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While in China, Alyssa Teat '11 and Julie Clifford '11 visited the autonomous region of Tibet. Below: Teat poses with a young Tibetan man while his mother waits patiently with the family yak.
Students selected for National Science Foundation research in China
Many people don't think of undergraduate liberal arts universities as strongholds of natural science research.
UNC Asheville senior Biology majors Julie Clifford and Alyssa Teat have done their part to soundly prove them wrong.
Clifford and Teat were among just 10 undergraduate students selected nationwide for a highly competitive National Science Foundation research program in China.
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) is an ongoing collaboration between universities in the United States and Southeast Asia to study the genetics of invasive species (think kudzu) exchanged between the two countries.
Before boarding a plane for Asia, Clifford and Teat underwentn intensive spring semester at the University of Georgia to prepare for the research expedition. They took Mandarin Chinese language and culture classes as well as courses on the genetics of invasive species.
Once they arrived in China, the undergraduate students headed to their home base at Nanjing University in Jiangsu province. From there, Clifford, Teat and the other researchers traveled throughout China for eight weeks collecting samples of invasive plants. They examined the plants' genetic markers, hoping to find ways to stop their explosive growth.
"It was definitely an incredible opportunity," said Teat.
"It was a great experience for international research because things were so different," said Clifford, who stayed in China an additional three weeks to serve as an intern in a medicinal plants genetics lab.
Now that they've returned to UNC Asheville, Clifford and Teat are completing additional undergraduate research projects. Teat is studying physiological and environmental factors that affect ginsenoside production in American ginseng, a plant native to Western North Carolina. Clifford is studying Piriqueta, a subtropical plant native to Florida.
Both are still amazed that they were selected for the PIRE program.
"Not many people have this opportunity, so I am grateful," said Clifford. "Alyssa and I were especially lucky that UNC Asheville's Biology Department is so wonderful that it helped make us serious candidates for a competitive program like this one."
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Police: Man collapses, dies on west Eugene sidewalk
EUGENE, Ore. -- A man collapsed and died on a sidewalk in the Bethel-Danebo neighborhood of Eugene Friday night shortly after walking away from a dispute a few blocks away.
Witnesses told police the man fell to the ground just after 7 p.m. near the intersection of Woodsboro and Phillip Streets.
33-year-old James Earl Jacobsen Jr. died shortly after leaving a dispute at a nearby home, Eugene Police Spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin said.
Lieutenant Sam Kamkar said the call initially sounded like a medical emergency. After fire crews arrived, they reported the man looked like he had been in a fight.
"The officers found the deceased ... several blocks away from where the fight took place, (which was) about a block and a half away on Liberty," Lt. Kamkar said.
The Eugene Police Violent Crimes Unit was called out to investigate the death. Spokeswoman McLaughlin said the medical examiner is still working to find out what caused Jacobsen's death.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Detective Jeff Donaca at 541.682.5193.
This is a developing story, updates will be posted as soon as they are available.

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M Koehl
Country: France
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- The effect of restraint stress on paradoxical sleep is influenced by the circadian cycleM Koehl
Laboratoire de Psychobiologie des Comportements Adaptatifs, INSERM U 259, Universite de Bordeaux II, Domaine de Carreire, rue Camille Saint Saens, 33077 Bordeaux Cedex, France
Brain Res 937:45-50. 2002..This result thus shows that restraint stress could be efficiently used to study the interaction between the circadian and homeostatic components of sleep regulation...
- Exercise-induced promotion of hippocampal cell proliferation requires beta-endorphinM Koehl
Centre de Recherche INSERM U862, Physiopathologie de la Plasticité Neuronale, 146 rue Leo Saignat, 33077 Bordeaux Cedex, France
FASEB J 22:2253-62. 2008..We conclude that beta-endorphin released during running is a key factor for exercise-induced cell proliferation and that a homeostatic balance may regulate the final number of new neurons...
- Sleep in female mice: a strain comparison across the estrous cycleMuriel Koehl
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
Sleep 26:267-72. 2003..The aim of this study was thus to determine sleep patterns in female mice of different inbred strains over the estrous cycle...
- Sleep restriction alters the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to stressP Meerlo
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
J Neuroendocrinol 14:397-402. 2002..Alterations in HPA axis regulation may gradually appear under conditions of long total sleep deprivation but also after repeated sleep curtailment...
- Environmentally induced long-term structural changes: cues for functional orientation and vulnerabilitiesM F Montaron
INSERM U588, Domaine de Carreire, rue Camille Saint Saens, University of Bordeaux II Bordeaux Cedex 33077, France
Neurotox Res 6:571-80. 2004....
- Nicotine-induced locomotor activity is increased by preexposure of rats to prenatal stressM Koehl
Psychobiologie des Comportements Adaptatifs, INSERM U 259, Universite de Bordeaux II, Domaine de Carreire, rue Camille Saint Saens, 33077 Cedex, Bordeaux, France
Brain Res 882:196-200. 2000..This study emphasizes the importance of early environment in the later development of drug-related behavior...
- Sex differences in sleep: the response to sleep deprivation and restraint stress in miceMuriel Koehl
Institute F Magendie, INSERM U588, University of Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
Sleep 29:1224-31. 2006..In this context, we examined sex differences in sleep in the mouse, not only under baseline conditions, but also after sleep deprivation and restraint stress...
- Adult neurogenesis: from precursors to network and physiologyDjoher Nora Abrous
Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Comportements, Institut National de la Sané et de la Recherche Médicale, U588, Universite de Bordeaux, France
Physiol Rev 85:523-69. 2005..This constitutes a necessary step in promoting the development of therapeutic strategies...
- Effects of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) on vigilance states and EEG in micePeter Meerlo
Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Sleep 27:899-904. 2004..In the present study, we examined the effects of GHB on sleep-wake behavior and EEG in mice. In addition, we measured effects of GHB on body temperature and arousal or stress hormones...
- Behavioral characterization of mice lacking histamine H(3) receptorsHiroshi Toyota
Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, San Diego, California 92121, USA
Mol Pharmacol 62:389-97. 2002..These data indicate that the H(3) receptor-deficient mouse represents a valuable model for studying histaminergic regulation of a variety of behaviors and neurotransmitter systems, including dopamine and acetylcholine...
- Spatial relational memory requires hippocampal adult neurogenesisDavid Dupret
INSERM U862, Institut F Magendie, Bordeaux, France
PLoS ONE 3:e1959. 2008..In contrast, less complex forms of spatial knowledge were unaltered. These findings demonstrate that adult-born neurons are necessary for complex forms of hippocampus-mediated learning...


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Kiki Dee
Kiki Dee
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
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In the 1970s Kiki Dee was touring America with Elton John and phoned home to invite her parents to fly first class to New York, spend a week in the Waldorf Astoria, see their daughter perform at Madison Square Garden and sail home on the QE2.
Her mother replied, "Sorry, love we've already booked a caravan."
The former Pauline Matthews, who had topped the charts with Sir Elton, duetting on Don't Go Breaking My Heart, prevailed over her mother's Yorkshire down-to-earthness and her dad ended up swapping a caravan for a chauffeured limo drive through Harlem.
If you're thinking, "Kiki Dee, how old must she be?" Don't. She's the coolest, sveltest bus-pass holder going, and, more importantly, her voice is ageless.
Don't Go Breaking My Heart comes early in the set, reworked and understated but a perfect showcase for Dee's magnificent tonal projection, utterly true and effortlessly cool, soulful phrasing.
It is necessary at times to tune out her partner in music, Carmelo Luggeri's rather overzealous, effects-assisted guitar accompaniments, but to hear a singer this good in an intimate space like the Brunton is a real treat.
Newer material, such as Salty Water and Everybody Falls, complete with Dee conducting an unabashed, embarrassment-free audience clap along, shows that she and Luggeri are writing songs with something to say, and arrangements of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill and Leonard Cohen's Dance Me To The End of Love confirm Dee's status as a superb interpreter.
She's got the music in her (she sang that one too) all right, and if anyone has ever sung a sweeter True Love Ways, it must have been a heartbreaker.


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I've seen an original 1860 that was cased with components for both cartridge and percussion firing. I believe it was a Thuer conversion. There was a person I met at a gunshow in Minot North Dakota that was modifying repro 1860's to use the Thuer conversion a few years back, he was displaying them at the show but I don't believe he was selling them. If you are a good machinest it probably wouldn't be too difficult to modify one yourself.
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Date: 25/07/12 | Cost: FREE | Location: Simonsbath Sawmill, Simonsbath, Somerset.
Tags: Delve into the Past, Discovering Prehistory, Landscape,
Explore the ways in which bogs tell us about Exmoor's past landscapes and the people who lived there.
Activites will take place at Simonsbath Sawmill in the morning. Then see for yourself how the Exmoor Mires Project is preserving these valuable wetlands for future generations by joining a moorland walk in the afternoon. Appropriate footwear is essential for this part of the event.
Date: 25 July 2012
Time: 10:30am-4:00pm
Location: Simonsbath Sawmill, OS grid reference: SS 771 391, Postcode TA24 9SH.
Directions: From Lynton, take the B3223 off the A39. From Minehead, take the A39 east then turn right on to the A396 at Dunster. At Wheddon Cross turn right on to the B3224 then continue on the B3223 to Simonsbath
Org: Exmoor National Park / Exmoor Mires Project / Heart of Exmoor
Booking: No.
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Public transport: Yes. Contact Exmoor National Park Centres for more details.
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Contact: 01392 324491


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Manresa has long been a gem in Los Gatos, garnering high praise, two Michelin stars for five straight years and becoming a foodie haven for those in the South Bay.
Now, Chef-Proprietor David Kinch has been named GQ's Chef of the Year for 2011.
The magazine calls him a "culinary Mad Hatter seeking the essence of things." His peers and former colleagues knew he was going to be a star, which has happened after taking over at Los Gatos in 2002. He collects James Beard Awards and defeated Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America, all while keeping hungry patrons happy at Manresa.
His "laboratory," Love Apple Farms in the Santa Cruz Mountains, is the source of almost all the produce he uses in his restaurant.
His style is innovative and can't be labeled (although some try, calling it New Californian, French or Catalan). But in layman's term he is a true maestro in the kitchen. It's a dining experience to never forget and one that is hard to fully grasp.
Congratulations to one of the innovators in the Bay Area, Chef David Kinch.


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At the confluence of three rivers, Passau must be one of Europe's prettiest cities. It certainly has been one of the most beautiful on our Viking River Cruises' Christmas Markets voyage, which is saying a lot on an itinerary that includes Budapest, Vienna, Melk and, ahead (possibly, more on that later), Regensburg and Nuremberg.
Viking Odin guests raved about their experiences at the Passau Christmas Market today, and some said that it was the best market they have visited so far on this weeklong river cruise.
I certainly enjoyed the market, which occupied a large square in front of St. Stephan's Cathedral, just steps away from the Danube, and a pleasant 10-minute walk from Viking Odin.
The Bavarian-style Christmas market featured lots of local craftsmen selling local goods. Products and edibles (and quaffables) seemed to be locally produced, which is always nice to see at any market. Vendors were friendly and inviting, and I even found myself practicing German that I had learned nearly 30 years ago during my university days.
I also sipped on the best Gluhwein that has ever passed my lips, produced, if my understanding of German was correct, by the award-winning Vollfast. I know little about the company, whether it is big or small, only that to sip its Gluhwein would be worth a second visit to Passau next Christmas.
A Gulp Of Good Gluhwein At The Passau Christmas Market
Gluhwein, as we've explained before on this site and on our sister site River Cruise Advisor, is hot mulled wine. There are many variations, as there seems to be with any alcoholic beverage in Germany. I opted for a cup of Heidelbeer-Gluhwein. Heidelbeer, Wikipedia tells me, is an edible fruit commonly called bilberry, whortleberry or European blueberry. It's similar to the American blueberry, and what Wikipedia failed to mention, Heidelbeer is delicious when mixed with warm wine.
Two high school boys also were having a cup of Gluhwein when I arrived. I spent 15 minutes or so talking with them. It felt a bit odd to imbibe with teens, but the legal drinking age in Germany is 16 years old, and the boys were having "a refreshment" between classes at their school. It was fun to hear them talk about their interests and hobbies and what their life was like in Passau.
Sengzelten, A Bavarian Specialty At The Passau Christmas Market
I also spent time practicing German with two ladies and a man who were making and selling Sengzelten. I had never heard of this Bavarian specialty, but I was intrigued by the way it was prepared. My understanding (again, translating from German) is that it starts with rye (Roggen in German) flour to make a flat bread that is baked in a wood-burning oven and topped with sour cream and chives or other ingredients, such as ham and cheese. Fresh from the oven, the Sengzelten was delicious.
What struck me about the Passau Christmas Market was just how friendly the locals were, from the two teenage boys to the gal selling Gluhwein to the folks baking Sengzelten.
Now, in case you're wondering about the comment about Regensburg and Nuremberg, high water levels in the Main-Danube Canal have temporarily halted Viking Odin from proceeding upriver. We're docked tonight in Vilshofen. Tomorrow morning, busses will transfer passengers from here to Regensburg for the day. They have the option to return to Viking Odin for lunch or remain in Regensburg, with lunch paid for by Viking River Cruises.
Me? I've been to Regensburg, so I'll spend the morning exploring Vilshofen and hoping for another day like today. No, this is not the end of our cruise. Viking River Cruises is well-prepared for water level changes. We will make it to Nuremberg on Friday, but the question at the moment is by bus or by ship? Stay tuned.


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With plasma and LED televisions now commonplace in Hong Kong homes, you could be forgiven for thinking the television market may have gone a bit flat. Always on the lookout for new technology to persuade us to upgrade, major manufacturers have been licking their wounds after seemingly failing to convince the public to adopt 3-D TV at home.
So what's the next big thing? In the long run it's Ultra HD - also known as 4K - a new, more detailed panel that's the result of engineers squeezing in more pixels.
The detail is incredible, but the visual benefits of so many pixels is only really noticeable on larger screens. However, this opens the door for camera operators to take different production approaches; a football match can be followed from end to end without the need for close-ups on the ball - it's more like being at the event.
Maths also helps make a good case for Ultra HD. It measures 3,840 by 2,160 pixels, which equates to eight megapixels; the Full-HD TV you have at home is just two megapixels. It's possible to stand up close to an Ultra-HD TV and not see the pixels - try that on your current TV and you'll see a grid-like structure. Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Sony have Ultra-HD screens, and although they start at about HK$50,000 for a 55-inch model, it's the HK$75,000 65-inch and HK$215,000 85-inch sets that really make use of those extra pixels.
Besides the high cost, there's another issue with Ultra-HD TVs; there's almost nothing to watch. Blu-ray discs can handle only Full HD, and although an upgraded format should emerge next year, there's been no confirmation. Nor do any broadcasters supply Ultra-HD pictures (though Japan will start to next year). For now, the manufacturers promoting Ultra HD are talking about how capable their new wares are at upscaling Blu-ray discs, DVDs and TV to Ultra-HD quality. Is that enough to persuade you to part with so much cash?
Analysts are predicting mass adoption of Ultra-HD TVs by 2018, by which time prices will have come down significantly. Until then, there's another game in town: the curved TV. At the IFA technology trade show in Berlin last month, LG, Samsung and Sony all unveiled TVs that provide an image that is - they claim - at every point equidistant from your eyes. A gentle inward flex means less screen-edge visual distortion and detail loss, apparently, resulting in a more immersive, almost IMAX-style experience.
As usual, it's Samsung and LG that are first out of the blocks. Inspected up close, LG's 55-inch 55EA9800 (HK$80,000) isn't as curved as you might expect. The effect is slight, and although the images are entrancing, that's because they're displayed using an OLED panel, which boosts contrast almost immeasurably and eradicates blur and judder.
Video: Review for Samsung's curved OLED TV
The use of OLED explains the high price, as it does for Samsung's 55-inch KE55S9CSL (HK$70,000 - available in the US and Europe only), another curved OLED TV, but one with a much more attractive design that mimics an artist's easel.
First prize goes to Sony's 65-inch KDL-65S995A (HK$31,000, US only), which uses a standard LED panel and two large, deep "Multi-Angle Live Speakers" on either side that are packed with subwoofers. Forget the screen - it's the powerful, built-in and enveloping audio that makes the curved-TV concept one worth listening out for.


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The Braven 570 speaker allows you to connect with the world around you by sharing your music, movies, games, and more. With 6 watts of power, this portable audio companion will bring your music to life wherever you go! Built-in noise-cancelling mic lets you take calls wirelessly, or you can charge your phone from the built-in power bank to keep the party going all night long. Use the 1200mAh battery to play wireless audio for up to 10 hours. 33-ft. wireless range. Two custom HD audio drivers provide stereo output that's amplified by left and right channel passive subwoofers. Impact-resistant polymer case. 6.18" x 2.56" x 1.77". Weighs 13.6 oz.
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Jona Weinhofen's I Killed The Prom Queen has debuted a new music video, their first since reforming in 2011. The video, for the song Memento Vivere, is produced in association with Monster Energy, and features live footage & editing by Tom Sykes.
I Killed The Prom Queen are hard at work on a new album, with a release date slated for 2013. Until then, Weinhofen will be splitting his duties between writing and recording with IKTPQ in Australia, and playing guitar in UK band Bring Me The Horizon.
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When Paul West passed away in 2015, few newspapers bothered to report this loss (hooray to The Telegraph and The New York Times!). Since then Verbivoracious Press has released a new edition of Caliban's Filibuster, the first since its original publication in 1971. However, I don't foresee a Westian renaissance; he seems a tad more unknown than even Alexander Theroux! In the future, I fear, only fans of phrasemaking, that shrinking sect, will continue to band around his books for felicity. I suspect that people not only do not know that they lost a great stylist; they probably don't even know that they ever had him.
So every moment is a good moment to make the case for Paul West!
Life With Swan, the love story between an English novelist-cum-creative writing teacher and a talented student who matures into a remarkable poet, constitutes one of West's finest achievements. Before reading it I knew him mainly for a trilogy about poverty, frustration and madness: Alley Jaggers, I'm Expecting to Live Quite Soon, and Bela Lugosi's White Christmas. This trilogy follows a young unhappy couple in post-war England, a land of tension and austerity, of rain, ruins and rage, of crummy houses stabbed with chilly draughts and in whose rooms a desperate underclass fantasizes about escaping from pervasive gloom. Alley Jaggers, an ape-man-like construction worker, displays latent creative powers, but unable to find outlets for them, perpetrates a horrible murder and is institutionalized. I remember part one and two painted with autumnal tones. In the third part, Alley, through the help of a doctor, has started living a more unrepressed life, and even if he remains a dangerous madman, the use of language has gone from grim to golden.
Still, it wasn't until I remembered the trilogy in light of Life With Swan – and its pages do beam like pulsars – that I realized how sooty the language in those earlier novels was. Life With Swan, by contrast, the action relocated to an America bright with intellectual and emotional optimism, launches into a peahen to joie de vivre in luminescent wordplay. The plot, as vestigial as a distant start to the naked eye: the two lovers encounter some difficulties maintaining their relationship while pursuing careers in different cities; but I didn't even need to wait for the end to know that they stay together – and yeah, in this one love conquers all. No one unique ideas on between the covers: we've all read love stories before; love is so common a thing. West, however, paints this so common a thing with words I had never read before. Life With Swan is a good example of how to write a plotless novel and keep it gripping for 300 pages. Perhaps the exuberant West mastered such eloquence because he was putting his own love story to paper.
I wonder how Paul West wrote. Something in his mind burst, perhaps, and a flood of phrases rushed like the Amazons River in a storm. Almost everything I've read by him carries this mark of excess. And this excess also means a commitment to the multifarious. West wrote many different books: the Alley Jaggers trilogy began as a grim realist drama and ended as a verbal carnival. Caliban's Filibuster, published between the trilogy, enacted the fantasies of a hack screenwriter who escapes from drudgery into language. West has written historical novels and addressed contemporary topics, like in his 9/11 novel, The Immensity of the Here and Now. He's written several very different memoirs, from a sketch of his childhood in England (I, Said the Sparrow) to an account of his battle with global aphasia (The Shadow Factory). He's populated his novels with historical figures, from John Milton to Adolf Hitler, and he's invented some pretty weird characters too. Life With Swan, published in 1997, added another trick to his repertoire. Revitalizing a genre that has fallen out of favor, the roman à clef, West narrates the early days of his meeting the woman he'd spend the rest of his life with: the naturalist and poetess Diane Ackerman.
I don't give a fig whether or not West followed the facts faithfully; I don't know them, and it's beside the point. Although West wasn't of the sort to write for writing's sake, but used fiction to address important themes of evil and morality, he was also a writer in love with words and the world, and in this novel love, words and the world are all woven together in an intricate, seamless artwork like Arab tiles. The curious reader, if he care to research, can find bits here and there of the real-life relationship. The narrator has nicknamed his love Swan, and it seems Both West and Ackerman shared a habit of inventing cute names for each other, as we can see in her book One Hundred Names for Love. They did meet in a creative writing course West taught; and she is a poetess. "It is hard to imagine how excellent her work was, her poetry at least," writes the narrator. Still maturing as a poet when she enrolls in his class, Swan shies away from showing her poems to her teacher. "But I had read them already in campus magazines and been astounded by the real thing. Finally, when I got to review her first book, I wrote that she was the best living lyric poet. There again, having noted her quality, I perfected her at once, I the fugitive from the courtly love of the Middle Ages, the johnnies or the johns who thought nothing sensual was good unless it contained a decisive mental component."
For me, the reader butting in and turning this into a ménage à trois, it is the exhibition of this mental component that compels me to continue reading. The narrator lavishes on Swan the greatest treasures of his verbal genius: puns, riddles, neologisms, bewildering metaphors. "Perhaps the hurly-burly of everyday affection is not for me, but instead the absolute of idolatry, a heavy burden because the worry of it allows me no tolerance: if I don't get perfection, I don't want anything, anyone. This means I am a manqué of some kind, a monk who missed his vocation, a mystic who mislaid his universe. I must be the last of those who practiced courtly love, honoring not the person or the thing but the grail."
This is real amour fou, and much better written than Amour Fou.
Thanks to Swan, a naturalist with friends in unusual places, the narrator also gets access to a world of scientists and natural wonder as the couple befriends Raoul Bunsen, a Carl Sagan-like figure soaring in popularity thanks to a TV show popularizing science. Bunsen opens Cape Canaveral to them at the height of the frenzy over the Apollo space satellite missions, and the narrator gets to interpolate his love for Swan with his fascination for the universe. The novel expands its awe over the everyday to cover also the unknown, alternating between the local and the cosmic. Everything gets blurred: language is both a contact lens and a magnifying glass:
A trapdoor swung open as my world increased and I suddenly thought how Swan and I had a massive backdrop against which to relish each other. She already had a constellation, Cygnus, named for her, which was more than a head start; but surely we could do better than that, handing her a Stefan's Quintet out of the universe's nameless largesse. She would not be studying astronomy, or so I thought; but she would be under that umbrella of cosmic bravura, excited by incessant discovery.
West's sentences stretch from New York into the stars and satellites and examine feelings as much as faraway galaxies.
These days I read mostly thinking what a novel can do for me as a writer. There are novels put together so well that understanding their creation is no less interesting than reading them; others, I fear, are so sloppy I wonder how anyone mustered the energy to cobble the parts together to end up with a trophy of twaddle. I like West's novels, I like them enough to have mailed a letter to West's home in Ithaca, New York, although I doubt he ever received it; it doesn't matter, it only contained a string of fawning eulogia. I admire his novels because they embody many of the qualities I seek in my own prose fiction, and I believe discovering him has helped me to improve as a writer.
The narrator repeats a word, phrasemaking, that is a key to the novel and its process. I first came across it when I read West's 1985 essay "In Defense of Purple Prose". In it he defends "the almost lost art of phrasemaking" from the verbally inept "who have never made up a stylish phrase in their lives, as if style had become taboo, a menace to people, gods and cars." For West, phrasemaking constituted the writer's duty: chopping clichés, creating new imagery, helping the lexicon find its way out of the labyrinth of stock sentences, in sum siccing a singular style on sedate readers.
Life With Swan illustrates, sentence after sentence, a mastery of language at a heightened state. His word-hoard alone astonishes me; how not to venerate a writer who combats acyrology? West had already impressed me tremendously with Bela Lugosi's White Christmas, a smorgasbord of wordplay concentrated in a short novel. With twice the room to play in, he prunes every page of flatness and packs them with puns to achieve an impossible purity. As far as I understand one of West's mental processes, it seems words attract other words because of sounds; he seemed to be on the lookout for sounds and echoes connecting them. "That distant and obscure marriage of hers had been a mere kindergarten bauble, erased by one sunset or a good bubble bath, and she had reverted to who she had been before it, before before." Another example: "Inured to praise, from me at least, my Swan gets on with life, lauded to death by her swain, but hardly put out if I forget to extol her; she has acquired such impetus she needs no extra shove." And one more, the narrator commending Swan on her violin play: "Perhaps she played so well, with educated brio, because music dangled and was dandled on the fringe of poetry." His use of paronomasia doesn't just amaze me for its variety, going deep into the vocabulary, but for its quantity; they keep on coming. I love paronomasias myself; I first became conscious of them a couple of years ago while reading Steven Moore's The Novel; I liked the concept so much I started doing what I start doing every time I like something a lot: I started making a list. Last time I checked my Excel file, I had 1500 pairs of paronomasias, and growing. I wonder how West went about this; did he also keep lists? Did he like to waste whole days away just making lists of words like a squirrel gathering walnuts for winter? Or did he think them up on the spot, as he moved along, every word at the tip of his tongue? I think about such things when I read such novels as Life With Swan: what's the process behind their construction? West makes craftsmanship look like fun.
Paul West reminds me a lot of his friend William H. Gass; like Gass, West assumed a vehement defense of literary experimentalism while doing nothing forcefully experimental himself. Almost every novel I've read by him has tended to have a strong plot following rounded, lively characters E.M. Forster would have killed for, in pursuit of something tangible, moving in linear fashion towards satisfying climaxes. Caliban's Filibuster is the only novel by him that put me off, precisely for being so self-consciously experimental, although I think it was also the breakthrough that led him to the superb Bela Lugosi. Generally he doesn't assault grammar, he doesn't hate conventional punctuation, he's not against giving characters names and motivations. I suspect he even suffered from a belief in traditional humanism – what a square!
West's phrasemaking is essentially classic; it harkens all the way back to Gorgias, the father of poetic prose. Francisco de Quevedo would have given him good grades for his diligent study of conceptismo; he writes the way Baltasar Gracián and Emanuele Tesauro prescribed in the 17th. His prose has more to do with John Lyly, Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Browne, and Herman Melville than with spokesmen for experimentation like Ben Marcus and Eimear McBride whose own literary output range from vanilla prose to bad grammar masquerading aggressively as an "avant-gardism" that Joyce pulled off much better a century ago. Ah, the senile vanguards…
The quest for novelty and innovation is ezrapounded into Anglo-American writers' heads from a young age; the theory, if not the practice, is welded to their literary tradition's DNA. This is understandable; the word "novel" itself promises news. In Portugal, on the contrary, we call it romance, so we don't feel the connection. But with English having a different etymythology to worship, people can write an antanaclasis like, "A novel should be about novel things." As an outsider looking in, I find this folly for innovation a fascinating phenomenon. Once upon a time, when I started giving my first baby steps into my own writing, I almost fell for it too. Nowadays, though, my impression is that there is more lip service to it than genuine belief. Did you ever notice how most novelists who judge Ulysses the greatest novel ever, never actually make an effort to move past the Cervantes/Flaubert school of fiction? You'd think so many fans would be in a hurry to imitate its greatness.
Personally, I don't give a hoot what writers believe in, so long as that belief helps them write well. If West needed to consider himself an experimentalist to write something like Life With Swan, who am I to complain? However, from what I know of him, I think he wrote very conventional novels, with a virtuosity that put him next to Nabokov. It was in fact West, and Nabokov, and Gass, and the great Theroux (another conventional novelist who preaches experimentation), who made me realize that seeking quality and beauty is a mora laudable goal than seeking novelty. I don't frown, of course, at novels going off the beaten path, but putting innovation on a pedestal makes it a dogma as problematic as every other dogma: when bad things start being done in its behalf, zealots will defend them nonetheless lest the object of their beliefs be disproved. As such, it's not uncommon for many priests of the New to equate novelty with quality, giving nary a thought to whether or not said novelty is aesthetically pleasing. Like Robert Coover once said, "Innovation helps hide a lot of flaws." I myself prefer the fundamentalists of quality. The fundamentalist of quality wants to be better than better; my instincts tell me that yields better results.
I prefer these writers because they dislocate the center of the novel from content to language. No less loathsome than the novelty nutters, there's also the content cult that reduces fiction to a message. There's something paradoxical pertaining all the pomp around reading; on the one hand, writers love to stroke the readers' ego about how reading makes them smarter and more sophisticated; on the other hand, all ideas in novels are recycled from one week to another, as if readers had the attention span of a fruit fly. Life With Swan, for instance, is a novel of trite wisdom: being alive is good, sharing your life with your beloved is even better. I reached that same conclusion when I was around 10, I think. In fact, West even spells it out at the end of his conventional novel, right at the very end, just in case the sophisticated reader is too stupid to get it:
I go into Swan's bathroom, put on a feeble light by dimmer switch, and lean over the ingot, half-comprising an invocation to it that begins: Inkwell of nothing, in which we dip our eyes. If it is almost enough just to be alive, no wonder I thank my lucky stars for a gift of so much more.
And the novel ends, and we close the cover and check if the author is Paul West or Paulo Coelho; it sure sounds like one of his aphorisms.
I love West also because he shows me how little fiction has to give me in terms of ideas. Since I'm a converted who already agrees with what the narrator is preaching, this novel would be a waste of time if it gave me nothing else. I think a lot about what fiction is good for, both as a struggling writer and as a voracious reader. Whatever the perspective, the conclusions converge. I realize I can't live without language, a specific sort of language, more ornate, more overwrought; a busy, bosomy language, calling attention to itself, always signaling at me. That's what redeems the trite wisdom of so many novels. It's what sets Life With Swan above a pamphlet like Antonio Skármeta's The Postman. Whoever has taken a trip through that well-intentioned tripe, will remember a kind would-be poet awash in valuable lessons on freedom, love, friendship and the beauty of life. However, I mainly remember an unpoetic narrating voice limping on until it's mercifully executed when poor Mario is implied to be disappeared by the secret police. Because novels tend to preach to those already converted to humanism like me, virtuous lessons matter far less to me than virtuosity. The risk of writing for the converted, though, is that writers allow their prose to remain as anesthetized as if undergoing surgery. Skármeta defended life because that's what he read in countless novels before he took a stab at his own; because repetition is easy and there are lucrative rewards in it, his prose just moves towards them like a teleguided missile. He affirmed life programmatically; West, instead, affirmed life grammatically: his love for life isn't in press-conference-room-like declarations, it's in the weave of the language itself. A writer who starts a novel with this radiant, exuberant, minutely-crafted sentence,
A puberty ago, I watched from my office window one afternoon as she descended into baking sunlight on the library steps in a Spanish-looking straw hat (Eton boating style), drape-swinging her legs in polychrome-striped bell-bottoms, behind her the terminal moraine of black hair that ser her out from the crowd since she was ten.
is a writer truly in love with life because he loves the one tool that can sing such love: words. Don't affirm life, then; embody it in your sentences; make life the style. Be conventional in your ideas, but extraordinary in how you express them. I don't know if life is beautiful, but it sure is when West writes it. This should be a simple lesson for fiction writers to learn, and yet so many great ones have died without ever learning it, leaving behind them a slug-like trail of comatose prose. Many actually resent purple prose and phrasemaking, and will go on happily making their own unpoetic postmen.And yet Life With Swan is a much grander hymn to love and literature.


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A Sony exec has spoken in detail about the company's purchase of cloud gaming service Gaikai, confirming that the technology will not just be used for consoles – implying Bravia TVs at least.
'Gaikai's services will be focused on Sony's game machines', Sony's Andrew House told the Wall Street Journal in his first interview since the purchase of Gakai . But he added the following qualifier to that statement: 'expanding the technology to other Sony products is absolutely within the frame'.
'It's recognition on Sony's part that the cloud and cloud streaming technologies are going to have profound and possibly a very positive impact on not only our game business, but also in the way our consumers interact with and obtain content in general,' he said.
What he didn't say though is exactly which other Sony products Gaikai would be used with. The Bravia line of TVs seems the most obvious guess, but since Gaikai doesn't require particularly powerful hardware to work with it could also be set to appear on Sony's smartphones and tablets.
Before Sony bought Gaikai though one of its most impressive technical feats was running games via Facebook, and it's still unclear how Sony are going to use this ability. Running demos is certainly a possibility but do they really want full PlayStation 4 games playable via a Facebook browser page?
The biggest question then is why you would need to buy a PlayStation 4 to run games that are already playable on other non-gaming devices? We're sure Sony has already thought of this and is planning ways to emphasis a dedicated console's importance, but it's hasn't stopped some analysts claiming that this signals an attempt to move out of the console hardware business.
We very much doubt that's true but high profile analyst Michael Pachter does seem convinced that Gaikai is primarily for Bravia TVs, and not necessarily the PlayStation 4.
'I think that this is more related to Sony's integrated strategy, and ties into their hopes of selling more televisions. I know that Gaikai was purchased by Sony Computer Entertainment, but essentially, they provide a solution to play games without a console, so they make a lot of sense if built into Sony TVs,' he said to CVG earlier in the week.
'This could be both a strategic move to sell more TVs and a pre-emptive move to keep others from using the service. It's actually a very interesting deal, and the price is reasonable if it gives Sony an advantage over other television manufacturers while keeping the technology off the market so that others can't eliminate the need for a console.'
Interestingly Pachter also suggested that the focus on televisions meant the acquisition of Gaikai required no direct response from Microsoft: 'they are making the [Xbox] console integral to the delivery of television content, so they have a different approach.'
That hasn't stopped rumours that Microsoft may buy Gaikai rival OnLive though, or that they will at least offer up their own home-made alternative to Sony's service.
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Swansea City 2 Norwich City 3
IF there is a secret formula, Paul Lambert wasn't giving it away. Having done what Arsene Wenger and Harry Redknapp had failed to and won at the Liberty this year, the Norwich boss was keeping his own personal recipe for success over Swansea to himself.
"There's no secret, we're just a good side," stressed the stern-faced Scot.
"What was our game plan? To win."
Big tick for Lambert in that case, job done as Swansea succumbed to Norwich for the second time this season.
But if the Canaries' chief was keeping things to himself, it was easy to find out what had been in the dressing room team talk for the visitors.
"Sometimes it doesn't matter how far someone runs or how many passes they complete, it's about getting the result," bragged Canaries centre-back Elliott Ward.
"Yes, Swansea pass the ball well, but we pressed them that high they did not know what to do. I don't think they've come up against that or our physical game too many times before.
"We got stuck in, we pressed them and we were physical."
It may not have always been pretty, but Norwich were pretty effective.
Especially when Martin Atkinson opted to take a soft hold of a game littered with frustrating fouls, seemingly rotated by those in yellow shirts.
And it was hard not to agree that Norwich ultimately deserved their victory, secured by scoring three times in a 17 minute second half period where Swansea looked frankly shapeless.
But while Lambert will want praise for the way he set his side up to stop Swansea playing, Swansea deserve criticism for falling into the trap.
Because forget Plan B's – as Ward suggested Swansea were without – it was the A-game Swansea needed to come out on top, the kind that they have invariably shown throughout this first Premier League year.
When full-backs wander away from their roles, when runs are left untracked, when players wait for a whistle that doesn't come, defeats usually follow.
"It never tastes well when you have a defeat," admitted Swans boss Brendan Rodgers, staying positive post-match but the earlier flapping arms, angry whistles and sometimes exasperated expressions from the dugout leaving no-one in doubt of his frustrations.
"We have to be disappointed with the manner in which we conceded the goals; we went to sleep at the beginning of the second half – and that's a period we have talked about.
"We can't have too many complaints.
"I didn't think our intensity was quite there but the players aren't robots.
"They have been incredible in what they have done for this club thus far and it's one of those moment we have to take."
Rodgers is right but what makes it tough to take is the fact that it wasn't one of the big boys doing the damage.
It was a Norwich side that Swansea could have bettered had they been sharper.
Yet Norwich seem capable of doing that to Swansea, of making them ragged and rushed.
It was a similar story at Carrow Road in September. If Lambert has no detailed game plan, perhaps he simply has his own version of Canary Kryptonite!
Because all the things Swansea have been recently hailed as super-heroes for, slowly went out of the window at one time or other.
Having just about settled from a high-tempo start, Danny Graham's superbly taken opener left you wondering whether the wind would be taken out of Norwich sails.
With Gylfi Sigurdsson again an exciting and efficient attacking option, his run and pass to Nathan Dyer allowed the wideman to shuffle and give confident Graham one-touch and shot space for a 23rd minute lead.
A lead that would have doubled had a cutting Swansea move been finished by Graham rather than defended by Elliott Ward five minutes from the break.
But off the hook and prepared to antagonise with their all-action display, Norwich were level 47 minutes in through Grant Holt and via a bizarre bit of aerial ping-pong and a slight deflection.
Then, four minutes later, a rather larger deflection gave Anthony Pilkington the second as Swansea decided to give yellow shirts acres to exploit.
And with the midfield overwhelmed and over-run and Norwich passing well themselves, the impressive Elliott Bennett set up Holt for a third.
Had Joe Allen's hamstring been up to playing, constant and cheap turnover in possession wouldn't have been so obvious with Josh McEachran not up to speed just yet, Swansea losing the ball 20 times according to the stats.
Similarly, you wonder if a fit Kemy Agustien would have been able to physically fill the growing hole in the middle as Swansea were sucked out of their natural game as customary composure left them.
And yet Swansea could, perhaps should, have nicked a point.
Although Michel Vorm had to pull off a couple of superb saves to keep things at three, it was Swansea asking the questions at the end.
Steve Caulker had hit the post with one glancing header and John Ruddy had to be at full stretch to keep out a Sigurdsson free-kick before Holt's tactless tug on Williams gave Graham the chance to reduce the deficit from the spot.
Having taken that opportunity, then Graham missed from Sigurdsson's square ball before Ruddy had the final save with a fine point-blank stop from another Caulker header.
Given the way the game was heading at one point, the attempted comeback when not at their best will keep confidence in camp as they head off for warm-weather training.
Key when survival still needs points to be secured, regardless of how well the team have done up to now.
"We can't be too disappointed or overly-critical because we have put ourselves in a brilliant position with 13 games to go," said Rodgers rightly.
"But we can't afford to daydream. We can't be looking forward and think we are in the league for next season.
"There's still a hell of a lot of work to do. We're not a team that can afford to have a few players not at their best.
"We have to have the foot to the floor with eight, nine or 10 players performing.
"We just didn't do enough to get a result. But you will have days like that."
Indeed. Even Barcelona lost 3-2 on Saturday.
And at least Swansea don't face Norwich again this season.


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The new head of the UK Biobank has tried to ease concerns that the project is an over-ambitious waste of money that is draining vital research funding away from other areas of science.
John Newton, appointed chief executive officer earlier this year, used his first public appearance last night (April 7) to outline the potential of the project to save lives and transform the treatment of illnesses. He told a meeting of politicians, academics and industry leaders that the bank — which involves collecting DNA samples from 500,000 middle-aged people in the UK — could allow scientists to pinpoint specific factors involved in certain diseases, ultimately leading to new and better treatments.
The meeting, organised by MPs, took place in response to calls for a public debate on the £45 million Biobank project. Last month, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee launched a scathing attack on the Medical Research Council (MRC), which is managing the initiative. The committee accused the MRC of poor financial management, and said the evidence suggested the Biobank scheme was "a politically-driven project."
But Newton insisted that, in the long run, it would reap benefits. He told the meeting: "The UK Biobank is not a single study, or even a single project, but a resource for the biomedical research community for the first few decades of this century. Its true value may not be realized for some 30 years. But every generation has the responsibility to plant shade trees for the next."
According to Newton, the real advantage of such a precious database will be in studying the associations between discrete environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors and the way they interact. "This will allow the risk of disease to be predicted in populations. Predicting risk in individuals is not the aim of the study. Knowing difference in risk in populations can provide direct evidence for the scope of prevention. …The power of the UK Biobank is that its design provides the most powerful means of identifying the true causes of disease."
As an indication of what he hopes it will achieve, Newton drew parallels with the Framingham study of the 1960s, which eventually linked high cholesterol with heart disease and paved the way for the development of lipid-lowering drugs. "Now we have drugs that reduce cholesterol and heart disease risk by 30% in some groups. If the UK Biobank generated just one finding of this significance it would have been worthwhile in public health terms."
But critics remained unconvinced. Helen Wallace, from the pressure group Genewatch UK, told the same meeting there was no evidence to suggest that pumping millions of pounds into the gene bank would be as beneficial as spending it on well-targeted public health initiatives to prevent illness. "We still feel there are some key issues that need to be addressed before it goes ahead," Wallace told
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A great sized three bedroom semi detached offering great living accommodation on the ground floor as well as three double bedrooms on the first floor. The property benefits from garage to the side.
Via porch into the spacious hallway with radiator and under stairs storage
Downstairs Cloakroom
Fitted with WC and hand basin
Reception Room One 3.38x3.85 (11'1 x 12'8)
Family living room with double glazing, power points and radiator
Reception Room Two 4.32x3.38 (14'2 x 11'1)
Open plan with the kitchen and with access to the conservatory. There is also a lovely feature fire place and gas central heated radiator
Conservatory 4.40x3.16 (14'5 x 10'4)
Great for relaxing in the summer time this conservatory can also be used as an office or kids playroom. It also has access to the private rear garden
Kitchen 5.63x2.72 (18'6 x 8'11)
Semi open plan with reception room two makes this a great hub of the house. The kitchen is fitted with plenty of units and a gas hob. There is also direct access to the rear garden
Access to the loft and airing cupboard
Bedroom One 5.06x3.68 (16'7 x 12'1)
A smashing sized master bedroom with fitted wardrobes, double glazing and radiator
Bedroom Two 4.36x2.93 (14'4 x 9'7)
Double bedroom with nice feature fire place, radiator and double glazing
Bedroom Three 3.65x2.61 (11'12 x 8'7)
A small double bedroom which over looks the rear garden. it also has double glazing and radiator
Bath with shower attachment, WC and hand basin
Separate WC
There is also the added benefit of a separate WC to that that's in the family bathroom
Plenty of off street parking for three cars
A neat family rear garden with shed
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I had my surgery 21 days ago, when I went to talk the doctor I told him I wanted a C cup, and he told that to get that result he would go with 260 cc and fill them to 320cc, I had a lift too becuase I need it. I'm 21, 105lbs 5'1. My question is why I can fit into a D bra I tried it and it doesn't fit me is too small, I asked him a C. What can I do now? They look too big!!!
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3 weeks after breast surgery
You are only 3 weeks after your procedure. Depending on the technique(s) utilized, it can take anywhere from 4 weeks to 4 months to see your true final results. Please be patient and continue to followup with your plastic surgeon. Best wishes.
Dr. Basu
Houston, TX
Learn more: http://www.basuplasticsurgery.com
Three weeks after a breast augmentation
At three weeks post augmentation and lift you are still swollen. Give it some time to settle down a bit.
Cup size after breast augmentation
Cup size varies by the name brand of your bra, so while you may be a full D cup in one brand, you could easily be a C cup in another brand, and even a full B in another brand. Also, keep in mind that 3 weeks it is too early to see the final appearance of your breasts. While the major swelling is better at 3 weeks, there is still more swelling that takes time to go away, especially if you had a lift done at the same time. Also, the implants may or may not be settled into their ultimate position. You still need to allow time for healing, and reassess the results at a 3 months or even 6 months. I recommend keeping close followup with your surgeon and make sure you communicate your concerns, and be patient and allow time for healing.
Learn more: http://www.anitapatelmd.com/PhotoGallery_BreastLiftMastopexy_382451.aspx
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Too Big After Breast Implants
Several important points:
- It takes 6-12 weeks for the initial softening and settling to occur, especially with implants plus lift. I recommend waiting at least 6 months to decide if you're too big.
- Bras vary from brand to brand, so a final cup size can never be guaranteed.
- A year after breast augmentation, it is much more common for patients to say they wish they were a little larger, not smaller.
Thanks for your question and good luck!
Breast Implants To Big?
Wait 3-4 months
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Swelling after Breast Implants and Lift
Swelling after breast implants and a lift can persist for a few months and final size determinations should not be made until 3 months or so, depending upon healing.
Too Big after Breast Augmentation?
I'm sorry to hear about the concerns you have after your procedure.
You should be aware that a significant percentage of patients at your stage and recovery will feel that they are too big or (more commonly) too small.
I would suggest you wait at least 3 to 6 months additional months before you evaluate the end results of surgery and before you make any decisions regarding the need for revisionary surgery. This waiting time will allow you to (potentially) physically and psychologically adapt to the new body image.
There are both physiological and "psychological" reasons to wait on having revisionary surgery. From the physiological standpoint, it takes many months ( and even up to one year) to see the final results of surgery. factors such as swelling, tissue contraction, skin redraping, implant shifting etc. come into play.
From the psychological standpoint, patients undergo an "adaptation period" during which time they get used to the changes that the surgical procedure has brought about. For example, it is very common for patients to feel that they are too big or too small; severe emotional swings can also occur. Obviously, it is best for patients not to be making important decisions while they are experiencing these emotional "ups and downs".
If at that point, you're convinced that the breast implants are too large ( assuming the breast implant pockets are otherwise doing well), revisionary surgery is a relatively painless procedure. Again, clear communication with your plastic surgeon will be important to avoid further dissatisfaction. Do not base your communication on achieving a specific cup size; in my practice, I find the use of goal pictures helpful during this communication process.
I hope this helps.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_breastAugmentation.htm
Breast size three weeks after surgery
Three weeks after a breast augmentation is too soon to make any judgments. I tell my patients to wait at the minimum for 6 weeks before trying on new bras. Your breasts will continue to change and settle with time. Also, bra cup sizing is a very inexact science. Each manufacturer will have quite a bit of variability on what a C or D cup should be. Be patient and congratulations on your surgery!
Breast Too Big After Augmentation
It is very difficult to use cup size as an end result for breast augmentation. Typically the visual breast size and shape are use to help achieve a desired look. This is very artistic . Listening to the patient's desires, pictures and before and after pictures of patients help plastic surgeons and their patients make the final decision on an achievable outcome. In your case, you may achieve the "C cup" you want in the end because you are just 3 weeks after surgery. Your breasts are still swollen. Their size will decrease over the next several weeks.
Dr. ES
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In the short time since then, he has established himself as a reliable contributor off the bench who can not only score, but also exemplify the Celtics foundation of defense.
On Wednesday night, in just the seventh game of the season, Bass recorded his second double-double with 15 points and a career-high tying 13 rebounds in a win against the New Jersey Nets.
There is no doubt Bass is fitting in with the Celtics. After being traded from the Orlando Magic in the deal for Glen Davis, his teammates and coaches are happy to have him around.
Brandons efficient, said Kevin Garnett after the Celtics 89-70 victory. He knows his game, he doesnt come out of that. Hes playing with a group of guys who are rooting for him and I dont think hes ever been rooted for like this. We sort of parade each other, we praise each other, but at the same time we push each other and hes no different from that. Hes falling right in to being a Celtic.
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Whether its scoring or playing defense, Bass has accepted his sixth man-type role on the Celtics. He talks of energy and bringing it each game. With that comes continuing the hard work the Celtics are seeing pay off on the court.
Before the season really kicked off I was doing two-a-days, coming back, getting extra shots up, and conditioning, Bass told CSNNE.com. Now on game days Im doing two-a-days, kind of like after our walkthroughs I put some shots up.
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Route is accessible from Dinwoody Glacier as well but the glacier is steeper and the bergschrund is much larger than what you encounter coming from Sphinx glacier. Guidebook makes it sound like a slightly harder route than the Sphinx glacier approach but the two are pretty different. We did not encounter any technical obstacles on Sphinx glacier, but did have some minor ones on Dinwoody.
In the picture below we're standing on the sphinx/woodrow wilson ridge at a point not much higher than the saddle looking south east. The easiest route up appears to be to the north of the saddle where the schrund narrows. This then requires an exposed traverse south across the glacier to reach the saddle.
We did not feel we were equipped for the traverse (glacier was bone dry, we had no screws), so we opted for an alternative on rock that went straight up to the ridge from the schrund. It was straightforward to find a technically trivial route but the rock quality was poor, it was exposed the entire way and was rat infested.
All in all, Dinwoody Glacier route was pretty fun, and if you can make the traverse to the saddle it's definitely the more interesting approach. Assuming you have a light rack and rope for the peak itself, also bring two ice tools and some screws to maximize chances of success, particularly late in the season.
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Liver transplants at Shands at the University of Florida could resume by the end of next month, officials say.
Liver transplants at Shands at the University of Florida could resume by the end of next month, officials say, following the arrival of a new chief of transplantation surgery at the UF College of Medicine.
UF and Shands officials had voluntarily shut down the liver and pancreas transplant programs in August after the departure of three of four key transplant surgeons.
But Shands and UF officials filed paperwork last week with the United Network for Organ Sharing to restart liver transplants after Dr. Jeffrey Fair arrived on March 4 from the University of California at Los Angeles' David Geffen School of Medicine, where he was a professor of surgery. It's expected that UNOS, which manages the distribution of available organs, will authorize patients in the coming weeks to be listed in Gainesville for liver transplants.
That means liver transplants could begin again before the end of April or sometime in May — particularly good news for pediatric liver patients in Florida, where the only current option for a transplant program is in Miami. Pancreatic transplants soon will follow, university and medical center officials said late last week.
"It's a very important and integral part of the medical center," said Dr. Kevin Behrns, chairman of the UF Department of Surgery. "We're all very excited about the reactivation of the program."
Fair said 30 patients who had been listed when the liver transplant program was voluntarily shut down are poised to be relisted again, once UNOS gives Shands at UF the go-ahead.
"They weren't so sick that they couldn't wait a bit" for UF's liver transplant program to be up and running again, Fair said.
Behrns said that one to three more transplant surgeons will be hired at UF.
Fair, 55, who also had been director of transplational research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Department of Surgery, said research opportunities along with the prospect of building up a clinical practice attracted him to Gainesville. Having worked with a Nobel laureate while at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Fair has a research interest in using stem cells to restore function to damaged or diseased livers through gene therapy, he said.
"This is a wonderful opportunity," said Fair, who will be paid $505,000 a year.
Fair earned his medical degree at the East Carolina School of Medicine. He completed fellowship training in kidney and liver transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship in pancreas transplant at the University of Minnesota Hospital.
Behrns said Fair was able to increase the volume of patients at the University of North Carolina.
"He has a lot of clinical experience, and he brings an innovative approach to research programs," Behrns said. "He exceeded all the criteria we had selected for our search."


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Saudi Arabia is reportedly in talks with its ally Pakistan to provide weapons to the Syrian opposition against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. At the same time, it is deepening defense relations with Pakistan's nemesis, India.
The AFP news agency reported on Sunday that the Saudis were seeking anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons from Pakistan — weapons the United States, Saudi Arabia's ally, has refused to deliver to Syrian opposition fighters, fearing they might end up in the hands of Islamic extremists.
Saudi Arabia has been increasingly apprehensive about American policy in the Middle East. It was disappointed when President Barack Obama did not follow up on his threat to use military force against the Assad regime after it had allegedly deployed chemical weapons against civilians and rebels. It also regards warily American overtures to Iran, its rival for hegemony in the region.
The Saudi request for Pakistani weapons — which was not confirmed by authorities in either state — comes as Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the defense minister and heir presumptive to the Saudi throne, visited New Delhi to sign a memorandum of understanding on future defense cooperation. The pact would allow for the sharing of defense information, military training and cooperation in logistics and security.
Commercial relations between India and Saudi Arabia are also expanding. The total trade volume between the two countries has doubled in the last four years, to nearly $44 billion in 2012-2013, when Pakistani-Saudi trade did not exceed $5 billion. Saudi Arabia is India's fourth largest trading partner and main provider of oil while it has had to reduce sales from Iran as a result of international sanctions. Some two million Indian workers are employed in the Arab kingdom.
The Pakistanis, whose economy is expected to grow just 2.3 percent this year, may be uncomfortable with this burgeoning Indo-Saudi relationship but are unlikely to lose an ally. The Saudis backed them during their wars with India and opposed the secession of East Pakistan which nevertheless became Bangladesh in 1971. They also collaborated with Pakistan and the United States in supporting the Afghan mujahideen in their resistance to the Soviet occupation in the 1980s when Saudi Arabia financed Pakistan's military modernization.
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thank you very much for the time invested in helping me with my concerns; it is greatly appreciated!
I am a Texas resident, and so are these particular customers. This is not something I'd want to do on a regular basis, but I have a few customers in particular who are retired, and they're on a fixed income. Older gentlemen around here seem to accumulate firearms, and I would very much like to be able to help them out and do the work they need without busting their bank. These are reputable members of the community, and I have no question of their status as law abiding citizens. I would definitely not be selling or trading these firearms within the foreseeable future. I am what most people would consider to a collector. If some shady character came out of the blue with a trunk full of firearms and wanted to trade, I would assume they're stolen and I would immediately call the Sheriff's department.
Attaining a copy of a driver's license along with a bill of sale would not be an issue at all. I figure that would be a minimum, but I wanted to make sure there wasn't any other inherent steps to taking a firearm in on trade.
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Hi there, my name is XXXXX XXXXX I'm a business law attorney with experience in all aspects of business law. I'll do my best to assist you.
Here is my dilemma: I am selling my corporation to a friend for $1 just to get it off my hands. Through LegalZoom, I have transferred all my stock and updated my bylaws. BUT now i need to transfer all my stock to him so that he now assumes all liabilities moving forward. I did do a Bill of Sale agreement which I just got off the internet. I can't find any information on how to report the transfer of all ownership to the IRS so they harass him and not me ;)
I understand - I assume you have an S-Corp?
He lives in California by the way
There's no need to officially report a transfer of a business to the IRS, but you would have to do so with the state authority.
The IRS bases its business information on the underlying state registration, so it would change as well when notified of the update.
so if Legal Zoom has done all that for me, am i officially free of the business once I get those papers in hand? Will he have to reinstate the biz in Ca?
If you succcessfully filed a form 100B with the CA BOE and a certificate of amendment with the Department of State, the state has been notified and the registered business owner has been changed.
Unless the corporation had been suspended, you wouldn't need to get it reinstated. The registration would just have to be amended.
I don't think I did - they only filed with Ga and did not advise me that I needed to do anything else. Should I fill out the 100B form with CA?
Ah, I actually thought you lived in CA as well.
No, the process is diffferent.
The CA party would have to register a completely new business entity in CA.
You would transfer the assets of the GA corporation to the CA entity and dissolve the GA corporation.
It is really starting a new corp and closing the old one - there's not really a "transfer" of a corporation from one state to another.
Ok so Legal Zoom basically told me the wrong information, they just changed the business owner name on the current documents...
It sounds that way. If you incorporated in another state you'd also need a new EIN with the IRS - again, almost like setting up another business.
ok I'll have to call them now as they already completed this work...thanks!
You can find more information about that here.
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