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Roseway Tree Walk on the NE 72nd Avenue Park Blocks
By Mason Wordell, Urban Forestry Tree Plan Coordinator and AmeriCorps Member
Join Urban Forestry and Roseway Tree Team for an interesting and informative
tree walk along the NE 72nd Avenue park blocks!
When: 9:30 - 11:30 am on Saturday Feb. 25th, 2017
Location: Meet at Ira's Deli | 7215 NE Prescott St.
Register Here: http://tinyurl.com/RosewayWalk
9:30 am - 10 am: Register, sign in, have a cup of coffee
10 am - 11:30 am: Walk & Talk with Urban Forestry Staff Jim Gersbach and Neighborhood Tree Steward Catherine Clark
Throughout the walk, they will be highlighting the benefits and beauty of conifers and broadleaf evergreens, along with other new deciduous trees in the blocks. Jim and Catherine will share the history of the blocks, with a focus on new plantings. Our urban tree canopy provides important ecosystem services, such as:
- Mitigating storm-water runoff
- Improving air quality
- Producing oxygen
- Reducing heating and cooling costs
- Providing habitat and food for wildlife
Mature trees are also associated with improved health and social outcomes. Evergreen trees provide these benefits year-round, and are additionally important in providing winter shelter for urban wildlife.
Despite the advantages of evergreens, a recently completed street tree inventory carried out by Urban Forestry and 1,300 volunteers shows that in developed parts of the city, 90% to 98% or more of the street trees are deciduous, and the majority of these are small or medium size. Many of the new trees planted on the park blocks will attain very large size, thus contributing more benefits than smaller trees. Other trees recently planted on the Roseway park blocks are flowering trees with late spring or summer bloom times. This later blooming period extends the availability of nectar for pollinators. Other trees were planted to provide seeds and nuts relished by birds, squirrels, and other animals that share our urban environment.
Read on for some brief tree descriptions of the trees we will be discussing during our walk.
- Colossal Hybrid Chestnut – Castanea x 'Colossal'
Colossal is the most common chestnut cultivar grown in the Pacific Northwest. It grew popular because it produces big crops of large, sweet-tasting nuts.
- Purple Catalpa – Catalpa x erubescens 'Purpurea'
The Purple Catalpa is striking due to the purple color of the new leaves in spring. Bears flowers at a young age that are trumpet shaped, white with purple and yellow spotting in the throats
- Common Hackberry - Celtis occidentalis
Hackberry is an alternate-branching, deciduous tree growing 50–80' tall. It bears numerous sweet red then purple pea-sized berries that birds love.
- Chinese Fringe Tree - Chionanthus retusus
Showy white flowers in spring have fringe-like petals, giving the tree its common name. The tree is adaptable to a wide range of environmental conditions, including moderate drought, air pollution and clay soil. It has been cultivated in Western countries since 1845, and its Chinese name is liu su shu.
- American Yellowwood - Cladrastis kentukea
In late May-early June the tree blooms spectacularly with wisteria-like white flowers in clusters 12-14" long at the ends of twigs. This deciduous broadleaf tree is one of the rarer U.S. trees in the wild and is found most commonly along streams draining the western slopes of the Allegheny Mountains in Tennessee and Kentucky.
- Rivers' Purple European Beech - Fagus sylvatica 'Riversii'
They are the climax tree in European forests, where their nuts were an important source of food to fatten pigs in autumn. The English word for "book" comes from the old Anglo-Saxon name for the tree, whose smooth bark was used to write on before paper.\
- Princeton Sentry Ginkgo - Ginkgo biloba 'Princeton Sentry'
This male clone is upright 50' to 65' tall and 15' to 20' wide, with the classic fan-shaped leaves Like other ginkgos, this is resistant to many pests and pathogents and tolerates urban conditions.
- Natchez Crape Myrtle - Lagerstroemia x 'Natchez'
One of the most commonly planted hybrid crape myrtles because of its rich, cinnamon red-brown exfoliating bark, big panicles of showy white summer flowers; red-orange fall color; excellent resistance to powdery mildew; enhanced cold hardiness; and upright growth to 30' with a spread of 35'.
- Oregon White Oak - Quercus garryana
Oregon white oak was once one of the predominant trees in the Willamette Valley, but has declined to only 1% of its original range due to clearing of land for agriculture and cessation in the 19th century of underbrush burning by Native Americans. The tree's nickname, Garry oak, is after Nicholas Garry (circa 1782-1856), the deputy governor of Hudson's Bay Company who helped botanist David Douglas in his planting hunting in Oregon.
- Silverleaf Oak - Quercus hypoleucoides
The tree's lance-shaped leaves are dark gray above and silver underneath. They grow at elevations from 5,000' to 7,000' in northern Mexico's Sonora and Chihuahua states, and across the border in the mountains of New Mexico, Arizona and west Texas.
- Chinkapin Oak - Quercus muehlenbergii
They superficially resemble a chestnut leaf, hence the tree's common name – chinkapin being a common name for an American chestnut. Chinkapin Oak has one of the widest natural distributions of any North American oak. It is unusual for most oaks as it tolerates alkaline, limestone soils.
- Monterrey Oak / Mexican White Oak - Quercus polymorpha
An evergreen broadleaf tree native to northern Mexico. Monterrey oak requires full sun but is very tolerant of heat and very drought tolerant, even when relatively young.
- Northern Red Oak - Quercus rubra
The acorns, which take two years to mature, are an important food source for wildlife, especially squirrels that like to bury and store acorns in the fall. It is the state tree of New Jersey and the provincial tree of Canada's Prince Edward Island.
- Island Oak - Quercus tomentella
It has leathery 2-4" oval leaves, that are dark green on top and gray-green with tan hairs below, although they become less wooly with age. It is considered a relict population that originally had a wider range on the West Coast. Along with canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis) it is a member of Protobalanus, the oaks intermediate between the red and white oaks.
- Southern Live Oak - Quercus virginiana
Live oak has strong wood, a deep taproot, and an extensive root system, making it exceptionally stable in high winds. The small acorns (1/2 inch to 1 inch long) are shiny, ranging in color from tan-brown to nearly black.
- Giant Sequoia - Sequoiadendron giganteum
Giant sequoias are the world's largest tree by volume. Millions of years ago the trees were widespread around the planet, growing in the Arctic during warmer periods in Earth's history. The trees eventually died out everywhere but in the Sierra Nevada of California, however Giant sequoias grow vigorously in western Oregon and have few pests or diseases.
Still reading? Join us as we explore the exciting new large-canopy, pollinator-friendly and evergreen trees in Roseway. Register here!
For more information, or if you have something you want to talk about, contact:
Mason Wordell, Tree Plan Coordinator and AmeriCorps member


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Minister of Industry and Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour has decided to reshuffle the Industrial Modernization Center (IMC).
In a statement on Friday 18/10/2013, Abdel-Nour said the ministry is so keen on improving the IMC for its role in boosting all industrial sectors.
"The new line-up of the center is meant to pump new blood and find new cadres at the center," the Minister said.
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Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviewed Herzog at TIFF Doc Conference in September 2018. Hear their previous interview about "Into the Inferno" on episode 29.
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I offered to forward this message to see if we can help Philip. He isn't on the list, so emails to him please. thanks, Libby ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:24:14 +0100 Subject: Re: Fw: Liverpool Digital and the Semantic Web Hi Libby Many thanks for getting back to me. If you could post this on the public mailing list I'd appreciate it. I'm identifying business ideas to develop into a commercially sustainable digital industry product using the Liverpool Digital site as a catalyst. The overall objective is to turn 7 or 8 ideas into reality, of which the Semantic Web might be one. The business development process is to provide a mechanism to attract and secure sufficient and suitable commercial activity for the Liverpool Digital initiative at terms acceptable to the North West Development Agency. I'm excited about the opportunities to use Semantic Web developments in new machine readable applications to exploit time based or geographic data on the web. Potential business models for Liverpool Digital are a 'Semantic Web application development house' or a 'training and development organisation to encourage companies to develop SW applications'. With either model the process would be to got out to tender for organisations to run it on a commercial basis. The first phase of the business development process is to generate ideas and then phase gate review them (other competing ideas are being generated by other groups) - the ones that pass will go onto a feasibility study. I'm up against a deadline of the 23rd October to get a one page summary for the phase gate review by the Liverpool Digital board. Essentially - what is the opportunity, benefits, value add, business model, indicative costs etc. Regards Philip NWDA Regional Business Adviser - Digital Industries firstname.lastname@example.com t +44 (0) 1925 754 351 m +44 (0) 7876 398 224Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:52:56 UTC
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- Novartis is acquiring gene therapy company AveXis for $US8.7 billion.
- AveXis is working on a gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic condition that affects muscle movement in children and is the leading genetic cause of mortality in infants.
- It's part of a wave of big bets in gene therapy, a cutting-edge area of science that has had some big advancements over the past year.
Novartis said on Monday that it's acquiring rare disease drugmaker AveXis for $US8.7 billion.
AveXis is working on a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic condition that affects muscle movement. It's the leading genetic cause of infant mortality. The deal's part of a wave of big bets in gene therapy, a cutting-edge area of science that has had some big advancements over the past year.
In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug to treat SMA, called Spinraza. The drug, which works to slow down the progression of the disease, is not cheap, carrying a list price of $US750,000 for the first year of treatment.
Even with the treatment, there's been interest in seeing if – because the disease is genetic – there are ways to potentially cure it using a gene therapy that helps the body make a key protein needed for motor neuron function, something people living with SMA don't produce enough of. That's what AveXis is working on.
The Novartis deal puts pressure on Biogen, which makes the current treatment for SMA, Spinraza. "The acquisition puts the competing SMA program in the hands of a well-funded, payer-competent, global-reaching company," Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal said.
The exploding field of gene therapy
It's been a big couple of years for gene therapies. In December 2017, the FDA approved the first gene therapy, made by Spark Therapeutics, which is used to treat a hereditary form of blindness. Earlier in the year, the FDA approved the first cell therapies for cancer treatment, starting with Novartis' Kymriah. The FDA referred to the treatment as "the first gene therapy available in the United States."
"New Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan seems to be on the hunt for gene therapy," Jefferies analyst Michael Yee wrote in a note on Monday. In January, Novartis also made an agreement with Spark for rights to its gene therapy for hereditary blindness outside of the US. "Novartis is building a formidable commercial division in cell and gene therapy."
Novartis isn't the only big pharma/biotech to be interested in gene and cell therapies. In January, Celgene made a $US9 billion bet on Juno Therapeutics, a cancer drugmaker that's working on cell therapies. The deal also drummed up excitement for a possible deal for Bluebird Bio, another company developing cell therapies that has partnerships with Celgene. Bluebird is working on gene therapies in addition to cell therapies.
While there have been some major successes, the field of gene therapy still has had its setbacks. In March, Solid Biosciences, a biotech working on a gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, said its trial had been placed on clinical hold by the FDA, meaning the trial has been paused for now.
But as more gene therapy products make their way to approval and the science keeps progressing, Bernstein analyst Vincent Chen wrote in a note Monday, it's likely we'll see more major pharmaceutical companies getting interested in the space. "Today's announcement bodes well for this and should be a positive for others in the space," Chen said.
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When a Controller is attached to the DOM via the ng-controller directive, Angular will instantiate a new Controller object, using the specified Controller's constructor function. A new child scope will be created and made available as an injectable parameter to the Controller's constructor function as
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Long-time newspaper vendor not deterred by weather, 'hooligans'
If those punks who knocked down Calvin Tate and stole his money a couple of weeks ago thought they were going to drive him off, they picked on the wrong guy.
"They call me a tough old man," Tate said last Wednesday morning as he stood in his usual spot, the middle of Main Street between Townsend and Woodward avenues, selling the New Haven Register.
Earier that morning, at about 6:30 a.m., New Haven was hit by a brief but nasty storm, carrying with it thunder, lightning and monsoon-like rain. That didn't stop Tate, either.
"I stayed out in the rain," he said. "Ain't gonna make no money standing over there," he added, nodding toward a row of trees on the side of the road.
Tate's customers read about him in the police blotter July 30, the day after three teenagers on bikes attacked him at the spot where he stands on Sundays, the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Morse Street in Hamden.
"They got me from behind," he said. "They knocked me flat on the ground. I couldn't fight them off; there were too many."
"One of the guys said, 'If you call the police, I'm gonna shoot you.' I didn't see a gun."
"I stayed there," Tate noted. "I never left."
According to that Register news item, the three teenagers repeatedly hit Tate in the face. His face and a leg were injured and he was treated on the scene by Hamden fire rescue.
"I was only bruised up," Tate told me. "They took my money, like $60. They (police) never caught 'em yet."
After the police blotter item appeared, Renee Bacote of New Haven wrote a letter to the editor, saying she buys her paper from Tate every Sunday "and he is one of the kindest people I have encountered in a very long time. A hard-working individual who is out in every kind of weather and even on holidays."
Bacote wrote, "I only hope that this incident does not deter this gentleman from coming to that corner and continue selling the paper. I would miss chatting with him and seeing him every week."
No, he's not deterred in the slightest. "I just take it one day at a time," he said. "I was shook up but I didn't give up."
This was the second time he was robbed in the past several months. The first group of "hooligans," as Tate describes them, was at least four kids on bikes and they set upon him at his Main Street spot.
But that time, the police caught them. "I got my $8 back," he said.
The hooligans better not try anything when Tate's friends and customers are around. While I was talking with Tate, we saw Tony Mazzillo approaching on his morning walk. He stops every weekday morning to say hello to Tate.
"I think he's a great guy," Mazzillo told me. "If I had my back up against the wall, I'd want him there. I'm surprised he didn't beat them up!" he said of the punks.
Mazzillo said he had told his wife that morning: "Calvin's gotta be out there in the pouring rain with that damn umbrella, having fun!"
A few minutes later, up walked Tony Mendygral with his pit bull, Ruckus. "It's a damn shame," he said of the attacks on his friend. "He's an older gentleman, he's out here at 4:30 in the morning trying to make a dollar and thugs rob him."
"You know what the problem is?" Mendygral added. "Parents. If I'd done that when I was a kid, I'd be scared to go home. Nowadays kids don't care because parents don't care."
Mendygral said of Tate: "He's one in a million."
After Tate was beaten in Hamden, the staff in the Register and Middletown newsrooms started a collection to help him out. The money collected more than made up for that lost $60.
Tate apppreciates the public's support and wants everybody to know he's all right out there. "Come by tomorrow," he told a customer who stopped his car to buy a paper. "Wish me a happy birthday!"
He was turning 71, but Thursday would be just another day on the job. On weekdays, he's out there until about 9 or 10 a.m. And Sunday is not a day of rest; he gets up at about 2 a.m., helps load the papers into the truck, is at his Sunday corner by about 5 a.m. and there he stays until around 5 p.m.
"I don't want to be sittin' home in a rocking chair," he said.
He lives with his wife in an apartment near his Main Street spot. He can walk to work.
Tate said he's had this job since 1996, when he "retired." He was a truck driver for many years, delivering produce.
He wants to keep doing this for many more years, never mind the weather or the punks.
He said as I left him, "I thank the man upstairs I'm alive."


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I am starting a new project using 300um slices obtained from postnatal rat brains. We're specifically interested in hypothalamic development and axonal growth. Nobody in my lab has used slice cultures before, so I'm trying to teach myself the technique.
After a few days in vitro, I fix my slices in 4% PFA for 1h at room temp, and then proceed to treat them like normal brain slices using our labs standard IHC techniques. The problem is that the slices aren't really holding together, and they readily disintegrate during processing. I have a suspicion that's because the slices were DOA (and perhaps fixing necrotic tissue does not make it any more durable). Is fragile tissue a sign of a failed culture?
My question above is probably so general that you wouldn't need to look at my protocol. But if it indicates a severe problem with what I'm doing, then it's worth having a look at what I do and seeing where the problem is.
I embed PND10 rat brains in low melting agarose, and generate 300um coronal sections through the diencephalon on a vibratome. I use chilled HBSS as my dissection medium. Slices are transferred onto millicell membranes in a 6 well plate. Here's the recipe I use for my medium:
DMEM (phenol-red free): 50%
I also add 1M HEPES (to 1.25%) and 100X pen/strept in the appropriate volumes.
Does this make any sense?
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text: The moment we all have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Wii U finally is about to get the first real Pokémon game (sort of) for the Wii U system. Pokkén Tournament will launch in early 2016, and looks to be promising. Pokkén is an arcade style fighting game that was believed to only be a Japan arcade machine release. It is being produced by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, who are also the creators of the Tekken franchise.


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Cognac de Collection Jean Grosperrin Petite Champagne VSOP
Cognac, named after the town of Cognac, France, is a variety of brandy produced in the wine-growing region surrounding the town from which it takes its name.
Jean Grosperrin founded the House Grosperrin in 1992, which stands out as one of the last independent Cognac houses. Grosperrin dedicates itself largely to vintage cognacs only about 1% of all cognacs produced are vintage because of highly restrictive and onerous regulations. Relying on his deep network of growers, Jean and his son Guilhelm purchase barrels of cognacs that they age and release once it is properly matured.
One such vintage I had the pleasure to sample is the Cognac de Collection Jean Grosperrin Petite Champagne VSOP. Distilled in an Alambic Charentais copper pot and aged a minimum of twelve years, it's made from different Cognacs coming from the same cru terroir, which are chalky limestone and "groies" type soils. The result is a luscious nose of vanilla, fresh fruit and spice, followed by bold flavors of the same and a woody and spicy finish that is not overpowering.
Cognac de Collection Jean Grosperrin Petite Champagne VSOP is imported by Domaine Select Wine & Spirits and is distributed by Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits in Southern Nevada and Southern California. Suggested retail price is $79.99 per 750 ml.
Kerrygold Irish Cream Liqueur
Kerrygold is the international brand of the Irish company Ornua. and is the marketing and sales division created by Ireland's small dairy farmer co-op creameries to export butter and cheeses around the world. Kerrygold butter and cheeses are widely available in US supermarkets and specialty stores, but now for the first time its Irish Cream Liqueur is available in the US.
Named World's Best Cream Liqueur at the 2016 World Drink Awards, Kerrygold Irish Cream Liqueur is a premium blend of natural Irish cream, real chocolate and oak-aged Irish whiskey. Most cream liqueurs tend to use chocolate flavorings, but Kerrygold is made with real chocolate. The flavors in this liqueur blend quite nicely and complement each other offering an intense experience of creaminess, and its 17% ABV provides a warming velvety richness.
Kerrygold Irish Cream Liqueur is imported exclusively in the US by Infinium Spirits at a suggested retail price of $24.99. In Southern California it is distributed by Young's Market and in Southern Nevada through Breakthru Beverage.


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Big Bird Might Help With Early-Childhood Aggression
Exposure to violent media does not definitively lead to violence in real life, so far as existent studies show. President Obama wants to give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more funding to further study that link, but what research exists hasn't yet proven causality.
A new study out this week looks the other direction: Does exposure to positive media encourage positive behavior? Or rather: Will Big Bird actually cause children to improve at caring and sharing?
The study suggests such an effect may exist. A group of researchers at the Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington conducted the study on preschool-aged children from 565 Seattle families. To qualify, families already had to consume at least three hours of television weekly. Mothers comprised 88 percent of respondents, and roughly 8 out of 10 respondents had a college or advanced degree.
In the experiment, the intervention group and the control group continued to watch the same number of hours of television as before. But the intervention group changed the content of what it watched. Over the course of a year, families replaced standard fare with shows that model positive behavior like "Sesame Street" and "Dora the Explorer." In addition, the intervention group received monthly calls with case managers who acted as media advisors. The families also received pamphlets detailing positive television-programming options.
The results showed a small but positive effect in the intervention group, though the authors included some caveats. Chief among them is that even though parents weren't told the purpose of the study, they might've figured it out and biased the results. The study authors note that their results don't show a significant impact of such bias, however.
The other chief caveat is that the study's authors aren't sure whether the positive effects they see stem from increased positive programming or decreased negative programming. But there might be a third option: Perhaps parents in the intervention group, made more aware of the available programming options, and encouraged to watch with their children, engaged their children more often on the content of programming; parents who provide context for their children may hamper the negative effects of violent media.
And, of course, there are policy implications. It might just get that much harder to defund Big Bird if he's playing a demonstrably positive effect on child behavior.
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Ringworm (Tinea), as its name appears, isn't really a worm at all. Ringworm is actually a type of fungal infection on the outer layer of the skin that appears like a ring-like circular red rash with dry and flaky edges that often has blisters on them. Jock itch and Athlete's foot are its localized forms. Ringworm is extremely itchy and contagious. It can spread to other parts of body by just touching or coming in contact with a person suffering from ringworm.
Pets like cats and dogs can be one of the main sources of transmitting this infection to humans. Other ways of transmitting this infection could be through cuts, scratches and wounds. Ringworm can be easily treated at home without using prescription drugs. Continue with your treatment for 2-3 weeks, even after getting relief from the symptoms to prevent recurrence.
Home Remedies For Ringworm
1. Raw Papaya
Raw Papaya is one of the best remedies for treating ring worm. The enzyme contained in raw papaya is effective in killing the fungus that causes ringworm.
Things Required
Slice of raw papaya
Dried papaya seeds
How To Use
Take a freshly cut slices of raw papaya and rub gently on the ringworm patches. Let the enzyme work on the rash for at least 15 minutes and wash off using hot water. Repeat the process several times a day to get cured completely. Alternatively, make a paste using dried papaya seeds and apply on the affected area to find quick relief from itching and burning.
2. Garlic
The antifungal properties of garlic have been clinically proven. Due to this, it is one of the most effective remedies for treating ringworm.
Things Required
Raw garlic paste
Garlic capsule or extract
How To Use
Crush or grind garlic to make a paste. Apply the paste in the areas affected with ringworm with the help of clean cotton ball. Leave it in the skin. Apply 2-3 times daily until the patches completely heal. Alternatively, take 2 tsp garlic extract three times daily. With its antifungal activity, it will purify your blood and bring relief from infection.
3. Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar is another good remedy for treating ringworm. It helps to kill the fungus which causes ringworm. Vinegar and salt are also a good combination for treating ringworm.
Things Required
Apple cider vinegar
Cotton ball or gauze
Plain vinegar
How To Use
Using a gauze or cotton ball, apply undiluted apple cider vinegar to the affected area several times a day. If you are suffering from Athlete's foot, application of undiluted vinegar can sting a lot. Better soak your feet in a tub of warm water after adding undiluted vinegar. Also, apply apple cider vinegar to the areas that are prone to infection.
This will prevent ringworm from spreading. If apple cider vinegar is not available, use can vinegar and salt after making a paste by combing both the ingredients. Apply the paste directly to the affected part, leave for 10 minutes and wash. Continue the treatment until the patches heals completely.
Also Read
5 Effective Home Remedies For Pinworms
10 Home Remedies For Bacterial Infections
Top 11 Home Remedies For Fungal Infections
4. Ginger
Ginger contains a minimum of twenty anti-fungal compounds. Thus, it is a good remedy for treating ringworm.
Things Required
Fresh ginger root
How To Use
Prepare ginger tea by adding ½ inch of grated fresh ginger root in a cup of water; Steep for 5 minutes; strain and then drink. Drink ginger tea two or three times a day. Also apply ginger compress on the affected area by soaking cotton with ginger tea. Its anti-inflammatory properties will relieve you from pain and aid in quick recovery.
5. Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil has great anti-fungal properties. Applying tea tree oil regularly for few days can cure ringworm very well. Another benefit of applying tea tree oil is that it will prevent formation of pus and blisters by keeping your skin dry.
Things Required
Tea tree oil
Cotton ball
How To Use
Pour few drops of undiluted tea tree oil on a sterile cotton, then apply directly on the affected spot. Continue applying tea tree oil daily 2-3 times a day until the infection gets cured completely. There are many ointments available in your local drug store which contains tea tree oil. You can use any of these ointment as well.
6. Lavender
Lavender is another natural substance which has powerful antifungal effects. It will help to kill fungi and relieve you from ringworm infection completely.
Things Required
Lavender oil
Sterile cotton
How To Use
Apply few drops of lavender oil on to the infected part using sterile cotton a minimum of two or three times a day until infection heals.
7. Turmeric
Turmeric has great antibiotic properties. A paste made up of turmeric and honey has great healing power and is known for its antibiotic qualities. Thus, it can be a good home remedy for ringworm.
Things Required
Turmeric powder
How To Use
Make a paste by combining 1tsp turmeric powder and 1tsp honey. Apply this paste regularly several times a day until the infection goes away.
These home remedies are very simple yet very effective and easily available in our homes.


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The Philippines has the eighth largest development community for open source in the world. This was revealed by Sun Microsystems executives who were here recently to celebrate the third anniversary of the Java Education and Development Initiative (JEDI)--an open source skills training program initiated in the Philippines by Sun Microsystems together with several local universities and college instructors.
Matt Thompson, senior director for Technology Outreach & Sun Developer Network group of Sun Microsystems said JEDI aims to make IT and computer science course materials available for "free" to colleges and universities to contribute to the objective of making the Philippines as the center for software development in Asia.
"We enable technology to be free. If they want to modernize it they can," he said. "Paying for software license is so backwards. You are stuck for technology that is five to 10 years old."
Thomspon reported that about 12 per cent of teachers and students in Philippine universities and colleges have already adopted the JEDI course and are expected to reach 50 per cent in the next two years. "JEDI in the high school level is more of a possibility," said Thompson.
He said there are now 273 JEDI member schools in the country with 2,790 teachers, of which 730 are well trained. He said Sun expects over 114,939 students to benefit from the JEDI program in the Philippines this year alone.
The Sun executive added they are coordinating with at least eight other countries for JEDI's implementation, namely: Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil, and France.
Thompson, along with Naveen Asrani, Sun's manager for Developer Relations, recently came to the Philippines to celebrate JEDI's 3rd anniversary together with more than 300 members of the local JEDI team led by members of both the University of the Philippines Java Research & Development Center (UP-JRDC) and Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE).
Asrani commented that a lot of college graduates in the Philippines are not fit to work immediately and that usually results in many companies spending a lot on trainings.
"JEDI skills reduce costs on training," Thompson added. "It is trained people that produce jobs. Jobs will follow if skills are here."
Both Thompson and Asrani said that seven courses have already been rolled-out with three additional courses being developed, namely the Sun SPOT, Scripting, and JavaDB.


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Last year I participated in the wonderful Non-Fiction Five Challenge, because I truly do delight in non-fiction, which doesn't make enough appearances in the annals of my pleasure reading. Ultimately, I only made it through 3 of the 5 required books, and I am not totally convinced I read most of those within the time scheme of the challenge. Boo to me.
Well, this year I, unabashed, make another attempt at Joy's Challenge. Here are the rules:
- Read 5 non-fiction books during the months of May - September, 2008 (please link your reviews at Thoughts of Joy)
- Read at least one non-fiction book that is different from your other choices (i.e.: 4 memoirs and 1 self-help)
For me, a number of books will be reappearing from last year's list. Like last year, I will have a list of five, with six alternates, some of which may change over the course of the challenge:
- 1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare by James Shapiro
- This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- A Brief History of the Caribbean by Jan Rogozinski
- Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande


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Boca Chica
Boca Chica is a town in the Dominican Republic.
Boca Chica is located in the Dominican Republic on the coast Caribbean Sea. It is 30km from the capital city of Santo Domingo. It has a population of around 70,000 and is one of the largest towns in the Dominican Republic. Boca Chica was originally a fishing village but has evolved into a tourist destination due to its stunning beach. The beach at Boca Chica is sometimes referred to as the largest swimming pool in the Dominican Republic as it is well known for the coral reef that makes the water so calm.
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Cheap flights from most Canadian and American cities are available to Punta Cana and Las Americas airports. Taxis are available from both to Boca Chica. For almost all packaged vacation deals transportation is included.
It is also possible to take the ferry from Puerto Rico to Santo Domingo and from there taxi to Boca Chica.
Get around[edit]
By foot or boat. Taxis are available to the Colonial City and Santo Domingo for 40 dollars one way or 70 dollars return. It is a viable option for those wanting the security of a local tour guide or direct transportation. The price is fixed and it is unlikely any haggling will alter it. There are other destinations available with the same taxi company such as Punta Cana and La Romana however these have a steep price tag.
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It is very enjoyable to walk around the town of Boca Chica. The park at the centre of the town is great for people watching. The beach, of course, is the main drawing card for the town as it is renowned internationally and well frequented by the residence of nearby Santo Domingo.
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Boca Chica is famous for its stunning beach. It is popular for scuba diving and snorkelling. The chance to enjoy water sports and activities is abundant. The town is not far from the Capital City of Santo Domingo which is a popular destination for tourists and locals.
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If you are looking for cigars in Boca Chica there is a small shop on Duarte Avenue (the main street near the beach) which has a selection of domestic and imported cigars. There is also a cigar roller that comes every second day who does custom orders, ask for William for information about products.
There are two small supermarkets in Boca Chica, one near the park, and one near the Be Live Hamaca side of Boca Chica. There is also a post office, several pharmacies, and a plethora of small souvenir shops. Haggling is acceptable in all stores except the pharmacies and grocery stores.
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There are many lovely restaurants along the beach front in Boca Chica. Locals also often sell street food during popular days at the beach. There is a burger king in Boca Chica which is an option for those more partial to American food.
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There are a number of small hotels in Boca Chica for affordable rates. There are also two all inclusive resorts such as the Be Live Hamaca which is a former Hilton resort. The two all inclusive resorts each have their own "private" beach, whereas in other hotels you will be using the public beach.
Get out[edit]
Busses are available from the park in the center of the town. They leave every hour on the hour theoretically, in practice however they arrive more frequently and the service provided is excellent if you do not mind that the buses can be crowded. The cost for the bus to Santo Domingo is 50 Dominican Pesos for the regular bus (about a dollar) which is not air conditioned and can take up to an hour. There is an express bus for 70 Dominican Pesos (about a dollar fifty) that is air conditioned and goes directly to independence park in Santo Domingo in about half an hour. Do not pay immediately when getting on the bus in Boca Chica as this is a local bus that will take you to a terminal where you will board either the express or regular bus to Santo Domingo, it is on this bus you will pay. The return trip departs from the terminal near Enriquillo park in Santo Domingo which is easiest to get to from the colonial city by taxi for about 150 or 200 pesos (five dollars).


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Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, and Case Western Reserve University are collaborating on a ground-breaking study that will test the feasibility and safety of using the body's own stem cells to treat MS.
In patients with MS, the immune system abnormally attacks the central nervous system, causing damage to the nerve cells and their protective myelin sheath. The body has mechanisms that attempt to repair this damage; however, in MS, the repair cannot keep pace with the ongoing damage.
The Phase 1 trial involves harvesting a patient's mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which are primitive cells in the bone marrow, culturing them in a laboratory, and then injecting the MSCs intravenously back into the patient to see if the procedure is safe, decreases disease activity, and leads to improved repair.
The research team is headed up by Jeffrey Cohen, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research, and is funded by a $2.75 million, four-year grant from the United States Department of Defense and a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Cohen is Director of the Mellen Center's Experimental Therapeutics Program and Professor of Medicine (Neurology) in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has taken a lead role in a large number of MS clinical trials, including a Phase 3 trial that led to the recent approval of the first oral therapy for MS.
"Currently, there are eight medications approved to treat MS. They slow the disease but none of them reverses it. The hope is that mesenchymal stem cells will lessen ongoing damage caused by MS and promote repair," said Dr. Cohen. "We're taking a cautious approach, carefully monitoring for any unexpected side effects, as we look to see if MSC have the abilities that we anticipate."
MSCs have a wide range of effects that decrease the activity of immune cells while encouraging tissue repair, both of which may be beneficial in MS. In addition, in numerous laboratory studies, MSCs were able to migrate from the blood into areas of inflammation or injury in the nervous system and reduce damage probably by creating a tissue environment that encourages the body's intrinsic repair processes.
Study participants will be monitored very closely for six months after they receive the MSC transplantation, including physical exams, blood work, and other testing to determine whether the procedure is safe and well-tolerated. The research team will also monitor their disease status through quantitative neurologic exam, vision testing, advanced MRI, and optical coherence tomography of the retina prior to and for six months after MSC administration to evaluate whether the procedure impacts the activity or severity of each participant's MS. Finally, in collaboration with investigators at the Montreal Neurological Institute, the immunologic effects of MSCs will be comprehensively assessed, both in culture and in the patients.
Cleveland is one of only a handful of locations in the country where a research endeavor like this could be conducted because it is home to a "dream team" of clinical and research experts with strong collegial relationships; located less than two miles from each other: They include:
- Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research, part of the Neurological Institute
- University Hospitals (UH) Seidman Cancer Center Coleman Clinical Research Suite
- Cellular Therapy Laboratory (CTL) based in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM), a multi-institutional program comprised of investigators from Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, UH Case Medical Center, Athersys, Inc., and the Ohio State University
The research process will involve:
- Baseline testing, including general and neurologic exams, vision testing, MRI, and optical coherence tomography, conducted at Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center.
- Participants have their bone marrow aspirated from their hip in the Coleman Clinical Research Suite at UH Case Medical Center.
- The stem cells will be culture-expanded in the CTL in the NCRM then frozen.
- Participants then have their stem cells infused in the Mellen Center.
- Follow-up monitoring and testing will be done at the Mellen Center.
Dr. Cohen's study utilizes the CTL based in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine NCRM, which is the only academic cleanroom facility for cellular therapy procedures in Northeast Ohio. The role of the CTL is to culture expand or "manufacture" the human MSCs for reinfusion into study subjects.
This study requires a specialized Class 10,000 cleanroom environment and uniquely qualified personnel because the study subject's marrow cells need to be grown ex vivo (outside of the body) for approximately a month to achieve an adequate number of MSCs. Once the desired dose is obtained, the cells are tested extensively to confirm they are viable and not contaminated to ensure safety, then cryopreserved. At a later date, they are transported to Mellen Center, carefully thawed, and infused intravenously. This type of cell manipulation is performed under the authority of the US Food and Drug Administration and must follow strict procedures, documentation, environmental and equipment monitoring, and quality assurance that is not feasible in a typical research lab.
The bone marrow harvesting is performed by physicians in the Coleman Clinical Research Suite in the UH Seidman Cancer Center (formerly known as the UH Ireland Cancer Center). UH Seidman Cancer Center is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of hematopoietic (non-embryonic) stem cell transplantation, particularly in the development of MSCs to treat blood cancers. The first-in-human trial of MSCs was published in 1995 by researchers from Case Western Reserve University and UH Seidman Cancer Center. Subsequently, UH Seidman Cancer Center conducted the first-in-humans trial of MSCs in autologous hematopoietic cell (blood/marrow) transplant (2000) and the first-in-humans trial of MSCs in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (2005).
Arnold Caplan, professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University who was involved in the first in-human trials of MSCs, and Robert Miller, a professor of neurology and associate dean for research at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, laid the groundwork for the current clinical trial. They discovered that in mice that have a form of MS, human MSCs promote healing of damage and protect against an autoimmune response. Caplan and Miller are members of the clinical trial's advisory committee.
Dr. Stanton Gerson, MD, director of the UH Seidman Cancer Center and director of the National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM), said, "This trial in MS is one of the most innovative trials of MSCs as it truly investigates both the clinical aspects as well as the science of what these cells do and how they may confer therapeutic benefit to recipients."
Dr. Gerson also added, "This trial is real joint venture. We have the experience of collecting, expanding, and infusing MSCs. Cleveland Clinic has extensive expertise in MS clinical trials using ultra-sophisticated imaging and other techniques. All three centers (Case Western Reserve, UH Case Medical Center, and Cleveland Clinic) have great basic neurologic science to understand what is happening with the cells and the patients."
The Phase 1 study, which will take two to three years to complete, will involve 24 patients with relapsing-remitting or progressive MS who have moderate to severe disability. If this trial demonstrates that MSC transplantation is safe, future studies will more definitively assess the efficacy of this therapy in MS. The study has already enrolled 4 patients, and the team expects to begin to report their initial findings over the next 1-2 years. More information on the study is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov.
About Cleveland Clinic
Celebrating its 90th anniversary, Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. It was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. Cleveland Clinic has pioneered many medical breakthroughs, including coronary artery bypass surgery and the first face transplant in the United States. U.S.News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation's best hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey. About 2,800 full-time salaried physicians and researchers and 11,000 nurses represent 120 medical specialties and subspecialties. Cleveland Clinic Health System includes a main campus near downtown Cleveland, nine community hospitals and 15 Family Health Centers in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Clinic Florida, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Cleveland Clinic Canada, and opening in 2013, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. In 2010, there were 4 million visits throughout the Cleveland Clinic health system and 155,000 hospital admissions. Patients came for treatment from every state and from more than 100 countries. Visit us at www.clevelandclinic.org. Follow us at www.twitter.com/ClevelandClinic.
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About University Hospitals
University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of hospitals, outpatient centers and primary care physicians. At the core of our health system is University Hospitals Case Medical Center. The primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center is home to some of the most prestigious clinical and research centers of excellence in the nation and the world, including cancer, pediatrics, women's health, orthopedics and spine, radiology and radiation oncology, neurosurgery and neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, organ transplantation and human genetics. Its main campus includes the internationally celebrated UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, ranked among the top children's hospitals in the nation; UH MacDonald Women's Hospital, Ohio's only hospital for women; and UH Seidman Cancer Center, part of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more information, go to www.uhhospitals.org.
About Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Founded in 1843, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is the largest medical research institution in Ohio and is among the nation's top medical schools for research funding from the National Institutes of Health. The School of Medicine is recognized throughout the international medical community for outstanding achievements in teaching. The School's innovative and pioneering Western Reserve2 curriculum interweaves four themes–research and scholarship, clinical mastery, leadership, and civic professionalism–to prepare students for the practice of evidence-based medicine in the rapidly changing health care environment of the 21st century. Eleven Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the school. Annually, the School of Medicine trains more than 800 M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students and ranks in the top 25 among U.S. research-oriented medical schools as designated by U.S.News & World Report "Guide to Graduate Education."
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FAIRFIELD -- Did she work hard last season? Of course, she did. From the moment she started playing basketball in the second grade, watching college games on TV, falling in love with the Duke Blue Devils and their coach Mike Krzyzewski and trying to model herself after Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore, Felicia DaCruz always busted her hump when she played.
But did she play as well as she wanted to? That's another story.
Like many freshmen, she played sparingly in her first season under coach Joe Frager at Fairfield. But heading into her sophomore year, DaCruz got the keys to the car, as it were, taking as the starting point guard. She averaged 24 minutes in 32 games, handed out 99 assists and averaged 3.2 points.
Good numbers, but in her mind, not nearly good enough.
"I was definitely disappointed in myself," she said.
Why? Well, making 67 turnovers for one. Second, DaCruz struggled with her shot nearly the entire season, connecting on just 25.3 percent from the field, 14 percent from 3-point land and just 67.7 percent from the free-throw line.
"Felicia would be the first one to tell you that she didn't have a very good year," Frager said.
And she did.
"Toward the end of last year, I figured that I was being too mental, I was over-thinking too much," the 5-foot-5 junior said. "I wasn't just `playing.' I was too tentative and being hesitant. I think I'm my own biggest enemy when it comes to that. That's what I really needed to work on was mentally and physically getting ready, physically with shooting and mentally with turnovers and all the other stuff."
DaCruz spent the working on her shot, her ball-handling and decision-making. Just working, period. Now, more than halfway through her junior season, DaCruz, and Fairfield, are seeing the fruits of her labors. In 21 games, she is averaging 34.9 minutes, 6.9 points (she's brought her shooting percentage up to 36.1 percent) and, best of all, five assists a game, with a 2.8-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.
"This year I'm just playing," she said. "It's been a lot of fun. It's been easier. There's a lot of weight that's been lifted off my shoulders."
Much of that more relaxed attitude comes from a postseason sit-down with Frager after that sophomore campaign. The coach told her in no uncertain terms that next season, she had to take better care of the basketball.
"He said he could really see me improving as a point guard over the next two years, " DaCruz said. "And being a point guard, especially on this team, you have the ball in your hands, like 95 percent of the time. So taking better care of the basketball was a big thing. It was all a learning experience. I think I've definitely improved my assist-to-turnover ratio and taking care of the basketball."
Heading into the home stretch before the MAAC tournament, Fairfield is 13-8 overall and 8-4 in the conference, tied for third behind Iona and Marist with Quinnipiac, although the Stags hold the tiebreaker thanks to their season sweep of the Bobcats.
"I think we've gotten a lot better from our first game," DaCruz said. "I think we've grown as a team as each game as gone on. Individually, I've learned from each game and have tried to take things to the next level. As a team, we might have been underestimated a little bit as far as conference play and I think that we've shown people that we deserve to be in the top three or four teams."
And while her main job is to distribute the ball to keystones Katie Cizynski, Brittany Obi-Tabot and Alexys Vazquez, when the time comes, DaCruz has shown she can light it up, as evidenced by her 19 points against both Maine and Quinnipiac and her 16 against Siena.
"A lot of teams don't really respect my game too much as far as shooting," she said. "They either play off me or they use my defender to double-team either Katie or Obi. So I think when I'm scoring, it lifts the weight from their shoulders because now the other team has to play me and see me as a threat, so that helps Katie and Obi and Lex. It helps us all."
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It's stormy—you might even call it tempestuous—when we meet some characters on a boat (which is a decidedly bad place to be in a storm). We learn that the King of Naples and several of his attendants are on this boat, and that things are going so badly there's not much to do but pray. The boat splits in half and the people float off into the sea.
We cut to dry land and to Prospero, our main character, chatting with his daughter Miranda. We learn that Prospero was the source of the magic that caused the storm that sank this boat, and that he did it for good reason. However, he promises his sweet daughter that nobody was hurt in spite of all the fire, boat-splitting, and drowning that was clearly going on.
Prospero also tells Miranda that it's time she found out that she's a princess. Prospero says he used to be the Duke of Milan until his brother, Antonio, betrayed him and stole the dukedom (with the consent of the King) while Prospero was busy learning magic in his library (not really his job). After all the usurping (which is a great word for stealing positions of power), Prospero and the three-year-old Miranda were shuttled out to the ocean in a wreck of a boat. They ended up on this island, where the ex-Duke has raised his daughter for the last twelve years. However, a star is looking pretty lucky in the sky, so Prospero thinks the time is right for action and revenge.
We briefly meet his two servants. One is a delicate and airy spirit who was imprisoned in a tree by a witch for not being nasty enough (Ariel) and the other is the child of said witch and the Devil (Caliban). Guess who's Prospero's favorite.
Then we learn that mostly all the folks responsible for stealing Prospero's dukedom were on the sinking boat from the beginning of the play, and they're now scattered about the island. Alonso, the King who allowed the wicked Antonio to take Prospero's dukedom, fears he lost his son (the Prince) in the storm. The shipwrecked group—Alonso, Antonio, Alonso's brother Sebastian, and various lesser lords—set off to find Alonso's son, the lost Prince Ferdinand.
Meanwhile, the not-so-lost Prince is alive and convinced that his dad and everyone else from the boat is dead. His grieving is kind of soft-core, since he's already fallen in love with Prospero's daughter Miranda. Prospero accuses the shipwrecked Prince of being a traitor and puts Prince Ferdinand to the hard task of carrying wood. Ferdinand is happy to do this because his newfound love for Miranda makes work seem easy. (Aw.)
On Ferdinand's second encounter with Miranda, he learns her name and promises to marry her. She also declares her love for him, though he is only the third man she has ever seen (the first two are her dad and Caliban, the son of the Devil).
Back with the search party looking for the Prince, everyone feels weary and assumes the guy is dead. A banquet appears in front of the shipwrecked group, set up by silent fairy spirits. Yes, this is weird, but the search party is hungry and wants to eat. Before they can dig in, a scary harpy monster shows up. This freaky harpy (a result of Prospero's magic) says that the sea took Prince Ferdinand in exchange for the wrong Alonso committed against Prospero many years ago.
The harpy also points out that there are three traitors at the table. This traitor comment brings us to an important side-plot: Antonio and Sebastian, thinking Prince Ferdinand is dead, are plotting to murder Alonso so Sebastian can be king. This is messed up because Alonso is Sebastian's brother. Still, Antonio clearly has no conscience; he admits that he's never been bothered by stealing his brother Prospero's dukedom. So, back at the scene with the monster harpy: Alonso is disturbed and repents of his foul deed, but Sebastian and Antonio—not so much.
Switching back to the other group on the island, Prospero now accepts Ferdinand, saying that he was just testing the young man with all that hard labor. Since the Prince has worked (for what? three hours?) carrying heavy wood, he has permission to marry Prospero's daughter.
There is also another side story going on: Caliban has been plotting with the King's drunken butler, Stefano, and jester, Trinculo (also drunk), to murder Prospero so they can rule the island. Caliban (very drunk) pledges to be Stefano's slave and kisses his feet way more than we are comfortable with. The drunken schemers are led off by Ariel playing music. Ariel leaves the group in a pool that smells like the lesser part of a horse to await his master's orders.
The trio eventually gets out of the muck pool and sets off to murder Prospero. However, Prospero sets hounds upon them, and the would-be-murderers run off. Eventually they come back and get made fun of for a bit, at which point Caliban repents and says he'll work to be in Prospero's good graces again.
That being dealt with, Prospero now goes to meet the shipwrecked King & Co. The harpy really shook up the King, so Alonso apologizes to Prospero and returns his dukedom. Prospero doesn't tell the King directly of Antonio and Sebastian's treachery, but neither of the traitors apologize or repent or even shuffle their feet. They don't learn a lesson. However, Prospero starts some banter about how he recently lost his daughter to the tempest too, commiserating with the King. Prospero changes the subject and asks if they'd like to see his cell (the place he lives). He pulls back the curtain covering his dwelling to reveal—you guessed it—two very-much-not-dead children, who are very much in love.
Alonso rejoices to see his son, Ferdinand rejoices to show-off his new girl, and Miranda rejoices at seeing so many dudes—hence the line "O brave new world that has such people in it." Prospero promises to explain most of this eventually. Tonight he'll tell some of his life story and everyone will head back to Naples via ships in the morning. Prospero says he'll watch the kids get married, and then he'll retire to his dukedom in peace. He charges Ariel to make sure the ships get to Naples safely, and then frees him from the servant gig.
During the closing lines, Prospero speaks directly to the audience, and says they can free him from the island with their applause. It's like "clap if you believe in fairies" except it's actually the best playwright in Western history saying goodbye to writing plays. All around, it's pretty intense.


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'Talking Angela' Hoax Propels Game to No. 3 in App Store
Talking Angela is the latest game to make it to the top of the charts in the App Store thanks to an outpouring of social media attention.
But unlike Flappy Bird, the talk around Talking Angela has been decidedly more negative. The game is currently at the center of a massive hoax that claims the app is targeting child users by stealing personal information.
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Talking Angela is one of a series of similar apps made by Outfit7, an entertainment company based in Cyprus. Each game in the series, called Talking Tom and Friends, stars a different animal users can interact with in various ways.
In Talking Angela, players primarily interact with Angela, the cat, by asking and answering questions. Angela uses "chat bot" technology to converse with users. Questions are answered differently based on the age of the user and in-app settings. Players can also "pet" Angela, take quizzes, or turn on their device's front-facing camera and microphone to voice chat with the feline.
Rumors that the app was somehow targeting its child users first cropped up almost exactly a year ago, according to Snopes, a fact-checking site, which debunked the rumors in February 2013:
Since Talking Angela was released in December 2012, rumors about its supposedly unsafe nature have grown and spread to the point that some of the more far-fetched information now circulating about it claims that the app is being used as a recruiting tool for pedophiles or is driven by "hackers" who engage children in live conversations. All of this sort of misinformation is completely unfounded.
Sophos' security blog Naked Security also debunked the rumors at that time. "The truth is that 'Talking Angela' appears to be entirely benign, and there are no obvious privacy concerns that differentiate it from thousands of other iPhone apps," said Naked Security in a blog post.
For reasons that still aren't clear, the rumor returned in full force over the last few days on Facebook and Twitter, where users began posting "warnings" claiming the app was not safe for children. Allegations included claims that the app asks children for personal information like their home address, as well as claims that the game is actually a front for pedophiles targeting children.
"It became so ridiculous, some of the things people were saying, forgetting basic physics," Outfit7's senior brand director Randeep Sidhu told Mashable. "Behind your iPhone screen is not a secret camera in Angela's eye. This is ridiculous."
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The renewed attention surrounding the app has propelled it to the top of the app charts in just a few days. The game, which first launched in the App Store in December of 2012, is currently the No. 3 app overall and No. 1 in the App Store's Entertainment category.
According to App Annie, the app went from being #105 overall app on Feb. 17, to #57 Feb. 18, to #3 on Wednesday, Feb. 20.
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Y'all, DO NOT let any of your kids, Little brothers and sisters, nieces, whatever, download Talking Angela. NOT SAFE
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Outfit7, whose apps have been downloaded more than 1.5 billion times since the company's founding in 2010, has repeatedly emphasized the safety of its products and that rumors swirling around social media are completely unfounded. "As a company that supports family-friendly entertainment we ensure we are protecting personal privacy and offering a safe environment for game-play," the company said in a blog post addressing the issue. The post goes on to detail exactly what types of data the app actually collects:
The app sends anonymized and obfuscated data log files to Outfit7. This data relates to the chat history that cannot be attributed to any individual person and any personal details that are provided voluntarily (e.g. names, addresses, places, etc.) are deleted within the app before they are sent.
Yet the misinformation continues to spread, to the frustration of Sidhu and others at Outfit7. "It's a family company," said Sidhu. "The people who run this company, we're a big family. This negative impression about pedophilia is really upsetting for us."
In our own testing of the app, we were unable to replicate any of the alleged inappropriate responses, even when intentionally saying provocative things. Each time, Angela's reply was completely innocuous, if at times nonsensical.
For example, one user claimed that the app responded in the affirmative when asked whether it sexually assaulted boys. But in our tests, Angela responded to that question with a firm "No! Stop scaring me with those questions!"
Though it's still not clear how the hoax got started, what is clear is how a powerful social media reaction— even a negative one— can cause an app to enter the App Store's top ten virtually overnight.


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Under normal circumstances Democrats would be running congressional campaigns that at least try to create the impression that a sitting Democrat President is heavily involved in and supporting their candidates. This is especially the case for a congressional district that was carved out in the heart of heavily Democratic New York City and gerrymandered in a way that makes it meander through two boroughs in order to maximize election results for Democrats. Yet today, as the sun sets on the NY-9 special election, President Obama remains nowhere to be found. In fact he remains to pariah to the election.
The President's voice has not even injected in to the special election through simple robocalls. Instead, today voters received such communication from former president Clinton and newly elected Governor Andrew Cuomo. In two separate calls made on Monday and Tuesday, both calls highlighted the New York Times' endorsement of Democrat David Weprin over Republican Bob Turner, and focus on jobs and Social Security and try to make the TEA Party the enemy that motivates voters to come to polls and oppose by supporting David Weprin.
Cuomo's call states:
"I've known David for many years, and I've known him to be a leader who stands up for what's right. In Congress he'll stand up for middle class families and he'll fight to preserve Social Security and Medicare. David will bring jobs to New York and get our economy moving. That's why he's also been endorsed by the New York Times,"
Today Former President Clinton's call states:
"The New York Times endorsed David. They support him for the same reasons I do: because he'll stand up for the middle class, he'll support a good program to put Americans back to work, and he'll oppose the Tea Party plan to destroy Medicare"
But New York is not the only place with a special election to fill a vacant House seat. In many ways, today' special elections are the last waves of the 2010 midterm election and they are about to sweep ashore the American political landscape. And much like the original tidal wave of victory that the G.O.P. rode to some of the largest gains of congressional seats in history, this last wave is expected to bring surprises and Republican gains.
In Nevada voters in the second district will be filling the vacancy created by Joe Heller's appointment to the U.S. Senate following Senator John Ensign's May resignation. In that special election Republican Mark Amodei looks to be a slam dunk in what was once considered a tight race but is now considered an impossibility for Democrats to pick up.
But the real story of the day is shaping up to be the special election in New York's 9th congressional district. There, a district that as been held by Democrats since the 1920's is about to fall into Republican hands. And while Republicans have not recently had great success in special elections to fill vacant congressional seats in New York state, NY-9 seems ready to make up for that.
While Turner's victory is not a sure thing, polls and the prevailing winds indicate that he is a likely winner. According to the most recent Public Policy Polling survey the race stands as follows:
- Bob Turner (R) 47%
- David Weprin (D) 41%
- Christopher Hoeppner (S) 4%
- Undecided 7%
But the story here is not merely that a Republican is about to take a seat away from Democrats that they have held for nearly a century, but rather that traditional Democrat constituencies are showing their dissatisfaction with President Obama and are sending a protest vote. Hence the reason for keeping President Obama as far away from this race as humanly possible. That story is explained by a deeper look at the most recent PPP poll of the 9th district. Republican Bob Turner has the support of as many as 29% of the Democrat vote, while Democrat David Weprin has a 58% share. Right there you can see that things are out of whack. Democrats in New York City typically back their Party nominee in numbers approaching 80% or more.
When it comes to Turner, he is receiving 83% of the Republican vote while a mere 10% support Weprin.
But some of the most startling and important stats come from the districts heavy Jewish population and those voters who consider themselves to be independent. In the case of Jewish voters, their dislike for President Obama's policies regarding Israel seem to be so strong, that Weprin, an incumbent Democrat Assembly and orthodox Jew is hemorrhaging support from his own religious community.
Those results are as follows:
Among Jewish Voters
- Bob Turner (R) 56%
- David Weprin (D) 39%
- Christopher Hoeppner (S) 2%
- Undecided 4%
While all elections are mere snapshots of the moment, those type of numbers are the one thing that offer a sure sign of trouble for President Obama in 2012. His handling of Israel is dividing the support the Jewish support that Democrats traditionally receive a large portion of their support from.
As for the all independent vote that is breaking 58% for Repubican bob Turner to Weprin's 26%.
All of these numbers come down to one thing. This election is really not between Turner and Weprin at all. As it turns out the vote is between two sentiments…………..are you happy with the way things are going or are you dissatisfied by President Obama and his liberal policies?
The answer to that question is that voters are pissed. And Democrats know it. As evident in the following numbers from the same PPP poll that has Turner ahead of Weprin, unfortunately for Weprin, it's the President's numbers that are driving this race
Do you approve or disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance?
- Approve 31%
- Disapprove 56%
Among Men
- Approve 27%
- Disapprove 63%
Among Women
- Approve 35%
- Disapprove 49%
Among Jewish Voters
- Approve 26%
- Disapprove 62%
Do you approve or disapprove of Barack Obama's leadership on Israel?
- Approve 30%
- Disapprove 54%
Among Democrats
- Approve 42%
- Disapprove 40%
Among Republicans
- Approve 13%
- Disapprove 78%
Among Independents
- Approve 13%
- Disapprove 66%
Among Jewish Voters
- Approve 22%
- Disapprove 68%
How important was the issue of Israel in deciding who to vote for Congress: very important, somewhat important, or not all that important?
- Very important 37%
- Somewhat important 32%
- Not all that important 29%
- Among Jewish Voters
- Very important 58%
- Somewhat important 30%
- Not all that important 11%
Insofar as the outlook for President Obama in 2012, in 2008 he won the 9th C.D. with 55% of the vote to John McCain's 44% but when asked about the 2012 presidential election, President Obama is not yet anywhere near as strong now.
2012 Presidential Election
- Mitt Romney 46%
- Barack Obama 42%
- Barack Obama 44%
- Rick Perry 43%
Among Jewish Voters
- Mitt Romney 52%
- Barack Obama 38%
- Rick Perry 47%
- Barack Obama 43%
The voters of New York's 9th Congressional District have not suddenly changed ideologies and gone from believing that government doesn't do enough to believing that it does too much. They remain largely supportive of Democrat policies but in the eyes of NY Democrats, there is a disconnect between the President and liberal policies. Right now they are not blaming his ideology for failing them, they are blaming him for failing to do a good job. As such, they are taking their frustrations out on David Weprin. Such sentiments are so much as directly stated in the following video of voters who who turned out for today's election.
That is just one of the reasons why Democrats have not brought President Obama into this district. Apparently, they have learned from the 2010 special election to replace Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate. In that race President Obama was brought in to energize the base and motivate independent Massachusetts voters to turn out and vote for liberal Martha Coakley. As it turned out, they instead stayed home while the rest of angry electorate came out to support Republican Scott Brown and reject Barack Obama.
Now as we head into the 2012 election, NY-9 is showing us that if anything, that sentiment which swept Scott Brown into office has not changed and may have in fact built even more momentum.
Turnout is Critical
Republican Bob Turner can still lose this race. In fact the chances are very good that he will lose. Special elections usually come down to the Get Out the Vote operation and in that area, Weprin and Democrats have that aspect of the election wrapped up. With quite robust Democrat organizations in New York City as compared to the meager Republican organization in New York City, combined with the assistance of concentrated, organized efforts by unions, the Weprin campaign can out organize the Turner campaign. But at the same time anger is a strong motivational tool and the voters of the 9thare angry at President Obama. That could make it so that there are very few voters for Democrat GOTV efforts to drive to the polls.
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It's "kill or be killed" in the reality world, and that's a philosophy former The Bachelor beauty Trish Schneider truly embraced in the new E! movie, The Scorned. If you watched any of Kill Reality — the Real World-like series that captured The Scorned's filming — you've seen Trish trying to scare up some fun on screen while trying not to kill any costars off screen. Considering that the oft-disgusting Jonny Fairplay literally, um, dumped on her bed and she didn't fly off the handle, she did pretty well. TVGuide.com caught up with Trish as she was preparing for the movie to hit the airwaves.
TVGuide.com: Can you talk a little about your Scorned character? We only saw a bit of it on the show.
Trish Schneider: The premise of the movie is that my fiancé (Bachelor's Bob Guiney) and I move into a house. To save money, we let my best friend move in, and Bob winds up hooking up with her. I walk in on them, we have a nasty fight, and I get a fireplace poker slashed across my throat and end up falling into a hot tub — reality TV always has to have a hot tub. As I lie in a comatose state at the hospital, my spirit comes back to haunt the new people who have moved into our house.
TVGuide.com: Are you a horror film fan?
Trish: I am. I don't really watch a lot of TV and I don't watch a lot of movies, either, which is kind of funny. Most people in reality TV watch reality, but I don't.
TVGuide.com: Not having watched much reality TV, did you know any of your housemates going into the project?
Trish: No. I had heard of the different people, but I had never watched any of their shows. I was only familiar with Fairplay because of the whole grandmother thing.
TVGuide.com: Wow, so you really had no idea what you were getting into!
Trish: Nope.
TVGuide.com: We'll get to Fairplay in a minute, but did you make friends with anybody?
Trish: I would say [The Amazing Race's] Reichen and [The Apprentice's] Stacie J. and then [Survivor's] Jenna Morasca.
TVGuide.com: Stacie J. seems to get a bad rap….
Trish: We all get a bad rap in reality TV.
TVGuide.com: Knowing very little about Jonny Fairplay, I'm surprised you didn't kill him by the end of the show!
Trish: After the first time around with The Bachelor, I kind of wanted to keep a low profile on this one. Things would have been a little different if the cameras weren't [documenting the production]. He'll get his in the end — I'm not too concerned. He's a vile individual. I don't understand how he's 32 years old and doesn't have a job.
TVGuide.com: When I saw his "excrement incident," I wondered how an adult human being could do that to another person!
Trish: I don't understand either, but I've got other more important things to worry about than him.
TVGuide.com: Does the Scorned experience make you want to do more acting?
Trish: Yeah. I originally wanted to do movies [so] I wanted to see if I was any good at acting. I might [act more], I might not, you never know. It was such a great opportunity that I couldn't turn down. I was a little bit wary of stepping back into the reality-TV world, but it went hand in hand. I didn't really have a choice. In the end I was on the set every day. Whether you saw me doing stuff or not, I was constantly doing stuff for the movie.
TVGuide.com: Did you learn a lot of behind-the-scenes tips on how to make the movie?
Trish: I model and I do commercials for a living, so I'm used to being on set and being around production. None of that was a learning experience. It was more [about trying to be] challenged.
TVGuide.com: It seems like you're very professional, while some of the other houseguests were in it more to have fun. Did that bother you?
Trish: It's a balance. I just learned to not concern myself with it. At the end of the day, it only matters that I was professional and I showed up on time and did a good job. What other people do is entirely up to them.
TVGuide.com: Do you think people who aren't interested in reality TV will still get a kick out of The Scorned?
Trish: I think it will definitely be entertaining nonetheless. Whether you love everyone or hate everyone, people are going to tune in. I'm hoping by the time it's all put together and edited, with the music added and stuff, it's going to be pretty good.
TVGuide.com: Would you do a sequel if the opportunity presented itself?
Trish: I enjoyed working with the director and the crew and — minus the craziness in the house — I had a lot of fun. I would do it again.


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The last time I voted Republican in a Presidential Election was November of 1984. I was young and naïve at the tender age of 20 and had never voted before, so to say I did not know what I was doing would be fair. At that time, I did not pay much attention to politics, but my father did and he made sure that I knew that a vote against Ronald Reagan would mean I canceled out his vote and us kids all knew we ought not cancel dad's vote. Needless to say, I obediently voted for Ronald Reagan. It would be the last time for the next 32 years of my life I would vote for a Republican—that is, until now.
Having been raised in a staunchly Republican family, one might assume that I would have followed family tradition in my political beliefs and opinions. But between the bleeding heart humanitarian side of me, and the influence of my former die-hard Democratic husband, I never found my way home. Instead, I fell for the smoke and mirrors about the evils of the Republicans versus the "angelic" good blue-collar worker-loving Democrats. I bought into the rhetoric the Left and mainstream media spewed, and believed every false word spoken by them.
Like many, I was enchanted with Bill Clinton's charm and frowned upon anyone who spoke against him and his family. At times, I ardently defended him. As foolish as that was, I am embarrassed to say that my foolishness continued when I voted for Barack Obama not once, but twice. Still in that slumber of naïveté, I stepped into the polling booth in 2012 believing that Obama had America's best interests at heart. All of the problems he had, I thought, were inherited from the previous administration and an uncooperative Congress that was too busy digging in its partisan heels. I fell for the usual finger pointing that has nowadays become commonplace.
I did not expect, four years later, the buyer's remorse that I feel today. Ever since being sworn in on January 20, 2013, there was a subtle shift in the air coming out of Washington and the White House that I could not put my finger on at the time. Let's just say, it was not a good feeling. Something felt off in the country.
Our country has fallen victim to mass shootings of the innocent, regulations of business that choke our economy, Obama's frequent use of executive orders that defy the Constitution, thus defacing it and changing its integrity to fit the Progressive agenda. For the first time in my life, I now carry a handgun for protection because of the last eight years of political malfeasance. We are on the cusp of losing our country forever. Unlike the corrupt Democratic Party and its cronies such as Hillary Clinton, Trump represents a restoration of the America I once knew. All of these actions were designed to prop up a global world order that benefits the Davoisie at the expense of average people.
Particularly galling has been Obama's lecturing the American people about "who we are." To sermonize us as if we are children is bad enough; but then to encourage a politically correct environment has done nothing but encourage more divisiveness and even violence. From what I know about the foundation of this country, that is not "who we are." I hardly recognize the more perfect union I remember from my youth.
Worse, our Congress—the very people who claim they represent their constituents and uphold our Constitution—has betrayed its constitutional duty by tolerating Obama's expansive executive orders with nary a peep. In the last four years, our president and our Congress have systematically deceived the voters who entrusted them to deliberate on our behalf.
Our debt is unsustainable. Poverty has risen, with food stamp use tripling. People who were once considered solidly middle class are now struggling, living paycheck to paycheck. Many have given up looking for work entirely. Government now mandates health insurance with over inflated premiums that no one can afford and then penalizes them when they cannot.
While there is a plethora of reasons to cite why I have no intention of voting for four more years of the Obama agenda, I will list just a few:
- Pardoning dangerous criminals by the hundreds.
- Backroom deals with one of our greatest enemies, Iran, while lying to the American people about the details of the agreement.
- Undermining our First Amendment rights with threats of prosecution should the peasants speak their minds about radical Islam or Muslims in general, while vilifying Christians.
- Corruption run amuck in the IRS, EPA, FBI, and Department of Justice, with blatant, undeniable and unapologetic disregard of our Constitution and the nation's security.
- A Secretary of State who intentionally hid all her government emails on a private server at her residence; and used her position for personal financial gain by offering pay to play to foreign governments that financially support ISIS, which condones rape, murder and the oppression of women.
My paternal grandmother was Gladys Elizabeth Grant. Family lore has always said we are somehow related to the line of Ulysses S. Grant, the great Civil War general and Republican president. Trump has appealed to all the voters based on their humanity. He has rightly, and justly, spoken to the black community that they should come home to the party that broke the bonds of slavery. Trump is the first Republican in my lifetime that has revived the ancient Republican faith—the dedication to the self-evident truth that "all men are created equal."
So yes, for the first time in 32 years, I have decided to vote for our Republican nominee Donald J. Trump. Not because of who he is, not because he is running on the Republican ticket. It is not the man we the people are choosing, it is the movement he represents. He has revived the heart that every true patriot possesses, the love of country and countrymen. It is his patriotic defense of our country by protecting our borders—heck, believing we have borders—and his defense of the Constitution, especially the Second Amendment.
Sadly, my die-hard Republican father passed away two years ago, but two things happened this year that I think would please him beyond words, the Chicago Cubs breaking their 108 year old curse and his daughter returning home to her conservative roots by voting for Trump.


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