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Press Release
Contact: Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., Chairman
National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign
National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)
National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)
662-392-2016 662-247-1471
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2017 WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH National Holiday Observance
Returns to the Nation's Capitol
America Celebrates the 152nd Year Anniversary of Juneteenth
Myers Urges President Trump & Congress to Pass Legislation to Establish
Juneteenth Independence Day as a National Day of Observance
Pentagon Juneteenth Flag Ceremony
(Washington, DC) - Leaders of the Campaign to Establish Juneteenth as a National Day of Observance will return to the nation's capitol for the WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH National Holiday Observance, during the 152nd year annivesary of Juneteenth in America. Scheduled for June 18-19, 2017, the Juneteenth Flag will certainly be flying at the nation's capitol on the "19th of June".
A special Pentagon Juneteenth Flag Ceremony, honoring the 20,000 colored sailors who fought for their own freedom during the Civil War, will take place on Monday, the "19th of June", at 11:00am.
"We are hopeful that President Trump and the U.S. Congress will finally enact legislation to establish the '19th of June' on all calendars as America's 2nd Independence Day," states Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., Founder and Chairman of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF). "We are not asking for a paid federal holiday, but a national day of observance, like Flag Day and Patriot Day."
Juneteenth, or the "19th of June", recognizes June 19, 1865, in Galveston, TX, when Union General Gordon Granger made everyone aware of freedom for all slaves in the Southwest. Texas was the last state in rebellion to allow slavery following the end of the Civil War. This occurred more than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln. Upon the issuing of General Order #3 by General Granger, the former slaves celebrated jubilantly, establishing America's second Independence Day Celebration and the oldest African American holiday observance.
Juneteenth is now recognized as a state holiday or state holiday observance in 45 states. In 2003, the District of Columbia passed legislation to recognize Juneteenth as a district holiday observance.
Since 1997, the U.S. Congress has unanimously passed legislation recognizing Juneteenth for several years. For example, in 2011, Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) sponsored H.R. 323 and Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) sponsored of S.R. 211, "Observing the historical significance of Juneteenth Independence Day" in America.
In 2014 - 2016, the U.S. Senate has unanimously passed legislation recognizing the "19th of June" as Juneteenth Independence Day in America.
"The U.S. Capitol and the White House were built through the uncompensated labor of the ancestors of Americans of African descent during the tyranny of enslavement," states Dr. Myers. "The leaders of the 'Modern Juneteenth Movement' will continue to honor their contributions in building key American institutions during the annual observance of Juneteenth in the nation's capitol."
In 2010, the U.S. Congress honored the slaves who built the U.S. Capitol with the placement of a historic plaque honoring Philip Reed, an enslaved Black man with a critical role in erecting the Statue of Freedom that crowns the Capitol dome. Reed was the only one who could figure out, when the statue arrived in Washington from Italy, how to disassemble its plaster mold and cast it in bronze.
"The successful effort to honor these great Americans of African descent who built the U.S. Capitol was initiated by the late Lula Briggs Galloway, Founder & President of the National Association of Juneteenth Linage (NAJL)," states Dr. Myers, former Chairman of the Board of the NAJL. "Her historic work at the U.S. Capitol with former Congressman J.C. Watts, Jr. (R-OK) has resulted in the successful placement of an important historic enslavement legacy marker by congress."
In a recent letter, Dr. Myers has requested that President Trump honor the enslaved Americans who built the White House by hosting a Juneteenth Celebration at the White House in June.
"Juneteenth has never been celebrated in the White House," states Dr. Myers. "We hope that President Trump will agree to celebrate freedom and honor the Americans of African descent who were not free when the White House was built during the tyranny of enslavement."
Dr. Myers has also requested that President Trump issue a Presidential Proclamation to recognize Juneteenth. Thousands of petitions have been forwarded to the White House over recent years supporting Dr. Myers' request.
Former French President M. Jacques Chirac spoke passionately to his nation during the first National Commemorative Day of Remembrance Regarding African Slavery and it's Abolition, on May 10, 2006. Dr. Myers hopes that President Trump will also one day lead America in healing and reconciliation from the legacy of enslavement during the week of the observance of Juneteenth.
"The official recognition of Juneteenth Independence Day and the end of slavery are very significant steps in bringing healing to America from the legacy of enslavement," states Rev. Dr. Myers, also Founder and Chairman of the National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC), sponsors of the National Day of Reconciliation and Healing From the Legacy of Enslavement and the National Juneteenth Memorial Maafa Reef Laying Ceremony in Washington, DC. "As the descendants of Americans of African descent, our ancestors were brought to America in chains. This should never be forgotten."
"The National Day of Reconciliation and Healing From the Legacy of Enslavement, takes place annually on the '18th of June', during the week of the observance of Juneteenth in America," states Rev. Dr. Myers. "The day was the result of the second historic introduction of Congressional Apology For Slavery legislation by former Congressman Tony Hall (D-OH) on Juneteenth, the '19th of June', 2000. As the leader of the 'Modern Juneteenth Movement' in America, I was honored to work closely with Congressman Hall."
Since that time, several states have passed apology for slavery legislation including Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey and Florida. The U.S. House of Representatives Apology For Slavery and Jim Crow, sponsored by Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), was passed in 2008. Similar legislation that was passed in the U.S. Senate sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) in 2009. However, it was not passed in the U.S. House of Representatives and failed as a concurring, joint congressional resolution.
"We hope to finally have legislation passed with both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate concurring," states Dr. Myers. "Perhaps the legislation can include a signature by President Donald Trump."
"We now observe the annual World Day of Reconciliation and Healing From the Legacy of Enslavement on the '20th of August' in Richmond, VA.," states Myers. "This commemorates the date the first slave ship, the White Lion, landed in Virginia at Old Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe, from the shores of West Africa. This occurred on the '20th of August, 1619', with the arrival of twenty Angolans, America's first Middle Passage."
"The annual observance of Juneteenth provides America with the greatest opportunity to bring about a constructive resolution to the history of the brutal enslavement of Americans of African descent and the racial conflicts that plague the nation," continues Dr. Myers.
Dr. Myers, who was appointed National Advisory Chairman of America's Black Holocaust Museum by the museum's founder, the late Dr. James Cameron, a lynching survivor, was encouraged by the Senate Apology For Lynching passed in his honor during the week of Juneteenth in 2005.
"It was Dr. Cameron who taught me the importance of forgiveness, patience and reconciliation by his remarkable life," states Dr. Myers. "It led to a U.S. Senate Apology For Lynching. Congress continues to demonstrate sensitivity to issues surrounding the legacy of enslavement in America."
For information on the WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH National Holiday Observance and the National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign, call Dr. Myers at 662-392-2016, or 662-247-1471; e-mail: email@example.com, web site: www.NationalJuneteenth.com.


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Mon. March 29, 2010 | John C. Cotey | Email
ST. PETERSBURG — On a cool, cloudy Wednesday afternoon, there are really few other places he would rather be than watching a softball game at St. Petersburg Catholic High School.
One daughter, Chloe, pitches. The other, Madison, plays shortstop.
His 10-year-old son, Seve, plays baseball nearby, and 2-month old Jax is being carted around by mother Laura.
The Barons are winning.
Jerry Saganowich is the most famous father out there, but he'd prefer to just be one of the dads. His black mohawk is now a flat top, though either way, it's covered by a Notre Dame baseball cap. And the wide, familiar gap in his smile is filled in for the moment. In a memorable bout in Las Vegas that you can still catch on ESPN Classic if you're lucky, he had a run-in with a ring post, his front tooth driven through his lip, then spit onto the canvas as the match carried on.
What gets knocked out in Vegas, stays in Vegas, and the toothless smile became a part of his look.
He is utterly affable, but still as hardscrabble as they come, still looks the part of an Allentown, Pa., tough guy, though the accent has tinges of Minnesota in it, probably from his days at Vern Gagne's wrestling school.
What did ya expect? Tights? Elbow pads? A folding metal chair or arrival by leaping off the concession stand and through the Spanish announcing table?
Well, um …
"This,'' he says, as one of Chloe's pitches whizzes by an overmatched hitter, "is my life.''
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You could still argue that Chloe is the most famous Saganowich, since dad technically wrestled as Jerry Sags, half of the famous Nasty Boys tag team that rose to fame during the professional wrestling boon of the 1990s.
Chloe has been an all-state pick her first three years of high school, and last year hit nine home runs and batted .559.
She will play next season at her dream school, Notre Dame, which offered her a scholarship when she was a junior, and she couldn't accept fast enough.
Funny thing is, she remembers little about her dad's days as a wrestler, but they earned him an appearance on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.
Chloe was just a baby when Regis Philbin made funny faces at her backstage.
"I'll never forget this, but he says to her: "Maybe one day the kid will go to Notre Dame,' '' Jerry said. "It's crazy.''
Monday, her acceptance letter came and her mom tried to peek through the window to see what it said. Laura cried the day her daughter committed, and she sounded out of breath describing the letter.
"I texted her to tell her, even though you're not supposed to during school,'' she said. "She told me I'd better not open it.''
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Chloe is known mostly as a pitcher, with more than 50 wins in her career, including 20-win, 240-strikeout seasons in 2008 and 2009.
But really, she isn't a pitcher at all. She only plays one during high school softball season.
In a sport that demands having a dominant hurler, Saganowich reluctantly fills the role.
"She doesn't like pitching, but she did it because we didn't have anyone else,'' says SPC coach Tom Fabian.
This year, she is splitting time in the circle with apprentice Kristy Fudge, whom Fabian hopes will be ready to assume the full-time load next season. By then, Saganowich will be playing shortstop for the Fighting Irish.
It's pretty amazing, when you consider: until she picked up a ball to start pitching this spring, Saganowich hadn't pitched since last season's final high school game. She has no year-round pitching coach like all the great ones do and has relied on a zippy fastball and an assortment of pitches Fabian has taught her when there's time.
"She's a natural,'' her dad says.
Of course she is.
Dad was a wrestling and football player in high school, and played football in college until teaming up with boyhood pal Brian Yandrisovitz (Knobbs) and forming the Nasty Boys.
Laura played softball at Gaither and spent countless hours hitting her ground balls at Egan Field and Roselli Park.
Her grandfather, Tony Gonzalez, was a three-sport star at Hillsborough in the late 1940s and had an abbreviated stint with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
"And (Chloe) works hard, all the time,'' always asking to go to the park and field more ground balls, said Laura, whose older sister is married to wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes.
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When Jerry Saganowich injured his neck in 1998 and began to scale back on the travel — 300 days a year during the Nasty Boys' heyday — he coached his daughters at Safety Harbor Little League and won the Top Team Tournament one season. "He was a really good coach,'' said Chloe.
He now coaches Seve at Southwest Little League, when the 46-year-old is not watching his daughters or wrestling, where the Nasty Boys have signed up with TNA.
For years, Chloe thought her dad worked at the airport, the result of going along when he was dropped off for another stint on the road, and has only seen him wrestle once or twice.
But to her, he's always been just dad — supportive, helpful and proud.
"My dad was never the publicity type,'' she said. "People definitely still recognize him. A lot of people know us and automatically know that he was a wrestler. But he doesn't really try to stand out.''
Something his oldest daughter can't help but do.
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IN 1914 a young American soldier wrote a poem entitled Trees which begins with – I think that I will never see A poem lovely as a tree.
It became a popular song.
Joyce Kilmer was shot by a sniper in the Second Battle of Marne in 1918. He was 31.
Mike Godsal (Letters, August 7) does not know if my comments were well or ill informed – I stated no preference for the type of tree to be used to commemorate the Great war but merely asked a question.
I am informed that a Maple was removed from the Church land and its roots ground out – space for a new tree?
Chris Roberts goes to enormous lengths to paint a future picture and rather regally ends with – 'this is Fairford's way of remembering . . .' Really did the FTC ask Fairfordians how they would like to remember?
I watched Dickie Attenborough's film of Joan Littlewood's play Oh What a Lovely War the other evening and today ordered from the Tower of London one of the ceramic poppies planted there.
Rather more original than a tree in some hidden field.


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January 3, 2000
Contact: Chris Curran
Cincinnati -- While new parents worldwide celebrate the births of their millennial babies, UC physicist Margaret Hanson explores the mysteries of another type of birth. Hanson wants to understand how stars are born.
"I'm trying to find stars still inside the womb, which is hard. The child can be around for years, but it's only inside the womb for nine months."
It's a difficult field of study, even when looking at stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. That's because the nascent stars are generally obscured by clouds of interstellar dust.
"There's an awful lot of dust and gas in the interstellar medium," explained Hanson. "That has a tendency to scatter the light like a fog. You can't see through it."
So, instead of working at visible light wavelengths, Hanson studies stars using infrared light or IR. "If you go to the IR, the light is more efficient at passing through this gas and dust, so I can detect light originating further inside our galaxy than has been seen before in the optical."
Hanson's primary targets are giant stars, many times the mass of our simple yellow sun. She hopes to answer a question that has puzzled astronomers for years. "There's a problem in astronomy that remains unsolved. How do stars that are many times the mass of our sun form? We see these stars all around us, but how did they form?"
The first problem is finding the stars and catching them at the moment of birth. "To find massive stars in the process of forming is very difficult," admitted Hanson. "It's like finding a needle in a haystack. There's a huge number of stars in the galaxy, but only a very small fraction of them are massive stars that are currently forming."
A second mystery of star birth that interests Hanson is the notion of "star-bursting." About ten percent of all galaxies are producing new stars at an enormously high rate. She was brought in as a collaborator on a recent project to help understand how many stars were actually forming in these galaxies, how long a star-bursting event lasts, and what might have triggered the star-bursting event in the first place.
Hanson has most recently used telescopes at the University of
Arizona, The National Observatories at Mexico, on Baja, and soon
will be traveling to Chile, to use the 8.0-meter, Very Large
Telescope, all to search for and then study these heavily
shrouded young massive stars. She also hopes to extend her
infrared observational techniques to space, having recently
applied for time on the Hubble Space Telescope.


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text: Style, or the way we construct our dress, seems capable to achieve political goals—equal to the power of protests. Speaking from experience, I did not know that my clothes upset the authority figures. Since my professor claimed that I was funny-looking last night, I've found a complement in my teacher's words. Where he was speaking from started at a position, of a certain way of looking at the body. Each new generation violates the laws for presenting the body of the previous generation. This historical function should reveal another strategy for change, another method of power.


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Positive Attitude While Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Published 03/16/11
Living with MS can be challenging, but focusing on the positive and developing an "attitude of gratitude" can help you live better every day.
Hi. My name is Michael Gerber, and I'm an advocate for living well with Multiple Sclerosis. Today, I'd like to talk about attitude and perspective. My friend Mitchell says, "I used to be able to do 10,000 things. Now I can only do 9,000 things, and that's what I focus on," and he's right. We all have so many abilities, and that's what we need to focus on. We have eyes to see, ears to hear, hands to feel, arms to hold, a heart to care about people, people to care about us. We have much to be grateful for. Even with limited abilities, we need focus on the abilities that we do have. It's easy to take much for granted. We don't think about it until we do. Living with Multiple Sclerosis has taught me much about gratitude, and gratitude is the opposite of taking things for granted. Every minute of every day, we all have choices to make. Whether to be happy or sad, good or bad, right or wrong, we have those choices, and those choices are within our control. The choices we make affect our attitude and perspective. Make good choices. They're within your control. Choose to be happy. Choose to be grateful. That's how I see it as an MS advocate. Go to your local service provide, or Google "MS support" and see what it has to say. I hope you make it a great day.


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The Browns didn't help their playoff chances in Arizona.
The loss ties the Browns with Tennessee for the second wild card spot, one game behind Jacksonville and one game ahead of Buffalo, which comes to Cleveland Dec. 16.
But the Browns do not want to think about the playoffs. They want to think merely about playing well in New York on Sunday against the Jets, a team that scored 40 points against hapless Miami last Sunday.
"I know that other people have been talking about playoffs and all of that stuff," coach Romeo Crennel said. "Hopefully, the players listen to me more than they listen to everybody else."
The Browns say that they want to use a listless performance in the desert as a reminder of what it takes to win.
"Sometimes games like one of those deals that sneak up and bite you can be a good thing," running back Jamal Lewis said. "It can be a good thing just to humble you and let you know that, look, we need to get better."
Don't try to tell the 3-9 Jets that the last month of the 2007 season is meaningless.
"It matters," rookie cornerback Darrelle Revis said about the rest of the season, "because we have a (few) more games left and it's just good to finish out the season on a good note, and then focus on what we need to do going into next year."
| Darrelle Revis (AP)
Revis and the rest of the players spoke after the game Sunday. They were given Monday off, a rare "victory Monday" for the Jets.
"He sets the bar for all of us," wide receiver Wallace Wright said of Coles.
Left guard Adrien Clarke said, "Every game is just as important as the next."
Even in the final stages of a season that won't turn out the way the Jets had hoped.
"They're highly important," center Nick Mangold said of the four remaining games, which begin with Cleveland at home on Sunday. "Because as a competitor and as a football player, you go out to win games. That's your job and that's what you're supposed to do. If we didn't have that kind of competitiveness, the guys here wouldn't be in this room. (The games) are all still very important."
"This win is definitely good for our morale," linebacker David Bowens said. "But what's the next step? (We will) just keep going one week at a time. I know it sounds redundant, but I think that's the professional thing and a professional approach."
"I'm happy with the way guys have worked over the course of the season," coach Eric Mangini said. "Sometimes it doesn't come around as quickly as you'd like, and you don't make the progress you'd like as quickly as you'd like to, but I'm happy with the progress we've made over the last few weeks."
The Jets' next three games are against teams that currently have winning records, with road games against New England and Tennessee after the Cleveland contest. But being a spoiler isn't a goal for Mangini, who has preached over and over that looking at an opponent's record is a distraction.
"We should have the same focus," Mangini said Monday, "regardless of what the record of our opponent is."


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Sha Lin Noodle House
by Angela Murrills on March 12th, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Pigging out on starters recently at Sha Lin Noodle House (548 West Broadway) meant I got to doggy-bag enough for lunch the next day. What took the edge off my appetite in the best way—as we pondered the merits of pulling, pushing, and dragging noodles—were skewers of grilled lamb, speckled thickly with cumin and spicy with chili. At $1.50 a stick, I had pictured something on a toothpick, but these were much, much bigger. The onion pancakes didn't help much, either"¦


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A novel biointerface bearing zwitterionic carboxybetaine moieties was developed for effective resistance to nonspecific adsorption of proteins and blood cells. Self-assembled thin films (SAFs) of (
Biocompatible surface coatings are highly desirable for biomedical devices and implants for
Of antifouling materials, hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) is the most prevalent material regularly used as a surface coating material to resist nonspecific adsorption. Its effectiveness strongly relies on steric repulsion, associated with the energetically unfavorable compression of highly packed PEG while biomolecules approach [
In addition to polymer-based materials, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) provide facile, stable and versatile features, and have been intensively utilized as surface coatings in the fields of biosensing, microelectronics, tissue engineering, drug/gene delivery, and biological signaling and cellular recognition studies [
We employed a two-step synthesis strategy to firstly form a self-assembled silanized thin film (SAF) with tertiary amine (3°-N) head groups, and then a β-propiolactone solution was introduced to react
In this study, we employed a two-step approach to fabricate CB-terminated SAFs. Initially, the 3°-N amine silanized films were formed on substrates via either vapor or solution deposition. Afterwards, β-propiolactone solution was introduced for
In order to further analyze the efficiency of the β-propiolactone reaction, XPS measurement was performed to determine the ratio of quaternary (4°-N) and tertiary amine (3°-N) groups on the substrate after an 8 h reaction with β-propiolactone on vapor- and solution-deposited silane SAFs. Since ionized 3°-N head groups (-N+H (CH3)2) can induce the shift of the binding energy (BE) to BE = 401.3 eV, the substrate was treated with ammonium hydroxide (concentration of 0.1 N, pH = 11) prior to the XPS measurement to deprotonate the 3°-N groups for better deconvolution of the measured spectrum. Ammonium hydroxide has a very low boiling point (
The QCM-D chips covered with SiO2 layers were used for modification of SAFs and monitoring their nonspecific interactions with proteins. Samples of bare SiO2, and 3°-N SAFs from vapor deposition were prepared as negative controls for the fouling tests in the presence of BSA solutions at a concentration of 1 mg·mL−1 (
It is interesting that the difference of fouling levels between samples of CB SAF (vapor) and CB SAF (solution) was marginal. We suspect the similar CB densities at the top-most surfaces for CB SAF (vapor) and CB SAF (solution) to render effective repulsion of proteins. The penetration depth of XPS measurements is typically around 10 nm. Thus, the atomic ratio from XPS includes the 3°-N groups underneath the CB layers and cannot reflect the interfacial density of CB moieties. In addition, the contact angle measurement can be affected by surface topography [
The antifouling properties of CB SAFs were challenged with undiluted human blood in a microfluidic system. Since the size of blood cells is in a range of micrometers—for example, erythrocyte with a diameter of 6.5 μm to ~8 μm—the diffusion rate of cells in a laminar flow (Reynolds number, Re < 2000) is too slow to contact the channel walls. Therefore, in this study, we applied a chaotic mixer by creating alternative grooves on the floor of the channel to introduce a transverse component to the flow [
The capabilities of thiolated and silanized self-assembling surface ligands conjugated with zwitterionic phosphorylcholine (PC) and sulfonbetaine (SB) head groups have been demonstrated to improve hemocompatibility of modified substrates [
For the preparation of 3°-N silanized SAFs on substrates, we adopted two different approaches. One was to use a vapor deposition method where 150 μL of 3°-N silane solution in a small vial was placed in a desiccator along with cleaned substrates. The desiccator was evacuated to reach a pressure of ~10−3 torr at room temperature. for 30 min and, then, the system was closed to keep in vacuum overnight. Afterwards, the substrates were removed and washed with copious acetone and dried in a stream of nitrogen. The substrates were cured in an oven at 120 °C for 1 h to complete covalent bonding between silane molecules and substrates. The other method to prepare 3°-N silanized SAFs on substrates was to use solution deposition. The cleaned substrates were immersed in freshly prepared 20 mM 3°-N silane solution in anhydrous ethanol containing extra 2% of water. After 4 h incubation, the substrates were removed and flushed with ethanol and dried in a stream of nitrogen. Similar to the previous method, the substrates were cured at 120 °C for 1 h. The modified substrates were stored in a dry box before use.
For zwitterionization, 10 mM β-propiolactone in acetonitrile was prepared and incubated with 3°-N silane modified substrates at 4 °C within a nitrogen atmosphere for different periods of time. Afterwards, the substrates were flushed with acetonitrile three times and tried in a stream of nitrogen. The resultant substrates were kept in a dry box to avoid contamination from air.
A contact angle goniometer (FDS-OCA15 plus, Dataphysics, Germany) was used to measure water static contact angles at solid–liquid interfaces. The droplets were 3 μL from a micro syringe, and the measurements were performed at least three times at random locations on each sample.
Ellipsometric measurements for the films on silicon wafers were performed in ambient with a Gaertner LSE Stokes ellipsometer with a He–Ne laser (λ = 632.8 nm) with a fixed incident angle of 70°. The bare substrates were measured to find the Ns (3.85), Ks (−0.02), and refractive index (
The chemical element spectra were detected by a PHI 5000 VersaProbe system (ULVAC-PHI, Chigasaki, Japan) with a microfocused, monochromatic Al KR X-ray (25 W, 100 μm). The takeoff angle (with respect to the surface) of the photoelectron was set at 45°. The pressure of the system is below 10−8 Pa using oil-less ultrahigh vacuum pumping systems. A dual beam charge neutralizer (Ar+ gun and flooding electron beam) was employed to compensate the charge-up effect. Spectra were collected with the pass energy set to 58.7 eV, and the binding energy measured was normalized against the Au 4f7/2 peak at 84.1 eV. The typical data acquisition time was ~30 min; the spectra were processed using the Multipak software package. It should be noted that the substrates for detecting the chemical states of the amine atoms were rinsed with ammonium hydroxide solution at a concentration of 0.1 N prior to the measurements in order to deprotonate unreacted tertiary amine groups for finding the ratio of the quaternary and tertiary amine groups.
The silicon oxide-covered QCM crystal chips (AT-cut quartz crystals,
where Δ
For the manufacturing of a chaotic-mixer microfluidic system, the channel with a dimension of L:W:H = 230 mm:41.5 mm:5.5 mm was created by placing a spacer of a double-sided adhesive tape (3M, St. Paul, MN, USA) with a channel shape between a glass cover slide and a poly(methyl methacrylate (PMMA) substrate. The alternative grooves with a dimension of L:W:H = 1.5 mm:150 μm:50 μm on the PMMA substrate were fabricated by a commercial CO2 laser scriber (M-300, Universal Laser Systems, Scottsdale, AZ, USA) [
In summary, a novel approach to developing a zwitterionic interface based on carboxybetaine (CB) moieties to resist adsorption of proteins and blood cells has been carried out. The substrates were firstly silanized with tertiary amine-terminated self-assembled thin films (3°-N SAFs) via vapor or solution deposition. The synthesis of β-propiolactone molecules was sequentially performed over a period of 23 h, showing that after 8 h reaction, the contact angles of CB SAFs reached the minimum. Moreover, the 3°-N SAF via the vapor deposition offers higher reaction efficiency with β-propiolactone, manifesting as a higher degree of hydration. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic measurements presents the conversion rate to the CB moieties as approximately 67.3% and 25.3% on 3°-N SAF via the vapor and solution deposition, respectively. More importantly, the fouling tests with protein and blood samples on CB SAFs revealed the significant improvement in biocompatibility. It is believed that this approach of surface engineering with CB SAFs offers great potential in modification of medical devices for future
The authors acknowledge the National Science Council (NSC-101-2218-E-008-009) for financial support of this project. Chun-Jen Huang thanks Jing-Jong Shyue (Academia Sinica) for assistance of XPS.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Contact angle measurements for the self-assembled silanized thin film with tertiary amine (3°-N SAF) reacted with β-propiolactone. The 3°-N SAFs were prepared via vapor and solution deposition as described in the experimental section. The
A tertiary amine-terminated silanized thin film on substrate. The films were prepared via either vapor or solution deposition. The complex structure of silane molecules in the film may be caused by hydrogen bonding, electrostatic attraction, and covalent bonding with neighbor silanes, making it irregular and heterogeneous. In contrast, the film may be formed with an ordered and homogeneous structure under a properly controlled condition.
The N 1s spectra of the CB SAF. β-propiolactone reacted with tertiary amine (3°-N) groups on vapor- (
QCM-D measurements of the protein fouling on samples of CB SAF (vapor), CB SAF (solution), 3°-N SAF (vapor) and bare SiO2. The bovine serum albumin (BSA) solutions at a concentration of 1 mg·mL−1 were brought to contact with surfaces for 10 min, followed by rinsing with PBS.
Fluorescence images of adherent blood cells on (
The synthesis route of carboxybetaine self-assembled thin films (CB SAFs) and its antifouling properties.


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the Geneva Convention
28, 2002
by TrogL
The four
Geneva Conventions, drawn up in 1949, and ratified
by most countries, specifically and dogmatically direct the
identification, housing and treatment of people caught up
in war.
The Article 2 of the Third Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners
of warnotes that:
In addition to the provisions which shall be implemented
in peace time, the present Convention shall apply to all cases
of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise
between two or more of the High Contracting Parties, even
if the state of war is not recognized by one of them.
In summary
it maybe seen that:
Prisoners of war MUST be:
Full text may be found here.
In this CBC News Online article
John Bowman discusses the third Geneva convention, noting:
The United Nations' human rights chief Mary Robinson says
captured Afghan fighters should be considered prisoners of
war, as defined in the Geneva Conventions. U.S. Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld and other American military officials call
them "detainees" or "unlawful combatants."
An article
in the Christian Science Monitor notes:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that
"we do plan to, for the most part, treat them in a manner
that is reasonably consistent with the Geneva Conventions,
to the extent that they are appropriate."
But he was careful to refer to the prisoners as "unlawful
combatants" or "battlefield detainees," not prisoners of war.
That description severely reduces the rights that the men
would have as POWs under the Geneva Conventions, and prompted
a rebuttal from the International Red Cross.
"We say they should be presumed to be POWs, and it is
not up to the ICRC or to the US military authorities to decide,
but up to the courts," said Michael Kleiner, an ICRC spokesman.
What they are hanging their hats on is article 4a, which
says in part :
Art 4. A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present
Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following
categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
(1) Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict,
as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming
part of such armed forces.
(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer
corps, including those of organized resistance movements,
belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside
their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided
that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized
resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for
his subordinates;
(b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable
at a distance;
(c) that of carrying arms openly;
(d) that of conducting their operations in accordance
with the laws and customs of war.
What they seem to have forgotten is:
(6) Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the
approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist
the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves
into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly
and respect the laws and customs of war.
This, I feel, more correctly describes the condition of the
typical Afghan fighter. Whether they respect the laws and
customs of war is, I suppose, open to some debate, but considerably
less debate as to whether or not they are prisoners of war.
A Time
Magazine article notes that:
...as Amnesty International has pointed out, under the
Geneva Convention the Pentagon has no business making such
a determination. Those who fall into the enemy's hands are
entitled to POW status until a "competent tribunal" has determined
their status. In the case of those in Cuba, that hasn't happened.
There is controversy
as to the United States' legal position. Marjorie Cohn, an
associate professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San
Diego, notes:
The United States has gone to the Security Council twice
since the September 11 attack. The Security Council passed two
resolutions, neither of which authorize the use of force. Resolutions
1368 and 1373 condemn the September 11 attacks, and order the
freezing of assets; the criminalizing of terrorist activity;
the prevention of the commission of and support for terrorist
attacks; the taking of necessary steps to prevent the commission
of terrorist activity, including the sharing of information;
and urging the ratification and enforcement of the international
conventions against terrorism (which the U.S. has not ratified).
Although the United States has reported its bombing to
the Security Council as required by article 51 of the U.N.
Charter, the Security Council has not authorized and could
not authorize the use of unilateral military force by the
United States and the United Kingdom, or NATO, which is not
a U.N. body.
The bombing of Afghanistan is not legitimate self-defense
under article 51 of the Charter because: 1) the attacks in
New York and Washington D.C. were criminal attacks, not "armed
attacks" by another state, and 2) there was not an imminent
threat of an armed attack on the U.S. after September 11,
or the U.S. would not have waited three weeks before initiating
its bombing campaign. The necessity for self-defense must
be "instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and
no moment for deliberation." (Caroline Case, 29 BFSP 1137-8;
30 BFSP 19-6 (1837)). This classic principle of self-defense
in international law has been affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal
and the U.N. General Assembly.
Even if the U.S. was authorized on September 11 to use
military force under article 51, that license ended once the
Security Council became "seized" of the matter, which indeed
it did on September 12, by passing Resolution 1368, and reaffirming
in Resolution 1373 on September 28 that it "remains seized"
of the matter. By bombing Afghanistan, the United States and
the United Kingdom are committing acts of aggression, which
is prohibited by the U.N. Charter.
The United States has certainly believed in the Third Geneva
Convention in
the past. The Senate passed a bill "A concurrent resolution
condemning Iraq's treatment of U.S. and other prisoners of
war", on January 24, 1991, 1:08 p.m., specifically mentioning
that "the United States and Iraq are signatories to the Third
Geneva Convention (1949)".
The Geneva Conventions were originally drawn up under the
auspices of the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whose mission statement says:
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is
an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively
humantarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of
victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with
assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief
activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict.
It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening
humanitarian law and univeral humanitarian principles.
In a statement
released January 18, 2002, Lucy Brown, an American Red
Cross advisor on Interational Humanitarian Law, stated:
It is part of the ICRC's responsibility and a legal mandate
under the Geneva Conventions to provide protection and assistance
to all prisoners of war and detainees held in war zones...The
ICRC is often the only one with access to these people and
the humanitarian service is widely supported by governments
because it protects their own captured people.
Now here's the clincher.
In the Statement
On The International Committee Of The Red Cross (ICRC) Delivered
By Ambassador David T. Johnson To The Permanent Council addressing
the Permanent Council of the OCSE
(Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) in
Vienna, he notes that:
Much of ICRC's work overlaps OSCE efforts to protect the
rights and freedoms of persons throughout the region, including
citizens and representatives of civil society. In addition,
the ICRC has protected the rights of thousands of persons in
the OSCE region, especially internally displaced persons, prisoners,
detainees and others deprived of their freedom, and civilian
victims in conflict. ICRC's principles of independence, neutrality,
and impartiality have helped it secure unique access, especially
when other organizations may not be allowed or granted access.
The United States especially supports ICRC visits to detained
persons and its work to ensure that the physical and mental
integrity of prisoners is respected and that prison conditions
are consistent with international standards.
In a Houston Chronicle article,
from the New York Times News Service:
Red Cross officials said on Wednesday that they had paid
two visits in Afghanistan to John Walker Lindh, the American
captured with the Taliban last week, and had taken a letter
from him to carry to his family.
Cross officials said the visits, somewhere inside the
country, were hindered by the presence of American soldiers,
who have Walker in custody. Red Cross officials said they
would seek to see Walker, whom they consider a prisoner
of war, without the soldiers present.
"We are still requesting a private interview," said Macarena
Aguilarof the International Committee of the Red Cross. Under
the Geneva Conventions of 1949, prisoners of war are entitled
to be visited by international monitors in a private setting.
In addition, the BBC
reports that:
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary
Robinson and other commentators have argued that the armed
conflict in Afghanistan is of an international nature and
the law of international armed conflict, the Geneva Conventions,
should appply.
A spokesman for the human rights group Amnesty International
has said the photographs showing inmates chained, blindfolded
and kneeling before their guards are reminiscent of torture
methods used in eastern Europe in the 1970s.
This violates Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention
- "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of
coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from
them information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who
refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed
to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind."
Reports indicate that they are provided with the necessities
of life and an opportunity to pray. However, the cells are
extremely small, basically a wire cage exposed to the elements.
This violates Article 21 of the Third Geneva Convention
- "...prisoners of war may not be held in close confinement".
They are not provided the opportunity to do their own cooking
nor are they provided with Arabic-style cooking. This violates
Article 26 of the Third Geneva Convention - "Account
shall also be taken of the habitual diet of the prisoners...Prisoners
of war shall, as far as possible, be associated with the preparation
of their meals; ...they shall be given the means of preparing,
themselves, the additional food in their possession. Adequate
premises shall be provided for messing."
Prisoners are provided with a bucket for a toilet. This violates
Article 29 of the Third Geneva Convention - "Prisoners
of war shall have for their use, day and night, conveniences
which conform to the rules of hygiene and are maintained in
a constant state of cleanliness."
Prisoners are provided with a 2" foam mattress and sleep
on the ground. I severly doubt that their captors are housed
in the same conditions. This violates Article 25 of
the Third Geneva Convention - "Prisoners of war shall be
quartered under conditions as favourable as those for the
forces of the Detaining Power who are billeted in the same
area. The foregoing provisions shall apply in particular to
the dormitories of prisoners of war as regards both total
surface and minimum cubic space, and the general installations,
bedding and blankets. "
Their clothing and belongings have been confiscated, and
they are dressed in orange jumpsuits. This violates Article
18 of the Third Geneva Convention - "All effects and
articles of personal use, except arms, horses, military equipment
and military documents, shall remain in the possession of
prisoners of war, likewise their metal helmets and gas masks
and like articles issued for personal protection. Effects
and articles used for their clothing or feeding shall likewise
remain in their possession, even if such effects and articles
belong to their regulation military equipment."
Their beards have been shaven, in violation of fundamentalist
Islamic law. This violates Article 14 of the Third
Geneva Convention - "Prisoners of war are entitled in all
circumstances to respect for their persons and their honour".
It appears to be the intention of the United States to prosecute
the prisoners by an internal Military Tribunal. This is violates
Article 10 of the Third Geneva Convention -
When prisoners of war do not benefit or cease to benefit,
no matter for what reason, by the activities of a Protecting
Power or of an organization provided for in the first paragraph
above, the Detaining Power shall request a neutral State,
or such an organization, to undertake the functions performed
under the present Convention by a Protecting Power designated
by the Parties to a conflict.
If protection cannot be arranged accordingly, the Detaining
Power shall request or shall accept, subject to the provisions
of this Article, the offer of the services of a humanitarian
organization, such as the International Committee of the Red
Cross to assume the humanitarian functions performed by Protecting
Powers under the present Convention. "
I call upon the United Nations to either act in this capacity
or to propose a body, individual or group to provide this
'Protecting Power'. I also call upon the United Nations or
any interested party to prosecute the United States under
these and other sections of the Geneva Convention as provided
for under international law.


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Americans under Barack Obama's administration fell to a new low in global rankings of public sector corruption. The United States in 2010 ranked 22nd best in a global survey of corruption, dropping to its worst score in the 15 years data have been collected in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index.
"Allowing corruption to continue is unacceptable," Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International, said in a press release. "Too many poor and vulnerable people continue to suffer its consequences."
In a related story, the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday that a federal judge refused to overturn the conviction for a trial in which a witness testified that Obama participated in organizing crime to sell his U.S. Senate seat.
Congress should judge it as necessary and expedient to make the United States number one.


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Success in business may be measured in many ways, and there can be few greater compliments than to be referred to by acronym.
Even her business has become an acronym – 15 years ago it began as Entertainment Personnel, but now is simply
Powell-Hughes is the go-to headhunter for roles in television, media and entertainment which, very broadly, could cover short-term contracts with a production company through to placing the CEO of a national media company. Salaries could range from a $30,000 one-off project, to a C-suite level around $600,000. Recent clients have included the Sydney Opera House and the health and fitness celebrity
"Essentially we are a recruitment business," says Powell-Hughes. "A point of difference is that we partner with our clients and become advocates for their business. But on the other side we also partner with prospective employees who need to be nurtured as much as the company. We have to remember all the way that we are a people business."
Revenues for the 2014 financial year are projected to be $1.5 million across three channels – recruitment yields about 40 per cent, executive search 40 per cent and HR about 20 per cent. A focus on the executive and HR streams is expected to drive the next phase of growth.
Until now Powell-Hughes has charged using the traditional percentage model which could be 18 to 20 per cent of the placement salary. But this year she has introduced fixed-price charges "so as no one feels that bias or concern about the percentage".
A maternal influence
She credits her mother, Catherine, with being the "entrepreneurial thinker who gave me the inspiration to turn an idea into a money-making venture". Over yum cha in about December 1998, they resolved to launch a specialist recruitment agency.
They placed a classified advertisement in The Sydney Morning Herald, inviting applicants to "send in your CV if you want a job in film, TV or the media". "It turned into a nightmare of CVs," laughs Powell-Hughes. "We honestly got Santa sacks full of resumes."
Through connections, with a budget of $5000 and a fax machine, she secured a "highly coveted" space at Fox Studios, where she remains: "The fax machine lasted about 10 years, but the money didn't last long."
Fortunately, within the first two weeks, an industry connection invested $50,000, which secured a bank guarantee, the lease at Fox Studios and "helped put some rigour around my idea".
Her mother became her business partner, bought out by Powell-Hughes in 2012. Her first invoice was $4200 for a placement at Maura Fay Casting and she paid back her investor after three years. "We have always been able to pay our way, if not ourselves, early on."
Sixty per cent of the work comes from local companies, and 40 per cent international, all handled by Powell-Hughes and her staff of four.
It is all about experience and connections and, in a business generally inclined towards "who, rather than what you know", Powell-Hughes is among the best connected: "Because we are so niche; it has taken a lot of hard work." She spends no money on marketing, rather she networks via her database of about 10,500 contacts, referrals, and word-of-mouth.
She worked for about eight years with Show Group, the travel and freight logistics company used widely by the entertainment industry.
"It was a 24-hour business and I would get calls all day and night. You do get to know absolutely everybody."
After a stint based on the Gold Coast, from 1990 to 1997, where she also taught travel and tourism at Passmore's College of Business, Powell-Hughes returned to Sydney to launch Show Film, a new segment of Show Group, with an office at Fox Studios and a salary of about $65,000. She left that job to launch out on her own. Sydney-born and raised, Powell-Hughes is in her late 40s, married with a son and daughter, 24 and 17.
Managing global crises
She describes two unforeseen global crises as an impetus to broaden the business beyond recruitment. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York "impacted hugely" on her business. "I work in a global business and we had to scrounge all the way for about two years after that with only local work."
The other was the global financial crisis which forced her to "reinvent my business" and write a plan, which she had never done. Turnover of about $1 million for the 2008 financial year dropped to $400,000 by 2010.
"I looked at how I could monetise my intellectual property," she says. It led to the launch of the EP HR channel in 2011, including salary benchmarking, redundancy management, organisational design and outsourcing of packaged HR services to a "handful of clients". She charges either an hourly rate for those services, or a retainer.
A recent placement illustrates the specialised nature of EP. The Civil Aviation Authority sought a video editor with Avid editing software expertise, who was also a trained pilot – two very different skill sets.
Powell-Hughes says she had six candidates virtually as soon as she put a call out to the EP network: "You show me any other recruitment company which can do that."
EP has also placed staff at December Media, the producers of Dr Blake Murder Mysteries; Spectrum Films, which did post-production on the
Sights are set on growing the executive and HR components of the business, especially into Asia: "Australians have the skill set and the work ethic that is desired around the world. For the global organisations with offices in emerging markets, they need skilled people to develop their industry."
Powell-Hughes sees her future evolving beyond the day-to-day business operations towards gaining board positions to "bring my skills to other organisations".
She is undertaking a leadership program with the Melbourne Business School, writes occasional online columns and is building a profile in public speaking.
A sale of EP is not out of the question either: "It could be sold into a bigger entity while retaining the niche, specialised aspect of what this business does. After 15 years I have all the expertise and don't want to stop doing what I do, but a return on all these years would be good."
It might be time to take her mother out for more yum cha.
The Australian Financial Review


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Progressive Activists Target Blue Dogs
Progressive activists are targeting conservative Democrats who plan to vote against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in caucus elections today because she's become a liberal villain back in their districts.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee sent an email to the constituents of 11 Democrats who have publicly declared their opposition to Ms. Pelosi, calling them "weak, scared-of-their-own-shadow Blue Dogs" who are "afraid to take on their corporate funders."
Most of the targets are members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate-to-conservative lawmakers who opposed some of President Barack Obama's big-ticket items, such as health care and climate-change legislation. The targets include North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler, the lone candidate challenging Ms. Pelosi for the job of minority leader next year. Many of these lawmakers complain that pressure tactics like the one in this letter led to the demise of their colleagues who lost.
"Blue Dog insistence on watering down popular progressive change left many Obama voters uninspired to vote this year — and as a result, Democrats lost their House majority," the PCCC organizers wrote.
They urge supporters to call the Democrats in question and tell them "to stop being a weak Democrat — and that voting against Pelosi will have consequences."


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STAFF and volunteers at the former home of Thomas Hardy are celebrating after receiving glowing feedback from visitors.
Max Gate has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from travel review website TripAdvisor for consistently outstanding feedback.
The home, which was designed by the great author himself in 1885, is opened up by the National Trust during the summer months and word is clearly spreading about the visitor experience on offer.
The National Trust's visitor services manager for Hardy Country and Clouds Hill, Martin Stephen, said the award from TripAdvisor was another feather in the cap for all involved at Max Gate.
He said that they consistently get good reviews from surveys visitors are able to fill in and, although the TripAdvisor feedback probably captured a different section of the visiting public, the feedback was similarly positive.
Mr Stephen said: "We are feeling really chuffed – it's great.
"We do our own surveys of visitors and we have been getting some feedback and that has seen similar comments about the warmth and friendliness of the welcome. It's great to have that confirmation and we are delighted to get that award."
Mr Stephen thanked all those visitors that had been using the TripAdvisor website to share their positive experiences of Max Gate and said it helped others find out about the property.
He said: "It's wonderful to have that feedback on TripAdvisor, which extends to a different type of visitor from those who fill in the surveys. It helps spread the word, which is great."
Mr Stephen said that the season had started excellently at Max Gate, with visitor numbers increasing on previous years and the National Trust was delighted to see it thriving.
He said: "It's been very good.
"We have had far more visitors than we had last year and we are beating our budget, which is fantastic."
Max Gate is where Hardy penned some of his most famous works including Tess of the d'Ubervilles and Jude the Oscure.
Visitors can see the study where he worked, admire the architecture of the house Hardy designed, explore the newly restored kitchen garden and even see the pet cemetery where Hardy's dog Wessex is buried.
For more information visit nationaltrust.org.uk/maxgate


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'No conspiracy' on bypass
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The State Government has dismissed as an unfounded conspiracy theory a claim that it unlawfully altered the route of the Craigieburn Bypass in Epping.
Government lawyers have told the Supreme Court that the claim by quarry owner, farmer and Liberal Party member Tom Love was an allegation not borne out by evidence presented to the Court.
Mr Love has accused VicRoads of misfeasance in public office (wrongful use of power) and Deputy Premier John Thwaites and Transport Minister Peter Batchelor of wrongfully reserving and acquiring land for the Craigieburn Bypass.
Mr Love's lawyers have argued that the bypass - between Coopers Street and O'Herns Road, Epping - should have been built on neighbouring land owned by Robert Scanlan.
But Lisa-Maree Lo Piccolo, for Mr Thwaites and Mr Batchelor, mocked the allegations as "all part of some big plan to deprive Mr Love and to benefit Mr Scanlan".
Central to the case are the recommendations of two advisory committees on the route of the controversial bypass linking the Hume Highway and the Metropolitan Ring Road.
The first committee, appointed by the Kennett government, recommended the bypass run through Mr Scanlan's land. A second committee, which the Bracks Government appointed, found no reason to change the earlier recommendation. But its report to Mr Thwaites contained a map that seems to show its preferred route passing through Mr Love's land - a basic error, according to Love. In early 2001 then planning minister John Thwaites approved the latter route.
Jack Hammond, QC, for Mr Love, told the court that VicRoads had misled the second committee and erred by not pointing out the error.
But VicRoads lawyer Jim Delany, SC, said it was bizarre to claim VicRoads should have intervened.
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Public art galleries have a better image among visitors than among the all-important corporate sponsors and philanthropists who help to fund them. The reason: some donors think gallery directors are stuffy, elitist and judgemental.
Two reports into how galleries could attract more funding were released last night in Melbourne.
One of the reports' co-authors, Jody Evans of the Melbourne Business School, said gallery directors hurt the sector's image by complaining to sponsors about their daily issues, such as air-conditioning breakdowns and plumbing.
"When [directors] are talking to their stakeholders, they are talking about the problems they're encountering," Dr Evans said.
"They're not the things stakeholders want to get behind."
Galleries could boost their appeal to the pubic by swapping surly security guards for curators who could talk to visitors about the art, she said.
Bored-looking security guards were the biggest turn-off about galleries from the public's perspective, Dr Evans said.
Corporate sponsorship of the arts fell 2.7 per cent in 2011 to $98 million, the Australian Business Arts Foundation has reported. Government funding rose 4.3 per cent and donations from individuals went up 10.6 per cent.
About 150 people attended yesterday's function.
One institution credited with a successful sponsorship strategy is the National Gallery of Victoria. It has just found an as yet unnamed principal sponsor for what will be its biggest ever exhibition, Melbourne Now, which will showcase the city's arts and design industries.
NGV director Tony Ellwood said that good exhibition ideas still attracted funding.
"We have to be far more strategic and well researched before we start making approaches [to sponsors], but I think generally we're getting better at finding where the fits exists," Mr Ellwood said.
The Australian Financial Review


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Tour of Coast Composites - OC Chapter Meeting
The Aerospace & Defense Forum
Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Tour of Coast Composites
Tooling Group
AIP Aerospace
AIP Aerospace is the largest independent aerospace tooling group provider and one of the foremost suppliers of high temperature composite parts, critical components, aircraft structures, transparencies and coating technologies.
Coast Composites is among the leading suppliers of aerospace tooling for large, complex composite parts, such as large fuselage and wing skins.
Coast's core competencies center around the creation of tooling systems used to fabricate flight-critical composite structures used in the latest generation airframe manufacture. Focus is given to medium and very large tools. These systems include large fibre-placement mandrels, lay-up molds, mill fixtures and resin transfer molds.
On the large, long bed CNC gantry mills used at its main facility in Irvine, California, the company is achieving an unprecedented accuracy on even the longest wing skins.
So we can get an attendee list to the facility and print nametags, all registrations must be complete by 11:55pm on Tuesday, June 4.
- Non-US citizens are welcome, and will need to bring their passport.
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To nobody's shock Phil Jackson has already began trying to bring Steve Kerr in to replace Mike Woodson as New York Knicks head coach. After all, Kerr has always been considered the favorite for the job even before Woodson was let go. Jackson has already met with Kerr twice to discuss the position.
It's no secret that Steve Kerr wants to be a head coach in the NBA. It's also not a secret that he'd prefer to do so on the west coast. That's why many have felt Kerr will wait to see what happens with the head coaching positions of the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors before accepting any job with the New York Knicks.
That hasn't stopped Phil Jackson, Kerr's former coach, from courting Kerr as his top choice to replace Mike Woodson. Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPNNewYork reports Jackson has met with Kerr twice thus far hoping to hire him as the next head coach of the New York Knicks.
Steve Kerr met with New York team president Phil Jackson over the weekend to discuss the Knicks' vacant head-coaching job.
Kerr said he had dinner with Jackson on Friday for a few hours and also talked with him on Saturday.
"We will keep talking," said Kerr, a TNT analyst who was in Brooklyn to work Game 4 of the playoff series between the Nets and Toronto Raptors. "There is a lot to cover on both sides. This was the first time we've talked about the job. It just opened up last week. We got a lot of things to discuss."
"I know Phil [said] we shared the same space, which I think is well said," Kerr said when asked if he has to employ the triangle offense if he coaches the Knicks. "We share a lot of the same philosophies. I learned a lot of my basketball from him and Tex Winter.
"It is safe to say that we have a lot of the same ideas. As far as getting into the details of the triangle and that sort of thing, I am not going to expand on that. Obviously there is a strong connection between us and our beliefs."
Kerr said the Knicks likely wouldn't be interested in him if it weren't for his connection to Jackson. In the meantime, Kerr and Jackson will continue to talk and try to answer as many questions as they can about a potential reunion.
"There is just a lot to cover on both sides," Kerr said when asked about his thoughts on Jackson as a first-time executive. "He's got to ask me a lot of questions, I got to ask him a lot. And there is a lot of research that goes into this. It's a big job, it's important that on both sides that we cover all of our bases."
There's a few ways to look at this. The first is, Kerr must not be sold on the idea of coaching in New York because Jackson is having to convince him on working for James Dolan. If that's the case, do the Knicks really want to hire someone who doesn't want to be here?
The other way to look at it is that Jackson is doing his due diligence and so is Kerr. Neither want to jump into the wrong situation or harm their friendship. If that's the case, good for them. This is no small decision for either man.
For two old friends talking a few hours over dinner is very easy to do. Then there's discussing the Knicks culture, how former coaches were treated, how the Knicks will be run now that Jackson's in charge, what kind of players they'll be looking for, game philosophies, assistant coaching possibilities and more.
Quite frankly, a first time president and first time head coaching candidate should be covering all of their bases. Another major one is keeping business-business and friendship-friendship. Unfortunately, when the two are mixed often feelings are hurt and relationships are never the same. Jackson and Kerr will hope to succeed together as business partners but remain friends if the business side doesn't work out. That takes planning and lots of luck.
The moral of the story is, it's good that Jackson and Kerr have met twice already. It shows that Jackson clearly wants Kerr to take the job and that Kerr is open to it. However, nobody should panic that they've met twice and no contract has been signed. It's early in the process and although things could pick up and move quickly there's plenty to be discussed before either side should want to jump into a union.
Let's just hope that the right decision is made by both parties when one is eventually made. This is not something to jump into quickly or light heartedly. For the lack of a better term, this is a marriage. Jackson should approach hiring his first coach very seriously, just as Kerr should do the same with accepting his first coaching job.
Are they right for each other? No one knows for sure. However, it's nice to see that neither is rushing into anything and that they're both making sure joining forces in New York is the right thing to do.Basketball, Golden State Warriors, James Dolan, Los Angeles Lakers, Mike Woodson, NBA, New York, New York Knicks, Phil Jackson, Steve Kerr


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Confusing taxi at RDU
Taxiing around RDU (Raleigh–Durham NC)—specifically operating on Taxiway Alpha or Juliet—is confusing. When instructed to turn onto Taxiway Charlie or Delta from A or J, the signs are not clearly marked and are often mistaken, resulting in aircraft turning onto the wrong taxiway. Painting signs on the ground in this area of the airport would help greatly in identifying the correct taxiway.
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- Having recently taxied around RDU himself, the author agrees with the pilot above. Since runway incursion prevention is on NTSB's "most wanted list," airport management must mark all taxiways, runways and airport roadways clearly with proper signage and surface markings to provide clear and legible guidance for flight and ground traffic. An attempt was made to contact airport management concerning this Av Hazard report but no response was received. A hard copy was mailed to the RDU airport manager.
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In my 27 years 5 months as an air traffic controller, I have never heard of a bigger misapplication of the FAA 7110.65 Air Traffic Control Handbook and the FAA 7210.3 Facility Operations Handbook as what took place at EGE (Eagle CO) on Jan 3 2010. (See Pro Pilot, May 2010, p 44.) This is a prime example of why the contract tower program should be canceled. FAA does not provide enough oversight of these towers or their staffing. As you noted, the manager stated he was on duty for 10 hrs—the legal maximum time allowed on duty. This is an example of how these facilities are understaffed. The manager's statement that they handled 263 operations that day and that gate hold procedures had to be put in effect should be criminal. If I had incurred any expenses due to the action of the tower, I would sue SERCO (the contractor) for reimbursement.
FAA controllers working VFR towers routinely handled 120–150 operations an hour. Check out the traffic count at ACK (Nantucket MA) on a Sunday in the summer or even BED (Bedford MA) all year long—both still FAA-operated towers due to volume. I have never encountered the use of gate hold procedures for VFR aircraft. If the skill level of those controllers is so low that they can't handle 21 aircraft an hour, maybe they should try another line of work. I think it's time AOPA and other organizations started putting pressure on FAA to cancel the contract tower program. Just reading that story made my head hurt.
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- Thank you for providing another perspective on this Av Hazard issue. The question of FAA vs contract towers continues to be fought in Washington as the Administration, Congress and the Senate work toward an FAA Authorization Bill and the future of the FAA infrastructure.
Poor ATC comm at Baghdad
Transmission quality on Baghdad Center, Iraq, South Sector is extremely poor with constant cutouts resulting in aircraft frequently requesting, "Say again." This creates occasional confusion in ATC instructions.
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- Having flown in Iraq himself, the author can attest that ATC communication quality there is still tenuous at best. Radar coverage is spotty and many military, contract and foreign aircraft operate in the country without TCAS to help avoid other aircraft. My aircraft was placed on an opposing heading with another large aircraft at the same altitude and we barely avoided a collision when the other aircraft emerged from the clouds at our altitude. Our aircraft was not TCAS equipped and I suspect the other aircraft did not have TCAS either or the pilot would have altered course. Aviation operations in Iraq must still be accomplished with great care and attention.
NTSB child restraint safety alert
Recently, NTSB issued a safety alert (SB-10-19) on child restraint systems in aviation. The board recommends parents of small children always to use proper child restraint systems when traveling in aircraft. The bulletin states that, during otherwise survivable crashes, parents of small children cannot hold on to children during a crash sequence or turbulence, resulting in preventable injuries or death in children 2 years of age or younger. NTSB goes on to say that, after a crash and during the evacuation, the parent or caregiver could not find the child because he/she was not secure and lost in the crash.
- FAA does not require passengers traveling with small children under the age of 2 to purchase a ticket (seat) for the child. However, NTSB recommends that, "when traveling by air, all parents purchase an airline ticket for every child in the family and place each child in a size-appropriate restraint system to ensure that everyone travels safely." The complete safety alert can be found on the NTSB website—ntsb.gov/alerts/ SA_015.pdf.


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Review: 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' a Documentary About Income Inequality
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Review: 'The Face of an Angel' Dabbles in Murder and Culpability
The death of Meredith Kercher, a British student, in Italy preoccupied the news media and the public. This film by Michael Winterbottom is a fictional take on the event....
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try using the "no ping" option? -P0
NM I used -sT why was -sS not working ? something to do with NAT ?
* "arp ping scan" WTF I told you to do -sS ...Code:bt stuff # nmap 192.168.1.106 Starting Nmap 4.50 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-03-21 13:38 GMT Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -PN Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.294 seconds bt stuff # ping 192.168.1.106 PING 192.168.1.106 (192.168.1.106) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.106: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.64 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.106: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.61 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.106: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=1.64 ms --- 192.168.1.106 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.616/1.634/1.643/0.012 ms bt stuff # nmap -sS 192.168.1.106 -PN -vv Starting Nmap 4.50 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-03-21 13:39 GMT Initiating ARP Ping Scan at 13:39 Scanning 192.168.1.106 [1 port] Completed ARP Ping Scan at 13:39, 0.24s elapsed (1 total hosts) Read data files from: /usr/local/share/nmap Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.310 seconds Raw packets sent: 2 (84B) | Rcvd: 0 (0B) bt stuff # bt stuff # airmon-ng Interface Chipset Driver wlan0 RTL8187 r8187 bt stuff #
* I know the host is up I think i has to do with the arp ping scan and I can't get it to do anything but 'arp ping scan'
try using the "no ping" option? -P0
"Sure is for people with nothing on the line.....you and me? We just get on with it."
Are you logged on as a privileged user? Nmap has limitations on what types of scans unprivileged users can do.


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Grass cutting is a weekly ritual for most lawn owners. Here are some things to remember to help you get the best from your lawn mower and your lawn.
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World Cup: Reinaldo Rueda says Antonio Valencia red card cost Ecuador against France
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Reinaldo Rueda says Ecuador "suffered" after Antonio Valencia's red card against France as they exited the World Cup.
The South Americans were still in with a reasonable chance of qualifying for the last 16 as they entered the second half of their clash with Les Bleus at the Maracana on Wednesday night.
However, Manchester United winger Valencia was then sent off by Ivory Coast referee Noumandiez Doue just five minutes after the restart for a lunge on left-back Lucas Digne, leaving Rueda's men with an even tougher task.
Even then, they had chances to nick a victory while goalkeeper Alexander Dominguez performed heroics at the other end to keep the scoresheet blank. Elsewhere, Switzerland's 3-0 win over Honduras in Manaus put the European side through as runners-up.
This has been a short tournament for us. We paid the price for that first match when we lost against Switzerland.
Reinaldo Rueda
Rueda said: "It is quite unfortunate everything that happened. I am very respectful of the referees and these issues are water under the bridge - there is nothing to be done.
"We lost an important man and we suffered from it.
"It's quite unfortunate some of the decisions made by the referee did not favour us but that's in the hands of the people who have to analyse the performance of the referee."
Rueda admitted that his side's opening match against Switzerland, when Ecuador conceded the winning goal in injury time, had proved critical.
He added: "This has been a short tournament for us, we paid the price for that first match when we lost against Switzerland."


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text: Hello all. I've been considering picking this game up, but the thing is, I've never played a Ghost Recon game. I've played plenty of other shooters such as most of the Battlefield games (love them) most of the CoD games (do not love them, stopped buying them a couple years ago), Rainbow Six games, and more. Most of the criticism I see about GRFS so far is from people who are disappointed about the direction of the series and how the game stacks up to other Ghost Recon games. But for my purpose, I don't care about that. What I need is for somebody that has GRFS to pretend for a moment that it is a stand-alone game and has no relation to other Ghost Recon games. Is it a good game? Too many bugs? Fun multiplayer? I'm having trouble finding people's opinion on the game outside of the Ghost Recon fanboys who are not happy with certain things that are different from GRAW and others. Can someone help me out before I drop the $60?


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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Oct. 5)
Tunisian delegate Mongi Slim who, as president of the United Nations General Assembly snubbed Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir at a reception by President Kennedy, was reported here today as having lost all chances of becoming the successor of the late Dag Hammarskjold as Acting Secretary General of the United Nations–a post to which he aspired.
Instead, it was indicated that this post would go to U Thant, permanent representative of Burma at the UN. The Burmese delegate was reported to have been assured by both the Arab bloc and the Russians that they would not oppose him personally for the top UN Secretariat job despite his government's known friendliness toward Israel and the West.
Under the plans as they stand now, there would be six undersecretaries but none of them is to have a veto over final decisions by the Secretary General. The six would include: an American, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche; a Russian, Georgy P. Arkadev; an African, preferably from the sub-Sahara region, as yet unnamed; a Latin American, not yet definitely decided upon although Dr. Francisco Urrutia, of Colombia, has been mentioned; a West European, Pier Pasquale Spinelli, an Italian; and one other as yet unidentified.
Mr. Slim is said to have been offered tone of the under secretary ships but, reportedly, he has refused to accept anything but the top Job. Israel has objected strenuously to Mr. Slim because both he and his Government are out-and-out pro-Arab and anti-Israel. The Arab and the Soviet blocs, unhappy about the Burmese Government's close relations with Israel, are nevertheless willing to place faith in U Thant personally when he should have to deal with Arab-Israeli or East-West disputes.


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Taylor, a 6-foot-4, 220-pounder from Hopewell (Va.), reports 11 scholarship offers. Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, UNC, Purdue, Virginia, and Virginia Tech highlight his list.
Wednesday's visit not only injected UNC into Taylor's favorite schools list – along with Maryland, Virginia, and Virginia Tech – it also put the Tar Heels in a dead heat at the top with Virginia Tech. He has visited each aforementioned school, plus Old Dominion.
"When I visited it just stood out to me at Virginia Tech and UNC," Taylor said. "They made me feel welcome – not saying the other schools didn't, but I just felt really good being there."
Taylor doesn't anticipate making a verbal commitment until after the football season.
Accompanied by a couple members of his family, Taylor arrived in Chapel Hill on Wednesday afternoon. The group departed around dinner time.
"We got a chance to talk with Coach [Larry] Fedora, who gave me insight of what he thought of me and how I would fit into their defense. I got to talk with [Ron West] and he was just telling me what weight he would start me playing at."
Within its 4-2-5 defensive scheme, UNC projects Taylor, a 6-foot-4, 220-pounder from Hopewell (Va.), to play Bandit.
"It doesn't really matter to me where I play, because I really like defense," Taylor said. "But I play that kind of role for my high school team now."
While in a Bandit role for Hopewell, Taylor finished his junior season with 65 tackles, 18 sacks, and an interception.
In addition to meeting with the coaches, Taylor's stay included a campus tour which included in-depth looks at the football facilities and the business department, his desired college major.
"It was pretty much what I expected," Taylor said. "I knew they were going to have great facilities. Overall it was great."
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SUGE KNIGHT: Give Tupac a Hollywood Star...HIP HOP NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!
SUGE KNIGHT: Give Tupac a Hollywood Star
Suge Knight says Tupac had better get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- or there will be serious repercussions.
The former Death Row Records honcho says, "If they don't hurry and put Tupac on the Walk of Fame, all the Tupac fans and all the homies are gonna start going down there and just scratching all the other names off." Suge says that no star would be safe from 'Pac fans, not even Elvis.
- How is 'Pac not on the Walk of Fame already?
- If they put a 'Pac star on the Walk of Fame, do they need to put a Biggie one there too?
- Why doesn't Suge just get the petition going and pony up the cash? Right -- because he doesn't have the cash.


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"In this Age of Dreariness, Depression and Decline, we need the infusion of sexual life-force and magic in order to overcome it. This is our gift to you:feel free to explore the CORE ESSENCE OF YOU through this book. "
Joseph Lally and The 421 Group.
The Kid Is A Cult. Matthew Logos/Request. Photographed by Greg Vaughan for EY
Pictures of passing moment but in a decade they'll represent a very specific New York "here and now".
I love that he made his own book.
The presence to take great photographs Image via Request Models
Jackson at Request Models has the fire in his eyes
TI thinks you are looking quite appropriate for that SS 11 feeling.
Remi: Request : Maximum Blue Chip Potential
This Remi Alade-Chester at Request as seen at MOTW stopped TI in his tracks.
Keith H/Request in magnificent isolation
Methinks this collection will look fab in a winter landscape
The ever cool Cole Mohr in the new Lurve
Ray Tatauira has a new Lurve coming down the pike
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American frustration is understandable. Her two strongest allies in East Asia are seemingly hung up on a set of uninhabitable islets known for bad weather and seagull droppings. Here are Japan and South Korea, the world's third and 14th economies, vibrant democracies, and dynamic economies facing a common threat in unpredictable North Korea and increasingly assertive China, and they are calling each other names and threatening to go ballistic over some pieces of jutting rocks in the middle of nowhere. I mean, it just does not make sense.
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