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On behalf of the local organizing committee and our Indonesian and international partners, we would like to thank you for your support to the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), in Bali, Indonesia from 9-13 August 2009.
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The line "never forget" has often been used as a way to ensure that catastrophic, cataclysmic events aren't just stuffed away, out of mind, in history books, encyclopedias or, in the digital age, Wikipedia.
The line "never forget" has often been used as a way to ensure that catastrophic, cataclysmic events aren't just stuffed away, out of mind, in history books, encyclopedias or, in the digital age, Wikipedia.
It's certainly been applied to what happened in New York, Washington and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001.
And it's being taken seriously when it comes to bringing closure to the families of 1,115 people who died that day in the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center (out of the total death toll of 2,753), whose remains have never been identified.
On Saturday, 7,930 pouches containing bone fragments that have yet to be matched to any victim were transported in flag-draped caskets back to the World Trade Center site.
They will be stored in a repository, 70 feet underground, in the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which opens May 21. The only people who will have access to them will be the victims' families and forensic scientists who vow to continue the identification process as long as it takes, even though current methods are about to be exhausted.
Some family members are furious about the plan, to the point they staged a protest during Saturday's procession. They want the remains in a place of honor above ground, not stashed away "in the basement," as one of them protested.
We're not going there, other than to be respectful and understanding of the feelings of people whose anguish hasn't dimmed after nearly 13 years.
We will praise the commitment to keep this process going, even if it means waiting for technology that doesn't exist to be developed.
This is not a pointless exercise. Four victims have been identified in the past year.
As for the expense, the forensic team's annual salaries total $230,000, and there have been costs for outside follow-up work. That's a significant amount for the average person, but is picayune for government. A good, tight audit of New York's finances probably could erase enough waste to fund this work indefinitely — and that's how long it should go on.
These families may not get closure, but they deserve the effort.
Never forget.

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Tim Hetherington's Last Great Work
This video, "Diary," was posted by photojournalist and documentarian Tim Hetherington three months ago. His description reads: "'Diary' is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It's a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media."
Hetherington was killed in Libya earlier today. This was his last real film. It's worth watching.


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Tom Clancy, who died Tuesday at age 66, was an author who created imaginary stories from the raw material of a real world in conflict. His audience seemed to grow exponentially as he conquered one media platform after another.
In his 1984 debut, "The Hunt for Red October," he proved himself a master of the late Cold War espionage novel, with assorted Russian generals and commissars as his foils. But his fictional creations also took life in movies, television programs and even in a series of video games to which he lent his name.
Today, millions of young people who've never read his novels, and who weren't alive when the Soviet Union existed, storm Russian (and Mexican and Kazakh) cities in the virtual worlds of video games that bear Clancy's name. In recent years, the value of his film, book and game empire surpassed $100 million.
In his novels, Clancy gave his readers the old-fashioned escapism of richly detailed worlds where simple moral dramas play out to unambiguous endings -- and where compassionate but tough American men use their courage and smarts to defeat evil empires and cruel warlords.Clancy came to the book world in midlife, after years as an insurance broker and military history buff. And his "military fiction," as it came to be known, helped create an American archetype: the savvy spy or warrior who parachutes in to sort out the mess created by assorted criminals, dictators and bureaucrats.
"The Hunt for Red October" opens with a sympathetic portrait of a Soviet naval officer (played by Sean Connery in the movie) that's colored with rich specificity: from the "five layers of wool and oilskin" the officer wears at an Arctic submarine base, to his "half Lithuanian" heritage and his father's past in "the Great Patriotic War," as World War II is known to Russians, with Clancy filling in the father's military back story with much accurate historical detail.
On screen, heartthrobs like Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford gave Clancy's hero, Jack Ryan, a sex appeal and emotionality he lacked on the page -- the result was several nine-figure Hollywood blockbusters.
PHOTOS: Celebrities react on Twitter to Tom Clancy's death
Clancy's books appealed "to the most boy part of you," as the novelist Bob Shacochis wrote in a review of "Sum of All Fears" for The Times in 1991. Video game versions of those boy-friendly worlds were, perhaps, inevitable.
In the "Ghost Recon" game, released in 2001 and an early hit of the then-new Xbox and Playstation platforms, one could enter fantasy worlds where the details were constructed with screen pixels. Players walked through the rubble of cities in the Caucuses and assumed the roles of U.S. special-ops troops fighting a Russian nationalist army. The game spawned many sequels.
"Colonel, the United States of America once again emerged the victor in a great worldwide conflict," Scott Mitchell, the hero of many "Ghost Recon" game, intones in the sequel, "End War." "History won't soon forget what we've accomplished together..."
PHOTOS: Tom Clancy: A life of bestsellers
Clancy more than likely did not write that stilted dialogue. The best of his 18 novels were lively, original and unfailingly realistic. The late David Foster Wallace was a fan: He reportedly admired the novels for their ability to pack in facts.
In recent years, Clancy kept the literary department of his brand going by relying on "collaborators." The 2010 "Dead or Alive" credited Grant Blackwood, a veteran of similar collaborations with Clive Cussler, to tell the story of American operatives hunting down an Osama bin Laden-like terrorist.
In his review of "Dead or Alive" in The Times, Tim Rutten wrote that Clancy "has a tendency to both pander to popular fantasy (in this case, revenge) and, simultaneously, to play against it with hard-headed insights into the real world of military and intelligence operations. It's a fruitful tension that lends his books a quirky, appealing unpredictability that sometimes can survive even the author's eye-rolling politics."
Clancy was an outspoken conservative. Days after the 9/11 attacks, he said "the political left" was to blame, because it had "gutted" American intelligence agencies. But Clancy's appeal was, for the most part, bipartisan. Boys and men of all ages, especially, enjoyed the pleasure of losing themselves in the worlds he first built with mere words.


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You may know Levi Johnston as Mr. Sex on Skates, Bristol Palin's baby daddy or the MySpace redneck, but Levi Johnston hopes the next time you see him it's on television.
Johnston's manager, Tank Jones, is trying get the flannel-shirt wearing teen Hollywood ready, according to The Daily Beast.
Freed from the prospect of marriage into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's family, Johnston's considering his own career path. And now that he's a daddy, pulling in cash is high priority, which is why he's considering acting, reality shows and anything else he can get. And Jones, his stylish and hulking handler, is guiding him there.
Tank, who works in an Anchorage law office, tries to push Johnston from his fashion comfort-zone.
"Levi has his own style, and it works for him," Jones told The Daily Beast. "But, if he's going to go into the entertainment field, he has to be versatile. That's one of the things I want him to start seeing—feeling those colors, and feeling those textures. That's a lot for him, especially when you're used to doing something a certain way."
He's also tried to make Johnston more comfortable with his new identity by offering him an alter ego to put on when it's time to go celebrity -- Ricky Hollywood.
Johnston hasn't fully made the transition to Ricky Hollywood, though Tank's trying his best to break his old ways and open his mind in a way that transcends fashion. When Johnston appeared on the Tyra Banks show, he had an experience with a male make-up artist and hair stylist that Tank used as teachable moment.
"I had some dude singing to me, the whole time," Johnston complained. "He was real happy. Calling me 'baby' and all that. I kept my mouth shut."
Tank jumped in with his advice. "Don't overreact. Nobody's going to hurt you. You gotta be accepting of all different types of people. You're talking about dealing with Hollywood? You're going to really meet some strange people."
Still, he's worried folks back in Wasilla may give the new Levi an icy reception.
"My boys are gonna be so mad at me when they see me in this stuff," Levi said after a shopping spree with Tank.


text: Cartoon Network may have killed off their Toonami programming strand, but that doesn't mean that the network has abandoned anime entirely, according to an unnamed Bandai employee at last weekend's New York Anime Fest. Talking to Newsarama, the Bandai source is quoted as saying "There is no way Cartoon Network is giving up Naruto or Pokemon any time soon... We also want people to make sure Code Geass is not cancelled and will be back on a more convenient time slot in the near future." Maybe CN is ready to just admit that anime is as much a cartoon as American animation? [Newsarama]


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I have visited Durham just once – it is a long journey from the south of England – and it is time I went back. My friend Anna has inspired me by showing me a short piece she wrote for her creative writing class. It is not a straightforward tourist piece. I think it is a lyrical evocation of the effect of place; of a building; of history on one person at one point in time. On another day the weather conditions will be different, the light will change and the trees will have a different cast and colour. Anna shows us a perspective that takes no account of the Cathedral and Castle as World Heritage Site, its place in Harry Potter lore or as one of Britain's favourite buildings, but goes some way to explain why it is has been chosen as such:
You can get your first stunning view of Durham castle and cathedral from the train as it draws into Durham station. Built together high above the town, they almost seem to float in the clouds on a day when a bank of mist has settled over the houses and the lower dwellings, but up here on the train, on its lofty brick-built viaduct, you are at the same elevation, looking the castle in the eye with the cathedral behind it, marvelling at the labour of past generations, their stone constructions, all square corners, towers and turrets, and extraordinary size.
The castle is a college of the university, a hall of residence, quite prosaic really. There is a college porter who keeps the gate, looking askance or maybe with tolerance, as the students bring in their girlfriends. He carries the authority of the ancient gatehouse where he sits behind a grill, keeping careful note. Who could not sit there without carrying the weight of a whole line of gatekeepers, men who watched, lowered drawbridges or raised them, gave signals, heard armies depart, clattering on the cobbles with pennants fluttering?
There is no drawbridge now at Durham castle, and there never was a moat. But the castle does not need a moat for it is bounded on three sides by the River Wear that coils like a snake round the conical hill, whose natural defences were a gift of geography to our ancestors when looking for a place to build. It is difficult to speak of the castle and the cathedral without making them all one; they are only separated by a stretch of lawn called Palace Green, and Palace Green is only the size of a village cricket field. They share the protection of the river below and they protect each other by their proximity.
Sir Walter Scott treats them as one in a verse which is carved on the side of one of the bridges over the river:
Grey Towers of Durham
Yet well I Iove thy mixed and massive piles,
Half church of God, half castle 'gainst the Scot.
And long to roam these venerable aisles,
With records stored of deeds long since forgot.
A clever poem, for the cathedral looks a bit like a castle and the castle is a mixed and massive delight.
The castle and cathedral share their plug of rock. As you walk around the town there is a new view of them at every turn, if you crane your neck upwards to see them. Or, once you have climbed to the steep street to Palace Green, you can approach them as the tiny dot that you are, right up to the cathedral's massive doors, or the castle's gatehouse, but you never become their equal again, as you did from that first view from the train.
Lordly, defended, and a seat of learning. The bones of the venerable Bede lie in the cathedral, and the only other main building on Palace Green is the university library. It stretches between castle and cathedral, long and low in comparison, accessible from the front but from the back it is a sheer drop to the river, with rear windows providing views of trees and of the very bridge where the poem is inscribed; the sheer drop removing the library from the everyday, protecting the peace and quiet.
Anna Colgan
My thanks to Anna for allowing me to share this on my blog. Anna has written other pieces that suggest she would make a fabulous travel writer.
If you would like to learn more about Durham Cathedral, Durham Castle and the Palace Green go to http://www.durhamworldheritagesite.com where you can find a wealth of information on the life and history of this magical place.


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How gorgeous is this weather? And here I am indoors, blogging away!
I'm feeling saucy I must tell you in the next 2 weeks we have:
1. 7 Day Giveaway
Like our weekly giveaways – imagine 7 full days of lovely goodies to celebrate the sunshine! Well its starting on Monday 31st May. You gotta be in it to win it!
2. Blog Sale
Sorry, another one. I am currently in mega clean up mode and I have lots and lots of goodies I am sad to part with but I must if I am ever to finish anything. Keep your eyes peeled for the day & time!
3. Videos
First video up next week – an introduction and a stash video I did a while ago! Of course I appreciate your requests and feedback.
Do you have your sunscreen ready? The sun is one of the worst things for your skin, and the last thing we want is crows feet and pigmentation right? Right! Beautiful skin a million times better than covering it all with fake tan and layers of foundation.
Next week I have a 5 day Sunscreen special – keep your eyes out tanning addicts!
Looking forward to next week, hope you are too
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It's Christmas Time was preformed in Greater Boston's Regal Music Theater in Waltham this year with sell out crowds again. Every year tickets sell out. This year there were 10 performances as audiences come again and again to witness the wonderful performances of the children and adults from the Greater Boston communities.
A choir of 40 adults, a solo performance of grade 8 student performing as Clara in the Teddy Bears' Nutcracker, Santa's Workshop hosted 75 students from grades 1 – 4 as they become his adorable elf helpers, the Parade of Wooden Soldiers. In this years performance there was a special appearance from Sarah Pfisterer (The Phantom of the Opera – Broadway).
What an awesome Christmas tradition, Boston Rocks!


text: Fans hoping to get into EA's celebration of all things Madden at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California this Monday have pretty limited options when it comes to scoring entry into the event. They can either win tickets via local Southern California radio stations, or stand in line and hope they're one of the first 1,00 people there. Xbox Live's Larry Hryb offers gamers a third option for acquiring Maddenpalooza tickets - email him! EA has hooked the Major up with 25 pairs of tickets, which he will award randomly to folks who email him between now and 9AM Pacific time tomorrow. He'll notify winners tomorrow afternoon, giving you a good four days to figure out how the hell you're going to make it to Pasadena in time. PROTIP - If you live in Pasadena, don't move. I've got your tickets to the Maddenpalooza event in Pasadena [Xbox Live's Major Nelson]


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With the end of the month fast approaching, we are preparing to publish Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library. The newsletter is published by the staff of the Genealogy Center and sent via e-mail on the last day of each month. It's a another great way to learn about the resources in the department, new plans for the collection, programs, lodging, directions, and to see where our staff is speaking next. Click to read previously published editions. To sign-up for the newsletter, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com stating you would like to receive Genealogy Gems at your email address.
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PARIS, France - Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci's terrific start to the season continued with a run to the title at the Open GDF SUEZ a week after picking up their third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.
The top-ranked team in the world dropped three games in the first round against Alizé Cornet and Kristina Mladenovic, edged Julie Coin and Kristina Mladenovic in a match tie-break in the quarterfinals, had a walkover win in the semifinals and surrendered just two games in the final against No.2 seeds Andrea Hlavackova and Liezel Huber. They have now won 19 of their past 22 matches dating back to last year's US Open.
Paris was the Italians' 15th WTA doubles title as a duo and eighth since the start of 2012. The breakdown by surface is eight on clay, six on hard and one on grass. They also each now have 18 WTA doubles titles as individuals.
It was an especially productive week for Errani, as she also made it through to the singles final, the sixth time she has advanced to the singles and doubles final at the same event. Here is how she did in each of those instances:
2008 Palermo: won singles, won doubles
2011 Pattaya City: runner-up in singles, won doubles
2012 Acapulco: won singles, won doubles
2012 Barcelona: won singles, won doubles
2012 French Open: runner-up in singles, won doubles
2013 Paris [Indoors]: runner-up in singles, won doubles
Meanwhile, in their first event together, Kimiko Date-Krumm and Casey Dellacqua were victorious at the PTT Pattaya Open, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova and Alexandra Panova in the final.
It was Date-Krumm's fourth WTA doubles title and Dellacqua's first. Dellacqua had fallen in her three previous finals, two of which came at Grand Slams - one of those at the Australian Open a couple of weeks ago alongside Ashleigh Barty.
Date-Krumm is not only the second-oldest player to win a WTA singles title (she was 38 years and 11 months when she won Seoul in 2009 - Billie Jean King was 39 years and seven months when she won Birmingham in 1983) but at 42 years and four months, she is also the second-oldest player to win a WTA doubles title (Martina Navratilova won 12 WTA doubles titles between ages 45 and 49, while Date-Krumm has won three WTA doubles titles since turning 41). And this comes just a couple of weeks after Date-Krumm became the oldest player to win a singles match in Australian Open history.


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With the dust just settling from a record-setting week of auctions in Scottsdale, Ariz., the classic car community is already looking forward to the next event on the calendar: the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.
The event is held annually in March, in the Florida coastal resort town just on the Georgia border. In addition to the Concours car show, RM Auctions and Gooding & Co. each hold auctions featuring millions of dollars of rare collectors cars. This year will be no different.
RM is the official auction house of this Concours event, and will have numerous rare cars expected to fetch north of $1 million each during the March 9 sale.
PHOTOS: Highlights of the Amelia Island auctions
The highlight for RM will undoubtedly be a 1935 Duesenberg Model SJ Walker-LaGrande Convertible Coupe, which has a pre-sale estimate of $3.5 million to $5 million. RM says the car is one of only three made, and the only model with a supercharged version of the straight eight-cylinder engine. The car has 320 horsepower -- a king's sum for the day, and a three-speed manual transmission. This SJ also features a "semi-automatic" folding softtop which the driver could fold with the turn of a crank, a rarity for this era.
Another pre-war highlight of RM's auction will be a 1930 Cord L-29 Sport Cabriolet. It's one of three Cords RM is offering from an esteemed private collection. The car features coachwork built by a German company, making it the only surviving L-29 with a European body, RM said. The car's pre-sale estimate is available only to registered bidders, but if it sells, it could top the $1 million mark.
RM's other offerings expected to top $1 million include a 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C Sport Superleggera Berlinetta, a 1970 Porsche 908/3 race car, a 1954 Pegaso Z-102 Series II Cabriolet, a 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB, and a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing that's been owned by a single family since it was bought new.
Meanwhile, rival auction house Gooding & Co. will also be bringing its share of pricey eye candy for auction on March 8.
One of the highlights of the Santa Monica-based company's auction will be a 1928 Bentley 4 ½ liter Semi LeMans Tourer. This non-supercharged car was upgraded to racing specifications similar to the Bentleys of the era that were racing in the then-nascent 24 Hours of LeMans endurance race. Gooding's pre-sale estimate is $2 million to $2.5 million.
The company will also offer a gorgeous 1953 Fiat 8V Supersonic. This particular model is the first of only 12 made and won Best in Class at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Gooding says it features its original engine with only 20,000 miles on it, the original paint, interior and even the Pirelli tires. The car's pre-sale estimate is $1.1 million to $1.4 million.
Other highlights of Gooding's auction will include a 1965 Aston Martin Short Chassis Volante, a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTS, and a 1949 Jaguar XK120 Alloy Roadster.
Both auction companies say they'll be releasing additional cars in the weeks leading up to the Amelia auction, so check back with Highway 1 for more updates, include a ride-along in a very unique offering.
Car collectors spend freely at Arizona auctions
Photos: Highlights of the Amelia Island auctions
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Chicken Hutch / June 11, 2018 / Maryellen
The next step is unite the front door. Screw 2 hinges on each door, one about 4 inches above the door and the other one is also about 4 inches from the bottom. You may need the third hinge placed in the middle, depends on how high your chicken coop is. Repeat this step for other 2 openings. You are able to use the same size for the back door just like you make for the front door. But you need a new size for the doors on the sides of your chicken coop.
First, you need to cut the wood. For the wood, choose the kind which has high quality and durability such as teak wood. Use fiberboard with medium density for the door of your chicken coop. The size of the wooden pieces will depend on the height of your chicken coop. The door should be high and half wide from the door opening. Then, install the door frame. Screw 2x2 along the side of the door opening, such as along the top. It will give you a strong place to screw the door hinges.
The last step is add cover. Choose covers which are efficient to be used and useful. The most important is choose the ones which are not easily opened by predator such as dogs. Those are the steps of making chicken coop door that you are able to do it yourself.
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VANCOUVER – A group of addicts in Vancouver who were part of a clinical trial examining the use of prescription heroin have won a temporary injunction that will allow them to continue accessing the drug at least until a court challenge is heard.
The ruling, issued Thursday by a B.C. Supreme Court judge, is the second time in recent months that courts have interfered with Ottawa's attempt to rein in the medical use of otherwise illegal drugs.
Five people filed a lawsuit last fall alleging the federal government had violated their charter rights by denying access to prescription heroin to treat their addictions.
Those patients received the heroin during a clinical trial, but once they left the trial last year, their doctors asked for approval under a special Health Canada program to continue prescribing the drug.
Health Canada initially granted the approvals, but Health Minister Rona Ambrose quickly introduced new regulations to stop such approvals. The patients who were approved have not received any more prescription heroin and subsequent applications have been rejected.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge issued an injunction exempting the patients from the updated regulations until the case goes to trial, likely next year.
Joseph Arvay, a lawyer who is representing the patients, said the federal government's decision was not based on scientific research that has shown prescription heroin is an effective treatment for patients suffering from severe addiction.
"What was fundamentally wrong with the minister's decision is failing to understand that heroin treatment is a treatment, and it's not just providing the addicts with a drug of their choice," Arvay told a news conference Thursday.
"It (prescription heroin treatment) gives them an entry into the health-care system that they don't otherwise have. They're dealt with by social workers and psychologists, and people help them to deal with all the ramifications of their addictions."
The plaintiffs in the case all took part in clinical trials conducted by Providence Health Care, which operates St. Paul's Hospital in downtown Vancouver and is also involved in the lawsuit.
The first trial, the North American Opiate Medication Initiative, or NAOMI, took place in Vancouver and Montreal between 2005 and 2008. It compared the effectiveness of pharmaceutical-grade heroin, known as diacetylmorphine, and oral methadone. Two of the plaintiffs were NAOMI participants.
The Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness, or SALOME, began in 2011. The study is comparing the effectiveness of hydromorphone, a synthetic drug approved for use to control pain, and pharmaceutical heroin in treating severe addiction. All five plaintiffs took part, exiting the program last year.
Doctors applied to Health Canada for special permission to prescribe heroin to 21 former study participants, including the five plaintiffs.
The updated regulations weren't retroactive, but the patients who were already approved still could not get the prescription heroin because the supplier didn't want to distribute the drug to the patients until the legal questions were cleared up.
Arvay said the injunction means all patients who have participated in the clinical trials can now apply to Health Canada for special access if their doctors believe prescription heroin will benefit them.
Health Canada said it plans to study the injunction before deciding how to respond.
"Dangerous drugs like heroin have a significant impact on Canadian families and their communities," said an email statement from department spokesman Sean Upton.
"We will continue to support drug treatment and recovery programs that work to get Canadians off drugs in a safe way."
The court ruling comes two months after a Federal Court judge issued a temporary injunction that disrupted Ottawa's plans to overhaul the medical marijuana system.
New regulations took effect in April, shifting marijuana production to commercial producers and attempting to prohibit patients from growing their own pot.
A group of patients launched a legal challenge, arguing they have a constitutional right to grow their own marijuana for medical use.
A judge issued an injunction to allow patients who were previously approved to grow their own pot to continue doing so while the court case proceeds.
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Lockhart/Gardner stuffed rats in files boxes that were delivered to Florrick/Agos
When Alicia and Cary represent a client who has left Lockhart/Gardner to be represented by Florrick/Agos, Will and Diane do all that they can to delay having to turn over the case files to the new firm. Also, Marilyn tries to give advice to Alicia and Will displays a new intensity. Pictured L-R: Jess Weixler as Robyn Burdine, Ben Rappaport as Carey Zepps, and Matt Czuchry as Cary Agos Photo: Myles Aronowitz/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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Drifting and dirt track racing — what do they have in common? You both go really sideways in them. So what happens when a pro drifter tries out a dirt track car?
This is Corey Hosford, of Driftbusters and the Boss Force 5-Step Program for Success fame. His brother drives a non-wing sprint car, so he tried it out a few weekends ago. What's interesting is that Corey is pretty much driving this sprint car like it was a drift car.
Well, what's even better is seeing drivers try their hand at all kinds of different series. Hopefully there ends up being more crossover in the sideways disciplines of drifting and dirt track in the future.


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Bankruptcy judge approves settlement between Fisker Automotive and former battery supplier
DOVER, Del. – A Delaware bankruptcy judge is approving a settlement between electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. and its former battery supplier.
The settlement approved Wednesday reduces Fisker's claims against the company formerly known as A123 Systems Inc., now called B456 Systems Inc., by almost 90 percent.
Fisker will be granted a $15 million unsecured claim on an initial claim of $48.7 million against A123 for breach of warranty. Fisker's $91.2 million claim for rejection of its supply agreement with A123 will be disallowed.
Waltham, Mass.-based A123 went into bankruptcy protection in October, three years after being awarded a $249 million Energy Department grant.
Fisker, which has drawn $193 million of a $529 million Energy Department loan it received, is expected to seek bankruptcy protection as well within days.


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Now some of you may be wondering who Lee-Lee is. I didn't realize it at the time, but my little cousin Brynnlee (aka Lee-Lee), was born on my blogoversary last year! Happy First Birthday, Lee-Lee!
Photo courtesy of Lee-Lee's mom, Cousin Paige mentioned above
I fully admit that I stole this pic from Paige's Facebook page. I was too lazy to go get my camera out of my husband's backpack with the pictures we took of Lee-Lee at Christmas.


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WINNIPEG - The Canadian women's soccer team will get another chance this year to try and beat the United States when the rivals meet May 8 in Winnipeg.
Canadian midfielder and Winnipeg native Desiree Scott is thrilled the team will play in her hometown for the first time since 1990.
"I'm beyond excited," she said. "I've been waiting for this day to come."
Canada lost to the No. 1-ranked Americans 1-0 in Texas on Friday and hasn't managed to beat them since 2001.
"Obviously we didn't play our best match but we had our opportunities in that game and I think we're inching ... closer to the Americans," said Scott, a member of the 2012 bronze-medal Olympic team.
Winnipeg has already been named as one of the six host cities for FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015, but fans in the Manitoba capital won't see the home squad in that competition.
Canadian head coach John Herdman was also on hand for Monday's announcement and said the team has been in a talent development and refocusing phase since the Olympics, which is starting to show results.
"Last year was a huge learning curve for the team and we did all right but this year's about stepping forward and I hope when we play the big teams we can get a (win) and that should put us in a good place heading into 2015," he said. "The opportunity to beat a team that hasn't been beaten in 12 years by Canada? Man, the script's already been written I think."
The Canadian team, which is ranked seventh in the world, is announcing its friendly schedule piecemeal and will make a stop in Edmonton on Tuesday.
Scott said she's anxious to play in front of friends and didn't shy away from trying to twist a few arms to ensure a good crowd at Investors Group Field, the home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
"It's going to be a great game and I hope all of Winnipeg comes out," she said. "You really have no excuse not to be there."
Scott currently plays for FC Kansas City as part of the new National Women's Soccer League.
Meanwhile, a new study predicts women's World Cup soccer events this year and next in Canada will create about $337 million in overall economic activity.
Six provinces will get a share, ranging from a high of $80 million in Alberta to a low of about $26 million in Manitoba. Tournament games will also be played Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and New Brunswick.
Most of that $337 million will be generated by Women's World Cup, with about $70 million coming this year from the under-20 women's World Cup. Winnipeg won't see any under-20 action this year.
The preliminary report prepared by the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance looks at out of town visitors, capital construction costs and the costs of hosting competitions. It said the net economic activity for Canada would run about $169 million.


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Every morning at my parents' condo in South Carolina, alligators appear in the back yard. Lying statue-still in the crisply cut grass, they look as fanciful as unicorns, though unicorns wouldn't snatch neighbors' poodles or lunge at the lawn mower. Forty years ago, my little brother and I used to feed them marshmallows (illegal now; incredibly stupid then). In one of our old 8mm home movies, you can see the sugary white dots disappearing as a seven-foot monster glides through the water before turning sharply toward the shore where we're standing. A hail of marshmallows rains down as the alligator runs up the bank - then the empty plastic bag, then the screen lurches and goes black.
Karen Russell's first novel, "Swamplandia!," took me back to that surreal childhood encounter. With a mixture of comedy, terror and nostalgia, she conjures up a run-down theme park 30 miles off the Gulf Coast of Florida, a tourist trap run by a family of phony Indians named the Bigtrees: "Catch the late show, Saturdays. Alligators! Starry nights! It's like Van Gogh meets Rambo." Indeed, this is no Disney World; the major attraction is "Live Chicken Thursday," when alligators leap out of the water to snatch hens from a clothesline. People come by the hundreds for a swampy serving of grotesque death and macabre slapstick. An experienced alligator wrestler, Chief Bigtree, warns that the reptile "can hoard its violence for millions and millions of years. . . . It's pure appetite in a leather case."
Russell's work has appeared in "Best American Short Stories," and she's been blessed by the New Yorker, Granta and the National Book Foundation, so this is a debut with an unusual amount of momentum behind it - all well deserved. If you read "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" (2006), you'll recognize this novel as an expansion of the opening story in that celebrated collection. But at more than 10 times the original story's length, "Swamplandia!" gives those giant lizards room to roam.
As the novel begins, Mrs. Bigtree, who dazzles spectators by diving into a dark pool of several dozen alligators, is killed instead by a fast-moving cancer. The park slips into bankruptcy, and the family stumbles around in a daze of unexpressed grief. Grandpa is consigned to a nursing home, and Dad takes off to the mainland with vague plans to raise money. "Swamplandia!" needs to dispatch its adult characters quickly because this is a story about three lost siblings, young people burdened with more responsibility, affection and sorrow than they can possibly carry alone.
Russell has perfected a tone of deadpan wit and imperiled innocence that I find deeply endearing, but readers allergic to self-consciously quirky characters should take precautions. On this almost make-believe island, the Bigtree children home-school themselves with moldy books from a Library Boat abandoned in the 1950s. They speak with preternaturally mature knowledge without realizing how little they know of the real world. One wrong move and the novel's poignancy could slip into cuteness.
Thirteen-year-old Ava narrates half the story, and she's an irresistible blend of earnestness and courage. Determined to save her family's business by winning an alligator-wrestling competition - wherever it might be - she sends letters to the Smithsonian, the state universities and the Florida Wildlife and Gaming Commission: "I was an alligator wrestler," she explains, "accustomed to bold movements. . . . I didn't brag exactly, but I made sure the commissioners understood that I was the real deal; I wasn't some unserious church girl from Nebraska who had only ever handled pet-store geckos, or some inlander, 'Rebecca' or 'Mary,' a pigtailed zoo volunteer."
But Ava's more immediate problem is saving her older sister, Ossie, whose depression draws her to spiritualism and a psychotic romance with a dead dredgeman. At the center of the novel is Ava's rescue mission through the mangrove-choked waters of the Ten Thousand Islands in a 14-foot skiff. Russell is trafficking in some classic stories here, from Huck Finn's adventures down the Mississippi to Odysseus' voyage across the River Styx, and you never know when a riptide of tragedy might pull away the humor of "Swamplandia!" As in her short-story collection, she's charted out a strange estuary where heartbreak and comedy mingle to produce a fictional environment that seems semi-magical but emotionally true.
In alternating chapters, a separate strand of the novel follows Ava's older brother, Kiwi, as he tries to make his way on the mainland by working as a janitor at a competing theme park called the World of Darkness. The novel's insistence that each of the Bigtree children go to hell may strike you as a heavy-handed metaphor, but Russell has a lot of fun with this brimstone resort (the Devil's Oven concession stand sells Hellspawn Hoagies and Faustian Bargain Fish Tacos). Like his youngest sister, sweet-hearted Kiwi is a hilarious character, a bumbling, adolescent genius constantly running up against his own naivete. He's desperate to fit in, but he's handicapped by a giant vocabulary of impressive words that he's never heard out loud (he "pronounced 'ominous' so that it rhymed with 'dominoes' ").
After a lifetime on Swamplandia, he's like a space alien who knows about teen life only from reading Margaret Mead. With his childlike enthusiasm and his guileless expression of hope, he's a giant Kick Me sign among the thugs and druggies who toil away for minimum wage at the World of Darkness. "Every day, Kiwi's colleagues taught him what you could and could not say to another person here on the mainland," Russell writes. "This was a little like having snipers tutor you on the limits of the prison yard." Eager to prove his heterosexuality, while cleaning one of the rides he recites "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "believing that the beauty of the poem would be self-evident and exonerate him." Alas. And somehow, using the word "pulchritude" in reference to another janitor's girlfriend doesn't win him any points, either. "What was wrong with these philistines?" he wonders.
Despite all the charms of "Swamplandia!," pacing is a problem, as it was for Reif Larsen's "Selected Works of T.S. Spivet," another novel about a precocious child's dangerous, grief-fueled journey. Good short-story writers like Russell know how much depends on endings, those final few breaths of ineffable melancholy, but landing a novel requires something more. After half-a-dozen detours, skating along a thin layer of plausibility, Russell runs through the final pages as though she's being chased by a seven-foot gator. I know that feeling, but I wish she'd taken her time and given this finale a little more room to breathe. After all, she sends her smart, vulnerable characters to hell. We want to know just how deeply they've been singed.
Charles is The Post's fiction editor. His reviews appear every Wednesday.
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Mobile payments company Square and coffee giant Starbucks announced a surprise joint venture today that will eventually let all Starbucks customers pay without using cash or a credit card.
Instead, payments will be made using an app called Pay With Square.
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When it comes time to pay, you just have to tell the cashier your name and he or she will process the payment. You don't need to show your phone or credit card.
Until now, Pay With Square was mostly used by smaller, independently-owned stores. But with Starbucks on board, Square will be in thousands of locations at a major retailer. That's a big deal.
But there's a caveat. As Dan Frommer reports, Starbucks will initially require you to show a barcode on your phone to the cashier so he or she can scan it. You won't be able to take advantage of the hands-free payments that other Pay With Square partners allow. Yet.
That makes sense, because it's a huge, expensive ordeal for Starbucks to rip out all of its point-of-sale systems and replace them. The barcode system works with existing equipment.
So at the end of the day, paying with Square on your phone at Starbucks will be a very similar experience as paying with the official Starbucks app for now. The only difference is you can use a real credit card, not a pre-loaded gift card.
But from the way the companies are talking, it seems clear that will change as they figure out how to make Pay With Square's tab feature work at Starbucks.
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Mactac Europe S.A. has followed the REACH process since the publication of the White Paper in 2001 and has always been involved in its different steps, being aware of the obligations that are ours as a downstream user of chemical substances.
At this stage, Mactac Europe S.A. confirms that all the substances we use have been pre-registered and we communicate thereupon with our customers.
In all of our products, we strive to use environmentally responsible materials. We have developed a comprehensive range of products which contribute to protect the environment such as cadmium free PVC films and chlorine free papers.
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Whenever possible we design our products to avoid the use of solvent based adhesive in function of the product performance expected by customers. That is why we have developed a whole range of emulsion based and hot melt adhesives which do not contain solvents nor any hazardous products. These adhesives are real alternatives to traditional solvent based adhesives. In case of demanding product performance, our selfadhesive product constructions include solvent based adhesives with very low quantities of remaining solvents.
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We are commited to operating clean, safe, energy-efficient manufacturing facilities, and work to comply with or exceed community, state and EEC standards. For example, we recover, recycle and re-use most of the solvents used in the adhesive coating process of some product lines. Mactac has been one of the first self-adhesive products manufacturers to install solvent recovery units.
We are commited to the elimination of unnecessary packaging, where applicable, and to the reduction of manufacturing waste and emissions through: equipment advances, process changes, employee programmes. Since 2005 we have reduced our power consumption by 14 %, our gas consumption by 25 % and our water consumption by 39 % per sqm of laminate manufactured.
Our solid manufacturing waste is sorted out (cardboard, paper, metal, wood, plastics) to maximize waste recycling. After the primary mission of our products is complete, most are recyclable into similar or other usable products. Our products and packaging are permanently adapted to make them easily recyclable by up-to-date recycling techniques.
With current technologies, most of our products can be safely incinerated. Because of the high BTU value of our papers and plastic materials, these products can greatly improve combustion and help create a more efficient incineration process or be used as fuel by some industries like cement factories. When recycling is not technically acceptable, our products can be landfilled.
Our products are generally light-weight, low volume and compactible, thereby providing a significant source reduction in landfill disposal over heavier, bulkier materials.
Emission of harmful products (e.g. smoke) has been reduced to minimal quantities according to the EEC regulations.
While only a small quantity of effluent water is used per sqm of laminate produced, effluent water is treated on site according to the strictest local legislation.
Mactac sponsors the "Wind Day"
Pursuing its protection of the environment policy Mactac Europe has sponsored the decoration of the wind mills recently in Belgium.
Four meters high digital graphics have been applied on the pillars of the wind mills installed in the Walloon region. The wind mills park was inaugurated during the "Wind Day" organized by the European Community. Taking advantage of their meeting in Brussels, Ministers for the Energy of the member states have visited the wind park and observed the high degree of professionalism of the installation.This event was coupled with a contest for school children on the protection of the environment and prizes were presented by representatives of the Ministry for the Environment taking advantage of an exhibition on clean energy.
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JOHNSON CITY (July 24, 2013) – The East Tennessee State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has released the speaker list and topic schedule for this weekend's first annual Carl Torbush/ETSU Football Coaching Clinic presented by Appalachian Orthopedic Associates, which is scheduled for 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, 2013 inside the Martha Culp Auditorium on the ETSU campus.
The clinic, which will also feature former Tennessee head coach and current ETSU football consultant Phillip Fulmer as well as other college coaches, is open to coaches at all age and skill levels from youth leagues to high school. While the cost of the clinic is $20 for early registration (prior to July 25) and $30 day of the event, ETSU students can attend for free. All proceeds will benefit the ETSU Kickoff Fund.
For more information and to register, contact ETSU at 423-439-5286 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
Participants in the clinic will receive an exclusive ETSU football folder and enjoy a full day of coaching instruction, with sessions scheduled from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Pre-registration with a continental breakfast is set to begin at 7:30 a.m., and lunch will be provided on campus by the Chick-fil-A at the Crossings of Johnson City.
Other coaches scheduled to appear include former ETSU Buccaneer and current Maryville College head coach Mike Rader, current University of the Cumberlands head coach John Bland, and former North Carolina assistants Kenny Browning and Ron Case.
Below is the event schedule:
7:30 to 9 a.m. – Registration
9 to 9:50 a.m. – Kenny Browning: Techniques and fundamentals of defensive line play
10 to 10:50 – Ron Case: Press man technique and fundamentals
11 to 11:50 – Phillip Fulmer: Technique and fundamentals of offensive line play
Noon to 1:20 – Lunch
1:30 to 2:20 p.m. – Mike Rader: Wrinkles off the zone read
2:30 to 3:20 p.m. – John Bland: Shotgun option and iso option
3:30 to 4:20 – Carl Torbush: Take away circuits, tackling circuits, pursuit drills
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One of the primary themes in the book of Revelation is the paradox of the Christian life. Believers are united to Christ, the Lamb who was slain but now reigns as the Lion from the tribe of Judah (Rev. 5–6 …Read More
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Signs and Seals of Union
Just as He called the world into being by the power of His Word (Ps. 33:6–9; Heb. 11:3), so God brings His church into being by the power of the gospel call (2 Thess. 2:13–14; 1 Peter …Read More
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About the Clinical Program
Credit Requirements: A student must competently complete 50 hours of relevant legal work for every 1 credit (P/F) awarded in a clinic. Most clinic placements require 100 or 150 hours of work in a semester (which equates to 7-10 hours of work per week) to receive 2 or 3 (P/F) credits. A student may earn up to 14 credits toward graduation from clinical placement work. This credit limitation does not include graded credit received for participation in the accompanying academic course.
To Enroll: Although judicial students are selected by the supervising judges, most other clinics are "open enrollment." Occasionally a clinic (or placement in a clinic) has limited space and the supervising faculty member decides which students will best be able to benefit from the experience. Applications are only accepted via hard copies and may be turned into the Clinical Program Office located in Room 4231.
Two clinics are offered every semester to develop basic skills for and insights about the practice of law:
- Judicial Clinic placements with Judicial Process class (every term)
- Civil Clinic placements with Lawyering Skills Survey class (every term)
Five clinics focus on particular practice areas or service projects where all the students in the class are simultaneously doing clinic work:
- Criminal Clinic placements with Criminal Process class (year-long)
- Innocence Clinic placement and Innocence Law class (year-long)
- New Ventures Clinic placements and class (year-long)
- Public Policy Practicum and Clinic (Fall and Spring)
- Tax Clinic placement and Tax Practice I and II class (year-long)
Other clinics provide a variety of other clinical opportunities that permit students to add a live experience to a related course when that course is taught (or subsequent term):
- Appellate Clinic with Appellate Practice class
- Environmental Clinic with Environmental Practice class
- Health Law Clinic with Health Law class
- Hinckley International Clinic with HNKLY 6923 class
- Hinckley Washington D.C. Clinic with HNKLY 6922 class
- Legislative Clinic with Legislative Process class
- Mediation Clinic with Mediation/Advanced Negotiation class
- SEC Enforcement Clinic with Current Issues in Securities Law class
- Utah Journal of Family Law Clinic
- Victims Rights Clinic with Rights of Crime Victims class
Individual student-arranged clinics are accompanied by a directed study class.
Contact the Clinical Program Office for more information via email or:
- Professor Linda F. Smith, Clinical Program Director, Room 3267, (801) 581-4077
- Ashley Mendoza, Associate Director, Room 4231, (801) 585-7703
- Emily Aplin, Administrative Program Manager Room 4256, (801) 581-5237
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Open Access Is Spreading -- But Is It Really Open Access?
from the let's-do-this-properly dept
The latest big boost to open access has come from in UK government's "Innovation and research strategy for growth" (pdf), which says:
The Government, in line with our overarching commitment to transparency and open data, is committed to ensuring that publicly-funded research should be accessible free of charge. Free and open access to taxpayer-funded research offers significant
social and economic benefits by spreading knowledge, raising the prestige of UK research and encouraging technology transfer. At the moment, such research is often difficult to find and expensive to access. This can defeat the original purpose of taxpayer-funded academic research and limits understanding and innovation. We have already committed, in our response to Ian Hargreaves's review of intellectual property, to facilitate data mining of published research. This could have substantial benefits, for example in tackling diseases. But we need to go much further if, as a nation, we are to gain the full potential benefits of publicly-funded research.
That sounds like great news. But one of the leading proponents of openness in science, Peter Murray-Rust, thinks that the open access movement is being short-changed with existing open access publications. His concerns arose when he attended the annual general meeting of the UK version of PubMed Central, which is "a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the US National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)".
Here's what happened:
I was at the AGM of UK PubMedCentral last Monday and asked about the Open Access subset of PMC – those papers where authors/funders have paid large amounts of money to ensure their papers are "Open Access". I asked about the licence, fully expecting these to be all CC-BY and was appalled to hear that most of them were only available as CC-NC. This appears to be near universal – most major publishers only allow "Open Access" to be CC-NC.
The issues surrounding the use of non-commercial licenses have been discussed on Techdirt before. Some people feel that open content released under a non-commercial license such as cc-nc is not really open, because you are severely limited in terms of what you can do with it. The Open Source Definition, for example, does not allow limitations of this kind. Others, by contrast, think that something is better than nothing, and that non-commercial uses are important enough that cc-nc materials are still valuable.
Very simply, this is a disaster.
Because CC-NC gives the reader or re-user almost no additional rights. The author is paying anything up to 3000 currency units for something which is little more than permission to put the article on their web page.
Murray-Rust explains the problems of cc-nc in the field of science:
I and others have written at length on the restrictions imposed by NC. NC forbids any commercial use. Commercial is not related to motivation – profit/non-profit, etc. It is whether there is an exchange of some form of goods. Among the things NC forbids are:
The key thing here is that publishers have been paid for full open access, not a watered-down version, so there's no justification for holding back rights that reduce the scientific value of papers considerably. It looks like the funding organizations that mandate open access need to be more specific in forbidding limited, non-commercial licensing. If they don't, it may turn out that all those open access resources that are starting to appear will deliver rather less than the "full potential benefits of publicly-funded research" the UK government and others are hoping for.
Public text- and data-mining. A third party could make commercial use of the results
Republication of diagrams, etc. in journals. Publication is a commercial act.
Creation of learning materials. Students pay for their education.
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Back in the 70s fat was branded as the culprit of cellulite and all subcutaneous fat. It seemed to make sense at the time that if you eat fat, you will in turn gain more fat, but this is not even remotely the case. Fat is an essential element of every diet, and should not be overlooked. When it comes to counting calories fat does seem to be something scary. Of all macronutrients it carries the most calories per gram at a whopping 9. That is a lot when in comparison to both protein and carbohydrate counts at 4 calories per gram, but don't let that scare you off! Calories are just energy that is available for use, so fat is actually the most energy dense of all of the macronutrients.
Consuming fat, more specifically unsaturated fat, can actually help cholesterol levels. Decrease your total to HDL ratio, and be beneficial to your health. Unsaturated fats are generally liquid at room temperature due to their double bonded structure, and therefore don't pack nicely in a solid form. When you choose to grease your pan or cook, solid fat such as butter and lard are full of saturated fat, while canola oil and olive oil are almost exclusively unsaturated fat.
Fat assists in vitamin absorption of the 4 fat soluble vitamins K,A,D, and E, fat also facilitates normal growth and development, and supports maintaining cell membranes which is important for obvious reasons.
Some great sources of fat are: avocados, nuts, seeds, and salmon. When in doubt though, check those labels. Both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat have great health benefits, both in lowering LDL cholesterol and increasing HDL count. So, when it comes to eating well, don't fear the fat!
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A Multiwavelength View of Supernova 1987A
Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories to produce this colorful, multiwavelength image of the intricate remains of Supernova 1987A.
The red color shows newly formed dust in the center of the supernova remnant, taken at submillimeter wavelengths by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile.
The green and blue hues reveal where the expanding shock wave from the exploded star is colliding with a ring of material around the supernova. The green represents the glow of visible light, captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The blue color reveals the hottest gas and is based on data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The ring was initially made to glow by the flash of light from the original explosion. Over subsequent years the ring material has brightened considerably as the explosion's shock wave slams in it.
Supernova 1987A resides 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, where a firestorm of star birth is taking place.
NASA, ESA, and A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF);
Hubble image: NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)
Chandra image: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Frank et al.
ALMA image: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) and R. Indebetouw (NRAO/AUI/NSF)


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NIST Research Offers Guide in Formulating Cancer Treatment Drugs
Potentially valuable drugs slowed down by sticky molecules may get
another shot at success. Joint research by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), Genentech, the University of Delaware
and Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) has revealed the reason why a certain
class of proteins tends to form clusters that lead to high viscosity in
drug solutions.
The newly published results* could help drug companies create a variety of cancer and autoimmune disease treatments based on monoclonal antibodies, whose stickiness can make them difficult to administer through thin needles.
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are Y-shaped protein molecules that hold great promise for disease treatment. In principle, the tip region of two of their "arms" can be engineered to deliver attacks on tumor cells without harming surrounding tissue, making mAbs less dangerous to the body than standard chemotherapy, that kills both healthy and cancerous cells. However, a roadblock in the way of their bright pharmaceutical future as a subcutaneous injection—the preferred delivery technique—is their high viscosity: in solution, some mAbs become so viscous at required high concentrations that they are nearly impossible to inject.


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94 N. Main Street, Jasper, GA - (706) 253-2457
By Gerry Nechvatal
Pickens County Economic Development Director
By now it is no secret to most that the new Clint Eastwood, Justin Timberlake, and Amy Adams movie Trouble with the Curve will be filming a scene at a Jasper location in April. And while this is very exciting, it has sparked some debate about the impact it will have on the community from an economic standpoint.
Taken as a singular occurrence the value may be relatively small, as is any two day event or festival, but the objective is not to just have this be a one time event.
Georgia has created a very favorable business environment for entertainment productions as well as established programs such as "Camera Ready" through the Georgia Department of Economic Development in order to recruit these types of opportunities to the State.
These efforts have been very successful as recently documented in a trade industry publication ranking Georgia #3 in top places to film, coming in only behind California and Connecticut. Upcoming releases filmed in Georgia include Joyful Noise, Jayne Mansfield's Car and What to Expect When You're Expecting. The list of actors is impressive with big name stars such as Dolly Parton, Robert Duval, Kevin Bacon, Cameron Diaz, and Jennifer Lopez.
Not wanting to overlook any potential avenue to increase economic activity in Pickens County as well as to support the Georgia Department of Economic Development, we chose to participate early in the Camera Ready program and as a result the community has been scouted for several films.
The State helicopter landed in Talking Rock last summer with the Director and Crew scouting a location to film a new version of The Great Locomotive Chase, and in addition, a location in the county was one of the finalists for the upcoming "Dirty Dancing" remake. We were selected and several articles have appeared in the Progress about the scenes filmed by emerging movie companies in numerous locations throughout Jasper and Pickens County.
So what will result from Trouble with the Curve?
Aside from Jasper being promoted through talk on Atlanta radio and being listed as a location on the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB.com), much may be determined by the experience of the production company and the actors.
During the scouting and the location preparation we have worked hard to make their experiences very positive and hassle-free so that within the entertainment industry the reputation of Jasper and Pickens County is that it is a great place to make movies. On the upcoming filming dates it is vital for all members of the community to do their part to insure the same.
If you want to someday meet a star, help make sure their experience is one they wish to repeat, not forget, so that the future of film here is an economic blockbuster, not a flop.


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When people ask Greg how long he's been married, he declares without faltering, "40 years." It's such a sweet sentiment to overhear at a cocktail party, like when he tells people if Whining During Pregnancy were an Olympic sport I'd take gold. I'd also win first place in the more traditional Javelin Throw if only the IOC would allow me to place him as my target at the far end of the field. While his proclamation establishes me as the most youthful looking 65 year old (next to Raquel Welch), we have, in truth, only been married 8 years. We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary this past month. The milestone was not marked with the same lavishness as it would have been in our pre-children years when we would take a great vacation. We did take a vacation of sorts, but there were no hot towels, European dinners, or ocean-side walks. We were slated to be at a family wedding in New Jersey the day after our anniversary so we decided to strap the kids to the roof and bring the whole 'Fam Damily' to the big city to enjoy a few days leading up to the celebration of both our and his cousin's marital bliss.
If you have traveled with children, you already know that a Mexican drug mule, carrying cocaine in his small intestine, fording the Rio Grande under the gunfire of Arizona cowboys has an easier time getting from point A to point B. The endless hours trapped within a Jeep with three humans determined to destroy each other was eerily reminiscent of Nicholas Cage's window seat aboard Con-Air.
The trip did improve upon arrival. We booked our stay at a mega hotel in Times Square, which was a strange experience for once locals. Our room towered above buildings, overlooking all of the shoebox apartments we ever lived in while Beauty & The Beast blinked neon through our window. While walking through Times Square used to give rise to fantasies of strangling myself with the camera strap of a Japanese tourist, the proximity to Central Park and Toys R Us proved to be valuable now that we have children. The most convenient aspect to our hotel's coordinates was the closeness to Hell's Kitchen, the neighborhood Greg lived in when we began dating, which then became my home once we were engaged. We had our first date at Central Park. Our second date was to an Irish Pub where he forced me to play pool and to embarrass myself by inquiring if a vegetarian could get the Mash sans the Bangers. We once got into a ludicrous fight on the streets which culminated with him bellowing, "You suck, Erin!" while I gave him the finger with one hand and hailed a taxi with the other. It was these tender memories that inspired me to create an homage to our early years together.
While children napped, nestled with bed bugs, I charted an Anniversary Scavenger Hunt. I created clues, complete with rhyming verse, to lead him to significant sites from our courtship. Within each clue's envelope, I included one of his favorite chocolate bars since this anniversary is traditionally denoted by candy. When I licked the seal on the final clue, I sat back beaming with pride at my creativity and romanticism. It was a strange feeling to be armed with a gift before my mother had to call to remind me of my anniversary and to tell me it's not too late to wrap myself in cellophane. Kathy Bates, no more! I was the Mayflower of Love, without the scurvy. The Titanic of Affection, without the iceberg and that damn Canadian singing on my helm. I was Danielle Flippin' Steele this year.
The morning of our anniversary, while seated in a swanky Brasserie beside French children who made ours look like American trash from a Kid Rock video, I gave Greg the first clue. He seemed confused by the Shakespearean-like prose my clever brain devised. Rather than saving the chocolate bar as a piece of this very intricate puzzle I had created, he immediately unsheathed and ate it. He ate the whole Rollos bar, which was irritating not only because we were mid-omelet but because opening candy in front of our kids is like pitching a bucket of chum into shark-infested waters. He figured the first site out effortlessly and we walked briskly there to collect clue #2. The next clue alluded to the 'house that Jack BILT', which was a play on words for the building we lived in, The Biltmore, which was built by the Jack Parker Corporation. This is a detail I wouldn't expect any of you to understand, but I lived with this man in this building for 2 years. We got engaged in this building. During the great power blackout of 2003, we thought we were going to rot to death in this building.
As he stared blankly at the clue, muttering incoherently about baseball stadiums, I began to realize there is a reason those wedding shows always depict the man arranging a scavenger hunt for the woman. We're good at these things. We retain meaning. We have memories. You show us a dirty sock and it reminds us of the time we were sick in bed with pneumonia and you came over and washed our clothes while flipping the channel between Oxygen and the Sundance Channel as we slurped Ramen Noodles because even though they're unhealthily high in sodium and remind us of collegiate poverty, they make us feel better when we're sick. Of course there's also the fact that we love to wear socks at nighttime in California because even though it's a temperate climate, it gets a little chilly after dark, and you came to meet our family there during the Christmas holiday, and you stared deep into our eyes while sitting on the lawn of the Spanish Mission when you both realized you were going to get married. While we were wearing socks! See what I mean? We get this shit. We own this shit.
After having to reveal the answer to him, we rushed through the remaining clues – even skipping one altogether – because the kids were starting to revolt in their strollers and we had clearly reached a level of sentiment Greg can only rise to when watching Top Gun. As I packed our belongings away, once back at the hotel, I noticed two clues lay crumpled in the waste basket. I discovered another tossed haphazardly on the bathroom counter. He was not going to save these professions of love, these nuggets of poetry written on hotel stationary. I didn't expect him to start a scrapbook for all his friends to witness our love story, but I had hoped for a little more reverence than this.
This is a man who has saved every T-ball shirt he ever wore, every ticket stub from a game he attended, every piece of junk mail addressed to him. This is a man who saved a card from his grandmother in which she referred to our children by incorrect names. He doesn't allow me to throw away lone socks in case – miraculously – its mate reappears after attending Sockapalooza years later. He still has Hooters T Shirts collected from college. He has a Pez dispenser from Easter of 1984 in a drawer. I'm quite sure he would save the rind of cheese if I didn't throw it away, and I'm still expecting to stumble upon a mason jar filled with his toenail clippings one day.
It may have taken eight years – or 40, depending on who is doing the math – but I have learned my lesson. I have learned that I am better off buying another blue shirt from Brooks Brothers or writing out an IOU for a massage I'll administer for 45 seconds before falling asleep.
Whatever I do, Mom, you're going to need to issue that reminder call next year.


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Christopher Dorner's truck was found burning late Thursday morning on a forestry road near Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said.
Deputies were searching the area, though they did not know whether Dorner was still around.
"Certainly he could be anywhere at this point, and that's why we're searching door to door," McMahon told reporters at a briefing about 3:30 p.m.
The sheriff said he had no reports of any shots fired in the area. He declined to talk about what was found in the truck.
The FBI was in the area, along with officers from the LAPD and Riverside police.


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Three young people died when a passenger of a small car grabbed the steering wheel and the car veered into the path of an on-coming bus, a jury has been told.
In the High Court at Wellington today the Crown has outlined what prosecutor Claire Boshier called "a moment in time" when Worthy Redeemed, 39, yanked the steering wheel sending the Mitsubishi in front of the bus on State Highway One near Woodend, north Canterbury.
I can't be bothered given Worthy any space or time, other than spending an inordinate part of a bus journey home wondering what his middle name is.


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