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William Taylor White was a lifelong farmer and a World War II veteran from Shelby County, but his life was anything but ordinary.
White, known far and wide by his initials, W.T., died Wednesday at the Thomson-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, where he had lived since September. He was 89.
His family shared memories of a beloved father and husband that painted a picture of a devoted family man with more than a little touch of an adventurous spirit.
There is a theater opening, the Touched Twice event and fundraisers galore, but those are only a small portion of what figures to be a very busy weekend of activities in Shelby County.
That lineup really got under way on Thursday with the third annual Highway 55 Yard Sale, which stretches into and out of Shelby County on KY 55 and allows for a combined marketing effort for yard sales.
But Shelby County's parks, in full bloom now that spring appears to be taking hold, will be alive with activities as well.
Laddy and Lorie Haggard have been married for 25 years. The couple were married April 19. She is the former Lorie Crenshaw.
They have two children, Ashley Haggard Gordon and Josh Haggard, both of Shelby County. They have four grandchildren, Kaiden, Daegan, Jaelinn and Kinleigh.
A shower will be 3-5 p.m. Saturday at their home. All friends and relatives are invited.
Carl and Shirley Cays of Shelbyville have been married for 50 years. The couple were married April 12, 1961, in Shelbyville.
She is the former Shirley Samples. They are both retired and are members of Victory Baptist.
Children include Eric Cays and Carla Husband, both of Shelbyville, Kathy Turner of Waddy and Alan Cays of Longview, W.Va.
Rodney and Tiffanie Moore of Waddy announce the birth of their second child, a daughter, on Feb. 28, 2011, at Baptist Hospital East. She has been named Leah Madison Moore.
Grandparents are Donna Bruner of Waddy and the late Lloyd Bruner, George and Mary Moore of Pleasureville.
Nick and Mandy Smith of Fairdale announce the birth of their first child, a son, on March 22, 2011, at Norton Suburban Hospital in Louisville. He has been named Kingston Lee Smith.
Grandparents are Frank and Debbie Simpson of Shelbyville and Sonny and Sherry Smith of Louisville. His great-grandparents are Lloyd and Doris Cockeril, Ottilia Wilson of Louisville and the late Jerry Wilson.
Nathaniel and Melanie Balentine of Pine Bluff, Ark., announce the engagement of their daughter, DeeDee Balentine, to Marty Biagi of Shelbyville. He is the son of Stephen and Marie Biagi of Shelbyville.
Balentine is a 2006 graduate of Watson Chapel High School and is finishing up her senior year at the University of Arkansas with a degree in animal science. She is currently an assistant manager at Pier 1 Imports.
All friends and family are invited to Cot Thompson's 75th birthday bash at 7 p.m. April 16 at the Mount Eden Ruritan Club Building.
For more information, call Barbara at 502-839-6083.
Bagdad Baptist
Easter Sunday services will be 8:30 Early Service, 9 Breakfast, 10: Sunday School, 10:45 Easter Service. The Youth will have a fundraiser Dinner Theater 6-8 p.m. on April 30 performing a play, "Virgil's First Easter," while serving dinner. The youth are accepting donations and selling tickets. For tickets, call (502) 747-8933.
Public meetings
The Shelby County School Board will have a special called meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at West Middle School. This meeting is open to the public.
Shelbyville Water and Sewer Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at 1059 Washington St.
The Shelbyville Municipal Water Board meeting is 6:30 p.m. every third Monday, at the office, 1059 Washington St. in Shelbyville. Phone 633-2840 to be on the agenda.
Shelby County Fiscal Court meets at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Stratton Center, 215 Washington St. Tuesday.
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The Sentinel-News is your source for local news, sports, events and information in Shelby County and Shelbyville, KY, and the surrounding area.


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ESSEX FELLS - Residents can dispose of unused, unwanted and expired medicines between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Essex Fells Police Headquarters, 255 Roseland Ave. No identification will be required at the collection, which is open to all residents. Medicine disposal is completely voluntary and anonymous.
Essex Fells Police officers will be on hand at the event to accept medication for disposal, however, needles, syringes and other sharp instruments will not be collected.
The prescription drug collection is part of the National Take Back Initiative medicine disposal day being spearheaded by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The majority of New Jersey police departments are participating as well as a total of 4,268 agencies nationwide.
Additional information on the program and local collection sites is available at the website deadiversion.usdoj.gov .
Speaking about the program, Essex Fells Police Chief Vincent A. Kulik said, "The abuse of prescription and over the counter drugs is often overlooked as a public safety issue. Through our participation in the Take Back Initiative we are encouraging residents to properly and safely dispose of their unwanted or expired medicines and in doing so we are protecting vulnerable members of our community from the host of issues that accompany the abuse of these medicines."
This initiative addresses important public safety and public health issues, officials said. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to misuse and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.
Also, some common ways of disposing of unused medicines, like flushing down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, pose potential safety and health hazards.
Back in September 2012, Americans turned in 244 tons of prescription drugs at more than 5,200 sites operated by the DEA and its thousands of state and local law enforcement partners. During the five previous Take Back events, more than 2 million pounds of pills were collected and properly disposed of.

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Histone deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) is an enzyme involved in deacetylating the amino groups of terminal lysine residues, thereby repressing the transcription of various genes including tumor suppressor gene. The over expression of HDAC8 was observed in many cancers and thus inhibition of this enzyme has emerged as an efficient cancer therapeutic strategy. In an effort to facilitate the future discovery of HDAC8 inhibitors, we developed two pharmacophore models containing six and five pharmacophoric features, respectively, using the representative structures from two molecular dynamic (MD) simulations performed in Gromacs 4.0.5 package. Various analyses of trajectories obtained from MD simulations have displayed the changes upon inhibitor binding. Thus utilization of the dynamically-responded protein structures in pharmacophore development has the added advantage of considering the conformational flexibility of protein. The MD trajectories were clustered based on single-linkage method and representative structures were taken to be used in the pharmacophore model development. Active site complimenting structure-based pharmacophore models were developed using Discovery Studio 2.5 program and validated using a dataset of known HDAC8 inhibitors. Virtual screening of chemical database coupled with drug-like filter has identified drug-like hit compounds that match the pharmacophore models. Molecular docking of these hits reduced the false positives and identified two potential compounds to be used in future HDAC8 inhibitor design.
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) is a zinc-dependant enzyme involved in the deacetylation of terminal acetylated lysine residues of histone proteins [
To date, a number of potential HDAC inhibitors are in clinical trials. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) was the first HDAC inhibitor approved by FDA. In terms of diverse chemical structures, HDAC inhibitors include a wide range of scaffolds and can be classified into structural classes such as aliphatic acids, hydroxamic acids, cyclic peptides and benzamides. Design and evaluation of linkerless hydroxamic acid derivatives reported that these new linkerless scaffolds have shown >100 fold selectivity for HDAC8 over other Class I and II HDACs. In addition, it is also reported that the active site of HDAC8 is unconventionally malleable and can accommodate inhibitors of diverse structures with no conventional structural arrangement, which is "ZBM-linker-HCG" [
In this study pharmacophore models were developed using the representative structures of HDAC8 obtained from MD simulations. Two inhibitors showing potent inhibitory profile for HDAC8 were selected and docked into the active site of the enzyme to prepare enzyme-inhibitor complexes. The MD simulations of these complexes were performed and the representative structures from the highly clustered conformations of MD simulation trajectory were selected to be used in the development of pharmacophore models. These pharmacophore models, after validation, were used in virtual screening to identify new and potential hits for future drug design. Molecular docking study has reduced the probability of picking false positives as potential hits. Finally we obtained two potential compounds which can be used in future HDAC8 inhibitor design.
Two most active HDAC8 inhibitors were selected from a set of inhibitory molecules with the experimental activity values determined using the same biological assay procedure collected from the literature. These two compounds are structurally very different except having the hydroxamic acid moiety as common zinc binding group and showing very similar HDAC8 inhibitory profile. The C1 has the modified linker portion when compared to trichostatin A and SAHA whereas the C2 is linkerless (
The results of MD simulation have displayed only a single active site merging both the initial active sites. This behavior of 1T64 was considered unfavorable and thus 2V5X, which exhibits a single active site in its crystal structure, was selected for this study. Another MD simulation of HDAC8 without inhibitor (apo-form) was also performed to compare the changes upon the binding of inhibitor. Our simulation results were analyzed using tools bundled with GROMACS distribution package. The root mean square deviation (RMSD) of backbone atoms of the protein revealed that apo-form of HDAC8 was very stable with an average RMSD value of 0.14 nm throughout the simulation time whereas the inhibitor complexes were slightly unstable during the first half of the simulation time
The root mean square fluctuation (RMSF) plot was plotted to estimate the changes in dynamic flexibility of the regions of protein structure due to the inhibitor binding. It also has confirmed that all the catalytically important residues including charge relay system and most of the tunnel and surface forming residues except F209 and M274 were very stable throughout the simulation in all systems. The D101 which is present at the surface of the active site has shown increased flexibility in the C2 complex whereas the flexibility of F209 and M274 has reduced upon inhibitor binding (
The distance between the hydroxamic acid moieties of bound inhibitors and the catalytic divalent (Zn2+) metal ion present at the bottom of the tunnel like active site was measured throughout the simulations. The average distance between the hydroxamic acid moieties of both inhibitors and Zn2+ was 0.19 nm which was maintained very stable during the simulation (
The results of the simulation of HDAC8 enzyme with two different inhibitors were further analyzed using clustering method to cluster the snapshots based on the RMSDs of atom positions. Each structure is added to a cluster when its distance to any element is less than a given cutoff. This analysis will be useful to statistically characterize conformational families which are sampled during the simulations. Clusters were obtained with a cut off value of 0.077 nm and each cluster has a representative structure. The simulation with C1 and C2 were divided into 11 and 10 clusters, respectively, based on the RMSD values of the atom positions (
Pharmacophore models were generated using the two representative structures obtained from the MD simulations of HDAC8 bound C1 and C2, respectively. The hydrogen bond acceptor (HA), hydrogen bond donor (HD), and hydrophobic (HY) chemical features were generated based on the interaction points available from the active site. Based on the mechanism of action and the general pharmacophore for HDAC8 inhibitors, residues were chosen and to trim down the generated pharmacophoric features we have selected only the features that are generated complementary to these residues. Seven pharmacophoric features containing three HD, three HY, and one HA were selected as a pharmacophore model (Pharm-A) from the dynamic structure resulted from HDAC8-C1 complex. Three HD features of Pharm-A were generated as complementary features to D101, H142 and D178 residues. Two features complementing H142 and D178 were located very close to each other and thus were merged to create a new average feature at their average position. The only HA feature of Pharm-A was generated as a complimentary to the catalytic metal (Zn2+) ion whereas the three HY features were picked to compliment the hydrophobic tunnel and surface residues. Thus the final Pharm-A contains one HA, two HD and three HY features was generated from HDAC8-C1 complex (
In addition to the Pharm-A, another pharmacophore model was developed using the middle structure obtained from the simulation of HDAC8 bound with C2. Similar to the generation of Pharm-A, the pharmacophoric features generated complimentary to the important active site components were selected and developed a pharmacophore model (Pharm-B). Initially this pharmacophore model was made of one HA, two HY, and four HD features. The HA and HY features of Pharm-B were the complimentary features to the metal ion and the tunnel as well as surface forming residues. Four HD features were the complimentary result to D101, D178, D267, and Y306 residues of the active site. Three of these four HD features were formed very close to each other and has the starting vector point at the same place. Thus these three HD features were merged together to form an average HD feature. The final Pharm-B contains five pharmacophoric features which include one HA, two HD, and two HY features (
The generated pharmacophore models were validated for their reliability to be used in database screening and prediction of new compounds. Two different methods with different information were employed in validating the pharmacophore models. The first method is based on the best binding orientation used in MD simulations while the second method is based on the collected dataset of HDAC8 inhibitors with the experimental inhibitory profile. In the first validation method, the best binding orientations of C1 and C2 were matched with generated pharmacophore models A and B, respectively. This study has shown interestingly that both the compounds could map the pharmacophoric features well except one HD feature generated complimentary to D101.
In terms of C1, its terminal indole, central phenyl, and thiophene rings mapped upon the HY features of Pharm-A, whereas the closely present functional groups of hydroxamic acid have mapped over the HA and HD features (
Virtual database screening method using pharmacophore models as 3D queries has successfully been used in retrieving potential compounds that can confidently be used in novel drug discovery and development. As this approach serves an advantage over any
Final hit compounds along with the most active C1 and C2 were docked in to the active site of HDAC8. The prepared middle structures obtained from the MD simulations with both most active compounds C1 and C2 were used as target protein molecules. The molecular docking results were used as a post-docking filter to select the compounds those interact with the active site amino acids and to predict the binding orientations of the hit compounds. The docking program GOLD has generated several feasible binding conformations for each compound and ranked them according to their fitness scores. The bound conformation with the most favorable energies was considered as the best binding orientation. Hydroxamic acid moieties of C1 and C2 have shown interactions with functionally important metal ion and active site amino acids. The GOLD fitness scores for C1 and C2 at the active sites of two different inhibitor-induced conformations of HDAC8 were 65.658, 53.291 and 73.111, 56.362, respectively. Thus, compounds scoring GOLD fitness scores greater than 53 and 56 at C1 and C2 bound active site, respectively, were selected for further analysis on binding modes and detailed molecular interactions with the important amino acid residues. This analysis has shown that C1 has bound the active site well with its hydroxamic acid moiety contacting the catalytic machinery of HDAC8 enzyme. The carbonyl group of this hydroxamic acid which was mapped over the only HA feature of Pharm-A has formed a co-ordinate bond with metal ion. The NH and OH groups of hydroxamic acid part of C1 that mapped over the averaged HD feature have formed hydrogen bonds with H143 and D178, respectively. The interaction through the NH and OH group with H143 was not formed in C2-induced conformation of the enzyme as this H143 was a bit away from its position (
To date 18 crystal structures were determined by various research groups among which only 8 are native HDAC8 bound with different inhibitors [
The selected crystal structure was checked for missing amino acids and bad valences. The water molecules and other molecular fragments present in the crystal structure were removed after checking for their catalytic importance. Prior to MD simulations, the selected most active inhibitors were docked into the active site of HDAC8 (PDB code: 2V5X) using GOLD program. The best docking pose was selected for each inhibitor based on the GOLD fitness score and molecular interactions observed with catalytic residues involved in deacetylation mechanism. The MD simulations were successfully used to verify or to generate the reliable binding mode of the docked small molecules [
We used g_cluster analysis protocol available with GROMACS distribution package to find few representative snapshots from the bunch of 5000 frames saved after every 5 ns MD simulation. This clustering analysis was considered critical as the representative snapshots can represent the conformational flexibility of the protein throughout the simulation. The root mean square deviation (RMSD) after fitting or RMSD of atom-pair distance can be used to define the distance between structures. The g_cluster protocol clusters the structures by several different methods such as single linkage, Jarvis Patrick, Monte Carlo, diagonalization and gromos methods. In this study, single linkage method that adds a structure to a cluster when its distance to any element of the cluster is less than the cutoff value was used. Clusters of complete structures were generated using this method with a cutoff value of 0.077 nm.
Two structural snapshots taken from two HDAC8-inhibitor complexes were considered in this step to generate structure-based pharmacophore models. Apo-form structure was not considered in pharmacophore generation as this study mainly accounts the conformational changes of protein structure due to the inhibitor binding.
The generated structure-based pharmacophore models within DS were used as a 3D query in database searching. This virtual screening of chemical databases was conducted to find novel and diverse virtual leads suitable for further development. Database searching offers the advantage that the retrieved compounds are usually more easily available for testing than those based on
Compounds that were predicted to be positive in Lipinski drug-likeness screening were subjected to molecular docking studies. The GOLD uses a genetic algorithm to dock the small molecules into the protein active site [
In order to develop dynamic structure-based pharmacophore models, we selected two of the most active HDAC8 inhibitors with considerable chemical diversity and docked into the active site of the enzyme. The best binding conformations of these compounds were selected and their complexes with HDAC8 were used in 5 ns MD simulations. After examining the results of these MD simulations, middle structures from highly clustered conformational space were obtained and used in structure-based pharmacophore model development. Two pharmacophore models, namely, Pharm-A and Pharm-B were developed considering catalytically important amino acid residues as expected inhibitor-interacting points. These pharmacophore models, as developed using structures from MD simulations that provide information over 3D conformational changes, are highly reliable compared to that of single conformation structure-based pharmacophore models. These pharmacophore models were further validated using an experimentally tested HDAC8 inhibitors dataset, which additionally strengthened the quality of the pharmacophore models. The Asinex database containing huge sets of diverse chemical compounds was virtually screened for compounds that match the pharmacophoric features identified in the study. The hit compounds were further filtered for drug-like properties based on Lipinski's rule of five. The hits identified with drug-like properties were docked into the active site of HDAC8 enzyme to investigate the binding modes and molecular interactions formed with catalytic amino acid residues as a positive indication of enzyme inhibition. A post-docking analysis based on binding modes and molecular interactions produced two compounds as final hit compounds to be utilized in future HDAC8 inhibitor design.
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program (2009-0073267), Pioneer Research Center Program (2009-0081539), and Management of Climate Change Program (2010-0029084) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) of Republic of Korea. And this work was also supported by the Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program (PJ008038) from Rural Development Administration (RDA) of Republic of Korea.
The 3D structure of human histone deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) bound with an inhibitor (PDB code 2V5X). A zoomed view of inhibitor binding region shows the tunnel-like active site in mesh form. The hydroxamic acid part of inhibitor binds close to the metal (Zn2+) ion whereas the aliphatic chain and hydrophobic cap groups occupy the tunnel and surface of the active site.
The 2D chemical structures of HDAC8 inhibitors used in this study are displayed with two clinically proven HDAC inhibitors for structural comparison.
Comparison of (
Distance between the hydroxamic acid moieties of inhibitors and two catalytically important histidine residues (
The histogram obtained from the clustering analyses of last 4 of 5 ns conformational regions of HDAC8-inhibitor complex MD simulation trajectories. Dark and light gray color cylinders represent the clusters obtained from HDAC8-C1 and HDAC8-C2 complexes, respectively.
Overlay of the representative structures obtained from 5 ns MD simulations of HDAC8-C1 (white) and HDAC8-C2 (green) complexes. Important amino acid residues of HDAC enzyme and the inhibitors are shown in stick and ball-stick forms, respectively.
Structure-based pharmacophore model generated from the HDAC8-C1 complex. Secondary structure of protein is shown in cartoon and amino acid residues are shown in stick form. The C1 inhibitor is shown in ball-stick representation. The identified pharmacophoric features are shown in green, cyan and magenta for HA, HY and HD features, respectively.
Structure-based pharmacophore model generated from the HDAC8-C2 complex. Secondary structure of protein is shown in cartoon and amino acid residues are shown in stick form. The C2 inhibitor is shown in ball-stick representation. The identified pharmacophoric features are shown in green, cyan and magenta for HA, HY and HD features, respectively.
Generated pharmacophore models (
Binding modes and molecular interactions of (
The 2D chemical structures of identified hits.
Results of validation process using HDAC8 dataset and generated pharmacophore models, Pharm-A and Pharm-B.
|HDAC8 Dataset
|Percentage (%)
|Percentage (%)
|Percentage (%)
|Active <0.1 μM
|Moderately active ≥0.1 <1 μM
|Inactive >1 μM
List of crystal structures of HDAC8 determined to date.
|Resolution (Å)
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|Metal Ion
|Trichostatin A
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Spike the dragon lounged in a nearly pony sized basket next to Twilight Sparkle's desk in the office shared by several of Canterlot U's junior faculty and student teachers, seemingly flipping lazily through an advanced and esoteric tome of magical theory.
In truth, he was perusing the four color panels of the latest issue of Thunderpony tucked neatly into the pages of the larger book. He'd picked up a lot in his years as the lavender unicorn's assistant, and knew how to choose books to get the best startled double takes from any students or faculty who happened to pass by.
His stomach rumbled a bit, and he glanced at the somnolently ticking grandfather clock that stood by the door, noticing that Princess Celestia's beaming portrait on the dial had been replaced by Princess Luna's shyly smiling visage.
As the comic book he read wrapped up on a cliffhanger, he began to mutter petulantly under his breath. "Is this it for our hero? Will Thunderdragon ever... eat... again... Will the nefarious Not A Doctor Yet Twilight Von Sparkle triumph in her sinister scheme to starve him to death?" He snorted to himself and idly turned his attention to the letters column and novelty ads in the back pages.
The spines over his ear holes twitched at the sound of galloping hooves in the hallway outside. With a blase expression he looked up to see Twilight Sparkle attempt screech to a halt on the highly polished marble floor, only to keep sliding on past, her eyes wide in alarm as she began to spin with her hooves splayed wider and wider beneath her. He lowered his gaze back down to an advertisement depicting a smiling family of pink, scaly Seaponies as a softly echoing whoop and a crash sounded from down the hall.
He looked up again sharply as another pony hove into view in the doorway and called after her in a melodious voice he instantly recognized. There was the alabaster white and pastel pink and purple figure of his childhood crush's younger sister, standing with her green eyes wide with alarm and a hoof to her mouth. "Oh! Miss Twilight are you okay?"
Spike raised a scaly brow ridge. "Sweetie Belle? What are you doing here!"
The young unicorn's innocent as a button face turned toward him, startled. She began to look rapidly back and forth at him and down the hall while hopping on her hooves in a frantic tempo. "Having a foal!"
A small gout of green flame popped unbidden from his throat as he reared up in his basket, tossing the heavy tome aside with a thud. "WHAT?"
Twilight came hurriedly limping into view, her cravat, mane, and tail in disarray. "Fluttershy is having her foal! Right now!"
At this Spike surged to his clawed feet and tumbled out of the basket, scrabbling a moment to get upright, where he looked his guardian in the eyes and laid his hands on her shoulders. "Holey Guacamole! What are we waiting for? Lets go see if we can get a chariot!"
The lavender unicorn gently shouldered him aside as she stepped up to her desk and began to root through the drawers. She pulled a couple of pages of foolscap and an ink bottle and quill out and floated them over to him. "First things first. I need you to send a couple of quick notes off."
The young dragon took the writing implements and nodded, breathing deeply to both calm himself and stoke his internal fires. "Right. The Princess..." He started writing "Dear Princess Celestia..."
He stopped scribbling as his guardian interjected. "Hold it! Yes, I want you to send one to the Princess. Both of them. And then send off a note to the Dean. But first I need you to send one to Rainbow Dash."
She grunted in satisfaction as she tugged a colorful mailer out from under a stack of books, featuring a familiar squad of blue and yellow suited pegasi with a photo inset of a brashly smiling rainbow maned mare. Twilight spread the pamphlet out on a clear spot on the desk with her hooves and peered at it. "She's in... Manehattan! At Madison Mare Gardens tonight. Think you can zero in on her?"
The little dragon puffed out his chest after crossing out the Princess' name on the header. "If I can see 'em in my mind's eye I can drop a scroll right on their head. Rainbow Dash is a no brainer."
Twilight nodded, and proceeded to use her telekinesis to undo her cravat. "Good. All right, I'm on my way. Sweetie Belle, I'm leaving Spike in your care. If you can't get a chariot take any of the morning express balloons. You can use my Royal Transit Pass, it's in the top left drawer of my desk there, and Spike knows where I keep my wallet. Spike, do what Sweetie tells you. Sweetie, listen to what Spike has to say and try to pay attention. I'll meet you both at the Library in Ponyville at lunchtime if I don't see you sooner."
With that she turned and hurried toward a large set of windows framed by potted plants at the end of the row of desks, the western night sky beginning to twinkle over the ruddy glow of the city lights as Princess Luna brought the stars online.
The younger unicorn and dragonet looked at each other in confusion as Spike lifted his quill from the page. "Wait, what? Aren't we taking a chariot together?"
Twilight paused and looked back at them, shaking her head. "That's too slow. Pinkie's "Pinkie Sense" is coming in at full on "doozy". You know what that means. Time is of the essence."
She threw open the windows, climbing up on the sill as a chill mountain wind suddenly blew in, knifing through the stuffy air of the offices and ruffling the leaves on the plants and the papers on the desks. The lavender mare looked over her shoulder. "In fact, you'd better specifically write "doozy" in your letter to Rainbow, and tell her it's at Sweet Apple Acres."
She turned back with a wink. "See you kids in Ponyville!"
She stared out over the ivory towers of Canterlot, looking down the vastness of the valley toward the canopy of clouds gathered over the distant hamlet where she'd found all of her most beloved friends. Closing her eyes, she centered herself, concentrating on the sun blessed apple orchards and sweet scent of hay and earth of a particular farm where she'd spent so many glorious summers. Her brow furrowed as she bunched up her rear legs and crouched in a starter's position on the windowsill.
Sweetie Belle leaned in, speaking to Spike in a silvery whisper as her earnest green eyes grew wide. "Uhhh... She knows she's not a pegasus... right?"
The little dragon's own green eyes narrowed as Twilight's horn began to shimmer and spark. "She's not gonna... oh wow, she is!" He threw up an arm to shield his face. "Don't look directly at..."
Before Spike could finish Twilight Sparkle pushed off from the window and launched herself into the air, her hooves thrown wide as she sailed over the campus so many stories below. Sweetie Belle shrieked in alarm as a sphere of blinding white flared, throwing everything in the office into stark black as rectangular beams of hazy light shot forth between the window frames.
A split second later, all the young unicorn could see was luminous spots dancing before her eyes.
Spike peered over his upraised arm as the primrose colored mare slumped heavily onto her rump beside him. The stars twinkled cheerily over the warm blaze of the sunset in an empty, deep purple sky. He muttered under his breath as he resumed writing on the parchment in his claw.
Sweetie Belle's voice came out in a low vibrato next to him. "S-spike. I can't feel my face..."
The young dragon nodded vaguely. "That'll pass. Do you spell "doozy" with a Y or an IE?"
The characters depicted in this fiction are copyright and trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. This is a work of fan fiction, and the author makes no claim on Hasbro's copyright or trademarks.


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Hummus for My Young-Un
Recipe by smellyvegetarian
This was the result of accidentally over-salting a batch of hummus for my little one and looking for a way to cut the salt. Now I look at it as a great way to get veggies in! Be careful with the seasonings if you give this to kiddos; some prefer it mild (not mine!!).
Top Review by KateL
Tasty hummus, the lemon stood out. It would be helpful to give a starting amount of water, I added at least 1/3 cup, but may have lost count of my tablespoons. I used 1 teaspoon of garlic powder and about 1/8 teaspoon of salt (most people would want more). Made for Veggie Swap 36.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (15 ounce) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1⁄8 cup tahini
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- garlic powder, to taste
- salt, to taste
- 1 -2 tablespoon carrot baby food (or other veggies...be creative!)
- water, to reach desired consistency
Directions See How It's Made
- combine ingredients in a blender or food processor and puree, adding water until you reach desired consistency.
- serve with pita chips, crudites, or as a sandwich spread. My son loves it with pretzels, just like his mama!


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Jan 10, 2014 - By Eric Blom, Staff WriterIn new-year business, the Fremont County Commission examined using credit unions as official depositories and gained a new vice chairwoman during its meeting Jan. 7.
Every year, commissioners have to designate official depositories, the banks county entities can use to deposit money and open checking accounts.
County Treasurer Scott Harnsberger said state law prohibits the county from using credit unions as official depositories, though he was not opposed to doing so.
Commissioner Keja Whiteman said it was a "shame" the Atlantic City Federal Credit Union could not be an official depository because it donates to the county fair.
The county board discussed raising the credit union issue with the Wyoming Association of County Commissioners, which lobbies the state government.
Harnsberger also told the county commission that his office had run into a problem with one official depository.
The First Interstate Bank charged the county a $10 fee to cash a check that came from an individual who also had an account at First Interstate Bank and was paying the county for a service.
"When someone pays us $100 for a transaction, that 's what the transaction costs, not $90, and I have no way to pay for that difference of $10," he said in an interview.
The commission voted to approve First Interstate Bank and a list of other institutions as official depositories and said it would send a letter to First Interstate Bank warning it may lose its official depository status if the fee policy does not change.
Leadership change
At the same meeting, Whiteman became the county board's new vice chairwoman for 2014.
After other commissioners unanimously approved Doug Thompson for another year as commission chairman, he called for nominations for vice chairman. Republican Larry Allen crossed party lines to nominate Whiteman, a Democrat.
"Keja (Whiteman) has been there for almost eight years, and I just thought a little recognition on her part (would be good)," Allen said in an interview. "Travis (Becker) did a good job, no big shakeup or anything, no hard feelings."
Becker was the vice chairman in 2013. Whiteman has been a commissioner for seven years.
No other nominations were heard, and Becker, R-Riverton, then moved to appoint Whiteman as vice chairwoman, and the motion passed.
Last year, Becker and Whiteman were nominated to be vice chairperson, and Becker won the office on a ballot vote.
Commissioners also selected The Ranger and the Lander Journal as the official newspapers for the county.
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Maybe or may be?
We use maybe and may be to talk about possibility. They are often confused because we use them both when we think that something is possible but we are not certain.
Maybe as an adverb
Maybe /ˈmeɪbi/ is an adverb and it means the same as perhaps. It is written as one word:
Maybe no one will come to the party.
May be no one will come to the party.
In speaking, we sometimes use maybe at the end of what we say when we are making a suggestion which we are not very certain about:
There's something wrong with my PC. I can't load my photos.B:
It could be a virus, maybe.
In speaking, we can use maybe as a response when we agree that something is possible:
Ronnie and Linda are going to leave New Zealand in January.B:
Why? I thought they were very happy there.
I'm not sure. Perhaps they feel a bit lonely.B:
We can also use maybe to express uncertainty in response to a suggestion:
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You don't sound very enthusiastic.B:
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In the phrase may be /meɪ bi:/ may is a modal verb and be is a main or auxiliary verb. Here may and be are two separate words, whereas maybe is one word:
There may be a train at 10.00am.
There maybe a train at 10.00am.
He may be waiting for us.
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We use may as a modal verb in the phrase may be. They are two separate words. We use maybe as an adverb:
This may be the last match that he plays for Barcelona.
This maybe the last match that he plays for Barcelona.
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Kentucky vs North Carolina Wrap - North Carolina Wins 82-77
North Carolina got 23 points from Marcus Paige as they ran past Kentucky 82-77 on Saturday at Dean Smith Center.
Bettors who backed North Carolina were also rewarded, as they covered the closing number as a favorite of 3 at sportsbooks.
North Carolina got 20 points from James Michael McAdoo and another 15 points from J.P. Tokoto. James Michael McAdoo contributed 4 assists, while Brice Johnson cleaned the glass with 7 rebounds.
Kentucky got 20 points from Aaron Harrison in a losing cause and another 17 points from Andrew Harrison. Andrew Harrison contributed 7 assists for them, while Willie Cauley-Stein had 12 rebounds.
North Carolina led at halftime, 33-30.
Kentucky won the battle of the boards, outrebounding their counterparts 44-32.


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I had trouble picking a sleeper back. I wanted Murray and Jamison but I feel like they both go before the 7th. And Barner gives is the Kr aspect.
I have Murray in the 6th in my next mock. Personally, I really like him and Gillislee.
Miguel Mayonet and Murray are my favorites. Love backs who look the part and played behind crappy Olines in college.
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I had trouble picking a sleeper back. I wanted Murray and Jamison but I feel like they both go before the 7th. And Barner gives is the Kr aspect.
I have Murray in the 6th in my next mock. Personally, I really like him and Gillislee.
Miguel Mayonet and Murray are my favorites. Love backs who look the part and played behind crappy Olines in college.
Ditto. I would take either guy.
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I like the picks, all solid well covered players. However, a few things: the trend seems to be that everyone believes Miami will be the trade partners for Oakland at #3, although plausible, IMO not realistic. While Ireland spent a lot of money this offseason, I dont think he'll be as aggressive on draft day by trading all those picks he acquired just for one player. Instead I can see them making a play for KC's Brandon Albert for #54 overall pick and late rounder. Not saying its wrong or I'm right, its just easier to get a starting LT by trading two picks instead of 4 or 5 picks.
Next, I really do like Sheldon Richardson, dudes a beast when he's rolling. However, his character concerns including his commitment to the game and he often takes plays off. I feel those things takes him completely off RM's radar. He's preached that he wants smart hard working people who can play football. Therefore, someone of lesser talent but with a better work ethic than & less character concerns can be actually valued higher. In a way I kind of see Warford having the same issues. Mostly due to his constant battle with his weight. Nothing is wrong with the players, I just dont see RM considering them ahead of players.
With all that nonsense said, I would be happy with this draft. Mostly cant complain but I definitely dig the Rambo, Poyer & Barner picks. I think those are great value picks.
I think you have Richardson mixed up with someone else. Yes he does have a couple off field incident school related, missing class I believe and he runs his mouth. Not really that big of a deal and Reggie helped draft a guy just like that, who? BJ Raji
Also Richardson is one of the only DT's in this draft who doesnt take plays off. He is non-stop every play and chasing players down field with more hustle than the LB's.
As for weight issues being a concern for an OG. Well all those guys have weight issues. Thats why they are playing OG. Fat and slow. lol
I am surprised you list Richardson as having off-field issues but say nothing about Rambo or Poyer who have worse off-field stuff than Richardson ever had.
I stand corrected, I did confuse Richardson with another as far as a player who takes plays off. Dude has a motor that much I'm sure. The off field issues mostly dealt with school but he has a long history of academic failure including being suspended for it. Upon further review though I do think he would be an option for RM if picking at #12. I guess really the only knock on him I could find was whether or not he would be motivated to after signing a big contract. None of us will ever really know, & I'm sure thats what the interview process is for. So if he can convince Rm or any other GM for that matter that he means business he should be fine.
Richardson's 13 starts in 24 games is a bit concerning, accompanied with a meager 3 sacks during his dominating 2012 campaign doesnt bode well with me. IMO the Raiders need sacks, & I think an edge rusher holds more value here. If you want to talk about stopping the run someone like Brandon Williams in 3rd would be the answer.
Obviously Rambo & Poyer have off field concerns & I felt they were the easiest to identify of the group, therefore I did not feel I needed to write about it. I almost assumed that it went without saying. IMO both of them will not be considered by RM at any point during the draft.
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Usually SYN attacks are used in DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks to shut down Web sites such as the ones that targeted Google and Twitter. I just happened to be a drive-by victim of a Windows malware infection.
I helped them fix their problem-their network was a mess as well-but it also made me realize that I can't just run my Wi-Fi APs without any security anymore. I have no problem sharing my bandwidth, but I do object to sharing my neighbor's problems.
I'm not the only one. As Wi-Fi has become commonplace many of us have ran into performance problems with too many Wi-Fi APs competing for too few channels. You see while 2.4Ghz 802.11g and 802.11n have up to 14-channels, in practice you can only use three of them in any given area-typically 1, 6, and 11-before running into interference that slows down everyone's performance. The only way to fix this is to set your APs so they won't conflct with each other.
But, this, this was different. For the first time, I found my computers and network being not knocked around by a neighbor's security mistake. I can't afford this. So, it is that I'm now using a version of WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) to make sure that any problems on my network are coming from my network.
For more on how to guard your own Wi-Fi connection, tune in for my next Sure it's Secure blog. Having fixed that problem, you'll excuse me if I move on to tracking down what appears to be some bad cabling running off my Gigabit Ethernet switch.


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Aniruddha Pathak
To Give Wishes Words - Poem by Aniruddha Pathak
Men hope women would respond sans buts, ifs,
And wish, friends would open up more often,
Wives and husbands would spell out more with lips,
And parents, kiddie tastes would soon soften.
If only we give wishes wordy wings!
Yet, vague wishes not but frustration reap,
We wish to decode dreams' subtle meanings,
But short of cherished dreams we lose our sleep.
Let us never ask life what it would give
Ere we know what we want and know to take,
Nor pray to God what we wish to receive,
But be ready a Bucket List1 to make.
If life look like a terminal patient
On a deathbed, counting days left to live,
Her shadow shortening every moment,
Let's learn to stretch months happy years to give.
Our dreams' desires do when deepest roots strike,
Our thoughts and feelings coax seedlings to grow,
Desired fruits would sure show one fine morrow—
Fire fuelling desires, like attracting like!
So when things fail on their own to happen,
Do try giving wishes the wings of words,
Words not vague, hanging loose, but well shapen;
Things happen when desire soars free like birds.
Life's lent to encash notes promissory
In trust, not to suffer in misery.
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In a movie called Bucket List1, Morgan Freeman
(a mechanic) and Jack Nicholson (a billionaire) ,
both terminal cancer patients, meet in a hospital
room. Instead of cursing their fate, they prepare
a wish list and set off on a trip to fulfill their
wishes, enjoying, ticking off the Bucket List items
one by one— refusing to live the rest of their life
not in misery, but like a promissory note encashed.
Those that follow religious dictates without
comprehending the subtle meaning might cavil to say,
all desires are bad. Yea, they are. But then
seeking God, seeking truth, and wishing to do good
things in life too are desires. So, it is not the
desire per se that is bad. It is the quality of
desire that is in question.
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- Musings | 08.06.08 |
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Bosquet des Papes Chateauneuf-du-Pape Tradition 2009
Rhone Red Blends from Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Rhone, France
Winemaker's Notes
This has a pretty purple color with bright reflections and aromas of red berries. The palate is silky and velvety.
Ideal for game and cooked meat in a red sauce.
Critical Acclaim
Wine Spectator - "Still tight, with a core of red currant and blackberry fruit wound up with red licorice, plum eau-de-vie and spice notes holding sway for now. Tight-grained grip on the finish will need cellaring to stretch out. Best from 2013 through 2020. "
The Wine Advocate - "The 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Tradition, which is their biggest cuvee (close to 3,400 cases) is outstanding. A blend of 75% Grenache and the rest mostly Syrah and Mourvedre, with small amounts of Counoise, Vaccarese and Cinsault, this wine, aged in foudres, has an open-knit, fragrant bouquet of black cherries, spicy, peppery herbs and licorice. It is medium-garnet in color, full-bodied, generous, corpulent, and a sexy, complex, relatively evolved Chateauneuf du Pape to drink over the next 8-10 years. "
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Winemaker's since 1860, the Boiron family knows a thing or two about their craft. It began Emmanuel Boiron who married into a well-know winemaking family and continued with his son, Joseph-Victor, in 1890. Joseph-Victor had his work cut-out for him thanks to phylloxera that wiped out his father's vines. Years later, in 1936, Joseph-Victor deposed the name 'Clos Chantelmerle'; the first official name of the estate. In 1923, his son Joseph ensured the continuation of the estate. Joseph's son Maurice helped to create the name 'Domaine Bosquet des Papes' in 1966 and took the helm ten years later. Fast-forward to today…Maurice's son Nicolas is making all of the wines today. View all Bosquet des Papes Wines
About Chateauneuf-du-Pape(shah-too-NUHF due Pahp)Southern Rhone's landmark region, Chateauneuf du Pape, was the first region to gain AC status in France. That was the 1920s – it's history goes much further back than that. As the name suggests, the wine region was named after the "new papal home," referring to the period of time in the 1300's when the pope resided in Avignon instead of Rome.
Photo of galets covering the soil at Chateau de Beaucastel
Notable FactsThere are 13 allowed varieties in Chateauneuf du Pape (14 if you count Grenache Blanc separately from Grenache Noir). Grenache is the primary variety, followed by Syrah and Mourvedre as well as Cinsault. About 97% of the wines here are red, although many chateaux are producing whites ranging from quaffable to decadent and ageworthy. Reds from the best estates emit wonderful flavors of gamey spice, blackberries and currant, as well as the herbs and spices that are known to grow in the region.
Note on the soil: The grapes grow on soils covered in rounded, smooth stones called galets (gah-lay). The stones naturally cover most of the soils throughout Chateauneuf du Pape and are two fold in their duties. First, they are able to reflect and absorb the heat, to quicken the ripening of the grapes. They also help to hold in moisture so that the soils are not dried out by the hot Southern French sun.
About France - Other regionsWhen it comes to wine, France is a classic. Classic blends, grapes and styles began in the country and they still remain. Think about it - people ask for a Burgundian style Pinot Noir, they refer to wines as Bordeaux or Rhone blends - Champagne even had to pass a law to stop international wineries from putting their region on the label of all sparkling wine.
The top regions of France are: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Rhone. And these regions are so diverse! It makes sense that wine regions throughout the world try to emulate their style. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are no longer French varieties, but international varieties. They may not be the leader of cutting edge technology or value-priced wines, but there is no doubt that they are still producing wines of great quality and diversity.
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As the latest round of international climate change talks begins Monday in Durban, South Africa, Oxfam is warning that extreme weather linked to global warming is causing food prices to rise and putting the world's most vulnerable people at risk.
Severe drought in Africa has pushed more than 13 million people into crisis, the aid agency reports, citing a 393% rise in sorghum prices in Somalia and a 191% spike in maize prices in Ethiopia in July compared with a five-year average. In Russia and the Ukraine, drought and fires following a heat wave destroyed much of the 2010 harvest, causing a 60% to 80% increase in global wheat prices within three months.
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Oxfam's warning follows a report earlier this month from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that found heat waves, floods and other extreme weather worsen with global warming. The IPCC said worse heat waves worldwide are "very likely" and other extreme weather could intensify unless climate change is mitigated.
"From the Horn of Africa and South East Asia to Russia and Afghanistan, a year of floods, droughts and extreme heat has helped push tens of millions of people into hunger and poverty," said Oxfam's Kelly Dent in announcing the report's findings. "This will only get worse as climate change gathers pace and agriculture feels the heat. Governments must act now in Durban to protect our food supply and save millions from slipping into hunger and poverty."
In Afghanistan, Oxfam says serious drought helped send prices of wheat and wheat flour in July 2011 up to 79% higher in affected areas over their levels a year before. In Southeast Asia, it says heavy monsoon rainfall and multiple typhoons have killed more than 1,100 people and helped increase rice prices by about 25% and 30% in Thailand and Vietnam respectively vs. the previous year.
"When a weather event drives local or regional price spikes poor people often face a double shock," Dent said. "They have to cope with higher food prices at a time when extreme weather may have also killed their livestock, destroyed their home or farm or stripped them of their livelihood."
Oxfam is calling on the negotiators from 194 nations, which began the 12-day U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change today in Durban, to back a legally binding climate change deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and to deliver long-term financing to help poorer nations tackle the issue.
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text: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Nicole Chiesi <nicole.chiesi at gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > I am trying to do the similar experiment as done as mentioned here > http://sing.stanford.edu/gnawali/ctp/ctp-sensys-data.html . Basically I want > to get and analyse the figures given in index.html file of the experiment. > > > It feels that the experiment data given there is just some excerpts of the > experiment . > How are these calculations made? > > #node total_sent uniq_rcv success_rate total_rcv repeated_rcv (frac) > repeated_rcvthl (frac) minseq maxseq > > > from the experimental data given there. > > I was able to set up the experiment and run the experiment but I have no > idea how I can come to these results. First you need to get the log files from your testbed experiments. Did you get the logs? The assumption is you have one log file per node. Then you need to run a series of Perl scripts on the logs. You need a few custom Perl libraries and neato to produce the result you see. Because of these dependencies, I haven't posted all those Perl scripts because it most likely won't work on other systems. But here is how you can proceed: 1. Run the parse-ctplogs.pl script on the log files. 2. Do statistics on the output from step 1. For example, if you want to compute delivery ratio for a specific node, you can keep track of sequence numbers received from that node and compute the delivery ratio. If you want to compute churn, you can count the number of times beacons was sent. All these log messages are parsed with parse-ctplogs.pl. Feel free to ask questions as you get going. - om_p


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Students already enrolled on a course will be told next week they do not have a place for the year – as a college building is being bulldozed.
We can reveal South Thames College (STC) is set to undergo a multimillion redevelopment of two buildings within its Merton campus one year earlier than planned, resulting in a number of staff redundancies and a suspension of studies for two groups of catering students.
The college will spend £6m on transforming its "dilapidated" engineering block into a new catering block and restaurant, in partnership with Bruno Loubet, a top French chef.
The current catering block will also make way for a new unit for 25 students with certain special educational needs (Sen), after the college was given a £1.3m grant from Wandsworth Council.
It means Wandsworth Sen students will be prioritised above Merton residents.
One mother, who did not want to be named, said her 17-year-old son was "stressed out" after hearing rumours the catering block was being closed down, but had not been officially told he would have to go to another college next year.
She said: "I think it is disgraceful they are waiting a month before term starts to tell students they have to go somewhere else next year.
"It is bang out of order. My son went to Carshalton College last week, but they said they had no spaces left on their catering course. He's tearing his hair out."
Sue Rimmer, the principal and chief executive, said a "small handful" of staff were at risk of redundancy, but the college could not tell students until the redundancies were completed next week.
Ms Rimmer explained the sudden news came about because they only recently knew about the grant award from Wandsworth council and, since it has to be spent by March 2013, the redevelopment work had to be brought forward a year earlier than planned.
She said: "We will actively find the nearest college and ask them to make arrangements for taking on students. It is not uncommon for colleges to do this.
"This is a really exciting project for the college to replace a dilapidated old building, which is falling apart, and continue to invest in our future.
"Unfortunately there are some small things you have to do to grasp some greater opportunities going forward."
It is understood the equivalent of 4.3 staff are at risk of redundancy, including full-time catering lecturers, a full-time catering technician, and two part-time catering technicians.
But the college admitted it has not told its students the redevelopment work, which starts in September, will make its catering block unusable for students who are supposed to be continuing their NVQ professional cookery studies.
A Wandsworth Council spokesman said STC's Wandsworth campus was thought to be unsuitable and £1.3m would be spent on redeveloping the building.
The cost of teaching the 24 students with learning difficulties will be come out of normal education budgets.
He added: "The council is working with South Thames College to expand further education provision for young adults with the most significant special education needs and complex medical problems.
"We are hoping to provide these new classes at the college's campus in Morden which will offer ideal accommodation for this specialist type of provision following our significant investment in the
"This is good news for local families who have older children with special needs. Currently many young adults who want to access these services must travel to Wallington, which is the nearest location for these classes.
"Our aim is to provide this service much closer to home in partnership with a very good college that provides top quality teaching."
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The Astoria Cinema opened in 1932 and was operated by Frank Okin Cinemas Ltd. It was equipped with a Compton 3Manual/5Rank theatre organ, which was opened by V. Johnson Lewis. It closed as a cinema in 1964 and was converted into a Mecca Bingo Club.
Hidden away in Pokesdown, a suburb of Bournemouth, this large but rather plain cinema specialised in second run and horror movies. It had a long entrance/foyer leading to the auditorium. I saw all the famous Hammer horror movies including "Dracula" and "The Curse of Frankenstein" at this cinema as one of only six patrons one evening when I was 15. Pretty scary back in 1963. Sadly, I saw this theatre being demolished many years later.
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The opening of the Astoria Super Cinema was 24th October 1932 with Wallace Beery in "Hell Divers" and Laurel & Hardy in "One Good Turn".
In its last years of operation it was operated by the Harry Mears group of cinemas. The Astoria Cinema closed on 23rd May 1964 with Robert Taylor in "Valley of the Kings" and Richard Attenborough in "Privates Progress".
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Snail <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

Even not being very familiar with photoshop to mess up my intuition, I found gimp extremely unintuitive and frustrating after trying out for a while and eventually uninstalled it. Now I just lol my cat photos with whatever simple image program comes with the OS.

Actually I do that a lot of the time. Apple's Preview has pretty good basic utilities. But for Linux counterpart I am not sure. Definitely you don't want a giant program to do simple jobs. Image Magick's Spiff doesĀ a big big improvement on a lot of photos with no fussing at all, one click.

Two things very useful in either Photoshop or Gimp IMHO are Levels and Curves, and also probably color cast correction. Both have and are basic to better results.

I don't know how advanced the OP was in Photoshop. But I am certainly not an expert in either. Besides the above, I just click buttons and move sliders and see what happens, and if I don't like I click undo. Everything I know I learned by experimenting.

However maybe some Fine Arts background does help, knowing somethings about color and composition, implying you get ideas of what you want or what needs fixing.

One other thing I know is to resize images and for sharpening. Gimp has a few sharpening methods that maybe Photoshop does not and vice versa. Some pictures "like" different sharpening or resampling methods.

One thing that confuses me are which operations are OK on jpegs which don't lower (degrade) the quality. Basicly I crop and rotate only and otherwise I save as ping in case I want to edit again. Also I save versions as I go along.

To spend a half hour or more on one picture is like a good meditation. Sometimes amazing results sometimes bad, can't force it.
Helps to have an obsessive mind set.

Is the above anything anyone would be wanting help or demonstration of ?

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On Sep 2, 2011 5:22 PM, "Brian Morris" <email@example.com> wrote:

Gimp should maybe be called GAP for Gap Ain't Photoshop (but it does fill a Gap).

Try and forget Photoshop. Or think as a bright intuitive person just getting started and try it out for a while.

By the way Gimp is available on Mac, and it works well for me there. Also there are simple tools such as Image Magick that can help you.

There is an unofficial version called GimpPainter, that now looks more like Photoshop, but you have to merge patches with upstream and build yourself, and no guarantee it will work.

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Mesa Valley District 51's Tax Spending Exposed!
VetTheGov recently located an extra $2.124 Million in surplus and after digging in a little deeper we have put together a breakdown of the spending for the Calendar Year 2012. VetTheGov used the Monthly Check Registers located on District 51's almost transparent website and used only checks written for $10,000.00 or more. You can download the VetTheGov Excel Spreadsheet here to follow along!
2012 Top Recipients of your Tax Dollars:
- First Student $5,028,533.33 - Bus Program. Time to make Prius buses!
- Home Loan State Bank $2,106,604.07 - Taxpayer Re-Investment Program.
- Xcel Energy $1,948,501.92 - How about this energy consumption?
- Western Colordo FCU $1,590,151.05 - At least some monies staying local.
- Grand Valley-BOCES $1,518,972.56 - Really more layers of bureaucracy!!!
- Delta Dental $1,337,323.72 - Teeth costing more than Health these days! Smile!
- Dell Financial SVP LP $1,227,034.59 - Why Apple stocks aren't doing well!
- LOCO Inc $976,954.67 - Cost of Fuel for these Global Warming buses!
- Andrews Food Service $970,334.51 - Must be because they have cheap food!
- Reliastar Life Ins $823,855.55 - Another promised benefit!
- Evans Newton $687,814.34 - Consulting? Curriculum? Tough Times call them?
- Trane $645,279.38 - Someone has some new AC/Heat!
- Meadow Gold Dairy $594,670.50 - We all know Milk is pricey these days!
- Mesa Valley Edu Assoc $546,947.32 - The all powerful Union! See where it ends up here!
- Colorado Dept of Edu $470,544.26 - Must have overpaid the District or extra services!
Honorable Mentions:
Hoskin, Farina, & Kampf - $230,632.61 D51 has no staff attorney but you would think with CDE & BOCES they could afford to split a full-time attorney to handle any legal matters. Or better yet CDE & BOCES should just provide one!
Colorado West Regional Mental Health - $140,733.95 One can only wonder how many teachers and administrator's are being treated at the moment???
Gallup Marketing - $31,970.00 This was for the 3B campaign for even more of your taxes!!!
Next the Procurement Credit Card Gone WILD:
- Jan 2012 $273,827.99
- Feb 2012 $299,635.91
- Mar 2012 $301,096.44
- Apr 2012 $373,072.25
- May 2012 $425,300.70
- Jun 2012 $506,707.43
- Jul 2012 $201,564.76
- Aug 2012 $301,945.19
- Sep 2012 $377,856.65
- Oct 2012 $326,890.01
- Nov 2012 $258,024.92
- Dec 2012 $434,469.60
WOW! $4,080,391.85 in Credit Card swipes. From Amazon.com to Walmart to Lowes to plane rides and hotels, these cards get used and hopefully not abused. Now the BIGGEST question is who gets one??? What are the limits? Do they get abused? How do we know? Lot's of nickel-and-diming at these stores! Just a few questions to begin asking the School District Administration and UNISERV folks at the next School Board Meeting!
Current CASH available as of December 2012 - $31,875,277.00
Sorry didn't hear that in the we need more money budget video! Remember after 3B failed last year there was an immediate removal of School Resource Officers from several schools and fears of many schools having to close. Notice how they always flip this nonsense back on the local hard working makers by sparking emotion in the community rather than fact by pulling away funding to programs that are needed "FOR THE KIDS SAFETY!" Hopefully you now understand that District 51, CDE, CEA, The State, and The Feds are all responsible for these out of control budget issues and internal spending nightmares, NOT YOU!!!
Hear it from a recent School Board meeting that they have more funds! Thanks for visiting VetTheGov and stay tuned for more in-depth coverage of local government spending and accountability!


text: Royal Sapien runs Olaris Records in New York City and hosts monthly shows on Proton Radio and friskyRadio. While still quite young, he's logged more than a decade in the dance industry and was recently a guest on John Digweed's Transitions radio show and podcast. His production skills have been honed releasing tracks and remixes on Oxyd, Fade, Loöq, Proton Music, Toes In The Sand, and a critically acclaimed retrospective compilation for Fade Records with Chris Fortier.Royal Sapien's biography Royal Sapien Musician


text: The nose is perfumed with fresh sweet floral notes. Deliciously fresh on the palate. Lovely lime zestiness with lemongrass finish. This is a superb Gewurz and comes highly recommended. The aromatics and residual sugar of this wine make it an ideal partner with spicy food. It does well with any dish containing coconut milk. It works well with white meat (fish and poultry), salads, vegetable dishes or simply on its own.


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Members of Melksham's Beavers and Scouts troop this week delivered more than 1,000 Christmas cards around the town.
The Scouts had set up their own festive postal service, with special post boxes put up in the Town Hall, Tourist Information Centre, and other shops around town. Stamps were available for cards for the Melksham and Bowerhill areas, with all proceeds going to the Scout hut fund.
The last post was on Saturday, and all the cards were taken to the Scout hut to be sorted on Sunday.
More than 1,500 cards were posted in total, with around 40 Beavers, Scouts and their friends and families giving up their time to sort the mail.
The cards were then delivered around the town by teams of eager volunteers.
The Scouts also delivered cards for the Mayor of Melksham, as well as some from Duncan Hames, MP for Chippenham.