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Financial Times (FT) has appointed Alice Ross as Frankfurt correspondent.
Ross is the FT's currencies correspondent and was previously deputy money editor. She will begin her role in Frankfurt in August, focusing on banking, retail, regulation, consumer and property.
Ross's replacement is yet to be confirmed.
Ross can be found tweeting @aliceemross.


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The PC version of the game finished at number four, reported Next Generation.
Previous top dog Singstar 90s is bumped down to number two, followed by the bundled version at number three.
Elsewhere, Guitar Hero 2 Bundle on PS2 moves up to eight, Mario Party 8 on Wii drops to number six, WOW falls to number ten, and DS titles Pokemon Diamond, Pokemon Pearl and Dr Kawashima's Brain Training finish at five, nine and six respectively.
The Australian All Format top ten, courtesy of GfK Australia:
1 – BioShock (Xbox 360)
2 – SingStar 90s (PS2)
3 – SingStar 90s Bundle (PS2)
4 – BioShock (PC /MAC)
5 – Pokemon Diamond (DS)
6 – Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (DS)
7 – Mario Party 8 (Wii)
8 – Guitar Hero 2 Bundle (PS2)
9 – Pokemon Pearl (DS)
10 – World of Warcraft (PC / MAC)

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TEL AVIV (Jun. 6)
An intriguing proposal for the joint design and production of a new passenger plane by the United States, Soviet Union and Israel is currently under discussion.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev spoke of the idea with members of Congress last Friday, during the Washington summit. Outlining several "interesting projects," he said the Soviet Union could build the bodies, the United States the engines and Israel the avionics and cockpit instruments.
Israel and the Soviet Union signed a memorandum of understanding in January for cooperation in communications and industry, despite the absence of full diplomatic relations between the two countries. IAI has sent representatives to the Soviet Union to discuss the project.
But Mordechai Hod, chairman of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), which would handle the Israeli end of the proposed project, warned that the idea is still in its infancy.
Hod is quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying that the initiative for the development of the plane came from a group of U.S. entrepreneurs, including Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum; Al Schwimmer, the former director of IAI; and Israeli multimillionaire Shaul Eisenberg.
The proposed project would compete with plans for a new European aircraft.
Yitzhak Geva, previous general manager of the Bedek division of IAI and former head of the Israeli air force's equipment division, also had words of caution.
"You do not have to be an aeronautics expert to determine that the Russians and the Americans can manage without us and build an aircraft without our involvement," Geva told Ha'aretz.
Gorbachev's statements were prefaced by comments made by Jewish financiers, such as media mogul Robert Maxwell, Hammer and Eisenberg.
The financiers have expressed their intention to assist the Russians in developing their civilian aeronautics industry, on condition that Israel participate in development and production together with the Americans.
"It appears that Gorbachev is willing to accept this condition as long as the money enabling him to develop the industry is invested and the foreign markets are opened up to it," Geva said.
He added that the technical manpower coming into Israel with the current wave of new immigrants from the Soviet Union could be a key reason for the discussion of the new project.


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2011 Mercedes-Benz CLS Revealed Ahead Of Paris Auto Show
Brazilian car site Noticias Automotivas has leaked the first pictures of the all-new redesigned Mercedes-Benz CLS, caught by a car fan who stumbled upon a photoshoot for the new vehicle at Mercedes-Benz's Stuttgart museum.
The current CLS is an iconic design, responsible for launching the "low-slung 4-door coupe" category that's been aped by the Volkswagen CC and countless other designs. Mercedes had to tread carefully when re-designing the CLS, and the new look seems to reflect the company's current design language, with the area aft of the C-pillar taking on a resemblance to the S-Class. The front of the car ditches the oblong headlamps and goofy grill of the current CLS for a more severe treatment, a hunkered-down, square theme that will look imposing in the rearview mirror of most cars, while the greenhouse area (the top of the car from the A-pillar to the C-pillar) still retains the unmistakable CLS look, with a very severe curvature as the roofline slopes towards the back of the car.
The new CLS is expected to debut at this year's Paris Auto Show, and Autoguide will be present to cover the launch at the end of September.
[Source: Noticias Automotivas]


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Its Kinda Gloomy Day
Its kinda sad if we'll have somebody who dont know us best.Somebody who doesnt realized our existence. Someone that we have yet its out of our hearts reach.It's kinda frustrating to be involve in a certain relationship where you only be the one who'll be trying the best for it to work.It's really unfair in particular that he comes into your life and taking some promised to protect you and will be taking care of you.After those sweetness then everything turned out w/ nothing as if nothing happens and will never be sensitive of what we felt.The person that ive known before is totally different w/ the person that am dealing w/ by now.Wanna break him up but i'll be hurt..am the looser because i cant even let him go coz am being trapped w/ his love.I just need to pray for this terms to be done and be fixed.Am still hoping at the end that everything will turn right
Until I read the book "He's Just Not That Into You" did I understand how guys think. They put out the signals and you need to interpret them correctly. You cannot make anyone love you just because you are lovable. I did ask my husband "do you want to work on this relationship"? Point blank. He said point blank, "I do not". At that point I knew all was lost and that divorce was the only thing left to do. If you get a chance - read the book - it will open doors to perception you've never known before - or watch Greg Berends show (spelling of his name is wrong).

Best way to cure yourself of a love affair gone bad is to get another one.
Things will NOT get better if you just sit there and hope that everything will be resolved by itself.

If your guy doesn't want to work on the relationship, then he's not invested in it, which means that the relationship isn't one of his priorities. It's your call whether you want to stay, b/c it's very understandable you love him & it's not that easy to drop it. It's your call to be the one who's after him and be treated this way. At some point, when it will become unbearable, life will push you to some direction, if you're not ready to push yourself. Maybe it's about time to gather your courange and tell him everything you feel, without being afraid of his reactions.


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Is it possible to clone a Neanderthal? In theory, maybe.
Last year the scientific community was outraged when the Daily Mail published an article claiming that George Church, from Harvard, was trying to clone a Neanderthal. What a nonsense! I wrote a blog post concerning the scientific illiteracy of the Daily Mail editors and wondering what to do about the problem. Don't take it personally Mr Dacre; your paper is still worth a guilt-ridden roaming, especially on Sundays.
The Daily Mail claim was -of course- false; professor Church was not trying to clone Neanderthals. But could it be possible to clone one? Back then, I said no. Now however, it may be time to give it a second thought.
Recently, Svante Paabo and colleagues have sequenced the entire genome of one of our late relatives, a big achievement. They found that Neanderthals differed from us in only 87 genes and the differences between those genes were indeed small, just one or two substitutions. Differences in what used to be called "junk" DNA were bigger: around 31000 (but that represents just a 0.001% of our entire genome, still pretty close).
True, a present-day Neanderthal will never be generated like Dolly the sheep was; that would require a Neanderthal's healthy cell. However, now it could be possible to use a "Jurassic Park" approach: The small number of genes that separate us from them may allow the use of gene editing techniques -such as CRISPR/cas9- to transform human embryonic stem cells into Neanderthal-like embryonic stem cells.
From embryonic stem cells an embryo can be generated, and from embryos grown up individuals can be produced.
Generating adult mice from mouse embryonic stem cells is more or less a routine procedure. Nobody has yet succeeded in producing a higher primate from embryonic stem cells. Creating embryos that are viable and able to implant is clearly more difficult with primates. To the best of my knowledge nobody serious has ever tried with humans nor have I any reason to believe that anybody will want to clone a human or a Neanderthal any time soon. Even if nutty professor –just a caricature from popular culture- were willing to do it, this kind of research is extremely expensive. With no governmental agency ever going to finance it that leaves only the three richest Saudi princes in a position to try cloning a hominid, and they are not scientists.
It is an interesting proposition nonetheless that Neanderthal-like stem cells can be generated. These cells could be used to study basic mechanisms such as metabolic pathways and neurogenesis. These studies could in turn shed light into what really separated our ancestors from our primitive cousins.
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Time to clone one already. Only then will our questions concerning these long gone ancients be finally answered.
The problem with the concept of "species" is that many people are trying to look at the concept through its pre-Darwin meaning. Modern evolutionary thought has shown us that "species" is not a platonic concept, the way Linnaeus thought of a species. defining species as discrete sets of individuals, separated from each other by clear physical traits, has the implicit assumption that evolution has stopped, and that phylogeny is frozen in time. It is partly the legacy of pre-Darwinian biology, and partly the result of our using phylogentic trees with modern species at the terminal points. We simply have difficulty in envisioning a phylogenetic tree as something that is actually growing, and that our set of species is just as transitional as the set of species in a Cretaceous fossil bed.
Speciation is a dynamic process, and we have populations in many stages of this process. because the process has a strong component of punctuated equilibrium, we are much more likely, at any moment in time, to find populations in the "equilibrium" stage. This means that most organisms belong to fairly discrete morphological and genetic groups that we can define as "species". However, there will be many organisms and populations that are in groups that are not as discrete, and cannot be differentiated as cleanly.
What this means, ultimately, is that, any absolute standards for species definition will not be adequate to categorize all organisms in the world. You will have "ring species", clearly defined species which will successfully interbreed, etc. Thus, a species is not the discrete set, as was defined in "individuals that can potentially interbreed", but a more fuzzy concept. Perhaps we can call species:
"A set of individuals that are more similar to each other, genetically and morphologically, than to all other organisms on earth. If these individuals reproduce sexually, they prefer to breed with other individual of this group a lot more than with other organisms, and the progeny of this breeding survive and have better breeding success themselves than the progeny of breeding with any other organism." It is a definition using relative measures, rather than absolute measures.
I also hate when people use terms like "they became extinct for a reason", as though there were a higher power sitting in judgement on each species and determining whether that species was "worthy" of continuing.
In any case, I think that Balaganesh got it right. An individual is A, the result of genes within cells. A set of genes requires a specific cell environment to function. To produce this cellular environment, somewhat paradoxically, would require at least an almost identical set of genes, within the same environment. Basically, to produce a neanderthal, you need not only a neanderthal genome, but a neanderthal cell. Of course, you could start with a Homo sapiens cell with the DNA removed, and hope for the best. There is, of course, as others have pointed out, the ethics of this, since you would not only need a H sapiens embryonic cell, but a H. sapiens womb for it to develop. However, as Balaganesh pointed out, even if we ignored the ethics, the developing embryo has to interact with the mother's body, and there is already a fairly delicate balance between the mother and a human embryo which is half foreign genes. Surrogate pregnancies of other humans are difficult enough to pull off, I can't imagine how one would successfully pull off a surrogate pregnancy for a non-human baby.
Perhaps, one day, when people have successfully A, translated the genome in way that would allow us to figure out how a genome relates to its cellular surroundings, B, are able to successfully create cell organelles artificially, using DNA templates, and C, are able to create functioning artificial wombs. All of these are, indeed, technical, not conceptual, however, they are beyond the technology we have today, and what we'll have in the foreseeable future. So talking about "cloning a neanderthal" is way premature at the best.
PS. Ariel – there is good evidence that neanderthal and sapiens interbred, and there is decent evidence supporting neanderthal as a separate species from sapiens. These are not contradictory – the "red wolf" is an entire population of wolf-coyote hybrids, and I do not think that anybody would claim that wolves and coyotes are the same species.
Ariel, the data indicates that, somewhere in the past, there was gene flow from neandertals to H. sapiens. As I recall, the data does not indicate gene flow from H. sapiens to neandertals. In fact, I wonder if the sequences found are not simply from the common ancestor to both sapiens and neandertal. Anyway, speciation is not an all or nothing process, but a stepwise one. The idea is that the offspring is not totally fertile with either of species. Sapiens has had 70,000 additional years since the last neandertal to continue to diverge, so it is very unlikely that, today, neandertals and sapiens are interfertile.
That does raise some issues about cloning that Mosheh and Balaganesh brought up. During development, there have to be signals from the membrane receptors to the cytoplasm to the regulatory region of transcription factors to turn on developmental pathways. Also, the DNA has to have these pathways available to be turned on. This is a matter of chromatin, not the DNA itself. It is this latter concept that seems to stop cloning in humans: the adult DNA can't make the transcription factors to start the genes necessary for early development. So it is very possible that the human ovum will not contain the correct chromatin or cytoplasmic signals that would allow neandertal DNA to have a correct developmental cascade. Surrogate pregnancies have the problem of immunorejection. Will neandertal cells process proteins similarly enough to sapiens that the sapiens female will be able to tolerate the blastocyst and not reject it or the later fetus?
Derek, in this case "clone" only refers to getting a neandertal other than by sexual reproduction of 2 existing neandertals. This isn't the same as cloning you, and then claiming the clone is not identical to you. We don't really care if the "clone" is identical to some long-dead neandertal, only that it would be a member of that species. IF Paabo actually had a complete genome, then yes, the process envisions getting a genuine neandertal. It's not as simple as the 87 genes, since there are over 31,000 changes in the non-protein regions, and we now know that the regulatory regions and microRNAs from these regions play a huge role in control of development and cellular processes. You'd have to get those changes, too.
Making a male and female (even if that were done) so that there is a potential sexual mate doesn't solve the problem of being isolated as a species. For instance, we know Neandertals did not have our allele of the FOXP2 gene, so the individuals would never be able to speak like H. sapiens. That isolates whatever number of them you make from our society. Also, they are genus Homo, which anthropologists refer to as "human". A question would arise: what is their legal status. Are they classed as legally human as H. sapiens and given protection of the law, or are they experimental animals?
Sometimes the reason species become extinct is that they simply become too specialized for an environment and the environment disappears. Neandertals were adapted to living near the glaciers in an Ice Age, so when the Ice Age ended, their range decreased. And then again, neandertals also appear to have been outcompeted for resources by H. sapiens. But the argument "they became extinct for a reason" is not a valid one.
All of this, of course, ignores that there are special problems associated with nuclear cell transfer in H. sapiens, problems so severe that no one has gotten the resulting blastocyst beyond the 16 cell stage. Very likely, the same problems would apply to our evolutionary siblings, so right now the whole point is moot: neandertals cannot be generated by nuclear cell transfer (cloning).
In agreement Paul's statement and Derek's too., The point on "Emotional Suffering" got my attention ., Point worth considering that knowledge and science has to be put to good use ., but I would also encourage to consider the emotional sufferings of other beings into account (exploitation of animals to be specific.,) on the same lines .,, but on the whole – "Neanderthal ain't happenin" ..
I agree, no matter what type of sample of DNA you "make", it's still not a true Neandertal sample. Everyone also has to remember that a clone is only the physical replica of it's original form. There's still always going to be outside factors that will not make it the same.
IF it could be done, I'm sure you could make both sexes Paul. The main question as you stated, is WHY should it be done? IMO they became extinct for a reason and we shouldn't mess around with that type of stuff.
Although a VERY poor example, just watch Jurassic Park. It's more of an ethical quesion than feasibility.
As I understand it, Paabo has very good reads on Neandertal DNA. That, however, is not the same as having the DNA strands to do cloning. Paabo got those reads by interpolating a lot; he does not have intact Neandertal DNA. Nor does he have the rest of the nucleus to do nuclear transfer. And editing a few dozen genes from H. sapiens (which we might be able to do with CRISPR) is still not the same as having a Neandertal genome. Instead, we would have an altered H. sapiens genome. No one has been able to clone an H. sapiens, so why would anyone think that H. neandertals would be easier?
And, of course, there is the whole question about SHOULD we do it? Just because we can does not mean we should. The result would be an single individual not only isolated in culture, but isolated as a species, with no other member of his species around. Is a scientist's ego worth the emotional suffering of the clone?
In my opinion , even if cloning a neanderthal would be a feasibility, it would be next to impossible to implicate the epigenetic influence of mother nature on the pre-existed neanderthals, hence the correlations we try to draw wouldn't be precise or accurate enough to generalize with the current generations. Yet, as previously mentioned unavailability of uterus undertaking the mortal risk shall be the primary concern here followed by ethical and governing boards. Good thought,
Why do you want to do it? There are enough Neanderthals among dictators, druglords and poilitians.
It's probably a lot easier than people think. The two draw backs are a sample from a Neanderthal and finding surrogates willing to participate. 😉
What would be the purpose of doing it?
I don't think they need to. During my long and varied life, I'm sure I've met a few socially.
Your article reminded me of an article written some years ago by Oliver Morton in the New York Times, which also quoted Dr. Church: "Biology's New Forbidden Fruit".


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DJ's Prank Kate Middleton's Nurse [VIDEO]
Two Australian DJ's pranked Kate Middleton's nurse to get an update on her pregnancy. Little did they know how far their prank would go. They called the hospital impersonating the Queen and Prince William and not only did they get through, they got a nurse to tell them everything they wanted to know. The nurse told the pranksters 'she's sleeping at the moment and she has hand an uneventful night. She's been given some fluids, she's stable at the moment. I would suggest any time after nine o'clock will be suitable to visit. We'll be getting her freshened up. She's quite stable. She hasn't had any retching with me and she's been sleeping on and off.'
The two DJ's have apologized to the Royal family and Kate Middleton has since been released from the hospital.
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Britney Spears released from the loony bin
Britney Spears has been discharged from UCLA Medical Center's psychiatric ward, the Los Angeles Times reports. She apparently slipped out and drove herself away from the hospital in her brand-new black Mercedes.
TMZ quotes a law enforcement source as saying she was allowed to leave "because she was no longer required to stay there after 11:30 a.m." Doctors decided she was no longer a danger to herself or others -- at least, not to the point where they could hold her at the hospital.
Private security escorted her out of the hospital after almost a week of treatment. No tax dollars were wasted with dozens of cops this time, unlike the ridiculous motorcade on Jan. 31.
"There was no media, no paparazzi, and no need for public safety protection," Capt. Sharyn Buck of the North Hollywood PD said. She apparently went home from the hospital, but took again to the streets of L.A.
Those paparazzi showed up eventually, though, as someone else took over driving duties by the time at least 20 SUVs full of photographers followed her to the Beverly Hills Hotel. The local Fox affiliate showed video shot from its helicopter of the paparazzi vehicles converging from four lanes to one and causing traffic to snarl. She pulled into the hotel's entrance, where police were summoned to break up the nonsense, but she left shortly afterward, the AP says.
TMZ had video showing a photographer asking Britney if she wanted Adnan Ghalib's new phone number, to which she responded Adnan could "shove it up his a--."
Which is all the more confusing because later in the day she and Ghalib paid a visit to attorney Adam Streisand's office, which means she apparently did talk to Streisand at some point during her time at UCLA. Court Commissioner Reva Goetz had questioned at this week's hearing whether Spears was of sound enough mind to hire Streisand.
Spears is still under the court-ordered conservatorship of her father Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallet until at least Feb. 14, a move Streisand had tried to counter. She also is benefitting from a restraining order against manager Sam Lutfi, whom Brit's mother Lynne alleges kept the singer hostage in her own home, drugging and mentally abusing her.
And frankly, that's all us East Coasters can keep up with for now. Stay tuned for another exciting chapter in our ongoing series, Britney Spears: Date With Destiny!
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At this time so many boy and girl can use Android mobile phone and this mobile phone we can use facebook and whatshap.At night time we can share good night messages for each other and at this time every boy and girl has Boyfriend. So night time every girl and boy can send message for your Boyfriend.
Good Night Messages For Boyfriend:
♥ There are a lot of days which have passed and yet there are many to come. Among all those days I will not let this night go by without telling you that I love you and may all your dreams come true. Goodnight my love.
♥ There is no distance that I might not go to tonight just to be with you and to wish you a very warm good night.
♥ Just checking in to say Hi, hoping that you had a fruitful day and wishing for a very comfortable night sleep ahead, goodnight.
♥ You are the first thing that comes to my mind when I wake up and you are the last thing on my head when I fall asleep. In short, I cannot stop thinking about you. Goodnight.
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♥ I wonder how well you sleep at night, and what kind of dreams you have. I wish I could step into them like you step into mine. Goodnight beautiful.
♥ I am counting down the minutes until I see the morning sun, because it will mark the start of the day when I will see you again. Goodnight, my love.
♥ Laying in my bed, I close my eyes so that I don't miss a minute of looking at you even whilst you're away…I'll be dreaming about you.
♥ My love for you increases with every passing day. Sometimes, I cannot imagine how I could possible love you more than I do today, but every morning, all my doubts are gone. I can't wait for tomorrow to love you even more.
♥ I cannot wait for the day I will have you laying by my side…goodnight, darling.
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♥ There has always been a reason for my sleepless nights. Before you came, it was the thought of you. Now that I have you…it is still the thought of you. Goodnight.
♥ Oh I love you so dearly, it's exhausting. Goodnight, my love.
♥ Goodnight, beautiful. May you wake up to a day as charming and gorgeous as yourself.
Romantic Good Night Messages for Your Lover
I fall asleep to the sweet sound of your Heart
♥ I started to count the stars for every blessing God has blessed me with. I found myself saying your name every time.
♥ You are my last thought at night; my only thought when I wake up in the middle of night, and my first thought in the morning.
♥ They say you must always end the day with a positive thought, my day ends with the thought of you.
♥ Whilst everyone else dreams of a fairytale…I dream of you. Where's the difference? Goodnight my Prince/Princess.
♥ I could fall asleep to the sweet sound of my heart…it keeps repeating your name.
♥ I was trying to fall asleep but I couldn't as I sensed that something was missing. So, I got up and grabbed my phone just to say good night. May you have sweet dreams my dear love.
♥ Romantic Good Morning Messages
♥ I just hit the sack and I have this wide smile on my face. You know the mere reason behind that smile is the satisfaction of knowing that you are mine and I am yours. Goodnight!
♥ I have sent your way the most comforting pillow comprised of my warm wishes and a huge blanket made up of my care for you so that my love you may have the most comforting sleep in the whole wide world. Goodnight!
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♥ My wish might have disturbed you while you were on the verge of falling asleep but I cannot the perfect person in my life to fall asleep without the warm good night wish that I have to say. May your life be filled with everything that you ever wished for. Goodnight honey.
♥ The stars shine so bright in the sky, but they are nothing compared to the ones in your eyes. Goodnight sweetheart.
♥ I cannot wait to meet you in my dreams. So I shan't delay it any longer. Goodnight dear.
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I wish I could step into your Dreams, like you step into mine.
♥ Can I go to bed without saying goodnight to you? I want to pretend like you'll be by my side all night long.
♥ Goodnight, love. Rest those beautiful eyes of yours.
♥ I hope you sleep peacefully through the night. While my heart repeats your name, I know I will.
♥ I want to fall asleep and wake up to your kiss; tonight, tomorrow, and every day that follows.
♥ I am in my bed, you are in yours. One of us is obviously in the wrong place.
♥ Another day of my life is about to end but I am not sad or worried about it all because at the end of the day I end up being with you. The one constant in my life that was there no matter what. My dear love, you deserve all the happiness in the world. Good night and sweet dreams.
♥ Have sweet dreams, my love. For the sweetest of dreams are made of you and me.
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♥ While you lay there in your cozy bed, I want to sit by your bed side and look at that perfect face which means the world to me. Good night honey for all the sweet dreams are on their way to you.
♥ I wait every day for the sun to set and the moon to show up so that I can hug you and kiss you goodnight.
♥ You are the real life embodiment of everything that I ever dreamed about. You are the eternal wish that came true. Good night my angel.
♥ You make my happy beyond my expectation. I had never even imagined my life getting so colorful even in my wildest dreams. May we stay us for whatever is left of this life span. Good night honey, sweet dreams and do not let the bed bugs bite you.
♥ I hope tomorrow's sun brings new opportunities and happiness for you. And you for me. Goodnight, honey.
♥ Is it just me, or is the moon really trying to shine as bright as you do tonight?
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Just love your voice!! Beautiful!!
Thank you! lcoombes, thank you
Nice one, beautiful vocals
Sky, thank you again, I greatly appreciate it.
Beautiful vocals. Magnificent. I am really, really impressed. Very touching song too. Good luck for the contest!
White_Cat_Music, tremendous thanks, I really appreciate your comment. ~Marcus


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The Biggest Loser (7 p.m., Ch. 5): The winner of a food challenge gets the power to rearrange the teams.
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Glee (7 p.m., Ch. 13): New Directions and the Warblers face off at regionals.
Cougar Town (7:30 p.m., Ch. 4): To avoid hurting anyone's feelings, Jules asks Laurie and Ellie to be her co-maids of honor.
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Parenthood (9 p.m., Ch. 5): Julia and Joel go to the hospital for their baby's birth.


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Mindy Kaling of "The Office" has some stories to tell.
She is releasing some comic essays about her life, and life in general, called "The Contents of My Purse. Crown Publishers said Thursday that it comes out in fall 2011.
Crown says the 30-year-old Kaling will write about clothes, romance and "the day she was horrified to learn her boyfriend could fit into her jeans."
She stars as Kelly Kapoor in "The Office," for which she also writes and is an executive producer.


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I was looking into the problem where in my linux box I found /proc/bis/usb/
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ST. PETERSBURG — Gerald Doty is an NRA-loving, suspenders-wearing grandpa who decided late in life to make a living by preparing other people's taxes. He put up some signs near his home on 34th Avenue N.
Across the street is an office for Liberty Tax, the national tax preparation chain that positions employees dressed as Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam at busy intersections to advertise.
When Doty's signs started disappearing, he blamed Liberty. He said he got a few calls from passers-by who said they saw Liberty pluck the signs last year.
On March 2, Doty put more signs around his yard. They didn't make it through the night.
That's when he decided to take matters into his own hands.
He might have misfired.
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This would not be a cordial visit.
Doty, 75, says he wanted to "even the playing field.'' He drove his red Toyota Tacoma to Liberty's office at 49th Street N, hoping to lure back customers he says Liberty took away. He backed into a parking spot, cracked open a newspaper and let the truck do his talking.
The exterior was adorned with magnetic signs boasting he could do taxes for as low as $35. The interior included a gun rack and shotgun, displayed inside the back window.
"I'm an old guy, and not a very big old guy," Doty said. "I didn't want some guy to come out and lay their hands on me.''
The two women working inside the office weren't sure he was serious. One asked him to leave.
That wasn't happening. An hour and a half later they called police.
Four St. Petersburg police cruisers and five officers arrived within minutes, concerned that Doty had a gun in his truck.
"It was a show," Doty said.
An officer filed an informational report and asked Doty to leave. He obliged about an hour later, but not before discussing his interpretation of a gun statute. There is no criminal investigation because Doty has a permit for concealed weapons, said police spokesman George Kajtsa.
Doty says he never would have fired his shotgun anyway.
"I certainly wouldn't do it over a $20 sign,'' he said.
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Doty said he was merely trying to grow his modest clientele of about 20 friends and family members.
He planted signs along nearby sidewalks and streets. He affixed them to stop signs and bus stop benches. They just kept disappearing.
Steven Doletzky, owner of the Liberty store, denies that Liberty had anything to do with the sign-snatching.
"I've certainly never given anybody a directive to do that," Doletzky said.
Liberty considers H&R Block its nearest rival, and even they have a good relationship, he said. They wouldn't go after a man trying to eke out a living by doing taxes on the side.
"His actions are not rational actions," Doletzky said.
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If not Liberty, who?
Probably a city codes employee, said Gary Bush, the city codes department's operations manager.
Such so-called snipe signs aren't meant to be permanent anyway, he said.
Bush can't say for sure that it was a city employee, but an investigator probably picked them up if the signs were displayed on city rights of way, such as stop signs, bus benches and near busy intersections.
"Oh yeah, we would remove those," Bush said. "We have a pretty avid program."
Even Doty admits his signs weren't legal. He just didn't think the city enforces the rules in his area because signs advertising garage sales and real estate remain.
But on Friday the city called, warning him to take down his sign on 49th Street or face a fine.
He said he understands the need for an ordinance, but this was the first phone call he received from the city in 40 years of putting up snipe signs about estate sales and his business.
"Snipe signs are actually a good way to communicate," he said. "But they do get out of hand."
Now that he has picked up a short-term tax preparation job with another local business, he's done posting signs — except for one or two on his side of the sidewalk.
He's done trying to intimidate Liberty, too, though he still believes that company picked up his signs.
"I can be a troublemaker," he said. "I just didn't know what else to do about it."


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After a 30 year absence from Broadway, Cicely Tyson became the oldest person to win an award for her starring role as Miss Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful. Rod McCullom noted that received the "longest standing ovation of the night", reported The New York Times. Watch her acceptance speech in the video above.
The Times also notes that black actors had a huge night at the Tonys in general last night:
…at a time when only 15 to 20 percent of actors on Broadway are black, half of the major acting awards went to African-Americans. Cicely Tyson, at age 88, won her first Tony for best actress in a play as a neglected mother in "The Trip to Bountiful"; Patina Miller, best actress in a musical as the Leading Player in "Pippin;" Mr. Porter, best actor in a musical as the drag queen Lola in "Kinky Boots"; and Courtney B. Vance, best featured actor in a play as a newspaper editor in "Lucky Guy."
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What a wonderful surprise when tourists clutch phrase books that are only needed for extreme emergencies like "Where's the dollar store?" You can have a happy face in Denmark and Norway because many locals speak English.
While these two countries don't cover all of Scandinavia, if you only have limited time much can be seen when traveling by plane. Perhaps it's not true, but when you see the parade of blond-haired, blue-eyed men, women and children strolling by, there's a feeling that Scandinavians were the first to clone people.
The starting point can be Copenhagen, Denmark's capital, where many sights are clustered together: City Hall Square, Tivoli Gardens and the Stroget, the city's strikingly successful pedestrian shopping mall. The charm of its century-old architecture will take you back in time.
And, of course, everywhere is the influence and legacy of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), whose fairy tales and stories are familiar to children and their parents worldwide.
Another view of the past can be glimpsed in the oldest part of the city: The Copenhagen Synagogue, completed in 1833, is the seat of the chief rabbi. In June 2004, the city's first Jewish museum opened, offering Danish-Jewish culture. (The Jewish pop- ulation of Denmark is between 6,000 and 8,000, with only 1 percent living outside Copenhagen.)
One of the first things that you notice traveling on the main streets? The minimal number of cars compared to the ever-present bike riders – from teens to seniors. The reason bikes often outnumber cars is simple: Denmark has an exceedingly high tax on car purchases (high enough to make anyone take bike lessons).
But this tax demonstrates Denmark's determination to reduce air pollution.
Another unusual sight rests atop a nearby building marked "Phillips," where two rotating bronze golden girls indicate the weather. The one on the bike indicates fair weather; it's a downer when the other lady holds an umbrella above her head. They have cynically been called the only women in Copenhagen who can be trusted, probably started by a man who had three failed marriages.
A Garden of Delights
For entertainment, the highlight is Tivoli Gardens, the world's most illustrious amusement park. Built in 1943, it has 20 acres.
As twilight approaches, 115,000 lanterns with bulbs no brighter than 25 watts are turned on, creating a soft enchantment. The park is packed with a variety of entertainments and, if hunger attacks, there are 40 restaurants – from deluxe cuisine to fast-food – waiting for your order. The park is open April through December, beginning at 11 a.m.
Worth visiting any time of the year is Christiana, where day visits are now more tourist-oriented than in the evenings. This area of about 1,000 inhabitants has attracted nonconformists, idealists and hippies.
Soft drugs, like pot and hash, are sold openly. Though they're illegal, the government does more accepting than arresting. And on these items – in a wild spirit of political correctness – seniors get discounts. But some things have changed; Christiana has recognized the value of visitors by providing tours – not exactly enchanting ones, but theyserve as one heck of an eye-opener.
Find time to visit the Dutch Renaissance-style, 24-room Rosenborg Castle, built by Christian IV in the early 1600s. As a "romantic gesture" to his girlfriend, he gave her earrings fashioned from shrapnel removed from his eye and forehead after a naval battle.
One of Copenhagen's most famous attractions is the Little Mermaid statue perched in the harbor facing the nearby shore. Built in 1913, it commemorates Hans Christian Anderson's fictional character. Nonetheless, it's one of the few statues that look better in photographs than in real life.
Unlike Denmark, which has a scarcity of hills, the flight north to Norway reveals mountains and lakes that make you appreciate nature's ability to amaze.
Situated at the head of a 60-mile fjord surrounded by forests, Oslo, the capitol, has its own statues, notably the Vigeland Sculptures and Museum. No sight is more stunning and mind-boggling than this 75-acre park containing 40 acres of work by Norway's greatest sculptor, Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943).
It consists of 192 bronze and granite statues adding up to 600 figures, all representing a range of human relationships: childhood, young love and adulthood.
On another emotional level is the Oslo Synagogue, where its 950 members hold tight to their Orthodox traditions. It's used for services every weekday morning, as well as Shabbat and holidays. On Shabbat is a usual attendance of 150 to 200 men, women and children.
(Then there's another type of prayers in the main streets. Bike riders, as numerous in Oslo as smorgasbord sandwiches, pray that they don't get entangled with another biker or car.)
A visit to City Hall, near the main train station, is worthwhile. What makes it unique is the interior; Norway's leading artists – including Edvard Munch, whose museum has many heart-wrenching paintings – all contributed.
The huge murals illustrate people from all classes and all walks of life working together for a better society. It traces Norway's rural beginnings through the degrading Nazi occupation. Taking the 50-minute guided tour offers a poignant moment.
Although this is one of the more compelling sights in Oslo, the city offers many other must-do and must-see sites. A short ferry ride from central Oslo to the Bygdoy peninsula brings Norway's maritime history to life in three neighboring museums.
There are three original Viking ships in one museum that also reveals some Viking artifacts (eighth century C.E. to 10th century C.E.). Because the Vikings were noted for their brutal and ruthless ways, many Europeans ended their prayers with, "And deliver us from the Vikings. Amen."
Bergen, west of Oslo, surprises you with its scenic richness. It's built on seven hills, with the fjords on one side and Mount Floyen on the other. Its old-city attractions make up for its sometimes damp weather. The action is on the waterfront, where many sites are within a few minutes walk from the fish market.
Its main attraction – though not reminiscent of any perfume – is the sheer variety of fish sold there.
Sognefjord, called the "King of Fjords," is the largest and deepest fjord in the world, with a length of 126 miles and a depth of 4,200 feet. Along the ferry route that twists and turns are canyons, craggy mountains and waterfalls. Carved out by the Ice Age, they embrace the fjord with a few farms and villages giving it a touch of civilization.
You may not get into any deep philosophical discussions with local people during your trip to Denmark and Norway, but just being able to carry on conversations in English makes this a more meaningful and people-oriented experience.
For more information, go online at: www.scandinavia. com.


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The Effect of Methylphenidate Versus Placebo on State Anxiety in Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of methylphenidate on state anxiety in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Patient population: 30 children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The subjects will be of all racial, ethnical and gender categories, ranging from 8 to 18 years of age.
Structure: the study is a randomized double blind crossover study. The subjects will complete a continuous performance test, the cambridge neuropsychological test automated Battery, before and after given methylphenidate or placebo on the first day of the study. On the second day of the study, the subjects will receive either methylphenidate or placebo based on what was given on the first day of the study and they will complete the same task.
|Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
|Drug: Methylphenidate
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|A Double Blind Randomized Crossover Study of the Effect of Methylphenidate Versus Placebo on State Anxiety in Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
- State anxiety [ Time Frame: 1 year ]State anxiety will be measured by the Spielberger's state anxiety inventory
- Cognitive function [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Cognitive function will be measured by the cambridge neuropsychological test automated battery
- Patient's perspective [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Patient's perspective will be measured by questionnaires assessing treatment adherence issues and patient's view regarding the use of placebo.
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- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar disorder
- Current depressive episode
- Current Anxiety disorder
- Drug use during the past 6 months
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A Boston Marathon bombing victim's story
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Scott Marks 3 p.m., Sept. 20
"I saw very plainly that [Katherine Tingley] had impure intentions," said Henry Reuthling from his seat in the witness box.
"What do you mean by impure?"
Reuthling: "I mean that her suggestions were of a sexual nature."
"In plain language, please?"
Reuthling: "Well, no woman would directly ask a man to do a certain thing…I understood it very plainly to be a desire for sexual intercourse…I could not remember the language, it is too long ago. It happened in 1894 or 1895, I think."
Rather than defend their client, Harrison Gray Otis, and an inflammatory article in his Los Angeles Times, Otis's lawyers in Katherine Tingley vs. Times Mirror Company attempted to put Tingley on trial.
Did she think she was the Second Coming — greater than the Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed? Was Lomaland a "place of horror"? And was her brand of Theosophy, as defense lawyer Samuel Shortridge claimed in his four-and-a-half-hour closing argument, a threat to "Christian civilization"?
When Reuthling made his sexual allegations, on day three, judge E. S. Torrance had had enough.
Torrance: "A party has a right to appear without the courtroom converted into a place where people can slander others. If we allow that kind of evidence in, we will never get through this proceeding!"
The "trial of the century" began December 16, 1902. All major newspapers gave the 19-day affair front-page coverage, even during the Christmas break.
Philadelphia Ledger: "Mrs. Tingley starved children; her dog Spot a marvel of intelligence."
Baltimore Sun: "Took food from babies. Mrs. Tingley subdued their animal natures."
Washington Post: "Men and women attired in costumes of light muslin. Tots fed on bread and milk."
The Los Angeles Times called these reports "fair, representative ways in which the matter is being handled in the press. In every instance the Tingley institution is on trial before the country. In no instance does it appear that the Los Angeles Times is on trial. M. Tingley is the defendant."
The report doesn't mention that, as vice president of the Associated Press, Otis wired the libelous allegations to every major newspaper.
The Times' arch-rival, the Los Angeles Herald, summed up the defense's strategy: "This theory has been based on the well-known legal saying, 'When you haven't a case, abuse the other fellow.'"
The actual question at hand: how much did the article "abuse" Katherine Tingley?
Counsel for the defense produced witness after witness. Each testified against "Tingleyism" and her "autocratic control" of the colony. John M. Pryse, a staff member of New York's Theosophical Society, knew Tingley in 1894–1895.
Pryse: "Her teacher in hypnotism was a man named Rev. McCarty. He considers her now, to use his own terms, the greatest black magician on the American continent."
Tingley's lawyers asked Pryse, "Have you communicated with anyone involved in the case?"
Pryse: "I have not. Except with a gentleman, a Mr. Van Cott, last Friday, I think. He was representing the Times."
Miriam R. Egbert, from Los Angeles, joined the colony with her husband. Though she praised the society's artistic achievements — painting, music, and productions at the Greek amphitheater — after she and her husband decided to leave, members treated them as pariahs.
Egbert: "She wanted powerful, rich people with influence."
"And they wanted rich people to receive the benefits?"
Egbert: "Well, that seemed a little inconsistent to us, but that was her orders. She was the great mogul."
The next day, the defense presented the deposition of R. F. Hilliker, whom the colony rejected.
Hilliker: "Of course I consider Mrs. Tingley a humbug on general principles, and I am disgusted with the whole concern. But I have no personal feeling."
After days of unsubstantiated allegations against Tingley, Judge Torrance tried to refocus testimony away from her character. "The law does not permit, under any circumstances, the production of evidence that searches through a man's or a woman's life in detail, in no case."
On the question of damages: "When a wrongful act is done, the wrongdoer is liable to the full extent of the injury. It is no justification to show that some other newspaper has been libeling the individual and therefore the libeler is not responsible for the injury.
"We are only inquiring as to whether these alleged defamatory charges made against Mrs. Tingley are true or not. We are not here to determine whether Theosophy is a correct philosophy. I do not care what it is, so far as I'm concerned, and the jurors have no interest, or ought to have none, on that question."
January 5, 1903. Outside the courtroom, the temperature hit the high 70s. Inside, with all windows wide open, the largest crowd thus far fanned themselves with whatever was handy. A majority were women. Some brought their daughters to see the long-awaited showdown between Madame Tingley and Samuel Shortridge, the Times' "star cross-examiner."
According to the Herald, Harrison Gray Otis slumped so low "only the top of his head was visible above the chair back." As the testimony wore on, and the fetid air grew thicker, he chewed his walrus mustache. When Tingley limped to the stand, her right elbow supported by attorney J.W. McKinley, the flapping fans ceased.
Shortridge rose and (Herald) "made his best jury wave" with his reading glasses. He began with testimony that Tingley's dog Spot contained the spirit of the late Theosophist William Q. Judge.
Tingley: "I never considered that Spot was a remarkable dog any more than any other dog. He was an especial pet, and I am fond of dogs. I never told Mr. Fitch that Mr. Judge's spirit entered into Spot."
Shortridge: "Fitch stated that the members exhibited reverence towards this dog."
Tingley: "I never saw any evidence of it. So absurd!"
"With the dexterity of a juggler" (Herald), Shortridge changed the subject. One of the key allegations of the October 28 article was that Tingley wanted to starve the infants at Lomaland.
Shortridge: "Did you make out a diet list for babies?"
Tingley: "No. But I made suggestions to physicians."


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Cinderellabration - I was quite disappointed with the new show. I can't remember what it was called before, but is was so much more 'Disney' before - the new show has too few real characters in it - a few princesses, but a lot of other 'fillers'. It needs Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy to be a proper Disney show! It just wasn't the same. I don't know whether others would agree or not. Cinderella's Castle - was absolutely beautiful all decorated for the 50th anniversary celebrations. It's a shame that they will ever take them down, they were really special. Christmas Decorations - were up this time last week, which seems earlier than previous years, but maybe we didn't go at the same time. Anyway, they were fanastic, and just added to the Disney magic! It really gets you in the spirit of things - for all of you going over the next few weeks, I am so jealous. It was just lovely. The New Stunt Show at MGM - can't recall it's proper name, but it was awesome, real hair raising stuff. Those guys are awesome (and something about real life stuntmen in leathers to cheer up an afternoon!). This is definitely something to see if you haven't had chance yet. Fantasmic - as fantastic as ever! What else is there to say? Sheraton Safari - a really nice hotel, 5 - 10 mins drive from the Disney gateway. We had a suite which was huge with good quality furniture. We didn't really get use of it, but if you are staying in Orlando, it would be great to have the extra space, and we payed just $99 / night on special rate. The pool looked really nice too. We would definitely stay there again. Delta - where to start? I actually like the flight itself - the planes always seem new, the food is good as far as airplane food goes, the crew are super friendly, and even the pilots are down to earth humans (ours was telling us the football scores as he was getting them through halfway across the Atlantic, and just chatting generally). But : when we arrived at Tampa for our connecting flight through Atlanta home to Gatwick, we were told that flight no longer existed. It had been replaced by a new flight number leaving 15 mins later. We were told by Delta that our UK agent (Airline Network) were informed, and they should have rebooked us onto the new flight. They hadn't, and the new flight was full. After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and about an hour at the check-in desk with a bored 6 yr old, they eventually managed to get us a flight to Gatwick out of Cincinnati, but we ended up waiting hours, and losing our allocated seats to Gatwick - the only seats available were in row 41 that don't recline. This is the last thing you need after 2 weeks of trying to relax - all that hassle! I've called Airline Network and they say it's not their fault. Their system does automatically update with new flights, but Delta should rebook passengers, not them. I can see we're just going to become the ball in a ping-pong match, but it's just so annoying when you spend time planning and making sure everything is ok to be messed around, and no-one will even apologise! Another gripe, even though I called before we flew to check baggage allowance (and told 32kgs x per person), checked in at Gatwick without problems, checking in at Tampa coming home, we were told we would be charged $25 for each bag over 50lb (I think about 22kgs!). I explained what we had been told, and even pointed to the boarding card holder we had from the way out that states 32kg x 2 per person, but she wouldn't budge. There were 5 of us with 8 peices of luggage ($200!!). Her attitude was that 'London were mistaken', and pulled out one of her boarding card holders to prove her point - but this said 32kgs!! Despite this, and much arguing, she insisted we pay, and refused to check us in if we didn't. By now, I was so cross, and much to her annoyance, I emptied the heaviest things from the cases, put them into our hand luggage holdalls, and checked them (there was luckily no queue!). It was just so annoying - and what does it achieve?? Health and safety is 32kgs, so it's not that, and none of us were over the total 100lb per person, or anywhere close. Had we been given the right information, we would have just taken more bags, that's no problem - I just didn't appreciate being held to ransom at the check-in desk. She did say most of the major airlines were introducing a similar policy over the coming months - whether that is true or not remains to be seen. Anyway, we are home, safe, sound (but cold and sad), so I suppose that's all that matters. Thank you so much for everyone for all the information and advice. Here's to planning next year!


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Drake 'tells Rihanna to forget him'
Drake reportedly feels as if Rihanna "stomped on" his heart.
The pair have had an on/off relationship for years and are thought to have split up once again last month. Drake is thought to have viewed Rihanna as marriage material when they were together, but has now accepted that things will never work between them.
"He gave his whole heart to Rihanna and he feels she stomped on it," a source told British magazine Heat. "He told Rihanna's best friend, Melissa Forde, that Rihanna should forget his face, forget his number and never call or come crying when she's hurt or lonely."
Rihanna has always been caught between Drake and her other ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. Although Chris assaulted her, resulting in their splitting, in 2009 she went on to give him other chances. They eventually went their separate ways last year but are thought to have remained close, which irritated Drake.
Chris recently completely a stint in jail linked to a violation of his probation for assaulting Rihanna, with Drake laying down the law when his release date rolled around.
"Rihanna can't stand it when a man tries to control her, and that's what Drake seemed to be doing when he asked her not to speak to Chris when he left prison," the insider said. "They had a massive row. No guy has every treated her as well as Drake has, so Rihanna is feeling a sense of loss. But she has such an ego and pride that she's incapable of saying 'sorry'."
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There isn't any shortage of players who claim to be dedicated on both ends of the floor. However, Demetrius Jackson is one who proves that dedication with his play.
A six-foot-one junior at Mishiwaka (Ind.) Marian, Jackson is one of the country's top two way players.
Ranked No. 61 in the country, Jackson is an athletic, quick and solid point guard who gets things done in the lane and at the rim. Almost too unselfish at times, Jackson has worked hard to become a much more dangerous jump shooter and looks to be finding the blend between getting others involved and generating his own offense.
On the defensive side, the four-star is one of the nation's premier on the ball defenders. He maximizes his quickness by sliding his feet, he has fast hands and bottom line he's determined to everything he can to keep the guy in front of him from scoring.
Last weekend, Rivals.com was able to watch him in action at the Bill Hensley Memorial in Ft. Wayne, Ind.. Even on a day that started off with him taking the SAT, Jackson looked sharp and improved in every aspect of the game.
Currently a target of the likes of Michigan State, Notre Dame, Illinois, Xavier, Florida State, Butler and others, Jackson took some time to break down his game, recruitment and decision making process.


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Tom Lane writes: > You seem to have missed the point completely - Neil wanted to suppress > the normal progress messages *on stderr* so that he'd only get an email > report when there was an abnormal event. That request seemed fine to > me, though I thought the patch itself might have some portability > issues. If it were recoded to follow the style of the existing boolean > options in pg_dumpall then I'd recommend accepting it. Two points: 1) The purpose of the progress messages is to inform the user of what database he is connecting to. Previously, the user just got a prompt "Password:" and had to guess which one. Unfortunately, it's hard for pg_dumpall to predict whether a password prompt will appear. This will become a nonissue soon because: 2) I'm currently rewriting pg_dumpall in C (as part of pg_dump actually), so this patch will become obsolete. (Also, I think we don't support external password files anymore, so the password is now predictable and the progress messages can be removed, if so.) -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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At Home with Moore Family Farms
A local-food enthusiast and recent college graduate puts theory to work creating a family farm outside Albuquerque.
Richard grows a diverse range of food crops, enough to stock a booth at the weekly farmers market and keep his family in fresh food.
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9125 Ridgeland Court, Allendale 49401
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10/07/2016 at $363,000
You'll love this gorgeous, well built home in Allendale! This 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bathroom home with 9 foot ceilings is situated on almost 2 acres of land and has over 1800 sq feet finished. It gives you the country feeling in the beautiful neighborhood of Ridgeland Estates. Beautiful spacious kitchen with granite countertops, huge island and slate appliances. Great room is wonderful for entertaining with a tray ceiling and fireplace. Master suite with dual sinks, granite and a walk in closet! Two bedrooms, full bath, mud room with custom lockers, half bath, laundry, and salon(would make a great office or play room) complete the main level. Home is heated and cooled by a closed loop geothermal system. Underground sprinkling installed as well as a 12 x 20 composite deck.
Property Information
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- Address
- 9125 Ridgeland Court
- City
- Allendale
- Zip
- 49401
- County
- Ottawa
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- Allendale Twp
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- Negotiable
- Zoning
- Resdential
- Total Finished SqFt
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- Above Grade SqFt
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- Garage
- 5.0
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- 5, Attached
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London is blessed with a number waterways that most people rarely notice unless they use them for cruising, cycling or walking. When I was a child, we just used to head for the Thames. My father loved to take us to the docks or to the Embankment where we could see ships of all shapes and sizes loading, unloading or just lying at their moorings. As a former naval man, he was drawn to the river and I remember well that on frequent Monday evenings, he would go down to the Thames to join his former seaman buddies on one of the Admiralty ships that lay off the South Bank. I forget its name now, but the one he went to was used as a kind of club. Oddly enough, though, the canals were never an attraction for him. Not that I can remember anyway. In those days, I honestly think they tended to be just somewhere for people to dump rubbish and old shopping trolleys.
With the resurgence of interest in canal boating, however, the canals have come back into their own and they are now places where people escape from the press and stress of city life. On the second afternoon of our stay, and once I'd finished at the LBF, we took a bus east, eventually getting off at Mile End, right by the Regent's Canal. Our bus route had taken us through the colurful eastern districts of Whitechapel and Stepney Green which have traditionally always been populated by an eclectic mix of people. They are busy, multi-cultural and lively, but when we stepped down to the canal towpath from the A11 main road, just next to the Queen Mary University of London, it was like stepping through that wardrobe door in the Narnia stories into a different world. It really was. The noise, traffic and fumes of the city streets vanished and peace descended. Sure, we had to watch out for the commuter cyclists who sped along the towpath as their chosen route, but almost without fail, these were gracious in their thanks for our consideration. It's as if a gentler spirit comes over people when they are close to the water, isn't it? So as we wandered north between the array of narrowboats that lined the canal side to our left and Mile End Park to our right, the tranquillity was incredibly therapeutic.
A little further along and under another bridge, the canal joins the Lea River, at which point we decided it was time to call it a day.
The next aftenoon, being Thursday, I left the LBF and met Koos at Tower Hill underground station. From there, we went down to the river at Wapping to see some friends of ours who have their barges on the Hermitage Moorings. We spent a lovely couple of hours with them, but in the end the motion of the rocking barge on the Thames got to my stomach and we had to retreat to the shore. All the same, we had another great walk through the old redeveloped docklands to Shadwell Basin, another haven of stillness right next to the tourist trap gone mad that is the Tower of London and its famous bridge. It's amazing how quiet and peaceful it is there, and yet the wall to wall tourists are just a couple of streets away. I can only liken it to being in the unreal calm of the eye of a storm.
|Shadwell Basin: The calm eye in London's tourist storm
On our final day, we left London and caught the train out to Southend which was where we'd flown into. One of the reasons for choosing this destination was that I'd particularly wanted to see an exhibition of paintings by The East London Group (see ref Walter Steggles earlier) that I knew was on at Southend's Beecroft Gallery. We'd also planned to meet up with a couple of long term blog pals. For me, it was the chance I'd been wanting for years to meet the very special and truly lovely Fran of the blog Bonnie of Clyde fame. For Koos, it was a reunion with a blog friend of old too.
What a terrific day that was. The exhibition was great, but the meeting with Fran was just the highlight of my trip. We had so much to talk about and as we both knew we would, we got on like a house on fire straight away and I am now on a promise to take a ferry over and visit her on her barge, something I am looking forward to doing immensely. So to finish off this rather long (okay it's me) post, here are a couple of photos to prove it. Have a great week everyone and I promise, yes, I really do, that my next post won't be as long as this one!
|The wonderful paintings of The East London Group
|Fabulous Fran from Bonnie of Clyde


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Jeffrey S. Isenberg, MD, MPH
Jeff Isenberg, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Isenberg Lab
Dr. Isenberg earned his Bachelor's at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his medical training at Tulane University School of Medicine, where he simultaneously earned a Masters of Public Health. He interned at Roosevelt-St. Luke's Hospital and completed general surgery training at Staten Island University Hospital. He further specialized in reconstructive, hand and microsurgery with fellowship training at Yale University, the University of Connecticut and the University of Southern California. He then completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Laboratory of Pathology of the NCI, NIH funded by a Cancer Research Fellow Training Award.
Research Interests
Dr. Isenberg's research interests have centered on the need to enhance tissue blood flow, perfusion and wound healing, and stem from his background as a reconstructive microsurgeon. As a clinician, the focus of his work was the development and application of novel autologous composite tissue units for closure of complex wounds. In addition to anatomical research in tissue vascular anatomy, he studied the ability of complex tissue reconstructive units to withstand stress injuries. This enabled him to improve the clinical range of these surgical approaches. However, limitations with clinical results achievable via surgical interventions alone motivated him to focus purely on research. He now studies the molecular aspect of blood flow and perfusion, and has recently discovered a novel inhibitory pathway that blocks physiologic nitric oxide (NO) signaling. NO is one of the body's central means of promoting blood flow through its ability to dilate arteries, improve cardiac contractility and decrease platelet interactions and clotting. Recently he made the startling discovery that a matrix protein, thrombspondin-1 (TSP1), completely inhibits NO-driven events in vascular cells by blocking activation of sGC. This process requires the interaction of TSP1 with the cell surface receptor CD47. He has found that this inhibitory pathway limits NO signaling both in cells and in vivo. In turn, by blocking this pathway it is possible to enhance NO signaling, thereby increasing tissue blood flow and perfusion, survival to ischemia and I/R injury, and preventing platelet thrombosis.
The Doppler movies below demonstrate TSP1, via CD47, acutely regulating blood flow changes under vasoactive stress. It shows random cutaneous flaps that face a fixed degree of ischemic challenge undergoing rapid loss of blood flow. In contrast, similar flaps in TSP1 or CD47 null animals show no significant change in blood flow.
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CDC 47 Null
TSP1 Null
Ongoing areas of interest include the implications of this new paradigm in relation to blood pressure and cardiac function. Additionally, he examines the cell and tissue protective effects arising from targeting CD47. He has recently found this receptor critical in preventing tissue damage from radiation injury.
Regulation of NO/cGMP signaling by thrombospondin-1 (TSP1) in vascular cells. Our work has demonstrated that ligand receptor interaction between the secreted protein thrombospondin-1 and its cognate receptor CD47 constantly and redundantly regulates the canonical NO pathway, inhibiting eNOS activation, and also inhibiting directly the downstream NO target sGC and the cGMP activated protein kinases. More recent work has found that TSP1 can limit the pro-angiogenic and NO based activity of VEGF by disrupting the constitutive binding/interaction of VEGFR2 and CD47. The inhibitory ligand receptor signal between TSP1 and CD47 functions in vivo to inhibit vasodilation, decrease tissue survival and blood flow in ischemia and ischemia-reperfusion, and can elevate blood pressure. Conversely, disrupting the TSP1-CD47 signal increases the beneficial effects of NO to increase blood flow, limit platelet aggregation and lower blood pressure.
Key Publications
Yao M, Roberts DD, Isenberg JS. (2011) Thrombospondin-1 inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell responses occurs via modulation of both cAMP and cGMP. Pharmacol Res. 63(1):13-22.
Kaur S, Martin-Manso G, Pendrak ML, Garfield SH, Isenberg JS, Roberts DD. (2010) Thrombospondin-1 inhibits VEGF receptor-2 signaling by disrupting its association with CD47. J Biol Chem. 285(50):38923-32.
Bauer EM, Qin Y, Miller TW, Bandle RW, Csányi G, Pagano PJ, Bauer PM, Schnermann J, Roberts DD, Isenberg JS. (2010) Thrombospondin-1 supports blood pressure by limiting eNOS activation and endothelial-dependent vasorelaxation. Cardiovasc Res. 88(3):471-81.
Maxhimer JB, Soto-Pantoja DR, Ridnour LA, Shih HB, DeGraff WG, Tsokos M, Wink DA, Isenberg JS, Roberts DD. Radioprotection in Normal Tissue and Delayed Tumor Growth by Blockade of CD47 Signaling. Sci Transl Med 1, 3ra7 (2009).
Isenberg JS, Maxhimer JB, Powers P, Tsokos M, Frazier WA, Roberts D. Treatment of liver ischemia– reperfusion injury by limiting thrombospondin-1/CD47 signaling. Surgery. 2008;144(5):752-761
Isenberg JS, Maxhimer JB, Hyodo F, Pendrak ML, Ridnour LA, DeGraff WG, Tsokos M, Wink DA, Roberts DD. Thrombospondin-1 and CD47 limit cell and tissue survival of radiation injury. Am J Pathol. 2008 Oct;173(4):1100-12. Epub 2008 Sep 11.
Isenberg JS, Romeo MJ, Maxhimer JB, Smedley J, Frazier WA, Roberts DD. Gene silencing of CD47 and antibody ligation of thrombospondin-1 enhance ischemic tissue survival in a porcine model: implications for human disease. Ann Surg. 2008 May;247(5):860-8.
Isenberg JS, Romeo MJ, Yu C, Yu CK, Nghiem K, Monsale J, Rick ME, Wink DA, Frazier WA, Roberts DD. Thrombospondin-1 stimulates platelet aggregation by blocking the antithrombotic activity of nitric oxide/cGMP signaling. Blood. 2008 Jan 15;111(2):613-23.
Isenberg JS, Romeo MJ, Abu-Asab M, Tsokos M, Oldenborg A, Pappan L, Wink DA, Frazier WA, Roberts DD. Increasing survival of ischemic tissue by targeting CD47. Circ Res. 2007;100(5):712-720.
Isenberg JS, Hyodo F, Matsumoto K, Romeo MJ, Abu-Asab M, Tsokos M, Kuppusamy P, Wink DA, Krishna MC, Roberts DD. Thrombospondin-1 limits ischemic tissue survival by inhibiting nitric oxide-mediated vascular smooth muscle relaxation. Blood. 2007 Mar 1;109(5):1945-52.
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Dr. Isenberg's work in radiation biology was recognized by the Cancer Research Center of the National Cancer Institute as among the "top scientific advances" for 2010.
Dr. Isenberg's research in the world media
Dr. Isenberg informed an article by Newsweek about turning research discoveries into therapeutic advances.
A publication in 2009 by Dr. Isenberg has drawn the attention of worldwide media.
An interview with Dr. Isenberg can be heard here, and links to related articles from various media sources are below:
|Science Daily
|EFE (Spanish news agency)
|Asia One
|MSN Health
|El Periodico (Spain)
|The Straits Times (Singapore)
|US News
|Index (Hungary)
|Hirado (Hungary)
|Pittsburgh Tribune Review
|The Daily Telegraph (UK)
|WMBF News
|The Irish Independent News
|Gant Daily News
|Cancer Research UK
|Tovima (Greece)
|Wissenshaft Aktuell (Germany)
|Russia Today


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Representatives from 26 countries in Africa meet next week in Algiers, Algeria, to assess progress and reaffirm their commitments to regional nuclear cooperation. The countries are members of an agreement called AFRA, which stands for the African Co-operative Agreement for Research, Development and Training related to Nuclear Science and Technology.
AFRA Member States are Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
AFRA was established in 1990 under the aegis of the IAEA, with the mission to "develop capacity and facilitate, through regional co-operation, the use of infrastructure to exploit relevant nuclear technology safely in order to meet the challenges of sustained communal socio-economic development on the African Continent". Efforts are directed at optimizing the collective utilization of available infrastructure and expertise in the region for socio-economic development, enhance national and regional sustainability, and pave the way to regional self-reliance.
Three vital principles guide AFRA's operations:
- Long-term capacity building
- Shorter-term focus on "problem solving"
- "Least intervention"by exploiting regional expertise preferentially.
More than 25 cooperative projects are being implemented under the AFRA framework. These projects cover a range of fields including, nuclear safety, human health, agriculture, non-destructive testing, irradiation technology, reactor utilization for socio-economic development.
The opening of the 13th Technical Working Group Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, 20 April, at the Nation Palace, Club des Pins, Algiers. Prof N. Bendjaballah, Chairman of the Algerian Atomic Energy Commission, will address the African diplomatic corps accredited in Algiers and delegates from international institutions attending the meeting. Dr. B.Y.Kim, Director of the Africa, East Asia and the Pacific Division, Technical Cooperative Department, will also address the meeting on behalf of the IAEA. Observers from numerous international institutions are expected to be present.
In parallel to this meeting, Algeria is organizing a scientific seminar to highlight the recent technological advances at national and regional levels in the fields of radiation safety, health, agriculture, industry, water resources and nuclear applications developed around nuclear research reactors. This seminar will be held from 22- 24 April 2002 at the Auditorium of the Sheraton Club des Pins Hotel, Algiers. AFRA project scientific consultants (PSCs) have been invited to deliver presentations focusing on the"state-of-the-art"in their respective fields of expertise.
An exhibition will be organized from 20-25 April on the same themes and highlighting past achievements. Stands are dedicated to IAEA and AFRA programmes and Web sites, and to AFRA Member States material or documentation.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. M. Baaliouamer, AFRA National Co-ordinator,
Director, Algerian Atomic Energy Commission
Fax: 213 21 43 35 39
E mail : M. [email protected]
Mr. M. Remki, Director of Co-operation,
Atomic Energy Commission, Algeria
Fax: 213 21 43 35 39
E-mail : [email protected]
Mr. M. Maksoudi, AFRA Coordinator,
IAEA Africa Section, Dept. of Technical Co-operation
Fax: +43 1 2600 29 703
E-mail : [email protected]


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A History of Great Inventions
Lucidly written and generously illustrated in color, this volume of scientific history by award-winning inventor James Dyson details the greatest achievements of the human imagination since early hominids invented stone tools about 250,000 years ago. Through thousands of years and vital inventions more--the canoe, the wheel, ink and papyrus, language, maps, currency, law--the primitive hunter-gatherer of the Stone Age would evolve into the literate citizen of ancient Rome at the time of Christ, as the opening chapter of this fascinating chronicle shows. Succeeding chapters follow human technological advances up to the seventeenth century and then in the age of industrial power, the age of electricity, the atomic age, and the postwar world of the microchip and the genome. Not only does Dyson survey the history of human inventions, he also explores the circumstances and impulses that underlie them. While necessity often proves to be the mother of invention, frustration and serendipity, too, can prod genius. Frustration over the countless ships and lives lost at sea led to John Harrison's invention of extraordinarily accurate clocks, whereas the cocklebur seeds that by chance stuck to George de Mestral's jacket resulted in his invention of Velcro. If, however, all invention originates in a knowledge of what already exists, as Dyson submits, his volume beautifully and accessibly illuminates the many diverse and interconnected worlds in which invention has evolved and thrived.
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The problem's size has been variously put at anywhere from $10 billion to $12.5 billion by various officials, including Schwarzenegger. That's triple the size of the deficit estimated by the administration a few weeks ago, when the state was issuing $5 billion in short-term borrowing notes.However, with headlines like, "Draft report: Prison medical care costs $2.3 billion higher," it appears not everyone got the memo.
CA: moratorium on bad news until after the election
Gov. Schwarzenegger "has decided to postpone formally releasing the latest bad news in the ongoing state budget mess," until Wednesday, after the election. Wait until voters have put away their credit cards--er, ballots--before discussing things like:


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State police members awarded for response to bombs
A Rhode Island state trooper who helped care for the injured in the immediate aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings was awarded the highest honor given by the state police during an annual memorial ceremony Thursday to mark national Police Week and to honor fallen officers.
Trooper Roupen Bastajian had just finished the April 15 marathon when two bombs went off in quick succession near the finish line. Without considering that he might himself be in danger, Bastajian ran toward the site of the bombs and helped the injured, said Col. Steven O'Donnell, head of the state police.
"It is without reservation that I can say that Trooper Bastajian's heroic efforts helped save lives that day," O'Donnell said.
Bastajian, 35, of Smithfield, told The Associated Press on the day of the bombings that he saw people lying everywhere and he jumped in to start tying tourniquets around peoples' legs.
He declined to speak to reporters Thursday, but his wife, Roubina, said she was proud of him.
"He's perfect for the job. He loves doing what he does," she said.
Several other troopers received recognition for their work on the bombings, including one who was in a nearby restaurant when the bombs went off and helped tend to the injured, and others who helped in the investigation in neighboring Massachusetts in the days and weeks after.
O'Donnell said among the work state troopers did was to help locate Katherine Russell, the wife of dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose family lives in North Kingstown. He said they responded to Dartmouth, Mass., where Tsarnaev's brother, Dzhokhar, went to school at the University of Massachusetts campus there. They also sent a SWAT team to New Bedford, Mass., when they thought he might be holed up in an apartment there.
Later, O'Donnell said, Rhode Island troopers helped locate a man called Misha, who the Tsarnaev family said is a conservative Muslim convert who steered Tamerlan toward a stricter version of Islam. O'Donnell said the man was interviewed several times over the course of a week. He has not responded to requests for comment from the AP.
In Scituate for the ceremony was Richard DesLauriers, the FBI agent in charge in Boston. He would not comment on the investigation into the bombings.