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Anomalous inflammatory responses triggered by the metabolic syndrome cause renal injury. This discovery links renal lipid accumulation with lipotoxicity to inflammation and may explain the insidious fibrosis and cellular decay characteristic of nephropathy in the metabolic syndrome. However, it is not clear whether control of inflammation protects the kidney independently of lipid accumulation, which is a required step for lipotoxicity in hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia. We hypothesized that in rats with the metabolic syndrome, and overt nephropathy, treatment with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF; 10 mg·kg−1·day−1 ip for 14 wk) would reduce the abnormal renal lipid depots and limit renal inflammation and injury. We studied groups of lean and obese F1 hybrid Zucker fatty diabetic/spontaneous hypertensive heart failure (ZS) rats. MMF did not affect lean rats. In obese ZS rats, MMF did not change severe hyperglycemia or the higher kidney loads of unutilized lipid and peroxidation products. Nonetheless, MMF dramatically reduced diabetes/obesity-derived systemic and renal inflammation, limited renal size, hyperfiltration, and fibrosis. These data indicate that in rats, anti-inflammatory therapy presumably acting downstream, and independently of lipotoxicity, can effectively limit renal injury and fibrosis.
- diabetic nephropathies
- lipid peroxidation
the risk of renal injury in diabetes can be reduced by controlling the disordered metabolic and hypertensive syndromes (37). This basic notion implies that the renal disease in diabetes is engendered by the abnormal metabolic milieu. Accordingly, hyperglycemia (52), dyslipidemia (9, 24), hypertension (37, 3), and insulin resistance (34), which often times coexist as the metabolic syndrome (7, 18), have been considered as pathogenic. However, this knowledge has not been effectively translated into preventive or curative therapies (23). Recent work in animals generated a novel hypothesis: that anomalous immunological responses are triggered by the unregulated metabolic syndrome (31, 40, 49). This idea links metabolic derangements to inflammation, and it is appealing because it accounts for the insidious cell loss and fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy (1, 42).
Accordingly, experiments with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) showed reduced injury from metabolic-hypertensive abnormalities (31, 40, 49). MMF is an immune suppressant (16) that limits inflammatory damage in models of diabetic (40, 49) and hypertensive nephropathy (40, 44). MMF inhibits inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase, preventing de novo synthesis of purines in T and B lymphocytes (16), although other hematological and renal cells are potential targets (54).
The early morbid renal phenotype of rats with the metabolic syndrome is characterized by accumulation of unutilized lipid and by severe capillary infiltration of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) and macrophages (14). Tissue lipid accumulation is thought to be in and of itself toxic (14, 30, 48, 50), in that it causes cell dysfunction, i.e., lipotoxicity (14, 30, 48, 50), and triggers inflammation, which further aggravates cell dysfunction (45). Accordingly, MMF might protect the kidney in diabetes because it attenuates both tissue lipid accumulation and systemic inflammation. We now show that in obese F1 hybrid Zucker fatty diabetic/spontaneous hypertensive heart failure (ZS) rats, MMF had very negligible effects on measured metabolic and renal lipotoxicity parameters. However, MMF lowered circulating cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant-1 (CINC-1), a strong PMN chemotactic factor, as well as peripheral and renal PMN plus macrophages counts, and it dramatically reduced renal cytokine production and fibrosis. Hence, we propose that significant renal protection can be accomplished by directly interfering with systemic and renal inflammatory responses, independently of continued metabolic stress from hyperglycemia and lipotoxicity.
The research involving animals adhered to The American Physiological Society "Guiding Principles in the Care and Use of Animals." The investigative protocols were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Indiana University. The pathogen-free rats used in these investigations were from Charles River (Wilmington, MA). We studied the ZSF1 rat, a first- generation (F1) hybrid rat derived from two well-characterized parental strains: the Zucker fatty diabetic (ZDF, fa/fa) and the spontaneous hypertensive heart failure rat (14). Hybrid rats were preferred over original strains to limit effects of potentially cosegregated genetic determinants beyond the selected leptin receptor mutations. There were four groups of five rats each maintained in our animal facility from 6 wk of age until termination at 28 wk of age. Group 1 consisted of lean males injected once daily with MMF (10 mg·kg−1·day−1, CellCept, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Nutley, NJ). Group 2 consisted of lean males injected once daily with 150 μl intraperitoneally (ip) of normal saline vehicle. Group 3 consisted of obese male litter mates injected once daily with MMF (10 mg·kg−1·day−1 ip). Group 4 consisted of obese males injected once daily with 150 μl ip of normal saline vehicle. The rats were fed Purina diet 5008 ad libitum and were housed in steel cages and acclimatized to 12:12-h light-dark (7 AM–7 PM).
The body weights and blood metabolic profiles of the rats were monitored throughout the experiment. Blood samples were obtained by sequential tail vein drawings and at termination.
Blood and urine analysis.
The blood levels of triglyceride, cholesterol, creatinine, and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) were measured on a Beckman CX4CE Clinical System in blood drawn from the tail vein. C-reactive protein (CRP) was measured by the clinical laboratory at the Veterans Affairs hospital. The following plasma cytokines were measured using Multiplexed immunoassays with Lincoplex Instrumentation from Linco Research (St. Louis, MO): granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, IL-1a, MCP-1, IL-4, IL-1b, IL-2, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL5, IFNg, IL-18, CINC-1 (GRO/KC), and TNF-α. Plasma adiponectin was measured by an ELISA kit specific for rat adiponectin from B-Bridge International (Mountain View, CA). Urine creatinine and protein were measured as previously described (14).
Renal histology.
Renal histology, immunohistochemistry, and morphometry were conducted on paraffin embedded renal sections (14). Each entire kidney section was analyzed; all glomeruli and tubules were included in the calculations, and any degree of glomerular sclerosis, ranging from focal to global lesions, was considered positive. Glomerular sclerosis and tubular atrophy data were expressed as fractions of the total number of glomeruli and tubules. Interstitial fibrosis was expressed as the percentage of the fibrosis area in trichrome dye-stained sections. Lipid Oil red O stain was conducted on 30-μm renal sections fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde as described (14).
Renal polymorphonuclear leukocytes were labeled with naphtanol-AS-D chloracetate esterase (Leder stain kit, Poly Scientific R&D, Bay Shore, NY) (14). Macrophages were labeled with an anti-rat macrophage mouse monoclonal MAB1435 (Chemicon, Temecula, CA) (14) followed by a rabbit anti-mouse second antibody (LSAB2 kit, Dako). The labeled cells were visualized at ×400 magnification in 25 separate kidney fields/animal and expressed as cell number/×400 field. The renal morphometric analysis was conducted with the programs Sigmascan and Sigmascan Pro, v. 4.0 (SPSS, Chicago, IL).
Renal proteins.
The levels of unmodified and phosphorylated AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) isoforms, phosphorylated acetyl-CoA carboxylase (pACC), adipohilin, and adiponectin receptors 1 and 2 were measured on Western blots. The AMPK antibodies were all affinity-purified specific rabbit polyclonal antibodies to synthetic AMPK peptides (1:1,000 dilution, Cell Signaling Technology, Beverly, MA). The antibody to amino acids 73-85 of rat acetyl-CoA carboxylase was an affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal against pACC peptide (aa 73-85, phosphorylated at Ser79, Upstate, Lake Placid, NY). The mouse monoclonal antibody to adipophlin was raised to a synthetic adipophilin peptide (aa 5-27 from the NH2 terminus) from Research Diagnostics (Flanders, NJ). The rabbit antibodies to adiponectin receptors 1 and 2 were affinity purified to mouse synthetic peptides (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) from Alpha Diagnostic International (San Antonio, TX). Anti-oxidized low-density lipoprotein receptor 1 (LOX-1) antibody was generated in rabbits against the LOX-1 peptide (aa 188 to 233, LOX-1 accession number NP_579840). The 46-amino acid LOX-1 peptide was synthesized by Dr. Suzanna Holgrath (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA). The antibody was manufactured and affinity purified by Covance (www.covance.com). Equal protein gel loading was verified with a primary rabbit antibody to conserved ribosomal protein L7a from the 60S subunit (41) (antibody R225, 1:1,000 dilution) from Cell Signaling Technology. Proteins were separated from renal cortex homogenates on 12% acrylamide SDS-PAGE gels, electrophoretically transferred to Immuno-Blot polyvinylidene difluoride membranes (Bio-Rad) at 15 mA, and labeled with specific primary antibodies followed by peroxidase-linked secondary anti-rabbit or anti-mouse IgG goat antibody (Pierce, Rockford, IL) (14). The relative intensities of the protein levels were measured on antibody-stained membranes using VitaScan software (ESA, Chelmsford, MA).
Fatty acid oxidation.
Fatty acid β-oxidation activity was measured as described elsewhere (17). Freshly isolated kidney cortices were homogenized, and homogenate aliquots (500 μg) were incubated in 0.2 ml of (in mM) 150 KCI, 10 HEPES (pH 7.2), 0.1 EDTA, 1 KPi buffer (pH 7.2), 5 Tris malonate, 10 MgCl2, 1 carnitine, and 5 ATP as well as 0.15% BSA and 50 μM [U-14C]palmitate (50,000 cpm of radioactive substrate). The reaction was carried out for 30 min at 25°C and stopped with 0.2 ml of 0.6 N perchloric acid. Nonreacted fatty acid was removed with 2 ml of n-hexane, and fatty acid radioactive degradation products in the water phase were counted.
Long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase activity.
Enzymatic activity of long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCAD)/medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MAD) was determined as previously described (13). Frozen renal cortices (20–50 mg) were homogenized as 20% (wt/vol) suspensions in ice-cold 100 mM HEPES (pH 7.6)/0.1 mM EDTA. The homogenates were then centrifuged at 7,000 g for 2 min, and LCAD activity was measured in the supernatant at 37°C by adding 5 μl of supernatant to 500 μl 100 mM HEPES (pH 7.6)/0.1 mM EDTA/200 μM ferricenium hexafluorophosphate/0.5 mM sodium tetrathionate/50 μM octanoyl-CoA. The results were calculated from the decrease observed over the initial 60-s period.
Total RNA was isolated from frozen kidney cortex using an RNAqueous 4PCR Kit (Ambion, Austin, TX). cDNA was synthesized from RNA with a StrataScript QPCR cDNA Synthesis Kit (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) and then used as a template. Real-time quantitative PCR was run on a MX4000 Multiples Quantitative PCR System (Stratagene) with Brilliant SYBR Green QPCR Master Mix (Stratagene) and an RT2 PCR primer set for each target gene from SuperArray (Frederick, MD). Standard curves for each target gene were obtained with the same system before the running of corresponding samples. The samples were always run in triplicate. The data were normalized to the mRNA content of β-actin in each sample and are reported as relative amount of mRNA compared with control samples.
Statistical analysis.
The results are expressed as means ± SE. Any differences between groups were evaluated by one-way ANOVA and considered significant if P < 0.05.
Metabolic phenotype.
MMF was initiated after the metabolic phenotype and the complicating nephropathy were well established at 12 wk of age and then continued until the rats were 28 wk old. Serum creatinine levels were comparable in all four groups of rats, but levels of glucose, cholesterol, and triglycerides, normal in lean rats, increased in all obese rats (Fig. 1).
Average body and organ weights at 28 wk of age (termination) are summarized in Table 1 (tables and figures list the MMF-treated groups before the respective control groups). MMF therapy significantly restricted renal and hepatic enlargement in obesity by 19 and 22%, respectively. Moreover, MMF limited the large increase in 24-h creatinine clearance that follows obesity and diabetes (Fig. 2). However, MMF did not alter proteinuria, already established before therapy was initiated (Table 2).
The larger kidneys of obese rats also contained larger amounts of lipid, which were preferentially localized in renal tubules from the cortex to the medulla, and these were not changed by MMF therapy (Fig. 3). The unutilized deposits of renal lipids were linked to higher levels of the lipid droplet protein adipocyte differentiation-related protein (ADRP) (15, 38) and to higher levels of renal triglycerides plus lipid peroxides, and all of which were unaffected by MMF therapy. ADRP optical density (OD) on Western blots averaged: 0.97 ± 0.07 in lean males treated with mycophenolate (LMM); 1.00 ± 0.09 in lean male control (LMC); 1.49 ± 0.10 in obese males treated with mycophenolate (OMM); and 1.69 ± 0.13 in obese male control rats (OMC) (P < 0.05, ANOVA) when obese rats were compared with respective lean groups (Fig. 4). Furthermore, the higher levels of circulating and renal lipid were linked to higher levels of renal LOX-1, which facilitates uptake of oxidized lipid (14). The higher expression of renal LOX-1 protein in obese rats was also unaffected by MMF therapy. LOX-1 OD on Western blots averaged 0.94 ± 0.16 in LMM; 1.00 ± 0.10 in LMC; 1.98 ± 0.05 in OMM; and 2.02 ± 0.05 in OMC (P < 0.05, ANOVA) when lean rats were compared with obese groups (Fig. 5).
In obesity, excessive storage of unutilized lipid could result from inadequate activation of renal AMPK, a key enzyme that promotes fatty acid oxidation (FOA) (19, 21). Accordingly, levels of total and activated renal AMPK were measured using Western blotting. Figure 6 shows that while total AMPK levels were not altered by obesity, higher levels of all phosphorylated (i.e., activated) AMPK isoforms were consistently found (Table 3). This response was also not modified by MMF therapy. Moreover, levels of renal pACC (32), a downstream target for AMPK, were also increased in obesity, and were not altered by MMF. We projected that increased AMPK phosphorylation would stimulate FAO (53). However, renal FAO and renal LCAD activity, a key step in FAO (46), were not changed in obesity, regardless of MMF administration (Table 4). Thus AMPK signaling and subsequent FAO activity appeared to be uncoupled, revealing a significant disturbance of renal fatty acid metabolism in the leptin resistant obese ZS rats (14).
Inflammation and renal fibrosis.
Systemic inflammation was estimated from blood cell counts and serum cytokines in lean and obese rats at termination (Table 5). In obese rats, higher counts of circulating PMN were normalized by MMF therapy. Lymphocyte blood counts were lower in obesity and seemed to be lowered even more by MMF, although the drug effect was not significant.
Adiponectin has important anti-inflammatory (28) and metabolic (47) activity, which in obesity might be limited by the very low levels of its renal AdipoR1 and AdipoR2 (Fig. 7). MMF therapy prevented the obesity-dependent fall in circulating adiponectin levels, which might have counteracted resistance from the depressed renal AdipoR1 and AdipoR2. AdipoR1 OD on Western blots averaged 0.94 ± 0.11 in LMM; 1.00 ± 0.02 in LMC; 0.70 ± 0.06 in OMM; and 0.77 ± 0.01 in OMC (P < 0.05) when lean groups were compared with obese groups. AdipoR2 OD on Western blots averaged 1.26 ± 0.12 in LMM; 1.00 ± 0.16 in LMC; 0.37 ± 0.04; in OMM; and 0.44 ± 0.11 in OMC (P < 0.05) when lean groups were compared with obese groups (ANOVA, Fig. 7).
Serum levels of CINC-1 and GRO/KC, the rat CXCR2 receptor agonist (10), were elevated in obesity, and MMF normalized CINC-1 levels. In contrast, serum CRP and IL-1b, also elevated in obese rats, were not reduced by MMF therapy. On the other hand, serum MCP-1 and IL-18 were unaffected by either obesity or MMF therapy. Ten additional cytokines were screened but were not detected in rat serum (see complete cytokine list in Table 5).
MMF also inhibited several critical components of obesity-induced renal inflammation (Table 6 and Figs. 8 and 9). For instance, large clusters of PMN in peritubular capillaries were virtually eliminated by MMF therapy (Table 6, Fig. 8). The numbers of interstitial, or peritubular, macrophages were even higher in obesity, and MMF significantly reduced their numbers (Table 6, Fig. 9). Glomerular PMN and macrophages were only slightly increased in obesity, and MMF reduced glomerular macrophage numbers (Table 6). It is noteworthy that inflammatory cells coexisted with severe fibrosis, which was widespread in glomerular and interstitial regions (Fig. 10). MMF therapy also significantly reduced the severity of glomerular and interstitial fibrosis by 19 and 23%, respectively (Table 7). We multiplied fractional areas of fibrosis per weight in each kidney and estimated that MMF reduced total renal fibrosis mass by ∼44% (Table 7).
Renal mRNAs encoding IL-1b, IL-6, macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), the CXCR2 receptor, and the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 receptor were all significantly increased in obesity, and all were corrected by MMF therapy. In contrast, mRNA encoding TGF-β1, TNF-α, and the TNF-α receptor superfamily was not affected by obesity or MMF therapy (Fig. 11).
We studied the roles of renal lipotoxicity and inflammation in ZS rats with uncontrolled metabolic syndrome and established nephropathy. The rats were given daily MMF injections with the intention of reducing renal lipotoxicity and inflammation. MMF inhibited kidney enlargement and fibrosis, resulting in a remarkable overall 44% approximate reduction in renal scar formation. These effects were accompanied by reductions in creatinine clearance, but proteinuria was not changed significantly.
Renal lipotoxicity (14, 48) secondary to lipid accumulation complicates nephropathy of the metabolic syndrome (14, 48, 50), and it is thought to be an important element in its pathogenesis (14, 50). Kidneys of obese rats had higher levels of unutilized renal lipid, ADRP, the lipid storage protein (15, 38), lipid peroxidation products, and LOX-1, which is stimulated by oxidized lipid loads (14, 43). However, all these elevated indices of renal lipotoxicity were not affected by MMF administration. Higher levels of phosphorylated AMPK were found in obesity, induced perhaps by metabolic, nutritional, or oxidative stresses (14, 22, 29), and higher renal pACC levels were consistent with renal AMPK stimulation in obesity (51). However, AMPK phosphorylation did not result in greater renal FAO (55), pointing to either inadequate AMPK activation or to other unknown alterations of renal fatty acid metabolism in obese rats.
On the other hand, MMF improved key inflammatory parameters in obesity. Higher levels of circulating neutrophils and of CINC-1 (6, 10) were both corrected by MMF therapy. IL-1 stimulates CINC-1 production (2, 6), and it was also higher in obese rats, although IL-1 levels were not reduced by MMF, suggesting that MMF inhibited CINC-1 downstream of IL-1 activation. Obesity induced a remarkable 50-fold increase in serum CRP, which was not affected by MMF. In rodents, CRP is viewed as a sensitive marker of inflammation and not as a proinflammatory molecule (35, 36). Hence, CRP elevation might reflect features of inflammation refractory to MMF.
MMF therapy prevented the fall in adiponectin levels of obese rats. This effect is particularly significant in the context of renal adiponectin resistance, which likely resulted from the low numbers of renal AdipoR1 and AdipoR2 in obesity (26). Thus the potential benefits of MMF also included some degree of preservation of adiponectin anti-inflammatory (28, 33) and metabolic effects (27, 47).
Renal inflammation was investigated by measuring kidney mRNA encoding IL-1B (12), IL-6 (25), MIF (5), the CXCR2 cytokine receptor for CINC-1 (4), and also the TGF-β receptor 1 (11). Renal mRNAs encoding these proinflammatory cytokines and receptors were all increased in obesity and were normalized by MMF therapy. In contrast, renal mRNA encoding TGF-β1, TNF-α, and the TNF receptor were not altered by obesity or MMF therapy at age 28 wk.
Our data indicate that controlling lipotoxicity-dependent inflammation (8) drastically reduces renal fibrosis, a critical parameter in renal failure progression (20). Current views, based on work with targeted acyl CoA-synthase expression, posit inflammation as a consequence of tissue lipid accumulation (8). Our results are consistent with this view, and our data indicate that treatment of inflammation with MMF, presumably downstream of unaltered lipotoxic stress, protects the kidney from scar formation. It is noteworthy that renal protection by MMF occurred in conjunction with substantial reductions in numbers of neutrophils in the blood and kidney, and with inconsequential drug effects on hyperglycemia. Serum cholesterol and triglycerides were extremely high in all obese rats, and although MMF had a relatively minor depressing effect late in the course, MMF did not alter the severe lipotoxic renal phenotype.
In conclusion, our data show that established nephropathy in the metabolic syndrome can be significantly improved by treating the inflammation derived from abnormal metabolism, even when the severely disturbed metabolic picture remains largely unchecked.
This work was supported with funds from the Veterans Administration to J. Dominguez.
We thank Erin Goss for technical support. A portion of the microscopic imaging was performed at The Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy.
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
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I moved two epimedium last winter and they have done extremely well. I noticed something in them I have never seen. The leaves are supersized on some of the growth. I've never seen them so large. Has anyone else experienced this?
Supersized leaves on epimedium x sulphurum
I think it's fairly typical. The 2nd flush of growth (after the bloom) often has larger leaflets.
But I think it means they're happy!
Thanks, Wee. They get more shade in this garden. I have a bunch of part sun part shade plants, and it's interesting to see how they respond to less light. Some of them are growing at a much faster rate than they were in sun. And very little watering, which they needed before.
This is fun!
May have something to do with the mild winter we had too. My Bloodroot had HUGE leaves this year after flowering.
Could we clone this weather?
Could we clone this weather?
Don't know about that, I kinda like the snowy winters of my youth!!
I wasn't crazy about the 2 feet we got at one time. And when we were kids there were snow days. This year we got three shovelable snowfalls, which was enough. And of course, we are much further north that you are, and our winters are more severe.
I did notice that my Epimedium got a second flush of growth after the early spring one. This second flush is also much taller. Also have one that sent out a second, smaller group of blooms. Very strange.
So it's weird for you too? Weird as in very unusual? I've had these epimediums for years. The leaves are much bigger and much taller.
I've had mine for years as well, scattered throughout the beds. In some areas, E. alpinum 'Rubrum' is behaving in the usual way. 'Snow Queen' is showing taller growth. E. acuminitum x davidii sent out a smaller, second flush of flowers. 'Sulphureum' is taller this year as well. 'Lilafee' had some gorgeous flowers this year.
Really interesting. A second flush of flowers! Wow!
Weerobin, that's very cool. I'm going to keep an eye on mine.
That 'Yokihi' is a pretty thing!
I'm wondering if getting so many sunny days in early spring and intense sun ever since will stimulate second blooms on other plants as well. A lot of my stuff bloomed early this year (as did everyone's east of the Miss). Hmm, maybe like adding 6 weeks on to our growing season? (Wishful thinking.)
Wow! Weerobin, I amgetting new blooms too!
That is just enormous! Mine in my old yard were perhaps half that size. May I ask who your supplier was?
Holy smokes! Those are some big leaves. I did notice mine had larger than usual leaves as well. I am hoping for a little rain shower tonight though since we've had intense sun again and tomorrow should climb to almost 90. Hotter on Sunday.
Donna, my supplier was Mother Nature. They grow wild in the woods around here.
I got mine at Milaegers in Racine. I never understood why they were so popular until I saw them in person. I was attempting to buy a rose one and a white one, but they were mislabels and I ended up with two sulphurum. I normally am not a fan of yellow, but it is such a delicate color that I fell in love with it. The clumps I have, which are rapidly expanding, came from my old house. They were very inexpensive - about $5 a plant. I cut off a clump to give to a neighbor, took two clumps, and checked back to find that the original is thriving.
I was still getting blooms last week, and my epimedium offsets are now close to the size of the original plants, which have been in for years!
Ok, that's amazing! I wouldn't have thought that possible!
Always great to see those spring bloomers extending their season. Haven't seen any more blooms here but we were hot and dry for quite a spell until last night.
I have been growing the large epimedium for 10 years as a ground cover on a steep bank. It seems to get larger leaves the longer it is in place
That's certainly a consideration. Hadn't thought of that.
Arfitz, it really makes me want to move them around. The ones at our house under contract (YAY!) are in much more sun. These beauties can take sun, but they bloom better, and look fresher, in shade.
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Just wanted to get some insight ( see if anyones else has got one ) for the Auction House Addon from ManaV that they released ( i'm guessing a little bit ago ).
Our guild has been trying to supplement the costs of our daily raids with a little bit of an advantage. I came across this video about new world of warcraft addons http://www.majorityreviews.com/video/tycoon
In their article section I took a clip out of the FAQ: "The 5 current strategies included are Gathering, Grinding/Farming, Crafting, Auction House Playing, and Dailies. This is 95% of all gold making strategies used by the WoW community, so almost nothing is left out.
The addon intelligently studies your server's economy and shows you things like: - Exactly what strategy will make you the most money - What item will make you the most money based on its calculations - The best way to get that item by giving you things like, optimized gathering routes or hot farming locations."
source: http://www.majorityreviews.com/articles-tycoon/
We're going to be getting this for me and another guildy, I just wanted to get some second opinions maybe even help with setting it up ( we're only a 6 man (girl) ) none of us are very good at setting anything up rly :/
If anyone could drop some tips for the setup would be appreciated !!!! :) :)
--Dayleft (talk) 23:18, November 17, 2012 (UTC)
- Honestly, my personal opinion is that you don't need any sort of guide, especially those that require payment. Gathering, grinding, farming, and dailies are straight-forward. Playing the auction house can easily be done with addons like Auctioneer or Auctionator, and those are free. Raylan13 (talk) 02:01, November 18, 2012 (UTC)
- I dunno. For playing with the auction house, all i use is http://www.wowuction.com/ and the Blizzard remote Web interface. Poposhka (talk) 17:43, November 20, 2012 (UTC)]


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Area churches are sponsoring a variety of special events.
St. Francis in the Field Episcopal Church will hold its annual huge Jumble Sale from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
A "Buck a Bag" sale will run from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The church is located at 895 Palm Valley Road, Ponte Vedra Beach (next to Walden Chase).
Proceeds will benefit BEAM and outreach ministries.
Information: (904) 287-8264.
First Harvest Bazaar continues from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 8 at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Parkway, N.E.
Everything from craft items to Christmas items, plants and knitted and crocheted creations will be available.
Information: (386) 445-3420.
San Juan de Rio Ladies Auxiliary is hosting its second annual Shoppers Expo at the church, 1714-3 State Road 13.
The event continues from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 28, and includes refreshments.
Trinity Episcopal Parish will host its annual Arts and Crafts Show Oct. 15 and 16.
Registration forms are available from Joan and Oliver Flint, 794-2058.
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We have several gingers in our gardens and this variegated spiral ginger is especially lovely in a shady behind the fence in the IDEA Garden.
Gingers are considered tender perennials, but have made it through winter for a good many years. However, if the ground ever freezes again, we will most likely lose these beauties.
Costus spiralis variegatus, known as spiral ginger, comes from South America and can get as tall as 6 feet. This ginger, with bold white and green variegated foliage, demands attention. Spiral ginger's foliage is arranged in a spiral around the stem, which gives it "motion." It literally seems to be dancing right where it grows.
Yes this ginger blooms, but seldom before cold weather knocks it down for the winter. The blooms are not nearly as showy as other gingers, but oh what a dramatic plant! This lovely little dancing lady provides a bright spot that would otherwise be too dark and because you get the idea she's twirling her skirts, the garden seems to come alive.
Gingers need moist soil in summer while they are actively growing, but need well drained soil so they won't get too wet in winter and rot. We purchased ours at the annual SFA plant sale.
You need to plant gingers, as well as other tropicals, in spring after the soil warms up. They will grow in quite a bit of sun, but really prefer afternoon shade, and this variegated one especially needs some shade.
These gingers do well in pots as well as in the ground, but you will have to protect them by moving them inside a garage or other cool but not freezing place to spend the winter.
Please come out to our gardens and watch all the lovely butterflies darting and dancing throughout our garden, and while you are there, come to the IDEA Garden to see our lovely spiral ginger


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Olmert's Sentence Seems Gratuitous, Even Vengeful
Israel's former PM's six year prison term is a tragedy for Israel and Jews worldwide. The judge used his long record of public service against him, rather than to his credit.
I have known Ehud Olmert for many years, and I consider him a friend.
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China's education system looks pretty impressive these days, especially if you believe the stunning scores its students got on a recent international test.
The Programme for International Student Assessment tests students from 65 countries in reading, math and science. Shanghai-China was number one in the world for all three categories. In comparison, the U.S. ranked 23rd in science, 25th in reading and 28th in math.
Some critics dismissed these results, pointing out that China allowed only a small segment of students to take the test. Regardless, this is only one sign that China is winning the school race.


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The Board of Governors of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League voted
today to change the 2013-14 regular season schedule during the
Semi-Annual Assembly held at the Sheraton hotel in Dorval. The regular
season schedule will henceforth commence on Thursday, September 12th,
2013 by the President Cup winning team. "The reasoning behind this
decision was to simply shorten the period between training camps and the
start of the regular season" said the League's commissioner, Gilles
There will still be 68 games during the regular season.
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Subject: Memory | January 10, 2009 - 12:19 AM | Ryan Shrout
Corsair was showing off a handful of new products in their suite during CES this week including some new DDR3 memory modules and a Pelletier memory cooler for the stupid-extreme overclocker. The new DDR3 memory kit will sell as a triple-channel package for Core i7 systems and will be rated at 2000 MHz and a 7ns CAS latency. You can expect them to be expensive and you expect them to be pretty rare – so rare in fact that Corsair will be selling these kits directly to the end user rather than through the Newegg's and MicroCenter's of the world. There will be a slightly slower ki
New OCZ Blade Series reaches DDR3-2000 speeds
Subject: Memory | December 19, 2008 - 12:37 PM | Ryan Shrout
OCZ sent over word that they have launched a new series of DDR3 memory modules called "Blade" that will offer DDR3 memory speeds of 2000 MHz with timings of CL 7-8-7. The kit will come with three modules for triple channel goodness and top performance with Intel's Core i7 processors.
Doing the math so you don't have to; unless you want to
Subject: Memory | December 16, 2008 - 04:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
TechSpot is looking to define the relationship between memory and the Core i7 processor with four simple tests. The first and second offer a baseline, with their triple channel kit running default timings at 800, 1066, 1333 and 1600MHz; followed by the same test with all latencies set to the same values. The next two involve tightening the timings and a variety of channel set ups. Read through this rather long article for a serious amount of hard performance data.
6GB of triple channel RAM is within your reach
Subject: Memory | December 9, 2008 - 12:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
G.Skill is really pushing it's new PC3-12800 CL9 6GB kit, you can get it on Newegg for just over $200. Straight out of the box you will be running 1600MHz @ CAS9-9-9-24, or run it at 1333 and tighten the timings to 8 or tighter if you reduce the speed even more. Check out this triple channel kit at Legion Hardware.
Memory comes in six packs now
Subject: Memory | December 1, 2008 - 05:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
DDR3 has had two big effects on the PC market; the first is famliar, higher timings compared to the latest generation of DDR2. The second has only become apparent with the advent of the Core i7 and X58 chipset, triple channel memory. Guru3D takes the OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Gold Low-Voltage Triple Channel kit for a spin, at one point hitting 1800 MHz. If you are setting up a new Core i7 system,
Triple channel testing
Subject: Memory | November 25, 2008 - 01:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
If you still aren't convinced that triple channel DDR3 is the solution to all your problems, this TweakTown review might not make up your mind completely, but it should help. In their synthetic testing, adding that third channel had the same results as a dual channel setup going from 1066MHz to 1600MHz. On the other hand, when they tested Crysis, the difference in performance is hard to spot on a graph and is most likely unnoticeable while playing.
So much for the argument about 2GB or 4GB of system RAM
Subject: Memory | November 19, 2008 - 03:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
If you are looking for triple channel memory, consider Corsair's Dominator Tri-Channel DDR3-1600 6Gb kit, with timings of 8-8-8-24. They sport the now familiar DHX (dual-path heat eXchange) cooling system and as they run at 1.65V so heat will not be much of an issue with these DIMMs. CPU3D managed a fairly good overclock and recommend turning on XMP in your BIOS as it really changed the amount of throughput for these DIMMs. They didn't leave the c
6GB or 3GB?
Subject: Memory | November 17, 2008 - 01:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Corsair has run a long series of tests on their 1600MHz Corsair Dominator TR3X3G1600C8D series, comparing the performance between 3GB and 6GB on the new triple channel X58 based ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard, an Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition, a pair of 1GB Nvidia GeForce 280 GTX in SLI and 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB in RAID 0. (So, you know, a system just like everyone has)
The secret is your timing
Subject: Memory | October 30, 2008 - 01:50 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
4Gb of DDR2-800 @ 4-4-4-12 faces off against 4Gb clocked to DDR2-1,066MHz @ 5-5-5-15 at bit-tech. Many of us still haven't made the plunge into DDR3, especially with Nehalem looming in the near future and it's triple channel capabilities. If you are looking for extra speed in your DDR2 system, it's worth revisiting the differences you get in changing timing and overall speed.
The bright lights of the new Ballistix
Subject: Memory | October 23, 2008 - 02:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Crucial's new Ballistix Tracer DIMMS are DDR3-1333 with a CAS Latency of 6 and timings of 6-6-6-20. It runs at 1.8v, not low enough for a Corei7 system, but lower than many DDR3 kits available. You won't even need to pump the voltage up too high when overclocking, Think Computers hit DDR3-1818 8-8-8-24 and they only had to raise the DIMMs to 1.84v. You c
Corsair Launches Triple Pack Memory modules for Intel Core i7 processors
Subject: Memory | October 21, 2008 - 02:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Fremont, CA, October 21st, 2008 - Corsair, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, announced today that it is launching a full line of DDR3 performance memory products designed for Intel Core i7 processor.
Designed to take advantage of the Core i7 processor's triple-channel memory controller, Corsair will offer memory solutions supporting three different DDR3 memory speeds in triple memory packs: 1333MHz, 1600MHz and 1866MHz. The 1866MHz Corsair DDR3 modules will be the world's fastest Intel Core i7 solution.
OCZ Technology Announces Availability of the World's First Triple Channel Memory Kits
Subject: Memory | October 16, 2008 - 06:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Sunnyvale, Calif. - October 16, 2008 - OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a
worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high
reliability memory, today unveiled the industry's first triple channel
memory kit designed specifically for the impending Intel Core i7
processor/Intel X58 Express Chipset. Optimized for the Core i7's
triple channel mode, these new 3GB and 6GB kits ensure optimal
performance via an ideal combination of low voltage requirements,
speed, and latency.
Pick up some nice kit for your DDR3 system
Subject: Memory | October 9, 2008 - 12:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Speaking of low powered, high speed RAM; MektuMods have finished a round-up of high speed DDR3 of which only one DIMM, the CSX Diablo3 2000 2GB Kit requires 2V, the rest were designed to run between 1.8V - 1.95V, making them safe for the Core i7. Once they got into overclocking, the voltages did start to rise which could prove to be a problem for people really wanting to push Intel's upcoming chip. Drop by to see the strengths and weaknesses of each kit.
Not all heatsinks are created the same
Subject: Memory | October 2, 2008 - 05:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
While just about any DIMM you buy today has a heat spreader on it at the very least, not all of the cooling solutions offered by memory makers are as good as others. If you do find yourself having heat problems with your RAM, try the Thermaltake RamOrb memory cooler. The only major difficulty that you could encounter is the removal of the original heatsinks so that you can use the RamOrb, other than that it should be as easy as it was for TweakTown.
Lean, green and machined
Subject: Memory | September 23, 2008 - 04:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
The 1800MHz DDR3 Extreme Performance kit from Patriot sports their Aluminium Copper Composite heatsinks, which for some reason are painted green. The run 8-8-8-24 @ 1.9V out of the box, Pro-Clockers pushed them to 2000MHz by relaxing the timings to 9-9-9-24. The $339 price tag doesn't hurt either!
Less graffiti; more specs
Subject: Memory | September 15, 2008 - 02:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
CompuStocx is not a name you have probably heard of unless you tend to shop in the EU, but hopefully they will make it to North America soon. According to NordicHardware, one of the best things about this company is that instead of covering the DIMMs in advertising, they print the original product code right on the memory. That makes it a lot easier to ensure compatibility and specifications. Drop by to see how well it performs once it is installed.
Memory with an entrance requirement
Subject: Memory | September 4, 2008 - 02:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
If you pick up Corsair's DDR3-2133 kit, you had better make sure you have some experience overclocking, as you won't be able to find a motherboard that supports that speed straight out of the box. AnandTech did make it happen, using a DFI X48 board. Take a look at what they had to go through to get a stable system running these modules.
Soggy memory
Subject: Memory | August 26, 2008 - 04:02 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
As watercooling becomes a more popular solution, we are seeing more components that are built with watercooling in mind. One of the more recent is the OCZ DDR3 PC3-16000 Flex II Water Cooled Memory, running at 2Ghz with 8-8-8-30 timings @ 2T. Not only did OCZ set these modules up to allow for watercooling, they include a full set of water-cooling adapters and tubing. Head to Madshrimps to see how these modules perform.
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I've owned this bass for two days now and have really fallen in love with it. Saul Walkers review is excellent and I endorse Saul's comments totally. Trying to remain rational I'd like to add a couple of things. 1) I picked up my TRB II for £600 with a bit of haggling. The list price was £749 so they've really come down in price. 2) The range of tones available really isn't that extensive. I tried a range of 5-strings from a Peavey Grind 5 at £329 to a Warwick 5-string at £1,100 and many had a wider tonal range. The Peavey was particularly impressive for the money. 3) The factory/shop set-up really didn't do the guitar any favours. Intonation was out on the A and D string and the action was ridiculously low, leading to a really sloppy feel and lots of rattles. 4) The centre spots on the pan-control and graphic eq are really too light to be much use on stage. So why did I buy it? It really is a stunning looking bass - mines translucent blue, but that isn't it. To be honest, I got talked into it by the assistant in the shop who promised me I could change it after a couple of weeks if I still wasn't totally won over. Two days later and there's no way I'm taking it back. This bass sounds fantastic in a live set-up. Its actually more comfortable to play standing up than sitting down and you really do get a couple of brillient 'voices' to cut through the six-piece band I play in. The guitar has a wonderful personality and just feels quality. It makes you want to play better to do it justice. I'd have happily paid £1,000 plus for the god-like grunt the low B gives you and fast runs just float across the fret board. It's a shame that some players might miss out and not buy this bass because of poor set-up. And I am going back to shop - I want to buy my new mate a beer!
I've been playing Bass Guitar now for half my life, and decided that my lonely Hohner Fretless was getting a little lonely, a little worn and a Little out of date. I decided to treat myself to something new, a bit bolder, a bit flashier and with frets. I stepped into my local independent guitar shop and I had only started looking round the shop when this guitar struck me out of the blue, as the most beautiful 5 set of strings I had ever seen. Needless to say it is now mine. The guitar I'm talking about is the Yamaha TRB5, and what a superb use of wood it is. I'd always been a bit sceptical about Yamaha guitar products, after all they almost build anything on the UK market from Motorcycles to Toilet seats (not really-only Joking), but still you can't expect it to make better products than those companies solely devoted to the manufacture of musical instruments. So when I actually got to test 'drive' this beast, instead of the 4 gear Fiesta, I found a DB7 had been placed in my hands- nice!! My bass Guitar is part of the TRB range of Yamaha's Bass guitars, which in my opinion, is their best and most expensive range. There are 7 different models from the lowly four-string to the six-string signature model of one of the bassist's world's finest players, John Patitucci. I've got the 5 string and one day will attempt to get my hands on a signature model if the bank balance allows it (which it probably never will.) Here's the statistics for all of you in the know. All TRB models have a 34" fingerboard with a total of 24 frets- that means that there is a two-octave range on each string unlike most bass guitars. This means that it caters for most musical styles, for example I started off in Jazz and the fret board was amply large enough for all the complicated solos and large octave changes. Now I'm into heavy metal and the guitar plays nicely for this as well. The
neck of the guitar is made in maple and the fingerboard of rosewood, lets just say this means it's not made in Taiwan and won't snap the moment you start to strain the neck a little. Also, having the guitar as it is for 3 years now, it has yet to obtain the tonnes of scratches on the fingerboard that I have experienced with my other guitars. The body it self is made of ash. There are 2 pick-ups of the double coil (Alnico) variety, housed in plastic (and therefore not prone to rusting). These are also well suited for most playing styles and give a flawless sound on amplification. This is partly due to the Q-mix 3-Band Equaliser on each guitar giving you not only volume control, but Treble, Middle and Bass controls and a panpot control to change from bridge and neck pickup. This is powered internally by a battery that needs to be changed every month if you play with it most days (like me). Now I know most people go and buy guitars on colour and shape, so Yamaha have accommodated this by providing 4 sumptuous colours in a wood grain effect (I'm starting to sound like Lord Llewlyn Bowen?? Of Changing Rooms). The colours are Cherry Sunburst (mine), Amber Satin, Charcoal Grey and Blue Satin. The shape can be described as a mixture of Drew Barrymore and the new Jaguar S-type (sorry I can't be more precise). The knobs, bridge and lead socket are all solid brass giving it a nice professional feel and the John Patitucci model even has mother of pearl fret inserts (lovely touch) To be honest I'm in love with this guitar and can't rate it highly enough. It plays smoothly and responds to everything that I've tried to do with it. If your really serious about bass playing then put this on your list of prospects because it really does make you feel like a real bass player. I suppose your wondering the price, well the TRB 5 is a bargain at £1,500, oh I see you cringing, well good news. I got mine for £500 se
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ABT corps member Calvin Royal III has been nominated for 2013, along with Talli Jackson of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance and Martha Graham Company dancers Lloyd Mayor and Xiaochuan Xie. Will the award keep its track record of choosing ballet dancers? We'll find out on January 6.
If your usual workouts are feeling stale, Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project might be able to help. The contemporary ballet troupe recently launched an online exercise platform that puts its stars in your living room.
"What if you could learn from the world's best dance teachers in your living room?" This is the question that Dancio poses on their website. Dancio is a new startup that offers full length videos of ballet classes taught by master teachers. As founder Caitlin Trainor puts it, "these superstar teachers can be available to students everywhere for the cost of a cup of coffee."
For Trainor, a choreographer and the artistic director of Trainor Dance, the idea for Dancio came from a sense of frustration relatable to many dancers; feeling like they need to warm up properly before rehearsals, but not always having the time, energy or funds to get to dance class. One day while searching the internet for a quick online class, Trainor was shocked to not be able to find anything that, as she puts it, "hit the mark in terms of relevance and quality. I thought to myself, how does this not exist?" she says. "We have the Daily Burn for Fitness, YogaGlo for yogis, Netflix for entertainment and nothing for dancers! But then I thought, I can make this!" And thus, Dancio (the name is a combination of dance and video), was born.
Nutcracker season is upon us, with productions popping up in on stages in big cities and small towns around the country. But this year you can catch New York City Ballet's famous version on the silver screen, too. Lincoln Center at the Movies and Screen Vision Media are presenting a limited engagement of NYCB's George Balanchine's The Nutcracker at select cinemas nationwide starting December 2. It stars Ashley Bouder as Dewdrop and Megan Fairchild and Joaquin De Luz as the Sugarplum Fairy and Cavalier.
While nothing beats seeing a live performance (the company's theatrical Nutcracker run opens Friday), the big screen will no doubt magnify some of this production's most breathtaking effects: the Christmas tree that grows to an impressive 40 feet, Marie's magical spinning bed, and the stunning, swirling snow scene. Click here to find a participating movie theater near you—then, go grab some popcorn.
Today the Pennsylvania Ballet's board of trustees announced the appointment of Shelly Power as its new executive director. Having been involved in the five-month international search, company artistic director Angel Corella said in a statement released by PAB that he's "certain Shelly is the best candidate to lead the administrative team that supports the artistic vision of the company." Power's official transition will begin in February. This news comes at the end of a few years of turmoil and turnover at PAB, including the departure of former executive director David Gray in June.
"I was particularly excited when I saw my name on casting for Allegro Brillante in 2009," remembers principal dancer Tiler Peck. "Balanchine had said Allegro was, 'everything I know about classical ballet in 13 minutes,' and of course that terrified me." To calm her fear, Peck followed her regular process for debuts: begin by going back to the original performers to get an idea of the quality and feeling of the ballet and ballerina. "It is never to imitate, but rather to surround myself with as much knowledge from the past as I can so that I can find my own way," says Peck.
Catching a performance of The Nutcracker has long been a holiday tradition for many families. And now, more and more companies are adding sensory-friendly elements to specific shows in an effort to make the classic ballet inclusive to children and adults with special needs.
While the accommodations vary depending on the company, many are presenting shorter versions of the ballet with more relaxed theater rules. Additionally, lower sound and stage light levels during the performance, as well as trained staff on hand, make The Nutcracker more accessible for those on the autism spectrum and others with special needs.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's performance will take place on Tuesday, December 26th, and they are one of the pioneer companies in presenting sensory-friendly performances of The Nutcracker (their first production was in 2013). PBT has also offered sensory-friendly versions of Jorden Morris' Peter Pan and Lew Christensen's Beauty and the Beast in the past.
See our list of sensory-friendly performances, and check out each site for all of the details regarding their offerings.
The Pilates hundred is a popular exercise used by many dancers for conditioning and warming up, but it's also one of the most misunderstood. Pumping your arms for 100 counts sounds simple enough, but it requires coordinated breathwork, a leg position that suits your abilities and proper alignment. Marimba Gold-Watts, who works with New York City Ballet dancers at her Pilates studio, Articulating Body, breaks down this surprisingly hard exercise. When done correctly, the benefits are threefold: "If you're doing it before class," she says, "the hundred is a great way to get your blood flowing and work on breath control and abdominal support all at once."
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A large number of young British Asians support violence against women who 'dishonour' their families, a Panorama investigation will claim today.
The hard-hitting BBC documentary reveals more than two thirds of Asians between the ages of 16 and 34 say communities should live according to 'honour' or 'izzat'.
Research carried out for the show found nearly one in five – 18 per cent – said certain acts thought to shame families were justification for violence.
The possible reasons included disobeying a father, marrying someone unacceptable or wanting to end a marriage.
Honour-related violence can include acid attacks, abduction, mutilations, beatings, and death. But 94 per cent of those questioned said there was 'never a justification' for murder.
BBC1's Panorama programme on honour killings will be screened tonight at 8.30pm.
A study of police data by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation recorded over 2,800 honour crimes a year.
Nazir Afzal, lead prosecutor on the crimes for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: 'We don't know the true figure of honour killings. It's anything between 10 and 12 a year in this country.'
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Three years ago, just two lonely journalists turned up to the UKIP annual conference. This year, they have accredited 150 of them. Now Britain's third-largest party (it has led the LibDems in the polls since March) Nigel Farage positions himself as an insurgent whose message is so incendiary that the mainstream would not dare to broadcast it. Today was his chance. The UKIP conference is getting plenty coverage on BBC Parliament Channel, a huge chance. And one that was not really taken.
We're used to seeing Farage with a pint and fag in hand, looking mischievous and raising hell. Today he looked fretful and sweaty. He didn't use autocues – which is fine, neither does David Cameron when things get sticky. But Farage kept looking at his notes, and for most of the speech his eyes were down (above). When you're giving a speech for a television audience, this kind of thing matters. Powder is the enemy of sweat. Rehearsal is the alternative to autocues.
I say in my Daily Telegraph column today that UKIP is more of a phenomenon than a political party – and that its strategy is to mutate from being a Eurosceptic party into a general party of the working class. But Farage's speech showed no sign of this: it was mostly about Europe. And the technical aspects of it that bore even Westminster wonks, let alone target voters. Phrases like "insurance, reinsurance, stocks and shares, commodities" simply should not be in a keynote speech aimed at general voters. "We've had to absorb in the British Economy 120,000 pages of legislation… inspection and regulation have taken over from production, leadership and enterprise. We've got to get European Law off their backs." I quite agree, but this is a point better-suited to a CBI conference speech.
Even on the most emotive issues – immigration vs youth unemployment, Farage seemed to speak with less force than usual.
"I feel very sorry for the one million youngsters in this country who are without work yet we have a massive oversupply in the unskilled labour market coming in from Eastern Europe and elsewhere"
I've hard Farage make this point far better, without using wonk phrases like 'unskilled labour market', in town hall meetings. He was good when making clear that UKIP (unlike the BNP) does "firmly, fiercely oppose the racism and sectarianism of left or right".
"Let's be clear: we don't blame people from Romania and Bulgaria for wanting to come here: goodness me, I'd be packing my bags now. It is about money, isn't it? A wage here is worth five or six time what it is in Romania and Bulgaria."
That said, he has a word of warning about those Romanians…
"London is already experiencing a Romanian crimewave – 92 per cent of ATM crime in the capital is being committee by Romanian gangs. We should not be opening our doors on January 1st to Romanian criminal gangs. We need to get back the power to deport people who come here and commit offences. Mr Cameron, Mr Clegg, Mr Miliband – are you listening? Because we demand action. But we're the only people with a solution, aren't we?"
Not that he seemed to like London very much, speaking about it with disdain that you normally only hear from Alex Salmond. "London commentators" were the bogeymen. Fair enough if you're giving a speech in a Yorkshire town hall, but I'd have dialled this down for a speech held in London primarily for the benefit of these London commentators.
And, he should also be more careful with his figures if he's going to berate the press. "Last year 497,000 settled in this country, And I'm not sure the commentators even understand this." I'm not sure that Farage understands that this figure includes about 80,000 Brits returning from a spell living abroad. You'll never hear Migration Watch use this misleading, grossed-up figure, and neither should UKIP. Not if it wants to play at this level of politics.
Britain opted out of EU crime and justice laws, but next year we will opt back in to the European Arrest Warrant. It's a scandal, certainly, and Farage had this to say:-
"The European Arrest Warrant is a total abomination to those who care about freed. We can't deport a rapist or a murdered because they have a right to family life. We need to throw this in the bin."
He's quite right: we could and should have bilateral extradition deals. But all this excites a very small chunk of the electorate. Am even smaller chunk get worked up about regulatory overload:-
"We've had to absorb in the British Economy 120,000 pages of legislation… inspection and regulation have taken over from production, leadership and enterprise. We've got to get European Law off their backs."
How many of the C2DE voters (an impressive 19 per cent of whom now back UKIP) worry about European Law? It sounded as if Farage had crafted a speech for UKIP's 2010 conference audience, not a 2013 television audience.
His best bit – which he should have constructed his entire speech around – was defining UKIP voters as ordinary people bored with the Westminster menu. Here's the clip:-
Here, he spoke to the general voter. But not for long. His Hi-De-Hi start "Good morning everybody!" onwards, he was speaking activists, not to potential voters watching on TV. It took him less than a minute to use phrases like "Middlesborough parliamentary by-election" name-checking candidates with no national profile as if to underline his party's obscurity. Even his peroration was a bit flat.
UKIP supporters (many of whom I expect to welcome in the comments section below) see a virtue in their amateurism, and understandably – their greatest asset is a homespun vibe. But if you're aiming at a 2014 breakthrough, taking entire councils, you need to up your game. I'm not quite sure that Farage (whom I admire) did so today.
All told, this was not a breakthrough moment for UKIP. And rather a wasted opportunity for Nigel Farage.
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Located in Pecatu, Bulgari Resort Bali is close to Uluwatu Temple and Uluwatu Cliffs. This 5-star hotel is within close proximity of Padang Padang Beach and Uluwatu Beach.
Make yourself at home in one of the 59 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and DVD players. Rooms have private patios. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature deep soaking bathtubs and rainfall showerheads.
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Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. After a day at the private beach, you can enjoy other recreational amenities including an outdoor pool and a spa tub. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare (surcharge), and gift shops/newsstands.
Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. While enjoying a refreshing dip in the hotel pool, you can order your favorite drink at the poolside bar. Full breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
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Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and limo/town car service. Planning an event in Pecatu? This hotel has 2153 square feet (200 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and a meeting room. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free valet parking is available onsite.
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Aztecs: The game plan, as always, is to establish the run, beat down the Fresno State defenders, then catch them off guard and get into a rhythm with the play-action pass. Fresno State's rush defense is mediocre, with the Bulldogs having given up an average of 167 rush yards a game this year. This, plus the fact that Adam Muema is coming off a 202-yard rushing performance, means the SDSU offense could be a sight to behold.
Bulldogs: Fresno State can rack up ridiculous yardage totals — 365 against Oregon. Derek Carr has blossomed in Tim DeRuyter's new spread offense, and his 170.52 pass efficiency rating, combined with the rushing ability of Madison High product Robbie Rouse means this offense is every bit as balanced as SDSU's. The Bulldogs have a prolific passing game, and the Aztecs' defense has yet to figure out how to shut down the pass.
Edge: Bulldogs
Aztecs: Could this be the week that the defense finally figures out how to bring a pass rush? That's the big question as SDSU gears up to face the nation's No. 22 passing attack. Give up big plays through the air, and it could be all over very quickly. The only saving grace is that SDSU has proved its ability to stop the run. And that's important because Rouse is in the house.
Bulldogs: They're solid against the pass and could pose problems for the Aztecs' young offensive line. But their main concern should be the ground game, and that's where Fresno State can be suspect. Their rush defense is 82nd nationally and has allowed seven rushing TDs in four games. If the Bulldogs can't stop the Aztecs' two-headed rushing machine of Adam and Walter Kazee, SDSU's offense will flourish.
Edge: Tied.
Aztecs: Seamus McMorrow is back on the team after a weeklong suspension, and Rocky Long has said that all McMorrow has to do to nab a spot against Fresno this weekend is outperform his competition. So the Aztecs likely will have McMorrow back on kickoffs, and perhaps punts. Chance Marden finally made two field goals last week to erase the glaring "0" from his season stat line. Now, how about they shore up those kickoff coverage defenses?
Bulldogs: The Bulldogs lost 27-26 to Tulsa last week in part because they had a couple of Aztec-moments on special teams. Redshirt freshman kicker Quentin Brashears missed two extra points and a field goal in the defeat. Brashears has been suspect on extra points this season (16-for-20). Even SDSU's Marden has a hotter streak going right now.
Edge: Aztecs
Aztecs: As defensive coordinator, Long took responsibility for his defense's epic fourth quarter collapse last week and said that obviously the coaches are asking their players to do something they're not capable of. But if he doesn't find a way to patch up the pass defense soon, the season might unravel.
Bulldogs: DeRuyter has made something click for this Bulldogs team. Carr has completed 63.7 percent of his passes, and the offense is trucking along more effectively than ever. But they have to now close out games.
Edge: Bulldogs
Aztecs: Center Alec Johnson and linebacker Nick Tenhaeff are both nursing broken hands. They're expected to start. But in Tenhaeff's case, it's difficult to tell how much the injury will affect him. He's the Aztecs' second-leading tackler, and having him at less than 100 percent could pose problems.
Bulldogs: Senior receiver Rashad Evans returns this week for the Bulldogs after missing the first four games because he was ruled ineligible. That should provide a morale boost, and a boost in yardage. A fifth-year senior, Evans has 104 receptions for 1,007 career yards and seven touchdowns.
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- Gamochaeta, a plant genus with species in North and South America
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- Euchiton, a plant genus native to Australasia and the Pacific
- Helichrysum, a plant genus occurring in Africa, Australasia and Eurasia. (e.g. Helichrysum luteoalbum, common name 'Woody cudweed')
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