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Virtual Reality and Robotics in Neurosurgery—Promise and Challenges
Special Supplement to Neurosurgery Presents Updates on Emerging Technologies for Brain Surgery
Robotic technologies have the potential to help neurosurgeons perform precise, technically demanding operations, together with virtual reality environments to help them navigate through the brain, according to a special supplement to Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
"Virtual Reality (VR) and robotics are two rapidly expanding fields with growing application within neurosurgery," according to an introductory article by Garnette Sutherland, MD. The 22 reviews, commentaries, and original studies in the special supplement provide an up-to-the-minute overview of "the benefits and ongoing challenges related to the latest incarnations of these technologies."
Robotics and VR in Neurosurgery—What's Here and What's Next
Virtual reality and robotic technologies present exciting opportunities for training, planning, and actual performance of neurosurgical procedures. Robotic tools under development or already in use can provide mechanical assistance, such as steadying the surgeon's hand or "scaling" hand movements. "Current robots work in tandem with human operators to combine the advantages of human thinking with the capabilities of robots to provide data, to optimize localization on a moving subject, to operate in difficult positions, or to perform without muscle fatigue," writes Dr. Sutherland.
Virtual reality technologies play an important role, providing "spatial orientation" between robotic instruments and the surgeon. Virtual reality environments "recreate the surgical space" in which the surgeon works, providing 3-D visual images as well as haptic (sense of touch) feedback. The ability to plan, rehearse, and "play back" operations in the brain could be particularly valuable for training neurosurgery residents—especially since recent work hour changes have limited opportunities for operating room experience.
The special supplement to Neurosurgery presents authoritative updates by experts working in the field of surgical robotics and VR technology, drawn from a wide range of disciplines. Topics include robotic technologies already in use, such as the "neuroArm" image-guided neurosurgical robot; reviews of progress in areas such as 3-D neurosurgical planning and virtual endoscopy; and new thinking on the best approaches to development, evaluation, and clinical uses of VR and robotic technologies.
But numerous and daunting technical challenges remain to be met before robotic and VR technologies become widely used in clinical neurosurgery. For example, VR environments require extremely fast processing times to provide the surgeon with continuously updated sensory information—equal to or faster than the brain's ability to perceive it.
Economic challenges include the high costs of developing and implementing VR and robotic technologies, especially in terms of showing that the costs are justified by benefits to the patient. Continued progress in miniaturization will play an important role both in overcoming the technical challenges and in making the technology cost-effective.
The editors of Neurosurgery hope their supplement will stimulate interest and further progress in the development and practical implementation of VR and robotic technologies for neurosurgery. Dr. Sutherland adds, "Collaboration between the fields of medicine, engineering, science, and technology will allow innovations in these fields to converge in new products that will benefit patients with neurosurgical disease."
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Neurosurgery, the Official Journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, is your most complete window to the contemporary field of neurosurgery. Members of the Congress and non-member subscribers receive 3,000 pages per year packed with the very latest science, technology, and medicine, not to mention full-text online access to the world's most complete, up-to-the-minute neurosurgery resource. For professionals aware of the rapid pace of developments in the field, Neurosurgery is nothing short of indispensable.
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher of trusted content delivered in innovative ways to practitioners, professionals and students to learn new skills, stay current on their practice, and make important decisions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes.
LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2011 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.7 billion).


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I enjoyed reading last week's article about the reduction in auto theft in our city and county.
Representatives of government from all three branches at all levels, the industry and the public formed the Task Force headed by the then-Director of Public Safety, Vernon Herron. It was formed as a direct result of a regional summit conference on auto theft hosted by the GEICO Insurance Co. In addition to hosting the first summit conference, GEICO contributed the funds to purchase the first of four tag readers used in our county.
The Maryland Vehicle Theft Prevention Council, led by its then-executive director, Major Ray Pressley of the Maryland State Police, provided the funds for additional officers, prosecutors, training, equipment, advice and juvenile rehabilitation programs. The legislature changed the law to allow an owner of a stolen car to have to only appear once in court to testify. Councilman Fred Smalls represented the city of Laurel and the city contributed an officer full time to the WAVE Task Force.
More than $40,000,000 a year has been saved by the people of our county since the number of cars stolen dropped in half. As you pointed out, much has been done to address this economic crime.
In 1838, Thomas Jefferson said it best: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
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The Moon is just past first-quarter today. That means that sunlight illuminates a bit more than half of the lunar hemisphere that faces our way. But as the sky darkens this evening, you'll also be able to see the dark portion of the lunar disk, because it's illuminated by earthshine — sunlight that's reflected from the surface of our own Earth.
In recent years, scientists have been watching this dark part of the Moon several nights a month as part of Project Earthshine. They're interested because earthshine is a novel way of measuring Earth's albedo — how bright it is. The albedo changes depending on the cloud cover — more clouds means a brighter Earth. The albedo is linked to the planet's climate, so collecting data on earthshine could lead to a better understanding of the overall health of Earth's environment.
The project is carried out by astronomers at the Big Bear Observatory in southern California, and at observatories in the Canary Islands and the Crimea. They aim small telescopes at the Moon and carefully record the light from the dark side. They need only small telescopes because the Moon is so bright — even the dark side.
In addition to providing a way to monitor Earth's cloud cover, earthshine may also prove useful in studies of other phenomena that affect Earth's albedo, such as volcanic ash in the upper atmosphere.
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Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools (FCPCS) Salutes Success of Florida's Charter Schools
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., (April 14, 2017) – A 2016 Student Achievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learning gains. The report also found that achievement gaps are lower among charter school students when gaps are studied between white students and African-American students and between white students and Hispanic students.
The DOE report is mandated by state law and is a cooperative project published annually by the Office of Independent Education and Parental Choice and the Bureau of Evaluation and Reporting in the Division of Accountability. The report compares average performance on Florida assessment tests by students at charter schools and students at traditional public schools.
"Florida's charter schools and their students should be applauded for achieving such remarkable results," said Robert Haag, President of the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools. "The performance measures are further evidence that charter schools are making a meaningful difference in the education of Florida's students."
The report is divided into three sections to study overall achievement, learning gains and achievement gaps between student groups. In overall achievement, DOE looked at 77 separate comparisons of overall rates of grade level performance, based on the percentage of students who scored level three or above on Florida assessment tests. In 65 of the 77 comparisons, charter school students showed higher rates of grade level performance.
Comparisons are also included in the report based on the percentage of charter school students making learning gains and the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains. Comparisons were made based on subject, grade level and subgroup and showed in 82 of 96 comparisons, the percentage of charter school students making learning gains was higher than the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.
A third area of assessment in the report is a comparison of achievement gaps, specifically the gap between white students and African-American students and the gap between white students and Hispanic students in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science and Social Studies. In 20 of 22 comparisons, the achievement gap was actually lower – and better – for charter school students than for students in traditional public schools.
The full 2016 Student Achievement Report can be viewed or downloaded at: 2016 Student Achievement Report.
About the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools
The Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools (FCPCS) is the leading charter school membership association in the state, with a membership of nearly 75 percent of all operating charter schools. Since its inception in 1999, FCPCS has been dedicated to creating a national model of high quality, accredited public charter schools that are student-centered and performance-driven. FCPCS provides a wide array of technical support, mentoring, training, networking, and purchasing services to its membership, as well as serving as an advocate for all Florida public charter schools.


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The Stars Athletics Scholarship Society raises scholarship support for student-athletes through an annual fund drive. Members impact more than 200 student-athletes with STARS Club support, helping to provide a top notch student-athlete experience at UIS.
In summer 2016, the Stars Athletics Scholarship Society had more than 525 members and has raised more than $105,000 over the past year.
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Human Genome Central: An Ongoing Picture of the Genome that is Both Comprehensive and Comprehensible
Human Genome Central: An Ongoing Picture of the Genome that is Both Comprehensive and Comprehensible
September 2000
The vast majority of the human genome is now publicly available. About 25 percent of the genome is in finished form, while the great majority of the remainder is in draft form. A publication on the working draft will be submitted later this year.
As with other organisms, the full primary source data is available in each of three public databases: Genbank, EMBL and DDBJ. The information is being searched and analyzed by tens of thousands of scientists in academia and industry.
Still, it is a daunting and time-consuming task for users to directly analyze the primary source data. Many users would like access to ancillary information and tools that provide an ongoing picture of the genome that is both comprehensive and comprehensible. Such information includes the overlaps between clones; the correct genomic location of each clone; an integrated genomic sequence that merges the individual clones; and annotation of gene content.
In fact, such resources have been developed and are freely available - but they are not widely known.
For ease of access, we have created a master Web site called "Human Genome Central" containing a brief listing of links to some of the most useful public resources; further links to additional sites can be found within them. The Web sites will be regularly updated with new information.
The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
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On a boring, grey Monday morning, we saw it.
The white semi truck backed into the Cosley Zoo with hordes of men in flannel, hauling nettled bundles down the ramp, stacking them against a sea of tilted wooden crosses.
"The Christmas trees are here!"
My son screamed as we rushed by to try and get him to school before the bell rang in his chemistry class. In that moment, all the gray of November was erased by the hope of what lies ahead. Our hearts lifted up. The day became brighter. We began dreaming about snow and colored lights and "sneak-a-deeks."
Every year, we pilgrimage to the Cosley Zoo's Christmas tree fundraiser and our kids play the game they invented, "sneak-a-deeks." They pack themselves with snowballs and hide between the trees, waiting to ambush another family member.
While we search for the prettiest tree we've ever had, they are running all over the lot creating chaos. We try to ignore them, especially if they blast another customer in the face mistakenly.
One year, our son broke a bone in his foot and his best friend put him in the tree cart and wheeled him around the lot at top speed while he pelted us all with an arsenal of snowballs nestled beside him. His broken foot became an advantage.
These joyous memories filled me up as I made my way back home to grade papers and do laundry. But instead of going home, I did a u-turn, camera in hand, and set out to learn more about these people who bring Christmas to us.
I met Sue Whalgren, director of Cosley Zoo, who has been selling trees there for 30 years.
"I remember when we first started out, there were nights when I sat in a small room waiting for people to show up. Some nights no one came."
Now, they sell all the trees they have, over 2,200 trees each season. It is Cosley's biggest fundraiser, and Fraser firs are their biggest seller by far, Sue said. The Wheaton Park District has been ordering their trees from Badger Nursery in Michigan for years because, "they are able to cut theirs later, so we get fresher, higher quality trees."
Andy Burgess works for Allegan Trucking and he hauls the trees in from Michigan. He taught me that it takes four trips for him to bring in about 500 trees a day and it takes 10 years to grow the 8-foot tree that we display in our living room.
When Andy isn't trucking trees, he's bringing in fall pumpkins or summer flowers. He does it because he likes the open road. However, he doesn't like the increasing traffic and regulations, which slow him down. The best part of his job is the pine smell of his truck as the delivery is being unloaded.
Who brings Christmas to you? Take a favorite holiday memory and wonder for a moment, who was behind it? If you have the chance to meet and thank them, you'll be blessed.
Margaret Philbrick is a writer, blogger and Wheaton resident.


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Our love for butterflies continues in these gorgeous earrings, each half of a butterfly. These limited edition earrings feature french clips - a post with an extra hinged clip for extra support and to keep them in just the right place on the ear. Antiqued 18k gold finish. Signed on reverse.
Loren's notes: "I love these whimsical butterfly earrings! They crawl up the ear so gracefully. These are a great conversation starter, and the detail in them is captivating."
- Artisan small-batch production ensures that we craft the highest quality, heirloom pieces for your collection.
- We incorporate vintage stones and dead-stock materials as often as possible to reduce waste
- Revitalizing manufacturing in the USA and supporting our local community by creating these here in Rhode Island
We want to make sure any jewelry purchased through LorenHope.com lasts for years. Here are a few quick tips to keep your collection safe (and sparkly):
All Loren Hope pieces ship inside a felt dust bag. Since extended exposure to air can oxidize any jewelry, we highly recommend storing your Loren Hope pieces flat in the bag they are packaged with. These dust bags also work great for travel, be it your carry-on luggage or gym locker.
While wearing out and about in the world, avoid jewelry contact with water and chemicals. Our pieces are plated in 18K gold or sterling silver, so to ensure the longevity of the finish, avoid direct contact with perfumes or scented lotions as well. Remove and set aside while washing dishes and hands, or hitting the pool or beach.
A few notes about product design: Our reversible cuffs are made with a strong, solid brass base, but for wearability, they can be gently pulled open for putting on and squeezed closed to tighten. Don't be afraid to adjust the size to your comfort—they are designed to fit everyone.
Clasps can get tired, but they can also be adjusted back into shape. Our popular Carly, Clara and Clara mini bracelets feature classic box and tongue clasps that are machined locally by a master tool-maker. (Fun fact: back in the day, they specialized in ladies metal compacts, pill boxes and lockets—things with hinges!) To ensure you have clasped your bracelet securely, make sure you hear the click. If your bracelet clasp loses tension over time, gently pull up the tongue component of the clasp to bring back the tension until you hear it clicking securely again.
Finally, watch out for your stones. In the style of vintage jewelry, many of our pieces feature hand-set stones in prong settings. If a prong gets caught on something and is raised up, secure the stone with your finger to keep it in place and carefully push the prong back down with a pair of pliers or flat, hard object. (Beware not to scratch the stone.)
Keep in mind that everyone's skin is different, which can affect the level of tarnish or wear on your jewelry. To keep it clean, polish pieces with a soft cloth. The complimentary felt dust bag may also be used. Do not apply chemical jewelry cleaners, as this can damage the plating.
Remember, you can always drop us a line if you have questions. We stand behind our jewelry 100%. Please note that we can't be held accountable for disregard of this sage advice. For items purchased on LorenHope.com, we do offer complimentary repairs for extenuating circumstances (such as snapped chains, missing stones. You know, casualties of life getting in the way.) If you have such an issue, please contact us with your order number and describe the problem.
All orders are packed and shipped out of our Rhode Island studio. Typically orders are shipped the next business day. Due to the handmade nature of our products and based on availability of materials, some orders may take up to 5-7 business days to ship while orders that include pre-ordered styles may take up to 7-14 business days to ship. As soon as your order is packed and ready to ship, a shipping confirmation email will be sent along with tracking information. Any special requests such as birthday messages may be left at the comments section during checkout. We are happy to accommodate your requests.
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On-site classes are available at certain times of the year. In the event that you need to cancel, classes are 100% refundable up to 30 days before the class. A 50% refund is available if cancellation is within the 30 days window and before 7 days prior to the class. Cancellations made within the 7 days before the class are not eligible for a refund.Repairs
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Having last year destroyed planet Earth, provocateur Lars Von Trier has set his sights on some cheerier fare, setting up a new film titled simply enough "Nymphomaniac." Sounds like Lars has cooked up another plum role for some lucky actress!
Having already had her genitals mutilated in "Anti-Christ," and lost her mind at the end of the world in "Melancholia," Charlotte Gainsbourg has agreed to subject herself to LVT's vision once again. So what's "Nymphomaniac" all about? Via Twitch Film:
NYMPHOMANIAC is the light and poetic story of a woman's erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-‐diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe.
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On a cold winter's evening Seligman, an old bachelor, finds Joe semi‐unconscious and beaten up in an alleyway. After bringing her to his flat he sees to her wounds while trying to understand how things could have gone so wrong for her. He listens intently as she over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushly branched-‐out and multi-faceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents.
Reading that, one might reasonably think it were a pitch for a new series from the dearly departed Zalman King, but this being Von Trier, one can be reasonably sure that this will be a seriously discomforting, visceral experience.
And as they did with "Anti-Christ," Von Trier intends to use porn actors as stunt doubles, and he'll shoot two versions of the film, a hard- and softcore. Look for "Nymphomaniac" to arrive some time in 2013.


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It was really fun to check it all out and see all that they have to offer! I'll have to go back when I'm needing groceries.
On the way we saw a place I've wanted to go for a long time! Sabor Peruano! It's Peruvian food in Cincinnati! Of course my friend said, "Oh I've had Peruvian food...in Peru." Oh bite me!
But off we went!
Scott couldn't decide what to get and asked for a recommendation...she reco'd this sort of shrimp fried rice...not the best choice. It was fairly dry and not that flavorful.
Scott's also came with this side of green hot ass sauce...Scott didn't think it was that spicy. I dabbed a bit on a fork and my tongue burned off...so use at your own risk.
I looked through the menu and there were so many choices! It was really hard to decide. It seems as though they specialize in seafood and steak - so I decided to go for the steak.
First I got a side of onion salad.
Now when they say - onion salad - they mean it! It was (as you can see) a plate of friggin onions! They were pretty good. The server said it was simply red onions soaked in water, then mixed with lime juice, cilantro and salt. Surprising - very tasty!
After the onion salad, I ordered this beef, rice and beans dish. I really wish I could remember the name of it! It was braised beef - amazingly tender - on top of rice and cooked white beans. There was also this green sauce with peas and carrots poured over top. It was delicious!
It's sort of a plain dish - there aren't any standout ingredients or crazy preparation - this is just a great comforting, flavorful dish. The beans are warm and prepared perfectly - the steak falls apart and the green sauce was really great!
All in all - I really enjoyed it. I'd like to go back and try some other dishes - wish they had tapas or I had a group of people where we could share stuff.
But - glad that I finally got there after 5 years!
Sabor Peruano
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New York | Geneva – A new WHO study reveals that low-income countries could introduce a core set of strategies to prevent and treat cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung disease for just US$ 1.20 per person per year.
"Noncommunicable diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, killing ever more people each year. Nearly 80 per cent of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries," says Dr Ala Alwan, Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health at WHO. "The challenge to these countries is tremendous, but this study proves that there are affordable steps all governments can take to address noncommunicable diseases."
Cost of not taking action
The impact of noncommunicable diseases – or NCDs – goes beyond health: their socioeconomic effects are staggering. The cost of not taking action to address this global threat is already severe and will intensify over time.
"Noncommunicable diseases are one of the leading threats to global economic growth and development. Over the next 15 years, noncommunicable diseases will cost low- and middle-income countries' more than US$ 7 trillion," says Jean Pierre Rosso, Chairman, World Economic Forum (WEF), quoting the results of a WEF and Harvard School of Public Health study released today. "When so many of the workforce is sick and dies in their productive years, national economies lose billions of dollars in output. And millions of families are pushed into poverty."
Low-cost interventions
The WHO study set out to help low- and middle-income countries identify low-cost interventions that can help turn the tide on NCDs and reduce their economic burden. The interventions must be highly cost-effective (see note to editors), and there must be strong evidence that they prevent disease and save lives.
The list includes measures that target the population as a whole, such as excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol, smoke-free indoor workplaces and public places, health information and warnings, as well as campaigns to reduce salt content and replacement of trans fats with polyunsaturated fats, along with public awareness programmes about diet and physical activity.
Other tactics focus on the individual. These include screening, counselling and drug therapy for people with or at high risk of cardiovascular disease, screening for cervical cancer, and hepatitis B immunization to prevent liver cancer.
Many countries have already adopted these approaches, and have seen a marked reduction in disease incidence and mortality. WHO monitored progress over ten years in 38 countries taking steps to address cardiovascular disease at both the population and individual level: all recorded a substantial decrease in exposure to risk, incidence of disease and deaths.
Best buys
"The new tool will help countries with limited resources work out what the "best buys" are and what they will cost," adds Alwan. "Implementing them would save literally millions of lives over the next 15 years."
In compiling the tool, WHO considered five key ingredients: the size of the population; the extent of the burden of disease; the proportion of the population that would be covered by the strategies; the resources required (human, medicines, technology); and the unit cost for example salaries, medicines. No intervention that costs more than US$ 0.50 per person per year was included.
The total cost for adopting these strategies in all low- and middle-income countries would be US$ 11.4 billion per year.
Low cost
Providing access to population-based interventions in all low- and middle-income countries would cost a total of US$ 2 billion per year. That breaks down to less than US$ 0.20 per person per year in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, and around US$ 0.50 per person per year in upper-middle income countries.
Providing access to individual-level NCD best buys costs roughly US$ 10 billion per year for all low- and middle-income countries. For the period 2011-2025, the annual per capita cost will be: US $1 in low-income countries; US$ 1.50 in lower-middle-income countries; and US$ 2.50 in upper-middle-income countries.
High-income countries spend US$ 4 trillion per year on health. The United States of America alone spends US$ 2 trillion per year. Noncommunicable diseases – like heart attacks and strokes, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease – account for over 63% of deaths in the world today. Every year, NCDs kill 9 million people under 60 years old – 90 per cent of these premature deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. From 19–20 September, global leaders gather at the United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases in New York to set a new international agenda for tackling them.
Note to editors: A highly cost effective intervention generates an extra year of healthy life for a cost that falls below the average annual income or GDP per person in the country/region in question. For example, the average annual income per person in India is around US$ 1000: an intervention that generates a healthy year of life for less than this would be counted as very cost-effective.
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A review of Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District records by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel shows the district has been performing test in the middle of the night while people are sleeping to report on how the sewage treatment plant is doing since it privatized its treatment operations three years ago.
District officials defend early morning testing for fecal and offer plausible explanations why they test at such hours. Not surprisingly, they also resent any implication that they test at those times in an attempt to skew the results in their favor.
The district already is under fire because of ongoing dumping of sewage into area waterways. Also, four instances in which pumps that draw sewage out of the deep tunnels to the Jones Island treatment plant were curiously turned off before fecal sampling, which is being investigated, the article reported.
District officials claim that average sewage flow around 3 a.m. is actually slightly higher than the average daily rate of flow. The reason, they say, has to do with how long it takes sewage to make its way from the 420-square-mile district to Jones Island and, once there, the six to 12 hours it takes sewage to make its way through the plant. That means, officials say, that wastewater tested at 3 a.m. actually left most households and businesses anywhere from 6.5 to 20 hours earlier.
District officials concede that until United Water Services took over operation of the treatment plant and deep tunnels in March 1998, the district routinely checked for fecal coliform from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The testing was changed to early in the morning three years ago to improve operating efficiency and accommodate workers' schedules, officials say. District officials say their test results routinely exceed standards set by the Department of Natural Resources.
Jay Hochmuth, a DNR official, says the Milwaukee district has a "first-class system, one of the best in the country." But Hochmuth also pointed out that the DNR had no idea the district was doing its fecal testing in the middle of the night and that the issue is subsequently under review.


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Death of NYC man after police chokehold prompts probe
The death on Friday of a New York City man after an apparent chokehold on the part of police has prompted an investigation by the Staten Island District Attorney's office and caused Mayor Bill de Blasio to postpone a vacation while he talks with community leaders.
A passerby captured the interaction between Eric Garner, 43, and police on video, and the tape shows Garner saying at least eight times "I can't breathe" as police appear to push his head into the ground. Garner, an asthmatic who weighed between 350 and 400 pounds, later died.
Police said Garner was resisting arrest and they suspected him of attempting to sell untaxed cigarettes. Witnesses told the Staten Island Advance that he'd just broken up a fight.
A representative in NYPD's press room referred all questions to a press conference earlier Friday by de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton.
During the press conference, de Blasio called the death of Garner, a married father of six and grandfather of two, "a terrible tragedy."
"Chokeholds are prohibited by the New York City Police Department and by most departments," Bratton said during the press conference.
Along with the district attorney, police internal affairs also will investigate, Bratton and de Blasio said.
In the videotape, Garner is seen standing on a sidewalk in front of a store as two undercover officers appear to question him.
"Every time you see me, you're messing with me – I'm tired of it," Garner says. "I'm minding my business officer, I'm minding my business. Please just leave me alone."
The conversation continues until Garner says, "Don't touch me," at which point an officer behind Garner appears to put him in a chokehold. Garner sinks quickly to the ground and four officers are on him, subduing him.
Garner says "I can't breathe" at least eight times as an officer appears to mash his head into the sidewalk.
Police called paramedics and Garner died of cardiac arrest at Richmond University Medical Center, in Staten Island, the NY Daily News reported.
"When I kissed my husband this morning, I never thought it would be for the last time," Esaw Garner, Eric Garner's wife, told the NY Daily News.
Some residents told Newsday that the incident was an example of racism. Garner was black. The officers who held him down are white.
Police said Garner had a history of arrests for selling untaxed cigarettes, according to the NY Daily News.
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch said in a statement shared with Newsday, "Not wanting to be arrested does not grant an individual the right to resist arrest nor does it free the officers of the obligation to make the arrest. In these cases, justice for all involved demands a complete and thorough investigation of all the facts before any conclusions are drawn."


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Far Cry 3 trailer details co-op campaign
Far Cry 3 gets a new trailer highlighting its separate co-op campaign, which highlights a separate storyline and four different playable characters.
With the December 4 release of Far Cry 3 just around the corner, Ubisoft is keeping the media flowing like a croc-infested jungle river. Today's bit of video highlights the game's co-op campaign, which allows up to four players to participate, and takes place six months prior to the events in the single-player story.
Four new protagonists can be chosen from, including Mick Callum, the foul-mouthed "Scottish thug" who narrates the trailer, Leonard, the "crooked cop," Tisha, the "ex-soldier," and Mikhail, the "Russian hitman." According to the trailer, the motley crew has had their "stash" stolen, and are raring to get it back.
If you're curious about how Far Cry 3's single-player campaign fares, be sure to check out my glowing review. You can also check out the trailers for competitive multiplayer and the map editor, if that strikes your fancy. I'll have a review of the multiplayer modes (including co-op) ready around the time the game launches for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on December 4.
Jeff Mattas posted a new article, Far Cry 3 trailer details co-op campaign.
Far Cry 3 gets a new trailer highlighting its separate co-op campaign, which highlights a separate storyline and four different playable characters.
Yo the dude doing Callum's voice went to Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3516668/resume perhaps he IS Scottish!?!


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Note to reporters and editors: The 58th annual meeting of the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) will be August 2-7, 2009, in Blaine, Wash. The theme is Wildlife Health from Land to Sea: Impacts of a Changing World. This release is based on USGS research being presented at the conference. Also see a full press release on emerging diseases in fish.
Get Your Shots! Eating Ouchless Vaccines Protects Prairie Dogs in the Lab Against Plague: A new oral vaccine against sylvatic plague is showing significant promise in the laboratory as a way to protect prairie dogs and may eventually protect endangered black-footed ferrets who now get the disease by eating infected prairie dogs, according to results by a USGS researcher at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center. Sylvatic plague is an infectious bacterial disease usually transmitted from animal to animal by fleas. This exotic disease is usually deadly for black-footed ferrets and their primary prey, prairie dogs, resulting in local extinctions or regional population reductions. Along with other wild rodents, prairie dogs are also considered a significant reservoir of plague for other wildlife, domestic animals, and people in the western U.S. Prevention of plague in wild rodents by immunization could reduce outbreaks of the disease in animals, thereby reducing the risk for human exposure to the disease.
USGS scientists offered plague vaccine in food for voluntary consumption by 16 black-tailed prairie dogs. They also injected a plague vaccine into 12 other prairie dogs and then studied how much protection against plague the two kinds of vaccines offered. USGS researcher Dr. Tonie Rocke, the lead researcher of the project, found that the prairie dogs that "ate" their vaccine were better protected from the disease than the ones who were injected with a vaccine. These results, said Rocke, demonstrate that oral immunization of prairie dogs against plague provides significant protection from the disease, at least in the laboratory. Black-footed ferrets, of course, are one of the rarest mammals in North America. An oral vaccine, said Rocke, could be put into bait and delivered into the field without having to handle any animals, a process that is time-consuming, costly, and sometimes stressful for the animals. The same bacterium that affects ferrets, prairie dogs, and other rodents, is also responsible for human cases of plague. For more information, contact Dr. Tonie Rocke at 608-270-2451 or email@example.com
Shipwrecks Wrecking Coral Reefs? A Case Study at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge:
For the first time, researchers have definitively shown that shipwrecks and other man-made structures increase the potential for large invasions of unwanted species into coral reefs, even comparatively pristine ones. These unwanted species can completely overtake a reef and eliminate native corals, dramatically decreasing the diversity of marine organisms on the reef. Coral reefs can undergo fast changes in their dominant life forms, a phenomenon referred to as phase shift. Scientists have speculated on many possible causes of phase shift, but this study is the first one to clearly show that a rapid change in the dominant life forms on a coral reef is associated with man-made structures.
In September 2007, USGS researcher Dr. Thierry Work, Dr. Greta Aeby from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, and Dr. James Maragos from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service studied a 100-foot vessel that wrecked in 1991 on isolated Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. They found extremely high numbers of an invasive species related to anemones and corals, Rhodactis howesii, on and around the shipwreck site. The density of this species progressively decreased with distance from the ship, and it was rare or absent in other parts of the atoll. Likewise, the researchers confirmed high densities of R. howesii around several buoys installed on the atoll in 2001.
Even though phase shifts can have long-term negative effects for coral reefs, eliminating organisms responsible for phase shifts can be difficult, particularly if they cover a large area. The extensive R. howesii invasion and subsequent loss of coral reef habitat at Palmyra highlights the importance of rapid removal of shipwrecks on corals reefs to help prevent reefs from being overgrown by invasive species.
"Why this phenomenon is occurring remains a mystery," said Work, a scientist at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center's Honolulu Field Station. One possibility, he said, is that iron leaching from the ship and mooring buoy chains, accompanied with other environmental factors particular to Palmyra Atoll, are somehow promoting the growth of Rhodactis. For more information, contact Dr. Thierry Work at 808-72-9250 or email@example.com
Society, Wildlife Disease and Wildlife Conservation: Oxymoron or Evolutionary Siblings? Over the past 50 years, the field of wildlife disease as an issue for concern has exploded in significance, mostly because of the increased realization that most emerging human diseases are "zoonotic," that is, diseases that can spread from people to other animals or vice-versa. USGS emeritus scientist Dr. Milt Friend, in an invited talk at the Wildlife Disease Association conference, will explore how and why the field of wildlife disease research has changed over the last 50 years.
One of the biggest differences, says Friend, is that until very recently, wildlife disease was not an important focus for the wildlife conservation community. "Now, though, a new wave of social environmentalism and public concerns about emerging zoonotic diseases are placing increased pressure on wildlife agencies to address disease 'crises' involving wildlife," Friend says.
He emphasizes, however, that emerging zoonotic diseases often result in double jeopardy for wildlife: not only do wildlife often suffer direct negative effects from a disease, they also endure indirect effects associated with actions taken to reduce human risks by suppressing wildlife populations. In addition, says Friend, wildlife can also be jeopardized by actions taken if they happen to share diseases with domestic animals, even if those diseases do not pose a significant public health threat. "Conversely, within the wildlife conservation community, the role of disease as a factor for species extinctions is receiving increased worldwide attention," Friend noted. For more information, contact Dr. Milton Friend at 608-270-2488 or email@example.com
Disease Risks When Moving Wildlife to New Areas: Endangered Laysan Duck Cautionary Tale:
Laysan ducks, one of the world's most endangered waterfowl, are native to only the Hawaiian archipelago. For 150 years, Laysan ducks were restricted to an estimated 4 square kilometers of land on Laysan Island in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In 2004 and 2005, in an effort to rebuild the
Disturbingly, said Work, 3 ducks were also infected with a worm suspected to be Echinuria uncinata; this worm has been responsible for mass die-offs of Laysan ducks on Laysan Island. Work notes that this worm was either moved to Midway during translocations of ducks from Laysan, despite preventive treatment of all founding birds, or it arrived with migratory waterfowl. Either way, says Work, this epizootic highlights the disease risk to birds restricted to small island populations and the challenges associated with managing newly translocated endangered species. Frequent population monitoring for early disease detection and comprehensive wetland monitoring and management will be needed to offset the potential effects of avian botulism and parasitism on endangered Laysan ducks, Work said. The bigger picture, though, is that disease risks need to be closely examined for translocations of all kinds, especially in light of translocations being proposed for dealing with habitat range changes that affect endangered species due to climate change. For more information, contact Dr. Thierry Work at 808-72-9250 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Bat white-nose syndrome: An emerging fungal pathogen? New research provides even more evidence that a previously undescribed, cold-loving fungus is associated with white-nose syndrome, a condition linked to the deaths of up to 1,000,000 cave-hibernating bats in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. Since the winter of 2006-2007, bat populations plummeted from 80 to 97 percent at surveyed bat-hibernation caves, called hibernacula. USGS microbiologist Dr. David Blehert and his colleagues identified the fungus last year, and have followed up by trying to determine if the fungus may be responsible for the deaths or if it is simply a side effect of another underlying disease. The researchers found that 90 percent of all bats they examined from suspected WNS sites had a severe fungal skin infection that did not just occur on the skin, but below it as well. The growth temperature requirements of the fungus are consistent with the core temperatures of cave-hibernating bat species throughout temperate regions of the world. Given the hundreds of thousands of hibernating bats found throughout the WNS-affected region, as well as the potential for the spread of this disease to other parts of the United States and Canada, white-nose syndrome represents an unprecedented threat to bats of the northeastern United States and potentially beyond. For more information, contact Dr. David Blehert at 608-270-2466 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Sick Fish May Get Sicker: Climate Change and Other Stresses Expected to Affect Entire Populations of Fish (see full press release on emerging diseases in fish)
Entire populations of North American fish already are being affected by several emerging diseases, a problem that threatens to increase in the future with climate change and other stresses on aquatic ecosystems, according to a noted U.S. Geological Survey researcher giving an invited talk on this subject today at the Wildlife Disease Association conference in Blaine, Wash.
"A generation ago, we couldn't have imaged the explosive growth in disease issues facing many of our wild fish populations," said Dr. Jim Winton, a fish disease specialist at the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center. "Most fish health research at that time was directed toward diseases of farmed fish." In contrast, said Winton, recent studies in natural aquatic systems have revealed that, in addition to being a cause of natural death, infectious and parasitic fish diseases can produce significantly greater mortality in altered habitats leading to population fluctuations, extinction of endangered fish, reduced overall health and increased susceptibility to predation. For more information, contact Dr. Jim Winton at 206-526-6282, x328 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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Reston Community Center Presents Multicultural Art
New art exhibits at Reston Community Center's Jo Ann Rose Gallery and at RCC Hunters Woods feature artwork reflecting the cultural heritage of diverse artists and works created by artists with lifelong disabilities. During the month of September, the Jo Ann Rose Gallery and the adjacent 3-D Display will feature Art Mirrors Culture, composed of works by area artists expressing their cultural identities. Also during the month of September, the RCC Hunters Woods gallery will feature Abstract Paintings, Drawings and Prints, a collection of works by members of Specially Adapted Resource Clubs in the Reston area.
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Emily Blunt and John Krasinski have revealed they are "so incredibly happy" to become parents to a baby girl.
The couple are now proud parents of a daughter named Hazel, after the actress gave birth on February 16.
"Wanted to let the news out directly. Emily and I are so incredibly happy to welcome our daughter Hazel into the world today! Happy bday!" new dad John tweeted.
Emily and the former Office star got married in Lake Como, Italy, in 2010 after dating for two years. They announced they were expecting their first child together last September.
The English actress celebrated Hazel's impending arrival at a star-studded baby shower in Los Angeles on December 15, with celebrity friends Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux and Kristen Bell.
The 30-year-old previously admitted she was feeling broody.
She told Manhattan magazine in 2012: "We want to have children; I just don't know when yet. I'm just not sure about the timing of all of that. We're both from big families, so I think it's something we want."


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A series of fresh revelations about atrocities and war crimes perpetrated by Western-backed Syrian "rebels" have sparked alarm among analysts, further complicating Obama's already-tough push for support to launch military strikes against the Assad regime. As opposition to U.S. military intervention in Syria grows among the public, Congress, and the so-called "international community," the latest atrocities are being cited by critics of the warmongering as more reasons not to join the civil war on behalf of ruthless jihadists — more than a few of whom are openly fighting with al-Qaeda to take down the secular regime.
One of the most shocking revelations in recent days was video footage of rebels brazenly perpetrating war crimes and murder. The film, smuggled out of Syria by a former opposition fighter disillusioned with rebel brutality, promptly made waves around the world. Also sparking alarm was news that al-Qaeda-linked opposition forces had seized control of an ancient Christian town. The "rebels" reportedly burned down and looted churches while killing and terrorizing local Christians, ordering them to convert to Islam or die, following a long pattern of atrocities aimed at Christians.
Separately, pictures posted on Facebook feature the rebels sporting black al-Qaeda flags and heavy weaponry — much of it probably provided with U.S. assistance. Analysts said the troubling images offer more insight into the jihadist opposition and its long-term aims.
The War-crimes Video
Last week, the New York Times obtained a video — a still photo of which appeared across the front page of the newspaper — showing Syrian rebels executing bound and brutalized prisoners. By any standard, the cold-blooded executions represent a clear example of a war crime. "We swear to the Lord of the Throne, that this is our oath: We will take revenge," the rebel commander, apparently known as "the Uncle," says before the seven captured Syrian soldiers are shot through the head and placed in a mass grave. After an edited version of the video footage was posted by the Times last week, it promptly went "viral," sickening conservatives and liberals alike.
The film was so shocking that even establishment analysts said it was shifting the supposed "debate" about potential direct U.S. military intervention on behalf of the rebels. Despite being sought by the Obama administration and a coalition of Islamist Arab dictators hoping to unseat their secular counterpart in Syria, there is very little actual "debate" — the public and even Congress both remain overwhelmingly opposed to offering even more U.S. support for roving bands of lawless jihadist terrorists operating in Syria.
"Because the White House and, more broadly, those arguing for direct U.S. military intervention are portraying this as a battle between 'good guys' and the 'bad guys,' to put it in crude terms, this video demonstrates that there are bad guys on both sides," said senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies Ed Husain at the global government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations, who last year celebrated the decisive role al-Qaeda was playing in leading the establishment-backed Syrian "rebels" to victory. "It does make a mockery of Secretary Kerry's praise on Wednesday [before the House Foreign Affairs Committee] for the Syrian opposition."
Perhaps sensing the tsunami of public opposition, other CFR luminaries quoted in a report by the Daily Beast have reversed their support for deeper U.S. intervention. Almost ludicrously, however, top U.S. warmongers attempted to spin the atrocity and its significance. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), for example, one of the chief U.S. supporters of the rebels, suggested the war crimes were simply the work of "extremists," as opposed to the non-existent "moderate" opposition. Ironically, when McCain went to Syria earlier this year to meet with the "moderate" rebels, it later emerged that the senator had been meeting and posing for pictures with kidnappers.
Secretary of State John Kerry, meanwhile, also downplayed the video, claiming falsely that American strikes on Assad would not be creating a de-facto alliance between the Obama administration and Islamic terrorists. "In fact, I believe that those men in those videos are disadvantaged by an American response to the chemical-weapons use because it, in fact, empowers the moderate opposition," he argued, adding implausibly that the war criminals shown in the video "are not part of the opposition that is being supported by our friends and ourselves." Of course, even the pro-Obama administration New York Times has debunked such claims.
Speaking before Congress the day before the video was released, Kerry again parroted almost certainly bogus claims about the rebels. "There is a real moderate opposition that exists," he alleged, contradicting the analysis of virtually every credible analyst — including among the establishment. Of the supposed 70,000 to 100,000 "oppositionists," the largely discredited secretary of state claimed only 15 percent to 20 percent were extremists or "bad guys." It was not immediately clear which of the myriad rebel factions Kerry believed to be "good guys," but even the rebel forces touted by pro-interventionists as "moderate" have been exposed slaughtering civilians, threatening ethnic cleansing, and more.
Christians Attacked
Shortly after the Times video was released, the Associated Press reported that the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front rebels had captured, or "liberated" depending on one's perspective, the ancient Christian community of Maaloula — one of the few remaining places on Earth where Aramaic, the language of Christ, is still spoken. While residents there had previously been protected from Islamist "rebels" by the secular Assad regime, the self-styled al-Qaeda fighters reportedly managed to seize control of the town from Syrian forces after a heavy battle. They eventually began shelling the town from mountains overlooking it, AP reported.
Christian villagers quoted in news reports said the rebels had, among other atrocities, ordered them to convert to Islam or be murdered while shouting the now-infamous "Allahu Akbar" war cry. Christian homes and churches were reportedly attacked, ransacked, looted, and burned as the marauding rebels "liberated" the town. "They shot and killed people," a local Christian was quoted as saying in British news reports. "I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village. Where is President Obama to see what has befallen us?"
Another Christian villager cited in media reports about the rebel takeover said one Christian church had been burned down. Two other churches, meanwhile, were stormed by rebel gunmen and looted. "I saw the militants grabbing five villagers and threatening them and saying, 'Either you convert to Islam, or you will be beheaded'," reported yet another villager quoted in international news accounts. According to reports, villagers said many of the "rebel" fighters were speaking foreign Arabic dialects, probably imported jihadist mercenaries from Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Chechnya, and other Muslim regions. The reported attack on Christian Maaloula is hardly the first time rebels have massacred Christians.
The Rebels' Views and Goals
Amid the growing wave of reported atrocities perpetrated by rebel forces, news reports also highlighted some new revelations offering deeper insight into what the opposition is really about. According to multiple reports, a supposedly "moderate" rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) faction known as the "Al-Aqsa Islamic Brigades" was caught posting highly alarming images on social media services. One of the images, for example, featured heavily armed masked Islamists marauding through a burning Washington, D.C. as the U.S. Capitol burned in the background, even as the Obama administration was working fiendishly to deliver more U.S. military support to opposition forces in Syria.
Senior partner Evan Kohlmann with the security firm Flashpoint Intelligence, who also serves as a terror consultant to NBC, found the controversial images and provided them to reporters. Noting that the Islamist terror brigade has not been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. government, Kohlmann explained that the group fights alongside another FSA faction affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusra, which has officially been classified as a terror organization by the American State Department.
"As a group that claims affiliation to the generally pro-Western Free Syrian Army, it is difficult to reconcile the fact that it has plastered such a lurid anti-American image as the banner on its own official Facebook page," Kohlmann was quoted as saying by NBC News. "It raises the unfortunate but inescapable fact that not every group within the Free Syrian Army is closely aligned with U.S. interests in the region." For years, rebels have been publicly threatening to attack America and Israel after defeating Assad.
As The New American and countless other sources have been documenting for years, despite high-level leaders closely affiliated with the Western establishment, the rebels appear to be completely under the control of radical Islamists bent on violently spreading and enforcing a certain interpretation of Islam. Countless Christians and Shias have already been massacred by the "rebels," including whole towns. A spokesman for the "Free Syrian Army," supposedly among the "moderate" opposition groups, even threatened during a TV interview earlier this year to unleash an ethnic-cleansing campaign against Shias.
Rebel forces have also been exposed engaging in cannibalism on video, murdering children, using chemical weapons, firing on civilian protesters, beheading Christians, brutally enforcing sharia law, and much more. With al-Qaeda and other Islamist factions likely to take over the nation if and when Assad falls — a process that would be made much easier with U.S. missile strikes on the regime — the ongoing bloodbath could easily go from bad to worse in an instant, especially for minorities.
As The New American documented extensively last year, it appears as though the ongoing extermination of ancient Middle Eastern Christian communities is among the most alarming fruits of U.S. foreign policy. With the Obama administration now all but openly turning al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists into U.S. allies in places like Syria, however — and before that, in Libya — analysts say believers in Christ all throughout the region will remain under mortal threat. Unless Congress steps in to restrain the administration, or even if it does at this point, the future of Syria, its Christians, and even the world is likely to look unimaginably bleak.
Photo of Senator John McCain with Syrian rebels: AP Images
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Google accounted for 55 per cent of all search queries carried out in the US in the month of April, according to Nielsen/NetRatings data released Tuesday.
Nearly 3.8 billion Google searches were carried out in the period, a 42 per cent increase on last year's results.
Main rival Yahoo! Search came in a distant second with just under 1.5 billion searches carried out. Together, Google and Yahoo! accounted for over three quarters of all searches carried out in the US in April.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's MSN/Windows Live Search service came in a far-away third, with nine per cent of the market or 612 million searches, representing a drop in market share since March, the first such drop in the past several months. Microsoft executives indicated back in January that they were not satisfied with the performance of the company's search service.
In a bid to push its dominance of the online search market even further, Google announced earlier this month that it would be integrating all of its various search services so that a single search query will now generate results from a variety of previously separate sources such as videos, images, news stories, maps, books, and websites. The move looks set to drive more traffic to the Google News aggregation service and Google-owned YouTube, further reinforcing Google's status as an online media gatekeeper.
"The ultimate goal of universal search is to break down the silos of information that exist on the web and provide the very best answer every time a user enters a query," commented Google's vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer at the time.
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Now, a kettle used to simply boil water and turn itself off when it was done.
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It lights up as it boils and announces the fact that it's finished with a melodious ping.
It's got gauges and lights and switches.
I've decided that it's probably a Dalek in disguise.
Like Daleks (or at least, the original Daleks), it can't go up stairs – or if it can, it's not advertising the fact.
Every morning, descending to the kitchen is filled with trepidation.
When will the Dalek tire of vaporizing innocent water molecules and move on to World Domination…
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Chocolate Sweet Potato Cake
This recipe was given to my mother in 1940. Mother had lost all of her recipes, collected during 7 years of marriage, in a house fire, so her friends gave her a recipe party. Each recipe was handwritten, and most merely listed the ingredients with no mention of how to put them together. Among them is this cake, which is one of our family's favorites. -Sally Green, Mobile, Alabama
Total TimePrep: 10 min. Bake: 70 min. + cooling
Makes12-16 servings
- 2/3 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled, cooked, mashed and cooled
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup raisins
- Confectioners' sugar, optional
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and spices; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Beat in sweet potatoes and vanilla until blended. Stir in pecans and raisins.
- Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350° for 70-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.


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The audio and video are out of sync; there is an audio delay.
There are a number of circumstances that can cause the audio and video to be out of sync.
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- If a DVD or Blu-ray Disc® player is connected, a poor connection or the disc itself could be the cause.
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NOTE: If the TV is connected to a soundbar or home theater system (with an HDMI cable or optical cable):
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Because each of the steps below represent a possible solution to this issue, check if the issue is resolved after completing each step.
- Make sure that the TV has the latest system software (firmware) installed.
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NOTE: If the issue occurs on one channel only, contact the broadcast network provider.
- Make sure all cables are securely connected to the TV and the source device (set-top box, DVD player, BD player, home theater system, or game console).
- Try playing a different video source to determine if the issue occurs with other connected devices.
- If your TV has a Game Mode setting, do one of the following:
- Set the Game Mode to Off when watching TV or playing a DVD or BD.
- Set the Game Mode to On when playing a video game.
- If issue is happening when using TV speakers, perform a power reset on the TV.
- If there is a home theater system and a digital optical cable is used in the connection, manually change the Audio/Video Sync or Audio Delay setting on the home theater system (if available).
- Audio delay adjustments usually range from 0ms to approximately 250ms.
- For information about the availability of A/V sync or Audio Delay setting, refer to the operating instructions supplied with the product.
- For a third-party home theater system, check the instruction manual or contact the manufacturer for information on how to adjust the A/V sync setting.
- If all of the following conditions are met, try changing the Digital audio out and A/V sync settings.
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- The issue only occurs when watching TV programs from an antenna connection.
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- On the supplied remote control, press the HOME button.
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- Press the HOME button.
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