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The City of Batavia is suing the Genesee County Mall Merchants Association for $805,000.
Court papers just filed and obtained by WBTA show the city has filed a complaint against the mall association for past due rent. The city also wants the lease for the mall concourse to be terminated.
The city claims the Mall Association has not paid fair market rent for the mall concourse since April of 2000.
The bad blood between the city and the mall association goes back years.
The mall has claimed that since the city owns the concourse, it is responsible to replace the roof and make other improvements.
The city says that the lease clearly states the mall is responsible for the maintenance of the roof and other public areas.
City Manager Jason Molino, reluctant to talk about details of the latest legal salvo, says he is hopeful the situation can be resolved:
"Hopefully, we will be able to have a permanent resolution to a decade long conflict that will ultimately contribute to the community."
City Council president Brooks Hawley issued a prepared statement declining comment on the latest legal action while it is pending litigation:
"In the course of defending the City's interests int he case, certain information has become available resulting in the City to pursuing a claim against the Merchants Association. To the extent that this is pending letigation, it would be inappropriate to comment any further."
The Mall Association has been leasing the concourse from the city for $1 a year plus the maintenance costs. The city contends the mall has not kept up with repairs and maintenance equal to the fair market rent.


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Elaine Hynes, left, and Adah Mitchell were two of the 40 Passavant Area Hospital volunteers who helped sell Duck Race for Lifeline tickets to the public during a ticket sale day April 22. Hynes, who is celebrating 50 years as a Passavant volunteer, and Mitchell were stationed at J.C. Penney, while other volunteers sold tickets at Ace Hardware, Buchheit's, County Market, Farm and Home Supply, Kirlin's and Shopko. Another public ticket sale day is scheduled for Saturday, May 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Tickets, priced at $5 each, are also available in the Auxiliary Gift Shop at Passavant.
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Research Area: Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in England and the Low Countries, c. 1570-1630.
Supervisor: Dr Alexander Marr
PhD Title: Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in England and the Low Countries, c. 1570 - 1630.
Eleanor Chan is a PhD candidate funded by St Catharine's College and supervised by Dr. Alexander Marr. Her research focuses on the twin aesthetic and intellectual ramifications of the abstract and diagrammatic modes of visualization which developed in Europe across the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with a focus on England and the Netherlands. She is particularly interested in the questions of how and why abstraction became a more explicitly cognitive way of depicting than figurative imagery, and the relationship between intellectual and material cultures. Her PhD explores these questions through examining the development of a coherent system of mathematical visualisation around 1600, focusing around the categories of the geometrical point, line, and surface.
Before beginning her PhD, Eleanor studied for an MA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art under the supervision of Professors Joanna Woodall and Eric Jorink, where she was awarded a distinction for her dissertation on Florentius Schuyl's illustrations for Descartes' Treatise on Man. She received a double first in her BA in English from the University of Cambridge in 2012.
Key Publications
'Believing is Seeing' (in collaboration with Formulate Media, Cambridge Shorts and the Wellcome Trust).
'The Vital Breath: Mathematical Visualizations in England and the Low Countries c. 1600', chapter in Ad Vivum: Visual Materials and the Vocabulary of Lifelikeness in Europe before 1800 ed. Joanna Woodall and Thomas Balfe (Brill: Intersections, forthcoming 2017).
'Beautiful Surfaces: Style and Substance in Florentius Schuyl's Illustrations for Descartes' Treatise on Man', in Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, (Vol. 31 Issue 2, June 2016).


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Posted on 05/01/2012 8:48:47 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as 'ammunition' for his re-election campaign. The SEALs spoke out to MailOnline after the Obama campaign released an ad entitled 'One Chance'. In it President Bill Clinton is featured saying that Mr Obama took 'the harder and the more honourable path' in ordering that bin Laden be killed. The words 'Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?' are then displayed.
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A SEAL...any SEAL...is the epitome of manliness, courage, and training.
The Obamaloon, (aka Cretin-in-Chief), is the epitome of metrosexuality, liver-lipped spinelessness, and wimpoidness.
I really, really, really dispise the loon.
And (guaranteed), so does every SEAL.
Bin Laden bin dead for a while. Buried under tons of rock.
Obama 'killed' Bin Laden's Mystery. Those people in Pakistan were members of his family, hidden there by the Paki's to protect them. The man they claim was ole Bin was just a relative. There is a simple reason the body was dumped into the ocean. It wasn't him. It would not do to have 'proof' others could independently verify.
A 'symbol' was removed , officially. That is really what it was all about.
I certainly don't believe he died in this SEAL raid.
One thing that made me more suspicious;
On Sunday, Chris Wallace was interviewing John Brennan, the president's chief counter-terrorism adviser.
Wallace asked him a question about the Bin Laden photos;
"The Obama administration has refused to allow any pictures, any videos from the bin Laden raid a year ago to be made public...Why?
The first thing this guy said was;
"Well, first of all, there is no doubt whatsoever that bin Laden is dead. I think by all accounts, it was a very successful raid on that compound in Abbottabad."
Now, why would he make such a statement? That's not what Wallace asked. He made no statement that cast any doubt on the success of the raid. Just why no pictures? It seemed like such a CYA answer it made alarm bells go off for me.
Clintonesque type response.
Yes, Osama is dead.... Not we killed him during this raid and know he's dead
Yes, there was a successful raid - again no detail on " successful because we killed Osama during this raid.
Clintonesque type response.
Yes, Osama is dead.... Not we killed him during this raid and know he's dead
Yes, there was a successful raid - again no detail on " successful because we killed Osama during this raid.
"Mr Obama took 'the harder and the more honourable path' in ordering that bin Laden be killed."
lol...what was so "hard" about that decision? It was a no-brainer.
"I don't believe he's dead."
I believe the SEALs that he is. Obama may lack both credibility and integrity, but the SEALS have it in spades....If they say he's dead, bank on it, he is.....
It came when O'bama was trying to decide between the 9-iron and the pitching wedge.
"A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe." Euripides
How come active duty SEALs can point out that the King wears no clothes at all, but a Marine does so and is given his walking papers and a less than honorable discharge?
I'm thinking because 0 wouldn't dare issue a royal writ against the men who provided the only good news during his mis-administration over the last 3 1/2 years.
The Marine was railroaded by a king the English would have deposed.
Both sides needed him alive.
I wonder if we were after something else since we used our special Black hawk helicopters. When we lost a copter, the deniabilty was shot so we made up the story of killing Obama.
It is suspicious that he was dumped without even have some allies come in and confirm he was killed. It is hard to believe anything our government tells us.
Give the vindictive CIC time.......he and thug crew will take care of the active duty Seals who speak against him.
We should all thank Ronald McDonald for our Big Mac, Right?
We should all thank Ronald McDonald for our Big Mac, Right?
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I believe they killed somebody, but not bin Laden. How many doubles you think he had? I am glad the SEALs are on our side, but I am also tired of SEAL this and SEAL that. From the start of the operation they should have been referred to as US SPECIAL FORCES, with no mention of what Special Forces element, whether it was SEALS, Army Rangers, Marine Force
Recon, Delta Force, or whatsover. This constant singling out of one special forces unit over an another is not a good thing. Anyone that knows a thing about the military knows this. This does not include Barry the Destroyer. How many operations did the SEALs participate in during Vietnam that was touted by Nixon's White House. None. There was a time that US Special Operations teams operated in secrecy. The very nature of the operations demand this. Then along comes the goofus Obama who gets off by pretending he's Rambo.
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Can LSU go into Auburn and get a win? Our editors debate.
Athlon editors Steven Lassan, Mitch Light and Braden Gall debate five burning questions about Week 8 in college football:
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1. Which set of Tigers will be undefeated after this weekend?
Mitch: LSU will be the Tigers that remain undefeated after this weekend — not Auburn and not Missouri. Cam Newton has obviously been tremendous at Auburn, but LSU will be the toughest defense he has faced this season. I'm sure he will get his yards and Auburn will score some points, but this LSU defense is very, very good. And LSU turned the corner, to a degree, on the offensive end at Florida two weeks ago. The two-quarterback system worked well in Gainesville, and the running attack, led by the underrated Stevan Ridley, has been pretty good. Let's go LSU in the upset.
Braden: The Mizzu-rah brand of Tiger will get beat at home by Oklahoma this weekend so that leaves the Bayou Bengals and the War Eagles to battle it out for striped supremacy down on the Plains. Cam Newton has been simply amazing and his defense has been simply atrocious. He will get his yards, but this will be by far the toughest defense he will have faced to date. There is only one head coach in America who could give up 700 yards of offense and still figure out a way to win. Geaux Tigers.
Steven: Auburn will be the only Tigers to emerge undefeated from this weekend. Missouri is playing solid defense and the offense can certainly score, but Oklahoma is simply the better team. LSU-Auburn is a tricky game to call. Auburn looks like the obvious choice, but it would not surprise me to see LSU win. The defense is outstanding and if Jarrett Lee/Jordan Jefferson doesn't make the big mistake, LSU should be able to control the clock and keep the Auburn offense on the sidelines. However, with LSU's offensive question marks, Auburn's Cameron Newton is the difference maker and that's enough to pull out a close win.
2. Purdue, Missouri, Oklahoma State and Michigan State are still unbeaten in conference. Which one has the best chance of finishing unscathed?
Mitch: Michigan State. The Spartans are the best team of that group, and their remaining schedule isn't overly taxing. They will likely be favored in four of their final five games, with the trip to Iowa being the exception. They end the season at Penn State, but Michigan State is the better team this year. I believe the other three teams on the list will all lose this week — O-State to Nebraska, Mizzou to Oklahoma and Purdue to Ohio State.
Braden: How about none? That list could very easily be trimmed to one by next week with all four getting big tests this weekend. Ohio State lost to Purdue last year and are coming off a loss — no chance there. Missouri and Okie State have brutal home games this weekend after playing very mild schedules. That leaves Michigan State. This weekend will be their first trip outside of the state of Michigan when they head to Evanston, Ill. Sparty is the best team and has the "easiest" schedule on this list, but my final answer is none of them finish unbeaten.
Steven: Michigan State will be the only unbeaten team from this mix in conference play after this weekend's action. Northwestern is no pushover, especially with Iowa looming next week for the Spartans. However, the Spartans should move their record to 8-0. Although I think Michigan State escapes Evanston with a win, it's hard to see all four teams finishing unbeaten in conference play, even if all win this weekend. Purdue is the biggest longshot on this list, as the injury bug took its toll on the team early in the year. It would be no shock to see Oklahoma State or Missouri win this weekend, but both have enough difficult games remaining to lose a Big 12 game or two before the season ends.
3. Was throwing the ball into the endzone from the 20 with :11 left on the clock, no timeouts and down by three the right call by Steve Spurrier?
Mitch: Yes, it was the correct call. The execution, however, was poor. On the road, I believe Steve Spurrier was right to go for the win, but Stephen Garcia simply has to make a better throw — and it would have been helpful if Alshon Jeffery was the intended target, not redshirt freshman Lamar Scruggs. Where South Carolina erred, I believe, is in its clock management. Spurrier should not have called the timeout with 11 seconds remaining. If you have a timeout left, you can work the entire field, but after he used that final timeout, he was forced to throw the ball to the end zone.
Braden: If there is a single head coach in American football who says they would have NOT gone for the win with that much time left, he should be fired immediately. It was absolutely the right call. You have to at least try for the win. What are we playing the game for? Having said that, you have to make a smarter throw. If you miss, miss high and outside to your stud receiver — not a freshman who is double-covered.
Steven: Former NFL head coach Herm Edwards stated "you play to win the game!" That logic is what Spurrier was simply following, but I do have a problem with the management of the clock and the play that was called. Why wasn't Alshon Jeffery the target? Stephen Garcia has shown improvement this year, but he has to make a better throw. Tossing the ball into double coverage to an unproven receiver with the game on the line is generally not a good idea. Playing for the win is the right move, but the errors in the final 30 seconds cost South Carolina the game or a chance at overtime.
4. Minnesota fired head coach Tim Brewster, and North Texas removed Todd Dodge, this week in the first moves made by any FBS team, who will be next?
Mitch: Not sure if any other school will pull the trigger before the season ends, but you have to believe that Mike Locksley's days at New Mexico are numbered. His short tenure (one-plus season) has been a complete and utter debacle, both on and off the field. Mike Sherman at Texas A&M and Paul Wulff at Washington State are two names that wouldn't surprise me, either.
Braden: Since we can finally remove Mr. Richt from the hotseat, and beacuse I am guessing Mike Locksley will get plenty of votes from my counterparts, I will go Dan Hawkins at Colorado. He has Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and then a trip to Lawrence, Kan. If CU starts 0-5 in conference — with Kansas State, Nebraska and Iowa State still left to go — I could see the Buffs make a move. (Note: It is virtually impossible not to go with the abusive Locksley, who coaches one of three winless teams left in football.)
Steven: Now that we are halfway done with the 2010 season, it's possible we will see more moves made between now and the end of the year, but I suspect the rest of the regular season will be pretty quiet with changes. If there is a change, Mike Locksley at New Mexico and Dan Hawkins at Colorado seem the most likely to get their walking papers. Locksley has been a disaster at New Mexico, and the Lobos may not win a game this year. Unless Colorado makes a run at the Big 12 North title, it's hard to envision Hawkins coming back, especially with the school wanting to build some momentum going into the Pac-12 next year.
5. Who is your favorite color commentator in college football?
Mitch: Great question. We spend a lot of time around the office complaining about poor color commentators, so it's nice to single out some of the good ones. There are three that I really like, and I would rank them in the following order — Kirk Herbstreit, Gary Danielson and Todd Blackledge. All three are very, very good.
Braden: We could have a field day with this one if the question had said 'play-by-play' announcer — see the weekly Pammy Awards. There are a lot of former linebackers who had been hit in the head too much to be in the booth. Don't forget about a few senile Hall of Fame quarterbacks. Or perhaps old coaches who can barely annunciate their words. What are we left with? Kirk Herbstreit and Gary Danielson. I will go Herbie because entire cheerleading squads don't fawn over Mr. Danielson. Boom goes the dynamite!
Steven: Certainly a lot of options to choose from, but I'll go with Kirk Herbstreit. Gary Danielson is very good and there are some underrated ones out there too – David Norrie and Ed Cunningham. Mike Mayock has been a good addition for NBC on the Notre Dame broadcasts, but his solid contribution isn't a surprise if you've watched him on NFL Network before. Although Mike Leach isn't the most polished analyst in college football, he's certainly an interesting personality to have in the booth.
Campus Challenge
Year Three of the Campus Challenge returns as Mitch returns to defend his championship. The rules: Each person picks a quarterback, running back and wide receiver to make up his "team" for the week in an effort to amass as many passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards and total touchdowns as possible. Whoever has the best stats as the end of the year wins. All players selected must be from a BCS conference team playing an FBS opponent, and each editor can only use a player once during the season.
Note: Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon and Louisville's Bilal Powell are the only two players that have been used by all three editors.
Week 8 Selections
|Terrelle Pryor, OSU
|Aaron Murray, UGA
|Robert Griffin, Bay.
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|Jordan Todman, UConn
|Mikel LeShoure, Ill.
|LaMichael James, Ore.
|A.J. Green, UGA
|Ryan Broyles, Okla.
|Armon Binns, Cinn.
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|Rushing Yards
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|1,713 (2)
|1,480 (3)
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|1,246 (2)
|1,229 (3)
|1,300 (1)
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|643 (3)
|846 (2)
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"Write a program that reverses a linked list. Include the following functions in your program: (1) the function to insert a node into the beginning of the linked list; (2) the function to remove the first node from the linked list. Start with creating a linked list (L1) containing integers: 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 (where 5 is in the first node of the resulting list, and 15 is in the last node.) Then call the function to delete the first node from (L1) and another function to insert it in the beginning of another linked list (L2). Continue while your list (L1) is not empty."
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Kindergartners Joseph Flores Carrillo and Sergio Lima are among students diving for bubbles during a celebration of the school's state recognition as a Title 1 Academic Achievement School. Sentinel Photo/Maureen Robertson
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By Maureen Robertson
As the public address system played the rock song "We Are the Champions," Ramona Elementary students lined up around the courtyard at the start of school Friday to learn that theirs is a 2012 California Title 1 Academic Achievement School.
"You rock!" Principal Phyllis Munoz exclaimed during the all-school Fired Up Friday outdoor assembly. "This is the best place to be."
For the second time in less than two weeks, Ramona Unified School District learned one of its elementary schools had received a state award.
"In a whirlwind of ongoing recognition, we offer our congratulations today to the students and staff of Ramona Elementary School for being recognized as a 2012 Title I Academic Achievement School," Superintendent Robert Graeff said in an email to district employees last
"The progress being made at these schools, which serve our neediest students, should serve as a beacon of hope for California," State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said. "At a time of fiscal crisis and economic uncertainty, they continue to improve, building a brighter future for their students. Their accomplishments prove the value of investing in our schools, and I thank the hardworking parents, teachers, administrators, and school employees at these campuses for their efforts."
"It's a confirmation of the work that we're doing and the direction we're going with our kids," said Principal Phyllis Munoz.
To qualify for this honor, Title I schools must meet a collection of stringent criteria, Graeff said, including:
• The school cannot be in Program Improvement.
• The elementary school must have a current Academic Performance Index (API) score above 810.
• The school must have met their schoolwide API targets and the API targets for each of their numerically significant subgroups for the past two years.
• The school must not have experienced any testing irregularities during STAR testing.
Title 1 schools receive federal money to help meet the educational needs of students living at or below the poverty line. Of the district's 10 schools, Ramona Elementary has the highest percentage of students at or below the poverty line — 70.6 percent — reports Cathy Pierce, assistant superintendent of education services for the district. The percentage is based on the number of students receiving free and reduced-price meals, she explained. The district-wide percentage of students at or below the poverty line is 36.6 percent, she said.
"What they have done is phenomenal," said Pierce. "It is a well-deserved honor...This is a very prestigious
According to the state Department of Education, Ramona Elementary met all of its growth targets.
"The criteria to qualify for the Title 1 award have become more rigorous in recent years," said Torlakson. "To meet the criteria for this distinction, the school must demonstrate that all students are making significant progress toward proficiency on California's academic content standards. Additionally, the school's socioeconomically disadvantaged students must have doubled the achievement targets set for them for two consecutive years."
Ramona Elementary's API score for 2011 is 836, 30 points higher than the previous year.
"We didn't get here overnight," said Munoz, in her eighth year as Ramona Elementary principal. "We've been working steadily, being very thoughtful about the changes we're making, and we're beginning to see payoffs. It takes time."
An old brown portable trailer on the campus leaks when it rains, and it will be removed this summer, said Munoz.
"We're the oldest school in the district, but we're the proudest," she said.
Munoz, this year's Region 18 Association of California School Adminstrators Elementary Principal of the Year, said, "it reminds me of something said to me a long, long time ago when I was looking for a preschool program for my own two kids...'You cannot judge the quality of the program by how beautiful the buildings are.' I think that very much speaks to what goes on at Ramona Elementary School. People look at our school and they see an older school, but that's not a statement to the quality of the teaching in the classrooms."
"Congratulations to the staff, parents, and students of Ramona Elementary School for earning recognition and praise for our entire school community," said Graeff.
More information on the state's list of honored schools can be accessed at www.cde.ca.gov/ta/sr/aa/.
San Diego County Office of Education will hold a celebratory event for Ramona Elementary and other award-winning schools on May 23 in Mission Valley, said Graeff. Also at the event will be representatives of Barnett Elementary School.
As reported recently in the Sentinel, n March 29 Torlakson announced that Barnett Elementary is a 2012 California Distinguished School. When he announced that award to district employees, Graeff said, "Barnett joins a current three-year winning streak in our local district, as Ramona High and Mt. Woodson have received the same (Distinguished School) honor over the previous two years, while Olive Peirce (Middle School) was recognized earlier this year as a national School to Watch."


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- Date: Mon Jul 28 14:49:03 EDT 1997
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> Jim, Please do not copy the naipr list to discuss NAIR. If people are interested in NAIR than they can join your mailing list. Thanks, Kim > > Dave Stoddard makes some excellent points in these notes.... > ARIN was formed about the same time as NSI's transition. > > @@@ http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/html/nanog/msg03396.html > > "NSI completely replaced senior level management about nine > months ago. Most of those folks were responsible for the arrogant, > unresponsive attitude that NSI displayed for so many years. NSI > replaced those folks with the most qualified people they could > find. For example, Gabe Battista, NSI's CEO, was President of > Cables and Wireless before coming to NSI last year. Dave Holtzman > was one of IBM's most-talented senior engineers, and also has a > substantial business background. There are dozens of other > examples throughout the organization. > > .... > > So if your idea of the InterNIC is two engineers, two computers, and > a half-dozen support personnel with an attitude, forget it -- it is > not that way anymore. Dave Holtzman wants to make the InterNIC a > world-class support organization that puts reliability and customer > support first. From what I have seen, he is well on his way ... > > Dave Stoddard > US Net Incorporated > 301-572-5926 > dgs at us.net > > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > > NAIR has to make sure that it avoids the "attitude" problem... > > If NAIR focuses on education and helping people and > providing good customer service, it can be an asset to > the overall Internet community. NAIR can spring from the > cooperative efforts of many people on the Internet and > not be the result of some "corporate reorg". This will only > happen if we focus on the near term goals and the next > steps that need to be taken.... > > -- > Jim Fleming > Unir Corporation >


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February 2, 2012 by staff
Mind Reading Breakthrough Hailed, Researchers from the University of California-Berkeley developed a technique to record and decode patients' brainwaves and translate the electrical activity into words.
"This is huge for patients who have damage to their speech mechanisms because of a stroke or Lou Gehrig's disease and can't speak," Professor Robert Knight, coauthor of the study, said today. "If you could eventually reconstruct imagined conversations from brain activity, thousands of people could benefit."
The study involved 15 volunteers who were undergoing neurosurgical treatments for epilepsy or brain tumours. The Berkeley neurosurgeons placed electrodes in their temporal lobes to record activity and pinpoint the seizures.
They then recorded five to 10 minutes of conversation and used the data to reconstruct and play back the sounds the patients heard.
"There is some evidence that perception and imagery may be pretty similar in the brain," coauthor Dr Brian Pasley said. "If you can understand the relationship well enough between the brain recordings and sound, you could either synthesize the actual sound a person is thinking or just write out the words with a type of interface device."
As well as raising the hope of giving a voice to those who cannot speak, the researchers said that the study would advance understanding of how the brain represents and processes language.
"This research is a major step toward understanding what features of speech are represented in the human brain," Knight added.
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" Brand: Weight Watchers / Type: Cake "
I have been doing the Weight Watchers' diet for nearly two weeks now. I have so far lost four and a half pounds. I think it's all down to the fact that I have been eating a lot of Weight Watchers' products instead of the full fat versions. I love Victoria sponge cakes and so I was looking forward to trying out Weight Watchers' own.
The cakes are small and round shapes. They are quite pretty to look at. You can see the cream filing. The sponge itself is quite light and fluffy, however I did find that they were a little on the dry side - they went down well with a cuppa however. The cakes are quite sweet, but are certainly not too sickly - I'm not sure I could eat more than one in one go though as 1) not only would that be bad for my weight watching, but 2) I would imagine that whilst one is ok, more than one would be a bit sickly.
The filling consists of cream and raspberry jam - there is enough here although perhaps the cakes would be a little less drier if there was more filling. They are also quite small which is annoying, but then again what can you expect from a diet weight loss product. Apart from that I'm a happy bunny! J
All in all, if you have a sweet tooth and are on a diet then I would recommend these. They are tasty little treats.
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October 2013
I've only recently tried these cakes (despite being a big fan of Weight Watchers products) and i'm pleased to report that they are absolutely blooming lovely!
Each pack has 6 mini Victoria sponges - a sponge cake filled with jam and vanilla fondant and dusted with icing sugar.
The cakes are really moist (not dry like some cake can be) and both the sponge and the filling tastes really sweet and "normal" - you'd never know that these were "diet" cakes!
Each cake has 106 calories and 0.2g of saturated fat, making them 1.5 weight watcher points (this is using the old system - the points system has recently changed and I assume the points and packaging on all the foods will be amended with the new amount of points soon).
They're an ideal sweet treat if you're watching what you eat and nice enough to be served as part of an afternoon tea to your non-dieting friends and family too (I doubt anyone would notice they aren't "standard" cakes).
Poundland are currently selling off the cakes in old packaging (as mentioned above the points system used has changed so new packaging is needed) so if you want to try them, I'd say get to Poundland!
I'm a cake junkie, and I have to say that you really can't beat a good old Victoria Sponge! However, as we all know cake isn't the most slimming of foods so when I went on my diet it seemed like I'd have to say bon voyage to my close friend Mr Cake...that was until I discovered Weight Watchers Mini Victoria Sponge Cakes!
These cakes are so delightfully moreish it's a good job they come in a box of 6, though of course scoffing a few sort of throws the whole slimming thing out of the window, but trust me they're yummy ;)
Each cake is a sandwich of springy sponge with a raspberry jam and buttercream filling and the top is lightly dusted with icing sugar. They are small and round in shape and quite filling, though if you love cake as much as me you'll have no trouble eating two :P
The sponge is fluffy yet firm so no crumbly bits and no mess for you to hoover up later. One cake is 1 and a half points and you'd never know they were diet food as they taste just like an authentic Victoria Sponge. The jam has just the right amount of sweetness and the buttercream (which is apparently actually a vanilla fondent, tastes like buttercream to me) is so...creamy and just utterly scrummy!
Per cake there is just 106 calories but alas, there is 9.6 grams of sugar which seems a lot. I suppose you can't really scrimp on sugar when it comes to cake. These lovelies are widely available at most supermarkets and cost £1.50 a box. Even those not on a diet can enjoy these, yummy cakes for all!
My mum is currently on the weight watchers diet and every week she buys a treat for herself, so I often get to try out different weight watcher tasty treats ech week!
This week my mum bought the victoria sponges, I was a little disappointed because I'm a chocoholic and I would have prefered her to buy something a little more chocolately.
However when I tried one of the sponges I was quite happy because they were sweeter than I expected and quite filling. The victoria sponges come in a cardboard box and there are 6 in a box, each cake consists of 1 and a half points. They are definately worth the points because they are very tasty and filling; they will satify your need for something sweet and if you are in need of something a bit naughty.
The little cakes are quite small and round. They have designed the same as a traditional victoria sponge; one layer of sponge with a little jam and cream and then another layer of sponge. The sponge is very light and fluffy and the jam is rasberry flavoured, they sponge is lightly sprinkled with icing sugar to finish them off.
The cakes are suitable for vegetarians which is good so vegetarians don't miss out on these tasty little treats. Overall these are good for a little treat if you are on the weight watchers diet or not and they are great to have with a cuppa or as a small desert!
Victoria Sponge Cake is one of my favourite cakes but I am aware of the fact that I need to lose a couple of pounds so recently I have been wandering around a supermarket looking for a decent subsidy. This is how I came across Weight Watchers Mini Victoria Sponge Cakes.
They come in a carton box with a clear 'Weight Watchers' and nutritional information on the front (one cake is equal to 1.5 WW points and I am not sure what that means since I do not take part in the scheme but it made more sense to me when I saw that one piece contains 106 kcal). Inside you will find a plastic tray with six mini Victoria cakes. Unfortunately, they are not individually wrapped which makes me want to eat them all at once.
I found the cakes surprisingly small even though I knew I should not expect giant bits of them. They are spongy (it is a sponge cake after all), they have raspberry jam as filling and a bit of cream. The amount of cream is a bit disappointing - even though I know they are meant to be low-fat, I was expecting a bit of pleasure in this cakes since I really like cream. They have a bit of dusting on the top.
As I have said before, I am a great fan of Victoria Sponge Cake and even though I hardly ever make it myself, I have tried quite a few brands and I must say this Victoria Sponge Cakes are one of the best ones I have ever eaten. They are spongy, quite sweet (but not overdone), just mouth-watering!
The only thing I find really annoying about them is when I am on a diet and have one mini cake, I want another one and I usually simply have at least 2.
You may be quite put off by the price - one pack costs around £1.80 and they do not occur on promotions very often (I was lucky to buy mine for £1.30).
Weight Watchers Mini Victoria Sponge Cakes are suitable for vegetarians but are produced in a factory handling nuts so unfortunately they are not appropriate for allergy sufferers.
Also, I could not find any information regarding recycling the tray or the packaging which I found a bit disappointing - I am trying to be eco-friendly.
Thank you for reading my review.
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There are a lot of Weight Watchers products floating around at home so I tend to try some of them, not expecting much as they are classed as diet food but some are really tasty and yummy and these '6 mini Victoria Sponges' come under that category...
Costing about £1.60 for the multi pack I would say that is expensive for buns but of course dieters get them pointed out on the box so that helps them keep track of their allowance.
There was only a use by date of one week on the box I am reviewing but they need to be used up quickly once opened as they do stale quickly...
Having a points allowance of 1 ½ per bun it says so on front of the colourful cardboard box decorated with pictures of the little cakes which look really nice and tasty and covered in icing sugar :)
The calories in each one are 106 and 0.2 g saturated fat as well as 9.4 g of sugar.
Suitable for vegetarians but contain what gluten, barley gluten and eggs, milk and soya for allergists...
The cakes come in a clear plastic tray wrapped in cellophane and are about two inches in circumference. They contain raspberry jam which you can really taste and fondant filling which equals 10% of the finished product.
The sponge is really fluffy and very much like home made Victoria sponge - the type we made at school in home economics. The icing sugar is really sweet and white, and the cake itself is very sweet as well but not sickly.
The fondant icing is really nice, you can tell its got vanilla essence in it and makes a nice moist contrast to the drier sponge :)
These are really good and worth five stars in my opinion, cool!
I picked these up in the supermarket as a little treat as I'm trying with little success to be more healthy. They have the standard weight watchers logo and nicely photographed cakes on the front of the box and look rather appeitising. I wasn't expecting much from these I just wanted to take the edge of my sweet tooth cravings.
But when I opened the packet I was surprised how nice they looked. Full marks for presentation these a very cute looking little cakes. Now the most important part the taste test. Now I was wasn't expecting great things but I was proved wrong. This little cakes are very tasty. The spong in moist and jam and cream filling tastes wonderful. I wouldn't have known thats were a weight watcher product at all. They taste as good if not better than other victoria sponges. I was really impressed and would certainly be happy to serve these up to anyone for afternoon tea. Of course they are only small so you might end up eating more than one I have to confess I had two in my first sitting.
Big thumbs up to weight watchers an excellent product and only 1 and a half points.
So, weight watchers have attempted a makeover on the British classic, the Victoria sponge. How could that possibly work?! Well, here's how:
These are miniature cakes, in the same vein as the current Mr Kipling trend. They are about 1.5 inches across and less than an inch deep. I think it's quite a satisfying size for a little cake, and don't notice the difference from full-fat mini cakes.
Most of the right ingredients are here: there's a sweet sticky strawberry jam and a light sponge with obligatory icing sugar dusting on top. However, it's obviously not fresh cream in the middle. One, for the fat content, and two that it would have an incredibly short shelf life. Instead we have the same kind of "cream" substance you would find in most other shop-bought sponge sandwiches or angel cakes. I don't find this off-putting though, as I said it's similar to what you'd be used to getting in a shop-bought cake. In all then, the taste is far from "diety". I have put these out for visitors and actually had compliments.
These little gems are only 1.5 points each, if you're not used to the weight watchers system a lady of 9 stone would have 17 points per day so this is a very small proportion of this, making it an easy product to fit into your diet without guilt!
My only problem with this product is that it is packaged in groups of six, with no resealable bag or box. Therefore once it's open, it's tempting to eat all six!!
Weight watchers are a diet company who supply products suitable for the WeightWatchers diet. One of their products are the mini Victoria sponges.
They can be found in all supermarkets such as Tesco, Asda, Waitrose etc as well as being able to be ordered from Weight Watchers themselves either online or over the phone. Often they can be found in little newsagents and petrol stations however not very often. They are part of a large range of WW cakes and pastries.
They come in a box of 6 and each cake weighs roughly 26g. This is quite light for a cake however they are described as mini so they weren't really going to be any bigger anyway. The box of 6 costs £1.74 which works out at around 30p per cake. This is absolutely terrible I think! You can get a large toffee or fudge doughnut from Greggs the bakers for 36p roughly so being charged 30p for a tiny thing like this is absolutely shocking. I grudge paying it to be honest. Often you can find them on offer but not very often.
The cakes come in a box which is made of cardboard. Considering the amount inside the box, it is huge. What a waste of packaging. On the back is all the usual nutrition information and ingredients and on the front is the brand name and a product description. My favourite part of the front of the box though is the delicious looking pictures. There are images of the 6 cakes. They look gorgeous and some are in half so you can see the splendid filling. Very tempting.
The box is easy to open and inside each cake is in its own compartment on a see through plastic tray. There is not really a smell to them only a slight cake ness ! This suited me fine. They did look very small and I was a bit annoyed at how much I had paid. I knew there was no way I'd be able to just eat one and I knew I'd end up munching through at least two of them.
The taste of them was lovely though. Victoria sponge cake is my favourite kind of cake though so there wasn't really any way that these were going to be my favourite versions. The sponge was really soft and light and had a real baked taste to it. It didn't clog up the back of my throat but instead it sank down easily. Inside the cream was really smooth and really creamy. There wasn't much of it though. There was more jam than cream. The jam just tasted like normal raspberry jam, very sweet and sticky. Overall the taste of these were lovely but they just didn't live up to my expectations!
They were tiny so I was hoping they'd be low in calories and fat. To be honest I wasn't impressed at all by the nutrition. One cake contains 106 calories and 2.5g of fat. For the size of them I thought they would contain only around 70 calories. There is no way one will satisfy you so if you eat two or three that's 200 or 300 calories and you would be as well just having a nice slice of a real baked cake!
In an attempt to get back to my diet I went to Tesco yesterday and spent a fortune on low fat foods, including quite a few products from the Weight Watchers range. I have a rather sweet tooth which is harder to control in the summer months due to the general blandness of the salads, bbq food and chicken I tend to eat when the weather is warm and for this reason I decided to buy a couple of boxes of Weight Watchers cakes to keep the damage to a minimum when I inevitably reach for the sweet goodies in my cupboard.
These Mini Victoria Sponges are honestly one of the best in their excellent range. I have bought them before but never really taken much notice of them as I was eating, but last night sitting in the evening sun in the garden I sat and ate one with a cup of tea and really savoured the tastiness of the cake.
The cakes are quite small, a taster of a Victoria Sponge really and unfortunately gone in just a couple of bites but this is fine as sometimes when you're dieting you just want something that feels a bit naughty rather than a large piece of stodgy cake that you know is going to mould itself to your waistline just in time for your weekly weigh-in. I particularly like the fact that Weight Watchers have made the sponge itself to be fairly dense as this goes someway to making up for the smallness of the cake, my appetite was certainly sated after eating this for my pudding even though I had initially been disappointed by the size when I opened the box.
The sponge is lovely with a good vanilla flavour, I like the fact that the outside edge of the cake has a slightly sticky feel as again this adds to the illusion of having a treat. I mention this because while Weight Watchers cakes are usually very good, they are sometimes a little dry but these Victoria Sponges are delightfully moist with an excellent melt in the mouth consistency.
Inside the cakes is raspberry jam and a vanilla cream which really make the cake taste of 'proper' Victoria Sponge. The jam is deliciously sweet and although it's used sparingly it livens the flavour of the cake up and gives it nice fruitiness, it blends well with the thick and flavoursome vanilla cream and both flavours enhance the taste of the vanilla sponge and turns it into a real treat on a day when I thought there would be no treats.
Now, the best part is that each small cake contains just 1 1/2 Weight Watchers points if you are following the plan. To put this into context I am allowed 20 points a day to spread across all meals, snacks and drinks so one of these is certainly not going to break the bank. For those of you who are not following Weight Watchers, a cake contains 106 calories and 2.5g of fat which I'm sure you'll agree isn't bad at all especially considering a slice of Tesco Victoria Sponge will set you back 240 calories and 11g of fat!
A box of six of these Weight Watchers cakes costs £1.78 in Tesco, although the product can regularly be found on special offer along with the rest of the cakes in the range.
I bought these in my local supermarket the other day because of the irresistable picture on the packet! I was not disappointed! They taste just the same as other versions of this cake do. The jam was fruity and tasty whilst the cream was thick and smooth. The sponge was light and the sugar dusted on the tops of the cakes really do finish it off. The cakes are a good size meaning therefore you are spending your one and a half points wisely. These are good for a quick snack fix, however they do not keep you full for very long, possibly due to the sponge being so light and airy. However, they are extremely tasty and I would definitely recommend them - they are perfect for cake lovers! Available in most supermarkets and are priced well. Great item from the range with low points, fat and calorie count.


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An Egyptian source criticized Israel's position during recent negotiations for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, saying that the country had overestimated Hamas eagerness to make a deal and toughened its stance too much.
Speaking to the London-based Arab-language newspaper al-Hayat, the source said that Israel functioned from an erroneous assumption that Hamas was under internal pressure to conclude any deal while Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was still leading the country.
Despite Israel's retrenchment, the source noted that the possibility still exists of reaching an agreement. He emphasized, however, that Israel's latest, tougher offer was not enough for Hamas.
Specifically, he said that Israel had wanted to remove 200 Palestinians prisoners among those on Hamas' requested list to areas outside of Israel or the Palestinian territories, including both Arab and western nations.
"There are western nations that don't have ties with Hamas such that these released prisoners would basically be under house arrest," the source reported.
"Hamas emphasized that it cannot accept the banishment of released prisoners and is sticking to its demands, regardless of whether they will come into effect during Olmert's tenure or the tenure of (Prime Minister-designate Benjamin) Netanyahu. It doesn't matter who leads the government," he added.
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Repairs started on dam near Lake Delton
Repairs started Monday on the dam that's close to where Lake Delton got flushed down the Wisconsin River a month and a-half ago.
A breach created a channel that washed away the lake, five homes, and a good share of Lake Delton's summer tourist economy.
Last week, the village agreed to spend $1.5 million to improve the dam. The approaches to the gates will be reshaped so they can handle more water - and emergency spillways will be installed on both sides of the dam.
Village trustee Tom Diehl says the new dam will hold more than twice as much water as the old one.
Already, water from nearby Dell Creek is running through the breach.
Officials expect water to move back through the dam in about a month.
Diehl says the lake could start refilling as early as November.
Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation says the nearby County Trunk A should be reopened by the end of the year. The road collapsed during the heavy rains on June 9, which was partially responsible for the lake disappearing.
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Dracula Therapy also known as S3 (Stimulated Self Serum Therapy) is a non-surgical aging therapy which is not painfully and is immediate too. This skin treatment is gradually increasing wherein the doctor takes vitals of your own blood and separates its key components basically- red blood cells, serum and platelets.
In this aging therapy the doctor mix vitamins and amino acids and inject this enriched serum into the face. The skin treatment is a 3 step process which takes around 30 minutes maximum depending on the area to be treated. This injection doesn't add volume but stimulate the collagen production and cell migration to eliminate lines, wrinkles and folds from the skin.
Cosmetic fillers have become a rage of late and these aging treatments are been taken up by majority of women to avoid aging properties from their skin and stay young. When done properly, S3 Therapy or Dracula Therapy can make you look like the same as you expect from botox or facelifts surgeries.
Advantages of S3 Therapy or Dracula Therapy:
- This skin treatment for wrinkles and other aging properties uses your won blood therefore reducing the chances of allergy reactions and skin infections.
- It is a natural aging therapy which does not include cosmetic or synthetic products.
- It is not painful after the surgery as Dracula Therapy is non-cosmetic therapy.
- It has been found that after the procedure the person doesn't get swellings, bruises or lumping.
- It is a natural therapy for a face lift.
This S3 Therapy procedure include injections formulated from your blood to fight anti aging. So, if you plan to fight anti aging then use this natural aging therapy and stay young naturally!


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ISER and Trac FM are running an advocacy campaign that is part of the Common Matters program. We will collect citizens' voices on financial accountability of PPPs in Uganda through interactive radio polling on 9 radio stations.
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The Constitutional Court declared that the presence of representatives for the army, youth & workers in Parliament is unconstitutional.
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The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) recently published a paper on the use and implementation of technologies used to promote citizen participation, Transparency and accountability.
During the very first session of the Plug & Play Day at the ICT4Ag Conference, Wouter Dijkstra, the Founder and Director of TRAC FM will be presenting how this innovative software platform is used by media and non-profit organizations to amplify the voices of citizens, track reports and collect opinions.
TRAC FM teams up with Farm Radio International and HarvestPlus to raise awareness about the importance of consuming Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSPs) among Ugandans, by putting the power of interactive radio drama to work.
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PC Tech Magazine interviewed TRAC FM founder and director Wouter Dijkstra.
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The events of 2005 with undoubtedly the deepest impact on France itself were the ethnic minority riots that began in late October in satellite towns around Paris and during three weeks spread to the rest of the country. This dispelled any justified sense of French superiority in terms of racial and religious integration. Of wider consequence was the refusal of the French people in a May 29 referendum to endorse a new constitution for the European Union. This decision, in which France more or less brought to a halt the process of European integration that it had helped launch half a century earlier, left the EU functioning under existing treaty rules. On June 1 the Dutch also voted "no" in a similar referendum. The constitution's failure to win popular approval in these two founder states effectively doomed it. Another 9 of the 25 EU member states had already ratified it through their parliaments, but the constitutional blueprint required unanimous approval by all 25 for the new constitution to enter into effect.
The unexpected May 29 result had widespread consequences. At home it looked likely to hasten the political demise of Pres. Jacques Chirac well before his second term expired in 2007 and possibly to realign the political left along the lines on which it split over the EU. Abroad it put France—for the first time—on the opposite side of a major EU issue from Germany, its longtime special partner, and sparked a wider debate about the EU's purposes and goals. One reason for the French "no" vote was dislike of the recent EU enlargement to Eastern Europe and an accompanying aversion to further enlargement that would incorporate Turkey and countries in the Balkans in coming years.
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The spark for the autumn riots was the accidental death on October 27 of two teenagers who were electrocuted when they hid from police in an electricity substation. This was the immediate pretext for the start of the riots, but the reason they spread so rapidly was the high unemployment, discrimination, and lack of opportunity in France's heavily immigrant suburbs. The protests peaked on the night of November 7, affecting 274 communes around the country. The following day President Chirac declared a state of emergency. It was not until November 17, after nearly 9,000 cars had been torched and nearly 3,000 arrests made, that the French police declared that the level of car burning had returned to "normal." The state of emergency continued through the end of the year.
Expressing discontent in a milder way, French voters rejected the draft constitution—by 54.68% to 45.32%—and thereby turned their back on something that was largely their country's creation. President Chirac said, in the closing stages of the referendum campaign, that the constitution was "essentially of French inspiration in terms of its ideas and authors." One of his presidential predecessors, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, had presided over the special convention that provided the blueprint for the EU constitution. Giscard had ensured that the draft constitution provided for a more permanent presidency of the EU and for unified control of foreign policy so that the EU could assume a higher profile in the world—very much a preoccupation of Paris.
The draft constitution, however, failed to cater to the French people's more pressing worry about unemployment and, in particular, to provide some "social protection" against market deregulation coming from Brussels and globalization from outside France. Against a background of increasing disenchantment with EU liberalization and disciplines such as state aid controls, many French took exception to the European Commission's so-called Bolkestein directive on services. This controversial directive, proposed in 2004 by then European commissioner Frits Bolkestein, sought to open up all service sectors to cross-border competition. The domestic context was also conducive to a "no" in the referendum campaign. Unemployment in France remained persistently high, and the government's political stock fell further when Finance Minister Hervé Gaymard was forced to resign on February 25 after it emerged that the state was paying €14,000 (about $18,500) a month to house Gaymard, his wife, and their eight children when the couple already owned a Paris apartment. Gaymard was succeeded by Thierry Breton, who came from France Télécom to be France's fourth finance minister in a year.
At the start of 2005, the polls showed the "yes" camp standing at 65%, and on February 28 the constitution was easily endorsed by a special session of both houses of Parliament. By mid-March, however, polls were showing a majority of voters opposed, with pro-European support slipping particularly among Socialists, who were worried that EU policies were threatening France's "social model" built around high job protection. Chirac complained to fellow leaders at a March EU summit that free-market economics had become "the new communism [or totalitarian doctrine] of our age." The French government offered pay concessions to civil servants and pressed the European Commission to impose emergency quotas on surging Chinese textile imports but never regained control of the referendum campaign. Chirac had a rough ride in a mid-April television debate that brought him face to face with the tendency of referenda to become a magnet for extraneous issues. In early May polls showed that the "yes" camp had briefly regained the lead, but it did not hold.
While refusing to take the referendum defeat personally, Chirac nonetheless sacked Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who had lingered on borrowed time since the centre-right's election setbacks of 2004. Chirac faced the awkward choice of a successor as prime minister: his longtime protégé Dominique de Villepin or his rival and head of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, Nicolas Sarkozy. In the end the president named Villepin prime minister and allowed Sarkozy to return to government (as interior minister) and to run the UMP, the very combination of party and government jobs that Chirac had earlier refused to allow Sarkozy to hold. The other immediate consequence of the referendum was a further deepening of divisions within the Socialists, the main opposition party. Former prime minister Laurent Fabius had defied an earlier party decision to support the EU constitution and had become the most prestigious politician in the "no" camp.
There was also serious rivalry on the centre-right. Villepin focused the first few months of his premiership on a modest attack on unemployment (changing the labour code for small firms and making it harder for the unemployed to refuse job offers) and on a modest boost to consumption (proposing some income-tax exemptions and simplification). These policies, together with public appreciation of his dashing style, raised Villepin's standing in the polls by early autumn to the level enjoyed by Sarkozy. Chirac's hospitalization for several days in early September because of a vascular problem affecting his vision underlined the unlikelihood that the 72-year-old president would seek a third term in 2007.
Foreign Affairs
Chirac's close partnership with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder came to an end with the latter's defeat in Germany's general election on September 18. The slightly more reform-minded and pro-American Angela Merkel, who succeeded as chancellor, had to share power in a "grand coalition" with Schröder's Social Democrats, one of whom she named as foreign minister. The German election's clearest lesson for Chirac and Villepin was to confirm their view that in continental Europe reform could be only a gradual process.
Paris still remained on better terms with Berlin than with London. The friction was due to the resurgence, at every EU summit during the year, of the Anglo-French differences over the EU budget; the budget was eventually finalized in a deal in December. Paris, which had been the hot favourite to host the 2012 Olympics, also had to bear the disappointment of being beaten out by London. The bombings in London the day after its Olympic selection, however, served to toughen U.K. antiterrorist policy, a move welcomed by French authorities, who had complained of British laxity on this score.
France's relations with the U.S. improved, starting with a conciliatory visit to Paris in February by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a meeting between Chirac and Pres. George W. Bush later that month. One reason for the warming of relations was that the EU in general, and France in particular, backed off the idea of ending the EU's long-standing arms embargo on China. There was a broader coincidence of Franco-American policies on the Middle East, although not on Iraq, where the two countries' views remained as divided as ever. France and the U.S. jointly pressed Syria to end its occupation of Lebanon, while France worked with the U.K., Germany, and the U.S. to try to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear program.
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Fixer-upers. That's what men are to Rainey. Because none of them will ever be as perfect as Mark.
Mark. Rainey's high school dream. Her 16th birthday disaster. Has returned to town 14 years after her broke her heart. He's come to help with the children's program Rainey runs but she's thinking anything but childhood thoughts each time she sees him.
Mark only wants temporary and Rainey can only handle permanent – so which one will compromise?
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Fun! See when I first started reading this it made me think of a steamy version of 'The Mighty Ducks' but as I continued to read, it turned into so much more. I enjoyed the Ducks movie – it was actually one of my favorites – but I loved this book. First, hockey players are sexy ;). Second, coaches are sexy (hubby is a coach :P). Third, Jill Shalvis wrote it. What could be better for steamy fun?
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Alternative Titles: Genbaku dōmu, Hiroshima Peace Memorial
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...throughout the year; that tradition was inspired by Sasaki Sadako, a 12-year-old girl who died, 10 years after the bombing, of leukemia contracted as an aftereffect of exposure to radiation. Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku dōmu), which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996, is the remains of one of the few buildings not obliterated by the blast. Pop. (2010) 1,173,843;...


text: I know this goes in the 'beast of the AFC east' forum, but I just wanted everyone to see it first, in light of everything else going on in NewEngland this offseason.. Cornerback Alfonzo Dennard was arrested this morning in Lincoln, Neb. for suspicion of driving under the influence, according to the Omaha World-Herald. Dennard refused to take a breathalyzer test after he was pulled over around 2 a.m. for straddling the lane line on Normal Boulevard. Dennard is serving two years of probation after being convicted in February of felony assault of a police officer outside of a Lincoln bar in 2012. He is also scheduled to begin his 30-day jail sentence March 1, 2014. - See more at: http://bostonherald.com/sports/patr...ted_for_suspicion_of_dui#sthash.lG0VlXzH.dpuf


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The former Swansea City and Wigan Athletic boss secured Everton a fifth-placed finish in his debut campaign with the club, ensuring Everton's qualification for the UEFA Europa League.
Having finished seventh and sixth in David Moyes' final two seasons, Martinez was able to continue the club's upward curve while also doing the double over his predecessor, who has since been sacked from Manchester United.
However, Martinez believes the foundations for their successful campaign were already in place, paying tribute to the squad's flexibility and will to learn.
"I was always aware of that transition and how it had to be gradually imposed, bringing the players along," he told The Liverpool Echo. "It's been fascinating seeing how they adapted but we haven't lost anything which was put in place in the past.
"I was fortunate to arrive at a dressing room which has done a lot of good work in the past. It was important we didn't lose that.
"But at any club when you've been used to one management team for a long time you get used to their habits and it's difficult to change."
Central to Everton's growth has been the form of their younger players, including Barcelona loanee Gerard Delofeu, Ross Barkley and Romelu Lukaku.
All three could feature at the FIFA World Cup after impressive campaigns, but Martinez feels credit must be given to the senior players within the squad.
"The key to success has been the application. As a dressing room we have a strong group dynamic," he added.
"Senior players set our standards and ways of working, and I was so impressed at how open minded and experimental our senior players were.
"That allowed the youngsters to come in and have big roles."
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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 904769, 12 pages
ScMT2-1-3, a Metallothionein Gene of Sugarcane, Plays an Important Role in the Regulation of Heavy Metal Tolerance/Accumulation
Key Lab of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
Received 10 February 2013; Revised 3 May 2013; Accepted 8 May 2013
Academic Editor: Sudhir Sopory
Copyright © 2013 Jinlong Guo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Plant metallothioneins (MTs), which are cysteine-rich, low-molecular-weight, and metal-binding proteins, play important roles in detoxification, metal ion homeostasis, and metal transport adjustment. In this study, a novel metallothionein gene, designated as ScMT2-1-3 (GenBank Accession number JQ627644), was identified from sugarcane. ScMT2-1-3 was 700 bp long, including a 240 bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding 79 amino acid residues. A His-tagged ScMT2-1-3 protein was successfully expressed in Escherichia coli system which had increased the host cell's tolerance to Cd2+, Cu2+, PEG, and NaCl. The expression of ScMT2-1-3 was upregulated under Cu2+ stress but downregulated under Cd2+ stress. Real-time qPCR demonstrated that the expression levels of ScMT2-1-3 in bud and root were over 14 times higher than those in stem and leaf, respectively. Thus, both the E. coli assay and sugarcane plantlets assay suggested that ScMT2-1-3 is significantly involved in the copper detoxification and storage in the cell, but its functional mechanism in cadmium detoxification and storage in sugarcane cells needs more testification though its expressed protein could obviously increase the host E. coli cell's tolerance to Cd2+. ScMT2-1-3 constitutes thus a new interesting candidate for elucidating the molecular mechanisms of MTs-implied plant heavy metal tolerance/accumulation and for developing sugarcane phytoremediator varieties.


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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (cont.)
What Tests Do Specialists Use to Diagnose ADHD in Children?
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The evaluation of a child suspected of having ADHD is multidisciplinary, involving comprehensive medical, developmental, educational, and psychosocial evaluations. Interviewing parents and the patient along with contact with the patient's teacher(s) is crucial. Investigation regarding the family history for behavioral and/or social problems is helpful. While direct person-to-person contact is considered vital at the outset of an investigation, follow-up studies may be guided by comparing standardized questionnaires (from parents and teachers) completed prior to intervention and subsequent to medication, behavioral therapy, or other treatment approaches. While there is no unique finding on the physical exam in patients with ADHD, unusual physical features should prompt consideration of consultation with a geneticist due to the high association with ADHD behavioral patterns and well-recognized genetic syndromes (for example, fetal alcohol syndrome).
At this time, no lab test, X-ray, imaging study, or procedure is known to suggest or confirm the diagnosis of ADHD. Specific tests may be ordered if indicated by specific symptoms.
Physicians and parents should be aware that schools are federally mandated to perform an appropriate evaluation if a child is suspected of having a disability that impairs academic functioning. This policy was strengthened by regulations implementing the 1997 reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA), which guarantees appropriate services and a free, appropriate public education to children with disabilities from ages 3 to 21. If the assessment performed by the school is inadequate or inappropriate, parents may request that an independent evaluation be conducted at the school's expense. Furthermore, some children with ADHD qualify for special-education services within the public schools, under the category of "Other Health Impaired," although not all children with an established diagnosis of ADHD will qualify for special services based upon school district testing. If a child is deemed in need of special services, the special-education teacher, school psychologist, school administrators, classroom teachers, along with parents, must assess the child's strengths and weaknesses and design an Individualized Education Program (IEP). These special-education services for some children with ADHD are available through IDEA.
Despite this "federal mandate," the reality is that many school districts, because of underfunding or understaffing, are unable to perform an "appropriate evaluation" for all children suspected of having ADHD. The districts have the latitude to define the degree of "impairment of academic functioning" necessary to approve "appropriate evaluation." This usually means the children who are failing or near-failing in their academic performance. A very large segment of the ADHD-affected children will be "getting by" (not failing) academically (at least in their early years of school), but they are usually achieving well below their potential and getting more and more behind each year on the academic prerequisite skills necessary for later school success. Thereafter, further educational testing may be requested from the school district. Unfortunately, some families will have to assume the financial burden of an independent educational evaluation. These evaluations are commonly done by an educational psychologist and may involve approximately eight to 10 hours of testing and observation spread out over several sessions. A primary goal of an educational evaluation is to exclude/include the possibility of learning disorders (for example, dyslexia, language disorders, etc.).
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Manti Te'o - the most decorated defensive player in Irish history - gets most of the credit.
Stephon Tuitt and Lou Nix III are mentioned frequently when plaudits are handed out for Notre Dame's defensive brilliance in 2012.
Now, they're talking about the back end of the stop unit with returning cornerbacks Bennett Jackson and KeiVarae Russell, and all those talented safeties.
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The most forgotten man may very well be the centerpiece of the positive upturn that saw the Notre Dame defense rank among the nation's best while putting up numbers that haven't been posted by the Irish since the 1988 team allowed just 12.3 points per game.
Senior Cat linebacker Prince Shembo is by far the most unsung hero on the Irish defense. His 10.5 tackles for loss and 7.5 sacks both ranked second on the squad behind Tuitt. His 12 quarterback hurries topped the defense while his 51 tackles were the most among defensive front four personnel.
If you don't think Shembo is the most underappreciated member of the 2013 defense, Brian Kelly wants you to know that you're all wet.
"I think you guys are missing the boat on Prince Shembo," Kelly said. "The way he plays, the passion that he plays the game with every single play…it's so enjoyable.
"He's a throwback in a lot of ways with his energy and his toughness and the way he comes to work every day. It's 100 percent all in. He plays the game with that chip where I'm going to do whatever is necessary on this play to be disruptive."
Shembo flies under the radar for a couple of reasons. He leads with his pads - literally and figuratively - and leaves the talking to chatterboxes like Nix and Jackson.
Shembo's approach is reflected by his heritage. His father, Maurice, moved to the United States in 1986 from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic and a speak-when-spoken-to attitude guide Shembo's approach to life and football.
"It started when I was young," Shembo said. "The way I carry myself started with what my dad said. He said when they go out there, they're going to try to hurt you so you've got to hurt them before they hurt you. I've been thinking like that ever since, and continuously working hard. My parents work hard so I try to live my life like that and never be satisfied and always try to get better every day. That's how I live my life.
"I listen to everything. They're the coaches. That's their job, so I listen. I don't need to say anything. Why do I have to talk? I'd rather listen. Most of the time when you talk, you talk too much and get in trouble. You'll never get in trouble for listening. So that's how I think."
Shembo is shorter than most top-rated outside linebackers in the country, which he believes works to his advantage.
"I'm happy the way I am to be honest," said Shembo of his 6-foot-1 ½ frame. "(Leverage is) exactly why I want to be the size I am. I'll get under other guys.
"I ask a lot of linemen, and they don't like to bend, and if I work on my leverage, it's hard to block shorter guys. I don't have the arm length of a taller person, but I make up for it with the strength in my legs. I can get low under them. I prefer how I am."
Look at the list of the top outside linebackers in the country, and despite his 19 career tackles for loss and 14 sacks, you'll be hard-pressed to find him on anyone's top 10 at his position.
That, too, is a mistake. Yet accolades and pre-season recognition are mere words for the Charlotte, N.C., product.
"We just do what we do," said Shembo, who has participated in 38 of 39 Notre Dame games the last three years. (Shembo missed the 2011 Michigan State game when his father fell ill.)
"Come out every day and work hard. Try not to take any time off. I know people have aches, but that's part of football. You go treat it, treat your body like a temple, eat good foods, stuff like that, and get ready."
Shembo thinks that he can influence every play that he's on the field.
"You've almost got to take his helmet away from him," Kelly said. "I love those guys. We're running a 7-on-7 drill, and he's the four-down rush guy. It's 7-on-7, but he's "collisioning" the receivers when they're coming across. That's just Prince."
Shembo has a drive and motivation to succeed that is exceeded by few. It comes from the work ethic instilled by his parents and has escalated the more he's tasted success on the gridiron.
"I'm starting to be able to recognize things, different formations…There's a lot of pre-snap stuff," Shembo said. "Obviously, you work on fundamentals and try to improve everything you do every day.
"More speed, a lot of techniques. You can't just run up there and smack into the guy. I'm trying to work on visualizing what the o-linemen are doing and trying to shift his momentum. Little head nods and stuff like that."
Listed at 250 pounds in the spring, Shembo now checks in at 258 pounds, yet he looks to be a slimmer version of himself from a year ago. That means he's shed most of the excess/unneeded body fat, reshaped himself, and is primed to end his collegiate career on a high note.
"I spent the summer trying to become a better pass rusher, a better run defender, just playing with more energy, and getting in better shape so I never get tired," Shembo said. "If you can never get tired and they get tired, you can take advantage of it."
Kelly appreciates Shembo's matter-of-fact toughness and his unquestioned approach to his work ethic.
"He doesn't lead vocally," Kelly said. "He's a guy that's not going to say much. But just his energy, his passion and his actions out on the field and the way he works…I love his approach.
"You can see just by his uniform -- it's drenched every day - about the work he puts in every single day."
Maybe this year, Shembo's tremendous contributions to the defense will be seen by all.
"He's so skilled at coming off the edge," Kelly said. "He brings an energy to the team, a toughness to the team."
It should be hard not to notice.


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At Manhattan Big Box Mall, Parking Garage Still Sits Empty
Noah Kazis explains that with a lack of urban big box models to pull from, the developer estimated the parking needs using suburban models:
"The results, needless to say, weren't a good fit for Manhattan shoppers. Over half of East River Plaza's customers live in the three closest ZIP codes, and by and large, they get to the mall on foot. Just under half of all shoppers Gebhart surveyed as they entered the Target on the Tuesday afternoon had walked there. Only 27 percent had driven."
The design of the mall also suffers from inappropriate auto-orientation, says Kazis:
"Because the designers of East River Plaza had assumed most shoppers would be entering from the garage, not the street, the pedestrian environment is terrible for those entering on foot."
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Via New Technology Enables Wildfire Forecasting Firefighters better predict wildfire behavior see Use of spatially refined satellite remote sensing fire detection data to initialize and evaluate coupled weather-wildfire growth model simulation. Janice L. Coen and Wilfrid Schroeder. Article first published online: 22 OCT 2013. DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057868 [full-text – no fee]
"Large wildfires may grow for weeks or months from ignition until extinction. Simulating events with coupled numerical weather prediction (NWP)–wildland fire models is a challenge because NWP model errors grow with time. A new simulation paradigm was tested. Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Environment model simulations of the 2012 Little Bear Fire in New Mexico were implemented for multiple days of fire growth from ignition and then used spatially refined (375 m) 12 h satellite active fire data derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) to initialize a fire in progress. The simulations represented fire growth well for 12–24 h after each initialization in comparison to later satellite passes but strayed from mapped area with time. A cycling approach, in which successive VIIRS perimeters were used to initialize fire location for the next 12 h period, overcame this and can be used with cycled weather forecasts to predict even a long-lived fire's lifecycle."