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GM John Mozeliak not optimistic that St. Louis' ace will take the mound at all in 2013
For those who have followed St. Louis Cardinals baseball for the past nine years, the news that Chris Carpenter is injured again may not be that much of a surprise. The oft-injured ace of the Cardinals' staff has missed significant time over the past several seasons, including almost all of the 2012 campaign. It appears that the 2013 season will be a mirror image of that as Cardinals' GM John Mozeliak has tweeted that he does not expect Carpenter to pitch at all this year for his ball club.
Carpenter broke out with the Toronto Blue Jays, but the bulk of his Major-League career has been spent with the Cardinals. In nine seasons in St. Louis, the right-hander has posted a 95-44 record with a 3.07 ERA and has earned himself 1,085 strike outs. His best season overall came in 2005, when he won 21 games for the ball club and earned himself a Cy Young award, the only one of his career. When healthy, Carpenter is an innings eater, topping 220 innings in four different MLB seasons. When he's not healthy, he usually misses most of the year, as in three separate seasons he has pitched in 20 innings or less.
While this set-back could force some pitchers to consider retirement, Carpenter is resilient, and will likely be placed on the disabled list for the season. When Carpenter returned last year, he made three starts at the end of the season, and then went 1-2 in the post season posting a 2.63 ERA. If Carpenter retires, he will forfeit $12.5 million in salary owed to him this year as he is under contract with St. Louis through the end of the 2013 campaign. At 37-years old, it is unlikely that Carpenter will ever get that kind of money as a free agent, so he will likely sit this season out on the DL and collect his money, then evaluate his options in the offseason when he becomes a free agent. With the amount of time he has missed, he won't be offered that kind of money, but a team is likely to take a chance on him to give some veteran presence to their rotation, albeit for no more than $2 to $3 million.
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The Gospel of Healing Volume I: Black Churches Respond to HIV/AIDS - Bronx
National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc.
Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The Gospel of Healing: Volume I: Black Churches Respond to HIV/AIDS film depicts the work of that small, nimble faith-based organizations in rural and urban areas are doing to serve and mobilize their local communities to combat HIV/AIDS, profiling five innovative models of faith-based HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care that have had a positive impact. This work—which has often outperformed local and state public health programs—includes needle-exchange for IV-drug users, condom distribution, HIV testing at churches, prevention programs at prisons, and support groups and primary care services for people living with HIV/AIDS.
When & Where
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
777 East 222nd Street
Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EDT)
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The Australian Ballet's new triple bill sparks a feeling of joy tinged with sorrow.
Joy because the performance quality is so high and the depth of talent suggests that the quartet of senior departures will open up opportunities for dancers well equipped to compete for their places. Sorrow because we in the audience will miss these dancers we have watched working their way to the top over many years.
I still can't believe Simone Goldsmith will stop dancing. She has reached a level of maturity and interpretive skill that takes her outstanding ability as a dancer to its peak. Her duet with Robert Curran in Stephen Baynes's Molto Vivace was a highlight in decades of dance-going.
Baynes has choreographed as the duet centrepiece a seductive communication in body language of elegant simplicity. It flows through swirling lifts and intimate partnering as though it were all one phrase. Outwardly cool, but powered by the unstoppable impetus of desire, this dance and its dancers take your breath away.
Baynes has achieved something very special in this unexpectedly funny work. It slices through time zones, has plenty of comedy and knows how to parody the affectations of other eras with witty fondness - as well as making its own contemporary statement through that remarkably evocative duet.
Timothy Harbour and Camilla Vergotis have cheeky fun as the chief cupids who, in Puckish style, mix and match the elaborately costumed rococo couples. Richard Roberts's deceptively plain backdrop, decorated by a crown of leafy cut-outs, reveals secret doors and windows through which dancers come and go like magic.
Many of their dances reflect a courtly era taken to extremes of parody, with some delightfully silly jokes that make us laugh aloud. A cat's cradle of long ribbons floating off wedding cake costumes deliciously ensnares six dancers, led by Joshua Consandine in a perfectly timed comedy style I have never seen before from this serious, sensitive performer. Matthew Donnelly also makes a comic impact.
Molto Vivace combines the great pleasures of good dancing. bold characterisation, humour and a duet to swoon over with a playful juggling of chronology in movement style and Anna French's diverse costume designs, funk to rococo. To all of this, music by Handel is a perfect partner, well played by the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Nicolette Fraillon.
Stanton Welch's Velocity is well named. It is a headlong gallop of virtuosic dance that is stamped with the classical technique, yet races ahead with explosive twists which test the dancers' skills. They win just about every point: only once did I notice a brief sequence of mistiming.
Michael Torke's edgy music is a good match for Welch's choreography, which makes Velocity a relative of his earlier Divergence in stylistic approach and costuming, although Kandis Cook's designs are not as inventive as that of her predecessor.
Nonetheless, they provide a good springboard for the well-honed talents of the company, led by Damien Welch and Kirsty Martin, a very exciting dancer. She and Welch are both thrilling in Velocity, serving their choreographer well in his intentions and extending their own range of quick, slick, precise actions.
Martin is also the opening soloist in Jiri Kylian's beautiful, mind-expanding Bella Figura. Her ability to charge an organic movement with electricity through a swift extended gesture, yet retain its integrity, is something to behold in this strongly danced, atmospheric revival.
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Media City Aims to Put Dubai as Key Player on Global Map
Dubai Media City (DMC) is gearing up to launch a comprehensive training program encompassing both academic and technological aspects that will place Dubai as key player on the global media map, Gulf News reported.
Saeed Hussein Al Muntafiq, the chief executive officer at DMC, said that the initiative, which will be officially launched in two weeks, comes alongside with the three-year strategy of the complex that aims to propel Dubai as a key player on the global media scene.
"It is city centers around the world that rule the global media, and today it is New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong - dare I say it will also be Dubai tomorrow," Al Muntafiq said.
He clarified that the Dubai Technology, e-Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority views itself more as an industry enabler by providing leading-edge infrastructure capability, rather than itself becoming a media player through news dissemination. Nor did it view itself as a telecommunications services provider for the entire UAE, although Dubai Internet City was itself the ISP provider for its tenants, said the Dubai-based paper.
The chief executive officer at DMC explained that the new strategy for the DMC will mainly focus on six industrial segments like the broadcasting, publishing, marketing service providers, music, cinema post-production, and multi-media.
He added this thrust is based upon three basic premises: IT convergence, with the cellphone of tomorrow 'talking' to the TV channel decoder; the need for access to content; and the country's leadership's vision of attracting talent by building clusters.
He pointed out that the first three industry segments form a strong cluster by themselves, with any one interacting primarily with the other two - and the market in the region is booming.
He was quoted by the paper as saying that "today you have 150 television channels in the region, with the number projected to go up by another 200 within five years - which translates into some 665,000 hours of production time on TV, as per independent estimates. While this is obviously a tremendous opportunity, on the other hand no broadcaster in the region is today making money, since each has invested in its infrastructure.
On the training initiative, he said on the academics side it would include digital graphics, journalism, post-production, music, etc; and on the technology side software development, PC training and allied topics – Albawaba.com
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Katy Perry Debuts New Short Hairdo at Brazil Premiere of 'Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D' (PHOTOS)
The 27-year-old singer, who has experimented with her image quite often over the last 12 months, decided to go for more of a natural look this time around, donning a sleek black bob that bounced beautifully off of her cap-sleeved, cut-out yellow dress.
She even opted for a graceful "less is more" look in the makeup department, instead of caking on a full-stage face.
Since her music career launched in 2008, Perry — who picked up for MTV VMA nominations on Tuesday — has become known for her often eccentric red-carpet looks, especially when it comes to her hair. In the past, she's experienced with colors pink, blonde, blue and beyond.
Most recently, the singer had purple dip-dyed tresses.
Russell Brand, in December, seems to be entering a new phase in her life now that the ink on her divorce has dried.
Not only has she been linked to Robert Ackroyd and, most recently, John Mayer, she now appears to be going for a look that is quite reminiscent of her original pop image.
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Everybody is talking about the Boston Red Sox and their spectacular, disastrous end-of-season collapse. They had a nine-game lead on Sept. 3! They went 7-20 in September! Blew the final, deciding game at the bottom of the ninth!
For many Americans, this was actually a feel-good story because it didn't involve the possible loss of a family member's job or pension. But Red Sox fans are going crazy. How did it happen? Bad managing? Bad pitching? Is the Curse of the Bambino back?
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ModusLink Receives Expected NASDAQ Notification Letter
ModusLink Global Solutions (NASDAQ: MLNK) today announced that on December 18, 2012, as expected, it received a notification letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC ("NASDAQ"). The letter stated that ModusLink's delay in filing the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for its first quarter of fiscal 2013 ended October 31, 2012, which delay the Company disclosed on December 10, 2012, serves as an additional basis for the potential delisting of its shares under NASDAQ Listing Rule 5250(c)(1). The Company is working to complete its previously announced process to restate financial results for certain prior periods and become current in its periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As disclosed on December 13, 2012, the Company received a separate letter from NASDAQ advising that because the Company remains noncompliant with the filing requirements for continued listing under NASDAQ listing rules, the Company's common stock is subject to suspension. The Company has the right to appeal this determination and, as planned, a hearing before NASDAQ's Hearings Panel has been requested by the Company.
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Baby Makes Three
"This baby isn't Ethan's Theresa. "Dr. Russell said, closing the file folder with a snap on her desk. " And it isn't just one baby that you're having. "
Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald sat with her hands crossed in her lap. Big brown eyes scanned the white washed walls of Dr. Eve Russell's office, resting on her various degrees and pictures of her family. Theresa felt a twinge of pain in her chest for Eve, knowing that only week's before her entire family had fallen apart at the seams, simply because her past had caught up with her. Theresa was one person who knew that lies caught up with you. She had always tried to be as honest as possible, but sometimes situations seemed so hopeless... of course you'd lie to save something you love. That's what most people never realized. How hard it is to make the right decision when its actually YOU in the situation.
"How many? "Theresa whispered, shutting her eyes tight and clasping her hands around her purse, knuckles white. Dr. Russell looked at Theresa with sympathetic eyes, feeling truly sorry for the young woman in front of her. Eve remembered when Theresa had been little, only six years old. She remembered inviting Theresa over for a play date with Whitney, remembered the sound of the little girl's voice, always polite and innocent. The woman sitting in front of the doctor was someone who had faced all the hardships of a lifetime in her early twenties and survived. But Eve couldn't help but wonder if it was all at a price.
"Twins. "
Theresa cringed and brought her face down into her hands, hiding her face from the view of the doctor. Salty tears rolled down her cheeks and down onto her simple white maternity dress.
"Eve, please god tell me the babies aren't Fox's. "Please god don't let them be his. He'll hate me forever... I don't want to be tied to him simply because I'm having his kids. If were together, I want it to be because he loves me.
" Is there another possibility? "Theresa looked up and shook her head, knowing instinctively that any chance she had of a actual friendship, maybe even something more was now lost. Theresa would be his responsibility, not his love interest. Theresa bit down on her lip to keep it from quivering and she brought her fingertips up to her face and swiped at the tears.
"He doesn't love me. "Theresa whispered bitterly. "He loves YOUR daughter. "
Eve nodded knowingly, thinking back to the night at her home when everything she had once had fell into utter disrepair. She remembered the look on Fox's face as he stared at Whitney, remembered the love and affection that he communicated towards her with a simple look of his eyes. The young man was definitely intense, but it was obvious that Whitney didn't return his feelings. "You love him though? "
Theresa thought for a moment, thought back to all the times he had held her as she cried. Thought to the times he had made love to her, how she had cried out his name in an ecstasy that Ethan could never have rivaled. Thought back to the times that he had risked everything for her, helped her sneak little Ethan out of the mansion, gave her money when she wanted to escape, even cash in his trust fund to bail her out of jail. She nodded simply, knowing in truth that there were no words in existence that could purvey to Dr. Eve her feelings for him.
"He deserves to know. "
"He won't care. "Theresa replied desperately, shooting out of her chair and slinging her purse over her shoulder. "I will not be the one thing that keeps him away from the woman he loves. I love him too much to ask that from him. I'll leave town. "
"I have a responsibility to inform both parties in this pregnancy. "
"Eve... "Theresa cried desperately. "Don't. "
"If you don't, I have too. "
Theresa bit down hard on her lip again and felt the blood rush out and into her mouth. A bitter, copper taste flooded her senses and she resisted the urge to spit it out onto the floor of Eve's office. Bitter... a word that could easily describe what her life was turning out like. In love with a man that was in love with your best friend. Having a baby with him, being a burden on him. Keeping your pregnancy a secret from the man you love simply because you want him to be happy. What about Theresa? No one cared what she wanted. It simply didn't matter. She was the outsider in everything, a victim of herself and lately, circumstance.
Theresa surged towards the door and slammed it to a close as she exited the office. A family picture from Eve's wall crashed to the floor, shattering the glass in the frame. Eve sighed, noting the irony of the situation.
Fox had received the message on his cell phone only a few hours before. A very urgent sounding Theresa asking him to please meet her at the book café. That it was very important and that if she didn't meet him, she would have to search all over Harmony for him. Fox wasn't about to turn her down of course, but she was so frantic for a moment that Fox had spent his entire time on the way to the café wondering what it was about.
Currently, he was sitting at a table at the back of the café, sipping a café latte and staring idly at the coffee he had ordered for her. He wondered if it was really healthy for the baby to be having caffeine so late in the pregnancy. He didn't really want to do anything to hurt Theresa or the baby. Never had he wanted too but he doubted that he never had. Thankfully, Fox's thoughts were interrupted by the jingle that resonated throughout the café as a very pregnant looking Theresa waddled through the doorway. Fox grinned as he made his way over, arming himself with a compliment on her beautiful new way of walking but he stopped himself. The look on his face told him that whatever she had to say wasn't something easy. In fact, it looked like Theresa was about to be sick and seeing as it was the nearing the nine-month of the pregnancy, he doubted that it was morning sickness. Theresa eased herself into a chair across from him and offered him a small, sad smile and a head nod.
"Hi. "She said softly, lowering her eyes from his gaze and looking into the surface of the murky coffee in front of her. She twirled the silver spoon around it, attempting to find something that would take her mind off of the seriousness of the task at hand.
"Hey Theresa. "Fox said, with a little wave of his hand, making a big attempt to lighten the mood of the meeting. "I ordered you that but I don't know if it's good for the baby, I might have to drink it. "
It became apparent to him that either Theresa hadn't heard him or was extremely upset, because she raised the coffee mug to her lips and drained the contents in about three seconds flat. Fox's eyes widened in surprise and he moved his head in attempt to catch her gaze. "Hey Resa... what's up? "
Resa. Oh, god. He was going to make things harder on her. It wasn't going to be easy to tell him that she was having his baby that she was taking him away from any chances of being with the woman he truly loved. Theresa opened her mouth to speak but found that nothing but inaudible squeaks escaped. She closed her mouth again and opened it, clearing her throat.
"H-h-how are things going with Whitney? "
"Uh... not so good. She still hates me, still blaming me for what happened between her mother and my father. But is that why you called me? "
"Is it a crime to catch up with someone you lo-? "She stopped, feeling uncomfortable about actually saying the word. She felt that if she allowed herself to say the words, that would make them all too real and then she would just be in more pain when he shut her down. Theresa signaled the waitress to come her way with a wave of her hand and ordered another coffee, large and black. Fox was still eyeing her as if she was about to explode and she was having a difficult time even looking in his direction.
"Of course it's not a crime. "Fox said eventually. "I love talking to you and you know that. "
Theresa choked on her coffee and patted her chest, raising one balled fist to her mouth and covering the onslaught of coughs that escaped her crimson mouth. Fox poised to get out of his chair to assist her but she waved a hand at him, as if warning him to sit back down.
"I'm fine. "Theresa stuttered. "I swear. Just a little shaky... ready to pop this baby out, you know. "Theresa chuckled nervously and Fox smiled and nodded. Yeah, your baby. Theresa sighed again.
"Theresa... why am I here? "
"I wanted to know something. "
Fox swallowed quickly and nodded, hoping against hope that it wasn't a question about their former relationship. In all honesty, Fox wasn't exactly sure how he felt about Theresa right now, beyond the fact that sometimes he missed their relationship, missed having someone to care for, someone to hold in his arms and make love too. ... But his love for Whitney was so strong.
"Why did we ever start dating? ...Why did you cash you're trust fund for me if you love Whitney? "
Fox winced and let out a tortured sigh, bringing his hands up to face level and running his hands through his spiky blond hair. " Theresa... I-... "
"I'm not trying to make you feel guilty. "Theresa said quickly. "I just need to know. For ... uh, closure. "
"You're a beautiful woman. "
Theresa could almost feel the hormones flare in her chest. She felt a sting of anger ring throughout her head and she smirked.
"So I get pregnant and you play dump the cow? "
Fox was completely shocked by her bitter sounding voice, the bluntness of her words. He wouldn't have ever believed it possible for Theresa Lopez Fitzgerald to sound so vindictive. He shook his head defiantly and leaned in towards her.
"No. That's not true. You're still beautiful now Theresa... I just fell in love with Whitney. "
"So why date me? "
If Fox knew an answer that wouldn't upset her, he would have offered it already. He refrained to sitting in silence for a while, searching every crevice of his mind for an honest reply. When nothing came, he merely shrugged his shoulders, a dejected look falling across his face.
"... Alright. Well... Thanks for that Fox, really. "Theresa said sarcastically, downing her third cup of coffee and slamming the mug down hard on the table. It shook with the force of the impact, sort of a metaphor for the shaking anger that was rocking her hormone-ridden body right now. "Did you know I wanted to get back together of you? I was looking for you to talk about that when I fell off that cliff. Then I heard you say you loved Whitney... and I gave up. What do I get? ... I get the preview of love, the preview of having a good, caring man and then he goes for something better? Something better than the Hispanic trash? That's me, Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, use her and abuse her. "
No words came to Fox's mind again, this time his mind swimming with her words, wrapping around each syllable and feeling the guilt steadily pile onto his shoulders. She had finally begun to feel what he always dreaded that she would. She's begun to feel that I used her.
"I never used you. "Fox replied fiercely, slowing rising to his feet. "If anything you used me to get to Ethan. How can you stand there and act like such a hypocrite? "
Hypocrite. The words rang in Theresa's mind with a serrated-like edge, as if someone had unsheathed a knife and plunged it right into her heart. It was true; she had started out flirting with Fox simply for the sake of getting Ethan jealous. But things had changed near the end. She had really begun to love him. By the end of their relationship, Theresa had even come to love him more than she had ever loved Ethan. But it was too late... things were over. Theresa bit down hard on the sides of her mouth to keep the tears from rolling down her voice. When she spoke, her voice was shaky with rage and hurt so thick that it hung in the air like a fermented fragrance of what used to be.
"That's how it started. I used you... but don't you dare act like you didn't use me. You'll never know how much I regret my relationship with Ethan, how I didn't respond to you like I could have in the beginning. You will NEVER know just how much I regret letting someone like you go. I kick myself every day for treating you how I did and for not realizing that you didn't return my feelings. I used you near the beginning, but a little before the end I started to really l-... "Theresa's body began to shake and she hugged her arms around her body protectively. "I threw myself heart and soul to you and the only thing I got back was a clean breakup and a maybe friendship. Really shows you how much people around here care about me. That won't matter anymore though. I'm leaving town. I'll take our little bundles of joy and you'll never see me again. "
And with a certain malevolence, Theresa turned on her heel and stormed out of the café, slamming the door behind her with such force that a shelf full of mugs behind her crashed to the floor. Fox stood in the aftermath of his encounter, still reeling from every word that had escaped her mouth. Had she really begun to love me?
"Why did you cash in your trust fund for me if you love Whitney? "Her words rung out in his mind and he searched himself for an answer. Why had he given up so much, given up the way he lived, given up all of his financial security for a woman that he only pitied and never loved? Would he do that for Whitney? Fox's mind was spinning, with all the thoughts that run through his mind.
The cashier approached him, inquiring who could be billed for the damages. Fox sighed and whipped out his wallet, without so much as a second thought. He pulled a few hundred dollars from his wallet and handed them over to the cashier... and then he froze. No. He would never do that for Whitney. ... Whitney's beautiful. Would I give my life for her? Would I care for her if she were to get sick? Could I love her unconditionally no matter how she looked? A crash of lightning zipped through the sky and cracked down upon the ground, just as the sky opened up and rained heavy water droplets down upon Harmony. No. I love Theresa more than life... I'd kill myself if anything ever happened to her.
And suddenly, something else he had said to him rang out through his mind.
"I'll take our little bundles of joy and you'll never see me again. "
Just as the realization began to dawn on Fox, his cell phone rang. He flipped it open and pressed the glowing green button, bringing it to his ear.
"Fox? It's Dr. Russell. I need to talk to you. "
The rain had practically come from nowhere at all. It hadn't been five minutes since she had left the crane estate with a duffle bag full necessary when the sky had cracked open with a vicious clap of thunder and the rain had begun to pour down all around her. Her black plus size dress clung to her now sodden body, her chocolate hued hair losing the sleekness it had possessed thanks to the labor of her blow dryer and coming down in curls that insisted on clinging to her neck and throat. Her legs moved but she didn't know exactly where she was going or how she was going to get there.
After about a half an hour, she realized that her feet were taking her in the direction of a Harmony Bus Stop. Theresa reached inside her duffle bag and retrieved her bus pass, thanking that it was laminated in a thick sheet of plastic. After her confrontation with Fox, she just needed to get out of Harmony with her babies for good. Never return to the place that had only ever harbored pain and heartache for her. And the small plastic card clasped in her hand was her ticket out. Finally she reached the bus stop and leaned herself against the poll, her breathing heavy and very labored. She felt a sharp pain in her abdomen and she cried out, clutching her hands against her rounded stomach.
"God... I can't loose this baby. Please god, no. "
Out of the corner of her eye she saw a car approaching, a large black SUV. Theresa eyed his suspiciously, not really prepared to run if somebody stepped out of the looming vehicle. Theresa tried to regain some of her composure, realizing that if she wasn't alert in this situation, then her children would be in danger. A surge of protective motherly instinct shot it's way through her chest and she stood up a little straighter, shooting a withering glare towards the car. Slowly, the window rolled down and Theresa gasped at who she saw sitting there.
"Theresa. "Fox pleaded, yelling at her through the window. "Get in the car. We have to talk. "
"Screw you. "Theresa bellowed at him, with a shaking of her head. Fox was in awe that even nine months pregnant and about to pop out two kids that she could still be this beautiful.
"Theresa, please. "
Theresa shook her head and crossed her arms defiantly over her chest. Tears rolled down her face, trailing in the same kohl paths that the rain had carved out only moments before. She was thankful, for only a moment that the rain was there to disguise her pain. She wouldn't allow him to know that she was hurting. She had already lost her cool in the Book Café; she wasn't about to do it again. She wasn't about to take his happiness from him and allow him to hate her. Fox shut his eyes and cringed, then pressed the lever on the door and exited the car. Theresa heard him coming and she turned on her heel and made to run away. Unfortunately, her limbs were laden with a few extra pregnancy pounds and the weight of her sodden clothes pressing down on her body. She dropped her duffle bag in an attempt to move faster but found that it was useless.
"THERSA. "Fox shouted after her. "Don't run from me... I love you. "
Theresa stopped and stumbled as another pain ripped through her like a twisting, jagged knife. Theresa stumbled and fell to her knees, clutching her stomach and hissing in pain. Fox caught up behind her and fell to his knees in front of her, clutching her shoulders possessively. She shook him off and moaned in pain. More emotional than anything else.
"Theresa... stop it. You'll hurt our babies. "
"OUR BABIES? "Theresa shouted at him. God damn that Eve Russell. "Wouldn't you rather have babies with Whitney? "
"Theresa... No. Baby, I love you. I love you more than life itself. I would rather die then let anything happen to you. If you lose this baby. I'll never be able to forgive myself. I love you, not Whitney. I want to be with you, forever. Please god Theresa. "He grabbed her by the face, feeling the water droplets cascade in between them and he brought his lips down upon hers. Theresa shuddered and wrapped her arms around him, knowing without a doubt that this was the one place in the world she was meant to be. That he was being sincere. Theresa broke away as another pain rippled through her.
"Fox... "Theresa whispered. "I think I'm having our children. "
"I know Baby, I know. "
"No. "Theresa muttered, clenching her teeth together. "... I'm having them. Right now. "
"Oh my god. "Fox's eyes widened. "Oh my god... w-what do I do? "
Theresa smiled softly and chuckled. "The hospital would be a start. "
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In 1979, in the dark freeze of the cold war and six months after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa., they packed Madison Square Garden for a series of "No Nukes" concerts that seemed to echo a generation's fear of atomic Armageddon.
Now, the musicians, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and Jackson Browne, aging, activist rock stars, have reunited to battle the nuclear power industry on Capitol Hill.
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Holi (also called Holaka or Phagwa) is an annual festival celebrated on the day after the full moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna (early March). It celebrates spring, commemorates various events in Hindu mythology and is time of disregarding social norms and indulging in general merrymaking. Holi is probably the least religious of Hindu holidays. During Holi, Hindus attend a public bonfire, spray friends and family with colored powders and water, and generally go a bit wild in the streets. Originally, Holi was an agricultural festival celebrating the arrival of spring. This aspect still plays a significant part in the festival in the form of the colored powders: Holi is a time when man and nature alike throw off the gloom of winter and rejoice in the colors and liveliness of spring.
The legend commemorated by the festival of Holi involves an evil king named Hiranyakashipu. He forbade his son Prahlad from worshipping Vishnu, but Radhu continued to do offer prayers to the god. Getting angry with his son, Hiranyakashipu challenged Prahlad to sit on a pyre with his wicked aunt Holika who was believed to be immune to fire. Prahlad accepted the challenge and prayed to Vishnu to keep him safe. When the fire started, everyone watched in amazement as Holika was burnt to death, while Prahlad survived without a scar to show for it. The burning of Holika is celebrated as Holi.
Holi is spread out over two days (it used to be five, and in some places it is longer). The entire holiday is associated with a loosening of social restrictions normally associated with caste, sex, status and age. Holi thus bridges social gaps and brings people together: employees and employers, men and women, rich and poor, young and old.
The central ritual of Holi is the throwing and applying of colored water and powders on friends and family, which gives the holiday its common name "Festival of Colors".
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Just wondering, how do we know this is Dobby's birthday? Merlin. 06:06, January 24, 2011 (UTC)
- It came from this mugglenet website. Oh, and the year shown on the site is just the year that the birthdays were shown on JKR's website.--BachLynn(Accio!) 13:59, January 24, 2011 (UTC)
Oh okay, thanks! Merlin. 09:48, February 2, 2011 (UTC)


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The Jewish community, like most of the nation and world, had followed the twists and turns of the O.J. Simpson trial for nearly nine months, with varying degrees of fascination.
But it was not until the final days of arguments and in the week after the jury's "not guilty" verdict, that specifically Jewish sensitivities came into play.
Jewish passions were engaged, and continue unabated in Los Angeles and elsewhere, by a number of developments: • The overwhelming grief of the family of murder victim Ronald Lyle Goldman, expressed with particular poignancy and anger during Yom Kippur services at their synagogue. • The invocation of Hitler and the Holocaust by lead defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. in his final appeal to the jury. • The post-trial attack by Jewish defense lawyer Robert Shapiro on Cochran for playing the "race card." • Cochran's use of bodyguards from the Nation of Islam.
Speaking to hundreds of fellow congregants from Temple Beth Haverim at a rented church hall in suburban Westlake, Fred Goldman grieved for the death of his son Ron.
Cochran "single-handedly, with his `Dream Team,' managed to shove a wedge between the races that's larger than we could ever have imagined," said Goldman.
Goldman said, "We, as a nation, have been turned upside down – gone from being concerned about victims, and their families, to being more concerned about defendants and criminals."
Despite the solemnity of the Yom Kippur service, worshipers leapt to their feet and gave Goldman a standing ovation.
Earlier, Jewish agencies were outraged when Cochran, in his final summation to a jury that included nine African Americans, compared Mark Fuhrman, former Los Angeles Police detective, to Hitler, and drew an analogy between the detective's taped wish of burning all blacks and the Holocaust.
"The metaphor trivializes a profound historical tragedy," said the Anti- Defamation League in a statement. The ADL reported that it had been besieged by callers outraged by the "Fuhrman-Fuhrer" analogy.
Also deeply offended was defense lawyer Shapiro, who turned on his colleague Cochran within hours of the verdict.
"To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most terrible human event in modern civilization," Shapiro said in an ABC television interview with Barbara Walters. "To compare [Hitler] in any way to a rogue cop, in my opinion was wrong."
Shapiro also said the defense, paced by Cochran, not only played the race card, but "we dealt it from the bottom of the deck." Shapiro did not requests for additional comments.
Cochran, in turn, attributed Shapiro's ire to sour grapes at having been replaced as the defense's head attorney by Cochran.
The other Jewish defense lawyers, Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Alan Dershowitz, did not join in Shapiro's protest.
Citing death threats against himself, Cochran surrounded himself with eight burly bodyguards whenever the left courtroom during the last week of the trial. At the office building housing Cochran's law firm, other occupants complained that they had to pass through a phalanx of guards to get to their own offices.
The guards were members of the Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan, which "in past years engaged in crude and vulgar racism and anti-Semitism," said Abraham Foxman, the ADL national director.
BY his choice of such bodyguards, Foxman added, Cochran "legitimizes them and their attitudes."
Once the Holocaust became part of the post-trial debate, emotional tensions rose sharply, adding a Jewish dimension to the clear polarization between blacks and whites emerging from the trial.
The question of whether Jews or African Americans had suffered more in past decades and centuries, and who, indeed, "owned" the Holocaust, took on a sharper edge.
Charles Linder, a Jewish lawyer, who helped Cochran fashion his closing argument, said "for those who say that Hitler is proprietary to the Jews, he isn't."
The ADL's Foxman, a Holocaust survivor, disagreed strenuously. The Fuhrman- Hitler analogy "was outrageous and an insult to the millions of innocent victims of Nazism," Foxman said. "The metaphor trivializes this profound historical tragedy."
In contrast, Karen Grigsby Bates, a black Los Angeles social commentator, told Time magazine that by clinging to the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Jews are saying that "our suffering counts more than yours. And the reaction among black people is, 'don't you dare.' There is such a groundswell of resentment among African Americans toward that attitude."
Los Angeles Rabbi Harold Schulweis objected to the entire concept of relative victimhood.
"All such comparisons are invidious and irrelevant," he said.
By almost every measurement of public opinion, the Simpson trial and its outcome have exacerbated racial tensions in this country. What is the depth and duration of the negative impact on black-Jewish relations will be measured in the weeks, and maybe years, to come.
Schulweis called for understanding of the African American viewpoint.
"As Jews, we must ask ourselves how we would deal with a beleaguered black community, and how we would have reacted if Mr. Simpson were Jewish or if a Jonathan Pollard had been the defendant."
Harvey Fields, another leading Los Angeles rabbi, said that "the agony that has grown out of the trial shows the depth of racism that still exists in our society."


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Department store David Jones Ltd today vowed to continue its cost-cutting drive and said it would keep hold of its profitable credit card operations.
David Jones chief executive Mark McInnes said there was unlimited potential for David Jones to improve efficiencies within its business.
"Our company has been a premium retailer for 165 years and has therefore been a high-cost retailer on that basis, and it's only in the last 18 months that our management have put their minds to cost efficiency," Mr McInnes said.
"We see endless opportunities for cost efficiency."
Mr McInnes added that no costs would come out of the company's front line.
"We've got significant cost initiatives going on, if you look at our store areas we've got processes going on in our layby, gift bar, warranties, alterations, transfer, back-of-house, all of our operational activities," he said.
"In addition to that we've got a centralised non-merchandised procurement area within the business, we're renegotiating 67 of our contracts above half a million.
"In all other areas of business, customer, IT administration and legal we can focus hard on to ensure we've got an efficient business."
David Jones today posted a record net profit of $52.89 million for the first half of 2004/05, an increase of 21.9 per cent.
David Jones' credit card business was a key contributor to the result, reporting a 24.4 per cent rise in earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) to $15.3 million for the period.
David Jones finance director Stephen Goddard dismissed suggestions that the company was looking at selling its credit card business.
"It's a core strategic asset of our company, it's a great differentiator, it's a great profit earner," Mr Goddard said.
"It's had strong earnings growth in the last four years and we see that stabilising around the five to 10 per cent mark.
"Interest rates may rise, we are well-hedged, we have $220 million of hedges in place to protect our funding arrangements for that business."
David Jones denied that it was sizing up arch-rival Myer, amid rumours that its owner Coles Myer Ltd was looking to divest the underperforming department store chain.
"I don't think that's a question for us, I think that's a question of the Coles Myer board," Mr McInnes said.
"Once the Coles Myer board decide what to do with the business we'll look at it with interest."
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The CV is impressive, even by Hopkins' demanding standards. Co-authorship on 67 papers, touching on nearly every facet of biomedical research: Journal of Infectious Diseases, Journal of Rheumatology, Science, Circulation, Neurotoxicology … to name but a few.
A quarter-century as director of a division intimately involved with many of the scientific advances at Hopkins: Potential cures for paralysis. Discovering the pathways that lead to the neurological devastation of AIDS. Understanding the addictive properties of drugs. Then there's the surgical wizardry, testament to his colleagues' claims that he's a technical marvel whose knowledge of anatomy is without peer. All this, and the man does not possess an M.D. Nor, for that matter, a Ph.D. Or an Sc.D., M.P.H., or any other of the alphabet soup of advanced degrees so common to Hopkins researchers.
So who the heck is Bob Adams?
He's a veterinarian.
And his work is helping to change the face of human medicine.
Cardiac surgery fellow Lois U. Nwakanma, M.D., has hit a brick wall, and so she's turned to Robert J. Adams, D.V.M. (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine), this autumn afternoon for guidance. It's not the first time she's come to him for help. In the past, Adams has shown her better, less invasive ways to collect cerebrospinal fluid for animal studies. Today, Nwakanma is in the midst of testing an artificial lung designed to reduce pulmonary hypertension in humans. But first she must determine if the device can reduce pulmonary hypertension that's intentionally induced in a test animal. Therein lies Nwakanma's dilemma: Which animal to use? Dogs have a known response to drugs that induce hypertension, but they don't have a long enough pulmonary artery, the point at which the device
attaches. Sheep have the right anatomy, but Nwakanma has discovered they don't respond as well—or at all—to conventional hypertensive drugs.
What she needs is options, so the duo is brainstorming at the small round table in Adams' office in Ross 459. Adams agrees that sheep are the right model. "They've been used for lung work for years," he says.
Adams asks if she's tried other ways of inducing pulmonary hypertension.
"We can create a fistula [an arterial malformation through surgery], which we don't want to," answers Nwakanma, thinking about the problem facing the sheep. What about using other metabolites to induce the hypertension, she asks.
"I've never done that," says Adams, and the room falls silent. With someone else, that might be the polite end to the conversation. But not with "The Facilitator." Adams jumps up and reaches for a maroon book. It's called Experimental Surgery and Physiology: Induced Animal Models of Human Disease. Its 350 pages list dozens of animal models for everything from skin regeneration to pancreatic transplants. He combs the tome, pages he once co-edited, looking for Nwakanma's solution. Flip. Flip-flip. Flop. Nothing. . . but then an idea pops out of Adams' comprehensive mental Rolodex.
"Have you talked to Wayne Mitzner?"
"Who?" asks Nwakanma.
"He's a pulmonary guy in public health. He's married to—what's her name at Bayview? She does sheep/lung work…" Adams' fingers start popping in the air, urging his Rolodex to rebuffer. Snap! Snap! It takes a few seconds to comply. "Wagner!" he suddenly says. Snap! "Elizabeth Wagner. You might want to talk to them to see if they have any ideas."
Nwakanma is thrilled to have a lead, and she continues to toss sheep question at Adams, who is most comfortable talking about non-human primates, a.k.a. monkeys. "I can't tell you exactly," he replies to one of her sheep queries. "In fact," he laughs. "I can't tell you at all. That's not really my field. My field is, 'Can I tell you anybody who might know?'" And then he smiles and answers his own question.
"Yeah, I can."
As Nwakanma departs, pleased to be potentially one step closer to jump-starting her research, Adams jokes that, after 30 years at Hopkins, he should know everyone.
From 1979 to 2004, Adams was director of Animal Services and Laboratory Animal Medicine in the Division of Comparative Medicine. Any researcher in all of Hopkins who wanted to conduct animal research first had to go through the Animal Care and Use Committee on which Adams sat. That he and the committee were rigorous before giving their approval wasn't a bureaucratic power play; with only a tiny staff (in his first years, just he and another veterinarian), it was Adams' and his team's responsibility to keep each animal healthy, a task he bluntly admits kept them logging plenty of miles around campus. Adams and the committee wanted—indeed demanded—a deep commitment to animal welfare from researchers; a sense, on paper and in action, that investigators understood why they needed the animals, could justify the experiments they had planned, and were cognizant of the procedures that they and their post-docs had to perform to keep the animals safe, secure, and pain-free in the lab setting.
"I ticked off plenty of people around here," says Adams, his way of indicating that those researchers who didn't pass the committee's muster never saw an animal.
Still, those who know him best say that beneath that gruff exterior beats a caring and collaborative heart—and a guy who chuckles when relating the unlikely genesis of his career path.
Turns out that in the 1950s, Ozzie and Harriet weren't nearly as influential on the youth of America as one huge insurance company. "In those days, New York Life had a whole bunch of career pamphlets called 'Why Be A ….' I sent away for one. I got a pamphlet called "Why Be A Veterinarian." From that day on," says Adams, "I wanted to be a veterinarian."
As a kid, the only animal under his care was the family's dime store parakeet. But that would soon change. To get into veterinary school in those days called for farm experience, so the boy from New York City went upstate to get up close and personal with the denizens of a dairy farm (and, yes, he proudly demonstrates the best technique for milking a cow: Think of a piano player sequentially loosening up his fingers by grabbing at the air and you get the idea).
Acceptance to Cornell's prestigious vet program followed, and after graduation in 1973 the 24-year-old headed west. "I used to watch American Bandstand on TV. One day they had Paul Revere and The Raiders playing on a California beach. Seemed like a nice place to live," says Adams.
Adams piled into a friend's Corvette, crossed the Rockies, and found himself in a Menlo Park veterinary practice. After a year of taking care of family pets, he knew something was missing. "I was unhappy, for whatever reason." Though his experience tending to different species was growing—he'd treated everything from dogs to kitties to even Boris the loris—Adams was seeking an outlet to match his curiosity. He recalled a lecture while at Cornell on an emerging new field: Laboratory Animal Medicine. Johns Hopkins, under Edward Melby, had established one of the few such post-doc Laboratory Animal Medicine programs in the country. Adams applied, was accepted, and headed back east.
The rest, as they say, is history. Except in this case Bob Adams got to write most of it.
"Hi fellas," says Adams, dressed head to toe in blue scrubs. Immediately the fellas respond—in a cacophony of squeaks, screeches, and clicks. Quiet around people, Bob Adams is positively expansive around the small pigtail and rhesus macaque monkeys that are housed in Ross. His movements are sure, his patter steady and reassuring as he injects a seven-pound pigtail with ketamine, a quick acting chemical disassociative that makes the macaque safe to handle. Moments later the docile monkey is intubated and on its back on a surgical table. On its tawny chest is a thin blue tattoo, a number and a letter, an identification code.
Working with veterinarian technician Lani Swarthout, Adams grabs a bronchoscope. "I'm going to put the scope down into the lung, flush down sterile saline, then suck it back to get macrophages," he explains. The cells will be useful for Hopkins researchers in their cellular studies.
As Adams proceeds, he invites a gowned and masked observer to peer into the scope, to better understand both the pigtail's unique anatomy and how he's trying to get the investigators their cells while limiting the animal's potential distress from the scope. A substantial amount of saline has to be put into the animal because its lungs have tremendous absorptive capacity, meaning the fluid that can be retrieved in any one attempt is limited. Adams could put the scope in deeper to retrieve more liquid, but he's reluctant to do that. "I don't want to go in too far; if you look, you see the little bit of redness there?" The observer nods; There's a small irritation that stands out against the pink, healthy tissue. "That's because the scope is banging up against the bronchial wall. I try not to do that. I don't want to get blood."
When Adams is done, he packs the macrophage tubes in ice and hustles them down the hall to one of his research colleagues in what's now known as the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, where Adams has an appointment as an associate professor.
The change from a division to a department that occurred in 2002 is no accident; it's reflective of just how much growth Bob Adams and his colleagues helped foment in his 33 years at Hopkins. The department today includes two areas Adams ran until recently; Research Animal Resources (RAR), responsible for the procurement and assignment of research animals, and Laboratory Animal Medicine, which covers the care of research animals and has morphed into a $15 million dollar, 20 veterinarian division intimately involved with helping investigators conduct research. Among the menagerie RAR manages are 700 rabbits, 50 cats, 25 dogs, 450 primates, a handful of sheep, and 170,000 rodents.
That's a far cry from the old days. When Adams arrived on campus, RAR didn't even exist (it was called Animal Services back then) and laboratory animal medicine was part of the then small Division of Comparative Medicine. "[The] idea was that there's a synergy between human disease and animal disease," explains Adams. "By studying the animal you could learn about the human."
At many medical institutions at the time (and even today), comparative medicine was seen more as a service arm than an academic pursuit. At Hopkins, however, giving veterinary post-docs such as Adams academic appointments—he was appointed an assistant professor in the division in 1978—and putting them side-by-side as academic peers with researchers in the division began to give veterinarians the institution-wide respect they were due.
Adams' post-doc and fellowship contemporaries in the division have championed important research across the medical spectrum, most notably regarding HIV. Chris Zink, D.V.M., Ph.D., has spent more than 20 years studying the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is similar to HIV. Her pathology lab recently discovered an inexpensive antibiotic that suppresses reproduction of SIV/HIV in animals, as well as neurodegeneration and brain inflammation associated with the virus.
Joseph Mankowski, D.V.M., Ph.D., has long worked with neurology and cardiology faculty; his lab identified biomarkers that predict the onset of central nervous system disease arising from SIV/HIV. Janice Clements, Ph.D., director of the division's retrovirus lab and first director of the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, has developed animal models of AIDS-related dementia, and shown how SIV/HIV replicates differently in the central nervous system than it does in the blood. Julie Watson, M.A., Vet.M.B., Director of the Rodent Health Program, has devised unique methods for eliminating diseases—specifically the commonly spread Helicobacter bacteria—from contaminating the mouse and rat colonies. Her work is vital, given the number of genetically modified rodents researchers need.
What many of these researchers have in common—along with other Ph.D.'s outside the division—is the credit they give Bob Adams for the successes they've achieved. Sometimes the assistance was technical—like the time Chris Zink needed to biopsy a monkey's spleen, as that organ stores a lot of SIV virus. One problem: "The spleen is a very bloody organ; there's no way you could just take a piece off without the animal probably hemorrhaging to death," says Zink, interim chair of the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology. In stepped Adams, who designed a surgery using a small, sterile plastic cable tie that allowed a part of the spleen to be removed safely, without harm to the animal. "He has the knowledge of where all the blood vessels are, all the things to make it work," says Zink.
Janice Clements frequently relies on Adams' keen observational skills. "We're looking at animal models of AIDS and the effect of virus on the brain, and very often the early signs are very subtle. He observes the animals every day. Each one has a personality, a routine. When he sees a break from a lack of appetite, even their reaction to him, that's what he picks up on," says Clements.
Still, for all his research accomplishments, Adams remains in his head and heart a workingman's vet, more comfortable attending to animals than dealing with humans. If there's a legacy to be had, it will be in the rigor he's inculcated at Hopkins to ensure that laboratory animals receive proper treatment. The 79-page "blue book" he regularly updated—Use of Experimental Animals at Johns Hopkins University—is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of animal care and procurement, including correct handling of different species, analgesics and anesthetics to be used during surgical procedures, and a guide to safely handling animals.
That commitment to safety may be most evident in the colony of monkeys he's bred for the institution. Herpes-B is inherent in "old world" macaques, the type of monkeys often used in research. Herpes-B is potentially fatal in humans, and can be spread through contact with infected monkeys through bites, feces, or urine. The media attention given to the death of a veterinarian at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center from exposure to a Herpes-B infected monkey gave the public insight into the potential dangers involved. It took several decades, but by carefully testing and mating animals, Adams has been able to safely create a large colony of rhesus macaques that are predominantly Herpes-B negative, one of the few primate colonies in North America that can make that claim. A recent NIH grant now has Adams beginning to replicate those results with his pigtail macaque colony—which promises big advantages for researchers since pigtails develop SIV far more quickly (80 days versus as long as two years) than their rhesus brethren.
With Christian Newcomer, V.M.D., now acting as Associate Provost for Animal Research and Resources, and with Laboratory Animal Medicine now administered elsewhere in the department, Adams, at 57, says he's happy. Finally, he says, "I don't have to manage anyone but myself." He's content to teach and preserve the service aspect of the four-year Laboratory Animal Medicine post-doc program, which over time has swung over to emphasize research. "The first year is funded by animal resources, so we can train the veterinarians like residents," Adams explains. (The department also has a shorter Laboratory Animal Medicine residency program for vets that is predominantly service-oriented.) "After that, they spend increasingly more time in the lab, doing research."
With only a few more years until he rides off into the sunset, Adams hopes that he's leaving behind for researchers a better understanding of the important role he and his veterinary colleagues play in the institution. "I'm not here to hold up a 'stop' sign to researchers who want to conduct animal experiments," says Adams, who remains on the Animal Care and Use Committee. "I'm here to hold up a 'slow' sign. Maybe 'Yield.' We have a police function, a regulatory function where we try to keep everybody out of trouble."
For the most part, Adams has done just that. And his reputation as being Hopkins' equivalent of the Shell Answer Man for animals has left him with, if nothing else, some memorable tales. Calls for peregrine falcons on buildings, sightings of a mink on campus ("A mink?" he laughs. "It was a rat!"), a zoo gorilla who grabbed Adams during an on-site procedure and threatened to turn him into a rag doll ("…all of a sudden this hand reached out and grabbed my ankle!")…yeah, the man has had a pretty colorful career. He's most proud of the dozens of post-docs he's trained to carry on his ideals and his commitment to animal care. Woody Allen once said that 80 percent of success is showing up, but when it comes to providing veterinary care, Bob Adams says that number falls about 20 percent short. "We go to where the animal is—Bayview, Homewood. That wasn't done in the real old days," says Adams. "I've heard stories of calves having to be wheeled across the street because the veterinarian wouldn't go to them. If I had any role, maybe I brought the program to where it was more credible, and people could rely on it."
Just like they've learned to rely on him.
Andy Glenn has just finished his newest contraption: a gumball machine for marmosets.
Live mealworms, a marmoset delicacy, wriggle around on top. By pushing out with his hands, a marmoset can watch the worms as they slowly fall to the bottom. "Animals can spend up to 90 percent of their free time foraging," Glenn explains. "So I try to occupy their time and stimulate them so they appreciate the food reward."
While the marmosets enjoy their mealworm snack, Glenn notes proudly, they can sit back and watch the latest shows on their big screen TV, complete with surround sound.
Hopkins' resident animal enrichment expert, Andy Glenn is a unique hybrid; part Dr. Doolittle, part MacGyver. In between his rounds with the animals every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, where he monitors, trains, and plays with the Hopkins menagerie, Glenn cloisters himself in his "workshop" to create new gadgets to enrich the animals' lives.
His mission: to ensure the psychological well-being for all of Hopkins' research animals. "I'm doing my best to remove the mentality that the animals are simply here for our benefit," says the 31-year-old. "This should be as symbiotic a relationship as possible."
The big-screen TV notwithstanding (it came as a donation), Glenn, with assistant Natalie Green, works within a modest budget. He makes use of simple and inexpensive items—PVC pipes, plastic boxes, nylon webbing—to make jungle gyms, ornate perches, obstacle courses and other items that help the animals maximize their time in the cages. And no cookie cutter shortcuts either; be it cat or catfish, Glenn customizes each item to match the client.
Glenn is eager to expand the reach of his enterprise. He is teaming up with the Baltimore Zoo to design enrichment toys for some of their animals (first on the agenda will be a raft for the penguins) and local shelters to help socialize research dogs to make them better adoption candidates once they finish their tenure.
The Towson University graduate has also gone back to his alma mater and started an internship program that allows students to do four-week rotations with him and get a hands-on introduction to animal care. The program benefits both the animals, which get exposure to more faces and thus are more comfortable around people, and humans, who get exposure to a still-overlooked facet of medical institutions. "Young people interested in working with animals only think about glamorous jobs like park ranger or dolphin trainer," he says. "Research animals need help too." —Nick Zagorski


text: If your intestinal fat problem isn't too bad, then a mini stomach reduction could be the right way to go. Fat is then removed and the wound would be stitched closed. A mini stomach reduction won't take too much time to recover compared with a full stomach reduction. Getting up out of bed would be difficult for a couple of days, as would be going to the loo. When you're feeling you can, try and move about to gets the blood flow going. When going to sleep, 2 pillows under the knees and behind the head will act to ease the strain on the surgical incision and will assist in alleviating pain. Heavier work outs including intestinal crunches, sit ups and running shouldn't be tried for approximately one month. Will I Need to Wear a Special Garment? Yes, abdominal reduction patients should wear a compressive corset supplied by Doctor This is pretty much related to the proven fact that an abdominal reduction is a shallow plastic surgery targeting the skin and fat and higher muscle layers and not concerning major or critical organs.


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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 26, 2007
Recent cases of avian flu in dead poultry have been registered in the Russian capital and two adjacent regions, the emergencies ministry said Monday. "Since February 10, dead poultry have been found in Moscow, eight districts of the Moscow Region and a district in the Kaluga Region," the ministry said. "Traces of the deadly H5N1 virus have been confirmed at private farms at 10 locations in these areas."
No cases of humans infected with the virus have been registered so far and emergency measures have been taken to stop the spread of the disease.
"Overall, 2,146 birds have been culled," a ministry's spokesperson said.
According to the World Health Organization, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has infected at least 273 people from 11 countries and claimed 167 human lives since it first appeared in Asia in 2003. It has since spread worldwide, and scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form transmissible between humans, sparking a global pandemic.
Russia recorded its first cases of avian flu in August 2005, but until now outbreaks have occurred only in southern provinces and in Siberia.
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ok here is the question. I bought an used 330ci with sport package. Is it possible to change my wheel to have the front and the rear the same so I can rotate the tires? a little late since I just replaced all four tires but still like to know so I might change it and sell the new tires.
[QUOTE=Gary@Tirerack]Yes, you can change your wheels and tires so that they are no longer staggered. This is no problem on your car.[/QUOTE
cool...i guess when i replace my wheels, i will do that
Lots on this forum (on non-M3's) run the same size wheels at each corner. I have the same wheels on my car and am going to 18x8.5's all around. You'll be able to find lots of nice rims in 8" and 8.5" wide.
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text: Lady Gaga is known for her weird dressing sense and has been dogged by controversies including her "Judas" music video. However, she considers cocaine as a devil. She requested her fans to stay away from drugs."To any little sweethearts that are listening - dont touch cocaine, its the devil. I think that I was lonely and there was something about the drug that made me feel like I had a friend. And I regret every line that I ever did. Whatever my vagina whispers to me, I say yes - inspiration, it doesnt come all the time," she told radio DJ Howard Stern on New York station Z100.The "Poker Face" hit maker however refused to talk on her reported break up with Luc Carl. "What boyfriend? - Whos Jean Luc? I got laid last night - the guys who are here are my best friends in the whole world. Youre talking about Luc Carl, hes been my best friend since I was 19," she said.


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So I put up a little paper test-swatch light diffuser thingy on the set of bulbs in front of the Church classroom. ĀI'd like people's opinions on the quality of light underneath it. ĀI think you can definitely tell a difference, but I'd like others' opinions before I run out and get stuff to do the whole space.

Specific feedback that'd be useful would include:

- Does it seem to make much difference on how the light feels / eye strain / visibility

- Does it seem to dim the area beneath it too much? ĀIs it still easy to see the "little fiddly bits" with that level of light?

If it seems to be a real improvement over the quality of light that's there now, then I'll probably work on getting all the fixtures set up with this. ĀIf it's a marginal improvement, I might just do some of the more glaring (pun intended) areas. ĀIf it seems too dim, then I'll be careful not to mess with the 'fiddly bit' areas.

As an aside, while I was poking around looking for stuff, I found some what looks like vinyl or gel or something that would be a really interesting thing to mess around with to see if we could change the hue of the light in the space a bit without terribly messing up color distinction. Ā(There's nothing worse than trying to read resistor color codes under a monochrome light.)

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Bellflower residents used to say, half-jokingly, that their City Council couldn't work together well enough to get the minutes of their meetings approved. Now, though, City Hall practically glows with collegiality.
The town reflects it. Downtown areas have become downright inviting; a pirate-themed park and fountain attract dozens of families and others to Friendship Park, and hundreds show up for free movies in the plaza. Last year, American City and County magazine named Bellflower one of 10 America's Crown Communities.
Candidates in the city's council election even seem to get along, so well in fact you'd think they were running together instead of against each other. So evenly matched are some that many voters should have a hard time deciding on March 3.
The one easy decision is the incumbent, Scott A. Larsen, running for one of two open positions. Larsen, a CPA and eight-year veteran on the council, is one of the reasons life in Bellflower continues to get better. He is a passionate advocate of a high-speed magnetic-levitation train that someday could streak between Orange County and L.A. (with a stop in Bellflower), but he is equally passionate about what's best for his hometown today. He well deserves re-election.
Dan L. Koops, who is Larsen's running mate, at least as far as shared campaign mailings are concerned, is best suited for the second council opening. Koops, a native of Bellflower, owner of a Bellflower appliance store and member of the city's Planning Commission for 18 years, knows the town as well as anyone and has a reasoned and farsighted view of its future that is much deeper than most. As a member of the Bellflower-
Somerset Mutual Water Company, he also has badly needed expertise on the community's water problems, which are challenging.
The other candidates are Sonny Santa Ines, chief financial officer for a nonprofit organization and a city planning commissioner; Paul Helzer, a local chiropractor and member of the Bellflower Unified School District Board of Education; John Laskowski, a retired water worker, and Pat Thibodeaux, a computer systems specialist for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. All make good arguments for expanding the reach of their public service.
It's hard to go wrong with a candidate lineup like that, which bodes well for Bellflower. But if we had to choose, it would be Scott Larsen and Dan Koops.
Yes on Measure A
On the back page of the ballot in Bellflower's election March 3 is a proposition that is hugely important to the city's financial health, Measure A. It deserves approval.
The measure is similar to those already approved by voters in nearby cities such as Lakewood and Long Beach. It modifies a utility users tax, approved previously by voters, to deal with changes in communication technologies.
Without its approval, the city would be out $1.8 million in revenue it can hardly afford to forgo. Bellflower residents should recall that, unlike most cities, its City Hall employees voluntarily took unpaid 12-day leaves to help cope with declining city revenues. Council members, who can't legally cut their own pay, wrote checks to contribute their share, and even unpaid members of city commissions gave up a proportionate share of their modest meeting stipends.
That's the kind of city Bellflower is. Now voters can show their appreciation, by voting yes on Measure A.


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It is now time for me to face, what has always been, the inevitable.
Kind of surprised but not really. Ozzie plays the nfl version of moneyball.
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Juice must really be impressing the coaches. And/or there's a FA out there that they want to get now...
At the end of the day, I was in denial and defended Leach's presence to the bitter end.
However, the reality was clear. Rice was picking up more yardage in single back and Caldwell was running more three wide. When you combine that with the desire for more Two TE sets, the writing was on the wall.
Victor Cruz' $2.8M deal goes to $600K on June 17th. I bet he'd be very open to a long term deal prior to the 17th. Pure speculation on my part but what do they need this money for?
It might not be anything with big money involved. Isn't Casey Hampton still available? He could be brought in to backup Ngata at NT. Randy Moss is still available.
Totally scratching my head over here. Doesn't make a shred of sense unless another move is coming.


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The deal
- Tour for 1 person for $148
The experience
Explore the scenic countryside of Hong Kong with a trip to Jing Hui organic farm. Stroll amongst vegetable fields, fish ponds, and feed small animals such as goats and rabbits, before departing for the flea-market interiors of Red Brick House. Shop for scented candles, handicrafts, houseware items, and more and bring back tangible memories of the trip. Continue travels at the Kun Ting Study Hall, a former centre of worship and studies during the 1900s, the two-hall building was then used as a police station and land office during the British occupation, and has now become a popular tourist destination. After a scrumptious abalone dinner, head to the Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve and watch as glowing fire-flies flit through the night sky and surrounding forest.
- Assemble at 1pm Wan Chai CTS and 1:30pm Kowloon Tong MTR
- Jing Hui farm
- Red Brick House
- Kun Ting Study Hall
- Dinner
- Tai Po Kau firefly sightseeing (Bent-wing firefly guided tour in May & Sep)
- Dismissal at Kowloon Tong MTR
Dinner menu
- Steamed abalone
- Fish
- Steamed eggplant with with garlic
- Duck dish
- Boiled shrimps
- Baked steak with oranges
- Roasted duck
- Vegetables
- Rice
- Fruits
- Child aged below 2 years without meals: $80 per person.
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I Will Sleep In Your Generator Room I Swear - Poem by Hontonnu Dominic
i will sleep in your generator room i swear
If your dad don't want someone like me
And your mum think my love is too local for your heart
i will jump the fence and sleep in your generator room
i will make the noise my music
i will dance to every sound it give
i will make the carbon dioxide my air
i will sing in the tone of the machines till your parent sees the otherside of me
i will make the generator my bed
i will make the petrol/disal my drinking water
i will stay till am wanted
i will make the generator room my room i swear
i will live on the smoke
And keep my love hot for you
Till am burn of love for you!
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Etta Harris,nee Gilbert, age 96, beloved wife of the late Irving; loving mother of Herb (Sandra) and Sheila (Arnold) Landsman; dear mother-in-law of IraGordon; adored grandma of Debbie (Danny) Grant, Ricky (Laural) Gordon, Arnie (Nancy) Harris, Susan (Brad) Kovin and David (Julie) Harris; proud great grandmother of 11; fond stepsister of Frances Abbott.
Graveside service Sunday, 11 a.m. at Waldheim Cemetery, Gate 269, 18th & Harlem, Forest Park.
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Source: California Invasive Plant Council
URL of this page: http://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/management/plant_profiles/Carduus_pycnocephalus.php
Carduus pycnocephalus (Italian thistle)
Carduus pycnocephalus
Photo courtesy Joseph DiTomaso
Carduus pycnocephalus (Italian thistle) is a winter annual forb (family Asteraceae) widely distributed in disturbed open sites, roadsides, pastures, annual grasslands, and waste areas in much of California.
Cal-IPC Inventory rating: Moderate
Cal-IPC Resources on Carduus pycnocephalus
- California Invasive Plant Inventory Plant Assessment Form - Information gathered by Cal-IPC on the impacts, rate of spread, and distribution of invasive plants in California. Does not include management information.
- CalWeedMapper - Statewide maps, climate models, and reports.
- Species account from Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands - Includes biology and management information.
- Cal-IPC News - Articles from our quarterly newsletter. Each issue is available as a pdf. List of articles on Carduus pycnocephalus.
- Cal-IPC Symposium Proceedings - Presentations and papers from our annual Symposium. List of articles on Carduus pycnocephalus.
- Weed Worker's Handbook (pdf) - Includes reproduction factors and treatment options.
- California distribution map - Maps based on survey data from county Weed Management Areas. These maps are the product of those working in the field and are not intended to be definitive.
Cal-IPC News Articles
- O'Rourke, B. and J. Horenstein (2009). Tackling invasive plants on California Sept. of Fish & Game lands. Cal-IPC News. 17: 12.
- (1993). California Exotic Pest Plant Council draft list exotic plants of greatest concern October 1993. CalEPPC News. 1: 6.
- Dozier, M. (2007). Shasta County citizens take on weeds. Cal-IPC News. 14: 4-5.
- Kelly, M. (1997). Lessons from the front: Taking stock to avoid surprises. CalEPPC NEWS. 5: 4-7.
- Massera, J. (2001). More about Italian thistle. CalEPPC News. 9: 14.
- Pitcairn, M. (2000). All weeds that have approved biological control agents, accidental introductions and others. CalEPPC News. 8.
Cal-IPC Symposium Proceedings
- Archbald, G. (1998). Mechanical control methods: beyond weed bashing. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium '98. Ontario, CA.
- Boyd, D. (1997). Eucapyptus removal on Angel Island. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium '97. Concord, CA.
- Briscoe, E. and T. Anderson (2000). War on weeds - invasive weed education and outreach program. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium 2000. Concord, CA.
- Clines, J., J. DiTomaso, et al. (2004). Fire working group. California Invasive Plant Council Symposium 2004. Ventura, CA.
- Guerriero, A. (2002). Monitoring Carduus pycnocephalus (Italian thistle) on grasslands in coastal central California. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium 2002. Sacramento, CA.
- Pirosko, C. and S. Schoenig (2004). Forbs working group. California Invasive Plant Council Symposium 2004. Ventura, CA.
- Pitcairn, M. J. and D. M. Woods (1998). Control methods: Biological control. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium '98. Ontario, CA.
- Pitcairn, M. J. and D. M. Woods (1998). Control methods: biological control. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium 1998. Ontario, CA.
Other Resources on Carduus pycnocephalus
- USDA PLANTS database - Federal database with information on identification and distribution, and links to websites in individual states.
- Jepson Online Interchange for California Flora - Information on taxonomy, biology, and distribution from the UC Berkeley Jepson Herbarium.
- CalFlora - Distribution information by county based on submitted observations and herbarium specimens.
- The Nature Conservancy Management Summary - Information compiled by TNC land managers. Photos included for some species.
- Encycloweedia - Plants rated as noxious weeds by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
- CalPhotos - Images of plants taken mostly in California.
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Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (www.beg.utexas.edu).
invited luncheon presentation for San Antonio Chapter of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES), September 16, 2004
Understanding Growth-Faulted, Intraslope Subbasins and Associated Reservoir Targets by Applying Sequence Stratigraphic Principles: Examples from the South Texas Oligocene Frio Formation
Robert G. Loucks, L. Frank Brown, Jr., Ramón H. Treviño, and Ursula Hammes
Detailed analysis of Oligocene Frio Formation intraslope growth-faulted subbasins in the Corpus Christi, Texas, area indicates that deposition during relative lowstands of sea level was the main initiator, or "trigger," of growth faulting. Lowstand depocenters on the low-gradient upper continental slope comprising basin-floor-fan facies, slope-fan systems, and prograding lowstand delta systems exerted sufficient gravity stress to trigger major sections of outer shelf and upper slope strata to fail and move basinward. The faults sole out deep in the basin, and rotation of hanging-wall blocks mobilized deep-water muds and forced the mud basinward and upward to form mud (shale) ridges that constitute the basinward flank of intraslope subbasins overlying footwall fault blocks.
Lowstand sedimentation associated with third-order falls of relative sea level produced load stress that triggered major regional syndepositional growth-fault systems. Subbasins on the downthrown side of each arcuate fault segment composing a regional fault system were filled during a single lowstand of sea level. Consequently, genetically similar but diachronous lowstand depositional systems filled each successive growth-faulted subbasin trend. The subbasin development and fill extended the Frio shelf edge stepwise into the Oligocene Gulf of Mexico Basin. Thus each successive, basinward subbasin was younger than the previous landward subbasin.
Lithostratigraphic Frio and Anahuac strata comprise six chronostratigraphic, third-order depositional sequences (~32.0-23.38 Ma) and myriad fourth- and fifth-order sequences or parasequence sets. Except for incised valley fills, lowstand tracts comprise off-shelf systems deposited within active, growth-faulted, intraslope subbasins. Off-shelf and on-shelf deposition are temporally unique. Maximum Anahuac flooding (~24.57 Ma) provided a regional, dated marker to which latest published ages of sequence surfaces were calibrated. Maximum flooding surfaces and type 1 unconformities are essentially isochronous, but sand-rich lithofacies are mostly diachronous.
Sequence-stratigraphic analyses of Oligocene (Frio Formation) growth-faulted subbasins in Corpus Christi Bay and offshore Mustang Island demonstrate that current exploration targets compose sand-rich, proximal, deltaic, prograding wedge, and incised-valley-fill sandstones, respectively. Postdepositional crestal faults on rollover anticlines provide reservoir trapping mechanisms. Wireline-log facies of productive reservoirs in the subbasins are genetically similar, but more than 10 mi (> 15 km) apart, and several major faults separate successive subbasins. A methodology is presented that incorporates the sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of each subbasin, which improves correlations of systems tracts between the widely separated subbasins. This methodology consists of composite wireline logs created by splicing unfaulted and relatively conformable log segments from the deepest wells in an area. The composite log provides a stratigraphic record that captures a complete succession of depositional and cyclic history. Site-specific sequence-stratigraphic-section (S5) benchmark charts contain composite logs and additional data that summarize available geologic information for a specific subbasin.
Growth-faulted subbasins all along the Texas coast have been prolific petroleum targets for decades and are now the focus of prospecting for deep, on-shelf gas. Lowstand basin-floor and slope-fan sandstones are the principal gas targets. Understanding the origin of the growth-faulted subbasins and their chronostratigraphic relationships and depositional processes provides a perspective that can improve deep on-shelf exploration.


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My first reaction, and my second, third and fourth, was the howl of pain.
Conservatives on Twitter howl derisively at these polls as if their purveyors are offering alchemical cures for venereal disease.
That whole subplot seemed to me like a reference to the Ginsberg poem "howl" and the idea of man rebelling against the status quo.
At some point, we all decided to get what we could out of our 10 bucks and howl at every ridiculous scene.
She would parade around on the BBC and I'd just howl at her.
The howl called their mother's attention to the garden, and then she saw them.
On a distant mountain-side he heard the howl of a lonely wolf.
The baby across the street uttered a howl of anguish at the sight.
He had not finished a quarter of them, when the dog began to howl.
I was afraid, though, that I should have to howl; but I am all right now.
early 13c., houlen, probably ultimately of imitative origin; similar formations are found in other Germanic languages. Related: Howled; howling. As a noun from 1590s.