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Debt of Honor ended with Tom Clancy's most shocking conclusion ever; a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President.
President John Patrick Ryan.
And that is where Executive Orders begins. Ryan had agreed to accept the vice-presidency only as a caretaker for a year, and now, suddenly an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders. How do you run a government without a government? Where do you even begin? With stunning force, Ryan's responsibilities crush on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and arrange a massive state funeral--all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a Congress with the greatest possible speed.
But that is not all. Many eyes are on him now, and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, Tehran, and other world capitals, including Washington D.C., there are those eager to take advantage where they may, some of whom bear a deep animus toward the United States--some of whom, from Ryan's past, harbor intense animosity toward the new President himself. Soon they will begin to move on their opportunities; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so big even he cannot imagine it.
Tom Clancy has written remarkable novels before, but nothing comparable to the timeliness and drama of Executive Orders. Filled with the exceptional realism and intricate plotting that are his hallmarks, it attests to the words of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "This man can tell a story."
"Clancy, the longtime top gun of the military thriller, has taken a major step toward becoming something even better: a top-notch novelist for anyone who loves a powerful story...What sets this book apart is that for the first time, Clancy has gotten inside Jack Ryan's head, finally letting us see the real person behind the super-action hero." —Boston Globe
"A wild ride...Clancy's storytelling gifts are unmatched in the political/military thriller genre. Executive Orders has everything the Tom Clancy lover needs: An unholy pantheon of foreign heads of state, bomber militia men, sleeper assassins, kidnapping terrorists, good men gone bad and bad men gone worse." —San Francisco Chronicle
"[Clancy's] in top form. Executive Orders is more complex, more thoughtful, more exciting than anything he's written before." —Detroit News
"There is no doubting the wizardry of his craft...he is the honest-to-God creator of an exciting genre and a consistent producer of books that thunder, absorb, and entertain." —Los Angeles Times
Tom Clancy was the author of eighteen #1 New York Times-bestselling novels. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the bestseller list after President Ronald Reagan pronounced it "the perfect yarn." Clancy was the undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He died in October 2013.

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IT was a night of heartbreak for Swindon Town fans, whose dream of another Wembley final is in tatters.
And it ended in the cruellest way possible – a penalty shootout, which had fans on both sides biting their nails as the tension mounted.
With Town on top for much of the game, an equaliser from Peterborough in the second half forced the shoot-out.
This is what a place in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final at Wembley on March 30 rested on, but the Posh ended Town fans' hopes.
The Robins played well in the first half but by the 76th minute it was all square at 1-1, and Peterborough went on to win by a single penalty.
Martin Pook had travelled all the way from Pembrokeshire to watch the game in his home town.
He joined thousands at the County Ground watching the match after more than 4,500 tickets were sold for the game.
The 50-year-old said: "I thought the ref was a bit one sided. It should have been a penalty in the first half and it should have been 2-1.
"It was good in the County Ground. I was in the Town End and it was really good. The atmosphere was great."
Meanwhile hundreds of others around the town were glued to television sets to watch the match kick off at 7.45pm.
Pubs were also popular venues to watch the game live on television, and one of the more popular haunts was The Merlin in Drove Road, just a short distance from the County Ground.
Mike Sullivan was one of the fans who watched the game from the comfort of the pub.
The 51-year-old from Greenmeadow, said: "I think in this case the best team won. Peterborough was in possession for most of the second half "We had a good first half but Peterborough held all the possession and that's the key thing."
But fans were once again left disappointed at not having the chance to make up for previous defeats to Millwall and Chesterfield at the home of football in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
During the first half, spirits were high in the Merlin, while Swindon Town led by a goal scored by man of the match Alex Pritchard.
The match was also good for business, with the night bringing in plenty of customers.
At half time Nigel Turrell, landlord at the Merlin, said: "It went really well, it's better than it was on Friday.
"We had both Swindon and Peterborough fans in and with no problems.
"Everyone seemed to be happy and to be having a good time."
Nigel, a Swindon Town fan himself, seemed positive at half time that the Robins could make it to the final.
He said: "It was up to them really. It's all up to them.
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Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has a new blog posting out this morning entitled Free Advice for the Litigious.... In this Schwartz mentions what Sun Microsystems did years back when they were under pressure and now they innovated their company instead of litigating with their customers. Sun had innovated their hardware and software along with supporting Linux on SPARC systems and a variety of open-source contributions. In the past two years Sun has distributed eight million Solaris licenses and Schwartz goes on to mention that nearly 70% of those were for Dell, HP, and IBM hardware.
Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 10,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.


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IT WAS two's company when at least 20 sets of twins took part in a charity event.
They took turns to carry a baton from Southampton to Worthing as part of a national event that aims to raise at least £20,000 for Sport Relief.
The event began outside the new Shamrock Fifteen restaurant in Shamrock Quay.
Those taking part included Lisa Congdon, chairman of the Southampton Twins and Super Twins Club, who praised the support the event had received from B&Q. As reported in the Daily Echo, Team Blog is organising a baton relay from Land's End to John O'Groats, a 3,000-mile journey that is due to end in March.
Lisa said the Southampton to Worthing leg of the event had raised more than £1,000.


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The Lovetones: Lost
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It all goes back to the '60s on this Melbourne band's fifth release.
The Lovetones: Dimensions
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The Lovetones return with another original take on psychedelic pop.
The Lovetones - "City Meets the Stars" MP3 (PopMatters Premiere)
25 Aug 2010 // 3:00 AM
Lost features nine new tunes, including the opener "City Meets the Stars", that continues to display the Lovetones' love of psychedelic jangle pop rooted in the '60s and influenced by the Byrds, the Beatles and the Moody Blues.
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A chemical pregnancy is another word for a very early miscarriage or spontaneous abortion which aborts prior to seeing the fetus. A chemical pregnancy is a pregnancy that has been confirmed by a pregnancy test (either blood or urine), but there are no other significant clinical signs of the pregnancy and there is nothing seen on ultrasound. The urine pregnancy test is often faintly positive or blood hCg levels are very low and don't increase appropriately.
Although the blood test can detect a very low hCg level that indicates pregnancy a few days before a period, two to three days later, a period may start. Without the test, most women would never have known they were briefly pregnant.
A chemical pregnancy happens much more frequently than most people expect, probably up to 30-40% of all pregnancies end up in a chemical pregnancy, and without early testing, most women would never have known about it. If the pregnancy develops for several more weeks, a sac forms, but without an embryo. That's called a 'blighted ovum'.
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A newly released study found that four states would need to spend $8.4 billion over five years to educate the 1.4 million students who attend for-profits in those states. The report, which was prepared by the Nexus Research and Policy Center, calculated that number by looking at state and local expenditures necessary to serve those 1.4 million students in public institutions. Nexus is funded by the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, and the John G. Sperling Foundation. Sperling is Phoenix's founder.
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"Federalism's history has been the history of its demise." So writes Michael S. Greve in a book designed nevertheless to prove that, like Mark Twain's demise, the death of federalism has been greatly exaggerated. Federalism has been down for decades, floored by the pro-New Deal shift of the Supreme Court in 1937 and kicked repeatedly by the Court and Congress ever since. Greve, however, has found that it still has a pulse and shows some signs of getting up off the mat. Those of us who prefer freedom to government diktats should be encouraged because although federalism does not ensure freedom, freedom fares better under federalism than under a completely centralized politics.
Greve, executive director of the Center for Individual Rights, sets out first of all to explain the case for federalism, a case few Americans are familiar with. Federalism, he explains, is a means of injecting market competition into politics. "The citizens' ability to vote with their feet and take their talents and assets elsewhere will discipline government in the same way in which consumer choice, in nonmonopolistic markets, disciplines producers," Greve writes. As long as people have the right to leave political jurisdictions they find undesirable, states (or smaller government units) have to bear the costs of their mistakes. Organized labor, for example, might want a state to enact compulsory unionism, legislation against plant closings, and a $20 minimum wage, but the state that does so will soon find its economy withering.
The Constitution's drafters understood the need to maintain such discipline on the states and sought to secure it by creating a central government of strictly enumerated powers. With but a few exceptions, political controversies were not to be decided in Washington, where losers have the choice of living with it or departing the country. Instead, they would be settled at the state or local level—often without government at all.
But just as Jefferson observed that it is the natural order of things for liberty to give way to authority, it also seems to be the natural order of things for federalism to give way to centralization. Those who want to employ coercion would rather fight and win once at the national (or, as is becoming increasingly possible, international) level than fight dozens or hundreds of battles in smaller units where success is less likely and if achieved, less durable. Therefore, they devised a number of arguments to attack federalism, the most successful of which has been the "race to the bottom" argument ("without central control, competition will lead to unacceptably low standards"), which the Supreme Court has latched onto in some cases.
Opponents also have played the typical statist games with language, seeking to redefine federalism so it means what they want it to mean. Greve points out that for decades the Court hid its indifference to congressional aggrandizement by claiming that federalism really means the political process in which the boundaries between federal and state authority are hammered out—"process federalism." So the Court did not have to do anything but make sure that elections weren't canceled.
Greve attacks "process federalism" and other phony concepts and forcefully argues that real federalism—hence the title—means that Congress must be kept within the limits of the enumerated powers of the Constitution. But after decades of abject deference to Congress and the executive branch, is there any prospect of the Supreme Court's moving back toward real federalism?
The last decade has seen several decisions in which the Court did revive the long-dormant idea of federalism. Greve devotes much of the book to an analysis of those decisions, some of which do little more than hint at an inclination not to let Congress enact any piece of legislation it feels like, and some of which seem to presage a revitalization of real, that is, enumerated-powers, federalism. Will the Court continue to move in that direction?
Greve does not predict what will happen in the judicial realm, but seeks to explain how events could unfold to make it possible for a differently constituted Court to bring back the pre-New Deal federalism. The Court, for all its ostensible independence, does keep an eye on the political scene and is leery of making decisions that may kindle political firestorms. The Court, Greve avers, needs to feel that it has political cover before it can return to real federalism. That cover, he believes, can come from a coalition of "Leave-Us-Alone" types who differ greatly as to what they want to be left alone to do, but hold a common hatred of central Big Brotherism.
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Mythopoea Games and Packom Interactive have formed a partnership to allow Packom exclusive publishing rights to Mythopoea Games' Office Purks! This top-down 3D arcade game is a continuation of what Packom Interactive pledges to offer gamers: fun and entertaining games first and foremost!
Office Purks allows players to take on the challenges of the corporate world in a whole new way. As Percy Purks players will join him in his daily 9 to 5 battle against the forces of monotony. Wander the maze-like halls of your office dodging work and collecting paperclips to fulfill your life long dream of constructing the world's largest paperclip chain. Stay out of sight from tattle tailing co-workers who'll rat you out to the big boss. Get caught slacking off too many times and you'll get canned! Keep an eye out for other random office supplies to boost your score. Try and survive all 20 levels before Percy leaves his job forever!
Office Purks is now available for $8.95. Download the demo here.
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Originally Posted by Nora'sMama
Brigianna, it doesn't sound *to me* like they hit them to blanket-train. I've seen the TV special on the Duggars and honestly they seem like fairly peaceful people and while they are definitely traditionalists (of a sort!) they don't seem like big punishers, either. I think their dc definitely know what is expected of them but it doesn't seem like there are a lot of threats or violence used (if any) to accomplish this. My personal opinion is that they are nuts to have so many kids (and Quiverfull or no Quiverfull, when you have 16 kids THAT IS A CHOICE YOU ARE MAKING), but if anyone could have 16 kids and make it look easy and like a choice that ISN'T nuts, they can!
(how's that for a backhanded compliment, Mrs. Duggar? )
Originally Posted by EvansMomma
I would imagine there is a huge difference between a TODDLER wanting to listen to their Mama, but a 8 month old baby? I am having a really hard time believing that they have the capabilities to think that way. At that age, babies are still being driven by instinct, not complex thoughts.
|Is this something that is done a lot in GA?
Originally Posted by Brigianna
I agree, but I do think (although I'm really really hesitant to bring this up) that a lot of the criticism of them is based on their religious beliefs and certain assumptions about them based on that. I am wondering, if they were of any other religion, would people be more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt regarding their parenting practices? But there is the perception that "everyone knows how *those people* [meaning traditionalist Christians] all beat their kids, have more kids to be having them and not because they love them, etc."
Originally Posted by Nora'sMama
Ha ha, 'compliant' is not how I would describe my spunky DD... She knows what she wants even at 1 year old! She often plays happily by herself (when she is inspired to do so) in an area little larger than a blanket, but only when *she* wants to...if I set her down near her favorite toys b/c I need to do something, but she would rather be doing something else, I can't really imagine WHAT I could do to convince her to play where I want her to play!! She also can stiffen her body so that if she decides she doesn't want to get in the car seat, she is NOT getting in. I have to cajole her, distract her, use all manner of tricks to get her in the seat sometimes - just telling her that she has to get in means nothing to her whatsoever! My mom says I was the same as a baby, very strong-willed, and I never really changed as a child/adult. I wonder what a blanket-trainer would do with such a baby - would they try to break the child's will? That just seems unimaginable, and yet I know it must happen.
|I hear you on that. But I have a lot of relatives who are fundamentalist Christians and while some of them fit the negative stereotypes to a T, one of my cousins is very AP and an extremely compassionate, gentle mother. She is also VERY religious and VERY "fundamentalist", not a "liberal Christian" at all. So perhaps because of my personal experience with fundamentalist Christians and their varying styles of parenting, I don't assume that a family is parenting a certain way just because they are religious. Honestly, I have found that *most of the time* (not always) if you just watch parents of any creed interacting with their dc, you can get a general sense for whether they are practicing fear-based parenting or not. And although you can't trust TV, and the Duggar special may have been edited to make them look more serene than they really are, I did not get the sense that that household runs on fear. So whereas they may believe in spanking and use the Gothard curriculum, it is just my gut feeling that there are not many spankings (if any) actually handed out.
I could be totally wrong, of course. Just speculation on my part.
Originally Posted by Brigianna
If you go to the websites of No Greater Joy or Focus on the Family and read what they have to say about children and family interactions, they really don't sound much different from ap sites. You have to seek out the stuff about beating babies into submission and whatnot.
Originally Posted by Nora'sMama
You are so right about this. Your post made me remember a conversation I had with a co-worker when I was pregnant...she was saying how much she loves Focus on the Family. To her, it was gentle and sensible advice from a Christian perspective. She had no idea about what's his name's (the FOTF director, it's eluding me) political activities or any of the more sinister advice that, as you have reminded me, is not the first thing you see when you visit their website, but is rather insidiously snuck in among the more sensible-sounding advice.
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That would be James Dobson, who is currently employed as a White House policy advisor (yes, our tax dollars are paying Dobson's salary).
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Genomes and Genes
Nicolaas G J Jaspers
Affiliation: Erasmus MC
Country: The Netherlands
Detail Information
- First reported patient with human ERCC1 deficiency has cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome with a mild defect in nucleotide excision repair and severe developmental failureNicolaas G J Jaspers
Department of Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Am J Hum Genet 80:457-66. 2007..This discovery represents a novel complementation group of patients with defective NER. Further, the clinical severity, coupled with a relatively mild repair defect, suggests novel functions for ERCC1...
- Prenatal diagnosis of xeroderma pigmentosum and trichothiodystrophy in 76 pregnancies at riskWim J Kleijer
Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Prenat Diagn 27:1133-7. 2007..Evaluation of results in a consecutive series of 76 prenatal diagnoses for xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and trichothiodystrophy (TTD) made since 1977...
- A new progeroid syndrome reveals that genotoxic stress suppresses the somatotroph axisLaura J Niedernhofer
Center for Biomedical Genetics Medical Genetic Center Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nature 444:1038-43. 2006....
- A new, tenth subunit of TFIIH is responsible for the DNA repair syndrome trichothiodystrophy group AGiuseppina Giglia-Mari
Department of Genetics, Medical Genetic Cluster, Erasmus MC, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nat Genet 36:714-9. 2004..The identification of a new evolutionarily conserved subunit of TFIIH implicated in TTD-A provides insight into TFIIH function in transcription, DNA repair and human disease...
- Prenatal diagnosis of the Cockayne syndrome: survey of 15 years experienceWim J Kleijer
Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Prenat Diagn 26:980-4. 2006..Evaluation of results in a consecutive series of 29 prenatal diagnoses for the Cockayne syndrome...
- Dynamics of relative chromosome position during the cell cycleJeroen Essers
Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mol Biol Cell 16:769-75. 2005..However, the daughter cells eventually regain the general chromosomal organization pattern of their mothers, suggesting an active mechanism could be at play to reestablish chromosomal neighborhoods...
- Attenuated XPC expression is not associated with impaired DNA repair in bladder cancerKishan A T Naipal
Department of Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 10:e0126029. 2015..We conclude, that (i) functional NER deficiency is a relatively rare phenomenon in bladder cancer and (ii) XPC protein levels are not useful as biomarker for NER activity in these tumors. ..
- Incidence of DNA repair deficiency disorders in western Europe: Xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophyWim J Kleijer
Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
DNA Repair (Amst) 7:744-50. 2008..1 per million for TTD. Perhaps contrary to general conceptions, compared to XP the incidence of CS appears to be somewhat higher and the incidence of TTD to be quite similar in the native West-European population...
- Inhibition of DNA synthesis by ionizing radiation: a marker for an S-phase checkpointNicolaas G J Jaspers
Department of Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Methods Mol Biol 314:51-9. 2006..Here a simple, accurate and highly reproducible experimental protocol is presented for the generation of DNA synthesis inhibition curves from cells in culture...
- Anti-tumour compounds illudin S and Irofulven induce DNA lesions ignored by global repair and exclusively processed by transcription- and replication-coupled repair pathwaysNicolaas G J Jaspers
Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
DNA Repair (Amst) 1:1027-38. 2002..We show that the semisynthetic illudin derivative hydroxymethylacylfulvene (HMAF, Irofulven), currently under clinical trial for anti-tumour therapy, acts via the same mechanism...
- A new type of radiosensitive T-B-NK+ severe combined immunodeficiency caused by a LIG4 mutationMirjam van der Burg
Department of Immunology and Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Clin Invest 116:137-45. 2006..In conclusion, different LIG4 mutations can result in either a developmental defect with minor immunological abnormalities or a SCID picture with normal development...
- An Xpd mouse model for the combined xeroderma pigmentosum/Cockayne syndrome exhibiting both cancer predisposition and segmental progeriaJaan Olle Andressoo
Medical Genetics Center, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Center of Biomedical Genetics, Cancer Genomics Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Cancer Cell 10:121-32. 2006..Like CS fibroblasts, XPCS and TTD fibroblasts from human and mouse showed evidence of defective repair of oxidative DNA lesions that may underlie these segmental progeroid symptoms...
- Brca2 (XRCC11) deficiency results in radioresistant DNA synthesis and a higher frequency of spontaneous deletionsMaria Kraakman-van der Zwet
Department of Radiation Genetics and Chemical Mutagenesis MGC, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Mol Cell Biol 22:669-79. 2002....
- Functional cloning of drug resistance genes from retroviral cDNA librariesPeter T Bosma
Department of Medical Oncology, Josephine Nefkens Institute, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 309:605-11. 2003....
- The HhH domain of the human DNA repair protein XPF forms stable homodimersDevashish Das
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Proteins 70:1551-63. 2008..The XPF HhH homodimer has a larger interaction interface, aromatic stacking interactions, and additional hydrogen bond contacts as compared to the XPF/ERCC1 HhH complex, which accounts for its higher stability...
- Neurological symptoms and natural course of xeroderma pigmentosumAnu Anttinen
Department of Neurology, Turku University Central Hospital, PB 52, 20521 Turku, Finland
Brain 131:1979-89. 2008....
- Definition of a short region of XPG necessary for TFIIH interaction and stable recruitment to sites of UV damageFabrizio Thorel
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University Medical Centre, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Mol Cell Biol 24:10670-80. 2004..This observation has potential implications that extend beyond nucleotide excision repair...
- The structure of the human ERCC1/XPF interaction domains reveals a complementary role for the two proteins in nucleotide excision repairKonstantinos Tripsianes
Department of NMR Spectroscopy, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Structure 13:1849-58. 2005..On the basis of these findings, we propose a model for the targeting of XPF nuclease via ERCC1-mediated interactions in the context of nucleotide excision repair...
- Transcription-associated breaks in xeroderma pigmentosum group D cells from patients with combined features of xeroderma pigmentosum and Cockayne syndromeTherina Theron
Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, United Kingdom
Mol Cell Biol 25:8368-78. 2005....
- Molecular analysis of mutations in DNA polymerase eta in xeroderma pigmentosum-variant patientsBernard C Broughton
Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RR, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:815-20. 2002..There is a wide variability in clinical features among patients, which is not obviously related to the site or type of mutation...
- When machines get stuck--obstructed RNA polymerase II: displacement, degradation or suicideVincent van den Boom
Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Medical Genetic Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Bioessays 24:780-4. 2002..The identification and characterisation of a novel protein co-purifying with the yeast homologue of CSB (Rad26) imposes reassessment of our current understanding of TCR in yeast. What about humans?..
- Regulation of UV-induced DNA damage response by ubiquitylationSteven Bergink
MGC CBG Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus MC, P O Box 2040, 3000CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
DNA Repair (Amst) 6:1231-42. 2007..We discuss the implications of these modifications to allow swift adaptation and regulation of genome surveillance factors...
- Mutations in the C7orf11 (TTDN1) gene in six nonphotosensitive trichothiodystrophy patients: no obvious genotype-phenotype relationshipsElena Botta
Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR, Pavia, Italy
Hum Mutat 28:92-6. 2007..Mutations in TTDN1 do not affect the response to ultraviolet (UV) light or the steady state level of the repair/transcription factor IIH (TFIIH), which is central to the onset of the photosensitive form of TTD...
- Complete absence of Cockayne syndrome group B gene product gives rise to UV-sensitive syndrome but not Cockayne syndromeKatsuyoshi Horibata
Laboratories of Organismal Biosystems, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 1 3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565 0871, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:15410-5. 2004..Possible explanations for the discrepancy in the genotype-phenotype relationship in UVs1KO are presented...
- Cellular characterization of cells from the Fanconi anemia complementation group, FA-D1/BRCA2Barbara C Godthelp
Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Building 2, Postzone S 6 P, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands
Mutat Res 601:191-201. 2006....
- Identification of C7orf11 (TTDN1) gene mutations and genetic heterogeneity in nonphotosensitive trichothiodystrophyKazuhiko Nakabayashi
Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Allan Webster was once a top prospect in the Dodgers organization. Now, he's one of the best in Boston's.
Webster was acquired from Los Angeles on Aug. 25 when Boston traded away Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto to the Dodgers. He was 0-1 in two starts in Double-A after coming over, allowing eight runs over nine innings of work.
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IRONDALE, Alabama - An Irondale man was injured in a pre-dawn explosion at his home today, authorities said.
Irondale firefighters were called to the home in the 5200 block of Goldmar Drive just after 2 a.m. Authorities said the victim had already been taken to Trinity Medical Center by his wife when they arrived.
The wife told fire officials they smelled gas in the home and her husband went to investigate. He narrowed down the origin to the garage. When he turned on the light on his cell phone to use it as a flashlight, there was a large explosion.
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With only around 30 to 40 left in the wild, the Geelong-based orange-bellied parrot has been ranked one of the world's rarest and most endangered species. However, a new Australia Research Council grant is offering new hope for these parrots, which spend a good deal of their life in the Geelong region.
Announced in late June, the funding, worth over $470,000, has been awarded to researchers in Deakin's Centre for Integrative Ecology, in partnership with Zoos Victoria, the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and Charles Sturt University.
Researchers at the new Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases will also be involved in the project. This centre is a collaboration between Deakin, Barwon Health and the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL).
The new four-year research project will focus on two globally significant avian pathogens, Psittacosis, and Beak and Feather Disease Virus. The researchers will develop critical knowledge and tools to help manage the pathogens, which – apart from threatening the orange-bellied and other Australian parrots - are causing significant conservation, agricultural and public health concerns around the world.
Deakin's Dr Mathew Berg and Professor Andy Bennett
Led by researchers from Deakin, the project will explore disease transmission dynamics, and the role of genetic diversity, habitat and bird stress in infection and disease emergence across southern Australia.
They will also examine how poultry and human infection is related to infection in wild birds.
Deakin's Professor Andy Bennett explained that Beak and Feather Disease virus is listed by the Federal Government as a "Key Threatening" process to biodiversity, and psittacosis can be lethal to humans.
"About 70 per cent of emerging infectious diseases in humans come from animals, so we need to be on top of these processes. Besides, disease can have a major impact on wildlife populations," Professor Bennett said.
"Geelong is the Silicon Valley of animal disease research in Australia. These additional funds will allow us to both reduce the risk of extinction of the orange-bellied and other parrots, and improve our understanding of the risks of infectious diseases being transmitted to humans."
He added that orange-bellied parrots are particularly vulnerable to beak and feather disease virus in their captive breeding program at Healesville Sanctuary. This program began in 1994 and now cares for around 300 orange-bellied parrots, who comprise the fragile "insurance population" against extinction.
Deakin researcher, Dr Mathew Berg, explained that the remaining wild orange-bellied parrots divide their time between Geelong and South West Tasmania, where their nesting area is protected within a World Heritage Zone.
"The orange-bellied parrot is one of only three parrot species that migrate and it spends its winters near us in Geelong," he said.
"This little parrot has been of great concern to scientists and conservationists over the past 30 years or so. Unfortunately, it's not alone though, with around a third of parrot species in Australia and around the world considered at risk of extinction."
Only a little bigger than a budgerigar - with a small bright orange patch on its belly - the parrot was once abundant, but has lost much of its wintering grounds to development and competition for nesting sites from introduced species such as starlings.
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Look out, Apple iPhone -- the Web browsing experience on rival smartphones just got a whole lot better.
That's the message from solution provider fans of the Opera Mini 5 beta Web browser for smartphones that was released this week.
Solution providers say Opera Software's Opera Mini 5 represents the easiest-to-use Web browser for the widest range of smartphones. The product runs on smartphones that support Java. There also is a special version that supports BlackBerry.
"This could throw a wrench into Apple's plans to become the dominant leader in the mobile Web application market," said Tyler Dikman, president and CEO of Cooltronics, a Tampa, Fla., solution provider. "Opera is bringing a level of Web browser standardization that the market has never seen before."
Dikman himself just dumped his Apple iPhone with AT&T cellular service six weeks ago in favor of a BlackBerry Tour running Verizon. "I liked Apple's design," he said. "But my phone constantly crashed and the AT&T service just never worked. It was just a terrible service."
Dikman said he loves the BlackBerry Tour, which can run the new Opera Mini 5. "It's a great phone," he said. "It's extremely fast and never crashes. I'd rather have a stable, fast phone that works with less apps than a phone loaded to the brim with features and apps that doesn't work half the time and has poor phone service."
Dikman said Opera Mini 5 could represent somewhat of a landmark for unifying the Web browsing experience on the broad, diverse set of smartphones. "Smartphone makers should focus on the hardware and let third-party companies like Opera deal with software and browsers," he said.
Opera Mini 5 could open the door for more app developers to build applications once for the browser rather than dozens of times for each different smartphone, Dikman said. "I think Opera is going to give Apple a run for its money," he said. "There are a lot of consumers right now sitting on the sidelines waiting for Apple to get rid of AT&T."
Among the top new features for Opera Mini 5 are support for tabbed browsing, which allows users to view several Web sites at the same time and jump easily between them; speed dialing, which allows users to get to favorite Web sites more quickly; and a password manager that allows users to log on to e-mail and social networking sites with just one click.


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I hope by now some one will be thinking that i am up to something sinister, but that's not the case, folks. Have we all noticed how guys are running away from marriage these days, if not, then this article will give you some incite into why that is happening in our society today.More guys are just scared of getting married to their girlfriends due to the demands of some of the parents of the women. They have made marriage look like an auction where the highest bidder gets the item.
I am not saying that guys should not marry their girlfriends, just that when you ask your girlfriend to bring a list from the parents for the marriage ceremony, one is scared sometimes as to the items listed for you to buy. This makes it look like the parents are selling their daughter to you the guy.Due to this, some guys have adopted the 'Hit and Run' method. This also leaves the girls frustrated and will now go in for any man who comes their way without thinking about what their hearts really want. Some of the guys will just accept the list of items and go for loans just to perform an expensive marriage ceremony and wedding with their girlfriends. The results start showing just after the wedding when the loan sharks start chasing the couple for their money.
An expensive wedding is also done to impress those who attend so that the couple will not be embarrassed. No wonder some guys/men treat their wives like commodities sold on table tops by the road side. People also attend weddings and want to know everything about the food, dress, decorations and even the occupation of the couple. People then request for extra food to be taken away to their homes. Some people also behave like gluttons at weddings by eating more than necessary.
Every guy/man would love to make his woman happy by giving her a nice wedding, but when the demands become too much, then instead of wedding bells ringing, the sound of the auctioneer's gavel will be heard. So folks if you are getting prepared for marriage especially the ladies, don't allow your marriage to be sold to the highest bidder. Just be bold and tell whoever is trying to sell your marriage that "my marriage is not for sale, i will help my man, because we are in this together and we love each other". God be with us all.


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Here are a few Bears Essentials to get you going this morning.
-- CSNChicago.com's John "Moon" Mullin expects some players on defense to be competing for their jobs when the Bears return next week to Halas Hall to begin preparations for the Green Bay Packers.
-- ESPNChicago.com's Jeff Dickerson puts together his weekly Stock Watch here, and obviously backup quarterback Josh McCown is on the rise.
Here's what Dickerson writes about McCown: "Losing Jay Cutler for a minimum of four weeks because of a torn groin muscle is a tough pill to swallow, but McCown at least gives the Bears a chance on offense. McCown gave the Bears all they could ask for against the Washington Redskins with completing 14-of-20 passes for 204 yards and one touchdown. Can he do it again? That remains to be seen. But McCown is an intelligent player with 33 career NFL starts under his belt. We should all know by now that starting experience is a big factor when it comes to a No. 2 quarterback. McCown can still throw the ball reasonably well and has plenty of skill-position talent, plus a decent offensive line surrounding him. To steal a phrase from ex-Bears general manager Jerry Angelo: The Bears aren't likely to fall off the cliff with McCown at quarterback."
-- The injury to Cutler won't scare the Bears into carrying more than two quarterbacks on the active roster, writes Rich Campbell of the Chicago Tribune
-- Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times isn't buying the positive vibes being tossed around at Halas Hall in the midst of the team losing its third game in four outings while Cutler and linebacker Lance Briggs are each expected to miss at least a month.


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With Valentine's Day near on the horizon, the panic is soon to set in over what to get loved ones. Chocolates, roses, teddy bears, homemade endearments, spa treatments and jewellery are sure to be on the cards … but what about something different and just a little more indulgent this year.
This Valentines treat your one and only to a delicious Valentine Escape at Flemings Hotel, Mayfair. Guests are treated to an over night stay in the city's one true retreat. Tucked away on quiet Half Moon Street, protected by the leafy spaces of Green Park, Flemings truly provides the perfect romantic bolthole.
During the stay guests can pamper their palates with a gourmet 6 course meal in The Flemings Grill full of couples's favourites including champagne and oysters, Scottish lobster and chocolate fondue. After, guests can relax in the stylish Flemings bar before retiring to their sumptuous private double bedroom.
So this year take over Cupid's role and truly treat your other half. To book the Valentine's Escape at Flemings Hotel, please visit www.flemings-mayfair.co.uk or alternatively call +44 (0) 20 7499 0000 or email email@example.com


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This is from a story about a New York State assemblyman named Stephen M. Katz, who was arrested earlier this week on marijuana possession charges, after he was stopped by police for speeding:
Mr. Katz has had previous troubles. A veterinarian by trade, he was once accused of illegally disposing of a dead German shepherd, and another time of allegedly attacking a Chihuahua he was treating. Both times, he said, he was exonerated. (Emphasis mine.)
Here at Goldblog, we are keen to find the court records for this particular case. We imagine that the indictment, if nothing else, is very amusing.


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Mama, a gift from God. When I think of Elian, "the inner tube boy" whose mother had given her life to save from Castro or communism's iron hand, I think of Moses. Both Moses and Elian were floating in makeshift arks and both were drawn from the water. Moses became an instrument of God to deliver the Hebrews from Egyptian bondage. Could it be that Elian may be destined to liberate his people from the communist yoke of bondage in Cuba?
Maybe some way or somehow he will. Soon, I hope.
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PINOLE — Fine dining from the Pear Street Bistro and Broadway-themed entertainment are among the attractions for the fourth annual Cabaret fundraiser gala on Saturday benefiting the Pinole Community Players.
The event from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Pinole Senior Center, 2500 Charles Ave. offers wine and appetizers, catered dinner and entertainment that includes Pinole's own Christy Cates, who was featured in the original Broadway production of "Wicked."
There will also be a raffle with drawings all evening on special items.
Proceeds go to the community theater company. Tickets are $45 each, available at www.pinoleplayers.org or by calling 510-223-3598, and the deadline to reserve seats is Wednesday. No tickets will be sold at the door.


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If you've ever fretted over weeds in your yard or the depth of mulch in your garden beds, it's time to lighten up and not take your gardening hobby so seriously. Leave that to the professional gardeners and landscapers who dig in the dirt for a living. It's steamy out there, the bugs are in full force, and with all the recent downpours, our plants are growing at exponential speed. You could be weeding, pruning and mowing, but why not sit back and have a good laugh at the silly side of gardening?
Less about dirt, more about dirty
Summer is an ideal time to catch up on garden catalogs and magazines that piled up over the winter and spring, when you spent your free time outdoors. It's popular to store them in your garden shed. At least that's the claim made by British homemaker Sharon Thomas. That would have been fine if her catalogs featured seeds and plants, but Thomas' stash wasn't the typical garden fare. Her garden shed housed an international porn operation that mailed thousands of sex catalogs touting illegal porn CDs and videos.
Grow a beer garden with a side of fungi
There are countless garden-related Web sites worth checking out this summer, including Dave's Garden (davesgarden.com), where you'll learn how to turn tissue boxes into birdhouses and bowling balls into garden gazing globes.
At Freshops (freshops.com), you can order Humulus lupulus, more commonly known as the hop plant, and supplies for growing and brewing your own beer.
Add a few 'shrooms to your beer garden from the Spore Store (sporestore.com) or Mushroom People (mushroompeople.com), and soon you'll be throwing your neighborhood block party.
For the adventurous, full frontal floriculture
You've got 10 months to get in shape for next year's annual World Naked Gardening Day, when gardeners everywhere are encouraged to tend their yards in the buff. On the first Saturday of May, gardening enthusiasts bare all with friends, family and gardening clubs in back yards, city parks and community gardens. Before you strip down, be warned: There are laws against public nudity, even in your own yard. Just ask Carolyn Sparks of Brooksville, who was cited for raking leaves topless in her front yard.
But there's an alternative for modest folks: the "Garden Naked" T-shirt, $18 from Natural Alternative's Eye Candy (nalt.com).
Squat, then give bugs a swat
There are plenty of goofy gardening products, like the Wearable Garden Stool, below, $50 from Clean Air Gardening Supply (cleanairgardening.com). Designed as a milking stool, it looks like a pigtail and straps on to let you squat and spring from plant to plant, plus you can wear it while walking. What a sight to behold, especially if worn on the backsides of gardeners on World Naked Gardening Day!
Summer bugs in Florida are a nuisance, but there are two new ways to fight back. The Zap-a-Bug electrified tennis racket ($20 at firstestore.com) lets you practice your serve while electrocuting mosquitoes and flies. Or if spiders make you squirm, there's Lee Valley Tool's Long-Handled Spider Catcher, right, with pincers at the end of a 2-foot shaft for picking spiders from a safe distance ($19.95 from leevalley.com).
To keep pests at bay, there's eau de . . . eww
Sometimes it's not insects that are bugging you, but critters such as rats and raccoons — and even the neighbor's dog or cat that's using your garden as a waste station. But there's urine to the rescue, thanks to Predator Pee (predatorpee.com), which collects and bottles urine from wolves, lions, bobcats, coyotes, foxes and other animals. Spray the urine in your garden and you'll repel unwanted visitors. Not sure which one will work? No problem. You can order the Predator Pee Sampler with five trial-size bottles of assorted urine for $19.99.
Better than 5-10-5: No. 1 and No. 2
Not to be outdone by four-legged creatures, there's a movement to compost gardens with "humanure," treated waste from composting toilets. These toilets are low-tech and reduce water use, according to Joseph Jenkins, author of The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (Jenkins Publishing, 1999). With 304 pages of details, illustrations, tables and charts, it's a must-have for your summer reading list.
Yvonne Swanson is a freelance writer in St. Petersburg and a master gardener for Pinellas County.


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In the mid 1930's, Pacific Pottery introduced a line of decorated wares in the Hostess ware body shape and assorted designs.
We have available 5 salad plates each with a different design (3 avail. in the white with gold "spoke" design, 1 in turquoise blue spoke, and 1 of the rust "Lines and buds") . Each plate is 7 1/2" in diameter. All are in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, crazing or other imperfections. Pacific made this line to last and last they have.
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text: Lightweight and waterproof, the original K-Way windbreaker was originally conceived in 1965 by Leon-Claude Duhamel as he witnessed a number of pedestrians caught in a rainstorm. Marked by its ability to be easily packed away within itself and its relatively low costs, APC sees itself collaborating with the now Canadian-owned brand on a two-piece capsule. While the utilitarian K-Way style has been slightly lost through this collaboration, APC adds some new more fashionable styles to the fold. Available at APC.


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84% would recommend it to a friend
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All very good.
May be worth nothing that the room had no opening windows but aircon worked well.
Taxi company that hotel uses, who booked a taxi on my behalf from reception, turned up 15mins late. Would recommend using alternative taxi company and booking yourself.
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Fading but still good value
Comfortable business stay
Stayed here for just one night before a conference.
The suite was very spacious, for a longer stay this would have been great for business as lots of room and nice to have separate bedroom. The price was fairly expensive for this area but you did get a lot of space and free wi-fi etc...Staff were friendly. Possibly feel like the hotel could do with some modernising as decor was quite dated but very comfortable.
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Great location.
Customer service was great left bags before 2pm then returned around 6pm given keys, allocated room absolutely stank of cigarettes but we spoke to reception who swiftly moved us within 5 minutes great customer service friendly staff apologised for the first room!
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We stopped in room 407 - this is not a room with a view The room itself was lovely and had everything we required in it.
The walls are very thin though. We could hear the neighbours returning from their night out, and also hear when they used the toilet!. and when they got up in the morning. But apart from that, our stay at the Ramada was good
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We stay fairly regularly at the Ramada and it's usually a great stay, this time we were having a break over Christmas Day and Boxing day, the suites are great as always with large TV's and very clean.
However, we had to switch rooms after the first night because the bed was so uncomfortable. They dip strongly in the middle, which is fine if there is only one person sleeping there, though with a couple, you both spend the night twisting your back trying not to roll into one another. The new room was better, though we both still slept fairly badly, and both woke up with bad backs, if staying a third night I would have requested to be moved again. The food was good, very expensive, but reasonable portions and tasty.
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The rooms were very spacious and faultlessly clean.
Breakfast had an abundance of choice and the pastries were delicious.
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A very comfortable hotel.
Not very attractive from the outside as there was a large skip and bins at the entrance. The interior could have done with a lick of paint. Our room was very good, clean with incredibly comfortable beds and smart bathroom. We enjoyed our stay and walked into Coventry City centre in minutes. Would use this hotel again.
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Hoosier Access in the news – National Review covers Pence Tax Cut
Hoosier Access is not afraid to toot our own horn, particularly when one of our own is quoted in a national media story! Our Editor Emeritus, Josh Gillespie, was quoted in a piece by Katrinka Trinko in National Review's coverage of Gov. Mike Pence's tax cut proposal.
You can read Josh's take on the Pence tax cut below:
Indiana Republicans argue that the final agreement was a win for Pence even though it wasn't his original goal. Josh Gillespie, founder of the political blog Hoosier Access, says the final deal went beyond the legislature's initial offers. "The original budget that House Republicans passed contained no tax cut whatsoever, and the budget that the Senate Republicans passed contained a 3 percent tax cut," he says.
Later in the article Josh discusses the possibility of a Pence presidential campaign:
"There will always be talk of presidential aspirations," says Gillespie. "But . . . Indiana is where his heart is and where his focus is right now and at least for the foreseeable future." If Pence is considering 2016, though, it's anyone's guess how long his sights will remain solely on Indiana.
We commend the entire article to you – it provides a fairly comprehensive look at the debate surrounding the tax cut and the ultimate resolution to the matter. We're very glad Hoosier Access could add some local perspective to a national story.
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Our examination of Romans 14 has helped us to understand what both weakness and strength entail and how each believer ought to respond and relate to the other. We now conclude by articulating five principles that should govern our exercise of Christian liberty. Continue reading . . .
Our examination of Romans 14 has helped us to understand what both weakness and strength entail and how each believer ought to respond and relate to the other. We now conclude by articulating five principles that should govern our exercise of Christian liberty.
1) These truths in Romans 14 and the actions they require apply only within the community of faith. In other words, Paul is addressing how we are to live out our freedom in Christ in relation to other Christians. He is not speaking to those situations in which a non-Christian protests your exercise of freedom. Would there be a different set of guidelines to govern our relationships with unbelievers?
2) If someone says to me: "Your drinking of wine/beer is sin," should I cease? To answer the question we must first determine if the one who protests is a weaker brother. As we have seen, by weaker brother Paul is thinking of someone who not only has a misconception of what is inherently right and wrong, clean and unclean, but is actually himself induced or led to perform the action in question because of your participation. Paul is thinking of someone who is led to violate his own conscience because he is either untaught or excessively timid and fearful. His concern over your reaction to his abstinence leads him to do what his conscience forbids.
This must be emphasized, because the person who protests your expression of liberty may be a legalist. Legalists are in no danger of violating their conscience! They are not in the least tempted to engage in the activity in question. Their aim is not simply to refrain from a specified activity, but to persuade you to refrain as well, often through intimidation, shame, guilt, etc. The weaker brother is NOT a legalist! And the legalist is NOT a weaker brother!
3) If you do choose to forego the exercise of your liberty for the sake of a weaker brother, be certain to point out that you are not doing so because you think it is sin, but because he thinks it is sin. If you do not, you will only confirm him in his weakness. As Lenski has said, "when I abstain, the weak brother must know that I do so only because I am prompted by love, only for his sake, only because his weakness is weakness and not strength, only because I would give him time and help him to grow strong" (850), and not because I regard the action itself as sinful.
4) Christian liberty may legitimately manifest itself in abstinence or asceticism. Christian liberty includes the right to abstain from otherwise legitimate pursuits if one is convinced in his/her own mind that such is the will of God for them personally. In other words, you may fully believe in the truth of Romans 14:14a, yet choose to abstain anyway. Christian liberty does not include the right to insist that others likewise abstain simply because you do. Far less does it include the right to judge them as sub-spiritual for choosing a different course of action from you.
5) Do not become enslaved to your own liberty! In other words, hold your liberty in an open hand. It is not consistent with Christian love if we always insist on the exercise of our freedom in Christ. Simply put, there is something more important than freedom. Paul calls it love!


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I noticed that the demo on TinyMce's Website also has this problem
It seems that typography.css is not getting picked up by the editor.css, even though it is imported as in v 2.2.3 (editor.css is exactly the same as in v2.2.3)?
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I know v 2.3.0 is Beta, but as the TinyMce demo also showed the same error in styles of content editor vs outputted HTML, I was wondering if this is a bug that is to be fixed or is there something I am doing wrong at my end, as I would have expected more posts regarding this??
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trackerjohn deming, NMOct. 15, 2012 10:59 a.m.
This article has to be the most twisted account of the event to date! After reading it I am left to wonder if the reporter actually read, or followed any of the many press releases & media reports proceeding what they have offered here?
Henry Drummond San Jose, CAOct. 13, 2012 12:44 p.m.
This is a very sad occurrence and I know the heart's of everyone in this community go out to the family. It was a terribly tragic chain of events. I don't think anyone is suggesting otherwise. Hopefully we can learn from what happened and prevent such things in the future. In the meantime Mr. Ivie will rightfully be remembered as a hero who gave his life for his country.


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Montana's U.S. senators say that ConocoPhillips, one of the world's largest energy companies, is giving up rights to explore for oil and gas on nearly 170,000 acres outside Glacier National Park.
Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester delivered that news Wednesday while appearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to push legislation that would block new energy development in the North Fork watershed adjacent to Glacier.
"This is an exciting development for Glacier National Park and the North Fork of the Flathead. ConocoPhillips has showed great leadership by recognizing that some places are too special for energy extraction," said Will Hammerquist, the National Parks and Conservation Association's Glacier field program director. "I hope that Senator Baucus and Tester's bill will soon permanently protect this area's scenic rivers and wildlife from future energy development as well.
"While there is still work to be done to protect Glacier National Park and the North Fork, which will soon celebrate its 100th anniversary, this is a great step forward in preserving the legacy of the world's first International Peace Park," Mr. Hammerquist added. "We thank Senators Tester and Baucus for their tireless efforts to protect this remarkable treasure for our children and grandchildren."
According to NPCA, ConocoPhillips is voluntarily relinquishing its interests in 108 oil and gas leases spanning roughly 169,000 acres in the Flathead watershed.
The news is just the latest concerning energy development around Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada.
In recent years there have been concerns among environmental and conservation organizations that energy development in the Canadian Flathead, the area that embraces the headwaters of the Flathead River and which lies due north of Glacier and due west of Waterton Lakes, could adversely impact the parks and the Flathead River.
Earlier this year, though, British Columbia officials announced they would block mining in the Canadian Flathead, and shortly thereafter Montana's senators said they would introduce legislation to do the same on the U.S. side of the border.


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Turvey Park broke a nine-year premiership drought when they defeated minor premiers Kooringal (3-1) in Saturday's A grade softball grand final.
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The triumph was spearheaded by Turvey Park pitcher Hayley Smith, who afterwards dedicated the victory to her late father Brad Smith, who passed away just eight days before the grand final.
It was a red letter day for the Turvey Park Club who earlier in the day had won both the B and C grade titles with wins over respective minor premiers Lake Albert and South Wagga Warriors.
The opening innings shutouts of each team suggested that runs were going to be at a premium, and that's certainly the way the game panned out.
After a second shutout of Kooringal, Turvey Park's Amanda Gooden and Jane Wadley both hit safely to the outfield and were eventually scored on a wild pitch and an error respectively to give Turvey a 2-0 lead entering the third.
Yet another shutout of the Maroons was followed by another fruitful innings for Turvey Park when Sarah Stewart crossed the plate after the bases were loaded up due to hits from Leah Gilmour, Nicole Post and Gooden.
The fourth innings produced shutouts again by both teams before Kooringal opened their scoring with a single in the top of the fifth. Cassie Argus and Laura Doig both hit safely, but Doig was put out at second on a fielder's choice advancing Argus' substitute runner, Cherlyes Rice, to third and placing Laura Harley at first. The next batter was struck out before a wild throw saw Rice score but the other runners were left stranded on base when the second and third dismissals were effected.
Regulation outs were the order of the sixth innings, with both teams again shutout. So, with the score at 3-1 in favour of Turvey Park, the minor premiers Kooringal had to bat in at least two more runs to make Turvey bat again.
Sandra Brown, Turvey's substitute third-base player, was immediately in the play, throwing out the first batter at first, and after short stop, Gooden, did the same with the second batter. Brown accepted a hot line drive off Laura Harley to clinch the premiership for Turvey Park.
It was a grand win for Turvey Park, with several of their players overcoming personal setbacks in the week leading up to the big game.
The Turvey effort continued after a trend set earlier in the lower grades with the minor premiers being beaten in each of the senior league grand finals.
It was a most pleasing result for Turvey's young coach, Stephen McIntyre, who from the start of the season felt he had a squad capable of winning the premiership.
Kooringal coach, Peter Nixon, was ruing their second consecutive grand final loss, but conceded that Turvey had done well to contain the normally strong batting of the Kooringal side and had been the better side on the day.
In the lower grades, Turvey Park defeated B grade minor premiers Lake Albert (6-2). The young Lake Albert team had been undefeated leading up to the premiership decider, but were outbatted by the more experienced Turvey team.
In C grade, hot favourites South Wagga Warriors, went down by the minimum margin when Turvey Park won a thriller 5-4 in a high standard match. Whilst in D grade South Wagga Warriors had a 15-11 win over the more favoured Kooringal team.
Turvey Park 0 2 1 0 0 0 = 3
Kooringal 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 = 1
Turvey Park hits: Amanda Gooden (two), Nicole Post, Leah Gilmour, Jane Wadley, Jade Olsen (one each).
Kooringal hits: Cassie Argus, Laura Doig (one each)
Pitching: Hayley Smith (Turvey Park): 7 Innings, 2 Hits, 4 K-2s, 0 Walks
Laura Harley (Kooringal): 6 Innings, 6 Hits, 1 K-2, 1 Walk
Now that Finals have finished it`s on to representative side softball.
For all those who have expressed an interest in playing for Wagga Redbacks in the Waratah League this year, training for the squad is this Wed 31st March at French Fields at 6pm.
Be there to show your commitment and be given the opportunity to be selected in the team. If you can't make it but are keen to play contact Head Coach Tim Bourke.
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Chance meetings at airports-- Soaking up that oil with Scott Smith's Opflex plastic foam
I was sitting having dinner at Pappas Burgers in the Houston Hobby airport last night when a guy came and sat in the table next to me. We shared computer cable outlets, and struck up a conversation. I told him what I did, and asked him. "You really want to know?" he asked. "Well, you have to listen to the end. I am not crazy and I'm tired of people thinking I am..."
He introduced himself as Scott Smith, CEO of Cellect Plastics, and he said he'd produced an open celled polyolefin based foam pad that was designed to soak up oil, be squeezed out and reused multiple times.
"Everybody must be calling BP and the Coast Guard and the State governments, because I keep having to say, 'please listen, I'm not crazy."
Scott is a Harvard MBA on a mission to build an eco-friendly company. He's just filed a patent on this foam pad he calls "Opflex" and he showed me impressive proofs that it works.
It could be that Scott's time has come. This is exactly the low-tech tool we will need as the oil comes ashore this coming week.
Here's a statement Scott sent me. I think he's got something here. If you do, too, and you happen to be in a position to do something about it, give Scott a call at 506-776-2995, or email him at email@example.com.
Cellect Plastics LLC (Cellect) has developed Opflex the world's only biodegradable open celled polyolefin based foam that absorbs 32 times its weight in oil without absorbing water.
Cellect has developed an amazing new reusable absorbent for oil and liquid hydrocarbons that may be of great assistance in helping to deal with the pollution arising from the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico We urge you to take a look at this. It could revolutionize oil clean-up methods. This new material is a hydrophobic modified polymer sponge that floats on and repels water but readily absorbs oils and hydrocarbons, up to 32 times its own weight. But what makes this product unique and different to all other absorbents is that it is reusable – up to 100 times! The absorbed materials can easily be recovered by simply squeezing or wringing out the foam sponge by gloved hands or between mangle rollers. The recovered oils can be collected in a drum for recycling, used as a free fuel (in a suitable space heater or boiler), or incinerated for safe disposal. Then the foam absorbent can immediately be redeployed – again, and again, and again…..and again – 100 times or more!
This property of reusability makes this technology very affordable as the material cost per use is minimal and no toxic waste of soiled absorbents is produced. The same section of absorbent, when constantly re-used, can recover up to 3,200 times or more of its own weight in oils or hydrocarbons! The technology is also infinitely scalable being able to deal with storm water run-off from a single parking lot or roadway to widespread pollution of an entire lake or estuary.
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The basic material has been extensively tested and is already being successfully used for removing refined oils, fuels, lubricants and liquid hydrocarbon chemicals from water in lakes, streams, rivers, marinas, harbors, wetlands and coastal waters. It does this quickly and efficiently. Another popular application is as a floating, reusable oil remover in the bilges of boats and ships.
Last week Cellect made a production run of a new variant of this remarkable foam with larger cells which may be suitable for absorbing heavy materials such as crude oil, and also any free oil dispersants such as 'COREXIT' used to treat this as well as the residues and dispersed hydrocarbons released by the dispersants.
This material is very eco-friendly and includes a biodegradation initiator. If any material gets loose in the environment or is land-filled, the foam biodegrades naturally over time. The absorbent foam can also be easily incinerated, does not emit any noxious fumes when burned, and leaves a minimal non-toxic ash.
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when jawa celebrated the birthday, i filmed most of it, had to edit a whole lotta things like speeding up the speech (20 minutes or so including the intro and a minor server crash XD ) also filmed many other things we did that day. but here's part 1 with most of Link's epic speech. (part 2 contains the rest of the speech) music credits: Final Fantasy 12 - main theme Guns n' Roses - patience i don't own the songs used in this movie, just used em for entertainment purposes
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The migrant crisis has become the key issue.
Ninety-thousand people claimed asylum in Austria last year, equivalent to about 1% of the Austrian population, and the Freedom Party has run a campaign against immigration.
The presidency is a largely ceremonial post but a Hofer victory could be the springboard for Freedom Party success in the next parliamentary elections, scheduled for 2018.
Austria is faced with a stark choice for its head of state: a Green Party professor, Alexander Van der Bellen, or Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party - a soft-spoken, charismatic gun enthusiast who won a decisive victory in the first round of voting in April.
For the first time since the Second World War, the traditional parties of the centre left and centre right were knocked out of the race.


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WANTAGE Silver Band members have two good reasons to blow their own trumpets.
The band came first in the autumn regional band championships and has finally started work on building a home to call its own after a 10-year fund- raising campaign.
It is celebrating this month after breaking ground on its new band hall.
The £260,000 building, on Tugwell Field next to Lark Hill, will be the silver band's first permanent home.
Chairman Eleanor Turner said: "You can't believe how pleased I feel about this.
"It has been such a torturous road to get where we are, so I am delighted.
"The timber frame is already up, next they will start putting tiles on the roof and cladding."
The band subleases the site for a peppercorn rent from Vale of White Horse District Council, which in turn leases the site from owner Oxfordshire County Council.
The band won the championships after performimg the piece On The Shoulders of Giants by Peter Graham.
Trombonist Kris Reeder said: "We played a very varied piece very well.
"Wantage Silver Band are quality, when we go to the international masters next year we are going to do really well.
"We are the best country in the world and we don't shout about it enough – we dominate at brass banding."
The Southern Counties Band Association annual autumn contest was held on September 30 in Crawley.
Ian Carter, secretary of the brass band regional governing body Scaba, said: "They beat some very good bands in a very strong field."
Bandmaster Eileen Sykes said: "We were very excited because we have been so close to winning for a couple of years."
The band hopes to hold a grand opening for its new building in January and is offering to rent out rooms to other community groups.
In the meantime there is more fundraising to be done, as the band only raised £170,000 towards the total and relied on £90,000 in donations from its members to cover the rest, which it will repay through funds raised at concerts.
Its next performance will be a Masquerade Ball on October 27 at Wantage Civic Hall.


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A federal judge on Thursday rejected motions to throw out part of a lawsuit filed against Jefferson County Sheriff Gerald Robinson and Roderick Shelby, the former chief of staff or Juvenile Judge Earnest Brown Jr.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected motions to throw out part of a lawsuit filed against Jefferson County Sheriff Gerald Robinson and Roderick Shelby, the former chief of staff for Juvenile Judge Earnest Brown Jr.
A federal lawsuit was filed against Shelby after he allegedly beat Chadarious Avery, 14, while escorting Avery back to the juvenile detention center after an appearance in court on April 18, 2011. Robinson was added to the lawsuit later because the sheriff is in charge of the juvenile detention center. Avery�s attorney is arguing that Shelby�s actions were the result of him not being properly trained in handling juveniles.
Attorneys for Robinson and Shelby had asked federal judge Kristine Baker to dismiss Avery�s claims against them in their official capacities, and against Robinson in his personal capacity because they argue that he is entitled to qualified immunity.
In a 17-page opinion and order, Baker turned down the motions, saying �genuine issues of material fact remain on Mr. Avery�s failure-to-train claim regarding whether Jefferson County�s training policies or practices were inadequate, whether the county was deliberately indifferent to others� rights in adopting such training policies or practices, or whether the alleged deficiencies actually caused Mr. Avery�s injuries.�
Baker said there is a factual dispute regarding the county�s lack of training probation officers with a juvenile course and jailers course, which were required of juvenile detention center employees, and which probation officers were not required to attend. That training course included handcuffing techniques, defensive tactics for situations in which a detainee becomes violent and other constitutional requirements. Additionally, probation officers were not given handcuffs or pepper spray like detention center officers.
Robinson acknowledged in his deposition that there was an increased risk when untrained individuals are dealing with juveniles �but said such risks would be minimized or reduced if someone untrained worked in conjunction with trained personnel.
�In addition, there are genuine issues of material fact in dispute regarding what training Mr. Shelby received in the use of excessive force, even at ALETA (Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy) and certainly after that during his employment with the sheriff�s department,� the ruling said.
Before going to work for Judge Brown, Shelby worked for the sheriff�s department and afterward, was a part-time deputy until he was fired by Robinson after the altercation with Avery and an internal investigation.
�Simply stated, the disparity in the training and equipment between probation officers and detention center employees creates a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Sheriff Robinson�s�s failure to require similar training of probation officers before allowing them to escort juvenile detainees amounts to deliberate indifference,� Baker said in the ruling. �Mr. Shelby did not have the training or equipment required of detention center employees, was well known to escort juvenile detainees, alone was escorting Mr. Avery, who was a juvenile detainee, and for purposes of this motion, admits the use of excessive force in the altercation with Mr. Avery.�
Regarding the rejection of Robinson�s claim that he should be dismissed in his personal capacity because of qualified immunity, Judge Baker said �whether a reasonable person in Sheriff Robinson�s position would have known that his training program or lack thereof was likely to result in Mr. Shelby�s actions present a genuine issue of material fact for the jury to decide.
�The Court cannot say, as a matter of law, that a reasonable person in Sheriff Robinson�s position would not have recognized that the disparity in training was likely to result in the type of excessive force at issue in the case,� Baker wrote in the ruling. �Indeed, the exact training that detention center employees were required to obtain but that probation officers were not required to obtain before escorting juvenile detainees appears on this record to address the precise factual scenario that gave rise to this lawsuit.�
The trial is currently scheduled for the week of Dec. 17 at the Federal Courthouse at Pine Bluff.


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Philosophy Miracle Worker SPF 50 Miraculous Anti-Aging Fluid
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So-SoWhen summer time rolls around, I'm one of those people who turn into a walking grease ball. Therefore, I try to use as few products as possible in order to keep my pores from clogging up. I like my skin to breathe! I gave this a shot because I was looking for a high spf, but with some kind of hydration in it (because most sunscreen fluids don't hydrate enough). This is a little creamier than other...read more sunscreen fluids, and it does hydrate a little better than the thinner fluids, but not as thick as the typical sunscreens. It does absorb quickly and feels light on the skin which is a must, but it doesn't leave me looking greasy which is what I hate with sunscreens. Best of all, this doesn't smell bad. I absolutely HATE Hope In A Jar because I cannot stand the smell of Lavender oil (it makes me ill to smell it), so I like that this doesn't have that strong scent. I love that this is a high spf, but Philosophy is likely going to have to repackage the product to a spf 50+ due to new packaging regulations. However, this really only will protect you for about two hours like any other sunscreen, so you'll have to find some kind of other method to touch up, or just reapply this every two hours. At first, I was a bit iffy because this has Oxybenzone in it which can cause a bit of free-radicals in your skin. However, this does have antioxidants in it which help to neutralize it which is a little better. As far as anti-aging goes, I'm not entirely convinced. I'm still quite young, so I wouldn't notice anything. For someone who does have the appearance of fine lines, then this might nice to pair up with the Miracle Worker moisturizer. As far as hydration goes, this is okay, but I still feel like I need a little more hydration in it. I don't want to have to keep layering creams, so this didn't exactly have me sold. Once again, I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of Philosophy moisturizers. — 5 years, 2 months agovolta | 566 reviews
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Volvo's newest luxury car has been revealed in Shanghai. The Volvo Concept Universe is for the business man who appreciates understated luxury and Scandinavian craftsmanship. Designed by Jonathan Disley, the car is also the first new Volvo since Chinese firm Geely acquired the company in March 2010.
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hot and bothered
1. Fig. excited; anxious. Now don't get hot and bothered. Take it easy. John is hot and bothered about the tax increase.
2. Fig. amorous; interested in romance or sex. John gets hot and bothered whenever Mary comes into the room. The dog seems hot and bothered. I think it's that time of the year again.
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angry and excited Dad gets all hot and bothered if someone parks in his parking space.
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worried or angry, and sometimes physically hot Dad gets all hot and bothered if someone parks in his parking space.
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In a state of agitated excitement, flustered, as in She was all hot and bothered before her big opening. [c. 1920]
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Emmitt Smith Speaks at Duck Commander Independence Bowl Kick-off Luncheon
Emmitt Smith spoke this afternoon at the Shreveport Convention Center for the Duck Commander Independence Bowl Kickoff Luncheon. The interview style session was moderated by Tim Brando.
Smith spoke about his college days at Florida, his Superbowl teams with the Dallas Cowboys, and even became choked up when talking about his relationship with Walter Payton.
The NFL's all time leading rusher even spoke about his experience winning Dancing with the Stars.
Willie Robertson and several others in the Duck Commander family were in attendance and gave a brief welcome and prayer before the program.
I had an incredible time meeting fans & sharing my stories at the @DCIBowl Kickoff luncheon ! Thank you #Shreveport for showing me the love.
— Emmitt Smith (@EmmittSmith22) August 13, 2014
.@EmmittSmith22 at the @DCIBowl kickoff. @shreveporttimes #nwlanews pic.twitter.com/KPUgTbXcPZ
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What other bowl can bring together the NFL's all-time leading rusher and the boys from @Duck_Commander? pic.twitter.com/cRwkZzM23k
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Emmitt Smith, Tim Brando & the Duck Commanders all downtown today @shrvconvcenter @DCIBowl #DowntownShreveportRocks pic.twitter.com/0Up3ivokPQ
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.@EmmittSmith22 speaking to the media following the luncheon pic.twitter.com/cxMmTEzCh2
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