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BLO-ACAPA: passes all entities into a single layer.
GEN-TRANSLATE: Translate the program into any language ARKITool DIB-FILL: Fill or shade using blocks or images. ARC-CALCO: Prepare a drawing to use as underlay. MSU-ROAD: Calculate square feet of paint. TOP-ELEVPUNTOS: Sets the height or elevation points with reference to a text or nearby curve. LIM-DUPLICATE: Locate all duplicate entities in the drawing. EDI-FORPARALELA ago one of the sides parallel selected. ARQ-FILLING: Details construtivos wall in plan or section. ARQ-CONTAUTO: Automatically calculates contours of architecture. ARQ-AREADIN: To modify an outline within a limited area. EDI-EXTENTRAMO: Extend entities but creating new sections. ARC-CAMBIARXREF: Change the external file references TOP-SLOPE: Represents a slope factor. BLO-SOLID: Solidify a block to hide the bodies back ATR-NOGIRAR: Keep the orientation of the attributes. BLO-BINDING: Link attributes of the blocks. ARQ-LEVEL: Create dynamic heights level elevations or sections. ARQ-RAMP: To create access ramps. ARQ-PERSPEDIN: polyline represents a conical perspective. BLO-EXISTS: Avoid creating blocks that have the same geometry. INF-DISTTEXTO: Measure the distance between 2 points defined by two texts. TOP-TROZOTERRENO: Get a piece of a 3D terrain. VIS-PANVENTANA: Allows you to scroll in a window with a view immobilized. TOP-INTERPOLARELEV: Interpol 2 lifts blocks with defined attributes. TXT-WAREHOUSE: Manage AutoCAD texts to avoid having to rewrite more texts. TOP-AREA: Calculate the area of ??a piece of 3D terrain. TOP VACUUM: calculate the volumn of a 3D terrain areas. TOP-urbanized plots extract information from the drawing. TOP-SOLID: Convert a 3D terrain (grid) in a solid (ACIS). TOP-LOCPARCELAS: Locate plots in the drawing from the names of them. TOP-Interpol: Interpol new curves between 2 curves or polylines. TOP-IMPORT: Import points from a text file. TOP-EXPORT: Exports the drawing coordinates to a table or a file. TOP-SPLIT: Divide equally an irregular polygon. TOP-DISTANCE: Measures real distance on a 3D terrain. TOP-SMOOTHING: Removes vertices intermediate polylines. TOP-settings: the vertices of polylines with respect to point features. POL-SPLIT: Split a polyline closed polylines 2. MSU-CREASUMACAPA: Sumta all dimensions contained in a given layer. LAY-ORDER: Change order of entities, ordering the layers. EST-PROFILE: Draw all kinds of metal profiles and formed laminate. EST-post: Calculate number of units, length and weight of the labeled material. EDI-PARALELADIN: Create a parallel dynamic entity DIB-DIVCONTORNO: Divide a horizontal or vertical contour TOC-SUM: Creates a sum with all the selected dimension text. COT-MLINEA: Refine all the entities cut by one or more lines. CON-POL3POL2D: Convert 3D polylines into 2D polylines. BLO-LIST: Create a table of blocks with the number of insertions. BLO-ALINEARTODOS, align all blocks on a curve automatically. 3D-UNE3DPOL: Attach 2 polylines in 3D. 3D-PARALLEL: parallel 3D polylines ago in plan and elevation.


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After sprucing up the PC version, developer Raster has turned its attention to bringing the Nazi-spanking run-and-gun-er to the PS2, complete with sinister genetic experiment storyline, and (obligatory) hordes of zombie stormtroopers providing the cannon-fodder. Those who played the seminal original PC title will no doubt be familiar with the 'Hitler-loves-the-occult' based adventure (which is somewhat reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Arc) and need no introduction to proceedings, but for those who missed out the first time round, here's a bit of background...
Playing as the dubiously monikered Army Ranger B.J. Blazkowicz, your mission is to uncover the dark and dodgy dealings of the Third Reich, scupper the Fuhrer's plans for global domination, and kill loads of Hitler's stooges while you're at it. Set in the midst of World War II, Return to Castle Wolfenstein sees you venturing into Nazi Germany to shake things up, US-style. Teamed up with another operative, Agent One, you'll begin your journey in Egypt, searching for evidence of Himmler's genetic tampering. The mission will see you battling everything from SS Guards to hideous mutant X-creatures - the result of X-lab experiments - and embarking on an epic quest en-route to wartime Nazi Germany.
So, your task is to make your way through some truly challenging levels using a combination of stealth and full-on combat action - taking out any Nazi coffin-dodgers whilst you're at it. And as you get your teeth into the proceedings, and start giving Hitler's hordes a swift jackboot up the behind, you'll accumulate enough artillery to win the war pretty much single-handedly. You begin with a Colt pistol, and progress to such serious weaponry as a sub-machine gun, a night vision rifle, a Tesla gun and even a flamethrower.
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Prof's Studies of Corruption in Asia are in Demand Worldwide
A UT Dallas management professor's findings on corruption in Asia are in demand by business universities around the world.
Dr. Seung-Hyun Lee
Two articles by Dr. Seung-Hyun Lee, an associate professor in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, examine how bribery and other types of corruption influence business and profits in Asian countries. Lee, of the school's Organizations, Strategy and International Management area, also analyzes how U.S. firms fare when competing in such environments.
"Bribery is a reality of doing business in most Asian countries," Lee said. "Bribery is almost like paying a tax in many countries."
Since the papers appeared in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management in 2007 and 2010, Lee has frequently received requests to use them from various universities, including the Singapore campus of INSEAD, one of the world's foremost graduate business universities.
Lee's 2007 paper, "Corruption in Asia: Pervasiveness and Arbitrariness" uses two distinct factors to study bribery:
- Pervasiveness, or how rampant bribery is, and how easy it is to tell whether bribery is acceptable.
- Arbitrariness, or the likelihood of whether the bribe will result in the requested service.
The two factors play different roles.
"High arbitrariness," as a review in The Economist explained, "discourages foreign investment in a way that high pervasiveness does not, since firms cannot well afford to be unsure whom to bribe and whether the bribe will work."
Lee uses practices in Indonesia and India to illustrate.
"Indonesia is a very corrupt country, but, at the same time, if you bribe you get preferential treatment as promised at the time of bribery" he said. "So bribery is very prevalent in Indonesia. If you don't pay the bribe, you aren't going to get the deal. If you do, however, then you will surely get the benefit."
Sungjin J. Hong
"In countries like India, on the other hand, bribery is very prevalent, but uncertainty associated with bribery is very high," Lee said. "If uncertainty is high, you may not know who to bribe, how much to bribe, and whether or not you will get the benefits that you are told you will get. If that is the case, it's very risky to bribe, as well as can be very costly."
The paper was co-authored by Dr. Kyeungrae (Kenny) Oh, a Jindal School doctoral alumnus now at the University of Missouri – St. Louis,
Lee's second paper, co-authored by JSOM faculty member Sungjin J. Hong, used data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the World Bank to look at how corruption impacts profitability.
That study, "Corruption and Subsidiary Profitability: US MNC Subsidiaries in the Asia Pacific Region," concluded that subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in the Asian region enjoy higher profitability in countries with lower levels of corruption.
"Our research showed that the more corrupt a country is, the more likely their own domestic companies will seek opportunities outside their own domestic business environment," Lee said.
"Our research showed that the more corrupt a country is, the more likely their own domestic companies will seek opportunities outside their own domestic business environment."
Dr. Seung-Hyun Lee,
associate professor, Naveen Jindal School of Management
Though the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 made it illegal for U.S. firms to engage in bribery, the issue has not gone away. Questions regarding the law and subsequent enforcement continue to make headlines — such as in recent New York Times stories alleging that Wal-Mart made illicit payments in Mexico to secure permits and favored treatment.
U.S. firms may have a disadvantage when going into many Asian countries where bribery is rampant, "because they cannot bribe," Lee said. "However, U.S. firms are more competitive and so, even with the constraints, get the business because they have more to offer overall."
One way to avoid the bribery issue is to be socially responsible in those countries, Lee said. "Directly bribing government officials may benefit greedy government officials," he said, but engaging in such locally beneficial behaviors as building schools, providing educational opportunities and investing in the social infrastructure, "will bring benefits to the society and to those who are unprivileged. Since those benefited by the good neighbors from abroad would seek stability, incumbent local government officials get support from the rank and file."
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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The most immediate concern over the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan is how it will affect Afghan security. The Taliban and other Afghan militants still launch regular attacks against Western forces, and the Afghan military and police forces that NATO has been training are not yet prepared to take on responsibility for their own security.
The Afghan government is already worried about accelerated US plans, announced in February, to end combat operations a year before its anticipated 2014 withdrawal. "A decision to push this a year earlier throws out the whole transition plan. The transition has been planned against a timetable and this makes us rush all our preparations," a senior Afghan security official told the Monitor soon after the announcement. "If the Americans withdraw from combat, it will certainly have an effect on our readiness and training, and on equipping the police force."
And Afghan forces depend heavily on Western money as well. If the financial support dries up, warns Mahmood Khan, a member of parliament from Kandahar Province, "there will not be enough troops to secure the country, especially the rural areas."
Such concerns are a major factor in why the US has been attempting peace negotiations with the Taliban. But the talks remain a long shot at best, in part because the US timetable for departure is already public, lessening the Taliban's incentive to negotiate.


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'Bigg Boss' a lifetime opportunity for Sofia Hayat
It's a dream come true for British actress-singer Sofia Hayat who entered the "Bigg Boss" house as a wild card entry Wednesday. The starlet, before her entry in the house, said the show is a lifetime opportunity for her.
"Shows like 'Bigg Boss' are once in a lifetime opportunity. I had dreams that I am in 'Bigg Boss' but that was just a dream. I had never thought that I will ever be a part of this show," Sofia said in an interview.
"I am very excited to meet Salman Khan and talk to him," she added.
Meanwhile, she is not sure how she would react if she encounters unfavorable situations in the house.
"I want to be myself on the show. I am quite childish so if somebody will make noise or shout at me then I don't know how would I react," Sofia said.
Meanwhile, after her entry, Sofia is living in the caravan section of the house along with VJ Andy who was shifted to the caravan from the main house Wednesday.
'Bigg Boss Saath 7' airs on Colors TV. The other house inmates are Pratyusha Banerjee, Apurva Agnihotri, Tanisha Mukherjee, Kamya Punjabi, Armaan Kohli, Sangram Singh and Eli Avaram.


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...Mike Bresnahan @Mike_Bresnahan
The Lakers have officially contacted Phil Jackson to gauge his interest in coaching them, The Times has learned.
Everyone remembers the glorious Phil Jackson, the championships, the genius, and they forget the way they had watched him so tired, so beaten in his final season with the Los Angeles Lakers. They forget the way the work ethic had eroded within the franchise, the way that he lost discipline within the roster.
Lakers owner Jerry Buss wants to bring Jackson back to coach again, and perhaps he's holding onto something that left long ago: the coach's drive and determination to withstand the grind of the job. He'll come back, cash those checks and leave everyone unsure whether he's still hell-bent on molding championship teams. His old assistants – Jim Cleamons and Kurt Rambis – are out of coaching jobs and anxious to come back to the bench with history's greatest coach.
Everyone's going to get paid again, but you wonder: Do they have the stomach to chase championships again?
The old band could get back together, and it is fair to suspect that one of those staggering $10 million-a-season salaries could be the most compelling reason for Jackson to return to the bench in Los Angeles. Jackson has the Lakers right where he wants them: desperate, needy and perhaps willing to pay a steep price to bring him back a third time.
Mike Brown had arrived at the Lakers' practice facility for the morning shootaround believing he needed a victory over the Golden State Warriors on Friday night to spare his job. Ownership and management had been meeting about him his future throughout Thursday, and general manager Mitch Kupchak advocated to give the beleaguered Brown longer than five games before firing him, sources said.
Jim Buss, the Lakers' executive vice president, had gone along with the plan on Thursday, but something changed overnight into Friday. Jerry Buss wanted Brown out, and wanted him out now. As Brown gathered his assistants to plan for Friday night's game, a request came for him to step outside the room. The forever chipper, eager Brown returned to his coaching staff 10 minutes later with a decidedly different disposition.
"They fired me," Brown simply said.
All around the franchise, the belief was that the decision had come from Jerry Buss, who had lost patience with his $100 million roster investment losing four out of five games to start the season. He was tired of the Princeton offense, tired of the season-ticket holders' complaining, tired of the coach who he let his son, Jim, hire two years ago. For the $100 million of payroll – and the $30 million more of luxury tax – the old man wanted to bring Showtime back to the Staples Center. This was Jerry Buss playing the part of patriarch again.
Eventually, Kupchak would turn to his old NBA coach with the Washington Bullets, Bernie Bickerstaff, to get the team through Friday night's game against Golden State. Dump the Princeton offense, Bickerstaff was told. Showtime doesn't do Ivy League, and few in ownership – nor management – had to be convinced that the brief exploration had been a failure.
Only, the Lakers were sixth in offensive efficiency. In this short sampling, the bigger issues were defense and the bench. "Kobe likes the offense, and has from the start," one league source briefed on the conversations told Yahoo! Sports. "But they told Bernie: 'This is about the offense. It has to go.' "
Everyone is so sure that Jackson is the savior here, but they forget how uninspired he had seemed in that final season. They forget that too much of the Lakers' staff had become lethargic, that the arrival of Brown had been uncomfortable for so many so used to leaving early every day. Yet this is a results business, and no one cares how many hours that Brown invested into the job, or how late he made his assistants stay.
This is about public relations now, about feeding that Staples Center and Hollywood monster, and Buss needs a coach with a pedigree. The greatest coach of all, Phil Jackson, could be waiting to come cash Buss' checks again, and motivated and inspired, his hiring would be a bargain at any price. He still needs to decide that he wants to coach again, that he wants the Lakers, but he's forever a sucker for the drama, for riding back to save the franchise. Two years ago, he couldn't wait to get out of the Lakers, get out of the NBA, and you wonder what's changed except for boredom and that lust for the next big score, that next big Hollywood ending.
"We want Phil," the Lakers fans chanted on Friday night in the Staples Center. "We want Phil."
Jerry Buss' plan is to give the people what they want: the great Phil Jackson. They remember the five titles with the Lakers, but everyone wants to forget the end, the way that Jackson dragged himself, dragged a team, to the finish line. This job is a grind, and those cheers fade fast. There are no Hollywood endings in the NBA – just old guys staying too long, coming back for all the wrong reasons.
Phil Jackson needs to think long and hard, because this job demands something out of a man that maybe's no longer inside of him. Remember the way it ended two year ago, remember the way that Jackson, that the organization, that too many of the players no longer drove themselves. Remember, Phil Jackson knew it was time to go.
...Lakers are moving quickly to hire Phil Jackson, one person in the organization calling it "95%" sure PJ's the next coach of the Lakers.
--Mike Bresnahan---
That and his office too. llullzI'm hearing on twitter that the caveat for Phil coming back is that Jim Buss will have to relinquish his power.
So now we're taking credit away from management for this offseason? Come on, which one is it?He should've never had power to begin with.
...Source close to another coaching candidate tells Y! @Lakers are pushing hard to get Phil Jackson and haven't set up anything with his client
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We woke up this morning to a yard full of snow and they are saying that we are getting more! The kids are both sick so neither of them have gotten out to play in it as of yet. We are staying in the house, nice and warm.
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European Tour seeking to make inroads in the Japanese golf market
It launches a Japanese version of its website -- the first non-European language
European Tour has no tournaments in Japan, which has its own circuit
Ryo Ishikawa, one of golf's best young talents, will play in U.S. in 2013
The European Tour is continuing its global expansion by targeting what it calls "one of the world's biggest golf markets."
It has launched a Japanese version of its official website – the first in a non-European language following French, German and Spanish ones.
The European Tour does not have any tournaments in Japan, which has its own circuit, but has made big inroads in other Asian venues such as China, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
"It is another important step forward in our strategy of providing a localized experience of the European Tour for our fans all over the world," director of broadcasting and new media Mark Lichtenhein said.
"Given the globalization of the European Tour and popularity of golf and the Tour in Japan, this introduction of the first non-European language is an exciting new dimension to our multilingual strategy."
The ruling body will team up with Golf Digest Online to provide the content, marking the beginning of its 2013 Race to Dubai season.
"We believe this agreement will bring huge benefit for Japanese audience, and we will make our best effort to showcase the great tournaments and players from the European Tour," Golf Digest Online editor in chief Yasuko Mukai said.
The news came as Masters champion Bubba Watson tipped young Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa to become the first player from his country to win a major title.
The American played with the 21-year-old for the first two rounds of this week's Thailand Championship – they were tied for seventh after the third round on Saturday.
"He's good enough to win at any level – he can win a major," Watson said of Ishikawa, who finished 108th on the PGA Tour this year and will play fulltime on the U.S. circuit in 2013.
They were 11 shots behind South Africa's Charl Schwartzel, who took a five-stroke advantage over Sweden's Daniel Chopra into Sunday's final round – when he will seek to win his first title since earning his maiden major at the 2011 Masters.
The European Tour's opening event for the 2013 season has been plagued by bad weather in South Africa, where home hope Tim Clark shared the lead after a delayed first round on Saturday.
Clark and Denmark's Morten Orum Madsen both carded five-under-par 60 at the Nelson Mandela Championship, while South Africa's Lindani Ndwandwe was tied for third with England's Chris Lloyd on 61.
At the Australian Open, John Senden took a two-shot lead into Sunday's final round as he seeks to win his home event for the second time.
The 41-year-old Queenslander, champion in 2006, was being chased by Ryder Cup star Justin Rose – who is bidding to become only the second European to win the tournament, following fellow Englishman Lee Westwood in 1997.
Meanwhile, China's Shanshan Feng won the Ladies European Tour's season-ending event in Dubai on Saturday, having led from the first round.
The world No. 6 preserved her five-shot lead in Saturday's final round to finish with the lowest total since the event began in 2006 – her 21-under-par 267 beat the 18-under set by Sweden's Annika Sorenstam and In Kyung Kim of South Korea.
However, she was unable to beat Sorenstam's record winning margin of six shots from the inaugural staging as she carded 69 to stay clear of Dutch golfer Dewi Claire Schreefel.
Defending champion Lexi Thompson of the U.S. was tied for 10th, 12 shots behind the winner.


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In the history of the United States of America, a slave state was a U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal at a particular point of time, and a free state was one in which slavery was prohibited or being legally phased out at that point of time. Slavery was a divisive issue and was one of the primary causes of the American Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States, and the distinction ended.
The border states of Maryland (1864),[14] Missouri (1865),[15] one of the Confederate states, Tennessee (1865),[16] and the new state of West Virginia (1865),[17] abolished slavery before the end of the Civil War. In the District of Columbia, slavery was abolished in 1862.[18] However, slavery persisted in Delaware,[19] Kentucky,[20] and 10 of the 11 of the former Confederate states, until the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery throughout the United States on December 18, 1865, ending the distinction between slave and free states.
At the start of the Civil War, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states. 11 of these slave states seceded from the United States to form the Confederacy. The slave states that stayed in the Union were Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky, and were referred to as the border states. By the time the Emancipation Proclamation was made in 1863 Tennessee was already in Union control. Accordingly, the Proclamation applied only to the 10 remaining Confederate states. Abolition of slavery also became a condition of the return of local rule in those states that had declared their secession.
West Virginia became the 35th state on June 20, 1863, and the last slave state admitted to the Union.[10][11][12] Eighteen months later, the West Virginia legislature completely abolished slavery,[13] and also ratified the 13th Amendment on February 3, 1865.
President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which exempted the slaves in West Virginia from emancipation. Two additional counties were added to West Virginia in late 1863, Berkeley and Jefferson. The slaves in Berkeley were also under exemption but not those in Jefferson County. As of the census of 1860, the 49 exempted counties held some 6000 slaves over 21 years of age who would not have been emancipated, about 40% of the total slave population.[8] The terms of the Willey Amendment only freed children, at birth or as they came of age, and prohibited the importation of slaves.[9]
During the Civil War, a Unionist government in Wheeling, Virginia, presented a statehood bill to Congress in order to create a new state from 48 counties in western Virginia. The new state would eventually incorporate 50 counties. The issue of slavery in the new state delayed approval of the bill. In the Senate Charles Sumner objected to the admission of a new slave state, while Benjamin Wade defended statehood as long as a gradual emancipation clause would be included in the new state constitution.[6] Two senators represented the Unionist Virginia government, John S. Carlile and Waitman T. Willey. Senator Carlile objected that Congress had no right to impose emancipation on West Virginia, while Willey proposed a compromise amendment to the state constitution for gradual abolition. Sumner attempted to add his own amendment to the bill, which was defeated, and the statehood bill passed both houses of Congress with the addition of what became known as the Willey Amendment. President Lincoln signed the bill on December 31, 1862. Voters in western Virginia approved the Willey Amendment on March 26, 1863.[7]
The Civil War (1861-1865) disrupted and eventually ended slavery:
The balance was maintained until 1850:
After 1812, and until 1850, maintaining the balance of free and slave state votes in the Senate was considered of paramount importance if the Union were to be preserved, and states were typically admitted in pairs:
Before 1812, the concern about balancing slave-states and free states was not profound. This is how the states lined up in 1812. The year column is the year the state ratified the US Constitution or was admitted to the Union:
When the admission of Minnesota proceeded unimpeded in 1858, the balance in the Senate was lost; a loss that was compounded by the subsequent admission of Oregon in 1859.
In 1854, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was superseded by the Kansas for admission as a slave state, paired with Minnesota, but the admission of Kansas as a slave state was blocked because of questions over the legitimacy of its slave state constitution. Anti-slavery settlers in "Bleeding Kansas" in the 1850s were called Free-Soilers, because they fought (successfully) to include Kansas in the Union as a free state in 1861.
The difficulty of identifying territory that could be organized into additional slave states stalled the process of opening the western territories to settlement, while slave state politicians sought a solution, with efforts being made to acquire Cuba (see Ostend Manifesto, 1852) and to annex Nicaragua (see Walker affair, 1856-7), both to be slave states.
As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state (1850), without a slave state pair. To avoid creating a free state majority in the Senate, California agreed to send one pro-slavery and one anti-slavery senator to Congress.
The admission of Texas (1845) and the acquisition of the vast new Mexican Cession territories (1848) after the Mexican-American War created further North-South conflict. Although the settled portion of Texas was an area rich in cotton plantations and dependent on slavery, the territory acquired in the Mountain West did not seem hospitable to cotton or slavery.
Controversy over whether Maine (1820) as a free state was secured to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state (1820).
The potential for political conflict over slavery at a federal level made politicians concerned about the balance of power in the United States Senate, where each State was represented by two Senators. With an equal number of slave states and free states, the Senate was equally divided on issues important to the South. As the population of the free states began to outstrip the population of the slave states, leading to control of the House of Representatives by free states, the Senate became the preoccupation of slave state politicians interested in maintaining a Congressional veto over federal policy in regard to slavery and other issues important to the South. As a result of this preoccupation, slave states and free states were often admitted into the Union in pairs to maintain the existing Senate balance between slave and free states.
During the War of 1812, the British accepted as free all slaves who came into their hands, with no conditions as to military service such as had been made in Dunmore's Proclamation in the Revolutionary War. By the end of the War of 1812, the momentum for antislavery reform, state by state, appeared to run out of steam, with half of the states having already abolished slavery (Northeast), prohibited from the start (Midwest) or committed to eliminating slavery, and half committed to continuing the institution indefinitely (South).
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, passed just before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, prohibited slavery in the federal Northwest Territory. The southern boundary of the territory was the Ohio River, which was regarded as a westward extension of the Mason–Dixon line. The territory was generally settled by New Englanders and American Revolutionary War veterans granted land there. The states created from the territory – Ohio (1803), Indiana (1816), Illinois (1818), Michigan (1837), Iowa (1846), Wisconsin (1848), and Minnesota (1858) – were all free states.
In the south, Kentucky was created a slave state from Virginia (1792), and Tennessee was created a slave state from North Carolina (1796). By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was eight each. In popular usage, the geographic divide between the slave and free states was called the Mason–Dixon line.
In the 1770s, blacks throughout New England began sending petitions to northern legislatures demanding freedom. At the Constitutional Convention many slavery issues were debated and for a time slavery was a major impediment to passage of the new constitution. As a compromise the institution was acknowledged though never mentioned directly in the constitution, as in the case of the Fugitive Slave Clause. By 1789, five of the Northern states had adopted policies to at least gradually abolish slavery: Pennsylvania (1780), New Hampshire and Massachusetts (1783), Connecticut and Rhode Island (1784). Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, while it was still independent, and when it joined the United States as the 14th state in 1791 it was the first state to join untainted by slavery. These state jurisdictions thus enacted the first abolition laws in the entire "New World".[3] By 1804 (including, New York (1799), New Jersey (1804)), all of the northern states had abolished slavery or set measures in place to gradually reduce it.[2][4]
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52 weeks.......52 weeks... WOW it just doesn't seem real. My sweet baby girl is 52 weeks old. Tomorrow when we wake she will officially be ONE YEAR OLD!!!!
My sweet, happy, lovable girl!!!! She loves to climb in and out of her rocking chair these days.
Friday, September 30, 2011
52 weeks.....
52 weeks.......52 weeks... WOW it just doesn't seem real. My sweet baby girl is 52 weeks old. Tomorrow when we wake she will officially be ONE YEAR OLD!!!!
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Sooooo Many Bees......
And then "pissed off" bee emerged
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
50 & 51 week pics
These last two weeks have been NUTS!!!! I'm trying like crazy to get caught up and get all the last min stuff ready for Kinley's birthday party... UHHHH I can't believe one week from today she will officially be One Year Old!!!! These are last Friday Pics; she was the ripe ole age of 50 weeks;lol!She is officially off the little bit of formula she was taking and she's now on Soy milk! She didn't care for it too much at first but now she's really starting to like it! We are down to just nursing one time a day. It's going to be soooo on hard on both of us to cut this last one out. I am ready to have my body back but it's such a bond that I hate to break it!This week Kinley has mastered the art of getting on and off her bouncy Zebra all by herself. She's even gotten so good that she can brush her teeth while riding it;loL!
Thursday I didn't feel good and by Thursday night I was ready to meet my maker; I was sick as a dog! And apparently by poor Kinley bugs felt the same way. We were up almost all Thursday night; she finally went to sleep only to wake at 4:45am. Had this been an ordinary Friday it wouldn't have been a big deal but NOOOOO! This was the Friday we were to have her One Year Old Pics with Ms. Melanie. We got up, got ready and looked really cute!We decided we wanted the bow off and when my momma said.. No Mam!.... The flood gates came open!!!!!!!!!!My sweet little upset baby :(
This morning I could hardly even get out of bed I was so sick and weak. Not only did my super awesome mom come pick my house up for me but she took MC for a few hours. Me and Kinley bugs did some serious sleeping. After about 5 hours we awoke feeling much better! We even ventured outside to see how Daddy's bush hogging was going! This was Kinley's first tractor ride...well I guess you would call it tractor sit because when daddy went to start it up she didn't like it at all;lol! I hope we are on the rode to recovery and that Daddy and MC don't catch this especially since we have a big-ole party next weekend!!!!
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Fun at the Fair
Last Thursday we took the girls to our county fair. MC has been waiting for months for the fair to come!
Kinley bugs has a blast riding her stroller and watching all rides and seeing all the lights
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Woo Pig Sooie
Last Saturday Micah Claire got her final birthday present; she got to go watch the Razorbacks play in Little Rock. She has been begging since last year to go and last year she asked her daddy if she could have her very on ticket when she turned 4. Four she turned and a her very on ticket she got!!!! My Little Razorback!
The opening was dedicated to the victims and survivors of 9-11 and it was amazing! Each section was asked to wear red or white and that alternated around the entire stadium and the student section wore blue.
And the C-31's flew right over us as the national anthem played. Truly a wonderful and unforgettable sight! The Red, White, and Blue Razorback was the icing on the cake!
MC and Aunt Paige chit chatting before the game started!
And what better way to watch the game then a top your daddy!!!
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Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Großmann and Dr. Barbara Schreier
Specific aim(s)/topic(s)
(1) Mechanisms and role of EGFR for cardiovascular miR-221/222 deregulation
(2) Cellular and functional consequences of EGFR-dependent miR-221/222 deregulation
Background and significance
The EGFR is a ubiquitously expressed receptor tyrosine kinase that can be activated by different ligands like EGF and/or is trans-activated by a variety of stimuli including G-protein-coupled receptors and cellular stress; thus, the EGFR is an important interconnection. In the cardiovascular system, an association of EGFR with impaired vascular and cardiac function and parainflammatory remodeling processes has been made based on clinical and experimental data of pharmacological EGFR inhibitors and mice with reduced EGFR tyrosine kinase activity. These findings remain partially contradictory and the underlying molecular mechanisms are not completely understood.
In recent years, miRNAs have been implicated in the regulation of pathological cardiac and vascular phenotypes, and the EGFR signaling cascade has been suggested as a regulator of miR expression. One of the most prominent miR clusters associated with cardiovascular homeostasis and pathology is miR-221/222. These miRs also show altered expression in the aorta and heart of mice with targeted deletion of EGFR, suggesting an involvement of these miRs in EGFR's role in the cardiovascular system.


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A-Rod heads to Chicago, plans to play Monday
SAN DIEGO -- Alex Rodriguez says that he is flying to Chicago on Sunday to join the Yankees, and manager Joe Girardi said that he has "penciled" the embattled slugger into the lineup he is formulating in his mind for Monday's game against the White Sox.
"I think all of us are curious what's going to happen and if Alex is going to be a player for us tomorrow, and what's going to happen with the other guys that are involved in this," Girardi said. "Because in my mind, I have him penciled in here tomorrow."
Major League Baseball is poised to suspend Rodriguez through the 2014 season, according to multiple reports, but Rodriguez is then expected to file an appeal that would permit him to take the field for his first game of the season on Monday at U.S. Cellular Field.
Rodriguez's appeal would be heard within the next three weeks by arbitrator Frederic Horowitz, according to USA Today, but there is no prescribed timetable for Horowitz to hand down a decision.
Thus, it is possible that Rodriguez could continue to appear in the Yankees' lineup for an extended period while his appeal process plays out.
"There are so many rumors that are going around about it, I don't know if anyone really knows what's happening," Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said. "But he's our teammate. If he's here tomorrow, we'll look forward to seeing him."
Girardi said that he exchanged text messages with Rodriguez after he played on Saturday for Double-A Trenton, and sensed Rodriguez is "anxious" to play in the big leagues.
Rodriguez walked four times in the contest, his 15th Minor League game of the year, and said he'd fly to Chicago following a workout on Sunday.
"I talked to him yesterday, joked with him -- he didn't get any pitches to hit yesterday," Girardi said. "[I told him], 'Don't wear yourself out today and I'll see you tomorrow.'"
Girardi said that he has been proceeding as though Rodriguez will play in the big leagues, and has not made an effort to closely track coverage of MLB's investigation since he does not have input on the decision-making process.
"It hasn't really occupied my mind like maybe some other things have," Girardi said. "I think all of us have known that possibly something could be coming for a lot of different players. You deal with it when you have to deal with it. It's kind of like most of the things I've done around here."
The Yankees, who ranked 13th among the 15 American League teams with 417 runs scored entering play on Sunday, have been searching for offensive help. Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano said that he expects Rodriguez to be welcomed in the clubhouse.
"We're all going to be happy, I would say, to see him back in the lineup -- especially the way we've been playing," Cano said. "We've been waiting for this moment to see him back in the lineup. You know what, come up and help us to win some games."
Rodriguez last played for the Yankees on Oct. 18, 2012, in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, and he will be joining a roster that has undergone plenty of turnover in his absence.
"[It'll be] a bit of a circus, I'm sure," Yankees outfielder Vernon Wells said. "I think Alex will do his best to keep as much of it out of the clubhouse as he can, and what he has control over.
"I think the good thing is everyone knows the situation, knows what it could potentially be like, what the atmosphere's going to be like, so there's not fear of the unknown. I think we all have a pretty good idea, and we'll be ready for it."
Girardi said that he does not think it will create an uncomfortable atmosphere if Rodriguez joins the Yankees in Chicago, saying that there will be more media coverage than usual but that it will be centered upon Rodriguez rather than the rest of the team.
"I don't suspect it'll be awkward," Girardi said. "Most of the guys know him as a teammate and have laughed a lot with Alex and been around Alex a lot. I think it'll be business as usual."


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Nationals end Dickey's streak in win over Mets
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Adam LaRoche and the Washington Nationals handed R.A. Dickey his first loss in three months, beating the sinking New York Mets 5-2 Tuesday night behind Gio Gonzalez's seven crisp innings.
LaRoche hit a tiebreaking homer and Gonzalez (13-5) gave up only two singles in a rematch of All-Star pitchers, five days after New York hit him hard to back Dickey during his 13th win. This time, it went the other way.
Dickey (13-2) allowed five consecutive hits in the sixth, ending his 11-game winning streak, as the Mets lost their fifth straight and 11th in 12 games. Their lone victory since July 7 was Dickey's 9-5 win over Gonzalez last Thursday in Washington.
Ryan Zimmerman extended his hitting tear with three hits and the Nationals won their fourth in a row to improve the NL's best record to 57-39. They are 8-3 against the Mets this season, winning all four series so far, and will go for a three-game sweep Wednesday at noon with ace Stephen Strasburg on the mound against rookie Jeremy Hefner.
Gonzalez struck out four, walked two and did not allow an earned run. Sean Burnett got three outs in the eighth and Tyler Clippard fanned two in a perfect ninth, finishing the three-hitter for his 17th save.
Jordany Valdespin set a Mets record with his fifth pinch-hit homer of the season. The rookie connected off Ryan Mattheus leading off the eighth, breaking a mark he previously shared with Mark Carreon (1989) and Danny Heep (1983).
Dickey was 11-0 in his previous 16 starts since he was roughed up in a 14-6 loss April 18 in Atlanta. He was trying to become the first 14-game winner in the majors.
The knuckleballer was unable to stop New York's nasty slide. He yielded five runs -- four earned -- and eight hits in six innings.
The 37-year-old Dickey pitched an inning of relief Saturday against the Dodgers to help an overworked bullpen, only two days after throwing 111 pitches over 7 1-3 innings in Washington.
The right-hander whiffed star rookie Bryce Harper all three times on knuckleballs ranging from 66-81 mph and was in command until the sixth, when he gave up five straight hits with two outs.
Michael Morse singled and LaRoche drove a low knuckler into the upper deck in right, snapping a 1-all tie with his 17th homer. Danny Espinosa singled, Roger Bernadina beat out a slow dribbler toward first and Jesus Flores hit an RBI single to left. Jason Bay's wide throw to the plate got away for an error that allowed Bernadina to score, making it 5-1.
Espinosa's throwing error at shortstop led to an unearned run in the second. Ronny Cedeno hit an RBI single to right with two outs, giving New York its first lead in 42 innings since last Thursday, but was thrown out by Harper trying to stretch it into a double.
Gonzalez retired his next 11 batters and did not permit another hit until Ike Davis' two-out single in the seventh.
A switch-hitter, Espinosa batted right-handed against Dickey to get a better look at the knuckleball. The first time up, Espinosa struck out swinging. But in the fourth, his two-out double tied it 1-all after Zimmerman opened the inning with a bloop double.
NOTES: Flores (back) was back behind the plate after sitting out two games. ... Washington is 9-1-3 in series against NL East opponents. ... Mets SS Ruben Tejada had two bandages on his right shin but no stitches after he was spiked at second base Monday night by Bernadina. Tejada said he's fine, but he was held out of the starting lineup by manager Terry Collins. Tejada grounded out as a pinch-hitter in the eighth. ... Mets rookie outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis has a new-look haircut after his golden locks were trimmed. Asked if the change had more to do with the hot weather or his falling batting average, Nieuwenhuis said: "Both." ... Desperate for bullpen help, New York signed reliever Craig Hansen to a minor league contract that runs through next season. The 28-year-old righty, who went to nearby St. John's, was drafted 26th overall by Boston in 2005 but has not pitched professionally since 2010 in Pittsburgh's minor league system. He is 4-9 with a 6.34 ERA in 95 big league games, with his last appearance coming for the Pirates in 2009.


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Subject: Implementation of section 212(a)(6)(A) and 212(a)(9) grounds of
Date: March 31, 1997
To: Management Team
Regional Directors
District Directors (Including Foreign)
Chief Patrol Agents
Officers in Charge (Including Foreign)
Chief, ODETF, Glynco, GA
Chief, Patrol Agent, BPA, Glynco, GA
Asylum Office Directors
Service Center Directors
Regional Counsel
District Counsel
From: Office of Programs (HQPGM)
This memorandum provides interim guidelines to the field for
implementing the new grounds of inadmissibility found in sections
212(a)(6)(A) and 212(a)(9) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("the
Act"), as amended by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act
of 1996 (IIRAIRA). The effective date for each of these sections is April
1, 1997. Sections 212(a)(6)(A) and 212(a)(9) do not apply to applications
for admission or adjustment of status adjudicated by an immigration judge
in deportation or exclusion proceedings commenced prior to April 1, 1997.
Except as otherwise required by law, these grounds of inadmissibility apply
at the time of any other administrative determination regarding
admissibility, including but not limited to the issuance of a visa,
inspection of an alien at a port of entry, disposition of an application
for admission by an inspector or an immigration judge or adjudication of an
application for adjustment of status. Further guidance will be released
and proposed regulations published in the Federal Register at a later date.
This memorandum is divided into sections addressing the general
implementation of the sections of law, the manner is which time "unlawfully
present" in the United States is measured and the effect of these grounds
of inadmissibility on applications for adjustment of status. A chart is
also attached to assist with determinations about whether aliens are
subject to the 212(a)(9) grounds of inadmissibility.
I. General Implementation Issues
As a preliminary matter it is noted that the section 212(a)(6)(A)
ground of inadmissibility applies to any alien present in the United States
without having been admitted or paroled, but the 212(a)(9) grounds of
inadmissibility only apply to aliens who have previously physically
departed the United States and are now either seeking admission or have
entered or attempted to enter the United States without being inspected.
Therefore, section 212(a)(6)(A) does not apply to visa applicants outside
of the United States, but section 212(a)(9)(B) does apply to visa
applicants outside of the United States who previously did accrue
sufficient unlawful presence in the United States. Likewise, section
212(a)(9) does not apply to aliens seeking adjustment of status in the
United States who have not previously departed the United States. Aliens
will not be able to avoid the consequences of unlawful presence by claiming
that their re-entry after their previous physical departure was brief,
casual and innocent.
Section 212(a)(6)(A) of the Act provides that "an alien present in the
United States without being admitted or paroled, or who arrives in the
United States at any time or place other than as designated by the Attorney
General, is inadmissible." Written into the section is an exception for
battered spouses and children. The battered spouse exception will be
applied to both women and men.
Section 212(a)(9)(A)(i) of the Act provides that aliens who have been
ordered removed from the United States through expedited removal
proceedings or removal proceedings initiated on the alien's arrival in the
United States and who have actually been removed (or departed after such an
order) are inadmissible for 5 years. Section 212(a)(9)(A)(ii) of the Act
provides that aliens who have been otherwise ordered removed, ordered
deported under sections 242 or 217 of the Act or ordered excluded under
section 236 of the Act and who have actually been removed (or departed
after such an order) are inadmissible for 10 years. Aliens who have been
removed more than once are inadmissible for 20 years and aliens who have
been convicted of aggravated felonies are permanently inadmissible. The
provision holding aliens inadmissible for 10 years after the issuance of an
exclusion or deportation order applies to such orders rendered both before
and after April 1, 1997. In this context, it should be noted that pursuant
to section 101(a)(13)(C) of the Act, permanent residents often are not
regarded as seeking admission upon return to the United States. The
statute does include an exception to the 212(a)(9)(A) ground of
inadmissibility for those who have, prior to their return to the United
States, obtained consent from the Attorney General to reapply for
admission. The Service is considering a regulation or policy that would
grant this exception to aliens excluded or deported prior to April 1, 1997,
who had either been subsequently lawfully admitted to the United States or
granted an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa prior to the effective date of
the new, lengthier prohibitions against readmission. In the interim,
applicants who have already remained outside of the United States for the
one or five years required under pre-IIRAIRA law, in the absence of other
adverse discretionary factors, should be granted advance consent to reapply
for admission. Those who have been convicted of an aggravated felony are
eligible to apply to the Attorney General for consent to reapply for
admission but remain subject to all other applicable grounds of
inadmissibility. All requests for such a waiver should be filed on Form I-
212, Application for Permission to Reapply for Admission into the United
States After Deportation or Removal.
Pursuant to section 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(I) of the Act, aliens "unlawfully
present" in the United States for more than 180 days but less than one year
who subsequently depart from the United States voluntarily prior to the
initiation of removal proceedings under section 235(b)(1) or section 240
are inadmissible for a period of 3 years. For purposes of this section,
"voluntary departed" includes any departure by an alien from the United
States prior to the initiation of removal proceedings, whether or not
pursuant to an order of voluntary departure issued by the Service.
Pursuant to section 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(II) of the Act, those aliens
"unlawfully present" in the United States for one year or more, who depart
or are removed and then seek admission are inadmissible for 10 years. The
Attorney General may waive inadmissibility under section 212(a)(9)(B) in
the case of an immigrant who can show that refusal of admission would
result in extreme hardship to the alien's spouse or parent who is a citizen
or lawful permanent resident. The Service will retain authority to grant
the extreme hardship waiver in consular cases (with no administrative
appeal available); however, those seeking admission at a Port-of-Entry who
seek such a waiver will be referred to an immigration judge (with
administrative appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals, as part of an
appeal of a removal order). Form I-724, Application to Waive
Inadmissibility Grounds and Permission to Reapply is being designed to
accommodate this provision.
Pursuant to section 212(a)(9)(C) of the Act, aliens who were
unlawfully present in the United States for an aggregate period of more
than one year and subsequently departed or who were previously ordered
removed (and actually left the United States) and have subsequently either
entered the United States without inspection or sought to enter the United
States without inspection are permanently inadmissible. The statute makes
an exception for aliens who seek admission more than 10 years after their
last departure who have obtained advance consent from the Attorney General
to reapply for admission. This ground of inadmissibility applies only to
aliens who have attempted to re-enter or actually have re-entered the
United States without being inspected and admitted or paroled.
II. Measuring Time "Unlawfully Present"
When determining whether sections 212(a)(9)(B) & (C) of the Act are
applicable in a particular case, Service officers will be required to
determine that length to time that an alien spent "unlawfully present" in
the United States prior to their initial departure. A number of factors
are relevant to this calculation.
When is an alien unlawfully present?
The first question in every case will be whether an alien has been
previously "unlawfully present" in the United States. By statute, "an
alien is deemed to be unlawfully present in the United States if the alien
is present in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay
authorized by the Attorney General or is present in the United States
without being admitted or paroled." See Section 212(a)(9)(B)(ii) of the
Act. The Service interprets time "unlawfully present" to include any time
spent in the United States by aliens after they have violated the terms and
conditions of any form of nonimmigrant status, because time spent in
violation of status is not authorized.
For purposes of section 212(a)(9)(B), time in "unlawful presence"
begins to accrue on April 1, 1997. For example, although an alien may have
been in the United States illegally for one year prior to April 1, 1997, as
of April 2, 1997, the same alien has accrued only one day of "unlawful
presence" for purposes of section 212(a)(9)(B). For purposes of section
212(a)(9)(C), time in "unlawful presence" may accrue prior to April 1,
1997. Thus, the same alien who would only have one day of unlawful presence
for purposes of section 212(a)(9)(B) on April 2, 1997, would have one year
and one day of "unlawful presence" for purposes of section 212(a)(9)(C).
In addition, when measuring time spent "unlawfully present" in the United
States, the time is measured cumulatively for purposes of section
212(a)(9)(C), but not for purposes of section 212(a)(9)(B). For example,
an alien who was "unlawfully present" in the United States for 5 months,
departed the United States, returned, and was "unlawfully present" for 2
more months would have accrued 7 months of "unlawful presence" for purposes
of section 212(a)(9)(C), but not for purposes of section 212(a)(9)(B).
Unlawful presence may be triggered either by overstaying the time
authorized or by entering into an activity that violates the terms of
conditions of status. For example, an alien present on a visitor visa
begins to accrue unlawful presence on the day that he or she enters into
unauthorized employment. Unlawful presence is also triggered by the
commission of a criminal offense that renders an alien inadmissible or
When does an alien stop being unlawfully present?
Once an alien goes out of status, he or she is "unlawfully present"
until the Service restores status or he or she leaves the United States.
Service policy governing restoration of status will be disseminated under
separate cover.
Section 212(a)(9)(B)(iii) enumerates instances in which an alien does
not accrue "unlawful presence" for purposes of section 212(a)(9)(B):
1. Time in which an alien is under 18 years of age
2. Time during which an alien has a bona fide application for asylum
(unless the alien was employed without authorization at any time
during the
period that the application was pending).
3. Time during which an alien is a beneficiary of family unity protection
4. For those admitted or paroled – time during the pendency or a non-
application for change or extension of status (up to a maximum of 120
5. Those who qualify as a battered spouse or child as provided in section
212(a)(9)(B)(iii)(IV) of the Act.
These exceptions are not applicable when considering "unlawful presence"
for purposes of section 212(a)(9)(C).
The exception for up to 120 days during the pendency of an application
for change or extension of status only applies when the application is
submitted prior to the expiration of status by a person who has been
lawfully admitted or paroled into the United States, and includes not only
time during the pendency of an application for "change or extension" of
status but also time during applications for "adjustment" of status.
An alien who is "unlawfully present" continues to accrue time as such
while in removal proceedings. See 8 CFR section 239.3. Likewise, the
grant of voluntary departure by the Service or an immigration judge will
not stop the running of time "unlawfully present." However, time in
certain forms of Attorney General "sanctioned" status will not count in
measuring time unlawfully present. By proposed regulation, this will
include refugees admitted under section 207 of the Act, aliens granted
asylum under section 208 of the Act and aliens granted cancellation pending
adjustment of status. The proposed regulation addressing these groups will
be specific in nature and not leave "sanctioned" status open to broader
interpretation. Aliens with pending change or extension of status
applications after the 120-day period and aliens present but not yet
removed after a final removal order will not be considered to be in a
period of stay "authorized by the Attorney General."
III. Impact of these Grounds of Inadmissibility on Applications for
Adjustment of Status
Aliens inadmissible pursuant to 212(a)(6)(A) of the Act are eligible
to apply for adjustment of status under section 245(i) of the Act.
However, aliens inadmissible pursuant to section 212(a)(9) of the Act are
ineligible for adjustment of status under section 245 of the Act, subject
to the waiver and exception provisions of those grounds of inadmissibility.
Paul W. Virtue
Acting Executive Associate Commissioner


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Lady Gaga Counters Tragedies in Dayton, El Paso, Gilroy With Education
The singer is donating money for classrooms
The recent mass shootings in Dayton, El Paso and have Gilroy, CA have prompted Lady Gaga to take action. The singer is combating the violence with the gift of knowledge.
Gaga announced on Facebook that she is partnering with DonorsChoose and her own Born This Way Foundation to fund classroom projects in the three cities.
The "Million Reasons" singer says 14 classrooms in Dayton, 125 classrooms in El Paso and 23 classrooms in Gilroy will now have access to the support they need to work together and bring their dreams to life.
"My heart goes out to those who were taken from us too soon and to their families, loved ones, and communities who are left to grieve," Gaga wrote. "In this moment, I want to channel my confusion, frustration, and fury into hope. Hope that we are there for each other and for ourselves."
It's not clear how much of Gaga's own money will go to the projects, but she and her charitable endeavors have done a priceless amount of good already. Born This Way was started in 2012 with the goal of "creating a kinder and braver world." According to its mission, the foundation works with young people to build kinder communities and improve mental health resources.


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We knew that Microsoft Research had something pretty amazing up its sleeve after talking to a few people at the company, in addition to having dinner with Robert Scoble, who told us that what he saw brought him to tears. As it turns out, it is the WorldWide Telescope that had people in awe. After watching Roy Gould introduce the software in the above video during TED, we have to say, we agree. Think of the WorldWide Telescope as the equivalent to the full-featured version of Google Earth - except that the WorldWide Telescope software is free, and instead of looking at the earth in extreme detail, you get to peruse the cosmos instead. I mean, watch the video to see how truly mind-blowing this technology really is. Look for it to be available for download this Spring for the Windows platform. No word on how beefy a machine you will need to run it as smoothly as it worked in the demo - but here's hoping that everyone who downloads the WorldWide Telescope will be able to enjoy the same experience seen here.
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Fourteen patients who were treated within the first two months of infection were later able to stop combination antiretroviral therapy without an HIV rebound, according to Asier Sáez-Cirión of the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
While all 14 still have HIV, in most cases it can only be detected with ultra-sensitive laboratory tests and is undetectable by standard methods, Sáez-Cirión and colleagues reported in the journal PLoS Pathogens.
But in all cases, the infection appears to be under control without the use of drugs – the definition of a functional cure, which unlike a "sterilizing" cure does not completely get rid of HIV.
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The report is the second in several days of what appears to be curative early treatment for HIV.
Researchers reported at the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections that combination antiretroviral treatment in the first few hours of life appears to have eliminated HIV infection in a baby.
Several studies of so-called treatment interruption have showed that for most people, stopping therapy leads to sharp and dangerous increases in HIV replication, Saag noted.
The difference in this group, the researchers suggested, is that they were treated very early, in what's called primary or acute infection, and spent between a year and 7.6 years on therapy, with a median of 36.5 months.
Their reasons for stopping, Sáez-Cirión told MedPage Today in an email, included a desire to take a vacation from therapy and participation in a treatment-interruption study.
The 10 men and four women have now been off therapy for between four and 10 years. Their plasma viral loads are below 40 copies of HIV RNA per milliliter in all but three cases, and below five copies in five patients.
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- Read O'clock!
Make reading part of your daily routine and schedule by establishing a time during the day when the whole family drops everything to read. This will be tricky to do in our house, and will require dedication on my part to stay consistent with it. But if I can get it to work, I think it could be marvelous for all of us!
It can help build up anticipation for the trip, it can make your trip more enjoyable by helping you become more savvy about your destination, and it will make the trip more interesting for your kids.
We're taking a Disney World trip this summer, and we're all having fun reading Disney books, watching Disney movies, and pouring through Disney travel guides!
- Participate in your library's summer reading program.
Most libraries have all kinds of special events going on during the summer program. Our library is having a Star Wars party (what my boys are most excited about), puppets, crafts, magicians, reading partners (not exactly sure what this is yet), games, an animal presentation, etc. My kids are already excited about these events. We're going to try to make a weekly library trip part of our summer routine too.
- Learn a new hobby.
Encourage your kiddos to use their free time this summer to learn a new hobby. Offer to help them, or offer to learn it with them. Then head to the library and get out all the books about that hobby that you can! Having a goal, feeling that thirst for information, can provide the right motivation to keep your kids eagerly hitting the books.
This could work really well with the last idea mentioned. There's a magazine for everything, so get your child a subscription to a magazine that covers the topic of the hobby they're learning. That will be a fun surprise for them to watch for in the mail.
- PenPals!
I'm going to see if I can set up a pen pal system between my kids and their cousin. This will be great practice for their reading and writing. And will give them something to look forward to receiving in the mailbox during the summer months. This also gives them a great opportunity to be creative with their writing; they can make cards, little books, lists, poems, charts, all kinds of things to have fun with!
What are you doing with your kiddos to keep them reading this summer? Share your ideas in the comments!


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#13 FLORIDA STATE 21, GEORGIA TECH 15 - James Wilder Jr. ran two touchdowns as No. 13 Florida State held off Georgia Tech 21-15 Saturday night to capture its first Atlantic Coast Conference championship since 2005 and earn a trip to the Orange Bowl.
It was Florida State's 13th ACC title.
The heavily favored Seminoles (11-2) built a 21-6 lead at the half and held on to win, helping to erase some of the sting from last week's 37-26 loss to their bitter rival, No. 4 Florida.
Despite its record, Georgia Tech (6-7) is bowl eligible after receiving a waiver from the NCAA on Thursday.
It looked like Georgia Tech, a two-touchdown underdog, might get blown out, but the game wasn't decided until Karlos Williams intercepted Tevin Washington with less than a minute remaining.
The Yellow Jackets slowed down the Seminoles in the second half and forced two turnovers by quarterback EJ Manuel to get back in the game.
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MCSD IT Professional with over ten years' experience in system design and development. Architect, design and develop (These three need changing for me. If architect is a noun for you, then the two following should be designer and developer. If you mean the area, then shouldn't it be architecture?) systems with in-depth knowledge of database, networking and Internet technologies. Has (You could delete the verb- it doesn't add much) strong analytical and interpersonal skills. Extremely fast learner can usually learn quickly through independent study (I'd change this to sound more confident- . Extremely fast learner- able to learn trhough independent study)
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Pocket RTA HD is a highly portable award winning real-time spectrum sound analyzer for the iPad.
Pocket RTA HD has many advanced features which are normally only found in much more expensive sound analysis software, providing fast and accurate spectrum analysis suitable for both amateur hi-fi enthusiasts and professional A/V engineers. Uses include system calibration, monitoring of noise levels and testing of audio equipment.
Pocket RTA HD samples sounds using either internal or external microphones and then applies a Fourier Transform to the samples to obtain a frequency spectrum. The result is an accurate representation of the sampled sound broken down into its frequency components.
Various display modes include, linear narrow band, logarithmic narrow band, Octave, 1/3, 1/6, Oscilloscope, SPL and Spectrogram displays withANSI A and C weighting curves. Use the iPad's multi-touch interface to perform real-time magnification of displays. The touch screen allows selection of the nearest FFT point giving a display of it's frequency and decibel level. Up to 16 times oversampling allow more stable readings for fluctuating or unstable input signals whilst our unique noise cancellation system allows you to remove unwanted background noise.
Pocket RTA HD features the ability to calibrate the display using a 1/3, 1/6 or Octave display in order to compensate for imperfections in frequency response of both internal and external microphones. The program automatically detects and switches between both sets of calibration data.
Pocket RTA HD has the ability to capture up to 3 input signals and overlay them as a reference over live input. All display modes allow exportingof graphed data to CSV file or camera roll in JPEG format. These images can then by synced or transferred via FTP to your desktop PC for better analysis.
Many great features including…
- Automatic Tilt Control for Portrait / Landscape displays.
- -44.1KHz sampling rate for up to 22KHz measurements.
- Definable FFT frame sizes.
- Standard ANSI/IEC A and C weighting curves.
- Automatic noise cancellation.
- Automatic peak note / frequency and octave display.
- Root musical note detection and tuning.
- Narrow band Linear and Logarithmic scalable displays.
- Spectrograph display.
- Octave, 1/3 and 1/6 octave displays.
- SPL (Sound Pressure Level) display.
- 10x zoom for accurate analysis of narrow band data.
- Internal Signal Generator -Touch screen display of nearest point with frequency and decibel readout.
- Up to 16x oversampling.
- Independent gain controls for both internal and external microphones.
- Pause facility freezes the live trace to aid analysis of data.
- Independent 1/3 Octave Calibration of internal and external microphones.
- Capture Buffers allow an additional 3 reference traces to be displayed.
- Screen Capture facility.
- Peak trace facility for better reading of fluctuating frequencies.
- Capture peaks over time facility.
- Comprehensive PDF help system.
Pocket RTA for the iPad expands on the iPhone version making use of the extra screen size to offer additional functionality such as:
- FFT Size range doubled from 4K to 8K.
- New 1/6 Octave Display
- Smoothing (alternative to averaging).
- Decay (for easy measurement of fluctuating signals).
- Mixer EQ (to aid setup of audio mixers).
- EPPO Mode (Equal Points Per Octave).
- Save & Load Profiles (for multiple calibration and graph settings).
- FTP Server for retrieving exported data.
- Snapshot to File and Camera Roll.
- CSV Data Export of captured traces.
- New LEQ Mode (Equivalent Continuous Sound Level).
- Improved Tone Generator (tone, white and pink noise).
- volume setting to the tone generator.


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Jean-Claude St. Aubin (born 1951; age ~69) is a Canadian comic book artist. He began in the industry in 1976, working as the color artist on Captain Canuck. In time, he began inking and penciling for some of the bigger companies such as Marvel, Topps, and DC. During this time, he worked on a variety of titles including Aquaman, The X-Files, and Green Lantern. While with WildStorm Comics in 2001, he did all of the inking for the Star Trek: Voyager - Planet Killer mini-series, including the covers, which was entirely penciled by Robert Teranishi.
Star Trek credits
- Star Trek: Voyager - Planet Killer:
- #1: "Ultimate Weapon"
- #2: "Old Tricks"
- #3: "Death"
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