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The HTP is a semi automated free standing pelletizing press and is used to produce pressed powder sample tablets for XRF or XRD analysis. The machine can be used in conjunction with steel rings, aluminium cups or free pressing. The machine is typically used in conjunction with the HSM series pulverizers shown on the right.
All pressing parameters are stored in the PLC and several easily selectable programs can be used to accommodate different sample types. As the pressing parameters are PLC controlled and the force applied is PLC controlled each sample is treated the same ensuring a high level of reproducibility and thus ensuring the best possible precision is attained.


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Rays' win streak snapped on Bedard's rocky night
Bats go quiet as Tigers tee off in opening frame in series opener
DETROIT -- Rays manager Joe Maddon theorized before Thursday night's game against the Tigers that his starter, Erik Bedard, could survive throwing only curveballs.
It didn't matter what he threw Thursday night at Comerica Park. Detroit hit it. By the time he retired his first batter, Bedard had allowed a pair of two-run homers.
Before the inning was through, Torii Hunter hit a solo shot off a Bedard curveball. The first-place Tigers took the series opener, 8-1, snapping Tampa Bay's season-long five-game winning streak.
Bedard's night was over after just two innings, over which he allowed six runs off eight hits. It marked his shortest start since April 15, 2013, when he was chased after recording just one out.
"Nothing was really there for him, and they just jumped all over it," Maddon said. "Everything they hit was right on the screws.
"They didn't miss the mistakes."
After the first home run, off the bat of Ian Kinsler, Maddon still liked his team's chances. But the second one, by Victor Martinez, was a crushing blow. The third home run of the inning put the final nail in the coffin.
"The three home runs, it certainly doesn't guarantee a win, but you feel good about it when you put that number of runs up early and then back it up again a few more times," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said.
As much as Maddon loves Bedard's curveball, so too did the Tigers on Thursday night. The first one he threw went for a single off the bat of Austin Jackson. Bedard hung the next one and it left the yard, courtesy of Hunter.
"I just didn't have it today," he said. "I just got behind and they hit pitches."
Big innings like Detroit's first have been the Achilles' heel for a Tampa Bay offense that has looked lethargic at times this season. Compounding matters was Detroit starter Max Scherzer, who pitched eight innings of two-hit ball, giving the Rays their lowest hit total of the season.
"It's hard to beat that guy here, under those circumstances," Maddon said.
But Tampa Bay struck first after Desmond Jennings led off the game with a double and later scored on an Evan Longoria sacrifice fly. From that point on, the Rays failed to get anything going against Scherzer, who struck out seven.
Two hard-hit liners in the top of the third that seemed destined to be hits found the gloves of Tigers. Even though the Rays mustered just two hits in the loss, none came beyond the fourth inning, Maddon said he liked many of the at-bats his team had off Scherzer. Too many balls were simply hit right at fielders.
Vince Belnome made his Major League debut for the Rays and went 0-for-3 with a pair of strikeouts.
Following Longoria's RBI, Scherzer retired 22 of the next 23 batters he faced, and Tampa Bay didn't put a runner in scoring position for the remainder of the night.
Cesar Ramos provided 3 1/3 innings of mop-up duty, but Detroit hit him as well, tacking on two more runs.
Still, Ramos managed to save most of the bullpen despite a significant distraction -- his wife, Melanie, is pregnant and "ready to pop at any time."
"It's always in the back of your mind," he said. "You've always got to be able to put stuff aside. … Once I was done, I came up here and the first thing I did was check my phone. We play a game and that's real life.
"But you learn to put things aside."
Despite the loss, a jarring return to Earth for the Rays who had been playing their best baseball of the season, there was no panic evident on Maddon's face after the game. His club now sits 10 games back of first-place Toronto in the American League East.
"We've been playing well. We're going to play well again tomorrow night," Maddon said. "We weren't going to win the rest of our games. I was pretty sure of that."

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DC Shouldn't Subsidize Parking Garages
The District of Columbia is providing tax incentives for a parking garage at a new Harris Teeter grocery store. This follows a District subsidized parking garage boondoggle that opened at a Columbia Heights mall in 2008. Whether it's a parking garage, bike rack, or any other commercial transportation activity, government should remain neutral. If Harris Teeter believes a 150‐car parking garage is in the best interests of the company's bottom line, it should pay for it itself. Taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook. If the District or any other city wants to encourage economic development, it should seek lower taxes across the board, and remove costly regulatory barriers.
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Effect of Change to a Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor (NRTI)-Sparing Regimen of Efavirenz (EFV) and Lopinavir/Ritonavir (LPV/r) on Liver Histology in HIV-1-Infected Individuals With Lactic Acidemia and Persistent Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) Elevations on NRTI-Containing Antiretroviral Therapy
Effect of a Change in HIV Therapy on Liver Steatosis, Inflammation, and Fibrosis
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to look at how 2 different anti-HIV drug treatments affect the liver. The use of anti-HIV drugs like the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) may be linked to liver problems like fatty changes, scarring, abnormal liver function tests (LFTs), and lactic acidemia (an increase in lactic acid in the blood). Increased liver enzymes may mean liver damage. The way that the liver changes in people with abnormal LFTs and lactic acidemia is not completely understood.
Detailed Description
This study provides a unique opportunity to prospectively assess the relationship of lactic acidemia with liver dysfunction and to determine whether lactic acidemia and liver dysfunction are likely to be secondary to NRTI-induced mitochondrial toxicity. If lactic acidemia and hepatic fatty infiltration (steatosis) in this study population are secondary to NRTI-induced mitochondrial toxicity, withdrawal of NRTI medications can be expected to result in partial improvement or resolution of these findings. Furthermore, this study will examine the possible additive ill effects of NRTI-induced mitochondrial toxicity on liver function in individuals coinfected with hepatitis C. This study is designed both as a stand-alone ACTG protocol providing an NRTI-sparing regimen and as a study coenrollable simultaneously with A5116. Patients enrolling in A5133 as a stand-alone study: Patients on NRTI-containing regimens with elevated lactates and ALTs are enrolled into a single open-label NRTI-sparing treatment regimen of efavirenz (EFV) plus lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r), which are provided by the study. These patients follow virologic failure/toxicity management guidelines as detailed in the protocol. Patients coenrolling in A5116: Patients are studied on their assigned A5116 antiretroviral regimens with medication as provided by A5116. Those randomized in A5116 to the NRTI-sparing regimen of EFV and LPV/r identical to that offered by A5133 will be assessed together with patients who entered A5133 as a stand-alone study. Individuals assigned in A5116 to the continued NRTI arm of 2NRTIs plus EFV are enrolled into a separate observational arm of A5133. The impact of continued NRTI therapy on liver histology is assessed in this observational arm. Virologic failure/toxicity management is in accordance with the A5116 protocol. The definition of virologic failure in A5116 is identical to the definition used in A5133. Arm 1 consists of patients assigned to an NRTI-sparing regimen without evidence of HCV coinfection. Arm 2 consists of patients assigned to an NRTI-sparing regimen with evidence of HCV coinfection. Arm 3 consists of patients coenrolled in the NRTI-containing arm of A5116 with or without evidence of HCV coinfection. All patients are evaluated for safety and for virologic and immunologic responses. In addition, individuals undergo liver biopsy and upper abdominal CT scans within 30 days prior to entry and within 30 days prior to week 24. The biopsied tissue is reviewed for evidence of fatty infiltration, inflammation, and fibrosis. The CT scans are assessed for degree of fatty infiltration. If sufficient liver tissue is available, the biopsied tissue will be assessed for other parameters. Plasma, PBMCs, and sera are collected to explore the role of oxidative stress and other parameters in the development of hepatic fatty infiltration (steatosis) and hyperlactatemia. The effect of changes in liver fatty infiltration and plasma lactate on lipoproteins will be explored. Finally, PBMC mtDNA content will be correlated with liver mtDNA content.
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Inclusion Criteria Patients may be eligible for this study if they: - Have a higher than normal level of lactic acid and liver enzymes in blood within 45 days prior to study entry. - Are HIV infected. - Have been receiving an anti-HIV drug combination containing an NRTI for more than 12 months continuously before entering the study. - Have an HIV viral load (amount of HIV in the blood) of less than 200 copies/ml within 70 days prior to study entry. - Have a negative pregnancy test within 45 days prior to study entry. - Agree to use 2 approved methods of birth control while participating in sexual activity that could lead to pregnancy, while receiving study medications and for 6 weeks after stopping the medications, both men and women and their partners, if able to have children. - Are at least 13 years of age. Exclusion Criteria Patients will not be eligible for this study if they: - Have hepatitis B according to certain lab tests. - Have known causes for liver disease other than HCV or anti-HIV therapy. - Regularly and excessively use alcohol. - Are unwilling to restrict alcohol use to the amount allowed during the study. - Have untreated endocrine disease such as diabetes and Cushing's disease. Diabetes that is under good control, stable hypothyroidism on replacement therapy, and stable hypogonadism on replacement therapy will be allowed. - Receive prednisone within 1 month of study entry or high levels of prednisone (greater than 10 mg/day) within 90 days of study entry. - Have had poorly controlled congestive heart failure within the last 12 months. - Have signs and symptoms of abnormal liver function. - Are unwilling to have a liver biopsy. - Have a swollen abdomen due to accumulated fluid. - Are suspected of having liver cancer. - Are pregnant and breast-feeding. - Abuse drugs. - Have a serious illness within 14 days prior to entry. - Have an AIDS-related (opportunistic) infection or illness at the time of study entry. - Have HIV resistance to certain anti-HIV drugs. - Have a history of failing treatment with PI-containing drugs (not due to side effects of the drug). - Have previously received NNRTI medications (except for current drug combination that is successful). - Have used certain drugs within 30 days prior to study entry. - Are allergic to any of the study drugs. - Are receiving or may need to receive treatment for hepatitis C during the study. - Have previously enrolled in A5116.
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Cecilia Shikuma
Study Chair
Univ of Hawaii
Honolulu Hawaii 96816 United States
Tripler Army Med Ctr
Tripler AMC Hawaii 96859 United States
Beth Israel Med Ctr
New York New York 10003 United States
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March 5, 2015
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on May 29, 2020
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Most clinical trials are designated as phase 1, 2, 3, or 4, based on the type of questions that study is seeking to answer:
In Phase 1 (Phase I) clinical trials, researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people (20-80) for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
In Phase 2 (Phase II) clinical trials, the study drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people (100-300) to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.
In Phase 3 (Phase III) clinical trials, the study drug or treatment is given to large groups of people (1,000-3,000) to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.
In Phase 4 (Phase IV) clinical trials, post marketing studies delineate additional information including the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use.
These phases are defined by the Food and Drug Administration in the Code of Federal Regulations.
In Phase 1 (Phase I) clinical trials, researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people (20-80) for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
In Phase 2 (Phase II) clinical trials, the study drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people (100-300) to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.
In Phase 3 (Phase III) clinical trials, the study drug or treatment is given to large groups of people (1,000-3,000) to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.
In Phase 4 (Phase IV) clinical trials, post marketing studies delineate additional information including the drug's risks, benefits, and optimal use.
These phases are defined by the Food and Drug Administration in the Code of Federal Regulations.


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The following is a list of most of the available 3D applications, links to their websites, current MSRP and a link to the downloadable version if available. If I have missed any applications, please email me at [email protected] and I will rectify that.
The program most often used for creating game graphics, 3DS is probably the gold standard of 3D applications. In recent years Autodesk has been snapping up all the competition and slowly they are becoming very similar. Package does just about everything you could imagine, as well as having perhaps one of the easiest IK systems ever created.
Operating Systems: Windows
Cost (MSRP): 3,495$
Demo/Trial Available? Yes
Download Link: Click here for download page
Download Type: 30 Day trial
Sample Titles: Rockband, FarCry 2, Assassins Creed
The ultimate evolution of Alias Sketch. Re-written for Windows as Alias Wavefront Maya in 1998, then simply Maya it was acquired by Autodesk in 2005. Responsible for the now nearly universal QWERTY control system as well as the visual move/scale/translate gizmo.
Operating Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux
Cost (MSRP): 3,495$ without subscription, 4,090$ with
Sample Titles: Deus Ex Human Revolution, EA Sports MMA, Resident Evil 5
Softimage is another commercial package with a long history, starting as Softimage|3D in 1988, to become Softimage XSI in 2000, then purchased by Autodesk in 2009 to become Autodesk Softimage. In the middle there was a brief stint where it was owned by Microsoft. Softimage has been used to create numerous films and games. Since being acquired by Autodesk, the price has increased substantially, with the elimination of different tiers being available.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
Cost (MSRP): 2,995$ without subscription, 3,790$ with.
Sample Titles: Lost Planet, Metal Gear Solid, Bayonetta
Back before being acquired by Autodesk, Softimage released a free version of Softimage based on Softimage 7.5, designed for mod makers working with Source Engine ( Halflife2 and others ) powered games. When XNA was released, ModTool was also available for XNA Creator Club subscribers to freely make commercial games. Since these days, Autodesk seems to have abandoned ModTool.
Operating Systems:
Demo/Trial Available? No
Download Type: Full featured, non-commercial license (unless working with XNA)
Sample Titles: Unknown
This program is extremely polished and intuitive to use, with a price that is extremely appealing. Silo is a dedicated modeler, with only minimal UV editing features. I highly recommend you check out the 30 day download, but caution you that the developer support is incredibly iffy. When evaluating your purchase, ask yourself if the version you are evaluating is worth the price of admission WITHOUT any further patches or upgrades, as there may be none!
Operating Systems: Windows, Mac
Cost (MSRP): 99$ Core, 159$ Pro
Download Type: 30 Day full featured, after 30 days limited save functionality
In the beginning there was Lightwave and all was good. Then something happened and most of the Lightwave went off and started Luxology. Frankly I think we are lucky they did. It started off as a pure modeler but now it is a modeler, sculpter, texture/painting and rendering suite. There is now animation support but it is relatively primitive. Up until recently they have only had a paid demo, which was really really really stupid, but fortunately they have rectified that, somewhat.
Cost (MSRP): 995$
Download Type: 15 Day trial, have a 30 day trial bundle available for 25$
Sample Titles: Test Drive Unlimited 2, Rage & Doom 4
As mentioned earlier, the team behind Modo started off at Newtek working on Lightwave. Lightwave has been around a long time, with roots on the Amiga in the 80s. Perhaps most famous for Babylon 5, Lightwave has been used in hundreds of games, films and tv series. It's followers were almost rabidly loyal. Since the team at Luxology split off, Newtek seems to be spinning it's wheels a bit. They announced a re-write called Lightwave CORE in 2009, and just released Lightwave 10 at the end of 2010. It is definitely worth checking out, Lightwave has always been an affordable option and I believe the current price is as low as it has ever been.
Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS
Cost (MSRP): 895$
Sample Titles:
Blender is covered in much greater detail across this site, such as here. Its comprehensive, powerful and free, why not check it out? Simply put, it is one of the programs this site focuses on. As I personally just discovered, it is also a remarkably capable video composition tool.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS, FreeBSD
Cost (MSRP): 0$
Demo/Trial Available? Not Applicable
Download Type: Full release!
Sample Titles: Ignite PC, others?
Like Blender,Wings 3D is one of the primary programs featured elsewhere on this site. It's a dedicated sub-division surface modeler with some UV editing features. Its based on Nendo, its remarkably powerful, a little awkward and completely free. With that price tag, you have no reason not to check it out! I find the workflow on par or better than most commercial packages.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Other Unix OS's built from sources
A full featured, extremely affordable 3D suite for the Macintosh, with a very Mac focused user interface. Integration with Unity is seamless. Full modeling, texturing, animating and rendering support out of the box.
Operating Systems: Mac OS
Cost (MSRP): 99$ ( currently on sale, regularly 149$ )
Download Type: No time limit, save functionality disabled.
Cinema has been around a long time, first release in 1991 on the Amiga. Full modeling, texturing, animating and rendering abilities are included as well as advanced painting tools. Most of the dynamics features ( Rigid/Soft Bodies, advanced particles, hair, etc.. ) are limited to the much more expensive Studio version. Two other versions exists, but neither is geared towards game development.
Cost (MSRP): Prime:995$, Studio:3,695$ (All suites currently 25% off these prices )
Download Type: 42 day heavily restricted trial
Sample Titles: Warhammer:Mark of Chaos ( cinematics )
Another package that has been around for a very long time, and one I really try to love as we share the same home city. Truth is though, I just don't understand this program, the workflow is just so different from what I am used to. It is a purely procedural package, working on a series of operators. Again, I want to try to explain it, but I simply can't, I just don't understand it! It is as full featured as any other suite out there. Even though I can't explain this package to you, do let that put you off it, as SideFX has some of the best free trial options available, as well as a 99$ starving artist edition! So, please evaluate it for yourself!
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS
Cost (MSRP): Apprentice:HD 99$, Houdini:Escape 1,995$, Houdini:Master 6,695$
Download Type: No time limit, watermarked renderings and export limited
Sample Titles: Killzone 2/3, Final Fantasy X


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Chedun: Where China's best films are made
Every year, thousands of young Chinese migrants flock to Chedun (车墩镇) -- either hoping to get a foothold in Shanghai with a job on an assembly line or pursuing their dream of becoming the next Jackie Chan (成龙).
In addition to housing a 40-square-kilometer industrial zone, Chedun is also home to Shanghai Film Park (上海影视乐园), one of China's biggest movie studios.
Fake Shanghai, ghost town and a great green space
The film park lies only a couple of blocks away from a dusty, noisy and truck-loaded highway and down a side lane filled with noodle restaurants, massage parlours, Internet cafés and short-stay apartments -- an unassuming place to launch some of Asia's best films.
Opened in 1998, the 400,000-square-meter compound witnesses the production of more than 100 films and TV series every year, with headlining titles like "Lust, Caution," "Perhaps Love" and "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor."
A walk through the park is an eerie experience.
The expansive space is mostly occupied by reproductions of landmarks (only the facades) from the colonial Shanghai period, such as Nanjing Lu, Moller Villa and the former Peace Plaza on the Bund.
A diverting collection of Western style buildings and props jump into horizon now and then, including a Tudor-style winery and a Titanic-like ferry made with cardboard (erected on a deserted patch of grass).
The recommended stops for Chinese movie mavens are the Moller Villa complex, Nanjing Lu and the iron bridge, where you are likely to catch film crews in action or, if you are lucky, get autographs from film stars like Gong Li (巩俐) and Andy Lau (刘德华).
For adventurous travelers, walk behind the facades for a view of abandoned buildings and props, which is almost as ghostly as the deserted Wonderland in Beijing.
Surprisingly, the functioning film studio also houses a pleasant green space. Walk past the "Suzhou Creek," turn right and keep walking till the end, you'll find a small scenic spot with a tranquil lake, weeping willows, pebble-paved paths and a forested island.
Hilarious Kung Fu Show
There are very few benches in the film park for visitors to rest, but a hilarious kung fu performance (in studio no.5) provides a quick way to refuel.
Staged twice a day (10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.), the budget stage show borrows its plot from a popular Chinese TV series "Shanghai Tan" and is set in 1920s Shanghai.
Prepare to see a very limited cast presenting a montage of jazz dance, a love triangle scene and (fake) kung fu fight in the 20-minute show, which is dubbed with pre-recorded dialogue in Shanghainese and Mandarin, together with combat sound effects and, amusingly, periodical sounds of mouse clicks.
A tour around Shanghai Film Park takes about two hours. Family visitors are advised to pay extra attention to children while touring as some of the movie sets are not properly maintained. For example, several safety barrels on stairs and along the creek were missing during our trip.
Traffic directions
Visitors can reach Shanghai Film Park from downtown in three ways:
1. Shanghai Tourism Distribution Center has shuttle buses (leaving at 9 a.m.) to Shanghai Film Park every weekend.
Shanghai Tourism Distribution Center (上海旅游集散中心), 666 Tianyaoqiao Lu, below Platform 5 of Shanghai Stadium, 天钥桥路666号,上海体育场5号扶梯下, + 86 21 6426 5555, 6 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
2. Take Metro Line 1 to Lianhua Lu Station (莲花路站), then switch to bus Lianshi (莲石专线), Lianjin (莲金专线) or Lianfeng (莲枫专线) to Chedun. The film park is a 10-minute walk from the bus stop.
3. Take Metro LIne 9 to the last stop at Songjiang Xincheng (松江新城), and then take a RMB-30 taxi ride.
Shanghai Film Park (上海影视乐园)
4915 Beisong Gong Lu, near Xinche Gong Lu
北松公路4915号, 近新车公路
+86 21 5760 1166
Admission: RMB 50
8:30 a.m.-4:30
This article was first published in January, 2012, updated February, 2013.


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Putin's 9 most outrageous publicity stunts
Sometimes, when the stars are aligned just right, and a little of the old magic seeps back into our colourless world, a true leader is born. A man such as Vladimir Putin: ex-KGB agent, former Russian President, he who puts the Prime into Minister. The man who certainly wouldn't consider running for President again in 2012, even though he only stepped down in 2008 because the constitution said he had to.
All those accusations about creating a cult of personality, and nurturing a hard man image at complete odds with that of the current President – complete rubbish. He can't help it if the state-controlled Russian TV networks idolize him, and insist on filming him as he goes about his daily business. You know, daily business. Things like:
1. Saving a TV crew from a Siberian tiger attack
In August 2008, Putin visited the Ussuri Nature Reserve in the far east of Russia to see how tigers are monitored in the wild. With uncanny flair for what makes good TV, a Siberian tiger escaped its restraints and rushed towards the crew filming the trip. Realising the cat was after more than a scratch behind the ears and a saucer of milk, Putin shot it. With the tranquilizer gun he was conveniently carrying.
After helping to measure the tiger's teeth, and concluding they were nowhere near as dangerous as his own, Putin tagged the beast with a satellite transmitter and sent it on its way with a stern warning that he now knew where it lived.
A presenter on Russian television said:
"Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too."
Yep, the Prime Minister managed to see the 450kg mass of stripy snarl charging right towards them. So we can assume that not only does he have BraveStarr's speed of the puma, but also his eyes of a hawk.
2. Shooting a gray whale with a crossbow
Yep – you did read that right. In August 2010, the Prime Minister of Russia shot a whale with a freaking crossbow. But don't worry, Putin getting medieval on the whale's arse was all in the name of scientific research: the bolt was designed to collect skin samples, to help experts determine where the whale came from.
Unlike the tiger leaping towards him with murder in its mouth, it took Putin four attempts to nail the 35-tonne sea mammal. Although, to be fair, he was rocking about in a rubber dinghy off the far east coast of Russia at the time.
When a journalist asked him why he'd done it, he said, "Because I like it. I love the nature." I wonder if the translator missed the word "shooting" out of this sentence somewhere.
3. Judo-throwing his opponents and putting the smack down on zombies
Never let it be said that Vlad the Bad needs a projectile weapon in order to kick butt: he's just as deadly with his bare hands. Putin is an active Judo practitioner, and has a penchant for tossing around grown men in front of the cameras.
He's won multiple competitions, written a book on Judo, and has even demonstrated techniques to students at the Judo headquarters in Japan. In case you're wondering, he's a sixth degree black belt, which in Judo means he's so hard his belt isn't even black. It's alternating red and white stripes. This could also represent a secret Crazy Barber style of Judo, or the blood of his murdered political opponents.
(Note: Putin usually wears a black belt during photo ops, since nothing screams, "I'm a black belt" as loudly as a belt that is black.)
I'd bet that if Putin were Prime Minister of Britain, he'd have stopped the recent UK riots singlehandedly. I think Russian writer Sergei Kalenik would agree: he's created a web comic in which good old Vladimir is a superhero. Along with his sidekick, current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (described as a "gnome raised by bears"!), Superputin must save the country from terrorists. Along the way he also takes on zombies with blue buckets on their heads. Because zombies that aren't kitted out with household body armour just aren't worth his time.
4. Water-bombing the shit out of forest fires near Moscow
Even natural disasters stand no chance if you have Vladimir Putin on dial-a-hero. When wildfires were sweeping across western Russia in August 2010, he took to the skies in a Beriev Be-200 fire-fighting plane, switched into the co-pilot's seat once safely airborne, and unleashed the wrath of heaven onto the raging inferno below him.
OK, so he pushed a button that dumped water on fire. But anyone who thinks that was a mere publicity stunt should ask themselves the question: When the heat is on, could you step up and do what it takes?
Besides, that's only the official version, which most Putinologists believe is a government cover-up in order to conceal his true powers. The most popular alternative theory is that Putin took an almighty swig from the Volga river, and then pissed on Nature's bonfire from a great height.
5. Taking an F1 race car for a spin… literally
At some point in their lives, most people have to choose between becoming Prime Minister, and racing Formula One. Not so Vladimir Putin. In October 2010, a month after he signed a deal with Bernie Ecclestone to bring the sport to Russia, Putin took an F1 racer for a solo spin near St Petersburg. And when we say spin, we mean spin: reaching speeds of nearly 150mph, at one point he lost control and spun out, though managed to recover. You gotta hand it to him: the guy has balls of steel. Or a key part of his brain missing.
But sometimes it's more important to travel in style. And if you happen to be Vladimir Putin, "style" means getting geared up and roaring into a bikers' convention in the Ukraine on a Harley Davison tricycle. According to Wikipedia, he's even been made an honorary Hells Angel. His nickname translates as "The destroyer", or "Depths of Hell"!
6. Shaking paws with a polar bear and snuggling up to snow leopards
It has been suggested that Vladimir Putin may be the black sheep of the Dr Dolittle clan, where instead of talking to the animals, he shoots them. Except…
In April 2010 he 'helped' experts attach a tracking collar to a tranquilized polar bear in the Arctic. Sky News reported:
Be well? Be well! You couldn't make this shit up. Presumably he meant to say, "Be as well as you can for now, coz there's a fuck-load of oil in the Arctic and we've already laid symbolic claim to the area by planting a flag on the sea bed at the North Pole. And by the way, I'm a black belt at Judo so don't piss me off."
"As the sleeping beast lay before him, Mr Putin shook its paw and said: 'Be well.'"
In keeping with his quest to be the friend of all things furry, Putin recently "frolicked" (really, Reuters?) with a snow leopard in Siberia. Snow leopards are an official mascot of the 2014 Russian Winter Olympics, and scientists had supposedly rescued this one "after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of poachers."
Fortunately, Putin had space in his schedule to fly out and frolic it back to freedom. But this blog post on Saving Snow Leopards claims a much darker story behind the photo op: that the snow leopard was abducted from its home in a nature reserve, and kept in captivity for a week before Putin came to 'release' it.
7. Discovering ancient Greek urns on his third ever scuba dive
Whilst diving last week at an ancient Greek archaeological site on the Black Sea, Putin again utilised his eyes of a hawk to discover two urns dating back to the sixth century. It didn't matter that it was only Putin's third ever scuba dive, because the surprisingly intact and decidedly un-mossy urns were hidden in clear water only two metres under the surface.
Divers and archaeologists have been working this site for years, but never so much as tripped over these whacking great pots. They must be embarrassed they never got round to checking that spot earlier. It's just like my granny used to say:
"If you want something done, get a powerful politician with a hard-on for the presidency to do it, and make sure to roll the cameras."
Of course, some naysayers have called shenanigans. But I say ship Putin out to Egypt and point him towards the Pyramids, see what he comes up with. At the very least, he can help me find the TV remote I left on my sofa last week. I can't imagine where it went.
8. Scoping out the deepest lake in the world by submarine
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest freshwater lake in the world, and therefore a worthy subject for Prime Minister Putin's penetrating intellectual analysis. In Summer 2009 he lent his expertise to a group of scientists studying gas hydrates on the lake bed, joining them for a mile-deep jolly in a mini submarine.
Before you start questioning the wisdom of taking a layman on a crammed-into-a-submarine-a-mile-underwater-doing-important-shit scientific expedition, consider the insight Putin was able to offer:
"The water is pure from an ecological point of view, of course, but it is in fact a kind of plankton soup, as I would call it."
This must be where the team in the film Sphere went wrong. They were investigating a suspected alien vessel deep under the ocean. Instead of wasting space on psych-astro-biologists, they should have taken down the Prime Minister of Russia. He'd have made quick work of that giant squid, for starters.
9. Baring his chest in Siberia, again, and again, and again…
When not aiming a gun at the natural world, Putin likes to commune with it. In 2007, whilst still President, he took Monaco's Prince Albert II on a wilderness adventure to Siberia. There are a lot more camera crews in Siberia than you might expect, and Putin just happened to be snapped whilst fishing bare-chested. In the interests of decency, he was using a rod at the time, though I'm sure he reverted back to spear once the press were gone. To put this into perspective, British leaders prefer to holiday in villas in Tuscany, ideally provided for free by their aristocratic mates. If they take their kit off they are more likely to look like a fish than to catch one.
Returning to the same area in 2009, Putin was somehow shot again with his top off and his man-guns out. He was riding a horse this time, though inexplicably not bareback. I can only assume the saddle was there to protect the horse from Putin's bad-assery.
NBC even entertained the idea of Putin being the original Old Spice guy.
But being Prime Minister of Russia isn't just about flashing a bit of skin. If you check the previous link, there's pictures of other Putin action man figures:
- Pyro Putin – snapping sticks to make a fire
- Pensive Putin – sitting in a tree, gazing winsomely off-camera
- Paternal Putin – gifting his watch to a young boy
- Pectoral Putin – displaying his muscles as he demonstrates the butterfly stroke in a Siberian lake
- Peasant Putin – taking dinner with a local villager
As long as I get the model where the eyes move from side to side, I'll be happy.


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Friday, April 16, 2010, 15:00 - Latin TranslationIs it safe to assume that anyone who prepares to have something tattooed on their skin understands the value of checking it twice, or else? Even more so with Latin. I cannot stress enough the need to verify every letter of your Latin tattoos before (that's right, folks) the damage has been done. The results can vary from an unfortunate "auto-corrected" error in a otherwise completely correct Latin phrase, to something entirely meaningless and unreadable even with the help of true Latin scholars. Here is a collection of some striking examples:
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The Safe C Library implements a subset of the functions defined in the ISO TR24731 specification which is designed to provide alternative functions for the C Library (as defined in ISO/IEC 9899:1999) that promotes safer, more secure programming in C.
To recap: The Safe C Library (available for download here) provides bound checking memory and string functions per ISO/IEC TR24731. These functions are alternative functions to the existing Standard C Library.
A complement to the Safe C Library defined by the ISO TR24731 specification the Safe Math Library, designed to catch arithmetic overflows. These are the subtle errors that occur when converting from one data size to another, converting from signed to unsigned and unsigned to signed. The library provides a set of functions for: addition, subtraction, multiply, divide, increment, decrement, modulo, negation, and absolute.
While there is no standard for such functions, the Safe Math library is modeled after the ISO TR24731 specification. It is intended to complement the Safe C Library, providing one more layer security.
The Safe Math Library supports the data types in Table 1.
As you can see in Table 1, taking the absolute value of the minimum signed value of a data type overflows. For example, there is no corresponding value for the absolute of -128 for the signed int8_t data type. The addition of two like unsigned data types will overflow when the sum exceeds the maximum value of that unsigned data type. For example, the sum of two uint16_ts -- 65535 and 1 -- will overflow. Type casting an unsigned data type to a like signed data type can also result in the unexpected. For example, casting an unsigned short with a value of 32768 to a signed short will overflow the maximum signed short value of 32767.
When used properly, the Safe Math functions mitigate the dangers associated with arithmetic errors and the vulnerability of cyber attacks. Source code may remain vulnerable due to other bugs and security issues. The highest level of security is achieved by building in layers of security utilizing multiple strategies.
The rationale for the safe Math Library is similar to TR24731 and is itemized below:
- Complement the Safe C Library
- Guard against arithmetic overflows
- Provide a library useful to existing code
- Only require local edits to programs
- Library-based solution, no tool chain upgrades required
- Support compile-time checking
- Make failures obvious through constrain handler
- Runtime-constraint handler mechanism
- Support re-entrant code
- Consistent naming scheme
- Have a uniform pattern for the function parameters and return type
- Deference to existing technology
Similar to TR24731, the Safe Math Library verifies that the calling program does not violate the function's runtime-constraints. If a runtime-constraint is violated, the library calls the currently registered runtime-constraint handler to recorded the violation. The runtime-constraint handler might not return. If the handler does return, the Safe Math library functions whose runtime-constraint was violated does not attempt to mathematically correct the result nor does it provide a return code indicating the error. Corrective action will require scanning the logs to correct the mathematical errors in the code.
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Stress is what you feel when you have to handle more than you are used to. When you are stressed, your body responds as though you are in danger. It makes hormones that speed up your heart, make you breathe faster, and give you a burst of energy.
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"Sunny with a chance of hurricanes," Rick Lake quipped at the outset of a roundtable discussion of the economic and investment forecast for 2013, when asked about what he's seeing.
Lake, co-chairman of Lake Partners and manager of Aston/Lake Partners LASSO alternative investment fund, was joined by Greg Estes, vice-president and portfolio manager of Intrepid All Cap Fund, John Cadigan, managing director and head of sales national sales with Direxion Funds and Jim Cunnane, managing director and CIO of FAMCO at Schwab Impact 2012 in Chicago on Wednesday.
"It's a case of where the natural world becomes a metaphor for the financial world," Lake continued. "The sunny part is that companies are deleveraging and cleaning up their balance sheets. The stormy part is that governments are also deleveraging, and it's not pretty. No one wants to be handed the bill, and politicians don't want to hand them the bill or they won't be reelected. What this means for investors is that task No. 1 will be to get through these market squalls."
"The illusion of a partnership between the parties has popped," Cadigan added. "The opening salvo was the Obama administration's announcement that it will seek twice the tax revenue that it originally indicated. Surprisingly, the VIX has calmed down as investors continue to look for risk mitigating strategies, but they're doing so with fixed income. The independent broker-dealer sector of the market has 60% of its assets in fixed income. Firms are concerned about the amount if credit risk and are trying to induce their clients through education to look at alternatives."
One area, specifically, that is getting attention are managed futures, which are negatively correlated to both the equity market as well fixed income.
"I agree with what I've just heard," Estes said. "It's all about risk mitigation and deleveraging. Deficit spending is 8% or 8.5% of GDP. Something has to give; it can't remain the way it is. We have low rates, low wages, and high corporate profitability; this all points to volatility in the future."
"We're an energy-related manager in the MLP space," Cunnane said. "We're in infrastructure, and we're seeing an increasing tolerance from clients for risk and we have expectations of more volatility. Specific to our space, MLPs are tax-advantaged so tax reform is something we're watching closely. Also, regulations on fracking are a concern, as is the Keystone pipeline and whether it will be built. All these things affect volatility for us."
"Liquid alternatives are one place in which we're positioning ourselves since we have a fund," Lake said. "Long/short strategies can smooth the ride. They embrace volatility and can profit from it. On the fixed income side we're looking for managers with zero duration, and we're also taking advantage of various arbitrage strategies in which we're clipping pennies and nickels from companies that add up to a proven income stream."
"In the alternative space, commodities are getting most of the play," Cadigan said. "Long-term, they have low correlation and after the last round of quantitative easing they were up 20%. As the market evolves, it will be more about selective use of commodities, rather than an all-in strategy."
For our part, MLPs are tax-advantaged, liquid and high-yield, so they're popular in the market right now. The U.S. is expected to be the largest producer of oil in coming years, and it will take a lot of infrastructure to get there."
"We are more specific," Estes concluded. "We're in small- and mid-cap stocks of the equity side and junk on the fixed-income side. But we're always willing to convert to cash. We don't want to pick up nickels in front of a steamroller."
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On the Systems Architect blog there's a new post from Lukasz Kujawa about creating a simple API-based application combining Slim, Require.js and Backbone. The result is a single-page application that displays a template and a set of links pulled from the backend.
A single-page application (SPA) was something I've been exploring for the last few months. I always liked the idea of moving certain responsibilities to the client's side. After all, why would you like to waste server's RAM/CPU to buil a HTML page (and pay for a transfer to deliver it) when a web browser is perfectly capable of doing that on its own?
He's posted the full example to Github, but he does walk through all the code showing how the parts fit together. He starts with the HTML5 template and Javascript side of things, making a simple Backbone router and a "create" route. The views are rendered via the Lo-Dash templating and injected into the page.
As you can see it's all quite simple. The only problem is that you have to embrace multiple JavaScript frameworks at once but the boilerplate makes it much easier. What I really like about this setup is the structure. It's similar to how things are done in the back-end and it should be fine even with big applications.


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Same old, same old. Dodgers went 1 for 9 w/RISP and the one hit didn't even get the run home, a single by Luis Maza in the fifth on which Blake DeWitt could only move up one base to third. Two strikeouts and a fly ball later, DeWitt still hadn't moved, and the Dodgers still hadn't scored. They have now scored a total of two runs in their past three games, both of them on sacrifice flies. And Jason Repko's first major-league game since October 2006, when he pinch ran in Game 1 of the NLCS? He went 0 for 5 with four Ks that would have been five Ks if plate ump Gary Cederstrom hadn't called a balk on Jose Valverde as Repko was striking out for the fifth time. Repko also misplayed a ball in CF, a key moment in a decisive, three-run fourth for the 'Stros. Eric Stults wasn't going to dominate forever, and this ballpark isn't kind to lefties with its short porch in left field. If that got in Stults' head, he wouldn't admit it afterward. But that fourth-inning rally did start with a one-out walk to Lance Berkman, who had taken Stults off the ivory-colored wall ABOVE the leftfield paviliion in the first inning. With half the season still to come, Berkman looks suspiciously like the N.L. MVP. … Dodgers fall to 38-44. The bad news is the Snakes won, so the boys fall to 3 1/2 back. The good news is the Giants are getting hammered at home by the Cubs, so they'll stay 2 1/2 behind the Dodgers.
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Pierre to miss four to six weeks
As Joe Torre said, it could have been a lot worse. JP should be able to start doing some form of exercise in about six days. Meanwhile, Matt Kemp is out tonight, and possibly tomorrow as well, with an infection in his right eye. He couldn't get his contact lens in this morning. And Angel Berroa, who went 4 for 28 on the homestand, also is sitting. … Finally, an I call 'em or what? Repko leading off.
CF Repko
RF Ethier
C Martin
2B Kent
1B Loney
LF Young
3B DeWitt
SS Maza
LH Stults
Pierre to DL for first time in his career, Repko to majors for first time this season
JP has a sprained MCL in his left knee. That's what the MRI showed. Doesn't sound like something that will keep him out for a long period, but I'm not a doctor, so that's just a guess. Also just a guess: Repko probably leading off tonight, but the lineup isn't here yet.
Angels 1, Dodgers 0
And hold the phone on what I reported earlier today about Pierre, because he may NOT be the everyday LF. In fact, he may be headed to the DL. Or not. He isn't flying to Houston with the team tonight, and he will have an MRI tomorrow. If it shows nothing, I'm guessing he'll fly to Houston on Tuesday and maybe play that night. If it shows something, he'll probably go on the DL for the first time in his career, and the Dodgers undoubtedly will recall Jason Repko from Vegas and put him in the leadoff spot until Furcal is activated in a week. Torre said after the game that Delwyn Young is the most likely candidate to lead off tomorrow night, when the Dodgers will operate with 24 players, but he didn't commit to that. Said Matt Kemp is a remote possibility, too. If you didn't see it, Pierre stole second in the sixth inning, sliding in headfirst as always, and Erick Aybar fell on the back of Pierre's left knee. Pierre rolled around in agony for a few minutes, then tried to walk it off, then tried to talk Torre into leaving him in the game, but that wasn't going to happen. … Dodgers fall to 38-43 and stay 2 1/2 behind the Snakes. Meanwhile, the Giants are creeping up again. They're just 2 1/2 behind the Dodgers, whom they will host for three starting Friday.
Juan Pierre will be everyday LF even AFTER Andruw Jones returns
Torre just told us this morning, although he said Rafael Furcal would probably go back into the leadoff spot when he comes back, with Pierre dropping to second.
"(Pierre) has been that consistent guy for us every day, and he refuses to acknowledge any bumps or bruises, even though you know he has them," Torre said. "He has been great. Juan is going to be our left fielder, and Andruw will be our center fielder."
That means, of course, that Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp will compete for playing time in RF. Although Torre wouldn't acknowledge that was part of the plan, it is apparent that those two benefitted from pushing each other early in the season. Ned Colletti is a big proponent in the value of having players compete, his thinking being that it brings out the best in the players doing the competing.
This morning's other news is that Chan Ho Park is out of the rotation. It isn't that Joe is backing off on his plan to go with a six-man rotation. It's just that it won't start until Brad Penny comes off the DL, probably on Saturday at San Francisco, when he is tentatively slated to pitch UNLESS he suffers some sort of setback in his simulated game on Tuesday at Houston. Yes, Chan Ho has had two really good starts in a row. But they weren't going to go with seven starters, so somebody was going to have to go sometime, and Joe wants Chan Ho as a long reliever, a role he has been really good in all year.
Here's today's lineup
LF Pierre
RF Ethier
C Martin
2B Kent
1B Loney
CF Kemp
3B DeWitt
SS Berroa
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Just before sunset.
My camera is on the way home from the repair shop and should arrive tomorrow. I cannot wait!
The dogs and I didn't go on our usual weekend adventure and I didn't take any pictures this week so today's post is featuring one of my all time favorite pictures.
This picture was taken on February 2, 2009. I was walking the dogs at sunset. At one point I walked past a sign and the sign blocked out the bright sun. Something in my head thought "that would be a cool picture". I walked back and snapped this picture.


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Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Reported Dead
He was 78
A U.S. official says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78.
The official tells The Associated Press that Schwarzkopf died Thursday in Tampa, Fla. The official wasn't authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper.


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LETTER- Anti-bulbsters, listen up!
I live in Woolen Mills, on Chesapeake Street to be exact. That makes me (and everyone else who lives in Woolen Mills) a member of the neighborhood association. It's not some fancy country club with dues, as neighbor Eleanor Willson would have you believe [January 26: "Bulbed-out: Traffic calming riles neighbors"]. You just have to live in the neighborhood and care about what's going on in it.
I went door to door in my neighborhood, on Chesapeake Street, handing out flyers and putting them in doorways, on mailboxes, etc. to inform people on the south side of the street (the side not getting the sidewalk) that there would be a neighborhood meeting regarding the sidewalks. So neighbor Doris Reuschling should have been informed.
Despite inclement weather, numerous other neighbors turned up to hear about the "secretive" plans for the neighborhood– including the bulb-outs that are sooo controversial.
It was explained that the bulb-outs provide green space and will only take up about one parking spot. No parking would be lost on the south side of the street, even with the dreaded two-foot green strip attached to the sidewalk on the north side.
In the spirit of community and compromise, one family who did not like the bulb-out in front of their house was able to have it moved to the frontage of a house with an owner who wanted a bulb-out.
Perhaps this could be the solution for Ms. Willson? She has one of only three houses on that part of Chesapeake without a driveway. Maybe someone with off-street parking would be happy to have more space to grow beautiful things?
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by hospital chain Prime Healthcare Services that alleged Kaiser Permanente conspired with a health care workers union to drive Prime out of business.
The lawsuit cited the Sherman Antitrust Act, which is meant to limit monopolies, and claimed Kaiser and the union "joined forces" to drive up Prime's costs, in part, by forcing the chain to pay high wages to workers.
Judge Janis L. Sammartino filed an order granting Kaiser's motion to dismiss Prime's complaint Aug. 30. The order says the facts stated in Prime's complaint did not support an antitrust lawsuit.
Sammartino wrote that she "finds that Prime Healthcare has not sufficiently pleaded specific facts suggesting a conspiracy."
The judge gave Prime 21 days to file a new complaint. Prime spokesman Edward Barrera said Prime plans to do that "to address the issues raised by the court and looks forward to moving this case forward."
The workers union, the Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers West, issued a statement last week from President Dave Regan: "This dismissal confirms that Prime's lawsuit was simply an attempt to divert attention away from continuing allegations of potential Medicare fraud."
Kaiser declined to comment on the judge's order.
Prime Healthcare, based in Ontario, Calif., owns 18 hospitals in four states, including 14 in California. The chain has expanded rapidly since its board chairman and chief executive, Dr. Prem Reddy, bought his first hospital in 2001, most recently buying hospitals in Texas, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
A California Watch investigation has shown that Prime has billed for outsized rates of rare and dire medical conditions that Medicare pays a premium to treat. Prime has defended its billing for conditions such as kwashiorkor, a rare form of malnutrition, even as FBI agents have interviewed a former patient and office clerks about the chain's billing practices.
Kaiser accused Prime in a lawsuit filed in 2010 of "illegal upcoding," or exaggerating the severity of patient illnesses to draw more reimbursement. In the same lawsuit, Kaiser, which has about 6.8 million members in California, also accused Prime of capturing Kaiser patients in its emergency rooms and rendering unneeded care to generate hefty bills.
Prime has disputed the accusations and is fighting the case in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The SEIU-UHW represents employees at some Prime hospitals and has had wage and layoff disputes with Prime. The union also has sent a researcher to speak at several public hearings about Prime's aggressive billing practices.
In November, Prime sued both the SEIU and Kaiser, alleging that they "share a common objective, to protect their respective business models from the competitive threat presented by Prime in the market." The suit says the two "joined forces" in an "illegal conspiracy" to engage in unfair or deceptive conduct to eliminate Prime as a competitor.
Prime argued that because of Kaiser and the union, it has had to pay higher-than-competitive wages and has suffered a loss of "actual and potential customers, lost profits, and the loss of business goodwill resulting from the campaign to eliminate Prime from The Market."
In court records filed in response to the lawsuit, Kaiser noted that Prime's complaint "fails utterly to plead any facts that might plausibly show there was ever any agreement between Kaiser and the SEIU to eliminate Prime from the market."
Kaiser noted that the only formal agreements it has with the union is on collective bargaining, but that document "says nothing about driving Prime or any competitor out of business."
At the time the case was filed in the Southern District of California, the union called the case "frivolous," and Kaiser described it as "deeply puzzling."
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Located at the center of East Africa, the Republic of Uganda is slightly smaller in size than the state of Oregon. Serving as ambassadors of hope for the more than two million children of Uganda who have been orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS and civil war, Spirit of Uganda was originally created to teach orphaned children the songs, dances and stories that were in danger of being lost forever. This high-powered and inspiring program celebrates the rich history and multiple heritages, beliefs and legends of the more than 52 different ethnic groups that define the 28 million people that call Uganda home.
Under the artistic direction of Peter Kasule, who previously led the 2004 and 2006 tours of Children of Uganda, this spirited troupe of performers ages eight to 18 has performed on the David Letterman Show, at the Grammy's® salute to U-2's Bono, for the World Bank, MTV, Nickolodeon and at the White House.
Playing a variety of instruments including drums, harps, flutes and xylophones, Spirit of Uganda perform dances from Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, Tanzania and Kenya, and sing in a variety of languages including Luganda, Swahili and English. Depending on the originating culture, these expressions can encompass court, sacred and folk traditions.
Repertory works may be named after a featured instrument, a song's lyric, a particular rhythm or phrase, or place or origin. Some pieces are drawn from specific peoples such as the Acholi, who live in northern Uganda and southern Sudan, or the Boganda whose king was a primary patron of culture in the centuries-old kingdom of Buganda. Other pieces are suites that may link rhythms and phrases from multiple regions, playing with differences and similarities to combine sounds and movements in new ways.
Costumes incorporate traditional and modern Ugandan textiles including traditional headdresses, bead necklaces, and gowns. Some elements are integral to the performance of a particular dance. For example, endege are ankle bells worn by dancers to emphasize their foot movements.
The 2008 U.S. tour with 20 stops across the country began in California in January and ends in Dallas in April. On tour the children are supported by a team of Ugandans who serve as teachers, mentors and spokespersons.
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The amount of stuff a child needs to bring to overnight camp can seem overwhelming. Here's a handy guide to what they should bring. (Day campers need far less gear; scroll to a bottom for that checklist.) Be sure to check with the camp about whether electronics, toys, snacks, and sports equipment are allowed, and make sure all of your child's belongings are clearly labeled.
Basic Clothing
- T-shirts and tank tops
- Shorts
- Long pants
- Long-sleeve T-shirt
- Light jacket/windbreaker
- Swim suit
- Pajamas
- Robe
- Underwear
- Socks
- One nice outfit (shorts and polo shirt for boys, sundress for girls)
- Hiking boots
- Sneakers
- Flip-flops (for the bathroom and for the beach)
- Sandals
- Dress shoes (to go with the one nice outfit)
Bed and Bath
- Towels (for bathing and for swimming)
- Light blanket
- Pillow
- Pillow case
- Sheets
- Sleeping bag
- Laundry bag
- Brush and/or comb
- Hair elastics/headbands, if used
- Shampoo and conditioner
- Soap (and a container to put it in)
- Tooth brush (and a container to put it in)
- Toothpaste
- Deodorant
- Feminine products
- Shaving gear
- Small first aid kit
- Lotion (for dry skin or soothing sunburns)
Other essentials
- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent
- Lip balm with sunscreen
- Flashlight
- Batteries
- Sport equipment (check with the camp first)
- Water bottle
- Writing materials (including stamps)
- Books/magazines
- Summer homework or reading
- Electronics and their chargers (check with the camp first)
- Any special equipment required by the camp
- Baseball Cap
- Eye glasses
- Sun glasses
- Swim goggles
- Bandana
For Day Campers
- Backpack or bag
- Plastic bag (for toting home wet clothes or messy projects)
- Water bottle
- Lunch with ice pack, if needed
- Sunscreen
- Sunglasses
- Lip balm with sunscreen
- Insect repellent
- Baseball Cap
- Bathing suit
- Swim goggles
- A complete change of clothes (accidents and art projects happen!)
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For the first time, hotels are joining in. Starwood is offering a 45-percent discount at fifty of its resorts, beginning on Cyber Monday. The sale only lasts three days. And by logging onto Affinia's site on November 30th, you can take advantage of a deal worth fifteen percent off, at their New York, Chicago and Washington DC hotels.
But combing through the seemingly endless number of online deals can be a challenge...especially when time might be of the essence. After all, most Cyber Monday shopping is done at the workplace. Now you can get help with sites that aggregate coupons, like CouponWinner.com and PromotionalCodes.com. And the number of retailers they feature is growing. Last year, the sites offered special deals at two thousand retailers. This year, they're up to nearly nine thousand retailers, according to the sites' public relations specialist, Andrea Woroch.
Woroch says you can maximize your savings by "stacking" coupons. "You can take a promotional code for free shipping and combine it with a promotional code for money off." Other sites that aggregate coupons include: CyberMonday.com and Offers.com.
CyberMonday.com is run by the National Retail Federation, whose trade group Shop.org coined the term "Cyber Monday" just three years ago.
But beware of online scams and the potential for identity theft. Andrea Woroch, of CouponWinner.com, warns "you shouldn't have to pay for coupons. That could mean the site is untrustworthy." And when buying an item online, you should use a credit card instead of a debit card. That's because there are more consumer protections with a credit card, should a cyber-predator compromise your identity.


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Night. Pitch black, cold and uninviting except to the occasional rat as it scurries across the waste ground in search of a discarded takeaway. The four figures in their black garb hunker down at the edge of the building facing the block of flats some 100 metres away from them. Silence hovers all around them…no voices to be heard…no bodies to be seen. 3 am and all was quiet…so far. All four figures keep their ears and eyes open in scan mode just in case any night people are about. Night people tend to be skulking around seeking out an opportunistic mugging of a late reveller returning home or a quick house burglary through an open window.
A slow flurry of hand signals between the four shadow warriors sends two of them forward. Quietly they make their way to the block of flats unobserved. Using a 'skeleton electronic key fob' they move inside the foyer and wait inside the dark recess of the hallway. The foyer/hallway is bathed in a dull light not through using energy efficient tubes but due to the fact that most of the light fittings have been smashed. The CCTV in the corner has long gone and all that remains are the taped up wires and bolt holes. The all pervading smell of piss masked by cheap disinfectant permeats the cool, night air.
The first figure in black takes up sentry looking out of the foyer for any possible interruption. The second figure carefully prises open the electrical fuse box inside the already open maintenance cupboard. Using a tiny red light from a pencil torch he scans the many fuses and circuit breakers in the open box. A quick reference to a wiring diagram in his hand and its done. The fuse is pulled out just enough to disrupt the circuit. Power to their targets flat has been cut off. Quickly putting away the torch and diagram he moves back out into the hallway. A slow hand signal is given and within seconds the other two figures are inside.
Silently they make their way up the stairs to the top floor. Six flights of stairs take them through the middle of this block of flats in the centre of Bintown Estate. Most of the original tenants moved out years ago. Then it was seen as a breakthrough in modern, urban community housing. Now it was a dumping ground for all the misfits of society. Most were on benefits, some were on drugs and a few on both. The dealer of their escape from reality and provider of their despair lived here…on the top floor. Known as 'Hawkeye' due to his almost animal instinct for evading justice, he ruled the roost in this corner of Bintown.
Along the landing of the top floor three flats lay either side. Hawkeyes flat was the nearest to the stairwell. Covering the front door was a solid looking metal gate. A typical drug dealers door curtain. His own portcullis to defend himself against the intrusions of the Police or the attentions of other drug dealers. Moving towards the gate one of the figures inspected the heavy duty padlock. The others crouched down facing outwards and watched for any movement or noise from the landings or stairwell. Seconds later the padlock is safely opened and placed on the floor near to the door frame.
Reaching inside his black jacket the lock picker produces a small tube and quickly lubricates the hinges of the gate. Smoothing over the hinges so as to minimise detection of the lubricant at a later date, he takes hold of the bars and swings it open just enough to inspect the front door of the flat. It is the typical two windowed council door. The glass being frosted and wire meshed. Through intelligence gained from the Police the team know that this door is locked and double bolted. Still no words are exchanged between the figures in black…they know exactly what they are doing. Reaching once more into his jacket another small tube is produced. Carefully squeezing the contents around the beading and putty surrounding the glass, another of the team places a small suction handle onto the meshed window.
Thirty seconds later and the chemicals within the tube have dissolved the putty and loosened the tack nails. Carefully and with only the tiniest amount of splintering the beading is prised off one by one and placed next to the padlock on the floor. Gently pulling on the suction handle the glass window comes away from the door. One by one the team crawl through the gap into Hawkeyes domain. Knowing exactly where they are going and using their night vision goggles the team silently move to the first room on the right. Suddenly the room door flies open and Hawkeye is standing there. The team can see him..but he cannot see the team. Hawkeye flicks the light switch on and off, nothing happens. 'Bastard lights!' he mutters under his breath. It has not dawned on Hawkeye that he is not alone!
Standing in the hallway of the flat the team are spread out along the wall. Hawkeye, a green spectral shape, in front of them. Without a word one of the team reaches out and spins Hawkeye round while another grabs him from behind and presses a chloroform soaked cloth against his face. Hawkeyes brief struggle lasts a few seconds until he sinks to the floor. More furtive hand signals are given. One member of the team crouches near the door and pulls the gate to. The others take hold of Hawkeyes arms and legs and lift him through into the living room. The last team member gently closes the living room door.
Moving over to the dark shape of the settee the team place Hawkeye there. An O/P airway is inserted into Hawkeyes mouth to prevent airway occlusion. The nearest figure in black holds his hands up and motions that they have ten minutes to complete their task and exfil. Taking hold of Hawkeyes head while the other pins his arms down just in case, a small glint of light bounces off the metal implement in his hand. Reaching over Hawkeyes forehead the syringe wielding figure in black pulls back his eyelids. Staring up at him are the top of Hawkeyes pupils. Quickly and carefully the figure in black jabs the syringe into Hawkeyes pupils and syringes a noxious substance into them. Hawkeye makes an involuntary movement, the chloroform is beginning to wear off.
Silently the team backtrack from the flat, first removing the O/P airway and replacing the mesh window and beading with fresh non smelling putty. The gate is closed and the padlock replaced. Moving silently down the stairs two of the team walk out of the building while the other two replace the fuses in the maintenance cupboard. Within a couple of minutes the team are hunkered down across the wasteground looking towards the block of flats. Its 0320 am. Its still pitch black and cold. SWAB Team 6 then dissolve into the night.
And thats when the screams begin!
Hawkeye has woken up. Blind and not knowing anything of what is happening, he thinks he is having a nightmare. It is going to be a long nightmare…and a long pitch black nightmare forever!


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Amidst this ghastly yet hilarious and almost fascinating line-up of Stunningly Ignorant and Trashy Wanna-Be Presidential Contenders, Consider this:Ron Paul is just another totally delusional, grandiose, self-important, power-mongering would-be despot, desperately seeking "control;" A manipulative Tyrant-LOSER. Maybe he's not QUITE as stunningly STUPID as all the other Idiots in this Joke of a, ahem, "RACE;" But the FACT remains that, just like ALL the OTHERS, with NO exceptions, he is merely just another vacant, totally Amoral, stupidly arrogant... DIRTBAG; Furthermore, just as with each and every one of these other morons, Ron Paul is thoroughly self-important, self-absorbed, infantile, egomaniacal; His notions of ruling over all are Pure CLAPTRAP; Utter Nonsense; In short, he's a dirty little WINDBAG; And his brand of pathetic "I-told-you-so" swagger literally smacks of that godawful sense of ENTITLEMENT that all these so-called "contenders" seem to possess, same exact [serious character defect] as the Idiot-BUSH. The point here is that ANY ONEwith the most basic fundamental grasp of actions and their CONSEQUENCES could have and DID "predict" all that Ron Paul claims to have "foreseen;" Ron Paul engages in his very own MAGICAL THINKING; He really wants people to believe his BALDERDASH...and some actually DO!! But Any IDIOT, any WITLESS MORON, could plainly foresee every horrible bit of this utter DECIMATION of America, not to mention the rest of this godforsaken world. In the end,Ron Paul is just another CELEBRITY-IDIOT-THUG; So busily, so proudly, so obnoxiously trumpeting hisso-called "achievements."He is NOTHING and he is NO ONE.Amusingly, not one of these morons even seem to realize that,in each of their transparently and shockingly VAIN attempts to, um, (HA!!) Rule the World, they are each defining perfectly their very own, and very disturbing, Deep-seated Character Disorders: the Narcissistic, Sociopathic, Pathological LIAR. Busybodies.Cheers,To each of these um, "contenders," I must say "No. No. No, I really don't think so..." Now kindly just step aside. Please get down from there... Step DOWN, please!! Just Get AWAY from me!!!!!!...Christ Marlowe
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The weather is finally changing — meaning it's time to take the plunge and consider a different mode of transportation for work. But what happens next?
It's all about planning
Bicycle commuting is a lot of fun, but doing your homework beforehand is the best way to make sure things go smoothly. If you're reading this in the spring, Bike to Work Week would be a great time to get involved, but getting on your bike is something you can do any time of year. Check the League of American Bicyclists' website and see if there are organized activities where you live.
We've put together five areas for you to address before the Big Ride:
Are you physically capable of the commute? Most adults in average condition can manage a 10-mile ride in about an hour without too much trouble. Just like any exercise program, talk to a health professional if you have any questions before you saddle up.
Is your bike up to the trip? Buying a shiny new commuter bike is a great incentive to ride — but any bicycle in good repair will do. Give your bike a thorough once-over well in advance of your maiden commute. As a general rule of thumb, tires, running gear, brakes and lights should all get attention before each trip. Use the checklist on how to pick a great used bicycle if your bike has been sitting unused for any length of time — or wheel it into the local bike shop for a professional tune-up.
Choose your route carefully. The most direct way to work isn't always the best. Pick streets with activity appropriate to your comfort level on the bike. Watch out for areas marked off-limits to non-motorized traffic (most tunnels, for instance). One of the best things about cycle commuting is being able to vary your route. There's usually more than one way to get from Point A to Point B, and that's part of the fun.
Pack what you need. A water bottle, toiletries, a change of clothes, tools and a tire repair kit — these are all reasons commuter bikes are usually equipped with panniers or baskets. If you're just starting out, you can probably make do with a backpack or messenger bag. But you'll find these can be uncomfortable in warm weather. The bike frame is the best place to carry gear, so upgrade to a proper rack and bags as soon as the commuting bug bites.
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Decide what happens once you're at work. You'll need a secure place to lock up or some out-of-the-way indoor location to stash your bike. Bikes can be wet and greasy, so choose somewhere away from your co-workers if you want to remain popular. Avoid blocking doorways and halls. You're also going to need somewhere to change and freshen up. A bathroom stall will do the trick, but check around and see if there are shower facilities within walking distance of where you work. Gyms and spas are usually cooperative about arranging access.
Now ride! Leave yourself plenty of time, enjoy a nice breakfast — and start pedaling! If it goes well on your first outing, try it again next week. You're saving money, helping out the environment and promoting your own physical fitness.
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The World Cup winning former France international called on FIFA, UEFA and the English FA to take a strong lead after a spate of incidents brought the issue back into sharp focus.
"If you really want to fight racism, if you really want to show to the world that football wants to fight against it, you will have to use a deduction of points against clubs or kick them out of European competition," Vieira said.
"That will stop it, of course. If you kick a club out of Europe because they couldn't control their fans, it will happen once and I can guarantee it's not going to happen twice.
"If nothing is done, the situation will get worse and worse and you never know where things will go. Before we get to a place where you can't control it any more, you have to stop it straight away and the only way you can stop it is to have clear, strong punishments.
"Vieira, who is Manchester City's football development executive, said English soccer was at a crossroads after high-profile race rows involving Chelsea's John Terry and Liverpool's Luis Suarez.
West Ham United's fans were also accused of racist chanting in their Premier League match against Tottenham Hotspur last week.
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Q: Another driver hit my car last weekend, and I haven't been paid yet. How long does an insurer have to investigate and pay my claim?
A: Generally, when a claim is uncompliated (no injuries, not a large number of witnesses, no specialized reports needed), 30 days is considered to be a reasonable time frame to investigate and make coverage decisions.
This is true whether you've made the claim against your own insurer or someone else's. Many claims are investigated and paid within 30 days.
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