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The energy might bind them, but their love could save us all…
Energen, Book 1
When Shifter Airiana Draco volunteers to scout the enemy's compound, her family thinks it's to prove herself. In truth, she wants answers. Plagued with doubt and a secret shame, she hungers to learn more about the Energens, the people who have opposed the Shifters since the beginning of time. But getting captured wasn't in her plans.
Forced together by the energy, Airiana and Louk are unprepared for the sudden attraction as they struggle to gain the answers they seek. As the danger builds and their lives are threatened, they must learn to trust the energy and each other. But are they strong enough to challenge all they were raised to believe or will the pressure cause them to turn on the one truth they can't deny?
The time is coming when earth will be changed forever. The dragon is rising and with the joining of The Two, he stirs.
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His greatest creation could be the death of them both.
One woman swears to avenge the savagery of a ruthless killer loose on the streets of Lundun; if only she can stay one step ahead of an inventor who fears that his greatest work, a labor of love, has turned on humanity.
Grieving the loss of her beloved cousin, Ella Wilder is determined to catch the murderer. Infuriated by the fumblings of the constable, she seeks the assistance of a handsome noble who seems to be looking for his own answers, and whose reluctance tells her he has something to hide. Over time, hesitant intimacy grows into fiery passion but brings them no closer to finding the madman.
Product Warnings: This book contains a dirigible, flying machines, automatons, a sexy but secretive hero, a stubborn heroine, and a very determined killer.
Stockbroker meets stock breaker. But who's taming whom?
London stockbroker Jasper Randolph flies to Jackson Hole with hopes as high as the Grand Tetons. Hope that the getaway will force him to let loose, get dirty, and overcome a deep-seated phobia about horseback riding.
He hadn't counted on an attraction to the dude ranch owner's son, a man with sun-tousled hair, eyes bluer than Wyoming skies…and a father who'd rather eat tofu than accept his only son's sexuality.
Despite the differences that set them oceans apart, they fall hard and fast. Trouble isn't far behind, and they're in for a rocky romantic ride. Especially since there's growing evidence that someone is willing to do anything—no matter how dangerous—to poison their love.
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Don't look. Don't touch. Definitely don't want.
There's no boundary Zach Purser won't push. Three-ways, four-ways, sex clubs, he's tried it all. It's all about the freedom, but lately he's had the nagging feeling that something is missing.
At a friend's engagement party, he spots the missing piece all tied up one hot little package of a woman. Trouble is, she's his best friend Adam's baby sister. Adam knows all of Zach's dirty secrets. Which means if he even thinks about touching her, he's dead.
Zach tries his best to push her away, but she doesn't push back, she pulls—tumbling them both over the edge of resistance and right into bed. Panic isn't far behind. Now he's stuck between a big brother who'd like to bust his nose, and a woman who's gotten under his skin. And of all the things he's tried, romance isn't one of them…
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Revenge can be sweet…and oh so sexy.
Lena Richards's whirlwind vacation to Europe with a friend is a welcome chance to shake her pre-wedding jitters—until she learns her high-school sweetheart is cheating on her, Hawaiian-style. Figuring all's fair, she indulges in a fling of her own with a sexy New Yorker she meets in Amsterdam whose kiss blows her mind—and the lid off her hormones.
As they burn their way across Europe, something shifts, and it's not just the earth moving with their exploding passion. Lena begins to realize what it really means to fall in love. And Tyler finds himself tumbling hard and fast.
Reality catches up with them in Paris, leaving Tyler to wonder if Lena's really the one, or if he's nothing more to her than a pawn in her game of revenge.
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Product Warnings: Americans misbehaving in Europe. An attraction more potent than any drug Amsterdam has to offer. A fling that breaks all the rules. And the creative, sensual use of Chinese takeout.
Something unholy is waiting!
Shopping should be fun, especially in the shiny new mall just completed in this Florida coastal town. But something strange is happening to those who go there. At first it seems like nothing more than malicious pranks. The dessert chef who mixes a laxative into the chocolate mousse. The middle-aged lady who urinates on the changing room floor. But things steadily change from prank and theft to murder and mutilation. Something evil and deadly has taken residence in the mall—and in the minds of the customers. Now the Chief of Police, helped by a beautiful young woman with telekinesis and a team of paranormal researchers, must stop this unseen menace that is growing more powerful by the minute. But with the evil beginning to spread, is it already too late?
Off of the screen and out for blood!
Andy Ryerson, a film school graduate, has been hired to write commentary on two dozen cheap, b-horror movies. It seems harmless enough, and he might even enjoy it. But the people in the town around him won't enjoy it at all when one by one, the films he watches come to life. Andy chose the wrong projector to screen his movies. This one is out for blood. While Andy grumbles about low budgets and poor production values, a hungry butcher, a plague of rotting zombies, demonic vampires, a mallet-toting killer, flesh-eating locusts, and many other terrors descend on the unsuspecting innocent. By the time he realizes what he's done, the town is teeming with evil, and it's up to Andy and the few survivors left to stop the celluloid horror he's unleashed.
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Development could be test case for Alameda's affordable housing strategy
The Planning Board's discussion Monday about a proposal to build 89 homes where at Chipman Relocation warehouse now stands took a unique turn: Some Planning Board members said they want more homes built on the site, while the developer seeking to build there said he'd be happy to construct fewer of them. The Chipman site […] [Read More]
Shifts in retail landscape alter Alameda Landing plan
The developers of the Alameda Landing project have made some tweaks to their retail strategy that they hope will maximize their chances of filling a planned 285,000-square-foot shopping center behind the College of Alameda – and raise Alameda's sales tax revenues by up to a half million dollars a year. The 140,000-square-foot Target store set […] [Read More]
Alameda Landing housing plan is up for review
On Monday, Alameda's Planning Board and the public will get their first opportunity to comment on plans for a 278-unit housing project to be built on former Navy property behind the Bayport housing development and the College of Alameda – plans that could illustrate a future of denser housing development on the Island with a […] [Read More]
Council: No booze at gas station
Alameda's City Council shot down a proposal to allow beer and wine sales at a to-be-expanded Webster Street gas station convenience store, saying approval would have impeded the city's efforts to reimagine a commercial corridor once lined with bars and tattoo parlors that served incoming Navy sailors. "I think Webster Street is still in the […] [Read More]
Planning Board okays new drugstore – with conditions
More than three hours into their fourth public airing of plans to construct a new CVS drugstore and Chase bank branch at the corner of Park Street and Tilden Way, members of Alameda's Planning Board appeared prepared to bend to what one member called pragmatism in their efforts to shape the development plans. City staffers […] [Read More]
Housing project mired in fresh lawsuits
A proposed housing development that would line a stretch of waterfront near the Park Street Bridge is once again tied up in litigation, with the city insisting the blighted property be cleaned up and its owners saying those cleanup demands are inhibiting their efforts to sell. City officials are suing Catherine and Francis Collins in […] [Read More]
Council releases confidential Measure A memo
The City Council voted Tuesday to release a confidential memo laying out staffers' case for new rules allowing apartments and other multifamily housing despite voter-approved restrictions put in place by Measure A. The memo lays out potential legal challenges the city could face – including a lawsuit housing advocates had already threatened to file – […] [Read More]
Alameda seeks compliance with state law by sidestepping development restrictions
When city leaders voted last week to allow new apartment buildings to be built on 10 sites in Alameda – in apparent contravention Measure A, which bars such development – they were facing the very real possibility of a court challenge that could have nullified the four-decade-old voter initiative Island-wide. "I strongly believe we would […] [Read More]
Construction begins on long-awaited Alameda Landing development
Wednesday's groundbreaking for the first phase of the Alameda Landing development was a party that city leaders have been waiting more than seven years to hold. They and Landing developer Catellus greeted the pending arrival of a new Target-anchored shopping center and hundreds of new homes with an impromptu food truck buffet and white-clothed tables […] [Read More]
Alameda okays multifamily housing after four-decade ban
The City Council on Tuesday approved new zoning rules allowing the development of multifamily housing in Alameda for the first time since Measure A passed in 1973. The vote was 4-1, with Councilman Doug deHaan casting the lone "no" vote. The approval comes as the state has exerted increasing control over local housing development and […] [Read More]
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Panel Discussion: The Internet, Free Trade, and Transparency: An International Perspective
I participated in a panel titled The Internet, Free Trade, and Transparency: An International Perspective as part of Yale University's Trade and Transparency in the Internet Age.
The panel was moderated by Margot Kaminski and the other participants were Peter Yu, Ante Wessels. We discussed the impact of WikiLeaks leaking a draft of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and parts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement , another free trade agreement. Both leaks led to considerable public debate over both the content of the agreement and the negotiating process. The leaks, and their policy effects suggest there is a need for discussion of trade and transparency in the Internet Age.
Liberals Demand More Draconian IP Provisions: Propose Adding New Statutory Damages to Bill C-8
Liberal MP Judy Sgro continued her efforts yesterday to add lobbyist-inspired provisions to Bill C-8, the anti-counterfeiting legislation. Having already proposed removing the personal exception for travelers (leading to increased border searches) and a "simplified procedure" for the seizure of goodsthat would remove court oversight in the destruction of goods in a greater number of cases, Sgro proposed an amendment to add statutory damages with a mandatory minimum of $1,000 and a maximum of $100,000 in liability. The provision would limit the discretion of judges to order damages based on the evidence.
The statutory damages provision was another ask for intellectual property lobby groups. As I noted in my appearance before the committee:
Liberals Propose Increased Border Searches By Eliminating Anti-Counterfeiting Personal Exception
The Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology held its clause-by-clause review of Bill C-8, the anti-counterfeiting bill yesterday. I appeared before the committee last month to express concerns about some lobbyist demands for reforms, including removing the exception for personal goods of travelers, the inclusion of statutory damages for trademark infringement, and targeting in-transit shipments.
While the committee did not complete the review of the bill – it will resume on Wednesday – the surprise of the day involved Liberal MP Judy Sgro proposing that the government remove the exception for personal travelers. Given that personal use exceptions are even included in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, it is shocking to see any party proposing their removal, which would result in longer delays at the border and increased searches of individual travelers. The proposal failed since it was rejected by both the Conservatives and NDP, with the NDP noting that "this was one of the important provisions that brought some balance to the bill."
The TPP IP Chapter Leaks: U.S. Demanding Overhaul of Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Bill
The leak of the Trans Pacific Partnership intellectual property chapter confirms that the many concerns about the agreement were well-founded. My earlier posts highlighted Canada's opposition to many U.S. proposals and U.S. demands for Internet provider liability that could lead to subscriber termination, content blocking, and ISP monitoring. This post focuses on some of the anti-counterfeiting requirements in the TPP. The anti-counterfeiting issue is particularly relevant from a Canadian perspective because the government has proposed significant new anti-counterfeiting measures in Bill C-8, which is currently at second reading in the House of Commons and being studied by the Industry Committee. If the U.S. border measures demands are included in the TPP, Bill C-8 would be wholly inadequate to meet Canada's new treaty obligations.
New Risks Emerge as Anti-Counterfeiting Bill Placed on the Legislative Fast Track
The government's anti-counterfeiting legislation, which died over the summer when the Conservatives hit the parliamentary reset button, is now back on the legislative fast track. Industry Minister James Moore quickly re-introduced the bill last month and speedily sent it to the Industry Committee for review (I appeared before the committee last week).
That review has revealed that the numerous new border measures envisioned by the bill, including seizure powers without court oversight, fall short of the demands of intellectual property lobby groups. Those groups intend to use the committee hearings to seek further expansion of border seizures and to shift more enforcement costs to the public.
My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes that since virtually everyone is opposed to harmful counterfeiting – particularly when fake goods create health and safety risks – it is unsurprising that the bill appears to enjoy all-party support. The focal point of the bill is that it grants customs officials broad new powers without court oversight. Officials will be required to assess whether goods entering or exiting the country infringe any copyright or trademark rights. Should a customs official determine that there is infringement, the goods may be seized and prevented from entering the country.


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Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah: First Indian Anglican Bishop, Dornakal, 1945
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Emmanuel, God with us, making your home in every culture and community on earth: We thank you for raising up your servant Samuel Azariah as the first indigenous bishop in India. Grant that we may be strengthened by his witness to your love without concern for class or caste, and by his labors for the unity of the Church in India, that people of many languages and cultures might with one voice give you glory, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.
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Time for Cathay to come clean on junket
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Something strikes me in a complaint letter sent to us courtesy of Cathay Pacific's corporate affairs chief, Chitty Cheung.
"For many years," Cheung wrote, "It has been Cathay Pacific's practice to invite guests to events such as aircraft delivery trips and new destination launches."
Now that's the story we seem to be missing, because we still don't know much about those lavish junkets, sorry, I mean business trips. Readers need to have a better understanding of how far they date back, how frequent and costly they have been and who was on previous trips. My guess is that past sponsored travellers would be a who's who in Hong Kong.
I suspect the reason no one anticipated the furore over the trip to France is because such trips have been, as Cheung implied, common and nothing out of the ordinary for Cathay. That may be why the 10 holidaymaking lawmakers and an Executive Council member, Cheng Yiu-tong, felt hard done by.
Of course, things are supposed to be business as usual - until it is not.
In the letter, Cheung said the trip was not a junket because that implied "an extravagant celebration that had no clear purpose other than to entertain". No doubt in Cheung's exalted business circles, two business-class round-trip tickets to France - the lawmakers had either a spouse or a child with them - costing north of HK$100,000 and an extended stay in a luxury hotel don't count as extravagant. To a guy like me, that qualifies as the trip of a lifetime.
Cheung said it was really a business trip to inform because "aviation is an important industry in Hong Kong that employs thousands of people and is a pillar of the local economy". You got that right. It's precisely because of the importance of national airlines - and CX is Hong Kong's equivalent - that they are almost always heavily regulated. Hong Kong's aviation industry is no exception.
The reverse of regulation is sometimes called "regulatory capture", the co-opting of regulators and people with policy influence through usually legitimate or legal means to manipulate regulatory outcomes. That line must not be crossed, otherwise it's called corruption.
Now is not the time for Cathay to be angry with the media, but to re-examine its practice.
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So a bribe is a bribe is a bribe
Which Legco/Exco/Airport Authority/Finance Committee/etc member were at these junkets before, pray, Ms Cheung?
And, Ms Cheung, lest you are not aware, your definition of "entertainment" still runs foul of the regulations governing corruption. Accepting100K tickets plus room and board is no different than the millions accepted by Bo Xilai.
I know how warped values are now in this town..........but to try to spin your way out using the English language? Try again!
I can't think of any swear word, neither english nor even cantonese that would cause such offence to the SCMP's automatic anti- vulgarity filter.
Unless it's because what Raffy did was so bad that even before he is found guilty his name has become a bad word .
Exco freebie decision rests with CY
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying will decide on whether an executive councillor who joined a Cathay Pacific junket will be allowed to have his say on a third airport runway or even the aviation industry.
Acting Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also said yesterday Cheng Yiu-tong made a declaration of interest before taking the controversial trip to France.
Lam said Cheng informed Exco before he & eight lawmakers departed on the six-day all- expenses-paid trip from August 16 to 21.
There was public outcry over a potential conflict of interest when Cheng and the legislators accepted the trip, during which Cathay management reiterated the importance of an additional runway at Hong Kong International Airport.
The airline also recently asked the government to reject an application by carrier Jetstar to operate from Hong Kong.
DAB lawmaker CHAN KAM-LAM said: "The trip was ONLY A NORMAL SOCIAL GATHERING arranged by Cathay & it was not lobbying Cheng or lawmakers to support the building of a third runway."
ah yes, Chan Kam Lam is impartial ?
HKAA Board member Honourable Chan Kam-lam SBS JP
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Aged 64. Appointed to the Board in Jan 2010 reappointed January 2013. Member of the Legislative Council Chairman of the Panel on Transport, Member of the Finance Committee
Who these days does NOT understand that:"aviation is an important industry in Hong Kong etc"?
One might as well ask "who does not regularly fly ?"
If I as an engineer (and a regular CX passenger) but with zero business / personal contacts to the aviation industry was invited to visit an Airbus factory I would jump at the chance and spend all my time at Airbus : the chance of a lifetime to see how an aircraft is built !
But, as a director of a company that has a huge market share in industry XYZ, if I was invited on a 10-day junket by one particular big customer to see "how products XYZ are made" I would run a million miles in the other direction in case it was seen as an advantage.
That would be doubly the case if I had any personal influence on the legislation (e.g. environmental) affecting industry XYZ .
If I really wanted to understand how products XYZ are made I would do it the hard way :shirt sleeves, low-profile, sweaty, hard, long visits to XYZ production lines, which in fact I did for decades.
Mr Albert Ho is on the board of the Airport Authority. All well and good. So let me ask him this:
Mr Ho : Compared with the 10 days in France "inspecting Airbus" how many days did you spend last year on the ground at HKIA in shirt sleeves inspecting HK's aviation industry at ground level ?
Zero ?
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Ok so Twitter bails on the their deal with Google and when Google doesn't use their data that they don't have an agreement to use, they want to call Google out? Seriously?
I'm no fan of Google, but if you don't like what they've done with their search engine, then change your default search to Bing or Yahoo or Ask, or anybody else. Everybody screams that Google has a monopoly on search, but the switching cost away from Google is about 15 seconds on your computer or downloading a Bing app to your phone.
The problem isn't that Google is so monopolistic, it's that consumers are so lazy.
In case you didn't notice, Facebook has scaled back on integration with Google months ago..now you need 3rd party apps to have blog posts automatically to your Facebook page.
Also Google plus has been out for a while and only now Google has taken this step. I say Google waited long enough and then decided to move forward.
The company does not have a monopoly on us the way Windows Operating System did.
Twitter and Facebook better wake up or be left behind the way Android is barreling ahead of Apple.
Hollywood is notoriously difficult on older ladies, but as Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon have proved, there is nothing at all to fear about becoming seasoned.
Sarandon, 65, has watched herself mature on the big screen for decades. Now starring alongside Jason Segel, Ed Helms and Judy Greer in this month's comedy "Jeff, Who Lives At Property," the actress reveals what she's learned about aging gracefully within thebusin
"The thing that I ultimately told my daughter, which dawned on me at one point, was that you simply need to enjoy your imperfections, due to the fact that is what tends to make you you," Sarandon says. "Not that I would be so eager to jump about with my clothes off at this point in my life, but understanding that your face is you, and whatever your anxieties are, don't take it out on your physique." This is not to say that she's opposed to cosmetic enhancements – within reason.
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The SNF2h-containing chromatin-remodeling complex NoRC is responsible for silencing a fraction of mammalian rRNA genes (rDNA). NoRC silences transcription by establishing heterochromatic features-including DNA methylation, hypoacetylation of histone H4, and methylation of H3K9-at the rDNA promoter []. We have investigated the mechanism of NoRC-mediated rDNA silencing and show that binding of the bromodomain of TIP5, the large subunit of NoRC, to acetylated nucleosomes is a prerequisite for NoRC function. A point mutation within the bromodomain impairs the association of NoRC with chromatin, prevents heterochromatin formation, and abolishes transcriptional repression. Moreover, the association of NoRC with chromatin requires acetylation of histone H4 at lysine 16 (acH4K16), and binding to acH4K16 is required for subsequent deacetylation of H4K5, H4K8, and H4K12, indicating that acetylation of H4K16 plays an active role in NoRC-mediated heterochromatin formation. The bromodomain cooperates with an adjacent PHD finger to recruit HDAC1, DNMT1, DNMT3, and SNF2h to rDNA. If specifically targeted to the rDNA promoter, the PHD finger/bromodomain is capable of establishing heterochromatic features and rDNA silencing. Thus, the PHD finger/bromodomain represents an autonomous unit that binds to acH4K16 and coordinates the chain of events that establish the repressed state of rDNA.
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RP'ing is not innovative, it's acting. This is not new, there is nothing new under the sun, my dear Mr. Bowers.
This is none the more new than a computerized version of the "Who's Line is it Anyway" show. Sure, some people are serious about it, but it's nothing more than on the spot imagination combined with a medium that facilitates this communication.
This is a glorified RP message board. We have emotes and some pretty visuals, but even then, we've had constructs on boards for years that handle emotes... ;) for example.
Hate to burst the bubble of how "edgy" RPing is for ya, but it's got to be said. Nothing is new in WoW's RPing, nor any other MMO product out there when it comes to social innovation.
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Did you even read the article?
He didn't say Roleplaying is something that was invented 5 years ago, or that WoW in some way revolutionized RP.
No, he said that Roleplaying as we know it really didn't exist before the '60s. The claim is that culture is becoming more collaborative.
While I do agree that collaborative and interactive storytelling is becoming more common and complex, I think it's been around in some form as long as we've been able to communicate.
However your arguments and references to technology and television less then 20 or so years old really aren't valid. The article is talking in terms of the span of human civilization while your busy declaring "Thats sooo 1995."


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Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a highly sensitive means of analyzing very tiny amounts of DNA. The discovery, they say, could increase the ability of forensic scientists to match genetic material in some criminal investigations. It could also prevent the need for a painful, invasive test given to transplant patients at risk of rejecting their donor organs and replace it with a blood test that reveals traces of donor DNA.
Using a pain clinic as a testing ground, researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that a management process first popularized by Toyota in Japan can substantially reduce patient wait times and possibly improve the teaching of interns and residents.
The timing of a toddler's first steps is an important developmental milestone, but a slight delay in walking is typically not a cause of concern by itself.
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Patient service and quality improvement expert Lisa Allen has been named the first chief patient experience officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis Center is the recipient of one of 22 research grants offered to investigators in nine countries by the International Progressive MS Alliance, a worldwide collaborative focused on finding solutions to progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS).
More research is still needed to test the role of psilocybin in helping people quit
Johns Hopkins researchers report that a small number of longtime smokers who had failed many attempts to drop the habit did so after a carefully controlled and monitored use of psilocybin, the active hallucinogenic agent in so-called "magic mushrooms," in the context of a cognitive behavioral therapy treatment program.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been named a top medical education program, along with the University of California, San Francisco, by the physician network Doximity and its partner U.S. News & World Report. This is their first comprehensive national study of residency programs. Johns Hopkins placed in the top 10 in 14 specialties and is number one in four specialties: Nuclear Medicine, Otolaryngology, Pathology (Anatomic & Clinical) and Surgery.
Norm Barker, M.A., M.S., a professor of pathology and art as applied medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Lydia Gregg, M.A., an instructor and certified medical illustrator at the school, each received an Award of Excellence in the BioCommunications Association's 2014 BioImages competition.
A team of American infectious disease and critical care experts is alerting colleagues caring for Ebola patients that how they remove their personal protective gear can be just as crucial as wearing it to prevent exposure to the deadly virus.
Seeks to close gender gap in reproductive health care
Compared with women, American men have worse access to reproductive and sexual health care, research shows, a disparity fueled in part by the lack of standard clinical guidelines on the types and timing of exams, tests and treatments that should be offered to all men of reproductive age.
Three Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals have been awarded the 2014 Excellence Award for Quality Improvement in Hospitals from the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care, an independent, nonprofit health care quality improvement organization. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore and Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., each earned the distinction.
New target identified for treatment of abnormal blood vessels and leakage
Working with mice, a multicenter team of researchers has found a new way to reduce the abnormal blood vessel growth and leakage in the eye that accompany some eye diseases. The finding could lead to the development of new drugs for wet macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema
Research at Johns Hopkins has helped a team of scientists elsewhere identify and develop a compound that could directly target a genetic mutation responsible for a common familial form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and a biologically related memory-robbing disease known as frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Experts say child's relapse and two similar cases can pave way to future cure efforts
The news in July that HIV had returned in a Mississippi toddler after a two-year treatment-free remission dashed the hopes of clinicians, HIV researchers and the public at large tantalized by the possibility of a cure.
Animal study holds promise for treating diabetic ulcers and burns
A combination of two drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for different applications reduces wound healing time by one-quarter and significantly decreases scar tissue in mice and rats, Johns Hopkins researchers report. If the findings, reported in the September issue of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, hold true in future human studies, the dual treatment could speed skin healing in people with skin ulcers, extensive burns, surgical wounds and battlefield injuries.
Simple genetic test predicts dosage needed
Many African-Americans may not be getting effective doses of the HIV drug maraviroc, a new study from Johns Hopkins suggests. The initial dosing studies, completed before the drug was licensed in 2007, included mostly European-Americans, who generally lack a protein that is key to removing maraviroc from the body. The current study shows that people with maximum levels of the protein — including nearly half of African-Americans — end up with less maraviroc in their bodies compared to those who lack the protein even when given the same dose. A simple genetic test for the gene that makes the CYP3A5 protein could be used to determine what doses would achieve effective levels in individuals, the researchers say.
Chemical alterations to genes appear key to tumor development
Regardless of their stage or type, cancers appear to share a telltale signature of widespread changes to the so-called epigenome, according to a team of researchers. In a study of a broad variety of cancers, the investigators say they have found widespread and distinctive changes to chemical marks known as methyl groups attached to DNA. Those marks help govern whether genes are turned "on" or "off," and ultimately how the cell behaves. Such reversible chemical marks on DNA are known as epigenetic, and together they make up the epigenome.
Johns Hopkins Medicine Dean and CEO Paul Rothman and Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Director Peter Pronovost named to Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list
Modern Healthcare, a leading industry publication, has named Johns Hopkins Medicine Dean and CEO Paul B. Rothman, M.D., and patient safety expert Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., to this year's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list. The list recognizes individuals deemed by their peers and experts as leaders in the industry.
Additional tool accelerates personalized medicine research
Johns Hopkins stem cell biologists have found a way to reprogram a patient's skin cells into cells that mimic and display many biological features of a rare genetic disorder called familial dysautonomia. The process requires growing the skin cells in a bath of proteins and chemical additives while turning on a gene to produce neural crest cells, which give rise to several adult cell types. The researchers say their work substantially expedites the creation of neural crest cells from any patient with a neural crest-related disorder, a tool that lets physicians and scientists study each patient's disorder at the cellular level.


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Islam is the dominant religion. Though Shi'a Muslims make up more than two-thirds of the population, Sunni Islam is the prevailing belief held by those in the government, military, and corporate sectors. Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, as well as a tiny indigenous Jewish community, also exist in Bahrain.
Bahrain has traditionally boasted an advanced educational system. Schooling and related costs are entirely paid for by the government, and primary and secondary attendance rates are high. Bahrain also encourages institutions of higher learning, drawing on expatriate talent and the increasing pool of Bahrainis returning from abroad with advanced degrees. Bahrain University has been established for standard undergraduate and graduate study, and the College of Health Sciences--operating under the direction of the Ministry of Health--trains physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and paramedics.
After World War II, Bahrain became the center for British administration of treaty obligations in the lower Persian Gulf. In 1968, when the British Government announced its decision (reaffirmed in March 1971) to end the treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Bahrain joined the other eight states (Qatar and the seven Trucial Sheikhdoms, which are now called the United Arab Emirates) under British protection in an effort to form a union of Arab emirates. By mid-1971, however, the nine sheikhdoms still had not agreed on terms of union. Accordingly, Bahrain sought independence as a separate entity and became fully independent on August 15, 1971, as the State of Bahrain.
In 1973, the Amir enacted a new constitution, setting up an experimental parliamentary system and protecting individual liberties. But just two years later, in August 1975, the Amir disbanded the National Assembly. No date has been announced for the reintroduction of representative institutions, though a petition and other forms of protest have called for their return. In January 1993, the Amir appointed a 30-member Consultative Council to contribute "advice and opinion" on legislation proposed by the cabinet and, in certain cases, suggest new laws on its own. Political unrest broke out in December 1994 and included sporadic mass protests, skirmishes with local law enforcement, arson, and property attacks. In June 1995, the first Bahraini cabinet change in 20 years took place, producing mixed public response. In 1996, the Amir increased the membership of the Consultative Council to 40 and expanded its powers. The first session of the new Council began October 1, 1996.
Bahrain's six towns and cities are administered by one central municipal council, the members of which are appointed by the Amir. A complex system of courts, based on diverse legal sources including Sunni and Shi'a Sharia (religious law), tribal law, and other civil codes and regulation, was created with the help of British advisers in the early 20th century. This judiciary administers the legal code and reviews laws to ensure their constitutionality.
Bahrain maintains an embassy in the United States at 3502 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008; tel: (202) 342-0741; fax: (202) 362-2192). The Bahraini UN Mission is located at 747 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10017; tel: (212) 751-8805.
Bahrain's small economy is basically strong, despite the budget deficits. It is so small that it suffers from virtually any change in the region or world. Privatization, which could help reduce Bahrain's deficit, is moving ahead. Utilities, banks, financial services, telecommunications, and other areas will shortly come under the control of the private sector.
The government has used its modest oil revenues to build an advanced infrastructure in transportation and telecommunications. Bahrain is a regional financial and business center. Regional tourism is also a significant source of income. Bahrain benefited from the region's economic boom in the late 1970s and 1980s. During that time, the government emphasized infrastructure development and other projects to improve the standard of living; health, education, housing, electricity, water, and roads all received attention.
Petroleum and natural gas, the only significant natural resources in Bahrain, dominate the economy and provide about 60% of budget revenues. Bahrain was the first Persian Gulf state to discover oil. Because of limited reserves, Bahrain has worked to diversify its economy over the past decade. Bahrain has stabilized its oil production at about 40,000 barrels per day (b/d), and reserves are expected to last 10-15 years. The Bahrain Oil Company refinery was built in 1935, has a capacity of about 250,000 b/d, and was the first in the Gulf. After selling 60% of the refinery to the state-owned Bahrain National Oil Company in 1980, Caltex, a U.S. company, now owns 40%. Saudi Arabia provides most of the crude for refinery operation via pipeline. Bahrain also receives a large portion of the net output and revenues from Saudi Arabia's Abu Saafa offshore oilfield.
The Bahrain National Gas Company operates a gas liquefaction plant that utilizes gas piped directly from Bahrain's oilfields. Gas reserves should last about 50 years at present rates of consumption.
The Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company is a joint venture of the petrochemical industries of Kuwait, the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, and the Government of Bahrain. The plant, completed in 1985, produces ammonia and methanol for export.
Bahrain's other industries include Aluminum Bahrain, which operates an aluminum smelter--the largest in the world with an annual production of about 525,000 metric tons (mt)--and related factories, such as the Aluminum Extrusion Company and the Gulf Aluminum Rolling Mill. Other plants include the Arab Iron and Steel Company's iron ore pelletizing plant (4 million tons annually) and a shipbuilding and repair yard.
Bahrain's development as a major financial center has been the most widely heralded aspect of its diversification effort. In 1973, the Bahraini Monetary Agency was formed to provide oversight for the banking and financial sector. Since 1983, the regional economic climate in which these institutions operate has become less favorable because of the region's economic downturn. Banks, including some from the United States, have reacted by scaling back their operations or leaving the area. This decrease in business confidence was exacerbated by the Gulf war. Nevertheless, more than 100 offshore banking units and representative offices are located in Bahrain, as well as 65 American firms. Bahrain's international airport is one of busiest in the Gulf, serving 22 carriers. A modern, busy port offers direct and frequent cargo shipping connections to the U.S., Europe, and the Far East.
Because of its small size and limited wealth, Bahrain has not taken a leading role in regional or international affairs. Rather, it generally pursues a policy of close consultation with neighboring states and works to narrow areas of disagreement. During the Gulf war, Bahraini pilots flew strikes in Iraq, and the island was used as a base for military operations in the Gulf.
Since achieving independence in 1971, Bahrain has maintained friendly relations with most of its neighbors and with the world community. In December 1994, it concurred with the GCC decision to drop secondary and tertiary boycotts against Israel. In many instances, it has established special bilateral trade agreements.
Bahrain-Iran relations have been strained since the Iranian revolution and the 1981 discovery of a planned Iran-sponsored coup in Bahrain. However, with the decline of Iraq as a regional power broker, Bahrain has begun taking steps to improve relations with Iran and increase regional harmony. These efforts have included encouraging Bahrain-Iran trade, although Bahraini suspicions of Iranian involvement in local unrest appear to have slowed these steps toward improved relations.
In 1977, the agreement establishing Bahrain as the home port for the United States Navy's Middle East Force (MIDEASTFOR) was terminated. MIDEASTFOR was subsumed into NAVCENT, a part of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida. Bahrain now is host to the Navy's Fifth Fleet.
The U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored Bahrain School remains, along with a small, administrative support unit. After the Gulf war, close cooperation between the two nations helped to stabilize the region. Bahrain has expressed a willingness for cooperation with plans for joint exercises, increased U.S. naval presence in the Gulf and cooperation on security matters.
U.S.-Bahraini economic ties have grown steadily since 1932, when Americans began to help develop Bahrain's oil industry. Currently, many American banks and firms use Bahrain as a base for regional operations. In 1986, the United States displaced Japan to become the top exporter to Bahrain.
The U.S. embassy in Bahrain is located off Sheikh Isa Highway, Building 979, Road 3119 (next to the Al-Ahli Sports club), Block 331, Zinj, Manama, Bahrain. The mailing address is PO Box 26431, Manama, Bahrain; tel: (973) 273300, after hours 275126; fax: (973) 272594. The embassy's hours are 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Saturdays-Wednesdays.
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Microsoft has backtracked on a suggested fix it offered repeatedly on its support forum for over two months for users having problems with SkyDrive on Windows 8.1.
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As people have moved to Windows 8.1 in the past two months, the drumbeat of reports that the OS update has affected the SkyDrive cloud storage service has grown louder.
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools has been updated with support for Windows 8.1 device and application management and Office 2013 virtualization.
Jumping on the trend of using printers to churn out objects, Microsoft has developed a 3D printing app for Windows 8.1, betting that this will become mainstream.
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Is water the new gold?
How bad is the problem? The EPA estimates that the cost of upgrading and replacing America's dilapidated water infrastructure will be more than $1 trillion. At current spending rates, it would take us 700 years to replace aging water assets.
It gets worse. Aqua America (WTR, news), a utility that operates between Texas and Maine, reports that it operates with some 75-year-old pipes. York Water (YORW, news) still uses some cast iron pipes from 1840. In Boston, they've recently found wooden pipes still connecting water mains to historic residences. And in New York City, many water mains are nearly 100 years old.
It's not just an American problem. London reportedly loses 50% of treated drinking water to leaks in old pipes.
As for piping water to newly expanding cities, finding adequate supplies is a big issue. Asia contains 61% of the world's population but only 36% of its fresh water supply. China is even worse off, with 21% of the world's population but only 7% share of the fresh water.
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Alex Prud'homme warns of the troubled fate of fresh water in his new book, "The Ripple Effect." The idea originated from a conversation with American chef Julia Child (his great-aunt) on the French obsession with bottled water and how that obsession was spreading to the U.S.. From that light conversation, Prud'homme uncovered the dark future outlined in his book.
The book boils the problem down to this simple fact: The Earth holds all the water it always has, "but the number of people using it, how they use it, and where they use it has dramatically changed." We abuse water. We take it for granted, pollute it and price it too cheaply. And we take too much of it from underground reservoirs too quickly.
The Ogallala is the third-largest aquifer in the world. It supplies nearly 30% of all of America's fresh water and the vast majority of the supply to grain-growing states like Kansas, Texas and Nebraska. But it's running out. At current consumption, the aquifer will be pumped dry in as little as 20 years.
Investing in water
For investors, the good news is that there is money to be made here. Scarcity creates value where there was none before. Speculators have already descended. T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oilman pushing natural gas as an alternative automotive fuel, has secured water rights to a large tract of the Ogallala and wants to sell the water to the highest bidder.
The need for more investment has many turning to the private sector and the profit motive. That carries risks. Things went very wrong in Bolivia back in 2000 during the Cochabamba Water Wars. After the system was privatized, rates jumped, and the poor could no longer afford life's most basic necessity. Riots and deaths followed, forcing the president to declare a "state of siege."
Whether water is provided by government entities or private enterprise, a few truths are evident. Water will become more expensive, because the resource isn't "free" and is getting less cheap over time. And money will have to be spent on new desalination plants, recycling facilities and on efficiency efforts. Companies that make the technology and equipment needed to filter, disinfect and test water supplies are likely to benefit.
As a result, Citigroup expects the $450 billion global water industry to grow at a steady 5% annual rate in the years to come. While this may seem modest, the growth is noncyclical (which means that it should grow regardless of the business cycle) yet nondefensive (it should accelerate as emerging-market economies develop). In the volatile economic environment we've had lately, these are valuable characteristics.
The Citi Global Water Index, which includes stocks like private utility Aqua America, pump maker Pentair (PNR, news), and filtration outfit Pall (PLL, news), is up 126% over the past 10 years versus a 24% increase for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX). The five-year performance of 25% also beats the S&P 500's 16% rise. Pall and Pentair are the two most-attractive individual stocks in the sector, as they maintain clean uptrends out of the March 2009 bear market low. Pall looks particularly attractive at current levels as it emerges from a six-month consolidation pattern.
For those looking at broad exposure to the sector, there are a number of water sector mutual funds and ETFs. Funds include the Calvert Global Water (CFWAX), the Allianz RCM Global Water (AWTAX) and the Kinetics Water Infrastructure (KWIAX). The most liquid ETF is the PowerShares Water Resources (PHO).
One nice thing about water is that, unlike gold, it isn't subject to the whims of popularity or the deftness of central bankers. It's essential for life. It's a constrained, mismanaged resource that's improperly priced. It's denser than oil and difficult to transport. And they sure aren't making any more of it.
At the time of publication, Anthony Mirhaydari did not own or control shares of any company or fund mentioned in this column.
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Comparing water to gold and fossil fuels is ridiculous. We have the raw materials (mostly in the form of surface water) for clean water we just don't have the proper infrastructure to clean the water or deliver it. In essence, the comparison is like saying we are running out of oil because we don't have enough refineries. Elementary school science teaches you the earth cycles its water and it is a closed cycle (water is not lost.) It's further evident we are not running out of surface water by the flooding in the US and other countries. We have water. We just don't have the means to process and distribute the water. (And we can always desalinate ocean water, too.)
We should be questioning why most of the U.S. economic stimulus package went to transportation projects and very little to water/wastewater projects. In my opinion, water is more important than gold...and transportation.
We need to fund our water infrastructure. This is a problem that money can fix, unlike oil. And if the government doesn't fund it, private enterprise will. Which is what Mr. Pickens is relying on.
WHY can't anyone bring up the subject of overpopulation to the general public ? Stop that dreadful Duggar woman first and then work on the rest of the world. Fewer people, less dense living, less risk of global disease spreading, more peace of mind, ability to send more resources to poorer countries, more people fed well, less pollution, a chance to save endangered forests and other habitat for plants and animals. The list is endless.
The problem isn't the fresh water being available, it is getting it to where people want to live (or getting people to quit moving to where there isn't any water). Even at the low-flow rates at night and during winter (50,000 cubic feet per minute), enough fresh water goes over Niagara falls to meet the needs of every person in the US and Canada (and this is with all the upstream withdrawals already factored in). Most of this water ends up being emptied into the ocean unused. The Mississippi dumps 4 times this much water into the Gulf of Mexico (low flow is ~200,000 cfs). These two combined could provide fresh water at the US usage rate for everyone in the western hemisphere (and these rates are after they already provide the water needs for roughly 100,000,000 people living in the watersheds).
West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California are DESERT. Yet people keep insisting on moving there, and worse yet insist on planting inedible crops (grass lawns and non-native trees) that require them to dump millions of gallons of the precious fresh water on the ground to keep these decorations alive. Combine this with all the desert that has been converted to farmland thanks to Hoover Dam, and you can see how we aren't being very efficient.
As to the Ogallala, T. Boone's rights will be worthless if (as Mirhaydari claims) the aquifer is going to be sucked dry by 2025 or 2030, so are we supposed to invest our money in the rights to drill more dry wells? I'm confused here. Not really, since the floods along the Missouri and Mississippi wil provide a nice recharge to the aquifer over the next couple of years.
Mirhaydari once again pulls some sensationalized BS and some shoddy science to demonstrate his ignorance for the MSN readers to see. On top of that, on what is supposed to be a financial website, he makes absolutely no indications of how this is supposed to impact your finances going forward.
The same thing can be said about Lead vs. Gold....and by lead I mean bullets. When the crap hits the fan and a country is spiraling down into nothing...you can have all the gold in the world....but it don't mean anything, but lead does. I can't throw a gold coin at someone to get them away from my food, water, and family....but boy that lead will bring someone down. Everyone is investing in Gold right now because everyone thinks it means something if a government collapses. Sure...perhaps...if you can get your stock pile out of where ever it is, put it on a row boat with you and sail to another land. But good luck throwing all those gold shillings at the people coming to kill you.
Please support the use of Retention ponds in your local area. They ease flooding, and recharge the groundwater. They are far superior to Detention ponds, which just ease flooding.
Plenty of water rains/snows down on the US. We simply need to hold it from becoming runoff and going into the ocean. (Bonus: it's cheaper to build a retention pond than to upgrade drainage systems when new development is built.)
Occasionally I get sad knowing that, even with luck, the number of years left to me are a great deal fewer than I wish. Then I think about all the poop preparing to hit the fan in about 15 yrs.
and I feel somewhat better! Not that I don't vote for the environment, recycle like crazy etc. but I fear we've already reached the point of no return for most of the world's population.
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Steinbrunn-le-Bas is situated in the Haut-Rhin (Alsace region) in the north-east of France at 46 km from Colmar, the department capital. (General information: Steinbrunn-le-Bas is 394 km from Paris).
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Heritage sites Neuf-Brisach ville neuve (Vauban fortifications) (40km)
Most beautiful villages in France (see also beautiful French villages) Eguisheim (41km)
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour) Thann (25km)
Remarkable gardens Parc botanique de Mulhouse (7km); Parc Alfred-Wallach (7km); Parc de la Marseillaise (28km); Roseraie du Chatelet (33km); Parc de Wesserling (36km); Jardin d'altitude du Haut-Chitelet (50km)
Sites of natural beauty Ballon d'Alsace (42km); Hohneck (48km)
Towns of Art and history Mulhouse (9km); Guebwiller (29km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Sausheim (13km); Hirtzbach (14km); Huningue (18km); Masevaux (30km); Soultzmatt (34km); Belfort (38km); Rougegoutte (39km); Montbeliard (46km); Mandeure (48km)
Zoo and/or wildlife park Parc zoologique et botanique de Mulhouse (7km)
Commune: Steinbrunn-le-Bas
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Department: Haut-Rhin
Region: Alsace
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from Colmar (prefecture): 46 km
from Paris: 394 km
from Calais: 541 km
from Nice: 441 km
from Bordeaux: 687 km
from Strasbourg: 105 km
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We have 27 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Steinbrunn-le-Bas): Bruebach, Brunstatt, Didenheim, Dietwiller, Emlingen, Eschentzwiller, Flaxlanden, Geispitzen, Heiwiller, Kappelen, Koetzingue, Landser, Luemschwiller, Magstatt-le-Bas, Magstatt-le-Haut, Obermorschwiller, Rantzwiller, Schlierbach, Steinbrunn-le-Haut, Stetten, Tagsdorf, Uffheim, Wahlbach, Waltenheim, Zaessingue, Zillisheim and Zimmersheim.
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The Vancouver Christmas Market is an annual can't-miss Vancouver Christmas event running from November 22 to December 24, 2014.
More than just a craft fair, this authentic German Christmas Market creates the perfect atmosphere to mix and mingle with friends and family, strolling through romantic rows of little wooden huts decorated in pine branches and illuminated with strings of little white lights. In each hut discover terrific food and drink and a wonderful array of Christmas gifts.
During the pre-Christmas season, the Market is the perfect destination for combining an outing with friends and family with some Christmas shopping. Business people will find it a fun meeting place for a quick bite during lunch time or a drink after work (be sure to use our 2 for 1 Lunch Pass!). With a wide variety of cultural activities and entertainment events, it also becomes a place for people to enjoy and mingle before a night on the town. A special children's area known as the Kids' Market will give youngsters the chance to make their own Christmas gifts and ride downtown Vancouver's only Christmas Carousel. School groups of all ages, social clubs and senior organizations will make a visit to the Market an annual tradition.
The centre piece of the Christmas Market will be a festively decorated stage which creates a unique Christmas atmosphere when surrounded by more than 45 traditional wooden booths and rows of Christmas trees with thousands of fairy lights.
There will be a mix of food and merchandise booths including some specialties such as German Bratwurst, suckling pig and Swiss Raclette, traditional Christmas cookies, Lebkuchen, roasted chestnuts, baked apples and spiced Christmas Cake (Stollen). Beverages will include the famous German Christmas Drink (Feuerzangenbowle) and authentic hot spiced red wine (Glühwein) and a selection of German beers (Weissbier).
The merchandise will include authentic wood carvings and wooden toys, knitted clothes and scarves, Christmas pyramids and tree balls, tin toys, stain glass, nutcrackers in various sizes as well as advent wreaths. You can find unique gifts such as glass jewelry, Polish pottery, organic baby clothes or German beer steins.
During the daytime and evening hours Vancouver Christmas Market will offer a kaleidoscope of performances, including traditional European choirs and dance performances, world class string ensembles, worldly gospel choirs and festive carol singers. The Pavilion Stage will also host daily feature kid's activities and a variety of school choirs and bands will show off their talent during their performances on stage.
Vancouver is a cosmopolitan city with a rich history of hosting world-class events. The Vancouver Christmas Market will change the way Vancouverites celebrate the Christmas season.
Colourful décor. Authentic gifts. Family entertainment. Tasty authentic food. The aroma of mulled wine. A truly enchanting atmosphere.
This year the market will have a marvelous tall Christmas Tree with fairy lights which creates a unique Christmas atmosphere surrounded by dozens traditional wooden booths, performance stages and festive decorations.
Colourful décor. Authentic gifts. Family entertainment. Tasty authentic food. The aroma of mulled wine. A truly enchanting atmosphere.
Vancouver is a cosmopolitan city with a rich history of hosting world-class events. The Vancouver Christmas Market will change the way Vancouverites celebrate the Christmas season.
Christmas markets are a delightful way to begin holiday festivities. The crisp, cold air fills with the fragrance of sizzling sausages, sweet pastries, spices and hot spiced gluhwein. Booths sell sweet treats, such as chocolates, cakes, pastries, cookies and candies. Music of Christmas fills the air, in preparation for Christmas.


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An exciting documentary that unfolds the fascinating "untold" history of the Bible, revealing critical information often overlooked in modern histories. Enter into a world of saints and martyrs battling against spies, assassins and wolves in sheep's clothing.
Throughout the Middle Ages, the Papal Inquisition forbade biblical translation, threatening imprisonment and death to those who disobeyed. Learn the stories of valiant warriors of the faith, such as John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, the ancient Waldenses, Albigenses and others who hazarded their lives for the sake of sharing the Gospel light with a world drowning in darkness.
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I am saddened that so many feel, all Christians are bad people. True Christians which should practice, the "Love" of Christ, do not persecute others, but forgive indifference's, and share his love instead. However, the early Catholic church failed in understanding this wisdom. I have never agreed with any church, that practice anything other, than the teachings of Christ. One only has to read Matthew, to see Jesus taught utterly different, from the church teachings. Look at this fact, that all Religions are created by people, and not by God. God said, "Of what church shall yea house me, when the earth is my foot -stool"
Thepassenger November 10, 2010 1:10:15 AM CET
every "Christian" I have met in my life... have been HUGE haters... who get off on telling everyone else that hell fire is in their future for being dirty impure sinners... I don't see any inherent sin in myself... never have... & I have always agreed with the idea "if God exists... it has to be some kind of control freak... and ... control freaks are fucking assholes" If there is such a control freak running the show... then that asshole totally needs to mellow out.


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Close to the very definition of pastoral music, Spencer Grady and Stephen Lewis, operating here as Padang Food Tigers, allow the sounds of rural life – rain, children playing, and wind – to become just as necessary as the guitar, piano, and banjo, the three traditional instruments that appear most often on "Ready Country Nimbus." The two musicians are better known as two-thirds of Rameses III (Type, Important Records) and, though their style is similar, the music on this LP is noticeably pared back in order to illuminate naked, rough-hewn folk songs without a hint of the technological world. Even song length is cut down with none of the record's fifteen tracks eclipsing the four minute mark. Unlike many other acts who take a similar approach to folk and minimalist tropes, Padang Food Tigers carry an optimistic mood throughout "Ready Country Nimbus," allowing a warm, inviting feeling to pervade this enticing album. - Ryan Potts, Experimedia


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