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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Changes could be in store for U.S.-Asian relations, but that has little to do with the presidential race.
Lost in the backbiting between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney over Beijing is their general agreement on how to approach Asia, a region in flux. The winner of the Nov. 6 election will need to figure out how to keep Asia's tensions from boiling over.
Leadership changes are imminent in East Asia's dominant economies ? China, Japan and South Korea ? in the midst of territorial disputes. The leaders who emerge will be crucial in setting the tone for relations with the U.S.
Just two days after the U.S. election, China begins its once-in-a-decade Communist Party Congress that will usher in a new crop of party leaders.
Japan is expected to hold elections within months as the popularity of the country's seventh prime minister in seven years sinks.
In December, South Korea holds presidential elections that are likely to set it on a more conciliatory track in its relations with North Korea.
The U.S. relationship with China affects the entire region. Many Asian countries look to China as their main trading partner, but they regard the longstanding U.S. security presence as a defense against China's rapid military buildup.
Xi Jinping, set to be anointed China's president in March, is a largely unknown quantity. Some suggest his elite background, military ties and confident air might portend a more assertive hand in foreign policy than the incumbent, Hu Jintao.
Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said she expects Xi to continue constructive ties with the U.S. While Washington will push Beijing to adhere to international law and norms, she doesn't expect a new administration to pick a fight with the new Chinese leadership, which will be focused on increasing economic growth and maintaining domestic stability.
"The United States may be to some extent reactive," Glaser said. "If China is seen as more assertive, challenging U.S. interests anywhere, it will get a tougher U.S. policy."
Romney accuses Obama of being soft on Beijing's trade violations. Obama attacks Romney's former business interests for outsourcing jobs. Yet the candidates agree that the United States needs to engage Beijing and make the U.S. presence felt more in the Asia-Pacific, an area of growing economic importance.
Obama has deepened ties with China, but there are new areas of tension.
Beijing is accusing Washington of shutting out major Chinese companies, particularly its technology giants that are seeking a foothold in America. U.S. diplomatic interest in maritime territorial disputes between China and its neighbors in the South China Sea also annoys Beijing.
Washington is keeping a lower profile in a potentially more explosive territorial spat that has flared between China and staunch U.S. ally Japan. U.S. treaty obligations, however, require it to help Japan if disputed islands in the East China Sea come under attack.
China has sent ships to the area in a show of force, and Japan shows no sign of making diplomatic concessions. If Japanese opposition leader Shinzo Abe gains power in elections that unpopular Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected to call soon, tamping down tensions will become even tougher. Abe, a former prime minister with nationalist tendencies, is considered a hawk on China.
The next U.S. administration will have to deal with South Korea's leadership change and how that affects cooperation on North Korea, a perennial regional flashpoint.
Obama has hewed to the tough stance of President Lee Myung-bak, but the next South Korean leader is expected to pursue a more conciliatory approach to the North, which could make it tougher to coordinate policy.
There is little appetite in Washington to try for a new agreement aimed at the North dismantling its nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid. A February pact to give food in return for nuclear concessions collapsed when the North fired a long-range rocket. The North has hinted it could discard 2005 commitments on denuclearization and declare itself a nuclear state, which would be unacceptable to Washington.
Judging from comments by policy advisers, Obama remains open to U.S.-North Korean talks but first seeks concrete steps from the North on halting missile and nuclear tests and freezing uranium enrichment.
A Romney administration probably would seek tougher penalties, which might put it at odds with a more moderate South Korean policy, although a sudden disagreement with Seoul on nuclear issues is unlikely.
North Korea, which counts China as its only major ally, has scarcely registered as an issue in the election campaign. The only Asia-related policy promise that has garnered attention has been Romney's vow to designate China as a currency manipulator, a step that could strain U.S.-China ties.
History shows that the China relationship is prone to dramatic ups and downs.
Within three months of taking office in 2001, President George W. Bush was thrust into a China crisis after a collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet.
Under Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, U.S.-China relations started badly, then improved, only to deteriorate sharply after the mistaken U.S. aerial bombing of Beijing's embassy in Belgrade in 1999.
EDITOR'S NOTE ? Matthew Pennington covers U.S.-Asian affairs for The Associated Press in Washington.
An AP News Analysis
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-asia-big-focus-next-us-president-152805606--politics.html
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That is so funny! How did you know?????
That is who I am going to be.
People always think I look just like him so it should be easy.
yeah a goodwill black suite light blue shirt thin black or grey tie pink head band & wrist bands. TaDA your done. But i have no idea who i should be. any help.
Don't forget - I need a bandaid too!
You can be the Pirate of the Carribean.
Really i think ever DOU$$$$%@#%$ is gonna be that pirate. hey what the hay im not special. ok Sparrow it is. !
Yes you will also need some scrapes in the clothes as well as black and blue bruises.
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I'm gonna walk around with my Adidas Barricades and gear bag, and pretend to be a Tennis Player!
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VICTOR � The developers who put Perinton Hills Shopping Center on the Fairport map are hoping to build an 87-acre, 340,000-square-foot office complex on Benson Road in Victor. If approved, it will be a stone�s throw from a new 102-acre housing development approved in January: Arbor Glen.
Both�would be accessed by the now pastoral Benson Road, which spills out onto Route 96 north of Main Street Fishers and south of the I-90 Thruway ramps. Both are�adjacent to�the Benson Road and Lower Fishers Road intersection.
Attorney Jerry Goldman appeared with developers Charles Mills and Aaron Mills of Perinton Hills before the Victor Town Board on Dec. 16 to informally roll out the currently unnamed project. Site drawings bear the name �Benson Road Property.�
�We want to give you this introduction and give a chance to ask questions and give input,� Charles Mills said to councilmen at the meeting.
The 87-acre project would include 11 single-story buildings, each about 31,000 square feet, built to house offices. Charles Mills said 20 acres of woods and hills would possibly be retained as a residential buffer.
The office space would be �class A� � which, according to the Building Owners and Managers Association, have the "most prestigious buildings competing for premier office users with rents above average for the area." BOMA states that Class A facilities have "high quality standard finishes, state of the art systems, exceptional accessibility and a definite market presence."
The project engineer is DDS Companies, of West Henrietta, with design by Hanlon Architects of Rochester. The internal roadways would be private, and wastewater from the entire complex would be served by a septic system.
�The site is absolutely beautiful � we think it�s just magnificent,� said Charles Mills. �We are sensitive to the area we are in. And it answers the question of what can we put in, with the noise of the Thruway. We want you to be proud of this, and we want the people who live around it to to be proud.�
Developers said the project would accommodate offices only, and would not be considered flex space. They expected the traffic that would be generated to be �passenger vehicles coming in during normal office hours.�
Goldman acknowledged the need for improvement at the Benson Road and Route 96 intersection before a project of this size could go forward.
Charles Mills said they had significant interest from potential occupants, but no one locked in at this point.
Councilman Dave Tantillo urged�the developers�to reach out to Benson Road neighbors ��and particularly to the developer who is building homes around the corner, and who �might have some concerns.�
The housing development, northeast of the Benson Road/Lower Fishers Road intersection, is called Arbor Glen, and is built by Pittsford-based Woodstone Custom Homes, spearheaded by CEO Jeffrey Smith. The development will feature 20 upscale homes on 102 wooded acres, with available lot sizes ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 acres, and homes priced $500,000 to $700,000.
According to the Woodstone website, 50 of the 102 acres have been set aside in a conservation easement. Preliminary plans were approved by the Victor Planning Board in August 2012, with final plans approved in January 2013.
A formal application for the Benson Road complex will be filed within the next month and a half, Charles Mills said.
�This would be good for the town and good for economic development,� said Councilman Jack Dianetti.
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VICTOR � The developers who put Perinton Hills Shopping Center on the Fairport map are hoping to build an 87-acre, 340,000-square-foot office complex on Benson Road in Victor. If approved, it will be a stone�s throw from a new 102-acre housing development approved in January: Arbor Glen.


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This 10 Micro SD to SATA 22pin converter card is designed to enable 10 TF Cards to be used as a direct replacement for a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive.
Once installed, the tf appears as an ordinary SATA hard drive to any OS and can be configured as a bootable device.
1. General Features:
1) Serial ATA 2.6 Specification compliant
2) Supports Serial ATA hot-plug
3) Built-in RAID0 functions which can speed/size up 10-channel TF to SATA interface.
4) Do NOT support UHS-I
5) Ultra low power consumption
6) OS Bootable and no drivers required
7) Compatible with DOS, Windows 3.1, NT4, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, win7,Mac, Linux
2. Installation
1) Insert the Micro SD cards into the slots and connect the SATA port to host side, and then turn on the computer, the LED lamp will light.
2) Please format your Micro SD cards before using.
3. Note:
1) You can use 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 ,10 Micro SD Cards at one time. Do not support 3/5/7/9 Micro SD cards together.
2) Please insert the Micro SD cards into Micro SD slots one by one as the order shown on adapter (CHP0L,CHP0H,CHP1L,CHP1H,CHP2L,CHP2H,CHP3L,CHP3H,CHP4L,CHP4H).
For example, when using 1 Micro SD Card, please insert the card into CHP0L Slot.
2 Micro SD cards, please insert the cards into CHP0L/CHP0H or CHP0L/CHP1L slots separately.
4 Micro SD cards, please insert the cards into CHP0L/CHP1L/CHP2L/CHP3L or CHP0L/CHP0H/CHP1L/CHP1H slots separately.
8 Micro SD cards, please insert the cards into CHP0L/CHP1L/CHP2L/CHP3L/CHP0H/CHP1H/ CHP2H/CHP3H slots separately.
3) When you used different capacity of Micro SD cards, in RAID 0 mode, the total capacity is the smaller capacity of Micro SD card multiplied by the number of Micro SD card.
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"Dial Q for Quartz" by Terence Lim
Last month, the Singaporian Senior Writer and WatchFreak, Terence Lim interviewed me for STYLE:MEN (November 2010 edition) – Singapore's leading men's style magazine for the stylish Singaporean male. You can download the interview by clicking on the link of the title of the article: Dial Q for Quartz.
Quartz is a muchmaligned material in watchmaking. Because of the affordability of quartz watches, people — watch buffs or otherwise — don't talk about them in the same breath as their mechanical counterparts. In fact, many watch snobs perceive quartz watches to be inferior but any connoisseur worth his Patek Philippe will remember the pivotal role quartz played in the history of watchmaking.
In 1969, Seiko released the Astron, the world's first commercially viable quartz watch. The ensuing years saw Switzerland grapple in vain to best employ the mineral, while the Japanese conquered the market, producing cheap, reliable quartz watches. Sales of these electronic — industrial term for quartz — pieces were phenomenal, which inadvertently caused the Swiss watch industry to crumble in the 1980s. Then, Nicholas Hayek, the late Swatch chairman, was hired by a consortium of banks to liquidate the flagging industry. Instead in 1983, he launched fashion watch brand Swatch, which would later sell millions of quartz pieces to the world. That allowed him to reinvest the profits into haute horlogerie — the shot in the arm that the high-end segment needed badly. And as Bernard Kaplan, publisher of watch blog watch-happening.blogspot.com puts it: "Ironically, it took a Swiss quartz watch to save the mechanical watch industry.".
Forty years on, quartz watches still account for the bulk of Swiss watch exports. The majority of watches sold— if not of the value — are quartz. According to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry statistics, sales figures for electronic watches have steadied between four and five billion Swiss francs throughout the last decade. Which is a feat despite the two crippling economiccrises — the tech bubble bursting in 2000, and the fall of the American banking system last year. Also, it indicates the constant demand for quartz timepieces worldwide. And the demand is not just limited to the massmarket brands. Quartz watches bring home the bacon even for big names like Rolex, Patek Philippe and Cartier. "No question about it!" Kaplan points out. "Patek Philippe, one of the most prestigious mechanical watch manufactures, probably makes its highest gross margins on the quartzdriven Twenty-4."
This year, watch cognoscenti see the re-issue of two quartz legends. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original Astron, Seiko released 200 pieces of the new Quartz Astron. Likewise, Girard-Perregaux launches a limited edition Laureato, equipped with a new in-house movement, the GP13500. It has been developed with utmost attention to detail — something more commonly associated with mechanical movements. With the launch of these high-end quartz pieces, one can't help but wonder if a return to those halcyon days is on the horizon.
"It is great that these brands, which were at the cradle of the quartz revolution, honour the first watches with a re-edition," says Alon Ben Joseph, contributor to watch blog watchfreaks.wordpress.com. "But [I] do not think we can speak of the heyday of the 1970s." That said, Ben Joseph, who also heads Ace Jewelers in The Netherlands, rules out the possibility of quartz being phased out soon. "Of course, a mechanical watch has more detailing, passion, and complexity," he says. "But a quartz movement has advantages that a mechanical one does not have. I believe they can live next to each other like yin and yang; a true symbiosis. Who says one should own only one watch anyway?"
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In an old notebook, Preston Verret keeps a list of about 60 names in a long, spiraling script.
In an old notebook, Preston Verret keeps a list of about 60 names in a long, spiraling script.
It's a list of the "old-timers," the trappers he used to deal with in his days in the fur trade.
"All these people remember what it was like," Verret said. "They were here when fur was big."
Verret, 61, trapped and processed pelts for decades.
Like generations of bayou residents before him, the fur trade was a way to earn some money in the winter between the shrimping and fishing seasons.
"My daddy did it. His daddy did it. It's been a tradition in the family for a long time," Verret said. "It feels like it's disappearing."
To an old-timer like Verret, the fur industry is a shadow of its former self. But, while experts say the fur trade is nowhere near what it was in its heyday, statistics show it is growing steadily every year.
For most of the 1900s, the fur trade raked in millions of pelts and tens of millions of dollars a year.
In the early part of the century, muskrat was king. In the 1940s, an estimated 20,000 trappers and 1,000 fur buyers and dealers lived near the coast, according to a report by the LSU AgCenter. In 1945, the muskrat trade peaked at more than 9 million pelts worth $12 million.
Over the next few decades, the introduction of the now-infamous nutria into Louisiana's swamps changed the focus of the area's trappers. Nutria were larger than muskrats, and their pelts were more valuable.
By 1976, nutria harvests had reached a peak of 1.8 million pelts worth $15.7 million. In 1981, a trapper could get an average price of $8.19 per pelt, according to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
From there, it was a slow decline, with a huge crash around 1988. By 2000, fewer than 100,000 nutria pelts were brought in.
"It was economics," said Edmond Mouton, a biologist program manager with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. "The demand just went away, so the prices started to decline."
Mouton said there were any number of reasons for that decline. Russia, one of the biggest consumers of fur products, saw its economy crash. Humane society campaigns pushed fur out of fashion in many places. Synthetic materials became cheaper and easier to make.
Over time, younger generations found the fur trade less profitable and found jobs like those in the oilfield that provided steadier and better paychecks. That left the old-timers — people like Verret who had been trappers during the high times — as something of a vanishing species.
For people like Verret, it was a huge nostalgic loss. But for state conservationists, it presented a huge practical problem.
Nutria can eat up thousands of square acres of vegetation each year. Removing those anchor plants makes the coast more vulnerable to erosion, resulting in already-dangerous land loss becoming more severe.
With fewer trappers to keep the critters in check, nutria started doing even more damage. So the state created the Nutria Control Program, doling out money for every nutria tail a trapper could bring in.
"The economics weren't enough to keep trappers in business," Mouton said. "So the state had to create its own incentive."
Statistics show the program appears to be working — the number of trappers working and the number of nutria tails brought in grows each year.
In last year's season, 354,354 nutria tails were turned in, worth a total of $1.7 million. Those are the highest figures since the state started the program 11 years ago.
Terrebonne Parish trappers turned in the most tails, racking up an impressive 85,578.
The increase in trapping means nutria damage to vegetation seems to have slowed. Wildlife and Fisheries estimates only 1,129 acres were damaged last year, about a third less than the year before.
That's especially good news for Terrebonne Parish where about 90 percent of the observed damage happened.
"That's where the biggest problem is right now," Mouton said. "That area is just the perfect habitat for them."
Critics of the program argue it hasn't helped the fur trade because many trappers are simply cutting off tails and leaving the rest of the carcasses in the bayou. They argue the program is resulting in fewer skins for dealers to buy.
But some trappers said the payment they get for turning in tails is the only way they can afford to keep doing it.
"If it wasn't for the money I get from the tails, I couldn't do it anymore," said Quincy Veret, Preston's son. "I'm just not getting enough money on its own to pay all my costs."
When Preston developed problems in his hands that prevented him from processing nutria, he passed the tradition on to Quincy. Now Quincy's son and his friends trap nutria, while Quincy prepares the furs in a workshop underneath his raised house in Dularge.
The process is labor-intensive — each pelt must be washed and fed through the spin cycle of a washing machine. Using a press his father built himself, Verret then squeezes any stubborn entrails out, which saves time from the old method of hanging and scraping.
Finally, Verret carefully hangs the skins on neat racks to cure. On Wednesday, he had more than 300 "in the oven."
Fur prices have gone up in recent years — Wildlife and Fisheries estimates the average nutria pelt price jumped from $1.80 to $2.79 last year.
But Quincy said that's still not enough to pay for his expenses such as gas, traps and supplies for processing.
"The money I get from actually selling the furs basically just covers my expenses," Quincy said. "And even that sometimes doesn't cover all of them."
Still, Quincy said he, like his father before him, doesn't plan on giving the trade up.
"I grew up in a nutria camp. This is what I've been doing since I was a child," Quincy said. "Some people think I'm crazy to keep doing it, but I love it."
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Insanity, by one definition, is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Memory can play tricks on you.
Clichés don't make for exciting reading, but, in the case of those above, they can add up to great movie comedy. At least that's the hope for "Vacation," the latest sequel to the family trip series that kicked off in 1983 and has been driving off the road, careering deep into the cross-generational pop cultural consciousness, via TV repeats, ever since.
Wednesday's attempted return to Walley World, to paraphrase another cliché, will test whether you can't leave home again.
Ed Helms stars as Rusty, the youngest member of the Griswold family, who wants to recreate the best vacation of his youth (even better, we can all agree, than subsequent jaunts to Europe and Las Vegas). Time has a way of softening harsh recollections – like Aunt Edna's post-death ride atop the family station wagon, her dog's grimmer fate and papa Clark's high-speed, somnambulant detour.
Time hasn't dimmed the appeal of the original, which remains a relatable exaggeration of a journey into familial torment, brimming with futility and frustration. The first film tapped into the mix of excitement and vulnerability that comes with leaving home, as well as the high expectations of childhood adventures, which only ever get met in retrospect.
The original National Lampoon epic flourished in large part to Beverly D'Angelo and Chevy Chase, who wielded a sardonic edge as well-meaning suburban parents bent on making their ingrate children happy, whether they like it or not. D'Angelo and Chase turn up in the new movie, starring worthy successors Christina Applegate and Helm, whose boyish charm positions him as a potentially effective foil for the crush of adult circumstances (usually) beyond his control.
The past, though, might be the new film's biggest roadblock – the premise invites comparisons to the widely seen original. Even a comedy built on humor, by turns gross, morbid and bawdy, can be beloved, and inspire its audience's protective instincts (a similar challenge faces the planned reboot of another early 1980s comedy classic, "Ghostbusters").
The new "Vacation," perhaps not coincidentally, arrives amid the 60th anniversary commemorations of Disneyland, which endured some early, all-but-forgotten, bumps of its own. The reality, though, doesn't matter as much as the memory. Check out a preview as a new generation of Griswolds hit the road, which has a nasty habit of hitting back.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
May 2009
Upregulated Protein Jumpstarts DNA Repair Process
Team discovers calmodulin levels reflect a specific cellular response to low-level radiation
Results: Students taught by Dr. Heather Smallwood at Washington State University working side-by-side with scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory identified a new pathway that cells take when exposed to low levels of radiation, such as those used to shrink tumors. The newly identified cellular pathway upregulates, or increases the cellular components of, DNA repair pathways in response to low-dose radiological exposures. Cell survival is enhanced through pathways involving phosphorylated histone H2AX—the addition of phosphorous to the chief protein components of the complex combination of DNA, RNA, and protein that makes up chromosomes. These DNA repair pathways are distinct from other protein complex pathways tested that enhance cell death in an attempt to remove damaged cells in response to radiation. Such removal systems prevent the damaged cells from sapping further nutrients from an organism and act to halt further spread of infection.
As part of the mammalian immune system, macrophages, or white blood cells, normally recognize and remove dead cells and pathogens while further stimulating an immune response. This capability makes them a first line of defense against disease. Identifying a dose-dependent increase in the expression level of the calcium signaling protein, calmodulin (CaM), in irradiated mouse macrophage cells indicates that such increases are part of a specific radiation-dependent cellular response that can help expedite DNA damage repair.
Why it matters: Understanding the molecular mechanisms that modulate macrophage resistance to radiation is necessary for developing effective radiation therapies, because tumor-associated macrophages promote processes that enhance the spread of cancer. The increases in CaM abundance in response to the lower radiation doses used in the study suggest a possible role of CaM in mediating cellular response pathways to clinically relevant doses in radiation therapy. Because phosphorylated histone H2AX acts as a universal organizing center that both anchors chromosomal ends and mediates DNA repair, these results are broadly significant for understanding the radioresistance mechanisms of macrophages and other blood-generating cell types in response to radiation exposure.
The results suggest that therapeutic treatments that target CaM in conjunction with traditional radiotherapies may help kill tumor-associated macrophages, thereby restricting cancer cell proliferation and tumor metastisis. Such treatments are likely to have other beneficial effects because CaM antagonists are known to prevent cancer invasiveness.
Methods: To better understand the molecular basis for the sensitivity of macrophages to low therapeutic doses of ionizing radiation, the research team investigated the possible role of CaM in modulating double-stranded DNA damage. CaM is suggested to be a principal mechanism of radiation-induced cellular death and transformation. They grew and irradiated mouse macrophage leukemia cells (i.e., RAW 264.7), then assayed cell survival to identify cells undergoing programmed death, or apoptosis, and to assess DNA damage and repair pathways, changes in the expression level of CaM, and total protein content.
After macrophage irradiation, increases in CaM abundance resulted in an increase in the number of phosphorylated histone H2AX foci, associated with DNA repair, with no change in the extent of double-stranded DNA damage. Measurement of the radiation sensitivity of RAW 264.7 macrophages, using a well-established survival assay for studying the effectiveness of specific agents on the survival and proliferation of cells, showed that macrophages are more resistant to high radiation doses than low. Altering CaM levels and protein complex NFκB-dependent pathways was found to have multiple effects, some of which may disrupt DNA damage response pathways and cellular apoptosis. CaM overexpression reduced radiation-dependent cell killing and disrupted the adaptive cellular response to low-dose radiation, while radiation-induced DNA damage was shown to be insensitive to CaM. Upregulation of CaM abundance enhanced DNA repair pathways after irradiation. Hence, Laboratory Fellow Thomas Squier emphasized that "the medical significance of the finding is that specifically inhibiting repair mechanisms in tumor cells and tumor associated macrophages before radiation damage occurs will enable more rapid and targeted killing of these cells upon treatment, which is the main challenge in successful radiation therapies."
What's next: Future measurements will need to identify the components of the CaM-dependent pathway that leads to histone H2AX phosphorylation, thereby activating DNA repair and enhancing macrophage survival following radiation exposure.
Acknowledgments: This work was completed as part of the student radiobiology laboratory associated with Washington State University Tri-Cites, Richland. A portion of the research was performed using an LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer and a custom-built liquid chromatography system at the Department of Energy's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Funded as part of DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, EMSL provides integrated experimental and computational resources for discovery and technological innovation in the environmental molecular sciences to support the needs of DOE and the nation.
The authors of the paper are Heather Smallwood, formerly of PNNL; Daniel Lopez-Ferrer and Thomas Squier, PNNL; and Elis Eberlein and David Watson, WSU-Tri Cities. Other PNNL researchers involved in the work include Diana Bigelow, James Morris, William Chrisler, Sue Karagiosis, David Stenoien, Colette Sacksteder and Katrina Walters.
Reference: Smallwood HS, D Lopez-Ferrer, PE Eberlein, DJ Watson, and TC Squier. 2009. "Calmodulin Mediates DNA Repair Pathways Involving H2AX in Response to Low-Dose Radiation Exposure of RAW 264.7 Macrophages." Chemical Research in Toxicology 22(3):460-470. doi:DOI: 10.1021/tx800236r


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For the secular approach, one often hears, "I'm not a Christian and it's just as silly to talk about a crucified man who lived and died 2000 years ago who somehow is supposed to have come back to life, as it is to believe in the Easter Bunny. And at least the Bunny brings chocolate." For the historicist approach, the triduum is little more than a Passion Play that we watch from our seats. Various people have their favorite parts to perform in the drama, but when it's over, it's over until next year. Godspell without the music.
May I suggest, on this Holy Saturday, that we all challenge ourselves to go deeper? For those inclined to the secular, "rational" approach, may I suggest that Easter isn't about Jesus, or at least, not ONLY about him. Easter is about finding those ways in our lives in which a loving God, whether one "admits" of God or not, finds new ways every day to give us life, joy and peace. To the extent that we find those things in our lives, we know that they do not come from within ourselves, nor are they of our own making. They are gifts from One who loves us even when we don't reciprocate that love.
For those Christians inclined to the historical Jesus approach, might I suggest that there be a "so what?" moment of reflection. Yes, we believe that Jesus the Christ did all of these things.
But so what?
How does Christ's self-emptying love, leading all the way to the Cross, find meaning in what I do today? What difference does it make in my life and the lives of those around me? If my focus is all on the historical, how do we engage the present and envision the future? How does the kenotic become theotic?
Tonight, at the great Easter Vigil, I too will have a part to perform, a ministry to exercise, as deacon. In fact, one of the great joys and challenges for me will be the singing of the Exultet, the ancient hymn of praise which opens the Vigil. Standing in the light of hundreds of candles, held in the darkened church by those who are recalling the candles received at their own baptism, I will do my best to proclaim the true meaning of Easter. There is a section of the Exultet which often "causes me to tremble" as I chant it. While we have a newer translation in place, I offer here the following words of comfort and challenge Please read them slowly, reflectively, prayerfully:
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brings mourners joy;
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and humbles earthly pride.
Easter isn't about the Bunny and it isn't just about Jesus. What we see around us in Spring: new life, now becomes a reality within ourselves as well. Easter IS about new life, new chances, new beginnings for ALL people, rich or poor, women or men, gay or straight, black or white. In Mark's Gospel, when Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River by John, we are told that "the heavens were opened". The Greek word used there is "schizomenous", and given the Jewish cosmology of the time, we might easily translate that word as saying that the heavens "were shattered": that in Christ there is no longer anything to separate creation from the Creator. God and creation are joined. It becomes our mission to live that good news in the way we treat others. As Pope Francis demonstrated so beautifully on Holy Thursday, that includes caring and loving ALL people, with no consideration of anything other than that they are sisters and brothers from the same God.
Happy Easter Sunday! But the real test will be: How will you live Easter on MONDAY?


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American Honda Motor Co., Inc., today announced the availability of the 2007 Honda Civic GX for the New York State market. The Civic GX will be on sale at five Honda dealers on Long Island and fourteen additional dealers throughout the state, marking the first time the Civic GX is available for retail sale outside of California. The Civic GX is the only dedicated natural gas-powered passenger car available to retail customers in the United States.
The 2007 Civic GX, which achieves an EPA estimated city/highway fuel economy of 28/39 miles per gasoline-gallon equivalent, carries an MSRP of $24,590. Currently natural gas is approximately 30 percent less expensive than gasoline when purchased at a refueling station, and approximately 50 percent cheaper than gasoline when supplied by a 'Phill', the convenient natural gas home refueling appliance.
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Nest-apalooza: 30,000 pelicans return to North Dakota refuge to nest, raise young, feast
BISMARCK, N.D. – About 30,000 American white pelicans have returned to south central North Dakota, nesting at a guano-rich island known as North America's largest refuge, federal Fish and Wildlife Service said.
The white pelican colony at the 4,385-acre Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge north of Medina peaked at 35,466 birds in 2000. The pelicans winter mainly in the Gulf Coast states but some fly to North Dakota from as far away as Florida and California to nest the island that also serves as a rookery.
The big-billed birds normally stay in North Dakota through September, raising their young and feasting on crawfish, small fish and salamanders from small prairie ponds within a 100-mile radius of the refuge.
Last year, an aerial count found 31,534 breeding adults, up from 20,854 in 2011, said Neil Shook, a U.S Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and the refuge manager.
An aerial count this year shows a little more than 15,000 nests, Shook said. Biologists estimate two adults per nest.
"We're down a little but still above the long-term average," Shook said.
The white pelican breeds once a year, and males and females take turns caring for their young. The white pelican is one of the largest birds in North America, measuring 6 feet from bill to tail and weighing up to 20 pounds, with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet. They have a lifespan of about 25 years.
Shook said the birds dodged storms this year at the refuge that could have caused high chick mortality.
"There was a huge rain event and a hail event that just missed the island by yards," Shook said.
Pelicans have been monitored at Chase Lake since 1905, when the birds numbered about 50. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the site as a bird refuge in 1908, when many of the birds were being killed for their feathers and for target practice.
Biologists have been doing aerial surveys since 1972.
Shook said the nesting pelican population has been increasing since a scare in 2004, when nearly 30,000 pelicans left the Chase Lake refuge, leaving their chicks and eggs behind. A year later, the refuge saw a massive die-off of pelican chicks, followed by an exodus of their parents.
Predators, weather, diseases and other factors were considered but biologists have never pinpointed the cause of the pelican deaths and departures. Shook said that it may have just been a natural correction.
"What transpired, we don't know," Shook said. "But the population has pretty much increased every year since then."
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Google Wallet available for Nexus S 4G, shows signs that it will actually be worth a damn
Google Wallet is officially available beginning today. While the NFC-based mobile payment solution has been in testing in a handful of cities in the United States, the Wallet app is now rolling out to all Sprint Nexus S 4G phones through an over-the-air update.
Wallet is still very much in its infancy, however. The near-field communication (NFC) technology that enables wireless payments still requires hardware in both a device and a receiver at checkout. So unless you have a Nexus S 4G and your local Subway or local bodega has NFC-capable receivers at the register, you won't be able to make your mobile payments just yet.
What's most interesting is that "American Express, Discover, and Visa have made available their NFC specifications that could enable their cards to be added to future versions of Google Wallet," according to Osama Bedier, Google VP of Payments. Regardless of how convenient and quick Wallet may be, it can't take off without support from creditors other than Citi and Mastercard, the launch partners who have already signed on to Wallet. Some feared that the other banks mentioned might shun Google Wallet because they are partners with the other major U.S. mobile carriers in ISIS Mobile payments, but this gives hope that all major cards in the U.S. may support Google Wallet eventually.
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Here's something that you don't hear much these days: an IT company doing better in its second quarter, raising guidance for 2009 and looking ahead enthusiastically to 2010.
But that is the story over at supercomputer maker Cray. The company announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, and sales were up 34.3 per cent to $62.7m.
Product sales - mostly high-end supercomputers with a smattering of midrange and entry machines and storage - were up 28.2 per cent to $42.1m in the quarter, while services sales rocketed up by 48.7 per cent to $20.6m. The company swung into the black, posting net income of $3.4m, much better than the $6.4m loss it had a year ago.
For the six months, Cray's overall sales came to $137.2m, up 88.3 per cent, and the company only posted a $1.5m loss compared to an $18.4m loss in the first six months of 2008. The company ended the second quarter with $67m in cash and equivalents and no debts.
You might be thinking that Cray did what hardware and software makers usually do whenever there is a recession in order to boost their sales and try to maintain earnings: jack up support prices. Cray may have boosted its support prices (companies rarely admit this, and Cray did not discuss it, either), but the top brass at Cray attributed the increase in services revenues in the second quarter from a custom engineering business that it started last year that is growing a lot faster than Cray overall, and indeed, faster than the supercomputer market overall.
With the custom engineering service, Cray takes some of the technologies that it has deployed in its XMT and XT5 product lines and designs and builds special-purpose supers for customers, or grafts some of its technologies, such as its Ecophlex cooling technology, onto other hardware platforms.
In a conference call with Wall Street analysts ahead of the market open this morning, Peter Ungaro, president and chief executive officer at Cray (and the former top supercomputing exec at rival IBM) said that the custom engineering business had well under $10m in sales in 2008, and was on track to have over $30m in sales in 2009.
In this quarter, in fact, Cray landed its biggest custom engineering deal, a $20m contract with an unknown customer, most likely a big government agency of the Uncle Sam. Cray is also doing custom storage design, deployments and software work as part of the custom engineering effort. The company has high hopes for this business as it looks ahead to the rest of the year and beyond.
"It is a little too early to call 2010, but I feel good about the pace we are on with the custom engineering business," Ungaro said in the call.
Also helping in the quarter were two big contracts that sloshed over from the first quarter. Brian Henry, Cray's chief financial officer, said that these contracts had relatively small costs associated with them because the work to build the machines was done in earlier quarters. The HPC market has always been choppy that way. This much, at least, has not changed in more than three decades at Cray, while nearly everything else about the company has.
With two big supercomputer deals just announced (see the separate story on these) and a growing custom engineering business, Cray is confident enough about the future to raise its guidance for revenues for 2009. Henry said that Cray is now expecting to hit $290m in sales, up $30m from earlier estimates. He added that for the year, based on the strength of the custom engineering and other services, the company was confident that it would have at least $90m in services sales for the year, leaving $200m in product sales. Cray had sales of $282.8m in 2008, with product sales of $219m and services sales of $63.9m.
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My husband and I recently visited our favorite vacation spot–Maui. During our visit, we happened upon a dog boutique in Paia that had the cutest dog leashes. Being the crafter that I am, the first thing that came into my mind was "I can make that."
I went on the Internet to look for the right findings and accessories for making my own custom collars and leashes and found a great site with very reasonable prices–Creative Designworks. They also have kits that include detailed instructions on how to make the accessories. I just bought the "refill" kits. I also found a nice little video on YouTube that showed one crafter's process for making the collars.
Armed with my tools and some great sushi print fabric, I cut the fabric, used some fusible webbing to back the fabric with heavy interfacing, then pressed, folded and sewed the collar and the leash. The learning curve has to do with understanding how to put the hardware on. However, a great little blog called Dogged Knits had some excellent instructions and pictures on sewing the collar.
Here are my instructions for both a sewn dog collar and a sewn adjustable leash.
Adjustable Dog Collar and Adjustable Leash Tools and Materials
- Dog Collar: Dog Collar Hardware Refill set from Creative Designworks -or- one side release plastic buckle, one slip lock buckle, and one metal D-ring (all in the desired width of your collar)
- Dog Leash: Adjustable Leash Hardware Refill set from Creative Designworks -OR- one swivel-ended metal snap hook, one slip lock buckle, and one strap keeper (all in the desired width of your leash)
- Quick Link or Split Ring
- Fabric (I used basic cotton fabric)
- Medium- to heavy- weight fusible interfacing (or interfacing plus fusible webbing)
- Rotary cutter, cutting mat and ruler
- Iron, ironing board and pressing cloth
- Sewing machine, coordinating thread and scissors
Step One: Determine the length and width of your collar and leash.
I measured my dog's neck and doubled that measurement for the length of fabric for the collar–18″ for my petite pooch. For the leash, I decided that I wanted a 6-foot(ish) leash, so I added an extra foot in length for the handle and for some "play" in the adjustment–for a final length of 7 feet (84″). I decided to make both the collar and the leash the same width–5/8″. This decision was based upon the collar and leash my precious Jasmine was already wearing.
Step Two: Measure and Cut Your Fabric
The width of your fabric strip for both the collar and the leash should be 4 times the width of your final piece. For my 5/8″ set, 4 times 5/8″ = 20/8″ = 2 1/2″. Using your rotary cutter, ruler and cutting board, cut even strips of fabric until you have the length you need for BOTH projects. Unless you have a very long piece of fabric from which you can cut a single strip for the leash, you will need to cut two or three strips and sew them together to create one long strip.
Subtract 1/4″ from your width measurement for the fabric strips and cut the fusible interfacing strips (or both interfacing and fusible webbing). For my project, this mean that my fusible interfacing strips were 2 1/4″ wide.
Step Two-Point-Five: If Required, Sew Your Leash Strip
Sew together your shorter fabric strips, right sides together, to create one long continuous strip for the leash. I like to use the "bias" strip method of creating a diagonal seam (aids in strength), but you don't have to be as picky as I am. Trim the seam allowances to about 1/4″.
Step Three: Fuse and Press Your Strips
Press open the seam allowances for the leash strip. Lay the leash strip out on your ironing board, right side down. Place the fusible interfacing adhesive side down onto the back side of the fabric strip. If using fusible webbing, place it paper-side up onto the back of the fabric strip. Place your pressing cloth on top of the assembly and fuse the interfacing or webbing to the fabric, following manufacturer's instructions on time and temperature. If using fusible webbing, let it cool, peel off the paper and place the interfacing strip on top and fuse the interfacing to the fabric. Do the same for your collar strip.
Step Four: Press Your Strips Into Final Form
Fold your strip in half lengthwise, interfacing sides together and press with a hot iron. Open up the strip and fold one raw edge to the center and press the fold. Turn over so the first finished side is on the bottom. Fold the top raw edge towards the center, all the while matching the edge that you made with the first side. When complete, you will have a neat strip with one folded edge and two folded seams with the raw edges folded inside. Do this with both the leash and collar strips.
Step Five: Sew Seams
Thread your sewing machine and bobbin with coordinating thread. Sew both the open seam and the folded seam of the strips so you have two parallel lines of stitching down the length of the strips.
Step Six: Sew and Assemble Adjustable Collar
Okay, this is the hard part. I'll detail the process here, but the Dogged Knits blog has lovely photos.
- Decide which side of your collar is the "right" side (facing out) and the "wrong" side (touching the dog's neck).
- Place the "wrong" side of the strip up and slide on the slip lock buckle on the right-hand end of the strip, threading the strip under the edge of the buckle, over the center bar, and under the other edge. Fold the end of the strip to the "right" side of the strip and sew the end down, using a zig-zag stitch to finish the raw edge. I made two parallel rows of zig-zag stitches and then straight stitched a big X between those rows.
- With the wrong side still facing up, place the "female" end of the slide release buckle through the other end of the strip. Have the buckle right-side up and thread it from bottom to top. Pull the slide release buckle down towards the sewn slip lock buckle. Fold the fabric strip back towards the slip lock buckle and thread it through the slip lock buckle–over the previously sewn strip (again under-over-under).
- Thread the fabric strip through the D-ring and then through the "male" end of the slide release buckle–under the edge, over the center bar, and under the edge. Make sure that you have the buckle right-side up–if in doubt, make sure it fits correctly with the secured "female" end before sewing. Fold the strip under, leaving a tail that's long enough to secure both the buckle and the D-ring. Sew to secure the buckle (zig-zag edges and straight-stitched X) and then sew the end to secure the D-ring and finish off the raw edge. You now have an adjustable collar for your pet!
Step Seven: Sew and Assemble Adjustable Leash
Now that you have the hang of sewing the collar, the leash is a breeze. While you theoretically have a wrong and right side for the leash, it really isn't a big deal.
- Pull the end of the strip through the slip lock buckle (under-over-under). Fold the raw edge to the other side and sew using parallel zig-zag stitches and a straight stitch X between. Make sure to capture the raw edge under the zig-zag stitch.
- Thread the other end of the leash strip through the strap keeper, through the snap hook, back through the strap keeper and through the top of the slip lock buckle.
- Fold the end of the leash strip to create a handle. Secure the end of the strip using the parallel zig-zag stitches and a straight stitch X between. Make sure to capture the raw edge under the zig-zag stitch.
Step Eight: Tag and Enjoy!
Use the optional Quick Link to secure your dog's tags to the collar. The Quick Link allows you to move the tags quickly and easily from collar to collar. The Split Ring is more secure. The choice is yours!
Make lots of collars and leashes…you can change them out at will. These are inexpensive and fun items to make!


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The Deadline is now November 1st for the Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition
The Juror is Corey Keller, Associate Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the announcement:
Submissions for the 9th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition are now being accepted on-line at: JEGPhoto.slideroom.com until October 27, 2009. Exhibition proceeds support scholarships for future graduate students in photography.
Please direct questions to: Elizabeth M. Claffey, Exhibition Coordinator, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition: January 26-February 17, 2010
Texas Woman's University Fine Arts Gallery, Denton, Texas
Juror: Corey Keller, Associate Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Entries due October 27, 2009
About the Juror: Corey Keller:
Corey Keller is Associate Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where she has been on the curatorial staff since 2003. She recently organized the exhibition (and accompanying catalogue) "Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900" as well as a retrospective survey of the career of Henry Wessel. Major upcoming projects include a permanent collection exhibition and catalogue in celebration of SFMOMA's 75th anniversary (2010) and monographic exhibitions and catalogues on Francesca Woodman (2011) and J.B. Greene (2013). She is a PhD candidate at Stanford University, where she also earned her master's degree in art history. Prior to attending Stanford, Keller worked at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.


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2010-2011 (Freshman): Received the Tim Jecko Award for outstanding performances in the individual medley… 1,000-yard freestyle: Finished 25th at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 10:18.16… Best finish in the event was against Vermont, second with a time of 10:37.21… 400-yard IM: Finished sixth at the Ivy League Championships with a time of 4:23.92… 200-yard IM: Finished 23rd at the Ivy League Championships with a time of 2:07.02… Fastest time was 2:05.95 in the prelims of the Ivy League Championships… 500-yard freestyle: Best time was 5:10.94 in a third-place finish against Cornell… Best finish in the event was against Vermont, third with a time of 5:12.24.
Before Yale: Swam for the Plantation Swim club team under coach Dave Wathen… State finalist for five years in the 500 free at American Heritage… Part of the All-American 400 free relay… Scholastic All-American… Team co-captain as a senior… Swam for the Plantation Swim club team… Junior National qualifier in 400 IM and 200 IM… Southern Zone Age Group Championship finalist… Salutatorian of graduating class… Served as editor-in-chief of the school yearbook at American Heritage.
Personal: Member of Ezra Stiles College... Intends to major in anthropology or psychology... Daughter of Donald and Anne Randolph... Younger sister Jessie swims for Plantation Swim Team... Likes country music and photography.
Why I Chose Yale: "During my recruiting trip, I truly realized I would be part of not just a great team but a respected tradition. I couldn't ask for a better group of teammates. The unmatched combination of academics and athletics was a perfect fit."


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Rachel Estabrook
Bachelor's degree in Spanish language and literature, George Washington University; Master's degree in communications, Stanford University.
Professional background:
Rachel joined CPR in 2013 with more than a decade of experience as a journalist, freelance writer and audio producer. Before coming to CPR, she was based in Stanford, CA where she served as a newscaster and board member for KZSU. While completing her Master's degree in journalism, Rachel also worked as a reporter and radio editor for Peninsula Press.
Rachel got her start in journalism in 2000 as a columnist covering local sporting events in Dover, NH. After graduating from George Washington University, Rachel was hired as a volunteer for "The Diane Rehm Show" and was named WAMU's volunteer of the year in 2008. While in Washington D.C., Rachel also served as international specialist for the Department of Justice before taking a position as an associate director in NPR's development department. During her time at NPR, Rachel worked in institutional giving where she developed philanthropic partnerships and collaborated with journalists and editorial leaders to plan strategic fundraising approaches.
Throughout her career, Rachel has gained diverse experience in radio, film and digital journalism through various internships. Most recently, she conducted research for PBS' Frontline as part of an internship with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop. Rachel was also a social media intern for Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" initiative to help professional women and created her own blog, "News Interface," to examine what's ahead for the news industry.
In her own words...
Why I became a journalist:
Journalism was like a little bug inside my body – an itch that had to be scratched before I even really knew what journalism was. I've always loved interviewing people, hearing their stories and keeping up with what's new—we have home videos of me in elementary school interviewing my family in front of our very old, clunky video recorder. I love to write—in fact, I think I express myself best in writing—and I love the idea of serving a local community with information and entertainment that really matters to their lives.
My first journalism experience was in high school in New Hampshire; I edited the school paper and wrote for the local paper on high school sports. As an adult, the more I learn about journalism the more important I think it is—particularly good, reasoned, fair, serious-but-engaging journalism at a time when that can be very hard to come by.
Why I got into radio:
I started to like radio a lot when I still lived in New Hampshire, where the public radio station is the state's best news source. Radio offers such a perfect balance: It allows personalities to come through without restricting listeners' imaginations with too many images—the perfect combination of intimacy and authority. I love how listeners feel connected to the hosts on public radio. It creates a strong sense of community without being sensationalist.
How I ended up at CPR:
Coming to CPR was a long journey for me, and I'm so happy it ended here. For someone with mountains and rivers in her genetic makeup, the attraction to Colorado is obvious, and I think my affection for public radio comes through in my previous answers. Most simply, after freelancing, volunteering and interning in public radio for many years at several different stations, I went to journalism school at Stanford and then landed here. It's the only place I really wanted to work after school, and I'm lucky to be part of such an excellent team of journalists serving a community as interesting, dynamic and thoughtful as Colorado.


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The worldwide tablet market is steadily growing, increasing 49.5 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2012, driven by strong shipments from Samsung, according to data from International Data Corporation (IDC).
A total of 27.8 million tablets were shipped around the world in the third quarter of 2012.
News and Slideshows on Microsoft
Samsung recorded the greatest growth in the third quarter year-on-year, increasing shipments 325.0 per cent, shipping 1.2 million tablets in the third quarter. The South Korean tech giant now has 18.4 per cent of the tablet market, increasing from 6.5 per cent year-on-year.
While Apple still has 50.4 per cent of the tablet market, tablet shipments increased just 26.1 per cent in the third quarter.
Taiwanese hardware vendor Asus recorded a 242.9 per cent increase and now has 8.6 per cent of the tablet market, an increase from 3.8 per cent.
Lenovo also increased its tablet shipments in the third quarter by 100.0 per cent, year-on-year, with strong shipments to China, according to IDC.
"After a very strong second quarter, Apple saw growth slow as both consumer and commercial (including education) shipments declined and rumors of a forthcoming iPad mini began to heat up," Tom Mainelli, research director, tablets at IDC, said in a statement.
"We believe a sizeable percentage of consumers interested in buying an Apple tablet sat out the third quarter in anticipation of an announcement about the new iPad mini. Now that the new mini, and a fourth-generation full-sized iPad, are both shipping we expect Apple to have a very good quarter."
However, Mainelli said the high price of the article, which is priced from $369 in Australia, will allow Android vendors to edge further into the market.
"Competitors are turning up the pressure on market leader Apple," Ryan Reith, program manager, IDC's mobile device trackers, said.
""With the recent introduction of a number of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets, consumers now have a third viable tablet platform from which to choose. However, price points are critical in tablets, and Microsoft and its partners will have a tough time winning a share of consumer wallet with price points starting at US$500."
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The Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild's annual parish-wide School Art Show is scheduled for March 4-9.
The Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild's annual parish-wide School Art Show is scheduled for March 4-9. Blue-ribbon winners from each school's show participate in the larger show.
Registration of artwork from each school is scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Downtown Art Gallery 630, 630 Belanger St., Houma.
These works of art compete for additional ribbons in each grade level. A best-in-show ribbon is awarded in each category: elementary, secondary and high school.
Children winning ribbons in the show receive a week of free art classes in June.
The opening reception for the exhibit is scheduled from 1 to 3 p.m. March 3. The exhibit remains on display from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through March 9.
The Arts Guild's 50th annual Spring Art Show is scheduled from March 17 through April 9 at Downtown Art Gallery 630. Winning entries will receive cash and merchandise or purchase awards during this exhibit. Only original artwork is accepted.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
Each artist may enter four works of art, including paintings and small sculptures. Registration is scheduled from noon to 5:30 p.m. March 13. An opening reception is scheduled from 2 to 4:30 p.m. March 17.
This is an open show with no categories. However, there are special awards presented to various special criteria. For example, pastel still-life, abstract, most creative, best composition, brilliant use of color, luminosity and best use of floral subject. Best in show tri-color award, first, second, third and honorable mention ribbons will also be awarded. There is also a Purchase Award program, where members of the community pledge to purchase a piece of art from the exhibit.
The Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild's regular meeting is scheduled for Tuesday. All artwork will be removed from the gallery to prepare for the group's School and Spring art shows. Downtown Art Gallery 630 will be closed Thursday and Friday, and the week of March 10, except for registration day on March 13.
The Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild will hold a special show in memory of longtime Arts Guild member Betty Brown. The exhibit is from April 15 to 30. Entries by members are limited to one painting, new work only and in any media. Ribbons will be awarded.
Entries for the Arts Guild's bi-monthly members competition, with the theme of "Paint the Sky," are accepted starting April 16. Members are allowed to enter four paintings. This artwork must be painted for this competition. Ribbons will be awarded.
Carolyn Pellegrin, an Arts Guild member, is displaying her work at Griffin's Poboy and Grille, 1015 W. Tunnel Blvd., Houma.
Carolyn France, another Arts Guild member, is showcasing her work at Woody's Restaurant inside Quality Hotel, 210 S. Hollywood Road, Houma.
An oil painting workshop with Carol Hallock is planned for September. Reservations are being taken for this workshop. If interested in taking this workshop, contact the workshop's chairwoman, Jean Ayo, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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DayZ is the kind of game that leaves you on edge at all times. You never know when you're going to be ambushed and killed, or get taken for a ride to a deathcamp, or be ambushed by sprinting zombies.
Or, as is the case here, when you're going to see a totally freaky bug that may not be a threat but sure is creepy. Man, I would've emptied my entire clip into that thing, especially if I'd been listening to the X-Files theme while I played.