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It's no coincidence that both Jason Spezza and the Senators entered Tuesday in six-game slumps.
As one goes, so goes the other. I know it, you know it, Spezza knows it.
"I haven't scored, we haven't won, I know I have to produce for us to win," Spezza said a few hours before facing the Blues Tuesday. "I'm definitely putting pressure on myself to make sure I'm playing well this week."
Spezza didn't register a single point in the six games — which was double the length of his longest previous drought this season and longest since a seven-game dry spell from Nov. 24-Dec. 5 in 2010.
Four of the six, the Senators lost by a goal, so yeah, a less chilly Spezza would have made a difference.
Spezza halted the slide Tuesday, as he felt he would, when he drew an assist on Daniel Alfredsson's second period power-play goal. Earlier, at the 28-second mark of the first, he had a chance from the slot that was stopped by Brian Elliott. Later in the period, he had a 2-on-0 breakaway with Colin Greening, but chose to pass. It was not the right decision.
"I played one of my best games of the year, I think, in Phoenix, and don't get a goal," Spezza said in explaining what he was going through. "Then it kind of snowballs, and you've gone three, four, five without a point … so you start thinking about it a little bit. I got sick there for a couple of days."
Spezza doesn't at all mind the heat that comes with being the Senators' head chef.
"In our locker room I'm looked upon to be a guy that's scoring, contributing offensively," he said. "That's the way you want it, that's the way it is. You have to identify it too. I'm not going to make excuses and say other guys need to step up. I need to be the guy who steps up first. Your offensive guys have to be your offensive catalyst. That's when the team is doing well."
For the Senators to get back on track, Spezza has to produce on a regular basis again. So does his winger, Milan Michalek, who hasn't scored in 11 games.
But as Spezza goes, so does he. And the rest of the Senators.
Alfredsson was tied for the team lead in hits after 20 minutes, with two. I counted three. Anyway, it was his most physical game of the season … The Senators should have been in much better shape after one period. Craig Anderson should have stopped the first St. Louis goal, even though it was off a deflection, and the second was him giving up a bad rebound and very soft D-zone play by his mates … At the other end, Kaspars Daugavins hit a post and Greening was left holding his head in his hands after bouncing one off the crossbar.
Ever wonder what tough guys talk about when they chat with the other team's tough guy while stretching at centre during the pre-game warmup? Sometimes they socialize, sometimes they plan a scrap for later that night, and sometimes they do both. Take it away, Zenon Konopka. "Some of those chats can be pretty vulgar, and promoting for later in the night. When I was talking with (Shawn) Thornton in Boston, I knew he went to Turks and Caicos for the break and I was asking how the hotel was. We both know the owner. He says it was pretty nice. He had a real nice time. That was nice. When we played in Pittsburgh, I had a chat with (Matt) Cooke, then (Arron) Asham came over, and I fought Asham first shift. What happened (in the warmup) was, Cooke actually owes a buddy of mine a signed jersey, so I told him he better get it to him or there's going to be juice, and the juice is running. Then Asham came over and said 'Zee, what are you talking about?' I told him and he said, 'Oh, OK, cool. So are we going tonight?' And I said, I'm willing if you are. So the first shift we go. Then we played Philadelphia, and I saw that Zac Rinaldo, and I just told him, we're going tonight. And he's like, 'No we're not.' I said, that isn't how it works. I'm the older player. When I was your age, I didn't ask questions, I just dropped my gloves. We're going tonight. And he said 'OK, I guess,' so later, we went."
Ready to return is Brian Lee, who has been out since Jan. 14 with either an upper- or lower-body injury. Last season, Lee played through both — a broken toe and a broken thumb — for 20 games. Now that tidbit may be a year old, but it's still a scoop … Not often you see three members of the 1984 Memorial Cup-champion 67's in the same house. But at this one were Blues commentator Darren Pang, Blues assistant coach Brad Shaw and Bruins scout Adam Creighton … The '4' painted behind both nets at SBP is, of course, a tribute to Chris Phillips and his 1,000th career game, which he'll play Thursday.
With seven goals and seven assists in 27 games, Jim O'Brien wasn't expecting to be recalled from Binghamton on the weekend. "I thought it was going to be a regular day," he said of the B-Sens game in Manchester. "It was a good surprise." O'Brien missed 6-7 weeks earlier this season with broken fibula suffered while blocking a shot. "One of those things that happens, it's part of the game," he said. "Took a while to get back from that, but since I've been back and I've been playing good." O'Brien has been decent since getting here, too, having pushed Bobby Butler to a seat in the pressbox.
Blues coach Ken Hitchcock says the NHL has changed rather dramatically in the past few years. "It used to be tennis when we came out of the lockout. Now it's like ping pong," he said. "The game is so fast now. We go stretches … we've come out of the break, played two games now, and we played one game 8:30 no whistles, and then we played 5;35 no whisteles. You never saw that before. It's unbeliveale how fast the game is,but it's fast without puck possession. It's like, forecheck, forecheck, forecheck. … it's really different. Sometimes it feels like it's organizaed chaos out there, to be honest with you. It's what it is. With no red line, and with teams playing three forwards high in the neutral zone, you're not going to get a puck possesssion game. You're just going to have to deal with it, get used to it. It's really different now. The last two years it's changed even more."


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Things to do this week in NYC Sep 15-Sep 22: Cultural ArtsSeptember 15, 2012 - by CG Directory Editor
Dance, art galleries, museums, lectures -- you name it, there are plenty of things to do in NYC. From the New York City Ballet, to Alvin Ailey, from performances at the Metropolitan Opera, to live music at Madison Square Garden, New York has it all. Here is a selection of what's going on in New York this week.
Great Irish Fair of New York 2012 - MCU Park
A family friendly event celebrating New York City's Great Irish-American Heritage & Culture. Enjoy a day that includes: 2nd Annual 5k Run/Walk on the Riegelmann Boardwalk, Saturday, September 15th; Traditional and Contemporary Irish Music; local Irish bands; great food /pubs; Irish dancing, Irish goods, children's rides, activities and attractions. Til 8pm.
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca - The Joyce Theater
Bessie Award winner Soledad Barrio, heralded by The New York Times as "one of today's great dancers of any genre," and her company Noche Flamenca played to sold out houses last year at The Joyce. This season, they return with a New York premiere and a two week engagement, giving audiences even more chances to experience these astounding artists deliver flamenco in its most authentic and glorious form, one that creates fierce and haunting work through the vivid interplay of palmas, song, guitar, and dance. Company website: http://www.nocheflamenca.net/engindex.php performance schedule Tue-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm; Sun 2pm Dance Chat: Wednesday, September 19 ticket price Tickets start at $10! (Call JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 for $10 tickets. All other tickets can be purchased online.)
Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art - Brooklyn Museum
This exhibition is devoted to examining the defining impact Lucy R. Lippard's groundbreaking book Six Years had on the emergent Conceptual art movement. Published in 1973, Six Years simultaneously catalogued and described the development of conceptual art practices in the late sixties and early seventies, and is now widely considered an essential reference work for the period. Using the book's content to structure the exhibition, Materializing "Six Years" showcases the artists brought together and championed by Lippard, and demonstrates how her curatorial projects, critical writing, and political engagement helped to redefine exhibition-making, art criticism, and the viewing experience. The exhibition will feature more than 170 objects by nearly ninety artists who were working internationally across a range of mediums. In addition to presenting important artworks, the exhibition will convey the political foment of an era that saw both the emergence of Conceptual art and the rise of the Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and anti–Vietnam War movements, and will illustrate the period's experimental impulses through catalogues, artist publications, periodicals, photographs, and ephemera from key exhibitions and events.
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Babies' teeth stem cells banking is only in its infancy, compared to banks that store umbilical cord blood. That's because researchers have yet to determine how useful dental stem cells will be in terms of medical treatment, whereas cord stem cells are already in widespread clinical use.
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St. Johns County third-graders shot to the top, placing first in the state in math and tying for first in the state in reading on the just-released Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.
Superintendent Joe Joyner said he had "run out of superlatives" for the district's administrators, teachers and support staff.
Over the past three years, St. Johns County third-grade math scores climbed from fifth to first in the state. Reading scores over that time period moved from third to first in the state.
"In reading, 86 percent of our students are at or above grade level, and in math, an incredible 90 percent," Joyner said. "I am so very proud of everyone associated with our school district."
The statewide average of third-graders passing the reading portion fell a percentage point to 71 percent. The math portion, on the other hand showed an increase of 2 percent over last year, going to 78 percent of third-graders at grade level.
In St. Johns County the percentage of students scoring three and above in math rose from 88 to 90 percent. The percentage of students in reading increased from 85 to 86 percent.
At Hickory Creek Elementary School, Principal Paul Goricki described the mood as "thrilled."
Hickory Creek improved by 10 points and had the highest score of the county's elementary schools on the reading portion of the FCAT with 99 percent of students performing at Level 3 or above.
Students scoring three and above are considered to be performing at grade level.
Goricki said the "thing that most thrilled" was that because of the high scores no child would have to participate in the summer reading school.
When Goricki told the third grade teacher hired to run the summer school of the test results, she told him, "I've worked myself out of a job."
He said the scores were a "tribute" to the work and attitude of students, teachers and parents.
Schools showing the most improvement in reading were Osceola Elementary (66 percent to 83 percent), Cunningham Creek Elementary (85 percent to 93 percent) and Ketterlinus Elementary (80 percent to 87 percent).
Five schools tied for the highest score in the district on the math portion with 97 percent of their students scoring at Level 3 and above.
Those schools were Cunningham Creek Elementary, Hickory Creek Elementary, Liberty Pines Academy, Ponte Vedra-Palm Valley/Rawlings Elementary and Timberlin Creek Elementary.
Biggest gains in number of students passing the math test were seen at Ketterlinus Elementary (73 percent to 85 percent), R.B. Hunt Elementary (78 percent to 89 percent), Hickory Creek Elementary (90 percent to 97 percent), Wards Creek Elementary (89 percent to 96 percent) and Crookshank Elementary (72 percent to 78 percent).
Test results for other grade levels taking FCAT Sunshine Standards Tests will probably not be out until next month, said Margie Davidson, spokeswoman for the district.
St. Johns County math scores have increased every year since 2003. District scores grew from 72 to 90 percent of students performing at grade level, compared to the state increase from 63 to 78 percent.
County reading scores also improved during that time, going from 75 to 86 percent of students performing at grade level, compared to an increase of 63 to 71 percent for the state.
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ROME -- Italian police are carrying out antiterrorism raids, French officials have reimposed passport checks at borders, and Spain has deployed its army at train stations, power plants, and shopping malls.
Across the continent, authorities are scrambling to step up security to protect their cities after last week's deadly bombings in London stirred new fears that another European country could be the next target of Islamic extremists.
''There's not a single country in the world that's safe from terrorism, including France," President Jacques Chirac of France said yesterday as his country marked the Bastille Day holiday under exceptional security measures.
Amid bomb scares and a general sense of vulnerability, police throughout Europe have increased surveillance around trains and subways, airports, and ports.
European Union officials held emergency talks in Brussels this week and vowed to implement an antiterrorism plan by year's end, including steps to cut off funding to terrorist groups and share more intelligence. Europol, the EU's criminal intelligence agency, said its antiterrorism unit of three dozen was working around the clock on the London attacks.
After the London bombings, France raised its terrorism alert status to the second-highest level of ''red," triggering measures such as increasing the number of soldiers that protect sensitive sites. On Wednesday, France also said it had temporarily suspended the EU's open-border accord and was checking passports at borders with European Union neighbors.
The move prompted calls in some European capitals for other governments to do the same.
Countries that have supported the US-led campaign in Iraq fear they might be targeted for attack. Internet posters have made threats against US allies Denmark and Italy.
The Danish Intelligence Service said it takes the threats ''very seriously." Security has been heightened there, especially on trains and the Copenhagen metro.
Denmark has some 500 troops stationed near Basra in southern Iraq.
Italy has about 3,000, also in southern Iraq, and is expected to start pulling out about 300 soldiers in September.
Italian police carried out raids Wednesday against suspected Islamic extremists in Milan, Rome, and Turin, the host of next year's Winter Olympics. Police questioned 174 people to ascertain their legal status in Italy, and the Interior Ministry said the process might lead to expulsions in some cases.
The raids were carried out a day after Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu told parliament that terrorism is ''knocking on Italy's door" and proposed tough antiterrorism measures.
The package, to be approved by parliament, includes allowing authorities to detain suspects longer without charges, giving police greater investigative powers and incentives for those who help to bring down terrorist cells.
The Italian government has stepped up security and is looking into beefed up measures to protect monuments, museums and archeological sites.
In Poland, also a US ally in Iraq, police have received a number of false bomb threats, including one Tuesday that led authorities to evacuate 20,000 people from Warsaw's one-line subway system. A search revealed the threat was a hoax.
Warsaw was looking at its rescue services amid worries over outdated technology, a lack of monitoring cameras in many public areas, and ineffective cooperation among authorities.
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Marshall Mathers, aka rapper Eminem, opened up about his prescription drug addiction, saying he was on the brink of death at one point, in an interview in the new documentary "How to Make Money Selling Drugs."
The film, which opened Friday and focuses on what it says is the United States' often misguided war on drugs, features interviews with celebrity activists like Russell Simmons and Woody Harrelson. Eminem spoke of his addition to prescription pills, which he came clean about in his 2010 album "Recovery."
"When I took my first Vicodin, it was like this feeling of 'Ahh.' Like everything was not only mellow, but [I] didn't feel any pain," Eminem said in the documentary. "I don't know at what point exactly it started to be a problem. I just remember liking it more and more. People tried to tell me that I had a problem."
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After finishing a big project its always a good time to look at what has been accomplished and think about the future, and a big chunk of our time for the past weeks has been invested precisely into this. The success of Grimrock has really blown our socks away, but it also has enabled us, for the first time, to sit down and think through our options instead of just rushing madly forward with the project in the hope of finishing before cash runs out. During this time we also received some very interesting and tempting offers about other game projects (we cant talk about the details as theyre covered by NDAs). It took us some time to evaluate these but in the end we realized that building our own games is the reason why we are here and the success of Grimrock tells us that it is a good reason. So were committed to keep working on Grimrock and see where that road leads us. The exact form, whether it be an expansion, a full blown sequel or even something completely different, is still undecided. Frankly, we were a bit exhausted with the whole concept of grid-based games after working so intensely for a year but as some time has passed we now think that we have more to give to this genre.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- His office sits just across the street from AT&T Park, where the All-Star festivities are taking place, but Scott Parker wasn't in attendance Tuesday night. As the agent for Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner, Parker has had other matters to attend to this week. He and the Indians have been in conversations about a contract extension for the man known as Pronk, who would be eligible for free agency after next season. "We've touched base," Parker said. "We're taking advantage of the All-Star break."
The two sides had broken off negotiations shortly after the season started. Hafner turned down a multiyear offer from the club and chose instead to focus on the '07 season. It hasn't been the most Pronk-like of years. He's hit just .262 with 14 homers and 11 doubles. He has, however, driven in 57 runs, ranking 11th in the AL. Parker said he couldn't forecast the likelihood of a deal being reached this week. "The conversations have always been positive," he said. "But if you're asking me for a prediction, I don't have one." When talks were tabled in the spring, Parker and the Indians didn't make a firm plan to pick up the conversations at the break. But Parker said the negotiations were positive enough to do so. "We had done enough work on the deal when we left off that it made sense to take stock again," he said. Hafner's teammates in attendance at the All-Star Game are interested to see how the talks pan out. "It would be huge [if a deal is reached]," Tribe ace C.C. Sabathia said. "I would be happy. I would definitely take that as a good sign about getting something done with me. Everybody wants to stay. The core of this team has been together for a long time. We've been through a lot together, and we want to bring a championship to Cleveland together." Sabathia, who would also be eligible for free agency after the '08 season, is also represented by Parker. Talks about a Sabathia extension were broken off during Spring Training, and Parker said they have not picked up since. "That's not something that's been a current topic right now," Parker said.
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So far, I've been enjoying The Voice. Blind audition gimmicks FTW! I don't think Idol would have a female Urkel. Just saying…
Judge pimping. We have a diverse group apparently.
Samuel Moutoun is up. He is from Colorado. His dad was in a band. He makes pizza and washes dishes, but doesn't want this to be his career. He has a pimple and is going to sing Bob Marley. "Redemption Song" and the chairs are turning. First Adam and then Cee Lo. Xtina has joined the mix.
Blake admits he's a fool, but can't wait for the bickering. Xtina feels relaxed. Cee Lo loves the Bob Marley, but didn't see it as an imitation. Adam says he's a scholar of the style, but brought his own feeling to it. Samuel picks Adam.
Chris Trousedale was in a boy band with Jesse McCartney called Dream Street. It's hard work in a restaurant when you had fame as a boy bander, y'all. He is here to prove he still has it. It is going to be different. He's going to change his life and destiny. He's singing "Glad You Came" and has pink high tops. They look rubber. He moon walks. None of the coaches give a crap. Blake has to show off…
Montage of rejects.
Nigerian-born Maryland resident Nelly Echo is up. His father was incarcerated unfairly. He likes positive music and his father has been exonerated. He wants to uplift people. He has a guitar. Rut Roh. We shall see, he says wisely. He's singing "Ain't No Sunshine." Xtina turns around and fans herself. Adam also turns. Xtina says she was the first to push her button and finds him compelling. Adam thinks he's different. Nelly picks Xtina because she turned first. His blue shirt is cute.
2 Steel Girls are a Nashville mother daughter duo. They play in a family band. They make sacrifices to play and make dreams come true. Had to quit jobs and sell houses. Singing Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats." Cee Lo first pushes the button. Adam doesn't know what to do with a duo. Blake says he does. He wants to be the guy to protect their relationship. He's playing dirty. They pick Blake.
Montage of Cee-Lo losing pop girls to Xtina. Finally he scored a babe away from Adam.
Hip Hop dancer Domo is famous in China. She has a healthy attitude. She can sing like Xtina and Mariah! She's doing "Don't Cha." Cee Loo turns around and is sucking his fingers. She plays up to him. He wants her. She has a one/leg one short sort of outfit. Don't know what to call it. She likes herself a lot.
The day is coming to an end and we get a shoe factory worker from Vermont. Her name is Nicole Nelson. She's groovy. I think that's a wig, but if I am wrong, I'm sorry. Dang. She's singing "Hallelujah." She's good, but really they need to retire this song. Crowd loves it. No turns so far. Oh, there goes Adam and then all of them. They want her. Xtina calls her magical. Adam points out he turned around first. Cee Lo says it was a beautiful performance. She is an organic food lover (told ya she was groovy). Blake says he's organic. Adam says it's organic BS. She doesn't know what to do. Originally thought Blake but goes with Adam.
So there it is folks. I missed Jenn getting evicted from Big Brother for this, so don't hate… appreciate! MJ will provide video later.
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Russia may not join global deal on climate change
POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - Russia may not join a new global deal to fight climate change if it is against Moscow's interests and will set a national mid-term target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions next year, an official said on Friday.
"If the conditions for the international agreement are not favorable for us we may not join such an agreement," Alexander Pankin, deputy head of the Russian delegation at U.N.-led December 1-12 climate negotiations in Poland, told Reuters.
If a new U.N. climate pact meant to be agreed in Copenhagen at end-2009 was unfair and failed to set comparable commitments for countries according to their economic and social standing, Russia would not sign, he said.
"If you are better off than me, why should I make a stronger commitment than you," he said.
Pankin said Russia's ambition was to stabilize emissions at around 30 percent below 1990 and then reduce them further but did not give a percentage about possible cuts by 2020.
"We will have our national commitment. We will see what is achievable for Russia, we will do it at a government level and we will say this is the Russian target," he said.
"Definitely we have to do it within the next year."
Russia would set its own "achievable and realistic" target and would not tolerate pressure from the European Union or others for emission cuts of 20 or 30 percent by 2020. The EU leaders approved on Friday a 20-percent target by 2020.
"We take our national actions not because there's international pressure on us, we take action because we want to live in a cleaner world," Pankin said.
Russia, the world's number three greenhouse gas emitter behind China and the United States, ratified the current U.N. Kyoto Protocol in 2004 only after years of debate about whether to take on targets for greenhouse gas emissions.
Fears of global recession have now made many rich nations reluctant to launch costly new projects to fight climate change, or push ahead with ever deeper greenhouse gas cuts.
Pankin said talking about a collective mid-term global target for curbing emissions was not realistic because many countries were not ready to commit to combating climate change with concrete actions.
Emissions in the oil and gas-rich Russia, mainly from burning fossil fuels, have plunged by about a third since the collapse of Soviet-era smokestack industries. Its goal under Kyoto is to keep emissions below 1990 levels until 2012.
Moscow has previously feared its emissions may surpass 1990 levels in coming years because of strong economic growth. But the financial crisis has hit growth and Pankin said emissions would likely fall due to declining demand for commodities.


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LONDON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Drummer Jon Brookes has died at the age of 44 after a long illness, his British rock band The Charlatans announced on its website.
Brookes suffered a seizure while on tour with the group in Philadelphia three years ago. Diagnosed with a brain tumor, he underwent several operations, but had been working on new material with the band this summer.
The musician "passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning with his family at his bedside," the band said on in an online message Tuesday.
The exact cause and location of his death were not immediately disclosed.
"Jon was a brilliant drummer, an inspiration, a founding member of The Charlatans, part of our family and a friend to everyone in and around the band. Losing someone who was always so full of life is a tragedy that will be shared by so many. Our thoughts are with Debbie and all of Jon's family," the band said in a statement.


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Curbside recycling efforts in Lawrence may soon get a city-sponsored boost, but not a new city-run service.
City commissioners on Tuesday will review a plan that would allow the city to begin doing special marketing to draw attention to approximately a half-dozen privately operated curbside recycling services available in Lawrence.
The recommendation — made by the city's Sustainability Advisory Board late last year — has won the support of city staff, who at one point had suggested the city create a pilot curbside recycling program that would be operated by city trash crews.
At least one city commissioner said he's leaning toward giving the new marketing approach a try.
"There's no sense in competing with private businesses, if we don't have to," said Commissioner Mike Dever, who has urged the city to look for curbside recycling options. "I think this might add some credibility to the existing firms that will cause more people to use them."
The proposal involves three major parts:
• The city would design and fund an advertising campaign aimed at educating people about curbside recycling options that already exist in Lawrence.
• The city would purchase uniform recycling containers for the customers of the private companies to use and set out at their curbs. The hope is that the uniform containers would draw the attention of passers-by and create more awareness about curbside recycling options in Lawrence.
• All private curbside recycling companies would be required to register with the city, and provide officials with data on how much material they recycle and where they take it.
The proposal does not have any firm estimates on how much it would cost the city to do the marketing and buy containers, but Dever said that information will be important to know before moving forward.
Jeff Joseph, who has owned Jeff's Curbside Recycling for nine years, said he's pleased with the city's proposed approach, especially if the registration process doesn't involve a fee or large amounts of paperwork.
"I think it is great that they are trying to support something that is already in place," Joseph said.
Based on information on various company Web sites, private Lawrence recyclers charge between $7 per month for once-per-month service to about $15 to $20 per month for weekly service.
Commissioners meet at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
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Claude Faustus - Kuroshitsuji II
|Pretty much the same as Sebastian, the same shoes, shirt, waistcoat, tailcoat, gloves, trousers, nail polish and temporary tattoo (different design). However for Claude, I bought and styled a different wig, bought gold contact lenses (Twilight vampire ones from amazon) and made my glasses and tie.
I made the tie simply by cutting black ribbon into the right style and buying a brooch very similar to Claude's on ebay, though quite different as it looks quite contract like, I fell in love with it and decided to put my own spin on his costume!
I have new contacts, orange werewolf ones now and I bought some glasses that look more like his
This really suits you! Love it!
looking good in the cosplay. Loving the glasses
This is really great, I love the glasses pose in the photo you used for the icon! Portrays the character perfectly <3
Just brilliant you've done a great job! Keep it up :D
LOVE IT!! especially the knives photo :D <3
Awesome, you really get the details spot on
cool cosplay now that it's finished. Just be careful with the knifes xD
Wow, you really suit Claude! Great work =3
Aaah I love this cosplay! The photo with the glasses in your mouth is perfect :D
Ahhh, you suit him a lot! Those contacts look especially vivid!
you make a great Claude Faustus :D
You make a great Claude, you really know how to get his attitude down in some of your photos :D
so good you make aawesome claud
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Yay! So I'm pretty sure that this is improving a lot, with new contacts, glasses and a wig along with a new shirt on the way, I think that I may turn out to look like... well, a butler fit for the Trancy estate! Maybe some time I need to move away from butler-like characters... I guess I did that with Grell, but I think that this suits me... Now to perfect the make-up!


text: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen at gmail.com> wrote: > First I'd like to point out the author of xmobar, Andrea Rossato, probably > doesn't follow this list anymore. If you'd like to see action on these issues, > you should probably forward this message to him. I did, and we've already replied to each other a few times :) I've pointed him here in my last reply. > Andrea has chosen to use Read/Show serialization for xmobar rather than Haskell > source ala xmonad. The things you mention are the negative aspects of this > choice, but there are positive aspects -- not requiring GHC as a runtime > dependency is a major one. Isn't nearly every xmobar user a xmonad user? I thought that was the impetus for xmobar's existence. It's true that ghc takes up 300mb on disk plus dependencies, but I and most all other users already have it there for xmonad (if not just for haskell development). I find ghc's compilation of my xmonad.hs pretty snappy on my OLPC XO-1, I'll have to test it out on a 70mhz Sparcstation 5 (the slowest hardware I've used that can usefully run Xorg) the next time I'm back at my alma mater (though I may have to wait a few days for ghc to compile!). Interestingly, there's a module in the xmonad-contrib darcs that allows you to avoid the runtime ghc dependency (though you still need ghc to build the initial xmonad.hs, a debian packager could do that and make it global): http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib/XMonad/Config/PlainConfig.hs Unfortunately you can't import anything from xmonad-contrib without using ghc to rebuild the xmonad.hs (a debian packager could make the default import all nonconflicting modules when contrib is installed). You also can't currently use any layouts from contrib, but more worrying for xmobar you also can't use a logHook :( > In fact, I've written xmobar plugins but have not distributed them because > there isn't really a convenient way to do it. Please do, publishing is rarely a bad thing :) -- Fred


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This guy certainly doesn't look particularly athletic. Yet here he is, casually doing a full straddle split. Commence the feeling bad about yourself!
And there's a video!
You can see even more sexy men doing split photos on this guy's Flickr page. It's kind of ridiculous how flexible he is.
In other news, it makes me sad that this guy will probably pan out more as an athlete than all of the Cowboys' draft picks tonight. Sigh.
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Brazil international Neymar, one of the world's most sought-after young talents, will undoubtedly leave Santos, his current club, one day, but the questions of when and where
remain open. While the 21-year-old has expressed interest in playing for several top European clubs, from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain to most recently, Bayern Munich, both he and his agent, Wagner Ribeiro, have repeatedly
denied reports linking him with a move away from Santos before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
On Tuesday, Santos President Luis Alvaro de Oliveira said he would continue to rebuff bids from top European clubs for the club's prized star. "I anticipate my answer to any bids that might come: the answer is no," Oliviera said. "Neymar will stay at Santos until 2014, and I hope that he'll continue here for even longer. I have a very clear basis for Neymar staying here ... for one basic reason: he's happy." He continued: "He costs us a relatively modest amount of money, given his talent. His presence translates into intangible gains, like our fan base growing 20 percent in the last two years."
If and when Neymar does leave Santos, Brazil legend Pele, whom Neymar is often compared to, has said he should move to Barca. But the former Santos and New York Cosmos star also believes the young prodigy still has a lot of growing up to do. "Everybody thinks Neymar can solve the national team's problems, but he isn't ready for that burden," Pele said. 'We think that he is the best in the world, but he is more concerned about appearing in the media than playing for the team. ... Neymar has a lot of responsibilities on his shoulders. Right now his major concerns are fashion and his haircut."


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It was all so simple. Some sassy sociopath would commit a fiendishly complex murder, and before the final fade-out an even smarter detective would figure it out and cuff the malefactor. Gumshoe films are out of favor now, but here are some sleuths who can solve the mystery of what to watch on a summer night.
This Debonair, martini-swilling socialite wasn't "the thin man." (That guy was a victim in the original Dashiell Hammett novel.) But Nick was the cool socialite, solving homicides as if they were Times crosswords. Nick and his wife Nora (and their...
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Huancavelica, city, central Peru. It is located about 140 miles (225 km) southeast of Lima, in the inter-Andean Huancavelica River valley at an elevation of 12,060 feet (3,676 m). Huancavelica was established as a mining settlement in 1563 after the local discovery of mercury, which was essential in extracting the silver from native ores. Founded as Villa Rica de Oropesa ("Rich Town of Oropesa") in 1572, it was almost immediately called Huancavelica—a Spanish corruption of the Quechua name for the site, meaning "stone idol"—and was officially declared a city with its present name in 1581. The city remained an important mercury-mining centre until the mid-19th century. The U.S. Agency for International Development and Buenaventura Mining, the largest mining company in Peru, set up an antipoverty support centre in Huancavelica in 2002 to stimulate employment and enhance community development. Most inhabitants are Quechua-speaking and practice subsistence agriculture, cultivating potatoes and barley. Leather and alpaca products are traded in local markets. A narrow-gauge railway running south from Huancayo makes Huancavelica the terminus of a 404-mile (650-kilometre) intermontane rail line from Callao (the port of Lima). Pop. (2005) 33,144.
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I know it's not supposed to, but this cover cracks me up. Gerard Butler is too wacky to pull off that expression without looking like he's being sarcastic about it, and while Aniston looks beautiful facially, she also sort of looks like a very realistic life-size doll that Gerard has found resting on the side of the road and has decided to tote home. (The stockings don't help.) Every time I look at his VERY SERIOUS MANLY EXPRESSION — and his super-rolled up shirt sleeves — I just giggle. I am not sure is this "turning up the heat" as the cover promises. It seems more like "joshing around in the dirt between takes of a very ill-advised Bonnie and Clyde remake." In fairness, I agree that headline would not have moved copies.


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In4mation once again teamed up with G-Shock and presents for Summer 2011 the GLX-6900 is a refreshing colorway. Featuring a red/green strap and bright yellow case, the watch dial features the In4mation logo, matching the backlight of the watch. Look out for a release May 2011.
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Shares of San Diego's Illumina sank more than 32 percent Friday morning, a day after the San Diego genetic sequencing company said third quarter revenue will fall well below analysts' expectations because of lower sales of some of its main products driven by uncertainty over the future of government research funding in the United States and Europe.
The company said revenue for the period will be around $235 million, or nearly 16 percent below the average $278.3 million predicted by analysts, according to Bloomberg News.
The figure was announced after the close of markets Thursday. In morning trading Friday, Illumina shares fell $12.94 to $27.60.
The company also suspended its previous financial guidance for the full year.
Executives will provide a more detailed update of its business when they report complete third-quarter results on October 25.
"Clearly, we are highly disappointed with our revenue for the third quarter," Illumina President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Flatley said in a statement. "We saw what we believe to be an unprecedented slowdown in purchasing due to uncertainties in research funding and overall economic conditions, as well as a temporary excess of sequencing capacity in the market."
One analyst called the third-quarter performance an "ugly negative," but said the announcement should remove government funding concerns from its financial outlook through 2012.
"Illumina remains the . . . leader in the genomics market, with multiple, significant long-term growth drivers, especially in diagnostic/clinical applications," said Mizuho Securities analyst Peter Lawson in a Friday morning note to investors.
Illumina's main rival, Life Technologies of Carlsbad, also has faced strong headwinds this summer.
In late July, the company reported second-quarter earnings and revenue that fell short of analysts' expectations. And in mid-August, Life laid off an undisclosed number of workers as part of a $20 million cost-cutting effort.
While the genomics industry has grown rapidly in recent years, most of the sector's business still comes from research laboratories that purchase DNA mapping devices, genetic tests and related products with money they receive from government grants.
As the prices for sequencing and devices and genetic tests continue to fall, more of the products made by Illumina and Life Technologies will be purchased by hospitals and physicians for clinical diagnostics and disease treatment.
However, that shift is still in its infancy.
In an Oct. 5 report, Lawson said spending on genomics products by research laboratories will remain low through the end of the year because of uncertainty over how government budget cuts will affect funding levels.
One bright spot in the third quarter for Illumina was the launch of the much anticipated MiSeq, a desktop sequencing machine designed for use in small research laboratories and, eventually, in clinical facilities.
The MiSeq competes with Life Technologies' compact Ion Personal Genome Machine, which was launched in December.
Illumina said it shipped 45 MiSeq devices in mid-September.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Dancing With The Stars 2011 – Mark Ballas And Chelsea Kane Putting The Finishing Touches On Their Samba
Mark has penned a new writing in his blog at USA Today. He says he and Chelsea are gearing up for a "strong run". Chelsea has been flawless and he thinks she's the one to beat. Their last score was the highest of the season so far which backs that up (but, what about them being in the hot seat this past week? Has he forgotten that?). More below. If you'd like to read on his music adventures, you can do so at the link.
This Monday marks the end of the first half of the season. Despite Team Kanenball being the final couple saved on last week's show, I feel confident that we're gearing up for a strong run. Chelsea has been almost flawless on her last three dances, and I think she's establishing herself as the celeb to beat as the competition heats up. Our score of 26, the highest of the season thus far for any couple, just backs that up. But as we've seen on shows that require the fan vote, we deeply rely on our fans to support us.
Just like Chelsea thrived in her other two Latin dances (Cha Cha and Jive), she's done a great job picking up the choreography and principles of Samba. We started choreography on Wednesday, and I finished it on Thursday afternoon. By Thursday night we were on a roll with our routine and we'll use the weekend to put the finishing touches on it so the dance is performance ready. We have a really fun song and a cool theme for America Week. I hope you like it!
As the season progresses, there are more and more requirements for press. This is partly because there are fewer teams to share the commitments, but also because the remaining teams are under more scrutiny. I love doing media, but it's certainly still work. As the pressure rises, we find ourselves trying to squeeze everything in, with our priority being rehearsals. On Thursday we were up at 6:30 a.m. for an interview with Access Hollywood. After that, I went straight to the rehearsal studio to finish our Samba choreography. In the afternoon, it was on to another interview for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, followed by four hours of rehearsal until almost midnight. It was a long day, butI'm certainly not complaining!


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John Dienhart, the Frank Shrontz Chair for Professional Ethics at Seattle University, will deliver Gonzaga University's annual Aram Lecture on Business Ethics at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 4 in the Wolff Auditorium of the Jepson Center. Visit the following link to register for the event.
Dienhart will discuss "A CUP of Ethical Leadership: Compassion, Understanding, and Pursuit." A reception and light refreshments begin at 6 p.m. The Aram Lecture is a keynote address by a visiting lecturer invited by Gonzaga's John L. Aram Professor of Business Ethics. The professorship, held by Professor Brian Steverson, was established in honor of Aram, a former Gonzaga trustee and benefactor, to give students greater awareness of ethical dilemmas faced by decisionmakers in business and government.
Dienhart directs the Northwest Ethics Network, an independent group of ethics and compliance officers from the business, nonprofit, and governmental sectors. He is an Invited Fellow of the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C. Dienhart consults with and does ethics training for companies and organizations including the Bonneville Power Administration, Costco, Microsoft, Russell Investment Group, Starbucks, T-Mobile, Washington Mutual and Weyerhaeuser.
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The Crisis in Cyprus: When Governments Steal from Their Citizens
So you go online to check your account at Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America or wherever it is that you keep your funds and suddenly 40% of your money is gone. You immediately call the bank and get that message reminding you that the call may be "recorded for quality control purposes" and you think to yourself GOOD, I want witnesses!
The polite but breathlessly mechanized voice message goes on … Press 1 for a lost or stolen card, Press 2 for your available balance, Press 3 for pending transactions … there is no Press 4 for confiscated funds so you frantically hit "0" for "Other" and find yourself audibly yelling for a live operator only to be systematically kicked back to the "Main Menu."
The sinking reality of this futile electronic exercise is that your money is gone. It has been taken in a Federal heist by your own government to bail out its inability to control itself. Such an action not only shakes your faith in the banking system but violates the sacred trust of civilized societies everywhere. Welcome to the new reality for the citizens of Cyprus!
We have all seen the images of Cypriots standing outside closed banks, lining up at cashless ATM machines, and protesting in the streets for what is rightfully theirs … their life's savings! How can a government arbitrarily seize money from its citizens? It's all part of a last-minute deal with international lenders to avoid what has been billed as the country's complete economic collapse. But, who are these lenders? What do they have to do with the money that these seemingly average folks stashed away each week for years and years? Where were these bankers when these people were working … a little bit harder and a little bit longer to save for their future? Where was the International Monetary fund when these families lived within their means and only bought what they could afford?
It has been a longstanding financial tradition and benchmark of the banking industry that if we "put our money away" it will stay there. But in these days of soaring deficits, collapsing currencies, and indebted nations … we are finding that desperate governments will do desperate things, and the events in Cyprus are a wake-up call for every American.
Some claim that countries like Cyprus are far more vulnerable than the United States simply because when they run low on cash, they can't print more like we can. But with the purchasing power of the US Dollar declining as much as 95% since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, it's time that we realize that our hard-earned money has been devalued by endless quantitative easing and a series of Beltway Robberies that equates to a similar seizure of our private savings.
As the Cypriot government made continued assurances to its citizens that their money was safe, there were dissenting voices that warned bank depositors to move to higher financial ground. The official US position on the crisis takes a similar, comforting tone that "it could never happen here," but we cannot ignore the precedent set by Executive Order 6102 which required all US persons to deliver their personal gold coins, bullion and certificates to the Federal Reserve back in May of 1933.
The bottom line is that federal assurances are easy. They are cheap, and they are free. But they will ring as hollow and ineffectual as the interactive bank voice if you're caught completely unprepared and wake up one seemingly average morning … to find that you're money is simply gone.


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The bow was made from oak. The limbs of the bow were steamed and then hand shaped to curve slightly. The part that looks slightly like a door hinge were made from brass and were also hand cut and hand rolled to get the accurate shape.
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Greg Kaufmann is the former poverty correspondent to The Nation and a current contributor. He is a senior fellow at the Center of American Progress and editor of TalkPoverty.org. Through his writing he seeks to increase media coverage of poverty, share new research, elevate the voices of people living in poverty and offer readers opportunities to get involved with organizations working to eradicate poverty. Melissa Harris-Perry called Greg "one of the most consistent voices on poverty in America." Greg has spoken at numerous conferences and been a guest on Moyers & Company, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry, Tavis Smiley on PBS, NPR, and radio talk shows across the United States. His work has also been featured on CBSNews.com, NPR.org, WashingtonPost.com, and BusinessInsider.com. He serves as an advisor for Barbara Ehrenreich's Economic Hardship Reporting Project. He graduated from Dickinson College and studied creative writing at Miami University (Ohio). He lives in his hometown of Washington, DC, with his wife, son and two daughters.
It's a tough moment in the fight against poverty, but twelve anti-poverty leaders have suggestions of what you can do right now to take action.
The Florida state legislature takes action to bar local, pro-worker ordinances on living wages, paid sick leave and equal employee benefits.
Bank accountability activists continue to send a clear message to the big banks: "You can run, but you can't hide."
An already-bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.
Family homelessness is on the rise and the federal government is choosing not to respond.
The Big Banks are fleeing activists and shareholders who are challenging their bad practices. They can run, but they can't hide.
With sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.
A nonprofit, Catholic healthcare giant makes hundreds of millions in profits, raises the salaries of corporate executives and asks workers earning $31,000 a year to pay a $3,100 deductible for healthcare.
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Three scholarship offers sit on the table for Winnie (Texas) East Chambers athlete Tramain Thomas.
Thomas, the 6-foot-2, 175-pounder, is being recruited at a variety of different positions including wide receiver, cornerback, and safety. So far, Arizona, Baylor, and Houston have offered and Thomas says he'd like to have a decision made before his fall season begins.
"I talk to Arizona, they pretty much text me every day and Baylor text messages me every day," Thomas said. "They just tell me about the school and how things are going up there with football."
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Thomas says he still doesn't have a favorite school yet, but he does have a plan set for a decision.
"Well, in July, I'm going to play basketball the whole month," Thomas said. "Come August, I'm going to get back into football and I'll probably have a decision. I just want to get it out of the way before the season starts."
Before making a commitment, Thomas says he's going to try and visit the schools that have offered. So far he's been to one cam p at LSU.
"I can always go to Houston," Thomas said. "I'm really going to try to visit all three."
As for what position he'll play on the next level, Thomas says he's open.
"Well, I have some recruiting me as a receiver and Baylor was recruiting me as a safety," he said. "Some are recruiting me as a corner. I like receiver, but I'm not really sure yet. I like having the ball in my hands."


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RALEIGH, N.C. — It's far too early in Jabari Parker's career for Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski to compare his prized freshman with Knicks All-Star Carmelo Anthony. But the similarities are difficult to ignore.
Parker is a healthy 6-foot-8, 235-pound scoring machine who can dominate a game with his will and his talent. Anthony is listed at 6-8, 235 pounds and is virtually unstoppable when he wants to be. Parker, like Anthony, can score in the paint or from beyond the arc, and neither minds the pressure of being the best. Picture Anthony 11 years ago and you can see Jabari Parker.
The only real difference is Anthony accomplished the ultimate by leading the Orange to their first national championship in 2003. Parker begins his quest to do the same Friday when the third-seeded Blue Devils take on 14th-seeded Mercer in a Midwest Region game at PNC Arena.
"One of the reasons I came to Duke is to get a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament, to be on this stage," Parker said Thursday. "I'm very excited. Me and the team are well prepared and I'm just excited to be here."
When Duke's run in the NCAA Tournament is complete, Parker is expected to declare for the NBA Draft. But his college legacy will be meaningful only if he can win a championship as Anthony did. It will atone for losing to Virginia in the finals of the ACC Tournament last week.
"The only way you can leave a legacy and you can leave behind memories is by winning a championship," Parker said this week. "I know we just came up short [in the ACC Tournament]. I've got to try to do something big now."
It won't be an easy task.
The Blue Devils (26-8) are in the same region as unbeaten Wichita State (34-0), red-hot Louisville (29-5) and second-seeded Michigan (25-8). There's no guarantee they'll get by Mercer (26-8). While Duke is playing in its 19th consecutive NCAA Tournament, the Bears, champions of the Atlantic Sun Conference, are playing in their first NCAA Tournament since 1985. But they have a senior-dominated team that shouldn't be rattled by the opponent or the setting.
"The amount of respect we have for Mercer and their program is as high as it can be," Krzyzewski said. "We know that [Friday's] game is going to be a very difficult game."
Krzyzewski also has high respect for Anthony, which is why he is hesitant to make any comparisons with Parker. Krzyzewski coached Anthony for several years as part of the Olympics and USA basketball.
"Jabari's going to be an outstanding pro, but he's in the process of development," the Duke coach said. "To compare the two now, there is no comparison. But in three, four, five years, Jabari, I think, will be a franchise player. He'll be a 25-points-a-game scorer in the NBA. But he's still developing."
It's frightening to think how much better Parker could get. He averaged 19.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game this season and reached double- figures in 17 straight games and 32 times overall to set a freshman record. He has also scored a team-leading and freshman-record 656 points.
It compares favorably with Anthony, who averaged 22.5 points and 10 rebounds as a freshman at Syracuse. He was also named the Outstanding Player of the 2003 East Regional and the Final Four to become the first freshman since Pervis Ellison in 1986 to lead a team to the national championship.
There was a time when freshmen weren't counted on to lead teams to a national title. But that's all changed now with players leaving college early to turn pro. It's why Krzyzewski is nervous about playing an experienced team such as Mercer.
"There are teams who are seeded in double digits in this tournament that can give any team in that one shot, a run for its money and beat them," he said. "That wasn't the case a decade ago. Now it's the norm because of the age difference, the experience of playing together."
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Emergency vaccination targets 90,000 children in West Sumatra quake zones
PARIAMAN, Indonesia, 21 October, 2009 — Under the shade of a tarpaulin, a groupd of young babies are comforted by their mothers, having been just inoculated with life-saving vaccines.
The mothers and infants had gathered at a makeshift health clinic, which also doubled as an emergency relief post or "posko gempa", in a clearing still littered with debris from the earthquake that hit this area on 30 September.
"Let's make sure our neighbour comes," said Susilawati, mother of Sonia and Soneka. She brought her twins to the vaccination drive after hearing a megaphone announcement by her local mosque. "Isn't her baby between nine months and five years? He'll need a measles jab."
A bright yellow poster has been hung over the clinic's entrance, displaying the national cartoon mascot "Si Imun" warning mothers of the dangers of measles. The notice emphasized that immunization was provided free of charge, as are polio vaccinations and vitamin A supplements.
During the first weeks since the earthquake that struck West Sumatra, UNICEF Indonesia has supported a measles vaccination campaign targeting 90,000 children throughout the region. As part of the UNICEF-supported programme, leaflets have been distributed and advertisements have been printed in local newspapers and aired on radio stations.
Angela Kearney, UNICEF's Country Representative in Indonesia, explained the rationale behind the campaign. "Immunizing children against measles in emergencies is among the most cost-effective preventive public health measures," she says. "In areas affected by natural disasters, infection rates soar because damage to infrastructure and the break-down of health services interrupt routine immunization."
More than half of some 90 health centres in four quake-stricken districts reported heavy to light damage which has affected their cold chain system. Essential equipment at the village health centres such as refrigerators and cool boxes that help prevent vaccine spoilage are not working or could not be accessed because of rubble.
This means vaccines needed to be transported directly from the provincial and district health offices to the villages, raising operational costs. UNICEF is also stepping in to help fund gaps here and to ensure that the vaccines get to the children.
Health workers working round the clock to provide first aid to survivors now have the additional task of organizing vaccination teams who make lists of mothers and babies and fan out to the villages in Padang city, Pariaman city, Padang Pariaman and Agam districts.
"We cannot wait for mothers to come to the health centres," said Dr. Irene, the immunization chief at the provincial health office, whose own house was reduced to rubble by the earthquake. "I have made a commitment not to rest until we have gone out and visited all these villagers."
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A diagnosis of a rare kidney disease known as glomerular disease in canines used to spell uncertain and often heartbreaking news for pet owners.
Now, thanks in part to the work of one University of Minnesota researcher, that's no longer the case. The life-threatening kidney disease, which affects a dog's ability to filter blood, is now better understood than ever before.
"Historically, when an animal arrived at the vet's office exhibiting signs of glomerular disease, we weren't able to do much for the dog," said David Polzin, D.V.M., Ph.D., an expert in kidney disease with the U of M College of Veterinary Medicine. "The prognosis was grim and few dogs lived more than a month or two."
Although glomerular disease is estimated to affect less than one percent of dogs, it appears to be more common in areas where dogs are exposed to Lyme disease. In Minnesota, Lyme disease appears to be the most common cause for glomerular disease in dogs.
Recognizing the potential for better treatment options, Polzin and Larry Cowgill, D.V.M., Ph.D., a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of California, Davis, organized a team of 18 scientists from around the world.
Beginning work in 2008, the researchers first had to organize a global network to procure quality tissue samples from dogs with glomerular disease. As new locations for tissue analysis began to pop up, data began to amass.
Kidney biopsies obtained from 201 dogs with glomerular disease (out of 1000 total kidney biopsies collected) were gathered and pathologists began to look for patterns. The patterns they found would prove essential for future veterinary workers comparing and diagnosing glomerular disease. The patterns would also lead to new guidelines for diagnosis.
Before releasing new recommendations, however, the team had to decide what to recommend for animals testing glomerular disease-positive.
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"There was no agreement for what should be done to treat a diagnosed animal," said Polzin.
So the team called upon kidney specialists, or nephrologists, and other experts for thoughts on how to best treat patients diagnosed with glomerular disease under the new recommendations.
Five years after the project began, the team issued formal guidelines in a special supplement to the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. The guidelines recommend different consensus-based and evidence-based disease treatments for standard disease therapy, immunosuppressive treatment, and treatment for dogs testing positive for an infectious agent such as Lyme disease.
The new categorizations for disease in canine kidneys improved upon the human-based categorizations formerly used. The new classification system for glomerular disease improved past methods as well.
"These new recommendations have improved a dog's chance," said Polzin. "More dogs have an opportunity to be diagnosed and treated successfully, and go on to have longer, healthier lives.


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The fear that "anyone can be arrested any day" brought some 2,000 teachers from campuses across Calcutta out on the road on Wednesday to protest the arrest of Ambikesh Mahapatra, the Jadavpur University professor who had been put behind bars for forwarding an Internet joke lampooning chief minister Mamata Banerjee. They walked from the central library of Jadavpur University to Triangular Park on Rashbehari Avenue. The rally, organised by the Jadavpur University Teachers' Association (JUTA), drew academics such as Sukanta Chaudhuri and Supriya Chaudhuri.
Sukanta Chaudhuri, the Jadavpur University professor emeritus, and Supriya Chaudhuri, a professor of English at JU and his wife, later told The Telegraph what had prompted them to join the rally.
I have never walked in a rally in my entire life. I was out of town during the Nandigram rally. This was the first time I walked in one because I just had to.
Ambikeshbabu's episode has disturbed me because it came completely out of the blue. There has been a lot of completely indefensible persecution of people in the past but in some sense they have stuck their neck out — undertaken a campaign or gone on a cause. They took a risk and were mentally prepared for retribution.
But Ambikeshbabu was doing something so common like forwarding a joke on email!
If this could lead to such consequences, then which of us is safe? Any normal innocent activity we carry out might bring down retribution, or should I say a pretext for retribution as the actual cause seems to lie in the affairs of his housing estate.
But that this could be used as a pretext is a very worrying thought. The usual view is that if you want to stay away from harm, you lead your own quiet life but even that may not be possible.
Another aspect about which we are perturbed is the fact that the academic community is being targeted. It may be a coincidence but a number of such incidents are happening.
Ambikeshbabu's incident is different from what happened to Partha Sarathi Roy (arrested for protesting the Nonadanga eviction). At least, you may say he took this on. Even then, the way he was held for so long is very wrong — and quite preposterous if he was not present at the scene but attending to his duties at IISER.
Then there is this shocking incident involving Aparesh Bhattacharya, a retired senior scientist, and his daughter. The police refused to take their complaint or come to them to record the case even after she needed medical attention. Whatever the rights and wrongs about the title to their flat, the way they were attacked and the lady was humiliated, is totally unacceptable.
These three incidents have nothing to do with each other but are having a collective impact at a time when the academic world of Bengal is trying to return to normalcy after a long time.
For the last one year, everything was stalled with a virtual moratorium on the normal functioning of universities — appointments were stopped, academic bodies were suspended
. Just at the time when some new recruitments would have taken place and there was a chance of attracting meritorious people, the prospects have been jeopardised by these attacks on academics.
We have been receiving calls and emails from disturbed colleagues from across India asking: "What is going on at your place? Is it possible to work there?"


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Talks to begin on residents' parking
Plans are in the pipeline to tackle the long running problem of commuters parking close to private homes in the Markets area of south Belfast.
And residents in the lower Malone are to have a greater say in the development of parking schemes for their streets.
The Department of Regional Development (DRD) confirmed on Monday that Minister Conor Murphy had given the green light for talks to begin.
Said a spokesperson: "The minister has agreed that Roads Service should engage with a number of local communities in south Belfast with a view to getting schemes delivered."
In a previous round of negotiations, residents in the Markets were unhappy with the wording of of a document on the issue of commuter parking, drawn up by the DRD after consultation.
But they wholeheartedly welcome this second chance to sit round the table and talk once again.
Markets Development Association community worker Gerard Davison said they were determined to sort out the issue once and for all.
"In the past we rejected a document drawn up by the DRD because we felt some of the wording could easily have been misinterpreted," he explained
"But we are going to make sure this doesn't happen again and we are very clear about what we want this scheme to achieve.
"We need to make it work because buildings are popping up around us all the time, attracting more and more motorists looking for parking spaces.
"This could all be avoided with the implementation of a scheme to provide residents with their own free parking permits.
"The community is very upbeat at the minute about this latest news.
"Cars often begin parking here at 6am and don't leave until 6pm or later.
"We welcome the chance to sit down with DRD representatives and discuss proposals."
Said the DRD spokesperson: "Roads Service was disappointed that the response to the earlier consultation was not as positive as we had hoped for, particularly given community support is critical for the success of schemes.
"We understand there may now be sufficient support from within the community to allow us to proceed."
The Lower Malone Residents' Association also welcomed the prospect of more efficient parking in their area, saying they were "delighted by the news".
Assistant secretary Sylvia Roberts said the need for parking control was widely acknowledged.
"We look forward to working closely with Roads Service to design a scheme that will meet the needs of the residents and the office owners in our area," she continued.
"Permit parking has been commonplace in most major cities for many years with residents in these areas reporting a high degree of satisfaction with the resulting control of parking."
Local MLA Alex Maskey explained that he has regularly joined with south Belfast residents and community groups to lobby Mr Murphy regarding the street parking situation.
"The minister has constantly reiterated his wish to resolve this issue to the satisfaction of local residents and has dedicated much time to this," he said.
"I am particularly glad that he has responded positively to our representations in relation to the residents' parking scheme proposed for the Markets area of Belfast and on the parking management issues in the lower Malone area, particularly Beechlands, Cadogan Park and Adelaide Park.
"The work to date that he has done in trying to provide schemes for these areas is to be welcomed.
"In this latest correspondence he has made it clear that the basis exists for such schemes in the Markets area and the lower Malone areas to be implemented.
"I would welcome the minister's commitment to meeting the needs of the people of south Belfast."
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