causing decompression damage to the six men on board.
The failure underlined pessimism that there would be any Russian breakthrough in opening the submarine. There have been no signs of life for days from the 118 submariners trapped inside. Dozens, if not all of them, are assumed dead. They include several senior navy officers not normally on the Kursk, but on board to observe the course of the war games during which the disaster struck last Saturday.
While the Russian capsule was unable to lock on to the escape hatch of the submarine, the British embassy in Moscow said the British LR5 rescue vessel, expected to rendezvous at the accident site later today, was "technically capable of connecting with the escape hatch on the Kursk".
Confronted by a chorus of ferocious criticism for his response to the tragedy, Mr Putin was forced on to the defensive yesterday, delivering only his second statement on the drama.
He said his first desire when he learned of the accident was to head to the Arctic from his holiday residence on the Black Sea, but he then reconsidered and decided he did not want to get in the way of the experts.
"I stopped myself and I think I did the right thing," Mr Putin said at Yalta in the Crimea where he cut short a summit meeting with regional leaders to return to Moscow last night after a week's holiday.
He denied that the navy had been slow to organise a rescue mission or that the government sought to put off accepting offers of western help. Mr Putin said his feelings when he learned of the tragedy were "vividly emotional", not least because he met the 45-year-old commander of the stricken submarine, Captain Gennady Lyachin, last November.
Despite Mr Putin's attempt to claw back his prestige after what has been the worst week of his presidency, the Russian media maintained their assault on the country's political and military leadership. The liberal politician Boris Nemtsov described Mr Putin's response to the tragedy as immoral.
In a devastating blow to the image of the discredited navy chiefs, the tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published the names and ranks of all 118 men on board the Kursk, declaring that it had had to bribe navy officers to the tune of more than £400 to obtain the list.
"We have finally lost all faith in the honour of our commanders," the newspaper commented. It said it had been asking the navy command for the list for days to no avail. The officers had been "hiding the lists of the crew from the country... and on the sly doing a deal on this 'super-secret' information".
The front two compartments of the Kursk were destroyed in the two explosions that sent the submarine to the seabed. The personnel located in these compartments included five senior submarine divisional officers from the northern fleet in addition to Capt Lyachin and the rest of the vessel's senior staff, according to the list.
Mr Putin reinforced the widespread feelings of hopelessness when he made a slip of the tongue in talking about the Arctic drama, strongly suggesting that he knew it was too late for survivors.
He referred to "the events which took place there", before quickly changing that to "which are taking place there".
While the government and the navy talks increasingly of the submarine having collided with another vessel at sea, a Russian television reporter on board a cruiser in the Barents Sea said foreign emergency buoys, coloured differently from Russian buoys, had been spotted at the scene of the disaster before disappearing.
This fed speculation in the Russian media that the Kursk had collided with a foreign vessel.
Navy sources dismissed the buoys report, although several officers have spoken of the possibility of a foreign craft being involved in the accident. There is no known evidence of damage to another vessel.


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Figure 10-4 - Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Selected Mode: 1992-2002
Figure 10-4 - Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Selected Mode: 1992-2002
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NOTES: Highway includes passenger cars, buses, light-duty trucks, and other trucks. Total does not include international bunker fuels. International bunker fuel emissions result from the combustion of fuels purchased in the United States but used for international aviation and maritime transportation. Thus, aircraft and ships and boats data, which are included in U.S. total emissions, involve only domestic activities of these modes as do all other data shown.
The large annual variations in ships and boats data may result from methodological problems related to the domestic/international partition of maritime fuels. Economic factors may also contribute.
SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990–2002 (Washington, DC: April 2004), table 2-9, available at http://www.epa.gov, as of May 2004.


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If you are stuck in one of the capital's maddening traffic jams, the souvenir shop comes to you.
Whistles, T-shirts, baseball caps, plastic horns are all thrust in your face.
Stick on flags are planted on car windows and in an attempt to win you over, the hawker pulls an expression which says: "Now you're in a REAL car."
For around $5 there are even red, gold and green wigs for those who fancy a change on top.
But smokers beware. Nylon wigs and cigarettes are a bad mix.
And there is little point in asking: "I like it but do you have it in blue?"
Over the past few months as questions were asked about the speed of preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations, many here have told me: "Don't worry. In Ghana we like to do things at the last minute.
"We will be ready."
Toilet trouble
And sure enough the new stadia are all in place and the grass is green.
But one hotel owner was just a shade too laid back.
When the guests from London arrived with their suitcases looking forward to a good sleep, the manager had to explain that the hotel was not yet entirely built.
The toilets were... invisible.
Perhaps someone had borrowed a design from the France '98 World Cup and opted for the Parisian hole in the floor style. But then there were also no beds.
Ghana has had plenty of practice at hosting recently. Last year there were 50th anniversary celebrations of Ghana's independence and then the African Union summit.
Hotels mushroomed (although Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi still opted for his tent) and prices soared.
But there is still a mad scramble for accommodation and some families have moved out of their own homes and doubled up at friends' houses in order to collect a tidy $250 a night for a three-bed house. $5,000 for three weeks in a strange bed is not bad.
Spiritual training
Ghanaians have massive expectations of their team.
These are the fans who were convinced Brazil would be a pushover in the last World Cup.
The Black Stars lost that game but I am not sure the referee would have received too many hugs if he had chosen Ghana for a beach holiday.
In addition to the players' physical preparation for the tournament, the fans are playing their part with spiritual training.
Last weekend special prayer sessions were held for Ghana's team in various churches around Accra and pastors in sharp suits screwed up their eyes and waved their arms as they shouted out:
"Jesus help our Black Stars lift this Cup. Oh Lord when our defence is stretched let the linesman's flag be raised high. Halleluiah! Amen."
"I'm not a football fan but Ghanaians are well versed when it comes to prayers, so obviously everybody should go to church and pray," says journalist Mildred Ataa.
One church on Accra 's Spintex Road has invited the entire congregation to stay behind after Sunday's service to watch the opening game against Guinea on giant screens and see if their prayers come true.
Turf war
It will certainly be easier to watch at the church than at the stadium, as tickets are as rare as snowflakes in Tamale.
"The point is the tickets came in secretly and were sold secretly. So what do we do?" asked sports enthusiast Benjamin Tewiah.
Down the coast in Takoradi there are reports of a looming turf war between the prostitutes.
The Ghanaian women of the night (and day) have sent out the first salvo, warning their Nigerian and Ivorian competitors to stay away.
In Accra, the prostitutes have apparently hiked their prices to new special tournament rates.
Why? The need to buy new dresses and shoes was the official excuse given.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Aids Commission has said it would provide free condoms at hotels but an official has warned: "That should not entice our women to flock the hotels looking for customers".
Football fever is here and it is more infectious than Ebola.
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Ridgewood has promoted Mike Bua as its next boys basketball coach, principal Andy Frelick announced Friday in an e-mail.
Bua has been an assistant with the Rams for six seasons. He takes over for Gary Anders, who resigned last month after 31 seasons of head coaching - one year before his time in the Deferred Retirement Option Program expires. Anders has said he intends to remain on as the school's athletic director next year.
"Mike has been a vital part of the basketball program and has been a lifelong Ridgewood supporter," Frelick said in an e-mail. "He bleeds orange and blue. The consensus of the committee was that Mike could keep up the strong tradition and excellence of the program set by retiring head coach Gary Anders."
Anders and Bua were not immediately available for comment.
Bua was one of four who applied to replace Anders. He appeared to be the favorite for several reasons including his familiarity with the program and his close relationship with Anders and the current team. Bua also was on campus as a teacher. That's significant because Ridgewood anticipates it will lose roughly 20 teaching positions with the opening of Fivay next fall. That meant Frelick could only offer the position as supplemental to an external candidate.
Bua is the second basketball coach hired this week, joining Oliver Simmons (Springstead).


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Celebrity goes the extra mile on this cruise: Celebrity Xpedition Cruise Review by Pear Tree
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Celebrity goes the extra mile on this cruise
Destination: South America
Embarkation: Other
All the naturalists were very good and we enjoyed the trips very much. The Zodiacs were fine, although some people had a struggle to get in and out of them when there was a swell. You do have to have a reasonable level of fitness to be able to get on and off these.
It was very sad to find out about the Galapagos National Park Authorities and their very unreasonable charges against Celebrity. We know from our cruise how seriously More Celebrity take their 'green' credentials and go above and beyond what is usual to make sure that the Galapagos Islands do not get damaged in any way. They also contribute a lot of money to the Park to help with all the conservation work. The letter from the Park Authorities was a bombshell to the crew - they were upset and couldn't believe that this had happened. There is a new boss of the Authority - if he is not careful, the action of the Authority will put off people going to the Galapagos (maybe that is what they want).
Our last full day was scheduled to go to the Charles Darwin Conservation Centre, but because of the restrictions imposed on Celebrity, the naturalists were unable to go with us. The general view about the Centre was that it seemed to be run-down, with no signage around to tell you where to go and what was available. We were very disappointed and felt that what should have been one of the highlights was spoilt. Not Celebrity's fault at all.
The only negative was the motion of the ship. We had 3 nights when it was really bad. I was prepared for the rocking motion and had taken lots of otc medicines like Dramamine, etc with me. BUT, it was seriously bad - I basically lost 3 nights' sleep and felt dreadful because the movement of the ship was so pronounced. There is now a 6th Deck on the Xpedition and the ship was built for 5 decks with the stabilisers to match. The ship really needs to go to dry dock and have the stabilisers changed - quite a few people were ill on the ship.
It was our dream trip and we had a wonderful time and will not forget the Celebrity crew who made that week so memorable. Don't be put off going to Galapagos and comments about eating a lot of lobster on the cruise is silly - it is widely available and people like it, hence it was on the menu a lot. I'm sure a lot of the other vessels in the area offer the same when it is in season. Celebrity has done nothing wrong and is clearly the victim, as are the people booked on forthcoming cruises who might not get the chance to have their dream holiday. Less
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I used to hate Jira when software development was the bulk of my responsibility. When I became more of an operational manager, I grew to love it. Now that I'm more of a strategic manager, I love the integration possibilities. We formerly used Trac and QuickBook's time tracking for billing, but getting developers to do double-entry accounting is not easy. We are now able to use Jira for both.
It's possible that one of the newer tools like Rally would overcome some of Jira's shortcomings with process and workflow, but we were already using Jira on premises and migrating to cloud-based Jira was totally painless. Also, swapping something central like an issue tracker used by both developers and operational people alike would be very disruptive.
Additionally, Jira integrates well with Google Apps for authentication. It also worked well when we used LDAP. Single sign-on has become increasingly important to us as we've grown.
I felt a little dubious about BitBucket at first. Atlassian's related product, FishEye, was terribly slow. On the other hand, BitBucket integrates with Google for authentication and integrates with Jira for history, timeline, and more. It's also cheaper than GitHub, since BitBucket charges per user, while GitHub charges per private repository -- and most of ours are private. (We use GitHub for our public repositories.)
We were overdue to move from Subversion to Git. We waited a good while because the IDE integration wasn't there, and Git's command-line interface is cumbersome, especially when onboarding junior staff. We took the time to do a general reorganization, so this was mostly a manual process. We've been happy with it -- although it does have one really frustrating "feature" that makes you pick a username that's unique to BitBucket and can't be an email address. If you're me, this means you either do acoliver42934 (which I loathe) or you end up with acoliverAndALotOfExpletivesJustFreakingWork.
As Drupal users, our natural cloud choice would seem to be Acquia, the best-known cloud-based Drupal offering. But good grief, Acquia wanted a crap load of money or its pricing was too confusing for us simple software developer folk. I tweeted in protest and the company said that if we were happy with an SLA that was less than what we needed, then the price wasn't so bad.
Synaxis CEO Paul Welty engaged me on Twitter, and for about $9k, we got what we needed. As far as I can tell, this is better than what Acquia offered, but Acquia has weird sliders and stuff that don't tell me whether I can get with some kind of 24/7 SLA. When our engineers tried to get a quote, it was something like $25,000 for our two sites (our DBA Bull City Mobile is used for mobile applications).
We've had outstanding service and performance with Synaxis. The company was also very helpful and supportive when we subsequently relaunched our website.
We needed to upgrade our Internet connection. We expect to be at nearly 50 people by the end of the year. It wasn't so much the downlink speed as our uplink speed.
The hidden cost is that we upgraded our Internet to 30-by-30 fiber from 50-by-5 cable. It took a long time for the salesman from Time Warner Cable to convince me that 50-by-5 was slower even on the downlink. True, if you're downloading a gigabyte file, it's debatable, but the ramp-up for most usage is far more latent with cable.
This is one of the areas where U.S. policy has really screwed up small business. The cable companies have been successful at lobbying states to make it hard for towns to band together to improve the Internet -- and they say this under the guise of free market. That "free market" they are protecting is cable giants' government-protected duopoly. If you don't live in Kansas or Austin, where Google is giving is selling gigabit connections for under $100, expect to pay through the nose. Yes, 30-by-30 costs $1,500 where we are, take it or leave it.
The system integration opportunity
Our finance department is still doing a number of things by hand that really should be reports or workflow; there's a hole in the cloud here. We've been schooling some of our developers on Google's scripting capabilities and hope to do some kind of mashup between Google Apps, Expensify, and Quickbooks -- or their successors. Mainly this would be monthly management reports and making certain repetitive tasks in Expensify automatic and integrated with Quickbooks for when we bill expenses to clients.
The cost
The total cost for all of the cloudy goodness is $21,000 per year for about 30 people, minus the Internet upgrade. This isn't easy for me to stomach, until I figure in outages, administration, hardware, and more.
There is also that other thing: I sleep better. There's a lot of fear of the cloud, some of it warranted. Yet, without question, I now know that some drunk can't take out my whole company with his SUV. I'll worry about China or the U.S. government some other time.
This article, "How my company went 100 percent cloud," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Keep up on the latest developments in application development and read more of Andrew Oliver's Strategic Developer blog at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Here comes the blitz. Squeelers are a big blitzing team with multiple packages to begin with but when then saw this stat you just know they'll be blitzing even more.
I'm surprised Rexy didn't blitz more because he's known for that too unless he pulled a Chicago where they didn't put someone over Gino but dropped more people into coverage to defense Joe. They won w/o pressuring Gino. No wonder he improved in Chicago. No one was coming at him or not as much. Squeelers will come at him ala TP by Oher a few years ago only Gino will have 350 pounders lining up over him.
Joe's QB rating w/o the blitz vs Jets was 137.5.
Joe's QB rating with the blitz vs Jets was 16.7.
This scares the shit out of me.
Reality: Joe Flacco had a QB rating of 137.5 when the Jets didn't blitz Sunday. When they did, it dropped to 16.7.
Perception: I think this says more about the offensive line than it does Joe Flacco. Give Joe time and he is really effective.


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I have a Meowsic that I got for Christmas that I want to hack into... I'm not quite sure what I want to do with it yet, but I'm wanting to crack it open and poke around without killing it, which happens to me a lot. I need some guidance as I explore it.Ā

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 Ā Āoh, yeah: any chance you can get there a bit
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 On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 13:15 -0800, Sean W. Mahan wrote:
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 > - Simple effects (e.g. fuzz) or tiny amplifiers from scratch, using little more than what you'd find in a CFL ballast or at a certain cellphone store
 > - Modifying manufactured effects to sound better / different
 > - AVR / Arduino based synths and noisemakers
 > - CMOS (4xxx) synthesizers
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I love Sunday night television. "Game of Thrones" with a "Mad Men" chaser, nothing is more satisfying! But in the last few weeks, I've noticed something. Theon Greyjoy on "Game of Thrones" is basically the Pete Campbell of Westeros. Think about it. Both are so pathetic you might feel sorry for them, if they weren't so loathsome. They both walk around with a chip on their shoulder and a gross sense of entitlement, and are nowhere near as awesome as their constant peacock-ing would have you believe. See what I mean? Henceforth, I'll just call them both Peon Campjoy! [Ed. Note: I know Theon's sister is named Asha in the books, but for the TV show, which is really what we're comparing in this context, her name was changed to Yara.]


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Yesterday while toying around with some wireless equipment, I got an error
about a missing tag in the config file.
The web interface stopped doing stuff, so I power cycled the box.
A few minutes later, the LAN light was lit up as a 10 meg connection only. I
couldn't connect to it though.
Eventually I took the plunge and carried a monitor and keyboard up into the
attic to troubleshoot the situation.
It appears my config.xml file was corrupt, and m0n0wall was refusing to do
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So I reset the settings, assigned IP and interfaces again, and rebooted. All
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However, I think it might be worth allowing a "failsafe" configuration,
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So, for example, it'd have a failsafe backup of the following options:
- Interface assignments
- Lan IP
- Username and password
- Web config settings (port, HTTP/HTTPS...)
This would mean that, in the event of a corrupt config file, the failsafe
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download the corrupt CONFIG.XML to fix it.
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If you don't like the wax on, wax off method of removing unwanted hair, you might want to try the new threading shop co-owned by James and Syamala Garnham.
Asian Eyebrow Threading, LLC opened in June 2009 inside Foothills Mall, 7401 N. La Cholla Blvd. Syamala worked her threading magic at a kiosk in the mall for about a month before the couple signed the lease on the small shop.
"Customers are very happy with this place," said Syamala, 39.
"It's the kind of thing that when one person does it, they tell all of their friends," said James, 50.
Syamala is from India, where threading is common. She and James, who is American, met through an Indian matrimonial Web site in 2005.
"He wants to marry an Indian lady. He likes Indian culture. In 2006, he came to India to meet my family," Syamala said. "On Sept. 23, 2007, I came here (the United States). On Nov. 17, we were married."
At the time, James lived in a Detroit suburb and worked as an automotive designer.
"She asked me for a couple of grand (to start a business) and I thought, it's not a good time to start a business. She tripled the family income," Garnham said.
"I learned this (threading) when I was 15 years old," Syamala said. "In India, this is common. We never wax the face, arms or legs."
After Garnham was laid off earlier this year, the couple moved to Tucson. Garnham said they visited his brother in Phoenix and liked Arizona. But Phoenix did not work out and they moved to Tucson. The couple recently hired a cosmetologist to offer makeup application and eyelash extensions.
Mary Sekich, 77, was in the shop on a recent Thursday afternoon with her daughter, Kathleen Sekich. "I really recommend this to anybody," Mary said.
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Over the last few years, significant research has been conducted in the construction of artificial bone scaffolds. In the present study, different types of polymer scaffolds, such as chitosan-alginate (Chi-Alg) and chitosan-alginate with fucoidan (Chi-Alg-fucoidan), were developed by a freeze-drying method, and each was characterized as a bone graft substitute. The porosity, water uptake and retention ability of the prepared scaffolds showed similar efficacy. The pore size of the Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds were measured from scanning electron microscopy and found to be 62–490 and 56–437 µm, respectively.
Bone, a complex and hierarchical tissue with a major portion made up of hydroxyapatite (HA) and collagen, plays a major role in the structural framework, mineral deposition, pH regulation and mechanical support. Bone defects or damages are possible in a number of ways, including motor accidents, birth defects and chronic diseases. Over 2.2 million-bone graft procedures are performed annually worldwide [
Chitin is a natural polysaccharide, and it is the most important polymer after cellulose. It occurs in the exoskeleton of arthropods or in the cells walls of fungi and yeast. An important derivative of chitin is chitosan. It is obtained by partial deacetylation of chitin using a chemical method (concentrated NaOH) or by enzymatic hydrolysis [
Fucoidan is a sulfated polysaccharide that contains
Hence, considering the biocompatibility, biodegradation, antibacterial nature, film-forming ability and induction of osteogenic differentiation by fucoidan, Chi and Alg, we aimed to report the synthesis and characterization of the newly developed Chi-Alg biocomposite containing fucoidan for bone tissue engineering.
In this study, scaffolds were fabricated by a freeze-drying method. The Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds were found to be stiff and inelastic. Chi-Alg scaffolds were observed in a colorless state, whereas Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds obtained a pale brown color, which is due to the dispersion of fucoidan in the composites. By the visual observation (
Alginate is an anionic polymer that possesses the ability to form strong electrostatic interaction with cationic polymers. In this case, the cationic charged amine group of the chitosan unit interacted electrostatically with the negatively charged alginate to form a polyelectrolyte mixture. The addition of fucoidan in the Chi-Alg may make more complex ionic interactions possible. Several studies suggested that hydrogen bonding or ion-ion pair interaction between the components usually increases the uniform dispersion [
Graphical representation of the chemical interaction of fucoidan incorporated alginate (Alg)-chitosan (Chi) composite scaffolds.
Fourier transform infrared spectrum of (
The alginate spectrum shows the characteristic peak at 1623 cm−1, which corresponds to the carboxylate group (C=O). In addition, a strong intense peak was observed at 3446 cm−1, corresponding to the –OH group. The symmetric stretching frequency of the carboxyl group was observed at 1418 cm−1, whereas 1098–1026 cm−1 shows the asymmetric stretching frequency. Chitosan shows vibration at 3433 cm−1 (–OH and N-H stretching vibrations), 2855 cm−1 (C-H stretch), 1640 cm−1 (amide I), 1575 cm−1 (N-H bending of amine) and 1029 cm−1 (skeletal vibration of C-O stretching frequency).
On the other hand, in the case of Chi-Alg, an intense peak was observed at 1613 cm−1, corresponding to the superposition of the bands assigned to the carboxylate group of alginate and the amine group of chitosan. The interaction from electrostatic interaction between the carboxylate group of alginate and the amine group of chitosan forms a polyelectrolyte complex. The results are consistent with previous studies [
Fucoidan exhibits its characteristic bands at 1210–1280 cm−1 assigned to the (S=O) group and a sharp band at 842 cm−1 assigned to the sulfate group in fucoidan [
The porosity of the prepared scaffolds was measured through the liquid displacement method using ethanol. The results suggest that the porosity of the scaffolds are >90%. The porosity of the Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds were measured as 94.5% ± 0.5% and 94.9% ± 0.2%, respectively. Greater than 90% total porosity was observed for the polymeric scaffold, which could be an added advantage for tissue engineering purposes [
The water uptake ability of the scaffolds is measured by the swelling behavior of the scaffold in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) solution. The water uptake and retention ability of the Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan were studied by immersing these scaffolds in 1× PBS solution (
The study of the protein adsorption of the prepared scaffold plays a significant role in
The surface morphology, pore distribution and pore size of Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan were examined using scanning electron microscopy analysis (
High and low magnification SEM micrographs of (
Pukyong National University (PKNU).
The toxicity and biocompatibility of the prepared scaffolds are important concerns before proceeding to the
Cell viability of the Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan composite scaffolds with the MG-63 cell line.
The measured ALP activity of the scaffolds are shown in
Alkaline phosphatase activity of the Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds.
The low molecular weight of fucoidan suggested that it has the capacity to promote osteoblast proliferation, increase fibrillar collagen content and induce mineralization, which is essential for bone tissue growth [
Quantitative measurement of minerals by the cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) method: (
Alginate (3% w/v) was dissolved in 100 mL of water by using a mechanical stirrer (RW 20.n Lobortechik, Wasserburg, Germany) for 1 h to make a homogeneous solution. Secondly, chitosan (1% w/v, 310 kDa and 90%) was dissolved in 50 mL of 2% acetic acid solution and was carefully added into the alginate solution, with the help of a dropper. The homogeneous gel solution was stirred at 500 rpm for 1–2 h at room temperature. This gel solution was transferred into the tissue culture dish (35 × 10 mm2) and frozen at −24 °C for 1 day and freeze dried to form scaffolds. These scaffolds were immersed or cross-linked with 10% CaCl2 solution for 30 min, followed by soaking in absolute ethyl alcohol for 10 min. Finally, scaffolds were washed with an excess amount of water and freeze dried again for experimentation. In the present study, we have used Chi and Alg in a 3:1 weight ratio for the Chi-Alg scaffold fabrication.
One hundred milligrams of fucoidan were added into the alginate solution, as prepared above, with the help of a dropper. This solution was mechanically stirred for 1 h to dissolve the entire fucoidan in the alginate solution to form a homogenous solution. Finally, chitosan (1% w/v) was dissolved in 50 mL of 2% acetic acid solution and was carefully added into the alginate-fucoidan solution, with the help of a dropper. This chitosan-alginate-fucoidan gel solution was transferred into the tissue culture dish, and the rest of the procedure was followed as described for the chitosan-alginate scaffold preparation. Ratios of Chi, Alg and Fucoidan of 3:1:0.1 weight were used in the construction of the Chi-Alg-fucoidan system.
FT-IR was used to characterize and to know the chemical interactions between the Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds. The spectra of the chitosan, alginate, fucoidan, Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan composite scaffolds were recorded using the KBr pellet method in an FT-IR spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer, Waltham, MA, USA) with the range of 4000 cm−1 to 400 cm−1.
The total porosity was determined by the liquid displacement method. Initially, the volume of the ethanol and the dry weight of the scaffolds were measured. Then, the scaffold was immersed into the dehydrated alcohol for 48 h until absorbing the alcohol saturated it, and the scaffold was weighed again. Finally, the porosity of the sample was calculated based on the following formula:
Three parallel sets were analyzed for every scaffold, and the mean value of the porosities of different scaffolds was achieved.
The water uptake and retention ability of scaffold were studied, as described in our previous study [
The protein adsorption ability of the Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds was measured, as per a previous report [
The rate of degradation of the biocomposite scaffolds was studied according to the previous method [
The pore size and surface morphology of the biocomposite scaffolds were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM JSM-6490LV, JEOL, Tokyo, Japan). Briefly, scaffold samples were cut into small pieces and fixed on carbon tape, then dried under vacuum and gold coated before examining under SEM. In addition, optical microscopy was also performed with the prepared scaffolds using an optical microscope (CTR 6000; Leica, Wetzlar, Germany).
The scaffolds (Chi-Alg and Chi-Alg-fucoidan) were cut into small pieces and placed in 24-well plates and incubated with cell culture media (DMEM) for 4 h at 37 °C in an incubator with 5% CO2 and 95% air. The MTT assay was used to measure the cytotoxicity of the prepared scaffolds. Osteosarcoma MG-63 cells with the concentration of 1 × 105 cells/100 μL were seeded dropwise on the small pieces of scaffold and incubated at 37 °C. The cell culture media was removed on the respective days and incubated with fresh medium containing 200 μL of MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazole-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium) for 4 h in darkness. After the incubation period, the MTT dye was removed, followed by the addition of 200 μL DMSO to solubilize the formazan crystals, and optical densities (OD) were determined at 570 nm using a spectrophotometer (GENios R microplate reader; Tecan Austria GmbH, Grodig, Austria).
For ALP activity, scaffolds were immersed in 500 µL of osteogenic differentiation medium (ODM) in 24-well culture plate for 3 h, and 5 × 104 cells/mL of MG-63 cells were seeded on the plate and kept for 7 days in the incubator. The ODM was replaced every 2 days. After the incubation, cells were rinsed with PBS, and 100 µL of 25 mM carbonate buffer (pH 10.3) containing 0.2% Tritox X-100 were added. Each well of the plate was transferred with 50 µL of 250 mM carbonate buffer (pH 10.3) containing 2.5 mM MgCl2 and 15 mM
The mineralization assay was performed by alizarin red S stain. Briefly, scaffolds were immersed in ODM in a 24-well plate for 3 h. After 3 h, MG-63 cells were seeded dropwise into the plate (5 × 103 cells/100 µL). The media were changed every 2 days until 14 days, then the media were removed. The cells were washed twice by PBS and fixed in 70% ethyl alcohol for 1 h at room temperature. The ethyl alcohol-fixed cells and scaffolds were stained with 40 mM alizarin red S (pH 4.1) for 10 min. Cells were washed with deionized water five times and with PBS two times, then the cells were incubated in 10 mM of sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) containing 10% of cetylpyridium chloride for 15 min. The optical density was measured at 562 nm using a GENios R microplate reader (Tecan Austria GmbH, Grodig, Austria).
All the data are expressed as means ± the standard deviation of a minimum of three replicates for each scaffold in each experiment, using Graphpad Prism 5.0.
In this study, we prepared two different types of composite scaffolds. Chemical ionic interactions were observed between chitosan, alginate and fucoidan, which led to the improved bioactivity of the scaffolds. The addition of negatively charged and sulfated fucoidan in Chi-Alg showed a better activity towards bone tissue regeneration. Owing to the great water uptake ability, sufficient porosity, enhanced protein adsorption and increased mineralization effects, the Chi-Alg-fucoidan scaffolds would be promising biomaterials for bone tissue engineering.
This work was supported by a grant from the Marine Bioprocess Research Centre of the Marine Bio 21 Center funded by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime, Korea.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's meetings at the White House and with top officials became much more frequent after President George Bush took office in January 2001, according to records released to an academic under the Freedom of Information Act.
As terrorism and war replaced concerns about financial instability as the top-tier threats to the US economy, Dr Greenspan broadened the group of officials with whom he maintains frequent contacts to include the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the White House chief of staff, Andrew Card, and the Secretary of State, Colin Powell.
Dr Greenspan does not discuss his consultations and Bush officials he met also declined to talk.
But a Federal Reserve spokeswoman, Michelle Smith, said Dr Greenspan met foreign policy officials to discuss international economic policy. Middle East instability and its potential effects on the world oil supply have become key concerns. Another topic is the interplay of economic and foreign policy issues.
The Federal Reserve's ability to conduct monetary policy without regard to political fallout is thought to be key to its credibility in financial markets.
Dr Greenspan maintains public contact with Administration officials. But the Federal Reserve has been seen as so independent early in his 17-year tenure as chairman that some in the first Bush White House blamed him for contributing to their 1992 election loss to Bill Clinton.
President George W. Bush said last week he is renominating Dr Greenspan to a fifth term.
Kenneth Thomas, a lecturer in finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, questions the frequent contact.
"There's the appearance that [Greenspan] might not just be affected by economic winds, but possibly by political winds," said Dr Thomas, who obtained records of Dr Greenspan's appointments going back to 1996 and published his findings in The American Banker last month.
Dr Thomas praised Dr Greenspan's performance as Federal Reserve chairman. But he noted that Dr Greenspan provided crucial support for the Bush tax cuts, and advocates making them permanent.
Dr Greenspan's meetings mark "a huge and historic shift," said Donald Kettl, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Professor Kettl said the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and following war probably prompted discussions between Dr Greenspan and foreign policy officials "because of the fear that terrorism could have a dramatic impact on the economy". But even so, the numbers indicate "a stunning rise and increase in the level of communication, and one can only wonder what they were talking about," he said.
The records show that Dr Greenspan has called on the White House Council of Economic Advisers about as often during Mr Bush's years as he did in the four years of President Clinton's second term.
But the number of appointments with other White House officials jumped sharply with the new administration, from an average of three per year from 1996 through 2000, to 44 per year in 2001 through 2003.
The chairman has met the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, at least 17 times; the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, 11 times; Dr Rice, 12 times; Mr Card, six times; Mr Powell, once; and deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, twice.
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Princess 19 on 21 Jul 2011 at 2:00pm
Apparently, Tinseltown is all abuzz over a new gadget that "irons" out wrinkles. If only it were that easy...
The ageLOC Galvanic Spa System II by NuSkin supposedly dissipates wrinkles and age spots on top of the normal exfoliation and toning that most facial machines out there already do.
You have to use the recommended creams and gels (of course) for the ultimate results along with the gadget. But, with regular use, your "rejuvenated face" should show smaller pores and less signs of aging. According to the Daily Mail, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and various other giltterati are red carpet fans. Whip out your wrinkle zapper before Cannes?
The device uses an electric current - along with the NuSkin creams/gels - to penetrate the skin and "transform" its appearance. Electric current + wet gel on your face? That does NOT sound painless. I'd be a little skeptical and scared to try this at home. Also frightened by the price. At $325 (via corporate website discount) not including the basically-required creams/gels, Botox seems like a bargain.
First zapping your hair and now zapping your wrinkles at home? You better have great confidence in your "home skills." I'd rather visit the doctor's office.
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TEL AVIV (Feb. 5)
Security sources revealed tonight that a terrorist network has succeeded in smuggling large quantities of explosives, detonators and demolition material into the country. A number of Arabs from Nablus have been detained in the course of an investigation that began 10 days ago, the sources said.
At that time, two Nablus Arabs were arrested at Haifa port while trying to clear two crates consigned to them through customs. The crates were found to contain about 40 kilograms of plastic explosives. Security officials learned afterwards that this was the third consignment smuggled into the country. The two previous consignments passed through customs undetected.


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Leiden, The Netherlands (SPX) Apr 19, 2006
According to Dutch researchers, if you want to know what the average citizen thinks about new energy options then make sure you inform them properly first. Respondents who are not well informed, only give 'pseudo opinions' which are too fickle to base policy on. This emerges from psychological research into what the Dutch think about various forms of energy generation from fossil fuels in combination with CO2 storage.
When energy is generated from fossil fuels, the greenhouse gases produced contribute to climate change. By capturing the CO2 produced and storing it underground, a major objection to the use of fossil fuels can be overcome. Researchers Marjolein de Best-Waldhober and Dancker Daamen asked a cross-section of the Dutch population (1005 respondents) how acceptable they would find six different forms of energy generation from fossil fuels in combination with CO2 storage. They used the ICQ method (Information-Choice Questionnaire) for this.
First of all they provided the respondents with an explanation about climate change and fossil fuels. Subsequently they gave them extensive expert information made accessible for lay people about the various technologies. A careful procedure ensured that this expert information was accurate and balanced.
After that the respondents had to indicate how positive or negative they estimated the consequences of these technologies to be. Finally they scored each technology on a scale of 1-10. On average the technologies were rated between 6.0 and 6.5. Technologies which made use of natural gas were rated slightly higher than those using coal. Only 1 to 6 percent of the respondents considered the large-scale application of the technologies to be unacceptable.
Pseudo-Opinions Useless
A comparable group of Dutch people who had received no information and were presented with a traditional questionnaire, were on average slightly more negative about the six technologies. Interestingly high percentages of the respondents first stated that they had never heard of the technology and then despite this scored the technology concerned in the following question instead of using the possibility to refrain from evaluation.
These scores were highly unstable. They changed if the respondents received information containing few facts, but also if they had to complete the same questions again 12 minutes later after a distracting task. The researchers concluded that these uninformed opinions are in effect 'pseudo opinions', which say nothing about the public acceptance of the technologies with CO2 storage.
The research was carried out at Leiden University in close cooperation with Utrecht University and with CATO, the Dutch research programme in the area of CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage (www.co2-cato.nl). The research is part of the programme 'Transition to sustainable use of fossil fuels', financed by the NWO/SenterNovem Stimulation Programme Energy Research.
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Dutch researcher Yvonne van Breugel analysed rocks from seabeds millions of years old. Carbon occurs naturally in two stable forms; atomic mass 12 (99 percent) and atomic mass 13 (1 percent). Episodes in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were characterised by a relatively strong increase in 12C.
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Basically that is the value that getting to the playoffs and winning two games has added to this team. It has made people realize that this team has the potential to go far, with one or two major additions we may make conference finals.
With regards to his game Elton Brand is about the perfect fit. He will give us the low post scorer that we lack and will help our rebounding.
Will he be willing to take a (huge) pay cut to join us? I don't think a sign-and-trade would be feasible they would probably ask for too much.
If Brand comes over and he manages to stay fit we'll be in good stead.
(back after few days, new job, new town etc... great to have always some good Sixers coverage on your blog Brian)
seems like Brand would love to come to Philly. interesting...
I also like the Zach Randolph trade, I think he would be good for us, and the Mike Miller rumor is interesting as well... all good deals to me, let's see if we can pull the trigger on one of them
anyway the main point is that Sixers seem to have a lot of options (finally !!) and for the first summer in a long time I am NOT afraid of what our GM will pull out of his arse :-)
i'm really excited about this offseason for the 1st time in awhile...i think if we are able to add brand AND mike miller that we will be a force in the east..stefanski is the man for the job and i have full confidence that he will make the right moves...i cannot wait...goooooo sixers/phillies/e-a-g-l-e-s eaglesssssssssss!!!
Yes all of those are good trades, but remember we also need a shooter too, Sixers we one of worst teams in 3 point %, and 3 pointers made


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NIGERIA: In key ruling, court deems gas-flaring illegal
November 15th, 2005
Issuing a landmark ruling that opens the way for compensation claims against oil conglomerates, a court in Nigeria has declared the flaring of natural gas illegal.
US: Small-town doctor takes on corporate health-care giant
by Tony Messenger
Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune
November 15th, 2005
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November 13th, 2005
Neighbors of a toxic mine site in Nevada want to know why an oil company responsible for its cleanup won't fence off nearly 6 square miles of mill tailings and ponds.
INDIA: Health Minister: 'Coke Plant Will Not Be Allowed to Function'
The Hindu
October 25th, 2005
Health Minister K.K. Ramachandran on Monday said the Government "would not allow the bottling plant of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. at Plachimada to reopen against the will of the people." (Mr. Ramachandran is the first Minister to have visited Plachimada where the local people have been waging an agitation for the last three years demanding the closure of the company for allegedly exploiting the groundwater, leading to shortage of water for drinking and irrigation purposes.)
ECUADOR: Amazon Indians say Texaco left damage
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October 20th, 2005
About 50 Cofan Indians, some holding handkerchiefs over their faces to fend off an acrid chemical stench, gathered around two contaminated open pits they say were left behind and never adequately cleaned up by the former Texaco Corp.
US: Smoking the fast-food industry: Fight against warning labels reminiscent of tobacco fray
by Thomas Kostigen
October 6th, 2005
The state of California is suing nine top food manufacturers, including Burger King, Heinz and McDonald's, over their reluctance to issue warnings that some of their snacks could contain the potentially cancer-causing chemical acrylamide. Acrylamide was found to be linked to cancer in 2002. Then, the Swedish Food Administration reported high levels of it in carbohydrate-rich foods, such as french fries and potato chips, cooked at high temperatures. Studies indicated the chemical caused cancer in rats.
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September 12th, 2005
Months before the Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert in June about problems with Guidant Corporation heart devices, the agency received a report from the company showing that some of those units were short-circuiting, agency records obtained by The New York Times show.
US: Vioxx Verdict Raises Profile of Texas Lawyer
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The New York Times
August 22nd, 2005
Merck is found liable for the death of Robert C. Ernst, who died in 2001 after taking Merck's painkiller Vioxx for eight months. The jury awarded $253.5 million to Carol Ernst, Mr. Ernst's widow and Mr. Lanier's client, in one of the largest damage awards ever to a single plaintiff.
US: Drug Industry Creates Voluntary Ad Guidelines
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Dow Jones
August 3rd, 2005
Responding to increased criticism from Congress, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, announced a set of voluntary guidelines aimed at governing the way drugs are advertised to consumers.
US: Wal-Mart Is Focal Point Of Democrats' Health Bill
by By Amy Joyce
Washington Post
June 23rd, 2005
Several congressional Democrats introduced a bill that would force states to report the names of companies that have 50 or more employees who receive government-funded health care, an effort to pressure Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in particular to improve employee health coverage.
US: Health Care for People Too Busy for Doctor Visits
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June 22nd, 2005
Speed and convenience aren't the only reasons these clinics are popping up at Target stores, CVS pharmacies and supermarkets. It's also good for business.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. won't push new drugs in that way for at least a year. The change comes amid criticism of the industrywide practice.
PERU: Mining Groups Struggle to Operate
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Financial Times
June 4th, 2005
US: Despite Vow, Drug Makers Still Withhold Data
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New York Times
May 31st, 2005
Chemicals May Damage Male Babies
May 27th, 2005
Chemicals found in many everyday products can harm male reproductive development, research suggests.
NICARAGUA: Chiquita's Children
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In These Times
May 23rd, 2005
In the 70s and 80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon, to protect their crops in Nicaragua. Today, the men and women who worked on those plantations suffer from incurable illnesses. Their children are deformed. The companies feign innocence.
WORLD: The Truth about McDonald's and Children
by by Morgan Spurlock
May 22nd, 2005
Obesity rates in American children remained stable throughout the 1960s, but they began to climb in the 1970s. In the past 20 years, the rate of obesity has doubled in children and trebled in teenagers. Kids are starting to clock in as obese as early as the age of two. If we find that surprising, we shouldn't.
US: Is Fast Food Just What the Doctor Ordered?
by Melanie Warner
New York Times
May 2nd, 2005
In the last two years, at least two dozen leading nutrition scientists and experts have started working for large food companies, either as consultants or as members of health advisory boards. Most do not directly promote products, though Dr. Arthur Agatston, a practicing cardiologist and author of "The South Beach Diet," has a licensing deal with Kraft Foods to sell a line of South Beach foods, which are appearing on supermarket shelves this month.
LATIN AMERICA: AIDS Patients See Life, Death Issues in Trade Pact
by Marla Dickerson and Evelyn Iritani
LA Times
April 22nd, 2005
Under CAFTA American pharmaceutical giants would gain a five-year edge on the development of new drugs by low-cost competitors. Generic versions of name-brand drugs are the main weapon for battling the AIDS pandemic in the developing world.
US: Jury Rules for Philip Morris
by Myron Levin
LA Times
April 22nd, 2005
A Moreno Valley man didn't prove that smoking caused his lung cancer, the panel decides after less than three hours of deliberations.
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