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Canine Osteoarthritis: Understanding the etiology, clinical presentation, and diagnosis
Osteoarthritis is the most common rheumatic disease encountered in small animal practice. No longer is osteoarthritis regarded as a simple consequence of aging and cartilage degeneration, but rather, the pathologic changes of osteoarthritis may result from active biochemical and biomechanical processes partly due to disturbances of the homeostatic mechanisms of anabolic and catabolic pathways. As to the cause of osteoarthritis, there is no one etiology and its cause may be multifactorial. While there are many initiating causes, osteoarthritis is an irreversible process that often results in an end-stage clinical syndrome of the joint. Osteoarthritis exhibits varying degrees of severity, ranging from a mild, intermittent condition that causes mild discomfort and minimal disability, to a clinical state characterized by constant pain and severe disability. Clinically, osteoarthritis can be a challenging diagnosis to make. The disease is typically a slowly progressive problem. Because of the wide range of presenting signs, osteoarthritis is likely one of the most underdiagnosed syndromes in dogs and, especially, in cats.1,2 It afflicts at least 20% of the canine population at any time.1,3 This translates to roughly 10 to 12 million dogs in the United States. There are no accurate estimates of the number of cats with osteoarthritis.
A single definition of osteoarthritis remains elusive. At a 1995 workshop, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons proposed the following consensus definition: Osteoarthritic diseases are a result of both mechanical and biologic events that destabilize the normal coupling of degradation and synthesis of articular cartilage chondrocytes, extracellular matrix, and subchondral bone. Although they may be initiated by multiple factors, including genetic, developmental, metabolic, and traumatic factors, osteoarthritic diseases involve all of the tissues of the diarthrodial joint. Ultimately, osteoarthritic diseases are manifested through morphologic, biochemical, molecular, and biomechanical changes in both cells and matrix that lead to softening, fibrillation, ulceration, articular cartilage loss, sclerosis and subchondral bone eburnation, and osteophyte production. When clinically evident, osteoarthritic diseases are characterized by joint pain, tenderness, movement limitation, crepitus, occasional effusion, and variable degrees of inflammation without systemic effects.4
Pathophysiology of osteoarthritisFor simplicity, think of osteoarthritis progression in three broad stages.5 Stage one is the proteolytic breakdown of cartilage matrix. Stage two involves fibrillation and erosion of the cartilage surface, accompanied by breakdown product release into the synovial fluid. Finally, during stage three, synovial inflammation begins when synovial cells ingest a breakdown product through phagocytosis and produce proteases and proinflammatory cytokines. However, these stages don't progress in a specific order. Morphologically, osteoarthritis is characterized by articular cartilage degeneration and changes in the periarticular soft tissues (synovium and joint capsule) and subchondral bone. Specifically, the pathologic changes of osteoarthritis involve articular cartilage degeneration, which includes matrix fibrillation, fissure appearance, gross ulceration, and full-thickness loss of the cartilage matrix. This pathology is accompanied by hypertrophic bone changes with osteophyte formation and subchondral bone plate thickening. Research also has shown some continuity between bone and cartilage changes in osteoarthritis, suggesting an interaction between these tissues.6
Normal articular cartilage is primarily composed of water (70% by weight in mature, healthy cartilage), a collagen fibril network, extracellular matrix, and chondrocytes. During normal weight bearing, several events occur in the joint. The different matrix components must share loads applied to the articular surface. Collagen fibrils dominate the tensile behavior of cartilage, while the osmotic properties of the proteoglycans provide resistance to volumetric compression. Two very desirable events occur during cartilage loading: cartilage deformation and increased joint conformity. Cartilage deformation increases overall contact area, which reduces tissue stress levels. And increased joint conformity provides additional joint stability. Furthermore, the ability to change the shape of the loaded cartilage may help form and retain a thin gel of concentrated lubricant between the articular surfaces; fluid is distributed away from the compressed regions of cartilage. These properties are controlled primarily by the cartilage's ability to maintain hydration under pressure, which is achieved through the low hydraulic permeability and the high osmotic pressure of the constituent proteoglycans.
An early event in osteoarthritis development is the increasing volume (swelling) of the collagen. This can only occur if the collagen network's tensile properties are altered. The level of aggrecan (a proteoglycan) also changes in the tissue early in osteoarthritis development.
Cytokines and growth factors appear to play a critical role in the induction and progression of osteoarthritis. Proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin-1α and β and tumor necrosis factor α, induce articular cartilage depletion by increasing the synthesis of matrix-degrading enzymes and decreasing matrix protein synthesis in vitro.


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At seven o'clock in the morning on june 15, 2007, the bell rang at the front gate of Marc van Roosmalen's modest house on the outskirts of Manaus, Brazil. For van Roosmalen, a Dutch-born primatologist and Amazon adventurer who had been chosen one of Time magazine's "Heroes for the Planet" in 2000, that was a somewhat unusual event: visitors had lately become scarce. The 60-year-old scientist was dwelling in semi-isolation, having separated from his wife, become estranged from his two sons, lost his job at a Brazilian research institute and been charged with a raft of offenses, including misusing government property and violating Brazil's biopiracy laws. But things had begun to turn around for van Roosmalen: he had been exonerated in three successive trials and had even begun to talk optimistically about getting his old job back. In July, he was planning to travel on a research vessel up the Rio Negro, the Amazon's main tributary, with a group of biology students from the United States, his first such trip in years.
Van Roosmalen buzzed open the compound gate, he told me recently. Moments later, he said, five heavily armed federal police officers burst into the garden, bearing a warrant for his arrest. Then, as his 27-year-old Brazilian girlfriend, Vivi, looked on in horror, van Roosmalen says, police cuffed his hands behind his back and placed him in the back seat of a black Mitsubishi Pajero. Van Roosmalen asked where they were heading. It was only then, he says, that he learned that he had just been found guilty, in a criminal procedure conducted in his absence, of crimes ranging from keeping rare animals without a permit to illegal trafficking in Brazil's national patrimony, to the theft of government property. The sentence: 14 years and 3 months in prison.
Van Roosmalen's immediate destination was the Manaus public jail, a decrepit structure in the city center built at the height of the Amazon rubber boom a century ago. Regarded by human-rights groups as one of Brazil's most dangerous and overcrowded jails, it is filled with some of the Amazon's most violent criminals, including murderers, rapists, armed robbers and drug traffickers. According to van Roosmalen, he was tossed into a bare concrete cell with five other men considered likely to be killed by other inmates. His cellmates included two contract killers who spent their days in the windowless chamber smoking crack cocaine and sharing fantasies of rape and murder. Lying in his concrete bunk after dark, van Roosmalen would stare up at the swastika carved into the bunk above his, listen to the crack-fueled rants of his cellmates and wonder if he would survive the night. John Chalmers, a 64-year-old British expatriate who visited van Roosmalen in jail in July, says he found the naturalist "in terrible shape: drawn, haggard, depressed. He was telling me how he'd seen prisoners have their necks snapped in front of him. He was frightened for his life."
For van Roosmalen, the journey into the depths of the Brazilian prison system marked the low point of a terrible fall from grace. At the height of his career, just five years earlier, the scientist had been hailed as one of the world's most intrepid field naturalists and a passionate voice for rain forest preservation. In his native Holland, where he is a household name, he received the country's highest environmental honor, the Order of the Golden Ark, from the Netherlands' Prince Bernhard, consort to Queen Juliana, in 1997; the National Geographic documentary Species Hunter, filmed in 2003, celebrated his adventurous spirit as he trekked up remote Amazonian tributaries in search of rare flora and fauna. Van Roosmalen claimed to have identified seven never-before-seen species of primates—including a dwarf marmoset and a rare orange-bearded titi monkey—along with a collarless, piglike peccary and a variety of plant and tree species. He had used these discoveries to promote his bold ideas about the Amazon's unique evolutionary patterns and to give momentum to his quest to carve these genetically distinct zones into protected reserves, where only research and ecotourism would be allowed. "Time after time after time, [van Roosmalen has contributed to] this sense that we're still learning about life on earth," says Tom Lovejoy, who conceived the public television series Nature and today is president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in Washington, D.C.
But van Roosmalen's passions ultimately proved his undoing. Observers say he became trapped in a web of regulations meant to protect Brazil against "biopiracy," loosely defined as the stealing of a country's genetic material or live flora and fauna. Brazil's determination to guard its natural resources dates back to the 19th century, when Sir Henry Wickham, a British botanist and explorer, smuggled out rubber-tree seeds to British Malaya and Ceylon and, as a result, precipitated the collapse of Brazil's rubber industry. Critics say the thicket of anti-piracy rules set up by the government has created frustration and fear in the scientific community. At a biologists' conference in Mexico this past July, 287 scientists from 30 countries signed a petition saying that van Roosmalen's jailing was "indicative of the trend of governmental repression in Brazil," and "will...have a deterrent effect on international collaborations between Brazilian scientists and their bio-partners worldwide." The petitioners called the sentence excessive and argued that "for a man of Dr. van Roosmalen's age, temperament and condition [it] is tantamount to a death sentence." One of the scientists told the New York Times: "If they can get him on trumped-up charges, they can get any of us." The Times ran a report on van Roosmalen's incarceration last August, three weeks after he was released from jail on a habeas corpus ruling pending an appeal of his conviction.
"Amazonas is the Wild West, and van Roosmalen was one of the loudest voices against deforestation," says one American biopiracy expert who has followed the case closely. "He became a thorn in the side of local authorities." For their part, Brazilian officials insist that the punishment fit the crime. "Van Roosmalen had so many problems, so it was not possible to make the sentence soft," says Adilson Coelho Cordeiro, chief inspector in Manaus for IBAMA, Brazil's equivalent of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Brazil followed the letter of the law."
Indeed, according to colleagues and family members, van Roosmalen's wounds were at least partially self-inflicted. They paint a portrait of a man whose pursuit of the wonders of nature led, as it did with zoologist Dian Fossey of Gorillas in the Mist, to an unraveling of his human relationships. Van Roosmalen, they say, repeatedly bent the rules and alienated politicians, peers and underlings. Then, as his life became engulfed in a nightmare of police raids, prosecutions and vilifications in the press, the scientist turned against loved ones as well. In the end, he found himself friendless, isolated and unable to defend himself—the lonely martyr that he has often made himself out to be. "These fantasies that everybody is out to destroy him, these things are only in his head," says Betty Blijenberg, his wife of 30 years whom he's now divorcing. "I would tell him to keep quiet, but he would never listen. And this created big problems for him."
I met Marc van Roosmalen for the first time on a sultry November morning in the lobby of Manaus' Tropical Business Hotel, three months after his release from jail. The scientist had been keeping a low profile while waiting for his appeal to be heard by Brazil's high court, turning down interviews, but he had grown impatient and decided to break his silence. He even suggested that we spend several days on a friend's riverboat heading up the Rio Negro, to talk in privacy while immersed in the environment he loves.
Van Roosmalen walked into the hotel, an 18-story tower overlooking the wide Rio Negro, wearing a tattered T-shirt, jeans and hiking boots. He reminded me of an aging rock star venturing tentatively back on tour: his blond hair hung in a shag cut; a goatee and droopy blond mustache framed his drawn face; and a fine pattern of wrinkles was etched around his pale blue eyes. The trauma of his recent incarceration had not worn off. There was still a wounded-animal quality to the man; he approached me cautiously, holding the hand of Vivi, Antonia Vivian Silva Garcia, whose robust beauty only made her companion seem more hangdog. Van Roosmalen had begun seeing her in 2003, shortly after they met in a Manaus beauty salon owned by her brother; the relationship, revealed to van Roosmalen's wife by their 25-year-old son, Tomas, precipitated the breakup of his marriage and the disintegration of his personal life just as his career was falling apart. Van Roosmalen now clung to Vivi as his one unwavering source of support. He told me that she had brought him food in jail, found new lawyers for him and kept his spirits up when he was feeling low. "I owe her my life," he says.
As we sat in the hotel coffee shop sipping Guarána, a soft drink made from the seed of an Amazonian fruit, van Roosmalen spoke ruefully about what he repeatedly called "my downfall." The Brazilian press, he said, "is calling me the ëbiggest biopirate of the Amazon.'" He reached into a briefcase and extracted a photocopy of a letter he'd prepared for the press during his incarceration but hadn't made public until now. The handwritten screed called the cases against him, begun in 2002, a politically motivated "frame" job and lashed out at the Brazilian government led by populist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. "The best way to unite Brazil's masses is to create a common enemy that is easy to distinguish," van Roosmalen had written. "Who better to pick as a target, as a symbol of the biopiracy evil, than the Dutch gringo?" In the letter he questioned "whether I will get out of [jail] alive...to tell the world the truth." It was, I thought, exactly the kind of inflammatory document that would likely infuriate the very people he needed most—and undermine his efforts at exoneration.
The mood lightened a bit later, when, in the torpid heat of the Amazonian afternoon, we boarded the Alyson, a 60-foot riverboat, for our three-day journey up the Rio Negro and back. Van Roosmalen, Vivi and I stood at the stern of the vessel owned by their friend John Chalmers—an affable, beer-bellied expat from the British Midlands who'd left his tropical-fish business in his son's hands and settled in Manaus in 2002. Chalmers shouted orders in broken Portuguese to his three-man crew. The skyline of Manaus receded, and the vessel motored at eight knots past long sandy beaches (still studded with millennium-old pottery shards from the original Indians who lived on the banks) and unbroken jungle. It was the first time in several years, van Roosmalen told me, that he had ventured upriver.
Over the hum of the engine and the singsong Portuguese of Chalmer's Brazilian partner, Ana, the boat's cook, van Roosmalen provided an enthusiastic commentary on the world around us. "The banks here are all covered in igapó forest," he said—tough, willow-like trees genetically adapted to survive in an environment that lies underwater four to six months of the year. We were motoring, he pointed out, past some of the most pristine rain forest left in Brazil: almost all of Amazonas state's jungle is still standing, in contrast to those of other Amazon states, which have steadily been cut down to make way for soybean and sugar plantations. "But all this is now at risk," he said. Two years ago, devastating forest fires ignited all over the Amazon, including around Manaus, casting a gray pall over the city and burning for two weeks before dying out. "Every year, because of global warming, the dry season is starting earlier and becoming more prolonged," he said. "If we have two straight years like 2005, when the slash-and-burn fires went out of hand, then it's quite possible that huge tracts of the rain forest will never come back."
i know what it's like to be jailed unfairly. what is van Roosemalen doing today?
Posted by monica on February 5,2008 | 03:27AM
I would like to be kept informed about what this gentleman is doing today. How has he fared in court, was he successful at getting his job back, etc. Very interesting!
Posted by deb on February 19,2008 | 07:26PM
Would like to have more info. Have heard he has fled the country, but can't seem to find any current answers! Was told he had been physically attacked while out on bail, but couldn't find any additional facts. Could be the gov., development interests, ex-family? Can you give any help? His website, etc doesn't have anything current. Thanks
Posted by THT on February 22,2008 | 08:15AM
i too would like to know how the court rules. really good article.
Posted by dean riddle on February 22,2008 | 12:21PM
I would sure like to have update (as others do) on Marc Van Roosmalen's status.
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Join us for a walk on the lighter side today as we talk about the lifestyle choices that can, ultimately, help elevate your job performance and increase your potential for long-term success. These have nothing to do with technology trends, management challenges or leadership skills. And here's a secret: You'll likely find that making such adjustments in your life is actually fun. That's because researchers say you'll improve your health and intellectual capability by increasing the amount of laughter, music and overall "play time" in your life. It's highly recommended that you set aside enough "up close and personal" time with your significant other. Here's another secret: If you're one of those "Type A" managers who brags about getting by on only four hours of sleep a night, you may be surprised to learn that you actually may be hurting - not helping - your ability to lead. Here's more on what you can do to improve your personal life and enhance your "professional game." Information for this feature is aggregated from experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), WebMd, and the Mayo Clinic, among other top health authorities.


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In third grade, I entered the National Science Teachers' Association/Craftsmen Tools Young Inventors Contest. I was selected as one of the 36 winners out of 3400 entries. I was also awarded the Scientific American Award for Outstanding Achievement in Education. Ever since then, I have been involved in science camps and independent research. This past summer, I was an intern at the Astrophysics Institute. At the Institute, I began to see how mathematics serves as its own language between scientists. Math can link quantities together in a way that words fail to. When I learn math and science in and out of school, I am not satisfied with learning just enough to get an A+ on the test. I try to figure out how to apply some of the concepts I learn to improve on things. Innovation and invention are a key part of my life.
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I am really excited to be part of the US Physics Team and to work with people that share some of my interests. I thank my physics teachers at my high school, Mr. Michael Gilmore and Dr. Robert Cherdack, for mentoring me.
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David Hall: The 1935 is one of the more common Walking Liberty half dollars of the 1930s, due undoubtedly to its relatively high mintage and the fact that at the time Philadelphia issues were saved more than the Denver and San Francisco Mint issues. The 1935 is rarer in Gem condition than the 1936, 1937, and 1939, but it is definitely available. Superb Gems, i.e. MS67 coins, are very rare for this issue.
The typical 1935 has white frosty luster and this coin defintitely comes nice. Strike is a little bit weaker than the P-Mints that follow, and weaker than the 1934 for that matter, a fact that is probably the reason for this coin's rarity in MS67 condition.
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Disney researchers develop new automated process for cloning human faces
August 14, 2012
Researchers at Disney Research, Zürich, ETH Zürich, and Walt Disney Imagineering R&D have developed a new computational design process for cloning human faces that could greatly simplify the creation of synthetic skin for animatronic characters.
Animatronics aims at creating physical robots that move and look like real humans. Many impressive characters have been created in this spirit, like those in the Hall of Presidents attraction at Walt Disney World. Until now, creating animatronic copies of real human individuals has been a difficult and labor-intensive process requiring the manual work of skilled animators, material designers and mechanical engineers.
Due to its expressive power, replicating the human face presents huge challenges. To deliver compelling and realistic performances, an animatronic character must produce a vast range of facial expressions, each having different deformations and wrinkles. Manually designing the shape and material properties of a single skin that is able to achieve all of these targets is a formidable task.
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So the Zürich researchers invented a computational method for automatically designing synthetic skin to match real individuals.
The process starts by scanning 3D facial expressions from a human subject. Then, a novel optimization scheme determines the shape of the synthetic skin as well as control parameters for the robotic head that provide the best match to the human subject. This processing increases the realism of the resulting character, resulting in an animatronic face that closely resembles the human subject.
"With our method, we can simply create a robotic clone of a real person," said Dr. Bernd Bickel, researcher at Disney Research, Zürich. "The custom digitally designed skin can be fabricated using injection molding and modern rapid prototyping technology. We 3D print a mold and use elastic silicon with properties similar to human skin as base material".
"This innovative research builds upon our heritage in 'Audio-Animatronics' pioneered by Walt Disney himself," said Prof. Markus Gross, director of Disney Research, Zürich. "Physical face cloning enables us to create personalized animatronic figures based on real individuals with a level of fidelity and realism never before possible."
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The Way Back (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus takes a journey with Peter Weir's new film and now he needs a foot rub...
World War II. After escaping from a Siberian prison camp in a raging snow storm, Janusz (Jim Sturgess) and his fellow escapees (including Colin Farrell and Ed Harris) trek across borders fighting for survival against the elements and the ever present possibility of being recaptured. On their journey the group meet Irena (Saoirse Ronan), and with the help of the talkative young girl the small band begin to learn about each other's lives before their imprisonment but with the decision to head for India their journey takes them on more perilous paths and the struggle to survive and to live as free men takes its toll.
How is it that a film by the director of Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World amongst others, has had such a low key release? Okay so the cast aren't exactly huge box office draw, but they are still talented, known actors and actresses and this film ain't a half assed affair. The Way Back has Oscar consideration written all over it yet here we are with a DVD release that just sort of appeared from nowhere.
Peter Weir brings us a movie that feels like it's been done time and time again, but being the solid director that he is, manages to make it engaging, thoroughly entertaining and strikes a fine balance between the hard facts of how hard this journey would be with a real emotional core for his characters. On top of that he manages to get some great performances out of his cast. Ed Harris delivers another subtly brilliant character piece, Jim Sturgess is by far the best I've seen him, Saoirse Ronan continues to make all other young actresses look like they should try a bit harder, and not only does Colin Farrell deliver a good Russian accent but he probably delivers his best dramatic performance since Tigerland. In fact he's borderline brilliant here as the hardened criminal who really only escaped the camp as he had debts to pay, otherwise he probably would have stayed there.
Through the many different and changing backdrops The Way Back really sells the distance these guys travelled (honestly there's more walking than in Lord of the Rings). The different terrains are all depicted with their own challenges, we're given a few tips on survival too (it is a movie produced by National Geographic after all) and as the movie lifts itself out of the familiar and starts to flesh out the characters' personalities I really felt the emotions build as some of them were beaten down by their impossible journey. Weir really managed to weave in the spiritual side of the characters' responses to death and when these moments happen there is a genuine sense of loss.
By journeys end the sense of achievement is high and even though the closing scenes showing the history of Poland after WWII and having one of the survivors as an old man completing his personal journey felt a little disjointed from the rest of the movie, The Way Back was a thoroughly enjoyable, uplifting way to spend two hours, despite the bleakness of the situation.
Well given the length of this movie's journey varies from the bitter winter of Siberia to the sunny fields of India there's a whole lot of changing environments to cover here. First we'll start with the negatives. This standard definition DVD is obviously going to be a whole lot softer than the Blu-ray would be (and it really is quite soft most of the time). Black levels are the biggest inconsistency—it comes down to the difference between genuine location shots and faux location shots filmed on a set. The later has deep black levels, really selling the cold blues of the snow covered forest or the rocks of a cave but the genuine exterior scenes look a bit washy. The black levels are not all that black and everything looks noticeably more 'outside' when we are actually out in the open.
Colours sort of suffer from the same inconsistencies but not on the same level. Darker scenes are full of blues, with textures such as clothes and stubble faring well whereas sunnier scenes wash out the colours and sand covered faces really bring out wrinkles and cuts/burns on characters faces. Generally speaking I'd say the transfer here is great with only its standard def'ness holding it back in all the areas where we know HD shines. It's a shame I didn't get to look at the Blu-ray as a comparison as while this DVD has some real moments that shine, it's not a regular occurrence.
The first half of the movie is full of Dolby Digital 5.1 goodness. There's barely a moment that goes by without some sort of atmospheric selling the scene. Stomping feet on snow, creaking wood, shouting, talking, pretty much anything and everything you'd imagine in a crowded hut of prisoners is here and most of it sounds utterly realistic immersing you in the situation. As the film moves on we get an aggressive audio attack in the mines some of the prisoners are forced to work in. Booming bass for explosions and an abstract sonic assault sells how disoriented Janusz is in his confined surroundings. It's fantastic stuff and a real highlight on the track.
As the film travels on, sound slowly strips away, there's less of the strong dialogue and characters get more and more worn down with their forest backgrounds getting replaced with vast empty deserts. This is captured well in the track and there's even an effective moment of utter silence as a character collapses on a sand dune which is very haunting. Despite not being the sort of movie you'd expect a wide feeling multi-layered track from, The Way Back delivers and what it lacks in exciting set pieces it more than makes up for with subtly clever audio effects that bring the many, many survival scenarios to life.
Trailers for Neds and Fairgames are the only extra bits on disc one as the second disc houses all the features, starting with 'The Journey of the Journey' (00:31:02), which feels a little more personal than a standard making of, but at its core really is just that: a straightforward look at the film with the cast informing us of the Gulags of Russia, the other lesser known concentrations camps of the Second World War. This actually proves incredibly interesting in its bite sized chunk approach to the history and added a fair chunk of expanded info to the period as well as the making of the film.
The 'Cast & Crew Interviews' (01:18:00) are vast and feature no less than twelve different participants. These are all shot at the same time as the making of and continue to add more insight into the history of the historic events as well as the movie.
The 'Theatrical Trailer' (02:01), the 'Teaser Trailers' (00:36) and 'Gallery' (01:42 and set to the film's score) pad out the extras disc a bit more and rounding everything off are the deleted scenes (19:09).
I didn't really know what to expect from The Way Back but I have to say once the movie got going I was along on the journey with these escapees and really felt the emotional highs and lows of their travels.
The disc has a good but inconsistent transfer and incredibly good sound presentation, and features that give a bit of extra detail about the Russian Gulags and the characters' journeys. All in all this is great stuff.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 9th May 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Making of, Interviews, Trailers, Gallery, Deleted Scenes
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris
Genre: Drama and War
Length: 127 minutes
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A week is a long time in football. I know I've heard that somewhere before and for the Knights, never has a statement rung true with such clarity. Last weekend the Knights thumped the hapless Cowboys and Knights fans had reason to be cautiously optimistic about their chances leading up to the finals then they have the collective rug pulled out from under them when it was revealed yesterday the games premier player Andrew Johns has a bulging disc in his neck that will prevent him from taking the field again this year, including the Kangaroo tour.
The Knights have a poor 37.5% winning percentage when Johns is out and with the Knights currently having tenuous hold on eighth spot, the remaining players will have to rewrite history if the Knights are to make the eight and personally, with their run home I don't think they can get there. Johns is the maestro and takes charge the moments he sets foot on the field. From the long passing to the kicking game, the Knights will have to reinvent the wheel to make the critics (including this one) eat their words. I have no doubt they will fire up for tonight's crucial clash with the Warriors but will the fire last for 80 minutes and will it be enough to inspire the Knights to victory? I don't think so. Warriors by 14.
The battered and bruised Raiders take on the hapless Cowboys in Canberra in Saturdays first match and with the Raiders missing Simon Woolford, Clinton Schifcofske, Brad Drew, Tyran Smith and Terry Martin, they will have to keep it simple and rely on their forwards to get the job done. The Cowboys have never won in Canberra and after last weekends flogging at the hands of the Knights, they will be fired up but without Matt Sing, they look a little thin in the backs and I don't think they have the forwards to match it with Canberra. It will be closer than many people think but the Raiders are still a chance to take out the minor premiership so I expect the Raiders to have their minds on the job and dispose of the Cowboys by ten points.
One of the best rivalries in the NRL fires up again as the Sharks attempt to put a massive dent in the Dragons top eight aspirations and after last week's loss to the Warriors, the Dragons need this one or it's pretty much curtains for 2003. They've had a mixed year and with Shaun Timmins returning from a one week suspension they have a chance to win the match but the Sharks will want to play spoiler to get one back on their "neighbours". I think this could go to golden point but without Kimmorley, I'll tip Saints to win by one solitary point and keep themselves on life support for another week.
I have just heard Darren Lockyer has been ruled out of this match and again the Broncos will be without Gorden Tallis so this game is not as cut and dry as it might seem. The Tigers lost to Souths for the second time this season but I think they will be up for this match and give the Broncos plenty to think about. Brisbane are really struggling and have probably missed the top four and will not have the opportunity to play a home final at the surprisingly tame Suncorp Stadium. While I am leaning towards the Broncos I do so with no certainty and the Tigers are one of the most unpredictable sides in the NRL. Broncos by six.
Sundays first match is another local derby between first and last. The Roosters play Souths and while Souths laid a trap for the Tigers, the Roosters will make no such mistake and will account for Souths quite comfortably and will need to with the Raiders, Panthers and Bulldogs all breathing down their neck in the race for the minor premiership. Souths will be competitive for the first 50 minutes but it will all unravel from there and Fittler's class will see the Roosters maintain their number one sport for another week at least.
The Bulldogs will maintain the rage against the fast fading Sea Eagles and considering Manly lost to a twelve man Raiders side by 35 points last weekend, what will a full strength Bulldogs side do? This could be ugly and the Bulldogs do no show any mercy so I expect them to win by 40. A very clear cut match with little risk to the Bulldogs.
The last match is crucial for both sides. The Storm are last up losers and big ones at that. They were thumped by the Bulldogs while the Eels enjoyed their second bye and will be fresh for a tough encounter against the Storm. It's do or die for the Eels who must win every match to make the finals and possibly rely on other results going their way but they are still in there swinging. The Storm still have a bye up their sleeve and a win over the Eels means they will make the finals after missing out last year. I don't know if they have recovered from last weekend's belting and I think the Eels will be a fraction too desperate to let this game slip from their grasp. Nathan Hindmarsh will have an absolute blinder to get the Eels home and keep them in the hunt for the playoffs. Eels by 4.


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Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I live in a townhome complex - where everything is exactly the same. I wanted to be sure to have some individuality and I wanted to make my house stand out from the crowd. The outdoor space I have is very small. So I made sure to add some color though my flower pots, plants and pillows on the chairs. Just because it's small doesn't mean I can't enjoy the space I have.
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I added a few new flower pots this year and used the hot green as an accent to the rest of my terra cotta pots. My welcome mat was my inspiration. More pictures can be found on my blog.
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Vincent J. Vessella
Vessella, 67, of Jamestown, passed away Jan. 19, 2014. He was the beloved husband of Joan M. (Flodin) Vessella for 40 years.
Born in Providence, he was a son of the late Peter and Marie (Desroches) Vessella.
Mr. Vessella was a toolmaker before becoming a self-employed contractor. He was the owner of VJ Vessella Building Improvements.
He was a volunteer firefighter serving as a lieutenant with the Jamestown Fire Department, and was an EMT serving with Jamestown EMS for 36 years.
He also worked for Yawgoo Valley Ski Patrol and was a member of the National Ski Patrol.
Mr. Vessella enjoyed outdoor sports and woodworking.
Besides his wife, he leaves two daughters, Lisa M. Vessella of Cranston and Tara L. Vessella of Lyons, Colo.; and a brother, Richard Vessella.
His funeral service will be held Saturday, Jan. 25, at 10 a.m. in the Fagan-Quinn Funeral Home, 825 Boston Neck Road, North Kingstown. Burial will be in St. Mark Cemetery in Jamestown. Visiting hours are Friday, Jan. 24, from 5 to 8 p.m.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Buon Giorno Venezia
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Mamma mia,ReplyDelete
che viaggiatore quel Bear! :-)
Venezia, bella come sempre! :-)
Hi!! What a great trip!! I was missing your wonderful posts!! Venezia is marvelous, I agree!! Enjoy it!! Beijo!!ReplyDelete
I love Paris....but I adore Venezia!!ReplyDelete
Carol you are so right about the 'complicated' boots that Venetian women wear.
So glad you had a wonderful time in Venice.
What was your favorite Venetian experience??
Bear in the scarf is just too cute.ReplyDelete
looks like the weather was great as well.
Oh, how wonderful - Bear did get to take a gondola ride! I was so hoping he'd do that.ReplyDelete
Delightful pictures. I spent one day in Venice a few years ago and this brings back wonderful memories.
Ahhh, Venezia.ReplyDelete
So happy you and Bear are accessible once again. I agree; Bear looks like quite the gentleman in that scarf.
Did you paint while in Venice?
huh? huh?
You are so fabulous - I love that you're in Venice & can't wait to hear all about it!ReplyDelete
I hope you post some Venice watercolors. Love your workReplyDelete
Oh Bear, I want to travel with you.ReplyDelete
Love the vision of Bear wrapped in a n Italian scarf!ReplyDelete


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The UH Mānoa campus, including Hamilton and Sinclair Library and the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections, will be closed during the spring break period, beginning Saturday, March 19 through Saturday, March 26, as part of a collective bargaining agreement.
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To craft his exquisite black-and-white images, Hiroshi Sugimoto uses a 19th-century-style, large-format camera, exploring his idea of photography as a method for preserving and modeling time. "Endeavors in art are…mere approximations, efforts to render visible unseen realms," he says. Influenced by Surrealism and Dada, Sugimoto's work is intimately connected to Marcel Duchamp, as in his series "Conceptual Forms" (2004), (inspired by Duchamp's The Large Glass, 1923), large-scale black-and-white photographs of mathematical models and tools. Ongoing subjects include dioramas, theaters, Buddhist sculptures, and seascapes—the latter captured in a famous series of near-abstractions, coupled with specific geographic titles. A supreme craftsman, Sugimoto often varies the length of exposure to achieve tonal richness, as in "Joe" (2006), photographs of Richard Serra's works that function as visual memories more than documentation. "I imagine my vision then try to make it happen, just like painting," he says. "The reality is there, but how to make it like my reality."
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The dinner and after party Valentino threw for its creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli at the Soho House in Los Angeles on Thursday night drew Milla Jovovich, Jordana Brewster, Sanaa Lathan, Liz Goldwyn, Shiva Rose, Brooke Davenport, Amber Valletta, Jamie Tisch and Crystal Lourd to the club's living room for canapés and a performance by hipster band Chief. Piccioli snapped his own pictures while co-hosts Kate Bosworth and Chloë Sevigny, Noot Seear, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, Gia Coppola, Alexis Bledel and Zelda Williams stood up front to dance.
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SOURCE: American Society of Magazine Editors
February 28, 2012 16:15 ET
33 Publications to Be Honored at Third Annual Awards Lunch on March 20
33 Publications to Be Honored at Third Annual Awards Lunch on March 20
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 28, 2012) - The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Known as the Digital Ellies (for the Alexander Calder stabile "Elephant," which is given to each winner), the awards will be presented on March 20, 2012, in New York City. Topping the list of finalists are four magazine brands -- The Atlantic, Golf Digest, National Geographic and New York -- that are each nominated for three awards including General Excellence.
Sponsored by ASME in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media will be presented at lunch on Tuesday, March 20, at the Grand Hyatt New York. The lunch will be co-hosted by Larry Hackett, managing editor of People and ASME president, and Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief of SELF and ASME secretary. The Digital Ellies are presented in conjunction with "MPA Digital: Swipe," the premier conference for magazine editors and publishers focusing on tablets, e-readers, smartphones and apps.
To register to attend the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media and "MPA Digital: Swipe," click here.
This year more than 270 publications entered the National Magazine Awards, and 90 industry leaders served as Digital Ellies judges. In addition to The Atlantic, Golf Digest, National Geographic and New York, magazines nominated for three awards include The Daily Beast, The New Yorker and Slate. Titles nominated for two awards include The Atavist, EW.com, Foreign Policy, GQ, Men's Health, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and Wired.
Media companies with multiple nominations include Condé Nast (10 for Golf Digest, GQ, The New Yorker and Wired); Hearst Magazines (2 for Popular Mechanics and Redbook); National Geographic Society (3 for National Geographic), The New York Times Company (2 for The New York Times Magazine), The Newsweek Daily Beast Company (3 for The Daily Beast), Rodale (2 for Men's Health), Time Inc. (6 for Cooking Light, EW.com, People, Sports Illustrated and Time), The Washington Post Company (4 for Foreign Policy and Slate) and Wenner Media (2 for Rolling Stone).
General Excellence, Digital Media
Honors the best magazines published on digital platforms
The Atlantic
Golf Digest
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Fix Corporate Website Hack
Presupuesto $30-250 AUD
Our company website [url removed, login to view] is having malicious pages created that are showing on the Google search result. Currently when you browse through the website there are no redirects to porn or anything like that, however I need to have the ability of hackers to create new links on the back end removed and all current ones deleted.
Evidence of the hack are as follows:
Google 'Mejority'
In the top result select 'More results from [url removed, login to view] >>'
Then in the last few pages you will see the results that I have attached to this project page. (the links are either porn related for essay writing related and indian language).
Google Search Console only allows me to temporarily delete the links so they just re appear (or new ones created).
I require a permanent fix. It is a Wordpress website but Sucuri and other security apps are installed to protect it as much as possible.
What I am requiring as part of this project is:
- clean up the website and remove all non website links
- find the source/way the hackers are doing this and put measures in place to help avoid this
Please let me know how they are doing it and what you will do to fix it and I will award you the job.
Then we can have an ongoing business relationship for the site.
Adjudicado a:
I can go through your website and hosting files to see how the hackers have access, as well as delete all malicious code quickly and efficiently. Please message so we can discuss further, Daniel Larson
4 freelancers están ofertando el promedio de $197 para este trabajo
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Hi, I have review project details and would like to discuss further regarding the project with you. Kindly let me know when you are available. Thank you.


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ARISS Contact Schedule and Successful school list updated 2005-12-01 02:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ralph McCall School, Airdrie Alberta, Canada Fri 2005-12-02 17:59 UTC Sanderson High School, Sanderson, TX, USA 2005-12-08 17:30 UTC Early 2006-02 Russian EVA with SuitSat deployment ***************************************************************************** The schedule page has been updated as of 2005-12-01 02:00 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2005-11-30 00:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction.r tf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf ***************************************************************************** There has been a rumor that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio. ***************************************************************************** Expedition 12 on board now. William McArthur KC5ACR Valery Tokarev ***************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to email@example.com
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Amar Niwas Guesthouse
If you looking for an Guest House or accommodation in jodhpur (The Suncity /blue city) ?
So no further than the "Amar Niwas Guest House".. Sunil started this guesthouse in January 1999. It's long standing, family run establishment that occupies a 524 year old Haveli in the oldest part of Jodhpur, on the foothills of the majestic Mehrangarh fort .just five minutes walk from the Fort.
The guest house compensates with plenty of character and charm.
the Haveli maintains many of its original features stone carving, beautiful Jharokha's wooden ceiling and different level roof top with panoramic view of the fort ,old city wall and the beautiful blue city.
The eight rooms are very basic with a clean bed and a shower, there's no need to look anywhere else for other facilities because
The guest house is located in NAVCHOKIYA the oldest part of jodhpur on the foothills of fort MEHRANGARH , just 50 meters south of Navchokiya,5 min walking distance from FATEH POL the fort gate ,1.5 K.M. from railway station, 2 minutes from post-office, local bus stand is .5(half) K.M. far from here. Just cross one street for market
Few facilities :- Unique homey atmosphere.Internet, local & S.T.D Phone Calls, Laundry, Beauty treatment,Safari tours Money & Book exchange
Booking of rooms for onward travel at further locations,,Boutique, Astrologer and Palmist Consultancy,
Restaurant with Indian food as well as continental (Veg.&Non veg.)
We can arrange safaris for 1,2,3……..15 days.We can design a flexible itinerary for tour according to your requirements & time schedule.)
ROOM AIR COOLERS FOR SUMMERS IF demand.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
B&B Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- Airport Transfers
- Bicycle hire
- Bicycle parking
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Breakfast Not Included
- Cafeteria
- Ceiling Fan
- Cots available
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Currency Exchange
- Free City Maps
- Free WiFi
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Meals Available
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Terrace
- Reception (limited hours)
- Restaurant
- Taxes not included
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Towels Included
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Guesthouse InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
1:-14% state tax will be charge extra on room rent(Taxes not included)
(Excluded 5 % City tax ,Excluded 9 % Tax )
2:-We want to aware you about auto-rickshaw driver scams they want to take you in another guest house for getting whopping commission.they can ask many negative stories about our guest house so take care :-).
3 :-check-in & check-out time is 10:00am Early check-in or late check-out is subject to availability . ,for early check in is matter of availability,but you can take rest in our lobby or on roof-top restaurant,.need to request to the hotel ,
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By car
By train
Either call to hotel for pick up service or directly take a rickshaw to AMAR NIWAS GUEST HOUSE, NAVCHOWKIYA
By airplane
We have surcharge pick up service by CAR from Airport
By public transportation
Either call to hotel for pick up service or directly take a rickshaw to Navchowkiya OR AMAR NIWAS GUEST HOUSE, NAVCHOWKIYA.
DIRECTION:-from jodhpur airport
1:-Head northwest 0.3 Km
2:-Turn right 0.1 Km
3:-Slight left toward NH 65 1.7 Km
4:-Slight right at NH 65 0.4Km
5:-Turn left toword NH 112 1.9 Km
6:-Turn left at NH 112 1.2Km7:-Turn right at NH 112 24 m
8:-Turn left 0.4 Km
9:-Turn right
Destination will be on the right 1.0Km
Located Near
in old city, near oldest fort gate called fateh-pole(gate no.14 by lonely planet book).
3 mints wall from here .area called 'NAVCHOKIWYA'
also near oldest city gate named SINGH-POLE.It is also a 5 minute walk to the post office


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Londonderry Fire Chief MacCaffrie resignsBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
January 07. 2013 10:38PM
LONDONDERRY - Londonderry Fire Chief Kevin MacCaffrie has resigned from his position, effective March 1.
MacCaffrie announced his decision Monday evening. The fire chief said he planned to step down from his duties "in order to spend more time with his family."
Battalion Chief Darren O'Brien will step forward as acting chief. Londonderry hired MacCaffrie in late 2007, after longtime Chief Michael Carrier - now the Hampstead fire chief - retired after a 30-year career in Londonderry.
The fire chief is the fourth town official to resign in Londonderry recently. In June, longtime town manager David Caron announced his leave of absence, citing a family illness.
But in the days that followed, the town's mismanagement of its impact fees was revealed, and Caron officially resigned from his position on July 20. Police Chief William Hart is currently serving as interim town manager. In mid-October, Community Development Director Andre Garron resigned from his position after accepting a new position as community and regional economic development specialist with the University of New Hampshire's Cooperative Extension. Garron had worked for the town of Londonderry since December 1999. Last month Senior Affairs Coordinator Kimberly Bean, who began working for the town in July 2011, stepped down from her position. The town is working to fill vacancies.


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Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore Celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival With A Collection Of Premium Tea Mooncakes
Shang Palace celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival with three new snow-skin mooncakes infused with premium jasmine, oolong and 18-year-old pu-erh tea.
Shang Palace's mooncakes are available for sale between 28 July and 8 September 2014 at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore and in selected shopping malls. An early bird discount of 25 per cent is available before 7 August 2014 for purchases above 10 boxes.
With a tale to tell, each mooncake nourishes the body and mind. The new collection comprises poetic creations, such as Mini Snow-Skin Snowy Flake Mooncake (Jasmine Tea), Mini Snow-Skin Phoenix Supreme Mooncake (Oolong Tea) and Mini Snow-Skin Imperial Consort Mooncake (18-year-old Pu-erh Tea). Each mooncake is filled with smooth lotus seed paste with a refreshing tea jelly centre encased with chocolate.
Fans of the baked variety will enjoy the innovative Mini Baked Passion Fruit Mooncake. All mooncakes are presented in carefully-selected and customised satin boxes with elegant Chinese embroidery, available exclusively in Singapore.
Mini Snow-Skin Snowy Flake Mooncake (Jasmine Tea) is infused with premium jasmine tea leaves from the high mountains of Sichuan province. Due to the altitude, the tea shrubs are often covered in snow; hence, the name of this tea. The tea leaves are harvested in spring to retain their delicate nature and rich aroma. The sweet and fragrant aroma is known to relax and revive the body and mind.
The Snowy Flake Mooncake evokes the same feelings as Li Bai's Tang poem – "A Quiet Night Thought", which uses vivid moonlight and frost imagery to convey the feeling of homesickness.
The second tea-infused creation is the Mini Snow-Skin Phoenix Supreme Mooncake (Oolong Tea). As represented by the mythical phoenix, this mooncake is a symbol of high virtue and grace, as well as the union of yin and yang. In traditional Chinese medicine, the harmonious balance of elements is important for treating ailments and restoring the body's healthy function. Painstakingly handpicked from the famous Wu Dong peak of the Phoenix Mountain in Guangdong province, oolong tea leaves give the mooncake a sweet fruity flavour. Oolong is believed to relax the mind and lower cholesterol and other fatty acids. The Phoenix Supreme Mooncake tells the tale of how the phoenix represents the power and crowning glory sent from the heavens to the empress. It only stays when the ruler is without darkness and corruption.
The third mooncake in the tea collection is Mini Snow-Skin Imperial Consort Mooncake (18-year-old Pu-erh Tea) infused with carefully hand-harvested pu-erh tea leaves from Yunnan, China, which are prized and collected by many tea connoisseurs around the world. The tea leaves are naturally aged in dry storage for 18 years, resulting in a complex and earthy flavour in each mooncake. This tea contains high levels of antioxidants and is known to lower cholesterol and help weight loss. The careful selection of the pu-erh tea leaves is akin to the story of a beautiful young maiden who was chosen to be an emperor's consort and how she used her wit and charm to alleviate the unrests within the palace.
In addition to the new flavours, Shang Palace's menu offers choices for guests who are fans of the traditional combination of glistering salty egg yolks embedded in sweet white lotus paste. Each piece guarantees a bite of quality egg yolk and a flavourful burst of textures. Variations with double or single yolk are available.
The premium and limited-edition Shang Palace Signature Mooncake Gift Set is an elegant ideal gift set for loved ones and business associates. It comprises eight regular baked mooncakes (two pieces of each flavour) – White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolks, White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk, Plain White Lotus Seed Paste and Mixed Nuts with Chicken Ham – encased in a distinctive box inspired by sophisticated elements of the cheongsam, a traditional one-piece Chinese dress for women. Shang Palace's Four Treasures Baked Mooncake Box, which comprises White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolks, White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk, Plain White Lotus Seed Paste and Mixed Nuts with Chicken Ham, is also available.
Guests may purchase Shang Palace's mooncakes from the lobby of Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore and at retail booths located at shopping malls island-wide, including Takashimaya, VivoCity, Junction 8, Jurong Point and Parkway Parade, to name a few.


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A Bird in Hand: The Importance of Customer Retention
There's an adage in business that it's cheaper and easier to retain existing customers than to find new ones. It's been estimated that it costs five times as much to acquire a new customer than to retain ones. This explains why businesses work so hard to keep customers happy.


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1 forgotten random frozen chicken breast on the bone (split breast)
1 large-ish onion peeled and quartered
a pinch of whole peppercorns
1 peeled but whole garlic clove
salt – liberal amount
water – about 6 cups
slow cooker and about 4-6 hours to run it on high
"almost-caramelized-but-not-quite" onions – start with about 1/2 of a large fresh one.
2 +/- tbsp butter
couple diced bacon strips if you happen to have some on hand.
couple cups of frozen corn
roux: 2 +/- tbsp flour Or slurry: 2 +/- tbsp water and 2 +/- tbsp arrowroot, mixed
chopped up leftover fresh herbs hanging around the refrigerator from who knows when. (thyme, sage, rosemary, etc)
a couple of red potatoes. dice small and/or parboil if you wish.
Combine the top 6 ingredients together in the slow cooker and turn on high for 4-6 hours. Turn off and let cool while you brown-almost caramelize- a fresh 1/2 onion sliced thin (In the bacon fat/slices if you are using – plus 2 tbsp of butter) in a heavy-bottom large pan. Now add the flour for the roux method and cook a minute. (otherwise skip this step and move on)
Deglaze the pan with the strained stock from the slow cooker. Whisk and cook a few minutes. If using slurry method instead of roux, add your slurry now and whisk.
Add the fresh herbs, the cooked chicken meat from slow-cooker breast, the frozen corn, and the potatoes. Salt and pepper liberally. Thin with plain hot water if need be.
Simmer, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are cooked and you can no longer stand the yummy smell filling the house. Serves 4 heartily.


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Sideline Coaching Behavior - Do's and Don'ts
As the Sun Sets . . .
So you thought you'd heard the last of me, the outgoing (not to mention verbose) Coach Administrator for Region 76? No such luck. As long as I still have the floor, I intend to make the most of it to write this, my final (promise!) article for this site.
We have at times spoken about parent behavior and player conduct on the soccer field; it is time to focus on the behavior of coaches as well.
As Coach Administrator for our region, I try to observe as many of our coaches as possible. I find it interesting to note the differences in style, personality, and approach. There are almost as many kinds of styles as there are coaches, and it makes no sense to advocate one style over any other. However one issue has always puzzled me from the start.
We are fortunate to have, among the coaches in our region, some of the most proper, educated, polite, and academically qualified people in the area. We have lawyers, doctors, businessmen, teachers and salesmen, people who are generous, charitable, kind, likeable and sociable. What is it that turns some of these kind and gentle souls, once the whistle is blown, into ranting, raving and yelling maniacs on the field? I am not simply talking about coaches who yell at kids --everyone knows that is not acceptable, don't they? I am speaking about coaches who, from the opening whistle, cannot stop themselves from engaging in non-stop instruction (often at the tops of their voices) to their players on the field.
In many of the divisions in our region, parents are strategically placed on one side of the field, while the coaches occupy locations side-by-side on the opposite side. What invariably happens is that the more bellicose of the coaches, engaging in non-stop prattle, ends up drowning out his quieter, more thoughtful counterpart. Is that the way to coach a game?
From a coaching perspective, it is interesting to hear what Anson Dorrance has to say on this issue. (Who, you might ask, is Anson Dorrance? For a start, he coaches the University of North Carolina women's soccer team, and his teams have won more than a dozen national championships in the last 15 years. Do the names Mia Hamm, April Heinrichs, Siri Mullinix, Cindy Parlow, Carrin Gabarra, and Kristine Lilly mean anything to you? Enough said!) Anyway, here is what Mr. Dorrance has to say on the subject:
"There is a difference between telling somebody to do something and teaching them to do it. Telling someone to do something is what an inexperienced coach feels coaching is all about. He stands on the sideline, rants and raves, screaming: 'I can't believe it. I've told you not to clear the ball into the middle. If you don't clear it high and wide, they are going to finish that chance. How many times do I have to tell you not to clear the ball in the middle?'
"Well there's someone who doesn't coach. If you have to yell at them from the sidelines, you haven't coached them. If you have coached something into someone, guess what, they are going to do it. Coaching is about effect. Telling someone the correct way to do something is not necessarily coaching them .... Maybe the best coaches are the ones who make the game seem simple and don't complicate practice with long-winded theories on how to play... The coaches with the lackluster soccer resumes need to temper their lectures and not feel they have to prove their knowledge ..." [from Training Soccer Champions," by Anson Dorrance, pps. 42-43.]
To those coaches who insist on yelling, I have some news flashes for you.
- First, as Dorrance says, the time to instruct is during practice, not during games.
- Second, your yelling may well be counter productive, since many kids do not respond well to such stimuli in the first place.
- Third, you should understand that most of the times, your players can't even hear what you say anyway. Often, they are forty yards across the field; even if they can hear you, they may choose not to.
- Fourth, soccer is a fluid game, ever changing and moving. If you feel compelled to instruct your players on their positioning at a certain point in the game, what happens when the ball is crossed to the other side? Will you then need to re-instruct your player to move to another position? If so, you might as well install a radio receiver into your player's ear, since you will need to do this every minute of the game.
The truth is that yelling may have exactly the opposite effect. Instead of giving proper instruction, you may be overloading your players with superfluous, trivial information. A coach needs to give his players a chance to react, a chance to make their own decisions, and to learn from their mistakes. The game, as they always say, is the greatest teacher. Soccer, after all, is a game of decision-making, and yelling from the sidelines will not help your players become better decision-makers; it will only confuse and aggravate them.
To those who still insist on yelling, I have some suggestions:
- First, bring a chair. When you feel the urge to yell, sit down and force yourself to observe and analyze instead. You will make yourself a better coach by doing so.
- Second, bring a clipboard, a pad of paper and a pen. When you feel the need to yell, sit down and make a note to yourself instead. At an opportune moment (preferably during half time), let your players know what it is you wanted to say.
- Third, go watch a professional soccer game. Watch the Tony DeCicco's, April Heinrich's and Alex Fergusons [Coach of the great Manchester United team] of the world. How much yelling and screaming do they do, compared with just watching and observing the game itself? Learn from the pros.
- Fourth, make a pre-game resolution to say less, i.e. cut down what you would normally say by 50%. You will soon see that you will be far more effective as a coach. Stick to this resolution.
- Fifth, have someone videotape yourself during a game. Ask yourself whether your behavior is the kind which you would like to use as a highlight tape for your kids to watch.
- Finally, take a deep breath and remind yourself that it's only a game, and one purely and simply for the kids. Your days of serious competition are over. Have some fun with the game, enjoy yourself a bit more, and stress yourself less.
Remember, the goal is to be a better, more effective coach, not a louder one. Do it for yourself, and do it for the kids you coach.
Above all, remember to have fun -- it's a great game!
Michael Sun, Former Regional Coach Administrator


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Hampton man upgraded to good condition following serious crash on Route 125By JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
April 30. 2014 9:12PM
KINGSTON — After spending more than a week at a Massachusetts hospital, a motorcyclist is no longer listed in critical condition.
Frank Shedd, 60, of Hampton, sustained head injuries and multiple broken bones after his 2003 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, driven southbound by Shedd, struck a 2001 Ford F-150, driven northbound by Jeffrey Dalton, 20, of Groveland, Mass., near Swings & Things at 16 Route 125 on April 21.
Fire Chief Bill Seaman previously said that Shedd, who sustained non-life threatening injuries, was not wearing a helmet.
Shedd, who was airlifted from the scene and taken to Brigham and Woman's Hospital, was upgraded from critical to good earlier this week, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Dalton and two passengers in the pickup were sent to Exeter Hospital as a precaution. The identities of the passengers have not been released. Dalton was released from the hospital last week.
Members of N.H State Police Crash Analysis & Reconstruction Unit determined the accident occurred after the truck made a left turn in front of the oncoming motorcycle. Following the crash, a section of Route 125 was closed for about 2½ hours.


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AC Milan midfielder Riccardo Montolivo has admitted he is "honoured" by the comparisons with Juventus' Andrea Pirlo.
The Italy international has been instrumental in the Rossoneri's upturn in form, which has impressed many onlookers and helped lift the Serie A side into third place in the table.
On the eve of arguably Milan's biggest match of the season as they prepare to face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League, Montolivo says it is incredible to be rated as highly as the former Rossoneri star, but insists he is only concentrating on improving.
"It's an honour to be compared with Pirlo, who is one of the best midfielders in the world," he told reporters.
"I just want to continue doing well and keep improving.
"At the moment I am playing at a very high level. Both the team and I have matured as the season has progressed.
"We know it will be hard but these are the type of games we cherish."


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The term hypothyroidism is used when the thyroid gland is diseased and is not making enough thyroid hormone. This means that the body's cells are not stimulated to be active enough.
The typical symptoms of hypothyroidism include:
However, these are very nonspecific symptoms. Lots of people have one or another of these symptoms with perfectly normal thyroid function.
Many times people develop an underactive thyroid and we don't really know the exact cause.
The most common cause is another autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's thyroiditis. This is another autoimmune disease in which the body's own immune system attacks the thyroid gland. This time the attack destroys the thyroid gland, resulting in an inability to make a normal amount of thyroid hormone. Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis can both be inherited, and in fact they can both be found in the same families - one member has Hashimoto's thyroiditis and another member has Graves' disease.
A common cause of hypothyroidism is the treatment of an overactive thyroid, either with surgical removal of the thyroid gland or intentional destruction of the thyroid gland with radioactive iodine.
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