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How to have a pleasurable rear entry?
Anal sex is no more a taboo to the world, people have learned the art of rear penetration and many cultures have accepted the practice as legal and ethical.
But yet there are several implications and difficulties faced while have a rear entry. Especially women have not adapted themselves to this. They still face problems and tremendous pain while doing an anal entry.
Here are several tips which will help you to make your rear entry a pleasurable experience:
Make her feel good before giving it a start:
Anal sex becomes very painful for women if they are not comfortable or ready for it. That is the reason why it's always said that first give her a good warm-up session or may be discuss about what you are going to do and how to handle it.
It will be good if you let her guide you through her anal. Let her have a hold of your penis and guide it to a depth comfortable with her.
Never Force Yourself in:
Forceful entry is never going to end up into a pleasurable exit. You force yourself into her anus and she will swear not to give it a try again. Just setup coordination with her and let her tell you the limits.
Do not use anal sex toys or vibrators:
It's a common belief that foreplay with fingers or inserting anal sex toys or a vibrator offers her a pleasurable sensation. It is clearly a myth.
If you really want to give her a pleasurable sensation avoid using any anal sex toys or vibrators. Just a simple rubbing or licking on the outer wall of anus is sufficient enough to make the receiver achieve great sensations.
Switch to Fibres:
A change in diet is a must if you want to have a good anal sex, regular bowel movements are important for making anal sex a comfortable and confident act.
Apart from these tips try and maintain hygiene, in order to keep yourself away from STDs or other sex infections.
Follow these steps and let your rear entry rock your sex life. Enjoy your anal sex sessions, but remember to maintain hygiene.
Go hygienic while performing an anal sex. Anal sex can lead to a variety of sex diseases or infections.
Before indulging into a sex session we recommend you to get tested and see if there are any pre existing diseases or not.
Always use a condom for doing anal sex. It is always good to maintain a safety and protect yourself from STDs.
These tips will help you turn your anal sex life into a happy experience. Try these methods and you will learn to respect your partner's body. Good luck and have a happy session.
Make your girl an anal fan with these heart stealing methods. She will fall in love with anal sex and there will be tremendous changes in your normal sex life.
Follow these tips to see tremendous changes in your sex life. Let her put up her feelings and share her fears about anal sex. Communication is going to solve all her worries and concerns.
Make your partner feel comfortable with a rear entry act. Let her guide you deep inside her back door and enjoy the pleasurable experience.


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You don't want this to happen. Seven workers at an AT&T office in downtown San Jose were hospitalized because one of their co-workers finally decided to clean out the fridge. The gesture made 28 other people nauseous. All 325 people in the building were evacuated. A hazmat team was called in.
What they found was an unplugged refrigerator full of moldy food.
The worker who decided to clean it out put the rotten food in a conference room while she scrubbed the fridge with cleaning chemicals. The combination of smells was just too much for other humans to endure. Lucky her, she couldn't smell any of it. She had just undergone nasal surgery for severe allergies.
I'm wondering if she used to work at Marketplace, where in the past, a nose could be permanently damaged by opening the fridge. For a while, the protocol seemed to be that the fridge was left alone to fester and grow unidentified species until it crossed a certain threshold of foulness. On that day, somebody would send a ranting email or run screaming through the halls that everything had to be tossed instantly. Thankfully, no one was injured, that I'm aware of.
Now we have a "clean the fridge" sign-up sheet.
But let this be a warning. Have you checked your office fridge lately?

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More rumors and/or news today, and not stuff related to the hoax website. If you're too lazy to look at the link, here's a few tidbits from the article above: [quote]The Fallout faithful were dealt a blow recently after Bethesda confirmed the Fallout 4 website was indeed a hoax, but now new evidence suggests the game is real and set in Boston. Casting documents obtained by Kotaku for a project code-named Institue include scripts and character descriptions believed to be associated with Fallout 4.[/quote] [quote]The documents also include casting calls for both male and female versions of Fallout 4's main character, and explain that the player will begin the game in a cryogenic sleep chamber.[/quote] Any Thoughts?
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- Iron Miner
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Its a new server, where you have to survive. PvP is enabled at all times, so watch out for other players!
You are allowed to break/place any blocks with the exception of breaking diamond, iron and gold blocks and placing any of the loot blocks. The map resets in the end of each round.
Zombies are the only mob. They don't burn in sunlight, walk faster than usual and give you a warning in form of a ghast sound when attacking.
Punching one of the loot blocks (Crafting table, furnace, dispenser, chest, brewing stand, bookshelf, enchanting table, cauldron) will give you some loot. The higher up you are the better the loot.
Bleeding, pain, unconsciousness or broken bone may occur in combat.
If you are lost, feel free to use the /spawn command, but watch out for other players.
You can repair armor/tools/weapons. To do that, you need to have two pieces of the same armor, ( for example two pairs of boots, the material doesn't matter) and right click one of them. The piece of armor you just right clicked will be repaired using the other piece.
From a bookshelf you get experience...
... or not.
Punching a workbench or any other loot block gives you loot.
Bleeding may occur in combat.
Pain is a bit more rare than bleeding.
Headshots deal more damage.
Unconsciousness occurs when you are on extemely low health. Your vision is limited and you can't move.
The map:
Can you spot a player in the picture above?
P.S. I couldn't take a picture of broken bone because its too rare. Also, if anyone see the player sugarrushx10 or something like that, kill him for me One more thing, I'm not the owner of the server.
If you have any questions/suggestions feel free to send them to [email protected].
The map is not made by the owner. The map is made by lynchyinc from planetminecraft. It is called "Vikdal - Realm of the Skylords"
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John 18:37
37Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
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Facet joints
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Facet joints --> zygapophyseal joints
The synovial joints between zygapophyses or articular processes of the vertebrae.
Synonym: articulationes zygapophyseales, facet joints, interarticular joints, juncturae zygapophyseales.
Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page.


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This is one Silver Bullet we all would not want to be hit by, but should well be the answer to AutoWeek's mobile hospitality needs
Airstreaming at AW HQ
May 23, 2006
If youve paid any attention to these pages you know that AutoWeek has a pretty good relationship with the guys from that iconic trailer company, Airstream.
The reasons are simple: theyre good, entertaining folk you would want to hang with, and they like vodka gimlets (www.drinkoftheweek.com/archive/v/vodkagimlet.htm) .
These are two very good reasons, indeed.
I met Airstreams Dicky Riegel and Bob Wheeler at the annual recreational vehicle convention www.rvia.org in Louisville, KY in 2004. It was a chance meeting, arranged by the pr guy for the trade association; I have since spent many hours with both guys and am a better personpersonally and professionallybecause of it. Thats one of those great, rare and wonderful events you dont forget.
Why was it so good? Well, it started as a mutual adulation society. I think there are fewer cooler things than the silver bullets. Thats in terms of both a design standpoint, as well as a sociological one. The Airstream (www.airstream.com) exemplifies simplicity in form. Its followers satisfy an inherent nomadic urge. Its look is classic kitch. Its just cool.
Dicky and Bob are just cool, too, and as important are car guys from way back. Dickys family (www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050912/FREE/509120704) had some great rides throughout his youth (how about getting picked up at school in a Ferrari SuperAmerica or a DuPont?), and Bob was weighing whether he wanted an Audi S4 avant or .
So as we talked about our mutual lusts we also found out about each others families and our dreams and our wants. It was very good, indeed. It seemed a natural then that when the AW edit staff attacked the rigors of human-powered drag racing (www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051017/FREE/510170716), that wed call on Airstream to deliver us the ultimate hospitality trailer: The Skydeck (www.airstream.com/product_line/motorhomes/skydeck_home.html wowed the crowd. We had more people wanting to go through our doors as those who watched the festivities. We may not have finished first in that event, but we looked darned good trying. And we had a place removed from the hubbub of race central to make our gimlets.
They had so much fun they wanted to do something else with us but what? We dont know, but were going to find out. See, Dicky, who was named one of Fast Company magazines top executives (www.fastcompany.com/magazine/92/fast50-fasttake.html) and who has since moved from being president of Airstream to president of the holding company, Thor Industries, called with a proposition: He wanted to give AutoWeek the use of Airstream One, a one-off concept trailer that is more a mobile party loungeIm sorry, office spacethan it is a hunker-in-the-KOA trailer for a week.
Alrighty, then!
We took delivery of AutoWeek Fourthe name came as a brilliant marketing suggestion by way of our editorial director who thinks it imparts the impression of a fleet of Airstreamslast Friday when we went to visit the companys Jackson Center, Ohio headquarters. Now anyone who has traveled the I-75 corridor has passed the Jackson Center-New Bremen exit (102 on your overpass). If you go east, go 6.8 miles you run into the town that time forgot. And Airstreams corporate home. There isnt much to Jackson Center: some corrugated blue aluminum manufacturing buildings with silver bullets sitting out on the drive, a stop light, three eateries, a gas station/drive-thru bank and, up the road, a plastic bottle manufacturing firm. Jackson Center has a population of 800; the bottle company employs 500 and Airstream keeps 400 people on the payroll. Obviously, a few commuters come in from the big cities of Troy and Lima .
Its a cute town, really, an Ohio doppelganger for Mayberry with Andy and Opie. The headquarters pulls in visitors off the interstate, and even some folks who have planned a pilgrimage to trailer Mecca: each day at 3 pm tours of the factory commence, where between 15 and 50 people line up for the walk-around. You can even set up your campground on the Airstream property, waiting your turn for your trailers service time.
Unlike Porsche or Mercedes Benz, two iconic car companies, Airstream doesnt have any factory-direct delivery system available to owners who want to come in and drive away. Pity: I think that has a bunch of appeal, particularly as it helps to build customer loyalty and attraction to the marque.
But there she was, all beautiful and silver, 28-feet of aluminum fun! There is no head onboard. There are two couches. There is no bed. There is a refrigerator and freezer. It does not sleep anyone, but has two big-screen TVs, a DVD player, a killer stereo, a cat-5 computer hookup You think we might be able to get any use out of AutoWeek Four, Mobile Headquarters Unit?
Hey, if you see us at races or at the Woodward Dream Cruise or just in the parking lot of a favorite golf course, (obviously being used for a pit stop to replenish fluids), stop by and say, howdy! You never know what kind of freebie youll get. Or whether well have gimlet fixins.


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Like dandelions, proposals to microregulate private health insurance plans pop up every spring in Washington and Springfield. Fortunately, the political dynamic in both capitals has been such that not many costly mandates have gained the force of law.
Perhaps reason will prevail once more in 1999. Yet a widening, if odd, coalition of trial lawyers, medical specialists and consumer activists has attached itself to the "HMO reform" issue. The public, for its part, has been primed with incessant depictions--in Hollywood entertainments and sensational news reports--of rapacious behavior by insurance companies.


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FARMINGTON С In a nod to the value of education, the Davis Chamber of Commerce will present its annual Legacy Award to Davis School District at the chamber's annual banquet on Friday, Jan. 18.
"One of the first questions businesses ask when they look to locate in Davis County, is what are the schools like," said Chris Williams, community relations director for Davis School District. "We know that the success of the county relies heavily on an educated workforce."
The Legacy Award, the top award presented by the chamber, is designed to recognize individuals or institutions that demonstrate "a significant positive impact on the county, sustained over the years," according to a press release from the chamber.
"Our chamber has a keen focus on education as a primary driver of economic growth in Davis County," said Jim Smith, Davis Chamber president, in the release. "The fact that the Davis School District recently celebrated their 100th anniversary shows that their economic impact has been 'sustained for years.'"
Davis School District is the second largest employer in the county, according to Williams. The district has 5,968 full-time equivalent positions filled. The staff works to educate this year's 68,342 students.
Positions include teachers, administrators, assistants, custodial staff, specialists, counselors, bus drivers and support staff.
The budget passed by the Davis School Board for this year's operations was about $525 million, said Williams. A large portion of the budget is dedicated to personnel. In addition, the district manages $575 million in capital assets such as buildings, furniture and vehicles.
Only Hill Air Force Base employs more people in Davis County and in Utah, only Alpine School District is larger than Davis School District.
"To be honored by the business community Р especially by an organization like the Davis Chamber of Commerce Р is beyond words," said Dr. Bryan Bowles, superintendent of Davis School District, as quoted in the release.
"I believe we are successful, in part, because of the support that businesses and parents give to their students and to our educators. The district couldn't be recognized with the chamber's Legacy Award without the symbiotic relationship that has been built Р for more than 100 years Р with parents, students, businesses and the residents of Davis County."
Williams said it is impossible to calculate how many tens of thousands Р or perhaps hundreds of thousands Р have been educated by the district in its 100 years.
"You need to have employees who are well trained, and if those employees haven't received that foundation at the K-12 level, they certainly can't move on to places like DATC and Weber State and other schools and get the education that's needed," said Williams.
"We in the county like to work together, whether with charter schools, DATC or Weber State, and try to have a pipeline that's seamless so that it doesn't matter where that student is in the system, we're hoping that student can be as successful as possible so they can be a contributing member of the community and have a great job that supports a family. It's a goal that everyone would love to meet."
The awards banquet will be held at the Davis Conference Center and include awards in a variety of categories to other Davis County businesses. The event is open to the public, but reservations are required.
For more information or to help recognize Davis School District, contact the chamber at 801-593-2200 or through email@example.com.


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[ syll. ai-na-ra, ain-ara ] The baby girl name Ainara is pronounced as EYIHNAARAH †. Ainara is largely used in the Spanish language and its origin is Basque. Ainara is a variant transcription of the name Enara (Spanish).
See also the related category spanish.
Ainara is an unusual baby name for girls. It is not listed in the top 1000 names.
Baby names that sound like Ainara include Enricua, Anyra, Anyrah, Aymara, Emera (English), Enara (Spanish), Enrika, Enriqua (Spanish), and Henrique.
† approx English pronunciation for Ainara: EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)"


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MIT set to move to R&D centre at Ipswich's Adastral Park
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Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) look set to extend their collaborative research project CMI at a new R&D centre on the Adastral Park research campus near Ipswich.
The centre will be called cmi@adastralpark, and will offer businesses state-of-the-art information technology, comms, education and research facilities. It will also develop management practices to turn ideas into business.
Last year, the CMI project received £65m from the DTI and now it is looking for a further £16m from the private sector. Sponsors include BT and BP, which have both pledged £2.5m during the next five years.
The centre will form part of a technology triangle, which will link BT's Adastral Park-based research arm BTexact with the Judge Institute, the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University and MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Speaking at the 2001 Networks and Optical Communications conference at Adastral Park last week, Mike Reevers, BTexact's chief technology officer, said: "University College London has recently established a postgraduate technology centre here. It is good to see universities gathering around an industrial site as opposed to the Cambridge model, where industry gathers round the university. We expect MIT to have a presence here soon."
Max Stocker, spokesman for the IP-City campaign, which aims to bring high-tech companies to the Ipswich area, said: "We are very close to an announcement about MIT at the moment and are fully supportive of BT's bid to transform Adastral Park into Europe's premier innovation and research park."
MIT has been steadily expanding its European presence during the past three years through its link with Cambridge University and the opening of a branch of its Media-Lab in Dublin.


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Downs feels better but still likely unavailable
Downs feels better but still likely unavailable
"He's feeling a little better, but we'll most likely stay away from him again," Scioscia said.
Downs, who has a 0.42 ERA in 24 appearances this season, hasn't pitched since Sunday against the Rockies. He tossed one inning in the game, giving up one run and a season-high three hits.
The lefty hasn't had any tests, however, and is planning on going through a pregame routine and assessing his status from there.
Catcher Chris Iannetta, who has been out since May 8 recovering from right wrist surgery, is going to be re-evaluated in a few days before the team decides if he's ready to play again.
Iannetta injured his wrist after getting hit by a pitch on May 2 against the Twins, the night he caught Jered Weaver's no-hitter, and caught only three games after that before having surgery.
"He feels a lot better, but once he can go out there and throw without any discomfort at all, he'll go out and play," Scioscia said. "So hopefully not too far away."


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4+1 to get a 'dry run'
WAYLAND — Everyone needs a helping hand once in a while.
WACO School Board members were extended a hand during their regular meeting Monday night.
Darrell Smith, president of the WACO School Foundation, told the board that the foundation's purpose is to help the school district and it intends to fulfill its responsibility.
The foundation has been somewhat inactive the past few years but is being re-established.
"Our job is to support the school district," Smith told the board. "You need to let us know what you want to do. We do have some money, not a lot, but we plan to do some fund-raising.
"We have been somewhat inactive the past several years, but we are working on revitalizing it (foundation)," he added.
Smith, when asked about foundation funds, said the organization currently has $36,000, but added that the foundation will launch a fund-raising campaign soon.
"We want to get involved and be a part of the WACO School District," Smith emphasized. "Just let us know how we can help the district."
He said he will be disseminating fund request forms to district staff in the near future.
WACO continues inching closer to the Washington Community School District — at least in terms of sports. Directors approved 28E agreements to share high school baseball, girls' and boys' soccer with its northern neighbors. WACO formerly shared baseball with Winfield-Mt. Union.
Earlier in the school year, 28E agreements were approved to share cross-country and girls' and boys' golf with Washington.
In other agenda items, Brandt Snakenberg, WACO elementary school principal, requested new laptop computers for the instructional staff.
"Todd (Werner, junior-senior high school principal) and I would like to put a laptop in each teacher's hands this year," Snakenberg began.
"That would give them the flexibility to work anywhere…Teachers have desktops but the newest one is five year old. That is fairly old for a computer and we are living on borrowed time," he noted.
Snakenberg said he would like the district to purchase either IBM or Mac computers for the teachers. "I am an IBM guy, but either one would work, it is just a matter of comfort (with the operating system). You are probably looking at a $25,000 investment."
The board already has been asked for Chromebooks for students to implement the 1:1 initiative. Directors asked Snakenberg whether Chromebooks would work for staff, too. "I think teachers need computers, not Chromebooks. Chromebooks only work with a wireless connection."
Snakenberg was asked to bring more information including cost estimates to the February board meeting.
Superintendent of Schools Pat Coen announced that the district will have a "dry run" of the 4 + 1 school week April 15-26. The school district will be implementing the four-day school week next year and wants to work out "kinks" during the trial run in April.
"We need to do a dry run, so we can address issues that crop up," he explained. Friday, April 19, there will not be regular classes. Instead, the district will be offering some of the curriculum items planned for Fridays during the 2013-14 school year. Instructional staff will have a professional development day Friday, April 26.
In personnel items, resignations were accepted from Bev Skovgard, 1-1 instructor; and Randy Graber, junior high science and business teacher. Both instructors are retiring.
Contracts were approved for Tyler Kibbee, associate; Lee-Ann Felts, cook; and Barbi Roth, special education instructor.
Finally, the board:
• Approved a band/choir trip to Minneapolis, Minn., April 12-14. The musical groups will be attending a clinic at the University of Minnesota and also doing some touring. The trip is self-funded.
• Approved a science trip to Illinois.
WACO board members meet again in regular session Monday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the junior-senior high school media center.


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by Stu on 2009/5/21 15:36:37
I think the problem with this whole process has been one of miselading terminology. The whole idea of there being a "pre-order" process was a bit ludicrous. If HC had simply offered to put people on a mailing list for notification when the book became available (as they did with CoH) and left it at that, there would not be an issue here. They only made it a pretend "pre-order" to try and gather market information, and whilst this was a fairly obvious stunt, it did leave a bit of uncertainly with the buyer as to whether to wait for contact or jump in and order when the release date rolled around.
In the grand scheme of things, it's all fairly minor stuff, but I can understand those who did fill out the pre-order being a bit upset at not getting the lowest number possible, because they were waiting for some contact that didn't happen. Really, the only issue I can see here is the numbers, and I imagine the really keen people (and I'm thinking of the "professional Tolkienisti", such as Beren, et al) might well have called in and ordered on the 19th anyway (and I don't imagine HC would have turned those early sales down!).
Fundamentally, I don't think getting the book a day later (for those of you who did order) is going to be too much of a strain! :)
I'd be really interested to hear what numbers people manage to get, relative to when they ordered, and some pictures would be nice!


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THEY are off on what will be a life-changing school trip.
Students from Sholing Technology College have set off on an 8,000-mile journey to the Philippines to help projects that support some of the poorest communities in the world.
The Southampton college has been organising trips to Manila since 2010, working with the Southampton-based charity the Philippine Community Fund (PCF).
The charity provides education, healthcare and feeding programmes for children and welfare and employment for families who live in squalid conditions on the dumpsites of Manila. This year's trip is particularly significant as it is the first following typhoon Haiyan, which devastated parts of the country.
The team of 27 students and eight staff have spent 18 months raising funds for the trip, through bag-packing at supermarkets, fashion shows and charity events.


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Centillium samples four-port ADSL chip set
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FREMONT, Calif. ( ChipWire)-- Centillium Communications Inc. here is sampling a four-port chip set for asymmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSL) that it calls the most highly integrated, least power hungry ADSL product available today, said Al Gharakhanian, marketing director for Centillium's network access products. The two-chip CopperFlite product consumes less than 1 watt, and can support any of several ADSL formats.
Aimed at central office equipment, CopperFlite is sampling now to most of Centillium's current customers. Among OEMs using the company's current products are Copper Mountain Networks Inc., Orckit Communications Ltd. and Promatory Communications Inc., among others. The chip set is scheduled to ramp into volume production in March, and Gharakhanian said the company is in negotiations with at least two other major vendors interested in using it.
Although pricing has not been released yet, Gharakhanian said "we don't claim to be the least expensive in the industry. We just claim to be the best solution that's available." Gharakhanian said most vendors consider density and power consumption even more important than cost, which would give CopperFlite an advantage, he said.
The chip set features an analog CMOS front end, which is manufactured by Taiwan's UMC Group, and a digital CMOS back end, produced by Mitsubishi. Along with an external driver and some other necessary component, Gharakhanian said a total of six active chips are required to implement an entire four-port system. "We're used to systems that need three or four chips to drive a single port, so this is a real improvement," he said.
Since the chip set is software programmable, it can be used with several different ADSL formats, including full-rate ADSL and the slower, G.Lite version. It can also work with the Japanese G.Lite annex-C standard, and Centillium claims to be the only vendor in the industry currently fielding a product for that specification.


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Guild Wars 2's Asura Week brings the thing that many fans look forward to the most: a new video and the official web page for the race.
The web page gives a rundown of the Asura race's history (which can be seen firsthand in the current Guild Wars game) as well as information on the ups and downs of being an Asura in Guild Wars 2. As with the other four races, there is plenty to enjoy and be proud of, but not everything is perfect. Threats from around the land of Tyria -- such as the elder dragons -- are an ongoing worry, but internal politics, individual agendas, and personal rivalries also contribute danger from within.
Chief among those is the Inquest: "The greatest danger to the Asura is, to no one's surprise, other Asura. Putting aside the sometimes dramatic, even explosive, nature of their experiments, a group of Asura have banded together to form their own meta-krewe. Known as the Inquest, these Asura combine their resources into a larger organization and share their knowledge among their own members - never with those outside the Inquest."
The icing on the cake is the video -- a detailed view of Rata Sum, the greatest of Asura cities. Follow along after the jump for a look at the video, and check out all the latest information on the race at Guild Wars 2's new Asura page.


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Christian rap once struggled to be taken seriously, now it's mainstream - KP 100 tops Billboard Christian Albums chart
Christian rapper KB defines Hip Hop as "an expression of what is dearest to you." He told Billboard Magazine that he believes Hip Hop comes from the heart and who he loves - Jesus.
Earlier this month the rapper received awards for his recent EP "100." With the partnership of the YouVersion Bible app and his own self promotion, KB garnered fans that made 100 become a No. 1 hit on Billboard's Christian Albums chart, No. 4 on Rap Albums and No. 22 on the Billboard 200. The EP sold over 14,000 copies the first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
For the religious music market, the success of Christian rap is fairly new. According to SoundScan, last year, sales of Christian/gospel music dropped 15 percent. The category itself is down 31 percent from 2009, when 28.3 million units were sold.
Yet, Reach Records, based in Atlanta and founded in 2004 by Christian rap star Lecrae, is making its way into the mainstream.This year, Reach artists KB and Andy Mineo have placed top titles on the Rap Albums chart. Mineo's "Never Land" EP came in at No. 2 in February. In 2013, three of the 12 debuts by Christian hip-hop artists on the list were Reach albums, including Mineo's "Heroes for Sale," which came in at No. 4 on the Christian Rap chart.
"We've seen explosive growth in Christian rap in the past decade," Greg Davidson, CFO of Central South Distribution, a distributor based in Nasheville, Tennessee told Billboard Magazine. He shared that there is now a fine line between Christian rap and general rap. "A lot of the artists don't want to be identified as Christian rappers, but rather as rappers with a positive message."
Andy Mineo has said that the "Christian" rap tag is a title they'd like to get rid of. "It minimizes what we do," Mineo told MSNBC's theGrio. "At times, people want to label something that they don't immediately understand."
Mineo's brand of religious rap continues to make a crossover into the mainstream. By late 2013, he was featured on MTV and Sirius XM Radio.


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The more specialized a hospital is in orthopedic surgical care, the better the outcomes appear to be for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery, University of Iowa researchers report in a new study of Medicare patients. Among more specialized hospitals, there were fewer serious post-surgical complications such as blood clots, infections and heart problems, as well as fewer deaths.
"While specialization appears to be an important indicator of quality, it is just one factor that patients might want to consider along with other important factors, such as how close the hospital is to home," states the study's lead author Tyson Hagen, M.D., fellow in rheumatology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.
By using Medicare data from 2001 to 2005, the study was limited to the experience of patients age 65 and older. The study authors used Medicare data since it is available for almost all hospitals in the United States. While the study focused on people age 65 and older, the researchers said the findings indicate trends that could be relevant to the larger population.
The study adjusted for differences in the types of patient seen at each hospital, as well as the number of surgeries that each hospital performed. Compared to the least specialized hospitals, the more specialized hospitals treated a lower proportion of women and African-Americans. These hospitals also treated patients who had better health overall.
The results grouped hospitals into five levels of specialization. At the average hospital, orthopedic surgeries, which include back surgery and fracture repair in addition to joint replacements, represented 10.5 percent of admissions. The most specialized group in the current study included hospitals that had 14.5 percent or more admissions for orthopedic care. These hospitals had fewer complications or deaths within the first 90 days after a surgery than less specialized hospitals did.
The study's senior author, Peter Cram, M.D., UI associate professor of internal medicine, noted that larger hospitals might do a relatively high volume of orthopedic surgical cases but often were categorized as less specialized because they do so many other types of surgeries besides orthopedics.
"Learning more about orthopedic specialization could help us to better understand how to organize care and take ideas from more specialized hospitals to less specialized hospitals, and result in better outcomes all around," Cram said.


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Dr. Fuhrman's Anti-Cancer Solution
By Joel Fuhrman, M.D.www.drfuhrman.com
The Seven Most Important Steps You Can Take To Protect Against Cancer!
Eat to prevent cancer, to slow cancerous progression, and, possibly, to beat cancer. No treatment—not even a program of nutritional excellence—is consistently effective for "curing cancer." Cancer is a bizarre end-stage disease that responds in an unpredictable fashion, but dietary protocols that include vegetable juicing and high intake of cruciferous vegetables offer the most potential for treatment and for increasing the survival of cancer patients.
Here are the seven most important dietary steps to take:
- Vegetables (not fruits) should comprise the largest part of your diet. They should include raw salad vegetables, raw solid vegetables such as broccoli and snow pea pods, as well as cooked vegetables, which should be steamed lightly, lightly sautéed in water, or cooked in soups.
- Sprouts are an excellent concentrated source of phytochemicals. Try mung, radish, alfalfa, and broccoli sprouts. Broccoli sprouts are the richest natural source of sulforaphane.
- Include large amounts of green, leafy vegetables (spinach, romaine lettuce, kale, collards, and chard) and choices from the cabbage family (cabbage, baby bok choy, brussels sprouts, red cabbage, and Chinese cabbage) in your salads.
- Drink fresh-squeezed vegetable juice two or three times a day, made with carrots, beets, tomatoes and greens (kale, collards, wheat grass, mashe, and cabbage). This provides the broadest spectrum of cancer-fighting nutrients. Only use organic vegetables for juicing.
- Beans also contain powerful cancer-fighting compounds, especially the darker colored and reddish beans. Use them in a carrot juice- or tomato juice-based soup with added mushrooms and cruciferous vegetables.
- Use organic raw fruits, especially those with high free radical- absorptive capacity, such as all berries, kiwis, gogi berries, red and black grapes, cherries, papaya, and red apples.
- Use only raw, unsalted seeds and nuts in your diet as your source of fat. No animal fats or oils should be used. Avocado and raw nuts and seeds can be blended to make delicious dips and dressings.
A Sample Cancer Protocol Menu
The suggested meal options listed below contain multiple choices. You do not have to consume all of the foods listed!
- 6-8 oz. glass of fresh-squeezed vegetable juice made from carrots, beets, kale, parsley, wheat grass, or other greens
- Fresh fruit, especially blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, kiwis, and papaya
- One cup oatmeal with ground flaxseed, walnuts, and added fruit
- Fresh fruit smoothie, blended with watercress, kale, and pomegranate
- Large green salad with baby greens, shredded cabbage, and baby bok choy, with a healthful fruit-nut-based dressing
- Vegetable Bean Soup, made with zucchini, leeks, blended cruciferous leafy greens, mushrooms, onion, lentils, beans, parsnips, herbs and spices, cooked in half vegetable juice and half water
- One fresh or frozen fruit (mango or cherries) whipped into a 1/2 cup of pomegranate juice
- Glass of vegetable juice (organic tomato-based) with cruciferous greens added such as cabbage, watercress, and arugula
- Blended salad, 1-2 oz. raw organic spinach, 2-3 oz. leaf lettuce, 1 oz. kale, Chinese cabbage or bok choy. Blend greens in a high-powered blender with apple and cinnamon, avocado and banana, strawberries and pineapple, orange and lemon, or any other cut fruit (and flavored vinegar, if desired).
- Lightly steamed greens, such as brussels sprouts, asparagus, and artichokes
- Raw vegetables, tomatoes, baby bok choy, carrots, peppers, broccoli, snow peas, and small raw okra, with dip or dressing
- Vegetable/eggplant stew made with edamame, red peppers, mushrooms, eggplant, tomatoes, cauliflower, frozen peas, and currants, with flavoring such as cinnamon or turmeric
- Frozen organic strawberries whipped with an orange or dried pineapple
- Fresh or frozen fruit (whipped), berries, or other fruit
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As much as one avocado and 3 ounces of raw nuts/seeds can be used in the dressings and sauces each day. Nutritional supplements also are included in the protocol.


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could contribute the real date) there were no fillings. If you had a
cavity, you waited until it started hurting, then you pulled the
tooth. When you lost enough teeth, they'd pull them all and give you
dentures made of ivory.
It took them that long to come up with an amalgam (which I take it to
be a combination of low melting-point metals) that you could pour into
a tooth cavity without killing the patient. There wasn't much chance
to prevent cavities, since toothbrushes weren't common and toothpaste
was nonexistant.
And if you're thinking that mercury fillings are bad...well, I once
had a dentist (who later got his license lifted for malpractice) who
gave me all plastic fillings, saying they'd look natural. Sure did,
until the fillings (which he didn't tell me were temporary, but
charged as if they were permanent) started leaking, and I ended up a
few years later with a whole lot of root canals. Thanks, Doctor (name
deleted for legal reasons).
My feeling? In the Girl Genius Universe, someone has devised a way to
pull teeth with cavities, quickly cast solid gold replacements, and
plant them in the jaw within fifteen minutes. For a little longer wait
they might be baked with a white enamel to look natural. Of course,
like most machines in the GGU, the Molar-Matic is only used by a few
Sparks, so the common people simply have a lot of gaps in their
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Cyberknife therapy requires five sessions which occur within a two week period. There is rapid recovery within the 2 to 4 weeks after a Cyberknife treatment for prostate cancer. Conventional radiation therapy requires as many as 44 sessions.
Cyberknife therapy is an outpatient treatment. You will be required to visit the START Center in San Antonio five times for treatment sessions. You can resume your normal activities immediately after each session.
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The date of department's establishing (1964) is coincided with the reorganization of the department of state law and historical- legal sciences which was head by the talented scholar - David Isaakovich Feldman. From 1975 till 1987 was head by the professor Fatkullin Fidail Nurgaleevich. From 1987 the head of the department is professor Reshetov Yuriy Sergeevich.
Currently, there are 1 professor, 12 associate professors, 4 senior teachers, 6 assistants, 2 specialists. The legal regulation and the implementing the law serve as the main subjects for theoretical researches.
The department offers a Law honours programme for its bachelor's and master's students.
Disciplines on bachelor degree:
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The programs on legal science are embedded in other faculties and institutions of Kazan federal university and taught by the teachers of department.
In addition to the regular studies the students are encouraged to conduct active students' scientific-research work. There are three students' scientific groups which act under the supervision of the department's staff:
- Theory of state and law. Scientific supervisor is Cand. of Sc. in Law, Associate Professor L. T. Bakulina.
- History of home state and law. Scientific supervisors are Cand. of Sc. in Law, Associate Professor V.R. Sharifullin and assistant Yu. M. Lukin.
- History of state and law of foreign countries and history of political and legal sciences. Scientific supervisors are Cand. of Sc. in Law,Associate Professor D.N. Gorshunov and assistant M.V. Voronin.
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Pyrrhotite, iron sulfide mineral (Fe1–xS) in the niccolite group; in it, the ratio of iron to sulfur atoms is variable but is usually slightly less than one. It commonly is found with pentlandite and other sulfides in silica-poor igneous rocks, as at Kongsberg, Nor.; Andreas-Berg, Ger.; Trentino, Italy; and Sudbury, Ont. The variety troilite, with a composition near that of iron sulfide (FeS), is an important constituent of some meteorites. The crystals possess hexagonal symmetry; for detailed physical properties, see sulfide mineral (table).
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person familiar with a pending criminal case against Mel Gibson says he will be charged with misdemeanor battery over a fight last year with his then-girlfriend and has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.
The source with knowledge of the case is not authorized to speak publicly about the details and spoke Wednesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The person says Gibson will be charged with battery over a January 2010 dispute with Oksana Grigorieva. Prosecutors have not yet announced a decision on whether to charge Grigorieva with extortion, which Gibson has been seeking.
The actor-director's attorney, Blair Berk, said Gibson sought the plea agreement after prioritizing the interests of his children, including an infant daughter with Grigorieva.
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SmartMoney deputy editor Matt Heimer put down his abacus to compete on Jeopardy last Friday. We caught up with the self-professed FBNY fan in the game show afterglow to talk Trebek, velociraptors, and his rigorous pre-taping training. He wouldn't tell us how much prize money he won, but he did tell friends at his viewing party that he was "not paying for all the drinks."
Heimer had support from SmartMoney colleagues, who showed up to watch his game show debut. SmartMoney.com's Rob Wherry and Ken Shadford even set up a practice Jeopardy game in the magazine's video production room back in April to prepare Heimer for battle.
Heimer said he used to watch Jeopardy a lot when he first moved to New York and couldn't afford to do much besides watch TV. He tried out and didn't make the cut back in the '90s, but he still felt his "really immense capacity for remembering useless information" should be put to use on-air.
"I had a blast," he said. "My biggest hope was that I wouldn't do anything embarrassing that I'd be teased about for the rest of my life." He watched another taping where a category was "Financial Planning," but Heimer didn't get so lucky with his own game's categories. His performance met his expectations, and he's especially proud of his answers "Peter the Great" (a Daily Double!), "velociraptor," and "beefalo."
His advice to Jeopardy hopefuls? "There are a ton of media people out there [for whom] it's worth rolling the dice."
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When Dr. Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University and internationally-recognized plant pathologist, wrote a letter back in January to US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, warning him about a new mystery disease showing up primarily in genetically-modified (GM) crops, the notice fell on deaf ears.
Research conducted by a team of senior plant and animal scientists found that Monsanto's glyphosate chemical, which is the primary ingredient in its popular RoundUp herbicide formula, appears responsible for infecting plants with an AIDS-like syndrome that destroys their immunity, blocks their absorption of certain vitamins and minerals, and eventually kills them.
You can read a copy of Dr. Huber's letter for yourself here:
The key factor of Dr. Huber's discovery was a microscopic pathogen specifically prevalent in GM crops. The pathogen, he explained in an interview with Food Democracy Now! (FDN) as well as in his letter, is common. But an apparent weakening of plant immunity by glyphosate makes plants treated with the chemical more susceptible to contracting the harmful pathogen. And as a result of exposure, large swaths of GM farmland have died, and many animals that feed on GM-tainted meal have become infertile or have had abortions.
But instead of listening to the scientifically sound advice of Dr. Huber and withholding deregulation of GM alfalfa until more intense safety studies could be conducted, the USDA decided to ignore it all and approve the "Frankencrop" anyway.
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Bluetooth: Dead and alive
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After all the research, development, marketing and debates, Bluetooth was successful. But only as a mobile headset cable replacement. So, is that it?
After all the research, development, marketing and debates, Bluetooth was successful. As a mobile headset cable replacement. So, is that it?
The recent announcement that Bluetooth 3.0 will emerge with higher data rates by running over Wi-Fi networks via a protocol adaptation layer made it clear that after all the work, delays, more work, more delays, marketing, fighting and debates, Bluetooth is, in the end, just another communications protocol.
Of course, back when it was first emerging, it was much more than that. It was a game changer. It would be omnipresent and revolutionize the world by getting rid of cables and freeing up users so they could 'jack in' anywhere, anytime, to any system.
Naturally, there were debates over whether it could survive in the face of Wi-Fi's onslaught. Was there even a need for Bluetooth as Wi-Fi proliferated and ZigBee emerged? The most famous debate "Bluetooth: Dead or alive" was between analyst Craig Mathias of Farpoint Group and Paul Marino, then of Philips Semiconductors. That debate came about after Ericsson, who devised the standard, backed out of making Bluetooth chips.
Between them they pretty much laid out all the arguments for and against Bluetooth, including other emerging wireless technologies and their potential impact.
Since that debate, WiBree was pushed into the fray, courtesy of Nokia, and became part of the Bluetooth spec. UWB emerged finally, only to also get thrown into (I was going to say 'under' but it's too early to say that) the Bluetooth bus.
So, in many ways, both camps were right: Bluetooth both died and lived, depending on your definition of what Bluetooth actually is. Those that argued early on that Bluetooth was a fully encapsulated, one stop, physical and protocol layer that would change the world and be adopted by everyone were dead wrong.
Those that argued that Bluetooth would grow old and die within the narrow confines of the wireless headset application were also wrong.
However, those that recognized that -- despite all the arguments and debates around low-power radio performance -- Bluetooth was and is, at its heart, simply another protocol that has certain advantages with respect to ad hoc, peer-to-peer connectivity, they were the ones with the foresight to see what's happening now. Bluetooth is being separated from the PHY and pushed across any radio that has a need for such a connectivity scheme.
Is this the end of "Bluetooth"? Is it being spread too thin to be even relevant as a name anymore? Or, is it a new beginning for wireless connectivity? Is Bluetooth both dead and alive?
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Wade (Wilson Bethel) and Zoe (Rachel Bilson) sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G?!
OK, so maybe Hart of Dixie's fan favorite couple will not be sitting in a tree when the CW show returns tonight, but that doesn't mean there won't possibly be kissing! Our Kristin Dos Santos caught up with Mr. Bethel, who was unfortunately fully clothed during ou chat, and he talked about the possibility of more Zoe and Wade smooches by season's end. Plus, how is he feeling about Wade's chances against George (Scott Porter) for Zoe's affections?
Oh, what's that? You want to see Bethel take his clothes off? Why didn't you ask sooner?! Here you go...
MORE: How I Met Your Mother First Look: Why Is Neil Patrick Harris Getting Naked With Becki Newton?!
Yes friends, Bethel starts off the interview unbuttoning his dapper vest. Alas, it was but a joke and he remained covered up. But why? "They usually end up putting makeup over my third nipple," Bethel jokes.
Our next order of business was to find out what's ahead for Zoe and Wade. Bethel, who proclaims he is Team Wade (duh!) teases, "The truth is I don't know where the season is going to end up, but I will say in my heart of hearts, I feel like you're going to have one more bona fide Wade and Zoe makeout before the season is over. That is how I feel."
Later, Bethel reiterates how badly he wants Zoe and Wade together (or at least for them to smooch again), telling us, "I want Zoe and Wade to end up together enough that I'm willing to believe that's going to happen. I think it is." Wilson Bethel, president of the "Zade" fan club, y'all!
When we chatted with Bethel earlier in the season, we asked him about his one-episode stint on The O.C. as Bilson's kissing-booth partner. So what's the vibe like between the costars now? "There's a lot of that post-O.C. kiss discomfort," Bethel jokes. "We're always looking at each other longingly over the watercooler, like, 'Oh my god, it was all that time ago, but still, there's all this.'"
So is Bethel shocked by all the fan support for Wade? "A little bit," he admits, saying costar Scott Porter is "legit competition." "If I was competing for a girl and Scott Porter was on the other end of the competition, I'd be a little salty," he says. "He's also got a bit of a deck stacked against him, you know, that he's engaged to Lemon (Jamie King)."
Still, Bethel thinks Wade and Zoe are meant to be. "It's been really amazing to see the amount of fan support for the Zoe and Wade connection. I'm also incredibly happy to see it because I'm Team Wade, man. I think Wade and Zoe belong together." See, we told you: he's a "Zade" fanboy!
Hart of Dixie returns tonight at 9 p.m. on the CW.
To hear more from Bethel about what's ahead on Hart of Dixie, including an event that will bring Zoe and George "back into each other's orbits," watch our interview with him above! Then head on over to the comments to tell us if you're Team Wade or Team George.


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The Argument Browser enables you to explore complex debates by selecting arguments and discover their direct and indirect attack and support relations with other arguments and theses.
The argument maps look similar to mind maps but consist of only two kinds of nodes and two kinds of relations. The two kinds of nodes are arguments and theses. The two kinds of relations are supports and attacks.
Arguments and theses
A thesis is an important claim in the debate. It is visualized as a white box with a thick colored border.
An argument has two parts: A sentence that is justified. This sentence is called the conclusion of the argument. And sentences that are justifying the conclusion. These sentences are called the premises of the argument. In an Argunet argument map arguments are visualized as colored boxes. The full premise-conclusion structure itself is not visible to save space. Instead the main premises and its conclusion of each argument are summarized in a short text.
Support and attack relations
Arguments have relations with other arguments or theses. An argument supports a claim, if the claim is the conclusion of the argument (or has the same meaning as the conclusion). An argument supports another argument, if it has one of the premises of the other argument as its conclusion. Support relations between arguments and theses are visualized as green arrows.
A green arrow from a thesis to an argument means that the claim of the thesis is a premise of the argument.
An argument attacks a claim, if the claim contradicts the conclusion of the argument. An argument attacks another argument, if it contradicts one of the premises of the other argument. Attack relations are visualized as red arrows.
A red arrow from a thesis to an argument means that the claim of the thesis contradicts a premise of the argument.
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You can browse through a debate by selecting one argument or thesis after another. Each time the selected argument or thesis will move to center stage and all the arguments and theses that are directly related to it, will pop up around it.
Increasing the graph depth
You can explore the wider environment of an argument or thesis by increasing the graph depth. For example, if the graph depth is 3 this will open up all arguments or thesis that are related to the selected argument or thesis by no more than three degrees of separation, which means they are not more than three arrows away.
To increase the graph depth click or touch into the map so that the menu on the bottom will become visible. Next, click on the plus sign beside the "Graph Depth: 1" label. You can increase the graph depth up to 5. To decrease the graph depth you can click on the minus sign beside the label.
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If you increase the graph depth we recommend to switch to fullscreen mode. Fullscreen mode is currently not supported by all browsers. To check if fullscreen mode is available, click or touch on the map to open the menu at the bottom. Right beside the button with the plus sign should be the fullscreen button. Click on it to change into fullscreen mode. Click on it again or press Escape to exit fullscreen mode.
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January 18, 2013, 06:46 PM
Local shop has DT Sport with an aftermarket handle with a rear site and one 30rd clip bundled for $900. Thoughts?
January 18, 2013, 08:11 PM
Tough call. A few weeks ago they were going for between $600 and $695 but on the same note, it may be the only one you see for a while under $1000 so... If I really wanted one, I would probably jump on it.
January 18, 2013, 10:05 PM
Whag is the build quality like?
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Verizon is preparing for the launch of the HTC DROID Merge later this week. This is the same phone in which we have heard so much about on the internet, but so little from Verizon. The Merge will be Verizon's first HTC Android phone that includes a physical keyboard, which is making it look to be a really impressive and popular device for the coming holiday season.
This Thursday, Verizon will be hosting an event in a Seattle club to celebrate the launch of the HTC Droid Merge World-Phone. It seems the HTC Droid Merge will be yet another World-Phone for the carrier who seem to be pushing into the market.
The device features a 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen with a resolution of (800 X 480), 800 MHz processor, and 512 MH of RAM. It will ship with Android OS 2.2 with HTC Sense 1.6 overlay.
Pricing is still unknown.
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Tim Marchell says thanks to Cornell for helping in adoption
By Marguerite Spencer |
"We are blessed," says Tim Marchell, showing off photos of his family: 5-year-old Owen, 19-month-old Gracie Trinh and 9-month-old Anderson.
Marchell is director of mental health initiatives at Cornell's Gannet Health Services; his wife, Sarah George, a former associate pastor of the First Congregational Church in Ithaca, is now a full-time mom. Last fall, Owen found himself not only big brother to newborn Anderson, but also to adopted sister Gracie Trinh, born in Vietnam.
Two months after getting word that Gracie could be theirs, George learned she was pregnant. She, therefore, did not accompany her husband to Vietnam to bring Gracie home. Weeks after the infant girl arrived in Ithaca, Anderson was born.
"We are big ambassadors for Cornell's Adoption Assistance Program," says Marchell proudly. Cornell provided many forms of help to the family throughout the adoption process, from help considering the big step to the day Gracie arrived and after.
More help with adoptions
Since Cornell's Adoption Assistance Program was launched in 2005, it has provided up to $5,000 per adoption to benefits-eligible employees, for up to three adoptions per family. Starting July 1, Cornell began providing $6,000 worth of assistance for the adoption of a child with special needs, a $1,000 increase.
On Nov. 11, a half-day workshop on adoption-related concerns will be held at Robert Purcell Community Center. Speakers will discuss issues related to domestic and international adoption, legal concerns and more. Contact Michelle Artibee at firstname.lastname@example.com or 607-255-5298 for more information.
At the beginning, the couple attended Cornell-sponsored lunchtime sessions to hear the real-life experiences of adoptive families. "We got to talk with parents at various stages of adoption, as well as meet the professionals," says Marchell. These exchanges helped the couple make the decision to adopt. Later, Cornell helped financially with agency, medical and immigration fees, through reimbursements.
Cornell's Adoption Assistance Program provides up to $5,000 per adoption to benefits-eligible employees, for up to three adoptions per family. Since 2005, more than 30 families have been aided by this assistance.
The Cornell community continues to sustain the Marchell family. They have connected with Vietnamese students at Cornell who help them learn more about Gracie's homeland, ensuring her future comfort with her cultural background and enhancing the lives of her entire family.
"We are thrilled," says Marchell. "Some people say, 'Isn't Gracie lucky.' We say Sarah and I are the lucky ones. We come from mixed cultural backgrounds ourselves, and Gracie has brought even more richness to our family. For this we are very grateful to Cornell."
In 2007 and 2008, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption named Cornell one of the "100 Best Adoption Friendly Workplaces."


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Just two short weeks ago we were in Florida shooting a beautiful outdoor wedding in the gardens of The Oldest House located in St. Augustine. Christina planned such a sweet neutral color palette of ivories, blush accents and blacks that it complimented the historic location perfectly. Here are a few sneak peeks of their wedding day. We hope you all enjoy!
I absolutely love this photo of Christina's dad and his two girls.


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Translation is the third stage of protein synthesis and proceeds in four phases: activation, initiation, elongation and termination. Activation occurs when an amino acid is covalently bonded to a tRNA. [1] Initiation follows when the ribosome binds to the 5' end of mRNA. This allows translation to build a particular protein. This process is halted once a stop codon (UAA, UAG, or UGA) is reached because no tRNA can bind to these codons. What does recognize this codon is a "release factor" protein that disassembles the ribosome/mRNA complex.
An illustration of this process is shown as follows:
Shown above is a ribosome translating a protein that is secreted into the endoplasmic reticulum. tRNAs are colored dark blue.
Bacterial Ribosome Binding Sites
A ribosome binding site (RBS) is a region 6-7 nucleotides upstream of the start codon AUG in prokaryotes called the Shine-Dalgarno sequence (5′–GGAGGU–3′). The ribosome will base pair with this site through its own rRNA as well at the start codon using tRNA. What makes this an interesting topic of research is the fact that the Shine-Dalgarno sequence is not the "optimal" RBS for all expression processes. In other words, a RBS affects the rate at which a particular Open Reading Frame (ORF) is translated. There are two general ways in which this happens: i) the rate at which ribosomes are recruited to the mRNA and initiate translation is dependent on the sequence of the RBS and ii) the RBS can also affect the stability of the mRNA, thereby affecting the number of proteins made over the lifetime of the mRNA.
RBS Sequence Design
The first variable to be taken into account should be the sequence of the RBS itself, specifically to what degree the RBS is complementary to the free end of the 16s rRNA. If this hybridization is highly favorable, then the time needed to complete the initiation phase will be reduced allowing elongation to proceed.
Stability of mRNA
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Doortop Stash
We've gotta admit to having never thought of the possibility of stashing stuff on the top of a door. In fact this might be the most clever place to stash stuff since it's unlikely to be seen by anyone (short of them taking the door off its hinges). Just drill a hole and jam a 6′ cigar tube in it, and you're golden (though it's obviously a bit more complex).
Head over to Makeprojects to check out how its done (can't buy your way into this one) – DIY.


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Johnny Cash Christmas Specials:1978 & 1979
While there are Christmas songs interspersed throughout the specials, the majority of the music consists of standard country tunes.
The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1978Distributor: Shout! Factory
Cast: Johnny Cash
US Release Date: 2008-10-07
The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1979Distributor: Shout! Factory
Cast: Johnny Cash
US Release Date: 2008-10-07
The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials were the third and fourth installments of his annual tradition. They offer a glimpse into the 1970s country music world as they include performances by June Carter Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Tom T. Hall, and Anne Murray.
Comedy relief comes in the form of appearances by Steve Martin and Andy Kauffman, appealing to a country audience by keeping much of their material related to Cash. Surprisingly, Martin does not choose to show off his famous banjo-playing skills, but he does perform as a French Johnny Cash-like figure. Kauffman is in character as Latka from Taxi for the most part, until he switches into his uncannily good Elvis Presley impression.
The 1978 special was filmed in Los Angeles, because as Cash explained, three of his daughters and many of the family's friends live in the area so they decided to spend the holidays in California. Moving the show to LA marked a shift to a more Hollywood-style production, as opposed to the more laid back, homey feeling of the1979 special back in Nashville.
Each of the specials begins with a short introductory comedy sketch and then with a short "My name is Johnny Cash", Cash immediately launches into a song. As each of the specials runs just under one hour, Cash and his guests make great use of their time singing solos, duets, and group numbers, alongside Cash's stories of family Christmases and even a recitation of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver", along with the comic portions, these specials offer a wonderful variety of material that seems almost unimaginable today.
Both of these specials include performances of non-Christmas related songs and comedy material. In fact, as far as the comedic parts go, there is really only one gag that is holiday themed and it features Andy Kauffman in a Santa Claus suit without pants. Not exactly traditional Christmas fare.
While there are Christmas songs interspersed throughout the specials, the majority of the music consists of standard country tunes. Highlights include Cash's "Ballad of a Teenage Queen", his two duets with June Carter Cash ("You're a Part of Me" and "If I Were a Carpenter"), Cash and Kristofferson's duet on "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and Hall's "That's Why You Have to Be You".
Both Rita Coolidge and Anne Murray also sing solos, "Love Me Again" and "You Needed Me", respectively, yet they stand out as something closer to pop ballads than the rest of the more traditional country songs. However, both of their duets and group sing-alongs stick closer to this, particularly Murray's song with Cash, "That Christmasy Feeling".
Part of what makes these specials as engaging as they are is Cash himself, particularly his easygoing rapport with guests and the obvious love he has for his family. The moments with June are especially charming – their duet on the aforementioned "If I Were a Carpenter" exudes such warmth and affection that many may be surprised to see him so relaxed. The 1978 special includes Cash singing "Silent Night" surrounded by daughters Carlene, Tara, Rosanne, Cindy, Kathy, and Rosie and while a few of them seem less than enthused to be singing along, Cash is all smiles as the proud father.
There's also a portion of the 1979 special devoted to family recollections with his father, Ray, and older brother, Roy, visiting their small, childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas. They reminisce about a bad flood that sent their farm animals to seek shelter in the home. The obvious hardship of Cash's early life is clear, but the simplicity and humor used in retelling their story is a welcome antidote to the increasingly cheap tactics used to illicit an emotional response in much of reality television today.
Having cleaned up his act from his many addictions and rediscovered his Christian faith ten years earlier, there is a matter-of-factness to the way Cash speaks of God and religion in the specials. There is no proselytizing or any overtly religion scenes, but it is clearly and unapologetically a part of the programs. The 1979 special has Cash telling of a recent family trip to "the Holy Land", Jerusalem, and the feeling of "coming home" he felt during their visit.
Unfortunately, there are no bonus features to speak of, but these specials made available through a partnership with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, offer enough to entice both Johnny Cash and country music fans to this collection.


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Photos of Keri Russell, Who's 34 Today And Returning to TV in Wilde Kingdom
Keri Russell Celebrates 34 Years With Two Wheels
Keri Russell took advantage of the amazing weather in NYC over the weekend by taking a ride on her bicycle on Saturday afternoon. She was out enjoying the fresh air before a big celebration — she turns 34 today! Keri apparently got a recent birthday present in the form of a new job. She's set to play Will Arnett's love interest in the TV series Wilde Kingdom, a show produced by the team who brought us Arrested Development.
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Elizabeth Laird,
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
(Houghton Mifflin, 2011)
Are there witches in the story? You decide.
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair, previously published in England as The Witching Hour, is about two women, a ragged old midwife and her young granddaughter, who are accused of witchcraft on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, in the tumultuous 1600s. Witchcraft to the people of the time was very real, and the actions of Granny -- without question a scowling and spiteful old crone -- must have seemed very much like magic to her superstitious neighbors. But if there is any real spell-casting going on in this novel, author Elizabeth Laird keeps it to herself.
This rich, deeply realized young-adult novel has much to say about belief and the way it affects people's actions. On Bute, folks believe in witchcraft, and so Granny and Maggie are condemned. Fleeing to the mainland, 16-year-old Maggie finds sanctuary with her uncle and his family -- but the people there are Covenanters, following in the Scottish Presbyterian movement and revering its spiritual head, the charismatic young preacher James Renwick (who makes a cameo appearance here), as a blessed martyr in the making. Many people there are willing to lay down their lives for their beliefs ... but is Maggie?
Either way, Maggie is quickly embroiled in religious and political turmoil as military-backed adherents of the Anglican faith -- who placed the English crown at the head of the church -- use force to beat the rebel faith down.
If any of that sounds dull, you haven't read Elizabeth Laird. Through meticulous research and careful character growth, Laird has captured Scotland as it must have been. Maggie's small world is so fully and colorfully developed, you can smell the heather and kine on the Scottish countryside. You feel her danger and can't help but admire her plucky tenacity throughout -- not through any great bravery or sense of purpose on her part so much as a stubborn desire to do the right thing for the people around her.
There are heroes and villains in this book, but mostly there are just people who disagree. Some are nicer than others, but few (not even the black-hearted Annie) are painted with a two-dimensional brush. Laird has brought both the landscape and its inhabitants to life.
It's refreshing to read a young-adult novel where romance is not a key element of the plot and the paranormal -- or at least its perception -- plays a negligible role. This is historical fiction that reads true, and the result is fine indeed.
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30 April 2011
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