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Meth Babies Behavior
March 21, 2012 by staff
Meth Babies Behavior, The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children.
The behavior differences – anxiety, depression, moodiness – weren't huge, but lead researcher Linda LaGasse called them "very worrisome."
Methamphetamine is a stimulant like crack cocaine, and earlier research showed meth babies have similarities to so-called "crack babies" – smaller in size and prone to drowsiness and stress. Results in long-term studies conflict on whether children of cocaine-using mothers have lasting behavior problems.
Whether problems persist in young children of meth users is unknown. But LaGasse, who does research at Brown University's Center of the Study of Children at Risk, said methamphetamine has stronger effects on the brain so it may be more likely to cause lasting effects in children.
The study was published online Monday in Pediatrics. The National Institutes of Health paid for the research, including a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Government data suggest more than 10 million Americans have used meth; fewer than 1 percent of pregnant women are users.
Joseph Frascella, who heads a behavioral division at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the research is among "groundbreaking" studies examining effects of substance abuse during pregnancy.
But because the study is a first, the results should be viewed cautiously and need to be repeated, he said.
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Yesterday I was watching a Tree Bumblebee (queen I assume from the size), it appeared to be examining potential nest sites (2 to 3 mtr from the ground)
My understanding was that queens dispersed late in the year, hibernated and then looked for nest sites in the spring. Is this wrong or does it vary species to species?
Hi aDub,
With B. hypnorum a small number of "second cycle" colonies are formed.
We don't know much about them, so all info will be very useful.
I've seen this species flying as late a s October.
Interestingly, I've seen B. hyp queens in the spring nest searching along vertical surfaces in the past. Both along house walls and fences: and this is pretty unusual for bumblebees in general.
(Althougy a few colonies of B. terrestris, pascuorum and lapidarius do occur naturally in Bird Boxes.)
Yours Clive

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The University of Alberta Canada is using $41 million ($33.5 million in U.S. dollars) in research funding to develop a center to study prion and protein folding diseases.
Called the University of Alberta Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, sixteen researchers from different disciplines within the University are joining forces to try and find answers to why some cows contract BSE and others don't. Other research initiatives include developing a BSE test for use on live cattle and developing an environmentally friendly way to dispose of wastewater from slaughterhouses.
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Shotgun Sessions at Content Marketing World 2012 #cmworld
I was very fortunate to share the Content Marketing World stage with some very talented folks this week from Stein Partners Brand Activation, Kapost, Online Marketing Institute, Chevrolet, and Cisco Systems. Are you kidding me?
Luckier still, Sarah Skerik @sarahskerik vice president of social media for PR Newswire did a great recap of the Shotgun Sessions on the PR Newswire blog.
So check out the recap of the Content Marketing World Shotgun Sessions.
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Last week we asked readers to help us capture a snapshot of U.S. market contactless/RFID terminalization. We were pleased to get 43 brave souls to respond.
Here are the (admittedly anything but scientific) results:
We also asked respondents to identify themselves by role. Not surprisingly, the average optimism was higher among POS vendors and card networks than among merchant acquirers/ISOs. But merchants themselves were relatively upbeat:
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Phase IIa Study of WBI-1001 Cream for Atopic Dermatitis (WBI-1001-201)
This study has been completed.
Welichem Biotech Inc.
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Welichem Biotech Inc.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: February 3, 2009
Last updated: NA
Last verified: February 2009
History: No changes posted
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Detailed Description:
WBI-1001 is a synthetic,new, non-steroid, small molecule being developed as a candidate drug for the topical, cream treatment of inflammatory skin diseases. As such, it affects T-cells through inhibition of T-cell activities including their infiltration processes, and it shows direct anti-inflammatory manifestation in the mouse edema model. This was a 28 day study (plus one follow-up week) on patients with Atopic Dermatitis, and 36 patients were treated randomly, BID with either 0.5%, 1.0% or placebo. Blood samples were taken weekly for PK analysis.
|Dermatitis, Atopic
|Drug: WBI-1001
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Vehicle-Controlled Phase IIa Study to Evaluate Topically Applied WBI-1001 Cream in Patients With Atopic Dermatitis.
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: atopic dermatitis
MedlinePlus related topics: EczemaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Welichem Biotech Inc.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- To evaluate skin lesion condition as a measure of safety and tolerability of WBI-1001 treated AD patients. [ Time Frame: 0, 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 days ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Assess systemic exposure of WBI-1001 treated AD patients by measuring plasma PK. [ Time Frame: 0, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days ]
- Explore efficacy of topically applied WBI-1001 cream in patients with AD. [ Time Frame: 0, 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 days. ]
|Study Start Date:
|March 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Placebo Comparator: 1 Placebo cream
0% cream 12 patients
Drug: WBI-1001
Doses of 0,0.5% and 1.0% cream. Topical cream application. Twice daily for 28 days. Duration of treatment: 28 days with one week follow-up.
Active Comparator: 2. Cream
0.5% WBI-1001 cream 12 patients
Drug: WBI-1001
Doses of 0,0.5% and 1.0% cream. Topical cream application. Twice daily for 28 days. Duration of treatment: 28 days with one week follow-up.
Active Comparator: 3. Cream
1.0% WBI-1001 cream 12 patients
Drug: WBI-1001
Doses of 0,0.5% and 1.0% cream. Topical cream application. Twice daily for 28 days. Duration of treatment: 28 days with one week follow-up.
Detailed Description:
A double-blind, single-centered, vehicle-controlled, randomized Phase IIa study of WBI-1001 on patients with mild to moderate Atopic Dermatitis (AD). All body areas were treatable except face, scalp, groin and genital areas. Cream applied BID between 6.00 and 10.00am and 7.00 and 10.00pm daily for 4 weeks. Blood draws for PK analysis were taken weekly at the study centre prior to the morning cream application. Patients returned to the study centre approximately one week later for a follow-up visit.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- AD diagnosis (based on Hanifin's criteria) presenting a minimum of 1% and a maximum of 10% body surface area (BSA) excluding face, groin, scalp and genital areas.
- Disease severity index (EASI) of less than 12, Investigator's Global Assessment (IGA) of 2-3 at Day 0.
- In good general health and free of any condition that might impair evaluation of AD.
- Women of child bearing potential (WOCBP) had to have a negative a negative serum human-beta chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test before randomization.
WOCBP had to abstain from sex or they and their partners had to use adequate contraceptive precautions for the duration of the study.
- Willing and able to comply with the protocol and attend all study visits.
- Provide a written informed consent form prior to initiation of study procedures.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Had spontaneously improving or rapidly deteriorating AD.
- Had AD lesions on only hands and/or feet.
- Had skin diseases other than AD.
- Had active allergic contact dermatitis or other non-atopic forms of dermatitis.
- Had other concomitant medical condition that could put the patient at risk during the study.
- Had a history of neurological/psychiatric disorders that could interfere with the patient's participation.
- Had systemic immunomodulatory therapies within 12 weeks prior to the baseline visit.
- Had prolonged exposure to natural or artificial ultraviolet radiation within 4 weeks of baseline visit.
- Had phototherapy (including laser), photo-chemotherapy or systemic AD therapy within 4 weeks prior to baseline visit.
- Had topical AD therapies in the areas to be treated within 2 weeks prior to the baseline visit.
- Had alcohol abuse in the last 2 years.
- Had allergic history to any non-medical ingredients of the study cream.
- Were treated with an investigational drug within 1 month of Day 0 or were currently participating in another trial.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00837551
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00837551
|Canada, Quebec
|Innovaderm Research Inc.,
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2K 4L5
Sponsors and Collaborators
Welichem Biotech Inc.
|Principal Investigator:
|Robert Bissonnette, MD
|Innovaderm Research Inc.
More Information
Keywords provided by Welichem Biotech Inc.:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Robert Bissonnette, Innovaderm Reseaerch Inc.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00837551 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
WBI-1001-201: Control # 119727
|Study First Received:
|February 3, 2009
|Last Updated:
|February 3, 2009
Keywords provided by Welichem Biotech Inc.:
Small molecule
Topical cream
Inflammatory disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dermatitis, Atopic
Skin Diseases
Skin Diseases, Genetic
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Skin Diseases, Eczematous
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases
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Rainer Maninging's blog The Love Life Of An Asian Guy advertises "flirting, dating and other shit you probably won't read," but I read it anyway.
He created a handy-dandy Asian dating guide for non-Asians. I understand that stereotypes are a huge factor in dating, and they pop up, even if we try to fight them. But Rainer Maninging is not trying to fight them. He says:
Related: 10 Reasons I Would Never Date A Runner Even Though I Am One
Mystical Korean Guys:
- Seem to be a bit aloof.
- Just sit on their side of the couch, looking at their phones, not really talking to anyone. It's almost as if they live in this confined bubble of themselves, their close friends, and their girlfriend – not really jumping out or trying to interact with others. They truly stay within the Korean circle and are proud of it.
- Are perfect for you if you're looking for an Asian sugar daddy because Korean housewives are very, very rich.
Two-Sided Chinese Guys:
- Have their shit together.
- Chinese guys are often picky about your actual attributes, e.g., what school did you go to? What is your degree? Is your family wealthy? Are you well mannered?
Party-Rockin Vietnamese Guys:
- Are the most likely to be ghetto.
- Are not as rich as our Korean and Chinese brothers, but they definitely like to spend their money on "duh Elle-Vee" and other designer branded bullshit.
- Party like crazy, they can get a bit rowdy, and they're fun to joke around with.
- buy their girlfriends a lot of crap – be it a hello kitty cellphone case or a Louis Vuitton toilet seat cover.
- Are D.A.F = Down as F*CK! A Viet guy will bring a machete to your nephew's 8th grade graduation if he knew his rival gang member were showing up.
Calm And Collected Japanese Guys:
- Have a lot of money yet they're nowhere near as prudish as Chinese and Korean guys.
- Don't seem as high maintenance as other guys yet they know how to have their fun.
- Are the way to go if you want a good man.
- Can sometimes feel like they "wear the pants" of the relationship.
Related: 10 Things They Never Tell You About Marrying A Chef
Laid-Back Filipino Guys:
- Aren't the richest of Asians, but they are definitely the most culturally diverse and down to earth.
- Are the least snobby, least high maintenance, and most humorous of Asians.
At the end, he writes a kind-of disclaimer:
All Asians are different. The "types' of Asians that I described simply illustrates the kinds of Asians that I've encountered through my own experiences. My purpose for writing this blog is to simply answer the question that many people ask: "What are (Korean/Japanese/Filipino/Vietnamese/Chinese) Guys like?" This post is a basic, if not somewhat stereotypical example of the kinds of Asians that I encounter. There is a wide variation within each and I encourage everyone reader to use this as just a starting point. Read this, get a better understanding, and go out in the world and figure out what the different types of Asians are like for your own self. Even better, go date a few!
Related: 9 Things They Never Tell You About Dating A Dancer
Somewhat stereotypical? Use this as a starting point? If all Asians are different, then the question "What are they like?" is pretty irrelevant. (And they are all different.) File this under: ways to be a bad dater.


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HS2 could make cities in the North and Midlands 'global leaders', according to key figures from politics, business and the trade union movement.
The Growth Taskforce – which counts Sir John Rose, ex-CEO of Rolls-Royce, Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC and former Trafford Council leader, Matt Colledge, among its members – delivered its recommendations to the Government on March 24, following a report published by HS2 boss, Sir David Higgins, last week.
The Taskforce report calls for action to simplify and 'join up' funding to deliver fast construction around HS2 stations sites.
The report also calls for development of brown field land on the route and calls for city regions to work together to integrate local transport networks.
Taskforce members agree that a 'business as usual' approach will not be enough, and calls for the same levels of ambition and collaboration that saw Britain deliver a 'hugely successful' Olympic Games.
Lord Deighton, Taskforce chairman, Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and the former chief executive of London 2012, said: "Like the Olympics, HS2 has the potential to be a great British success story, bringing jobs and growth to the whole country."
Cllr Colledge said: "HS2 offers a once in a life time opportunity for our great cities to fully realise their enormous potential and in doing so, significantly drive the UK economy upwards.
"There is nothing else that possesses the ability to drive growth, create jobs and generate prosperity across the whole country.
"Our recommendations suggest that if handled properly, the benefits of HS2 will be felt by communities and businesses, many of which may never set foot on a high speed train, for decades to come."


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ADM profits soar 550 percent as ethanol margins improve
In Illinois, Archer Daniels Midland Company reported a 550 percent jump in quarterly net earnings to $446 million, reporting that "profit in ADM's Oilseeds Processing segment increased $ 132 million due to improved margins and higher volumes," and that "corn Processing profit increased $ 151 million on stronger bioproducts results."
Overall, the company reported net earnings of $1.9 billion for the year ended June 30, 2010, up $246 million over the year ended June 2009.
The company reported that "Bioproducts profit in the quarter was up significantly from last year's loss due to better ethanol and lysine margins. At present, ADM has begun production at its Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ethanol dry mill, which should be fully operational by the end of August. And, in Decatur, Ill., the Company is working through startup issues at its propylene glycol plant, which should be fully operational by end of the calendar year."
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Rome: World No.1 Rafael Nadal dug deep to maintain his chances of defending his Rome Masters title with a gutsy come-from-behind 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 win against Andy Murray on Friday in the quarter-finals.
Murray had won only five of his past 18 matches against Nadal but held the bragging rights from their most-recent two – a walkover win in the Miami Masters semis and victory in the Tokyo Open final in 2011 – both hardcourt events.
Despite form doubts lingering following a long absence because of back surgery early in the year, Murray produced a stunning performance at the Foro Italico to underline his form leading into the French Open later this month.
The Scot won the opening set 6-1, leaving claycourt king Nadal to tinker with tactics in the second set in a bid to pull level.
In a much tighter third set, Nadal maintained his momentum by winning three breaks to two for Murray.
The Spaniard broke in the first game, only for Murray to break back immediately in a second game in which the Scot pull off an incredible pull-back shot that stunned Nadal and had the crowd in raptures.
That gave Murray some momentum and the British No.1 held serve to go 2-1 in front.
Both players held serve in the next two games and, with the score at 3-2, Murray raced to triple break point to break again and take a two-game lead after Nadal netted a return from a powerful serve.
Sensing defeat, the Spaniard upped his game and broke back to level at 4-4. Both players held serve over the next two games, but Nadal made the difference when he raced to triple break point in the 11th game before converting for a third time in the set for a 6-5 lead and then serving out for the win.
Nadal will meet Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the semis on Saturday, when No.2 seed Novak Djokovic faces Canada's Milos Raonic.
Djokovic ousted David Ferrer 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 while Raonic claimed his last-four spot with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 win against Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.
Italy's 10th seed Sara Errani stunned China's world No.2 Li Na 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 to make the semis for the second consecutive year.
She is on course to become the first Italian woman since Raffaella Reggi 29 years ago to win the tournament and next meets Serbian sixth seed Jelena Jankovic after she upset Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, the third seed, 6-4, 6-4.
Errani and Jankovic were joined in the last four by Ana Ivanovic, although the Serbian 11th seed had to dig deep throughout a thrilling encounter with Carla Suarez Navarro before finally beating the Spanish 13th seed 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
Ivanovic will next meet Serena Williams, who has annihilated unseeded Chinese player Zhang Shuai 6-1, 6-3.


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From B-movies to Mos Eisley and onto a galaxy of space creatures and movie monsters (misunderstood and otherwise), make-up maestro Rick Baker scarified our dreams for more than 40 years. But all good things come to an end and the special effects legend has just announced his retirement. To celebrate his work and bid farewell to the great man, here's a look back into the archives at some of the monsters Mr. Baker has breathed life into...
Rick's cinematic love affair with gorillas and their other hairy friends was first seen on the big screen in 1976's King Kong. Although the effects were considered impressive for the time, Rick was never entirely happy with them, refusing to take credit for its realistic quality and instead praising the film's cinematographer, Richard H. Kline, for any lifelikeness that might have slipped through.
Rick Baker fact... Working with fellow special-effects genius Carlo Rambaldi (of E.T. and Aliens fame), the robotic Kong was 40 ft tall and over 6 tonnes in weight, and cost $1.7million. But that's mechanical monsters for you, eh?
As a make-up artist for George Lucas's first galactic outing, our man Baker was responsible for creating and playing such characters as Figrin D'an and Hem Dazon. What do you mean, 'Who are they?' You have much to learn, young padawan. In the cantina scene, Hem Dazon was the E.T.-like fella sitting next to that gold-skinned man and Firgrin was the leader of the band known as the 'Modal Nodes'. We're expecting the tune to be entering your subconscious right about... now.
Rick Baker fact... The instrument played by Figrin / Baker is known as a Kloo horn. Now you know.
Even though Rick Baker is now a byword for amazing make up, there wasn't an Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup until 1981 - an Oscar category created specifically to honour Mr Baker for his incredible work on the werewolf transformation scenes here, full of prosthetic limbs and devilish screaming. There's being good, then there's having-awards-created-for-you-good - and that's exactly what Rick Baker is, people.
Rick Baker fact... Needless to say, Rick won his first Oscar for this one, and has since collected six more.
Though not a full-length feature film, it's the closest a music video has ever come to one (we're ignoring R Kelly's hip-hopera 'Trapped In The Closet' here) and besides, it's a well catchy choon. It's interesting to note that the sound of the werewolf screaming in the song actually comes from An American Werewolf In London - and after seeing Baker's work there, it's no surprise that movie fan Michael Jackson approached the director, John Landis, to get both him and Baker on board (as one of the zombies as well as make-up supremo).
Rick Baker fact... Thriller was the first music video ever to be inducted into the U.S.'s National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.
Of all his amazing creature creations, character designs and make-up jiggery-pokery, Baker is reportedly proudest of his work in 1987's Harry And The Hendersons. It's easy to see why, as Harry was very much what made the film - and the spin-off TV show - so popular, full of human emotion as well as hairy monsteryness, and boasting the cutest smile we've ever seen on a sasquatch.
Rick Baker fact... Before he passed away unexpectedly at the end of the first series of the TV show, Harry was played by Predator actor Kevin Peter Hall. Not so cuddly now, is he?
As Baker himself will tell you, creating believable gorilla suits is one hell of a job. Before his work here, gorilla costumes failed in one key aspect: their eyes were still recognizably human eyes. At director Michael Apted's request, Baker worked at creating a special eye mask to hide the problem, which led to all the beautiful and heartfelt moments between Sigourney Weaver and her hairy chums.
Rick Baker fact... If you ignore the fact that sasquatches aren't real, Rick has worked on three more ape-based movies: King Kong (1976), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and Planet Of The Apes (2001).
Winning another Oscar for his stellar work on the original Men In Black, Baker had to deal with two visions for alien aesthetics from exec-producer Steven Spielberg and director Barry Sonnenfield, resulting in a decision at one point that some of the aliens shouldn't have eyes. Baker's response was "That's great, but how do we know where he's looking?" And with logic like that, the eyes were back in.
Rick Baker fact... You can see Rick Baker himself cameoing in Men In Black II in the MIB Headquarters. He's the fella at the Alien Registration counter, the one with the ponytail. Top beard. Human. Can't miss him.
To 'become' the Grinch, Jim Carrey had to undergo three hours of torturous latex prosthetic make-up, eventually feeling so confined and restricted by the green outer layer that he sought counseling. To show good faith, director Ron Howard also underwent the ordeal on one occasion, directing an entire day's work made up as the angry green fella. Painful though it may have been for the actors concerned, it did help Baker win his sixth Oscar, so wasn't all bad.
Rick Baker fact... The Grinch suit is covered in dyed-green yak hairs, all sewn into a spandex suit. We're really beginning to feel for poor Carrey now...
Sure, some might say it's the remake of a film that really did not need to be remade, and others might say it's Burton's most ignominious backfire, but we can all agree that the problem wasn't the make-up: the apes looked good. Of that there is no doubt. Leaping, growling and snarling their way around, their meticulously crafted faces are a joy to behold, even if the film itself isn't.
Rick Baker fact... Michael Clarke Duncan, who plays Attar, sprained his ankle on set and ended up going to the hospital, still wearing his gorilla make-up.
Besides scoring Rick yet another Oscar nod for his monster creations (yep, we're counting Rasputia as a monster), Norbit received another accolade: the most Razzie nominations for any one actor in any one film. Star Eddie Murphy ended up winning Worst Supporting Actor (as Mr. Wong), Worst Supporting Actress (as Rasputia) and Worst Actor (as Norbit) but missed out on Worst Screen Couple (Eddie Murphy and either Eddie Murphy or Eddie Murphy), which he must have felt pretty down about. No Razzies for the make-up, however, which was pretty darn convincing.
Rick Baker fact... As a kid, Rick created his own gorilla costume and would hang out in screenings of Planet Of The Apes (he was a big fan, needless to say) and shock the living daylights out of follow audience members.
Tropic Thunder's blackface did to the PC sensitive what The Exorcist (another on his CV) achieved with horrorphobes: it seriously freaked them out. Baker developed the look for silly-but-slightly-credible Method actor, Kirk Lazarus. Robert Downey Jr. got the part, but, explains the makeup man, he wasn't the only actor prepped. "I was contacted by a DreamWorks producer asking me to photoshop Sean Penn to look like a black guy," he tells IFTN. "So he sent me a low res shot and I did the Photoshop thing – still knowing nothing about the film. Then, a couple of days later, I got another call asking me if I could do a list of a whole bunch of actors – I made half of the actors in Hollywood black!"
Rick Baker fact... For his next trick, Baker is transforming beautiful Angelina Jolie into evil Maleficent.
For the latest Men In Black instalment, Baker went back to the drawing board - assuming he has a drawing board and not just an amazing lab full of rubbery fiends - to create a host of new '60s extra-terrestrials. The prosthetics genius reunited up with SFX guru Ken Ralston to ramp up the weirdness, including a humungous space-fish and a variety of retro-aliens. "He came in one day and said, 'What if the aliens in 1969 were retro-future aliens that reflected a more innocent approach to sci-fi?'" remembers producer Walter F. Parkes. "It was such a charming idea, and everyone went for it."
Rick Baker fact... After his cameo as an MIB Passport Agent in Men In Black 2, Baker pops up again in the third movie. Keep your eyes peeled in the bowling alley.
Joe Johnston's movie may have been an unholy mess but it did at least have a suitably hair-raising monster in Benicio Del Toro's lycanthrope. Baker's loving creature design was fuelled by a passion for werewolves: "What I like about werewolf movies is the change in the appearance of the person," he explains of his Oscar-winning work. "I'm interested in the transformation more than the story itself." Us too, Rick. Us too.
Rick Baker fact... Baker's creature design homages the work of Jack Pierce in the original 1941 The Wolf Man. For our money the hair is slightly less bouffant.


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Euclid by Norah Gaughan
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Multihued bands of textured triangles adorn the front edges of a solidcolored hoodie with elbow-length sleeves.
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Music has force.
Academia has priority.
Money has necessity.
Sophisticated + staying down to earth
Gregarious + willing to listen
Educated + wanting to learn
We're Fated to Pretend
Traveling whenever possible.
Staying grounded.
(Thinkers and classics)
American Horror Story, Orange is the New Black, GIRLS, Portlandia, The Walking Dead, Kathy, Modern Family, 1g5g, Ru Paul's Drag Race
(Humor and guilty pleasures)
Brave New World, The Stranger, The Collector
(Existentialist novels I was forced to read)
Gossip, Sleigh Bells, Disclosure, Grimes, Lady Gaga, Austra, Cut Copy, Purity Ring, The xx, Blood Orange, Florence + The Machine, Death Cab for Cutie, Friendly Fires, MGMT, Yelle, xxyyxx, Lana Del Rey, MIA, Santigold
(Indie/Pop, 80s, Trance/EDM, Golden Oldies)
Guacamole, Hummus, Chocolate, Pancakes, Mango, Broccoli, PB&J
(Anything plant-based and sushi)
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15.21 acres in Cleburne County, Alabama
This gorgeous piece of property overlooks pasture land with a large creek. Country living at its best. Nestled on approx. 15.21 acres that backs up to 40,000 acres of Talladega National Forest. It is just a small portion of approx. 525 acres. Gated Community on Hardwood Mtn. Preserve.
I-20 West to Exit 5. Turn right on Hwy 100 N. Turn left on Hwy 78 West. Go through Fruithurst, AL. Turn right on Shoal Creek Rd. Property is on the left.
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I'm sorry, ya'll. I got nothin'. The movers seem to have packed my sense of humor up along with my hidden stash of tampons and the entire collection of Gilmore Girls on DVD direct from Hong Kong. I've checked everywhere. But its not at the bottom of this Krispy Kreme box…or the one in the trash. I don't know where else it could be.
So, for now, while I dig through three years of baby clothes (which may take a while, given my babies' propensity towards growing), here are some gratuitous pictures of the Littles on hay bales:
Because what else do you do with a baby and a hay bale??


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Could you imagine if the mainstream media spent 1/100th of the amount of time defending the persecution of Christians as they do defending the Muslim faith?
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Spring Corn Recipe
Although this is known as Spring Corn, the taste reminds me of summer's sweet varieties of those golden kernels. My aunt shared the recipe in a family cookbook.
- 1-1/2 cups frozen gold and white corn
- 2 tablespoons chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon ground mustard
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley
- 1. Cook corn according to package directions; drain and set aside. In a small skillet, saute onion in butter. Add the sugar, mustard, parsley and reserved corn. Cook 2-3 minutes longer or until heated through. Yield: 1-2 servings.
Nutritional Facts
3/4 cup: 166 calories, 7g fat (4g saturated fat), 15mg cholesterol, 63mg sodium, 27g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 3g fiber), 4g protein.
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Financial Security Archives
Arizona State Credit Union earns honor
August 21, 2012 by in Business News | Finance | Workforce
Arizona State Credit Union's unwavering commitment to associates' long-term financial well-being has earned the local financial cooperative national acclaim. An independent judging panel of employee benefits experts named Arizona State Credit Union one of the 2012 winners of The Principal 10 Best Companies for Employee Financial Security. Judges selected the credit union because of their… Read More →


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first look....
With the Nuremburg trade show now in full swing, Multiplex have released news of three new EPO foam models due this year.
First up is Solius, a multi-purpose 2.16m span motor glider. It'll be available as a kit or RTF and features a removable stabiliser, a strong wing and what's called 'M-Space' technology that adds strength to the fuselage.
Next up there's Tucan, a 1.3m span aerobat clearly styled on the Tucano turbo-prop trainer. Again, this will be available as a kit or RTF while optional retracts can be added.
Finally, Funman, a new 1m span three-channel trainer that offers optional ailerons for a sport flying. With large wheels or floats, much like the Funcub, it'll operate from just about anywhere.
We'll have news of the UK release dates, pricing and reviews in RCM&E in due course. In the meantime, check out the videos below.
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Avengers: Infinity WarActionAdventureScience Fiction
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
Thor: RagnarokActionAdventureFantasyScience Fiction
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Killing GroundThrillerHorror
When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering alone sets off a terrifying chain of events that will push them to their limits – and beyond.
Starship Troopers: Traitor of MarsActionAnimationScience Fiction
Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.
At Home in MitfordRomanceTV Movie
With a case of writer's block, a children's author escapes to small town Mitford for a change of scenery. She soon finds the heart and soul of the southern town in a priest as they work together to care for a young boy who's lost his family. With heartbreak in their pasts, each must find the courage and faith to grab an unexpected chance at true love.
Eat, Play, LoveComedyRomance
Veterinarian Dr. Carly Monroe makes it a habit to stop by the local dog shelter as often as possible because she loves dogs and secretly loves the shelter's owner, Dan. Unfortunately, he has agreed to marry his glamorous TV personality girlfriend and move to the Big Apple. With Dan's big move looming, his sister decides to take matters into her own hands.
The Monster ProjectHorrorAction
When aspiring horror filmmakers post an online casting call looking for "real life" monsters to interview for their upcoming documentary called, The Monster Project, they find three individuals claiming to be a skin-walker, a vampire, and a demon. Meeting these monsters at a remote mansion in the woods on the night of a total lunar eclipse, the filmmakers invite the three subjects to share their haunting, personal experiences. Working on the crew is a recovering drug addict who suffers withdrawal and paranoia. As a person of faith, he fears his friends underestimate the dark powers they are summoning. When the interviews turn deadly, he must battle the demons, inside and out, to escape the house and defeat the rise of evil incarnate.
What Happened to MondayThrillerScience Fiction
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Batman & Harley QuinnActionAnimation
A new and original story by Bruce Timm.
This sports documentary tells the story of the Williams Formula 1 team founded by the legendary Sir Frank Williams
Summer in the VineyardRomanceTV Movie
In the sequel to Autumn in the Vineyard, Frankie and Nate are now a couple and are gearing up for Summer Fest, the town's largest event. They can't wait to reveal their new wine and put the vineyard on the map. But when an issue with the wine puts things in jeopardy, both the relationship and the partnership will be put to the test.
Every time Rob Anderson comes close to marrying the girl of his dreams, he wakes up naked in a hotel elevator, reliving his wedding day.
Cage DiveHorrorDramaThriller
Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity.... Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves them in baited water full of Great White Sharks, turning their recording into a blood chilling diary of survival... and death.
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril.
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by NatureFamilyAnimationAdventureComedy
When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place, Surly Squirrel and his ragtag group of animal friends need to band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.
Annabelle: CreationThrillerHorror
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Sharknado 5: Global SwarmingScience Fiction
Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.
Diana: In Her Own WordsDocumentaryDramaFamily
A Channel 4 documentary featuring Diana at her most candid, natural and charismatic. From old recordings filmed by her voice coach, these tapes provide valuable insight into one of the most iconic women of the late 20th century.
Empire of the SharksScience FictionAction
On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller who must learn to marshal a supernatural ability if she is to free her people from the Warlord's dominion.
Love at the ShoreRomanceComedyFamily
Successful and driven single mom Jenna Thompson writes teen novels, and she has only five weeks to deliver the next one to her publisher. So, this year's annual beach vacation with her kids Nick (Luke Loveless) and Ally (Reagan Shumate), will be a working vacation for Jenna. Upon arrival, the family soon meets their new next-door neighbor, confident, devil-may-care surfer Lucas McKinnon, with whom they will be sharing walls and a patio for the next month. Lucas cranks up his music at night, sleeps late, and allows Tank to run around at will. Jenna bangs away at her novel with little success, often blaming Lucas' loud volleyball matches and irregular hours for her inability to progress. However, after Lucas finds himself bonding with Nick and Ally, Jenna begins to see a different side of Lucas, and when the two find themselves alone together one evening for dinner, each begins to see the other in a whole new - and attractive - light. Starring Amanda Righetti and Peter Porte.
Fun Mom DinnerComedy
Four women, whose kids attend the same preschool class, get together for a "fun mom dinner." When the night takes an unexpected turn, these unlikely new friends realize they have more in common than just marriage and motherhood.
Armed ResponseActionHorrorScience Fiction
The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.


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Le Tour rankings
Difficulty ranking world: 11076 (all)
Ranking Belgium: 700 (all)
Ranking Ardennes: 631(all)
Difficulty score: 21.13 what?
Le Tour ratings
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The Le Tour is situated in Luxembourg (BE). This climb belongs to the Ardennes.
Starting from Les Hayons,
the Le Tour ascent is 2.2 km long. Over this distance, you climb 127 heightmeters.
The average percentage thus is 5.8 %.
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This is a post about the developing world, where things are different. Things we take for granted here, clean water, access to health care and education are not a given, for many they are a wish or a dream.
This is a post about breastfeeding. It is not about my choices or experiences or even the choices or experiences of majority of readers of the this blog. It is not about breastfeeding in the first world. It is about breastfeeding in the developing world.
I am delighted to be hosting a guest post on my blog, the author is Mia Sutanto the Chairwoman of AIMI. AIMI is an Indonesian organisation which promotes breastfeeding. Mia shares her experience and why she campaigns to promote breastfeeding.
You can find Mia on twitter
She describes herself: "Lactivist mom of breastfed daughters, breastfeeding counselor, chairwoman of AIMI, ashoka social entrepreneur, wifey, foodie, avid traveller, graceful dancer"
This post is Mia's.
I had my first daughter in 2004, and had such a lot of challenges with
breast-feeding in the beginning. Sadly I had little to no support from
the doctors. My baby was born with jaundice and so I had to express my
milk. I tried to express but ended up with breast engorgement and
sore nipples. It also used to be the norm for the hospital to take
your child away after they were first born to give you a rest. They
did this with my daughter and gave her formula while she was away from
me. So, I continued to give her formula and mixed it with
breastfeeding while she was little.
I really struggled to breastfeed and gave up after 10 months.
Afterwards I wondered to myself how come I fell short from my goal.
I'd read in magazines and books that breastfeeding is a very good
thing for your baby. There is this perception in Indonesia that if you
want to breastfeed it's a natural thing to do and that it will be
easy. Instead, I was crying all the time as I found it such a
I realised that just wanting to breastfeeding wasn't enough – you have
to learn. So, after 10 months I gave up. In late 2006 I found article
about breastfeeding counsellors. I enrolled for some training and
after doing it started to campaign to my friends and family.
I also went online and found the mailing list which was the beginning
of our organisation Aimi – at the time it only had 20 – 30 mothers who
emailed each other for breastfeeding advice. I offered to help as a
breastfeeding counsellor.
With AIMI we try to meet the need by providing breast-feeding
counselling & education support for women but also try and fix the
system – we campaign for responsible marketing & government regulation
to support women who, for example, want to breast-feed at work.
All women deserve to have access to support and education about
breastfeeding, and here in Indonesia it really is a matter of life and
death – our government has calculated that the lives of 30,000 babies
could be saved every year if they were exclusively breastfed for the
first six months.
There's a huge challenge ahead for us – to be able to reach people all
across Indonesia so that those babies' lives can be saved.
Many thanks Mia.
Save the Children have launched a campaign "The Power of the First Hour". Their report which can be read here; Super Food for Babies
The report's research bears witness to the complex factors which impact on women in the developing world's choices when it comes to breastfeeding, factors such as community and cultural pressures, a lack of access to health workers, and the inappropriate promotion of breast-milk substitutes by the global companies that produce formula.
Despite much progress and organisations like AIMI and women like Mia, in many places breastfeeding rates are stalling, in some places they are in decline.
In the UK the debate about breastfeeding and formula feeding can be intense and emotional, lets put that to one side. The fact is that breastfeeding is a mother's natural antidote to hunger and disease, in the world's poorest places the choice to breastfeed or not can be the difference between life and death for a baby. If all babies were breastfed within the first hour of life, a staggering 830,000 children's lives would be saved every year. That is how important the 'Power Hour' is in the developing world; the first hour of life. But with the right support and information women can make the best choices for their baby.
My wish is that Mia's post inspires others to get involved. Information to write your own post is available at the Save the Children Bloggers Tool kit here.
Save the Children are petitioning the CEOs of Nestlé & Danone, the largest produces or formula;
"As leading baby milk formula manufacturers, you have a special responsibility. The way you market your products can influence women's decisions to breastfeed. Despite 30 years of the WHO's* international marketing code, there are still too many reports of it being violated. It's time for it to stop."
Save the Children
(*World Health Authority)
Sign the petition here.
Share the campaign on Social Media #firsthour
Follow @SavethechildrenUK on twitter, or Save the Children UK on Facebook.
Mia's words are inspiring, women like her need our support to save babies, not just in Indonesia but across the developing world. There is a better way as the Mia and the women of AIMI show us. Support women and babies in the developing world. Support Save the Children in this campaign.


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- greendot, etc.
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A foundational tenet of the Green Dot etc. violence prevention strategy is the belief that we cannot expect others to engage in a process we are not willing to engage in ourselves.
A Green Dot etc. training is distinct from a typical conference experience. In addition to learning the core curriculum, the Green Dot etc. training engages participants in skill-building and analysis focused on fostering authentic relationships, personal connection and mastery of skills and knowledge necessary for effective persuasive communication.
A foundational tenet of the Green Dot etc. violence prevention strategy is the belief that we cannot expect others to engage in a process we are not willing to engage in ourselves. Toward this end, training participants should expect to engage in an in-depth examination of their personal and professional connection to the issue of violence prevention, obstacles to action, ways to learn from past efforts, and capacity development. Participants strengthen competence through experiential components including journaling, giving and receiving feedback, and small group process, practice and discussion.
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At Green Dot, etcetera, our work goes beyond the Green Dot program itself. As leaders in violence prevention, we provide training, technical assistance, and program development for individuals, schools, and organizations both domestically and internationally as they work to foster safe communities. We are proud to be a technical assistance provider for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office o Violence Against Women Campus Program. To learn more about that initiative, please visit our OVW Technical Assistance section.
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The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival
Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form.
About the Author
Reginald Rose (1920-2002) won three Emmy awards for television writing as well as an Oscar for the feature-length adaptation of Twelve Angry Men.
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Comments about Twelve Angry Men:
Bought this for my child for school, but I decided to have a quick look and found it a great read - makes you see why you need to hear both sides of the story.
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: General
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 73
Published: 1st September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 19.6 x 12.9 x 0.7
Weight (kg): 0.08


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Custom Happy Birthday Party Banners by AEScrapbooking
Great banners for all partys. Can be personalized. Check out more at www.aescrapbooking.etsy.com
Reusable polycarbonate tumblers based on the disposable plastic cup design. Comes in a set of Greens, Pinks, Blues or assorted colours (shown here). I'd suggest to take them all (they are cheap... we'll I think think so).
Cake cakes and muffins will look so delicious in these silicone muffinforms. All colours are looking so yummy!!!!
Japanese washi paper balloons in many different styles. So nice for 101 occasions. Also great as a gift.


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If there was ever a crafting hobby where supplies can make all the difference, it's sewing. I'm confident I haven't even discovered some do-or-die sewing goodies, but for now, these are the items that make up my toolkit (in addition to a sewing machine, of course).
Read on for the full list.
Marking Tools: My go-to marking tools are a water-soluable fabric pen and chalk marking tool. Both of these should be readily available in the notions aisle of your local fabric store.
Seam Ripper: Oh, man. This is eeeee-ssential if you ever plan on making a mistake. I don't know if it speaks to how many mistakes I make, but I actually have 3 of these puppies just so that I can lay them around everywhere when I'm mid-project such that the moment when I realize I've sewn something incorrectly and begin cursing and when I'm on a path to correction is as short as possible. Again, look in the notions aisle.
Thread Clipper: They're just sort of like mini-scissors. I keep them by my machine while I'm sewing to clip the threads at the end of my seams. Notions aisle.
Fabric Shears: This is something you can spend a lot of money on. My parents got me these Fiskar scissors a few years ago. They're on the cheap side, and I've had no complaints. But you do want to keep separate scissors for cutting fabric.
Pinking Shears: Again, these can get expensive. Mine were not. I think they were the cheapest ones they had at Joann, and I used a coupon. They're fine for the number of times that I use them, which is primarily to cut seam allowances on something where they might be seen (e.g. the inside of a pillow cover) or for particularly thready fabrics.
Rotary Cutter, Self-Healing Cutting Mat, & Clear Ruler: If you're not totally invested in sewing, these could feel like a bit of an investment (both in money and space). Get yourself a coupon (or 3), clear out a space behind your couch, and just buy them. They make every cut about a gazillion times easier. I have a pretty big cutting mat (particularly considering the size of my apartment) - 24" x 36", but I love it. And bonus: You can use the cutting mat for cutting paper (stay tuned for those supplies later).
Bias Tape Maker: It's a simple little tool that basically folds a strip of fabric into double fold bias tape for you. I don't use this for quilting, because I use single fold bias tape, which is easy enough to make. I use this for bias tape for the edges of things. I put some serious mileage on this thing for our wedding centerpieces, which used up about 5 yards of fabric worth of bias tape. These are in the notions aisle and they sell in them in lots of different sizes. I believe mine makes a 1/2" bias tape from 2" wide fabric.
Assorted Needles: You should be able to pick up a little wheel of needles from the notions aisle that are literally marked "assorted craft needles." They're just all shapes and sizes. I also like to have a super long upholstery needle for think projects (like tufting, for example). Mine is pointed on both ends. You should be able to find something similar in the upholstery notions area of the fabric store.
Quilting Pins: These are the pins that I use to make my "sandwich" in quilting. They look like regular safety pins, but are bent in the middle.
Straight Pins
I hate when I get an idea for a project and then I don't have the correct fasteners or clasps or whatnot, so I keep a small stash of all different kinds of these sorts of things. That's what this little collection covers.
Zippers: I keep a few multi-purpose ones on hand in different colors. Because these are sew to size, you might as well spend the extra buck for the longer ones just in case.
Buttons: I have so many buttons. Partially from buying buttons on clearance. Partially because my late grandmother used to work at a shirt factory, and she had all these buttons that she would keep in these little plastic containers. There's just something about a little recycled plastic chicken salad container full of miscellaneous buttons that warms my heart instantaneously. Honestly, I can't say that I use them that much, but for some reason, I think I need them.
Hook & Eye Closures
Velcro: I recommend the sew-on kind (vs. the stick-on kind). I find them to be more versatile. If I really want to stick them on, I can just use some permanent fabric glue.
Rivets: You've seen me use them before around here to attach leather straps to bags. As I've said before, I recommend starting with a little starter kit like this one. It comes with all different sizes of rivets and a setting tool. It will get you comfortable with how they work and the size of rivet that you need for the kinds of projects that you'll be working on.
Magnetic Clasp: I use these for just about every bag I make. They're a little expensive (about a buck a piece at the craft store), but they're so easy to install.
Fabric-Covered Buttons: You can buy these in all sorts of sizes. If you've never used them before, you'll get so excited when you use them. They're super easy and make projects look pretty professional instantaneously.
Setting Tools: You'll need a setting tool for rivets, grommets, and snaps. For the rivets, you'll get one if you get yourself a little starter kit like the one I recommended. Otherwise, you might have to buy one on its own. Grommets and snaps often come with one, or they'll be available separately right along side the grommets or snaps in the notions aisle. Make sure you get the right size, and you label them so you don't end up having to buy a new one every time you buy yourself grommets or snaps. All of them will require a hammer.
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Next stage of Socceroos' World Cup preparation
After drawing with South Africa, what awaits the Socceroos? The panel discuss and conclude their World Cup predictions.PT7M45S http://www.theage.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-394ih 620 349 May 28, 2014
Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak quashed any suggestions that he is in doubt for Australia's World Cup opener against Chile and expects to make his full return from injury in time for the warm-up match against Croatia a week before their tournament begins.
The 29-year-old midfielder was ruled out of Monday's 1-1 draw against South Africa because of a groin injury and while his progress is being assessed daily, he is confident that he will lead the Socceroos out of the tunnel in Cuiaba against Chile.
Jedinak, who flew out with the Socceroos squad on Wednesday, is yet to resume full training since limping off the field in the final day of the English Premier League season with an injury that appeared to have threatened his World Cup aspirations, but he has taken part in several sessions in the Socceroos camp and expects to play against Croatia on June 6 local time in Salvador, Brazil.
Tim Cahill heads for the departure gate. Photo: Getty Images
"That's the plan," Jedinak said following a function for Adidas. "I'm getting close, I've had a good week and a half now in terms of training and rehab. I had some sessions on the field and it's coming up really well, so we're getting there. The exact time in terms of when I can join in, I'm not sure, but it's very positive and I'm looking forward to getting in amongst the boys and getting in around the squad."
The injury to the Crystal Palace captain is no longer deemed serious but it is unlikely that he will feature in Australia's other warm-up match against Brazilian second-tier side, Parana Clube, on June 2. Given the short turnaround after landing in Brazil, Jedinak will have few opportunities to prove his fitness in training before the game.
"I'm just taking it day by day obviously with the travel and once we're there we'll see where we're at. We have a plan and the staff have a plan and I'm guided by that and how I pull up. We're just going to have to wait and see but honestly at this stage I just don't know," Jedinak said.
In training: Socceroos skipper Mile Jedinak is on the way back to full fitness. Photo: Adidas
There were several nervous moments in the backline during Australia's draw with South Africa on Monday night in the absence of the imposing defensive midfielder but Jedinak defended the performance of the new-look back four.
Australia gave an experimental South Africa side more chances on goal than many expected and Jedinak says the inability to prepare for the unknown Bafana Bafana took the Socceroos by surprise. He was encouraged however with the manner in which the players responded to the pressure in the latter stages of the game.
Central defenders Ryan McGowan and Alex Wilkinson were partnered together for the first time and despite some shaky moments, Jedinak believes the experience has prepared them well for the opening match against Chile.
"For a first time back four playing together, I think they did great. I know it was difficult in some patches but you expect to be tested, especially as we weren't too sure how South Africa were going to line up. In saying that, I thought the boys handled themselves really well.
"I thought they grew as the game went on and all four of them, particularly the two centre halves, grew and became more vocal and that's what you needed, that's what you wanted and that's what's required playing for this national team and playing at that level. I thought they both had done really well," Jedinak said.
There were encouraging signs in the pace of Australia's attack and their speed in transitions, which Jedinak says has been one of the key styles of play coach Ange Postecoglou has implemented on the squad.
"We've been working towards it for quite a time but it's great to see guys come in and step up and get what was required from the game, work their way into the game. Some guys hadn't played for the national team for many games and it was great to see them get in and step up," Jedinak said. "It's not an easy thing to do when you've got 50,000 fans expecting you to do really well and I think the boys did a really good account for themselves."


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AUSTIN, Texas Another network-processor startup has tossed its hat into the ring, with a novel pattern-matching architecture that eases the high-layer packet analysis that will be necessary to alleviate router bottlenecks in public backbones. Agere Inc. is one of many specialized processor companies moving into the realm of application-aware switching.
The 35 employees at the small Texas startup are developing an architecture that requires the Fast Pattern Processor (FPP), heart of the search algorithms, to be delivered before a route-switch processor (RSP), the initiation point of most network-processor startups.
Vice president of marketing Bob Bridge said that, since Agere considers OC-48 (2.5-Gbit/second) speeds to be the heart of its design space, intelligent reduction of route-table space took precedence over mere packet-header analysis. Agere wants to handle OC-192 (10-Gbit/s) speeds in standard CMOS architectures, he said.
First-draft startups, meanwhile, including MMC Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xaqti Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) and Softcom Microsystems Inc. (Fremont, Calif.), are expanding beyond Layer 2/3 switch-routing to probe beyond headers, into packet payload content itself.
Jeremey Donovan, an industry analyst at Dataquest Inc., said that several ideas for parsing high-layer packet-analysis problems hold merit, and that differences among them may lie more in marketing than in technology. He also believes the growing field of startups may face a rapid consolidation.
"We don't expect any of the 10 or so network-processor companies to remain independent companies to the point of an initial public offering," Donovan said. "We're increasingly holding the view that the networking semiconductor industry will consolidate in the same way the networking systems industry has in recent months."
But that isn't stopping the newcomers from making some important architectural claims. Agere, with roots in pattern searches and neural-network list processing, said its pattern-matching approach is designed to work with any protocol stack, no matter how the data payload may be encapsulated. Bridge insists a reduction of pattern-matching search space is critical for handling multigigabit packet analysis at wire speed.
The company began in the work of Vic Bennett, a cofounder of Coral Networks Inc., who formed a list-searching startup called Nodel Corp. in 1995 and developed his technology in multiple FPGAs by 1998. Two Austin ventures provided seed financing in mid-1998, at which time Ford Tamer joined as chief executive and Eric Rothfus, of Tivoli Systems Inc., became chief technology officer. The goal was to turn Bennett's subsystem concepts into partitioned network-processing deliverables.
"It's one thing to say you can look at some class-of-service bits at OC-48. That's not the issue," Bridge said. "Can you use a 100-MHz core to perform hard tasks at OC-48, such as processing access-control lists? That's where we think our architecture will have an edge."
The combination of FPP and RSP chips is designed to be used either right on a line card, touching the physical channel directly, or on a shared-resource controller card in a router or broadband switch. List-parsing on the front end will allow Agere to move into quality-of-service packet prioritization, traffic engineering and Internet Protocol tunneling functions such as virtual private networks and network address translation, even for 10-Gbit networks.
The gating factor, Bridge said, becomes finding memory that's able to keep up with the processor. Motorola Inc.'s announcement of 333-MHz copper-based SRAMs may provide Agere with the last piece of its OC-192 portfolio, he said.
The company claims to use as much internal parallelism and pipelining as two other startups, C-Port Inc. and SiTera Inc., but says that using pattern matching to reduce table lookups makes for a more effective use of internal parallelism. Agere has yet to provide full details of its internal architecture. However, unlike large, smart content-addressable memories (CAMs), the Agere FPP can handle millions, not thousands, of patterns, and processes patterns of any arbitrary length.
While Agere's development system does not use C-like constructs, its PayloadPlus application-development code is similar to a protocol-definition language, with route-table search information embedded automatically into the code. This allows fast development of optimized code for new protocols, the company said.
Agere is offering FPP versions for OC-12 lines in the second quarter and OC-48 versions in the third. The RSP, handling packet queuing and prioritization as well as traffic shaping, is due in an OC-3 version in the third quarter, in an OC-12 version at the end of the year and in an OC-48 version in early 2000. As enhanced functionality becomes viable in dedicated silicon, Agere will develop specialized coprocessors for higher-layer tasks.
To MMC Networks, which originated many concepts for high-layer packet analysis in its AnyFlow family, the new activity validates the functions defined in its 5400 and 5500 architectures. Chief executive officer Doug Spreng said that MMC's decision to develop traffic-shaping processors optimized in assembly-level instruction sets has been upheld by the new interest in highly optimized engines.
The onslaught of startups is helping to show MMC where additional traffic-engineering instructions may have to be added to the AnyFlow instruction set, said MMC's director of marketing, John Kennedy. MMC also is looking at the use of higher-layer programming languages for traffic-shaping constructs.
Softcom, which unwrapped its GigaBlade architecture last July, has advocated keeping header-analysis processing functions generic, implemented in state machines, while keeping specific tasks downloadable in an external BIOS. At the New World Service Provider conference in Denver in late March, Softcom unveiled its Power Provisioning Processor family, the first chip-level instantiation of what the company had demonstrated in GigaBlade.
Softcom said its state machines handle three basic tasks: identification of packets requiring special handling; provisioning traffic based on predefined rules; and counting the relevant statistics for packet classification. This requires analysis as deep as 64 bytes, according to Softcom president Tony Stelliga. The Softcom Engine processor is given its networking assignments through a high-level application programming interface the company calls BladeRunner.
At Xaqti, the GigaPower and ActiveFlow processor architectures that define high-layer packet provisioning are being structured with a set of specific engines that operate in parallel, said vice president of marketing Samba Murthy. These include dedicated processors for remote monitoring and for IP differentiated services (Diff Serv), which are to be launched later this year. Other traffic-shaping engines are under development, he said.
Murthy said that software models and emulation engines will be offered to key customers prior to each specialized processor being committed to silicon.
Xaqti also is trying to open out lower layers of the Open Systems Interconnect software stack via the CSIX open switching coalition it formed with physical-layer switching vendor Power X Ltd. Murthy said an announcement is imminent-perhaps this week-about additional CSIX members, including many network-processor companies that are compete with one another.


text: After considerable effort, I managed to get 3.3.4 built (using gcc 4.4.2, along with glib 2.29.92 and the requisite eventlog 0.2.12). The problem is that the resulting syslog-ng component grows continuously (at an alarming rate). Whereas my 3.0.5 syslog-ng process starts out running in just under 3MB, and then stabilizes at about 3.3MB, the 3.3.4 version starts out small, and then at the point where I killed it (about 2 hours after starting it), it had already grown to 277MB. I'm doing nothing fancy here (config shown below). No data transformations, no use of time normalization features, no DB components. In short, I'm not trying to use any of the many new/elaborate features that have been added over the past few years. I'm just "eating log input", writing it to handful of files and pipes, just like I've been doing since the syslog-ng 2.x days. As one of the regular problems that I see mentioned in various threads is "some new fix for a memory leak", I'm just trying to see if there's some known problem in the virgin 3.3.4 code, that might be causing my problems. (I.E. should I wait for 3.3.5, and try again?) FYI, my environment is Solaris 10 x86. Aside from having moved to the newer gcc compiler (in order to even attempt to compile the latest syslog-ng version), the only other major component change was the newer version of glib, which as I recall, was also necessary to resolve compilation issues with the new syslog-ng versions. Anyway... before I beat my head against the wall trying to figure out what to do next, I figured that I'd ask the easy question (about "known bugs") first, so that I don't spend any time chasing a problem that may already be fixed. (I did dig thru the mailing list, and saw at least one mention of a memory leak in 3.3.4, but it seemed to be related to a specific bit of functionality, that I didn't think applied in my situation.) (And just a side-comment, FWIW, I noticed that when I swapped the 3.3.4 version, for the 3.0.5 version, the host system immediately incurred what I estimate to be at least a 20% high CPU load that had been required by the 3.0.5 version. And when I reverted back to 3.0.5 a few hours later, I saw that happen in reverse. I'm not sure why the newest version requires more resources, again, when I'm not asking it to do anything new, but it definitely seems that it does.) Thanks for your time and input. Existing config file shown below. Note that other than the version change, the only other modification (from the file that I was using in 3.0.5) relates to the threading changes, which I made based upon Bazsi's recommendations in an email on 3/18, about how to avoid potential data loss on inbound UDP packets. Again, thanks for any help/input: @version:3.3 options { dir_perm(0755); perm(0640); group(wheel); chain_hostnames(no); keep_hostname(yes); log_fifo_size(41000); threaded(no); dns_cache_size(5000); dns_cache_expire(86400); dns_cache_expire_failed(86400); }; source any_udp { udp(flags(store-legacy-msghdr)); }; source any_tcp { tcp(port(601) max-connections(40) flags("store-legacy-msghdr", "threaded") use_dns(no)); }; destination SEC {pipe("/tmp/sec"); }; destination WIN-PIPE {pipe("/tmp/windows"); }; destination routers_log { file("/var/adm/log/routers.log" create_dirs(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination ravlin_log { file("/var/adm/log/ravlin.log" create_dirs(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination windows_log { file("/var/adm/log/windows.log" create_dirs(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination workstation_log { file("/var/adm/log/workstation.log" create_dirs(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination catch-all_log { file("/var/adm/log/catch-all.log" create_dirs(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination test { file("/var/adm/log/test.log" create_dirs(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination dev_null {}; destination secdevedc01 { udp("10.132.193.245" spoof_source(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination engedc01 { udp("10.132.192.199" spoof_source(yes) flags("threaded")); }; destination egssiem { udp("10.10.36.157" spoof_source(yes) flags("threaded")); }; log { source(any_udp); destination(SEC); }; log { source(any_udp); destination(egssiem); }; filter f_4 { facility(syslog) and level(info..emerg); }; log { source(any_udp); filter(f_4); destination(WIN-PIPE); }; log { source(any_udp); filter(f_4); destination(windows_log); flags(final); }; filter f_1_acl { facility(local5) and level(debug..emerg) and match("SEC-6-IPACCESSLOG" value("MESSAGE")) ; }; filter f_1 { facility(local5) and level(debug..emerg); }; log { source(any_udp); filter(f_1_acl); destination(routers_log); flags(final); }; log { source(any_udp); filter(f_1); destination(engedc01); }; log { source(any_udp); filter(f_1); destination(routers_log); flags(final); }; filter SonicWallNoise { match("id=firewall" value("MESSAGE")) and filter(SonicWallMsgs); }; filter SonicWallMsgs { match("m=97" value("MESSAGE")) or match("m=98" value("MESSAGE")) or match("m=537" value("MESSAGE")); }; log { source(any_udp); filter(SonicWallNoise); destination(dev_null); flags(final); }; filter f_3 { facility(local0) and level(debug..emerg); }; log { source(any_udp); filter(f_3); destination(ravlin_log); flags(final); }; log { source(any_tcp); destination(workstation_log); flags(final); }; log { source(any_udp); destination(catch-all_log); flags(final); }; Marvin Nipper Director of Security Stream Global Services mailto:marvin.nipper at stream.com ph: (303) 670-2705 PGP Key ID: 0x8EE28551 (DSS/DH) 8C5D 403A D107 0A95 672B B637 BCF1 919A 8EE2 8551 This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. 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Steam will ban you and not tell you why
3 days ago Steam banned my 250+ game/1000GBP spent account.
They refuse to say why, apart from saying I violated the Steam Subscriber Agreement - which I read, and I haven't.
Their notoriously bad customer service has been unhelpful, basically saying the same thing (you violated the SSA and your account won't be reinstated).
Even if I did violate the SSA, how is it at all OK to not be clear about why you're locking someone out of their account forever? I'm not going to make a new account and buy games because it would probably just get banned as well.
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Efficacy of Music on Reduction of Sedative Drugs in Mechanically Ventilated Intensive Care Unit Patients (MUSIC)
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The Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge allows applications on one machine to access ODBC data sources on another. It supports multiple concurrent connections from multiple clients to multiple target databases. The principle application is to enable access from Linux and Unix platforms to remote ODBC databases. For example, Apache/PHP programs on Linux can read/write data held on MS SQL Server on Windows, and Perl programs can read/write data held in a MS Access database. Supported applications include Applixware, Open Office, Python, Rexx/SQL, mnGoSearch, OpenLDAP, and Oracle sqlplus. Supported platforms include Linux, MacOSX, IBM zSeries, Windows and various Unix flavors.
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