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Ahead of next week's budget, Mr Forrest claimed the government had broken a promise made by former Prime Minister
"My strong recommendation to the government is that not one more dollar be spent on indigenous training – including Job Services Agencies and Indigenous Employment Programs – unless attached to a real job commitment by a participating employer," Mr Forrest told the National Press Club.
He also used the opportunity to again attack the government and Treasurer
"You have had a Prime Minister that has lied and no one is listening to her," he said. "There is economic uncertainty in this country which is driven by a poor relationship which government has with business because of its uncertain policies."
Indigenous Employment Minister
"The evaluation will consider outcomes for indigenous Australians and the value for money represented by the different models," Ms Collins said. "Training should be relevant and have a direct link to a place of employment wherever possible."
According to government figures, the Indigenous Employment Program achieved 75,500 placements for indigenous Australians, including more than 32,800 employment placements. IEP funding of $7 million has gone to AEC and $7.5 million has also been provided to
But Mr Forrest said the government needed to fund 25 VTECs across Australia, claiming training under government programs simply "churned and burned" indigenous workers. His push for more VTEC funding was supported by high-profile Aboriginal figures
So far there have been about 10,000 indigenous job placements with covenant employers. Yesterday, Mr Forrest claimed there were 61,000 future job opportunities with those employers. "Covenant employers achieve over a 70 per cent retention rate at six months; while the government's JSA achieves only a 45 per cent retention rate at three months," he said. "The employers created the jobs and employers designed the training for the indigenous workers."
He rejected the criticism that as an employer he was not putting enough into training.
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For the last century, the concept of crystals has been a mainstay of solid-state physics. Crystals are paragons of order; crystalline materials are defined by the repeating patterns their constituent atoms and molecules make. Now physicists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have evidence that a new concept should undergird our understanding of most materials: the anticrystal, a theoretical solid that is completely disordered.
Their work suggests that, when trying to understand a real material's mechanical properties, scientists would be better served in many cases by starting with the framework of the anticrystal and adding order, rather than starting with a perfect crystal and adding disorder. That is because the mechanical properties of even a slightly disordered solid can have more in common with an anticrystal than a perfect crystal.
Understanding these properties is critical for modeling how materials will respond to stress, as well as for designing new materials and predicting their behavior.
The study, published in Nature Physics, was conducted by Andrea Liu, a professor of physics in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences; Carl Goodrich, a graduate student in her group; and Sidney Nagel, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.
"One of the reasons the idea of the perfect crystal has been so successful over the last 100 years," Goodrich said, "is because the properties of an imperfect crystal are often very similar."
Outside of extremely controlled conditions, no real crystal is perfect; there are always places of disorder within the overall pattern, which are known as defects. However, when describing the behavior of a crystalline material, scientists begin by treating it as if it were a perfect crystal, then extrapolating from that point based on how prevalent its defects actually are. Knowing the exact shape and location of each defect isn't necessary.
"But if you keep adding disorder, the extrapolation from the perfect crystal fails badly. The mechanical properties can no longer be described well from the perfect crystal. That's where the anticrystal comes in," Goodrich said.
Non-crystalline, or amorphous, materials may have regions within them that have atoms in different repeating patterns but no overarching order. This means that the properties of glass or plastic cannot be inferred from a perfect crystal, but. working from the other end of the spectrum, a perfectly disordered solid, had not been feasible. Not all disorder is alike; a deck of cards, for example, has one "correct" order but can be shuffled into an astronomically large number of different sequences.
"In the last decade or so," Liu said, "many researchers have shown that all of those different ways of being totally disordered do have something important in common, like how likely you are to draw a certain hand even given all of the ways you can shuffle a deck of cards.
"We now understand that, for a certain class of interactions, there is a starting point for understanding why different glasses have similar properties," she said. "It's the phase transition that occurs when a fluid becomes a disordered solid under pressure, which we call the 'jamming transition.'"
A phase transition is what happens when one state of matter turns into another, such as when water freezes. A decrease in temperature means that the hydrogen and oxygen atoms of the water no longer have enough energy to bounce out of the six-sided pattern they naturally nestle into. Without being able to move and flow past each other, the hydrogen and oxygen atoms crystallize into solid ice.
Another way of producing a solid, however, is by jamming particles (such as atoms, molecules, or even grains of sand) together, physically constraining their movements under high pressure.
"Anytime you have a critical point like a phase transition, studying the details really close to that transition tells you about how systems further away from the transition behave," Goodrich said.
By extrapolating away from the jamming transition, the researchers showed that even fairly orderly materials exhibited behaviors closer to those of the anticrystal than a perfect crystal.
"It takes seven shuffles to totally randomize an ordered deck. But suppose you just shuffle it once," Goodrich said. "What we're saying is that, when it comes to a materials' mechanical behavior, even this deck is closer to being totally shuffled than totally ordered."
"Fifty-two is a large number when thinking about permutations," Liu said, "but it's not anywhere close to Avogadro's number and the different ways all of the atoms in a piece of glass can be arranged."
Having a better starting point for glass or plastic would be a boon to both research and industrial design, but the principles of the anticrystal are powerful because they can provide insight into many crystalline materials as well. Making alloys like steel stronger often involves making their crystalline patterns smaller and smaller, meaning their behaviors are better and better described by the anticrystal.
"Just as a perfect crystal has very well defined properties," Liu said, "the anticrystal has well defined properties, and we can think of real materials as being somewhere in between the two. What we've shown is that it doesn't take much disorder before the anticrystal is a better starting point."
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Alison is played by the marvelous Tatiana Maslany, an actress who hails from Regina, Saskatchewan.
Every discovery brings us closer to understanding how planets form in all their marvelous variety.
The view is marvelous, providing a panoramic vista of Central Park.
The Second Amendment is "marvelous," he told me, the one law, above any other, that "epitomizes your freedom."
But as he approached the marvelous boat, he also looked toward the horizon.
Great stories of Sara's marvelous temper had gone about the camp.
The man on the train shrieking westward down through the marvelous valley of the Columbia spoke like an oracle.
It was like a marvelous translucent ruby, set in a silver mist.
There are, therefore, points of view in which money is the most marvelous product of the folkways.
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text: RIYADH/ABU DHABI - Fifteen people died and around 130 were injured when a fire broke out in a hotel packed with pilgrims in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina on Saturday, the state news agency said.All 15 were Egyptians and the blaze was started by an electrical short circuit, according to a separate report on Egypt's state television station.It took rescue teams more than two hours to put out the fire and a nearby hotel was evacuated as a precautionary measure, Saudi Arabia's state news agency reported.Around 700 pilgrims were staying in the hotel at the time, it added. Authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the blaze.Once a year Muslims perform the Haj pilgrimage to Makkah, Islam's holiest city. But year round, they can also undertake the Umrah in Saudi Arabia, also home to Islam's second-holiest site, Medina.This news was published in The Nation newspaper. Read complete newspaper of 09-Feb-2014 here.


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The last parts of a US spy plane that collided with a Chinese fighter jet, sparking a crisis in relations, have been airlifted out of China.
The EP-3 surveillance aircraft had been stranded on the southern island of Hainan for three months after being forced to make an emergency landing there.
Mr Fleming said the plane, which was taken apart and loaded on to an Antonov-124 cargo plane, was flown out of Lingshui airbase on Hainan at 1740 (0940 GMT).
It is being flown to Hawaii, with a stop in the Philippines for refuelling, the US Pacific Command said.
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The collision of the Chinese fighter and the US spy plane - and the subsequent detention by China of the US crew - prompted the biggest strain in tensions between Beijing and Washington since the bombing of China's embassy in Yugoslavia by US planes in 1999.
Navy spokesman Doug Holl said a 12-member team from the plane's manufacturer Lockheed Martin would also be leaving Hainan.
"It couldn't have come any sooner," Mr Holl said. "We're all very pleased."
He said the plane would be transported to a Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Georgia, where it would be reassembled in preparation for returning to service.
Other parts of the EP-3 have already been taken to a US base on Okinawa, Japan, Mr Holl said.
The EP-3 collided in mid-air with a Chinese fighter jet on 1 April, killing the Chinese pilot, before being forced to make its emergency landing.
China held the spy plane crew for 11 days, causing a serious diplomatic row between the two countries.
The impasse ended only after Washington said it was "very sorry" that the Chinese pilot had died and that the American plane had landed without permission.
'Careful dismantling'
Beijing had refused US requests to repair the plane and fly it off the island, apparently hoping to punish Washington by forcing it to destroy its aircraft in order to retrieve it.
The Americans say that by carefully dismantling the plane instead of chopping it up, they will be able to put it back together.
But analysts say it is unlikely the badly-damaged EP-3 will ever fly again.
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Westmoreland website could simplify obtaining documents, bring meetings online
An upgraded Westmoreland County website presented this week will provide easier access to public documents and could even allow for streaming the commissioners' twice-monthly business meetings over the Internet.
"I don't think that's why we're doing it," Commissioner Tyler Courtney said. "But we want to give the public the opportunity to watch."
Dave Ridilla, director of the county's computer information systems department, said the streaming of commissioners' meetings could be a year or two away.
But the new website offers immediate improvements, he said.
In addition to allowing blind users to navigate the site with audio commands, the technology will allow members of the public to review and file documents from their home or office, make payments over the Internet and access the county's portal via mobile devices.
"Our main focus is to make documents and information accessible to the public," Ridilla said.
Prospective vendors looking to do business with Westmoreland County will have improved access, according to Controller Jeff Balzer.
Information will be posted and electronically sent to potential bidders who register online to receive information about upcoming county projects and purchases.
"We'll get the process done a lot faster and there will be more competition for jobs. It just creates fair opportunity and more people will get involved with county business," Balzer said.
The website will allow the public to have access to more documents and information.
County commissioners last year signed a contract with Manhattan, Kan.-based Enterprises Inc. to host, support and maintain the site.
The company is being paid $150,000 over the first three years of the deal.
Its pay will drop to $18,715 in the fourth year, and will increase by 5 percent in each following year.
The county previously paid $5,000 annually to maintain the website it created in house nine years ago.
Software used to create the old website was purchased through a state contract.
But that software needed to be replaced because it was outdated, officials said.
Rich Cholodofsky is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-830-6293 or email@example.com.


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Majestic Rajasthan
You can pick and choose from an enormous number of historic sites and buildings in New Delhi, but one of the newest and most spectacular is the Lotus Temple of the Ba'hai religion. It was designed to look like a lotus flower and welcomes any visitors who want to go inside and see a service.
We flew to Udaipur, in the state of Rajasthan, to stay at the Taj Lake Palace Hotel, a white marble mosaic jewel set in the middle of Lake Pichola. A summer residence of a princess of Mewar, built in 1746, it is a dreamlike building with nothing but water surrounding it, making it look like its own surreal island. When then First Lady Jackie Kennedy visited here with her sister, she suggested the palace would make a wonderful hotel, and the owners decided to do just that. One of many romantic destinations in this sensuous country, it features a dinner for two, if you choose, served by boat in the lake on a raft a hundred yards away from the hotel.
Take a short boat ride to the City Palace located on the mainland in Udaipur and you can tour through beautiful rooms and enjoy the artwork on the walls, the romantic swing for lovers set over a pool inside the palace, and the deliberately grooved cement elephant "parking lots" just outside, where the palace elephants used to rest. It was here, too, that we saw a woman in a sari of intense sapphire blue working construction on the palace, carrying cement blocks back and forth on her head!
The trip through crowded dusty roads to Agra to see the Taj Mahal is worth the time and trouble to get there from Delhi. No matter how many photographs and paintings you have seen of this incredible building, nothing prepares you for the real thing. There are only two things I have ever seen that moved me to tears from the sheer beauty of them: the Grand Canal in Venice and the Taj Mahal.
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Perhaps the nicest hotel in Agra is the Oberoi Amarvilas, just 600 meters from the Taj Mahal. Those who stay there enjoy views of it at dusk and in the moonlight as well as in full daylight. There is no bad time to see the Taj Mahal. We stayed at a lower priced hotel without the view, but were enchanted when a musician played "morning music" on his sitar-like instrument, at breakfast. Monkeys scrambled over the rooftops of our outdoor patio restaurant at one lunch stop. Surprises such as this are part of a trip to India.
Unless you're a yoga student traveling to meet your guru (and there are lots of these flying regularly from the U.S. to Delhi), you should link to a tour group on your first trip to India, which will take care of transportation through the crowds, hotels and sightseeing. You should also make sure to apply for a visa; it's a necessity to even enter the airport in Delhi. You can tell tour guides whether you want to focus your India trip on rivers, or architecture, culture, wildlife, camel safaris and whatever else—India has all these and much more.


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Property Location
With a stay at Diez Hotel Categoria Colombia in Medellin (El Poblado), you'll be minutes from Lleras Park and close to Park of Lights. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Poblado Park and La Strada Mall.
Make yourself at home in one of the 115 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring refrigerators and plasma televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comforters. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while iPod docking stations and cable programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature designer toiletries and hair dryers.
Pamper yourself with a visit to the spa, which offers massages, body treatments, and facials. You can take advantage of recreational amenities such as a health club and a sauna. This Beaux Arts hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, gift shops/newsstands, and a hair salon. Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the area shuttle (surcharge).
Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served daily.
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Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Planning an event in Medellin? This hotel has 2433 square feet (226 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Television in common areas
- Health club
- Rooftop terrace
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Wedding services
- Roll-in shower
- Free WiFi
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Hair salon
- Free breakfast
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Steam room
- Number of floors - 12
- Year Built 2010
- Laundry facilities
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Spa services on site
- Casino shuttle (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- In-room accessibility
- Snack bar/deli
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (feet) - 2433
- Porter/bellhop
- Conference center
- Sauna
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Full-service spa
- Total number of rooms - 115
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Accessible bathroom
- Elevator/lift
- Meeting rooms 5
- 24-hour front desk
- Theme park shuttle (surcharge)
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- ATM/banking
- Shopping on site
- 24-hour business center
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference space size (meters) - 226
- Smoke-free property
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Luggage storage
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- Room service (24 hours)
- Hair dryer
- Refrigerator
- Bathrobes
- Down comforter
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Pillowtop mattress
- Individually decorated
- Free local calls
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
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- Free wired high-speed Internet
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- If you are traveling with a child your property may require you to present the following documents: Parents traveling into Colombia with a child under 18 may be required to present the child's birth certificate and photo ID (passport for foreign visitors) upon check-in. If a relative or legal guardian is traveling into Colombia with the child, that relative or legal guardian may be required to present a notarized consent of travel signed by both parents and a copy of both parents' ID. If only one parent is traveling into Colombia with the child, that parent may be required to present a notarized consent of travel signed by the other parent. Visitors who plan to travel with children should consult with a Colombian consulate office prior to travel for further guidance.
- This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Up to 2 children 10 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Children may not be eligible for complimentary breakfast.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Airport shuttle fee: COP 63000 per vehicle (roundtrip)
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
- A 19 percent city/local tax will be charged
- The national sales tax (19%) is charged upon check-out to citizens of Colombia regardless of length of stay and to foreigners staying 60 consecutive days or more. Foreigners on a tourist visa are exempt from this tax. Furthermore, the tax may apply per room when the room is shared by a taxable and a nontaxable guest.
- Resort fee: COP 8330.00 per person, per night
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You may have noticed new street banners going up around the Fairbanks campus. These visuals are part of our new marketing campaign, Naturally Inspiring, which begins today.
I am pleased that we've developed a solid brand strategy that will help us to communicate what makes UAF such a great university. The Naturally Inspiring tagline gives us a framework to tell our story, and helps us strengthen our position and reputation. It will also serve to narrow our focus and help us grow student enrollment, and community and philanthropic support.
Branding is more than logos, colors and taglines, though these visual components are very important. In the coming months, UAF's schools, colleges and research institutes should work with Marketing and Communications to determine how they might adopt the new visuals into their own outreach materials. Marketing and Communications has developed a Brand Book that will help you do this. You'll find that information and everything else you need to know about UAF's new brand strategy at www.uaf.edu/branding/
Everyone at UAF has a role in how we talk about and showcase our university. This process will help us do that consistently and clearly, building our overall reputation and, in doing so, strengthening all of our programs.
From Facebook pages to the previously blank wall in Signers' Hall, you'll see the campaign unveiled around campus today and in the coming weeks. I hope that these visual images reinforce your sense of pride about UAF. For those of you who already feel inspired, please visit www.uaf.edu/inspire/ and share what inspires you.
I'd like to thank Marketing and Communications and the members of the Strategic Marketing Committee for their work in moving this effort forward. With one clear authentic voice, we set ourselves apart from the rest. We are the University of Alaska Fairbanks. We are Naturally Inspiring.


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During a very old upgrade of CSM one very interesting feature broke : synchronization between CSM and CS DCR.
When I create a device in CSM, it is not appearing in the DCR, so when I open RME, I don't see my devices.
Have you got an idea of what I should do to restore this ?
BTW, if I manually create a device in CS, it correctly appear in RME. So I really think that the issue maybe between CSM and CS.
I have this problem too.
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Gas Storage
The ability to store and retrieve natural gas increases the reliability of gas service. Access to storage allows individual gas buyers to acquire lower-cost supplies on the spot market during off-peak periods(such as the summer months) and store the gas in locations near end-users during periods of peak demand (such as the winter months). Storage can also compensate for temporary disruptions in natural gas production. Natural gas can be stored underground in several types of facilities, including salt caverns, depleted aquifers, and depleted oil and gas reservoirs. On average, 15 20 percent of natural gas consumed during the five-month winter heating season comes from underground storage. On a given winter day, 50 percent or more of gas supplied to customers may come from underground storage. As significant holders of storage capacity, natural gas utilities are changing the way they use the supply asset, and continue to improve their storage practices to be more competitive. For example, many utilities use financial tools to hedge summer injections and minimize storage refill costs. In addition, storage capacity is increasingly viewed as an asset that requires critical economic management in order to maximize its value.
AGA Viewpoint:
Approximately 420 natural gas storage fields operate in the United States. Underground storage is a critical link to supplying consumers with reliable, affordable natural gas, particularly during periods of peak demand. Underground storage also links critical new infrastructure development, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, to natural gas customers. It acts as a repository of supply between the times gas is imported and when it is required for consumption. AGA supports the market based growth of this key gas infrastructure.
Additional Information: Energy Information Administration (www.eia.doe.gov)
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Separation Anxiety in Dogs
One of the most common complaints of pet parents is that their dogs are disruptive or destructive when left alone. Their dogs might urinate, defecate, bark, howl, chew, dig or try to escape.
Although these problems often indicate that a dog needs to be taught polite house manners, they can also be symptoms of distress. When a dog's problems are accompanied by other distress behaviors, such as drooling and showing anxiety when his pet parents prepare to leave the house, they aren't evidence that the dog isn't house trained or doesn't know which toys are his to chew. Instead, they are indications that the dog has separation anxiety.
Separation anxiety is triggered when dogs become upset because of separation from their guardians, the people they're attached to. Escape attempts by dogs with separation anxiety are often extreme and can result in self-injury and household destruction, especially around exit points like windows and doors.
Some dogs suffering from separation anxiety become agitated when their guardians prepare to leave. Others seem anxious or depressed prior to their guardians' departure or when their guardians aren't present. Some try to prevent their guardians from leaving. Usually, right after a guardian leaves a dog with separation anxiety, the dog will begin barking and displaying other distress behaviors within a short time after being left alone-often within minutes. When the guardian returns home, the dog acts as though it's been years since he's seen his mom or dad!
When treating a dog with separation anxiety, the goal is to resolve the dog's underlying anxiety by teaching him to enjoy, or at least tolerate, being left alone. This is accomplished by setting things up so that the dog experiences the situation that provokes his anxiety, namely being alone, without experiencing fear or anxiety.
Common Symptoms of Separation Anxiety
The following is a list of symptoms that may indicate separation anxiety:
Urinating and Defecating
Some dogs urinate or defecate when left alone or separated from their guardians. If a dog urinates or defecates in the presence of his guardian, his house soiling probably isn't caused by separation anxiety.
Barking and Howling
A dog who has separation anxiety might bark or howl when left alone or when separated from his guardian. This kind of barking or howling is persistent and doesn't seem to be triggered by anything except being left alone.
Chewing, Digging and Destruction
Some dogs with separation anxiety chew on objects, door frames or window sills, dig at doors and doorways, or destroy household objects when left alone or separated from their guardians. These behaviors can result in self-injury, such as broken teeth, cut and scraped paws and damaged nails. If a dog's chewing, digging and destruction are caused by separation anxiety, they don't usually occur in his guardian's presence.
A dog with separation anxiety might try to escape from an area where he's confined when he's left alone or separated from his guardian. The dog might attempt to dig and chew through doors or windows, which could result in self-injury, such as broken teeth, cut and scraped front paws and damaged nails. If the dog's escape behavior is caused by separation anxiety, it doesn't occur when his guardian is present.
Some dogs walk or trot along a specific path in a fixed pattern when left alone or separated from their guardians. Some pacing dogs move around in circular patterns, while others walk back and forth in straight lines. If a dog's pacing behavior is caused by separation anxiety, it usually doesn't occur when his guardian is present.
When left alone or separated from their guardians, some dogs defecate and then consume all or some of their excrement. If a dog eats excrement because of separation anxiety, he probably doesn't perform that behavior in the presence of his guardian.


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Worst Cruise Ever- Horrible!: Carnival Magic Cruise Review by manbearpig33
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Worst Cruise Ever- Horrible!
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Galveston
The ship is big, and very pretty. However, they crammed as many people as they could onto the ship. There were crowds and lines for everything. You couldn't turn around without running into somebody. It's like going to Disneyland.
You can't escape the smell of cigarette smoke. You breathe it in on the outside decks, around the pool, and on the inside public spaces. If you want a whiff of fresh ocean air, you have to wake up very early.
There are no enrichment classes. Only classes that are designed to sell you something.
There is a bar every ten feet and a lot of drunk people on board.
The pool areas are loud and smoky! They More play rock and rap so loud all day that I'm sure the fish in the ocean had to cover their ears as the ship passed!
Now for the bad part- The ship had a broken rudder and we had to go to Progresso for two days instead of Costa Maya for one day. Progresso is okay, but it is not a place I would choose to go. I was looking forward to Costa Maya and I missed a great shore excursion there.
After Progresso, I ate seafood newberg in the dining room on the ship. About an hour later, I felt nauseous. I proceeded to throw up and have diarrhea all night. It was horrible!
The next morning I told guest services that I had gotten food poisoning from the seafood newberg. They told me to go to the medical center for complimentary treatment. The doctor gave me medicine and told me I was confined to my cabin for 24 hours.
I missed Cozumel, where I had a fantastic excursion planned. Instead I spent the day in my cabin while the ship was in port. Honestly, I don't know if it was food poisoning or the norovirus. Either way, my vacation was ruined.
I thought that Carnival would surely refund my cruise money because of my misery. I am naive that way. I expect people to do the right thing. They told me that they could do absolutely nothing for me and basically that it was my tough luck. So sorry!
I tried to talk with the higher up managers, thinking the lower level people couldn't do anything. Long story short- No one will do anything to help you if this happens to you. They don't care. It's company policy. No money back no matter how terrible your vacation was. Nada. Not a dime. Nothing you can do.
I was sooo angry. I realized that when you purchase a cruise, you are taking many risks over which you have no control.
Carnival will not part with any money you pay them.
I will never sail on Carnival again. Less
Published 11/25/11
Cabin review: 6A1355 Ocean View
My cabin (1355) was a large ocean view. It had an extra bathroom with no toilet, just a bathtub and sink. It was roomy for a ship cabin. The beds were very narrow, but nice. It was an adequate cabin.Read All Ocean View (6A) Reviews >>
Port and Shore Excursions
This port is okay. That's about all I can say about it. The water is green, not turquoise. The beaches are not really swimming or snorkling beaches.
Read Cruise Critic's Carnival Magic Review >>
Anniversary get-a-way
Lots of winners and few losers...
Carnival Magic is quite a show...
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Carnival has its Magic act tog...
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A very pleasant surprise
Lots of winners and few losers...
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Primarily a guitar player, he likes to try his hand at playing various instruments, composing, recording, and producing
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History will be made on Saturday afternoon at the Scotiabank Saddledome when Team Canada steps onto the ice for its inaugural game at the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier.Read More
Tag Archives: Calgary
Field now complete for 2015 Tim Hortons Brier
All 14 teams that will travel to Calgary for the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier, presented by SecurTek Monitoring Solutions, have now been determined.Read More
Stars on ice gather in Calgary!
Two different kinds of sliders gathered on Thursday afternoon at the Glencoe Club in Calgary for some Canadian team bonding.Read More
Team Europe confirmed for 2015 WFG Continental Cup!
A talented and experienced blend of world champions and Olympic medallists from Europe will take on Canada's best curling teams in the 2015 World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by SecurTek, it was announced today.Read More
Rivals on the ice but friends off the ice
Canada's top curlers leave their intense rivalries on the ice.Read More
Team Canada men name John Morris skip for 2014-15 season
A familiar face will take the reigns of the reigning Canadian men's curling champions, it was announced today.Read More
Canada picks up 4th straight win at World Men's Championship
BEIJING — Team Canada has hit the midway point at the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship, presented by Ford of Canada, feeling awfully good about the road ahead.Read More
Canada cruises past Russia at World Men's Championship
BEIJING — The struggles of the opening weekend were left firmly in the past by Team Canada on Monday morning at the World Men's Curling Championship, presented by Ford of Canada.Read More
Team Canada off to winning start at World Men's Championship
BEIJING — Even on the other side of the world, it remains an indisputable fact that when you give Kevin Koe's curling team a lead, it rarely surrenders it.Read More
Team Canada aims to add to golden curling season
Kevin Koe's team from the Glencoe Club in Calgary will look to win Canada's fourth international gold medal of the 2013-14 curling season when the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship, presented by Ford of Canada, opens Saturday at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.Read More
Canadian curling's first Triple Crown headed to Alberta
Canada's top men's curlers will be presented with a unique opportunity next season, it was announced today by the Canadian Curling Association.Read More
Focus returns to curling after Alberta floods
It was June 21, and to be brutally honest, the last thing on the mind of Highwood Curling Club manager John Steel was the fate of High River's four-sheet curling facility, which was being hammered by record flooding.Read More
A conversation with Andy Jones, wheelchair curling coach
Andy Jones of Calgary recently coached Team Alberta to the bronze medal at the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship in Ottawa. Jones works with both able-bodied and wheelchair curlers, and he's a role model for coaches who might be looking to expand their repertoire of coaching experiences.Read More
Featured Curling Athlete: Bronwen Webster
Long considered one of the bright talents on the Calgary curling scene, it's no wonder the services of Bronwen Webster have been sought after by the city's top teams.Read More
Saskatchewan defeats Ontario, 8-7 in an extra end to win M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Men's
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But what to do? There was no way that we could eat all of those before they went bad. And I definitely wasn't going to let them go to waste.
Altogether there was about 2 ½ pounds of jalapenos and I only paid $1.48!
Jalapeno Pickling Solution
Jalapeno Canning Process
10 minutes in the boiling water bath, and they were done and ready to be taken out.
I was able to get 5 pints of canned jalapenos. For best flavor you should wait a few weeks before trying–but I just don't know that I can! Don't those just look so good?
I'm not 100% certain, but I want to say that one jar of jalapenos from the grocery store would set you back roughly $2.50. I've made 5 jars for right around $4 (that includes the jars, vinegar and jalapenos).
Pretty frugal, and incredibly rewarding!
This post is linked to Frugal Friday


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Football Recaps: October 16
Oct. 16, 2010
Michigan State 26, Illinois 6:Kirk Cousins threw a 48-yard touchdown pass to B.J. Cunningham in the third quarter, helping No. 13 Michigan State to its best start in more than four decades with a 26-6 win over Illinois on Saturday.
Cousins finished 13 of 24 for 201 yards.
Purdue 27, Minnesota 17:Rob Henry ran for 56 yards with three touchdowns and threw for 163 yards with one touchdown as the freshman from Ocala, Fla. led Purdue to a 28-17 victory over Minnesota (1-6, 0-2) on Saturday at Ross-Ade Stadium.
Purdue's scoring plays included Henry runs of four, two and three yards and a 20-yard touchdown pass from Henry to Antavian Edison.
Indiana 36, Arkansas St., 34Ben Chappell threw for 382 yards and four touchdowns Saturday, rallying Indiana for a 36-34 victory over Arkansas State.
The Hoosiers (4-2) ended a two-game losing streak with their fourth-straight win over a nonconference foe.
Iowa 38, Michigan 28:Ricky Stanzi threw his third touchdown pass to Derrell Johnson-Koulianos early in the fourth quarter and Michael Meyer kicked a 30-yard field goal with 2:53 left, helping No. 15 Iowa hold off Michigan for a 38-28 win Saturday.
The Hawkeyes (5-1, 2-0 Big Ten) led the Wolverines (5-1, 1-2) by three TDs early in the fourth quarter for the second time during the game.
Ricky Stanzi threw his third touchdown pass to Derrell Johnson-Koulianos early in the fourth quarter and Michael Meyer kicked a 30-yard field goal with 2:53 left, helping No. 15 Iowa hold off Michigan for a 38-28 win Saturday.
Full Story...
Wisconsin 31, Ohio State 18: John Clay ran for two touchdowns and James White darted in for the clincher in the fourth quarter as No. 18 Wisconsin took down No. 1 Ohio State 31-18 Saturday night.
Wisconsin hadn't beaten a No. 1 since 1981, when the Badgers knocked off Michigan 21-14 at Camp Randall.
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Positive Promotions CEO, Congressman Advocate For U.S.-Made Products In National Parks
Positive Promotions' (UPIC: PROM0087) CEO Nelson Taxel met with New York Congressman Steve Israel at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, the former home of President Teddy Roosevelt, on July 12 to advocate for proposed legislation to put American-made products in official gift shops at national parks, monuments and historic sites across the country.
The Hauppauge, New York-based supplier says the "American Parks, American Products Act" act would offer an opportunity to expand its "Made in America" line of educational, motivational and promotional products.
Congressman Israel said, "Every single day in this country, 750,000 people visit one of our 400 national parks, heritage sites and historic areas. Two hundred eighty-three million consumers a year go to our parks and our gift shops."
Taxel adds, "With that amount of visitors buying $250 million in merchandise from national gift stores each year, the American economy is missing out on the opportunity to benefit from substantial purchasing power. By buying products overseas, most commonly in China, we are eliminating growth opportunity for companies like Positive Promotions that are capable of making the same products here in the states.
"To give the work and labor that we are currently outsourcing overseas to American companies is a 'common sense solution' for workforce and economic growth. With the 'American Parks, American Product Acts' in effect, as a company with a 67-year history in the promotional product business, Positive Promotions will have the chance to enter into the ring of purchasing power at recognized national locations."


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From the day of the release of its first theatrical trailer, Sandalwood's recent offering Ugramm is making a huge buzz across the South Indian market. There is a huge demand for the remake rights of the movie, and the superstars of other languages, who are bowled over by the film are eagerly waiting to act in the remake version of Ugramm in their respective languages.
Earlier, it was reported about the rift between the two big families of Telugu film industry to own the remake rights of the movie. It was said that Tollywood's superstars Jr NTR and Allu Arjun, who were bowled over by the Ugramm's theatrical trailer had expressed their desire to do the remake in Telugu. It was also mentioned about the tug-of-war between the duo to own the remake rights.
But the latest buzz from the Tollywood has stated that the makers, who have owned the remake rights of Ugramm for Telugu, has another option apart from Jr NTR and Allu Arjun. Yes, it's none other than Prabhas, who is presently the Rebel Star of Telugu film industry. Prabhas, who is known for his action dramas in , said to be the right person to play the lead role in Telugu version of Ugramm. Continue reading the story on slide show...
Prabhas And Murali
Both Prabhas and Murali have created their own identity in their respective film industries, which has made the makers to zero on Prabhas for Srimurali's role in the remake movie.
Theme Suits Telugu Audience
The makers have opined that the theme of Ugramm will suit all the nativity and mainly Telugu audience.
Prabhas, The Critics' Choice
It is said that when the makers took opinion from the critics to zero the lead role, their first choice was none other than Prabhas, when compared to Jr NTR and Allu Arjun.
Murali's Impressive Acting
The high octane action scenes and Murali's acting are the main highlights of Ugramm, which has caught the attention of other language movie makers.
Dhanush In Tamil And Hindi Remake
Kollywood superstar Dhanush has expressed his desire to do the movie simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi, which is likely to go on floors shortly.
Prabhas Busy With Baahubali
Prabhas is currently busy with the shooting of epic movie Baahubali, and he is likely to take up Ugramm by the end of 2014.


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I know it has been mentioned a few times but the radius account does not
work properly because it is not giving a unique session ID ever time someone
logs in and out. Out is the problem actually. Anyway is there a way to
check for a session ID and if non there create one and use that to pass to
the radius server for accounting?
I looked thru the source tarbal for the and found in there where it needs to
change but do not know howto create a image after I fixed it. So if someone
could for the 1.2beta version make the changes I'd be happy do the coding.
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From: Quark IT - Hilton Travis [mailto:hilton at quarkit dot com dot au]
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Subject: [m0n0wall-dev] Name Resolution
Hi All,
I recently posted a question to the USERS list about this, and had a
reply to say it wasn't possible. I've still not got an ADSL connection
here, good ol' Tel$tra is keeping to their poor performance records.
Anyway, currently m0n0wall doesn't allow a FQDN to be used in its
"aliases" section, or in other places in its web interface. I suggest
adding this as an option that is disabled by default to keep those who
think that this is insecure happy.
If, in the "Aliases" section, there's a checkbox that offers "Allow FQDN
as well as IP Address", then those who need to use dynamic DNS names
because they don't have a static IP Address (or the remote end doesn't)
can do so - for example, to allow an external dynamic user access to a
particular port.
Currently, only IP Addresses are allowable which is fine in most cases.
There are however a number of situations that I can see - and a few I
have encountered - where this is not sufficient.
Could this functionality please be added to the m0n0wall 1.2 Beta
versions if there is no significant opposition.
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About Ellen F. Rosenblum
Attorney General Hardy Myers today announced the filing of a stipulated general money judgment and permanent injunction against an Oregon Coast wood artist, who allegedly took money from Oregon residents and tourists for specialty timber products and never provided the goods or refunds.
Named in the judgment filed Thursday in Lincoln County Circuit Court is John Lovell, formerly of Otis and currently of Rose Lodge, who did business as Forest Forms, Forest Forms Rustic Furnishings and Lovell's. Lovell, also known as Jean Lovell, admits no law violation.
"Lovell impressed tourists with displays of his specialty timber products at various locations in Oregon coastal towns and on the Internet," Myers explained. "Buyers had no idea that the hefty down payments accompanying their orders for 'artistic' log furniture would be pocketed by Lovell, who would never deliver the anticipated product."
Investigators found that many of the victims had earlier filed private actions in Lincoln County small claims court, obtained default judgments and some had not been able to collect on the actions. Others had not received product or refunds nor had they obtained judgments. Lovell was given the opportunity to sign a settlement agreement and pay restitution to certain victims but he failed to do so. The Oregon Department of Justice sued Lovell in January 2004.
Under the judgment, Lovell is to provide $1,725 in restitution to four victims who had not received refunds nor had obtained private judgments against the defendant and who supplied affidavits for the court.
Lovell also must pay $7,000 to the Justice consumer protection and education account and is barred for the next five years from accepting funds or personal checks from consumers before delivery of product except in limited circumstances. For example, he may accept notes or personal checks made out to third party suppliers that are not related in any way or connected by marriage or otherwise to the defendant. Lovell also is prevented for the next 10 years from advertising, soliciting sales or accepting orders from consumers for product over the Internet. He can, however, display his products on the Internet for prospective wholesale buyers with a clear and conspicuous notice that it is "not a retail website."
Upon request, Lovell also must, within 30 days, provide Justice with a list of unfilled customer orders. Justice also has the right to extend the designated injunctive periods up to five additional years if the defendant does not comply with the judgment.
Consumers wanting more information about the case may call the Attorney General's consumer hotline at (503) 378-4320 (Salem area only), (503) 229-5576 (Portland area only) and toll-free at 1-877-877-9392. Justice is online at www.doj.state.or.us.
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Art and music
Wednesday 2 May 2007
Tonight, Sean's out of town and M. is performing in a musical uptown, so the house will be free for Flickershow recording, hooray!
Only yesterday I was reading Muffy's reports from the Open Ears festival and wishing I'd made it back to KW to catch it. I don't generally get to see many shows, and the reason mostly boils down to Too Damn Busy. Either I'm working late (Sean and I seem to be home at 10pm as often as not), recording or playing with Flickershow, or recovering from the above.
I'm determined to change things around now. Coming home at a more reasonable time, for one thing; for another, working Saturday and staying home to work on music in the middle of the week, when the house is empty.
And I think I'll have to check out some of the events at Deep Wireless: A Festival Of Radio Art. (Thanks, Torontoist.)
Here's the latest version of the particle sim - the particles attract this time around, and have random values for mass.
I've cleaned up the source and commented the hell out of it, and collected most of the major parameters so they're easy to adjust before compiling.
Source plus the containing FLA file:
// Interaction of particles
for (i=numParticles; i; i—) {
for (j=numParticles; j-1; j—) {
should run a bit faster - this is a Cheap Time Optimization that i really ought to get in the habit of using. It works in pretty much any language that has a 'for' construct modeled after C.
basically, it runs faster because the check becomes a simple boolean truth check instead of a variable retrieve and compare. It's a little harder to read, of course. Time optimizations always are. It tends to make a big difference when you iterate an interpreted language over any sizeable number of objects, though!
Also if I was doing this I'd have probably defined the area by throwing a movieclip on the stage and getting bounds from that. And would've probably tried to write it such that all the variables live on that clip - that way I could have a couple particle objects in the scene, if I wanted to. (I've done this, when I built a simple 'snow' particle system - define the area by movie clips, and layer a few with different parameters.)
Posted by Egypt Urnash on 3 May 2007 at 1:43 AM
Ahh, that makes sense… thanks! I'll have to go over it in more detail to see if I can save on those trig calculations too.
I notice the piece slows down over time… wasn't expecting it to keep track of all those line segments! Given that it's vector-based, I should have guessed.
Making snow is a real pain in the ass without Actionscript, as we discovered some months ago, long before I started learning all this stuff.
As it is, I'm still getting the hang of how to program in Flash, where to put code, and so forth. Any favorite resources you'd recommend, online or off?
Posted by Eli McIlveen on 3 May 2007 at 8:40 PM
Deciding where to put stuff is as much a matter of personal style as anything else! It depends on the project, too.
You could try shifting to the newer version with lots of bitmap stuff going on - just draw the lines and bake into bitmap, rather than keeping them vector. I think that's doable; I haven't really investigated the new stuff much. (you might have to clear your drawing object, draw your lines, bake that into bitmap, than add that to another bitmap that's actually the displayed one? of course you could also then integrate some fades or something into it.)
Unfortunately I don't think there's any simple ways to save on the trig - the gravity logic depends on the distance, which involves a square root. When you're doing basic circle-to-circle collision detection you can get a serious gain by just working with the squared distances and never sqrt()ing, buuut…
on the other hand you could also maybe gain some speed by going through and calculating the distance between each pair of objects once, then looping through and modifying them. that might be a slightly more accurate simulation, too, as I think that the effect of object 1's gravity on object 2 will be magnified by o1 moving towards o2 before you ever process o2.
As to resources… damn, I dunno any more, I'm way out of the loop. Flashkit.com used to be a decent resource back in '03 or so but it's really hard to navigate now. Any good Javascript book will help too. also moock.org has some decent stuff I think, he's written some of the better books out there.
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The HTC 7 Mozart has a 1300 mAh Lithium-ion battery that HTC says should keep you gassing for up to 330 mins with 435 hours of standby time. We're not convinced by this figure. We weren't completely let down by the battery, despite the fact that the charger icon seemed to go down very quickly at first, but if we could have a five-hour conversation on a single charge we'd be extremely surprised.
Getting through one day on a single charge was a hard job, even when usage was pretty light so probably best not to expect 18 days of standby time either. For intense use while writing this review, we had to recharge the handset after five hours' use.
Capacity: 1300 mAh
Talk time:
- WCDMA: Up to 330 mins
- GSM: Up to 405 mins
Standby time:
- WCDMA: Up to 435 hours
- GSM: Up to 360 hours
As a Windows phone, the HTC 7 Mozart uses Bing maps rather than Google Maps, which is the default to on Android handsets like the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and Apple's iOS devices such as the iPhone 4.
Bing Maps has proven to be pretty good, though. The GPS is quick and accurate on the HTC 7 Mozart, while the maps are attractive to look at. When loading, rather than a depressing grey grid you get a nice cloudy effect while the maps animate in.
The app also offers accurate walking or driving directions in a flash and you can watch the map progress while reading the written instructions, which is really useful.
Unfortunately there's no option to bookmark favourite locations, so you'll have to tap addresses or postcodes in each time.
Although the HTC 7 Mozart obviously doesn't offer Google's extremely useful Street View, it automatically switches to satellite view when you zoom in close enough using the simple pinch-to-zoom gesture. There's no option to have the directions read out though, so it's not really good enough for use by drivers.


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The two co-hosts will also do the opening performance together with Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow and the Pistol Annies.
What's better to do when you have two country superstars hosting this year's Academy of Country Music Awards? What else than to have them headline the opening performance of the night, which is what Dick Clark Productions and the ACM will have Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan do on April 7 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Shelton and Bryan will be performing alongside another crooner, Brad Paisley on guitars, the Grammy Award-winning Sheryl Crow, and the Pistol Annies trio of Ashley Monroe, Angeleena Presley and Shelton's equally popular wife, Miranda Lambert. They will all perform Shelton's new single "Boys 'Round Here", the second track to be released off his album "Based on a True Story", following the lead single "Sure Be Cool If You Did" released last February.
The best acts in country music have also been lined up for the CBS broadcast such as Jason Aldean, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and George Strait. The female performers also boast such superstars as Taylor Swift and "American Idol" winners Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.
Other A-list entertainers performing in the big country music industry event are Stevie Wonder, Jewel Kilcher, Lady Antebellum, Kenny Chesney, The Band Perry, Eric Church and Little Big Town. Paisley will lead the ACM Fan Jam featuring Dierks Bentley and Hunter Hayes while Brooks and Strait will perform together for a special tribute to the late Dick Clark.


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Construction Businesses For Sale in Burleson TX
Searched the DealStream database for Construction Businesses For Sale in Burleson TX and found no matches. Expanded the search to nearby areas and found the following matches.
Concrete Raising with Great Earning Potential #472678 posted Jul 25, 2017
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>> INSIDER WIRE —Brooke Shields was silent on the red carpet last night (at the behest of her lawyers) about the Kiefer Sutherland-Jack McCollough incident, but apparently she told friends she was "jostled" by McCollough just before the headbutting, but it was "no big deal." After he made contact with her, she fell, but not all the way to the ground, and she doesn't feel it was intentional — instead, she blames the fall on her 6" high heels. Meanwhile, Jack was spotted earlier today, sporting more bandages than in the initial aftermath two days ago, reportedly from surgery last night. [WWD Twitter, TMZ]
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.1026 Thursday, 22 October 1998.
Date: Wednesday, 21 Oct 1998 10:51:26 -0400
Subject: 9.1019 Tate's Lear
Comment: Re: SHK 9.1019 Tate's Lear
Also, Christopher Spencer provides a very accessible defense of Tate, as
do some of the others whom I selected for this bibliography-lifted from
a paper I penned on Tate's Lear. I argued that his version is a
precursor of the later 18th century Melodrama, which in its turn also
draws upon conventions of other 18th century dramatic genres. Tate
wrote a Lear for his era and his audience. Although one might question
whether or not Shakespeare's version was indeed unstrung and "unpolish'd
jewels" (Tate's metaphor), Nahum really did manage to string them
together in a coherent way.
Personally, I enjoy the comfort of seeing Lear and Kent and Gloucester
totter off into old age, and the triumph, and marriage, of Edgar and
Cordelia gives new conviction to Edgar's "moral": "To speak what we
feel, and not what we ought to say." For me Lear is a most devastating
piece of literature-it leaves me-even in the recent PBS version :)
--battered emotionally, even as I am reveling in its beauty. Tate added
some kind of "beauty" and lets us put down the batterers and see
"justice"-and hope-enacted upon the stage.
Adler, Doris, "The Half-Life of Tate in King Lear," The Kenyon Review,
1985 7:3: 52-56.
Green, Lawrence, "'Where's My Fool?': Some Consequences of the Omission
of the Fool in Tate's Lear," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900,
1972, 12: 259-74.
Harrison, G.B. and McDonnell, Robert F., King Lear: Text, Sources,
Criticism. Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., New York, 1962.
Lowrey, Robert, "The Theme of Legitimate Succession in Nahum Tate's King
Lear," Publication of the Arkansas Philological Association, 1978 4:3:
Parsons, Philip, "Restoration Melodrama and Its Actors," Komos, Monesh
University: Australia, 1970 2: 81-98.
Sengupta, Shivaji, "Shakespearean Adaptation and Political
Consciousness: 1678-1682," Mid-Hudson Language Studies, 1984 4: 58-67.
Spencer, Christopher, "A Word for Tate's King Lear," SEL: Studies in
English Literature 1500-1900, 1963, 3: 241-251.
Spencer, Christopher, Five Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare.
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1965.


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Ceramides are second messengers involved in several intracellular processes in cancer cells, amongst others. The aim of this study was to evaluate the anti-tumor efficacy of C2-ceramide (C2-Cer;
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) accounts for 90% of head and neck cancers, and is the fifth most common cancer diagnosed worldwide. It originates in cells that form the lining of the mouth, nose, throat, ear, or the surface layer covering the tongue [
Autophagy is a major intracellular pathway for the degradation and recycling of long-lived proteins, lipid droplets, protein aggregates, mature ribosomes, glycogen, and even entire organelles, such as the endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and Golgi apparatus, thereby maintaining homeostasis and viability during periods of metabolic stress [
Sphingolipids have emerged as bioeffector molecules, controlling various aspects of cell growth and proliferation in cancer. These lipid molecules have also been implicated in the mechanism of action of cancer chemotherapeutics. As the central molecule of sphingolipid metabolism, ceramides, are sphingolipid second messengers involved in a wide variety of cell processes [
HN4 and HN30 cells were treated with various concentrations of C2-Cer for 24 h, and cell viability was assessed to determine the cytotoxic effects of C2-Cer. All cells showed morphological changes, including cell shrinkage, detachment from other cells, and formation of vesicles in the cytoplasm within 24 h of treatment, as observed via light microscopy. More C2-Cer-treated cells floated in the treated medium compared with control cells. C2-Cer significantly inhibited the proliferation of HNSCC cells in a concentration-dependent manner (
DNA strand breaks were detected by DNA agarose gel electrophoresis. DNA from control cells treated with dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) maintained its integrity, with no DNA ladder formation. However, cells treated with C2-Cer developed fuzzy and continuous DNA laddering, indicating necrotic DNA fragmentation (
Following agarose gel electrophoresis, DNA was visualized by Hoechst 33342/PI immunofluorescence double staining to determine the induction of programmed necrosis by C2-Cer. C2-Cer increased the incidence of Hoechst 33342+/PI++ cells in a concentration-dependent manner, indicating the induction of programmed necrosis. Double positive cells were markedly decreased by co-treatment with the necroptosis inhibitor necrostatin-1 (Nec-1), leaving only PI++ cells, indicative of apoptosis (
Microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3) -II transforms from LC3-I and acts as a marker for autophagic vesicles and autophagic activity, and LC3B-II (isoform of LC3-II) is correlated with elevated levels of autophagic vesicles. Endogenous LC3-II levels increased in HNSCC cells within 24 h after C2-Cer treatment in a concentration-dependent manner. LC3-II levels were higher in cells co-treated with the autophagy inhibitor chloroquine (CQ) compared with cells treated with C2-Cer alone. This result was confirmed by immunofluorescence. Fluoresence microscopic evaluation of LC3-II antibody-prestained cells revealed more stained particles in the cytoplasm of treated cells compared with control cells (
CQ is a late-phase autophagy inhibitor that prevents autophagosomal degradation. In a CCK-8 assay, cells treated with CQ only showed no growth inhibition, indicating that CQ had no significant effect on the proliferation of HNSCC cells. However, CQ together with C2-Cer significantly reduced the viability of HNSCC cells compared with cells treated with C2-Cer only (
Ceramides are intracellular second messenger molecules that relay and amplify signals from cell surface receptors, resulting in potentially large changes in biochemical activities within cells. Emerging evidence suggests that ceramides with different fatty acid chain lengths might have distinct functions in the regulation of tumor growth and responsiveness to therapy. Reduced ceramide levels have been related to cell motility in premalignant oral lesions and some anticancer drugs, such asdeguelin, have been shown to increase cellular ceramide levels through
Autophagy occurs extensively in various stages of tumor progression. However, increasing evidence suggests that ceramides are involved in mediating two opposing autophagic pathways, which favor either cell survival or cell death [
The anti-tumor effect of chemotherapeutic drugs is to compromise tumor cell homeostasis. However, the possibility of an endogenous or induced pro-survival effect also exists, and the balance between these effects determines the susceptibility of tumor cells to chemotherapy. Ceramides are vital biomolecules that are able to induce programmed cell death, and themotherapeutic agents may increase endogenous ceramide levels. We found that C2-Cer might induce a pro-survival effect through an ERK-related pathway in HNSCC. Previous studies reported that attenuation of C(18)-ceramide in HNSCC tumors correlated with lymphovascular invasion and nodal metastasis [
C2-Cer (
HN4 and HN30 human HNSCC cells (HN4, base of tongue, T4N1M0; HN30, pharynx, T3N0M0) were kind gifts from Dr. W.T. Pan, Wuhan University, China. The cells were maintained as monolayers in DMEM medium (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (Gibco/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin (Gibco-Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) at 37ºC under a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO2.
The proliferation-inhibition effect of C2-Cer on HNSCC cells was analyzed via the CCK-8 assay according to the manufacturer's instructions. Briefly, cells at a density of 1 × 104 cells/well were plated into a 96-well plate (100 μL/well). Cells were treated with C2-Cer (0, 20, 40, 60 μM, respectively), C2-Cer plus autophagy inhibitor CQ (5 μM), necroptosis inhibitor Nec-1 (5 μM) or MEK inhibitor PD98059 (10 μM) for 24 h, respectively, 24 h after seeding. At least five wells were used for each group. After the incubation, 10 μL of the CCK-8 reagent from a Cell Counting Kit-8 (Dojindo Laboratories, Kumamoto, Japan) was added to each well and cells were subsequently kept in culture. The absorbance was measured at 450 nm using a BioTek ELX800 microplate reader (BioTek, Vermont, NE, USA) at 1, 2, 3, and 4 h after addition of the CCK-8 reagent. The inhibition rate of cell proliferation was calculated as follows:
OD: optical density [
Cells (2 × 106) were divided into two groups: a DMSO-treated group and a C2-Cer-treated group (50 μM). The cells were treated for 24 h and then collected. Fragmented DNA was extracted using DNAiso Reagent, according to the manufacturer's instructions (Takara, Otsu, Shiga, Japan) and subjected to electrophoresis on 2 g/L agarose gels containing 0.5 g/L ethidium bromide, and visualized by UV transillumination. All experiments were repeated three times.
The apoptotic effect of C2-Cer on the HNSCC cells was determined via BD LSRII flow cytometry (BD Bioscience, Bedford, MA, USA). Cells (2 × 105) were incubated as described above and suqsequently collected. Cell suspensions were treated according to the experimental protocols (Alexa Fluor 488 annexin V/Dead Cell Apoptosis Kit with AlexaFluor 488 annexin V and PI for Flow Cytometry, Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and observed under a Leica MM AF upright fluorescence microscope (Leica, Heidelberg, Germany). All experiments were repeated three times.
Immunofluorescence analysis of LC3 was performed as described previously [
Immunofluorescence analysis of necroptosis was performed using a Hoechst 33342/PI Detection Kit (Beyotime, Nanjing, China). Cells were stained in 6-well plates using Hoechst 33342 and PI successively, and images were acquired using a fluorescence microscope. All experiments were repeated three times.
Samples were fixed with 2.5% glutaraldehyde solution, buffered at pH 7.4 with 0.1 M Millonig's phosphate at 4 ºC for 2 h, postfixed in 1% osmium tetroxide solution at 4 ºC for 1 h, dehydrated in graded concentrations of ethanol, and embedded in epoxy resin (Quetol 812; Nissin EM Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan). Ultrathin sections (80 nm) were cut on a Reichert Ultracut E ultramicrotome (Reichert, Nu loch, Germany), stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate, and examined with an H-7650 electron microscope (Hitachi High-Technologies, Tokyo, Japan) at 80 kV.
The cells were washed with PBS, harvested in lysis buffer with phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride and treated by sonication. Samples containing equal amounts of protein were resolved on 8%–15% sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gels, transferred to polyvinylidenedifluoride membranes, and probed sequentially with antibodies against LC3B, Beclin 1, cleaved PARP, cleaved caspase-3, p-ERK1/2, p-AMPK, p-Akt, p-mTOR (pan, 1:1000; Cell Signaling Technology, Beverly, MA, USA). After incubation with the secondary antibody, the blots were developed using an enhanced chemiluminescence kit (Bioind, Kibbutz, Israel) [
Experiments were performed at least in triplicate and the results are expressed as means ± corresponding standard deviation. The significance of differences between two variables was analyzed using Student's
Ceramides have recently been widely reported to exert anti-tumor effects and to show intracellular accumulation after drug treatment via
This work was supported by grants from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grants #2013T60603, #2012M521190), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant #LQ13H250001), and National Science Foundation of China (Grants #81171003, #81371120), Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (Grant #J20120054).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Lovell leaves strong legacy at UWM
After a national search, Marquette University decided that the best candidate to be its next president was sitting in an office five miles across town.
Sources said it was Marquette that pursued Michael Lovell, rather than the other way around. After all, Lovell will leave behind a strong legacy of achievement at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lovell did not let the land-locked and lake-locked UWM campus stop him from expanding the school's mission or its impact on the community.
Among his most significant accomplishments:
- Development and construction of the UWM Innovation Campus, including the Innovation Accelerator and ABB Inc., in Wauwatosa.
- Development of the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences and construction of the Global Water Center.
- Creation of the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health at the former Pabst Brewery.
- Creation of the UWM Mobile Innovation Lab, also known as the "App Brewery."
- The launch of creative industry partnerships with businesses, including Johnson Controls Inc., G.E. Healthcare and Rockwell Automation Inc.
However, according to Vice Chancellor of University Relations and Communications Tom Luljak, the next UWM chancellor also will face some significant challenges. Among them:
1. Decreased state government funding. "As the proportion of money from the state goes down, tuition has gone up at all of our state universities, including UWM," Luljak said.
2. The need to fund UWM as a research university. "Currently, state GPR (general purpose revenue) is so low that our funding is comparable to the comprehensive universities in the system, not on the level Madison is funded," Luljak said.
3. The lack of pay raises for faculty and staff. "Some of the best faculty talent is being courted by universities outside of Wisconsin because their pay packages are so attractive," Luljak said. "Our faculty have had a 1 percent raise in the past five years while at the same time seeing their salary decrease because of the additional contributions to their pension."
4. Enrollment decreases. "The number of high school seniors is falling in much of the country as the baby boomer generation's kids graduate," Luljak noted. "The demographic trend will continue for several more years until it levels off and then begins to rise again."
5. A general lack of flexibility in personnel and budget matters because of "state bureaucracy," Luljak said.
I would add one other significant challenge to the next chancellor's "to do" list: fill Lovell's shoes. Lovell managed to build upon the momentum that had been generated by his most recent predecessors, Carlos Santiago and Nancy Zimpher.
It remains to be seen whether any of UWM's other key leaders will throw their hats into the ring for consideration as the next chancellor. An interim chancellor is expected to be named this afternoon. I would dare say that accomplished folks such as vice chancellor Joan Prince, Ph.D., and Associate Vice Chancellor Phyllis King, Ph.D., have demonstrated incredible vision and leadership at UWM in recent years.
Steve Jagler is executive editor of BizTimes Milwaukee.
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