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We all have a stake in what happens in China. If China relied on the rest of the world for even 20% of its grain needs, there would be an incredible strain on the world's grain producers.
Many of the challenges China faces exist in the world at large already. Grain production per person is falling worldwide. So is cropland acreage per person. We are also approaching the limits of what fertilizers can do in terms of boosting crop yields. Plus, strong demand for biofuels – like ethanol – now competes with food demand.
By some estimates, we'll need to produce about 136 million tons of grain in 2007 to prevent grain stocks from falling again (they fell in 2006). Yet annual increases in grain production have averaged only about 20 million tons since 2000. That gives you something of a snapshot of the hurdle in front of us.
The investment conclusion from all this seems to be that we are in a long bull market for grains. Expect the prices of corn and wheat to keep rising. Expect the price of meat to rise. It also seems that fertilizer producers, such as Agrium, should continue to do well. Other ancillary ideas also come to mind – shippers of dry goods (i.e., grains) and manufacturers of farm equipment.
The potential for another 1930s-style Dust Bowl in the United States only adds to the power and durability of these trends.

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Gifts from the Sky
de Poems and photographs by Susan Sweetland Garay
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Susan Sweetland Garay
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Born and raised in Portland Oregon, Susan received a Bachelors degree in English Literature from Brigham Young University, spent some years in the Ohio Appalachians and currently lives in the Willamette Valley with her husband and cat where she works in the Vineyard industry and dabbles in wine making. Her love for books also inspired her to learn the art of book binding which continues to be an enjoyable past time to this day. She self published a book of poems and photographs, Gifts from the sky, in 2012.
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By: Maggie Haberman - Politico
November 6, 2012
Election Day is finally here.
And even though neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney has been declared a winner yet, there are some things that will still hold true no matter which candidate wins the White House tonight — or in the wee hours of the morning.
Here are POLITICO's nine takeaways from the 2012 campaign:
1. Luck matters — a lot
2. Super PACs — it's complicated
3. There were two different but parallel campaigns
4. There is no longer just one Election Day
5. Bill Clinton. Forever.
6. About all that fact-checking…
7. Ads don't matter, unless they're good
8. Both parties have soul-searching to do
9. Neither party has a deep female bench
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MORE than 60 percent of people tested in Weymouth have been found to be at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes UK held a Healthy Lifestyle Roadshow in the town this week.
Of the 222 people seen, 64 percent were referred to their doctor for further tests.
Diabetes UK says some of those people may find they already have the condition, which can go undiagnosed for years.
Phaedra Perry, Diabetes UK South West regional manager, said: "It's obviously very concerning that so many people in Weymouth have been identified as moderate or high risk of Type 2 diabetes, particularly as there are already 37,000 people diagnosed with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in Dorset.
"But our roadshow has given them a chance to get help from their doctor and hopefully to take a serious look at their health.
"Being overweight is one of the main risk factors of Type 2 diabetes but it's not the only one. Some people will be at risk of the condition because of their age, ethnicity or family history. But weight is the one thing you can do something about. So whether you have other risk factors or not, it is a smart move to look closely at your lifestyle habits and do all you can to keep at a healthy weight, eat well and be physically active. Even small changes can make a big difference."
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A public transport body has been tasked with finding solutions to Yangon's growing traffic congestion.
The President's Office announced the formation of the 10-member Yangon City Public Transport Authority on January 7. The purpose of the group is to ensure the safety and comfort of commuters by overseeing road, rail, water and other transport services in the city, the office said in a statement.
The group's wide-ranging mandate includes everything from assessing air pollution and easing bottlenecks through improved traffic management to commissioning the construction of new infrastructure, the statement said.
The group is responsible to the Yangon Region government and will work in collaboration with Yangon City Development Committee.
It is led by retired ambassador U Kyi Thein, while the body's secretary is U Hla Aung, chairman of the Yangon Region Central Supervisory Committee for Motor Vehicles, better known as Ma Hta Tha (Central). Its members are mostly retired civil servants who formerly worked in the ministries of transport, rail transportation, construction and information.
So far, few details have been released about how the body will go about tackling transport issues in Yangon, and even its members appear to be in the dark.
"At the moment I can't give any details about what we will do because I really don't know anything for sure yet," said secretary U Hla Aung.
U Win Lwin, another member of the body, called for the public to cooperate with the transport authority.
"The population in Yangon is six million and the transportation network is not developed enough [for a city of that size]. I want to focus on easing traffic jams and would like to suggest to the public to cooperate with our group,'' said
Ma Nandar, a 24-year-old resident of South Dagon, said traffic congestion is a major concern for all commuters in Yangon.
"I face terrible traffic jams every day when I commute from my home in South Dagon to my office in downtown. I feel that we are always wasting our time taking the bus and being caught in traffic. If the group can solve this problem, I will be so happy. But I find it hard to believe they can make much of a difference," she said.


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'You journalists in Canberra," some people who are not press gallery fans have often been heard to complain, "you make it all up. All that stuff about leadership tensions. Why don't you report the important things?"
The reason for the complaint is the way political reporters – and not just those in Canberra – report leadership "tensions" and possible "challenges", quoting unnamed "key" sources and powerbrokers.
Of course it looks fatuous and shallow. And the scope for stories that contain so little hard fact to comfortably run for days – simply because journalists don't want to get caught out if something does happen – is not a credit to the profession.
But there often isn't any other way to report that such things are afoot – and consuming the capital – when no one will put their name to it. For those outside politics, talk of internal tensions in a political party is equally frustrating when they would rather see issues of substance discussed.
If the WikiLeaks Australian cables that finally emerged this week do nothing else, they give cynics an inside look at what a leadership story looks like, and how it is played out, when actual names of politicians are inserted in place of "key" sources.
It's not a pretty sight. Yesterday's revelations of how US diplomats reported home on a bunch of Labor Party figures falling over each other to big note themselves and their role in the party gives a glimpse, not just into the machinations of politics, but how depressingly often politicians are much more obsessed with their own advancement, or that of their allies, than talking matters of substance.
Foreign embassies seek out politicians, journalists and bureaucrats all the time to find out what's going on. That's their job.
But there is little difference in how the Americans have tried to snoop their way into the Labor Party over the decades to what the Soviets and others try.
The Americans are just not seen as a malevolent influence.
At a time of voter exasperation with "spin", the candid WikiLeaks discussions also only highlight the gulf between real people talking about real things and the pap that politicians serve up to us every day.
Consider just one example of this: the difference between
"Kerry, I don't want to disappoint you in what will be my last interview on your show, but I am not going to comment on the details of leaked cables that are making an appearance on WikiLeaks.
"What, of course, I will talk about is our relationship with China, and we have a strong relationship with China, a constructive relationship, but also a frank relationship where we can say things that are in our national interest, that express our views and opinions . . ."
On and on it went. Being frank . . . expressing our views . . . having frank discussions . . . having strong and constructive relationships.
Apparently though, for the Labor Party this only applies to the relationship with the Chinese and in talking to the US embassy. It doesn't seem to apply to the relationship with Australian voters.
The real issue that arises out of the WikiLeaks cables remains the one about Rudd and what the revelations mean for his future.
The US cables have revealed him taking a pragmatically tough line on China with US Secretary of State
But more significantly, the cables revealed by Philip Dorling in Fairfax newspapers this week paint a devastatingly unflattering picture of Rudd's foreign affairs competence, or lack of it, and the fact that many of our major allies share a disdain for the way he operated as prime minister. Despite the Foreign Minister's repeated insistence that he "doesn't give a damn" about what has been revealed about him this week, consider for a moment how this must feel personally.
In a year in which he was bundled, humiliated, out of the prime ministership, Rudd held out on a peace deal with his assassins for weeks, insisting on being given the Foreign Affairs portfolio – an area he both loved and in which he claimed to have a policy command.
Now, exposed for all the world to see, are the unflattering views of the people he has to deal with every day in his job.
"Rudd," the embassy reported last November, "undoubtedly believes that with his intellect, his six years as a diplomat in the 1980s and his five years as shadow foreign minister, he has the background and the ability to direct Australia's foreign policy.
"His performance so far, however, demonstrates that he does not have the staff or the experience to do the job properly''.
Some of those still close to him believe he has been doing it very tough in recent days.
He now has to operate in a very difficult environment of "you know that I know that you know that I know what you really think of me" with the Chinese and the Americans.
That might be all too common in the diplomatic world in the wake of the WikiLeaks cables, but that is hardly great comfort to Rudd.
The Chinese would have already known what Rudd thought of them.
Rudd's office certainly knew that it had displeased the Bush administration, although it might not have known his day-to-day conduct of foreign policy was the subject of such criticism from the embassy.
But that's different from all those things being out there in public.
Some might say these were the views of a US embassy run by a Bush appointee, but not all the cables were from then ambassador Robert McCallum, and even if they were, embassies have a professional job to do in assessing the efficacy of the governments they are reporting on.
Hillary Clinton was out early on Wednesday morning offering her support for Rudd. But since it is the US that is the source of such a gross breach of diplomatic security, she has little choice in doing that.
The bottom line is that Rudd's authority on foreign affairs has now been diminished at home and abroad. That wouldn't matter so much if it was not such a personal passion for him, nor if his Prime Minister had not cheerfully confessed her lack of experience in the area.
It just opens another flank to be watched for a government that already has too much on its plate.
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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: An update on the best regimens
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: An update on the best regimens
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) is a growing problem globally and can be difficult to manage clinically. It is especially difficult to treat in areas where adequate drug susceptibility testing, appropriate second-line drugs, and support services are unavailable. Unfortunately, it is in these set-tings that the incidence of MDRTB is increasing.
Even in resource-rich settings, MDRTB presents clinical and logistic challenges, because the treatment is long and requires the use of several relatively toxic drugs. Over the past 2 decades, experience in the treatment of MDRTB has grown, even if new drug development has not kept pace.
In this article, we will explore the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of MDRTB, based on our collective experience managing this disease in the United States, Peru, Haiti, and Russia.1
MDRTB is defined as tuberculosis caused by strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that have documented in vitro resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampin.2 Such resistance is clinically significant because these 2 drugs represent the most powerful antituberculous agents currently available.
Once the mycobacterium is no longer susceptible to killing by these drugs, management of the disease becomes more complicated, because the remaining drugs are less effective and more toxic.3 Resistance to other combinations of drugs--polyresistance--is generally easier to eradicate.
Resistance to antituberculous drugs can occur in 1 of 2 ways. Acquired drug resistance occurs when the patient is infected with a strain that is initially susceptible but becomes resistant during the course of inadequate therapy. Organisms that have acquired resistance to an antituberculous drug (such as isoniazid) are not sufficiently suppressed by other companion drugs (such as rifampin and pyrazinamide) to prevent resistant organisms from predominating, which leads to treatment failure. These companion drugs may be unavailable, or they may be prescribed inappropriately, taken incorrectly, or malabsorbed.
Organisms already resistant to one drug can acquire additional resistance mutations to another drug. If these organisms are not suppressed by other agents, resistance increases in a stepwise fashion.
The other type of resistance, known as primary resistance, occurs when a patient becomes infected with a strain that is already drug-resistant. Both primary and acquired resistance are responsible for the increase in MDRTB seen globally.4 The contribution of primary resistance to the global pandemic is probably underestimated, since most patients do not undergo drug susceptibility testing before receiving therapy for tuberculosis.5
MDRTB is a significant problem in many countries and has been documented in all countries that have been surveyed.6 In some areas, known as "hotspots," there is a high prevalence (more than 3% of tuberculosis cases) of MDRTB. These areas include the Dominican Republic, Latvia, and parts of the former Soviet Union.7 In the United States, persons from these areas are at increased risk for MDRTB.
In addition, immigrants, students, and visitors from areas such as Mexico, India, the Far East, and especially the Philippines are at higher risk for MDRTB.Other risk groups include persons with HIV infection and those who are known contacts of persons with MDRTB.8
The incidence of MDRTB appears to be declining in the United States and in other countries where the incidence of tuberculosis is declining; however, the incidence of MDRTB appears to be increasing in many other parts of the world where tuberculosis is less well controlled.9 However, since an increasing proportion of persons with tuberculosis in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia are foreign-born, the problem of MDRTB is universal, and an international approach is needed.10
The only way to diagnose MDRTB is by testing an isolate from the patient to determine whether the mycobacteria can grow in the presence of isoniazid, rifampin, and other antituberculous agents.11 Conventional testing methods usually require the growth of mycobacteria in solid culture media, a process that can take up to 2 months. Growth characteristics are then compared between cultures that contain drugs and those that do not.
More rapid radiometric methods can also be used, in which mycobacteria are inoculated into a radiolabeled broth, with and without drug, then growth in the broth is measured.12 Genotypic methods for detecting specific genetic mutations responsible for certain types of drug resistance are available and allow for more rapid testing to be performed.13 Genotypic methods are especially useful for rifampin resistance. However, not all known genetic mutations are accounted for in resistance testing, thus limiting this modality.
The treatment for MDRTB is more difficult than that for its pan-susceptible counterpart.14 Because isoniazid and rifampin cannot be used, less powerful agents--the second-line drugs--are required. These drugs are less potent, so a larger number of drugs are needed for a longer time. Table 1 lists the drugs used for treating MDRTB and the usual dosages.
To cure patients of MDRTB, multidrug regimens consisting of a minimum of 4 or 5 drugs to which the infecting strain has documented susceptibility ideally should be used for a minimum of 18 to 24 months.15 A daily injectable medication should be used until negative sputum cultures have been documented for at least 6 months. Our strategy for building a regimen is as follows16:
Use ethambutol or pyrazinamide if susceptibility to the drug has been documented.
Include an injectable agent until sputum cultures are negative for a minimum of 6 months.
Use a fluoroquinolone (especially moxifloxacin or gatifloxacin) whenever possible.
Add other second-line agents to reach a minimum of 4 or 5 drugs.
If there is severe parenchymal damage, high-grade resistance, or clinically advanced disease, consider the use of reinforcing agentsthat show in vitro evidence of antimycobacterial activity. Surgery is also used for select patients with localized lung destruction.
Because successful treatment is critical, therapy must be directly observed and should be given a minimum of 6 days per week.In addition to antituberculous therapy, all patients should receive oral pyridoxine, 50 mg/d.
While awaiting results of drug susceptibility testing, it is often necessary to institute empiric therapy, depending on the clinical status of the patient. When initiating empiric therapy, it is important to build on a solid foundation of at least 4 or 5 agents to which the infecting strain is likely to be susceptible. Knowledge of local resistance patterns and the patient's known contacts, and avoidance of drugs that the patient has previously received are important principles in the design of empiric therapy. Regimens are usually adjusted once drug susceptibility test results are available.17
CASE PRESENTATIONSDesigning a treatment regimen
Case 1: LR was a 41-year-old man with tuberculosis, who presented with cough, fever, and weight loss. His chest radiograph demonstrated biapical cavitation, fibrosis, and infiltrates (Figure 1).He was started on a regimen of isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol, but he continued to have symptoms, and his sputum smears remained positive.
A sputum specimen was sent for drug susceptibility testing. While awaiting the results, the patient was given empiric MDRTB treatment with streptomycin, ciprofloxacin, ethionamide, cycloserine, and para-aminosalicylic acid.
Two months later, his symptoms had improved and his sputum specimen was smear-negative. Drug susceptibility tests confirmed resistance to isoniazid and rifampin; pyrazinamide and ethambutol were added to his regimen, and para-aminosalicylic acid was discontinued. He continued to respond well, and streptomycin was stopped after 6 negative sputum cultures were obtained. He completed a total of 24 months of therapy, during which sputum smears and cultures remained negative.


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The five most intriguing college football games of the weekend.
1. Alabama (+3) at Georgia: We may be getting an early look at the national champion. SEC teams + top 10 rankings = reason to watch.
2. Buffalo (+7) at Central Michigan: Just having Central Michigan QB Dan LeFevour and Buffalo QB Drew Willy on the same field marks this as the most entertaining game on the weekend. (Photo of Drew Willy by John Reed, US Presswire)
3. Virginia (+7) at Duke: Just having the Blue Devils favored is surprising enough. But it appears that after more than a decade the Duke program is beginning a comeback. This I gotta see.
4. Minnesota (+19.5) at Ohio State: The Buckeyes were blown out by USC who just lost to Oregon State. Is it possible that this is going to be a shipwreck season for Ohio State? The game will be worthwhile just to see Terrelle Pryor.
5. Stanford (+3) at Washington: Coach Tyrone Willingham of Washington needs a win badly and he's playing a team he used to coach. The irony is just too twisted.
Each day we have a "Who's in Your Five" list. You can agree or disagree, add to or subtract from this and future lists of games and moments from sports present and past. Click here for past lists.
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im not sure if foster care is the correct word but she was adopted and has been with a few different families and shes going back to the center on her birthday
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I get that you are selling a competing product, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to continue to reply to this thread with thinly-veiled "I told you so" posts.
I don't see you as an "enemy", I see you as you are, dead set on pushing your product. This is not the thread for it, and it doesn't help anyone whatsoever. If someone came into a thread about the 325i and continued to say, "LOL I SELL MERCEDES C320 YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT ONE OF THOSE LOL" they would be doing the same thing. Their intentions would just be more transparent.
I'm sure your product's fine, and it has its place. Its place is not this thread, however.
At some point in the near future, we need to start a new Enco B046 thread, dedicated to the Android unit, with a first post that clarifies exactly what it is, exactly what to expect, etc.
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Mr President, we have just heard a most powerful and authoritative case against the Iraqi regime set out by secretary Powell.
The international community owes him its thanks for laying bare the deceit practised by the regime of Saddam Hussein, and worse, the very great danger it represents.
Three months ago we united to send Iraq an uncompromising message: cooperate fully with weapons inspectors or face disarmament by force.
After years of Iraqi deception when resolutions were consistently flouted, resolution 1441 was a powerful reminder of the importance of international law and of the authority of the security council itself.
United and determined, we gave Iraq a final opportunity to rid itself of its weapons of mass terror, of gases which can poison thousands in one go; of bacilli and viruses like anthrax and smallpox which can disable and kill by the tens of thousands; of the means to make nuclear weapons which can kill by the million.
By resolution 1441 we strengthened inspections massively. The only missing ingredient was full Iraqi compliance - immediate, full and active cooperation.
But the truth is - and we all know this - without that full and active cooperation, inspections in a country as huge as Iraq, however strong the inspectors' powers, could never be sure of finding all Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Sadly the inspectors' reports last week and secretary Powell's presentation today can leave us under no illusions about Saddam Hussein's response. Saddam Hussein holds UNSCR 1441 in the same contempt as all previous resolutions in respect of Iraq.
Let us reflect on what that means - that Saddam is defying every one of us, every nation here represented.
He questions our resolve and is gambling that we will lose our nerve rather than enforce our will.
Paragraph 1 of 1441 said that Saddam was and remained in material breach of security council resolutions.
Paragraph 4 of 1441 then set two clear tests for a further material breach by Iraq. First that Iraq must not make "false statements" or "omissions" in its declaration.
But the Iraqi document submitted to us on 7 December, as we have heard from secretary Powell, was long on repetition, but short on fact.
It was neither full, nor accurate, nor complete and by anyone's definition, it was a "false statement".
Its central premise - that Iraq possesses no weapons of mass destruction - is a lie. This outright lie was repeated yesterday on television by Saddam Hussein. The declaration also has obvious omissions, not least in the failure to explain what has happened to the large quantities of chemical and biological weapons material and munitions unaccounted for by United weapons inspectors in 1998.
And there is no admission of Iraq's extensive efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction since the last round of UNSCOM inspections ended in December 1998.
Mr President, paragraph 4 goes on to set a second test for a further material breach, namely, and I quote, a "failure by Iraq at any time to comply with, and cooperate fully in the implementation" of resolution 1441.
Following the presentations by the inspectors last week, and today's briefing by secretary Powell, it is clear that Iraq has failed this test. These briefings have confirmed our worst fears - that Iraq has no intention of relinquishing its weapons of mass destruction, no intention of following the path of peaceful disarmament set out in UNSCR 1441.
Instead of open admissions and transparency, we have a charade, where a veneer of superficial co-operation masks wilful concealment, the extent of which has been devastatingly revealed this morning by secretary Powell.
Mr President, in his report last week, Dr Blix set out a number of instances where Iraqi behaviour reveals a determination to avoid compliance.
Why is Iraq refusing to allow UNMOVIC to use a U-2 plane to conduct aerial imagery and surveillance operations?
When will Iraq account for the 6,500 bombs which could carry up to 1,000 tonnes of chemical agent?
How will Iraq justify having a prohibited chemical precursor for mustard gas?
And how will Iraq explain the concealment of nuclear documents and the development of a missile programme in clear contravention of UN resolutions?
There is only one possible conclusion to all of this, which is that Iraq is in further material breach as set out in UNSCR 1441.
I believe all colleagues here, all members will share my deep sense of frustration, that Iraq is choosing to spurn this final opportunity to achieve a peaceful outcome.
Mr President, given what has to follow, and the difficult choice now facing us, it would be easy to turn a blind eye to the wording of resolution 1441 and hope for a change of heart by Iraq.
Easy but wrong. Because if we did we would be repeating the mistakes of the past 12 years, and empowering a dictator who believes that his diseases and poison gases are essential weapons to suppress his own people and to threaten his neighbours, and that by defiance of the UN he can indefinitely hoodwink the world.
Mr President, under the French presidency two weeks ago, we had a special session on the dangers of international terrorism, of the grave danger to the world of terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction through the connivance of rogue states.
Secretary Powell has today set out deeply worrying reports about the presence in Iraq of one of Osama bin Laden's lieutenants, Al Zarqawi, and other members of al-Qaida, and their efforts to develop poisons.
It defies imagination that all of this could be going on without the knowledge of Saddam Hussein. The recent discovery of the poison ricin in London has underlined again that this is a threat which all of us face.
Mr President, Saddam must be left in no doubt as to the serious situation which he now faces.
The United Kingdom does not want war. What we want is for the UN system to be upheld. But the logic of UNSCR 1441 is inescapable: time is now very short.
This council will have further reports from the inspectors on Friday week, the 14th of February.
If non-co-operation continues, this council must meet its responsibilities.
Mr President, our world faces many threats, from poverty and disease to civil war and terrorism. Working through this great institution, we have the capacity to tackle these challenges together. But if we are to do so then the decisions we have to take must
have a force beyond mere words.
This is a moment of choice for Saddam and for the Iraqi regime. But it is also a moment of choice for this institution, the United Nations.
The UN's pre-war predecessor, the League of Nations, had the same fine ideals as the UN. But the League failed because it could not create action from its words; it could not back diplomacy with the credible threat and where necessary the use of force; so small evils went unchecked, tyrants became emboldened, then greater evils were unleashed.
At each stage good men said wait; the evil is not big enough to challenge: then before their eyes, the evil became too big to challenge.
We had slipped slowly down a slope, never noticing how far we had gone until it was too late. Mr President, we owe it to our history as well as to our future not to make the same mistake again.


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Significant Updates to NZB Weanling & Broodmare Catalogue
A number of significant pedigree updates have strengthened next week's New Zealand Bloodstock's National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale (12 & 13 May), headed by two stakes winning two-year-olds.
There are 19 weanlings with siblings or half-siblings that have won races since the catalogue went to print, including:
• Lot 13 – A half-sister to Listed ARC Champagne Stakes winner Caduceus(Lucky Unicorn) byShocking.
• Lot 73 – A half-brother byDalghar out of Group 1 winner Macavelli Miss(Vettori) to Danish Rock(Stratum), the winner of two races in Australia since the catalogue went to print.
• Lot 74 – A half-brother to debut two-year-old winnerAndnowurmine (Don Eduardo) by Nom du Jeu.
• Lot 89 – A half-brother by Iffraaj to last weekend's Listed CJC Champagne Stakes winner Elusive Catch (Elusive City).
• Lot 91 – A half-sister by Uncle Mo to Khaya (Librettist) who finished third in the HK-3 Queen Mother Memorial Cup in Hong Kong.
• Lot 176 – A half-brother by Showcasing to last start winner Langdon (Don Eduardo) who has also been Group 3 placed in the Hawkes Bay Gold Cup. Langdon will have a chance to further enhance his race record in tomorrow's Group 3 Rotorua Cup.
• Lot 259 – A half-brother to Sandown winner Search Squad (Falkirk) by Per Incanto.
Other siblings or half-siblings to recent winners include Lot 34, Lot 47, Lot 54, Lot 65, Lot 96, Lot 125, Lot 165, Lot 172, Lot 217, Lot 262 & Lot 265.
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Broodmares with progeny that have been successful since the catalogue went to print include:
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• Lot 350 Just Polly (O'Reilly) – Dam of Hong Kong winner O'Halo (My Halo).
• Lot 372 Mac Five (Faltaat) – Dam of debut two-year-old winner Andnowurmine(Don Eduardo).
• Lot 394 My Fiancee (Snitzel) – Full-sister to Sydney Group 3 James HB Carr Stakes winner Estonian Princess (Snitzel).
• Lot 445 Shock (Keeper) – Dam of Avondale winner Tokomutu Judge(Volksraad).
• Lot 473 Western World (Gone West) – Dam of Danon Volcano, a dual winner in Japan.
• Lot 516 Contemplate (Dream Well) – Dam of two Australian winners Atlantis Dream (Elusive City) & El Gaucho (Don Eduardo).
• Lot 523 Cruz Control (Centaine) – Dam of Cruz By (Pentire), now a winner of three races in Queensland.
Over 250 horses catalogued in the Sale have pedigree updates and a full list of all pedigree updates can be viewed here.
New Zealand Bloodstock's two-day National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale is at Karaka on 12 & 13 May. The first day of selling commences with the Weanling Session on Monday 12 May. The second day of the Sale (Tuesday 13 May) features the Broodmare & mixed bloodstock sessions.
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Venezuela envoy killed in embassy 'power play'-police
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Venezuela's top diplomat in Nairobi was killed at her home by three intruders and Kenyan police believe a struggle for power at the embassy was the motive, they said today.
Olga Fonseca, Venezuela's acting ambassador and charge d'affaires, was found strangled in her bed on Friday morning.
Fonseca's embassy colleague, first secretary Dwight Sagaray, who was arrested on Saturday and brought before the High Court on Monday, will soon be formally charged as the main suspect, police said.
"We think the murder was a power play….jostling for positions in the embassy," Nicholas Kamwende, head of the criminal investigations department in Nairobi, told Reuters.
Police have also issued an arrest warrant for Sagaray's friend and neighbour, Muhammed Ahmed Mohammed Hassan, in connection with Fonseca's death.
Kamwende said Hassan, a Kenyan man of Somali descent, had in the past "masqueraded as a Venezuelan embassy official" and was known to have used Sagaray's official vehicle.
Kenyan police are also looking for two other men in connection with their investigation.
Fonseca died between 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Thursday and 10 a.m. on Friday, police said.
"Three people are suspected to have accessed the house in the dead of night," Kamwende said, referring to Fonseca's white mansion, surrounded by tropical trees and an electric fence, in the wealthy Nairobi neighbourhood of Runda.
Police charged two Kenyan "askaris" or security guards at Fonseca's compound on Monday with failing to use any reasonable means to stop her murder. They both pleaded not guilty.
Nine people have been arrested since Fonseca's body was discovered, six of whom were released without charge.
Fonseca began her posting at the embassy on July 15, and her short time there was marked by controversy.
Kenyan Foreign Affairs Ministry officials said Kenyan staff at Fonseca's residence had complained to the ministry's Diplomatic Police Unit after she fired them.
The employees said Fonseca had sacked them after they refused to retract sexual harassment allegations against the former head of the embassy.
The Venezuelan government said Fonseca was a brilliant diplomat and offered its full collaboration to Kenyan authorities, who arrested Sagaray only after his diplomatic immunity was waived.
"I think that the investigation is coming to a conclusion soon and we think that we know who committed this heinous act," Kamwende said. "It's just a matter of time before we get them all."
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The pair, who won silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics, are two points off the leaders Andrea Trani and Gabrio Zandana from Italy.
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There is still one race of the qualifying section to go at the regatta in Melbourne, Australia.
The pair are in good form after a win in the Asia- Pacific championships on the same water earlier this week.
And in that regatta they were out of the top ten until the final two races before staging a comeback. A similar finish in the worlds would see them cruise to global gold.
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FightingPosted by Jessica R to Couples With One ADHD Partner on Apr 11, 2014 at 9:22pm | 21 Comments
My husband is the worst he has ever been. He is 34 and we have been married for 2 years. We just bought a house, and he thinks it was a mistake because now we don't have cash to start a business for him. He says its now or never, and since we can't do it now, that his dream is dead. He thinks working for others makes him the equivilent to a prostitue. He is angry and bitter, and the only way he gets out his aggression is picking fights with me. What is the best way to break the cycle of fights? I try to reason with him but he doesn't hear anything I say, and I know that's the ADD part of his brain. So I simply say "stop it" and change the subject. Is this a good tactic or not?
You just described my marriage to a T. My husband also finds it degrading and "impossible" to work for others, and he tries again and again to make me the go-between for him with almost any work related issues. Reasoning has done no good, logic has done no good, and fighting with him does no good. I have begged him to seek pyschological help and he says that it won't do him any good as long as he has his current job. As much as it hurts I am considering divorse - not that I am advocating that for you.
I'm so sorry to hear that! I wouldn't wish this kind of torture on my worst enemy. I have made a counseling apointment as a couple in a little over a week, but I haven't discussed it with my husband yet. As I'm sure you now, timing is everything, and since he is so angry all the time I just hope I can find a minute of calm to bring it up to him. Have you tried making an appointment for the both of you and asking him just to check it out with you? That's how the therapist suggested I ask my husband.
I totally understand how you feel. I don't to consider divorce, but its hard to tell how long to hold on while your husband has already seemingly checked out of the marriage. May I ask how long you have been together and how long it has been like this for you?
We went to one couples counseling session. He seemed fine about the idea of going when he was afraird I was about to leave him. However, the day of our appointment he was outraged that he had to go, and when we were done he was even angrier than before. I never asked him to go back. I hope your expierence is better than mine. Have you given the counselor the heads up about his ADD and anger issues?
We have been together for almost 22 years. He has always had some issues with his temper. It got really bad about 13 years ago when our first child was born. At that time his Dr. diagnosed it as depression and put him on Zoloft which helped for awhile. Then it wasn't enough so the Dr. upped his dose and that helped for awhile. It is hard to say if he has gotten worse over the last 2-3 years or if I have just grown tired of it and am less willing to put up with the behaviors. I hate that our children see the way he behaves and I hate even more the fact that our oldest is begining to act more like him everyday. Our oldest has been diagnosed with ADD and I worry for him seeing what has become of his dad.
O jeeze, I hope so too. I did tell the therapist about the ADD it so he would know going into it. We didn't touch on the anger issues in the short conversation we had. The thing I'm most nervous about is the very real possibility that my husband will refuse medication. He was put on medicine for ADD when he was a boy and he hated how it made him feel. He reacted so badly that now that he is an adult I can hardly get him to take a Tylenol when he has a headache.
If he doesn't get over this episode on his own and refuses any type of treatment, I don't know what I would do. I want a life for myself, but I will not have children with him in his current state nor will I feel badly for working my butt off to get us into our own house.
Hopefully your son can realize that he doesn't want that for his life and will be more receptive to treatment. Good luck to you and your family!
Uh, you can't reason with the unreasonable. What he is saying about his dream being dead is unreasonable. Generally people who are in the middle of a fight are unreasonable - this is why fights are not useful for working things out.
That ADHD brain gets caught up in its fight or flight so easily so you cannot expect reason from him when he is either state. You are going to have to become a keen observer of when he is in "good brain" - those times when he is neither in fight nor flight, not stressed, not tense, not anxious. These are the only times you should be trying to reason with him. Then you might bring up that tons of people are starting businesses later in life (http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2014/03/26/why-so-many-seniors-are-launching-businesses). That is not to say that he has to wait until he is 60 but to say that 38 is not the end of life.
As far as interrupting the pattern that is a good thought and you should do as much as you can. Because if you haven't noticed yet ADHD brains get into ruts and they are very hard to break out of. So first thing, don't engage. Meaning don't fight back. This is hard, particularly if you are reactive and get your feelings hurt. But say to yourself as a mantra inside your head "This is not about me, this is not about me" even as he is blaming you. Because he is expressing his fears and anxieties - albeit in a very destructive and passive aggressive way - but that is what he is doing. So you have to stay calm. No yelling or bristling or getting pouty at all. Like total neutrality, or as close as you can get.
Second thing is acknowledge only. You don't get to add your opinion or point of view or thoughts or solutions. As mentioned above this is no time for reason. You only get acknowledge and listen. So you get to say things like "I see you are upset" and "I can tell by the way you are stomping around the room throwing things that you are angry". Don't argue when he screams "No I'm not!" because he likely will. AND DON"T ASK QUESTIONS! The one thing I have learned over and over in my 17 years experience with ADHD is when they are in that state of fight or flight don't ask questions. It is seen as a challenge and exacerbates the situation. If you've just said to him "Seems like your mad right now" and he has screamed back "No I'm not!" then you say "Ah, well I must have misread it" and leave it at that. You can listen but don't add anything. Everything you add - and he is looking believe me - he will notice from a shoulder shrug to a slight roll of the eyes to a sigh he will take as challenge. Acknowledge his feelings and then just listen. Eventually he will peter out. Like steam from a teapot when you turn off the flame. Turn off your flame and he will have no fuel to keep going.
It is hard not to engage and to keep calm and not to say anything as he goes stomping around the house but honestly it is like a child having a temper tantrum. You don't give in and don't engage. Just hold your very calm and pleasant ground and let him do what he must until he stomps out. Good luck!
Thank you! I do do these things and have thought that I shouldn't. Its hard because I am hurt. I need to work on getting support for myself so that I can stay strong and not give in. A million thanks for putting it so frankly.
I like what Yella says about not engaging. It's so true anything you say or do even if you agree with what he is saying can get him more worked up. I did that for many years, sitting quietly letting him fume until it was over. The problem with that was/is I am not the only person in the world he is around. This type of behavior has consequences in the outside world - loss of friends, loss of employment, legal issues. We have been through it all. Keep strong, keep trying to get him to get professional help, but remember that you can't make him do what he doesn't want to and you have to look out for your self.
The not engaging tactic does work. All it takes is disengaging mentally and emotionally, and going about your own business. On one hand, I don't get sucked into the drama; other the other hand, I feel like I no longer have a relationship of any kind other than financial convenience. We more often than not live on opposite sides of the house due to hurt feelings generated from his verbal attacks which are mentally and emotionally abusive. After a while, "I'm sorry" just doesn't cut it because there is no follow through in changing behavior patterns. In fact, he gets just as lost in the resulting depression when he sees the damage done as he is lost in the angry outbursts that cause the damage. So, I guess I am just grieving right now and taking time to think through the life that I want and how to create that. It feels like I am putting the marriage on the backburner, although maybe I am just getting to the point where I accept the fact that I have to take care of myself first and "the marriage" second since it is so insanely dysfunctional. What a heartbreak and disappointment.
kag63, your marriage and husband sound like mine. Sorry to hear you're in the same boat
Kag63 & rosered: that makes 3 in the boat. I started grieving back in '09, do my best to not engage & not get sucked into the drama, but my heart still breaks just a little more every time I have to endure this repeated dysfunction.
thanks to yellaRyan. i am having issues with my boyfriend and his "tantrums" and how i am to deal with him. I will use and try the advise. I posted on another thread. I too just go about my business and walk through the house when he is yelling and rambling on and on. The disrespect still hurts. I keep my focus on things that keep me happy too.(Kag63)
I think it is reasonable to expect a spouse to learn some coping skills, even if they have ADD, so those of us who just want to have a conversation don't always have to tip-toe around the next angry outburst. That isn't a way to live. I am encouraging my husband to not just appologize, but to work on preventing the angy outbursts. I just get tired of the constant anger and lack of connection. It just feels sad. I do get my feelings hurt and I don't like the modeling these constant angry fits present to our daughter. She should expect she can express an opinion different than my husband, and so should I, without getting ignored or yelled at.
I'm starting to get really depressed about this. Is there no returning to how we were? I miss my husband, my real husband who was so caring for 6 years, terribly. I'm sick of the moody, angry person I've been living with for the last 3 months.
An unmedicated ADHD personality is basically an emotional teenager with a driving need for immediate reward. They have no long term ability to plan and work toward a goal. Their enthusiasms change frequently and in relationships they become acclimated and look for stimulus to bring the emotional energy up - anger is one of those ways. It isn't possible to have a adult partnership with someone stuck at this level of social development. Without medication they can't begin to reason with their emotions and even when medicated they have to unlearn the unhelpful habits they have adopted and learn new ones. It takes time - meaning months to years - and accommodation on your part. If you can't decide to spend your life doing this with no guarantee of success you must do what lets you lead the life you want for yourself. This is not an uncaring stance. It just is what it is. A partnership cannot be made by the actions of one alone.
Reading this post has brought back so many memories for me. I was married for nine years, putting up with, defending and justifying my husband's anger, verbal abuse, and self-piteous and depressive episodes. In the earlier years of the marriage his, what I called, 'moon-moods' came and went in tri-monthly bursts. By the time we were married eight years (and two kids later), his outbursts were occurring weekly – though by now they were also marred by constant drinking, which of course made his fighting and depression worse. It even got to the point where he would follow me around the house or send me texts if I locked myself in another room or went out for 'fresh air'. What ultimately ended the marriage was when the verbal abuse started to turn physical. What triggered these moods? At first it was about his past and family (sibling and parents), then it was about his job, then about our kids (particularly the youngest one), then about another boss and finally about me (and all the affairs I was falsely accused of having). Ultimately, the cause of his anger was external to him – it was always someone else's fault. And the morning after each 'episode', I'd get the whole "I'm sorry, forgive me, trust me, I promise…" act. At about the five-year mark of marriage I tried to encourage him to get psychological help. We went to one psychologist together, but he refused to go again because "psychologists can't help me". In the two years before the marriage ended, he went to see two other psychiatrists on his own. However, when they diagnosed him with ADD (on about the second or third visit), he stopped going, denying he was 'ill' and accusing them of psychoanalysing him and being "money making drug pushers". . It was at this point that our youngest son (aged four at the time) was also diagnosed with ADD (now also diagnosed with ODD and Tourette's syndrome), which ironically my now ex-husband refuses to acknowledge and is fighting me over medicating him.
After relaying my saga, can I please implore you to stay focussed on your own health, safety and sanity? Please don't let it go on so far as to lose yourself, your self-esteem, your values and your confidence. It is one thing to support and stand by your man, but another to continue to put up with the anger and abuse – in any form. It will gradually wear you down to the shell of the person you are; and once the anxiety and resentment kicks in, you lose yourself, and at that point you cannot help him anymore.
The suggestion from YellaRyan to not engage and not take it personally is great advice, if possible. My additional suggestion would be to re-connect in a positive way: to do something together, have a common goal - perhaps do exercise or yoga together - something that builds a bond between you and relaxes you both at the same time. (Of course, my ex even refused to do that!!)
i never thought ADHD was like this until i met my boyfriend. i thank all of your input, i dont feel like i am alone.. He projects his behaviors on me during his l ittle "episodes' like its me who is out of control ,
Yes, there's nothing more "enjoyable" than being called a DramaQueen by a DramaKing. That one just about makes me see red (and it happens so predictably, never stops—well hasn't yet), but like all those types of things you have to learn to just ignore it because anything else just escalates the drama…
I'm so tired of dealing with that (yet somehow I can resist my urge/impulse to do that, he doesn't have a monopoly on ADHD). The more I read on here the more I think that men with ADHD are just way more difficult to deal with (and live with) across the board. Not always but it sure seems like it.
I wish someone would offer an ADHD Boot Camp for them. If they come back not sufficiently re-socialized then we know we can just give up because re-training didn't work for someone else (not just the wife).
Can we seriously make this happen? I feel like I'm just wasting my time. I would totally be on boad with a boot cam program!
Also wish there was a "like" button in this forum.
—> "Like" to ^ post by Jessica R..
If the people in this group are still willing to have this discussion, I'd like to share another perspective on the topic. How often do husbands come to us or remain with us as perfect creatures? Beside ADD, how many are self-centered, mama's boys, womanizers, boring, too talkative, bipolar, selfish, or have some other issue? After they marry, will any become ill with cancer, diabetic, a felon, less exciting, or have some other issue. My son has anger issues and he has ADD. We try to get him to do more exercise to work out all that energy. The whole family could play basketball together—great work out!! My mother has been married to my dad for over 60 years and he has ADD. She always encouraged him to go skiing or swimming. It sound like you are also trying to learn as much as you can about the condition. Have you considered a support group so you can talk with others about how to live with the issue in your family? The most important thing I need to remember is that my husband will never be my girlfriend. He's not going to be that. I get us to socialize with other couples with kids so he can hang with the guys and I can hang with the women if we need to. II also like to use an annual planning notebook with my husband—a page for each subject and what each of us wants to accomplish under each subject (financial, family, home, career, vacation, children, social, charitable). I go through it with my husband at the beginning of the year, then quarterly. We put initials next to who will work on the items we agree to do this year and a 'due date'. Setting goals together helps create a context for a productive dialogue that isn't about fixing one of us. I tell him he's not allowed to bring up anything in anger—he needs to get things listed in the notebook so we can discuss it and prioritize it. It has led to good discussion and we've accomplished a lot each year—but not everything gets prioritized to happen in a year. For example, if he wants his own business and has ADD, would you really want him to quit hs job before he took steps to show he could be successful? Maybe he needs to put together a business plan first, including financial projections and review it with people in the business to get their input. That will help him figure out if he even has enough motivation to move it forward so that he can make enough money to support the family. It's a journey, requiring lots of prayer, but that's true for all of life. The real joy comes when each of you feels good about your individual journey and what you are working on together.
Thanks for this discussion. I'm 28 years old and have been married to my ADD husband for almost 6 years. I love him dearly. We have had major problems with him feeling alone, like I don't care about him. I DO care, a lot. I feel like I always think of him in every decision I make, but apparently I don't show it very well. Problem comes when I try to express how I feel during any discussion. The suggestions to not engage are great, but any thoughts on how I can NOT engage with him during these times and still make him feel loved and not alone? I feel like it's such a catch-22. I'm seeing a counselor on a regular basis, he is not interested in seeing one. Still praying for clarity and patients on my part. Thanks for the support!
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A group of geneticists employed by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), a wealthy entrepreneur, use prehistoric DNA to clone an island full of dinosaurs. Intending to open the island as a theme park, Hammond invites a group of prominent scientists (Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum) to take a tour of the facilities before its grand opening. But, when an employee sabotages the security system in an attempt sell a few dino-embryos, the huge creatures are let loose and the scientists must find a way to escape before they become the prey. Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Samuel L. Jackson, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards and Wayne Knight. Categories: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Year: 1993.
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Sam Neill also appeared in Wimbledon, Jurassic Park III, The Hunt for Red October, and Daybreakers.
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Jeff Goldblum also appeared in The Right Stuff, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Fly, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Igby Goes Down, and Independence Day.
Richard Attenborough also appeared in Gandhi, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Great Escape, and Closing the Ring.
Samuel L. Jackson also appeared in The Incredibles, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Coach Carter, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, A Time to Kill, Unbreakable, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Snakes on a Plane, Menace II Society, Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Hard Eight, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, True Romance, Twisted, Iron Man, Black Snake Moan, Jumper, Rules of Engagement, Home of the Brave, Resurrecting the Champ, 1408, S.W.A.T., The Spirit, xXx, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Lakeview Terrace, Soul Men, and Cleaner.
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Steven Spielberg also appeared in Saving Private Ryan, War of the Worlds, Catch Me If You Can, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Munich, Jaws, Hook, Schindler's List, Minority Report, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Amistad, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Artificial Intelligence: AI.
Wayne Knight also appeared in Basic Instinct, Rat Race, and Punisher: War Zone.
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February 13, 2004
AMHERST, MA - In front of the largest home crowd in recent memory, the Amherst College men's hockey team scored three straight goals within a wild 1:34 stretch in the third period to notch a crucial 5-3 come-from-behind win over visiting NESCAC rival Tufts University on Friday night. Junior co-captain Beau Kretzman (Edina, MN) and sophomore forward Steve Nelson (Wayzata, MN) paced the Jeffs, now 10-9-2 overall and 5-9-1 in conference play, with a goal and two assists each.
Trailing 3-2 after Tufts junior forward Shawn Sullivan (Saugus, MA) christened the third period with his third goal of the game, Amherst sent the Orr Rink faithful into a frenzy with a trio of consecutive scoring strikes in rapid succession. Kretzman ignited the barrage 9:51 into the final stanza, knotting the score with a gorgeous move in front of the crease off a feed from Nelson. Just 18 seconds later, Amherst junior Brad Craigen (Kitchener, Ontario) sent a spectacular pass to classmate Marc Russell (Essex, VT), who tipped the game-winner past Tufts goalie Ben Crapser (Paxton, MA). Sophomore A.J. Greco (Williamsville, NY) added an insurance tally at 11:25 - a 3-on-3 backhander from the slot off feeds from Nelson and Kretzman - to punctuate the dramatic comeback.
Amherst rookie goalie Dan Smith (Rochester, MN) had a spectacular game, braving 39 Tufts shots with 36 saves. Crapser was under siege as well, tallying 33 saves before the Jumbos pulled the goalie for the final two minutes. Tufts dropped to 6-12-1 overall and 3-11-1 in conference play.
Amherst ran a series of promotions at Friday night's game, including free popcorn and complementary raffle tickets for chances to win up to $2,000 in prizes. Several lucky fans walked away with Sanyo flat screen TV's, Emerson DVD players, Kodak digital cameras and Microsoft Xbox video game systems, among other prizes.
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Q. Should I use the same strategy on Ten Play Poker as on video poker games with one hand? I ask because one of my favorites is Double Bonus, and I have one casino where I can get 9-7-5 Double Bonus on a Ten Play dollar machine.
I was dealt a full house, three aces and two 7s. On a single-hand game, I'd keep the aces and throw away the 2s, and hope to draw a full house. But on the Ten Play, that means giving up 45-coin payoffs times 10, and that's $450. I had a hard time pulling the trigger on that one.
A. The percentages are the same regardless of whether you're playing single-hand, Triple Play, Five Play, Ten Play, Fifty Play or Hundred Play. Per five coins wagered, your average return if you just hold the aces is 50.26 coins. If you hold the full house, your return is set at 45 coins.
To translate to Ten Play, your max-coins wager is 50 coins. Hold the full house, and you're guaranteed a 450-coin return, a $400 profit on the hand on the dollar machine you play. Keep just the aces, and your average return is 502.6 coins and a profit of just over $452 on the hand.
The risk is that not only will you not draw a fourth ace, you won't draw any pairs to complete new full houses. When that happens, your Ten Play return is 150 coins, dropping your profit to $100 on a dollar machine.
On a single-hand game, you draw the fourth ace an average of once per 23.5 hands. That means even on Ten Play, you'll go quadless more often than not. But when you do draw a fourth ace, that brings your total for the 10 hands to at least 935 coins, and when you draw ace No. 4 on more than one hand, it's a huge bonanza.
I play by the percentages and hold just the aces, maximizing my average return and seizing the opportunity for a large payday. That's the expert play for Ten Play or any other number of hands. If you can't pass up the $450 guarantee, that's up to you. Just understand the guarantee has a price.
Q. I used to play double-deck blackjack on a couple of riverboat casinos near me. Neither one has double-decks anymore. They're not on boats anymore, come to think of it. They're barges now, and you're not stuck waiting for the boat to be in dock before you can come or go, like you used to.
But that's neither here nor there. My point is the double-deck games used to be dealt with all cards face-up except the dealer's down card, just like six-deck games. Now, I travel around a lot, and sometimes find double-deck blackjack. Only the games I find now are dealt with all the cards face down, except the dealer's up-card.
Is there any advantage or disadvantage to the way the cards are dealt, face down or face up?
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A potentially bigger issue is that many of today's double-deck games pay only 6-5 on blackjacks instead of the 3-2 that had been the standard for generations. Dropping the payoff to 6-5 adds 1.4 percent to the house edge. You're almost always better off at a game with more decks that pay 3-2 on blackjacks than to pay that 1.4 percent price for the two-deck experience.
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Thus, the second case in both states was identified as novel by CDC sequencing, not PCR testing, and highlights the need for aggressive surveillance, since both states have each only reported two influenza cases in the 2011/2012 season, and all four case were novel. The two cases in West Virginia were epidemiologically linked, and not linked to swine, representing the first report of cluster involving distinct trH3N2 constellations, which are in addition to the trH1N2 case, A/Minnesota/19/2011, in Minnesota, which was a suspect cluster linked to a symptomatic but untested contact due to delays associated with routine testing of an isolate.
Thus, the three clusters, couple with the weak signals for the second case in Maine and West Virginia, highlight the need for enhanced surveillance and aggressive sequencing, especially in samples that produce weak signals, in part because the PCR testing is indirect since the targets are not from trH3N2 or trH1N2 sequences.
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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
Th1 and Th17 Cytokine Signatures in Early Pediatric Localized Scleroderma.
Torok3, Kathryn S., Arkachaisri1, Thaschawee, Medsger2, Thomas A., Feghali-Bostwick4, Carol A.
KK Women's and Children's Hosp, Singapore, Singapore
Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Univ of Pittsburgh Med Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Pediatric localized scleroderma (LS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis of skin and underlying tissues, including subcutaneous tissue, tendons, and muscles. Infiltration of the skin with T cells is a key feature in both LS and systemic sclerosis (SSc). Specifically, T-helper (Th) cell subsets and their associated cytokines have been identified as contributing to the pathogenesis of scleroderma. Previous studies in both SSc and LS support a primary Th2 response, but more recent reports implicate the Th17 subset and associated cytokines. This study was designed to evaluate serum cytokines representative of all three Th cell lineages (Th1, Th2, Th17) in active pediatric LS.
Serum samples from 71 pediatric LS patients and 49 healthy pediatric controls were obtained. All of the LS patients had active disease, defined as having new lesion(s), expanding lesion(s) and/or erythematous skin lesion(s), and were naive to systemic medications. Two independent luminex assays were performed to evaluate the Th1, Th2, and Th17 serum cytokine profiles. Statistical analysis was completed using Wilcoxon-rank sum tests and chi-square tests with a p-value <0.05 as significant.
The ranks of the individual cytokines were not significantly different between LS patients and controls using Wilcoxon-rank sum tests. However, the p-value did trend toward significance (p = 0.05 0.30) with higher serum concentrations in the LS group for IL-1b, IL-6, IL-12p70, IL-17F, IL-22 and IFN-g. Among LS patients with a greater than 10-fold increase in one or more cytokine compared with the upper IQR level for that cytokine in healthy controls, there were correlations between individual cytokines and disease duration. High levels of IL-12p70, IFN-g, IL-1b, and IL-6 were significantly more frequently detected in LS patients with short disease duration (<24 months) compared with intermediate duration (2448 months), who had elevated IL-17F and IL-22 levels, and those with long duration (>48 months), who had no elevated cytokine levels (p<0.05). Higher cytokine levels correlated with the presence of linear scleroderma, positive ANA, anti-ssDNA and anti-histone antibodies (p <0.05).
Th1 and Th17 related cytokines were elevated in the sera of pediatric LS patients with active disease with short to intermediate duration. Th1 associated cytokines appeared early and Th17 associated cytokines appeared later in disease course. Patients with greater elevations of these cytokines more often had linear LS, ss-DNA and anti-histone antibodies, all previously recognized predictors of more severe disease. Understanding and targeting the immune elements involved in the active early stages of LS is critical to designing novel therapies to prevent long-term complications such as thick fibrotic skin, loss of adipose tissue, joint contractures and limb-length discrepancies, which are associated with physical and psychological morbidity.
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Torok, Kathryn S., Arkachaisri, Thaschawee, Medsger, Thomas A., Feghali-Bostwick, Carol A.; Th1 and Th17 Cytokine Signatures in Early Pediatric Localized Scleroderma. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :2006
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They remained together for about two years, and after her return to Paris she reopened her salon of "La chevrette."
We both went to the chevrette; we sometimes met there by appointment.
M. D'Epinay, wishing to add a wing which was wanting to the chateau of the chevrette, was at an immense expense in completing it.
Fetes were given at the chevrette for which I composed music.
I had had so many flying about my ears the night we took the chevrette that I had got quite accustomed to them.
This however existed even at the chevrette, and in the mind of M. d'Epinay himself.
The park or garden of Montmorency is not a plain, like that of the chevrette.
One day, little thinking of what was to happen, Madam d'Epinay sent for me to the chevrette.


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