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Accumulating evidence demonstrates that mitochondrial dysfunction is both associated with and causally related to neurodegeneration observed in response to injury and diseases affecting the brain. While disturbances in energy metabolism and ATP production have received significant attention, abnormalities are also being found in the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics which involves the processes of fusion and fission (fragmentation) affecting the shape and size of mitochondria. Importantly, mitochondrial fusion and fission are directly involved in ensuring their proper distribution, transport, and turnover. Considering how vital it is for neurons to have healthy mitochondria positioned at sites of energy demand, it is not difficult to imagine that genetic or epigenetic modifications that impair the regulation of mitochondrial fission and fusion could adversely affect neuronal connectivity, function and viability. We recently determined that neurons express two alternatively spliced forms of a mitochondrial fission regulating protein, Bif-1 (Bif-1b/c). Our preliminary data demonstrates that Bif-1b/c is lost in neurons in the penumbra (cerebral cortex) of mice subjected to middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO, stroke model). Importantly, the Bif-1-null condition enhanced neuronal cell death caused by MCAO, and DNA damage and Abeta cytotoxicity in culture. Conversely, Bif-1c overexpression confers significant protection against Abeta-mediated toxicity indicating that Bif-1 is required for normal neuronal function. The Bif-1b/c protein is significantly reduced in the parietal cortex (affected area) and in synaptosomes of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients compared to aged matched non-AD patients. These changes in Bif-1b/c are also observed in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse AD model and in primary cortical neurons following addition of the toxic Abeta peptide. Moreover, in preliminary studies, Bif-1-null mice displayed significant cognitive impairment at one year of age and knockout of the Bif-1 homologue (endoB) in drosophila enhanced the toxicity of the toxic Abeta42 peptide based on an eye phenotype, but had no effect on flies expressing the non-toxic Abeta40 peptide. These findings demonstrate a potential neuroprotective function of Bif-1 and suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction associated with ischemic damage and AD may be due to reduced expression of Bif-1b/c. We propose to test the hypothesis that restoration of Bif-1c expression in neurons in an inducible transgenic mouse promotes neuronal survival, retention of mitochondrial integrity and enhances cognitive function in response to stroke and in a mouse model of AD. These studies will determine if Bif-1c has therapeutic actions for reducing injury and disease-induced damage.
Alterations in mitochondrial fission and fusion have been observed in a variety of human neurodegenerative diseases and in response to brain injury, suggesting that abnormalities in mitochondrial dynamics may underlie the loss of function seen in these conditions. Utilizing a novel mouse model we hope to develop, we will assess whether an uncharacterized mitochondrial protein that is neuroprotective in cultured neurons against amyloid toxicity confers protection against stroke and damage associated with a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease when overexpressed in neurons. Characterizing abnormalities in the pathways that regulate mitochondrial function and energy production in brain disease and injury will provide potential new targets for mitigating or blocking the cognitive dysfunction associated with brain disease and injury.
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A bit of firefight outside, a pleasant breeze. It's not bad here. It goes in waves. There are such inconveniences. I'm on the 18th floor of the hotel now. I have my own room. But it was many other people's room before and I don't think it's been cleaned in a while. I haven't been able to shower for two days. The power has been out all afternoon, so I'm writing in the dark and my battery is dying. I have this one little flashlight. Earlier this evening, I walked downstairs to get something out of my car and realized, when I got down, that I left my keys upstairs. It was too depressing to walk back up, so I went and had some whiskey with friends. The first time I've socialized since being here. Then I came back just now, walked up 18 flights, got my keys, and walked down again. I'm so unbelievably tired. I was doing a couple phone interviews today and I could barely speak a sentence, it felt like. For the first time, I just didn't file a story. I had the tape, but the power's out and it just seemed like a nightmare, so forget it. I get these powerful waves of just wanting to be away from all this, back home, sleeping in my bed, all the comforts of a modern society. But I don't want to miss these next few weeks. There'dll be unbelievable changes: the new American occupational government, new infrastructure, etc. I do think I want to leave before the miserable heat of summer. And maybe come back in the fall.
I already feel the shock and amazement wearing off a tiny bit. Things feel a bit normal. I'm definitely less amazed by everything I see. But still it's pretty amazing. But it becomes a bit routine, shockingly quickly, to see looted, burned buildings everywhere, the total chaos of Baghdad (which gets worse every day, as more and more people are out on the streets). It becomes routine to see tanks everywhere and young soldiers with big guns.
I don't have it in me to write much more. It was another good day. It started off slow. I stayed in the hotel lobby trying to talk to American troops interviewing engineers and power plant operators and stuff, but troops are hard to get to talk and once they talk they don't have much to say. It was frustrating. But then I left the hotel compound and went out on the street, and, as usual, the stories just poured out. I went to a power plant and met all these serious, very nice electrical engineers trying desperately to get power back on to the city. They're not getting paid, they don't know who they work for anymore. Since there is no state power company. But they're working their assess off because they want power in the city and they are professionals and they don't know what else to do.
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hi all...
i need to confirm what's the problem in my set up.
i have two domain: one that´s is the whole inlet, outlet and stator, this domain is stationary. and the second is only around the rotor, this domain is rotating with the rpm of the rotor.
i set up one interface. this interface is only one surface. i set up it in: Interface Models: General Connection. Frame Change: Frozen Rotor.
i put the inlet with 350Pa and the outlet with 0Pa relative.
when i see the results it seems to be wrong, but i don´t know where is the probmem...:confused:
can anybody help me....
What seems to be wrong?
If you mean the streamlines going wild in the rotating section it is because you need to calculate the streamlines using the "Velocity in Stationary Frame" variable.
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hello glenn.
ok, you're right. but if i plot the velocity in the stationary frame i have streamline leaked (cut down in the interface) and this seems odd. i have this cut near the interface in all plots? (i plot an isosurface of turbulence kinetic energy and see the same).
i expect that the sreamlines have some curvature, but not that have a break. and the streamline in the first face would be the same number that in the back face....
are i'm wrong?
I can see the facetting of the inlet and outlet ducts and the mesh is very coarse. You are never going to get anything believable with a mesh as coarse as that. Start refining the mesh and things should behave themselves. Do a sensitivity analysis to determine how fine the mesh needs to be for the accuracy you require.
Anyone - we really need to write a FAQ on the basics of checking mesh, timestep and residuals convergence and sensitivity for these type of basic questions. 90% of the "my simulation is not accurate" questions do not do the basics here - any takers?
Glenn Horrocks
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hello guys..
i'm now running a test with a more small mesh...
how can i determine the quality of the mesh before the running? it´s there a tool like in FLUENT to see the best and the worse elements of my mesh?
i make a coarse mesh in the ducts far away of the blades because i think in this place the pressure and velocity gradients will be smooth...but, well i´m now be sure of it...i will post the results;)..
the same thing
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i have extended the domain and drawing the pathlines, but i still can see a break in the interface with "velocity", when i draw it with "velocity in Stn Frame" some pathlines were missing...it is normal?
The streamlines are behaving as expected. The Velocity variable is in the local frame of reference so when you go through a change of reference frame streamlines drawn with the velocity variable will have a kink. Streamlines drawn using Velocity in Stn Frame are continuous but do hit the blades on occasion as the blades are rotating.
If you don't get this concept I recommend you only use streamlines inside a single domain, and always use the "velocity" variable. Then the streamlines will behave as expected and not hit walls.
Glenn Horrocks
i was thinking about the linepath.... i'm agree about the "velocity" drawn of streamlines. the difference of velocity of the coordinate system of both domain make the streamlines to break.
but, i still don´t understand the picture of "velocity in stationary frame". i think it would be exactly if i see the device in my hands, i expect to see all the lines reach the end. there is not a delta T, so i can't say that the line is cut because the particle reach this position in the end of analysis....
where can i read about this?
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My name is Mark Jacobs. I'm a seventeen year old high school senior that happens to be gay. My parents have no idea of my sexual preferences.
My dad, Jack, is an over the road truck driver and makes a very nice living; enough to put me through college and allow my mom to do her volunteer work at the hospital. She enjoys not having to work outside he home.
It all began just before my graduation. I wondered if I should reveal what I knew or keep quiet.
Due to a power failure at school, classes were dismissed at noon. I drove home and when I arrived, there was a strange car in our driveway.
I went up to the front window and peeked in. No one was in sight, but I could faintly hear sounds from the interior of the house. Easing in, I listened and heard my mom moan.
I was about to rush to her aid when I heard a mans voice say, "Yea baby. I'm almost there. Let's go over the edge together."
"Not yet, Carl," Mom said. "Make it last longer."
I eased to the master bedroom and peered in. There was mom in bed getting fucked by a guy I didn't know. She was pulling his head down to kiss him.
I was totally stunned and shocked. I eased away and went to my room, wondering what I should do.
I made my decision. I grabbed my digital camera and set it for video and went back to mom's room. I began videoing the action and captured both their climaxes.
I hurried back out of the house and left, driving just down the street and parked. I watched as the guy left in his hospital scrubs. As he drove toward me, I snapped a still picture of him.
I then went back to the house, finding mm in her robe. Seeing me she became nervous, asking what I was doing home so early.
"There was a power failure at school and they let classes out early," I said, going straight to my room.
I was in good standing with my last period class and convinced my teacher to excuse me from class for a week. I got three more episodes of mom having sex with other men. One was with the same guy and the other two were different men.
I hated her for what she was doing to my dad. He and I were close and didn't want to see him get hurt, yet I knew that he had to know.
When he came in off the road for a few days, Mom acted as if nothing was wrong and welcomed him with open arms, soon getting him in their bed.
the following day she was scheduled to volunteer at the hospital and after she left, Dad suggested that he and I go get breakfast.
As we returned home, Dad could tell something was bothering me. "What's wrong son? I can tell something is on your mind because you're not yourself."
"Dad, we need to talk when we get home."
"What about?" he asked.
I refused to tell him until we got home, but once inside he sat me down and said "Spill it. You know you can talk to me about anything."
Looking him straight in the face I said bluntly, "Dad, Mom's fucking other guys while you're gone."
"Mark, what are you saying? How are you so sure? Surely you must be mistaken. Not your mom!"
"Dad, I've seen it with my own eyes." I told him about the first time then showed him all the videos I had taken. He as shocked beyond belief as he watched each one.
"Well, if that's what she wants, then she can do it all she wants," he said calmly.
"Dad, if you're leaving her, I want to go with you. I hate her for what's she's doing to you."
"No, Mark, I'm not leaving. She is, and I don't care where she goes."
With that,he went to their room and pulled out their luggage and stuffed all her clothes and personal items into them and sat them by the door.
Then, he asked for the cables to my camera and attached my video camera to the TV and had is all set to play when she returned home.
When she walked in, she saw the luggage and asked what was going on.
Looking at her, dad calmly said, "Why don't you tell me, Sue," and pressed the play button on the remote.
When the videos started, she turned white and slowly eased herself into a chair.
"How did you get those? Who made them?"
"Our son caught you. Thanks to him I now know what you've been doing when I've been on the road making a living for us. Your belongings are packed. You're out of here. Go fuck all you want."
She tried to respond but he stopped her, saying he didn't want to hear any excuses. When she started out he said, "Call a cab. That car is in my name. I'm filing for divorce tomorrow and if I can, you won't get a dime out of me."
Dad filed and mom didn't fight it. In fact, she didn't ask for anything.
Dad wanted a fresh start and suggested we sell the house and get our own place, something new and with no memories. I quickly agreed. Dad got a premium price for the house. He went to an estate auction and bought a smaller house on ten acres for a steal and paid cash, all when he was between deliveries.
I entered the local college and lived in the house while dad was on the road. I'd talk to him daily and knew when he would be coming home. While he was gone, I was free to have guys over for sex all I wanted. However, I felt guilty and didn't want dad to come home unexpectedly and find me in bed with another guy like I had mom.
After several months, I decided to tell him everything on his next trip home.
He arrived on a Friday afternoon and after showering we went out for dinner then to a movie. The next morning, after preparing breakfast, we sat at the table and dad looked at me and said, "Something's bothering you. What is it?"
"Dad, you know me all too well," I said. "I have something to tell you and i hope you won't hate me after I tell you."
"Son, nothing you can tell me will ever make me hate you. What is it?"
"Dad, I'm gay," I spit out then waited for his response.
He calmly took a sip of his coffee then asked, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, sir, I am. I've been active with other guys since I was fifteen."
"Do you enjoy that lifestyle? You know it might cause problems in the future in finding employment if it gets out."
"I know,and I'm prepared to handle it somehow, ad yes, I do enjoy the lifestyle. I've dated and been with girls but with men there just isn't the drama you experience with a female."
"I see," he said as he took another sip of coffee. "If that's what you want then I say live your life as you want. I can accept it without reservations and still love you even more because of your honesty."
"Dad, I was so scared to tell you. Do you really accept having a gay son?"
"Sure. What's the big deal. So what if you prefer sex with men as long as they are into it also. Do you have anyone special you're seeing?"
"Well, you've met Zack. I get with him more than anyone else, but it's not serious."
"Damn, Zack is gay? He's so muscular and such a jock. It's hard to believe he's gay."
"Well, he is. He was wanting us to get together tonight before I found out you were coming home."
"Mark, if you would like to see him then call him. Just because I'm home, you don't have to stay home with me. And, if you want to invite him to stay the night, feel free to do it even with me home."
"Dad, are you fucking serious? You wouldn't object if I asked him to stay the night and we had sex in my room?"
"Nope. It's not that much different if you had a girl over and fucked her. Hell, who knows when I might find someone to bring home for sex."
"Dad, you're super. I love you so much for understanding."
"I love you, too, son. We're both human beings that have needs."
We hugged each other tightly for a long time, before dad said, "Go call Zack and see if he's still available for tonight."
I did and set it up. Zack agreed to pick me up at seven. I told him to come in and say 'hi' to dad.
Dad and I went to the mall that afternoon and bought both of us some new clothes.
That evening when Zack arrived and came in, dad greeted him warmly.
"Zack, I came out to dad this morning. He knows I'm gay and that we date from time to time."
"You mean...."
"Yes, he knows your gay also and he's cool with it. In fact, he said I could invite you to stay the night with me if you wanted to. He doesn't mind."
"Boys, look," Dad began, "I'm not the prude some parents are. I'm open minded and feel people should just be themselves when ever they can. Here is one place where you two can do just that and not worry about it."
"Mr. Jacobs, you super," Zack said.
"Go on and have fun, just be careful. I might be up when you get home or I might be out myself."
Dad was home when we returned and after a short visit we went to my room. It felt strange yet exciting to have sex with dad in the house.
On dad's next trip home, we had dinner out the first night then on the second night I told dad I was meeting some guys from college and going to the football game. He said to have fun.
When I got home there was a strange pickup in the drive. I went in and found dad a and another man sitting in the living room both shirtless and shoeless. I found this extremely strange for dad.
He introduced he man as Sam, a fellow driver for the company dad drove for. Sam looked to be younger than dad, who was only thirty-six.
After the introductions, dad asked me to sit down. As I did, Sam said that maybe he should leave us alone for a while. Dad insisted that he stay.
"Mark, son, the reason I could accept you being gay so easily is that I'm gay also. I was bi until after your mother and I divorced, then I knew I was really totally gay. I became curious after I started driving and started getting blow jobs while on the road. I decided to try it and liked it. Can you accept having a gay dad?"
"Hell yea!" I exclaimed. "It will be so much easier talking to you about it. Just one more thing we have in common."
He hugged me and I shocked him by giving him a hot tongue kiss which he gave back.
"Just so you know, Sam is staying with me tonight."
"Great. Dad, I think this is so fucking hot. It may sound sick on my part but I'd love to see you with another guy."
"I don't think it's sick. I'd love to watch you with Zack."
"Maybe next time he's over," I said. Then looking at Sam, I told dad, "Have fun! He's hot as hell."
"I know," dad said.
"So is your dad, Mark. Believe me."
I smiled and went to my room, still shocked and excited at finding out that dad was gay also.
Later, I could hear them going at it, fucking each other.
The next morning after Sam left, dad went to his room for a moment then returned nude, saying , "I'm more comfortable his way. Join me if you want."
"I will," I replied and began stripping. As I did, I said, "I live this way when you're on the road."
"Well, then, shall we agree to live this way all the time when I'm home?"
"Definitely," I said as I checked out my dad's beautiful cock. I could see him checking out my cock also.
After lunch, he asked, "Do you really think Sam is hot?"
"Hell yes. I love his hairy chest and red hair, and I have to ask, is his bush red also?"
"Yes, red-orange," Dad replied. "And he thinks your hot also. He told me so."
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, and if you want sex with him, he's at the truck stop next to our terminal. He's in a red Kenworth number 1027 on the side of the nose. If he's not in the ruck he will probably be in the restaurant or trucker's lounge."
"You don't mind?"
"Not at all. When you get home, we can compare notes."
"Dad, your bad," I said. "And by the way, Zack thinks your hot also. If you want I can call and invite him over while I'm gone."
"You think he'll come over?"
"Sure. He'll think he's coming to have sex with me. Just invite him in and be straight forward with him."
I left and went to the truck stop. I found Sam's rig but he wasn't there. I went into the truck stop and checked the lounge first. No Sam. Then i went to the restaurant and saw him sitting at the counter drinking coffee. I walked up and sat next to him.
When he saw me, he smiled and said "Hey, Mark. What are you doing here?"
"Looking for you," I said. "I thought maybe you'd show me your rig."
"Gladly," he said, with a knowing look in his eyes.
He paid for his coffee and we went to his rig. Once in I went to the large sleeper and began stripping. He watched and i asked, "Are you going to join me?"
"You bet," he said with a smile as he closed the privacy curtains.
Soon we were in each others arms totally naked on his bunk, kissing passionately. Moments later, I flipped and we began a sixty-nine, soon devouring each other's hot thick creamy loads.
Afterward, as we lay together, I found out that he was twenty- eight, and divorced. He said he had been into guys since he was barely thirteen.
Later, he asked me to fuck him which I did gladly. Then I had him fuck me. He was awesome in bed.
Before I left, i gave him my cell number and told him to call me anytime he was in town even if dad wasn't. He said he definitely would.
I returned to the house to see Zack pulling out o the driveway. We stopped side by side on the street and he smiled and said, "Why didn't you tell me about your dad?"
"I just found out last night. Besides, I thought I'd surprise you."
"Man, I'm glad you did. He's hot as hell."
"Maybe I'll find out sometime," I said.
I arrived home and dad and I compared experiences with Sam and Zack.
After dinner, as we sat watching TV nude, I went for it. I went over to where dad sat and quickly dropped to the floor and took his soft cock into my mouth.
"Oh, fuck, Mark. We shouldn't do this."
Pausing, I said, "Why not? We're both over the age of consent and neither of us is forcing it."
I returned to his cock and soon brought him to a roaring climax, swallowing every delicious drop. When i was done, he sucked me off.
Later, at bed time he asked, "Son, would you like to share my bed with me tonight?"
"I'd love to," I said, "but I want you to fuck me."
"Only if you fuck me first," he replied.
Moments later, I was sliding my cock in and out of my own dad's ass. It was fantastic. And when I climaxed up his ass he exclaimed "Oh fuck yes!"
Moments later, he was fucking me, and I loved it. Especially when he filled me with his man seed that had created me.
From then on, when dad was in town, we had sex. Some time if Sam was in town also, we'd three way with him or at times with Zack. I met Sam frequently and loved it. And whenever dad was home he enjoyed sex with Zack.
A year later, dad was promoted to terminal manager and was home all the time. He requested that Sam be his assistant and the owners agreed.
Within another year, Sam and I had become lovers and dad and Zack were lovers. Even with that situation, Zack and Sam had no objections for dad and I to have our private time for sex together.
Zack moved in with dad and Sam and I bought a house only a mile from dad and Zack. We're all extremely happy and deeply in love.
As for mom, we haven't heard from her since the divorce. We heard she had moved to Las Vegas and was working in one of the whore houses where she could get fucked all she wanted.


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Winning cast brings solid laughs to predictable picture
Back in the pre-Internet days, an old creative writing teaching technique used to be to have students read the classifieds and generate a short story based on gems they found there. Screenwriters Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien obviously understand the imaginative gold of such an assignment, since, for their post-Neighbors 1 and 2 screenplay, they've turned an actual Craigslist ad into the decently funny picture Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Directed by TV comedy director Jake Szymanski in his first feature film foray, Mike and Dave is neither no more nor no less than what you'd expect from a raunchy-but-sweet summer comedy.
Cohen and O'Brien take their inspiration from a Craigslist ad posted back in 2013, in which real life brothers Mike and Dave Stangle, played here by Adam Devine and Zac Efron, respectively (score for Dave) actually advertised for dates for their cousin's wedding. The screenwriters use this premise as a jumping off point, changing the bride-to-be to the brothers' sister, Jeanie (Sugar Lyn Beard), and creating a backstory about just why Mike and Dave need dates in the first place. The film posits that Mike and Dave are consummate hard partying single bros who have ruined various family weddings and events with their escapades (as witnessed in a series of home video clips the brothers' parents show them, in one of the picture's more hilarious bits), and, as such, need to be reigned in by so-called "nice girls" who will keep them in check. The boys' parents, Burt and Rosie, played with campy exasperation by Stephen Root and Stephanie Faracy, basically tell their boys that if they don't find a pair of polite, refined young ladies to bring to Jeanie's Hawaii destination wedding, they will be uninvited.
It's a somewhat ridiculous set up, sure, but one that of course lends itself perfectly to equally ridiculous antics. And so we are introduced to Alice (Anna Kendrick) and Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza), similarly hard partying, down on their luck young women who spot the brothers on a talk show and see a chance for an all-expense paid respite from their underachieving lives. All they have to do is pretend to be the smart, well-adjusted, "nice" girls Mike and Dave need. What could possibly go wrong!?
With the plot thus established (after a painfully unrealistic meeting of the foursome that doesn't even try to make sense), our heroes are off to Hawaii so the adventures – and the majority of the laughs – can play out. A running gag about Zac Efron's Dave being "the good looking one" of the two brothers never gets old, and the myriad of pop culture references will easily appeal to the film's target audience: Jurassic Park, Ninja Turtles, Rihanna, and Liam Neeson's Taken series all get their comedic due.
The cast appoints itself gamely, which helps. Anna Kendrick is a graceful and natural comedienne, and she's paired nicely with Plaza, who exudes a slightly more edgy quality. The two share a palpable comedic chemistry, and are utterly believable as best friends. As for the male duo, Devine (who co-starred with Kendrick in the Pitch Perfect movies) can be somewhat grating, but his annoying affectations are tempered here by Efron, who has graduated from his High School Musical days and is rapidly becoming a droll, mature leading man with a knack for physical comedy (and of course, thanks to a few forgivable plot contrivances, the writers find a way for him to be shirtless for a good chunk of the movie, which certainly doesn't hurt the proceedings any).
In a minor role, Silicon Valley's Kumail Nanjiani nets some of the film's biggest laughs in a scene-stealing turn as a new-agey masseuse hired by Alice to give an unsuspecting Jeanie a, shall we say, extra special massage. It's a tricky scene; writers Cohen and O'Brien come dangerously close to being downright icky and unfunny here, but manage to write themselves out of a potential landmine, with the help of Beard and Nanjiani. Their deft comedic timing allows the audience to breathe easier and enjoy the boundary-pushing material. Beard, too, shines as the put-upon Jeanie, and Alice Wetterlund (also of Silicon Valley) gets some choice moments as the brothers' uber competitive Cousin Terry.
A picture like this is fairly predictable, as the audience knows going in that all mishaps and misunderstandings will no doubt be cleared up in an aw-shucks-you're-forgiven moment sooner or later, and, on that front, the film doesn't stray from its playbook. But there are enough laugh-out-loud one liners and genuine, head-shakingingly outrageous physical set pieces (an ATV riding scene is particularly inspired, as is an ecstasy-infused Lady Godiva moment) to make the more rote elements of the screenplay bearable. And of course, in a film like this, you must stay for the outtakes after the credits roll; they are at least as funny – if not more so – than what you've seen during the preceding 90 minutes.
As lightweight summer entertainment, then, Mike and Dave works just fine. Yes, it's predictable and derivative and its screenplay is a bit lazy, but it also has its fair share of hearty laughs. Plus – Zac Efron. Shirtless. Summer's officially here.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates opens today at Bay Area theaters.


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Author | exchange4media Mumbai Bureau | Wednesday, Aug 02,2006 7:19 AM
The Lintas Media Group on August 2, 2006 launched the national rollout of the Lowe Worldwide strategy planning toolkit at its annual senior management meet in Mumbai. The toolkit consists of 16 processes of which the Lintas Media Group has adopted four, which have specifically been designed to aid the consumer and media definition, selection and evaluation processes in marketing communication. These include the Path2Purchase, GrowthGrid, MasterMind and Encounter.
Speaking at the launch, Raj Gupta, Chief Strategy Officer, Lintas Media Group, who has been entrusted with the task of implementing the entire toolkit within all Lintas units in India, including advertising and below-the-line, said "Finally, we have an answer to the myopic 60 per cent at 3+ type media planning. The toolkit enables one to closely identify with the business problem at hand, and open one's mind to strategic and not just tactical communication solutions."
Premjeet Sodhi, Senior Vice-President, Intellect, the research and technologies unit of Lintas Media Group, was exposed to the toolkit two months ago at New York just before its international rollout, in which India was selected as the first country for the exercise. "I am particularly excited about the way the role of media has been defined in the Encounter toolkit – taking us away from the traditional forms to the purpose of the medium. That puts a new twist altogether," said Sodhi.
Last month, key business and planning directors of Lintas were trained on the toolkit at Northpoint by the New York based Strategy Planning unit of Lowe Worldwide. "Five of the planning directors handling our large AORs were present at this training," said Lynn de Souza, Director-Media Services, Lintas India. "Today, we have introduced 23 more senior managers to its powers, and within August, all our key planners would have been trained at Northpoint. I see a far greater partnership with the creative side of the business as well as through the line activity. It's not the much touted 360 degrees – the solutions are so tailor made they could even recommend just 20 degrees very well done. This isolation of media from the total advertising process must not continue," she added.
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Slow-Cooked Sirloin
A tasty and tender meal you can fix in the crockpot and forget about. Great to serve with garlic mashed potatoes and a green salad. Found the original recipe in Taste of Homes and changed it to our tastes. Cooking time is for the lower temp on the crock-pot.
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I have not cooked a lot of red meat in my slow cooker so this was a great learning curve for me. I thought it came together well after cooking on low for 7 hours. I enjoyed eating the vegies but also quite liked the meat even though I do not often eat red meat. It was not falling apart and this was what I was aiming for but this might be to do with error on my part.
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- 1 (1 1/2 lb) boneless beef top sirloin steaks
- steak seasoning
- 1 onion, cut into chunks
- 1 green pepper, cut into chunks
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can beef broth
- 1⁄8 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons water
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- Season beef on both sides with steak seasoning. In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, brown beef on both sides.
- Place onion and green pepper in a 3 quart slow cooker. Top with beef. Combine the broth, Worcestershire sauce, thyme, garlic, pepper, salt and pepper flakes; pour over beef.
- Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low 6-7 hours or until meat reaches desired doneness.
- Remove beef and keep warm. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth; gradually stir into cooking juices. Add beef back to crock and cover and cook about 30 minutes longer or until slightly thickened.


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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), and many other tech giants have been strong proponents of patent reform, advocating changes that benefit defendants in patent infringement. However, the old proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" may actually hold true. On May 30th, Microsoft took an entirely different view of its patent reform ideas, and conveniently decided to support an alleged patent troll Vringo (VRNG). The announced Vringo vs. Microsoft settlement provides for a 5% cash component payment based on the anticipated Google settlement, but more importantly assigns 6 Microsoft patents to Vringo. Vringo states those assigned patents relate to telecommunications, data management, and other technology areas. It's no mystery that Microsoft is locked in mortal combat with Google on multiple fronts. Microsoft enriching Vringo now, on the heels of a federal court royalty motion, adds impetus both in future stock value and litigation prospects. It would appear that Vringo now possesses several catalysts that could drive share value quickly. Let's evaluate a few possible scenarios attributable to Microsoft's acrimony of Google, and the upcoming royalty motion decision.
Barter for a higher Google settlement
It is possible that Don Stout, the quintessential patent attorney of the decade, reviewed Microsoft's patent portfolio and found something that Google wants. Being a former USPTO Attorney, Don's judgment in finding the pick of the patent litter is a given. Naturally Microsoft would never support its arch foe in any positive manner (other than lip service for patent reform), opting to let patents expire worthless than be responsible for assisting new Google growth enterprises. Vringo could have taken advantage of this animosity and smartly grocery shopped a few choice plums for Google. I wouldn't be surprised if opposing attorneys Quinn Emanuel gave the list to Shapiro Dickstein the day after Vringo served Microsoft with the Vringo patent infringement complaint. Good legal counsel studies all possibilities and this would be extremely beneficial in making and possibly enhancing a strategic settlement with Google at some future date, post royalty motion or pre-appellate verdict.
Enhance the equipment patent portfolio
Microsoft is reluctant to litigate its partners, in the same manner as Nokia. If Microsoft were to sue other equipment makers for patent infringement, they could countersue Microsoft for infringing on their own patents. Since it doesn't have any applicable products, a company like Vringo can't be countersued for patent infringement.
These select patents could possibly be foundational in nature and while valuable prudence demands no enforcement, lest Microsoft damage its reputation among its vendors and distributors. Unlike the Nokia purchase, Vringo would have negotiated complete ownership of the Microsoft patents, giving Vringo the right to pursue anyone that infringes the patented technology. Settlements over equipment patents seem to be more favorable, especially in light of some recent court rulings over software patents. Looking at Wi-LAN (WILN) and VirnetX (NYSEMKT:VHC) as examples, it's clear to see the value in telecommunication patents.
Force new litigation and settlements
The announced settlement covers Microsoft's Bing search advertising apparatus. Bing is licensed out to other Content providers such as Facebook. However the Microsoft settlement would not have provided relief to Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). On the contrary, Facebook would have to gain its own settlement with Vringo. The value of a Facebook settlement is yet to be determined, as it has not been named as a defendant. Watching the royalty motion closely is Yahoo (YHOO). History shows that Google licensed Yahoo's Overture search patent prior to Google going public. It's this patent that Yahoo, just like Google, employs within their search ad business. It stands to reason that in the next few weeks we should see litigation being served on Yahoo. The dollar value of any potential settlement value with Yahoo would be much less than Microsoft, which on the low estimation was projected at around $200 million.
Royalty motion 3.5%, 5% or 7%
Investors know the value of these percentages. Federal Judge Raymond Jackson will decide whether to follow the jury's advice and award 3.5% or follow Vringo's suggestion and decide that willful infringement deserves a bump to 5%. He may go that extra mile and further decide the "workaround games" played by Google merit an extra punishment and kick the award up to 7%. The payoffs over the life of the patents are also clear, just as Google will be expected to Appeal this decision immediately. That will bring an immediate "risk" discount to the award. For both long and the short investors let's factor in equal odds of winning or losing the appeal, and assume one week after the award the short positions have been cleared out and the stock has drifted down to real "risk" value. This chart reflects the sole value of the Google award added to a share price of $3.11 and does not factor in other damages that may be added at a later date.
Royalty Value With 50% Appeal Loss Risk (Award/2)
- 3.5% $550 million Add to share price $ .60
- 5.0% $825 million Add to share price $1.87
- 7.0% $1.1 billion Add to share price $3.54
Conclusion: Vringo is positioned for an immediate increase in share value
Microsoft made a strategic decision in paying, in the form of patents, for a license agreement. Indirectly they could be responsible for many more patent infringement lawsuits against their partners and their competitors. Their actions may have indirectly aided and abetted their nemesis Google, and possibly the next Motorola product expansion. It's yet to be seen who will profit the most from this opportunity, but expect Vringo to enrich themselves thru multiple strategies of bartering and patent monetization. Added to these dynamics is the royalty decision, due at any moment, providing Vringo the opportunity to enhance their market capitalization for both near-term gains as well as long-term prospects. Those are the essential drivers Wall Street demands and rewards to successful patent enforcement enterprises.
Disclosure: I am long VRNG, VHC, WILN. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Learn more about Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia or Southwestern Asia (largely overlapping with the Middle East) is the southwestern portion of Asia. The term Western Asia is commonly used in writings about the archaeology and late prehistory of the region, and in the U.S. subregion geoschem. Unlike the Middle East, which is a vaguely-defined region generally meant to include the African country of Egypt, Western Asia is a purely geographical term that includes the southwestern extreme of Asia.
Southwest Asia is partly coterminous with the traditional European names the Middle East and the Near East, both of which describe the regions' geographical position in relation to Europe rather than their location within Asia. The term Western Asia has become the preferred term of use for the Middle East by international organizations (most notably the United Nations) and also in African and Asian countries, such as India, because of the perceived Eurocentrism of the historical term Middle East. In terms of cultural and political geography, the Middle East sometimes includes North African countries, particularly Egypt. For similar reasons, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and western-Pakistan are also variously affiliated with the region.
The UN includes Turkey and the South Caucasus States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) in its Western Asian subregion, as they are almost entirely located there. However, these countries also lie in regions that straddle both Asia and Europe, and have sociopolitical ties to the latter. Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan are partially located in Europe whereas Armenia is located wholly in Asia. On the other hand, the UN assigns Iran and Egypt to Southern Asia and Northern Africa, respectively.
The Asian part of the Arab world (including Arabia proper) is called the Mashreq in Arabic.
- See continent and transcontinental country for further definitions
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Southwest Asia is in most contexts meant to encompass:
- Armenia
- Bahrain
- Cyprus
- Sinai (eastern Egypt)
- Gaza Strip
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Oman
- Pakistan (Balochistan only)
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- United Arab Emirates
- West Bank
- Yemen
- The Asian portions of
In addition, its limits are sometimes widened to include:
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- The African portion of Egypt
- The European portions of
- Adjacent parts of Central Asia
Anatolia, Arabia, Transcaucasia, Levant, and Mesopotamia are subregions of Southwest Asia.
[edit] Other subregions of Asia
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- South Asia (Indian subcontinent)
- Central Asia
- North Asia (Siberia)
- Northern Eurasia (extends into Europe)
- Central Eurasia (extends into Europe)
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THE only sound was a rhythmic "kerthump!" interspersed with an echoing "plunk!" as a water droplet dissolved into an unseen pool.
The thump was my heartbeat as I edged slowly forward, 10m below the surface of one of what may be the last unspoiled paradise in the South Pacific.
The thin, yellow beam of my guide's torch played over the stalactites suspended like pale yellow candles from the cavern roof, wet and gleaming.
As we crawled through an opening which led to another ink-black vault, I could feel the sweat soaking into my shirt.
Beyond the beam of the torch, the absence of light was absolute, the darkness total.
I suffer from claustrophobia.
What was I doing in a cave?
Put it down to male pride, it being a very pale male who emerged, pride intact, at the other end after half an hour beneath Niue, aka The Rock, a volcanic outcrop three and a half hours flying time north-east of Auckland.
Never heard of it? Few people have, yet it occupies a unique place on the South Pacific tourist map.
It is self governing, while dependent on New Zealand for financial assistance and its people, who have evolved from Samoan, Tongan and Cook Islanders, have automatic new Zealand citizenship.
Depending on whom you ask, there are between 1000 and 1200 of them on the island and thousands more scattered throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Theonly flight that services the island arrives every Friday afternoon from Auckland, depositing a handful of tourists who have heard that Niue offers a different experience to any other part of the Pacific.
They are not disappointed.
In peak season, from June to August and November to January, there are usually only around 100 tourists on the island due to the limited number of beds available and the infrequency of flights.
Yachties swell this number by 40 or 50, the anchorage of the capital Alofi being a popular stopping point on the cruising circuit.
It's eerily quiet on Niue, the roads which are mainly paved all but empty, the only sound that of the surf breaking on the jagged coastline.
There are only a handful of beaches nestled in small, sandy bays but what it lacks in Tahitian-style sand is compensated for by its rock pools, sprinkled down the west coast of the island like so many natural spas.
The water clarity is exceptional, pale turquoise crystal and the water temperature a steady 28 degrees.
At low tide, clamber down one of the sea tracks that run for 200m or so from the roadway and the pools unfold.
At Avaiki and Palaha you walk though massive rock caverns to the pools and at Limu the pools are the size of Olympic swimming pools.
All along the coast, the action of the waves has created these natural swimming holes, easily accessible and protected at low tide by the reef which hugs the shoreline.
Snorkeling and scuba diving are exceptional as is the fishing, the waters teaming with wahu, snapper, mahi mahi and yellow fin tuna.
The island is honeycombed with caves, both inland and along the coast, the one into which I was lured one of the largest and only accessible with a guide.
Away from the coast the island is densely forested, used in a small part for slash and burn agriculture but largely untouched.
I ventured into it with Jack who loves the forest and has for decades been hunting wild pigs, pigeons and uga, uga - pronounced unga - the coconut crab considered a delicacy by locals and much sought after in New Zealand.
"People have been lost in here," says Jack, as he points out a vine which contains water and which he says can save you from dying of thirst if you lose your way in the profusion of trees.
"Wild pigs," he says, pointing to freshly turned earth.
"Don't worry," he explains as I raise an eyebrow, "they run the other way as soon as they hear or smell you."
Over the next few days I meet Tony, who sold his concrete cutting business in Sydney and returned to his native Niue with his Australian wife and their young children.
He takes me to his plantations in the bush where he grows yams, cassava, taro, bananas and pawpaws and laments the fact that too many Niueans these days prefer to go to the shop and buy packaged food.
"You can live for nothing here," he says.
"I fish, I raise pigs and chickens and I have my gardens. Not like Sydney."
Sadly, Niue's greatest export is its people.
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were perhaps 6000 people living on the island and the drift to Australia and new Zealand continues.
Everywhere, the houses abandoned by families who have left stand as witness to the challenge which Niue faces, and tourism is critical to its future.
I stayed at the Matavi Resort on a headland looking west across the Pacific, its 24 rooms soon to be joined by another 15 units.
They are building a new tourism information centre, upgrading facilities such as walkways, paths and toilets and there are plans to double the number of rooms for visitors and ultimately increase the frequency of the airline service.
I meet Willy, a local entrepreneur who runs a mechanical repair business, a cafe, is a fisherman and operates a bar at Washaway Bay which opens only on Sundays.
He ran a mechanical business in Auckland for 20 years and has now come home, no longer happy with big city life and drawn by the tranquility and natural beauty of the island.
We descend a pathway and pass through a jagged landscape of rocky spires, round a bend and there below, at the foot of 10m ladder is a white sandy beach shaded by coconut palms and surrounded by towering rocks, pale blue water lapping at its edge, a hidden tropical oasis.
If Niue is quiet during the day, then in the evening it is sepulchral.
There are a handful of local restaurants and I dine at Jenna's one night, where the coconut crab soup is deliciously rich.
Ian is an Australian who moved to Niue with his wife 12 years ago.
He runs Niue Dive and has had similar operations in Townsville and on Hayman Island.
"Visibility here is always at least 40m and on occasions can be 80m," he says.
"People come here to dive for four reasons. The clarity of the water, the underwater caves, to see the sea snakes, which are unique to the island, and to swim with the dolphins and humpback whales."
The snakes, he says, although venomous are not aggressive and no one has even been known to be bitten by them.
The whales, he says, breach close to shore because the island, being the top of an extinct volcano, is surrounded by very deep water and from his deck, he can watch them as they migrate north.
Any conversation with a local will at one point turn to Cyclone Heta which ripped through Niue in 2003, killing two people and devastating its infrastructure.
The consensus is that the island has not recovered from this body blow which added to the movement of families to the mainland.
There is no doubting that Niue is a paradise.
Nowhere in the South Pacific will you find such a profusion of crystal clear pools and few places match it for the absolute feeling of peace that pervades the island with its deserted roads, ocean breeze and steady rumble of the surf.
It's an intoxicating mix but you sense that the island is at a crossroad.
It needs more tourists to come and it needs more locals to stay and expatriates to return.
Otherwise, its population will slip below that critical mass needed to survive.
If that were to happen it would become paradise lost which would be a tragedy for locals and tourists alike.
Getting There
Air New Zealand (13 24 76, www.airnewzealand.co.nz) flies to Nuie via Auckland from all major Australian gateways.
Staying There
Rooms at Matavai Resort start from NZ$150 per room per night.
Doing There
Alofi Rentals has cars from NZ$45 per day.
Fishing Charters are available from NZ$300.
Diving from NZ$85 per dive.
More: www.niueisland.com
Originally published as It's all Niue to me


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Over the short term, the corporate India and its middle class is the more critical leg of Mr. Modi's stool. Mr. Modi is its hatchet man and has played his part thus far admirably. He has rolled back environmental legislation, gone global with his 'make in India' campaign, marginalised autarchists, firmed up his fences and in doing so given a boost to the defence sector.
Corporate India awaits Mr. Modi's bolder roll out of second generation economic reforms that are perhaps wisely pended by him to the next budget. This gives him time enough to firm-in in saddle so that he can then proceed with confidence. This will enable the corporate to get back the investment they have made in him over the past decade, culminating in the rupee imparted ballast to his election campaign. Mr. Modi needs to deliver on their demands in order to be able to fulfil his ideological inclinations.
Arguably, over the longer term it is the ideological agenda of the right wing that carries greater significance for Mr. Modi. For the present, rightist oddballs that embarrass have to be managed. They lent their legs to his campaign as well as generated the polarisation to make of the Hindu vote a bankable vote bank for Mr. Modi. They will have their pound of flesh and therefore the politician in Mr. Modi is unlikely to mess with them. This explains his reticence in the case of the eminently sackable minister in question.
It is the cultural nationalist agenda to which Mr. Modi will turn once his economic agenda is on course. This will not merely keep the Sangh placated but will help keep Mr. Modi in power well into his dotage; besides ensuring his place in history as the one who rolled back a 'millennium of humiliation'. And well in time for the birth centenary of the RSS that conveniently for his project coincides with 500 years of Babur's invasion and a 1000 years of Ghazni's ravaging of Somnath.
Mr. Modi's stability is enhanced by India being the cynosure of the international community due to its strategic and economic significance. His economic agenda will be supported by global capital and India's diaspora that has helped him to power for precisely this purpose. The strategic scene is also Modi friendly. Obama is enroute to India since India is important for the containment and balancing of a rising China.
It is also useful to cover the US' flank as it moves out of the region. Obama would not like another Iraq style return to square one when he pulls out of Afghanistan. Whereas India would have been significant, with or without Mr. Modi, Mr. Modi's attributes are useful, particularly for the US. Mr. Modi's Pakistan policy suggests as much. He has put Pakistan on notice and that helps the US cover its tracks as it bails out of Afghanistan. Mr. Modi's attributes are useful for the US. It is not unhappy in the temporary turn to majoritarian politics in India and its corollary of incipient authoritarian rule. History repeatedly reminds that being a friend of the US is a worse than being its enemy. For China and Russia, India assumes importance owing to his importance to the US. Both want to keep India out of the US firmament.
Since Mr. Modi strides the internal domain unchecked, the seeds of possible upsetting of Mr. Modi's applecart are in the external domain. His aggressive regional policy has potential to cause unravelling of his two-step strategy: economy followed by socio-cultural engineering. Developments on the Pakistan front are somewhat unsettling, with Pakistan's national security adviser pronouncing that normalisation is ruled out so long as Mr. Modi is in the chair.
On the China front, India's proximity to the US is such that it may get the message that India has been unresponsive to its premier's visit. China could prop up Pakistan, as it has all along, to keep India tied down, just as the US is propping up India to keep China tied down. Given military preparations, including nuclear developments, and a strategic scene set to get 'interesting' in the Chinese sense of the word in AfPak and India's increasing footprint in Afghanistan, there is scope for instability.
The favoured scenario of a mega terror attack being followed up by an Indian Cold Start attack, leading to tactical nuclear use by Pakistan is by now trite. However, India's aggressive posture, perhaps intended for deterrence, under Mr. Modi, may lead up to its inevitable unfolding in case terrorists wanting to set India back try him. In effect, India's aggressiveness makes this more likely, even if India's posture is intended to achieve the opposite.
While Mr. Modi can be expected to outlast this decade on the chair, he needs being warned against relying overly on Pakistan's good sense, for most part of that state's life marked by absence.
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