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Researchers may not have found a cure for Crohn's disease, but treatment options are constantly changing and improving. In this HealthTalk webcast, we talk with Dr. James Lewis about the latest discoveries and the future of Crohn's disease treatments. Dr. Lewis is an associate professor of medicine in the gastroenterology division at the University of Pennsylvania as well as senior scholar of epidemiology at the university's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dr. Lewis provides an insider's look at what Crohn's experts are learning about newer ways to diagnose and treat Crohn's disease based on the latest clinical trials and research findings. He discusses the use of biologics, steroids, dietary supplements, probiotics and how current research might affect your treatment plan.
What Patients Want to Know About Crohn's Disease
Dr. Lewis:
Those who have had the disease for longer periods of time ask, 'How long am I going to have to take this therapy? How long will it take to work? And how safe are the therapies that we are talking about?'
The newly diagnosed person wants to know whether or not there is a cure for their new disease. Today, the answer is still no. We have certainly made headway in being able to control the disease better. The goal is to take people who have a chronic disease and bring it into remission, meaning people feel well, are without symptoms and are able to go about their normal life. But as of right now we don't have a therapy that we can give to somebody for a limited period of time and tell them that their disease will never come back. In fact, we don't have a therapy yet that we could give to somebody for the rest of their life and tell them with certainty that their disease would never come back.
The goal of our therapy today is to manage the disease yet allow people to have as much time as possible where they are in remission and feeling well and as little time as possible where they feel ill.
I think we have made some pretty enormous strides over the course of the last several decades, and we probably have yet to fully reap the benefits of those strides. If you go back several decades ago, we had a very limited number of strategies that we could use to bring people's disease into remission and keep them there.
Not only do we have more medications to choose from now, but we have also gotten a little bit smarter about how to use those medications.
Newer Steroids Treatments for Crohn's Have Fewer Side Effects
Dr. Lewis:
I think it's important to qualify the traditional steroids - such as prednisone, which was one of the first drugs to be demonstrated effective for Crohn's disease - from newly modified steroids such as budesonide (Entocort EC). Traditional steroids, while they are effective in the treatment of the disease, have a major downside. With traditional steroids essentially everybody will develop certain complications. If you stay on steroids long enough, almost everybody will get bone disease such as osteoporosis, and almost everybody will ultimately develop cataracts of their eyes.
The other downside to traditional steroids is that at doses that are low enough to minimize the chances of having side effects, they are not particularly effective at keeping the disease in remission. So the net benefit of steroids seems to be much less promising than it was in the past. Now that we have other therapies there is a movement toward using these therapies earlier and longer and using traditional steroids less.
The newer versions of steroids for example budesonide, which is available in the United States as Entocort, is approved both for short-term and long-term treatment of Crohn's disease. The major advantage of this formulation is that while you take it by mouth and it's delivered to the intestine, once it is absorbed from the intestine it travels through the blood to the liver where it is very rapidly cleared from your body. So you get the local delivery of budesonide to the area where the disease is and much less systemic delivery of the medication.
The advantage is that it has allowed us to treat people long-term with minimal side effects. Certainly, when compared to prednisone, the likelihood of having nuisance side effects such as difficulty sleeping, skin changes, acne and irritability are far less common.
Biologics for Crohn's Disease Treatment: Four and Counting?
Dr. Lewis:
If you look back at the last 10 or even 20 years, the biggest change in the management of Crohn's disease happened the day that Remicade (infliximab) became available for Crohn's. That was the first biologic that was available to us in the treatment of the disease.
Rick Turner, HealthTalk host:
There are now four FDA-approved biologics for the treatment of Crohn's disease. We have infliximab (Remicade), followed by adalimumab (Humira). And then earlier this year, natalizumab (Tysabri) and certolizumab (Cimzia) were approved for the treatment of Crohn's disease - so four different biologics. Tell us what biologics are as a classification and why they are a good choice for treating Crohn's disease.
Dr. Lewis:
I don't even know who coined the term "biologic" for these, but the common theme of these four medications is that they are all antibodies against a molecule (we normally have). An antibody is a molecule that your own body is able to produce that's targeted against foreign substances in your body. These medications are manufactured antibodies.
The antibodies that we deliver through these medications are what we refer to as "humanized" antibodies in order to make them better tolerated when given to humans.
The Risks and Benefits of Biologic Medications
Dr. Lewis:
We could probably spend an entire day talking about the safety of biologics. But there are a couple of key points that you should be aware of.
One of those points is that it takes years and years and years of a medication being available to the public for us to fully understand the safety profile. Although medications go through multiple levels of testing before they are approved by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing to patients in the United States, there remains an element of uncertainty when the drug comes to market.
That's because it's impossible to do the studies long enough to definitively know what the long-term safety will be, and it's also nearly impossible to have studies that are large enough to be able to recognize rare, but what are often important, side effects. And typically when a drug comes to market, we really only know about those side effects that tend to occur at rates of one in a hundred patients or more.
Typically, when a drug comes to the market in the United States anywhere from 500 to 3,000 patients have been exposed. It would not be uncommon for a medication for Crohn's disease to only have been taken by 1,000 people by the time it came to the market.
The second point that I think is really essential for people to understand is that there is no medication that does not have the potential to cause side effects Some medications are probably safer than others, but all medications, even oxygen, have the potential to cause harm. And we as physicians and patients, and hopefully educated consumers, need to be able to balance these decisions, weighing the risk of the therapy versus the potential benefit. Those risk and benefit decisions are always a very personal thing because certain patients may be at higher risk for certain complications or have a different level of tolerance for that uncertain risk of a complication of the therapy.
The Future of Biologics - Will a Pill Replace Injections?
Dr. Lewis:
I think that a pill form of the biologic (medication) is appealing and probably will be produced at some point. Some companies have begun exploring the possibility of coming up with the oral or pill version of a biologic.
But I think it's worth emphasizing that Remicade, Humira and Cimzia provide three different alternatives for dosing and delivery to patients, even though all of those are injections. Remicade is an intravenous infusion (injected directed into the bloodstream). The others are injections under the skin but under different time sequences. There is enough variation in the ways these drugs are delivered and the frequency of administration that most patients can find a route that works for them.
Many patients are concerned that they are never going to be able to give themselves a shot. There are ways around that issue, although my personal bias is that anybody can learn to give themselves a shot under the skin. The devices today make it easier. Patients have to get over the fear and realize that they can actively participate, and they can learn to do it.
Crohn's Treatment Strategies: Step-Up or Step-Down?
Dr. Lewis:
This is probably the hottest or most controversial question in the treatment of Crohn's disease today. Do I start with my most aggressive therapy for people who are newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease? Or do I take a more traditional approach where I start with medications that have been deemed the safest, such as the aminosalicylates (sulfasalazine [Azulfidine]; mesalamine [Asacol, Canasa, Pentasa, Rowasa)]; balsalazide [Colazal]; and olsalazine [Dipentum]), moving up to prednisone if needed and only advancing to the immunomodulators ( azathioprine (Imuran), 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP, Purinethol) and methotrexate) or the biologics if one is not able to control the disease with these older and safer medications? It's not entirely clear if prednisone is any safer than these other medications.
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This controversy has been engendered because of the perception that these newer therapies have more side effects. Even if they are more effective, are we unnecessarily putting a subset of people at risk, because they would have been managed with these older and potentially safer therapies, if we start with our most effective therapies in the top-down model?
The counter argument is in most other diseases we start with our best (therapy), and then only if that doesn't work do we move to a second-line or a third-line therapy.
We don't know which is better, but we do have a recently completed clinical trial where they compared two of these strategies. What the study showed was that in the early course of therapy a greater proportion of the people who got step-down therapy were in remission and were not on steroids, not surprisingly, given that this group was not starting on steroids.
But by the end of the study, the two groups had come together, with the same proportion of people who were well. But you have to look at the study a little more carefully to understand what had happened. Most of the people in the step-up group ultimately wound up on one of these immunomodulators - azathioprine (Imuran), 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP, Purinethol) and methotrexate - and the people in the step-down group, obviously, were all on this therapy if they could tolerate it.
So ultimately these people who were randomized to one of two strategies wound up on approximately the same therapies. I think one of the take-home messages (of that study) is that you need a maintenance therapy. The step-up therapy in that trial didn't really have a maintenance therapy. Prednisone is not a great maintenance therapy, and, in fact, they weren't kept on prednisone as a maintenance therapy in the step-up. So one potential reason they did less well in the first year is that they didn't get a maintenance therapy until they had failed prednisone in the step-up strategy, and then they escalated their therapy.
No More Colonoscopies for Crohn's Patients?
Dr. Lewis:
Depending on the portion of the intestine that we need to look at there are alternatives to a colonoscopy. Many people have heard of the concept of the pill cam. This is a camera that is basically a pill-sized device that you are able to swallow, and it takes pictures as it travels through your intestines. It's certainly functional and available for imaging the small intestine. Prototypes are being tested for imaging the colon.
At the same time, there are continual advances being made in radiology. That includes traditional X rays and CT scans and MRIs, and even research into other more sophisticated imaging methods to visualize the bowel non-invasively. I think over time we will continue to see advances in these diagnostic and imaging modalities.
Likewise, there continues to be a search for diagnostic tests that might be done on a blood sample or a urine sample or a stool sample. And certainly in terms of looking at active inflammation in the intestine, there are several markers that can be measured in the stool that have been shown to correlate quite well with the presence or absence of inflammation in the intestine for people with inflammatory bowel disease. Some of those tests are commercially available today.
A big issue in screening comes up for people who have extensive involvement of their colon. This doesn't apply so much to those who have disease limited to their small intestines. It has to do with screening for colon cancer. Now, unfortunately, that gets you back to the colonoscopy issue. We will tend to recommend a colonoscopy for these patients every one to three years, depending on their history, how long they have had the disease, how much of their colon is involved, and what we have found through other sorts of screening for side effects of medications.
Certain blood tests may need to be done. Some are done prior to treatment, some are done during the course of therapy. There is a whole health maintenance part of dealing with the long-term care of people who have Crohn's disease.
Can Omega-3s or Probiotics Help Crohn's Symptoms?
Dr. Lewis:
We have lots of patients who come into our practice who are taking omega-3s, and up until now I have told people I would continue taking it. In two recently published, very well-done studies, there was essentially no evidence that taking omega-3s would prevent people with Crohn's disease from having a relapse of their disease. So when people come in on these supplements, I am going to have to tell them there is no evidence from the standpoint of your Crohn's disease that this is doing you any benefit. It may bring down your triglycerides, which may be a good thing in terms of heart disease. But if you are taking this because you think it's going to keep your Crohn's disease in remission, I really can't offer you much support for that strategy.
Probiotics is an interesting idea because the main exposure that our intestine has is to all the bacteria that live in our intestine. So the underlying theory (of probiotics) is that if we can change the nature of the bacteria in our intestine, potentially we can get the good bacteria in there and the bad bacteria are overwhelmed by the good bacteria. In principle, it sounds great. The problem is we haven't definitively figured out what are the good bacteria, what are the bad bacteria, and whether we can replace the good bacteria with the bad bacteria.
The good news is that this is very aggressively being researched, and hopefully in the near future we are going to start understanding it.
Antibiotics have had mixed success in the treatment of Crohn's disease. Certainly for people who have abscesses and collections of pus or fistulas (a tunnel-like passage that connects the two structures such as the small and large intestine), they are still the cornerstone of therapy. For the maintenance and treatment of regular, active Crohn's disease, the evidence is sort of mixed.
If antibiotics are going to be a beneficial therapy, it is almost certainly going to take long-term antibiotic therapy or this probiotic concept of replacing bad bacteria with the good bacteria, and it may be that it will be a sequential combination of, getting rid of the bad bacteria and then repopulating with the good bacteria.
Where Can I Get Information on Treatments for Crohn's Disease?
If you'd like to know more about the latest treatments and research updates for Crohn's disease, listen to the entire webcast, Hot Areas of Crohn's Treatment Research and hear how our expert answered questions from the audience.
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(Toronto, ON) April 28, 2015 - Home Instead Senior Care®, the world's leading provider of companionship, Alzheimer's and home care for seniors, was honoured as a recipient of the Franchisees' Choice designation during a recent Gala Awards Presentation at the 24th annual Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) National Convention in Niagara Falls, Ontario. This is the fifth year for the annual Franchisees' Choice designation program and Home Instead Senior Care was recognized for its accomplishment in receiving the designation every year since 2011. In addition, Home Instead Senior Care is the Bronze winner of the CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising in the Category of Non-Traditional – Mature/Established.
Considered the pinnacle of franchise achievement in Canada, CFA Awards of Excellence in Franchising are given annually to franchise systems that have demonstrated the strongest, most mutually-rewarding relationships with their franchisees, based on the results of a comprehensive survey of franchisors and their franchisees administered by third-party firm Portage Group.
The Franchisees' Choice designees are CFA member franchise systems who voluntarily took part in an independently-administered survey. This year, nearly 60 CFA member franchise systems participated in the survey and more franchisees completed the survey than ever before. Franchisees were asked to assess their franchisor in key areas of the franchise business model, including the franchisee selection process; franchisee Information package; leadership; business planning and marketing; training and support; ongoing operations; and the relationship between the franchisor and franchisee. In order to qualify for this designation, a minimum of 10% of a brand's franchisees must participate. In many cases, franchisee responses were significantly higher.
In the due diligence process of investigating a franchise opportunity, speaking with existing franchisees about the opportunity being explored is essential. For prospective franchisees, the Franchisees' Choice designation identifies that a franchise brand has received solid endorsement and ratings from its franchisees. The 2015 Franchisees' Choice designees are representative of the spectrum of franchise opportunities and the diversity and excellence of CFA members.
"Our franchise owners and their CAREGiversSM are committed to providing Canadian seniors with an extraordinary level of care that enhances the lives of aging adults and their families," said Jeff Huber, President and CEO of Home Instead, Inc., the franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care network. "To us, our work is personal, and we are proud to see this reflected in this prestigious award."
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Halle Berry to receive Sherry Lansing award
Halle Berry has something else in common with fellow Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster: The Sherry Lansing Leadership Award.
The Hollywood Reporter says Berry will receive the honor next month at the paper's 18th annual Power 100: Women in Entertainment breakfast.
The award recognizes groundbreaking contributions to the entertainment industry. Besides Streep and Foster, past recipients include Barbara Walters, Glenn Close and Lansing herself.
Hilary Swank will give the keynote address at the Power 100 breakfast, to be held Dec. 4 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
Less than 24 hours after the former mayor's passing, on Friday evening "Piers Morgan Tonight" paid a special tribute to Ed Koch. Three weeks prior to succumbing to congestive heart failure, the legendary leader of New York City sat down with Piers Morgan in what is believed to be his final formal interview.
Described by the host as being a "true American original," Koch called upon his trademark brand of candor to detail his stance on a myriad of topics, including the "Guns in America" issue:
"I believe we need a constitutional amendment to really address the issue," said Koch, regarding firearm legislation. "Because when we're doing it, as we are currently doing it, a little bit at a time, and then the United States Supreme Court has a tendency to strike down what we do."
Later on the program, Morgan welcomed the return of Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russell, as the "Silver Linings Playbook" pair resumed their chat from the previous evening, with the two-time Academy Award nominee revealing her early life aspirations:
"I had a million dreams," said Lawrence. "I was going to be a doctor."
Once Lawrence realized that her future was on the silver screen, it was her siblings that helped in her pursuit:
"It was because of my brothers that I was able to just get the chance," she boasted. "When I wanted to do this when I was 14, my parents weren't going to let me do it. And my brothers called and said, you guys followed us through the World Series. You guys have been all over the country with us. And you would do this for us if it were sports, and this is her baseball diamond. And you have to let her do it."
Watch the clip and listen to the interviews as Russell, who directed Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook," explains why he feels that his female lead has "a timeless quality to her."
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For more than 100 years the 2nd Amendment was interpreted as to NOT guarantee the right of individuals to bear arms. That interpretation was changed, and look where we are today.
The assault weapons ban was lifted, and look where we are today.
America has the highest gun homicide, suicide, and serious gun injury rates of any 1st world country on the globe.
And now even our schools, churches, malls and theaters are subject to mass carnage.
This isn't a debate, this is ridiculous.
refresh my memory if i'm forgetting something...
has there ever been a supreme court ruling on the 2nd amendment before d.c. & chicago cases??
what authority (or supreme court in what era), as our official national position, interpreted as to "NOT guarantee the right of individuals to bear arms" and when?
anything HE says is suspect, including photos, do you Piers background?
Could you please self deport? Nobody likes you. Guess you should eat some worms. I think it is funny that you angered gun lovers in America. I think it is funny that you self deported from England only to try import British ideas over here.
I think guns are ridiculous. But it is nearly as ridiculous for a Brit to dictate politics to Americans. Either get your citizenship here like your buddy Murdoch or politely go home yesterday. You both are as crooked as the Libor rates, but America welcomes everyone to its shores if you have money.
Majv, Do you have your green card SIR?
I feel very sorry that CNN replaced Larry King with this inept Brit called Piers Morgan. I feel that CNN listenorship will drop considerably with his stupidity of our U.S. history and our 2nd amendment rights !
For Christ Sake Piers, Go home to your limey friends please.
I hope viewers see the Piers Morgan telecast tonight February 4th (Monday) This will prove my point on Mr. Morgans
Alex Jones will be there.
"After the Horse as bolted, and he's stuck in the saddle? It's so easy to try and redeem yourself, after you've been thrown. But this is not the answer!!! Only when you can lead the horse, and climb in the saddle without fear, can you
really calm the animal down!"
Gees Get your Nose out off Aex Jones Ass! hes yesterdays news. A loser!! Texas wants to leave the union, will kick your ass down to mexico. DO YOU THINK ANY GUN YOU CAN GET WILL STOP A DRONE> Think about that . Drones are bigger and badder in texas, AHHHHHH!
Wow! Tonight we got some real americans on piers tonight ready to kill marines over the possible thought of taking their guns away, which is not going to happen, but Texas is ready to kill americans anyway they can over their guns, No respect for innocent lives of other americans but go ahead a fire the first shot TEXAS! we'll clean up afterwards and make the state flat FARM LAND, Yeah haw!!!!
Wow we can add thousands of jobs for manufacturing of new american flags with only 49 stars !!!! keep the jobs going, right. Dan patrick ignnornat . sorry for texas with their representation. You can have your guns and make friends in MEXICO!
Why is it that Wayne LaPierre is not allowed to change his mind over the course of 14 years, but liberals have no problem when Barack obama changes his mind on gay marriage, keeping Gitmo open, war, drones, etc?
Are only Democrats allowed to "evolve"?
Because hes the biigest HIPPOCRATE in america and has shone his true colors and alligence aonly to the gun manufactures. do you worship him? We hope he keeps talking, God PLEASE!
I am curious why we seem to have so many people with PTSD these days.
Our grandparents went to war in the 1940's, many for years at a time, and I don't think I heard about so many mental issues. Did our grandfathers handle the stress better, keep it inside, or what?
Why still no discussion on the show about the role of Hollywood in the de-sensitizing of our culture to violence? Or the culture of death that is promoted by a country that abides the killling of babies via abortion?
Ted Nugent is the devil no difrent than Bush. This moron should be locked up with Bush. Has any one told this idiot that Bush killed our service men and women because he lied to them and the American people. If this is not treason what is?
Thank you Mr Morgan please don't give up.
in canada we have different rules. i was brought up that you wasted as little as need be to bring game down.
you are not legally allowed oversized clips and all people are required a background search and if you are asking for
a restricted permit for handguns or whatever the rules are way more stringent. i hope you guys find a reasonable
Everyone in texas who speaks on TV is mesguide and funny. Go ahead and seperate from the union over guns. We'll DRONE the respect back into your sorry, pathetic, gun loving ASSESS!!!!! We dont care about your FUN, your westen outlook and your idea of government! America as one or we'll blow the doors down, TEXAS!!! Its time to hold corporate america accountable also on violence. And why dont we try parenting 101 again for the first time?
AHHHHH Wayne Laperier got smacked down on his on FOX NEWS show!!!!!!!! Priceless, he squirmed
I used to watch and enjoy Larry King. When Piers took over I watched him too but not because of his personality. I wanted to hear the people he interviewed and was facinated how he interupted them at times. Once he got on this ban guns in America kick I lost interest in him completely as a host. I don't watch him anymore unless its about his attack on guns and I find him idiotic. Just like I watched Howard Stern to see what stupid thing he was going to say next.
Maybe CNN could give more foreigners talk shows to disarm America. I think Lil Kim from China and Ahmadinejad from Iran might be interested.
Not a chance DANA we got piers back, and bullets ahve unleashed a revolt thats going to be in the news day in day out on new gun legislation, Keep us in mind !
The legislation is dead on arrival in the senate, then the debate will be over ,and then we can maybe get to the real problem people ,especially mentally ill people, not guns, then maybe we can talk about that. I know piers is staying for now , but after the legislation falls, so will his ratings.
I don't how focussing on mental health is going to solve the gun problem. Most of the time, the first sign that there is something seriously wrong with a shooter's state of mind is after the event. What's going to happen? Is every socially awkward, loner teenager going to be psychologically assessed and locked away in case they get hold of a gun? Wouldn't it make more sense to remove weapons, rather than individuals before they have actually committed a crime? The only way to stop guns being purchased by the mentally ill is to psychologically evaluate everyone before letting them by a gun. Of course that won't stop the common situation of people taking guns from family members, so once again, it brings us back to just getting rid of the guns to solve the problem.
What all of you are failing to talk about is the unfounded fear that a lot of you think will happen...fear perpetrated upon the fearful white mainly by the rhetorical terrorists on the far right; that there will be a race war. No other race can even conceive of such a thing happening. They want high capacity magazines for just that reason...to kill as many of "them" as they can in the event of such a thing happening.
Wow! Your ignorance is appalling! Once again, this has nothing to do with race. This is about our federal government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong, Period. Congress and the President would be doing us all a favor if they stayed out of our homes and worked on the economy and debt crisis they have created and continue to perpetuate.
There are crimes being committed every day in America. There are more than 300 million people living in the US now. It seems to be that many married couples have failed to stay together for the good of their children. This leaving many children growing up alone without a father to teach him and support him against problems. The children feel their father must not love them to leave them alone and this can cause rebellion and the need to fill that spot with another. They learn on the streets, I believe America's loss of our Christian churces and their teachings are becoming in the past. So our values and what is right or wrong are changing. Where can we make the most impact to get our families back on course. Maybe an incentive to young people to stay married. Shouldn't be teaching young women to have children before getting married by rewarding them with FREE money which increases with each child. Crazy we reward that behaviour! Kids don't know what is a normal way of living if they haven't experienced it. I would like to see the first lady work on the teen pregnancy and hopefully the president may find some way to stop the gangs that are getting young boys into them by usually having them kill as initiation into the groups. These kids don't have a chance unless our government realizea how serious this problem is large cities like :LA and Chicago. These youngsters are praying for help. Most of these gangs are dealing with money. If we can send soldiers into Afganistan to help those people from harm, why don't our own American boys deserve it? How many of them have to die? I believe our guns used for self defense have prevented many more deaths than they have caused.
So airplanes are the shining example of gun free zones? I seem to remember, not too long ago, a few guys and a couple of gun free planes killing far more people in a shorter period of time than any man with any gun could have. Maybe if a few people on that plane had had guns there would be a few thousand Americans alive today.
Bottom line Piers, you don't have to "understand". Why don't we have regulators on our cars preventing us from going over 85? That is the fastest legal speed limit in the country. Why does anyone "need" a car that goes faster than that? They don't, but they ought to have the power to choose. That is what this is all about. The power to choose. If you don't like the AR-15 or magazines with more than 10 rounds, don't buy them! The rest of us law-abiding citizens may want them whether for home defense or just because we get our jollies from having big guns and lots of bullets. It doesn't really matter; we ought to have the power to choose. It is the Bill of "Rights" after all, not the Bill of "Needs".
You love to quote gun violence statistics but what about other forms of violence? Bad people will do bad things and in the absence of a gun they will use what they can. A knife, ax, fist, chemicals, rope, plane...hypothetically, lets say we ban the AR-15. The next shooting takes place with a 9mm hand gun. Will we ban those to? Where will we draw the line?
No, I don't believe that the military is going to come into our homes and steal our guns. I do however think that if certain guns or magazines are banned, and someone chooses not to turn theirs over, if the day ever comes that that person is in a situation where they need to defend themselves and the cops come to do the investigation, they will find their private property seized and themselves in jail.
Why do you want the only people who have guns to be the criminals who will get them regardless of any law?
The tentacles of the government need to be cut back quite a bit. I don't need to be told what light bulbs to use, what gas mileage to get, what size soda to drink or what size magazine to carry. Instead of a $1 light bulb I have to use the $5 one. Instead of a steel frame car, I have to compromise my safety in a piece of light weight plastic. Instead of 1 cup, lid, and straw I have to buy 2. Instead of carrying one magazine with what I determine to be enough bullets, I have to carry 3. The law of unintended consequences bites us in the butt time and time again.
Keep fooling yourself Crystal. The "right" does not trump wisdom.
Piers, I have to hand it to you. At least you took the time to go out and to some research. We still disagree on some things, but I respect that.
Crystal, you are totally hysterical nuts. We live in a society of rules and laws. Civilization is made possible/bearable with those laws. Get over yourself Crystal. Stop snorting the crystalmeth....you and Ted Nugent both.
Piers Morgan beats Larry King all to heck.
Have thats helarious, Ted looks and speaks like hes on crystal meth dont he!
I agree with Crystal's post but not yours or deemaries. You are the ones that need to get over yourselves. Internet trolls are sure abundant. Go do something productive.
Looks like were ( the majority of concern americans arent going anywhere because we are going to overhaul the new gun legislation
Kicking the Can or even Ball Games, were just about we had that long ago, so in a third-world country, they're not
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The track, composed by Sir Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda for the opening and closing credits of Sir Roger Moore's debut outing as 007 in 1973, has topped a new BBC Radio poll.
Carly Simon's Nobody Does It Better - the theme tune to 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me - comes in second place, and Goldfinger by Dame Shirley Bassey is third.
The survey was commissioned as part of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Bond movie, Dr. No, next month.
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chorizo and roasted eggplant pasta
- 1 small eggplant, thinly sliced
- ¼ cup (60ml) olive oil
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 4 fresh chorizo, skins removed
- 400g can cherry tomatoes
- 1½ cups (375ml) chicken stock
- 400g rigatoni
- 1 cup (240g) ricotta, crumbled
- 2 cups basil leaves
- Preheat oven to 220°C. Place the eggplant on an oven tray, drizzle with 2 tablespoons of the oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook for 8–10 minutes or until golden. Set aside.
- Heat the remaining oil in a large, non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add the garlic and chorizo and cook, breaking any lumps witha wooden spoon, for 8–10 minutes or until golden.
- Add the tomatoes, stock, salt and pepper and bring to the boil. Cook for 3–4 minutes or until thickened slightly.
- While the sauce is cooking, cook the pasta in a saucepan of salted boiling water for 8–10 minutes or until al dente. Drain, add to the sauce with the eggplant and toss to combine. Top with the ricotta, basil leaves and pepper to serve. Serves 4.
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Well, my computer decided to die, but fortunately Robin knew a guy who was able to fix it – AND save all our photos (THANK GOD!!!!!), so I'm able to post up my last project. This is the Burda 6889 pencil skirt that I have had highlighted at the side of my blog since I updated the look. I had made up a muslin for this ages ago and decided it was pretty much the perfect basic pencil skirt pattern for me – I didn't even need to do any alterations at all (yeay!). The fabric is a gorgeous bright pink eyelet that I bought on my trip to Thailand last year. I only had a metre to play with so it's a lot shorter than the pattern suggests for the length, but I think it's fine (although, perhaps a little short when I sit down!). The skirt is lined with matching pink lining, which I actually treated as underlining as I thought it would be easier. I hemmed each piece of 'lining' before basting with it's matching eyelet piece and then treated as one. It worked out really well, and together with the lovely serged seams, makes the skirt look really neat and rather professional inside! Still loving my overlocker!
In these photos I've paired it with my self-drafted purple cowl top, and I think they work really well together – something I wasn't planning on, but I'm delighted with the result! Hey guys – I've made an outfit! Wooo! lol!
I spent a lot of time working out the pattern placement and measuring the scallops to ensure that the hem would match up. I am so delighted with the results:
Even the back seam is a perfect match:
Because the skirt is tapered, the rest of the seam doesn't match up (plus I discovered that the flipping circle pattern didn't line up with the grain!!!), but I decided it was more important to make sure the scallop of the hem was perfect.
I really love this skirt, and I'm planning on using the same pattern to make a skirt from the turquoise eyelet fabric that I also bought in Thailand. I'm not, however, 100% about the fit. If you look at the image on the front of the pattern, the waistband doesn't actually sit right on the waist of the model, and the same goes for my skirt. So for all intents and purposes, it's correct. But I just have the feeling that this skirt would look better on me if it was sitting at my waist. Which is something I'm really surprised I'm saying, because I have, for most of the fashion-conscious part of my life, always avoided wearing waistbands on my true waist. I have always felt that I have quite a short torso, and thus having the waistbands of things (skirts/trousers) lower, makes it look like my body is more in proportion. However, over the last year or so, I have really felt my opinion of this change and I have found myself reaching for waist-cinching belts, and wearing clothes that really accentuate my waist. Is that down to current fashions trends? Learning to sew and appreciating my body shape? Or perhaps loosing some weight and being happier with my proportions? Probably a bit of all of those options!
Whatever the answer, I think I am going to take in this skirt so that it sits at my waist. It will make it an inch or so shorter, but I think that should be OK. I'll wear it with a killer pair of shoes for nights out!


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A random breakfast in bed from Brandon. I have the most amazing husband ever.
February was so warm! We had a few really fun park days.
I love this picture of Tyler. He crashed on the couch wearing his super hero mask.
One night we went and had a fun time at the Orem Library. It was the first time we had ever been there.
More park days.
Trying to teach Tyler and Kallie how to get along. :)
Riding in style at Target.
Playing at Bryant's house while he is on yet another vacation.
I bought a curling wand and had so much fun curling Mckinley's hair.
She has the most gorgeous locks!
We go to the Bean Museum a lot. Mckinley got to touch a real snake.
Homemade pizza Brandon made today while the girls and I were at church. He stayed home with Tyler who has a cold.
February has really been the most amazing month ever. We have had such a great time together as a family and have had so much fun.


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Seeking class-action status, plaintiffs Fred Greaves and Dave Gatley tell a story in a legal filing (PDF) that will sound familiar to longtime Mac users. It begins with a perceived problem, the discovery that others have this problem, a refutation by Apple of that problem, and the ensuing legal action. In this case, the issue concerns the LCD displays of MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
Many purchasers observed that the display was "grainy." Others complained that the display was "sparkly." Some purchasers noted that in certain programs capable of displaying color spectra that banding appears in the display of gradients.
If people actually used technical terms like "sparkly" when contacting Apple support, it would hardly be surprising that they were told they "were being too picky" or that they were "imagining the complained defects." However, it is in regards to the issue of properly displaying the color spectrum that this complaint becomes interesting.
As stated in the complaint, Apple repeatedly advertises a "TFT display with support for millions of colors," but what exactly does that mean? Well, one could achieve millions of colors, 16,777,216 to be exact, by using an 8-bit LCD, but what would you have if you used a cheaper 6-bit LCD plus dithering? According to this lawsuit, an illusion.
The reality is that notwithstanding Apple's misrepresentations and suggestions that its MacBook and MacBook Pro display "millions of colors," the displays are only capable of displaying the illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as "dithering," which causes nearby pixels on the display to use slightly varying shades of colors that trick the human eye into perceiving the desired color even though it is not truly that color.
How do we know what LCD panels Apple is using? Well, so far I haven't found any direct reference to that by Apple. However, there are instructions for finding out, which led one Mac user to a 6-bit LCD from Samsung.
There are a lot of comments one could make about this lawsuit, such as most of it is a collection of anonymous postings from message boards, that since pretty much every OEM advertises "millions" of colors for their laptop displays and likely few are using 8-bit panels, Apple is not responsible for the "sparkly" perceptions of customers. Nonetheless, it's not really possible to get past the idea of "millions" as a few hundred thousand plus a trick of the eye. The question then becomes whether Apple will try to do just that or settle out of court.


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And even though the San Francisco 49ers lost the game, head coach Jim Harbaugh received 98 percent more overall mentions in posts and comments than his brother and Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh.
Mentions of Beyonce, who performed at halftime, started to increase just before 8 p.m. ET. By 8:22 p.m., mentions of her name had jumped nearly 49,000 percent, Facebook said. Destiny's Child's appearance with Beyonce was the eighth most-discussed moment from the night, and mentions of the group and members Kelly and Michelle jumped over 10,000 percent.
Following Beyonce's performance, many people declared she had "killed it," with the phrase jumping more than 40,000 percent.
And that leads to the third most talked-about moment -- the blackout in the Superdome. Along with people saying Beyonce killed it during her performance, they also said she killed the power at the show. Mentions of "lights" on Facebook jumped 66,000 percent at about 8:37 p.m. ET.
Meanwhile, Instagram said people shared more than 3 million photos that mentioned Super Bowl-themed words in their captions yesterday. At peak, more than 450 photos about the game were posted every second. During the halftime show, more than 200 photos per second were posted about Beyonce alone.
The Super Bowl is one of the biggest events of the year, with many people weighing in on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Facebook noted that last year's Super Bowl was the most talked-about sporting event on the site and the second most-mentioned event of the entire year, second only to November's presidential election.
For its report, Facebook anonymously aggregated mentions of keywords made in posts and comments throughout the game. For overall rankings, it stored by overall mentions to see which players and moments moved to the top. For percent increases of specific terms, it compared the number of mentions made at the peak of the term and compared that to the average number of baseline mentions made, prior to the game.
Here are the top moments of Super Bowl XLVII, according to Facebook:
- Ravens win the Super Bowl
- Beyonce's halftime performance
- Blackout in the Superdome
- Jacoby Jones' 108-yard kickoff return for a Ravens touchdown (and Justin Tucker's field goal kick)
- Joe Flacco's 56-yard pass to Jones for a Ravens touchdown (and Tucker's field goal kick)
- Flacco's 13-yard pass to Anquan Boldin for a Ravens touchdown (and Tucker's field goal kick)
- Frank Gore's six-yard run for a 49ers touchdown (and David Akers' field goal kick)
- Destiny's Child surprise appearance with Beyonce during the half-time show
- Ray Lewis' retirement
- Akers' field goal kick from the 27-yard line
Updated at 11:20 a.m. PT with Instagram stats.


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The T-Mobile Sonic 4G Mobile HotSpot is just slightly larger than the previous version, the T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot ZTE MF61 . To make up for this, it supports T-Mobile's faster 4G data speeds of up to 42.2Mbps down and 5.76Mbps up, which was first introduced with T-Mobile's Rocket 3.0 4G Laptop Stick .
This doesn't mean the router necessarily offers better cellular data speeds at all times, however. In fact, in our testing around the San Francisco Bay Area, the Sonic was, on average, actually slightly slower than the ZTE MF61. But the truth is that the speed of a cellular connection varies a great deal from one location to another, and we find the Sonic's performance, though not as stellar as we wanted it to be, acceptable. It's fast enough for basically any Internet applications.
Similar to other T-Mobile mobile access devices, the Sonic offers concurrent Internet access for up to five Wi-Fi devices and comes with limited data plans; when the caps are reached, the device's connection speed will be significantly throttled for the rest of the month. All things considered, at $100 (after discounts, rebates, and with a two-year contract), the T-Mobile Sonic 4G Mobile HotSpot will make a very good investment for those who travel frequently. If you're looking for a 4G device that comes with a more affordable and unlimited data plan, we'd also recommend that you check out the Apollo from Clear .
Design, ease of use, and features
The T-Mobile Sonic 4G Mobile HotSpot has a candy bar design, with a sleek casing that measures just 4.02 by 2.2 by 0.61 inches. It's also very light at just 3.88 ounces. On one side, the devices has a power button that you need to press and hold for a few seconds to turn it on or off, and a WPS button, which allows you to add wireless clients to its Wi-Fi network.
The device has a tiny OLED display on the top that manages to show all important information, including a battery gauge, cellular connection status/signal strength, and the number of connected Wi-Fi clients. The display turns itself off after a few seconds but will come up immediately with a quick press on the power button.
The bottom of the device can slide open to reveal the 2,200mAh battery. The device ran for 7 to 9 hours during our testing, depending on how heavily we were using the Internet. That's actually one of the best battery life scores we've seen among mobile routers of this size, thanks to the router's smart standby mode that puts the router to sleep when there's no connection and immediately brings it back on when there's a data request. In our trials, the router's battery can actually last for days when used sporadically. With other mobile hot spots we've seen, you have to manually bring it out of standby mode by pressing on the power button before you can use it again.
Near the battery are the SIM slot and a microSD slot that can host a card (not included) of up to 32GB. At one end, the router has a Micro-USB port that both charges the device (a cord is included) and allows you to connect it to either a PC or Mac, so it can be used as a tethered modem. When connected to a computer, the router also charges the battery and acts as a card reader.
When the battery bay is opened, you'll also find a label with the device's default wireless network and the encryption key printed on it. With this information, all you need to do is turn the router on, connect Wi-Fi clients to the default network, and you're set. As long as you're within T-Mobile's coverage, you're connected to the Internet.
The router's Wi-Fi network's settings, as well as other settings can be change via its Web interface. To access this, from a connected computer, juts point the browser to the router's default IP address, which is 192.168.1.1. The default password to log in is admin.
The Sonic's Web interface also enables users to send/receive text messages and manage the microSD card. You can choose to make the card work in the USB mode (when the router is connected to a computer) only or in WebShare mode, which allows any connected clients to access data stored on it via a browser. This is actually a great feature, which worked well in our trials, for those who want to share data while on the go.


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Drinking Games for Oscar Night
The main difference between the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes -- apart from the Oscars being fairly legitimate while the Globes are a hilarious farce perpetrated by Hollywood suck-ups -- is that during the Globes telecast, the audience gets drunk. People at the Academy Awards are much more dignified. But that doesn't mean you, the home viewer, must suffer in sobriety! To keep your drinking regulated and well organized, we offer the following...
A Drinking Game for Oscar Night
For these events, which are frequent, take a sip of beer or wine.
An award recipient finishes his or her speech and then tries to walk off the stage in the wrong direction.
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The music comes on to make a person stop talking, and the person acknowledges the music and keeps talking.
Someone makes a joke about the show being too long.
A winner's speech includes an overtly political statement or a plea for people to send money to disaster-stricken countries.
A winner tries to connect whatever his or her movie was about to real-world problems (e.g., a Precious winner talking about abuse; a Hurt Locker winner mentioning the war in Iraq; an Up winner discussing the balloon shortage; etc.).
Anyone makes a reference to Titanic. (Chug it if the person is James Cameron.)
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For these events, which are less common but bound to occur, take a shot of liquor.
We cut to a reaction shot from Jack Nicholson for no reason.
A non-white person wins an award and we cut to a shot of someone in the audience who has no connection to the winner except being of the same race. (Our prediction: When Mo'Nique wins, we get a reaction shot from Halle Berry.)
Someone wins what is clearly a "lifetime achievement" award rather than recognition for the specific film they were nominated for (coughJeffBridgescough).
An award is presented by someone who is obviously only there because he or she has a movie coming out.
Someone thanks his or her agent, manager, or lawyer, but not his or her spouse or partner.
An actor tries to be different by not wearing any kind of necktie.
An actress shows up in a dress that makes everyone in the room gasp at how awful it is, like where you figure she must be wearing it as a prank.
Steve Martin or Alec Baldwin makes a joke about their movie, It's Complicated, being a terrible disappointment.
***Please drink responsibly. Do not drink if you are driving, pregnant, or Rip Torn.***
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Eric D. Snider (website) doesn't play drinking games, reindeer games, or patriot games.


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The vast majority of Americans continue to view food made with soy ingredients as healthy, according to a survey conducted by the United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff.
The annual Consumer Attitudes about Nutrition survey shows 81% of consumers see soy as healthy. Just 5% view them as unhealthy. The checkoff conducts this survey to educate health professionals and the food industry on the nutritional benefits of soy. The food industry is the top customer for U.S. soybean oil, using more than 80% of the domestic supply.
"I'm very pleased that American consumers have such a high opinion of the health benefits of soy," says Nancy Kavazanjian, a soybean farmer from Beaver Dam, WI, and farmer-leader who serves on USB's domestic marketing program. "And soon they're going to see even more.
"For example, we're helping to develop oils that will allow food companies to eliminate trans fats in their products, lower saturated fat and add positive nutritional elements such as omega-3 fatty acids," adds Kavazanjian.
Four out of five survey respondents view omega-3 fatty acids as very or somewhat healthy. That's the same proportion that viewed trans fats to be "bad for you," a significant jump over last year's survey when just over half of the respondents gave that reply about trans fats.
The soybean-checkoff-funded research also showed that more than a quarter of consumers seek out products specifically because they contain soy and more than a third know about soy's many health benefits. On their own, survey respondents identify soy as heart-healthy, a source of protein and low in fat. They also cited soy's ability to regulate hormones, benefit women's health and lower cholesterol.
The number of people who often consume soy is on the rise, while the number of those who say they've never tried soy continues to drop. The 37% who consume soy-based foods or beverages at least once a month is 5 points higher than in 2008, while the 33% who have never tried soyfoods has dropped 10% since 2006.
The study, administered online by an independent research firm in January, includes 1,000 random surveys, providing a sample consistent with the total U.S. population. The study's margin of error remains +/- 1.9-3.1%, with a confidence interval of 95%.


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Tosafist of the twelfth century; pupil of Samuel ben Meïr and Jacob Tam. His name occurs in Tos. Giṭ. 8a and 'Ab. Zarah 74b, and in several other places. Peter fell a victim to the persecutions of the second Crusade. While accompanying the body of a parnas, he was assailed by the crusaders and slain. "This," says Ephraim of Bonn, "occurred at ," which place Gross identifies with Carinthia, in Austria. A confusing account of Peter's martyrdom is given by Joseph ha-Kohen, who asserts that it happened at Ramerupt () and that Jacob (Jacob Tam?) was killed together with Peter.
- Ephraim of Bonn, ed. Stern and Neubauer, p. 63;
- Joseph ha-Kohen, 'Emeḳ ha-Baka, ed. Cracow, p. 45;
- idem, Dibre, ha-Yamim, ed. Amsterdam, p. 19;
- Grätz, Gesch. vi. 153;
- Gross, Gallia Judaica, pp. 434, 636.


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at Long Branch State Park
Long Branch Lake has an excellent reputation for bass fishing, but you can cast your lines for catfish, walleye and crappie as well. The lake's 24 miles of shoreline have many small coves that offer good fishing. A partially covered accessible fishing dock is located near the beach. Statewide fishing regulations apply. The length limits for bass are 15" or longer and for walleye 18" or longer.
On the Fishing Report, provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation, Long Branch Lake is listed under Northeast Region: Lakes.


text: LED Rope lights use 80-90% less electricity than standard rope lights. LEDs generate very low heat, which prevent fire hazard (arcing) and will not interfere with other electrical and electronic products. LEDs are good for accent lighting, night lights, and decorative lighting and install a few strands of LED rope lights on the ceiling and use it as mood lighting. In an installation with lots of bulbs and where they're hard to reach and the labor cost of replacing them is high, LEDs are a good alternative. Another advantage is that the LED's are virtually indestructible; LEDs do not burn out like normal rope light bulbs.


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Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Brazil has acknowledged a 28 percent rise in deforestation of the ecologically sensitive Amazon forest, between August 2012 and July 2013.
The rise has been blamed on changes made to Brazil's forest protection law. The country uses to sattelite imagery to track the decline of the country's forest cover and is particularly shocking considering it recorded its lowest deforestation levels last year.
Initial statistics point to 2,255 sq miles of forest lost as compared to 1,765 sq miles lost in the previous 12 months. This rise ends a streak of declining deforestation which began in 2009 but does not come close to the loss in 2004 -- nearly 10,500 sq. miles of forest were lost.
Environmentalists say the controversial reform of the forest protection law in 2012 is to blame for the trend in Brazil. The changes reduced protected areas in farms and declared an amnesty for areas destroyed before 2008.
Environment Minister Izabella Teixeir called the destruction of the Amazon "unacceptable" and a "crime," but denied allegations that President Dilma Rousseff's administration was to blame.
"This swing is not related to any federal government fund cuts for law enforcement," she said.
A majority of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions has been linked to the rapid deforestation of the Amazon. These figures undermine the pledge made by Brazil in 2009 to reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 80% by the year 2020.


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Yves Matton--the same man who walked out on Citroën Racing when he failed to land the company's World Rally Championship team-principal post in 2008--has now replaced Olivier Quesnel in that role with the French manufacturer.
Matton had been tipped as a successor to Guy Frequelin when the legendary team boss stood down at the end of the 2007 season. However, he was overlooked in favor of Quesnel and left to establish his MY Racing parts-distribution business alongside a role at Kronos Racing.
Quesnel, who moved to Citroën from the French publishing firm Hommell, became something of a controversial figure during his four-year stint with the company. He lambasted the Ford team as being "dishonest" in the wake of its use of road-position tactics to win the Rally of Turkey in 2008. He also was criticized by Citroën star driver and world champion Sébastien Loeb for apparent favoritism shown toward Loeb's teammate, Sébastien Ogier, on the Acropolis Rally last June--an event Ogier went on to win.
Rumors of Quesnel's departure persisted from the summer onward, with suggestions that Loeb's decision to extend his Citroën deal came with the proviso that the team replace Quesnel.
When quizzed on the subject during the Rallye de France at the start of October, Quesnel said, "I heard there is some rumors; we will see. You can imagine Guy Frequelin doesn't like me. I don't know why. I know exactly where [the rumor] comes from. I don't have any problem, but what do you do with a rumor? If somebody doesn't like you, they say you will leave."
Quesnel will now focus on his role as director of Peugeot Sport, a job he has performed in tandem with his Citroën duties during the last few years.
Matton, meanwhile, will report directly to Citroën general manager Frederic Banzet, who said, "I would like to thank Olivier Quesnel for the job he's done in his four years as Citroën Racing team principal. Under his management, Citroën has won the manufacturers' and drivers' championship titles every year with Sébastien Loeb and [his co-driver] Daniel Elena. Yves Matton's task will be to maintain Citroën Racing's high level of excellence."


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Colloquia at Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory
The Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory organizes from September to July a series of Colloquia of general interest in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which are generally held every Thursday at 11.30, and Specialistic Seminars. Scientists of the AAO who are interested in a particular topic or wish to invite a speaker for giving a talk at Arcetri should contact the Colloquia Organizing Team (COT) after reading the instructions below. If you are not an AAO staff member and are willing to give a talk at our institute you are kindly requested to contact one of the AAO members or send an e-mail to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo..
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TuningsDr. C. Nicolai counted 12 different tunings in his article "Das Spiel auf dem Contrabass" ("Playing the Double Bass") which appeared in 1816, although it is known today that significantly more were in circulation. The fourths tuning even-
tually became established in the middle of the 19th century, and there was no further discussion of the subject for a hundred years. But now, against the back-
ground of the impressive history of our instrument, modern bassists are again experimenting with different options. The American jazz bassist Red Mitchell was the first to reintroduce the fifths tuning. Renaud Garcia-Fons,


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Connecticut bill would expand pesticide restrictions
HARTFORD >> Connecticut state lawmakers are considering whether to expand restrictions on pesticide use to include more public places like parks, playgrounds and municipal greens.
Legislators say they drafted a bill to shield children from toxic lawn pesticides. The General Assembly's Environment Committee has scheduled a public hearing on the proposal and other bills for 1 p.m. Monday at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
The bill would expand current restrictions on using pesticides at schools to include all high schools. It also would restrict their use at parks, playgrounds, athletic fields and town greens.
Members of a state association of public parks and recreation officials oppose the bill. They say it has little basis in science and would lead to more injuries on sports fields because of turf damage from insects.


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Billions of searches are conducted each day on popular search engines and social networking websites by people all around the world. But what exactly do these people search for? A number of major search engines provide a way to glimpse into the web's query stream to discover the most popular search trends, keywords, and topics.
- Google Trends: Allows you to tap into Google's database of searches, to determine which keywords are most popular. View the volume of search queries over time (since 2004) worldwide or by regions and subregions, by languages, categories, and in Google properties such as news, image, or product search. Compare multiple terms, as well. Offers a list of what is trending now in Hot Searches.
- Google Autocomplete: Google's Autocomplete is a tool that can help round out your research by providing keywords as seen through the searcher's experience. When a searcher begins to type into the search box on Google.com, additional keywords are offered for searches that could be similar to what is typed. Google's algorithm works to predict search queries in real-time based on indexed web pages, personalized search history, other users' search activity, and Google+ (for person's name). Since the results are personalized, you may wish for more control over the Autocomplete feature. This can be accomplished by logging out of Google, turning off customizations, deleting web history, and Google+ settings.
- Yahoo Buzz Log: Shows top overall keyword searches by Yahoo users with rank, buzz score, and how the search volume has moved in rank. There are additional options to narrow the buzz log by categories such as actors, movies, music, etc.
- Bing Trends: More of a report, the Bing Community Search Blog breaks down billions of search queries from the previous year and offers insights by popular interests.
- Bing Webmaster Keyword Research Beta: Find query volumes for phrases and keywords by country and language. This keyword research tool shows data show from organic searches on Bing. It also provides the number of impressions for a time period with Average Bid and Average CPC for ad placements on the top and sides of search results. A comprehensive description of this tool can be found in Bing Keyword Research Tool: Highlights & Limitations.
- AOL Search Trends: Lists the top 50 search trends both hourly and daily on AOL. Data in AOL contains web and image searches (powered by Google), video (powered by Blinkx), News, Shopping, Maps, and Yellow Pages (powered by various providers).
- Twitter Search: Allows you to see what people are talking about on Twitter by keyword, hashtag, or username. Advanced search has many features, notable is the use of emoticons to find tweets with a specific attitude, for example, sad emoticon represents negative attitude.
- YouTube Keyword Tool: Keyword suggestions for terms you enter with monthly search volume on YouTube. As one of the largest search engines, this keyword list will reveal valuable insights as to how people search when they are looking for video media specifically, rather than general search engine queries.
- YouTube Trends: Provides insights into popular videos based on keywords and video views. Trending Topics are algorithmically-generated topics from keywords in the title, tags, and description of the video within sets of videos that are currently rising in popularity. Trending videos are based on embedded video views and views on YouTube.
- Google AdWords Keyword Tool: Enter a term or terms, to see search volume and keyword competition. Advanced options and filters allow you to refine by locations and languages and by desktop or mobile.
Top Searches, Questions, Topics, Memes & More
The major search engines and social networks also put out yearly recaps of the top trends of the year. Check out these past articles to get a glimpse of the top keywords, questions, topics, and trends people searched for each year:
- Google Zeitgeist: Top Trending Global, Event, People Searches
- Bing Top Searches: Those Kardashian People, iPhone 5 & Beyonce's Baby
- Yahoo Year in Review 2012: Election, iPhone 5 & Kim Kardashian
- Ask.com's Top Question: Will Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Get Back Together?
- Twitter Year in Review: Top People, Trends & Events of 2012
- Google Zeitgeist: Rebecca Black, Google+, Ryan Dunn Top Searches
- Top Bing Searches: Bieber, Kardashian & Royal Wedding
- iPhone Tops Web and Mobile Searches on Yahoo
- Ask's Top Question: Was Kim Kardashian's Wedding Fake?
- AOL Hottest Searches: Charlie Sheen, Casey Anthony & Harry Potter
- Facebook Memology: Megan Fox, Rihanna, lms
- Twitter's Year in Review: Egypt, Rebecca Black, Social Good
- Top 20 Global Social Video Ads of 2011 From Unruly
- What were we watching this year? Let's rewind 2011. – YouTube Blog
- Google Zeitgeist: The Year's Top Searches
- Bing's Top Searches: Kim Kardashian Dashes to Top Spot
- Yahoo Search Year in Review: BP, World Cup, Miley Cyrus
- Ask.com's Top Questions: Users Prefer Dunkin' Coffee
- AOL's Hottest Searches: Bedbugs, Tiger Woods, BP
- 10 Top 10s: Search Year in Review
- Top 10 Twitter Trends
- YouTube Rewind: Top Searches, Videos
Source: This article was published searchenginewatch.com By Lisa Raehsler


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Fastrax FAST260 White Finish Polycarbonate Spray Paint - Flexible
Polycarbonate Paints in 24 different colours. Hot Bodies and Fast Finish
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The range of aerosol paints are designed for polycarbonate (lexan) model car bodies, to give not only a superb, dynamic colour finish, but also to withstand the rigours of model car use too.
The paint is available in three finishes, Classic, Neon and Special FX
As the polycarbonate material itself is so flexible and durable, it requires a specially blended paint formula to cope. Fast Finish is fuel resistant making it perfect for nitro cars too. Another feature of Fast Finish that's often overlooked is its weight on the bodyshell. It generally makes a painted body 10-12g lighter than one painted with normal lexan paints. This can be a real advantage to the 1/10th and 1/12th scale cars where weight is always an issue.
The Classic range covers the 'normal' colours such as white, red, black etc and also the metallic colours, Spa Silver, Graphite etc. The Neon paints are ultra bright, flourescent colours for the ultimate in visibility on the track.
Special FX paints are for those that want to go for the custom look. There's the Starburst Silver metalflake which is a transparent carrier with large metalflake particles that will add a coarse metallic finish to any base colour, and the Pearl White which has a similar but much finer effect. Spray either of them on the body first, then back with another colour to give a solid, but sparkling finish.
The Chameleon paints actually change shade and colour depending upon the angle they are viewed from. The Jade flips between yellow-gold through to a deep green for example. They are great for the full 'Pimp my Ride' effect!
The Sapphire has a blue effect.
NOTE: The Chameleon paint is transparent and needs 3 or 4 coats before backing with a dark colour. Usually black or graphite will bring out the effect best.


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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was in a tight spot as fellow eurozone leaders turned up the heat on the issue of joint debt for the bloc—something she supports at home in Germany but has resisted in Europe.
Billionaire investor George Soros upped the ante, calling upon European leaders to start a fund for the purchase of Spanish and Italian bonds lest a planned summit meeting later this week fail to provide a solution to the crisis. And Spain formally asked for aid, a move that was expected after an earlier indication that the country would take such an action.
Bloomberg reported Monday that at a four-way summit meeting in Rome on Friday among the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain, Merkel (left) found herself on one side of the table with the other three leaders united against her on the matter of increasing flexibility in how the eurozone's rescue funds are used.
President Francois Hollande of France, Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain all pressed Merkel to give way on such tactics as allowing banks to be directly recapitalized without funding having to flow through governments. Taxpayers in Germany could not support such a plan, she said, because they would have no oversight into how the funds were used.
"You would have a huge problem here," she said in the report, adding that as chancellor she only had powers over how German banks would use such funding—with no influence on the banks of other countries in the eurozone.
Last week she also nixed a proposal by Monti for either the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) or the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to buy the bonds of Spain and Italy and thus backstop the crisis.
She has also been firmly opposed to any immediate move for the eurozone to issue joint bonds, despite Hollande's support for such a plan; he had called joint bonds "a useful instrument for Europe." However, at home her party backed down on opposition to a similar plan for the German government to underwrite debt from its own states.
Tighter EU rules on budgets brought Germany's 16 states to pressure the central government for a means of shared debt sales. The government agreed Monday to a plan that will result in Germany's first shared debt sale in 2013. However, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in the report that just because an agreement was reached within Germany, that doesn't mean the country is ready to take on liability for the whole eurozone.
He was quoted saying that as long as individual eurozone governments make their own budgets, such joint sales "don't make sense." He added, "As long as the national states make the decisions, they have to be liable. If you can spend money on my tab, you won't be thrifty."
Still, Soros (left) spoke out over the weekend and said that if European leaders failed to come to agreement on drastic action at the summit planned for the end of the week, the euro could collapse. Political leaders are running out of time, according to Soros, and they need to start a fund to buy Spanish and Italian debt.
"There is a disagreement on the fiscal side," Soros said in a weekend interview. "Unless that is resolved in the next three days, then I am afraid the summit could turn out to be a fiasco. That could actually be fatal."
Soros also criticized Merkel's determination to oppose joint debt. "Merkel has emerged as a strong leader," he said in the report. "Unfortunately, she has been leading Europe in the wrong direction."
He also had criticism of Germany's treatment of Greece, saying, "It is very hard to see how Greece can actually meet the conditions that have been set. The Germans are absolutely determined not to modify those conditions. One has to now calculate on Greece being forced out of the euro."
Optimism was falling in advance of the summit meeting to be held at the end of the week as Spain officially asked for the aid that it indicated it would request earlier in the month. The June 9 informal request will be replaced by July 9 with an official signed memorandum of understanding, according to a Reuters report. In a letter to Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos of Spain asked for up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion), saying that the final total would be determined later.
Some analysts believe that the bailout, which is to be directed solely at Spain's financial sector, is only the preliminary move to an all-out rescue of the country. Should that happen, pressure will increase on the eurozone and investor attention will turn to Italy, whose borrowing costs have been rising along with Spain's—although not to the same degree.
A preliminary document prepared in advance of the meeting by EU officials calls for gradual introduction of a banking union, despite Germany's opposition to many proposed means of closer integration. The document states that the European Central Bank will be granted supervisory power and that a deposit guarantee strategy will be developed that is based on the pooling of national systems. There will also be a bank resolution fund that will be financed by levy.


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This quilt is for this little guy. Another sister of mine had her first baby boy too! We did some baby sewing this summer and now both babies are here. These little cousins are just about a month apart. This guy was visiting from California last week, but I didn't get any baby snuggling because I was the last man standing who didn't get the throw-ups and I was feeling petrified at the thought of sharing. Sad. I'll have to wait until Christmas.
I am also pleased with this one, because I did the machine quilting myself. Woo! While I still have serious inadequacy issues with free-motion quilting, I knew that straight lines would compliment this design best and after doing the Halloween Quilt, I was feeling empowered. I'm mostly pleased with how it turned out.


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You are going to love living with our address books created in a variety of formats – Slim, Mini, Midi and Ultra. They combine convenience and good looks and feature our most popular cover designs. These books are a joy to carry with you and will make even the messiest desk look good. With uniquely shaped "thumb cut" pages angled to make turning the page part of the fun, they also feature a memento pouch that completes the package.
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