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In the polls, Tea Party support falls among Republicans
The round of Republican primaries held Tuesday has been headlined as a tide-turning victory of the GOP establishment over Tea Party insurgents, with the most notable one being the win scored in Kentucky by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over a well-funded opponent. But whatever yesterday's votes portend, polls have been showing a decline in Tea Party support among Republicans since their peak of influence in 2010.
In asking Republicans whether they agree or disagree with the Tea Party, Pew Research surveys found that agreement has fallen from 48% in March 2010 to 33% in our most recent poll conducted in late April this year. At one point agreement with the Tea Party dipped to 28% in May 2013, during the long budget standoff between congressional Republican leaders and the White House.
This decline continued a trend noted in several surveys that asked the question a different way: whether Republicans had a favorable or unfavorable view of the movement. Republicans with a favorable view declined from a peak of 64% in August 2011 to 53% last fall, according to our October 2013 poll.
The sharpest falloff during that period came among moderate and liberal Republicans. Just 27% of moderates and liberals expressed a favorable view, down 19 points from the previous June. The Tea Party's ratings declined even among conservatives, from 74% favorable in June of that year to 65% in October.
Other recent polls show a similar trend.
A CBS News survey conducted May 16-19 found that 32% of Republicans consider themselves to be Tea Party supporters, down 10 points since February and 23 points since July 2010.
Similarly, Gallup reported that the share of Republicans and Republican leaners who called themselves Tea Party supporters had dropped from 61% in November 2010 to 41% today, according to a survey conducted in late April. However, one strength that Tea Party adherents maintain when it comes to their potential impact in the party is that they are more enthusiastic, by a 52% to 35% margin, about voting in this year's midterm elections than all other Republicans.
Topics: U.S. Political Parties, Election News
Bruce Drake is a senior editor at Pew Research Center.
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with rand supporting mcconell, it was already decided befor for bevin!!! the gop and the liberal/socialist/communist parties are praying, but tea isn't going away!!! i haven't voted for mccain as senator in over ten years, and will never vote for flake again!!! saying it over and over, won't make it happen!!!
Would have loved to see how Libertarians view the Tea Party…
watch the independents on fox and decide for yourself!!!


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Siemens Industry announced that it has been selected as the strategic process automation partner for Dow Corning, following a review and evaluation process using Manufacturing Automation Platform Selection (MAPS) Six Sigma (Define, Measure, Explore, Develop, Implement) processes.
The Global Supply Contract will feature Siemens Simatic PCS 7 as the strategic platform for Dow Corning's batch, continuous and discrete process automation solutions. Siemens process control system manages the automation of all ancillary, upstream and downstream processes, while providing the mechanism to improve process efficiency resulting in improved production and reductions in the total cost of ownership.
Barry MacGregor, Manager, Global Process Automation at Dow Corning says that Siemens PCS 7 platform best meets Dow Corning batch, continuous, and discrete process requirements. The platform is able to achieve higher productivity, improved safety and lower cost of production through the use of automation solutions.
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RECESSIONS are painful, but some good things can emerge from the carnage. They are, in effect, a valve that lets off steam in a runaway economy.
Companies with bad business models go bust and those that have become flabby in the good times are forced to rationalise, becoming slimmer and more efficient. Recessions are purgers of excess – and stronger businesses come out the other side.
Yesterday's interim numbers from catering group Compass have shown this effect. The company managed to increase its operating margins by 50 basis points to 7pc over the last six months – higher than most analysts had expected. They had pencilled in a figure nearer to 40 basis points – and it is addition to the 60-basis-point margin improvement seen in the last full year.
This is the positive effect the recession has had on group efficiency. Compass sees further scope for margin improvement in the next two years, although the pace of improvement is likely to be slower.
However, what was apparent in these numbers is that the cyclical side of its business is starting to show an improvement.
The company won £18m of new business in the period, saying "we have seen a slight improvement in the rate of new business wins in both food and multi service business, winning important new contracts with Wells Fargo in the US, Aviva in the UK and Deutsche Postbank in Germany."
It also said that its pipeline of new business looks encouraging. Management also want to add support services such as cleaning and facilities management to supplement its food operations. Support services currently constitute 15pc of revenues, but Richard Cousins, chief executive, said this could rise to as much as 25pc in three or four years.
Mr Cousins told Questor yesterday that the company was now entering a growth phase. As well as increasing its presence into support services, the company sees a great opportunity for outsourcing of catering in the next few years – particularly in the healthcare and education sectors. The company is also planning to expand its presence in emerging markets and sees good opportunities in countries such as Brazil and Mexico, Mr Cousins added.
The nature of the company's business is that it is highly cash generative – which means that it can fund any acquisitions from its internal resources – as well as raise the dividend payments. Free cash flow in the period, which is a measure cash generation which deducts expenditure and dividends, was up 46pc to £351m. Net debt in the period also fell to £766m from £943m six months ago, despite the group spending £41m on acquisitions.
In the six-month period to March 31, revenues rose 2.6pc to £7.1bn and pre-tax profits rose 17pc to £459m. There was also good news on the dividend. The interim payout was increased by 13.6pc to 5p. This will be made on August 2 and the shares go ex-dividend for this payment on June 30. This is another sign management is confident in the future.
The shares were recommended at 306¼p on November 30 2008 as a defensive play in turbulent times. The shares are up 82pc since then compared with a market up 26pc. Questor also advised buying at 526p on April 1 ahead of these numbers - and yesterday's figures propelled the shares to their highest level since August 2001.
The shares are trading on September 2010 earnings multiple of 16.6 times, falling to 14.8 in 2011. The yield is 2.6pc, although investors who bought on the initial recommendation would have locked in a yield of about 4pc.
The company should continue to grow and benefit from better margins, its move into emerging markets and the fact it is geared to an economic recovery. Compass also has a large business in the US, where the recovery is happening faster than in Europe. The defensive characteristics of the shares have been proven. Buy.


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OXFORD'S Hannah England provided the star turn in the British Milers' Club (BMC) Grand Prix at Iffley Road.
England showed her sharpness ahead of the Commonwealth Games with victory in the women's A 800m, but unlike last year, there was no sub-four minute mile from the men.
Despite a heavy rain shower, England showed her finishing speed to deny fellow GB international Marilyn Okoro, clocking 2mins 0.50secs to the latter's 2.01.57.
"I only decided to run on Thursday when I got back from Font Romeu and the BMC were great in allowing me to run," said England.
"When I heard Maz (Marilyn Okoro) was also running I was really pleased as I wanted a competitive race and hopefully we both got something out of that. I am very happy with that run."
Sixty years after Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to break the four-minute mile, Iffley Road still holds a special place in British athletics.
Richard Peters (Bristol & West) won the men's A mile in 2013 with a 3.58.70 clocking, but this time the Commonwealth Games-bound athlete had to be content with victory in 4.01.99.
The fast-finishing Richard Weir (Derby) was second in 4.02.08.
USA's Erika Veidis dominated the women's mile race to win in 4.40.03.
The men's A 800m race saw Anthony Whiteman (Shaftesbury Barnet) attempt to break the vet 40 word record of 1.48.05 he set a week before, but Paul Goodall (City of Norwich) triumphed in 1.49.09.
Elle Vernon (Stockport) beat fellow GB cross country international Charlotte Purdue (Aldershot, Farnham & District) to win the women's 5,000m in 16.00.00.
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It is one more celebrity couple..!! Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman fell in love during the making of their movie "Days of Thunder", 1990. Since then they started dominating the media for gossips.!!
At once even Tom Cruise, admitted that his first reaction to meeting Kidman was "sheer lust." But later they became so close that they couldn't spend a day without talking to each other.
Tom and Kidman got married on December 24, 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. They adopted two children, i.e a daughter, Isabella Jane, born on 22nd December 1992 and a son, Connor Anthony, born on 17th January 1995.
Tom and Kidman on screen chemistry was so good that they made 3 movies together i.e "Days of Thunder" (1990), "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) and "Far and Away" (1992). It was their love which started on the sets of "Days of Thunder" which made the couple's chemistry damn good.
It is strange to know that during Tom Cruise marriage to Nicole Kidman there was a big controvercy about their sexual life as there were too much rumors that Tom Cruise was a gay..!! They filed a libel case against Express Newspapers in the same year. The tabloid alleged that their marriage was just designed to cover up their homosexuality. Ultimately the couple won the legal battle and Express Newspapers apologised for the article and paid huge amount as damages. Tom said : "I have to protect them. This was certainly not about money. Every penny of this very substantial sum will be donated to charities."


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If this movie doesn't touch you, then go ahead and touch yourself… An incredibly raunchy and hilarious red band trailer for Chuck Palahniuk's Choke has just arrived and it is pretty much the most sexually fueled thing you'll see all year. That is, besides actually seeing Choke for yourself in theaters this fall. Choke is Fox Searchlight's big indie hit this year and they're selling it hard (pun intended). You've been warned, this trailer features enough nudity and sex to make you hard by the end of its two minute running time, so make sure you're wearing pants and sitting down. When I saw this for the first time I don't remember it being anything amazing, but the more I watch these trailers, the more anxious I am to see it again. Anyway, enough of my own introduction, I'm sure you just want to get right into it.
Update - Fox Searchlight asked us to remove the trailer a few weeks ago, but they've given us permission to put it back up again! So if you haven't seen it, or want to watch it again, now's the time. Enjoy!
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Choke is both written and directed by first-time filmmaker and actor Clark Gregg. The film is an adaption of Fight Club writer Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name. Choke premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was bought by Fox Searchlight for around $5 million. The film currently arrives in theaters starting on September 26th this year.
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A recent video from Sixty Symbols featured an exasperated Phil Moriarty bemoaning the misuse of the language of physics to make ridiculous New Age woo sound respectable. Unfortunately, physics isn't the only field in which this happens. Take, for example, the newspaper-generated hype over a recent neuroimaging study on sex differences featured in PNAS. The spurious claims being made on the basis of that study, peddled principally by sensationalist newspaper headlines, have generated untold facepalms from the neuroscience community (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Likewise, the recent story of a neuroscientist who apparently diagnosed himself a psychopath on the basis of a brain scan provoked similar sentiments, captured best in the gif below:
It's easy (and tempting) to dismiss hype and woo as just that – hype and woo. But to do so would be to ignore the fact that there are people who read this stuff and take it seriously. It's not without consequence. The damage this produces isn't always overt; it's subtle and cumulative. Over time, it distorts the public perception of science (whatever the field). It leads people without an adequate background knowledge to believe that the hype, bollocks, and woo is what psychology, or neuroscience, or physics, etc, really is, and it thus makes them susceptible to accepting all sorts of ridiculous nonsense that bears superficial resemblance to science or some tenuous connection to real scientific work.
I've argued previously that scientists need to be politically engaged because science doesn't happen in a vacuum; it's embedded in the fabric of the social world. The same argument applies to cultural engagement also and highlights the importance of good communication. We need people like Neuroskeptic, NeuroBollocks, Neurocritic and others, in all fields, who dispel common misconceptions, tear apart beguiling and vacuous claims, and encourage people to think more critically and deeply about what research findings actually reveal about the world.


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Wichita, Kan. – On Tuesday, February 26th, Hartman Arena in Park City, Kansas will host the championship games for both the KCAC men's and women's postseason tournaments. Tip off for the men's championship game is slated for 6:00 p.m., while the women's final will be at 8:00 p.m. approximately.
Both Championships Finals will be broadcast via several sources including Public Television, Radio, and Live Streaming via KCACsports.com.
Smoky Hills Public Television (SHPTV) will provide broadcast coverage of both games on Championship Monday, starting at 6:00 P.M. KPTS (Wichita), KTWU (Topeka), and KCPT (Kansas City) will also carry the live broadcasts and offer replay broadcasts of both games as well. The confluence of SHPTV, KPTS, KTWU, and KCPT brings live video coverage of Championship Monday to the entire state of Kansas and parts of Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
For a comprehensive list of information pertaining to Championship Monday television coverage, please click here.
SHPTV's broadcast will also be available via live stream on KCACsports.com. All KCAC men's and women's conference tournament games will be available on the KCAC Broadcast Network.
Culminating the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Basketball Game of the Week Series, Championship Monday radio coverage will be available through KGSO 1410 AM. Depending on which teams advance, radio stations that typically cover basketball games for the advancing KCAC schools may also broadcast the championship finals on radio.
Championship Monday broadcasting is made available in part by the Park City Convention & Tourism Committee.
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The HST debate in Manitoba has subsided for the moment with Premier Greg Selinger (sorry – still not used to that one) and Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk (nope, not used to that one yet either) ruling it out. Well at least for now.
But the harmonized sales tax is still bubbling fairly loudly on Parliament Hill and I'd wager a bet, it's one of the more top-of-mind issues in B.C. and Ontario right now. At Queen's Park in Toronto, two Conservative MPs refused to leave the chamber for two days in protest of the lack of consultation they say was associated with the new tax.
The Ottawa Citizen has been running a special series on the topic the last few days, explaining it's impetus, it's impact and the political ramifications.
One thing stood out to me.
A poll found 74 per cent of Ontarians and British Columbians are against the idea of an HST. They see it as a cash grab. Yet economists on both sides of the political spectrum believe it is a good thing. An analysis by University of Calgary economist Jack Mintz is highly touted by Premier Dalton McGuinty as it suggests the HST will help create 591,000 jobs over the next decade and help push annual incomes up 8.8 per cent.
The downside of it is that while businesses pay less, consumers will pay more. And although income tax cuts and one-time cash offset payments from the government are being offered, consumers are still going to feel a pinch.
It brings me to an interesting plight of politics. Sometimes the right thing to do is not the popular thing to do. Businesses don't vote. People do. There will be some business owners who are thrilled with this, but the vast majority of voters aren't business owners. They're people who will suddenly find it is costing eight per cent more to keep your house warm in the winter, fill the car with gasoline or get a haircut.
It obviously remains to be seen whether Ontario and B.C. consumers will cut back on their spending because of the HST next year, or whether it truly will deliver the promised economic rewards.
I will say this.
It is a bold move.
This day and age that is a rare phenomenon.


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When the global financial crisis hammered markets six years ago, some companies – such as consulting giants KPMG and Deloitte – avoided large job losses by asking staff to work part time.
It suited everyone: the companies cut spending on wages but kept their employees' skills. The employees kept their jobs.
Yet the Australian Public Service is reacting to its own financial crisis – steep budget cuts – very differently.
At a time almost all agencies are shedding jobs, the government has suggested they use the current wage negotiations to ask staff to work longer hours. (An outcome, by the way, that actually reduces labour productivity.)
The APS already lags behind other employers in using part-time staff. Last year, just over one in seven federal public servants worked part time, about half the national workforce rate.
Male public servants are even less likely to deviate from the full-time norm. Just 4.3 per cent worked part-time in 2013 – they are about four times less likely than men in other industries to do so.
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One senior human resources manager in a government agency says encouraging staff to work fewer hours "is a useful way to cut wages spending". It also allows agencies to avoid separation payouts, which are expected to reach record levels in the coming year.
However, the HR official says a common sticking point is individual managers "with micromanaging tendencies or who are poor planners", who want only full-time staff on their teams.
Public Service Commission data shows the worst agencies (or perhaps the agencies with the most to gain) are the Defence Department, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Infrastructure Department and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Workplaces with many female staff are more likely to have part-time workers, but it's not always the case. (The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, for example, has a low proportion of part-time staff, but notes that "for operational reasons, DFAT staff are not able to access permanent part-time work while on an overseas posting".)
The head of Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers' employment law team, Jennifer Wyborn, has advised government agencies to consider offering staff reduced hours to help accommodate budget cuts.
"Part-time work can be very difficult to practically manage but, if done successfully, can boost productivity in the workplace and offer flexibility to staff," she says.
Ms Wyborn says managers must set clear expectations and employees "must be prepared to put a strong business case forward as to why a part-time arrangement should be considered".
"One practical solution that was implemented in some businesses during the [global financial crisis] was to convert two full-time five-day-a-week positions to two four-day-a-week positions that job-shared. This reduced the wage bill for the business and avoided job losses," she says.
"For employees, it is important to manage time in the workplace well so as to avoid the trap of working the equivalent of a full-time job for a part-time wage. For managers, being open to the idea of part-time work and being prepared to trust staff with these arrangements will often reap great rewards."
Not all public servants want to work part time, but the latest APS survey shows about 30 per cent are not satisfied with their work-life balance.
The main barrier, at least anecdotally, is an old one: how do you assess a public servant's work? In the absence of obvious ways to measure performance, some managers fall back on the numbers of hours their staff spend in the office: thus, if an employee arrives early and leaves late, they must be a hard worker.
The APS will need more insightful, and modern, leadership than that to cope with the cuts to come.


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Is there anything better than an outfit that's the perfect mix of casual, cool and comfort? I think not, my stylish friends, I think not. It can be a challenge to conquer both style and comfort while avoiding looking too frumpy. There's definitely an art to it that can be hard to emulate. When it's done right, however, it can carry you from your day-to-day tasks with ease. Everything from coffee runs, lunch dates or even just making your way to class — keeping it comfortable, cool and casual makes the transition easy.
This Fashionista conquers it perfectly with a feminine touch, straying from looking too casual. To keep it comfortable, she utilizes a closet staple we all have — a gray V-neck T-shirt — and dresses it up with a neutral-based floral skirt that sets up her color palette. The key to pulling off this casual look so successfully? Maintaining some structured feminine accessories to keep it polished. Working from the shoes up, this Fashionista works her outfit through clean, dainty accessories. While the necklace and shoes complement each other perfectly, her gorgeous satchel-purse changes up the monotone accessories and brings it all together to make a chic ensemble.
Dare to try keeping it casual yourself? Do what this Fashionista did and try and pull it off through building off of one accessory first.
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Fish houses starting to sprout up on area lakes
With the cold snap, area lakes have been making ice like crazy -- bait shop owners report 3-5 inches on most lakes, and fish houses are sprouting up.
But Little Detroit Lake just iced-over last Saturday, and Becker County Sheriff Tim Gordon is advising no motorized travel on lakes this weekend.
"We're looking at a good 4 inches (of ice on Little Detroit Lake) and growing," he said Thursday. "But we're advising, for the next week or so, no vehicles -- walking only. No snowmobiles or ATVs yet."
As usual, a few people "pushed the envelope" last weekend and were on the ice shortly after it formed, Gordon said.
"On Friday we had a dog go through the thin ice on Munson Lake, and the next day -- the next day! -- I saw people walking on the ice on Little Detroit, and it hadn't gone below zero yet."
On the plus side, the lack of heavy snow combined with cold temperatures has created "good, clear ice, which is strong ice," Gordon said.
"The biggest caution this year with the extreme cold will be the ice heaves," he added. "You get fissures cracking and they can leave open water several feet across."
Here's some information from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on safely traveling on lake ice:
Checking ice thickness
No matter what you are going to do once you get on the ice -- like fishing, snowmobiling, skating or even ice boating, it's a good idea to contact a local bait shop or resort on the lake about ice conditions.
It's also important to do some checking yourself once you get there. Several factors affect the relative safety of ice, such as temperature, snow cover and currents. But a very important factor is the actual ice thickness.
Use an ice chisel, ice auger or cordless drill and long five-eighth inch wood auger bit to drill through the ice.
Some people claim they can judge thickness by where the chisel or drill suddenly breaks through, but that happens so quickly, it's easy to overestimate the thickness.
It's smarter to use a tape measure or something like an ice fisherman's ice skimmer handle with inch markings to put down the hole and hook the bottom edge of the hole to determine the ice's true thickness.
Other things to keep in mind when checking ice
Ice is seldom the same thickness over a single body of water. It can be two feet thick in one place and one inch thick a few yards away due to currents, springs, rotting vegetation or school of rough fish. You need to check the ice at least every 150 feet, especially early in the season or any situation where the thickness varies widely.
Vehicles weighing about one ton such as cars, pickups or SUVs should be parked at least 50 feet apart and moved every two hours to prevent sinking.
It's not a bad idea to make a hole next to the car. If water starts to overflow the top of the hole, the ice is sinking and it's time to move the vehicle!
Recommended minimum thicknesses for new ice
Here are the recommended minimum thicknesses for new clear ice.
-- 4 inches for ice fishing and small group activities.
-- 5 inches for snowmobiles and ATVs.
-- 8 to 10 inches for small to medium cars, and pickups.
White ice, sometimes called "snow ice," is only about half as strong as new clear ice, so the above thicknesses should be doubled.
Traveling on ice
The following guidelines can help you make wise choices...
-- Check for known thin ice areas with a local resort or bait shop.
-- Test the thickness yourself using an ice chisel, ice auger or even a cordless quarter-inch drill with a long bit.
-- Refrain from driving on ice whenever possible.
If you must drive a vehicle, be prepared to leave it in a hurry -- keep windows down, unbuckle your seat belt and have a simple emergency plan of action you have discussed with your passengers.
-- Stay away from alcoholic beverages.
Even "just a couple of beers" are enough to cause a careless error in judgment that could cost you your life. And contrary to common belief, alcohol actually makes you colder rather than warming you up.
-- Don't "overdrive" your snowmobile's headlight.
At even 30 miles per hour, it can take a much longer distance to stop on ice than your headlight shines. Many fatal snowmobile through-the-ice accidents occur because the machine was traveling too fast for the operator to stop when the headlamp illuminated the hole in the ice.
-- Wear a life vest under your winter gear. Or wear one of the new flotation snowmobile suits. And it's a good idea to carry a pair of ice picks that may be home made or purchased from most well stocked sporting goods stores that cater to winter anglers.


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About the Book
A visit to the modern city of Shanghai, a cruise down the Yangtze River from Yichang to Chongqing, pandas in Chengdu, the mind blowing Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an finished off with a walk along the Great Wall and a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing. All this and much more over a two week period in August 2009 left us with so many memories of this fascinating country and the Chinese people. This photobook attempts to capture some of those memories.
Following feedback, I have produced "China in Two Weeks." This is a modified version of the larger and more expensive "China - two weeks of travel, a lifetime of memories"
in which the personal family photos have been removed and the book reformatted accordingly.
Features & Details
- Category Travel
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
104 Pages
- Publish Date Sep 18, 2010
- Tags yang qin., pi pa, Terracotta Warriors, Forbidden City, Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai Museum, Jin Mao, World Trade Financial Centre, Three Gorges, Ghost City, Shen Nong, Muslim Quarter, Great Mosque, Temple of Heaven, Tian Tan, Red Theatre, Great Wall, Bird's Nest, sheng, ruan, erhu, chinese, travel, panoramas, skyscraper, dragon, silk, bottle-opener, dam, Yichang, Fengdu, Shennong, boatmen, rower, coffin, gorge, Chengdu, panda, Xi'an, Xian, marionette, Shaanxi, muslim, market, pagoda, dancer, dancers, musician, musicians, Tiantan, park, lotus, flower, xiangqi, chess, Cube, olympic, stadium, Shanghai, Yangtze, Chongqing, cruise, Beijing, China
About the Creator
I'm a documentary wedding photographer. I spend my time chasing and capturing memories for happy people on one of the most important days of their lives. It doesn't get much better than that! I've been passionate about many things throughout my life - my family, my work as a scientist and my geeky hobbies. But I've been a photographer all my life. Over time, I realised that I really love to photograph people so it was an easy decision to become a full-time documentary wedding photographer. My unobtrusive and sensitive style lends itself to photographing people in a natural way. I love capturing those special moments in time that will become someone else's memories - photographs that will allow them to recapture the emotion of that precise moment in time. If you would like me to help you to chase and capture those special moments in your life and have fun while we do it then please get in touch with me for an informal chat and let's see where it takes us!
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Yves Schiepek and Teresa Chuc Dowell A beautiful journey, beautifully documented!
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment on our book, Graham! I had found it just now... - Yves


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Statement By Mr Hussein Al-Uzri, Chairman Of TBI, Following Explosions
"This attack on our headquarters in Baghdad, which has tragically cost the lives of five guards and wounded six others, was an act of cowardice by malevolent forces who wish to undermine the progress that Iraq is steadily making towards stability, peace and economic prosperity for all its people.
"The Bank offers its deepest sympathy, and its support, to the victims of this atrocity, and to their families.
"However, this cowardly attack was a failure. The Trade Bank of Iraq, and Iraq itself, are undeterred.
"The work of building Iraq's economic strength – which the Trade Bank of Iraq is doing so much, and very successfully, to support, and in which we are making significant progress year by year – goes on uninterrupted, as does the work of the Bank, which will be open for business as usual tomorrow."


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Commenting on Nicki Minaj's threat against Mariah Carey, Stevie Nicks sides with Mariah, 'If I had been Mariah I would have walked over to Nicki and strangled her to death right there.'
Stevie Nicks is taking side in the feud between Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey. Choosing side with the "Touch My Body" singer, Stevie told The Daily that she would fight the "Starships" femcee.
The 64-year-old ex-coach of "American Idol" exploded, "How dare this little girl!... If I had been Mariah I would have walked over to Nicki and strangled her to death right there." She then continued threatening the female rapper, "I would have killed her in front of all those people and had to go to jail for it."
She said that together with Lindsey Buckingham, she could create their ways to be popular artists through today's popular TV shows such as "Idol", "The X Factor (US)", or "The Voice". "That's how you get seen these days," she said. She then joked, "I would have had to drag [Lindsey] kicking and screaming. He probably would have given them the finger."
Although she enjoyed coaching on the singing competition show, the 70s singer of Fleetwod Mac was not interested to be a judge. She stated, "If you stick me in the middle of a burning fire, I don't think I'd like it very much."
Nicki reportedly was overheard by several persons threatening Mariah, "If I had a gun I would shoot the b****." The rhymer was also caught on tape waving her hand and yelling, "I told them I'm not f****n' putting up with her f*****g highness over there. Figure it the f*** out. Figure it out." Mariah fired back, but her voice was unheard.


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Untangling a farm business that is experiencing financial problems can be a rather daunting task, says Robert Jolly, ag economist and farm finance specialist at Iowa State University.
Different financial problems often require rather different strategies. Management decisions, technical difficulties and family problems contribute in complex ways to creating undesired financial outcomes. In many cases, a clear course of action to resolve the financial difficulties is not easily determined.


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Millennium War Aigis
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Castellum Res Venereae: Hell
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Castellum Res Venereae 4
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Pimp Clicker [v 0.7]
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Sanguine Rose
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Jeff Travels
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Castellum Res Venereae 3
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Castellum Res Venereae 2
Second part comes with new levels and challenges. Here you'll see 12 scenes from previous part and 12 new sex scenes. Your task is to reach exit door and avoid all traps on your way. Use Arrow keys to move and jump.दर्शनों की संख्या: 47497
Castellum Res Venereae 1
Your task in this game is to help pink haired girl to reach the exit door. It will not be so easy, because there are a lot of different traps on your way. If you get trapped in any of them you'll see a sex scene about it. Use Arrow keys to move.दर्शनों की संख्या: 66347
Elana, Champion of Lust Chapter 2 [Alpha 1]
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Tsunade's Secret
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Priscylla in Cutepetland
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Fairy Tail Shower 4some
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Hot as Hell [v 0.16]
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The Legend of LUST [7th update]
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Odyssey of Jon Snow
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World of Whorecraft
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Occupy California!
We are occupying this building at the University of California, Santa Cruz, because the current situation has become untenable. Across the state, people are losing their jobs and getting evicted, while social services are slashed. California's leaders from state officials to university presidents have demonstrated how they will deal with this crisis: everything and everyone is subordinated to the budget. They insulate themselves from the consequences of their own fiscal mismanagement, while those who can least afford it are left shouldering the burden. Every solution on offer only accelerates the decay of the State of California. It remains for the people to seize what is theirs.
The current attack on public education – under the guise of a fiscal emergency – is merely the culmination of a long-term trend. California's regressive tax structure has undermined the 1960 Master Plan for free education. In this climate, the quality of K-12 education and the performance of its students have declined by every metric. Due to cuts to classes in Community Colleges, over 50,000 California youth have been turned away from the doors of higher education. California State University will reduce its enrollment by 40,000 students system wide for 2010-2011. We stand in solidarity with students across the state because the same things are happening to us. At the University of California, the administration will raise student fees to an unprecedented $10,300, a 32 percent increase in one year. Graduate students and lecturers return from summer vacation to find that their jobs have been cut; faculty and staff are forced to take furloughs. Entire departments are being gutted. Classes for undergraduates and graduates are harder to get into while students pay more. The university is being run like a corporation.
Let's be frank: the promise of a financially secure life at the end of a university education is fast becoming an illusion. The jobs we are working toward will be no better than the jobs we already have to pay our way through school. Close to three-quarters of students work, many full-time. Even with these jobs, student loan volume rose 800 percent from 1977 to 2003. There is a direct connection between these deteriorating conditions and those impacting workers and families throughout California. Two million people are now unemployed across the state. 1.5 million more are underemployed out of a workforce of twenty million. As formerly secure, middle-class workers lose their homes to foreclosure, Depression-era shantytowns are cropping up across the state. The crisis is severe and widespread, yet the proposed solutions – the governor and state assembly organizing a bake sale to close the budget gap – are completely absurd.
We must face the fact that the time for pointless negotiations is over. Appeals to the UC administration and Sacramento are futile; instead, we appeal to each other, to the people with whom we are struggling, and not to those whom we struggle against. A single day of action at the university is not enough because we cannot afford to return to business as usual. We seek to form a unified movement with the people of California. Time and again, factional demands are turned against us by our leaders and used to divide social workers against teachers, nurses against students, librarians against park rangers, in a competition for resources they tell us are increasingly scarce. This crisis is general, and the revolt must be generalized. Escalation is absolutely necessary. We have no other option.
Occupation is a tactic for escalating struggles, a tactic recently used at the Chicago Windows and Doors factory and at the New School in New York City. It can happen throughout California too. As undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff, we call on everyone at the UC to support this occupation by continuing the walkouts and strikes into tomorrow, the next day, and for the indefinite future. We call on the people of California to occupy and escalate.
As college students, we are told we should be grateful for being here. It's our supposed salvation from a lifetime of wage slavery and misery, but it's becoming very obvious that our future has already been looted by our present leaders. Most of us will spend most of our lives in debt, chained to commodities, working for things we'll never own. We become students in order to sell our activity as complex labor, to become technicians of this vast capitalist machine we call 'society'. That is to say, not because it's the best possible use of our lives but because other means of survival have been foreclosed. Being a student, like being a worker or prisoner, is a social role defined by its relation to the reproduction of the economy of capital. Now we live like lost children, because capitalist society has no future: it is collapsing in on itself, and trying to take us with it. We are nothing, and to become anything at all we will have to take everything we need.
If one thing is brutally obvious, it's that there is no point demanding anything from a system which is trying to eat us alive, or negotiating with rulers who will never see us as anything but numbers. From budget cuts at our schools to mass layoffs and foreclosures, from police murders on BART to the exploitation and persecution of migrants from the south, from the criminalization and incarceration of youth of color to political activists facing decades in prison, from the destruction of UCSC's Upper Campus ecosystems to the giant plastic garbage dump in the middle of the sea, these 'problems' are all symptoms of a system based on private property and the police who enforce it. The solution cannot be granted to us by anyone: we have to build it ourselves by organizing autonomously, developing collective power and generalized self-management.
This won't be easy. All our lives we have been trained to obey authority instead of to subvert and resist it and trust ourselves and each other.
We can only learn by doing. We can only find each other in struggle. We have begun.
WE ARE students, workers, unemployed; we are undocumented and on probation; we are sick of being ripped off by bosses and bullied by cops; we are the youth, we have no future, and we are power hungry.
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MARKET CLOSE: NZX 50 closes above 5000; Infratil, Air NZ extend gains
By Suze Metherell
March 3 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand's NZX 50 Index rose to a record, closing above 5000 for the first time as Infratil missed out on the $950 million acquisition and Air New Zealand extended gains to reach a six-year high after its results last week.
The NZX 50 Index rose 17.366 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5007.404, the first time it has exceeded 5000 since being introduced as a replacement for the NZSE 40 in 2003. Within the index, 17 stocks rose, 26 fell and seven were unchanged. Turnover was $94 million.
Infratil rose 2.1 percent to $2.245. The Wellington-based infrastructure investor had been in the running to buy Transpacific Industries' New Zealand waste management operations, but lost out to Chinese state-owned Beijing Capital Group, which still needs regulatory approvals. Dual-listed Transpacific was unchanged at $1.40 on the NZX, and rose 0.2 percent to A$1.177 on the ASX.
"The market was a bit concerned that they might overpay for the asset and now that they've missed out the market is thinking that's a good thing," said James Smalley, director at Hamilton Hindin Greene.
Air New Zealand rose 1.4 percent to $1.80. Last week the national carrier lifted first-half earnings by controlling costs and said full-year profit would rise more than 17 percent while rival Qantas Airways posted a A$252 million loss and announced plans to sack 5,000 workers.
"It is partly Qantas, but it's also a reflection of what the market saw as a pretty good result and now Air New Zealand is up at the highest it's been since essentially pre-GFC, 2008 levels," Smalley said.
Xero, the accounting software company, led the day's gainers rising 3.4 percent to $41.50, paced by Ryman Healthcare up 1.9 percent to $8.05 and Sky Network Television up 1.1 percent to $6.19. New Zealand's biggest listed company Fletcher Building rose 0.3 percent to $9.45.
Chorus slipped 0.3 percent to $1.52, as an offshore substantial shareholder sold off their stock as the threat of further regulation for the network provider deters foreign investors, said Smalley. Chorus is in negotiations with Crown Fibre Holdings over the pricing of New Zealand's ultrafast broadband network and will be forced to cut prices on its copper network by the Commerce Commission.
A2 Corp slipped 1.1 percent to 93 cents while retirement village operator Summerset Group Holdings fell 0.9 percent to $3.37, as investors took the opportunity for some profit taking after the stock's positive earnings.
Diligent Board Members Services slipped 0.6 percent to $4.82 after the company restated its accounts last week.
Auckland International Airport rose 0.3 percent to $3.75, casino operator SkyCity Entertainment Group was unchanged at $3.93. Telecom gained 0.4 percent to $2.51.
Outside the benchmark index, Snakk Media, which matches advertisers with apps and social media, slid 9.8 percent to 11 cents after reporting third quarter sales were crimped by the high kiwi against the Australian dollar.
New Zealand Refining was unchanged at $1.75. The Whangarei-based company said it raised $48 million in a placement of new shares. Pyne Gould Corp was unchanged at 43 cents as the asset management firm posted a first-half loss on foreign exchange charges.


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Toys "R" Us Holiday Ad 2013
Is Toys "R" Us Teaching Kids to Hate Nature?
Toys "R" Us always goes big when it comes to holiday campaigns, and 2013 is no exception. This year, the mega toy store turns a Boys & Girls Club trip to the forest into a shopping spree at Toys "R" Us, where the kids receive their favorite toys. Sweet, right? Maybe not. The retailer is under fire for sending the message that toys trump Mother Nature.
Though 245 people liked the ad on Toys "R" Us's Facebook page, almost 300 users left comments of disappointment and disgust. "This ad disregards the physical and intellectual aspects nature hiking and exploration offers to children," one woman wrote. Another user critiqued the company, writing, "this ad makes me weep for the kind of values we are passing down to future generations."
Parents aren't the only ones upset by the ad. The North American Association For Environmental Education expressed its disappointment in an open letter to Toys "R" Us. In it, the NAAEE expressed its shock that the toy retailer created an ad that "values consumerism over education and connecting with the natural world," asking Toys "R" Us to reconsider running the ad.
What do you think of this Toy "R" Us ad? Weigh in on our poll and the comment section below!


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I am packing to spend time with my 18-month-old grandson, Nikolai while his mom & dad are in the hospital welcoming his new brother. Babies are rarely on schedule so, I am only preparing right now.
Me, Nikolai and Gilbert (their dog, who I lovingly referred to as GillyB) will spend a few days together… and I am collecting 'things to do'. We are already great crayon-artists together...and we do all of the outdoors sports including eating sticks, climbing on jungle gyms, and sliding down slides. But, during this visit I would like to introduce him to modeling-clay or playing-dough (not to be confused with the trademarked stuff).
When my own children were little I made edible-play-dough for them. Recently I found a few more recipes and I thought I'd make a comparison.
Be careful! Three of the four recipes are made with peanut butter…make sure that your child or your grown-up are not allergic.
In RED bowl:
1. My original recipe (the one I used with my own children)
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup quick oats
1 cup powdered instant dry milk
1/3 cup of honey
Mix ingredients thoroughly. You can store this in an airtight container…but I usually didn't keep it very long.
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Grandkids...peanut butter...what more could I ask for?
Life is good! (God is even better) :)
-thank you both!
You had me a peanut butter! My two-year-old will have fun with your original recipe, thanks for sharing.
I love the title of "play with your food!"
Rose! You are the Grandma every kid would want for sure! I absolutely love this idea and the recipes and I will definitely remember this when it's my turn!
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By Colleen Flaherty
Fort Hood Herald
Red Cross Month is in full swing at Fort Hood's main Red Cross office, with workshops, volunteer orientations and training throughout March.
Staff and volunteers held an open house at the Red Cross Main Office inside the historic Reynolds House Thursday to advertise services and recruit new volunteers.
The Red Cross hopes to recruit 500 with its current drive, said senior station manager Mary Basiliere.
"We're a humanitarian organization led by volunteers," said Basiliere, one of three paid staff members. "We've got a congressional charter to provide disaster relief and prevention and to respond to emergencies."
While many volunteers work at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, said volunteer chairperson Rebecca Schoffman, numerous other volunteer tasks include fund-raising, disaster planning and youth leadership.
Board member Annette Wiggins gave her husband, First Army Division West commander Maj. Gen. Perry Wiggins, a tour of the facility that brought the general back to his childhood.
"One of my earliest memories is swimming lessons (at the Red Cross)," he said. "You impact a lot of children who probably don't even recognize it's the Red Cross. A lot of people just see the red shorts and think it's just what lifeguards wear."
Basiliere said the Red Cross provides services that people may take for granted in good times, such as disaster relief. But there are also services designed to enhance the quality of life and education of area families, she said, including baby-sitting and CPR classes.
In addition to its more traditional offerings, the Red Cross is also holding a dental assistant training program in conjunction with the Fort Hood Dental Activity. The class starts in September.
Annette Wiggins said she believes in the Red Cross mission and has volunteered at offices at several different duty stations.
Its global nature and reputation as a professional organization make it a good time investment for military spouses looking to gain professional experience as volunteers, she said. "Whatever skills you learn, you can add to your resume."
Contact Colleen Flaherty at email@example.com or (254) 501-7559. Follow her on Twitter at KDHFortHood.
Red Cross Month
Events at the Fort Hood Red Cross include:
Friday and March 17: Adult/pediatric CPR and first aid training
March 15 and 31: Baby-sitting training
March 21: Reconnection workshops
March 27: Disaster services workshop
Information tables and volunteer orientations are scheduled throughout the month. For more information, including times, locations and fees, call (254) 287-0400. The Red Cross Main Office is in the Reynolds "White" House next to the Warrior Way Commissary on Warrior Way.


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I think it would buy you a lot of formatting that you cannot get from a text file. That might not matter to some folks, but certainly will to others, like myself. Many text files are difficult on the eyes. Plus not all eReaders or eReading apps support text files, and even when they do they don't always render very well.
This exactly. Plain text is universal, I see it a lot when I download WordPress plugins as most developers distribute them with quick guides/manuals. I also use it for quick HTML editing when I'm too lazy to open Dreamweaver or have to look at a XML file. It's lightweight compared to a PDF, and better than forcing someone to have to deal with finding the correct version of Word just to open the file.
Otherwise it's pretty useless. You can set up your editor to use the font you want, and what size, but that's just for editing purposes. It's not something most of us would sit there and read for hours. And yeah, most eReaders aren't made to deal with it.
A lot of people here talk about Calibre, which is another reason why I pointed this out. This, along with Markdown (which I'm getting them to add) would be so much easier than having to install another app and learning how to use it.
If you don't know what Markdown is, it's basically an easier way to format a document. It's a lot easier to edit compared to HTML, and still keeps it universal.
i'll give you an example:
This is the beginning of a book...
Here's your chapter title
Your chapter subheading
The date of the entry (so I guess it's a memoir)
Your first paragraph, introduction of the scene, blah.
This is how you format it with the Markdown syntax:
Here's your chapter title
### Your chapter subheading
**The date of the entry (so I guess it's a memoir)**
Your first paragraph, introduction of the scene, blah.
If you just have a line of text with no formatting, it just assumes it's a paragraph.
This is the output after adding the Markdown syntax (an illustration anyway, we don't have heading tags here on the forums):
Here's your chapter title
Your chapter subheading
The date of the entry (so I guess it's a memoir)
Your first paragraph, introduction of the scene, blah.
And you can do that just in Notepad/TextEdit. Some iPad text editors even support Markdown output, so even better. There are some split screen editors on all platforms that will show you a live preview of the output too.
So I'm really hoping they can add the feature to it soon.
I think it's already brilliant how easy it is to just open Safari, copy an article, save the text, and convert it, then open it in whatever. But the formatting options are going to be awesome.
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>General Running>My running partner died today. Please pray...
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*hugs* Thinking of you and your friend's family.
"Don't feel like running today...suck it up and run ...you're an athlete." (John Stanton, founder & owner of The Running Room)
Three half marathons later, I got a number. Half Fanatic #9292. :)
Really saddened to hear of your loss and the devastating circumstances.
Go as long as you can, and then take another step.
Mark, you and your friend's family have my heartfelt condolences. I've said a prayer for all of you for swift healing, loving arms to surround you, and many fond memories. Keep running to honor your friend.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot run," then by all means RUN, and the voice will be silenced.
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Sorry to hear about your loss. It is most unfortunate.
Man. Sorry to hear this. Take care.
I fly.
I'm so sorry.
Bring it on.
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I am so sorry for your loss. I will make sure to give my training buddy a hug next time we run together.
This is a runner's worst nightmare. I am so sorry. Condolences and prayers.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
One of those things we never think can happen, but sometimes it does. So sorry to hear about this; I hope there's lots of local support for you and his family. It's good you did CPR, good he was with a friend.
Keep building the base.
2012 goals: Under 30 minutes 5K, over 20 miles/week
This is so utterly tragic. Hope his family and friends find the strength to cope with this loss.
I dont sweat. I ooze liquid awesome.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you, and his family.
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terrible news. I am sorry for your loss.
2012= under-goaled
Sorry for your loss, hope you can remember the good times you had with him again so sorry.
Turning back the clock one mile at a time
I am so sorry for you and everyone closely affected by this sorrowful event.
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Molsen, this is terrible news, and being there must have been crazy shocking and very difficult. It is really very difficult to know what to say or how to react, other than to try and share some sympathy and offer to pray. That you did CPR is fantastic, props to you for knowing how to do it and for actually doing it. When somebody goes suddenly and that young, it is a terrible tragedy.
If you are up to it, I think it would do Mike a great honor if you could tell us a bit about him. It may help you also by letting you release some of the emotion that has got to be tearing through your brain and heart. Please share, I think all of us would love to know a bit about the man you ran with. Introduce us to him. Help him live on through us.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
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Influenza (Flu) vaccine is recommended for kidney transplant patients who are at least 6 months post-transplant. The influenza vaccine stimulates the immune system to builds protective antibodies against the flu virus.
Previous research has shown that adult kidney transplant patients are not able to form as much of these protective antibodies as compared to healthy volunteers. Research has also suggested that different immunosuppressive medicines may have different effects on antibody formation. In this study, we hope to evaluate these differences in more detail.
In recent years, increasingly effective, but also increasingly complex, immunosuppressive regimens have been developed, however, there has been little detailed systematic study of the immune changes that occur in response to vaccination with these newer immunosuppressive regimens.Current policies on vaccination of transplant recipients are generic and continue to be based on old concepts rather than on any new understanding of the effects of these newer therapies on the immune system.
We hope to improve our understanding of the effects of the immunosuppressive regimens in use today (calcineurin-inhibitor, or CNI, and sirolimus-based regimens) on immune response to flu vaccine. Such knowledge will be critical to helping clinicians develop strategies for getting desirable immune responses while not causing rejection.
|Kidney Transplant Immunology Immunosuppression
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|A Prospective Comparison of the Magnitude and Character of the Immune Response to Influenza Vaccine in Immunosuppressed Renal Transplant Patients and Healthy Age-matched Volunteers
- To determine the effect of immunosuppressive regimens on the magnitude and character of the adaptive immune response to flu vaccine [ Time Frame: 7, 14, 28 and 90 days post vaccination ]
- To determine the effects of chronic immunosuppressive therapies on innate immunity during response to flu vaccine [ Time Frame: 7, 14, 28 and 90 days post vaccination ]
- To define the transcriptional and protein signatures of the response to flu vaccination in patients on conventional immunosuppressive regimens compared to healthy volunteers [ Time Frame: 7, 14, 28 and 90 days post vaccination ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
|Study Start Date:
|November 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Recipients of primary deceased or living donor renal transplant maintained on immunosuppressive regimen utilizing tacrolimus
Recipients of primary deceased or living donor renal transplant maintained on immunosuppressive regimen utilizing sirolimus
Healthy controls
Age, gender- and race-matched individuals, not on immunosuppressive medications
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 59 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female patients between 18 and 59 years of age
- Greater than six months post deceased or living donor renal transplant
- Patients capable of understanding the purposes and risks of the study, who can give written informed consent and who are willing to participate in and comply with the study.
- Patients with no known contraindications to flu vaccine (e.g. egg allergy, prior serious adverse reaction to flu vaccine, current febrile illness, marked leukopenia (WBC < 2500 cells/ml)
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days of study enrollment and must not be breast-feeding.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Patients with evidence of an active systemic infection
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00833651
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|Emory University
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|Principal Investigator:
|Christian P. Larsen, MD, DPhil
|Emory University
|Principal Investigator:
|Kenneth E Kokko, MD, PhD
|Emory University
|Responsible Party:
|Christian P Larsen, MD, PhD, Chairman, Dept. of Surgery, Emory University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00833651 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
PIP-02 ( Other Identifier: Other )
|Study First Received:
|January 30, 2009
|Last Updated:
|November 21, 2013
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TOM HALL: Alberto, let me ask you what might be an unfair question, one which I will ask everybody. Who are your favorite composers working today? Who do you like to listen to today, and whose music moves you in a particular way, besides your own?
ALBERTO GRAU: I feel very lucky to be very versatile, and enjoy everything from Gregorian chant to a good salsa. And I can also sit at the piano and play Johann Sebastian Bach. I am fond of many types of music. And [during] the times that I have to write, many of my talents and all these elements come to me, and I give all these elements a very personal touch.
TOM HALL: Jorge, how about you? You are a conductor as well as a composer. You do a lot of music. Are there people writing music today in particular that you are drawn to?
JORGE C"RDOBA: You asked me about the composers. I think there are too many. Béla Bartók, Francis Poulenc, Gorecki, Arvo Part. I like very much the composers that set a choral reality. I am a singer and choral director, and sometimes when I approach a certain kind of music, I see that the choir is suffering. The singers are suffering. And I really like all these composers who think about the choir, about the singer.
TOM HALL: You, as a co-founder with Libby Larsen of the ACF, have done just phenomenal work for many years in supporting many, many American composers in particular. This may be a particularly unfair question, but who are the composers that you are interested in?
STEPHEN PAULUS: I obviously have been greatly exposed to the works of my colleagues here in the States as I have worked and lived here. Also through the Composer's Forum, I have become familiar with literally hundreds of composers' music. Also through two residencies, one with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and one here with the Minnesota Orchestra. When Libby and I were here with the Minnesota Orchestra, we were sent works by probably 700 composers, and we functioned as a little screening committee of two, before the sacred, smaller number made it to Neville Marriner's desk. So we became familiar with all kinds of people. I have been fascinated by the work of several of my colleagues; people outside the Minnesota area would include music of Joe Schwantner, Bob Beaser, Aaron Kernis. I told Aaron this story—Four or five years ago I didn't really know much of his music; I don't know why. We have a little boombox in the kitchen. I think it is fair to say it is not a very sophisticated piece of equipment. But it is a kitchen. Minnesota Public Radio was playing something, and my wife had just asked me to take out the garbage, which I was doing. I put down the garbage, because you know how it is when you really want to hear the end of the piece, who the composer was. I was that fascinated with who the composer was, and it turned out that it was Aaron Kernis. And I thought that is the ultimate compliment when you stop doing something else. You often hear people say, "I was traveling along in the car and I heard this fascinating piece and I was five minutes late for the party. And this being America, I think I am like most Americans, I have very eclectic tastes and you can go down the radio dial and listen to seventeen different styles of music. I was in New York supervising the production of a new opera that I had written, and I ended up eating in the same restaurant on several nights in the row. At the late hour we were finishing, sometimes there were not so many options open to us. And they were always playing the same CD at around 11:30 or 12 at night. And I finally said, "Who is that?" because I had no idea, and it turned out to be Norah Jones, who is sort of a jazz singer. And after a while, I noticed that Barnes & Noble, everybody in that Lincoln Center area was playing the same CD. Finally, I'll go to the point, I didn't want to be embarrassed by it, but after a while, there was a twinge of country-western thrown in with jazz and something else that I couldn't figure out because that is not my area of expertise. There is something fascinating about the way the text is set, sparsely accompanied, and I have since learned that she is quite a hot ticket, she is Ravi Shankar's daughter and is writing all of these great interesting little things. So I think a lot of American composers are influenced by some of the popular music around. It is not as if we would incorporate it, but it all feeds into the same tube and somehow comes out as a piece of music.


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A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?
1) to affix a worm to the end of a fishing line & to dislike a novel
2) to move by foot at a slow gait for eight furlongs & to ridicule for an unspecified amount of time
3) to strike a cooking utensil with the foot & to select a cylindrical metal container
4) to cook a turtle's covering in an oven & to wave a clanging instrument with a jerky motion
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2) walk a mile & mock a while
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When Beyonce and Jay Z tucked into their gift bags at the Grammy Awards on Monday, the healthy-living couple would have found they could wind down after the big night with some Blossom Blends tea.
With brands worldwide vying for a place in the 150 celebrity goodie bags, how did an Aussie tea sneak in?
Grammy organisers contacted Sydney-based owner Anne McWilliam last October, but at first the Blossom Blends camp thought it was spam. McWilliam contacted the Grammys and was told a staff member had been given the tea as a gift and they felt it'd sit well with tea-drinking music celebrities.
It makes you wonder just how far the music industry has moved away from rock'n'roll. McWilliam, the great granddaughter of the founder of McWilliam's Wine, started Blossom Blends in 2012 after leaving the banking industry.
She had to submit her teas to the Grammy board for approval. The pack included Complexion Perfection tea, sure to be a winner with LA's plastic fantastics.


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Sleeping bags cluttered the pavement outside a London courtroom yesterday as bleary-eyed Britons and jeering demonstrators lined up to watch Tony Blair face a tough day in the witness box.
Hoping to gain admission to the Royal Courts of Justice, dozens of people had been waiting since the previous afternoon, some bringing tents to keep out the chill until the Prime Minister arrived to begin giving evidence before a judicial inquiry into the apparent suicide of weapons expert David Kelly.
Several hundred people had massed outside the building, with a rowdy demonstration gathering momentum at the main entrance in London's West End.
"I came to see him hang himself," said Faye Davies, a press officer in her 30s, who said she felt let down by Mr Blair's Labour Government.
Demonstrators held up posters of Mr Blair, the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, and the Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, scrawled with slogans such as, "Blair and Bush wanted for war crimes", or "Bliar", an increasingly common pun on Mr Blair's name.
One protester carried a placard around his neck reading: "Trust me, I'm Tony."
Alex Holmes, an 18-year-old freshman history student at Oxford, in south-east England, arrived at nightfall on Wednesday and took up first place in the queue. "I knew I wanted to be in the first 10," he said.
Only a few people were able to gain entry to the courtroom itself, while the rest watched the proceedings on a screen outside.
Robert Robinson and Kate O'Connell, both 17, camped in a two-man tent with inflatable mattress, rubbing their hands at a chance to witness the event.
"It will be really interesting to see how it all works," Mr Robinson said. Ms O'Connell added: "I would like to see how he [Blair] copes with the continual questioning."
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The Erupter is a one-knob sonic destruction device that is absolutely essential for fuzz junkies.$145.00
EarthQuaker Devices Dirt Transmitter FuzzThe Earthquaker Devices Dirt Transmitter Fuzz gives a wide range of fuzz tones. The Earthquaker Devices Dirt ... read more$145.00
EarthQuaker Devices Cloven Hoof V2Earthquaker took its Hoof Fuzz and replaced two ultra-high-gain MPSA13 transistors in the clipping stages for... read more$175.00
EarthQuaker Devices BellowsHighly-versatile circuit ranging from light crunch to amp-melting fuzz with the twist of a knob.$145.00