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If I had to choose my absolute favorite photograph of Bette Davis, I'd pick one from the 1950s onward, when her face was full of the character that only comes with age, those lantern-bright eyes full of wit and cunning. It's photos like these that tell us why her gravestone reads, "She did it the hard way." For Joan Crawford, an actress who shape-shifted with more aplomb than Madonna, it's not as easy to pick a single photo that encapsulates her defining qualities. The ones that always come to mind when I think of her were taken by legendary photographer Eve Arnold on the set of The Best of Everything in 1959. Taken only a few years prior to the events of Ryan Murphy's newest anthology series, Feud, Arnold took great care to capture the effort required to make Crawford's glamour a reality.
These photographs of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, taken during the autumns of their careers, are able to do what Feud hasn't achieved in its pilot episode. They reveal the women behind the Hollywood icons.
Feud begins with Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the crew hustling around them as they're seen in profile, sitting in the center of the maelstrom. They seem to be having a cordial, perhaps even amusing conversation. Although, who knows? We never hear a word of it. Instead, it's the voice of Olivia de Havilland (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a Hollywood legend in her own right, that sets the stage for Feud's battle of wills.
"There was never a rivalry like theirs. For nearly half a century, they hated each other and we loved them for it," Olivia says. Murphy, who wrote and directed this episode, makes the surprising decision to frame the narrative with Olivia and another classic Hollywood actress, Joan Blondell (Kathy Bates), while they're interviewed for a 1978 documentary about Crawford. Though it remains to be seen how they'll figure into the rest of the season, both Bates and Zeta-Jones feel oddly miscast here. They construct these women as gossamer-thin caricatures whose only purpose is to spout unnecessary exposition. What's most disappointing about this framing device, however, is that it robs Crawford and Davis of the ability to speak for themselves.
When Crawford finally speaks, she's at the 1961 Golden Globes, watching Marilyn Monroe flutter onto the stage to accept an award. With each of Monroe's breathless sighs, Crawford's rancor becomes more apparent. "I've got great tits too, but I don't throw them in everyone's face," she spits to her latest paramour, Peter (Reed Diamond). From there, she gets blisteringly drunk to distract herself from what Monroe represents: her own failing career and age. That's something gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Judy Davis) is all too eager to remind her of the next day. Hopper smells blood in the water and isn't afraid to attack. In this scene, Feud's intentions become apparent: It aims to explore how sexism warps the lives of older women.
Hedda: "Men built the pedestal."
Joan: "Men may have built the pedestal. But it's women who keep chipping away at it until it comes tumbling down."
With Joan's agent offering her little help in getting a good role, she hustles to find her own. That's where the novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? comes into play. Crawford sees potential in this Gothic horror tale of two warring sisters and has-been stars wounding each other with increasing viciousness in their Hollywood home. After Robert Aldrich (a marvelous Alfred Molina) agrees to direct, she sets out to convince the only actress she believes could truly bring the role of Baby Jane Hudson to life.
Meanwhile, Bette Davis is on Broadway, playing a supporting role in the Tennessee Williams play Night of the Iguana. The chilly glances from her co-stars make it apparent she doesn't fit in. There is a nice touch of Davis's face dropping the moment the curtain falls. She swiftly moves offstage, where a lit cigarette and a glass of bourbon are on hand waiting for her.
"They're not making women's pictures anymore, not the kind we used to make," Crawford tells Davis in her dressing room. But Davis is reluctant to team up. Seeing these two women in the same room is a study in contrasts: While others refer to her as "Joan" or "Joanie," Davis is quick to call her "Lucille," reminding Crawford of her real name. But chilliness or no, Crawford has impressive business savvy and understands that Hollywood won't give either of them the roles they deserve. "We need each other, Bette," she says. And she's right.
All the principal players have a lot riding on Baby Jane. Crawford is broke in the wake of her last husband's death — a particularly dire situation, given how her poor upbringing fostered a pathological desire for success. Davis is hungry for a challenging role worthy of her skill. Aldrich is desperate to prove his worth, financially and artistically, as more than just a B-movie director. These are people who live for the art they create. They refuse to be satisfied with the ordinary sunsets the world is handing them. But fighting back isn't easy.
Aldrich goes to studio after studio for funding, only to be met with disparaging remarks. Crawford and Davis are too old, they tell him. The role of the "sexy neighbor girl" should be expanded into the lead, one executive suggests. Aldrich himself is considered unbankable due to recent cinematic failures. His last resort is Jack Warner (a deliriously arch Stanley Tucci). Warner becomes the embodiment for every misogynistic ill that Murphy seeks to critique. He isn't a person, but a symbol. The first words out of his mouth to Aldrich are, "Would you fuck 'em?" (Apparently, all that matters is whether Crawford and Davis are desirable — not their actual talent.) From there, Warner frames himself as Zeus with Davis and Crawford as mere goddesses he gave form to. Davis, who was under contract with Warner Bros., especially evokes his ire. What Aldrich sees as Davis wanting "a say in her own destiny," Warner frames it as selfishness: "That bitch Davis sued me in 1936 to get out of her contract!" His anger reaches a crescendo until he slams his hands onto his desk and angrily proclaims, "The cunt!" Aldrich is only able to persuade Warner to help fund and release the picture by sweetening the deal — but, of course, his troubles are far from over.
While Davis and Crawford are tensely cordial leading up to the filming, the dramatic differences in how they approach acting causes problems on set. Crawford desperately craves Davis's respect. For a moment, she thinks she finally has it after Davis visits her dressing room to make sure they're on the same page about making Baby Jane the best film it can be. But when she also suggests that Crawford "lose the shoulder pads," the old animosity bubbles up. Beauty and the illusory qualities of Hollywood are what Crawford aims for as an actress. For Davis, it's the truth of the character.
We watch as Davis carefully crafts Baby Jane's look: stark white makeup, blood-red lips, a childish dress, a tacky blonde wig. We only see the totality of her transformation when she walks onto the set. She's made Baby Jane into a demented doll. She's a woman trapped in the amber of her childhood. The moment is heightened when a crew member turns a spotlight on her. As she walks onto the set, everyone admires her creation with a mix of horror and awe. The camera stays on Davis's face as she strides, in slow motion no less, with an air of defiance. Crawford is appalled. But Aldrich and the rest of the crew clap, admiring her artistry. That only makes Crawford angrier.
One of the episode's best sequences, surprisingly, has nothing to do with their feud. Instead, it concerns the dissolution of Davis's fourth marriage to fellow actor Gary Merrill (Mark Valley). When Bette comes home, she finds him lounging in her bedroom. The desire and wounds that exist between them are immediately apparent. "I'm the one that needed a wife," she says, as they parse out the reasons their marriage failed. The sequence, which flutters between flashbacks and the present, is remarkably engaging, but it would be far stronger if not framed by Blondell discussing in voice-over how the role of wife and mother is the only one Davis never mastered. The sentiment is already clear enough: For Davis, the professional is the personal.
When Merrill presents Davis with his signed divorce papers, an argument erupts. Their venom eventually gives way to lust and the two end up in bed together. When she later signs the divorce papers in the hushed darkness of her bedroom, looking at Merrill asleep, there is a genuine sense of sorrow and longing. For the first time in the episode, Bette Davis feels real.
In his monumental essay on film, James Baldwin wrote about Davis and her cinematic contemporaries: "One does not go to watch them act: one goes to watch them be." In this first hour of Feud, Sarandon and Lange don't come across as if they're being these actresses, but merely acting as them. The episode does have its share of fun and engaging moments. Whenever Judy Davis saunters across the screen as Hedda Hopper, it's hard to not be enchanted by such a larger-than-life, openly bitchy character. But on the whole, Feud strikes a weird tone between campy excess and a desire for genuine pathos. The campy flourishes, like a piercing string score meant to highlight Crawford's fury at Davis, feel humorless. The more dramatic moments that aim for docudrama realism — particularly Crawford studying her face or complaining with little subtext about her professional options — don't have the depth required to really critique Hollywood's treatment of women. Murphy obviously loves Crawford and Davis, but if this first episode is any indication, he reveres them the way someone would a figure in an old history textbook: with great distance and little humanity.


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| 17th July 2017
How to Use a Japanese Hot Spring Bath (Onsen)
In a country as volcanic as Japan, hot springs are everywhere - from the beaches to the mountains via every little town and village in between. Bathing in them isn't just a pleasant pastime, it's a ritual that's close to the heart of Japanese culture - and like many things in Japan there is a correct way to do it that is rigorously adhered to.
Cultural etiquette to enjoying a traditional Onsen
Though the cultural etiquette is important, there's no need for foreigners to Japan to be nervous about visiting Japanese bathhouses - and every reason to be brave and take the plunge. Yes, you have to be naked (gasp!) - but the strangeness of it all quickly goes away as you realise that this is not in the slightest bit unusual to any of your fellow bathers.
To help you know how to approach your first hot spring bath in Japan, we've put together this video guide. Follow it step-by-step and you'll be a pro in no time!
Ask almost anybody at InsideJapan Tours what their favourite memory of Japan is, and they will probably list the people, the food, and the onsen. In fact, ask any Japanese person and their answer will probably be the same. Yet for such a well-loved pastime, onsen are probably the scariest part of Japanese culture for most foreigners. But don't worry - here's our handy guide!


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How to Pick the Right Doctor
Categories: Chiropractic Care, Health Care
Choosing a doctor is one of the more important decisions that you will face in your life, especially if you have health issues that require specialized attention. Simply opening the Yellow Pages and finding the first doctor who specializes in the field you need is not a good idea, but neither is going without quality healthcare while you do your research. It is important to learn how to choose the right doctor for your needs, both from a long-term and short-term perspective.
Use a Direct-Search Approach
The Internet is an amazing tool for this type of research, both for long-term and short-term care needs. You can research by a variety of factors, such as specialization or area of expertise, age range of patient (such as pediatrician versus adult practitioner), location of the office, and more. For instance, use a major search engine such as Google to look up the phrase Scottsdale whiplash injury chiropractor. Instead of listings that deal with pediatrics, oncology, dentists, and ophthalmologists, your have limited your results to whiplash injury chiropractors located in the Scottsdale area.
The direct-search approach means entering exactly what is needed in the search field, based upon what is appropriate for your needs. If you cannot find something exact, broaden your terms just enough to find what is needed — without becoming so vague that you have no idea what you are looking at. Once you find several potential doctors that are suitable for you, use other methods to narrow down the selections based on location, experience, or other factors that matter most to you.
Use a Word-of-Mouth Approach
Another option is to go by what people around you suggest, such as by asking for referrals from friends or acquaintances with the same or similar medical conditions as you. If you live in an area with a lot of friends and family, you can rely on their opinions and quickly determine who you should see and who you should probably avoid. However, not everyone has a word-of-mouth source, especially those who are new to an area or country, so this is not always the easiest approach.
In addition, what works very well for one person may not work at all for another one and this can be a problem in the medical industry. Your friend may see someone who treats them in a manner that works very well for them, but that medical professional may be someone with whom you would have a hard time working. Keep this in mind as you go for your initial consultation, and do not be afraid to seek a second opinion if what you are hearing does not sound appropriate based upon your symptoms or medical history.


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In vitro characterization of two hairpin ribozymes that cleave HIV-1 RNA
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The hairpin ribozyme has been shown to cleave several heterologous RNA targets. In this thesis two hairpin ribozymes were shown in vitro to cleave two separate RNA sequences that are expressed by the virus in vivo. In vitro ...
Advances in hairpin ribozyme design for gene therapy
(Northern Illinois University, 1993)
Use of catalytic RNAs (ribozymes) as anti-viral therapeutics is currently being studied by several laboratories. The hairpin ribozyme has been designed to target HIV-1 and it is currently being optimized for use in gene ...


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Li'l Quinquin
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- director: Bruno Dumont
- actor: Alane Delhaye Bernard Pruvost Cindy Louguet Lucy Caron Philippe Jore Philippe Peuvion
- writer: Bruno Dumont
An improbale, screwball and slapstick police procedural focusing on bizarre crimes on the outskirts of a small Channel Town in the Boulonnais that has fallen prey to evil, and to an band of young scoundrels led by Li'l Quinquin and his beloved Eve. [Synopsis courtesy of Director's Fortnight]
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Hi,Is there an MLO for the BeagleBone Black yet which can load a kernel from ffs? I'm using MLO and u-boot.img from this page:
http://people.freebsd.org/~dmarion/beaglebone/creating_bootable_sd_card/ Why is the kernel compiled with: load addr: 0x80300000 entry point: 0x80300000 yet when I try to load and boot the kernel there, it fails: U-Boot# fatload mmc 0:1 80300000 netbsd.ub reading netbsd.ub 2998016 bytes read in 344 ms (8.3 MiB/s) U-Boot# bootm 80300000 ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80300000 ... Image Name: NetBSD/beagle 6.99.23 Image Type: ARM NetBSD Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 2997952 Bytes = 2.9 MiB Load Address: 80300000 Entry Point: 80300000 Verifying Checksum ... OK XIP Kernel Image ... OK OK ## Transferring control to NetBSD stage-2 loader (at address 80300000) ... data abort MAYBE you should read doc/README.arm-unaligned-accesses pc : [<80300008>] lr : [<9f35b654>] sp : 9f238db0 ip : 0000000f fp : 9f239818 r10: 9f3ad780 r9 : 00000002 r8 : 9f238f40 r7 : 00000000 r6 : 00000002 r5 : 9f3a1235 r4 : 80300000 r3 : 9f3a1235 r2 : 9f3a1235 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 9f238fe0 Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Resetting CPU ... resetting ...When I load and run from 0x81000000, it works... So what's the relationship between the NetBSD kernel's load address and entry point and u-boot's load address and start address?
I'm trying to make sense of all of this because the GNU/Linux documentation assumes the world is GNU/Linux and doesn't talk about the BeagleBone except assuming that the OS is already booted, plus there is no NetBSD documentation and the only mentions of NetBSD on BeagleBone Black just say it boots, not how to set up a working system. I suppose a HOW-TO is in order, which I'll do when I've gotten mine working.
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Vienna: As long as bombs fly, nobody flies here!
As part of the #Riseup4Rojava campaign, the Turkish Airlines counter at Vienna Airport has been blocked.
At Vienna International Airport, a protest was staged at the check-in counter of Turkish Airlines against the war in Kurdistan and Syria. Activists from the Kurdish freedom movement, from feminist, ecological and anti-fascist groups and from the peace movement have joined forces for the action "because we can no longer bear the war that Erdoğan is waging in Kurdistan and Syria with the support of NATO states. And because we know that neither the Turkish state nor its supporters can be diverted from their war course by appeals to humanity. Actions are now called for," a press release said.
"Our protest action is part of the campaign RiseUp4Rojava and only one of many actions against enterprises, which support the war of Erdoğan.
Why are we protesting against Turkish Airlines? Blood is on the hands of the company's bosses. Turkish Airlines is very closely associated with the AKP, parts of the company are in state hands. The company has recently reaffirmed that it is behind the fascist war of aggression against the self-governing region of Northeast Syria/Rojava.
This war is directed not only against the democratic structures that were built up there and against the women's movement in the region, but also against the Kurdish and Christian population that are sought to be expelled and assimilated. Several hundred thousand people have already had to flee Syria before Erdoğan's advance, while thousands have been injured and killed.
We will not allow the supporters and profiteers of the war to work and live in peace in Vienna. We will continue to build up pressure, until the governments of Europe clearly position themselves against the war and the war is stopped."


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Google Tag Manager has tremendous value, lessens the resource load on IT, gives the marketer more freedom to add tools, and prevents decreases in page load speed.


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Yeah, we're a couple days after the actual solstice. But it was a nice day, school is out, there's a lull in the job hunt, and the Chicago Cubs activated beatdown mode, so here ya go.
First of all, welcome to the big leagues, Mark Zagunis:
The #Cubs today made the following roster moves: pic.twitter.com/9nLN5iIo5K
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 22, 2017
I think having an extra pitcher is temporary; they'll try to work in Ben Zobrist or another position player soon.
After Jake Arrieta's infield single to open the scoring, the newest Cub got his first RBI and first stolen base. Later on, Kris Bryant whipped out the boomstick:
No. 16 for No. 17. #KBoom#VoteBryant: https://t.co/gdRdxZdk6d pic.twitter.com/JVkW4GdPGS
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 23, 2017
Addison Russell and Willson Contreras would later add bombs of their own to increase the Cubs' tally. Contreras also had a nice throw to erase a would-be base stealer at third base. You can check out the highlight reel at the link in the tweet:
Watch @WContreras40 go yard in the 6th: https://t.co/BfBy653EEO pic.twitter.com/tfBveWEXiz
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 23, 2017
Ian Happ, in addition to his four hits, had himself a stolen base, upon further review:
It's been a while since we've had an easy victory for the Cubs, a combination of good hitting, good pitching, and good defense, so let's enjoy it while we can. I'm sure we'll see more, though.
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Stevens County prepares for higher state school taxes starting 2018
Residents living in the Colville School District can expect lower taxes come 2019
Come 2018, taxpayers all over Washington state will notice a change in their property tax rates as the state works to fund public education.
In order to fully fund public education, this year the Washington State Legislature passed a two-year budget for $43.7 billion that called for increases in property taxes, as mandated by the Washington State Supreme Court. The 2007 lawsuit, McCleary v. State of Washington, argued the state was not fulfilling its constitutional obligation to fund public education, which the courts agreed. In 2012, the Legislature was ordered to come up with the funding for public education and to fix the current funding system. The justices ruled, "Pouring more money into an outmoded system will not succeed."
The result was a $6.6 billion dollar increase in the state budget for public education over the next four years, starting in 2018.
Stevens County Assessor John Olson said the Department of Revenue has already given assessors instructions on how to proceed. And while the exact impact in Stevens County is unknown "the bottom line is the state school levy is going up."
There is no guaranteed what the tax rate will be until all county assessors finalize and certify all property values, which will happen in January or February, but based on averages, Olson has an idea of what taxpayers should prepare for.
Read the full story in the Nov. 1, 2017 edition of the Statesman-Examiner, available online here Tuesday afternoon.


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Top 35 Amazing 3D Nail Designs
Are you looking for manicure ideas that are extra glamorous and dramatic, that take "fancy," "pretty," and "cute" to a whole new level? Then you should rise above and beyond normal polish, gel, or acrylic looks, and try out some 3D nail art! These 3D nail designs range from very simple to artistically intricate, and they all make such a statement.
We've put together a gallery of the top 35 3D nail designs for you to use as inspiration the next time you need to your manicure to cause others to take a second look and wow the crowd anywhere you go. 3D nail art takes a considerable amount of time to perfect, but the beautiful designs that result are very worth the effort, wouldn't you agree?
Basic is very beautiful
Here are some easy 3D nail designs that are relatively quick to accomplish, thanks to simple color schemes and repetitive designs. Don't forget that simplicity can be sophisticated, and that's what we believe these manicures are.
These simple manicures prove that you can add a pretty bow to anything for a very cute, textured look.
Here are some very simple designs for when you're short on time, but still need a strong and sleek manicure.
Go bold and black with these 3D nail designs
The 3D nail art in this section is perfect for the strong and independent woman, someone who knows what she wants and where she's going. The black and white, black and nude, or black and gold color schemes make for very sophisticated, sexy, and some may say even royal, looks!
Soft, pastel colors make for very pretty manicures
Need you manicure to exude a lovely and cute vibe? Use pretty pastel colors to soften up any outfit or overall look! These 3D nail designs are perfect for springtime or daytime events, such as brunches, picnics, or fancy lunches.
Weddings are the perfect occasions to flaunt chic 3D nail art designs
These white and nude nails are absolute perfection. Gorgeous and elegant, they're perfect to wear to a wedding, fancy event, or prom night. These 3D nails suit any fancier occasion or event where you need a mature, sophisticated look! They feature soft colors, whites, pearls, and delicate rhinestones for a manicure fit for a princess.
Wedding nails can colored as well! This rosy design is fit for a queen, or a fashionable blushing bride!
Flowers make for extremely beautiful 3D nail art!
There's no reason to restrict flowers to two-dimensional nail designs. Petals so much more beautiful when they're allowed to shine in a three-dimensional form! You'll feel so pretty and elegant flaunting these feminine looks.
These manicures make us feel closer to the ocean
The 3D nail art in this section is inspired by beautiful shell patterns. Perfect for summertime looks, you'll feel very beachy and breezy if you take ideas from these photos! Shells can be so elegant, don't you think?
This 3D nail design was inspired by fish scales! Mesmerizing, right?
Want something unique and different? Here are some fun, playful 3D nail designs!
Let the inner child in you out with these modern and whimsical manicures. They're colorful, bold, and extremely unique. These 3D nail designs make for great conversation starters, and you'll be sure to gain lots of admirers while flaunting them.


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Chemotherapy on Methylation Patterns in Breast Tumor Tissue Correlating With Clinical Response and Outcomes
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00698477
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified June 2008 by National University Hospital, Singapore.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : June 17, 2008
Last Update Posted : June 17, 2008
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Primary Objectives
To identify hypermethylated genes in paired pretreatment breast tumor tissue and plasma samples from locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer patients using a known gene panel which includes APC1, Cyclin D2, RARB, RASSF1A, Twist, Hin1 and GSTP1.
Rationale: We and others have determined the optimal panel of genes that are able to detect free DNA in plasma and serum. We will determine if the same panel of genes is effective for detecting tumor DNA in the plasma of locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer patients. Further, to determine if the methylation profile of the plasma DNA for these genes is the same or different from the primary tumor at presentation, we will analyze the primary tumor DNA from fresh frozen samples.
- To identify methylation pattern changes in the same subset of patients' plasma samples at 24 hours after completion of cycle 1 of chemotherapy and within 24 hours before cycle 2.
Rationale: The optimal timing of sampling for methylation analysis that is reflective of the tumors response to chemotherapy is not known. How soon methylation changes are observed, whether they are high within 24 hours, as that tumor responds to chemotherapy, or whether changes can be observed only some time after one cycle of chemotherapy will be studied. (3) To also identify methylation pattern changes in breast tumor tissue after one cycle of chemotherapy.
Rationale: To look for a correlation with plasma methylation patterns
Secondary Objectives
(1) To correlate our observed patterns of methylation pre- and post-treatment with clinical parameters such as clinical and/or radiological response and patient outcome.
|Condition or disease
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In advanced breast cancer, it is often difficult to predict which patients will respond favorably to systemic therapy to decide on treatment duration or options while minimizing exposure to toxic effects. Our goal is to examine using locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer tumor tissue and plasma, the methylation profile patterns pre- and post chemotherapy of a panel of biomarkers most commonly expressed in breast cancer and correlate them with tumor response and patient outcome.
Our hypothesis is that DNA methylation pattern changes at baseline and early into a course of systemic therapy can predict disease response or progression as well as survival. In the long term, this could prove clinically useful in limiting exposure to ineffective regimens and allowing earlier identification of more effective systemic therapy.
Core biopsies of breast tumor tissue are taken at baseline and after cycle 1 of docetaxel/ketoconazole. Plasma samples are drawn at baseline, 24 hours after cycle 1 chemotherapy and 24 hours before cycle 2. Thirty patients' specimens (60 core biopsies and 90 plasma samples) will be utilized. Quantitative multiplex methylation-specific PCR will be used for analyses of several tumor suppressor genes including APC1, Cyclin D2, RARB, RASSF1A, Twist, Hin1 and GSTP1. From this data, we will identify a preliminary gene panel associated with breast cancer which undergoes the most changes in methylation following systemic therapy. Thirty paraffin-embedded healthy tissue samples from mastectomy specimens and blood samples from unaffected individuals will serve as normal controls.
This preliminary study can be used to determine the clinical utility of DNA methylation in breast tumor tissue and plasma as a predictive marker for response to chemotherapy and a prognostic marker for patient outcome. If a relationship is found, we can then further study if the change in methylation pattern has clinical utility in influencing therapeutic decision-making which may be further expanded to the adjuvant setting..
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The Sea Witch
Other Editions of This Title:
Paperback (10/29/2013)
Compact Disc (5/8/2012)
Stephen Coonts weaves three unforgettable tales of men and women at war, with the sort of dramatic military action and undercover technology for which he is known. Included in this collection are:
"The Sea Witch "
When young Dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he's reassigned to a Black Cat squadron as the co-pilot of a giant Catalina seaplane, "The Sea Witch. "He's thrown into a whole new world, where a Catalina carries five tons of bombs, a half-dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a fine line between valor and a death wish.
A daring night bombing mission against Rabaul forces the crew of "The Sea Witch "to band together as never before. Each man will soon find out what he's made of..and not everyone will make it back alive.
"The 17th Day "
Seventeen days the average life expectancy of a British Aviator during WWI.
Last three weeks, and you were practically a veteran.
Paul Hyde dropped out of college to join the Royal Flying Corps, looking for a grand adventure. And grand it was, or so he assured himself when planes were crashing all around him.
Today is his seventeeth day. Will be he be able to beat the odds?
"Al Jihad "
Charles Dean is retired from the military, determined to be done with that part of his life. But when Julie Girard, the daughter of his old commander, seeks him out, he can't say no to a simple lunch.
What she has in mind isn't quite so simple.
She wants Dean to help her kill the terrorists who murdered her parents. She offers him three million dollars and the chance to avenge his commander's death.
But all is not as it seems, and before long Dean and Girard must use all their skills just to stay alive...
This novella collection gathers these three evocative tales from "New York Times" bestselling author Stephen Coontsinto one cohesive volume. Here is Coonts doing what he does best--writing about men and women at war.
Praise For The Sea Witch…
"Coonts knows how to write and build suspense . . . a natural storyteller."--The New York Times Book Review
"The Sea Witch is a triple play of classic Stephen Coonts tales: No one writes more forcefully of warriors whose missions and dreams take flight. It's always a treat to have Coonts in print again, but this book's one of a kind."--Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Cain at Gettysburg and The Officers' Club
"Great entertainment comes in threes. Stephen Coonts, the master of the military suspense thriller, delivers you three nights of fevered page-turning in three terrific novellas, set in three amazing periods of American history. Don't miss it." -- William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Annapolis and The Lincoln Letter
"Stephen Coonts has an absolute lock on the secret of good story telling: He knows interesting people in harm's way so well that the reader has no choice but to care for them. And in the case of The Sea Witch and other stories in this fine collection, it's obvious he knows airplanes just a well. My only disappointment was that the stories ended--I wanted more."--David Hagberg, New York Times bestselling author of Abyss
Forge Books, 9780765332318, 256pp.
Publication Date: May 8, 2012


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NORTHAMPTON – At a time of national political debate over whether to put money and time into sustainable energy efforts, the Hampshire Council of Governments has created a new job coordinating such efforts for member towns.
Eric L. Weiss was appointed by the council to work on sustainable energy issues for the towns. Weiss is the administrator for the Hilltown Resource Management Cooperative, which runs recycling and waste management programs for seven towns.
The boards of directors of the Resource Cooperative and the Hampshire Council of Governments have agreed to have Weiss continue in his current job as he takes on the new one, splitting his time in a way that will have him work half-time for each.
"I am confident I can meet both roles," Weiss said.
The council of governments wants to take a leadership role in promoting sustainable energy use, said Todd Ford, executive director of the council.
"As an organization, we recognize that support for sustainability is very strong in this region, but there does not seem to be a lot of centralized leadership on this issue," Ford said.
"We are not a regulator, so, we do not necessarily plan on entering into a debate on regulation. We do plan on looking at sustainability not only as a quality of life issue, but as an economic development issue," Ford said.
"When I look at sustainability, I do not see it as that battle between going green and making money, I see it as one and the same," Ford said.
The Hampshire Council of Governments took over the job of providing regional services when it replaced the Hampshire County government in 1999. There are now 13 member towns, who take part in cooperative purchasing, health care and other regional services, and the council also sells electricity to more than 100 communities and school systems through Hampshire Power. That enterprise, has started a process for selling electric power to residential customers.
Weiss is also chairman of the Springfield Materials Recycling Facility Advisory Board chairman of the Pioneer Valley Sustainability Network and chairman of the Belchertown School Committee.
He said the new job is a good match for someone with his background.
"Between the effects of climate change and having only a finite amount of accessible resources we need to become more sustainable on a local, regional, and global basis. We need to use less and pollute less and I am excited to create programs and services through the Council that can help meet this goal," Weiss said.
Expanding recycling efforts and opportunities for solar energy installation are among the goals Weiss will be tackling in the new job, along with helping Hampshire Power increase the amount of electricity purchased from renewable sources.


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Lexus announced that the redesigned 2013 ES 350 will start at $36,100 (plus an $895 destination fee) when it hits showroom floors next month. Toyota's luxury brand points out that the new ES 350's base price is 1.7 percent less than the outgoing 2012 model, which starts at $36,725.
Luxury hybrid shoppers will also have a new option in August, as the all-new 2013 Lexus ES 300h will be sold alongside the redesigned ES 350 with a base price of $38,850. Lexus says that at $2,750 more than the non-hybrid model, the ES 300h has "the lowest hybrid premium in the Lexus line-up." Still, competitors like Lincoln sell the 2012 MKZ and MKZ Hybrid for the same base price.
While the outgoing ES 350 shares its platform with the midsize 2012 Toyota Camry, Automobile Magazine reports that the 2013 ES 350 shares its DNA with the larger 2013 Avalon. Ten airbags, a backup camera, a moonroof, NuLuxe vinyl seats, Bluetooth and an eight-speaker stereo with a USB port and satellite radio are among the 2013 ES 350's standard features. Notable options include heated seats and navigation, as well as pre-collision, lane departure, rear cross traffic alert and blind-spot monitoring systems.
Cars.com reports that the 2013 ES 350 carries the same 268-horsepower, 3.5-liter V6 as the 2012 model, but the ES "gets a little longer for 2013 and now uses the brand's new spindle grille and a revised suspension." The new ES 300h features a 2.5-liter four-cylinder Atkinson cycle engine. The ES 300h produces a combined 200 horsepower and features an EV mode which allows it to travel short distances solely on electric power.
The EPA reports that the 2013 ES 350 gets 21/31 mpg city/highway, which is an improvement compared with the 2012 model's 19/28 mpg estimates. The new 2013 ES 300h gets 40/39 mpg city/highway, which is comparable to similarly-powered cars like the 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid.
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IISD-ELA is an exceptional natural laboratory comprised of 58 small lakes and their watersheds set aside for scientific research.
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:46:40PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Speed. > [...] > > encrypted. But this actually does _not_ slow things down: the Linux disk > > cache is sensibly caching the decrypted data, so often-used stuff from > > /bin and /lib happily remains in already-decrypted cache. The > > interesting stuff from /usr is generally too large and too seldomly used > > to remain cached. > This was brought up last time this came up on -devel. And I think it kind > of misses the point. > You are encrypting / and not encrypting /usr. That's fine. But > it's a workaround. It's not addressing the *real* goal, which is > to encrypt /etc. > That is to say, /usr is a split of /convenience/. The real solution > would be to have /etc as a separately-mounted encrypted filesystem. > So really, keeping /usr separate is a different issue, IMHO. This > isn't a reason to keep the /usr split, it's a reason to support > mounting an encrypted /etc in the initramfs. Such a solution would > also satisfy those that want a read-only root but writable /etc for > admin convenience. This is just not true. If you care about encrypting /etc, you frequently also care about the integrity of /sbin/init so that an attacker can't compromise the whole system, /bin/login and /lib/security so they can't intercept passwords, and so forth. Encrypting the root filesystem provides this integrity checking; while encryption per se is not required, there aren't really any usable signing-only methods at present for authenticating the root filesystem, so if you want to protect against your rootfs having been hijacked, making sure it's encrypted seems to be the way to do it at present. (This assumes that you have signature checking on your initramfs of course, which is a pain in its own right, or that you keep your initramfs on removable media that remains under your control even when the laptop is out of sight; and that if you have /usr as a separate, unencrypted partition, that you do some kind of signature checking on that - perhaps via debsums.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com
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The stories you tell yourself repeatedly will eventually define who you are and what you become.
It is up to you tell stories that are either empowering or dis-empowering.
Empowering stories give you the confidence and the energy to follow through – even in the face of adversity.
Dis-empowering stories perpetuate fear and worry.
If you find yourself caught up in making excuses for why things aren't going your way or blaming and resenting others for your own unhappiness, chances are you are stuck in a dis-empowering story. Re-writing the story to be empowering might not be easy but it is in your control to do so.
Here's a short video from Tony Robbins on stories, using Steve Jobs as an example:
For another example of someone who has chosen to write the story of her life as an empowering tale, see my previous post on 108 year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor Alice Summer.


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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) – As she sat in the kiss-and-cry area awaiting the marks, Yura Min already had tears rolling down her cheeks. And when she saw the short dance numbers from the judges for her and partner Alexander Gamelin, she bawled like a baby.
The two Americans who are representing South Korea in these Olympics – Min has Korean heritage and Gamelin passed a citizenship test to become eligible, in part by reciting the country's national anthem – got 61.22 points Monday, enough to make the cut for the free dance. They were 16th out of 20 couples.
"Oh my God," she exclaimed. "I knew it would be tough to qualify for the free dance and there is such a deep field here. The best dancers in the world are here.
"All we could ask for was to put out our best performance, and we did. It's the most amazing feeling."
Min, from California, and Gamelin, of Long Island, have skated together since 2015 after he spent a decade competing with his twin sister. The connection with Min worked immediately, and the duo finished 20th at last year's world championships.
Now, they are the host country's ice dance team in the Olympics.
"Having done this, it's absolutely awesome," Min said.
"The energy from the crowd gave us that extra burst," Gamelin added.
Min famously had a wardrobe malfunction during the team short dance, with a hook popping at the beginning of the routine. She continued, keeping the costume up for the entire program despite having thoughts of stopping.
"I was wondering, 'should we keep going?'" she recalled. "But it's the Olympics, so you keep going."
No such worries this time, and she's thrilled to be remembered for something else at these games.
"The worst part is sitting there waiting for the score," she said. "We knew we skated well, but was it good enough."
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Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday that the 91-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was transported to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. However, it did not give details of his condition.
Philip was hospitalized for five days in June with a bladder infection .
He later resumed his royal duties, attending the opening ceremony of the Olympics on July 27 and carrying out engagements on the Isle of Wight on Monday.
Philip married the queen in 1947. The former naval officer's health remained robust through his 80s, but he has appeared frailer in recent years.
When he turned 90, he said he was "winding down," and he has cut back on official duties. But he still carries out some engagements, both with his wife and on his own.
Philip spent four nights in the hospital over Christmas after suffering chest pains and underwent a successful coronary stent procedure.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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it's time to be yourself.
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it's time to be yourself.
Be yourself, and do not imaging
Two faces of the people are the one people who has a two souls
Be the real you.
Double faced
One body, two souls.
So what if I'm everybody's pet, huh?
No one would get hurt...!!
Be the real you..Don't act with a fake face for someone else who don't understand you.
Threw the sorrow and smile for a better happy life.
time to be real,take the mask with full of sorrow away!!!!!
Done faking. It's time for something real :D
hubba-hubba! ;)
Got stuffy inside!!!
Who do you think I am? I am that kind of girl:D
We're not what you think.
"I'm a lier, so what?"
"So bad...!!"
"Fake people don't surprise me anymore.
Loyal people do."
A good quote. Isn't it?.
Are you shocked. Ha ha!!
It's really me! :D
This picture says that we all need to strip away all disguises to be ourselves and make no disguise of feelings.
Have you done a shooting, darling??
I especially like my face under the mask! ;)
I don't like to be myself in front of other people so I just pretend to be someone else. Is that OK?
I don't think it's a good idea....unless you earn money as an entertainer in a show-biz.
You might want to reflect on yourself :) ✨
No. Nope!
The mask doesn't work... enought to pretend to be someone I'm not.
I need to get a thicker skin!
I wonder how many people can trust my two faces.
At least, a sensible man wouldn't approach me.
All my friends are birds of a feather...!!
He he he :)
Birds of a feather..... :)
That's cool!
In the world has seven trillions people but there are fourteen trillions faces.
Obviously, I'm a double-dealing, which means inconsistency between my words and my deeds.☆
I think this is tolerabe as long as the two faces are identical; if they become totaly different at some time....., I imagine it's scary..,,,! I think I need time to understand what happened!
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A hotel dedicated to couples, an ideal spot for a romantic escape.
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360 Secure Browser download Introduction:
360 Secure Browser is a free web-browser that lets you browse faster and securely. The latest version of 360 Secure Browser comes with both Internet Explorer and webkit engines to enhance your web-experience. It is now available free to download on your computer and experience the safest browsing experience with lots of customizable options. 360 Secure Browser has some new features equipped such as dual engines, ad-filter, video pop-out and secure browsing environment.
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There are several browsers available in the market and the best like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox are most popular amongst all. Every browser has its own quality, shape and functions that helps the user to choose the default browser from the web. Since the majority of persons using Google Chrome or Mozilla as default browser there is a new browser known as 360 Secure Browser which is leading its own path. 360 secure browser is a new browser with various options and packed with features to ensure secure environment for browsing.
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The user Interface of 360 secure browser is pretty looking with the accessed pages are displayed as thumbnails whenever user opens a new tab. With multiple engines in 360 secure browser applications, it allows you to switch between IE and webkit modes depending on the websites we visited. There is an integrated advertisement blocker that hides all web and pop-up ads on Internet. It also detects and blocks phishing attempts with a dedicated filter options while you visit the sites. There are also some other features like bookmark option, download manager and mouse control support.
Download the latest version of 360 Secure Browser to your PC and makes your browsing safe and more comfort. The latest version now includes a cloud based download scanner, tabbed search with quickly switching and an updated Chrome store.


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CFugue Beta Released!!
CFugue, meaning Carnatic Fugue or the C/C++ replacement
of JFugue, is a high level Music Programming Library. CFugue
makes it possible to play music notes directly from C/C++ programs, without ever
having to deal with the low-level MIDI complexities. This library provides a simple
abstraction that lets you concetrate on programming the music rather than
worry about the MIDI nuances. Provides features that makes it possible to use this
library directly from many platforms, including but not limited to ASP pages, .Net
applications and even non-Windows based systems.
For usage samples and further details, please refer to the rich and detailed documentation or download.
Additional Release: PlayByEar!!
This is a simple application that lets music learners improve their Play-By-Ear
capabilities of Music. With support for over 100 different instruments, users will
be able to practice identifying the notes of their own favourite instrument.
For the first time in the world, this is a single application that seamlessly supports
both Western and Carnatic Music Notations. The application is designed around simple
Question/Answer paradigm. It plays (poses) a series of notes that the user has to
identify (using the Virtual Keyboard Control provided on the application Window).
The questions are designed around the concepts of reinforced learning paradigm.
With questions designed to be set at multiple levels of difficulty, users of all
levels (from beginners to advanced) should be able take advantage of the application
starting at their own level of Music Knowledge. The scoring system is based around
advanced behavioral learning patterns that captures users' Music recognition capabilities
through different metrics that help them immensly with progressive learning.
Read the UserManual.html (available in the download) for more details on how to
use the application and the various ratings/scoring details.
Project Information
This is the CFugue Music Programming Library project ("cfugue")
This project was registered on SourceForge.net on Apr 16, 2009.
The final goal is to provide a C/C++ API for programming music. Hiding the complexity
of MIDI, the library offers high-level programming for music notes. Offers features
to directly start working on Music Notes such as C, D, E etc… Works with Western
and Carnatic music alike.


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Best of
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Science ain't always sweet. (We've seen it tank the GPA of many a promising liberal arts student.) But in the case of Sweet Science founder and chef Ashlee Olds, it's never been sweeter. Olds puts her food science background to work, concocting small-batch, creative flavors with organic sugar and real fruit. It's a time-intensive undertaking that pays big dividends when it comes to creating bold, flavorful frozen treats. In the last year, the scoop shop—once available only at pop-ups and in grocery store freezer aisles—has debuted two brick-and-mortar locations of its own, meaning this gourmet ice cream is easier to find than ever. Stop by Keg and Case and get a flight, because you'll want to sample at least five flavors. Or ten.
Readers' Choice: Izzy's Ice Cream


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A project aimed at collecting the stories of Aboriginal soldiers from South Australia who enlisted during the First World War.
19 November 2011
New name - Stanley Livingstone Copley
A new name was added to the list today, 1975 Private Stanley Livingstone Copley of Plympton who served in France with the 1st Division Motor Transport Company. That brings the total to 33 South Australian Aboriginal soldiers with active service in the First World War.
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- AnonymousJune 6, 2013 at 9:32 PM
I'm a relative of Stanley Livingstone Copley (1975) and am unaware of him having any aboriginal heritage (not saying there isn't any but am interested to know if there is).
Could you please post your references regarding this.
As far as I go back his father was George Copley of Sussex England and his mother was Louisa Teakle a South Australian local.
Thank you.
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's fingers may have been his undoing. At the height of the uprising that toppled the Gaddafi family kleptocracy, Saif used his forefinger to warn the "jihadist rats" that they faced retribution from his lunatic father.
Isolated since last week in a Zintan prison cell, Saif's thumb and two fingers are heavily bandaged, after the onset of gangrene. This followed injuries sustained in what he called a "Crusader Nato" airstrike on his escape convoy for, with the aid of a dense beard and a turban, Saif had recently taken to impersonating a rebel jihadi. But others claim that Saif's vengeful captors took the first opportunity to slice off the wagging fingers with a commando knife.
There will probably be one final incarnation of Engineer Saif – as he was portentously addressed by Tony Blair – when he faces the trial of his life in a country that still has the death penalty. For the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has pronounced himself satisfied that Saif, who threatened to engulf the rebels in "rivers of blood" while brandishing a machinegun, will get a fair trial in Libya.
Inevitably, this will be followed avidly by the world's media, which has no doubt already begun its search for a phrase to match "the banality of evil" coined during the Eichmann trial. In Saif's case, words like "hollow man" or "spoiled playboy thug" come to mind.
Although the nature of Saif's character may be clear, many prominent figures in Britain eagerly accepted, and in large part created, a delusional simulacrum of him: Saif the modernising reformer, a latterday Edward VIII in what was not a hereditary monarchy.
This is merely a modernised version of the delusions many elite Britons maintained towards "noble" Bedouins in the days of Empire, for weren't they simply autocratic squires in flowing robes? Class always trumped race.
Ignoring Saif's vulgar interest in pet lions and high-class call girls, his Western admirers lapped up his almost parodic capacity to walk their walk and talk their talk.
For having become bored of engineering – which he studied in Tripoli in the early 1990s – Saif decided to dabble in business (an MBA was awarded by an outfit in Vienna for an unintelligible thesis written in 2000) and the vacuous nostrums of "globalisation".
He alighted upon the London School of Economics, mainly because one of its recent directors, Lord (Anthony) Giddens, had already pronounced upon the moral health of the Gaddafi regime after it had renounced support for terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Bringing Gaddafi père in from the cold in 2004 was the career highlight of the senior MI6 personality Sir Mark Allen, a romantic Arabist who went on to advise BP while dabbling in academia – including the LSE's own grandly named Ideas centre. Allen was reportedly at the heart of the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, following which BP was awarded contracts. The future chairman of the LSE's governors was BP's chairman at the time.
The greedy machinations at a leading British university are perhaps the least surprising aspect of Saif's saga. The LSE has been accused of easing the rules to accommodate people with sub-standard English for years, as long as, like Saif, they could pay its exorbitant foreign fees. It is basically a finishing school for rich Eurotrash.
The guru behind New Labour's market socialist "Third Way", Giddens gave a major part of the game away when he boasted that Muammar Gaddafi had talked with him for three hours, rather than the 30 minutes usually reserved for world leaders. Saif's mentor at LSE, as he worked on a PhD thesis The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization of Global Governance, was Prof David Held, with whom Giddens had founded the highly lucrative Polity Press. The allegedly "collective" authorship of this thesis is the subject of a University of London investigation. Upon its conclusion, Lord Woolf's separate inquiry into the LSE's dealings with the Gaddafis may or may not be made public.
For in 2009 the LSE Council accepted a donation of £1.5 million from the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Fund, chaired by Saif and with Held on the board of trustees. Warnings from the resident "holy fool" Prof Fred Halliday – who would go off to tend a bar in Barcelona in his retirement – were considered and ignored. LSE Enterprise also accepted £2.2 million to train Libyan civil servants, part of a bonanza that rained on several other British universities and the SAS, who trained elite Libyan troops.
A podgy little man who has since decamped to Durham University, Held played host when in May 2010 his "friend" Saif delivered the Ralph Miliband lecture. This celebrates the obscurantist tenured Marxist radical sociologist who fathered Labour leader Ed and brother David.
Looking directly at Saif, Held praised his respect for "human rights" and his belief in "dialogue, debate and peaceful negotiations". Saif smiled modestly at this fustian guff, before delivering a talk which duly recycled Held's own academic vacuities back to him.
That December, the LSE hosted the Brother Leader himself, beamed into Houghton Street by video link from Tripoli. Gaddafi called the Lockerbie bombing a "fabrication and creation" of Thatcher and Reagan, which did not deter his young academic hostess from presenting him with an LSE stamped baseball cap to mark this great occasion. Her words could have been scripted by seniors too cowardly to appear themselves.
Academics have always leached upon power. They were attracted to the Nazis and Soviets like moths to a flame, because such regimes dealt in implementing big, bold schemes – such as wiping out populations. No wonder they are tantalised by ideas like "global governance".
But Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was also taken up by people who are much more worldly operators than such ambitious academic pimps as Giddens and Held. Even Princes Charles and Andrew were co-opted in a "meet and greet" role as Saif toured our little Ruritania.
Tony Blair continues to regard his "deal in the desert" with Gaddafi as a high point of his foreign policy. How convenient that the former PM's lucrative portfolio of careers after he left office enabled him to continue meeting the Colonel. Was he wearing his Quartet peace-broking hat? Or the £2 million a year one he wears for JP Morgan? Was he checking that "mad dog" was still defanged, or did the talks revolve around Russian aluminium investments and the development of luxury tourist resorts?
And what did the likes of Peter Mandelson, Nathaniel Rothschild or Oleg Deripaska discuss with Saif, when they entertained him on a shoot or aboard Deripaska's yacht off Corfu? For sure, Saif was just another extremely wealthy man – Libya's Investment Authority was worth £65 billion and had Jacob Rothschild on its board – but there was also the frisson of ruthlessness attached to the family name. How revealing that some compared Saif with Michael Corleone in the Godfather trilogy: the modernising don reluctantly dragged back into murder and mayhem.
For the most depressing thing about Saif's squalid story is what it reveals about everyday corruption in a country that loves to moralise its way through the world, dispensing praise and censure to all and sundry.
In reality, Britain's elites have become everyone's pliable whore, whether Russian oligarchs or Middle Eastern autocrats. If Saif gets a trial, then we should all hope that a harsh light is shone on his elite British friends, for you can bet that not much will be revealed by the inquiries of the likes of Lord Woolf.
And before anyone imagines that this tale is restricted to New Labour, let's not forget that Tory grandee Charles Powell is the chairman of Magna Holdings, which built Gaddafi Towers in Tripoli. The name will have changed by now, but the pathologies in Britain it reveals haven't.


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Day 19
I chose the topic "room" because it was cold, wet, windy, and miserable. So this is a room in a summer beach house with the window open for a sea breeze.
Day 20
Today it was "something orange" so here are one each of the fruit we have in the house: lemon, satsuma, kiwi fruit, and apple.
Day 21
I had the topic "colour" so I decided to do three imaginary bottles. I did them in Artrage watercolours, then by accident clicked a brush that did odd things to the colours, so I played with that as I rather liked the iridescent effect even though they no longer looked transparent. But there are definitely colours.
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Rangers/Hurricanes recap
The Rangers grinded out a gutsy win in Carolina tonight, beating the 'Canes 3-2 behind a fantastic defensive effort and a very solid game by Marty Biron. Marian Gaborik scored to net his 30th of the year, and his 7th 30 goal season overall. Seems like the theme lately has been a period by period recap, so I'll give it a try (let me know which format you guys prefer in the comments). To the bullets…
- 1st Period
- During the first period the Rangers had a solid forecheck going and were doing a nice job getting penetration into the offensive zone. The problem was they weren't developing quality chances from that penetration. They were moving the puck well enough to evade pressure from the Hurricanes, but not well enough to put quality shots on Cam Ward.
- Defensively the Blueshirts did a fantastic job of getting sticks into passing lanes and forcing Carolina's wingers to the outside on the rush. Ryan McDonagh was especially impressive early on.
- With :50 seconds remaining in the first, Brandon Dubinsky took what I will assume was a stupid penalty (I didn't seem like any MSG camera actually caught Dubinsky throw Jiri Tlusty's stick), which drew the ire of coach John Tortorella. Dubinsky wouldn't see the ice the rest of the game.
- 2nd period
- What do you know? That penalty came back to the bite the Rangers as Jeff Skinner snuck a shot through Marty Biron's arm on a point blank slap shot. As a goalie, those goals are absolutely infuriating. 1-0 Carolina.
- As Dubinsky continued to sit, the recipient of his minutes seemed to be John Mitchell. Mitchell played about 15 minutes and played a solid game. He seemed to have a nice chemistry with Richards/Hagelin as well.
- The Ranger's continued to play excellent defense through the second period. Michael Del Zotto exited the game early with an apparent hip injury, which pressed Marc Staal into bigger minutes as the game went on.
- The Rangers would tie the game on a hard wrist shot from Artem Anismov off a nice little back pass from Marian Gaborik. The play wouldn't have happened however, without some tremendous work by Derek Stepan in the neutral zone after blocking a shot. The shot seemed to handcuff Cam Ward a little bit, as he threw the puck in frustration after the puck bounced out. 1-1.
- I caught myself wondering at one point in the second…why would Carolina want to stir anything up with the Rupp/Scott combination?
- Gaborik would put the Rangers ahead later in the second when he banged in the rebound of a Derek Stepan shot. Gabby made a strong play in the slot to create a good chance and then didn't give up on the play and was able to guide the rebound home. Very strong play for the Rangers leading goal scorer as he pocketed his 30th of the season. 2-1 Rangers.
- 3rd period
- The Rangers caught a break at the start of the third period when the puck ricocheted off the lines man and right onto the stick of Brian Boyle, who would make a beauty of a pass to Brandon Prust to give the Rangers some insurance. 3-1 Rangers.
- Jeff Skinner is absolutely filthy. Crazy how two of Carolina's best players can't legally drink yet. (Skinner and Falk)
- The last 10 or so minutes of the game, the Rangers killed 6 minutes worth of penalties. The bulk of which was assessed when John Mitchell accidentally clipped Jay Harrison with his stick. Blood was drawn, 4 minutes.
- The ensuing penalty kill was magnificent. Prust and Boyle were at their very best, while Staal continued to round into form with a strong effort on the PK. Also, Dan Girardi is a warrior.
- The 'Canes drew within one goal with :39 seconds remaining after some slightly blown coverage from the aforementioned Girardi and Staal (not nearly enough impact to mar the fantastic game both played). Jay Harrison was there to tap it in on the doorstep. 3-2 Rangers.
- New York was able to hold on in regulation to win their 8th game in their last 11.
Obligatory Goaltending Notes
- I thought both goaltenders played terrific tonight. Neither one had a ton of work, but both made great saves at various points of the game.
- Cam Ward isn't a flashy goalie, but despite the 3 goals, he continues to show why he is one of the game's best despite a suspect blue line.
- Marty Biron had a nice bounce back game after a couple bumps in the road in the form of Chicago and the Islanders. He had a slight case of rebounditis in the first third of the game or so, but his confidence clearly grew as the game went on and ended up making several key saves.
- Torts might as well have put a dunce hat on the Dubi and made him sit facing the corner for the rest of the game. Torts was visibly irritated about that penalty in his presser.
- Brandon Prust was the 1st star of this game for me. Absolute monster out there.
- I'm going to say this with the assumption that DZ's injury is nothing serious; I think it's time to bump Staal up to the second pair. The coaching staff has done a tremendous job bringing him back slowly this year, but I think the training wheels are ready to come off. He played over 20 minutes tonight, and I don't think any of us would be against demoting Anton Stralman to the third pair with Stu Bickel. Not that Stralman hasn't played well, but clearly Staal is the better player.
- I'm not sure how many of you had the privilege of watching the MSG post game, but if you did you were able to behold that shirt that Ron Duguay was wearing. Just terrific Ron, terrific.
Right back at it tomorrow night in Tampa at 7pm, as the Rangers try to run their winning streak to 4 in a row. Don't forget to be here tomorrow at noon for the BSB Live Chat!


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I could fill this post with countless studies, statistics, and articles that should make the answer to this question obvious. However, I suspect most readers already know the answer, so I will spare those details. Rather, the question I would like to focus on in this post is; Why is security awareness training absent from so many companies' priorities?
While there are many reasons the most common include the belief that a business is too small to be attacked, they lack the understanding of where to even start and they simply are not willing to allocate funds towards it. Again, I could fill the rest of this post with information to dispel the believe that a company is too small to be a target. If you are curious, do a quick Internet search for "Is my business too small for a cyberattack?". Happy reading!
For the remainder of this post I will focus on the other two reasons, getting started and funding.
Get started with making cybersecurity a topic of conversation at the highest level of your organization. Start with talking about the tips provided by the "National Institute of Standards and Technology"; Use strong passwords, backup your important information, use virus protection software, do not keep computers online when not in use, do not open email attachments from strangers, and use a firewall. Something is better than nothing.
While spending money to protect your business is wise, there are free resources available to you. First, phishingbox.com has a free Phishing Simulation which can be found at https://www.phishingbox.com/phishing-iq-test. This is a good way to test how well you do with identifying phishing attacks. Second, I recommend taking the Cybersecurity Challenge developed by the Michigan Small Business Development Center. If offers 8-well constructed tutorials covering various components of Cybersecurity. https://smallbusinessbigthreat.com/cyber101/
Next up: What is a Hosted PBX?
Click here for our previous post, "What the heck is the difference between a public, private and hybrid cloud?"


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About FahrenheitFahrenheit displays the temperature on your Home Screen icon, Notification Center and Lock Screen. Fahrenheit is a stunning weather application that uses latest technology to show you the current temperature of any location right on your iPhone/iPad Home Screen! Beyond the realtime temperature on the Home Screen Fahrenheit also is the number one weather application giving you very detailed weather information of unlimited cities world wide, packed in a gorgeous design and easytouse user interface! pple Staff Favorite & pp Store Essentials Plan Your Vacation! TUW.com The most featurerich weather application! Macworld.com wealth of weather information Cult of Mac Must have iOS app! & Now, in addition to the temperature badge, you can set up the app to notify you of any changes in the weather as they happen, right in the Lockscreen and Notification Center. It works really easy. We have Notification Setting that allows you to receive a Popup/Banner alert from our Push Server. This alert will also appear in the Notification Center and Lockscreen to show the temperature of the last update. You can set the number of notifications as you prefer (max 1, max 5 etc) in the iPad/iPhone general settings. Fahrenheit is backed by an online web server that uses Push Technology to push the current temperature of any location to your iDevice. This makes it possible to always automatically have the uptodate temperature displayed in the red badge at the topright of the Fahrenheit icon on your Home Screen. Fahrenheit supports all iOS Devices iPhone 4s/4, iPhone 3Gs/3G, iPad 2, iPad and all iPod Touch devices! It is not possible to display the temperature in Celsius. You have to download the Celsius application instead. Fahrenheit brings you all weather information available for every location in the world and a 10day forecast. In addition to these powerful forecasting features, Fahrenheit provides more comprehensive weather information. This includes detailed information regarding cloud cover and rainfall totals. Fahrenheit also gives users information about sunrise and sunset times. Many users also enjoy the real time wind direction feature, which utilizes a display arrow on screen to indicate the wind direction at any time thanks to the built in magnetometer. Current temperature in Fahrenheit Current conditions Current humidity Current pressure Current dew point temperature Current feels like temperature 3hourly clouds radar (up to 2 days) 10 day forecast Maximum and minimum temperature per day Wind direction per day Weather condition per day Precipitation per day Sunrise/sunset per day Index per day 3hourly forecast for 10 day's 3hourly condition and temperature for 10 day's d Free Possibility to add unlimited cities Knows about any city in the world Possibility to change the distance unit Possibility to change several notification settings. Twitter integration Facebook Integration Overall, Fahrenheit is practical and powerful, with basic weather information ready at a moment's notice. For more in depth weather needs, the app provides a detailed overview, with an impressive array of real time information from anywhere around the world. ll this makes Fahrenheit one application that should be installed on every iPod, iPhone and iPad!
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Resources for Health Professionals
To enlarge the resources for access to descriptions and links, please click on the title of the resource. The links on this page will open in a new tab.
Test your clinical genetics knowledge
- Genes and Disease |
A set of 15 genetics questions along with their possible answers, which are specifically aimed at medical and allied health professionals. The questions are intended to show where and how genetics has a role in clinical practice.
Resource: Medical Genetics Questions
Approach: Test with answers
- A Guide for Non-Geneticists |
This excellent guide was written by Dr Wafa-Makky Nichols. It aims to help prepare health care personnel to be more confident and capable of explaining genetic risk to patients and relatives in an understandable and meaningful manner. It is not aimed at genetics specialists. The guide is full of useful information, worked examples and links to other URLs for further information.
Resource: GENIE Guides: Calculation and Communication of Genetic Risk
Approach: Topic material, resources
- Genetic Counselling |
Information a GENIE project that aims to raise awareness of genetics within Leicestershire's community through innovative approaches, for example developing audio-visual materials, recruiting community champions and attending community events.
Resource: Genetics in the community
Approach: Topic material, resources
- NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre
Description: This is a comprehensive resource produced by the NHS for health professionals. It includes information about is important to know and the activities to be undertaken in clinical practice. It is particularly important to identify people whose condition has a large genetic component because specific clinical management may be helpful. Also included are resources for learning and teaching, which are supported by fact-sheets, videos, PowerPoint presentations, telling stories and case scenarios.Training information is also available, such as; "Training the trainers" courses and "Teaching genetics" courses, and information and support for local educators through their network of genetics education facilitators based in nine regional genetics centres.
Resource: NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre
Approach: Topic material, resources
- The Primary Care Genetics Society
An organisation established to support primary care professionals
Resource: Primary Care Genetics Society
Approach: Topic material, resources
- The Ethox Centre
Their aim is to enhance patient care by improving ethical understanding and ethical standards.
Resource: The Ethox Centre
Approach: Topic material, resources
- UK Clinical Ethics Network
Their aim is to provide up to date and relevant information on ethical issues. They provide contact details for all clinical ethics committees in the UK.
Resource: The Clinical Ethics Network
Approach: Topic material, resources
- Genetic Testing and Screening - FAQ's
The National Genome Research Institute has produced an excellent resource, which contains a wealth of information about Genetics-related subjects. Linked here are a list of frequently asked questions about genetic testing and screening.
Resource: Frequently Asked Questions About Genetic Testing
Approach: Resources
- Centre for Genetics Education
Providing current and relevant genetics information to individuals and family members affected by genetic conditions and the professionals who work with them, from Sydney, Australia. (Includes teaching materials for schools.)
Resource: Centre for Genetics Education
Approach: Topic Material
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
Catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders, from Johns Hopkins University / National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA.
Resource: OMIM
Approach: Topic Material
- Medical Ethics Tutorial |
This is a practical workshop, developed at the University of Leicester, for medical students who already have some cancer theory background. It is in the form of a set of ethical questions which the students discuss.
Resource: GENIE Medical Ethics Questions
Approach: Tutorial
- Religion may Influence Doctors' End-of-Life Care
BBC News Article - dated 26 August 2010.
Resource: BBC Health Pages
Approach: Topic Material
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I have Paul Tracy to thank for sending me some of this tea. I had tried it when it was released as a 52Teas tea of the week. But I really liked it so I didn't mind receiving it again.
Paul had mentioned to me that he didn't know why he wasn't getting the same flavors out of this tea that others have been so excited about, so first, I shall post the URL to my full-length review of this tea:
My first tasting of this tea, I thought it was ok, but, I didn't get a lot of maple flavoring (but then, when I eat maple bacon, I don't get a LOT of maple in that either, it is more of an enhancement than a pronounced flavor). But what I really wasn't getting was BACON. Frank had commented on that review and said that one of his regular customers had suggested adding just a pinch of salt to the cup. (I use Kosher salt, in case you're wondering)
This does the trick. It really brings out the bacon flavor. I also add just a drizzle of agave nectar, or if you really want to enhance the maple-y flavor, add a little bit of real maple syrup. The sweetener highlights the overall flavors to the cup while the salt brings out the bacon flavor.
This is actually really good. It represents the first of many purchases I've made from 52Teas/zoomdweebies/mysweethoneybush/manteas, so there are some fond memories attached to this one. In fact, I am sure that if we were to combine the purchases that I've made with them since that time, I've probably made a mortgage payment or two for Frank. :)
Paul… I hope this helps you find more enjoyment from this tea.


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Category Archives:Wine Club Selections
Vintage: The 2013 vintage was the warmest since 2003. Harvest began in late August, which was the earliest that they had ever experienced at Airfield. Temperatures cooled off by mid-September, causing the ripening process to slow in the vineyard. Eventually, the vines adjusted to the cool temperatures and picking proceeded steadily at normal pace. The overall result was ripe fruit without excessively high alcohols or overripe flavors. This vintage provided solid crop yields with no fruit shortages. Every block met its estimate.
Vineyard Source: All of the Lone Birch wines are sourced from fruit from our 950 acre estate vineyard located in the Yakima Valley. Their vineyard site offers a long 190 day growing season, which allows for slow, steady fruit maturation. The warm days and the cool nights provided by the high desert environment allow the vines to produce exceptional balance with ripe fruit flavors and plenty of natural acidity.
Style: This wine is handcrafted in a balanced, approachable style that showcased the quality of fruit from Washington State.
Vinification & Maturation: The Lone Birch winemaking began by hand-sorting fruit to ensure only ideal clusters were vinified. After the destemming process, the must was transferred to stainless steel fermentation vessels. Gentle pump-overs, rack & returns, and punch-downs were used to extract tannin and color from the skin. After the wine finished fermenting, it was pressed and settled before going to barrel. The wine went through malolactic fermentation while in barrel and was racked every 3 months. After nearly 1 year of oak maturation, the wine was bottled.
Varietal(s): Cabernet Sauvignon
Alchohol: 13.9% by volume
Food Pairings: Serve with grilled lamb and vegetables. Yummy!
Tasting Notes: The Cabernet Sauvignon has a red garnet color, with a bouquet of dark cherry and spice. On the palate, it is approachable with good acidity and lingering tannins. Drink now through 2020.
Jim Lutfy's thoughts: "Lush, ripe and rich with layers of complexity. This is a wine that is in complete harmony. A great value in my opinion, and drinks well right off the cork. Pairs great with anything on the grill! Enjoy!"-JL
Located in the heart of the massif of Castelnaux, in the terroirs of Picpoul de Pinet appellation, this family estate spreads over 11 hectares.
The Story: Domaine Haut Bridau is located in Castelnaux, Fance, in the terroirs of the PicPoul de Pinet appellation. The Domaine is run by the Pages family since the beginning of the last century. Today, grandson Christian is in charge of the property.
Vineyard: Known since the 14th century, the grape variety Piquepoul has always been synonymous with quality. The production is limited to 1200 hectares in the appellation and makes the PicPoul de Pinet a rare region.
Varietal(s): 100% Piquepoul Blanc
Alcohol: 12.0% by volume
Food Pairings: The round and well balanced fruit will ideally accompany shellfish and grilled fish. Try with paella as well! Serve well chilled.
Tasting Notes: Lovely pale yellow color, bright and clear. Fruity and floral nose with hawthorne and lime tree fragrances. Lively and fresh mouth with harmonious acidity and roundness.
Jim Lutfy's thoughts: "Wow! What a wine! Loaded with flavors of lemon and minerality, with zippy, clean acidity and liveliness! Pairs great with oysters, chicken or seafood. Cheers!"-JL


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Organizational Talent Rankings via Baseball America
2013 (22) | 2012 (5) | 2011 (4) | 2010 (19) | 2009 (19)
2013 Affiliate Records
MLB: [74-88] AL East
AAA: [74-70] International League – Buffalo
AA: [68-72] Eastern League – New Hampshire
A+: [63-68] Florida State League – Dunedin
A: [61-78] Midwest League – Lansing
A(ss): [39-37] Northwest League — Vancouver
Graduated Prospects
Todd Redmond (RHP); Aaron Loup (LHP)
The Run Down
No one questions Aaron Sanchez's fantasy upside, which is as sexy as any minor league starting pitcher's. And Marcus Stroman is a whiff machine — a former Duke Blue Devil, whose fastball/slider combo is so impressive that it (almost) allows me to look past the fact that he (probably) roots for Duke hoops. I loathe Duke hoops. Anyway, after those two headliners, this Toronto farm is young. Quite young. And as we know, youth is volatile. There's upside here, but much of it hasn't yet reached the full-season level, and therefore, it's largely untested. A good number of these promising youngsters, however, will be headed to Toronto's Low-A affiliate in the Midwest League next spring, and being a Chicago native, I'm excited to have the chance to put eyes on the Lansing squad when it passes through Kane County. I'll be sure to keep you posted on what I see. Until then…


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Clarification on SEC's Guidance for Company Stock Purchases Through a 401(k) Plan Brokerage
Last month, I wrote about some helpful guidance published by the SEC on the question of whether a company that does not offer a company stock fund investment option under its 401(k) Plan, but makes available a self-directed "brokerage window feature" that allows participants to direct the investment of their 401(k) Plan accounts among an almost limitless number of investment alternatives, including, potentially, company stock, must file a Form S-8. What I want to clarify is that the guidance the SEC published in new C&DI, Question 139.33, was consistent with the SEC staff's previously announced (and long-held) position on employee stock purchase plans (that is, broad purchase programs that are operated by a third party, rather than the company itself).
I am afraid that some readers were concerned that the SEC was creating a trap for companies, when the SEC was, in fact, providing a very helpful expansion of its prior position on open marker employee stock purchase plans. My bad for using a scary headline designed to capture readers' attention, instead of the one I offered at the very end of that Blog, which was "P.S. I realize that this is not a surprise to many of you, but the title seemed more likely to draw readers' attention than this title: 'Ho Hum, the SEC Confirms Something...Whatever.'"
Nearly all public companies allow employees to make pre-tax salary deferral contributions to a 401(k) Plan. Many public companies make available a company stock fund into which Plan participants may direct all or a portion of their contributions. These companies must file a Form S-8 to register the offering and sale of stock to employee/participants under the 401(k) Plan. Until the SEC's recent guidance, it was not clear whether those companies had to file a Form S-8 for shares of company stock purchased through the brokerage window. New C&DI 139.33 is good news for all of us, except for those few that were seeking to do indirectly what they couldn't do directly without registration.
As I pointed out last month, the company should not draw employees' attention to the possibility of investing in employer securities through the brokerage window. A potential problem arises when a company eliminates the company stock fund investment option from its 401(k) Plan [usually in response to the avalanche of "Stock Drop Litigation"], but then prominently broadcasts to their employees, "Don't worry, you can always buy company stock through the brokerage window!"