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Coinciding with the declaration, the governor also announced the availability of state funds to provide much needed drought assistance in those counties.
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Highlights NIDA's research portfolio to identify the genes and genetic processes responsible for a person's vulnerability to drug abuse.
December 2010 Announces three new NIDA National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse members and describes their drug abuse and addiction research experience.
November 2013 A meta-analysis of 13 genome-wide association studies of African Americans' smoking patterns confirms the significance of genetic variation in region 15q25.1. The analysis also tentatively implicates several genome locations that have not previously been associated with smoking behaviors.
November 2012 NIDA-supported research suggests that glucocorticoid receptor levels during early brain development affect the hard wiring of neural circuits that shape an individual's basic emotional makeup. In mice, overexpression of the glucocorticoid gene in the first weeks after birth increased anxiety and response to cocaine in adulthood. These findings may help researchers understand the genetic background and the developmental trajectory of addiction.
November 2009
Describes research providing evidence that genes may influence how successful a person is in quitting smoking and which cessation technique may work best for them.
November 2011 Individuals with weak signaling in a nicotine-sensitive brain circuit were more vulnerable to nicotine dependence than those with stronger signaling, according to a study conducted while the subjects' brains were in a resting state. A second resting-state study finds that the same circuit appears to mediate dependence associated with a genetic risk factor for smoking.
July 2012 NIDA researchers working with human subjects now have a new resource at their fingertips: the PhenX Toolkit's new Substance Abuse and Addiction (SAA) Collection. The Toolkit is designed to provide standardized measures, vetted and approved by the field, to help researchers compare and combine data from multiple studies.
December 2010
Reviews research indicating that both parental influence and certain genes interact to influence nicotine addiction and that parental monitoring may play a role in reducing risk.
December 2009 Commemorates NIDA's 35th anniversary and highlights some of the major accomplishments since the Institute's inception in 1974.
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Key Technologies: This center-shaft, face-balanced mallet is designed to be a mini version of its Natalie model. The 355-gram clubhead is made of 304 stainless steel and has 2.5° loft. Comes standard with Winn AVS grip.
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Use plastic, not cash at Portsmouth metersBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
February 20. 2012 11:33PM
PORTSMOUTH - Credit card-enabled parking meters are coming to the city for a 90-day test.
Starting Thursday, they will replace about 30 traditional single-space coin meters on the northerly side of Daniel Street from Penhallow Street to Market Square, and on both sides of Penhallow from Daniel to Bow Street.
The larger pay-and-display meters being used in other parts of the city would not work well there because sidewalks are narrow, said Jon Frederick, transportation and parking director.
'We chose that area because it is heavily utilized and we knew we would get many customers testing them,' Frederick said.
He said about 60 percent of people now pay for parking with a credit card, given the option, even though all the machines in the city still take coins.
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But for the added convenience offered to consumers, a 13-cent per credit card transaction fee will be charged to the city.
Frederick said part of the analysis done over the 90-day test will include a cost analysis - weighing the operational costs of the new meters against their convenience and data collection capabilities.
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Narcissists always need to be at the center of everybody's attention. They boast, they brag, and they tell exaggerated stories so that they can be at the forefront of peoples' minds.
What makes them worse, is that they've been working on their methods for years, which makes their lies harder to spot.
They often mix full-blown lies with truths and half-truths so that they can get away with things more easily.
Narcissists have no capacity for empathy, understanding, or validation, but they've worked hard in order to fake it.
If you've been around a narcissist before, you already know how infuriating it can be just to have a simple conversation; they couldn't possibly care any less about what you're saying.
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Narcissists will never miss an opportunity to make someone look worse than they are.
If a narcissist has the chance to make someone look bad, while elevating their own status in the process, they will always take it.
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Usually, a narcissist will take underserved pity at the expense of another, who most likely deserves the pity in the first place.
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The body requires energy on a constant basis. Even when we're resting on the couch watching a movie, reading a book, or sleeping, our body continues to require energy to keep our organs functioning and our minds sharp. The most available form of fuel for the body is glucose. When we eat, our body converts the proteins and carbohydrates from our meal into glucose, or sugar, and we use this energy for everyday life, for digestion and for healing. The extra glucose that we don't use gets stored as glycogen in the liver.
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For both axes independently, first decide where a specific offering by you or your organisation is positioned. Is it a new or existing offering? Is it for new or existing users? Then find a spot on the map where these two positions cross – that is where you place the particular idea.
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Your offering can have several sub-offerings, and each of these can represent a different position on the map. Using the tool gives you a sense of the spread of your portfolio.
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FAYETTEVILLE The Razorback Foundation's third executive director in less than seven months has been promoted from within.
Sean Rochelle was tabbed to the position on Friday, two days after his predecessor Chris Wyrick was named the University of Arkansas' vice chancellor for advancement. Wyrick had spent only five months in the position after replacing Harold Horton, who retired last July.
"I have been privileged to work day to day with Razorback Foundation members and donors to our program and have witnessed the tremendous difference their support is making in the lives of Razorback student-athletes," Rochelle said. "I am deeply appreciative of the support and confidence of the Razorback Foundation Board in naming me to this important position."
Rochelle, a 45-year-old Elkins native, has been with the foundation — a private fundraising arm for Razorbacks athletics — since 2008. He previously served as the institution's senior associate director.
Sean Rochelle has been appointed as executive director of the Razorback Foundation.
The Razorback Foundation has experienced a sharp increase in membership in recent years, thanks in large part to Razorback Seat Value Plan (or R.S.V.P.), a seating equity plan targeted at football season ticket holders. At part of R.S.V.P., the foundation grew by 2,151 members and raised $32 million for athletics in 2010-11.
"Sean has been instrumental in the recent success of the Razorback Foundation including helping grow membership and annual fund support to record levels," said foundation chairman Ken Mourton. "His familiarity with our state and program combined with his extensive experience within intercollegiate athletics will provide the Razorback Foundation the experienced leadership it needs to continue to move progressively forward."
In 2011-12, the foundation reported just under 13,000 members with an annual pledge fund of $20 million. It is currently in the middle of a large capital campaign intended to fund an athletics master plan valued at more $320 million over a 30-year span.
"Sean will provide our Foundation a passionate leader who possesses the vision necessary to continue the efforts to modernize and grow our fund raising efforts," UA athletics director Jeff Long said. "He will play a pivotal role in helping lead our efforts to secure funding for facility projects developed from our athletic facilities master plan, including the student-athlete success center, the basketball practice facility and the baseball and track indoor training facility."
A former all-conference quarterback at Arkansas-Monticello, Rochelle earned his doctorate from the UA in 1999. He had previously served as a football graduate assistant coach for Ken Hatfield at Arkansas and Clemson.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers launched a new round of budget talks on Wednesday with pledges to work toward easing automatic government spending cuts, but drew familiar partisan battle lines over boosting tax revenues to help pay for that.
The 29-member congressional negotiating panel, commissioned under this month's deal to end a government shutdown and lift the federal debt limit, has until December 13 to agree on a plan that would at least reduce the effects of $109 billion in spending cuts looming in 2014.
Opening statements from both Republicans and Democrats were consistent with recent comments from some lawmakers that a "grand bargain" to reduce deficits by more than $1 trillion is simply not possible in the current environment. Instead, lawmakers said it was important to focus on a smaller deal to ease the automatic "sequester" spending cuts.
"I want to say this from the get-go: If this conference becomes an argument about taxes, we're not going to get anywhere," said Representative Paul Ryan, the House of Representatives Budget Committee chairman, who is leading the Republicans on the panel.
Democratic leaders of the conference committee said they wanted part of any budget savings to come from increased revenue raised by closing some tax breaks for corporations and wealthy Americans.
Ryan and other Republicans said the sequester cuts, which hit the military and domestic discretionary spending, should be shifted to expensive federal benefits such as the Social Security retirement program and the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly.
Any savings from eliminating tax deductions and subsidies should instead be used to lower tax rates, Ryan said, arguing that would spur stronger economic growth, leading to increased revenue collection.
"Let's focus our energy on the task at hand: a budget that cuts spending in a smarter way," said Ryan, his party's vice presidential nominee last year.
The panel's Democratic leader, Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, said she was prepared to make some compromises on spending cuts, but only if Republicans were willing to do the same on taxes.
"While we scour programs to find responsible savings, Republicans are also going to have to work with us to scour the bloated tax code - and close some wasteful tax loopholes and special-interest subsidies," Murray said, adding it was "unfair - and unacceptable - to ask seniors and families to bear this burden alone."
The panel will next convene publicly on November 13, but members and staff will hold informal discussions over the next two weeks.
Representative Tom Cole, a moderate Republican on the panel, offered a ray of hope for some middle ground on revenue, proposing that the panel consider moves that would increase non-tax revenues.
Those include allowing corporate profits held overseas to be repatriated at a lower tax rate than the current 35 percent, encouraging more money to be brought back and invested in job-creating projects. He also suggested offering more leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands and offshore, and one-time federal asset sales.
"More revenue doesn't, and shouldn't, mean higher taxes," said Cole, who is from energy-rich Oklahoma.
Asked by reporters after the meeting whether he would consider any revenue from closing tax breaks, he joked he wanted to "leave a little bit of helpful ambiguity."
The budget panel has 22 senators and seven House members. Any deal would need a majority vote in each chamber. Democrats control the Senate, while Republicans control the House.
While Democrats were united in their demand for revenues to ease the sequester, some argued against cutting programs that aid the elderly and the poor.
Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking House Democrat, said such cuts would reduce spending on other goods and services, slowing economic growth.
"Cutting benefits cuts jobs and cutting jobs is not the way to reduce the deficit," Clyburn said.
Members of the negotiating panel from both parties cautioned against another government shutdown threat after this month's 16-day closure of many federal agencies.
While there is no immediate consequence if the committee fails to reach a deal by December 13, the government would face a new shutdown threat on January 15 as the current funding extension expires. On the same day, a new round of automatic "sequester" spending cuts would be due to start.
"Let's pledge to do this - not shut the government down," said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, adding he did not see a lot of room for reconciling vastly different longer-term budget visions.
"I hope we can find a way to fund this government through September. That would be good for all of us," Graham added.
While many Republican conservatives have sought to keep the automatic spending cuts in place, the next round of cuts would hit the military harder next year with about $20 billion more in cuts compared to 2013.
That may motivate some Republicans to push for alternative savings.
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The Distinguished Alumni Awards honor Boston College School of Social Work MSW or PhD alumni who have made significant contributions to the social work profession. This year, two awards were handed out during a ceremony held on January 8th at McGuinn Hall, to Daniel Gill, MSW '06, and Judith S. Willison, MSW '87.
Daniel D. Gill is currently employed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs' VA Maryland Health Care System as a Team Lead in the HUD-VASH (Veterans Affairs Supported Housing) program.
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Judith S. Willison is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Bridgewater State University. She teaches social work practice courses, Dynamics of Diversity and Oppression, and an elective focused on a multisystemic approach to addressing violence. See bio »


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March 7, 2014
The AIDS.gov blog highlights several issues discussed at the recent 2014 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). In one post, Ronald Valdiserri, deputy assistant secretary for health for infectious diseases and director of the Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy at HHS, examines pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV (3/6). In another post, Carl Dieffenbach of NIH talks with Valdiserri about some of the scientific highlights presented at the conference (Gomez, 3/6). The Center for Global Health Policy's Science Speaks" blog also summarizes several conference highlights. On the day that brought an update on the Mississippi baby ... and another baby who tests HIV-negative while continuing early aggressive treatment, CROI presentations also highlighted the challenges HIV presents to birth and survival for mothers and their infants," one blog post states (Barton, 3/6). In a second post, the blog summarizes the plenary session of the conference's last day (Barton, 3/6).
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Jeff Burton won't return to RCR in 2014
Jeff Burton won't return to RCR in 2014
Jeff Burton will not return to Richard Childress Racing for the 2014 season.
Burton made the announcement Wednesday, ending his relationship with RCR that dates to the 2005 season. Burton hasn't won since 2008 and is 22nd in the Sprint Cup standings this season.
RCR says a new driver for the No. 31 Chevrolet will be announced at a later date. RCR also fields teams for Paul Menard and Kevin Harvick, who is leaving after this season to join Stewart-Haas Racing.
The 46-year-old Burton has four of his 21 career Cup victories with RCR. He says the "financial realities for next year" forced the breakup.


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Brunswick, Germany (Scicasts) – Regulatory T cells (or "Tregs" for short) play a central role in the human immune system: They guide all of the other immune cells and make sure they are tolerant of the body's own cells and harmless foreign substances. How Tregs become Tregs in the first place has been only incompletely understood -- until now.
Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, along with their colleagues at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) have recently gleaned important new insights into the workings of these cells. As it turns out, origin is key -- greater numbers of Tregs are produced within certain lymph nodes than in others. The researchers are now publishing their insights in the scientific journal Mucosal Immunology.
Without regulatory T cells, the human defence system would not work properly. Defender cells would be fiercely fighting off even harmless foreign substances like the parts of certain kinds of food, for example, as the immune system would simply not be "tolerant" towards these harmless substances. This tolerance is mediated through the Tregs -- they are "tolerogenic."
They instruct other immune cells as to which intruders really do need to be fought off and which ones do not pose a threat. However, even regulatory T cells have to first acquire this unique skill. What we have known for some time now is that they receive their "training" inside lymph nodes. "Lymph nodes are basically the immune system's meeting points if you will," says Prof. Jochen Hühn, Head of Experimental Immunology at the HZI. "Here, different types of immune cells meet up and also encounter antigen." An antigen is a structure the immune system is able to recognize like component parts of pathogens or foods.
The researchers compared the development of murine T cells obtained from lymph nodes from various locations in the body, like the liver, intestine, and skin. In the process, they learned that more Tregs capable of teaching other cells to be tolerant of food antigens are made inside lymph nodes of the liver and intestine -- a property the lymph nodes maintained even when they were transplanted to the skin. Conversely, skin lymph nodes did not become more tolerogenic if transplanted to the intestine. The HZI scientists made these discoveries together with their colleagues from Prof. Oliver Pabst's team at the MHH Institute of Immunology.
Based on their observations, the scientists deduced that lymph node location influences the maturation process of the cells they contain. "The cells retained their original skills for weeks following the transplant," says Dr. Sascha Cording, one of the study's first authors. "You might say lymph nodes have something like a location-specific memory."
And this in spite of the fact that all the various types of blood cells within a lymph node, including the immune cells, are constantly replaced, which means the lymph nodes' location memory must be encoded somewhere in its stroma.
Additional experiments allowed the scientists to probe just how lymph nodes obtain their memory: Following birth, both the supply of vitamin A and the intestinal bacterial microflora figure prominently into this process. Without these two influencing factors, the lymph nodes simply forget about their origin and lose their tolerogenic properties.
These findings about lymph node imprinting apply to humans as well: An inadequate supply of vitamin A after birth or meddling with the baby's developing microflora through administration of antibiotics can interfere with the lymph nodes' long-term memory. "At what age this process happens in humans we cannot as of yet pinpoint with any certainty," says Hühn. "Whether we're talking about the first few days, weeks, or months even, is difficult to surmise." The next step will be identifying the potential repercussions interfering with early imprinting of the immune system. Down the line, things like food allergies or autoimmune diseases might be the result.
Publication: The intestinal micro-environment imprints stromal cells to promote efficient Treg induction in gut-draining lymph nodes. Sascha Cording, Benjamin Wahl, Devesha Kulkarni, Himprya Chopra, Jörn Pezoldt, Manuela Buettner, Annegret Dummer, Usri Hadis, Markus Heimesaat, Stefan Bereswill, Christine Falk, Ulrike Bode, Alf Hamann, Diana Fleissner, Jochen Huehn, Oliver Pabst. Mucosal Immunology (2013): http://www.nature.com/mi/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mi201354a.html


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Dan Boyle also scored for San Jose, and Joe Thornton had two assists. The Sharks, 5-1-1 in their last seven, reached 50 wins for the second time in franchise history and moved four points ahead of Detroit in the race for the Presidents' Trophy.
Jarome Iginla got his 32nd goal of the season for Calgary late in the first period.
The Flames have lost eight of their last 12 as their lead atop the Northwest Division has been cut to just one point over Vancouver. The Canucks have seven games remaining and Calgary has six.
San Jose took advantage of an early two-man advantage after Adrian Aucoin's clearing attempt went over the glass for an automatic delay of game penalty. Just 35 seconds later, Thornton found Boyle with a centering pass and Boyle fired a slap shot into the top corner to put the Sharks up 1-0 at 6:11 of the first period.
Iginla tied it with 4:51 left in the period, taking a pass from Daymond Langkow at the face-off dot and snapping a shot that Nabokov only got a portion of.
Cheechoo, back in the Sharks' injury-riddled lineup after missing two games with a lower body injury, then deflected Brad Lukowich's slap shot from the blue line past Miikka Kiprusoff with 7:36 left in the second with the game-winner.
Nabokov made the lead stand with 12 saves in the third period, including several clutch stops. His best save came on a power play midway through the period when, while sprawled on the ice, he reached back and was able to smother a shot from Mike Cammalleri.
Earlier in the period, Nabokov also made an alert glove save off Eric Nystrom and kicked out a pad to stop Adam Pardy from in-close.
Notes:@ San Jose LW Milan Michalek snapped a six-game points streak (three goals, four assists). ... San Jose has killed off 17-of-18 penalties over the last seven games. ... Calgary lost D Cory Sarich late in the third period when he took a slap shot from Thornton off his skate. He was noticeably favoring his right foot as he was helped off the ice and went straight to the Flames' dressing room.
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DTP Source Code Repository
Migration from CVS to Git
DTP source code repository has been maintained on CVS since the beginning of the project. After the Indigo release (DTP 1.9), the DTP project is planning to migrate our source code repository from Eclipse CVS to Git. This is in line with the overall direction of Eclipse projects. We also want to take the opportunity to refine the source code organization and clean up obsolete plug-ins, as part of the migration.
We are essentially migrating the DTP CVS Head branch to Git, and it will include the history in CVS. Starting from DTP 1.9.1 (Indigo SR1 release) and on, builds will be made from the Eclipse Git source code repositories. If there is ever a need to build DTP 1.9 or older version, it should still grab the source from corresponding CVS branches.
We are not currently doing any nightly build for the 1.9.1 release. It will resume when the Git migration is completed.
DTP Git Repository Organization
Separate Git repository will be created for each DTP sub-project. The main guideline used for the repository split is to group those highly-related projects that are likely maintained by the same set of committers.
Below are the list of separate DTP Git repositories. See the spreadsheet for the proposed directory structure and content in each Git repository. Note that obsolete or archived plug-in projects will not be migrated, and are thus not included in the Git repositories.
Separate Git source repositories for each sub-project and enablement groupings
- org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.git
- org.eclipse.datatools.modelbase.git
- org.eclipse.datatools.sqltools.git
- org.eclipse.datatools.enablement.<vendor>.git
where <vendor> are: hsqldb, ibm, ingres, msft, mysql, oda, oracle, postgresql, sap, sqlite, sybase
- org.eclipse.datatools.enablement.general.git -- contains non-vendor specific enablement plugin projects
- org.eclipse.datatools.incubator.git
Each of the above source repositories contains the following sub-folders, if content exists:
- plugins/ : contains source plug-in projects
- releng/ : contains map file of the source plug-in projects
- tests/ : contains unit test plug-ins
- examples/ : exemplary implementation projects
Additional separate Git repositories for non-source projects
- org.eclipse.datatools.build.git
- org.eclipse.datatools.doc.git
- org.eclipse.datatools.nl.git
Resources for getting familiarized with Git
Some EGit/Git documentation
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/Git_For_Eclipse_Users
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide
- http://progit.org/book/
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/Git/Migrating_to_Git
Temporary Test Git Repositories
We have created a few temporary test Git repositories on github.com. Note that the directory structures found in these test repos are not the proposed ones. (See the spreadsheet attached above for the proposed directory structures.)
To write (e.g. push) to the DTP test remote repos on github, it will need a password: Actuate2011
- DTP connectivity project:
- URI: https://email@example.com/YongJiang/DTP_connectivity.git (read+write)
- URI: git://github.com/YongJiang/DTP_connectivity.git (read only)
- DTP modelbase project:
- URI: https://firstname.lastname@example.com/YongJiang/DTP_modelbase.git (read+write)
- URI: git://github.com/YongJiang/DTP_modelbase.git (read only)
- DTP sqltools project:
- URI: https://email@example.com/YongJiang/DTP_sqltools.git (read+write)
- URI: git://github.com/YongJiang/DTP_sqltools.git (read only)
- o.e.d.enablement.ibm.feature:
- URI: https://email@example.com/YongJiang/DTP_enablement_ibm.git (read+write)
- URI: git://github.com/YongJiang/DTP_enablement_ibm.git (read only)
- o.e.d.enablement.oda*.features:
- URI: https://firstname.lastname@example.com/YongJiang/DTP_enablement_oda.git (read+write)
- URI: git://github.com/YongJiang/DTP_enablement_oda.git (read only)
Browsing Remote Git Repositories
To browse the content of a remote Git repo, use a web browser with the remote repo URL, e.g.
- https://github.com/YongJiang/DTP_connectivity
- https://github.com/YongJiang/DTP_enablement_oda
- https://git.eclipse.org/c/ (Eclipse.org Git repositories - the future home of DTP Git repos)


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Living up to the mantra "bigger, better and more badass," Borderlands 2 features all-new characters; skills; imaginative, diverse new environments with unique missions and enemies; and more exciting and fun weapons, equipment and loot than ever before. All of these features come together in a story that takes players to the world of Pandora to take down the notorious Handsome Jack and his corrupt Hyperion Corporation as a solo campaign or with up to four cooperative players.
Borderlands 2 will allow friends to play together locally via split-screen, as well as online with drop-in-drop-out capabilities. With seamless cooperative gameplay and action, Borderlands 2 is extremely accessible for gamers and their friends to play alone or together in a variety of configurations.
Gamers who pre-order Borderlands 2 from participating retailers will gain access to the Borderlands 2 Premiere Club, allowing them to download the Gearbox Gun Pack, a Golden Key and the Vault Hunter's Relic. The Gearbox Gun Pack is a collection of unique guns to help players begin their journey on Pandora. The Golden Key is an in-game item used to unlock a rare item in the mysterious Golden Sanctuary Loot Chest found in Borderlands 2. The Vault Hunter's Relic is an in-game item that boosts players' gear-hunting fortune while playing solo or teaming up with friends.
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L. Joseph Martini, an Ocean Beach resident, former torpedo engineer with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and author, experienced a true-life adventure nearly three decades ago not too unlike parts of the show's plot.
"Parts are awfully similar to what really happened, what we were tasked to do by President Ronald Reagan up at the North Pole in 1986," said Martini.
In the opening show of the series, U.S. torpedoes are being shot against a U.S. submarine, its crew horrified and in the dark as to why.
Martini was part of a seven-man team tasked with a top-secret mission to determine the efficiency of U.S. torpedoes against Soviet submarines under the polar ice cap during the height of the Cold War. The Russians had close to 100 nuclear missile submarines in the mid-1980s, some silently hiding below the Arctic ice within easy striking distance of the United States, said Martini.
"Since firing our torpedoes against Soviet submarines was out of the question, Reagan tasked us with firing from atop the ice sheet against our own submarines — three of them to be exact," said Martini. "The USS Hawkbill, USS Ray and USS Archerfish — all 600 series submarines — had been given very little information about the Navy operations at the time. That made what happened up there 26 years ago even more fearsome, not to mention the insurmountable odds against us already, like ice storms, polar bears and military bias while we fired torpedoes from the surface of the Arctic ice pack against our own subs."
Martini's true story is told in the book "ICE-X '86 — Freezing the Cold War," which he authored last year.
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Degree Information: MA (1675)
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CICERO, N.Y. – Lakeland has always been among the elite field hockey programs in Section 1 and New York State. Now, the Hornets have set themselves apart from the rest of the state.
Lakeland became the first school to win four consecutive New York State field hockey championships with a 6-0 victory over Pittsford Sutherland in the Class B final Sunday at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.
The Hornets, who finished with a 22-1 record, now have a Section1-leading seven state championships, including six since 2003. Lakeland is tied for second overall in New York with Greene (Section 4), two behind Marathon (Section 4) which had nine.
"No words can describe how good I feel and how good we feel," said senior and captain Gianna Bensaia about making history.
Bensaia, along with fellow captains Rebecca Bard and Kristen Conroy, joined the team as freshmen and leave as the only Lakeland field hockey players to win four state championships.
Junior Gab Celentano, who had two goals and two assists, said the underclassmen were determined to get this victory for the seniors, especially Bard, Bensaia and Conroy.
"We wanted this more than anything else for Gianna, Becca and Kristen because they have been on the team since they were freshmen," Celentano said. "We wanted them to go out with bang."
Lakeland coach Sharon Sarsen, who registered her 509th win in the final, had nothing but praise for her team.
"I am so happy for the girls because they are the ones who worked so hard for this," Sarsen said. "Nobody can take this away from them."
Senior Marissa DiSisto and freshman Dana Bozek kept the state-championship run going in their respective families. DiSisto joins older sister Rebecca with two and sister Leah owns one. Bozek now has two, one ahead of sister Megan and one behind sister Emma.
Lakeland asserted itself from the opening whistle and, as a result, took complete control of the game. The Hornets kept intense pressure on Pittsfird Sutherland, resulting in eight penalty corners in the first 13 minutes.
"We realized, especially the seniors, that this was our last game playing Lakeland field hockey so we wanted to come out strong, take control and win to make it four state championships," Bensaia said.
Dana Bozek opened the scoring at the 13:25 mark. Intercepting a Pittsford clearing pass from its circle. Bozek took two steps inside the circle and slid a shot through a maze of players. Celentano scored her two goals, at the 14:49 and 15:52 marks.
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In his blog post "GNOME in the age of decadence", Andy Wingo writes that GNOME has more or less achieved what it set out to achieve, and that now it has moved into "a state of marginal returns", where maintenance is getting an ever more important role. "The problem, as I see it, is that GNOME is in a state of decadence," Wingo writes, "It's like, welcome back to 1984's Macintosh plus interweb. We did it!" He continues on a more serious note:
He explains that GNOME is a static interface, and that the only way of interacting with things on the screen is through "impoverished point and click". "What we're left with is the GUI equivalent of chartjunk." But there are exceptions, and Wingo mentions Clutter, Moonlight, and non-GNOME efforts like MPX. "But other than that," he writes, "We have the decay of slavish adherence to the HIG, the logout dialog, the wallpaper chooser, the last-percent efforts of refining an increasingly irrelevant stack of software."
He is also quite clear on the state of Gtk+.
In a follow-up blogpost Wingo addresses a complaint from a fellow GNOME programmer who said that the first entry lacked a solution. Even though Wingo states he doesn't really have a solution, his thoughts do quite look like one to me. His idea? Launch a sort of GNOME skunkworks, a place where hackers can hack along for themselves, and fail, too - but if an idea is liked by a wider audience, it can be put to use somewhere more stable. He continues to explain:
The post lists a few ideas of his own, which I'll skip since that's not the point. The point is that GNOME doesn't allow for wilder experimentation due to, as Wingo put it, slavish adherence to the HIG. I love how he ends his post: "Pay no attention to mental questions of how your mother would see this [ed. note: thank you!], those questions will fix themselves in time. A focus on beauty and simplicity and power cannot fail to make something interesting. Code against boredom!"
While Wingo recognises he is a minor player in the GNOME field, his posts did grab the attention. Johannes Schmid joined in and said "The whole GNOME community really needs to start thinking about the next generation Desktop - whatever that will be. Maybe it's very similar to the current Desktop but sure it will just be better."
Albert Ruiz also joins in on the fun, and while he believes Wingo's posts were a tad bit too pessimistic, he does agree with the fact that GNOME needs to think about its future. Ruiz proposes that "the desktop is the OS", and ponders if GNOME should try to integrate better with the underlying hardware and provide the proper tools to manage them, for instance when it comes to networking (interfaces, proxy, vpn, etc).
It may come as no surprise to regular readers of OSNews and its comments that I strongly agree with the original premise set forth by Wingo: GNOME is in maintenance mode, and seriously lacks any plan for the future, any idea on how to adapt to whatever the future might bring. Sure, GNOME is usable and enjoyable now, but it is also inflexible and incapable of adapting to any possible future user expectations. It just chugs along, adding features other environments come up with, tightening nuts and bolts here and there, but never offering anything truly incentive, something truly exciting. Something that will make users of Windows, KDE, and Mac OS X go "wow, I want that!".
GNOME needs to draw itself a plan for the future, a vision, something exciting, something compelling. It's nice to be "as good as...", but in order to grow, you need to be more than that.


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Followers of Jesus are being asked by politicos, pundits, and even some pastors, to abandon abortion as a decisive and vital issue in this year's election. Instead, we are being urged to cast our votes based on other justice issues such as poverty, protecting the environment, and bringing the troops home from Iraq. There are three problems with this line of thinking.
First, the sanctity and dignity of life (which abortion destroys both physically and conceptually) is the cornerstone upon which all justice is built. All human rights are predicated first upon the right to life.
Thomas Jefferson understood this clearly when he wrote, and I quote, "The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
For the believer, the value of each human life, no matter how young or old, derives from the belief that all humans are created by God and stamped with His image.
The second problem with abandoning the right to life issue for the sake of others is the nature of the disagreement between candidates on these other issues. All candidates agree that poverty should be ended and the environment protected—the debate surrounds the strategies to be used. Likewise, even the strongest supporters of the war in Iraq want to bring our active combat troops home—the argument is about how, under what circumstances, and when.
But abortion is different. On this issue, many candidates are diametrically opposed. There is no common ground. Their records are clear, and the contrasts are sharp.
The third reason we cannot lose focus on protecting the unborn is that so much work remains to be done. Despite a positive shift in public opinion on protecting unborn children, despite the addition of Supreme Court justices who seem to believe in the right to life, despite the passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and many parental notification and consent laws, the fact remains that abortion-on-demand is still the law of the land. And the death toll continues to rise every single day.
Since the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973, more than 48 million unborn children have perished—and only 7 percent of the women who had those abortions cited medical concerns, rape, or incest as their reasons. And those who promote abortions—they are flexing their muscle as never before. In Fiscal Year 2006-2007, Planned Parenthood took in over $1 billion in donations. They provide 20 percent of all abortions in the United States, and took in $336 million in government funds—that is your taxes!
Believers must press candidates on the right to life this year. The so-called single-issue, pro-life voters are not single-issue at all. Why? Because the dignity and sanctity of human life is a thread that connects virtually all humanitarian causes. They recognize that unless our country protects the most vulnerable of human life, all other issues touching upon human dignity are in peril—whether it is human trafficking, mental health, AIDS, poverty, victims' rights, prisoners' rights, or health care, just to name a few.
Indeed, if the life of the most innocent and defenseless among us—the unborn child—is not worth protecting, I ask you, my friend, whose is?
"Without Life, There Is No Justice" by Mark Earley
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Scream as much as you like against abortion. It is not going to go away because you say it is sinful or use some other religious based excuse because no-one listens to that crap and you know it.
Anyway, humans babies are not sentient until they are between 1/2 and 3 years old. You can prove that by trying to remember your day of birth. You won't be able to remember. You were not sentient yet. Your brain hadn't developed any sort of reason beyond instinct yet. When we kill an unborn baby, we are still killing an animal. Not a sentient creature.


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Celebrity Babes Home / Entertainment ChannelAshley Scott is young, blonde and has one hell-of-a-body, but who is she? Ashley is a virtual unknown in the film industry who has slowly been making her mark through TV and film for the past six years. Before breaking into the business like many others, Ashley began her aspirations to become an actress as a model, traveling around the world for Elite Miami. As a model for Elite and a spokes model for Giorgio Red, Ashley was featured in magazines like WWD, US Weekly, Cosmo Girl, and even landed the cover of the Hollywood Reporter. Deciding to give acting a shot, Ashley was ready to endure the long and arduous audition process, but her turnaround has been impressive, scoring almost every role she has read for in her short acting career.
After appearing in Steven Spielberg's futuristic drama A.I., Ashley was offered a recurring role on the hit sci-fi series "Dark Angel," starring fellow Celebrity Babe Jessica Alba. Ashley's acting career has since begun to flourish with the quick experience she gained on the short-lived show, landing a bit part in the 2003 blockbuster SWAT and a leading role in the short-lived WB series "Birds of Prey," based on the DC cult comic. The model agency certainly wasn't lying to her when they offered her a spot on the Elite team. Ashley is up there when it comes to looks, but it's hard to tell whether her good girl charm will win her the roles needed to make an impact in the business.
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text: The Boston Wine Riot is Quady Winery's favorite (aka the most fun) tasting. Check out this video and these pictures. Andrew conducted a crash course on the topic: Moscato, Surrender to the Sweet. See what a local blogger commented . At the wine riot, tasters could keep track of the wines they tasted using an app on their mobile phones. The wines could be rated one or two thumbs up or "meh". This information was shared with the riot organizers who kept track of the favorite wines. The top 20 or so wines were posted instantaneously. Quady's Elysium ended up at number 2 of all the wines in the room. It was beaten by one thumb by Jam Jar, a sweet shiraz from South Africa. At the wine riot lots of people like em sweet.


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Information provided for agenda item on city's five-year development block grant cycle.
A mistake in the amount on an amendment to the 5-year Community Development Block Grant plan to be presented at Wednesday's city council meeting was cleared up Monday.
According to Interim Dennis Speer, two line items for the projects to expand the building the Southern Sierra Boys and Girls Club operate from and a major renovation the Ridgecrest Senior Center were apparently switched in Attachment B that is part of the council agenda packet. But the real data lies in the staff report.
Currently, the city has $302,316 in its CDBG account — $134,250 for fiscal year 2013-14 and $168,066 unspent money rolled over from the previous year — and the amount may not cover both projects, or an estimated $317,112.
The entire amount will be allocated to the two projects for FY 2013-14, Speer said.
"We do not have as much money allocated to cover both projects," Speer said Monday during a press briefing
He said that both projects would be put out to bid upon the amendmen's approvial.
"The bids may come in such that we can cover the cost," he said.
Speer also indicated the city had calls into the Resource Management Agency in Bakersfield to see if it could borrow against next year's fair share of community development block grant money, or to see if there was other available money it could use.
Speer pointed out the last time the item was before council, the Senior Center costs were conceptual while the Boys and Girls had some numbers already totaled.
"In terms of the renovation for the Senior Center, I think the the number that was thrown out there was just conceptual," he said.
At the Dec. 5 council meeting, the rough estimate was ballparked around $200,000.
"Now that Mr. (Jim) Ponek has had an opportunity to actually estimate the costs, we had an estimate that has realistic figures," Speer said.
Mayor Dan Clark indicated Ponek's project cost estimate for the senior center fell just below the $200,000 mark at $197,280. The Boys and Girls building expansion estimate is $119,832.
"That goes with what we thought," Clark said.
The estimates would be the ones presented to the full council Wednesday, Speer said.
"The Boys and Girls Club was asked to prepare a project cost and an application while the Parks and Recreation Director was asked to prepare an application with an estimate," Speer said. "When they actually looked at their projects, these were the numbers they came up with and that's what's going back to council."
While the Boys and Girls Club project application indicated that "any costs incurred above the $95,000 will be the responsibility of the Southern Sierra Boys & Girls Club," Clark said that wasn't necessarily the case.
"I think there's no requirement for that," Clark said.
One of the suggestions floated at the Dec. 5 council meeting was the possibility that Kern County could take over the senior center.
Both Clark and Speer indicated the last time it had been discussed, the county had showed no interest. The last discussion was when Kurt Wilson served as city manager.
"There has been comments by the county that they were not interested in taking over the building," Speer said. Speer declined to give names.
According to the staff report on the council agenda, the Senior Center renovations "will bring new flooring, ceiling tiles, restroom facilities, hot water heater, kitchen cabinets and paint to outside of a building that is in needs of repairs."
This would be the only major renovation it has seen since it was built in 1979.
Staff recommendation, according to the staff report included in Wednesday's agenda is to approve the amended five-year plan and submit both applications to the Kern County Community Development Department.
Clark said community development block grants can only be used for brick-and-mortar projects, not for items, such as computers.
The proposed five-year plan amendment itself fostered a spirited conversation at the Dec. 5 city council meeting.
The discussion itself was pushed to an adjourned meeting on Dec. 6 where the public expressed concerns about reallocating the proposed budget from bringing the city's sidewalk wheelchair ramps up to current ADA-compliant standards.
City staff recommended amending the proposal to include $75,000 originally earmarked for the Boys and Girls Club into Wheelchair ramps over the next two fiscal years.
Strong support by the Boys and Girls Club opened up discussion and council directed city staff to amend the development block grant plan.
Some community members expressed concern that the city staff's original idea be followed.
Clark thinks that the community may have calmed down since it the subject was broached two months ago, especially given the situation the city council was faced with.
"The same night we were sworn in, we get blindsided in a way by this decision we had to make Friday and it was Wednesday," he said.
Clark said that calls had been made to Lorelei Oviatt, Kern County's Planning Director and other county contacts to get an extension.
"The poor council, they weren't prepared to make that decision," Clark said. "But it just happened out that way and we got an extension and we get a chance to make a decision. We'll really have a chance to discuss it and get community input and make a decision that is right for the community."


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I'd love to see some AT-AT's blow up the Redwoods. I'd rather see them blow up some Ewoks though!
Well, with the Republicans in control I can see them blowing up some Redwoods
ROTJ, Vader's shuttle is landing on Endor. AT-AT can easily be seen slogging along in front of the landing platform. Why wasn't it there to crush those pesky little Ewoks?
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By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Conservation officials in Missouri on Friday welcomed the federal charges filed this week against eight people accused of poaching paddlefish and selling their eggs as caviar.
A multi-year investigation into the poaching of the protected species culminated on Thursday in the indictment of eight people on charges they trafficked in fish and fish eggs taken illegally from Missouri lakes and streams, according to the federal complaint.
Missouri state law prohibits the transportation of paddlefish eggs that have been removed or extracted from a paddlefish carcass.
State law also prohibits the sale or purchase, or offer of sale or purchase, of paddlefish eggs and restricts the purchase of whole paddlefish.
The American paddlefish, also known as the "spoonbill," is one of the largest species of freshwater fish in North America, and has suffered severe population declines over the past century. Many states now list it as endangered, threatened or a species of special concern.
"It's a unique resource and we need to protect it," conservation department regional supervisor Nick Laposha said on Friday.
"The national and international popularity of Missouri paddlefish eggs as a source of caviar has grown dramatically in recent years," Larry Yamnitz, resource protection chief for the conservation department, said in a news release.
The eight men indicted were charged with violating the Lacey Act, a federal statute that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish and plants that have been taken and transported or sold in violation of state law.
The defendants face penalties of up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 per count if convicted. They were charged in four separate indictments for offenses said to have occurred in 2011 and 2012.
(Editing by James B. Kelleher and Peter Cooney)


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By Matthew Billman
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
The West Virginia University volleyball team got off to its best start in school history this season, opening the campaign with an outstanding 14-1 record. There is a lot of focus on the Mountaineers' young roster, and a lot of talk about what the future holds for them, as well as the success they hope to achieve down the road.
But this season is far from over.
Liz Gulick, a 5-9 defensive specialist who is one of four seniors on the team, is not ready to give up and move on until the final whistle blows in that final set of the season.
She's the only senior who has been at WVU and has played for head coach Jill Kramer for all four years of her college career, and is the only player Kramer has coached all four years since being named head coach in 2010.
"When Liz showed up, she didn't know who her coach was going to be. I get here the day before practice starts and she trusted me right away," Kramer said.
Over the past four years together, Gulick and Kramer have built a strong bond and have helped each other reach an enormous amount of success over the four seasons.
Their bond is built on the trust a coach puts into an athlete to get the job done in tight situations.
"I think that we play off of each other very well. I've got a lot of trust in her. We used to call her "Ice Cold" because she had a larger role on the team her freshman and sophomore year," Kramer explained. "I can't tell you how many times we put her in at the end of a match when it's really tight. It would be 23 all and we would throw her in there and she would serve us up two aces to win the game."
It isn't just a one-sided relationship, either.
"I've been with Jill for four years, which has been longer than anyone else on the team, so I understand her," Gulick said. "We've been through the whole process together so there will be times if we're struggling, I'll be able to understand the situation on a better scale with her and how she's thinking about it."
Gulick has become a successful player for the Mountaineers with Kramer by her side the whole way, but when she isn't on the court serving aces, she's in the classroom acing tests and following her dream of becoming a teacher.
The Wheaton, Ill., native is majoring in elementary education, and has posted a 4.0 GPA every term since enrolling at WVU. She is decorated academically, winning awards such as Big 12 Commissioners Honor Roll, Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll, Dean's List, Big East Academic All-Star and Dr. Gerald Lage Award, as well as being a part of WVU's Honor College.
"She's a hard worker who's extremely motivated and really wants to do well on and off the court," said Gulick's academic advisor Jill Weston. "She's on top of all her work and makes really good connections with her professors and has a very great academic reputation."
Liz is admired by her teammates and is often approached for advice on how to handle schoolwork or even how to talk to professors.
"I make it a challenge to me," Gulick noted on her academic success. "I'm really competitive in everything I do so I'm constantly setting high expectations."
While concentrating in mathematics, she also specializes in special education.
Her love for children didn't just come up out of the blue one day while trying to choose a major.
Gulick's younger sister had a stroke at birth, which led to her diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy, which effects the entire right side of her body. Initially, the doctors said her sister wouldn't be able to walk or even live past the age of five.
"They had the bleakest outlook for her," Gulick said.
Some things happen for a reason, and then there are those who fight and defy all odds. Remember that young girl who the doctors said wouldn't be able to walk or live past five?
She's now 16, recently driving, enrolled in honors classes and excelling in nearly everything she does.
"I've been around people in special education and people with disabilities my whole life, so that's something that has always been close to my heart. In high school, I helped out in our special education classroom and it made me realize that I want to teach and help these people, and that's what really sparked my interest," the senior defensive specialist said.
Gulick's helping hand doesn't end in the high school classroom, as she is now a teaching assistant at East Dale Elementary School in Fairmont, W.Va., where she's an assistant in Mrs. Parrish's third-grade class.
Gulick helps out about twice a week for three and a half hours each day. She teaches a lesson every couple of days and helps students who may be struggling or have difficult questions, all which is a big learning process for the star defensive specialist.
With all of her success on the court and in the classroom while also working as a teaching assistant, one can only imagine how tough it is to juggle everything and stay on top of it all.
"Being an athlete makes you prioritize your time a lot and be really responsible with getting everything done," Gulick said. "I give myself deadlines and set high expectations, while knowing that I'm going to get my stuff done at this time. Then, I go and reach those goals."


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