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Yalden: Only six All Blacks make my World XV
With the international rugby season done and dusted for 2013, I was challenged to come up with a World XV of the Year. So after several cups of coffee and a packet and half of gingernuts, here are my selections:
15. Israel Folau (Australia) - while he made an impact on the right wing during the Lions series, Folau has come into his own at international level in the 15 jersey and not just as the potent attacking force we all expected him to be. Defensively he's tremendous and his positional play is as good if not better.
14. Ben Smith (New Zealand) - you name it, Smith did it in terms of wing play and in spades. From finishing to kick-chase to support play to defensive positioning and everything in between, ''the Ghost'' executed all to a ridiculously high level.
13. Conrad Smith (New Zealand) - There is not a centre plying his trade at the highest levels of the game that comes within a bull's roar of contributing to his team the way that Conrad Smith does, as his absence at season's end highlighted emphatically.
12. Wesley Fofana (France) - In a year where Ma'a Nonu and Jean de Villers were standouts for their respective sides, Fofana topped them both. Superb for an abject France during their Six Nations campaign (albeit initially on the wing), Fofana outplayed Nonu during the three-test June series then Nonu and de Villiers during the autumn internationals. With no deficiencies in his game, Fofana will be pivotal for France in the coming years.
11. George North (Wales) - He was far more effective than the one try in the Six Nations represents, then stood up big time in the first and third tests for the British and Irish Lions. It's easy to forget he's just 21 years old, but his improvements, particularly carrying into contact and defensive positioning, shows an ability to learn and adjust that belies his age.
10. Aaron Cruden (New Zealand) - to preface this, the standard of first-five play this season was decidedly average, however, Cruden's efforts do not fall into that category. The 24-year-old has well and truly emerged from the shadow of Daniel Carter, establishing himself as a world class first-five in his own right, and he's only going to get better.
9. Fumiaki Tanaka (Japan) - Ok ok, calm down and hear me out on this one. Tanaka gets to the breakdown and clears the ball quicker than anyone else in the game; his pass, while nowhere near as crisp as Aaron Smith's, is just as accurate; the kicking game is excellent, can snipe with the best of them and if you've watched any of his performances for Japan this year, you too would have made this selection.
8. Kieran Read (New Zealand) - The best rugby player in the world today.
7. Sean O'Brien (Ireland) - Should have been the starting openside for the Lions as his form heading into the tour was much better than captain Sam Warburton. O'Brien has a McCaw-like work-rate and endurance, is incredibly strong over the ball and possesses that unexplainable opensider's gift to be in the right place and the right time.
6. Liam Messam (New Zealand) - He's improved his play year on year, but this season he took it over the top. Messam's become that defensive leader that All Black blindsides need to be, is even more prominent in the tight exchanges while retaining his natural attacking flair that makes him so effective in the All Blacks' up-tempo offence.
5. Sam Whitelock (New Zealand) - Whitelock took his international form in the second half of last year and ramped it up another two notches. Brilliant in all areas of second row play, the most significant improvement was his increased confidence in attacking on opposition ball at the lineout, at times showing a Victor Matfield-like ability to read-and-react.
4. Eben Etzebeth (South Africa) - tough, raw boned, uncompromising, unrelenting from first whistle to last, this bloke also wins his own lineout ball while make life incredibly difficult on opposition ball. The battles between him and Whitelock will be features of All Black/Springbok tests for the next decade.
3. Juan Figallo (Argentina) - never bettered at scrum time in either hemisphere and under-rated around the field, Figallo continues to fly under the radar on the world stage due largely to the Pumas' inability to deliver on their collective promise.
2. Bismarck du Plessis (South Africa) - he walks a fine line in terms of on-field aggression, but his skill, mobility and combativeness around the field coupled with his technical excellence at scrum and lineouts makes him hands down the best hooker in the game.
1. Tony Woodcock (New Zealand) - people talk about New Zealand being blessed to have two once-in-a-generation talents like McCaw and Carter, but Woodcock should be mentioned as a third. He adjusted much quicker than the other All Black props to the new scrum engagement while continuing to do all the donkey work without fuss and fanfare.
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IN THE CASA AZUL: A Novel of Revolution and Betrayal
A historical footnote—Leon Trotsky's six-week affair with painter Frida Kahlo during his exile in Mexico—blooms into a mesmerizing first novel by Australian writer Delahunt. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union, Trotsky and his wife, Natalia, are welcomed into the Mexico City home of leftist muralist Diego Rivera and his wife, the charismatic Kahlo. Thus begins the short but fervent affair between the Old Man (as Trotsky is called) and the young Kahlo—but Delahunt has a broader plan. She uses their relationship as the jumping-off point for a compendium of brief, urgent scenes offering a guided tour of early communism, from leftist Mexico and 1930s Spain to Stalinist Moscow, with a side trip to Trotsky's Ukrainian childhood. Inevitably, revolutionary politics give way to tragedy: Trotsky and Natalia amid an ever-shrinking circle of admirers in Mexico, their children all dead; Trotsky's father, thrown off his farm by Soviet collectivization; Nadezhda, Stalin's wife, committing suicide. Delahunt's ability to pare grand historical figures down to their all-too-human weaknesses is impressive, and the final glimpse of Stalin is itself worth the price of admission. Having ordered the murder of every competent doctor in Moscow because he can't face his own mortality, he lies on his deathbed, being fed oxygen by a gynecologist. In the end, this novel resembles nothing less than one of Rivera's famous murals—human activity everywhere, each figure burning for attention. (May)
Forecast:In The Casa Azul was a finalist for the U.K.'s prestigious Orange Prize and received strong reviews there. The Frida connection will also help sales, as Julie Taymore's biopic on the artist is due this spring.
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Those of us who are Google shareholders may have suffered a temporary setback with Thursday's unfortunate Google earnings release, but Google's revolutionary new product creates a new kind of pain and inflicts it on the computing world: Microsoft, Apple and for that matter Intel and AMD, simply cannot compete at this point. When the dust settles from Google's earnings release, next week's launch of Windows 8, Apple's new iPad, and much more, what the world will remember five or 10 years from now is the Google laptop. Microsoft and its partners sell products of questionable popularity, priced mostly from $500 to $1,000; Apple is selling laptops starting around $1,000; and Google's beautiful device with some superior specifications comes in at a price lower than even the cheapest iPad. I have spent the last 22 months working a majority of my time on the predecessor devices to this $249 Google laptop, and I got time to work on this latest version this morning. I can say with confidence that it is the best value -- by a mile -- you can get for spending $249 on any kind of technology. You should order as many as you can, and make it the Christmas stocking present of choice, for as many people as you can afford. If you are Microsoft or Apple -- or for that matter Intel or AMD -- you just had to go to the bathroom and feel ill. How on God's green Earth can they respond to this bombshell by Google? At the time of publication, the author was long GOOG and AAPL, and short MSFT, AMZN and AMD. Follow @antonwahlman This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.
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Genomes and Genes
G Pan
Affiliation: Genentech Inc
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Forced expression of murine IL-17E induces growth retardation, jaundice, a Th2-biased response, and multiorgan inflammation in miceG Pan
Department of Molecular Oncology, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
J Immunol 167:6559-67. 2001..Taken together, these findings suggest that IL-17E is a unique pleiotropic cytokine and may be an important mediator of inflammatory and immune responses...
- Identification and functional characterization of DR6, a novel death domain-containing TNF receptorG Pan
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
FEBS Lett 431:351-6. 1998..DR6 interacts with TRADD, which has previously been shown to associate with TNFR1. Furthermore, ectopic expression of DR6 in mammalian cells induces apoptosis and activation of both NF-kappaB and JNK...
- IL-1H, an interleukin 1-related protein that binds IL-18 receptor/IL-1RrpG Pan
Department of Endocrinology, Genentech, Inc, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA, 94080, USA
Cytokine 13:1-7. 2001..These findings suggest that IL-1H may be another ligand for the IL-18 receptor and a new player in the inflammatory and immune responses mediated by the IL-18/IL-18R axis...
- Characterization of novel UCP5/BMCP1 isoforms and differential regulation of UCP4 and UCP5 expression through dietary or temperature manipulationX X Yu
Departments of Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, and Bioassay and Bioimage, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
FASEB J 14:1611-8. 2000..These findings are consistent with the notion that UCP4 and UCP5 may be involved in tissue-specific thermoregulation and metabolic changes associated with nutritional status...
- Overexpression of the human 2-oxoglutarate carrier lowers mitochondrial membrane potential in HEK-293 cells: contrast with the unique cold-induced mitochondrial carrier CGI-69X X Yu
Department of Endocrinology, Genentech, Inc, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
Biochem J 353:369-75. 2001....
- TRUNDD, a new member of the TRAIL receptor family that antagonizes TRAIL signallingG Pan
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
FEBS Lett 424:41-5. 1998..Consistent with an inhibitory role, ectopic expression of TRUNDD attenuated TRAIL-induced apoptosis in mammalian cells...
- Caspase-9, Bcl-XL, and Apaf-1 form a ternary complexG Pan
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
J Biol Chem 273:5841-5. 1998..Consistent with a central role for caspase-9, a dominant negative form effectively inhibited cell death initiated by a wide variety of inducers...
- An antagonist decoy receptor and a death domain-containing receptor for TRAILG Pan
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
Science 277:815-8. 1997..Another death domain-containing receptor for TRAIL (designated as death receptor-5), which preferentially engaged a FLICE (caspase-8)-related death protease, was also identified...
- IL-17s adopt a cystine knot fold: structure and activity of a novel cytokine, IL-17F, and implications for receptor bindingS G Hymowitz
Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, Inc, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
EMBO J 20:5332-41. 2001..Remarkably, this cavity is located in precisely the same position where nerve growth factor binds its high affinity receptor, TrkA, suggesting further parallels between IL-17s and neurotrophins with respect to receptor recognition...
- Perspectives on the biology of uncoupling protein (UCP) homologuesS H Adams
Department of Endocrinology, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
Biochem Soc Trans 29:798-802. 2001....
- Requirement of calmodulin binding by HIV-1 gp160 for enhanced FAS-mediated apoptosisK J Micoli
Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Biol Chem 275:1233-40. 2000..The data indicate that gp160-enhanced apoptosis is dependent upon calmodulin up-regulation, involves the activation of caspase 3, and requires calmodulin binding to the C-terminal binding domain of gp160...
- UCP4, a novel brain-specific mitochondrial protein that reduces membrane potential in mammalian cellsW Mao
Department of Endocrinology, Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
FEBS Lett 443:326-30. 1999..These findings suggest that UCP4 may be involved in thermoregulatory heat production and metabolism in the brain...
- The receptor for the cytotoxic ligand TRAILG Pan
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Science 276:111-3. 1997..Thus, the DR4-TRAIL axis defines another receptor-ligand pair involved in regulating cell suicide and tissue homeostasis...
- Knock-out of the neural death effector domain protein PEA-15 demonstrates that its expression protects astrocytes from TNFalpha-induced apoptosisD Kitsberg
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosci 19:8244-51. 1999..After generation of PEA-15 null mutant mice, our results demonstrate that PEA-15 expression increases astrocyte survival after exposure to TNF...
- TRAIL (Apo-2L) and TRAIL receptors in human placentas: implications for immune privilegeT A Phillips
Departments ofAnatomy and Cell Biology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
J Immunol 162:6053-9. 1999..Collectively, the results are consistent with a role for the TRAIL/TRAIL-R system in the establishment of placental immune privilege...
- FCP1, the RAP74-interacting subunit of a human protein phosphatase that dephosphorylates the carboxyl-terminal domain of RNA polymerase IIOJ Archambault
Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1L6
J Biol Chem 273:27593-601. 1998..FCP1 is also a stoichiometric component of a human RNA polymerase II holoenzyme complex...
- Interaction of elongation factors TFIIS and elongin A with a human RNA polymerase II holoenzyme capable of promoter-specific initiation and responsive to transcriptional activatorsG Pan
Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L6, Canada
J Biol Chem 272:24563-71. 1997..The transcriptional activators GAL4-VP16 and GAL4-Sp1 activated transcription in vitro by purified holoenzyme in the absence of any additional factors...
- The C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II couples mRNA processing to transcriptionS McCracken
Amgen Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nature 385:357-61. 1997....
- Characterization of the interaction between the acidic activation domain of VP16 and the RNA polymerase II initiation factor TFIIBR Gupta
Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 24:2324-30. 1996..Taken together our results suggest more evidence is needed to support the notion that TFIIB is a functionally important target for the activator VP16...


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Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes: > I'm afraid we have to mke it larger, rather than smaller for 8.3. For > example 0x82f5 in SHIFT_JIS_2004 (new in 8.3) becomes *pair* of 3 > bytes UTF_8 (0x00e3818b and 0x00e3829a). See > util/mb/Unicode/shift_jis_2004_to_utf8_combined.map for more details. > So the worst case is now 6, rather than 3. Yipes. > Can we add a column to pg_conversion which represents the "growth > rate"? This would reduce the rate for most encodings much smaller than > 6. We need to do something, but the pg_conversion catalog seems a bad place to put the info --- don't we have places that need to be able to do conversion without catalog access? Perhaps better would be to redefine the API for the conversion functions so that they palloc their own result space. Then each conversion function would have to know the maximum growth rate for its particular conversion. This change would also make it feasible for a conversion function to prescan the data and determine an exact output size, if that seemed worthwhile because the potential growth rate was too extreme. regards, tom lane
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Reel Reviews: 'Heaven is for Real' will make you think
Heaven is for Real is based on the bestselling book of the same name.
It is the true story of Rev. Todd Burpo who has his faith tested like never before, when his four year old gets ill, has a near death experience and upon healing, begins telling stories about his experiences in Heaven.
Young Colton describes meeting Jesus, relatives that have passed away, and even gains knowledge that he seemingly shouldn't know, thus providing enough proof for his stories to be considered true.
We say, "It's a bit cloudy."
HOWE: I am not a religious person but found the story interesting, just like some of the tales in the Bible or stories of alien abductions. If the story is strong enough it can be about any subject matter that holds my attention, that can entertain me or forces me to ask questions after watching it.
Heaven is for Real does that job, and does it very well. Similar to the Five People You Meet in Heaven, this isn't a blockbuster with special effects or a huge budget movie. It is a great film with some good acting that will make you think. If you're not bothered about watching the webslinger or fed up with blue parrots talking, I would recommend this, faith or no faith.
TAYLOR: I think I disagree. Religious folks are going to relate to this film more than non-religious folks. It's not that faith is a prerequisite to enjoying the story, but rather this film is an examination of the boundaries of faith. As such, audiences can look at the events depicted in the film as either a religious or purely psychological experience and perhaps the two aren't mutually exclusive. However, the faithless are less likely to experience the joy of the story once it is realized as a tale of environment and imagination, rather than a tale of wonder. Essentially, Heaven is for Real is not about a little boy who goes to Heaven, but rather about the people who have to organize their personal judgement of Colton's tale. The characters in the film, like the audience, must examine the more dichotomous facets of faith, summed up well by Rev. Burpo's wife in reference to her husband's congregation: "Half of them want to stop feeling and start thinking, the other half want to do the opposite."
The film itself is quite objective. It leaves it up to you to decide what you believe and I like that. Having said that, Colton's story could have been a lot more interesting if he was not the son of a reverend. No one is surprised when the son of a psychic turns out to also be psychic. No one minds if the film about an alien abduction claims to be based on a true story. I'm not saying I don't believe. I want to believe, but the film provides no real reason to believe. Still, let's everyone remember where Hollywood movies come from and why.
HOWE: But I guess the real mystery to the movie is David Copperfield's appearance.
– Taylor gives Heaven is for Real 2 out of body experiences out of 5.
– Howe gives it 3 carpets out of 5.
– Brian Taylor and Peter Howe are film reviewers based in Vernon, B.C. Their column runs in The Morning Star every Friday and Sunday


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"Sleepy Hollow" ends what has been a thrilling first season of watching Tom Mison's Ichabod Crane and Nicole Beharie's Lt. Abbie Mills battle demons, a headless horseman, and various other supernatural creatures in order to keep the apocalypse at bay.
And, Executive Producer Len Wiseman, has promised not just big twists and big surprises in Monday night's Season 1 finale on Fox.
As things stood in at the end of the Season 1 penultimate episode, Ichabod and Abbie had discovered a message George Washington had written in his Bible – one that was dated after his death. And, the trailer for the finale seemed to hint that America's first president is about to come back to life.
When AccessHollywood.com spoke with Wiseman at Fox's Television Critics Association post-session soiree, he shared some intriguing details about what is heading to "Sleepy Hollow." And, he revealed some unique facts about the roles of Ichabod and Abbie that just might surprise you.
WATCH: Nicole Beharie & Katia Winter Share Their Favorite Season 1 Ichabod Crane Moments
AccessHollywood.com: Is George coming back?
Len Wiseman: Well, one of the things we found, actually, when we were doing the pilot early on… we found out this fact that he was buried at Mt. Vernon and then, I think it was about… either three weeks or three months later, his gravesite was moved about 30 yards to a different location and [Washington was] buried again. So there's reports of these different times that he was buried, which, of course, just with our conspiracy theory and everything that works within our mythology, something evil is happening there.
WATCH: Nicole Beharie & Katia Winter Hint At Season 1 Finale Trouble With Moloch
Access: So could George Washington be involved in the [final Season 1] storyline?
Wiseman: George could be involved in the Mason storyline in a way that perhaps George Washington didn't actually die when he said he did because he needed to send one more warning to the Masons, to the overall war.
Access: How safe are our heroes in the season finale, including the one with the neck issue [Andy, played by John Cho]?
Wiseman: Everybody is on a very precarious position with the episode. It's one of the things that I really enjoyed about [the show]. From the get-go, you never know who's gonna die, who's gonna turn bad, and the finale has a lot of that. I'm actually very proud to say it has twists and turns that I don't think people are really going to be suspecting, which is always what you try to get out of the story. But, it's a lot fun and nobody is safe.
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Access: Will you leave us with a huge cliffhanger, where we will have to wait until the fall to find out what's next?
Wiseman: We very annoyingly leave you on an immense cliffhanger, a terrifying cliffhanger that you'll just have to wait and see. But imagine if we didn't. That would be terrible.
Access: How happy are you that you found Tom and Nicole for Ichabod and Abbie? They are wonderful.
Wiseman: Aren't they fantastic? They have such a great mix in terms of how much they respect each other, but also are kind of annoyed by each other. … We love writing for them.
Access: Do you feel lucky that you have them on this show and they're not out there doing films right now?
Wiseman: God, yes. Absolutely, and I think we really scored. … The part changed quite a bit during the process. Abbie was never written as an African-American and Crane was never written as a British Crane. … It's been such a gift really with the two of them, they work really well together and we couldn't ask for more.
"Sleepy Hollow's" Season 1 finale begins tonight at 8/7c on Fox.
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I'm torn on this one, people. While I'm a huge fan of Pierre Morel's cinematic output, I'm not exactly what you'd call the biggest John Travolta supporter on the planet. In my humble opinion, the guy's strictly hit-or-miss, with very little gray area in-between. That being said, the trailer for Morel's upcoming actioner "From Paris with Love" looks moderately intriguing, though I'm still a little apprehensive about the whole thing. Watching Travolta play a tough guy in 2009's "The Taking of Pelham 123" was different, to say the very least, but I don't feel he really has what it takes to make these roles 100% believable. Maybe this particular action-packed outing will prove me wrong. Maybe Travolta will knock it right out of the proverbial park. Then again, we might have another "Broken Arrow" on our hands. Yikes.
Here's a nifty synopsis to bring you up to speed:
A personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. All James wants is to become a bona fide agent and see some real action. So when he's offered his first senior-level assignment, he can't believe his good luck – until he meets his new partner, special agent Charlie Wax (John Travolta).
A trigger-happy, wisecracking, loose cannon who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack, Wax leads James on a white-knuckle shooting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job. But when James discovers he's a target of the same crime ring they're trying to bust, he realizes there's no turning back…and that Wax himself might be his only hope for making it through the next forty-eight hours alive.
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|Trad, 2 pitches, 200'
|YDS: 5.7 French: 5a Ewbanks: 15 UIAA: V+ ZA: 13 British: MVS 4b [details]
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By Curtveld
Feb 14, 2014
|THE moderate classic on Erie! First and third pitches are some of the best easy trad pitches around. Middle slabby pitch is not hard but has limited pro. Agree that Undercover corner to left is better climbing and gets you to the same spot.
By J Sundstrom
From: San Diego, CA
Jul 18, 2015
|Rapped from the P3 anchors to the anchors for Frogs in Space or Pinhead. With a 60, you will BARELY... actually, you won't make it without some sketchy down climbing. Unless you're heavy. With a 70 it wouldn't be a problem. FYI.
By Kemper Brightman
From: Tucson
Jul 18, 2016
A good route with a great view and enjoyable climbing. Not to be missed. IMO the best way to do this route is in two pitches. First pitch heads up a corner then a hand traverse along a rail deposits you at a set of chains on the slab. There should be a set of chains to your right. From the left hand set of chains follow a couple bolts up to the crack feature, then head right and follow the feature all the way around to pull onto the ledge above. Two raps with a 70m from this ledge (with the fallen tree) gets you to the ground.
If you choose to do it the way its originally described, I found a couple #1 and #2 c3's were helpful to adequately protect the slab on the 2nd pitch.
By Scott Brown
From: Bellingham
Aug 11, 2016
|Climbed this route two weeks ago and the flake(the "hand traverse" leading to the slab) at the top of the first pitch actually moved a bit. there looked to be a thin crack at the bottom.. it would be a fairly hefty rock to drop onto your belayer... although there is a bit of a variation just to the right that was much more solid.
By Kyle Elliott
From: Everett, WA
Jan 3, 2017
|There's a fixed cam about 8' up, that appeared some time in the last few months.
By Collin.CO
Jun 29, 2017
|how did that cam even get there? the direction of force is up. Also, there is a nut on pitch 2 that looks easy enough to get out.


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|6 Speed
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|130.00 mm
|Kerb/Wet Weight
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|Front Brake
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Aprilia RSV4 Factory Review
Aprilia RSV4 Factory is an advanced version of the standard RSV4, an acclaimed super bike from Aprilia. This bike introduces you to the new world of racing bikes. Let's try to know more about this bike.
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The bike remains unchanged in this department. The orange colored LCD can also be seen in this bike which displays its displays its digital speedometer, odometer, lap timer, 2-trip meter and fuel gauge. The left circular dial houses its Tachometer. Aprilia has also placed all essential LED indicators in this bike. The bike also features switch for its adjustable ABS.
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Aprilia has placed a V4 cylinder, 4-stroke 999.6cc engine in RSV4 Factory similar to its younger sibling. This liquid-cooled engine produces a power output of 180 bhp at 12250 rpm. The maximum torque production of this 16 valves engine is of 115 Nm which arrives at 10000 rpm. This engine is mated with a six-speed manual gearbox with one gear down and five gears up-shift pattern.
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Right now, students and workers are converging on the headquarters of VF Corporation — parent company of North Face, JanSport, and Vans — in Greensboro, NC. After two days of meeting with community members and students in Greensboro, we're holding what is the first of many demonstrations to come at the company's headquarters.
It's become clear that the VF Corporation is an active opponent of real change in the Bangladeshi garment industry. At every turn, the company opposed and sought to undermine the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, a legally-binding contract between unions and brands designed to end deathtraps, promising greater protection for workers and a voice for unions in addressing deadly working conditions.
We're here at the headquarters of VF Corporation to deliver a very simple message on behalf of students across the country and workers across Bangladesh: we won't stop until we win.
Can we count on your support? Sign our warning letter to VF Corporation using the form to the left and let them know that you stand with us, and you won't back down either.
Our time in Greensboro, North Carolina has been nothing short of incredible. We've spoken with faith leaders — firebrand organizers who stood on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement — who have pledged their support for Bangladeshi garment workers in their fight for justice, and student leaders who were outraged that a business in their community could compromise the sanctity of human life to turn a profit.
Not only is VF Corporation on trial in the Greensboro community, the company is also becoming an outcast in the world of college-logo apparel, and we won't be sorry to see them go. 10 universities have already required their brands to sign the Bangladeshi Safety Accord, and more are on the verge of joining them.
Stand with Bangladeshi workers and send a message to VF Corporation that you won't let the company play games with workers' lives.


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The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, & Energy Law will be hosting its annual Energy Law Career Panel featuring attorneys working in various roles within the energy industry discussing careers in energy law, in addition to answering students' questions. This is a great networking opportunity for anyone interested in the industry, particularly 1Ls who are considering summer employment in the energy sector. Panelists include Bill Kroger '89, Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P.; Creighton Smith '97, Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP; Austin Lee '09, Associate, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP; David Leonard '11, Associate, Looper Reed & McGraw P.C.; Amy Maxwell '07, Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel to Railroad Commissioner David Porter; Cynthia Redwine '07, Principal, Clean Power Professionals, LLC; and Brandon Seale '08, Principal, Zaragoza Resources. Moderated by Brock Naeve, 3L, Editor-in-Chief of TJOGEL. Co-sponsored by the Career Services Office. RSVP by Wednesday, November 7, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.
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Boingo: iPad Now Second Most-Popular Device
Boingo identifies "connected" as any device that has associated with a Boingo SSID, received an IP address and loaded its sales portal while in the Boingo venue. Venues for Boingo's service include 58 airports, several sporting arenas and convention centers, as well as Washington State ferries.
The leading device is still the iPhone, which accounts for nearly 90 percent of all non-laptop connections in Boingo-serviced airports. The iPad accounts for 5.4 percent of connections.
Boingo's findings somewhat differ from a Monday report from comScore, which found that RIM and its BlackBerry platform represented the top platform for smartphone subscribers in the U.S., with 42.1 percent of the market for February, up 1.3 percent from January. Apple, with its iPhone and other devices, represented 25.4 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point and second in comScore's ranking.
Additional reporting by Mark Hachman.
A version of this story was originally posted to the PCMag.com Business Technology Solutions.


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Chef Marcie Turney, Barbuzzo, Bindi and Lolita, Center City
Ingredients she's most looking forward to: Rainier cherries. Turney is having Casey Spacht of Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op grow a number of special items for her, including baby fava beans, heirloom tomatoes, Purple Dragon carrots and Crystal Apple cucumbers. How she'll use Rainier cherries and baby fava pods: "We use the cherries in Lolita's margarita mix, in Bindi's cherry chutney for our pork vindaloo, and in Barbuzzo's very popular whipped sheep's milk ricotta with olive oil, herbs and vin-cotto-marinated cherries. The baby fava beans are so tender, you eat the whole pod! We'll roast them in the wood oven with olive oil, garlic, San Marzano tomatoes, pickled Calabrian chilies and pecorino cheese."
Favorite market: Headhouse. "Each year as soon as it opens, I make Sunday trips with my sous-chefs. We walk through and see what the farmers have that week and then get tacos and sit on the steps and talk about ideas for the restaurants."
Italian Lemonade with Rainier Cherries
Serves 4
In a pitcher, mix ½ c. EACH simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water boiled until sugar is dissolved, then cooled) and fresh lemon juice. Add 1 1/2 c. water, ½ c. vodka and 1/2 c. Rainier cherries, halved and pitted. Stir and pour into glasses filled with ice. Top with prosecco.


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A prominent B.C. business group has launched an aggressive attack-ad campaign against NDP Leader Adrian Dix while Premier Christy Clark decides on when to call by-elections in Port Moody-Coquitlam and Chilliwack-Hope.
Once the writs are issued, political advertisements will be tightly controlled by provincial law. Third parties must be registered with Elections BC and their spending is limited to $3,000. But before the by-elections are called, special-interest groups can spend whatever they like on advertising.
The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association began a 30-second ad campaign on radio about 10 days ago and "upped the buy" this week to include more radio stations and more frequent broadcasts, association president Philip Hochstein said Monday in an interview. Seven radio stations are now broadcasting the ads.
The group will spend "less than $100,000" on the campaign, Mr. Hochstein said. The cost of the campaign will depend on how long the group can run the ads. "When the by-election is called, all rules change. So we'll stop whenever a by-election is called," he said.
Ms. Clark has to call a by-election in Port Moody-Coquitlam on or before April 7. The constituency has been without representation in the legislature since Liberal MLA Iain Black resigned almost six months ago. The Chilliwack-Hope by-election must be called on or before July 30. Liberal MLA Barry Penner resigned in January. The vote is held 28 days after the writ is issued.
During the election, candidates are limited to spending $70,000 and registered political parties can spend an additional $70,000.
Although the B.C. Liberals currently hold both Port Moody-Coquitlam and Chilliwack-Hope, observers have said the Liberals face serious challenges to retain the seats.
The radio ad says Mr. Dix, who was chief of staff in the late 1990s to former premier Glen Clark, was fired after forging a memo to cover for his boss amid a casino kickback scandal. Although he was fired, he still received a $70,000 severance package.
"If that is what Dix did when he worked for the premier, imagine what he will do if he is the premier. Adrian Dix, he can forge a memo but not the truth about his record," the ad says.
Mr. Hochstein said the attack ads were not co-ordinated with the Liberals. "It's our own gig," he said, adding that the association routinely becomes involved in public issues and political campaigns.
The ads are not targeted specifically to help the Liberals, he added. "I think we are helping the free enterprise side. … We are not saying vote for Liberals."
Attacking Mr. Dix was "fair game," Mr. Hochstein said. The episode was "a defining moment" for Mr. Dix and so it is legitimate to question whether his response reflected a fundamental flaw in character.
Although not mentioned in the ads, the association believes the former NDP government hurt small businesses by requiring public-sector contractors to be unionized and by taking away an employee's right to a secret ballot during certification, he said. "For the construction industry, we need a growing vibrant economy, not a growing, vibrant public sector," he said.
NDP critic Shane Simpson said the highly personal attacks in the ads, without referring to NDP policies or public issues, were unprecedented in B.C. "We've never seen anything quite like this. These ones get particularly deep in the gutter," he said. "They attack something that happened over 13 years ago, that Mr. Dix has accepted full responsibility and apologized for, and gone to the electorate a couple of times pretty successfully," he said.
Mr. Simpson said he does not believe the ads would resonate with voters. "They are so crass, so over the top, so distasteful, I think more voters will reject them outright, and react negatively to people who are responsible for them," he said.


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VVV-Venlo retain Eredivisie status
Danny Holla was the hero for VVV-Venlo once more as they retained their Eredivisie status following a hard-fought draw in the second leg of their play-off against Helmond Sport.
Holla scored the winner in the first leg on Thursday and he scored a brace on Sunday, including a second-half penalty to help the hosts retain their place in the top flight against a Helmond side who were hoping to earn promotion.
He broke the deadlock before strikes from Sebastian Stachnik and Zarko Grabovac gave the visitors a 2-1 lead and levelled the tie after just 14 minutes, but Holla's spot-kick midway through the second half handed VVV the initiative again and they held on to the relief of the home fans.
They headed into the clash in positive mood having claimed a 2-1 win in Helmond, and Holla was on-target in the sixth minute as VVV went two goals to the good on aggregate.
Wildschut picked out the 24-year-old Holla and he hammered the ball past Helmond goalkeeper Bjorn Sengier from 22 yards.
Spurred into action, Helmond responded three minutes later with Stachnik heading home from Jop van der Linden's free-kick, and VVV were exposed from a set-piece once more as Zarko Grabovac headed past Dennis Gentenaar from Van der Linden's corner.
Following a frantic opening, the tie settled down somewhat although VVV winger Frank Berghuis forced Sengier to make a fine save.
Eight minutes after the interval, Grabovac had a fantastic opportunity after going through on goal but his touch was poor and Gentenaar was just able to gather the ball.
VVV were looking nervous but in a rare attack, they earned a penalty in the 68th minute when Wildschut was hauled down in the area by Philipp Haastrup.
Holla stepped up and coolly drove the ball down the middle of the goal to ensure the hosts took an aggregate lead again. To no surprise, VVV then set out to protect their narrow advantage and although they looked edgy on occasions, they managed to repel Helmond's attackers.
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EADS is going global, but not leaving its European roots behind. That message from the company's management team reverberated this week as it forges ahead with restructuring efforts in a difficult economic climate.
"Currently EADS is mainly perceived in terms of changes," said company CEO Louis Gallois. "We are moving fast; in one year we have completely changed the corporate governance of the company–the board is no longer a Franco-German joint venture. there are clear reporting lines and transparency, which is completely new."
The company has now begun defining its "Vision 2020" strategy, said Gallois, "to become more international with a more balanced portfolio. By the end of July every division of EADS will have defined its own Vision 2020, creating global alignment." That will both reduce risk and act as a "natural hedge" against currency fluctuations, he added.
According to EADS chief financial officer Hans Peter Ring, "As the result of our hard work we have an e8 billion [$12.75 billion] surplus cash position and e3 billion [$4.8 billion] in unsecured credit lines to provide a cushion for challenges…[and] a huge hedge book of e55 billion [$87.7 billion]. EADS EBIT [earnings before interest and tax] was almost e1 billion [$1.6 billion] in 2007." Ring added that there was "robust underlying EBIT of e1.7 billion [$2.7 billion] despite [provisions for] high R&D spending, the dollar impact, one-off charges and A380 losses."
Airbus stands at the center of the restructuring drive, not least because it is being propped up financially by the rest of the group. But "significant" overbooking of sales (mostly for slots beyond 2009) has helped, said Ring. "The overbooking policy was a wise decision and allows us to manage through the cycle. Airbus has a 'customer watch list' but we don't expect it to get any bigger."
Gallois said that Power 8 now goes beyond Airbus and the $2.1 billion annual savings by 2010, to cover the whole company in what it has dubbed "Power 8 Plus." but the additional savings target will probably not be announced until the end of the year and will take into account the further weakened dollar.
"Airbus integration is on track even if some people try to keep it an inefficient transnational organization," he said. "Airbus Power 8 is leading to complete industrial reorganization, and is on track and delivering savings…We are in the final process of negotiating the sales." Airbus's UK factory at Filton, for example, is being sold to GKN.
"The second part of our plan will be reinforcing outsourcing outside Europe–we are a bit late," said Gallois. "Safran has 3,800 people in Mexico and 2,500 in Morocco…I think they are showing the way for us. We're not leaving Europe but have to extend our footprint to balance risk and cost."
Airbus CEO Tom Enders said that integration, internationalization, innovation and empowerment of people formed the cornerstone of Airbus's strategy. "Airbus is on the way to internationalizing its production and sourcing," Enders said, although he also faces shorter-term challenges such as the A380 delays. "Customer delays are not all concluded. It's a challenging plan. We're fighting and struggling but we know our aircraft."
The U.S. stands central to EADS's globalization plans. "It is strategic to be there because the U.S. dollar is low, and we want to reduce the share of commercial aircraft platforms to 50 percent from 60 to 65 percent, and this will be done through acquisitions," said Gallois. "We want to imitate Boeing on that point–and need it because we are taking a big risk on a single product in Airbus, as it is capital intensive and there's the dollar risk. But with Airbus growth impressive it will be difficult."
EADS North America CEO John Young added, "We intend to acquire to grow, and we just can't ignore the U.S. defense market. About 70 cents in every U.S. defense dollar is spent on services, he said, as if hinting that EADS had already made progress securing a U.S. acquisition target. Marwan Lahoud, chief strategy and marketing officer, reinforced that impression. "A possible [new] U.S. acquisition we are looking at is in defense, security, systems or services. The suspect operates in one of these fields."


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The Doctor, Amy and some of the most iconic monsters of TV's Doctor Who make the journey from TV to home computers in this free downloadable computer adventure. Players assume control of the Doctor and Amy as they embark on new adventures which complement the new TV series. Stories and scripts for this game series are by Phil Ford (co-writer Doctor Who 'Waters of Mars') and James Moran (Severance, Torchwood Children of Earth). Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have been digitally recreated in-game, and have provided full voice-overs. Music has been provided by TV series' composer Murray Gold. An additional cast will portray original characters and classic enemies.
Broken up into four unique episodes, these original stories will take players on a journey throughout time and space, including one location from the Doctor Who series which has never been seen before on screen. Players will encounter new and original monsters, in stories which form part of the overall Doctor Who canon.
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As "A Prairie Home Companion" marks 40 years on the air, Jeffrey Brown sits down with iconic public radio personality Garrison Keillor for an in-depth interview about his long career as one of the nation's great storytellers. Continue reading
A three-day anniversary event kicked off Friday at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where Garrison Keillor first broadcast "A Prairie Home Companion" on July 6, 1974. Back then, there were about 12 people in the audience. Today the show is broadcast on more than 600 public-radio stations to four million listeners. Continue reading


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With temperatures dropping below 20 degrees during Temple University's first week of classes, it may seem difficult to display your personal style. I noticed this week's Fashionista by just that ability. From her Timberland boots to her makeup, this Fashionista channels a tomboy-chic look. Many female stars, such as Rihanna or Amber Rose, are channeling their inner masculinity and power by rocking Timberland boots, and looking quite fabulous doing so. What makes this Fashionista unique is how she embraces this grunge style and stays so classy and beautiful in freezing cold temperatures.
Name: Vanessa Edwards
Major: Media Studies & Production
Year: Sophomore
College Fashionista: What are you wearing and where did you get it from?
Vanessa Edwards: Most of what I'm wearing came from Salvation Army honestly — my jacket and pants are from there. My hoodie is my friends brand 8Fold Limited and my beanie is Cult Classic Goods, also good friends of mine. Then there's my [Timberlands].
CF: What is one fashion item you cannot live without?
VE: The Beanie. I literally sleep with a beanie on sometimes. Maybe my [Timberlands] too… It's a toss up.
CF: How do you add personality to everyday wardrobe?
VE: It's all about the details. People notice little things like how you do your nails, what kind of jewelry you have on, your shoes, makeup, all of that. I like to switch things up, and do them in a way most people wouldn't.
CF: What's your best tip for staying stylish while on a college budget?
VE: THRIFT, THRIFT, THRIFT! I don't buy anything that's more than five dollars unless they're shoes or I'm supporting a homie's brand. Even then, I get most of the stuff for free.
How To: To create this Fashionista's look try rocking a pair Timberland boots with military inspired cargo pants from Urban Outfitters. Next, add an oversized jacket and a beanie. Also, be sure to check out Philadelphia's own 8Fold Limited and Cult Classic Goods for unique custom designs.


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Multi-core Goes to the Movies, Or Who Brought the Popcorn?
The boss wanted me to report on the goings on at the Intel Developer Forum. I wanted to take the afternoon off and go to a movie. By the end of the day, however, we were both happy (as happy as the boss can be anyway). How did this happen? Knowing it couldn't possibly take 3,000 developers across the street to the Loews Metreon theatre, Intel brought the theatre to the developers.Guest hosting the event was Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO and Director of DreamWorks Animation, the movie studio that produced Shrek, Chicken Run, and Madagascar, among other feature-length animated films. What brought Katzenberg to a technology conference was nothing less than what he called the "biggest innovation in movies in 70 years"--multi-core processors and parallelization. Recall that Intel and DreamWorks announced a relationship in July, whereby Intel provides DreamWorks with advanced multi-core processors and tools not available to the rest of us, while DreamWorks is converting its tools and infrastructure for 3D film creation to Intel-based systems. Rolled up together, all of this is referred to as InTru 3D.
Katzenberg noted that sound was the first major innovation to film making, followed by color, both of which delivered a better film experience for viewers. InTru 3D, however, is something different altogether, offering viewers an immersive experience.
DreamWorks is so serious about InTru 3D technology that in 2009, every DreamWorks movie will be 3D enabled. But "this isn't your father's 3D" Katzenberg said. Forget about those cardboard "glasses" with the red and blue lens. Intel passed to everyone polarized glasses. And what did we see?
Katzenberg first showed a "3D retrofitted" clip from Kung Fu Panda, a movie not originally designed for 3D. When the rocks started rolling down the mountain, I flinched. But things got really interesting when Katzenberg debuted a clip from the yet-to-be released (due out March 2009) movie Monster vs. Aliens. I was sitting in the back of the hall, and can't imagine how those folks in the front row could stand it. It was really good.
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I am not surprised that Google has taken this decision. But I didn't expect the little message I had on the top of the screen when I logged in to my gmail account. It simply said that Google buzz would disappear within the next weeks and that I could download my conversations.
I guess Twitter is too much twitter, even for Google
Buzz has been integrated with Google+ and I read yesterday that you can now create a Google+ "page", then you can pay Google to runs ads about your "page" on other users "profile pages" based on their "likes" and the "topics" they discuss or even the "web pages they visit". All very similar to another site, oh what's it called... Facebook.
Ya, I was not surprised buzz is going to close.
thats a good decision.it makes no sense having their own products compete with each other.
Sorry for the late reply.
It definitely is a good decision because it simply did not attrack much attention. As RetroNetro said, it has been somehow added to and integrated into Google+.
Yet, Google+ is a facebook like whereas Google Buzz was a Twitter clone. And the public that visits FB is quite different from the people that likes Twitter.
Google+ did really create a bit buzz but... let's see if it can compete with FB


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A 2010 study (via Whole Health Source) compared a Paleo diet with a Mediterranean diet. For twelve weeks, twenty-nine volunteers could eat as much as they wanted, whenever they wanted. Half ate Paleo ("lean meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, root vegetables, eggs, and nuts"), half Mediterranean ("whole grains, low-fat dairy products, vegetables, fruit, fish, and oils and margarines").
The main result was that the Paleo food was "more satiating per calorie". The Paleo eaters ate less but no more often than Mediterranean eaters. The paper does not report weight loss. (See an earlier report of the same experiment for that.)
I suspect the Paleo diet was less familiar than the Mediterranean diet (of course I can't be sure from the descriptions). My theory of weight control says familiarity matters: less-familiar food pushes your set point lower than familiar food because its smell-calorie associations are weaker. The smells of less-familiar food is less associated with calories than the smells of more familiar food. With a lower set point, you will need less food to feel full.
If familiarity matters, this causes big problems for clinical studies. It means that short-term results (e.g., after 6 months) may be quite different than long-term results (e.g., after 2 years) — and most clinical trials last about six months. Short term, says my theory, any new food will cause weight loss. Indeed, a wide range of diets that cause dieters to eat new foods, such as the cabbage soup diet, cause short-term weight loss. Over the long term, however, the new foods become familiar and, according to my theory, the set point goes back up as the new smell-calorie associations are learned. Indeed, on most diets there is great long-term weight regain. If familiarity matters, we need data sets lasting a long time (e.g., nine or ten years) to understand weight control. Such data sets allow enough time for the chosen diets to become familiar so that (a) the diets being compared are equal in familiarity and (b) we can see their long-term effects — which may easily be different from their short-term effects.
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Vets back Australian Antibiotic Awareness Week
Scrutiny is growing around the use of antibiotics in companion animals, especially horses and dogs, the Australian Veterinary Association said in announcing its support of Australian Antibiotic Awareness Week.
The association is promoting the important role of veterinarians in responsible use of antibiotics as part of the awareness week, which began yesterday and runs until Sunday.
The chairman of the association's Therapeutics Advisory Committee, Dr Stephen Page, said that while veterinary use of antibiotics in food animals remained at the forefront of the debate on this issue, there was increasing interest in the use of antibiotics in companion animal species, particularly dogs and horses.
"Resistant 'superbugs' are a concern for both human and animal health," Page said.
"But we are fortunate that Australia has one of the most stringent systems in the world for approving antibiotics for use in food animals which means the likelihood of selecting superbugs is minimised.
"Many of the critically important antibiotics for humans are simply not available for use in food animals here," Page said.
"Hygienic food preparation and proper cooking will remove the risk of transfer of susceptible and resistance bacteria from food to people and is an important human health measure.
"Antibiotic-resistant infections in humans can also occur following close physical contact with animals and their environment.
"Farm workers and owners of pets being treated with antibiotics need to pay particular attention to hygiene during and after handling treated animals.
"Our pets and other animals can also acquire resistant bugs from us humans, which is another excellent reason to implement hygienic measures, especially hand washing, around all animals.
"The association has been actively involved in fighting resistance for more than 30 years with the development of guidelines, codes of practice and policies on appropriate use of antibiotics in animals. But the profession recognises that it cannot be complacent and must continuously review its practices and improve them wherever needed," he said.
Antimicrobial resistance was the theme of this year's World Veterinary Day and the association will be joining other human health disciplines to support the first Australian Antibiotic Awareness Week, he said.
Antibiotic Awareness Week is a global initiative encouraging health professionals and the wider community to learn more about antibiotic resistance and the importance of taking medicines appropriately.


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Think (and Build) outside the box with Mike Pekovich
Boxes are fun to make and offer a variety of design possibilities in a small package. A mitered box is a fast and simple way to get started in box making. In this hands-on class with Fine Woodworking Magazine art director, Mike Pekovich, you'll learn how to get accurate mitered corners on the tablesaw and how to get a perfect grain match from face to face. You'll also learn the trick to stress-free glue-ups and how corner keys can add strength and beauty. The class will cover 2 ways to add a lid to a box and how to outfit the interior with dividers for a variety of uses. Each student will come away with a pair of boxes and all the skills necessary to make many more. Mike builds commission furniture in his Ct shop and his exceptional work can be seen at http://www.pekovichwoodworks.com/
Sign up today- this class will surely sell out. Tuition: $275.00 plus materials
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Biologists wearing caveman masks while banding wild crows have found that as much as four years later, the birds loudly scold an individual who approaches them while wearing the mask. The birds ignored the same person wearing a Vice President Dick Cheney mask, which no one had worn while handling the birds. "It's important for the birds to keep track of danger," says John Marzluff, a biologist at the University of Washington who led the study, though he was surprised at how long the crows remembered the threatening mask. Similarly, researchers at France's University of Toulouse have found in tests that honeybees can tell a drawing of one human face from a drawing of another, an ability to recognize patterns that "may allow bees to categorize objects of interest like flowers," says Martin Giurfa, one of the researchers.
Husband-and-wife cicada experts from the University of Connecticut, while studying cicadas in Australia, found a form of predatory behavior that turns mating calls into arias of death. Dave Marshall and Kathy Hill discovered that the spotted katydid, an Australian bush cricket, will respond to the mating calls of male cicadas with a perfect imitation of the female cicada's come-hither signal, composed of simple clicks "made with precise timing in relation to the male cicada's song," Marshall says. When the male cicada zooms in for lovemaking, he finds not the creature he longed for but a much larger, and quite hungry, katydid that ambushes and eats him.
A new study of the great tit, a European songbird, has found that brightly colored males produce the healthiest sperm, making them the better mates. Why? Because the species' yellow breast plumage is colored by chemicals called carotenoids, which are important to a bird's ability to cope with stress. Evolutionary ecologist Fabrice Helfenstein, of Switzerland's University of Bern, found that within five days after he added two extra chicks to the nests of wild great tits, the increased workload caused a greater reduction in sperm activity in paler males than in brighter males. It seems that the carotenoid-laden, brighter males adapt better to hard times. Feathers are grown only during molt, a stressful time for birds that lose flight feathers. Possibly, Helfenstein says, "an individual good at coping with stress during molt is likely to be good at coping with stress anytime."


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West Australian Liberal Premier
The threat follows revelations in The Australian Financial Review that the GST system will remain largely unchanged in 2013 following a review that took more than 18 months.
"I'm just making an observation [that] the support that the federal Liberal Party gets from Western Australia will depend on the GST issue," Mr Barnett said on Tuesday.
"[It's] not only support from within the Liberal party but support from the corporate sector."
The Coalition-led states of Western Australia, Queensland, NSW and Victoria want the GST system changed so payments are made on a per capita basis.
The Gillard government and the Labor states of South Australia and Tasmania support the current "horizontal fiscal equalisation" methodology, which aims to ensure poorer states are not left behind.
The federal opposition has expressed sympathy to the Coalition states' arguments, although a spokesman for shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said "the Coalition had no plans to change the rate nor the base of the GST".
The WA Liberal branch raised $7 million in the year of the 2010 federal election and gave more than any other state to the federal arm.
WA's mining companies and wider business community are also prolific Liberal donors.
Party fundraisers are currently concentrating on the state election to held on March 9.
A change in economic fortunes in WA has meant the state has moved from being a beneficiary of the GST system to a major benefactor.
WA's treasury department has calculated that the resources-rich state will receive 35¢ for every $1 of GST collected within its borders by 2015-16.
Victoria has argued that the distribution system is partly to blame for its loss of $6.1 billion in forecast GST revenue over a four-year period.
The four wealthier states have argued that appropriate funding will drive economic growth and increase the size of the GST pool for everyone.
There is bipartisan support in WA for a per capita system.
WA Opposition treasury spokesman, Labor's Ben Wyatt, said that every Australian would understand the per capita system "as having some fairness".
It is not the first time there has been tension between the WA Liberals and federal arm.
Mr Barnett's unsuccessful bid to become premier in 2005 was partly undermined by the Howard government's refusal to commit federal funds to an ambitious plan to construct a canal from the Kimberley Ranges to meet Perth's water needs.
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The Florida Department of Health, Florida, United States, is investigating a Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak. Ten cases with disease onsets from 23 March to 13 April 2011, presented with gastrointestinal symptoms of diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, cramps, chills, and/or fever, after consuming raw or lightly cooked oysters harvested from Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Symptoms were milder than those during outbreaks of epidemic (serogroup O1 and O139) Vibrio cholerae; no case required rehydration treatment or hospitalisation.
Outbreak report
On Friday 15 April, 2011 the epidemiology team of the Escambia County Health Department (CHD), Florida, United States (US), notified the Florida Department of Health's Food and Waterborne Disease Program (FWDP) of a case of Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139. The man in his early 20s had fallen ill with cramps, fever, watery diarrhoea, and nausea on 12 April after consuming raw oysters on 6 April in a restaurant. The bacterial isolate was sent to the Florida Department of Health's Bureau of Laboratories (BOL) in Jacksonville for typing and toxin testing. The suspect toxin-producing V. cholerae O75 specimen was forwarded to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and confirmed positive on 19 April.
In the US, the intra- and interstate regulation of oysters is performed by state (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Aquaculture (DOACS)) and federal agencies (US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)), respectively. These agencies require the tracking of oysters through tags that note the harvest date and area. Attempts were made to collect the oyster tags but they were unavailable from the restaurant.
On 18 April, Nassau CHD reported two cases in their late 40s and late 20s respectively, who developed a gastrointestinal illness the day after having purchased live shell stock oysters and consuming them steamed on 10 April. Symptoms included nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and chills. One of the patients provided a stool sample that tested positive for toxigenic V. cholerae O75.The other, who had presented with the same symptoms, did not provide samples. This patient was included in our case count as a probable case. The tag for the oysters had been discarded but records at the seafood dealer indicated that they had been harvested from Apalachicola Bay area 1642.
The FWDP was notified of a Louisiana, US V. cholerae non-O1/non-O139 case on Monday 19 April. The case became ill on 9 April after consuming raw oysters at a restaurant in Okaloosa, Florida, on 7 April. Tags for oysters likely eaten by the case were retrieved from the restaurant on Tuesday 20 April. The oysters had been harvested from the Apalachicola Bay area 1642 on 3 and 6 April. The toxin status for that case is still unconfirmed by CDC so this remains a suspected case.
On Wednesday 20 April, the FWDP investigators contacted the Florida DOACS, the agency with oversight over the Florida oyster industry, notifying them of the V. cholerae non-O1/non-O139 cluster investigation.
On 21 April, the FWDP coordinator and investigators issued a state-wide alert to the Florida EpiCom system, a state-wide epidemiology electronic alert system, notifying public health officials of the toxigenic V. cholerae oyster related case investigation. A similar notification was posted nationally on the CDC EpiX notification system, the federal epidemiology alert system, on 28 April.
Ten cases (eight confirmed, one probable, and one suspect) were identified in this outbreak (Figure 1). Seven were Florida residents, the three other cases were from Indiana, Georgia and Louisiana (Figure 2). The cases ranged from 22 to 74 years of age; six of the ten cases were males. Most cases were in good health, with only one reporting to have pre-existing conditions (kidney problems and a coronary artery stent). Cases reported gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea (n=7), vomiting (n=4), diarrhoea (n=9), chills (n= 8), cramps (n=1) and/or fever (n=1) and none required hospitalisation. Dates of exposure ranged from 21 March to 11 April and onset of symptoms occurred between 23 March and 13 April. The average time from exposure to onset of symptoms was 2 days (range: 1 to 6 days). Information gathered during the investigation, which was derived from three sets of oyster tags, implicated one single harvest area in the Apalachicola Bay, Gulf of Mexico, as the source of the contaminated oysters. No additional cases of V. cholerae have been reported since 13 April and no oysters harvested later than 6 April have been implicated in any related illnesses.
Figure 1. Cases of cholera O75 outbreak from oyster consumption, United States, March–April 2011 (n=10)
Figure 2. Geographical distribution by state or county of residence of cholera O75 cases from oyster consumption, and oyster harvesting area, United States, March–April 2011 (n=10)
In response to the outbreak, DOACS conducted an investigation into the implicated oyster harvesting area, Apalachicola Bay area 1642 (Figure 2). The area was closed on 30 April and all dealers and retailers were asked to recall any implicated product still in commerce. The area was reopened to harvesting on 11 May 2011 after DOACS had 15 oyster samples from 10 different sections of the implicated harvest area tested for V. cholerae O75 at the FDA laboratory in Dauphin Island, Louisiana. All samples were negative.
Vibrio spp. bacteria are common in the warm coastal waters of the state of Florida and are also found in local shell fish. Vibrio vulnificus is an important cause of gastrointestinal illness and wound infection in the state, causing 24 cases of illness and six deaths in 2009 [1]. Human illness from native, nontoxigenic non-O1 and non-O139 serogroups of V. cholerae are reported regularly [2] and all Vibrio diseases are notifiable in Florida. However, despite the favourable ecological conditions, and the fact that Florida receives many travellers from cholera endemic countries, toxigenic V. cholerae infections are uncommon. After the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, ten cases of imported V. cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa were confirmed in state residents, with no secondary transmission detected (Ann Schmitz, personal communication, 16 April 2011) [3]. The subsequent heightened awareness of cholera has increased the number of human samples submitted to Florida Department of Health's BOL for V. cholerae testing, with more than 40 isolates having been evaluated since November 2010 [4]. At the same time, the turnaround time for test results has also been improved by adding capacity for the detection of cholera toxin. For V. cholerae testing, isolates or stools from ill persons, which were previously screened by hospital or private laboratories and suspected V. cholerae positive, are referred to the BOL as "suspect V. cholerae". Stools are tested by direct thiosulfate citrate bile sucrose agar (TCBS) and enrichment (alkaline peptone water 35°C incubation for 8 hours and 18 hours), then subculture to TCBS. Suspect colonies are checked biochemically for the matching V. cholerae pattern of reactions and then serology is performed with O1 and O139 antisera. All V. cholerae isolates are also checked for cholera toxin. When isolates do not agglutinate in O1 or O139 antisera but do produce cholera toxin, isolates are referred to CDC and serology for V. cholerae O75 is performed. This process takes from 10 to 14 days.
Discussion and conclusions
Toxigenic V. cholerae infections are highly unusual in Florida. This report describes the first V. cholerae O75 outbreak detected in the state, between 23 March and 13 April 2011. In Florida, the first isolate of toxigenic V. cholerae O75 to be identified was reported in November 2010, and originated from an immunocompromised Florida resident with a history of oyster consumption. Previously, the serogroup had been associated with sporadic cases of gastrointestinal disease after oyster and other seafood consumption in the south-eastern US [5]. Tobin-D'Angelo et al. [5] describe eight cases with a similar diarrhoeal disease to the ones reported here, who were identified in Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina between 2003 and 2007. These sporadic cases differ from the cases in the outbreak in question here. Four of five cases described in detail had underlying health conditions, whereas only one of the cases in this outbreak had underlying conditions. Two of the eight cases were hospitalised in the analysis of the sporadic cases whereas cases associated with this outbreak experienced milder symptoms and did not require hospitalisation. Some of these differences may be explained by the increases in testing, which were also the result of recent concerns of imported cholera from Haiti. Persons displaying gastrointestinal symptoms are more likely to have cholera testing done than in the past. Historically, cases with severe illness may have been more likely tested than those with milder symptoms, resulting mainly in severe cases being reported. These factors may have allowed the current detection of this rare serotype of cholera in a relatively healthy population.
Epidemic cholera is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [6]. Outbreaks generally occur when there are significant deficits in the water sanitation and hygiene infrastructure in the communities, allowing for rapid spread of disease via food and/or water consumption. Gastrointestinal symptoms are generally mild, however about 20% of affected individuals develop acute, severe, dehydrating watery diarrhoea which can be fatal if left untreated. The V. cholerae O75 appears to cause a milder disease than infection with V. cholerae serogroups O1 and O139 and outbreaks in countries with universal access to health care are likely to have limited public health impact. The outbreak reported here is a reminder of the conductive environmental conditions for V. cholerae growth in Florida waters and the importance of maintaining sanitary and food safety practices to avoid future outbreaks.
This is the first recorded outbreak related to V. cholerae O75 and oyster consumption. The identification of the outbreak could be the result of an increase in testing for V. cholerae in human stool isolates, allowing unprecedented detection of a phenomenon that may have recurrently occurred in the past. Alternatively, the outbreak could be due to some change in the environment, acute or longer term, which has allowed this pathogen to establish or emerge in the oyster population. In the wake of this outbreak, there is concern around the oyster harvesting environment and the regulatory agency, DOACS, is continuing to look into incidents that could have influenced the presence or load of this pathogen in the oyster harvest areas.
Florida is a state of international significance given the large numbers of tourist that visit the state annually and this may raise concern internationally. Here we report preliminary results of the investigation to raise awareness among public health professionals worldwide about this rare oyster related V. cholerae outbreak. We will be monitoring for future cases of V. cholerae O75, and will continue our investigation into other factors associated with this outbreak.
The authors of this outbreak report would like to thank the Florida Department of Health's Bureaus of Laboratories and Epidemiology, the epidemiology and environmental health staff of Nassau, Lake, Bay, Escambia, Orange, and Washington County Health Departments, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Division of Aquaculture and the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Flybe has now partnered with Avios, the travel rewards experts, replacing the Rewards4all frequent flyer program. New and existing customers should visit http://www.flybe.com/avios to discover the benefits and sign up to a new way to collect and spend Avios.
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OCEANSIDE -- A wanted parolee was arrested Friday evening after barricading himself in a Woodhaven Drive home for seven hours, police said.
Around 11:40 a.m., officers went to the home where 24-year-old transient William Moore was staying with a relative, Officer Kim Rainwater said. Moore was wanted for parole violations and allegations of spousal abuse, criminal threats, kidnapping and disabling phone lines, Rainwater said.
When Moore refused to come out, officers surrounded the area and spent several hours trying to communicate with him by telephone, she said.
About 5:30 p.m., officers went into the house and started a room-to-room search, Rainwater said.
They found Moore unarmed and hiding in the attic an hour later, she said.
The incident locked down Roosevelt Middle School and Alamosa Park Elementary and may also have affected Empressa Elementary, Rainwater said.
Moore was taken to the Vista jail, she said.