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Sunday, 9 April 2017
Peace in Syria?
No Entry to Salafism - No opportunity can be given to Salafist Islamists, the West's mortal enemies, to increase their power or influence in the region. This includes Turkey, Sunni Iraq, KSA, Kuwait, the gulf states and the various barbarian head-choppers.
Non-sectarian and tolerant society - A future Syria must allow Shia and Sunni, Christian and Kurd, Alawite and Jew, to live in peace and freedom with no sectarian discrimination. Much as the country worked under Assad before the 'Salafist Spring', which saw deluded fools in Western government mistake Islamist uprisings for democratic urges.
Russian influence preserved - Any settlement must preserve Russian influence and port / military facilities if the settlement is not to lead to wider causes of conflict
Self-determination - Allow the Syrian people to choose their own leaders and form of government - which may not be the same as Western forms of government and self-determination
Safe return for refugees - A safe place to which refugees currently in Jordan, Palestine and Turkey (as well as Europe) can safely return and rebuild.
Now it might be that President Assad actually offers the best opportunity to meet these objectives. I don't know.
However, I am sure that if the US and our own blundering, inept, mistaken FCO conspire to give us yet another Salafist-dominated failed state exporting Islamist terrorism and from which millions of refugees flee, all for the sake of global corporate oil or gas pipes, that we will hang the bastards from the lamp columns in Parliament Square. They're drinking in the Last Chance Saloon over Syria.
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Your conclusion of Assad is where I got to as I read down the list of 'requirements'.
The basic premise of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' serves us well here.
- 9 April 2017 at 13:14
IMHO; there has to be a rotating president, something akin to the Lebanonese system, the president to be in the main titular but with some input [national security] into - an executive made up of all the variant factions and a democratic chamber done through PR definitely no FPTP effort - to scrutinize the dictats sent down from the executive.
What happened in the aftermath and the clusterfuck of Iraq - particularly imposing a democratic sectarian government! - must not be able to be repeated in Syria.
- 9 April 2017 at 14:46
It looks as if it will be exactly the same as Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Trump has had his teeth pulled and will now do as he is instructed. Possibly what happened to JFK when he ignored the top brass and did not support the idea of a false flag operation as an excuse to invade Cuba and remove Castro. The head of the military (General Lemnitzer) was moved to be NATO head. "Operation Northwoods"!
- 9 April 2017 at 16:29
Hitchens on another inconvenient truth and al Assads enemies are our 'friends'.............
[...]But in this case, another small detail may make you wonder about what you are being told. In some reports of the alleged atrocity, a supposed 'British doctor', Shajul Islam, was quoted or shown on the spot, described as a 'volunteer treating victims in hospital'.
Actually, he shouldn't really be called a British doctor. He was struck off the British medical register for 'misconduct' in March 2016. The General Medical Council won't say why.
And in 2012 Shajul Islam was charged with terror offences in a British court. He was accused of imprisoning John Cantlie, a British photographer, and a Dutchman, Jeroen Oerlemans.
Both men were held by a militant group in Syria and both were wounded when they tried to escape. Shajul Islam, it was alleged, was among their captors. Shajul Islam's trial collapsed in 2013, when it was revealed that Mr Cantlie had been abducted once again, and could not give evidence.
Mr Oerlemans refused to give evidence for fear that it would further endanger Mr Cantlie.
Mr Oerlemans has since been killed in Libya.
So the supposedly benevolent medical man at the scene of the alleged atrocity turns out to be a struck-off doctor who was once put on trial for kidnapping. Does this change your view at all?
It takes a couple of minutes to find this out if you look. But only one major Western news outlet, The Times, has put two and two together. Why is that?
It's for the same reason that we are in this mess. We wish to fool ourselves and are good at it. [/quote]
FFS, today Fallon has been verbally spreading the shit, this empty headed fucker is a hawk with shit for brains, mind you he is in the pocket of the KSA and a crony toryboy. As Hitchens points out, by proxy: the UK - We help al Qaeda and their mates Isil. Fallon is part of the problem.
Daily Mail here.
- 9 April 2017 at 18:57
- Gordon the Fence Post Tortoise said...
deluded fools in Western government and the MSM establishment mistake Islamist uprisings for democratic urges
I'd hazard a guess that Sultan Erdogan + chums will resist that tooth and nail.
We seem to be seeing regional power plays that resonate mightily with "The Crusades" - and I don't mean the devalued meme promulgated by ignorant lefty fuckwits to portray nasty western Christians kicking pious innocent Mohameddans.
I recommend Thomas Asbridge's book. In some bits the present day characters map straight onto those from some hundreds of years ago... The crazy things people said ... are no worse than the loons we have at the moment who are asserting "climate change" is the cause of the mess in Syria.
The really big question in what's left of my mind is where do the present Iranian rulers see themselves in all this ? - for they are the elephant in the room - the Gulfies and KSA crew I think hate them with a passion that is beyond reason.
- 9 April 2017 at 21:21
- Gordon the Fence Post Tortoise said...
Those Iranians are cheeky boys? eh?
Check this out
- 9 April 2017 at 21:45
With so much disinformation around, the one way one can look at this is who gains from this alleged Syrian government attack on the Freedom Fighters.
It certainly isnt Pres Assad. In fact he has lost. Why should he take this action when he had the assurance of Pres Trump that the USA was no longer in the business of driving him out of office.
The one who gains is Pres Trump, as he shows himself to be a forceful president. It also get the rest of the Deep State Establishment of his back. This establishment was slowly edging its way to his impeachment. Pres Trump has lots to gain.
The Establishment has corralled Pres Trump into the reservation. So the establishment and the Intelligence agencies too have much to gain. Besides they have Pres Trump on board.
I cant think of a single reason why Pres Assad would order a poison gas attack. He has nothing to gain, and much to lose.
- 9 April 2017 at 22:17
Peace in Syria eh? Some hope.
With the likes of boJo the clown, farron (and sadly) Trump in charge you will be lucky if war does not come to yUK.
It is notable that the only calm statements are coming from Putin, Lavrov and Zakhorova.
- 10 April 2017 at 01:58
- DeeDee99 said...
Sadly, yet another failure by the US and FCO won't see the bastards strung up in Paliament Square.
We are simply too cowed and too cowardly to do that. And, to be honest, we just don't care enough.
- 10 April 2017 at 07:51
- Poisonedchalice said...
Trump is now in trouble. His mantra of America first and no more meddling in the middle east has been shot to bits. Literally. The voters won't like this.
- 10 April 2017 at 08:11
The New Stockholm Syndrome
- 10 April 2017 at 13:51
"The New Stockholm Syndrome"
Indeed, for now the USA is relatively safe, the vast majority of their influx is through SA and the Carib but they are only 'safe' for the immediate future. Strewth, if you look further south, even in Argentina to Brazil the Saudi's fund Mosque building. Where the vehicle is also driven by the UN which is under their the Sunni dominated Islamic bloc of Saudi/Gulf influence.
Observe and sometimes with the currect incumbent's wittering surrender missives, I'm [not so] or very sure about the Vatican has given up. I am pretty sure that's why one of the greatest [modern] Church thinkers one Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger was pensioned off, he was just to staunchly Christian for the tastes of the Internationalists, a South American priest much better suited exercising the whim of, the Marxist NWO/DAWA, is he not?
and here.
Invasion and a parable; the wolves run wild in the once protected pastures, because the shepherds have been poisoned, waylaid, pilloried, infiltrated and now nigh killed off.
All thanks in large part to our very own Frankfurt school deconstructionists, we have been undone from within and Western Christianity has been replaced by something ever so more malevolent, it's an ersatz Christianity ie Marxism which preaches tolerance but is anything but.
Devilry indeed and when malignant devils like Soros and with his lifetime spent in aiding and deliberately spiking, destroying the Occident, what better 'friend and allies' than obliterating the nation state through mass immigration and a tribe of peoples indoctrinated, encouraged, funded by a Wahhabist dogma of filth out of the Arabian peninsula?
Belief in a doubly poisonous miasma of lies, Marxism and Wahhabism put with, open door borders and mass immigration, we have entered the maelstrom delivered from a very black Hell and here think on Antioch and Constantinople - and they haven't altered on iota.
It is a clusterfuck of such proportions and it is so far gone and I don't see a way out of this shit storm. No exit because, the enablers are our own government - the Westminster arseholes and with social services, quangos and charities all dedicated to blitzing, our destruction - believe it.
Plus, the final irony which will not be lost on the Medina Mullahs and NYC billionaires club - pissing themselves with laughter - through petro dollars or via UK taxes, we build and pay towards our own funeral pyre.
A perfect shitstorm.
- 11 April 2017 at 08:43
ON the day that the Royal Marines numbers have been cut to complement some useless, aircraftless carriers which will probably never leave the Solent.......Daisy may, very presciently - eh? A fekkin genius is she!............... 'has ruled out an adventure in Syria all about something and invasion'.
Ah but that doesn't stop Boris and his broken record - what is it about the FCO - do they hypnotize ministers or, do they [the FCO] subject 'new boys' to weeks of white noise brainwashing and 'reeducation' - God almighty someone please wind him [that tncu Johnson] in!!
And Fallon, has he been sent out to pasture because if not it's way past time - someone did and come to think of it, the whole executive is not even fit for the knackers yard.
44 years of EU diktat from Berlin has caused much of this, a country so dumbed down and a managerial class who can't find their shoelaces let alone navigate north.
FFS, rolling down to hell and the Ropers will pay the ferryman.
- 11 April 2017 at 17:11
Poor old Boris the Turk, rattling his sabre and being kicked into touch by "our allies in Europe".
No sanctions without proof of chemical weapons - they are not quite so easily fooled after our record on being bullshitters in chief for the septics.
We will have to go it alone again - with the merkins of course! Not like on our own in Suez, where they told us to get back in our box!
- 11 April 2017 at 17:24
Anon at 11 April 2017 at 08:43
What a great post. I have taken the liberty of reposting it with a link to this thread.
It wont be long till our churches are burnt, and our vicars and priests, have their throats slit. Its already a reality across the channel. The French are only just beginning to wake up. Maybe its too late for the French, as they killed and then marginalised the church, nuns, monks and priests, in the demonic proto-Maxist French Revolution they so adore.
We are waybegone too. But at least we didn't go the way of the French revolution and what followed, that destroyed the church, and the traditions of France that it represented, leaving it with no moral and spiritual fibre to defend itself.
Germany too has no moral and spiritual fibre except a vague doctrine of "Tolerance". They have been so browbeaten that they are scared of even admitting that their young girls are being raped in the open, with German police looking on.
A nation is gone beyond recall when it cannot protect its vulnerable and young women. It does not even merit saving. So I'm glad we are beyond the dictatorship of Germany.
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It was around 11 last Friday night and my friends and I had just come from Mad Mark's in Kapitolyo. We were passing through Lanuza Ave. on our way to Manggahan and were only a few meters away from E. Rodriguez Ave. when we came across a gray Mercedes Benz headed straight in our direction. Lanuza Ave.'s two lanes had become three that night, with two exiting to E. Rodriguez, and we had been in the middle lane for quite a ways already so naturally there was a long trail of cars behind us. The Benz had only entered Lanuza with not even one car following him, because anyone approaching him from behind could see the opening to their right (our left) and just take it. Whether it was to protest the existence of a third lane or defend his supposed route going opposite us, the Benz stayed in its place facing us, leaving no space for us to maneuver out of our spot.
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The police told us to stay put and while waiting we devised theories as to what the Benz driver's deal could be. The most logical was that he simply wanted to prove a point, not caring if he inconvenienced a lot of motorists in the process. We also thought he might have gotten drunk or high after squandering his inheritance at the casino, or he could have gotten fired from his job or dumped by his girlfriend and he was merely projecting his anger at us. The whole situation could have been a new criminal MO, the Benz driver in cahoots with the driver of the car behind us, though we quickly dismissed that theory after noticing the white van behind us back up and overtake us on our left. The next car in line didn't follow its lead, unfortunately, so we were still trapped.
|FER818, with an MD emblem. You give Benz-driving doctors a bad name.
Several more theories and green lights later, we finally had enough space at the rear to back up and move past the Benz, allowing us a look at its license plate. The Benz didn't advance to prevent us from going anywhere, as we had feared, but it found its next victim in the car immediately behind us. At this point, Jam placed a follow-up call to the police who encouraged us to file a report against the Benz driver now that we had his license plate number. She passed the phone to Niña who was basically told that that call meant zilch, and that to make a formal complaint we still had to go to the Pasig police precinct. We gave up on that plan of action and decided to investigate the identity of the Benz driver on our own (sleuthing still in progress).
A story had just gone viral also last Friday about how an Atenean doctor, whose name on Facebook is Jay Bee, had gotten a P200 discount from Jollibee by intentionally delaying the arrival of the delivery guy to his place. I remembered the MD emblem above the Benz's license plate and decided to check if both doctors are one and the same person. Sadly, they are not. I found something else on the Jay Bee guy's Facebook timeline, though, that made me cringe even more.
The Atenean doctor seems to be reveling in the 15 seconds of fame Filipino netizens are giving him by circulating his Facebook post and its comments online. As of this writing, he has updated his Facebook timeline thrice, expressing his hopes to be featured by Ellen Degeneres on her show, thanking his "fans" and "bashers" and inviting them to meet with him in person, even quoting a message from a supposed friend who says they understand Jay Bee because they have known him for his "kamalditahan" (bitchiness) all along. To top it off, all three posts have a photo of him giving the reader the dirty finger. Part of me is hoping that this is all just a social experiment, but if this guy is real, he deserves to be in the hole he doesn't seem to want to stop digging.
UPDATE: Got the feeling that the Jay Bee guy couldn't possibly be a medical professional, from Ateneo or otherwise, by his Facebook photos and posts. And apparently, he's a professional swindler, not a doctor.

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While in Sri Lanka, we hunted and collected a few treasured from Galle and Kandy. While in Sri Lanka; we found some rare old Antique Petrus Regout Royal Sphinx Tea Cups, some old British empire spoons, climbed Sigiriya Rock and rode an Asian elephant.
The bowl looks like a small tea bowl or waste bowl; called spongeware. It has crescent moon and star inside. This particular piece of Spongeware was made for the Middle East, a tea bowl made from c.1883 to 1900.
It seems British and Dutch Empires were expansive with many diverse cultures serving in these Empire expeditions including the many religions who were Islam, Buddhist and Christian. As a result many types of pottery were made to serve these cultures during the colonisation of these empires.
Galle is a city on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka. It is known for Galle Fort, the fortified old city founded by Portuguese colonists in the 16th century. Stone sea walls, expanded by the Dutch, with architecture reflecting Portuguese, Dutch and British rule.
Ceylon was the country's name then, known now as Sri Lanka. A British Crown colony between 1802 and 1948; a Buddhist nation but with a growing population of the Islamic people. The British ruled on the island and it lasted until 1948 when Ceylon gained it's independence.
This old cup, considering the distance it has traveled and the age it is; it is amazingly in good condition and it remarkable it has survived. This bowl has fork marks. There is a small chip on the rim; but no cracks. There is crazing.
Most of the painting is still brilliant and on the outside and clear with the red crescent moon and star on white background inside. Glaze is good.
The Royal Sphinx stamp mark is clear on the base; Petrus Regout & Co. Maastricht Made In Holland.
Petrus Regout, in Maastricht, Holland. In 1836 Regout built a modern steam-powered pottery and was soon able to make ceramics that could compete with the best English products.
From 1880, his exports took off worldwide. From order books and correspondence with agents and buyers in the firm's extensive archives, Petrus Regout sold these wares in Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, British India and Indonesia.
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Replenishing Peripheral CD4+ Regulatory T Cells: A Possible Immune-Intervention Strategy in Type 1 Diabetes?
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Controlling the diabetogenic activity of peripheral islet antigen-specific T cells is essential to halt the progression of autoimmunity that leads to the development of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Over the past years, evidence has been gathered to suggest that the dysfunction of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T (Treg) cells, and the interleukin-10 (IL10) -secreting type 1 regulatory T (Tr1) cells are associated with disease onset in diabetic patients. Although CD4+CD25+ Treg cells develop as a distinct lineage of T cells in the thymus, results from recent studies have shown that they can also arise independently from the peripheral pool of conventional CD4+ lymphocytes. These observations have led to the development of various methods to convert peripheral CD4+ T cells into CD4+CD25+ Treg and Tr1 cells in vitro or to induce the development and expansion of Treg cell subsets in vivo. This article reviews the progress made in Treg cell recruitment in vivo that involves the potential for the prevention or even reversal of T1DM.
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease characterized by the progressive destruction of pancreatic islet β-cells by both diabetogenic CD4 and CD8 T cells [1, 2]. The onset of diabetes is associated with multiple factors, including those attributed to the genetic constitution of susceptible individuals as well as the environmental factors they are exposed to. When considering the prevention of T1DM, approaches to control genetic and environmental factors are not available. Immunotherapy is an option to halt the ongoing pathogenic activity of autoreactive T cells. The autoimmune basis of T1DM is caused by the loss of immunological tolerance to pancreatic islet antigens. The evidence for this stems from the observation that autoantibodies are reactive to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and tyrosine phosphatase-like protein IA-2 expressed in islet cells as well as insulin and its precursor proinsulin secreted by islet β-cells, which are detected in the serum of diabetic subjects [3, 4]. Furthermore, autoreactive T cells reactive to these antigens are present in these patients [5-7].
In healthy individuals tolerance to self-antigens is maintained by the elimination of islet antigen-reactive T cells through negative selection in the thymus (central tolerance). Effective deletion of these T cells through central tolerance requires the engagement of their high affinity T cell receptor (TCR) αβ with the islet antigen-MHC (major histocompatibility complex) molecules presented by medullary thymic epithelial cells [8]. Proinsulin/insulin, IA-2, and GAD65 genes are transcribed in the human thymus [9, 10]. Studies conducted with thymic proinsulin gene transcription have revealed that its level of expression in the thymus can critically affect the elimination of proinsulin-reactive T cells. Insulin gene expression is linked to polymorphism of a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) positioned upstream of the insulin promoter. Class I alleles with short VNTR containing 28-44 times of such repeats confer high risk to T1DM development, while class III alleles with 138-159 times of the VNTR is associated with disease protection [11]. Apparently, lower thymic insulin expression is associated with individuals carrying class I and not class III alleles [10, 12]. Consequently, insufficient presentation of islet antigen peptides to respective high affinity TCRαβ-bearing T cells would lead to their less effective elimination in the thymus, thus allowing them to escape into the periphery. This phenomenon could account for the presence of peripheral HLA-DR4-restricted T cells that react to proinsulin and IA-2 epitopes and secrete the proinflammatory cytokine IFN-γ in significantly higher amounts in diabetic than normal individuals [13]. GAD65-reactive T cells have similarly been reported to exist in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of diabetics [14]. Islet antigen-reactive T cells are shown to exist as memory cells in the periphery; as such, they are readily activated upon encounter with the respective autoantigens which allows them to exert their diabetogenic activity [15].
Controlling peripheral islet antigen-reactive T cells is undoubtedly a critical factor in maintaining immune homeostasis for the prevention of T1DM development. Clonal deletion and anergization as well as suppression by Treg cells have been identified to be the mechanisms involved in maintaining peripheral tolerance. Whether these mechanisms are needed to operate in concert to control autoimmunity is not fully known. While results obtained from TCR transgenic mouse models have suggested that bone marrow-derived antigen presenting cells (APC) are responsible for triggering the initial stimulation of autoreactive T cells [16-18], different subsets of Treg cells have been shown to suppress the activity of diabetogenic T cells in the periphery. One such subset detectable in the peripheral blood of human subjects is among the CD4+ population of T lymphocytes. This type carries the IL-2 receptor α-chain, CD25, as well as other molecular markers such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4), glucocorticoid-induced TNF receptor (GITR), and the transcription factor Forkhead box P3 (FoxP3). These cells are acquired through their differentiation in the thymus [19-21]. Unlike their CD4+CD25- counterparts, CD4+CD25+ Treg cells, despite bearing high affinity TCRαβ, are programmed to bypass negative selection during central tolerance induction resulting in their release into the periphery [22]. The role of CD4+CD25+ Treg cells in regulating immune homeostasis is shown by their ability to suppress TCRαβ-triggered proliferation and IL-2 production of autologous CD4+CD25- T cells by cell-to-cell contact [23-25]. Analysis of Treg cell specificities revealed that these cells utilize a broad range of TCRVβ repertoire to recognize both self and foreign antigens in association with MHC molecules [26]. The number of peripheral CD4+CD25+ T cells is kept relatively constant at approximately 2-5% of the total CD4+ cell repertoire in human subjects [25].
In autoimmune diabetes, early studies reported that CD4+CD25+ Treg cells are present at significantly lower frequencies in diabetic than in non-diabetic individuals [27]. On the other hand, subsequent studies showed that the number of Treg cells significantly increases with age in type 1 diabetic as well as normal subjects. This phenomenon is responsible for the occurrence of a balanced relation of Treg cells in both population groups [28, 29]. However, the cytokine secretion profiles of Treg cells in diabetic subjects seem to differ from normal ranges. This can be considered as the cause for the defective activity in suppressing autologous effector T cells in vitro, as observed in both studies [28, 29]. Interestingly, Lindley et al. found that adult type 1 diabetes individuals of recent onset have a decreased production of IL-2, but an increased IFN-γ and TGF-β1 secretion compared to those who are healthy. Thus, Treg cells in diabetics seem to drift towards an inflammatory phenotype [28]. In contrast, Brusko and co-workers found that in diabetic patients all three cytokines are secreted at a lower amount compared to healthy persons of the same age [29]. There are apparently differences in the cytokine profile of Treg cells in diabetic patients at different ages and diabetes duration. Despite the controversy on the Treg cell cytokine profile, observations made from these studies strongly suggest that proper Treg cell function is essential to control autoimmunity and T1DM development.
Another imbalance of a T cell subset, namely the periphery-derived Tr1 cells, could be observed between patients and controls. Tr1 cells are characterized predominantly by their IL-10 secretion. Arif et al. found that T cell responses to the naturally processed IA-2 and proinsulin peptides are associated with IL-10 secretion more frequently in non-diabetics than in those who progress to clinical disease [13]. On the other hand, IFN-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells, which recognize peptides naturally processed from IA-2 antigen and proinsulin, are found in a significantly higher proportion in newly diagnosed T1DM patients carrying HLA-DR-encoded alleles than in non-diabetics [30]. Consequently, a higher frequency of autoreactive T cells but a lower frequency of suppressive Tr1 cells occur in patients when compared to healthy individuals.
Given that impaired and different functions of CD4+CD25+ and Tr1 cells bear a positive association with T1DM, replenishing the peripheral pool of functional Treg cells would be a possible option to control the disease. In this regard, several approaches have been tested experimentally to explore how peripheral human CD4+ cells may be converted into Treg cells. Initial studies have found that simultaneous stimulation of the TCRαβ-associated molecule, CD3, and the primary costimulatory molecule, CD28, on CD4+CD25- T cells with mitogenic anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 antibodies can result in changing the cells to acquire the CD4+CD25+ phenotype with the expression of FoxP3, a specific marker associated with the CD4+CD25+ Treg cells. Generated population(s) of CD4+CD25+ cells can mediate cell contact-dependent inhibition of CD4+CD25- T lymphocyte proliferation in response to anti-CD3/28- and mitogen-triggered stimulation [31]. Repeated stimulation of TCRαβ on CD4+ T cells with an immunodominant epitope encompassing the amino acid sequence 73-90 of proinsulin presented by the HLA-DR4 molecules on autologous APCs has also been used to induce FoxP3-expressing lymphocytes with IL-10 secretion property [30].
Another protocol describes that CD4+ Treg cells expressing higher levels of CTLA-4 can be generated from the non-regulatory pool of CD4+ T lymphocytes when they are co-cultured with IL-10-treated dendritic cells. Treg cells generated by this means inhibit antigen-specific proliferative responses of syngeneic CD4+ T cells via cell-contact involving a CTLA-dependent mechanism [32].
Other methods have shown that the modulation of surface receptors expressed on CD4+ T cells are effective in inducing Treg cells. Based on observations that immune responses to bacterial infections can lead to the generation of Treg cells [33], it has been suggested that the simultaneous modulation of the complement regulatory protein CD46 with either a recombinant M protein of Streptococcus pyogenes or anti-CD46 monoclonal antibodies, together with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies can induce the conversion of CD4+ T lymphocytes into Treg cells. These Treg cells are able to inhibit proliferative responses of autologous CD4+ cells through IL-10 secretion. It has also been observed that the cells can induce apoptotic death of T cells via cell-to-cell contact which involves granzyme/perforin-mediated mechanisms [34].
Another way to induce Treg cells is the simultaneous modulation of the RO and RB isoforms of CD45 that are associated with CD4+ lymphocyte activation. Exposure of human CD45RO/RBlow T cells, which belong to the central pool of memory T cells, to a chimeric antibody directed against the RO and RB molecules results in their conversion into Tr1 and not CD4+CD25+ Treg cells. This conversion has been observed by means of their enhanced secretion of IL-10 [35]. Another study has found that ligation of CD47 by a peptide encompassing the C-terminal domain of its natural anti-inflammatory ligand, thrombospondin-1 (TSP), is able to induce naïve or memory CD4+ T cells to become Treg cells expressing the CTLA-4+OX40+GITR+Foxp3+ phenotype characteristic of CD4+CD25+ Treg cells. Cross-linking of CD47 with specific monoclonal antibodies can produce a similar effect. The generated CD4+CD25+ Treg cells suppressed proliferation and IFN-γ secretion of autologous CD4+ T cells in a cell contact-dependent manner [36]. TSP has been reported to be a potent stimulator of TGF-β production [37], thus TSP-CD47 engagement-mediated conversion of CD4+ T cells into CD4+CD25+ Treg cells could be TGF-β-driven. Interestingly, a recent report has described that in vitro incubation of human CD4+ T cells with copolymer-1 (COP-1, CopaxoneTM), which is a random polymer comprising of the amino acid sequence EKAY found in the myelin basic protein (MSP), can lead to their FoxP3 expression through the IFN-γ-mediated pathway. The generated FoxP3+ cells exhibited suppressor activity as shown by their capability to block anti-CD3/28-triggered proliferation of autologous CD4+ T cells [38]. Although a human study with T1DM patients has not been conducted, it is interesting to note from this report that subjects with MS given COP-1 administration are found to have a significantly higher number of FoxP3-expressing T cells compared to individuals who have not received the treatment.
In the context of the various in vitro protocols that have been described to enable Treg cells to be generated from non-regulatory CD4+ T cells, two separate studies have recently reported that peripheral CD4+ lymphocytes can actually be converted into Tr1-like cells through their interaction with activated CD4+CD25+ Treg cells. The secondary (converted) Treg cells are functionally different from primary CD4+CD25+ Treg cells in that they exert their suppressor activity against the proliferation of autologous CD4+ T cells through secretion of either IL-10 or TGF-β [39, 40]. Given that similar protocols are used in both studies, these findings imply that different subsets of Treg cells can be derived from the peripheral pool of CD4+ lymphocytes through interaction with the instructing master CD4+CD25+ Treg cells.
Collectively, the use of various in vitro culture methods shows clearly that peripheral CD4+ lymphocytes can be converted into CD4+CD25+/CD4+CD25+-like and Tr1/Tr1-like Treg cells under different experimental conditions. In the context that fresh functional Treg cells would be needed to replenish dysfunctional cells in diabetic patients, it still needs to be clarified whether this phenomenon can also be achieved in vivo through lymphocytes from T1DM patients.
The observations that both human CD4+CD25+ T cells and Tr1 regulatory cells can be converted from the peripheral pool of CD4+ T cells could lead to the development of two separate approaches for the immune-intervention of T1DM. The first is the in vitro generation of Treg cells from peripheral blood-derived T cells of an individual, and their subsequent adoptive transfer back to the same individual. This approach has already been discussed [41]. The second option could be the design of efficient protocols for the treatment of the diagnosed patients. The latter requires the formulation of inoculum preparations to induce Treg cells in vivo capable of suppressing existing and emerging diabetogenic T cells. Attempts to develop such an intervention have so far been limited. Based on earlier epidemiological observations that vitamin D3 intake correlates with a significantly decreased risk of T1DM development in human subjects [42], a 1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 analog, Ro 26-2198, has been tested for its non-specific induction of Treg cells in NOD mice. 8-12 wk old NOD mice orally fed with Ro 26-2198 are found to have an increased occurrence of CD4+CD25+ Treg cells compared to control animals. The analysis of the CD4+CD25+ Treg cell population generated in vivo revealed that they accumulate in the pancreatic lymph nodes during the treatment period where they exert suppressor activity on IA-2-specific T cells [43]. This observation is accompanied by a greater resistance to T1DM development in the Ro 26-2198-administered animals. COP-1 is another reagent that has shown itself to be able to induce Treg cells via administration, which has been discussed in the preceding section. Given that COP-1 is able to induce the generation of FoxP3-expressing CD4+CD25+ Treg cells in mice and MS patients [38], it ought to be interesting to verify if the polymer may work out to be effective in the treatment of T1DM.
Observations made from several experimental investigations have suggested that antigen administration could be effective in inducing Treg cells for the prevention of T1DM. An earlier study reported that intravenous injection of GAD65 into 12-week-old NOD mice is effective in conferring resistance against diabetes. The protection is attributed to tolerance induction of the existing islet antigen-specific T cells, as judged by their reduced proliferation when exposed to islet antigens. Functional analysis revealed that GAD65 vaccinated mice generated CD4+ Treg cells with the IL-4-producing phenotype [44]. Since other cytokines have not been determined, it is still of interest if CD4+ Treg cells with other properties corresponding to those of the CD4+CD25+ and/or Tr1 phenotype may also be induced in this way.
The results obtained from another study have suggested that young NOD mice fed with insulin conjugated to a candidate mucosal adjuvant, cholera toxin B-subunit, exhibited delayed onset of T1DM as compared to control animals. Protection is associated with the induction of CD4+CD25+ Treg cells that accumulate in the pancreatic lymph nodes [45]. It was recently reported that the injection of a MHC class II-restricted influenza hemagglutinin epitope conjugated to an immature dendritic cell-specific monoclonal antibody, DEC-205, is capable of protecting INS-HA/TCR-HA mice from developing spontaneous T1DM [46]. Disease resistance is attributed to an increased generation of IL-10-producing Treg cells that express FoxP3 [47]. The free HA 107-119 peptide itself, to which the cells are specific, is capable of inducing naïve T cells to become CD4+CD25+ Treg cells when it is allowed to be delivered at subimmunogenic doses in a continuous fashion via an implanted mini-osmotic pump in TCR-HA-RAG-2-/- or BALB/c mice. Immunized BALB/c mice are unable to elicit CD4+ T cell responses upon exposure to the immunogenic inoculum of IFA-formulated HA protein [48]. These findings imply that CD4+CD25+ Treg cells induced by an epitope-containing peptide could exert broad suppression against the production of immune responses by the whole protein. Given this approach has potential clinical application, it remains to be established whether the delivery of suitable islet antigens may similarly lead to the induction of Treg cells able to suppress the activity of diabetogenic T cells.
Increasing evidence showing that CD4+CD25+ and Tr1 regulatory cells can be induced from the peripheral pool of CD4+ T cells indicates that the therapeutic propagation of Treg cells is relevant in two aspects for the future development of an effective, preventive or curative treatment of T1DM. First, the culture methods that have been used for the generation of the two types of Treg cells from normal human CD4+ lymphocytes need to be tested for their applicability to T1DM patients. This information is necessary for the development of therapeutic strategies involving adoptive transfer of autologous Treg cells into individual diabetic patients. Second, the use of non-specific and antigen-specific approaches to induce Treg cell generation in vivo is attractive in terms of their broad, preventive and cost-effective clinical application. The effectiveness of such protocols should be further assessed in future preclinical studies.


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I maintian DBD::ODBC but I am wrestling with problems coping with 64 bit platforms. The problem is rather complex but I'm hoping that by describing it here someone will help come up with a logical answer to at least stop DBD::ODBC building in circumstances which are suspect.
Microsoft came up with ODBC long before there were 64 bit chipsets. The ODBC API talks about 32 bit values all over the place until recently when Microsoft changed their version of the ODBC API. Apparently the ODBC API was handed over to X/Open but it has not stopped Microsoft changing it. In the days of a 32 bit ODBC API a number of the arguments to ODBC APIs were defined as pointers to 32 bit values which when a particular ODBC API was called would write a 32 bit value back to that pointer address. Some of the APIs can return values like the number of rows or the maximum size of a blob and since 64 bit chipsets came along these values have increased in size such that a 32 value is not large enough to hold the value. The ammendments to the ODBC API by Microsoft define new types SQLLEN and SQLULEN which are 32 bit values on 32 bit operating systems and 64 bit values on 64 bit operating systems.
The first problem is that some ODBC driver writers took the original Microsoft API as gospel so when it said a 32 bit value it is a 32 bit value even though at the time 64 bit operating systems like tru64 existed (which had 64 bit longs in C) they kept to the API and made those values (and pointers to those values) 32 bit. This led to problems on 64 bit operating systems since you could download one driver which took the ODBC spec literally and another ODBC driver which decided the ODBC spec didn't mean that and some arguments to ODBC APIs would be 64 bit (or worse, pointers to 64 bit values). As a result some ODBC driver writers produce 2 versions of their driver for 64 bit operating systems 1) with 32 bit values and 2) with 64 bit values. That was the situation until Microsoft produced 64 bit operating systems and then they changed the ODBC API to introduce two new typedefs of SQLLEN and SQLULEN which are 32 bits on 32 bit operating systems and 64 bits on 64 bit operating systems even though in Windows a C long is still 32 bits. We'll skip this issue for now, it is just background and not the real issue I have a problem with.
The ODBC driver manager most used on UNIX operating systems is unixODBC and as an OS project is designed to be built from source via GNU libtool and configure. Since Microsoft introduced the new types SQLLEN and SQLULEN for certain arguments to certain ODBC APIs unixODBC followed. The problem is that whether you build unixODBC on a 32 bit operating system or a 64 bit operating system the C header files installed are exactly the same but SQLLEN/SQLULEN are different sizes depending on whether the C compiler knows whether the macro SIZEOF_LONG is set or not. When the macro SIZEOF_LONG is set to 8 SQLLEN and SQLULEN are set to a 64 bit value and when SIZEOF_LONG = 4 or it is not defined, SQLLEN/SQLULEN are defined as 32 vbit values. This works fine for unixODBC as the configure script used when building unixODBC sets SIZEOF_LONG depending on the platform but when you build another program (like DBD::ODBC) which depends on the unixODBC header files it is crucial the same compiler macos are defined or unixODBC could be built with SQLLEN = 8 bytes and DBD::ODBC could be built with 32 bit SQLLEN and corruption occurs whenever the ODBC driver attempts to write a 64 bit SQLLEN to an address provided by DBD::ODBC which only had space for a 32 bit value.
To sort this problem out unixODBC added the odbc_config program which when run as odbc_config --cflags it outputs the C compiler directives which were used to build unixODBC. As a result, any program building against the unixODBC header files can call odbc_config --cflags and get the compiler directives used to build unixODBC and thus SIZEOF_LONG is set and the program (DBD::ODBC in this case) has SQLLEN/SQLULEN set to the same size as unixODBC was built with. For some time DBD::ODBC has looked for odbc_config on its path and adds the --cflags output to its compiler line. However, unless someone builds a recentish unixODBC from source it is unlikely they have the odbc_config program and even worse, debian/Ubuntu packages (even if they are recent distributions of unixODBC) don't install odbc_config so DBD::ODBC has no way of knowing what compiler directives to add to the compile line. This means that if DBD::ODBC is built on a 64 bit platform with a 64 bit Perl if it does not find odbc_config, SIZEOF_LONG is not defined and the unixODBC header files default to SQLLEN/SQLULEN being 32 bit values but unixODBC was probably built with SQLLEN/SQLULEN as 64 bit values. Left unchecked this results in corruption and leads to all sorts of unpredictable problems.
For some time I tried to persuade the debian packagers to update unixODBC and include odbc_config but I never got responses to emails direct to them. Recently, when I had yet another issue with this I tried #debian channel on irc and am making some progress. The question remains as to what the most sensible action I should take when building DBD::ODBC on a platform where Perls Config says ptrsize is 8. Since ptrsize is 8 I can reasonably assume this is a 64 bit operating system but if I don't find unixODBC's odbc_config I cannot know how unixODBC was built (and few distributions install odbc_config). It is possible that even on a 64 bit operating system SIZEOF_LONG=4 (the person building unixODBC might have set this) but most likely SIZEOF_LONG = 8. I need to know for certain or a DBD::ODBC build will produce a binary which is incompatible with unixODBC and the ODBC driver. If I don't find odbc_config on a system where ptrsize=8 should I abort or let this go and leave it up to the installer to work out what is wrong when things go wrong or do I abort and say it is likely DBD::ODBC is going to be built in a way inconsistent with the unixODBC driver manager and ODBC driver.
As an aside, newer Unixes seem to put 32 bit shared objects and 64 bit shared objects in different directories but what about C header files - are there systems with a /usr/include32 and /usr/include64? If not then C header files which rely on C macros set at compile time are doomed to failure unless they are standard macros defined by the compiler which knows whether it is compiling for 32 bits or 64 bits - perhaps this is the fundamental failing in unixODBC's header files.
If you download unixODBC 2.3.1-pre or later the header files now default to a 64 bit SQLLEN/SQLULEN on 64 bit machines and 32 bit on 32 bit machines.
This issue has been reported on Debian bug tracking system at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635668


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This is my latest pattern for mug rugs and coasters. This is a Blue House surrounded by Spring flowers starting to bloom. I had fun adding the flowers, but they are optional.
The Blue House can be made with the appliqué method or the paper-piecing method. I stitched the appliques by hand, but this could be done with a sewing machine. The binding was sewn with a sewing machine on top and by hand on the back. Of course, the binding can entirely be done by machine. You can see examples for both methods in the pictures (mug rug: appliqué; coaster: paper piecing).
The pattern is available in my Craftsy Pattern Store. To make these items I used both new and old fabrics. They are cotton, except for the dark blue that is a polyester. They would also look great if made with only quilting cotton. For more details about this pattern, just click here.
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Recently I got the following error in WordPress while trying to upload image. In a CloudLinux based cPanel server if you're experiencing the same problem, don't worry. It's so simple and here's the fix.
First of all, you need to make sure that the user quota limit of the account is not reached. Also, check if the tmp folder exists in /hom/user/tmp.
If everything looks fine and still you're getting error then the problem is the user is not enabled correctly in CageFS. If you check the CageFS, the user might be listed in CageFS but it's not enabled properly. To fix this, remove the user from CageFS and re-add it. This can be done either via WHM or via terminal.
Using WHM:
1. Log into WHM
2. Navigate to Plugins >> CageFS
3. Select the user you need to remove from the CageFS and click on ">>".
4. Then click on "Update CageFS skeleton
Now you disabled CageFS for that particular user. To re-enable the user select the user from "Disabled users" and click on "<<". Once you've done that click on "Update CageFS skeleton".
Using Terminal:
This can be done in two ways.
1. Either disable and enable user from CageFS using commandline
#/usr/sbin/cagefsctl --disable $username
#/usr/sbin/cagefsctl --enable $username
#/usr/sbin/cagefsctl --force-update
2. Follow the steps below which remount cageFS
#/usr/sbin/cagefsctl --remount-all
#/usr/sbin/cagefsctl --force-update
That's it!!
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Yes, it appears that a t this point, Kourtney Kardashian and Justin Bieber are good friends. They're hanging out together and having fun. Over time, their friendship may involve into something else. But everybody needs a friend, and it's nice to have friends of another gender. I'm sure these two are having a casual, nice friendship.
I can't see these two together under any circumstances. Kourtney is by far the Kardashian with the least to offer. She always looks like the lights are on but nobody is home. Justin Bieber seems to have some common sense and I credit him with much better taste in women.
I'm assuming they're friendly and share a mutual like of being in paparazzi photos. Even if they are more than friends, who really cares? It's become public 'business' only because they're in the public eye, but at the end of the day, it only matters to beliebers or any fans with a crush on Kourtney.
No, there is a good chance that they are smashing each other. When two celebrities such as these hang out, they are probably messing around. There is no reason to believe that they are just friends and no reason for them to be just friends. I believe that they are dating.


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Saturday, 9 April 2011
Greenhouse Gala - A Very Pretty Paper!
Here's another little box - yes it's the same size as the last one and yes it too holds Ferrero Rocher Chocolates! I'm having a run on these boxes... they are so easy!
The sides are trimmed with the scallop edge punch...
And the top is decorated in hearts and buttons and bling and string... all my faves at the moment!
I wonder are you like me?
I buy some chocs to put in a box but I end up eating them instead and have to buy another box!!
A little treasure from Jenny Adams at 11:01 pm
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- Michelle said...
This seems like a bit of a self-fulfilling process, Jenny. LOL. Another Gorgeous Box!
- Sunday, 10 April, 2011
- Melissa said...
This is so nice Jenny, it looks great in that paper, love the little hearts on the top. Hmmm, don't think you are the only one to eat the contents before its given lol.
- Sunday, 10 April, 2011
- Karen G said...
This box is so lovely Jenny. I too love the hearts on the top. I think these papers are very lovely when made into boxes and bags.
Karen G.
- Sunday, 10 April, 2011
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Funkins are the inspiration of MyFunkins Founder Lisa Baumgartner, who in 2005 found herself in need of washable napkins for kids when her son Braeden's school asked parents to help reduce school lunch waste. But there were none to be found!
Eight years later, with Brett and Rachel also in school, Lisa was surprised to discover there were still no kids' cloth napkins on the market! And so, Funkins were born.
Now, when Braeden, Brett and Rachel open their lunch boxes and see their Funkins, they are reminded that mom is thinking of them. And envisioning her children's faces when they open their lunches warms Lisa's heart!


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Published: 6th April 1987
Number Of Pages: 344
This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has undergone a change, and has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled all social functions from socialising the children to caring for the sick and the old, to the modern nuclear family, which was regarded solely as being the locus for emotional relationships. Historians have shown that in the past there was in fact a great variety of different family structures within a wide range of varying demographic, economic and cultural frameworks, distinctive for each society. At the same time, the interaction between sociology and social anthropology has led to a clearer conceptual analysis of that vague, polysemic term 'family'; and notions of dwelling-place, descent, marriage, the relative roles of husband and wife and parent-child relations, as well as the more general relations between generations, have in a variety of past and present social contexts been taken apart and analysed. In this book, Martine Segalen reviews and synthesises a rich wealth of often little-known European and North American historical and social anthropological material on the family. This results in a reversal of the frequently held view of the family as an institution in decline, showing it instead to be both dynamic and resistant.
|The Area of Kinship
|The domestic group
|Kinship and kinship groups
|Kin relationships in urban society
|The making of the domestic group
|The historical sociology of marriage
|Marriage and divorce in contemporary society
|The child and the family
|Domestic Roles and Activities
|Roles within the couple in the nineteenth century
|Roles within the present-day couple
|The domestic group and economic roles
|Family and society
|Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.
Series: Themes in the Social Sciences
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 344
Published: 6th April 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.51


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WE have been enjoying transportation month so far. I knew all the boys would love it, but I have found that our girls find it just as interesting! Our first week we studied maps, tickets, and trains- all very exciting topics for us.
Our book of the month is "The Pigeon Loves Things That Go!" by Mo Willems.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Things That Go!
WE have been enjoying transportation month so far. I knew all the boys would love it, but I have found that our girls find it just as interesting! Our first week we studied maps, tickets, and trains- all very exciting topics for us.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Harvest Party!
This year, instead of going to the pumpkin patch as a class, we'll be having our own pumpkin patch here at Just Kids! Friday morning, we are going to have a little harvest party and go down to the field, where we can choose a pumpkin, go for a 'hay ride', have a candy dig, and play games! The cost will be $3 for every child who attends, and it will be applied to your bill.
Then, after rest time, we will be having our class Halloween party! Send your child with their costume, and feel free to bring a treat to share with everyone. It's going to be a day full of fun! We hope parents can attend as well!
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
This week...
Our book of the month is 'We are Going on a Leaf Hunt' by Steve Metzger.
We are studying trees! We have discussed bark, the tree trunk, and porcupines, who make their home in trees. Be sure to look around the classroom at the projects we are doing as we turn our space into our own treehouse club!
p.s. check your child's art box for projects we completed last month.
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Parent/Teacher Conferences.
As you may have figured out by now, I am only able to work half days so I leave for the day at 12:30 pm. My doctor has advised this, and within the next two months I will be on full maternity leave for 8 weeks. So there have been some changes in staffing, and consequently there has also been a lull in communication, since I go home before most children are picked up.
First of all, I want to make sure communication lines stay open. Even though I am not at the center after 12:30, I am available for meetings or I can be reached by phone. If you have any questions about your child's day, please feel free to call me or schedule a meeting in the afternoons to talk. I also plan to utilize the blog as much as possible to discuss what we are learning and any news or announcements.
Our daily routine is still the same; in the morning, I am still able to teach circle time and work on science and handwriting projects with the class. In the afternoon, Maisie is in the class to keep the afternoon routine going. We have shortened rest time quite a bit by not laying down until around 1:00 pm, and we have been trying to add as much to the morning, when I am there, as possible.
Over the course of the next month, we will begin fall conferences. We realize that half of our current class is new this fall, and we are at all different starting points with our students this year. The parent/teacher conferences will allow us to start out the year on the same pages, with open communication and a clear goal for each child. More info about dates and times will follow.
Lastly, if you would like to have direct contact from me every day, or even once a week, then give me your email address or email me at email@example.com. I would love to correspond with you via email about your child's progress.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them!
Thank you, Kate.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
I asked the class today 'what does a toucan eat?'... here are some of their responses:
- butterflies
-fruit snacks
- a horse
Ok, maybe we got a little silly!
We love learning about new animals every week!
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
September 21-25th.
This week, we studied to emergent layer of the rain forest. This layer is home to many birds and insects, and we focused on parrots, beetles, and snakes. In circle time, we all knew what foods that each of the animals we studied ate, and we learned about a new snake that eats in a different way- a boa constrictor! We liked being snakes and slithering on the ground.
For art, we continued to make animals to turn our classroom into a rainforest and we made our own emergent layer. Slithery snakes and feathery parrots are in our classroom on display!
Please be sure to check your child's art slot every week to pick up projects and find important notes. We had a great week, and we are looking forward to our last week of studying the rainforest before we move on to another subject!
p.s. have your child point out South America on our map!
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
popcorn picnic.
It was a warm afternoon, so we had our snack of popcorn on the lawn today... made for some great pictures.
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- Hiring Processes are Slow (most not all). When application closes to the start date of a new hire could take 3 weeks or 3 months depending on the organization. Even if an organization tries to move quickly, there are still factors that get in the way of an efficient hiring process. Go in with the expectation that you'll be in a process for at least a couple weeks and it might reduce your stress.
- Moving to a New City/Town/Country is Difficult, Even if You Know People. It can be difficult to feel at home initially. That feeling can last a for a few weeks or a few months. Recently, I moved to East Lansing and for the first month, I just traveled between work and home, with the occasional outing when Maggie visited. However, I found some cool community events that happen consistently. From Community Reads to Music Festivals, there's plenty to do. The challenge was finding these resources. Googling your city or town might help. There is usually some a website or calendar of events provided by the city or town, especially during the summer.
- The Workplace is Very Different Than the Classroom. Companies and organizations are trying to create value. The best way to create value is by solving problems in a way that is effective and efficient, especially when it comes to time and money. Organizations are looking for critical thinking skills, creativity, initiative, and execution. Some organizations may "want" that type of employee, but the organizational culture hasn't quite caught up yet. Give yourself time to understand the culture and how you can use your skills to be effective. Also, autonomy and decisiveness are important in many professions. Your supervisor may ask you to work on a project, but provide very little feedback during the process. Use that opportunity to be creative and decisive while working within the guidelines of your role.
- Relationships Matter BUILDING AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS IS IMPORTANT. Small organizations may solely rely on teamwork and collaboration. Large organizations definitely rely on the functions of effective teams. Group project members don't go away at the end of the semester, which makes it that much more important to build trusting, mutually beneficial relationships. Thinking, and working, like an individual only take you so far, and it may also leave you with few supporters. Acknowledge the contributions others make and be sure to extend gratitude when appropriate.
- Diversity and Inclusion is Paramount to Success. This statement is loaded in that there are some general perceptions about what this means. The common perception is that diversity comes in the form of numbers, while inclusion means being invited to the table to share your perspectives, which are valued and appreciated. Organizations NEED both. Creating shared experiences to build trust and respect among different people can shift a company culture. Individuals may feel more comfortable sharing and challenging ideas in an environment where trust is shared. The inclusion of diverse perspectives and ways of thinking enhances a teams ability to be more creative in their solution finding, more empathic toward different communities, and more responsible for a common social good. It starts with relationship building.
- Initially, Work Will Stress You Out, but Eventually You Will Get the Gang of it (Hopefully). Change is difficult. Learning new skills takes time. Understanding how you fit in an organization takes time. Recognizing your own talents and strengths in a new context takes time. You are capable of learning what you need to learn to be successful. If you don't know, ask. While talking with various supervisors, I learned that they prefer that you ask for clarification or support rather than moving forward unsure of what you're supposed to do.
- Give Yourself Time to Advance. Ambition is good. It's even better when paired with discipline and diligence. The perception is that we should be holding executive level roles as soon as we graduate, or at least within a few years of graduation. However, this perception is just that, a perception. For many of us, it will take a lot of work, more time than we expect, more schooling, and maybe even switching careers for us to "climb the ladder" of success. (Sidebar: Identifying what success means to you personally and aligning that with what your organization's definition of success is important). This can cause undue stress and create a sense of failure if we haven't progressed. Gain new skills. Build new relationships. Enjoy the process. Be intentional about your learning. Embrace challenges as they come. Try to make your work meaningful.
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Paddy K hosts this volume of Four Stone Hearth's always-informative multi-blog travelling carnival of social sciences, adding a tinge of irreverent humour to make it entertaining too:
Click here...
And we can scroll down to find: "Glen over at Paleoglot gives us a few thoughts on sexuality and history and how it is impossible to separate one from the other, no matter how many flag-waving moralists are camped on your front lawn."
Lol! I couldn't have summed it up better myself. In fact, maybe that's how I should have worded it in that article. Enjoy!
25 Sep 2007
Four Stone Hearth - Volume 24
Labels: anthropology, archaeology, four stone hearth, history, social sciences
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Cascades 1200K
Day Three: Up at 4:00am. I chat with John Morris from
briefly before he takes off. I grab a
continental style breakfast this morning as the cooks aren't ready yet. I'm rolling by 5:00am. Today we're cruising around several lakes to . We have a headwind and it is angry, very
angry. This is madness. I have a hard time just holding on. Dry Falls is another
beautiful place but then we have to climb to the moon to get out of there. We go west then north to Dry
Falls Bridgeport, across the river to
Brewster. We have more spectacular river
views. We're now in Malott at the base
of the mountains. (Mile 535) is a 17 mile climb and
takes me another 3+ hours to summit. I'm
leapfrogging with several riders including my new Japanese friend who keeps
reminding me how many meters of climbing we have left. We reach summit just before sunset. Now we throw on everything we have for the
cold descent. 2 deer cross my path
within a mile. I'm now riding brakes
while others ride by. Sunset is a bad
time for dodging deer. At bottom we have
another 25 miles to the overnight control in Mazama. I'm doing some sprints trying to stay focused. I catch up with Matthew from southern Loup Loup
Pass California on his
recumbent, and he appears to be struggling a bit on the last section. I usually don't ride well with others being I
cycle a very inconsistent pace, but I chill a bit and make a friend. We both stop a couple times and walk around
to clear our heads. It's a beautiful
evening and the summer Milky Way is brilliant in the night sky, glowing so
brightly you could read a book by it. It
also brightens my spirits. We're now
cruising the and it kinda sets
the mood. An hour or so later we make
the control. 3 Canadians arrive shortly
afterwards and we grab dinner, showers, and this time we have rooms with
beds. Yea! 2.5 hours of solid sleep this morning. Lost
Day Four: Breakfast call at 3:45, I crawl over there around 4:15. I'm very sluggish this morning as yesterday took everything I had. I'm hitting the pain pills early today. I start rolling at 5:10am, thinking that I'm getting an early start. There are like 20 or so bikes still at camp when I leave. Fewer miles today but the event's biggest climb is the first order of business for today. Its 18 miles up to the top of the world,
A couple hours in and I'm relaxed feeling
great. My pace is better than my
previous climbs. About 3 miles from the
summit we ride past the snow line. I
have a flat shortly afterwards. Did I
mention that it's like 36 degrees and raining?
I've kept warm by climbing but I quickly get the tire changed because
the engine is cooling down. The mountain
peaks come into view every now and then so I stop to take some pics. This is a wondrous place. I am in awe and really enjoying being
here. I take a little too much time
goofing off, posing my bike against a snow bank, taking some video. All is good.
Finally I jump back on the bike and finish up the last mile to the
summit. A rider is there loading his
bike into a support vehicle; his ride is over.
I pull over to take a pic of the sign.
Support volunteer, I never got his name so I'm naming him "Nick" because
he reminds me of Nick Nolte. Please
forgive me if you ever read this report.
Anyway, he walks up to me and asks if I want to load up my bike. "Why would I do that?" I respond. "Because the next control is 56 miles away in
Marblemount and you're not going to make it before the cut-off. I am the sweeper he claims and you, meaning
me, is the last man standing and it doesn't look good. What about those 20 bikes I left at
camp? They are DNF's going on the truck
he responds. How could this be? I am confused. On top of the world one minute then my heart
just sank below the pits of hell. Washington
Tim's Big Screw-up: I did not follow up on my homework for this ride. The course was shortened from a 1240K to a 1201K. I was basing all my knowledge from ride reports and cues from previous years. I had wondered why breakfast was so early today but didn't put the pieces together until it was too late. (Almost) I calculated time and distance to the Marblemount control. I knew some serious downhill's coming up but also a climb up
, though this was
only a couple miles long. What about the
last 30 miles to Marblemount I ask?
"Nick" claims rollers, and then some flatter sections. There is my glimmer of hope. Rainy
Whew! That's it! We can ride easy from here on. No hard sections and the limits are now relaxed a bit. Just got to stay awake and focused. I might add it's still cold and raining but eventually the rain stops during the next section. I'm riding again with Matthew, and we're joined at times by team
and team Japan. Our last control is at . We stop at McDonalds. 23 miles to go. This international group stays together the
rest of the way in. Lots of minor
issues, from my flat, number 4, a couple guys climbing really slow, batteries
that need changing, etc. It's a slow trek but I'm happy! We roll in together at 10:55pm. 750 miles, around 40,000 feet of climbing in
88 hours and 55 minutes. Then add some very cold rainy weather, and you have
EPIC! That totally rocked! Post ride Beer and Pizza! We then had a breakfast party Wednesday
morning. Western Omelet and a chocolate milkshake! Packed up my bike, washed clothes and wasted
the day away under beautiful 70 degree, clear skies. Dinner with John from Granite Falls Durham then departed for home. THE END


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I know it is a cliche - but holy cow where does the time go?! It moves faster and faster each year, and each day still seems like an exercise in futility. I don't seem to get anything done....but I know that isn't true...must be some sort of time warp. The more you have to do the fast time buzzes past.
So...October has come and gone....
There is still time to join us if you are interested....get the scoop here.
I'm working with the fine folk at Happiness is Quilting to bring my local friends a monthly demo/class on the most recent row. The first demo was loads of fun....stop by on November 16 for the second installment. We will be playing with paper piecing.


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About Us
When are we closed for holidays?
We are closed on the following holidays:
New Years Day
Family Day
Good Friday
Easter Sunday
*please note that Ambrosia is always OPEN on Easter Monday
Victoria Day
Canada Day
Civic Holiday
Labour Day
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
Do all of our locations carry the same products?
All locations carry many of the same products; however, space and area differ meaning that sometimes different locations have different products. If there is a specific product that you are looking for, please call or email the desired location for more information.
Do we have a customer loyalty program at Ambrosia?
At Ambrosia, we believe in giving our customers the lowest possible prices every day. We work hard to make sure that our prices are lower than our competitors', and it shows! Typically, we are about 20% less than other retailers. If the average points program saves a customer between 2%-5% on purchases, then Ambrosia is saving customers even more! For example, a points program might save a customer $0.50 on a product that is $9.99, while the same product at Ambrosia would cost $7.99.
What is our return policy?
We will gladly give you an exchange or refund for unopened items in their original condition within the following timelines:
Fresh Produce – 48 hours
Refrigerated and Frozen – 7 days
General Grocery – 14 days
Supplements/Health and Beauty – 30 days
Receipt MUST be present in order to receive an exchange or refund.
Refund will be in the original method of payment.
All of our makeup/nail polish, books, bulk items, and discounted items are final sale.
Do we accept coupons?
Yes, we do! The effective date was July 1st, 2013; therefore, coupons are currently in full effect, and will be until notified otherwise.
Coupons cannot be combined with any other offers:
This means that you cannot combine the coupon with any other discounts, such as monthly specials, in-store specials, or student discounts.
Ambrosia will only be accepting coupons that are valid in Canada.
Do we issue gift cards?
Yes! We offer reloadable gift cards in any amount.
Which forms of payment do we accept?
We accept cash, Visa, Mastercard and Interac.
Thornhill Delivery Schedule
When are our dairy products delivered?
|Organic Meadow
|Tuesday & Friday
|Monday & Thursday
|Best Baa Dairy (Ewenity)
|Rolling Meadow Dairy
|Tuesday & Friday
|Hope Eco Farms Buffalo Milk
|Tuesday & Friday
When are our produce delievered?
We receive produce Sunday through Friday to ensure freshness and quality.
We receive sprouts on Tuesday and Friday.
When are our meats delivered?
|Beretta Meats
|NutriSpring Meats
|Life Choices
|Tuesday & Friday
|Blue Goose
|McLean Meats
|Yorkshire Valley
|Wednesday & Friday
|Du Breton
|VG Meats
|Fresh Fish
|Tuesday & Friday
When are our breads delivered?
|Tuesday & Friday
|Stonemill Bakery
|Tuesday & Friday
|Pita Break
|Tuesday & Friday
|Little Stream
|Tuesday & Friday
|Tuesday & Friday
|Monday & Thursday
|Organic Oven
|Organic Works
|Sweets From The Earth
|Monday & Thursday
|Tuesday & Friday
|Queen St.
|Tuesday & Friday
|Silver Hills
*** Delivery dates are subject to change due to manufacture issues and holidays.
Vaughan Delivery Schedule
When are our breads delivered?
|Stonemill Bakery
|Tuesday & Thursday
|Ozery Bakery
|Monday & Thursday
|Little Stream
|Tuesday & Friday
|Wednesday & Friday
|Tuesday & Friday
|Tuesday & Friday
|Lavash Bread House
|Thornbury Bakery
|Silver Hills
|Monday & Friday
|Slice of Life
|Wednesday & Friday
When are our meats delivered?
|Life Choices
|McLean Meats
|Yorkshire Valley
|Wednesday & Friday
|Dubreton Meats
When are our produce delivered?
We receive produce Monday through Friday to ensure freshness and quality.
When are our dairy products delivered?
|Organic Meadow
|Monday & Thursday
|All Liberte
|Ewenity Sheep's Milk Cheese
|Best Baa
|Bi-weekly; as need basis
|Rolling Meadow
|Monday & Thursday
*** Delivery dates are subject to change due to manufacture issues and holidays.
About our Products
Do we sell reverse osmosis water?
We have a reverse osmosis water machine in-store, and some of the lowest refill prices in the GTA. We also have bottles available for purchase.
Do we carry natural products for pets?
Yes! We carry all-natural pet food and care products from companies such as Crumps Naturals, Bio Bag, Gobbles, or Earth Friendly. These products are environmentally friendly, and free of toxins or harmful chemicals.
Do we sell Manuka Honey?
Yes, we sell Manuka honey in a number of brands, sizes, and strengths. They can be found in our honey and sweeteners aisles.
Do we sell unpasteurized milk?
No, we do not sell unpasteurized milk. Milk must be pasteurized to be sold in Canada. Pasteurization ensures that the milk is safe to drink; unpasteurized or raw milk comes with an increased risk of serious illnesses.
What kinds of oils do we carry?
We carry olive, grapeseed, avocado, soya, canola, peanut, almond, hemp, flax, sunflower, walnut, safflower, sesame, and coconut oils. We may also carry other varieties, but those are the most popular.
Which brands have gluten-free products?
Some brands include; Glutino, O'Doughs, Pastariso, Gluten Freeda, Pamela's, El Peto, Aidan's Bread, GoGo Quinoa.
What products do we carry that are gluten-free?
We carry breads, muffins, cakes, pastas, cereals, and snacks.
Can we special order a product that we do not carry for you?
We will try our best to source a product for you. We require that customers pay a deposit on any products ordered that we do not regularly carry.
Which products in our store are organic?
All of our fruits and vegetables are 100% certified organic.
Our bulk bins contain a variety of natural and organic products. You can also buy organic, pre-bagged or commercially packaged versions of bulk bin items.
Reasons you cannot find a particular item in our store
Many of the health food products sold in our stores and throughout Canada are imported from the United States. With short notice, the Canadian government often disapproves of certain products coming across the border and discontinues further sales of the product within Canada. Furthermore, American corporations often discontinue product lines into Canada, as the regulations between Canada and the United States are quite different and selling to Canada is often not financially feasible.
For New Vendors
Can you sell your products in our store?
We proudly support local businesses! If you would like us to carry your products, simply come into the store and drop off samples, a price list, and any other information with any of our staff. We will get back to you in 4-6 weeks if we are interested.


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Associates come to work each day with an inspiring purpose. When you're a part of Mars, you're part of a global family with a common bond beyond all others. We take pride in our unique way of doing business. At Mars, Associates know they can grow the whole them!
The Mars family is made up of 100,000 Associates all around the globe, each putting our Principles in Action, making a difference for people and the planet through hard work and performance.
Why You Should Join Us
Meet Our Associates
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At Mars, Associates are invited to go beyond what they could possibly imagine doing in their careers. They're invited to be everyday heroes, doing work they can feel good about while putting The Five Principles of Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom into action every day, everywhere. Whether it's confectionery or petcare, manufacturing or accounting, Mars has endless opportunities for Associates to excel, grow, learn, and develop.
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Show up to work each day with the opportunity to make a difference, while experiencing on-the-job learning. Mars wants to help every associate reach their full potential. Dive deeper into how our Associates are everyday heroes, and look at just a few stories from our 80,000 Associates around the world.
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Being a Mars Associate isn't confined to the workplace – our team members are impacting the world everywhere they go. Each year, our Associates donate more than 1,000 hours of community service to help reinvigorate the communities in which they live and work. Beyond their own communities, we support our value-chain locations by promoting human rights, empowerment and poverty alleviation. The benefits of being a Mars Associate surpass the tangible, including the opportunity to do rewarding work that really does make a difference.
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Why not join Cape Clear Ferries on one of our trips to the world famous Fastnet Rock Lighthouse?
Catch the ORANGE ferry from either Baltimore pier @10.30am on Tuesday & Thursday/11am on SUNDAY 15th July or Schull pier at 11am on Tuesday & Thursday or 12 noon on Sunday. Travelling through WHALE 🐋 & DOLPHIN 🐬 rich waters and beautiful scenery to view the tallest and widest Rock Lighthouse in Ireland and the UK.
Also, enjoy a stopover on the beautiful Cape Clear Island, Ireland's most southerly Gaeltacht Island. Returning at 4.45pm on Tuesday & Thursday and on Sunday 4.45pm to Baltimore and 5.45pm to Schull.
Booking Details
Bookings now open at http://www.fastnettours.com or phone 087 389 9711.


text: GLA to add Mexico Published on November 13, 1996. Galaxy Latin America, the direct-to-home pay TV platform owned by Hughes, Mexico's MVS Multivision, Venezuela's Cisneros Group and Televisao Abril of Brazil, says it will "immediately" begin broadcasting in Mexico following a reciprocal satellite transmission accord between the U.S. and Mexico. In Mexico, GLA will distribute its service through its local unit, Grupo Galaxy de Mexico. The company currently broadcasts and markets its service in Brazil and Venezuela. Copyright November 1996, Crain Communications Inc. Most Popular In this article: News