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Sen. Dianne Feinstein says there has never been a greater need for a federal ban on assault weapons.
The California Democrat made the remark as the Senate Judiciary Committee began a hearing on her legislation that would ban those firearms, as well as ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 rounds.
Feinstein says assault weapons are deadlier than they were two decades ago, when she helped enact a ban on those weapons. That prohibition expired in 2004.
The top Republican on the panel, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, challenged the need for the ban. He said the government has done a poor job of enforcing current gun laws, and says the prohibition would take away firearms that people use for self-defense.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Neil Heslin says it's all about his slain son, Jesse.
Heslin, a 50-year-old construction worker, says he normally pays little attention to politics. But he was yanked painfully into the middle of the nation's gun debate last December, when his 6-year-old son, Jesse, along with 19 other first-graders and six educators, was shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
"It's a burden, it's more than a burden on me," Heslin said in an interview Tuesday as he and three dozen others - including other Newtown families and relatives of other mass shooting victims - arrived in Washington for two days of lobbying lawmakers. "But I have to do it for my little boy."
Heslin is set to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in support of legislation by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to ban assault weapons.
Other witnesses testifying to the Senate panel include William Begg, an emergency room doctor who treated Newtown victims that day, and U.S. attorney John Walsh from Colorado.
"Guns that are fashioned from war don't belong on the streets," Feinstein said Tuesday, acknowledging that her legislation to ban assault weapons faced difficult odds in Congress. "Maybe I've just seen too much from my days as mayor and watching this stuff for 30 years."
Feinstein, who rose to become San Francisco mayor, was on the city's board of supervisors in 1978 when Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were fatally shot in City Hall.
Across the Capitol on Wednesday, the House Education and Workforce Committee planned to hear from school safety experts and counselors about how to keep students safe.
Witnesses testifying to the Republican-controlled House panel were expected to emphasize the role of school resource officers - security professionals who are often armed and can double as informal counselors and liaisons to law enforcement. Those officers are commonplace in many schools and help officials develop safety plans.
Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, was among those slated to testify, along with a school counselor and a school safety director.
Heslin and his group met with around six lawmakers and aides Tuesday, mostly Senate Democrats from Republican-leaning states. Participants said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said he would try to help and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., expressed optimism that the Senate would produce gun legislation, but neither committed to anything specific.
In his prepared Senate testimony, Heslin said he's been told his son died yelling to people to run. He said Jesse was hit by one bullet grazing the side of his head, another hitting his forehead.
"That means the last thing my son did was look Adam Lanza straight in the face and scream to his classmates to run," Heslin said, referring to the 20-year-old who committed the massacre. "The last thing he saw was that coward's eyes."
Despite the raw emotion, Feinstein's effort to ban assault weapons is expected to fall short due to opposition by the National Rifle Association and many Republicans, plus wariness by moderate Democrats.
Feinstein's bill has attracted 21 co-sponsors, all Democrats. Including herself, it is sponsored by eight of the 10 Judiciary panel Democrats - precarious for a committee where Democrats outnumber Republicans 10-8. Democrats on the panel who haven't co-sponsored the measure include the chairman, Pat Leahy of Vermont, who said Monday he hadn't seen the bill.
President Barack Obama made bans on assault weapons and large capacity magazines key parts of the gun curbs he proposed in January in response to the Connecticut school massacre.
The cornerstone of his package is a call for universal background checks for gun buyers, some version of which seems to have a stronger chance of moving through Congress. Currently, only sales by federally licensed gun dealers require such checks, which are designed to prevent criminals and others from obtaining firearms.
Obama also proposed providing more money to school districts to hire school resource officers and counselors and take other safety steps.
Feinstein's bill would ban future sales of assault weapons and magazines carrying more than 10 rounds of ammunition but exempt those that already exist. It would bar sales, manufacturing and imports of semiautomatic rifles and pistols that can use detachable magazines and have threaded barrels or other military features. The measure specifically bans 157 firearms but excludes 2,258 others in an effort to avoid barring hunting and sporting weapons.
Feinstein, who helped create a 1994 assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, and other supporters cite studies showing use of the firearms in crimes diminished while the prohibition lasted. A 2004 report said the proportion of gun crimes involving assault weapons dropped by up to 72 percent in five cities studied.
Opponents cite data from that same study showing assault weapons were used in only 2 percent to 8 percent of gun crimes, arguing that a ban would have little impact. The study also estimated there were 1.5 million assault weapons owned privately in the U.S. in 1994, and an estimated 30 million high-capacity magazines as of 1999, which critics say means exempting them would diminish a ban's effect

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jasonhwells necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 83 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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I run an online company that does marketing and sales training for small businesses and individuals. We're launching a new section of our site in 16 days and I need to get some simple, icon menus in place to help people navigate through the system and get to the right spot.
People come to use because I'm very good at teaching and breaking things down for people to help them increase revenue and their marketing results.
My customers are professionals who like to have fun. The goal is make something sleek, clean, professional with a bit of creativity/fun put in there.
The goal is to have a very simple icon menu so people can look at it and be walked through what to click on and what they need to do as the next step. So it takes them from point A to Point B and so on.
I need three simple icon menus and they all need to have the same look and feel. Once the design is figured out for one, the other two will be incredibly simple.
Each Menu option does not need to have a custom made icon for it. I would like a simple that is web 2.0 style that you create or grab from an istock.com type of site.
I've attached a PDF document to this contest to show examples of the website and give you a basic layout of the menus.
On the PDF example menu, Menu 1 leads to Menu 2 & 3.
Menu's 2 & 3 use the same icon and text from Menu 1, so that can stay the same.
To Clarify: I'm not looking for original or real fancy icons for each menu, but simple, clean Web 2.0 styles. Like the Logo I have in the PDF for my site, you can use that as an example.
Total size for each menu must fit in 550 x 520 pixels
The color scheme and theme needs to stay like my site is. Here are the color schemes:
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In the PDF I use arrows to lead people through the process, you don't have to use arrows, but anything that shows the two connecting or linked together.
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Dice-K Time
He's the cover story on Sports Illustrated and will be a hot topic all season long.
"He" is 26-year-old right-handed pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who signed a major bucks contract last winter with the Red Sox. He pitched today at Citizens Bank Park.
"Dice-K" joined the Red Sox after eight standout seasons with the Seibu Lions in Japan. He compiled a 108-60 career record and was instrumental (3-0, 1.38 ERA) when Japan won the first World Baseball Classic a year ago.
The addition of Matsuzaka has brought on some changes for the Red Sox. They've hired a full-time interpreter, enlarged the Press Box as best they can in ancient Fenway Park and constructed an interview room for his post-game starts. At home, the Red Sox will hold two post-game press conferences, one for the Japanese media and one for the other media. On the road, they probably will have just one.
Following today's outing, Dice-K met with the media in the Media Room. 63 media types were on hand. The interpreter and Dice-K stood at the podium and answered questions. The interpreter repeated the questions and answers in both Japanese and English.
Somewhere between 45 and 55 Japanese media are expected to cover the Red Sox full-time. Some of the games will be on live TV in Japan, even at hours as strange as 2 a.m. Japan time.
Dice-K will make his first start in Kansas City next week and his first start in Boston the following week against Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners. One can only imagine how many Japanese media will be there for the Boston debut. The second coming of a Boston Tea Party?


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RayBiotech, Inc. Antibody Arrays Help to Identify Key Pathways Involved in Leprosy Manifestation
Apr 03, 2013, 05:17 ET
NORCROSS, Ga., April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RayBiotech, Inc. announced today that the application of its Mouse Cytokine Antibody Array has enabled the identification of key factors involved in the dissemination of leprosy infection in humans. This seminal research was conducted by Dr. Anura Rambukkana and colleagues at the Medical Research Council Center for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh and the Rockefeller University in New York. In this study, Dr. Rambukkana's team employed RayBiotech's Mouse Cytokine Antibody Array C-Series 1000 to test for the presence of biologically active proteins in media conditioned by adult Schwann cells infected with Mycobacterium leprae (the causative agent of leprosy). The application of this array allowed for the identification of key immunomodulatory factors secreted by these cells that promote bacteria-laden macrophage survival and migration, thus exacerbating M. leprae infection.
Commenting on the research, RayBiotech's President, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Rani Huang stated, "We congratulate Dr. Rambukkana's team on their findings regarding the biochemical factors aggravating leprosy infection and we are pleased to have provided multiplexing products and technologies for the efficient identification of these factors."
Dr. Rambukkana also commented, "RayBiotech's C-Series 1000 array was instrumental in identifying key soluble immune factors, not only cytokines and chemokines but also a whole range of secreted proteins, which provided compelling evidence that reprogrammed cells possess the capacity to recruit and modulate macrophages."
The research was published in the January, 2013 issue of Cell (Cell. 2013 Jan 17;152(1-2):51-67).
About RayBiotech, Inc.
In 2001 RayBiotech (http://www.raybiotech.com) introduced the first commercially available cytokine antibody array. With a focus on translating scientific knowledge into improved health, RayBiotech continues to pioneer advances in high-throughput platforms for identifying disease mechanisms, screening and validation of biomarkers and identification of drug targets. RayBiotech products are featured in thousands of publications, including: Nature, Nature Medicine, Cell, Lancet, PNAS and many others. Offering the largest selection of protein arrays, RayBiotech has established a reputation for high quality and innovation in the research community. A spin-off from Emory University, RayBiotech is privately owned, with headquarters in metropolitan Atlanta.
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University of Hawaii astronomer takes sharpest picture of Pluto systemUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Almost 30 years after the discovery of Pluto's large moon, Charon, a University of Hawaii astronomer has used a ground-based telescope to take an image of the Pluto system that exceeds the sharpness possible with the Hubble Space Telescope.
"Several favorable factors occurred simultaneously to yield these spectacular images of the Pluto system," said Dr. David Tholen, who performed the observations during the early evening of September 5 using the adaptive optics system on one of Mauna Kea's twin Keck telescopes. "The natural seeing was better than average that night, more sensitive wavefront sensors were installed on the telescope, and Pluto was at its maximum brightness, thereby giving the improved adaptive optics system more light with which to work its magic," he said.
The adaptive optics system uses a deformable mirror and sensors that allow it to compensate for turbulence in Earth's atmosphere that normally blurs the light from celestial bodies. The new images, which have a resolution of about 35 milliarcseconds, are nearly diffraction limited at the 1.6-micron wavelength used for the exposures. They are about 20 times sharper than the images of Pluto taken 30 years ago.
Altogether, Tholen took 16 images of the Pluto system during one hour on the Keck telescope. When he combined all 16 images to form a single image, Nix and Hydra, Pluto's small satellites discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005, became clearly visible. The new satellites are both about visual magnitude 23.5 compared with 14th magnitude for Pluto.
"It is our intent to obtain several more images of the Pluto system, hopefully with this same level of quality, so that we can track Nix and Hydra completely around Pluto several times," said Tholen. "By making extremely precise measurements of the satellites' positions, we will determine their masses by detecting the tiny displacements caused by their mutual gravitational attraction. Once the masses are in hand, we'll be able to say something more definitive about how big these new satellites are."
Astronomers have estimated that Nix and Hydra are less than 100 km in diameter, compared with 1212 km for Charon and about 2300 km for Pluto. Scientists planning the 2015 flyby of Pluto with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are intensely interested in the results. "Something as simple as selecting the proper exposure time to snap images of Nix and Hydra with New Horizons depends on knowing how big they are and how reflective their surfaces are," said Tholen. "One of our goals is to have those answers well in advance of the flyby."
Founded in 1967, the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets, and the sun. Its faculty and staff are also involved in astronomy education, deep space missions, and in the development and management of the observatories on Haleakala and Mauna Kea.
For more information, visit: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/PlutoPictures/Pluto-Tholen-10-07.html


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Sirona Dental Systems, in conjunction with Patterson Dental Supply, recently donated a digital X-ray unit to the SUNY Canton Dental Hygiene program so students may learn by using the most up-to-date technology.
"Digital units are being used more frequently than their conventional film counterparts in dental offices, so this very generous donation will allow our students to familiarize themselves with equipment they will likely be using during their careers," said Program Director and Assistant Professor Pamela P. Quinn. "Digital machines are also much more efficient and emit less radiation."
Students, who work under the direct supervision of a licensed dental practitioner, provide no-cost preventive services to community members. Quinn said the facility has served more than 5,000 patients since it opened in 2006 and provided approximately $280,000 worth of free dental care this past academic year. In addition to exposing X-rays, students administer cancer screenings, cavity checks, evaluations, saliva testing, cleanings, fluoride treatments and sealants.
The hygiene students have spearheaded several community outreach projects to educate children and teens about the importance of good oral hygiene. The program has earned three national awards from the American Dental Hygienists Association.
The Dental Hygiene program is located at the College's satellite campus in Rome, N.Y., and students can choose to earn either a two- or four-year degree. Quinn said graduates have had a 100 percent success rate on the national licensing exam for the past six years and the program has seen 100 percent job placement. Dental hygiene is a profession with an ongoing demand in the workforce, which is anticipated to continue through 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Lie Down In The Darkness, Rise Up From The Ash
Chapter 001
The Arrow of Fate
Galadir sighed softly, gazing up at the immense fir tree that spread its branches overhead. At the very top there was a bulge, and the Elf warden shook his head in a disgusted manner and glanced over at his companion. Erinoth fingered his bow and stared out into the night, seemingly lost in his own thoughts.
"'Tis near midnight, my friend," Galadir said, casting another dark look at the bulge. "And I tire of this game! Does he think to stay there the whole night?"
"I know not. What matter if he does? Ere dawn he will descend again, for he cannot bear the sunlight. Have patience!" Erinoth replied.
"Nay, he has tried my patience once too often, and will he or nill he, he shall return now with us," Galadir said, pulling on his gloves in preparation for scaling the rough-barked tree.
"Have a care! He threw Anardil from his perch last time, and Anardil still wears a sling!" Erinoth warned.
Galadir merely grunted in response, already picking his way through the lower branches. The prisoner was a twisted, pitiful thing indeed, and though Galadir agreed that he ought not to be left in his cell to mutter in the darkness, it was too much that this Sméagol-creature should impose thus upon them all.
As he climbed, he looked out over the forest, which showed dark and indistinct on a moonless night. In the distance, vaguely, he could see the malevolent peak of Dol Guldur, and he shuddered, staring at it. For some reason it caught his eye tonight, and perhaps it was merely his imagination or a trick of the eye, but it seemed to waver like smoke, or as if a thousand dark tentacles gripped and writhed all about it. Galadir found he could not take his eyes off of it, strangely absorbed by that eerie display, and so it was that he did not at first notice the other dark trail that wended its way beneath Mirkwood's eaves.
It was only Erinoth's cry that roused him and he tore his eyes from the tower, looking down to see, to his horror, the misshapen Orcs come spilling from the trees. Their harsh voices echoed in a battle cry, and Erinoth was overborne, buried beneath their clawed forms.
A hiss sounded suddenly near at hand, and Galadir jerked his head up to see two pale, luminous eyes a bare foot away.
"Nassty cruel Elfff!" Sméagol hissed. Then more loudly, he called, "It esscapesss! Help usss, preciousss! It escapesessss!"
Below, the Orcs cried out, pointing upwards, and Sméagol, with a horrible, gurgling cackle, leapt past Galadir to drop onto another branch, clearly bent on escaping himself. Galadir glanced down again, and saw that the Orcs were beginning to climb, were already in the lower branches. Then he looked out again at the small, fleeing back, and made his decision.
Using his legs to brace himself against the trunk and a sturdy branch, he reached back and pulled bow and arrow into his hands. With the care of an artisan, he took aim and pressed, ignoring the laughter of his enemies, and his keen eyes narrowed.
There! With a sharp twang! an arrow whistled through the night, and there came a shriek, and then a small, dark form plummeted to the earth and lay utterly still.
Galadir let fall his bow, that task complete, and he pulled a dagger from his belt. The Orcs were still climbing, and would reach him soon.
But I shall not go quietly into the night! he vowed, and smiled as he faced his murderers.
And on a plane far above the physical, something bent, giving almost to the breaking point, and then suddenly it twisted itself, creating a ripple in the pattern of fate, and something new began to grow…
It was evening in Rivendell, and the little wisps of dark clouds made the October sky seem bruised by the night that pressed upon the brilliant horizon. On the porch, an old grey figure stood, wreathed in contemplative smoke, so intent upon his thoughts he did not note when another joined him quietly.
"Will you not tell me, old friend, what it is that weighs so heavily upon your mind?" Gandalf looked up to find Aragorn standing at his side, arms folded across his chest as he, too, gazed out at the valley of Rivendell. The Ranger had clearly planned his approach carefully, which did not surprise the wizard, but given the news from the day's council, Gandalf did wonder how much Aragorn had guessed already of his concerns.
"Naught that I can explain in precise terms, dear boy." Aragorn smiled slightly at that, for it was a standing joke between them.
"I ask not for precision, for I know well that I am no wizard," the Ranger replied.
"Hmmph!" Gandalf snorted, but then sighed and shook his head. "If you would know truly, I like not the news that Legolas brought."
"Grievous news, but I see not why the deaths of two elvish guards should be cause for such concern."
"I meant Gollum's death, Aragorn," Gandalf said, a trifle impatiently, and Aragorn gave him a skeptical look.
"To me, that seemed the only encouraging part of his message. Sméagol was incurable, and a danger to all had he in fact escaped."
"It seems so on the surface, and prudence tells me no differently," the wizard replied. "But when I heard that, my heart misgave me, and I felt my very marrow freeze! There is great evil in that death, my friend," he sighed, laying a hand upon Aragorn's shoulder, "and the consequences are literally unthinkable. I fear we may rue it greatly in the end."
"I see not how," said Aragorn, but he paused and pursed his lips, considering the matter. "Well," he said at last, "if you say your heart misgives you, then I must defer to your judgment. How, after all, shall a Man argue with a wizard?"
"Rigorously and often, if you are any example!" Gandalf replied instantly, with a trace of his usual quick humor. But then it faded, and Aragorn, frowning, asked:
"Think you that we ought to reconsider our plans?"
"That would serve no purpose. To remain here, or flee west is to bring certain doom upon us. There is still hope, however little, that the route to the fire shall remain open long enough for the Ringbearer to unmake It. Nay, we must continue. And since we must, tell me of the morning's messengers: what news from Elladan and Elrohir?"
"They have ridden far, down to Lórien and back, and they brought to me news of Saruman's treachery, so that your tale was not wholly new to me today," Aragorn replied, and then gave a slight smile. "They also bring word that Arwen fares well in that land." Gandalf laughed at that, and gave Aragorn a shake.
"I am glad to hear it. More so than you may suspect," the wizard said, his eyes narrowing as his bushy brows drew together. "Yes… I think that even this news is not without merit, my friend, though I know not why I say so." He paused, then shook his head again and looked up at the tall Man at his side, and said in a low voice, "Hear me, son of Arathorn! Say nothing to the others of my fears, I beg you. We have barely begun, the way will be long, and there are some things that I would keep from them, lest they lose heart utterly. I fear our road will be hard—harder, even than they can possibly imagine."
"As you wish," Aragorn replied simply. "I leave tomorrow to see what may be found of the Riders. Mayhap when I return, we shall speak on this again?"
"Perhaps. Walk in safety, my friend!" Gandalf said, and watched as Aragorn strode away. The old lips tightened, and the wizard stroked his beard in an agitated manner.
"Yes," he murmured when the other had gone, "the way will be hard, and perhaps even you, Aragorn, are not prepared to know the truth. A bitter end, I foresee, and hope unlooked for, though I know not how it shall be born, should we fail." In the distance, he heard light voices lifted in laughter, and recognized the hobbits, Merry and Pippin, as they came strolling out of the forest. "And if you cannot, then how shall their gentle hearts bear such doom as I prophesy?"
The wizard sighed once more, then carefully locked his fears and worries away in the vault of his mind, where they could do no injury to the innocent.
Time will tell, he thought, striving to seem determined. But if the hobbits greeted him without suspicion, Gandalf's dissembling was strictly for others. He could not lie to himself, and when he turned his eyes to the western horizon, he saw darkness falling upon all the land.


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From The Foundry, Georgianna Nutt, March 1, 2013 –
Up to 875,000 federal workers may experience mandatory unpaid leave for one day per week thanks to sequestration, resulting in a 20 percent pay cut for 22 weeks beginning April 1. But the union that represents federal workers is vowing to get that pay. National Federation of Federal Employees spokesperson Cory Byrthrow threatens that the powerful union will "absolutely fight for back pay in the event of a furlough."
As the New York Post recognizes, that would negate the spending reductions.
America's debt is real, and we need to reduce government spending. Otherwise, we will see dramatically slower growth and a permanently smaller economy. What does this mean for Americans (federal union workers included)? A lower standard of living and fewer jobs.
Balancing our budget over the next 10 years is necessary and possible. But demands like this from political lobbying giants aren't getting us there. Consider the state and influence of federal unions today, according to Heritage's James Sherk:
More union members now work for the government than for private employers. The above-market salaries and benefits that government employees receive are paid for by taxpayers. So, the union movement that began as a campaign to improve working conditions and salaries for workers in the private sector, now pushes for ever-higher taxes to increase the generous compensation that government employees enjoy.
Since striking is often prohibited by law, federal unions must instead use political influence to determine their wages via legislation. A 2012 report by The Wall Street Journal found unions' political spending from 2005-2011 was $4.4 billion between support for federal candidates and other political activity.
Not surprisingly, that money talks. The 1995-1996 government shutdown under President Clinton resulted in retroactive pay for all federal employees. This was used as a precedent during the 2011 shutdown when National Treasury Employees Union president Colleen Kelley requested back pay for furloughed employees. And while our debt crisis has only been compounded by the years, the fiscally irresponsible demands from politically padded union heft remain constant.
As Heritage's Jason Richwine noted today, federal workers are compensated at higher levels than their private-sector counterparts. This is a systemic issue that will not be addressed with periodic furloughs.
While the sequester cuts are not an ideal way to rein in a budget, furloughs and back pay are the least of the problem. The changes will hit national security (defense is only 17 percent of the total budget, but will make up 50 percent of sequestration cuts), without even touching the elephants in the room of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (which account for 64 percent of the budget).


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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married Saturday in Correns, France, a spokesman for the couple said, The Associated Press reported.
Jolie, 39, and Pitt, 50, tied the knot in a small chapel in a private ceremony attended by family and friends, according to the AP. Their six children participated in the wedding.
Jolie walked the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox and Pax. Zahara and Vivienne threw petals. Shiloh and Knox served as ring bearers, the spokesman told the AP.
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The wedding comes after years of speculation on when the couple would officially tie the knot. Both had publicly said that they planned to but also insisted that they wouldn't marry unless the nation's laws allowed all couples to marry.
In the early days of her career, Jolie was known as much for her wild ways as for her work onscreen. In recent years she made the transition from hedonist to humanitarian by speaking publicly about pressing global issues and through her work as a special envoy on refugee issues for the United Nations.
Jolie surprised fans and industry insiders when she announced in early 2013 that she had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene the made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. She made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for the New York Times under the headline "My Medical Choice," and revealed she had completed three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts.
The "Tomb Raider" actress wrote the she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, die too young from cancer. Bertrand died in January 2007.
She also wrote that Pitt was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Southern California for "every minute of the surgeries."
Advocates for same-sex marriage, Pitt and Jolie publicly stated they would not wed until all couples were granted the same rights. But pressure from their six children to see their parents walk down the aisle eventually swayed the couple and they announced their engagement in 2012.
"I am getting more pressure from my kids, and it is something I want to do within their lifetime, but I also feel like the time has come," Pitt told People in November 2012. "We've had a family, we've raised the kids," Pitt added. "I am surprised how much [marriage] meant to me once you had that."
The newlyweds became involved after they appeared together in the big screen spy caper "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in 2005. Pitt had previously dated his "Seven" co-star Gwyneth Paltrow from 1994 to 1997. He was famously married to "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston.
Pitt and Aniston met in 1998 and were married in a much publicized ceremony in Malibu in 2000. They announced their decision to split in January 2005, with Aniston filing for divorce two months later citing "irreconcilable differences."
Jolie, the daughter of Hollywood star Jon Voight, was awarded the best supporting actress Academy Award for her role in "Girl, Interrupted." This is her third marriage. She was married to her "Hackers" co-star Jonny Lee Miller from 1996 to 1999. Jolie wore black rubber pants and white T-shirt to her nuptials with Miller.
After a two month courtship, Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton in 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They met on the set of "Pushing Tin." Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption of a son from Cambodia in March 2002, but separated three moths later. Their divorce was finalized in 2003.


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The members of the recently established DFG Research Training Group 2155 (ProMoAge) gathered for their first meeting in the historical city of Wittenberg during the weekend from 5th to 7th November 2016. What better location for this kick-off-meeting could be chosen than the "Leucorea", which was founded over 500 years ago and has later merged with the Friedrichs University of Halle to form the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
The aim of the meeting was to introduce each specific subproject of ProMoAge and the working group behind it. 14 innovative projects dealing with posttranslational protein modifications and their role in ageing were shortly presented and discussed with enthusiasm by PhD and MD students, postdocs and group leaders. Guest lectures about good scientific practice, ProMoAge-related epidemiological cohort studies and newest insights in proteasome modulation during ageing complemented the diverse programme.
One should not stay in Wittenberg without visiting the historical old town and the castle church, and thus, a guided tour through the city taught us much about its past, which is inseparably connected to the life and work of Martin Luther. Other activities like a dance evening and a movie night contributed to getting to know each other and completed this successful meeting.
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Though Amazon is reportedly stashing up patents to create its own version of a smartphone, one thing it won't be able to patent is the water damage indicator. That one goes to Apple, which has add that patent to its array before the iPhone was released.
It's something you've seen a hundred times before: that nasty little white strip in cell phones that changes colors whenever the phone gets wet. It's great for voiding warranties!
Apple's version is inside the phone and luckily, unlike some others, does not change colors on overly humid days.
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It's unclear why Apple wants it patented this late in the game, but they recently received it (after waiting since December 2006). It will, though, make it more difficult for everyone else who already uses this technology.
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Dude. Dude, Bro. Call Chet and the other pledges, tell them to stop cleaning the kegerator Ox threw up into. Tonight's rager is back on. We'll keep the ponies cold with these giant coozies, what are they called? KegSkins? Righteous.
The KegSkin is constructed from neoprene and operates in precisely the same manner as its bottle-and-can-covering brethren, simply sliding over a standard-sized keg of your preferred man soda. Despite its basic construction—take a sheet of neoprene, roll it into a cylinder, and sew—it does an impressive job of keeping beer at the optimal consumption temperature.
In a lab test, two 38-degree kegs were subjected to an 80-degree environment for over five hours. The insulated keg only warmed six degrees over that period (44 degrees F is still plenty frosty) while the unprotected keg heated nearly 20 degrees in total to a flattening 57 F.
The design also has the added benefit of not requiring an outlet, as kegerators do, or tubs packed with enough ice to chill a back-alley kidney donor, which means you can drink in the park without sucking down warm suds. The KegSkin is available for in six color varieties for $40 from the official product site. Drop an extra Hamilton (that's $10, shame on you for having to look it up) and KegSkin will customize your coozie with your picture or logo. [KegSkins via Geek Alerts]


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Replacing the aged New Bedford-Fairhaven swing bridge is a major key in the city's maritime future, a harbor official said Thursday.
NEW BEDFORD — Replacing the aged New Bedford-Fairhaven swing bridge is a major key in the city's maritime future, a harbor official said Thursday.
Harbor Development Commission Executive Director Jeffrey Stieb, speaking at the UMass School for Marine Science and Technology, advocated building a bridge with the same 150-foot opening as the hurricane barrier.
That way, larger ships could navigate to North Terminal, vastly expanding its capacity, Stieb said.
Mayor Jon Mitchell later said the cost of replacing the Route 6 bridge — something discussed since at least 1980, but shelved in favor of a complete overhaul a generation ago — would be in the "nine figures."
Stieb's comments came as part of a review of the draft of the Groundfish Port Recovery and Revitalization Plans. Along with the bridge replacement, the overhaul of fishing regulations and conditions at State Pier were among the items discussed.
Stieb said the pier is in definite need of attention since the north side has been condemned to vehicle and pedestrian traffic because of the poor condition of the pilings, supposed to last 40 years but which are now 70.
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The pier is built on pilings, which inhibits many uses outside of summer festivals. Stieb said the pier should be bulkheaded to accommodate ships that are making inquiries but are being turned away.
The meeting was attended by both UMass Chancellor Divina Grossman and Mitchell, who said that the city cannot relax in its efforts to advance the port in coming years even though it is the No. 1 dollar value fishing port in the nation.
Semi-retired UMass Dartmouth economics professor Dan Georgianna presented the dismal results of an ongoing survey of the groundfish industry in the city.
Because of regulations and tight quotas, groundfish boats have essentially stopped fishing in New Bedford, he said. And although the scallopers are thriving, 56 shore-side support businesses have disappeared in 10 years. "I think this is a big number," Georgianna said.
At the same time, he said, there are 210 businesses that service the fishing industry, and many more such as wholesale clubs and supermarkets that derive a substantial profit from fishing even though that is not their primary concern.
The slowdown in groundfishing has also cost many jobs as crews are forced to find other work. Consolidation has already meant fewer jobs for crew members, four to seven per boat.
The groundfish industry needs better stock assessments, more transparent methods, advice from industry and timely monitoring for timely management, he said.
Dr. Kevin Stokesbury of SMAST presented a report on the status of newly designed nets equipped with video cameras to record fish populations.
Tests of the equipment on Georges Bank found that yellowtail populations may be vastly underestimated by federal government surveyors, causing government regulators to be too cautious in setting quotas, in turn choking off the scallop industry.
Catherine Kramer of the Center for Sustainable Fisheries presented an update of the effort to reform the troublesome Magnuson-Stevens Act, which governs commercial fishing.
She said that in a meeting in Seattle, North Pacific fishermen were surprisingly receptive to the group's ideas.


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It's been five days since the verdict of involuntary manslaughter was handed down to former Oakland, Calif., transit cop Johannes Mehserle for the shooting death of unarmed Oscar Grant III as he lay face down with his hands behind his back in front of a train packed with horrified passengers who were returning home from New Year's Eve celebrations in January 2009. His murder, which was caught on video by dozens of cell phones, sent shock waves all over the world.
Some are saying Mehserle's conviction is a good thing; after all, it's the first time in the history of this great blue, liberal state of California that an officer was convicted for killing a black man while on duty. That may be true, but as far as I'm concerned, being the first to get a crumb when you deserve a meal is not good enough. Justice was not served. The Grant family deserved more. This hard-working Oakland-Bay Area community, which came together and tirelessly and meticulously organized for the past 18 months to see this case through, deserved more.
A Series of Wake-Up Calls
Mehserle only getting involuntary manslaughter, and not second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter, cut deep. It was a slap in the face. It symbolized just how broken the justice system is and how powerless we are within it. It was another wake-up call that left me wondering just how much more can you invest in a system that is continuously unresponsive to black people and other marginalized communities?
The first wake-up call, for many of us in Oakland, came the night Grant was murdered. To better understand, one has to remember what was going on at that time. The inauguration of President Barack Obama was three weeks away. Many of us were in a hopeful, festive mood. Hope, change and the anticipation of new beginnings are what many of us were thinking as this nation was gearing up to have its first black president.
Many of us were happy that he had already named Eric Holder, another African American, to hold the nation's top law enforcement spot as attorney general. The thought of us black folks having to revisit the all-too-familiar scenario of white-cop-shoots-unarmed-black-man-and-gets-away-with-it was the furthest thing on our minds the night Oscar Grant was killed. I've often wondered if similar thoughts were rolling through Grant's mind that fateful night.
Was he thinking it was a new day when he was approached by an aggressive Johannes Mehserle that night? Did he feel comfortable enough to question why Mehserle had pulled him and his friends off the train? Did he think that the days of having to cower and be scared of white cops in black and brown neighborhoods were over?
Grant's murder was a harsh wake-up call. It reminded us that there would be no post-racial America, that it was business as usual. This was further underscored when we learned that moments before Grant was shot, he was called a "bitch ass nigger" by Mehserle's racist partner Tony Pirone, who has since been fired after months of community pressure. One can only wonder what Grant was thinking when he heard those words.
Against Injustice, Unity
It's with all that in mind, along with knowing all the work people put into organizing around this issue, that I'm disheartened by the jury's verdict. The Mehserle trial should have been an open-and-shut case, with this man being charged with voluntary manslaughter, at least, if not second-degree murder. I'm still bewildered by it, as was everyone else who took to the streets the night the verdict was read. What more was one supposed to do?
It would be one thing if people in Oakland sat back and just complained and this was the result, but Oakland isn't like that. I saw people rise to the occasion and do all the right things. Seeing folks from all walks, ages and ethnic backgrounds come together, link similar struggles and seriously put their shoulders to the grind in the name of getting justice for Oscar Grant and his family was breathtaking.
There were town halls held every single week at Olivet Baptist Church in West Oakland. There were dozens of marches, sit-ins, teach-ins, speak-outs and fundraising concerts. A number of artists created songs for the cause. Others made T-shirts and posters.
Coalitions were formed and bridges built, linking elected officials, activists and folks from different communities who saw Oscar Grant not only as a young black man who got killed but as someone who could just as easily have been them or a member of their community. When the trial moved to Los Angeles, organizers from the Bay Area linked up with organizers in L.A. to form tight coalitions.
Most importantly, people sat down and developed strategies with the Grant family, who have been a source of inspiration and have been incredibly strong throughout these past 18 months. The end result was an impressive string of victories that included an unresponsive Alameda County district attorney Tom Orloff and BART police chief Gary Gee being forced to step down and resign, two of the officers on the platform with Mehserle (Tony Pirone and Marysol Domineci) being fired, and BART itself being investigated by an outside firm, which concluded that the agency mishandled the shooting case and had inadequately trained its police officers.
A Stacked Deck
Although jaded by seeing acquittals in high-profile police shootings, such as the cases of Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell, I was hopeful this case would turn out differently. The dozens of videos documenting Grant's shooting spoke volumes. No way this was going to be covered up and swept away. Unfortunately, when you have every police union in the state throwing their weight behind a rogue officer, what seems an obvious conclusion can quickly become complicated.
When you take into account the consistent polling data that show the huge differences in the way whites and blacks view police, you can understand why this was cause for concern. Many of us believe that no matter how egregious their acts, the police can do no wrong in the eyes of whites. One of the reasons cited by Mehserle's defense and Alameda County Judge Morris Jacobson for moving the trial from Oakland to Los Angeles was because African Americans could not be impartial. They cited as proof an unscientific poll that was widely reported by local news outlets.
It was troubling that Mehserle's violent past was not allowed into the courtroom, thanks to California's powerful Policemen's Bill of Rights. The Los Angeles jury and many in the public were not privy to hearing how, six weeks before he murdered Oscar Grant, Mehserle is alleged to have savagely beaten a 41-year-old black engineer named Kenneth Carrethers, whom he overheard dissing the police to a friend. After the beating, Mehserle is said to have driven around to three different hospitals, looking for a place that would support his "he got hurt because he was resisting arrest" narrative. Why a guy like this was still on the force is beyond me.
Time to Refocus
Mehserle's lightweight conviction was jarring, and the pain was intensified by the fact of so many communities across the nation focusing instead on the "big" decision that basketball great LeBron James was going to make. Why weren't our urban broadcasters rallying us around Grant's case? Where was our progressive media to weigh in and do some serious investigative reporting on this? Why weren't more black folks outside Oakland talking about this?
Instead, Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan and King James news was the order of the day. Have we gotten so used to police shootings and cops getting away with it that covering them is seen as no longer worth the air space? That to me was the biggest wake-up call.
With all that being said, the lack of attention and the unfairness in the verdict has strengthened our resolve here in "Tha Town." People have come to lean on each other and draw strength from knowing that more than a few will be stepping up to fight for justice and put a permanent end to police brutality and misconduct.
The Oscar Grant case is not over. The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into it. We are pushing to make sure the other officers on the platform get jail time for lying, and we intend to change some laws. As Oscar's Uncle Bobby (Cephus Johnson) said over the weekend, This is war, and we have many battles before us.
Davey D is a journalist and community activist from the Bay Area. He hosts the daily syndicated radio show Hard Knock Radio, which has been covering the Oscar Grant case since the beginning.


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Hoch won the Allianz Championship on Sunday by birdieing five of the last eight holes, including the 17th and 18th. It was his second Champions Tour title.
Hoch has always had a lot of game, and had he coaxed in a two-footer at the 1989 Masters his golf legacy would be different. As it is, Hoch had 11 PGA Tour wins and 15 top tens in majors. Not bad at all. I got to meet Hoch in a hotel lobby last summer and hear some banter between him and another pro.
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I agree AG. It's refreshing to hear a professional speak from the heart without fear of an unfavorable wave of public relations. It somehow makes it easier for people like me to relate.
My take on this is that there is another force at work that has significantly reduced the straight talk from tour pros - sponsorship dollars. With so much money being poured into player's pockets, they don't want to rock the boat at corporate headquarters.
Hoch's candor is certainly refreshing.
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