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The scenery approaching Raweneis a panorama of rolling hills set in the sparkling water of the Hokianga harbour.
However, the first impression on driving down the hill into the township itself if of the immaculately maintained historic buildings. Rawene was built in the early settler period and the town is proud of its history and beautiful environment. Buildings like Clendon house are open to the public and it is well worth taking the time to go inside and have a look.
Other Historic buildings are in good use such as the Ferry House Restaurant, Postmasters Boutique Hotel, The Boat Shed Cafe, Masonic Hotel and more. Be sure to check out all of your options for eating out in Rawene.
The shallow waters around Rawene become mud flats at low tide and feature beaches of mangroves. Mangroves provide a very important role in the ecology of our harbour coastline and a recent addition to the town is a boardwalk constructed to take you on a tour through the mangroves. It makes for a very pleasant walk, especially after enjoying lunch or dinner at one of the local restaurants or cafes.
When you are finally ready to leave, simply drive onto the car ferry, which leaves every hour for Kohukohu where you can take the scenic, back route to Kaitaia and the far North.
Along with wonderful scenery, quality restaurants, beautifully maintained historic buildings and a quiet walk with a difference, Rawene has everything covered. Even the public toilet is something to be proud of.


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Celebrity Millennium South East Asia Northbound Cruise: Celebrity Millennium Cruise Review by scarlettpossum
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Celebrity Millennium South East Asia Northbound Cruise
Destination: Asia
Embarkation: Singapore
Embarkation: Embarkation was at noon but we were told that there had been a norovirus outbreak on the previous cruise so this would be delayed by 1 hour. This did not happen and the embarkation process was fast and smooth and we were having a drink and lunch in the Oceanview Café by 1.15pm. We could not go to our cabin until 3pm but this was no inconvenience at all.
Cabin: We have previously had balcony cabins but chose an oceanview this time - cabin 3065 - third deck midship. I have to say this was very convenient. Straight up the corridor to Guest Relations, Shore Excursions etc and one floor up to the Martini Bar and main More restaurant. This is obviously not a Solstice class ship and the bathrooms are not as opulent but we were happy with our cabin. I have to say that on our previous cruises we had a balcony cabin which I really missed. However, as Asia was so hot, I do not know how much time we would have spent on the balcony. Our cabin attendant was very good.
Food: We ate most meals in the main dining room. Our one gripe on all cruises is that the food is never hot enough. With Hubby being a Health Inspector, he freaks out about this. The good was good without being wow - very American obviously. We only found out about 10 days into the cruise that there was a separate Asian menu. I wish we had known this a lot earlier as we found this much better. We rarely ate in the buffet - not a fan at all and apart from the station that cooks food to order in the evening, did not really enjoy it. We ate several meals in Bistro on Five ($5 cover charge). Food again was Ok without being great. The exception was the Tom Yum Gai Soup which was so good that we asked for the recipe.
Drinks Package: We were given the Classic Beverage Package as a free extra. We upgraded to the Premium Package for an extra $11 per day and were very glad that we did. I mainly drink NZ Sauvignon Blanc which was $9.50 per glass or Chandon Bubbles which were $10 per glass. We had several martinis - $11 each and other cocktails. Large bottles of Evian water were also included, as was coffees in Café al Bacio and juices and smoothies in the Aqua Spa Café on Deck 10.
Overall experience: We met so many wonderful people on this cruise. The staff, as always are amazing. We loved Katut and Yasa in the Martini Bar and Moses and Bruce in the Cosmos Bar were great fun as were the staff in the Casino.
We do not go to the shows but did see a comedian one night who was very good. We also attended and participated in the improv comedy events and really enjoyed them.
I enjoyed this cruise the most of the 3 that we have been on. Not for the itinerary as we really loved the Mediterranean, but we just found the Millennium to be a really friendly ship. I would cruise on her again in a heartbeat. Less
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2. Outgoing Chair's Report (Forman)
3. Vice Chair's Report (Schroeder)
4. Budget Exercise Status Report
5. UHPA-UH Contract "Fallout"
6. Articulation of PHIL 110
7. Distinguished Lecture Series
8. Educational Entrepreneurship Task Force
9. Senate Finances
10. Other Business
Present: Meda Chesney-Lind, Martha Crosby, David Flynn, Michael Forman, Thomas Hilgers, Roger Lukas, Jill Nunokawa, Frank Sansone, Thomas Schroeder, and Charlotte Mitsutani.
Vice Chair Schroeder called the meeting to order at 3:04 pm.
1. The minutes of the May 19, 2003 meeting were approved as corrected. The work of outgoing SEC secretary Frank Sansone was applauded.
- Between May 20 and May 29, the chair attended four administration-called meetings dealing with UHM's budget. Lukas, Sansone, and Schroeder participated in some of the meetings.
- Forman chairs the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Search Committee. The search is ongoing; however, 64 applications were in the committee's hands on May 28 and were on that date reviewed. On May 29, the search committee chose 12 applicants from the 64; each will be invited to participate in a video or telephone interview. The search committee hopes to bring 3 or 4 final candidates for campus visits in late August.
- An 1-page overview on Language, Culture, and Area Studies has been completed. A group of specialists will use that paper as a jumping-off point for a "study paper" on how these areas are administratively organized on other campuses.
- Forman conveyed SEC's views on the faculty mentoring program to the Chancellor. Follow-up discussions continue.
- The 2003 WASC Special Visit Report is circulating among special visit participants. The Chancellor is eager to make the report available to the larger community.
- Issues relating to UHM's Kakaako development are under discussion in several quarters.
- New SEC member Jill Nunokawa will be the Senate Parliamentarian for the coming year.
- The Budget Exercise Committee continues to meet; member Schoeder voiced concern that, because of faculty absences during summer, the Arts and Humanities may be under represented on the committee. The four SEC members on the committee reported on the committee's agenda and procedures to date.
- Implications of some provisions of the new partial contract are difficult to predict. Members noted recent concerns voiced by units that employ faculty members with soft-money sources.
- The University Council on Articulation is trying to achieve a "more permanent resolution" to issues raised by a May 14 memo from interim VPAA Neubauer regarding PHIL 110. SEC discussed issues and received a list of potential Manoa faculty participants in the next round of discussions from Jeanne Oka, chair of GEC and member of UCA. Vice chair Schroeder will contact faculty members on the list about availability and consult Oka before campus nominations are sent to UCA Chair Karl Kim.
- A draft charter for governing this series was distributed and discussed. Schroeder will convey SEC suggestions on faculty participation to VCAA.
- SEC discussed the proposed "areas of focus" and processes for facilitating balanced review of issues. Schroeder will convey suggestions to the Chancellor.
- Potential nominees for task force membership were discussed. Senate office secretary Charlotte Mitsutani will contact a list of faculty members about their willingness to serve and will report her findings to SEC.
- Outgoing Chair Forman reported that funds promised to support the General Education Office during 02-03 have now been transferred to the appropriate accounts. Further, funding for both the GEO and the Faculty Senate for 03-04 have been orally approved by VCAA Kim, who indicated a willingness to sign formal allocations.
- Discussion revealed a consensus: Recurring line-item allocations should be provided for the Senate, General Education Office, and General Education Committee. Additional funds should be available for special projects, such as specific GEC assessment initiatives.
- Discussion revealed consensus in two areas: the need to provide electronic balloting for Senate affairs, and the desirability of establishing a ready electronic means for communication with and among faculty members.
There being no further business, the meeting ended at approximately 5:25 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Thomas Hilgers
Next meetings: June 9: SEC on call; June 16, SEC meet at 3:00 p.m.; June 25, SEC meet with Chancellor at 3 p.m.


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There are numerous variations to charting by exception—virtually every facility that uses such a system does it differently—but the general rule is that only unusual or unexpected findings, or those outside the norm, are recorded. Charting by exception does not necessarily result in patient records that give an incomplete picture, but minimizing documentation is risky. Nurses' notes with few explanations, little description of key findings, or no mention of periodic patient checks could be construed as negligence by a plaintiff's attorney guided by the premise, not charted, not done.
A lack of detail could compromise patient safety as well. A patient's medical record is expected to accurately reflect his current condition, and a chart that's missing pertinent information could fail to alert other clinicians to potential problems or complications. Well-designed flow sheets are a key part of a good charting-by-exception system. But this form of documentation should also call for notes concerning any significant indicator of the patient's condition or change in status, any subsequent interventions and the patient's response.
Observations call for specific detail: Record the color, consistency and quantity of wound drainage—"about the size of a quarter," for example— rather than noting only that the dressing was "very bloody." Significant deficits such as lethargy or lack of response should be charted as well. If charting by exception is the rule at your facility, pay strict attention to the parameters and exactly what you're expected to include in the patient record. If you're still uncertain, discuss the issue with your supervisor or an administrator, and ask for a written charting policy.
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Docket: 02N-0209 - Request for Comment on First Amendment Issues
Comment Number: EC -144
Accepted - Volume 2
Comment Record
Dr. David Laurentz
2002-07-03 11:26:13
Dr. David Laurentz
Health Professional
Comments for FDA General
1. Are there arguments for regulating speech about drugs more comprehensively than, for example, about dietary supplements? What must an administrative record contain to sustain such a position? In particular, could FDA sustain a position that certain promotional speech about drugs is inherently misleading, unless it complies with FDA requirements? Does anything turn on whether the speech is made to learned intermediaries or to consumers? What is the evidentiary basis of such a distinction?
Are there arguments for regulating speech about SUV's because they don't get a certain mileage? Yes of course, but it would be wrong, at least in the USA. The FDA could sustain such a position, but why single out the industry? Couldn't we say the same about most anything? The prescription drug industry already has people qualified to sift through the ads, MD's and DO's. No it doesn't turn on who the speech is made to, because the final common pathway is still a presription.
2. Is FDA's current position regarding direct-to-consumer and other advertisements consistent with empirical research on the effects of those advertisements, as well as with relevant legal authority? What are the positive and negative effects, if any, of industry's promotion of prescription drugs, biologics, and/or devices? Does the current regulatory approach and its implementation by industry lead to over-prescription of drugs? Do they increase physician visits or patient compliance with medication regimes? Do they cause patient visits that lead to treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry lead to adequate treatment for under-diagnosed diseases? Do they lead to adequate patient understanding of the potential risks associated with use of drugs? Does FDA's current approach and its implementation by industry create any impediments to the ability of doctors to give optimal medical advice or prescribe optimal treatment?
This is framed wrong. Are car ads to get people to buy more cars or to buy a certain brand? There a probably a billion arms length negotiations everyday done by competent individuals who do not need your help. This is not your job.
3. May FDA distinguish claims concerning conventional foods from those relating to dietary supplements, taking into account limits on claims that can be made about foods in the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, 21 U.S.C. 301, 321, 337, 343, 371? What must an administrative record contain to sustain or deny claims on food labels? How can information best be presented in a succinct but non-misleading fashion? To what extent do assertions in claims need qualifications or disclaimers added to the label to avoid any misconceptions that consumers may draw? Is there a basis to believe that consumers approach claims about conventional foods and dietary supplements differently?
Obesity is an epidemic after 20 years of advice, and now 10 year olds are being diagnosed with 'adult onset' diabetes. Is there any evidentiary evidence that any of this labeling has made any difference? Of course anyone with a paternalistic view of a certain theory will be able to find something to distract, such as fast food supersizing, but this is all totally nonevidence based.
4. Should disclaimers be required to be in the same (or smaller or larger) size of type and given equal prominence with claims? Is there any relevant authority or social science research on this issue?
Has this been shown to cause anyone to not start, or to stop smoking?
5. How can warnings be made most effective in preventing harm while minimizing the chances of consumer confusion or inattention? Is there any evidence as to which types of warnings consumers follow or disregard?
See 1 and 4.
6. What arguments or social science evidence, if any, can be used to support distinguishing between claims made in advertisements and those made on labels? Does the First Amendment and the relevant social science evidence afford the Government greater latitude over labels?
I don't believe the First Amendment was intended by its authors to do that.
7. Would permitting speech by manufacturer, distributor, and marketer about off-label uses undermine the act's requirement that new uses must be approved by the FDA? If so, how? If not, why not? What is the extent of FDA's ability to regulate speech concerning off-label uses?
No, because the power of the FDA ultimately rests on its credibility to the legal presribers (much as does the AMA to its ability to attract members).
8. Do FDA's speech-related regulations advance the public health concerns they are designed to address? Are there other alternative approaches that FDA could pursue to accomplish those objectives with fewer restrictions on speech?
No. Just make releases. Don't spend money.
9. Are there any regulations, guidance, policies, and practices FDA should change, in light of governing First Amendment authority?
Need to become less activist.


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Producer : Sunita Poddar and Branda Yadav
Music Composer : Sudeep Banerjee, Kavita Seth, Ankur Mishra and Viraj Sawant
Lyricist : Ajay Jhingran, Kaushal Kishore, Dev Shukla and Sudarshan Goel.
Singers : Tochi Raina, Nikhil D'Souza, Kavita Seth, Sweta Pandit, Suzanne D'Mello and Sudeep Banerjee.
Cigarette Ki Tarah is an upcoming Hindi movie which is set to release on 19th October 2012. A romantic thriller which casts not so popular actors, Bhoop Yaduvanshi, Prashant Narayanan, Madhurima Tuli, Sudesh Berry. The movie supposedly has a lot of scenes which might take the audience aback and keep them curious as to what might happen next. The Plot of the movie seems similar to the usual love stories in Bollywood movies which has a charming boy and a beautiful girl falling in love with each other and then the guy falls into a lot of trouble but has an happy ending. What could be different about this movie is what kind of trouble does this love-struck guy falls into.
The movie has 6 songs in total which includes one remix, let's have a look at how this album fares :
|Song name
|Nikhil D'Souza
|Hey Bhagwan
|Tochi Raina
|Mujhko Khud Se
|Kavita Seth
|Cigarette Ki Tarah
|Suzanne D'Mello
|Ye Bata Do Piya
|Sudeep Banerjee and Sweta Pandit
|Dooriyan (Remix)
|Nikhil D'Souza
Song name : Dooriyan
The song starts off with a very calm soothing music, the kind of music which you would find in Disney movies where the characters are singing melodiously about nature. The pace of the tune however picks up as soon as the vocals begin. Lyrics aren't that bad but it's the tune and the vocals which is totally worth drooling over, which will make you love this song.
Song name : Hey Bhagwan
The violin music in the beginning will definitely catch your attention. The rest of the song will seem meaningless and just another addition to the music album but the violin music will continue to ring in your head. Only if that music was there throughout the entire song, this track would be the best one in the album.
Song name : Mujko Khud Se
This one is a sad melodramatic track. Again the notable thing about this song is the tune which is mellow yet very pleasing. Looks like the music composers have done a good job!
Song name : Cigarette Ki Tarah
The title track isn't a typical item song but it is one of the tracks the audience will most look forward to especially because of the seductive dance. The vocals too are sung in a very sexy and sultry way, guess that's exactly how it was meant to be sung to suit the context of the movie.
Song name : Ye Bata Do Piya
Again, brilliant singing! The male and the female vocals sound absolutely soulful and the music just adds onto it. It sounds a lot like a Gazal, just that this is sung at a faster pace. Never the less, you should not miss out on this one!
Song name : Dooriyan (remix)
A not so good remix, but if you want to dance on this track in a club, the remix version shall do. But if you prefer slow songs, the original is the one for you.
Verdict : Surprisingly the songs of this movie are much better than expected compared to the tracks of other movies which are set to release along with this movie. The vocals are at it's best, the lyrics aren't that bad but go unnoticed because of such powerful vocals and the music which leaves you asking for more. Dooriyan and Ye Bata Do Piya are the best tracks in this album. The other tracks are good too, so do listen to this album as it will be worth every bit of it.


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Marcos operates the general store in the marketplace at Chuparosa.
Marcos can normally be found wandering around the town of Chuparosa, and during the day manning the general store in the market where the player can purchase and sell goods. After being robbed, he will appeal to Marston to help catch the thief. He also provides the horsebreaking job in town.
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Carmelo Anthony trade: Are Nuggets stalling trade because they want Nets to keep losing?
Yesterday, we told you that a blockbuster three-team deal to send Nuggets Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups to the New Jersey Nets had hit a roadblock, reportedly because the Nugs wanted the Nets to take relatively new acquisition Al Harrington off their hands, too. But is that the actual reason for the latest delay? Maybe not. One source suggests the Nuggets may be more interested in the Nets continue to blow for as long as possible.
That's the word from the New York Daily News' Stefan Bondy.
At yesterday's practice session, Bondy notes, Anthony implied that he's losing hope of eventually winding up as part of the Knick's lineup, as he's long hoped. "New York is playing well right now. I don't think they're looking at me," he said. "They wouldn't want me to come in there and mess what they have up. That's what I've read."
Of course, this could simply be a ploy on Melo's part to get the Knicks back to the table. But if the club has indeed started to see Anthony as a disruptive element rather than the final piece of the championship puzzle, he could finally be willing to ink a long-term deal with the Nets -- the main thing that's prevented the trade from happening thus far.
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So what's the rub now? According to a rival GM who spoke with Bondy, "the Nuggets don't feel the need to pull the trigger until closer to the February 24 trade deadline."
Bondy interprets this rationale like so:
Part of that philosophy is based on the assumption that the Nets (10-27) will continue losing without Anthony, and therefore the 2011 first-round pick the Nuggets receive in the trade will have greater value the longer they wait.
Makes sense to some degree -- but there's a great deal of risk involved in this game outside the game. Given the complications involved in a multi-team transaction, one or more parties could get cold feet during the next six weeks or so, because of injuries to key trade components or many other factors. Moreover, the Nets would likely keep sucking for quite a while after Melo's arrival due to the difficulty he'll likely experience in finding a rhythm with his new teammates. (Example: The Miami Heat early in the season.) And given the NBA's use of a draft lottery, as opposed to a simple worst-picks-first approach, the Nets' pick would fall within a range of slots no matter their final win-loss record.
With that in mind, the Nuggets should make the trade earlier rather than later. It won't be pretty, but it's time to step toward the future rather than continuing to linger in limbo.
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Jim Harbaugh hitched his coaching wagon to quarterback Alex Smith a year ago, producing an NFC Championship appearance in their first season together.
But that doesn't stop franchise legend and Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice from suggesting a change at the position. Rice says Peyton Manning, who could become a free agent this week, would take the 49ers to a whole different level.
"I think you go for it," Rice told the Bay Area News Group. "A guy of that talent, you've got everything in place. You've got a defense that smacks you in the mouth. You just need a little more out of the offense. That's not knocking what Alex (Smith) did. (Manning) can take you to a whole different level."
Rice says the team likely won't go for it, but argued that Manning's impact could turn teams with losing records into contenders.
"If he goes to the Washington Redskins, I guarantee they win 10 games. If he goes to Miami, they win 10 games," Rice said.
(H/T: Profootballtalk)
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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Last week was my first time trying manufactured spending. Manufactured spending is something that miles/points chasing frequent flyers are familiar with. For the rest of us, what exactly is manufactured spending? Manufactured spending is when you use your credit cards that earn miles/points to buy something in which you can liquidate and get your money back, while still earning miles or points on your credit cards.
Manufactured Spending with the Mint
There are many ways to do this and one of the most popular ways is to buy gift cards. The best way to manufactured spending WAS buying presidential $1 coins from the mint. Unfortunately people were abusing this, buying thousands upon thousands of dollars and taking them straight to the bank. The government caught wind of this and put a stop to it, making manufactured spending a bit harder for miles/points chasers.
Buying Prepaid Gift Cards
The next best thing is buying gift cards. The easiest way to do this was to buy a vanilla reload pack at the store and load it to your bluebird account. In some parts of the country this is still a viable option, but for others it is no longer an option. Some stores no longer accept credit cards to purchase these gift cards. This is because identity thieves using your credit cards to buy prepaid gift cards such as the vanilla reload, Visa, MasterCard and Amex gift cards. Once a credit card is reported stolen or something comes up as fraudulent, the credit card is useless. Gift cards are not associated with ID's and are harder to trace. If you search on the web there are some stories of thieves using these cards, one in particular that I read about, was about thieves stealing $45 million from ATMs!
Vanilla Reloads with Amex Bluebird Account
If you don't know what a vanilla reload pack is, it is basically a prepaid gift card that lets you fund a debit card account such as the Amex Bluebird. There are other options out there for this as well, but the Amex Bluebird is the most common. You can then use your Bluebird account to withdraw from ATM's, make purchases, get money orders, pay rent, mortgages, loans, and your credit card bill. The reason most people choose the Vanilla reload card is because you can load it to your Bluebird account online. Other cards like the Visa gift card and MC gift card has to be loaded at a Walmart. MillionMileSecrets has full details on how to load your gift cards at Walmart and loading using Vanilla reloads.
Gift Cards from TopCashBack
For those, like myself, who live in a part of the country that can't purchase prepaid gift cards from the store with a credit card, you can always buy gift cards online. The best way to do this is to go through a shopping portal like TopCashBack (TCB) and buy Visa or MC gift cards from GiftCardMall to receive cash back from TCB. When you receive the gift card, you then call to active it and get the pin number. Take that card to a Walmart and load your Bluebird card with your gift card. A more advanced way to do this is to go through TCB, buy Amex gift card from Amex, use that Amex gift card to buy a Visa or MC gift card from GiftCardMall, then load your Bluebird account. Bluebird does not allow you to load using a Amex gift card.
Buying Gift Cards at Walmart
There is another way and it maybe a cheaper option. I say maybe cheaper because you would buy Walmart gift cards on ebay, but you never know what the ending price will be till the time runs out. Walmart online sells gift cards, but it has a smaller limit of $200 per card and you can't get cash back from TCB. To do this, go through TCB to GiftCardMall and buy ebay gift cards. Then sign up for Ebay Bucks to get additional cash back from ebay. The hardest part now is winning the auction.
Buying and Selling
Another way to manufacture spend besides gift cards is buying and selling items. Some people buy items on sale, that they know they can resell. Most of the time they either take a small loss or break even, but once in a great while they will actually make a profit. The value of points on a sign-up bonus outweighs the small loss of money and it is worth it for the right items. To do this, use sites like slickdeals to find items deeply discounted and check how much they are selling for on amazon. If it is cheaper, buy it and sell it using the amazon fulfillment process.
Free After Rebate
Another way is a bit time consuming, but you will not lose any money if done correctly. It is to buy items that are free after rebate and with free shipping. This is a bit time consuming because items that are free after rebate are generally cheap, ranging on the higher end of about $30. I have never tried this, but I would assume you could donate those items for a tax deduction. While looking for free after rebate items, I stumbled upon Freebie Depot which lists items everyday from different vendors of items free after rebate. I'm glad I found this site as it will cut down on the time for those who are willing to go this route.
In the end there are many different ways to manufactured spending. Essentially all you are doing is moving money around while earning miles and points along the way. Be advised not to abuse this system because some people have reported getting their accounts shut down. The reason people's accounts get shut down is because they abuse the perks of their accounts. The companies lose money and consider them unprofitable, so do not abuse the perks! Spread out your spending on different credit cards, using it mostly to meet spending requirements on new credit cards. For more information on manufactured spending like strategies, deals, rules etc. check out the manufactured spending forum at flyertalk.com.
If you found this information useful, please subscribe to get weekly deals, tips and stories. As always thanks for reading, keep adventuring and safe travels.


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Azit: Canine Paratrooper
Azit -- the devoted and intelligent dog of an Israeli army lieutenant -- shows her bravery during a robbery and earns a spot in her owner's paratroopers division. But when the lieutenant is captured, the dog risks everything to rescue her owner. Can she deliver on her toughest mission ever? Yossi Pollak, Mona Silberstein, Gideon Singer, Tikva Aziz and Baruch David star in this Israeli action film directed by Boaz Davidson.


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Yarn used Artesano Alpaca Silk 4ply
Colour & Shade No Celadon 8422 • Envy 0961
Amount used Celadon: 4, 4, 5, 6 x 50g Light (A)
Envy: 2, 2, 2, 3 x 50g Dark (B)
26 sts and 36 rows to 10 x10cm in st
st using 3.25mm needles
Needles used 2.75mm and 3.25mm straight needles
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also i have skype on BT4 if anyone wants to view my screen? or would like me to post any commands and me post back results?
Hey guys,
I just recently downloaded BT4 and this is my first ever time using Linux, its great its like a new toy, i thought i would learn pentesting as a hobby after watching a video on Evilgrade so i bought myself a cheap laptop with XP on it to test on with no AV / Firewalls active.
I followed this video Infinity Exists » Underground – Evilgrade it doesn't seem to work, im confused, is it the laptop im testing it on? is it my laptop? i think when i searched i heard something about not being able to inject on mon0 i seem to get abit confused at ettercap when im selecting my target 1 and target 2 i know i choose the local IP and the default gateway but does it matter on which order i choose them them
also do i need to be connected to the same network as my target XP laptop when im doing this?
also does monitor mode have to be enabled, im guessing so considering im listening on a port number.
i thought it might have been my wireless but im not sure.. this is what i know from alot of googleing
root@bt:~# uname -r
root@bt:~# airmon-ng start wlan0
Interface Chipset Driver
wlan0 Intel 4965/5xxx iwlagn - [phy0]
(monitor mode enabled on mon0)
and when i test for injection i get
root@bt:~# aireplay-ng -9 mon0
05:41:07 Trying broadcast probe requests...
05:41:07 Injection is working!
05:41:09 Found 1 AP
05:41:09 Trying directed probe requests...
05:41:09 00:25:69:6E:37:26 - channel: 1 - 'SKY14117'
05:41:09 Ping (min/avg/max): 2.376ms/5.556ms/11.736ms Power: -50.50
05:41:09 30/30: 100%
I found this iwlagn [Aircrack-ng] but haven't used any info from that page i honestly don't know where to start, any help would be appreciated i tried myself and spent hours googleing been trying for 2 days now so i thought it would be best to ask the experts so any help would be kindly welcome
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also i have skype on BT4 if anyone wants to view my screen? or would like me to post any commands and me post back results?


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scornfully Fricka unfolded that to me, piercing my soul to its uttermost.
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Tim Hepple, who infiltrated the London headquarters of the BNP two years ago for the magazine Searchlight, blames a new group associated with the BNP - Combat 18 - for vicious racial attacks in the past 18 months. Members of the 'Chelsea Headhunters', a gang of football hooligans, are among its most active members. Combat 18 also has close links with the outlawed Ulster Defence Association.
Scotland Yard's National Football Intelligence Unit said this week that the 'Chelsea Headhunters', with about 80 members, was the largest of the organised gangs and responsible for crimes ranging from rape to robbery. The BNP has been busily recruiting gang members, and has 'borrowed' others to pick fights with anti-fascist groups.
Mr Hepple also reveals in At War with Society, an account of his experiences, that the BNP is forging ties with an American white supremacist group, the Church of the Creator, based in Wisconsin. The church was founded by a millionaire, Ben Klassen, in 1973. The group is running a weapons training school for visiting neo-Nazis with sub- machine guns and high powered pistols - targets feature pictures of blacks and Jews. A representative of the recently established British branch of the church visited the US headquarters last year. A group of BNP members is planning a visit this summer. According to Mr Hepple, the church's virulently anti-semitic literature is sold by the BNP as 'simple background reading material'.
Football hooligans started to join the BNP in large numbers during 1988. The party was vigorously recruiting from the football gangs, including those of Leeds United and Glasgow Rangers. But the number of activists remained small - not more than 80.
By the end of 1992, however, a new phenomenon emerged, threatening to eclipse the BNP. Mutual dissatisfaction with the poor performance of the BNP, has brought the more violent BNP members, skinheads and members of the Chelsea Headhunters together in Combat 18. The group's foundation was inspired in 1991 by a notorious American Nazi, Harold Covington. His address in New Carolina is used as an offshore mailing address for the group.
The prime British mover of Combat 18, who has two convictions for drug trafficking, has a close relationship with one of the founders of the Chelsea Headhunters. Another leading light was formerly National Front organiser in Croydon, south London. The Croydon BNP is most involved with Combat 18.
Combat 18 also contains members of the 657 crew from Portsmouth, and groups from West Ham, Leeds and Millwall.
Mr Hepple has identified close links between Combat 18 and Protestant paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland. Combat 18 aims to set up a group of virtually autonomous cells across the country and is responsible for an increase in racial violence. Its magazine Redwatch urges attacks on selected individuals including Sir Ivan Lawrence MP, chairman of the Home Affairs Select committee. The group is believed to be stockpiling weapons.
One prominent Combat 18 member, a dustman in south London, was arrested recently for possession of firearms.
One of Combat 18's first actions was an attack on anti-fascist campaigners in Tower Hamlets last year. Several people were arrested. There have been a string of incidents since then.
Two leading Midlands BNP activists, also involved with Combat 18, have been charged with affray and assault following an attack on anti-fascists in Mansfield this year. After an attack, Combat 18 usually sends a letter to the victim admitting responsibility.
The skinhead element, so important to the BNP, seems to prefer the more overt violence of Combat 18 and is shifting its allegiance.
Mr Hepple drifted into this underworld in the early 1980s. He was hooligan at Reading football club. In 1984, he joined the National Front. A gifted pianist and conductor, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in Glasgow in 1986. He then switched his allegiance to Glasgow Rangers and shortly afterwards was inducted into the BNP.
The far right was in violent turmoil during the mid-1980s. Rivalries between the National Front and BNP precluded much activity against racial targets. The BNP is led by John Tyndall, self- appointed Fuhrer and ex-convict, who did not want to promote his party as openly Nazi. This did not please hardcore national socialists (Mr Hepple among them) who tried to undermine the BNP and set up alternatives.
The National Front was virtually defunct during the period; the BNP was not much more coherent. Mr Hepple paints a picture of a dimly-lit world inhabited by charlatans and fanatics. Mr Hepple described his motivation: 'I just wanted to smash the state, to show my anger, to hate somebody. Like many others I was scared for the future and had little respect for myself. The BNP provided me with a sense of identity.'
In late 1986, Mr Hepple was studying music at Sheffield University. He was a prominent BNP activist in Leeds, trying to recruit members among hooligan supporters of Leeds United.
On 20 April 1988, the local Nazis arranged a rally to mark Hitler's birthday. In full Nazi regalia, they converged on Glossop Moor where a Luftwaffe fighter had crash-landed during the war. The group usually spent its time trying to sell Holocaust News, a pamphlet denying the existence of the Final Solution, and abusing ethnic minority staff outside the town hall.
Mr Hepple was rising to prominence as a reliable - and violent - militant. He organised an attack on a meeting of Labour students at the university.
He played a leading role in organising a demonstration in Dewsbury in 1989 during which 82 Asians were arrested after fights with BNP members and assorted skinheads.
But his doubts about the BNP were growing: 'I knew there was something wrong with a lot of the people I was involved with.' While working in a motorway service station as a cook he offered to become an informer for the anti- fascist magazine Searchlight. He started in October 1991, and by the beginning of the following year had become a confidant of the BNP leadership. He became a full-time worker at its headquarters in Welling, south London, which had been bought by its deputy leader, Richard Edmonds, with his severance pay of pounds 18,000 from Cable and Wireless. He provided Searchlight with a list of 3,000 BNP members
Mr Hepple was unmasked in January and is now in hiding.
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Thursday, January 28, 1999 Published at 10:02 GMT
World: South Asia
Heavy security for Madras Test
The focus has turned to the battle on the pitch
Click here for match report
The start of the first cricket Test between India and Pakistan has passed off peacefully, despite earlier threats that hard-line Hindu nationalists would disrupt the game.
Hundreds of millions of cricket fans across the sub-continent were expected to bring normal life in the region to a standstill as they followed play on radio and television.
On the field, India held the upper hand, bowling out Pakistan for 238 and closing the day at 48-0 in their first innings.
Heavy security
In previous weeks, supporters of the Shiv Sena party had shown they were serious by vandalising a pitch in Delhi and invading Cricket Board headquarters in Bombay.
But they called off their threats after pressure from the national government led by their political allies, the BJP.
Initial objections to the level of security in Madras by local media and cricket officials subsided after talks with the police.
Around 35,000 fans were in the stadium for the start of the match, with preparations being made to increase capacity as play goes on.
Officials said they expected great cricket and no trouble. BBC India Correspondent Daniel Lak said it appeared fans were hoping for the same thing.
In the event, the match got off to a rousing start, with the crowd cheering as the Indian players took the field.


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Pitchers that last in the majors are the ones that reinvent themselves when something's not working. In a post about Randy Wolf back in September I commented on this consistent trend:
[Wolf is] now a different pitcher. His injury/surgery/time off wouldn't allowed him to be the same pitcher he was pre-2005. In his early days, he had a higher velocity fastball and threw it by hitters. Now, he uses plus secondary stuff to get hitters off-balance. In 2003 and 2004, he used his slider just 3.1% of the time. He threw it 13.2% last year, 13.9% this year. His K/9 this year is the second-lowest of his career, but so is his BB/9. Billy Beane recently told us, "The one thing about major league baseball is that it's pretty Darwinian." Just like Darwin realized that the birds of the Galapagos were two different species of Finches (and not different birds altogether), Randy Wolf hasn't become a "different" pitcher. He's still Randy Wolf. He's just adapted.
Scott Olsen has a similar story. Here's his Baseball America scouting report quote from 2005:
"He's a horse when he's out on the mound. He tries to do anything he can to use his fastball."
Olsen truly loved his fastball, but so did major leaguer hitters. Here's Olsen's corresponding FB%, wFB (which is weighted runs above average for fastballs), and FIP's for the early part of his career:
2005: 58.5%, -2.7, 5.63
2006: 62.4%, -15.2, 4.33
2007: 70.2%, -22.6, 5.33
2008: 63.3%, -17.3, 5.02
2009: 56.4%, -17.8, 5.24
Olsen's fastball was not doing the trick. Maybe it was maturity, maybe curiosity, or maybe just plain desperation, but Olsen has changed his game this year:
2010: 48.1% fastball, 28.5% slider, 23.3% changeup
Since 2008, Olsen has increased the use of his slider by 11.9% and his changeup by 2.3%, relying less on his fastball. Here are the results for so far this season:
wFB: -1.4
wSL: 4.5
wCH: 0.9
Not only has his slider and changeup been solid, but because he isn't overusing the fastball it's stabilizing and becoming more than just a pitch to hammer. Olsen's previously being a one trick pony may also have contributed to his high HR/FB rates throughout his career, a rate which has dropped 3.5% below his career low prior to this year.
Pitching is not easy, and hurlers can either stick to what's not working and fail, or try something new and do their best to succeed. Olsen has chosen the latter.


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Technical Abstract: Oxygenated metabolites of unsaturated fatty acids play a variety of important roles in biological systems. We have begun investigating the production of value-added chemicals from vegetable oils and their component fatty acids, i.e. the production of 10-hydroxy and 10-keto saturated or unsaturated fatty acids; and a new dihydroxy unsaturated fatty acid which has antimicrobial activity. Recently, we discovered a novel compound, 12,13,17 trihydroxy 9(Z) octadecenoic acid, which was produced from linoleic acid by microbial transformation at 25% yield. The newly isolated microbial strain catalyzing this transformation was identified as Clavibacter sp. ALA2. The product was purified by high pressure liquid chromatography, and its structure was determined by 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance, Fourier transform infrared, and mass spectroscopy. Structure of this compound resembles those "plant self defense substances". Other than extraction from plant materials and chemical synthesis, this is the first report on 12,13,17-trihydroxy unsaturated fatty acid and its production by microbial transformation.


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EDITORIAL>>Nation needs a stimulus bill
We ought to be satisfied now that cutting taxes and doing nothing in the face of economic withdrawal are not a remedy but a failed experiment. In eight years that featured three major tax cuts for corporations and high incomes the country gained a net of fewer than 2 million jobs, the worst economic performance for any eight-year period since the Great Depression. Compare it with 22.6 million under eight years of Bill Clinton. The country shed 3.6 million jobs in President Bushs final year, which ended two weeks ago, and a million pink slips are now being handed out every seven weeks. Economists say the worst is yet to come. We pray that they are wrong.
Everyone should be a little nervous about borrowing $780 billion in a gamble that it will restart the countrys great economic engine. After all, the massive deficits incurred by the profligacy of the Bush years were not an inconsiderable factor in the troubles. He inherited a mighty economy fueled by the first back-to-back treasury surpluses in two generations.
But there is hardly an economist of any stripe who does not now believe that the risk should be taken to stimulate the economy. Some say that the $780 billion is too much. Others, even conservatives, wonder if it is far too little. President Franklin Roosevelts spending programs moved the country out of the Depressions depths but it took the truly mammoth investment in war industries to kick the economy into high gear.
The presidents program includes large tax cuts both for business and middle-class taxpayers, but Republican critics want more relief for people with investment incomes. A few say it includes too little for infrastructure work and too much for people down on their luck: extended unemployment benefits, food stamps, education and medical care. They are wrong. Human relief is just as effective a stimulus as building a bridge. It puts money into the pockets of people who will spend it on goods and services.
What the country needs is productive economic activity, even if it puts food on the table of a hungry family, and the stimulus will provide it. If the Republicans have a better idea besides collapse, the country is waiting. Cataclysm may be a desirable goal for Rush Limbaugh, but Congress will find that the strategy will be little appreciated by the American people.


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Welcome to the IPython Blocks! This is a grid of colored blocks we can use to practice all sorts of programming concepts. There's a tutorial on IPython Blocks at http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/jiffyclub/ipythonblocks/master/demos/ipythonblocks_demo.ipynb, but you don't need to read that now; just follow along here.
We start by creating our grid and giving it a name. We'll call it... hmm... let's see... how about "grid"?
!pip install ipythonblocks
from ipythonblocks import BlockGrid
grid = BlockGrid(8, 8, fill=(123, 234, 123))
We can refer to each cell in the grid by its coordinates from the upper-left corner. The first index is the number of steps down, the second is the number of steps to the right.
grid[0, 0]
In programming, colors are often referred to by an "RGB tuple". That's a series of three numbers, representing how much red, how much green, and how much blue, respectively. For the grid, those numbers go on a scale from 0 to 255. So pure red is (255, 0, 0), black is (0, 0, 0), white is (255, 255, 255), and so on.
If we assign an "RGB tuple" to a cell from the grid, that cell takes on that color.
grid[0, 0] = (0, 0, 0)
grid[0, 2] = (255, 0, 0)
grid[0, 4] = (255, 255, 255)
grid[0, 6] = (0, 150, 150)
Let's not spend all day typing those tedious RGB tuples! This looks like a perfect place for a dictionary. Lucky us, we can get a dictionary with all sorts of colors defined from the ipythonblocks module, the same place we got the BlockGrid.
from ipythonblocks import colors
Wow, looks like somebody used to work at a paint store! OK, let's use some of those in the next row down.
grid[1, 1] = colors['Teal']
grid[1, 2] = colors['Thistle']
grid[1, 3] = colors['Peru']
Now suppose we want to color a bunch of blocks. Let's use a loop so we don't have to write a line for every single one.
row_number = 3
for column_number in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]:
grid[row_number, column_number] = colors['Chocolate']
The grid defines a "height" and a "width", these will be handy to work on cells all the way across it.
row_number = 5
for column_number in range(grid.width):
grid[row_number, column_number] = colors['Violet']
How about columns? And how about painting three columns at once? Let's use nested loops.
for column_number in [4, 5, 6]:
for row_number in range(grid.height):
grid[row_number, column_number] = colors['Crimson']
Our grid is looking cluttered. Let's define a function to start over by painting it all one color.
def one_color(target_grid, color):
for row_number in range(target_grid.height):
for column_number in range(target_grid.width):
grid[row_number, column_number] = color
one_color(grid, colors['LightGreen'])
A couple of tricks will let our grid change over time. We'll need sleep from the time module, plus the clear_output function from IPython.
import time
from IPython.display import clear_output
for color in [colors['Red'], colors['Green'], colors['Blue'], colors['White'], colors['Purple']]:
one_color(grid, color)
What if we used grid.show() like before, instead of clear_output? Not telling. Feel free to try it yourself.
OK, how about a checkerboard? We could paint the whole grid black, then paint red onto every second square.
one_color(grid, colors['Black'])
for row_number in range(grid.height):
for column_number in range(grid.width):
if is_even(column_number):
grid[row_number, column_number] = colors['Yellow']
Icky, an error message! Because there's no such thing as a function is_even; I just made that up. But we can fix that!
def is_even(number):
if number % 2 == 0:
return True
return False
Now go back up and re-run the earlier cell. And we get... hmm, good for bumblebees, bad for checkers. Let's make a modified version.
one_color(grid, colors['Black'])
for row_number in range(grid.height):
for column_number in range(grid.width):
if is_even(column_number + row_number):
grid[row_number, column_number] = colors['Yellow']
How crazy can we get, using just what we've already learned? Let's make a diagonal color gradient, then pour some bleach on it.
base_color = [50, 50, 50]
for i in range(200):
for row_number in range(grid.height):
for column_number in range(grid.width):
grid[row_number, column_number] = (base_color[0], base_color[1]+row_number*20, base_color[2]+column_number*20)
base_color[0] += 1
base_color[1] += 1
base_color[2] += 1
Now it's time to try out some ideas of your own! Here are some suggestions:
Use a bigger grid if you need one. Remember at the very beginning when we created the grid?
grid = BlockGrid(8, 8, fill=(123, 234, 123))
You can create it again with some different numbers.
Here are some more little pieces of code that might be fun elements to work into your projects!
from random import randint
random_color = (randint(0, 255), randint(0, 255), randint(0, 255))
one_color(grid, random_color)
Can you make the color depend on the distance from the upper-left corner? Can you draw an arc, for instance?
for row_number in range(grid.height):
for column_number in range(grid.width):
distance_to_corner = (row_number**2 + column_number**2)**0.5
# now what can you do with that number?
There's a file called ascii8x8.py in this directory that we can use to do ASCII-style art with our blocks.
from ascii8x8 import Font8x8
It's hard to tell, but that's a list of strings, and if those strings are stacked, they form a rough inversed "p". But we've also provided a function that, using that same data, and given the (row_number, column_number) of a place in the grid, tells us whether that spot should be on (True) or off (False).
from ascii8x8 import screen
screen('p', 0, 0)
What good does that do? Well, here's an example of applying it to the grid:
for row_number in range(8):
for column_number in range(8):
if screen('p', row_number, column_number):
grid[row_number, column_number] = colors['Black']
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Recent dramatic losses in the EU and Japan with respect to (BSE)Mad Cow Disease, should be enough evidence for the FDA to ban the feeding of all mammalian proteins in the livestock industry. The industry can easily adapt to this policy and grain products will easily make up the difference. It is important to note that the EU and many other countries have or will eliminate the importantation of our U.S. products and by products of the livestock industry unless we adopt a much stricter policy regarding this issue. In addition to a ban on beef and other meat products we have already seen a ban on the exportation of cattle embryos in recent months. Live cattle shipments were halted more than 20 years ago from the U.S. to the EU and the doors have never opened. Once the door closes, it is virtually impossible to reopen unless we adopt a policy that will be suitable for all. Purebred breeders of livestock have continually exported embryo's to the EU for for over 18 years and the sale of these embryo's has provided substantial revenue's to these breeders. With the doors closed to the EU, many of these purebred breeders of livestock will face diminishing incomes. If you ask consumers of livestock products, purebred livestock breeders and the ministers of agriculture in the EU, they will almost all give you the same answer. Halt the feeding of animal proteins in our feedstuffs to livestock. This is an easy decision to make when you study the facts. Thanking you in advance for your consideration of this matter. David M. Rama The Cattle Exchange


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Differential polarization nonlinear optical microscopy has the potential to become an indispensable tool for structural investigations of ordered biological assemblies and microcrystalline aggregates. Their microscopic organization can be probed through fast and sensitive measurements of nonlinear optical signal anisotropy, which can be achieved with microscopic spatial resolution by using time-multiplexed pulsed laser beams with perpendicular polarization orientations and photon-counting detection electronics for signal demultiplexing. In addition, deformable membrane mirrors can be used to correct for optical aberrations in the microscope and simultaneously optimize beam overlap using a genetic algorithm. The beam overlap can be achieved with better accuracy than diffraction limited point-spread function, which allows to perform polarization-resolved measurements on the pixel-by-pixel basis. We describe a newly developed differential polarization microscope and present applications of the differential microscopy technique for structural studies of collagen and cellulose. Both, second harmonic generation, and fluorescence-detected nonlinear absorption anisotropy are used in these investigations. It is shown that the orientation and structural properties of the fibers in biological tissue can be deduced and that the orientation of fluorescent molecules (Congo Red), which label the fibers, can be determined. Differential polarization microscopy sidesteps common issues such as photobleaching and sample movement. Due to tens of megahertz alternating polarization of excitation pulses fast data acquisition can be conveniently applied to measure changes in the nonlinear signal anisotropy in dynamically changing
Biological samples often contain highly ordered molecular structures and microcrystalline aggregates that play important structural and physiological roles. Examples of these structures are ordered protein assemblies, such as collagen fibers and myosin filaments in striated muscle, as well as polysaccharide structures, such as starch granules and cellulose fibers. These structures usually have large birefringence and may exhibit nonlinear optical anisotropy. Therefore, measurement of different polarization parameters can elucidate the organization of molecules in these microcrystalline aggregates.
Polarization microscopy has been conveniently used to observe birefringent structures, such as starch granules, since the mid-19th century [
Highly ordered structures also often exhibit signal anisotropy in the nonlinear optical regime. Various imaging modalities including multiphoton excitation fluorescence (MPF) [
In this paper, we demonstrate a new differential polarization microscopy setup with separate adaptive optics (AO) for each of the beams. The adaptive optics mitigate the problem of beam overlap, which is usually required for a multibeam system. This is especially important and difficult if multiplexed beam differential polarization microscopy is to be used for super-resolution investigations. In addition, adaptive optics can compensate for optical aberrations of the microscope components, and thereby improve its optical resolution [
In this article, we present a multibeam differential polarization microscopy setup and provide details on the implementation of the deformable mirrors as well as their performance in overlapping the two excitation beams, while simultaneously correcting for optical aberrations in the setup. Several applications of differential polarization microscopy are demonstrated, including SHG anisotropy measurements of collagen and cellulose fibers as well as fluorescence-detected nonlinear absorption anisotropy measurements of Congo Red-labeled cellulose. We show that differential polarization microscopy with multiplexed beams is a powerful technique for structural investigations of molecular orientations in ordered structures and sidesteps common issues such as photobleaching and sample movement artifacts in polarization measurements.
A differential microscopy setup can be divided into three functional parts: the laser-beam multiplexing unit, the microscope setup, and the signal-demultiplexing unit (
The excitation beams can differ in any of their characteristics: for instance, they can have different polarizations, or different wavelengths. More than two beams can be combined as well, as long as the inter-pulse spacing time is longer than the time window, which contains the signal from one of the beams. This limitation is mostly important in the case of fluorescence imaging where the signal is detected in a time window of up to tens of nanoseconds.
The laser pulses can originate from the same laser source, or from several synchronized lasers. The most straightforward implementation uses a single laser, a beam splitter and a delay line to generate multiple synchronized excitation beams [
Generally, signal demultiplexing is performed using fast electronics (
The outline of our custom-built multibeam nonlinear optical microscope setup is presented in
The deformable mirrors can be conveniently used to optimize the PSF. The optimization can be achieved by maximizing the THG signal intensity from an air-glass interface of a coverslip [
As shown in
In addition to optimizing the PSF, it is also beneficial to use AO for beam steering in differential microscopy, since complete beam overlap allows for pixel-by-pixel comparison of the experimental data and ensures near-simultaneous excitation of a voxel by both excitation beams. Both goals can be achieved simultaneously using genetic algorithms (GAs). A GA is an evolutionary process whereby individuals' genes are mutated (and/or recombined and crossed over), and their relative fitness are computed and ranked. The gene combinations with the highest fitness are then selected as a basis for the next generation [
For the multibeam microscope, in order to also overlap the beams, the fitness function is modified to include a parameter based on the beam separation distance,
We set the GA to terminate when the mirror shape achieves a separation distance of less than 0.1 pixel (<30 nm) between the two excitation-beams. Therefore, two criteria are important for evaluating the optimal parameter
The extent of initial beam separation that can be minimized by the positioning process is limited by the stroke range of the DMM electrostatic actuators. In our microscope, up to 4 μm separation distance between the centroids of the images of the two beams was successfully minimized with the GA control of one DMM (0.75 NA air objective). Employing a parallel GA for the second DMM doubles the initial separation distance that can be compensated.
High overlapping precision (<30 nm) becomes effortlessly accessible by using DMMs. In addition, DMMs driven by the GA correct aberrations introduced by the overlapping procedure, which is highly beneficial in nonlinear optical microscopy due to the nonlinear relationship between the signal intensity and the excitation beam wavefront quality. Thus, the overlapping procedure above becomes a necessary step for differential microscopy, where it must be ensured that the images from the multiplexed beam can be contrasted on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Such an overlap provides confidence in ratiometric studies of intensities from different polarizations as demonstrated in the Application section. The high accuracy overlap also allows using multiplexed beam differential polarization microscopy for super-resolution imaging applications, such as stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) and photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM) [
Differential polarization microscopy can be applied for imaging with many different nonlinear image contrast mechanisms. In this section, we explore the scope of possible applications by highlighting SHG and fluorescence-detected absorption anisotropy.
Polarization SHG from collagen fibers, an important biological structure, is regularly used to extract components of the second order polarizability tensor [
Commonly, ρ is determined by measuring the SHG intensity for many input polarization angles sequentially and fitting the polarization-dependent SHG intensity [
This experiment shows that SHG differential polarization microscopy can be used to extract quantitative information about the molecular orientation in the ordered tissue sample. Rapid measurements of ρ can be obtained, for example, in a specimen where collagen fibers are dynamically stretched during the experiment.
Absorption anisotropy within biological samples can reveal information about alignment and organization of molecules at the microscopic level. The absorption anisotropy is conveniently detected in the microscope using fluorescence signal. Differential microscopy can be used to measure fluorescence-detected absorption anisotropy in a single measurement, since excitation beams with orthogonal polarizations can be used almost simultaneously [
Clearly, the nonlinear two-photon absorption is maximized when the polarization, as indicated by the arrow, is parallel to the cellulose fiber orientation. This is in line with the commonly accepted binding mechanism of Congo Red to cellulose, namely that the diphenol backbone of Congo Red is parallel to the cellulose fiber backbone (
Fluorescence is prone to photobleaching. Therefore, absorption anisotropy measurements by sequentially scanning the sample with two orthogonal laser polarizations may encounter major difficulties. Differential polarization microscopy with multiplexed beam excitation and electronic demultiplexing of the signal mitigates the photobleaching problem in the anisotropy measurements.
Differential polarization microscopy can also be used simultaneously with several image contrast mechanisms. SHG as well as fluorescence can be generated from cellulose labeled with Congo Red (
This study shows that both the molecular organization in ordered structures and the orientation of the marker-molecules within the labeled structure can be conveniently examined with differential polarization microscopy. It also demonstrates that quantitative information can be extracted from the sample by performing a single differential microscopy measurement.
A time-lapse of a two-beam overlapping procedure using the nonlinear differential polarization microscope is presented in
The convergence time for achieving the high accuracy overlapping is acceptable for routine alignment of multibeam differential microscopy. Further improvements of the time constraint would benefit from advances in the field of adaptive optics including the directed search of mirrors shape space and adopting Zernike or Lukosz modes for controlling the shape of mirrors [
Differential polarization nonlinear optical microscopy is a very sensitive imaging technique capable of measuring anisotropy of nonlinear signals with photon counting sensitivity. The technique sidesteps common issues such as photobleaching and sample movement and allows for imaging of biological samples with multiple nonlinear image contrast mechanisms simultaneously, which means the technique can be used in many challenging applications, where weak polarization signals have to be measured or polarization anisotropy has to be obtained during movement of the sample. The applications of SHG and nonlinear absorption anisotropy presented in this study on collagen and cellulose examples show that orientational and structural properties of the fibers can be quickly and accurately obtained. The implementation of adaptive optics ensures high precision overlap of the two beams and allows pixel-by-pixel calculation of the measured anisotropy. Structural and accompanying polarization changes can be determined in dynamic samples. Therefore, time-multiplexed differential microscopy with photon counting detection and adaptive optics beam shaping is an attractive tool for dynamic imaging applications.
This work was supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. M.S. acknowledges the support from Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Schematics of differential microscopy. Two excitation beams are multiplexed, and a synchronization signal is derived from one of the beams. The sample is subjected to the multiplexed excitation, and the signal from the PMT is separated by a router containing fast electronics.
Schematics of signal demultiplexing. The PMT signal is sorted into demultiplexed channels for each beam based on the signal from the synchronization diode. The router can be implemented directly in programmable counting cards, or as a separate unit consisting of fast electronic logic gates (inset).
Schematics of the multimodal differential nonlinear microscope. Two Yb:KGW laser beams are coupled into the microscope for multiplexed imaging, and deformable membrane mirrors are used to shape the wavefronts of each beam. The multiplexed beam is reflected from scanning mirrors and relayed to the excitation objective. SHG and THG signals are collected in the forward direction, and the fluorescence signal is detected in the epi-direction using PMT detectors. PMT—photomultiplier tube, ISO—optical isolator, DMM—deformable membrane mirror, SM—canning mirror.
THG signal intensity dependence on the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the axial THG PSF. THG signal is generated across a glass-air interface of a microscope coverslip (open circles) and the FWHM of the axial PSF follows the theoretical curve (
Dependence of the two GA optimization criteria on the value of the weighting factor
SHG polarization images from the stretched rat-tail tendon collagen sample used to determine ρ. (
Fluorescence detected nonlinear absorption anisotropy of Congo Red molecules bound to a filter paper (cellulose). (
Multicontrast differential polarization imaging with SHG and fluorescence of Congo Red stained corn stalk tissue. (
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